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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight Fiream, It's me Jason McIntyre. Street

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Speaker 2: Fire for Monday, January thirteenth. Oh boy, NFL Wildcard Weekend

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Speaker 2: is in the books, and we need to change Wildcard Weekend.

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Speaker 2: I mean, really, we've got to just scrap it. All

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Speaker 2: these college football fans who were upset about the college

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Speaker 2: football playoff. All the games were blowouts. Well did you

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Speaker 2: watch Wildcard weekend, folks?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one good game.

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Speaker 2: That's it, Washington Tampa with a thriller on Sunday Night.

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Speaker 2: They saved the best for last, obviously, Sunday Night football.

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Speaker 2: The Doink by Zane Gonzalez pushes Washington and we'll get

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Speaker 2: into that game. The rest of the other games were

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Speaker 2: not phenomenal. Guys, Listen, I had a great weekend obviously.

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Speaker 2: You know, if you follow me on social is my birthday.

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Speaker 2: I had a phenomenal birthday weekend. Tough week to have it,

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Speaker 2: given what's happening in Los Angeles. But you know, I

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Speaker 2: did the usual thing. I coached my kids in sports.

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Speaker 2: I went to my son's volleyball tournament. My kids and

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Speaker 2: wife threw me like just a fun little day of

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Speaker 2: you want to play a board game, you wanna go

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Speaker 2: for a walk with a dog, let's go to dinner.

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Speaker 2: And it was just an awesome weekend and one year older,

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Speaker 2: and you know it's just you feel old. But then

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Speaker 2: sitting around watching football, you feel great. And I gotta say,

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Speaker 2: Tampa Washington finally gave us a good game. And I

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Speaker 2: don't know, I don't have any sweeping takeaways, but I

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Speaker 2: will say this. I saw a lot of people online

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Speaker 2: analysts coming into this Washington game.

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Speaker 3: Well, you gotta like Tampa.

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Speaker 2: There's no way that Washington, which during the regular season

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Speaker 2: was number one by a mile on fourth down percentage.

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Speaker 2: And it's crazy because Washington completed eighty six percent of

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Speaker 2: fourth downs last year. Philadelphia led the league at sixty seven.

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Speaker 2: Two years ago, it was the Rams at seventy eight.

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Speaker 2: Three years ago, it was New England at seventy one. Folks,

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Speaker 2: Washington eighty six percent conversions on fourth down. And what

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Speaker 2: do they do in the big spot in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: They go for it and fail, and they get another

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Speaker 2: chance and they thanks to a Baker Mayfield fumble, Washington

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Speaker 2: goes three for five on fourth down. Tampa did not

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Speaker 2: go for one. They have so much confidence in young

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Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels, and we saw the first time quarterbacks in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs struggle in the form of Bownicks. We've seen

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Speaker 2: the history. We'll see how Sam Darnold does Deny his

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Speaker 2: first playoff game. Bo Nicks had a great opening drive

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Speaker 2: with the touchdown pass, and after that it was gat

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Speaker 2: Zoukes not good and Jayden and Daniels just undaunted. Man,

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Speaker 2: you watch this guy all season, You're like, Holy hell.

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Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels seven point seven yards per attempt, two touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: no turnovers, and led Washington and rushing thirteen for thirty

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Speaker 2: six yards.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the guy made it.

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Speaker 2: Listen, this is his top targeted guy was McLaurin, but

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Speaker 2: he hit Diami Brown on five for eighty nine. He

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Speaker 2: loves Eckler, Ertz, Robinson, Ola, Medes, Zakahias. You guys, come on,

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Speaker 2: this is his who he's throwing to. Can you imagine

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Speaker 2: And now listen, I saw people saying, hey, they can

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Speaker 2: beat Detroit. They let's just slow down for sec and

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Speaker 2: enjoy this win over Tampa only two for five in

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Speaker 2: the red zone. Probably not going to get it done

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Speaker 2: on the road in Detroit, but Jaden Daniels keeping plays

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Speaker 2: alive kind of a big analytics win. I thought the

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night football game, I was personally surprised they didn't

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Speaker 2: kick to pull within seventeen sixteen with about twelve minutes left.

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Speaker 2: But listen the undercash on fifty one. Guys, if you

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Speaker 2: listened with Adam Chernoff on Friday's podcast, you made a

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Speaker 2: lot of money this weekend. Okay, teasers were just gold.

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Speaker 2: You remember when I laughed and told uh, turn off

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Speaker 2: the two bets that I'm the biggest on the teaser

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Speaker 2: and the parlay. Both of them cashed easily. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Ravens were never really threatened. It was a very profitable weekend.

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Speaker 2: And listen, I'm not gonna come out here on crush

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Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield. He had not his best game ever. Ultimately, listen,

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Speaker 2: Tampa might win in a blowout because they didn't need

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Speaker 2: I mean, Washington ran so many. Washington ran sixty nine plays,

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Speaker 2: Washington just controlled the ball thanks to converting on fourth downs.

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Speaker 2: All I can do is come out and say positive

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Speaker 2: things about Jadan Daniels and very impressive win rob for

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think the story of the night. You know

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Speaker 4: that they go for fourth down a lot there. One

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Speaker 4: I know Dan Campbell has the reputation, but maybe dan

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Speaker 4: Quinn is the guy who should be talking about as

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Speaker 4: being the gambling man. But Jade Daniels on third and

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Speaker 4: fourth down nine of fifteen for oneh eight, two touchdowns

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Speaker 4: a result, Jayden Daniels is now the first quarterback as

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Speaker 4: a rookie to win a road playoff game since Russell

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Speaker 4: Wilson in twenty twelve. Wow, this Washington team is building

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Speaker 4: something very very special. All Right, dan Quinn can run

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Speaker 4: there that run his style and row his system and

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Speaker 4: most importantly, you have a quarterback who just rises to

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Speaker 4: were showing clips during the broadcast. You know, everybody remembers

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Speaker 4: the Hail Mary against Chicago. You also had a game

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Speaker 4: And you can't do no He's done it a few

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Speaker 4: times now. On the final drive in this game, gotta

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Speaker 4: have it. Backs against the wall, three for three forty

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Speaker 4: Mayfield never even got the opportunity to see what he

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Speaker 4: to make, but he is something special. I remember we

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Speaker 4: Historically you get one of these every twenty years. This

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Speaker 4: Back to back seasons, we're having rookie quarterbacks that are

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jayden Daniels is awesome.

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Speaker 2: Now, I just as you started talking about Jayden winning

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Speaker 2: Detroit has done against running quarterbacks this year?

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Speaker 2: game plan, rare bad game plan from Ben Johnson. Baker

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm not saying Daniels as any of those guys.

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Speaker 2: He's obviously better than Anthony Richardson, and you know, probably

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Speaker 2: but I wonder how much because remember they blitzed the

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Speaker 2: Donald was rattled. Well, not only does Jayden and Daniel

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Speaker 3: Just runs around the blitzes.

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Speaker 2: I mean that play where, like you said, at the

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Speaker 2: he had. He either grabbed Jayden's towel or picked up

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Speaker 2: gonna do something. It was just sheer desperation. He's just

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Speaker 2: too elusive. Now I'm looking at the line. Holy hell,

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Speaker 3: Or do you already know?

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Speaker 4: I actually saw two different places. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: most recently eight and a half.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, eight and a half, I don't know. I guess

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Speaker 3: I need to look a little bit more so Washington.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sometimes I like to check. So I missed

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Speaker 2: this on the on the Chargers game, but the Chargers

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Speaker 2: have mentioned this, but and then they had three road games.

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Speaker 2: This playoff game was their third, and they look gassed.

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Speaker 2: Did you see them in the second half? The defense

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Speaker 2: So I was looking at Washington. They had an early

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Speaker 2: be pretty fresh. This will also be their third straight

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Speaker 2: road game. They finished the season at Dallas and then

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Speaker 2: they were at Tampa and then at Detroit. That's a

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Speaker 2: tough one. I don't know that I'm ready to get

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Speaker 2: there with Washington yet. But oh, that's a great teaser.

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Speaker 2: Just take Detroit on a six and a half or

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Speaker 2: seven point teaser under a field goal and boom. Like

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Speaker 2: teasers have been guys.

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Speaker 3: Let's move to the next game.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know, Like again, I don't want to

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Speaker 2: lost six straight playoff games. That's not great. That's not great.

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Speaker 3: So in these six playoff games.

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Speaker 2: And I will say this, if Mike Tomlins fired, he

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Speaker 2: But Rob has a lot of AMMO. And I'm sure

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Speaker 2: I just I feel like people are overreacting because the

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Speaker 4: Well quickly, I think the reason why these games felt

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Speaker 4: One three, one oh seven and two in the regular

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Speaker 4: said it himself repeatedly. The standard is the standard, and

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two, the year after they fired him, The

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Speaker 4: for him and they're like, okay, sure, I mean it's

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Speaker 4: you know, we can duplicate it. We have the offensive

433
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 4: coordinator right here, Callahan is gonna be just fine. And

434
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,920
Speaker 4: they were just fine. I think rich Gannon won the

435
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 4: MVP the next year. But the problem is they ran

436
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,800
Speaker 4: into the you know what was it the teacher becomes

437
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,399
Speaker 4: the master, and they ran into the guy who really

438
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 4: ran all that stuff, and they ran the exact same

439
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 4: place that Gruden was there as against him, and that

440
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,679
Speaker 4: was famously one of the worst feat down in superl history.

441
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Speaker 2: So Gruden in Oakland, Oakland at the time twelve and

442
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Speaker 2: four and they lose to the Ravens ten and six,

443
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 2: lose to the Patriots, and I guess was the tuck

444
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Speaker 2: rule game.

445
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Speaker 3: And then they.

446
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Speaker 2: Trade him or move on from him, and then he

447
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 2: goes to Tampa trade him, and he goes to Tampa

448
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,400
Speaker 2: wins instantly. Gruden's interesting, We're not going to do it here,

449
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 2: but career record as a head coach five games above

450
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 2: five hundred, career playoff record five and four. But he

451
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 2: has a Super Bowl. It can't take that away from him.

452
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 2: I would say the third biggest story in the NFL

453
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Speaker 2: this weekend. Apologies to Justin Herbert. It ain't It ain't

454
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 2: his struggles. It was probably the poor play of Jordan Love.

455
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 2: Now we tried to warn you guys. Without Christian Watson,

456
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 2: this team offensively is extremely limited through the air, and

457
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 2: we saw that Jordan Love through I think it was

458
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 2: the interception. Was that the oh no, they fumbled the kickoff.

459
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 2: They fumbled the opening kickoff and we're down seven to

460
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 2: nothing within two minutes, which was obviously a bad omen.

461
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 2: And then they have the pick. Later in the first half,

462
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Speaker 2: they got the miss field goal, another pick. It was

463
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Speaker 2: just it was not good. At one point it was

464
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 2: sixteen to three. Then they go with some tempo start

465
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,879
Speaker 2: to get back in the game. But it never felt

466
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Speaker 2: like they were really back in the game, did it, Rob.

467
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Speaker 4: No, Never, That game was never as close to the

468
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Speaker 4: score would suggest.

469
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

470
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Speaker 2: That was when I was coaching both my kids, my

471
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 2: son's team. Listen, we we had an epic performance. And

472
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 2: I'm asking the scorekeepers and the referee, he you got

473
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Speaker 2: a backer score. I was waiting for it to get

474
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 2: close and get like, okay, I gotta watch it on

475
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 2: the sideline. And I mean we I think the highest

476
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Speaker 2: scoring game I've ever had for a team in youth basketball.

477
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 2: We just we had like nine threes. I mean, guys,

478
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 2: who I didn't think of you threes, which is banging threes.

479
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Speaker 2: And then I had to go to the next gym

480
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 2: next door and coach my daughter's team, and you know,

481
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 2: we played the same team we played last week, which

482
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 2: was a barn burner, and we were more than ready

483
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Speaker 2: to beat them again. And I'll just say we led

484
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Speaker 2: twenty to zero at the end of the first quarter.

485
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Speaker 2: And that's all you need to know about that game.

486
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Speaker 2: So I didn't see a ton of Jordan Love. I

487
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 2: did watch the condensed version, and I don't listen, I'm

488
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 2: not going to bash the guy. I'm not gonna make

489
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Speaker 2: this sweeping indictment that he's not worth the money. They

490
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 2: got a young team. They did not show up the

491
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Speaker 2: way they did last year in the playoffs. I do

492
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 2: believe they missed Christian Watson badly. And I think this

493
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 2: Eagles team is just really freaking good. This is a

494
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 2: not a juggernaut Eagles team. I know they didn't play great,

495
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Speaker 2: but this was like, would you say this was like

496
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Speaker 2: their C plus game?

497
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Speaker 1: Rob?

498
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Speaker 3: They were two for eleven on third down, Like.

499
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, see see even not even a C plus.

500
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Speaker 2: And they wouldn't cover but without much of a sweat. Yeah,

501
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 2: And people are like, oh boy, egos susceptible, Jordan. People

502
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 2: just want to overreact significantly to one game, and I don't.

503
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 2: I I like doing that, trust me, it's fun. But

504
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 2: for some reason, Rob, this weekend didn't feel like the

505
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Speaker 2: weekend to do it. I don't know. Am I missing something?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: I mean, like again, you never want to overreact to

508
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Speaker 4: one game. And your point about the Justin Herbert discourse,

509
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Speaker 4: even if I'm lower on Justin Herbert than you are,

510
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Speaker 4: I would agree that he's he's a really good quarterback

511
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Speaker 4: and He's not as bad as that one playoff game

512
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Speaker 4: will suggest. We just talked about Mike Tomlin. You know,

513
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin had a horrible performance there against Baltimore. I again,

514
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Speaker 4: I still think that he's a good coach. I wanted

515
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 4: to be a coach my Raiders. The thing with Jordan Love, though,

516
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Speaker 4: is I don't think this is just a one game

517
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 4: commentary about him. Okay, last season, over the final leg

518
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 4: games famously eighteen touchdowns, one pick. The problem is the

519
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 4: first nine games fourteen touchdowns, ten interceptions. So he has

520
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 4: eight great games and nine that are mediocre at best.

521
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Speaker 4: Comes add to this season. I know he has the

522
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Speaker 4: knee injury to start, but the reality is this. He

523
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Speaker 4: had more multi interception games than anybody in football since

524
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Speaker 4: it started last season. He has seven of them this

525
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 4: season according to Next Gen Stats, not even counting the

526
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Speaker 4: playoff game where he throws three picks. By percentage of

527
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Speaker 4: accurate throw rate, which you know it's not complete a

528
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Speaker 4: percentages whether or not the throw they determined was accurate

529
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Speaker 4: and the receiver makes a great catch or what have you.

530
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Speaker 4: Or if a guy throws it out of bounds, that's

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Speaker 4: a different conversation. Based on accurate throw rate with ESPNX,

532
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Speaker 4: since that's he ranks thirty five out of thirty nine

533
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Speaker 4: bottom five quarterback in football accurate throw percentage of only

534
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 4: forty five point two percent this season. So there's a

535
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 4: legitimate conversation to be had. This is not just off

536
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Speaker 4: of Sunday's game. Did they make a mistake with Jordan Love?

537
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Speaker 4: I mean, at the time when the ink was dry

538
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 4: on that contract, it was I know, he looked great

539
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 4: down the stretch, he looked awesome against Dallas, but he

540
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 4: only had nine good games the whole season. Are we

541
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Speaker 4: sure we need to pay him fifty five million dollars

542
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 4: a year? And ultimately, you believe in the Packers historically

543
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 4: know how to evaluate quarterbacks. You trust their judgment. You

544
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 4: think that they see something that the rest of us

545
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 4: don't see. And he kind of just became more of

546
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 4: what he was at the started last season. So at

547
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 4: this point in his career, that eight games is the outlier,

548
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 4: not the rule. So you you know, you've got to

549
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 4: be willing to have an uncontrolled conversation if you're a

550
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 4: Green Bay about whether or not this guy really is

551
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 4: a franchise. In the words of Bucky Brooks, Is he

552
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,239
Speaker 4: a truck or he's a trailer. Is he the guy

553
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 4: who's gonna pull us and carry us where we gotta go?

554
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 4: Or is he a guy that's gonna need a great

555
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 4: defense and Josh Jacobs and he just does enough to

556
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 4: protect us so we can win that way?

557
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Speaker 2: All right, I'll play Devil's advocate. Sure, Why does it

558
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 2: have to be truck or trailer, black or white? Why

559
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: can't it be like, hey, he's a little inconsistent. He's

560
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 2: a twenty six year old quarterback like this. This the guy

561
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 2: who led the country in interceptions at Utah State. He's

562
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 2: a good quarterback. He has moments of greatness and he

563
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 2: has moments of Oh he's terrible. And I know that's

564
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 2: not what you want.

565
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 3: In your franchise quarterback.

566
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Speaker 2: But I don't know. I feel like it's a I'm

567
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 2: just looking now. He had one three hundred yard game

568
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 2: all season. It was in a loss to Minnesota. Other

569
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 2: than that is high was like three hundred and seventy

570
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: three yards or something.

571
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Speaker 3: But I guess, Rob, when I think about.

572
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Speaker 2: A guy like like Jayden Daniels, like I don't want

573
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Speaker 2: to hear the comparisons to Patrick Mahomes because when I say, oh,

574
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 2: well he didn't have Christian Watson, the instant counter from

575
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 2: the Peanut Galleries. Well, wait a minute, Patrick Mahomes got

576
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 2: rid of Tyreek Hill, who still won a Super Bowl.

577
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 2: There's one Patrick Mahomes guys. That's it. There's one, you know,

578
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 2: there's one. Rock Perty loses his one or two of

579
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 2: his guys this year and he becomes like, oh is

580
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: he any good? You know, I like Lafleur a lot.

581
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 2: It's tough when you fumble the opening kickoff and you're

582
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 2: in a seven to nothing hole before your quarterback takes

583
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 2: a stamp like that sucks. That's terrible, that's awful. And

584
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Speaker 2: you know, I just think the comparisons to Mahomes because

585
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 2: you know, he doesn't like Josh Allen got off of

586
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs. He's having He's gonna be the MVP.

587
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 3: Don't give me excuses for her. People are doing this

588
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 3: with Herbert.

589
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 2: They're saying he hasn't won a playoff game, and he

590
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 2: has him meltdown in a playoff game with what four

591
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 2: interceptions when he had three all regular season, and then

592
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 2: in the last playoff game and they were up what

593
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 2: twenty seven to nothing and lose the game or some

594
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Speaker 2: whatever the numbers were a few years back, it's like,

595
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 2: well he's not good, Like can we I know, we

596
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 2: need hot takes. People want the takes. They're here for

597
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 2: the takes. Okay, I just remember, like, go look up

598
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 2: a pro football reference Peyton Manning. Go look up his

599
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 2: first five years in the league, five playing quarterback, not

600
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Speaker 2: sitting like Jordan Love. First five years, zero playoff wins.

601
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Speaker 2: He had three playoff games, completetion percentage under sixty percent,

602
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: two of them were under I think under fifty percent.

603
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 2: And and now that social media didn't exist, so we

604
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 2: weren't like, wait a minute, maybe Peyton's not the guy

605
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 2: that that wasn't like a thing because you would watch

606
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Speaker 2: Peyton Manning falter in the playoffs and there's no bag,

607
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 2: a phone, online, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter to just shout and

608
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 2: just blast him, and you know, you get fans all

609
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 2: over the country doing it, and it's like, oh he stinks,

610
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 2: and I just I just it just seems a little overreact,

611
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: a little reaction. Rob Let me ask you one other thing.

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614
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615
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:30,040
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616
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 2: You and I are in agreement that the games this weekend,

617
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 2: for Walkcard weekend were terrible.

618
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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, except for Sunday night.

619
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I myself did not watch a lot of pregame

620
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Speaker 2: shows halftime shows, did you? And if you didn't, did

621
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Speaker 2: you see any clips from the halftime show or pregame

622
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,959
Speaker 2: show or postgame show where the studio hosts the analysts

623
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: were ripping the quality of play and the players and

624
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 2: the teams and the coaches. Did you see any trashing?

625
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 2: Now it's possible I missed it.

626
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 3: But did you see any clips circulating?

627
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 4: I did not. The closest I saw to that was

628
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 4: some Rob Gronkowski commentary which was actually a replay of

629
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 4: before the Mike Rabel hire where it was it was

630
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 4: him going off about the Girodmeo fail. So okay, But

631
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 4: as far as the football itself.

632
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 3: No interesting. Did you see anybody call.

633
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin like a choke artist or a loser or

634
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 2: any anybody credible on television?

635
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 4: I believe so, but not that harshly. It was, Oh,

636
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 4: maybe they got to move on?

637
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 3: Who?

638
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 2: Who?

639
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 4: Who said that I want to say. Jimmy Johnson was

640
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 4: one who said.

641
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 3: That, Oh Jimmy Okay, Now that okay. So that's what

642
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 3: I'm looking for. And you know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: This is the Barklay thing. So one of the guys

644
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 2: on my men's basketball team, I hadn't seen him in

645
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 2: a few weeks. I see him and we're talking about

646
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 2: the upcoming season, and he goes, Hey, what happened with

647
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 2: you and Charles Barkley? And I started laughing because usually

648
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Speaker 2: we just talk about hoops and life and kids and

649
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 2: volleyball because our daughters play volleyball. And he's like, yeah,

650
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 2: that was a big story. I had people hit me

651
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: up and be like, yo, you're friends with j mac right,

652
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 2: what happened with him in Barkley? You play basketball with Jason?

653
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 2: And I was like, I guess it went viral, you know,

654
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 2: I guess he didn't hear that that was you know,

655
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 2: Rob g fed me that bad boy and Barkley should

656
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 2: have come after you. It was a great take, and

657
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 2: I expounded and then JJ Reddick took the baton and

658
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 2: ran it, you know whatever. But I found it interesting

659
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 2: that he asked about that, and then I thought about

660
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 2: it Barkley and how, oh my gosh, if the Detroit

661
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 2: Pistons made the playoffs and lost the first game by

662
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 2: thirty seven, he would be making a total mockery and

663
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 2: just trash the Detroit Pistons. And I'm wondering why, Rob

664
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 2: does this happen in basketball all the time with inside

665
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 2: the NBA, and yet it never happens with NBC, CBS

666
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 2: or Fox because you can even toss the ESPN. I

667
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 2: I haven't watched the pregame show ever, but pregame, postgame whatever.

668
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 2: Maybe Sports Center is different, but I'm just talking about

669
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 2: studio shows, shoulder programming around the games.

670
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 4: The simple answer is the partners of the NFL and

671
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 4: the analyst they have on TV watch the games. M.

672
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 4: Charles Barkley admittedly famously has said he does not watch

673
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 4: the games. He has fallen asleep. They make jokes about

674
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 4: it on the broadcast off him falling asleep during playoff games.

675
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 4: There is an entire segment built into the show. Again,

676
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 4: it's entertaining as help, but there is entire segment build

677
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 4: into the show where they say, hey, here's the name,

678
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 4: here's a face, Charles, what team does he play for? No? Nine?

679
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 4: Hears in the time he gets him wrong. Now, I

680
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 4: don't know about you, but even me, as a fan

681
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 4: who has to cover all the sports, can get some

682
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 4: of these. If you only got to worry about one

683
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 4: and you can't do it, that kind of says a lot.

684
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 3: Okay, let me let's do that real quick. I didn't

685
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 3: know this was a game, so.

686
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I think it's called who he played for.

687
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 3: I'm not going to.

688
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 2: Tell you what team. Isaiah Collier Utah Jazz.

689
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 3: Do you know that because he went off?

690
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: No?

691
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 4: I know that because he went He went viral on

692
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 4: Sunday for in the last minute of the game calling

693
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 4: Sexon's calling for the ball after an inbound and Collier

694
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 4: waves him off and gets eight second violation because I

695
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 4: didn't pass half court.

696
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,439
Speaker 2: Oh so that was kind of funny, all right.

697
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 4: Jordan Hawkins Jordan Pelicans, Okay, okay to and oh Justin Champagne.

698
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 2: Spurs close because I think you let me check. I

699
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 2: think he was Spurs last year. He's on the Wizards now, Ah,

700
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 2: I guess there's two Champagnes.

701
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 3: But he didn't play for the Spurs. But he's don't

702
00:35:58,480 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 3: watch it like like that.

703
00:35:59,680 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: This is.

704
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 2: It's probably a two way guy. They lost by forty

705
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 2: to the thunder whatever. But yeah, like you're Charles Barkley,

706
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 2: you gotta know that now. Then again, I football is different.

707
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 2: You can't ask me where back what teams backup lineman

708
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 2: played for.

709
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna know, right.

710
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 2: You know, if we limited the starters, you're probably gonna

711
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 2: clip it ninety five percent and I would probably get

712
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 2: ninety five. But yeah, I just I did find that odd.

713
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 2: It's not it's not a total shot at Barkley. It

714
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 2: kind of is, But I just I didn't see any

715
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 2: and there was Listen, there's plenty to be potentially negative about, right,

716
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin.

717
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 4: Right, well, even even something as simple as this. Right,

718
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 4: we open the show talking about Jan Daniels. Jane Daniels

719
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 4: was fantastic on Sunday Night, but what he did was

720
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 4: incredible on the road. Rookie quarterback gets the win, he's

721
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 4: gonna go face, he's probably gonna lose to be Oscards.

722
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 4: He's to Detroit. If this was an nbaight segment, if

723
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 4: this was inside the NBA, they'd probably say, hey, great

724
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 4: game by that young kid. But they're gonna get their

725
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 4: doors blown off in the second round. Like, that's not

726
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 4: the story tonight. You know, into Monday morning, the NFL

727
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 4: is going to focus and highlight Look what this guy did,

728
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 4: Look what this young Look what they're building in Washington.

729
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 4: Thursday Friday, when we start really previewing that weekend's game,

730
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 4: then we'll get into it and say, hey, you know what,

731
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 4: as great as Jaye and Daniel is, the reality is

732
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 4: Detroit is just a better team than.

733
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 3: They're over maxing, right, But.

734
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 4: That's not the time to have that conversation. And the

735
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 4: way the NBA is built is, yeah, you know, Oklahoma

736
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 4: City is good, but you know they're so small, they're

737
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 4: probably not they're not. They're nothing in the playoffs. The Knicks,

738
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 4: you know, they're not gonna be in the playoffs. The Celtics,

739
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 4: up until last year, they don't win in the playoff.

740
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 4: Jason Tatum always comes up small in the playoffs. Yeah,

741
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 4: And it's like, how are we gonna care about the

742
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 4: regular season on a night to night basis and what

743
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 4: we saw if we're only worried about what happens in April,

744
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 4: May and June.

745
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: And that's yeah, it's interesting.

746
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 3: I'm cure now.

747
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 2: The Lamar Jackson one is going to be interesting. He

748
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 2: is ripe for criticism if he doesn't deliver.

749
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 1: That.

750
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 2: Being said, he's going up against Josh Allen, the likely MVP.

751
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 2: To me, there's no loser in that game. I think

752
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 2: that's the That's an amazing game. It's next Sunday afternoon.

753
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 2: I will do everything in my power to not be

754
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 2: coaching my kids in sports. I think that game's phenomenal.

755
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 2: The rest of the games, Houston at Kansas City, I

756
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 2: see the Chiefs as eight point favorites.

757
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 3: I don't I didn't think Houston was good.

758
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 2: I don't care that they ran all over or ran

759
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 2: up some yardage on the Chargers. Ain't no way Mahomes

760
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 2: is throwing four picks. I don't know about laying the eight.

761
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 2: I'll tell you who the teaser pairing is in a second.

762
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 2: And Saturday night is Washington at Detroit Detroit minus eight

763
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 2: and a half.

764
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 3: I'll tell you right now.

765
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 2: I already went big on Chiefs teas down to minus

766
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 2: two and Detroit's teas down to minus two and a half. Now, yes,

767
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 2: there's a chance that Jayden Daniel screws that up, but

768
00:38:55,440 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 2: I'm willing to take that chance. I think it's the

769
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 2: best way to go. I don't know about just the

770
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 2: eight or the eight and a half. The other game

771
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 2: Baltimore Buffalo, I see it's a pick them games in Buffalo.

772
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wait to see the weather because I did

773
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: see reports of snow. I gotta be honest, guys, I

774
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 2: have no idea who's winning that game, no read whatsoever.

775
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 3: It is a legitimate toss up.

776
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 2: I would not be surprised if the Ravens won or

777
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 2: the Bills. I have no rooting interest. The only interest

778
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 2: I have is whichever team is gonna give me a

779
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 2: better chance to take down the Chiefs. That's who I'm backing.

780
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 2: And then the other game Sunday early game will be

781
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 2: the winner of Vikings Rams at Philly. And I will

782
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 2: say this. The change of venue for the Rams tonight

783
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 2: to Arizona and these terrible, awful fires that have just

784
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 2: crippled Los Angeles, I gotta say, folks, I don't feel

785
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 2: as confident about the Rams as I did. You know,

786
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 2: six days ago. I just I watched the Chargers kind

787
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 2: of melt down there in the second half, and I part,

788
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: I think it was a lot of fatigue, but I

789
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 2: started to wonder do they have friends and family impacted

790
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: by the fire who are evacuated and lost it. I

791
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, surely some people on the team

792
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:17,399
Speaker 2: are impacted by some stuff, and is that the case

793
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 2: with the Rams? I don't know the answer to that,

794
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 2: And without getting a clear cut answer, I mean, my

795
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 2: bets are in. I'm not going to buy out of them.

796
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 2: I think if the Rams are able to play their game,

797
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 2: I think they win, but I don't feel as good

798
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 2: as I did before. I will say unequivocally, I'm going

799
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 2: to be on Philadelphia against Minnesota as long as it's

800
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 2: not an exorbitant number.

801
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 3: I think Philadelphia.

802
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 2: Well, Philadelphia will have like an extra day to prepare obviously,

803
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 2: but they don't know who their opponent is. I guess

804
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 2: an extra day of rest, but I would lean as

805
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 2: of now Casey Detroit. Oh, I don't.

806
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 3: I don't know.

807
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 2: You give me your thoughts on Baltimore Buffalo before. I

808
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 2: honestly don't know who's gonna win that game.

809
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 4: Well, I'm on the record, I'm openly rooting for Lamar Jackson.

810
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 2: Oh.

811
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 4: I want to see the coronation at this point, like

812
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 4: I believe he's goninge MVP. I think when the All

813
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 4: Pro votes came out, and historically the quarterback who's first

814
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 4: team All Pro and up turning the MVP. So that's

815
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 4: what I care. But as far as the matchup itself,

816
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 4: Josh Allen against Denver three hundred and eighteen total yars,

817
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 4: two touchdowns, Lamar Jackson against Pittsburgh two fifty six total yards,

818
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 4: two touchdowns. Those guys did it against defenses that are

819
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 4: number three and number eight I think in scoring defense,

820
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 4: and neither guy was ever really threatened after the first quarter.

821
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 4: So for my money, this is whatever the game of

822
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 4: the playoffs. I'm more excited about this game than I

823
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 4: had even potentially about a Super Bowl, Like these are

824
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 4: the two teams that I really wanted to see go

825
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 4: ahead to d and I'm glad it sucks over getting

826
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 4: so early, but I'm excited about that spinning forward to

827
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 4: I guess Tonight's can do that first. There is two

828
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 4: full conversation Number one, as far as the emotionality part

829
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 4: of it, you know, the fires are devastating around here.

830
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 4: I personally know people who have been displaced. I'm sure

831
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 4: you probably do as well. But there was a player

832
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 4: on the Rams who was doing. Was talking to a

833
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 4: reporter on Friday, and he said something to the effect of,

834
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 4: I'm glad that we're here because now I'm just focused

835
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 4: on football. And if he's saying that, I promise you

836
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 4: there's at least twenty thirty percent of the team minimum

837
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 4: who feels the same way. So to your point, are

838
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 4: we sure they're as locked in as they probably should

839
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 4: be for a playoff game? I can't say that's number one.

840
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 4: Number two, And this is the practicality part of it is,

841
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 4: in the last three games that Stafford and the offense

842
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 4: all played, they're only averaging fourteen points a game. Well,

843
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 4: you know, like any way you slice it, this is

844
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,439
Speaker 4: not looking great for the Rams. And that was even

845
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 4: when they had home field advantage. It wasn't because they

846
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 4: weren't scoring too well. Now that it's a neutral site,

847
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 4: you got all this devastation. I'm sure a handful of

848
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 4: the staffers are players is either displaced or knows someone

849
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 4: who had to get displaced. And so you know, Minnesota

850
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 4: definitely feels like the side in this one.

851
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 3: Okay, so we're kind of an agreement.

852
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 2: I am a little surprised that Lamar Jackson love the

853
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 2: way Derek Can. We ran all over Pittsburgh, and I

854
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 2: saw Buffalo's run defense a little porous.

855
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 3: I have a mild concern there. I just think night game.

856
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 2: Buffalo, it is gonna be a Bonker's crowd. I lean slight,

857
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 2: slight leaned to the Buffalo Bills. But nothing would surprise me.

858
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 2: And I probably won't have a cent on that game.

859
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 2: Maybe some props. All right, long Monday Pod to start

860
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 2: the week. It is a huge week. Yes, we will

861
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 2: get into Notre Dame versus Oh my gosh, for a second,

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Speaker 2: I spaced on Ohio State first Notre Dame. That's a

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Speaker 2: big spread as well. I believe that's next Monday night.

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Speaker 2: So next weekend you get Saturday to NFL, Sunday to NFL,

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Speaker 2: and one Monday college football in like the final really

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Speaker 2: great weekend of football before Championship weekend, the super.

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Speaker 3: Bowl, and then we're in the offseason. We'll be talking

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Speaker 3: to NBA and all that fun stuff.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're back tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Talk to you