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Speaker 1: Your teams about drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goals, Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steeler Nation. How we do it?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's good us too, our number two here on

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Speaker 3: the drive, and soon we will focus. All eyes will

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Speaker 3: turn to championship weekend. Patriots, Broncos, Rams, Seahawks. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: to Andrew Deston from the Associated Press in Seattle to

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Speaker 3: get his thoughts on that. What could be game of

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Speaker 3: the year type in the NFC Championship game. Probably the

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Speaker 3: two best teams in the league for my money.

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Speaker 4: So along those lines, just don't forget to mention it.

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Speaker 4: You know, Aaron Schotts does the Boa and all that,

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Speaker 4: and this really does have like an Akman versus Young

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Speaker 4: NFC battles awesome feel to it, or Niners versus Legion

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Speaker 4: of Boom feel where they're clearly the leader in the

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Speaker 4: clubhouse for Super Bowl. But in terms of just DVOA,

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Speaker 4: Aaron said, this is the best playoff matchup in forty

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Speaker 4: seven years.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: I love it, so I'm excited to get into Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we'll do all that in just a few minutes. A

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Speaker 3: couple more of these roster offseason decisions on the offensive

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Speaker 3: side of the ball. Not as many on the offensive

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Speaker 3: on the defensive side of the ball, where you've got

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Speaker 3: some more veteran, you know, scenarios to evaluate. But let's

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Speaker 3: start with the tight ends. Matt pat Fryermuth first, keep him,

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Speaker 3: look to trade him.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you would want to cut him because

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Speaker 2: he's an ASST.

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Speaker 4: No, you don't cut him. I think you bump up

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Speaker 4: his role. Yes, I think he's been underutilized. I think

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Speaker 4: if I were him, i'd be frustrated with my usage.

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Speaker 4: I would like to feature him more. Again, if the

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Speaker 4: I assume they won't play as much three and three

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Speaker 4: tight ends, I'm sure they won't. But you're seeing more

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Speaker 4: and more tight end usage around the league. We're seeing

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Speaker 2: It's him and Darnel Washington, him and Darne Washington.

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Speaker 4: I'm fine too much, right, I don't know. If Johnny

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Speaker 4: was going to be back, I would not bring him back,

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Speaker 4: but I would have Friarmouth play more and be more

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Speaker 4: a part of the solution than he needs to go.

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Speaker 3: And moving to john who that was the next one, obviously,

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Speaker 3: I think I would move on.

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Speaker 4: I'd move on quickly, and I think you regret the contract.

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Speaker 4: I'm shocked that.

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Speaker 5: He was.

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Speaker 4: As least valuable as he was.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, we all thought he was going to

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Speaker 4: He didn't separate. Well, he wasn't good after the catch.

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Speaker 4: Those were things that he was a specialty. You knew

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Speaker 4: he wasn't a good blocker. So what are you giving me? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know in the end, right.

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Speaker 3: Dead cap of four million if you cut him, but

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Speaker 3: you create eight million in roster space upon release, Thank.

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Speaker 4: You very much that I would much rather have eight

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Speaker 2: Same and with Arthur space on tight end. That's my thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, save money, no more Arthur Smith, which was kind

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Speaker 2: And I might draft one the fifth round and you

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Speaker 4: Guy, just to replenish it, you know, because you don't

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Speaker 2: Three more for you, Matt.

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Speaker 3: On the offensive side of the football, Let's start with

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Speaker 4: But I also get very greedy with Oligneman yesday. I

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Speaker 2: You know that, and I thought he had a good

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right right right with and I still have Anderson

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Speaker 3: Never want to be short that you don't want to

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Speaker 3: get what we got into two years ago. We're right

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Speaker 4: Yeah, people didn't think Fraser and McCormick, they weren't scheduled

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Speaker 4: Plus he's also the old guy in the room and

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Speaker 3: Before we before we get to Andrew Deston. Got to

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Speaker 3: ask you about Kenneth Gainwell and Calvin Austin.

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Speaker 4: The third Austin, I'm probably saying, go test the market.

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Speaker 4: I'm tired of it. You know, it's gone on too long.

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Speaker 2: This is a trilogy now, and I'm ready for this

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Speaker 4: First round pick might be a receiver, and you add

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be a wait and see patient approach

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Speaker 3: Yes, if someone else wants to give you a nice offer,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I don't think he's a bad player, and.

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Speaker 3: know what's his market look like, That's the real question.

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Speaker 4: Real pleasant surprise. I'm a big Warren fan. Running backs

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt you needed him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I know I can unlike like linebacker, I

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Speaker 2: But I would not break the bag. I wouldn't. I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Remember, Caleb was more of an outside He was

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Speaker 3: So we'll talk about them at some point this offseason,

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Speaker 3: will certainly revisit plenty of times this year, I'm sure,

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Speaker 3: Championship weekend and we'll kick that off with a conversation

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Speaker 3: with Andrew Deston, used to work for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette,

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Speaker 2: A big one on Sunday. We'll do that. On the

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Speaker 3: Back on the Drive here as we're getting ready for

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Speaker 3: to Andrew Deston, once upon a time worked here in

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Speaker 3: the Associated Press. Andrew, thanks for taking the time, good

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Speaker 5: Yeah. First off, thanks for having me, guys.

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Speaker 4: So this is doesn't apply one bit to the game.

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Speaker 3: Andrew, in your opinion, how much of Sunday's contest from

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Speaker 3: A few more minutes here with Andrew Deston talking Seahawks,

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Speaker 3: What was the what was the secret sauce? What was

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Speaker 5: Wow? What didn't I see? Care Warning, this is my

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Speaker 5: the play speaks for itself.

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Speaker 4: He's great.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the same way as Cam. We'll say Cam Hayward.

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Speaker 5: In my time in Pittsburgh, I covered a couple of

439
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Speaker 5: charity events that he hosted in things of that nature,

440
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Speaker 5: and he was one of my favorites. He was excellent.

441
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Speaker 5: Never covered the Steelers whole time, but he was excellent.

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Speaker 3: No, we were actually just talking about him in the

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Speaker 3: previous hour and how we hope, no matter how this

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Speaker 3: all shakes out with the Steelers head coaching search, that

445
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Speaker 3: Cam Hayward's kind of part of the fold next year

446
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Speaker 3: and able to be the one who can you know,

447
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Speaker 3: pass down the traditions of that locker room to the

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Speaker 3: next group, to the next wave and kind of continue

449
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Speaker 3: some of those cultural things that the Steelers have done so.

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Speaker 2: Well over the years.

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Speaker 3: Andrew, and yeah, absolutely, Andrew deston AP reporter in Washington,

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Speaker 3: based in Seattle, kind enough to give us some time

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Speaker 3: here on this Friday. Andrew, great chatting with you man. Great,

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Speaker 3: thank you for taking the time and have fun this weekend.

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Speaker 5: Of course out there, no guys appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well we will do our best. We're gonna hunker

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Speaker 3: down and enjoy some football game. Yeah, absolutely, thank you, Andrew.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you buddy. Well there you guys there

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Speaker 3: he goes.

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Speaker 2: Great stuff.

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Speaker 3: Good from the West coast out there in Seattle. Nathan

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Speaker 3: set that up for us. Actually, he's got an old

463
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Speaker 3: on our producer, Nathan has an old connection with Andrew.

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Speaker 3: So that was awesome.

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Speaker 4: That was really good.

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Speaker 3: That was that was a good breakdown of what I

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Speaker 3: think is what we talked about. You mentioned the DVA

468
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Speaker 3: numbers could be a game of the year type situation.

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Speaker 2: Matt.

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Speaker 3: This from Seahawks pr Okay, all right. This weekend's game

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Speaker 3: will be just the third conference championship game since nineteen

472
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Speaker 3: seventy to feature the number one scoring offense against the

473
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Speaker 3: number one scoring defense from the regular season. The only

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Speaker 3: other two the twenty fourteen NFC Championship game Packers Seahawks

475
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Speaker 3: Russ Rogers. I think that one went into overtime or

476
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Speaker 3: Seattle era. Seattle won it at the very end dramatically,

477
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Speaker 3: and the nineteen eighty NFC Championship game between Dallas and Philly. Wow,

478
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Speaker 3: only the third time number one scoring offense I guess

479
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Speaker 3: the number one scoring defense since nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 4: Pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: When we come back on the other side, we'll talk

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Speaker 3: a little bit more about that AFC Championship game. We'll

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Speaker 3: give final thoughts and predictions on both of these games

485
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Speaker 3: on Sunday before we get up out of here. So

486
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Speaker 3: plenty more tees to cross and eyes to dot. Love

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Speaker 3: it before we say goodbye to the weekend. We'll do

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Speaker 3: all of that when we return on the other side.

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Speaker 3: West Schueler, Matt Williamson. It is the Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 3: Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network, your tunes.

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Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Final segment here of the Drive on this Friday for

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Speaker 3: the week final few minutes before we get to Championship

495
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Speaker 3: Week ND in the AFC and the NFC. Of course,

496
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Speaker 3: we had plenty of a Seahawks talk there in the

497
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Speaker 3: previous segment, so let's we'll get back to that in

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Speaker 3: some final thoughts and predictions. Yeah yeah, but let's jump

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Speaker 3: into the AFC Championship game here to start this one,

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Speaker 3: since we haven't really discussed that at all here today

501
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Speaker 3: on the program. Obviously, the biggest storyline is the absence

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Speaker 3: of Drake May and sorry Drake May, part of me

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Speaker 3: Bo Nicks other side of the gun, the absence of

504
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Speaker 3: Bo Nicks and Jared Stidham going to lead the Broncos

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Speaker 3: Patriots four and a half point favorites. Matt, I think

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Speaker 3: that's about fair. But what is I think there there's

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Speaker 3: still a clear path for Denver to win this game.

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Speaker 3: I agree, but instead of maybe a lot of different ways.

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Speaker 3: There's just maybe one path for them to win this game. Yeah,

510
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Speaker 3: and that's to play good defense, force Drake May in

511
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Speaker 3: to those turnovers that we've seen, and keep it close

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Speaker 3: and low scoring.

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Speaker 4: Let's start with as a ball. I mean, that's the

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Speaker 4: biggest story here. Yes, yes, got to be for your

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Speaker 4: segment here. We got two games to break down, not

516
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Speaker 4: four or five, six, so we can kind of talk,

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Speaker 4: you know, each each side of the ball. And in

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Speaker 4: case I forget special teams too. Is pretty even in

519
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Speaker 4: this game, but greatly favors Seattle. If we could have

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Speaker 4: kept him on longer, I was gonna ask is that's

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Speaker 4: stressed heavily in Seattle. The Rams are like worse than

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Speaker 4: the league. Seattle's like best of So if it comes

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Speaker 4: down to that, just putting people to know. Also it's

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Speaker 4: kind of a big picture thing that could affect the

525
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Speaker 4: Steelers in terms of quarterback search. The league shows. I

526
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Speaker 4: know Knick isn't playing, but you got Nicks at like fifteen,

527
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Speaker 4: this is his second season. They don't get there without them.

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Speaker 4: May's in his second season. Jayden Daniels was a rookie

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Speaker 4: last year. All final four teams you can turn things

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Speaker 4: around pretty quickly. The young quarterback does not mean purgatory forever,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: The days of Ben Roethlisberger and Joe Flacco leading their

533
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Speaker 3: teams to AFC championship games as rookies and that being

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Speaker 3: a huge storyline, Yeah, is not really the case anymore.

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Speaker 4: Not that to make a case anymore. And a good

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Speaker 4: conversation on Lockdown NFL this morning. We were talking about

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Speaker 4: like legacies of these games too, Like Drake May wins

538
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Speaker 4: this game, that's his second season. It's like Marino, you know,

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Speaker 4: I mean, Marino is second year Battle of Montana and lost,

540
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Speaker 4: never went back. It's also like my home, my homes,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Is that the path that

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Speaker 4: Drake Mays on like one of those type of guys.

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Speaker 4: Maybe maybe I hope it's.

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Speaker 3: So hard because I like Drake May. I know you

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Speaker 3: like Drake May. I've told you this. Hearkening back to

546
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Speaker 3: two years ago.

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Speaker 4: I wish he was a cowboy exactly, the charger something. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I really respected him heading into his senior year of

549
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Speaker 3: college because he could have transferred from UNC and gone

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Speaker 3: anywhere that he wanted to. Oh you did say that,

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Speaker 3: and instead he stayed at UNC, which was just an

552
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Speaker 3: okay program, and you know, his both but he Georgia, absolutely,

553
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Speaker 3: Ohio State, Wherever, Michigan, Oregon. He could have transferred to

554
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Speaker 3: a handful of top schools, would have loved it. And

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you UNC paid him. Well, maybe he could

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Speaker 3: have gotten a little bit more money or whatever. Oh, incredible,

557
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 3: Chapel Hill is incredible. I'm not trying to poop poo UNC.

558
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Speaker 3: But it's a basketball school. They were an eight and

559
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Speaker 3: four team, you know, and he could have just he

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Speaker 3: could have played, you know, for a for a UNC

561
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Speaker 3: equivalent in football, you know, like like would be playing

562
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Speaker 3: for UNC and basketball. But both his parents were tar Heels.

563
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 3: His sister was a tar Heel. They were all athletes there.

564
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Speaker 3: He stayed loyal to the school that he grew up

565
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Speaker 3: rooting for and believed in him.

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Speaker 2: And he wasn't a slouch out of high school.

567
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Speaker 3: But he wasn't one of these, you know, absolute dynamite

568
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Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence types.

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Speaker 2: I really liked how he stayed at UNC.

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Speaker 3: I admire that, in this era of college football, is

571
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Speaker 3: kind of a you know, a college football classical purist

572
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 3: that I that I still am, and I really liked

573
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Speaker 3: him when he went to the Patriots. I just it's

574
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Speaker 3: just not fair, Like you can't go from from Tom

575
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Speaker 3: Brady to this.

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Speaker 4: Come on, man, I mean, he was they the third

577
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Speaker 4: pick of the draft. This isn't like you were the

578
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Speaker 4: worst team in the league when Burrough came out. You

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Speaker 4: were the third one.

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Speaker 2: This wasn't Lemu to Crosby. You know, you like.

581
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Speaker 4: The Jets number two here. You know, rarely do you

582
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Speaker 4: get that guy that you know, I would sit back

583
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 4: at three and I'll get Daniels Williams or may like.

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Speaker 4: It's a pretty crazy class, But my kind of point

585
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 4: is next year's class might be similar.

586
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 3: Similar Josh, who's not the first one taken. You can

587
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Speaker 3: get the Mahomes who's not the first one taken.

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Speaker 4: And you're in this. You know, you got the infrastructure

589
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 4: in place already, the Steelers I'm talking about. So anyway,

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Speaker 4: Denver as a ball, what's the difference between Nix and Stidham?

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Speaker 4: Huge thing. I think Stidham is a really good backup.

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Speaker 4: By the way, I've kind of been a fan. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I think he's the thirty fifth best quarterback in the

594
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Speaker 4: league or something like that. I think he's a pretty

595
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Speaker 4: high end backup, he can he can throw the ball. Well,

596
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 4: there's all kinds of you know, everyone's pumping his tires

597
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 4: obviously in Denver, but I think they believe, you know,

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Speaker 4: like a lot of the Denver defenders are like, he's

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Speaker 4: a lot better than some of the guys we played

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Speaker 4: against this year. We see even practice every day he's

601
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Speaker 4: even close and they're right, I mean, obviously getting the

602
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 4: backups and things like that too, but a huge thing

603
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 4: which is super super important with this aggressive as New

604
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 4: England's been, their de tackles have been wrecking shop, they've

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00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 4: been blitzing like crazy. But Nicks, to his credit, this

606
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Speaker 4: age is like the best sack of a voidance quarterback

607
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Speaker 4: in the really well and he's just a lot better

608
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Speaker 4: athlete and playmaker when things break down, and I think

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Speaker 4: things are going to break down.

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Speaker 2: A lot sure, Milton Milton Williams and Milton.

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Speaker 4: Williams of bar More and yeah, I mean, and their

612
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 4: receivers that they're gonna press them, and you know, I

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Speaker 4: think that both defenses are going to be really aggressive.

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00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 4: Stidham checks down a lot. You know, Harvey could end

615
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Speaker 4: up with a lot of catches, but I don't think

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Speaker 4: you need to score a ton of points either. I

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Speaker 4: think the other side of the ball is their path

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Speaker 4: to victory, you know, totally.

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Speaker 2: Drake May has fumbled six times in their two playoff games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if you can have small hands.

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Speaker 2: You have about it on Monday.

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Speaker 3: You're like, there's no purple people chuckle when we bring

623
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Speaker 3: this stuff up with Joe Burrow and Kenny Pickett, right, May,

624
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 3: But there's rhyme to the reason.

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Speaker 4: Yeah six in and yeah, and I don't like their

626
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 4: protection at all.

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Speaker 3: And so that that to me is the X factor.

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Speaker 3: As long as Denver can keep it low scoring. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna have to win that turn I mean again

630
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 3: that's football one oh one stuff. But I don't mean

631
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 3: like win the turnover battle plus one. Denver needs to

632
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 3: be plus two or plus three I think in the

633
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 3: turnover battle. Yeah, give Stitham the ball on the Patriots

634
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 3: forty yard line at one point, working on a short field,

635
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 3: you know, set him up in plus territory after a

636
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Speaker 3: turnover something like that.

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Speaker 2: There's there's a path for Denver.

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00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 3: It just it might not be multiple different routes that

639
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 3: you It might not be a choose your own adventure

640
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 3: book you might have to kind of walk a narrow line.

641
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 4: Like Nick Benito or Patrick Shuttein needs to be your

642
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 4: MVP in this game. Yes, you know what I mean.

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00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 3: Yes, and that's that the one kicker for the Broncos

644
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 3: is you would obviously feel much better still at home,

645
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 3: still with that defense turning to a backup quarterback if

646
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 3: you felt a little bit more confid in the run game.

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00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they got away from it last week too.

648
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure Peyton will get back to it.

649
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 4: But anyway, another thing I want to mention is an

650
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 4: overarching theme. Both the home teams have an extra day arrest.

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Speaker 3: That's important to me late in the year because as

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00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 3: the one as the bye team, they played.

653
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 4: Saturday played Saturday.

654
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 2: Rest rest advantage matter.

655
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 4: You know me, That's one of my big things. I

656
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 4: think that absolutely matters, especially this late in the year.

657
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 4: I think both these venues are not fun places to

658
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 4: play at all. We know Seattle will be rabid, but

659
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 4: you also know that I hate going to Denver. You know,

660
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 4: I think it's a lot harder than the average fan realizes.

661
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 4: Is Drake may ever played in Denver? I don't know.

662
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 4: I bet a lot of their guys haven't. And your

663
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 4: heart's beating a little faster in the AFC Championship game

664
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 4: than it is Week six, you know.

665
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 2: I mean, the weather might not be great.

666
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 4: Weather, it might not be great. Fans are great, so

667
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 4: home field and rest definitely favors the Seahawks in Denver.

668
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 4: I love May, but I think Denver's defense is going

669
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 4: to be really aggressive. And Will Campbell, the left tackle,

670
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 4: was really really struggled. The line in general, to me,

671
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 4: is still needs work. Took steps in the right direction.

672
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 4: The receivers are maybe better than people think, but they're

673
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 4: still not as good as certain and Moss and the

674
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 4: guys covering them. Yeah, you know. And the other thing,

675
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 4: this is another Aaron Shotz thing from with Dvoa basically said,

676
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 4: this is about the easiest path any team has had

677
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl, honestly since the undefeated Dolphins. Like

678
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 4: people don't think about the undefeated Dolphins team I would

679
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 4: take anything away from, but if you look at their schedule,

680
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 4: it was like the easiest history, right, certainly like fourteen

681
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 4: games or whatever.

682
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 3: So every team that's ever won a championship or made

683
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 3: it to a championship game or series, you need a

684
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 3: little luck. You need some things to fall your way.

685
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they played really good defense in the last

686
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 4: two weeks. And Chargers are well coached in Houston.

687
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 3: And madam me, come on, they should have to earn

688
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 3: it ten times over to get back. They need to

689
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 3: atone for their sins from the last regime in there.

690
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 4: Still, come on, Stroud blade terrible like a double Chargers

691
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 4: tackles quarterback. You know, I'm taking Denver to win.

692
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: I like that.

693
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 4: I like sixteen, slow, tough, you know, tight defense in

694
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 4: their building. I just don't know that New England's is

695
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 4: battle tested. Is I'm ready to jump on.

696
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 2: I hope you're right.

697
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 4: Yeah.

698
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 3: Nothing makes me question the existence of a higher power

699
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 3: in this world quite like the ongoing success of Boston

700
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 3: sports teams in the twenty first century.

701
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 2: It's like all of them.

702
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 4: TV. Just send us a little nugget here from Yahoo

703
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 4: Sports that Drake Mason I have not I have not

704
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 4: thrown at altitude before. Yeah.

705
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 2: Interesting.

706
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 4: I don't even care about the throwing part as much

707
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 4: as just.

708
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 2: Oh, it's real, It's it's real. Can I tell you

709
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 2: a quick little aside story? Yeah, and then we'll and

710
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 2: then we'll move uh, and then we'll move on to

711
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 2: the NFC Championship Game Final thoughts and predictions.

712
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 3: I have been to Denver a few times when I

713
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 3: was younger. I think I've told you this before. My

714
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 3: dad used to play a music festival in Aspen every summer.

715
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would always go out with them.

716
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 3: So like I've been to been to Denver, been to Aspen,

717
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 3: been to Colorado a bunch from the time that I

718
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 3: was like nine until I was fifteen.

719
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 4: It was like the summer too.

720
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yep.

721
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 4: Yes.

722
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 3: He'd go out, like leave on a Friday, come back

723
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 3: the next Sunday type thing, you know, go out for

724
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 3: like nine days. He'd played like three or four concerts

725
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,240
Speaker 3: in Aspen, you know, at rich hoity toity, nice classical

726
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 3: music festivals and wine and jazz and that that kind

727
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 3: of stuff. It was a lot of fun, Yeah, And

728
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:44,879
Speaker 3: I would just go and tag along with him. That's

729
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 3: the time I've told you the story about when I

730
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 3: saw when I ran into Arnold Schwarzenegger and and he

731
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 3: high fived me in the bicycle shop.

732
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,720
Speaker 2: That was that was one of those trips.

733
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 3: So when so that, But the last time I did

734
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 3: that was again probably when I was like fifteen ish

735
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 3: you know, like early high school age. Yeah, and then

736
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 3: I got to the point where I was just like dad,

737
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 3: like I just.

738
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 2: Want to hang with my minutes. Over the summer, you

739
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 2: know where.

740
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 3: I was working jobs or whatever, part time jobs type thing,

741
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 3: working at Target, working at foot locker, all those part

742
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 3: time jobs I had grown up. When I went back

743
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 3: to Denver now two years ago when the Steelers played there,

744
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 3: that was the the Saturday we got in was backyard

745
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 3: Brawl Saturday. It was two years ago, the crazy backyard

746
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 3: brawl where WVU scored at Akrasure to go up ten

747
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 3: with like three minutes left and then Pitt went bang bang.

748
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 3: They scored on a second and thirty from the fifty

749
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 3: yard line. Pitt did and they won the backyard brawl.

750
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 3: They came back, they scored two touchdowns in like the

751
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 3: last two and a half minutes to beat WVU and

752
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 3: what was a crazy Yeah, all time time capsule for

753
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 3: the brawl, but for me, obviously devastating and heartbreaking. After

754
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 3: that you watched it in Denver. I found a WV

755
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 3: bar in Denver. Actually after that game, I was so depressed.

756
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 3: I didn't want to see anybody. I didn't want to

757
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 3: talk to anybody. I didn't want to go back to

758
00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 3: the team hotel. I didn't want to go out and

759
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 3: do so I just walked around downtown Denver for two hours,

760
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 3: just aimlessly. Why do I let a bunch of twenty

761
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 3: year olds decide my happiness every Saturday in.

762
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 4: The fall, questioning your life choices?

763
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 3: And over those two hours, like every twenty minutes, I'd

764
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 3: have to like stop and sit on a bench in

765
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 3: the city. I saw the whole city because I was

766
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 3: just walking around, having phones in probably listening to the

767
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 3: Grateful Dead like I always do. Yah, but like every

768
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 3: twenty thirty, every fifteen minutes, like everything and Denver's not

769
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 3: really the city proper is not crazy hilly or anything

770
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 3: like that climbing, but like every fifteen twenty minutes, I

771
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 3: would just stop and just sit on a bench.

772
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 2: Check my phone.

773
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'd have thirty text messages from the

774
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 3: Tom Opperman's and the you know, the Dale Lawley's of

775
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 3: the world talking trash to me about Pitt Missy Matthews,

776
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 3: and then I just start.

777
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 4: But it absolutely matters.

778
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 2: It absolutely matters. It's real.

779
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 4: It's the hardest place place, It's.

780
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that when I was fourteen years old,

781
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,439
Speaker 3: but at thirty two, oh buddy, Yeah, it's like every

782
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes, I was like, I got to sit down

783
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 3: and catch my breath.

784
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think that's a challenge for the Patriots. I

785
00:36:59,080 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 4: I'm definitely taking.

786
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 3: The point, definitely, Like I think the Broncos cover. It's

787
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 3: actually up to five and a half. Now, I think

788
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 3: that is a really safe bet on Denver's part. I

789
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 3: think the Patriots win like a twenty three to nineteen

790
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 3: low scoring I don't know, it just seems like everything's

791
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 3: lining up for them.

792
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, seems like it's gone.

793
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 4: They had, they had.

794
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 3: The easy regular season schedule, the late bye week which

795
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 3: lined up really well. They got Chargers with it Bye

796
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 3: Bye Chargers with the Chargers, the decimated offensive line, the

797
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 3: Texans with a terrible performance from CJ.

798
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 2: Stroud. I just I don't know.

799
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 3: It feels like it's all lined up for the Patriots

800
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 3: to get back to a Super Bowl, which I hate

801
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 3: but certainly could be the case. NFC Championship game. Matt,

802
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 3: this is the second of the three o'clock our time

803
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 3: East Coast that that Broncos Patriots game six thirty NFC

804
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 3: Championship game, Seattle favored by two and a half. I

805
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 3: asked this question of Andrew, but I'd like, how how

806
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 3: big of a piece of the post do you think

807
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 3: the Sam Darnold equation is in this game?

808
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 4: This is another legacy thing, Like if he loses one,

809
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 4: it's gonna be like this guy can't win a big game,

810
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 4: you know. And if Stafford wins this one, it's I

811
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 4: was having this conversation. It's like, I think he's already

812
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 4: a Hall of Famer, but if he wins this one,

813
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 4: he goes on and wins the super Bowl. I think

814
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 4: you're talking about like is that a top ten guy ever?

815
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 4: You know, not like is he a borderline Hall of Famer?

816
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 4: Is it like you want Steve Young or him? Do

817
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 4: you want Bradshaw? You know what I mean? Like, I mean,

818
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 4: it's a big legacy game as well as Peyton. If

819
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 4: Peyton can win with a backup quarterback, We're only going

820
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 4: to talk about the coach, not the quarterback. And I

821
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 4: also think McDaniel, you know, Josh mc or McVay vay. Yeah,

822
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 4: I mean, if he can win this thing too, it's like, man,

823
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 4: it might be an all time head coach too. And

824
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 4: he's not even close to being done.

825
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 3: He's only thirty nine years old. Yeah, two super Bowls

826
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 3: before forty would be insane. Three appearances and two rings

827
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 3: before forty nuts.

828
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 4: Nuts, he could coach twenty more years. I don't feel

829
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 4: strongly about picking this game at all, and we talked

830
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 4: about this game more in the last segment, but I

831
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 4: think it is a true heavyweight fight. I really have

832
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 4: a hard time picking against Stafford in terms of the

833
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 4: quarterback matchup, but I think Seattle's clearly playing better football

834
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 4: right now. Special team's advantage is real. I think the

835
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 4: extra day's rest the home thing. I think the Seattle's

836
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 4: coaching staff is nearly the Rams equals back seven worries me.

837
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 4: I think this could be a big Smith and Jigba game.

838
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 4: I'll just take the points, though, because I think it's

839
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 4: going to be kind of like an all time classic

840
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 4: in a phenomenal game, and I do trust the Rams,

841
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 4: but I don't think they're going to be able to

842
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 4: move the ball consistently, you know, and just put up

843
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 4: thirty five? Sure, you know, so you like Seattle with

844
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 4: the points?

845
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 2: With the points or no, I'm taking.

846
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 3: The points, okay, but I think Seattle wins Okay, so

847
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 3: a real win, a real tight one.

848
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 4: I wouldn't touch it, though, in terms of I feel

849
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 4: much stronger about.

850
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 2: If it was if you were getting three and a

851
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: half as the Rams instead of two and.

852
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 4: A half, then I'd be interested. And a half I

853
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 4: think is the right number. I agree that it's a

854
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 4: total coin flip with the spread.

855
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 2: For some reason, I've just and I think you're probably

856
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: in this.

857
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 3: I think we've been in the same boat since about

858
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 3: I don't know, sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving. I've thought

859
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 3: the Rams are the best team in football. Yeah, Seattle's

860
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 3: been right there in the conversation. It might be top two,

861
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 3: top three, top four throughout that entire period. But I

862
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 3: I think I think I'm going Patriots Rams for my

863
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 3: Super Bowl prediction, which would be a rematch of you know,

864
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 3: a few years ago.

865
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 2: Well, I guess not.

866
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 3: It would be ten years ago at this point when

867
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 3: it was when it was Jared Goff against Tom Brady.

868
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 3: That was the last one Brady and Belichick won together,

869
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 3: that Patriots Rams low scoring super Bowl.

870
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 4: A lot of chances for rematches. I guess Patriots would

871
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Speaker 4: be Seattle. If the Patriots go.

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Speaker 3: Seattle, Patriots would be one. Seattle Denver would be one.

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Speaker 3: Those teams met in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Ptriots have gone like fourteen times.

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Speaker 3: Well this is now, Matt like the is it the

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Speaker 3: fifteenth straight year I want to say that either the

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Speaker 3: Patriots or the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: Have been in the AFC Championship game. Yeah, it's like

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Speaker 2: fifteen straight years.

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Speaker 4: It's getting a new regime too. They may not be

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Speaker 4: going away right. Just when you thought you got rid

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Speaker 4: of one, you know, just.

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Speaker 2: When just when I thought it was out, they pulled

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Speaker 2: me back in. I think Godfather three.

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Speaker 3: It's not a great one, but that the Pachinos still

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Speaker 3: has a couple has a couple of moments.

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Speaker 2: It's impossible to live up to one and too.

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Speaker 3: I mean, come on, uh so you're going Broncos Rams

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Speaker 3: or Bronco Bronco Seahawks.

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Speaker 4: But I'll take the points in the one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Patriots Rams.

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Speaker 2: Look at that. I don't think we've ever been been

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Speaker 2: that divided before. That'll be That'll be good.

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Speaker 1: Uh So.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So there we go Championship weekend. Hopefully it's a

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Speaker 2: lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Everybody stay safe out there with the reported weather that's

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Speaker 3: coming across the entire country. Be smart, all right, and

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Speaker 3: weather pending, because I guess there is a scenario where

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Speaker 3: if it really gets apocalyptic Sunday night, who knows what

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Speaker 3: our status is for Monday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I possible, but weather pending.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back on Monday with a Super Bowl set

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure plenty of more moving and shaking across

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Speaker 3: the coaching landscape. We're in Pittsburgh and the entire NFL.

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Speaker 3: So we got some thank yous for today, don't we.

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Speaker 3: Matt goodness gracious, A couple of guests, guests and everything. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: first double guest day we've had here. Big thanks to

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Speaker 3: Alan Saunders and to Andrew Deston for their time. Thanks

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Speaker 3: to Nathan for producing and setting us up with Andrew

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Speaker 3: from Seattle. A big shout out as always to Tyler

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Speaker 3: v TV for creating the set list and keeping us

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Speaker 3: handsome on YouTube on the video side of things. For

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Speaker 3: Matt Williams and I'm West Shuler. Everybody, have a good weekend,

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Speaker 3: enjoy the football, and we will talk to you next week.

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Speaker 3: As always, you know where to find us. It's on

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Speaker 3: your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and Gold.

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Speaker 3: It's Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network