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Speaker 1: and welcome to the Last Word. It is Friday, January

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Speaker 1: be talking about the Colts ongoing head coaching search. We're

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Speaker 1: Let's start off of the Colts beat for one second.

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. Frank Wright the first head coach to be

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Speaker 1: no doubt. Congrats coach. That is Matt Taylor. Voice of

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Speaker 1: the coach. I'm Jeffrey Gorman. This is the last word. Matake.

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Speaker 1: Let's shift gears. Let's get closer to home here for

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Speaker 1: a pleasure. Feeling pretty good. How about you? I'm doing well.

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Speaker 1: As you know, Clark, they've casted a wide net for

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Speaker 1: Question of the Week Sunday is gonna mark five straight

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Speaker 1: AFC title game appearances for Patrick Mahomes at head coach

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid. What is the record for consecutive conference championship

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Speaker 1: game appearances by a head coach? Quarterback Duo Mayte. We

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Speaker 1: gotta go to recent history up north on this one northeast.

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Speaker 1: Actually we know it's up in New England. How many

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Speaker 1: is it? I'm gonna say Brady and Belichick went to

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Speaker 1: seven eight about that game. Kenny the Snake Stabler and

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Speaker 1: John Madden. They had five as well as Mahomes and

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Speaker 1: Reid do with the Raiders from seventy three to seventy seven.

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Speaker 1: the NFL big story before some Pacer basketball. They're talking

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Speaker 1: about these neutral site championship games in the AFC and

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Speaker 1: NFCC is what was happening up there with the Bills

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Speaker 1: game that got wasn't remade after the injury wasn't made up. Rather,

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Speaker 1: they're talking about turning the game, if it was at

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Speaker 1: a neutral site up into a college bowl game. Feel

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Speaker 1: half the stadium was going to be Bills fans, the

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Speaker 1: other half would be Chiefs fans if it worked out

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Speaker 1: that way. But it didn't matake. Don't give me this

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Speaker 1: bull crap. Keep your cheap suit. I don't want it.

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Speaker 1: Players are working hard for home field advantage and to

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Speaker 1: call for a couple of extra nickels. And I'm talking

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Speaker 1: to the NFL owners here. The neutral site thing stinks

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Speaker 1: for the real fans of that football team. No good,

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Speaker 1: no question. And unfortunately you're exactly right. Unfortunately it's it

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Speaker 1: all spawned because of the Damar Hamlin situation, sure, which

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Speaker 1: makes it feel even more icky. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: how else to put it, because I know you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, Like they're trying to create like too

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Speaker 1: many super Bowls. If you will, there's only one, guys,

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Speaker 1: You've got got two months to get ready for that.

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Speaker 1: Whoever's hosted the championship games, make that into a super

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Speaker 1: Bowl thing. You got a week to get ready for it.

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Speaker 1: Do your thing. I don't want to hear it all

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Speaker 1: real quick, mate, Who you got in this week's game?

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna start forty nine Ers at the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough place. I'm gonna take Brock Purdy.

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Speaker 1: I like the Disney story. Give me the young quarterback

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Speaker 1: against the Eagles and that tough forty nine Ers team

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Speaker 1: getting in the face of Jalen hurds. Nah, see the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna turn Brock Purdy into a pumpkin

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Speaker 1: to steal a line from Rick Venturi, because he's gonna

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Speaker 1: have to make five to seven heroic quarterback plays in

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Speaker 1: this game. And I think that's gonna be a tall

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Speaker 1: order in Philly in that environment. I can see them

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Speaker 1: getting down early and him having to kind of step

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Speaker 1: outside himself a little bit. So give me. The Eagles

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Speaker 1: were the best team in football that have been all year.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, you and I'll square off head to

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Speaker 1: head on that one. How about Bengals at Chiefs? Go ahead, Matete, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got the Bengals winning another nail. Bier Man, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I do. I think this game's coming down to the wire.

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Speaker 1: To me, this game is gonna be all about red

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Speaker 1: zone and special teams play. Both teams are gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to move the ball. There's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: of yards. But I think the Bengals are just better

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Speaker 1: inside the red zone. And I like their kicking game

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Speaker 1: over Kansas City. And plus they've done a good job

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Speaker 1: here lately when they've played the Chiefs and had good success,

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Speaker 1: they've done a good job on Travis Kelsey. He's not

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Speaker 1: gonna go for fourteen catches like he did last week

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Speaker 1: against the Jaguar. So I'm saying it. Four straight wins

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Speaker 1: for the Bengals over the Chiefs and they're going back

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Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. They have their number. I'm with

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Speaker 1: you on that one. Joe Cool does his thing, and

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Speaker 1: plus the bum ankle, I don't care what anybody says.

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Speaker 1: It could get healed up in a couple of five days,

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Speaker 1: but it is not something he's gonna be putting one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent of his weight on. It's gonna affect Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: I like the Bengals that I'll do it for the

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Speaker 1: last word here on ninety three five and one oh

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Speaker 1: seven five to fans coming up right now. We've got

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Speaker 1: the pacers and the bucks from the field House. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next week. Sister Bound well fo don't go.

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