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Speaker 1: for you every single night. Maybe you want to go

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Speaker 1: in here. How much a better thing the Mets did

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Speaker 1: today by getting Bobachett than missing out on Kyle Tucker.

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Speaker 1: That will be there, It will be there for you,

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Speaker 1: be there at all. It's glory the Mets succeeded by

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Speaker 1: failing Mike Harmon. I'm so happy, Mike Harmon. It's speechless.

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Speaker 3: You get three strikes when it's all said and done.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that was only strike one in the big

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Speaker 3: free agency run, right, because you still have more guys

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Speaker 3: out on the board. You didn't really seem too enamored

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Speaker 3: with or distraught by prior signings, right, you were just

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Speaker 3: kind of.

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Speaker 1: Letting it roll.

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Speaker 3: And then yesterday you protest a little much about Kyle Tucker.

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Speaker 3: But then your guy, mister Cohen, rebounded nicely to bring

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Speaker 3: in Bobaschett. Right, he'll have to probably shift to maybe

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Speaker 3: write at the start of the season or later playing

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Speaker 3: third base. Lindora had to have the elbow stuff cleaned up,

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Speaker 3: so whether he's ready or not, it's a nice insurance

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Speaker 3: piece to have extra middle infielders with pop on the lineup.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you got off easy.

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Speaker 3: You only had twenty four hours of handwringing before you

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Speaker 3: got your guy.

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Speaker 1: My guy, I'm so much I'm so much happy with

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Speaker 1: how it turned out, you know what I mean, though,

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Speaker 1: like just like that, you didn't even have to suffer.

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Speaker 1: It was twenty four hours.

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Speaker 3: Oh not even what was it fourteen hours or so?

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Speaker 3: You were asleep for most of it.

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Speaker 1: That was great. And now we have the best infield

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Speaker 1: in baseball. Yeah, you got with Bashett and Lindor and

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Speaker 1: Senmei and Polaco get the best thing to field in baseball.

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Speaker 1: Now it's all good.

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Speaker 3: As Steve de Sager pointed out last Last Hour, though,

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Speaker 1: Never played their respective position of that. Let me just

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Speaker 1: let me just quote first base is incredibly easy. Tell him,

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Speaker 1: wash me, let me let me go all billy being

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Speaker 1: in moneyball. His defense does not matter. Okay, if to

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be much better. It will be okay. I

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Speaker 1: think I think it will be fine. I think it's

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Speaker 1: before we pick our games this week, and we picked

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Speaker 1: the Saturday games last hour' gonna pick the Sunday games. Now,

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Speaker 1: the show. And I want to have a positivity at

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Speaker 1: appreciation moment for Brock Purty. All right. Now, he's someone

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Speaker 1: all year long what have we talked about? How boy

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Speaker 1: really tough year for him, He's hurt. They've watched mac

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Speaker 1: Brock Purdy. Did you really overpay for Purdy? Who was

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Speaker 1: really good when he had all his weapons at his disposal,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have them now. Mac Jones is putting points

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Speaker 1: on the board rough rough, rough time. However, Brock Purdy

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Speaker 1: Go because you look at what's gonna happen next year.

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Speaker 1: But now they're winning because of him. This is a

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Speaker 1: talked about how long they're frauds, they're this to that,

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Speaker 1: and yes they are. San Francisco is fraudulent, but Perty's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's had a phenomenal run. And we had disagreements

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Speaker 3: those hey it's an easy sixty minutes, but the results

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Speaker 3: But you've got a very long, extensive injury report heading

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Speaker 3: and here it is again. But brock Purty I think

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Speaker 3: Your guy Sam Sam, Sam still has some work to do.

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Speaker 1: So appreciation moment for Brock Purdy, which congratulations. I don't

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Speaker 1: Now to Sunday's games in the divisional round of the playoff.

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Speaker 1: Let's start. We'll lead up to the big one. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: because Mike Harmon's palms were already sweating thinking about Sunday night. Well,

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Speaker 1: I actually no one's going to be sweating Sunday nights

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Speaker 1: to be minus ten degrees. I would love to be

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Speaker 1: able to pick the Texans to beat the Patriots. Now

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Speaker 1: you know I'm not lying when I tell I love

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Speaker 1: for them to be able to pick them. Their defense

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Speaker 1: is the best defense in the NFL, and I would

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Speaker 1: pick them except for one thing, Mike Carmon, one thing.

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Speaker 1: There's only one thing, one thing. What so many reasons

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Speaker 1: I'd love to pick the Texans. How well they're play

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Speaker 1: The Patriots are fraudulent? What are they like when when again,

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Speaker 1: they're great front runners, just like Indiana has been this

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Speaker 1: year in college. But there's only one thing, only one thing,

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Speaker 1: and it's my fault. It's my fault to do this.

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Speaker 1: If I didn't do this, I would not pick the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: But it's my fault because last week I watched CJ.

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Speaker 1: no bueno, man.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I know that the Texans defense has been rolling. Nobody

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Speaker 1: gonna result in turnovers. It's gonna be ugly. And another

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this one's This one's a field goal kicking contest

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Speaker 3: and you're just praying and wishing you hope, you just Mike,

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Speaker 3: Woody Marks? Right, He's gonna be the key to all this.

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Speaker 3: The receiving corps depleted. Yeah, you got the tight ends

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Speaker 3: It is Christian Kirk. Remember once upon a time when

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Speaker 3: we lauded his arrival in Jacksonville, and all these years,

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Speaker 3: here we are. Eight catches one hundred and forty four

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Speaker 3: the Iowa State guys that they're trying to make happen.

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Speaker 3: But the exchanges with the center were problematic, and you

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Speaker 3: know vverybel and that defense will feast on those for THEMS.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I think this one's a low scoring Let's

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Speaker 1: Now the Rams and the Bears, which is a really

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Speaker 1: hard game for me to pick because I picked the

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Speaker 1: Rams to go to the Super Bowl preseason, but I've

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Speaker 1: and here we are. The weather makes It really really

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Speaker 1: difficult for me to pick the Rams, but not impossible.

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Speaker 1: Right this is gonna be an ugly one, but I

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. We gave you our picks for this

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Speaker 4: Man to do? Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm ready, Let's go.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad you bring this up because I

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Speaker 1: been assumed that, Okay, Banana Mendoza going number one. Obviously, look,

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Speaker 4: Oh, that's prey, that's quite possible. I doubt the Jets

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Jets said, we'll see you next year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean well, I mean both of those

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Speaker 4: God? I hope so, because I'm not sure I can

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Speaker 4: Bears, Bears, it's coming cold. That's cold cold.

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Speaker 4: That's what's gonna happen this weekend. It's gonna be bad.

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Speaker 1: have a sneaking suspicion McVeigh is going to have a

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Speaker 1: plan that's going to involve a lot of running. They're

432
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Speaker 1: not gonna throw the football as much. They're gonna they're

433
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Speaker 1: gonna bank on getting a couple of turnovers from Caleb Williams,

434
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Speaker 1: and they're going to find a way to escape and

435
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Speaker 1: get to the NFC Championship.

436
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Speaker 4: I don't know what scenario A few thinks when games

437
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Speaker 4: are like this, So all I know is it's really

438
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Speaker 4: fun and yeah, that scenario could play out, and and

439
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 4: it is a pretty good one because you've got a

440
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Speaker 4: young quarterback in a really big game, and you've got

441
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Speaker 4: a team that's been feasting on turnovers all season. Long

442
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 4: and coming from behind in games. This look this Bears team,

443
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Speaker 4: I think we've talked about before is very similar to

444
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Speaker 4: the last Bears team that made it to the Super Bowl,

445
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Speaker 4: with a lot of comeback wins. The differences like Caleb

446
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 4: Williams can really play whereas Rex Rosmond could long term.

447
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 4: So you have this foundation to I'm not trying to

448
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 4: make fun of the Bears on that one. It's just

449
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 4: you know, Rex tros One was again, he gets you

450
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 4: through it to that point, and then they finally lost

451
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Speaker 4: their team with a much better quarterback who wasn't going

452
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Speaker 4: to make mistakes in the Super Bowl. And so I

453
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Speaker 4: can see this one where Matt Stafford is really smart

454
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Speaker 4: and is not going to make some kind of hay

455
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Speaker 4: wire play. But Matt Stafford does have as great a

456
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Speaker 4: quarterback as he is. He's had some nuclalition moments where

457
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Speaker 4: the ball just you know, like you're sitting there going

458
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Speaker 4: wait a second, you tickle you know, you were a

459
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Speaker 4: little bit too brave maybe on that one. I'm not

460
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Speaker 4: for what were you trying to do there? There have

461
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Speaker 4: been some times like that. Now it's reduced as his

462
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Speaker 4: career has gone on, but in these kind of elements

463
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 4: like wow. I mean I was at the Packers Giants

464
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Speaker 4: game when Brett Farr was just throwing balls all over

465
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Speaker 4: the place and Eli Manning was like, Okay, we'll get

466
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Speaker 4: through this somehow. Yeah, And Brett Farr was playing three

467
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 4: flies up with his buddies in the backyard and throwing

468
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Speaker 4: the ball to the to the other side all game long.

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Speaker 4: So well, I just don't know what to expect from

470
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Speaker 4: this game. I would tend to take the more experienced

471
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Speaker 4: quarterback and the more experienced coach, but I come back

472
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Speaker 4: to look, I grew up in Los Angeles. I don't

473
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Speaker 4: like the cold. Those guys don't like the cold. It's

474
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Speaker 4: going to be miserable for them. I don't care what

475
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Speaker 4: McVeigh says. You know it's gonna it's It's brutal. It's

476
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Speaker 4: just absolutely brutal to play that stuff.

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Speaker 3: Good man. It comes all the way back to Bears,

478
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Speaker 3: all right. Can the Houston defense score enough to win

479
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Speaker 3: against New England?

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Speaker 4: Can the Houston defense score enough.

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Speaker 3: At least one one touchdown?

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Speaker 1: Aren't they?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

484
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Speaker 1: Look, Jay Cale, I said I would pick the Texas

485
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Speaker 1: to win this game, but unfortunately I watched C. J.

486
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Speaker 1: Stroud play quarterback last week, so I can't do it well.

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Speaker 4: I mean the sport party is like he didn't really

488
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 4: have to play, did he. I mean it's like he

489
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Speaker 4: had to get through it. Yeah, like they were gifted

490
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Speaker 4: a game. There was a challenge, and I think that

491
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Speaker 4: New England's up for this challenge. So yeah, I don't like.

492
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Speaker 4: I don't like what Houston is at the moment. I

493
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Speaker 4: don't like for CJ. Stroud is that his in his career.

494
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Speaker 4: That doesn't mean I'm giving up on CJ. Stroud right

495
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Speaker 4: at the moment. I mean they just they're they're they're

496
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 4: just not in a really functional place offensively right now.

497
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Speaker 4: They're just there's no consistency there. But I don't think

498
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Speaker 4: they're ready for this. I think that New England's you know,

499
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 4: New England doesn't do things to beat itself and they

500
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Speaker 4: and they showed that against the Chargers where they just

501
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Speaker 4: want from a methodical game and they said we're going

502
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 4: to take away everything that you want to do. We're

503
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,679
Speaker 4: going to put the products for pressure on you, stifle you.

504
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 4: It was that was like that was a classic bell

505
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 4: Checkian type of games where it's like, okay, we're going

506
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 4: to this is not. This is not going to be

507
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 4: close because we're going to we're going to take away

508
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 4: everything from you, and you know, we're also not going

509
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Speaker 4: to take chances either.

510
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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. He is

511
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 1: also looking No, we'll do that night, We'll do that

512
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Speaker 1: next week. We had to get the We got big

513
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Speaker 1: games this weekend, Jason Cole. We got big games.

514
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Speaker 4: Well, okay, we've got the Steelers. Are you know interviewing

515
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 4: a guy named Kubiak that nobody expected. That's that's firm.

516
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, guys name guys named Kubiak and Schuler are getting interviews.

517
00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: It's nineteen eighty again. I mean it's everything is fine.

518
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 3: There you go, Okay, we'll enjoy the game.

519
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: Brother, He seems upset. We didn't have a chance to

520
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: talk about coaches. But you know, these pesky games just

521
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: getting away too much.

522
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Speaker 3: Mike Harmon, I'll tell you what, you know, the actual

523
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 3: playing in the games instead of U. You know, the

524
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 3: guy's long dormant and on vacation.

525
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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

526
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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

527
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and The iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best

529
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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. True. So uh, it was earlier this

530
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Speaker 1: week we talked about the home run higher the Giants

531
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Speaker 1: made and getting John Harbaugh going to become the giants

532
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Speaker 1: next head coach. Adam Schefter put it out there. He'd

533
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Speaker 1: been talking about it the last few days. However, at

534
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: this hour, which is nearly midnight on the East Coast

535
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: on Friday, John Harbaugh and the Giants have not been

536
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Speaker 1: able to reach an agreement. According to many sources out

537
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Speaker 1: of New York, including the New York Daily News, the

538
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: hold up is about reporting structure because remember, Joe Shane

539
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: kept his job as GM, and Harball allegedly wanted to

540
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Speaker 1: get more power and wanted to be the guy calling

541
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Speaker 1: the shots. According to Ian O'Connor, hey, both of them

542
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Speaker 1: are getting along, but there is a lot to review

543
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Speaker 1: in the contract. Other reports out there from the Daily

544
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Speaker 1: News say that sources are saying that, hey, Joe Shane,

545
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Speaker 1: it's impossible to negotiate this because it's personal and so now,

546
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Speaker 1: because the hold up is not about money, but it's

547
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Speaker 1: about language, this is now getting really tricky. This was

548
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: announced three days ago, three days ago. John Harbor's gonna

549
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Speaker 1: be the next head coach of the Giants. It takes

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Speaker 1: three days to figure out this contract. It takes three

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Speaker 1: days to figure out the lane. Not money, not the money,

552
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Speaker 1: but the language. It takes three days to figure out.

553
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Speaker 1: And now it's awkward because here's Joe Shane, who is

554
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Speaker 1: the GM that was kept, and here comes John Harbor,

555
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: who nobody knew was gonna be on the market. And

556
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Speaker 1: Harbaugh comes in, I want more power. I want to

557
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Speaker 1: be able to do X, Y and Z and O.

558
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Speaker 1: Here's Joe Shane trying to negotiate. This is just a disaster.

559
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Speaker 1: Like this, this is not a relationship that's gonna work

560
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Speaker 1: when you have a GM that's used to doing it

561
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Speaker 1: one way and has picked all the groceries and oh,

562
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Speaker 1: by the way, has picked pretty good bleeping groceries for

563
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Speaker 1: John Harbor to deal with. If you're looking at Dable

564
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Speaker 1: and Joe Shane, Joe Shane's been the one that's picked

565
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Speaker 1: all the groceries. Now Here comes Harbaugh saying, yeah, I

566
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Speaker 1: want more of a say like, if you're the Giants,

567
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Speaker 1: how do you not figure this thing out right? How

568
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: do you how do you cause you could just see

569
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Speaker 1: now that you know the guy that's doing the negotiating

570
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Speaker 1: is Joe Shane. So the fact that Shane and Harbor

571
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Speaker 1: are still doing this, how does this tell you their

572
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: partnership is gonna go? Right? Like, I'm not gonna be

573
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Speaker 1: surprised if we find out tomorrow John Harbaugh is the

574
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Speaker 1: head coach and Joe Shane is stepping aside, reassigned to

575
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Speaker 1: the ort whatever it is, and he's not gonna be

576
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Speaker 1: the Giants GM. I don't You're already off to a

577
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: difficult start, and you're hearing many reports that you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get done. And I'm not saying Harball's not

579
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Speaker 1: gonna be the head coach. Don't get me wrong. I'm

580
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Speaker 1: not gonna say, oh, suddenly he's out there gonna biffit.

581
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Speaker 1: But I have a sneaking suspicion that you know, this

582
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: power structure is not gonna work well. If the Giants

583
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: are smart, they figure it out. Now I feel like

584
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Speaker 1: they will, and Joe Shane's not gonna be the GM

585
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: and name whether he's reassigned or moved on or let go.

586
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: I got a feeling that's gotta happen at some point.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's just it, right, It's now becomes the family.

588
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 3: The ownership's gotta step in and be like, all right, Joe,

589
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 3: you did this a great job to set us up.

590
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 3: And from all reports, he was the greatest piece of

591
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 3: the recruitment, right other than the call to Eli Manning

592
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 3: and Jackson Dart more or less speaking into new existence

593
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Speaker 3: and that sideline video from a couple of weeks ago.

594
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Speaker 3: But all of that to say, you know, there's been

595
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 3: a lot of positive uh talk about Shane and his

596
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 3: uh selling Harbaugh and the roster and what he's got

597
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 3: there and everything else. Well, now you kick him some

598
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 3: extra money if your ownership and you move him into

599
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 3: a new title. Sorry, or we can get you out

600
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 3: of here because there's still other teams that need GMS

601
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 3: and and maybe you've shown enough except for that video

602
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 3: of you cowering to Saquon Barkley. That's not gonna play

603
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 3: well other than that, that's.

604
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Speaker 1: An unfortunate thing. Yeah, you can't scrub that off the internet.

605
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: He'd like to.

606
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the rest of it was great, Like all the

607
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 3: transactional stuff looks pretty good. Unfortunately that that video will

608
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 3: always be there. But John Harbaugh is not coming there

609
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 3: without control.

610
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 4: Right.

611
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 3: We talked about that long before this was even a

612
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 3: more than a whisper and a and what seemed to

613
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 3: be an obvious fit. Right, We talked about it, and

614
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 3: then it was he wanted twenty million dollars a year

615
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 3: and roster control. Guess what that means. You're an empty

616
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 3: suit as a GM. So unless you want to just

617
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 3: go to ribbon cutting ceremonies at your local wah wah

618
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 3: in Pigley Wiggley and insert bodega over here, you either

619
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 3: accept a reassignment and get neutered in that process, or

620
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 3: you leave, take a buy out and go find another job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, this is where the giants and

622
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: everybody's got to understand. Okay, everything changed, right, Like we

623
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Speaker 1: got rid of Brian Dable and you were spearheading the

624
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: cut like I'm sure they love the job that Joe

625
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: Shane did. Nobody knew that John Harbo was going to

626
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Speaker 1: be this available like this, the likelihood of getting him,

627
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Speaker 1: you know, it's a needle to thread, right, It's a

628
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: lot of steps. But once that happened, it's okay. Now

629
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Speaker 1: we kind of have to to do things differently. Right,

630
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: when you have an arranged marriage with a GM and

631
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Speaker 1: a head coach, where basically, yeah, John Harbor was able

632
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Speaker 1: to walk in and say this is what I want,

633
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

635
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you have to kind of pivot on

636
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: the fly on this, and I'm surprised the Giants haven't

637
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: done it, But like, I think this is the sign

638
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: that says, Okay, we got to move on from this

639
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: before it gets really problematic. And and and and like

640
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Speaker 1: I said, I don't think they want to just say

641
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 1: goodbye to Joe Shane. But maybe if he they don't

642
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: feel he can get a GM gig somewhere else. He's

643
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: something else, but not calling the shots above Jim Harbaugh.

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Speaker 1: I think John Harb is.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean he's banging the telephone? He's gone? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we have four big games in the

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Speaker 1: NFL this weekend. What two people have so much at stake?

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Speaker 1: The answer is gonna surprise you. Fox