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Speaker 3: In a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: And then of course we've got NFL down the stretch.

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Speaker 2: And we got an incredible halftime score right now, the

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Speaker 2: first of two games today in the National Football League,

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Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers, who have been in a free fall

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Speaker 2: as of late, leading the Bengals twenty four to nothing

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Speaker 2: at halftime. This is the most point scored in the

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Speaker 2: first half by a Steelers team in three years. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this illustrates again trying to predict from week to week

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Speaker 2: what's happening in the NFL is impossible. Everyone's talking about

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Speaker 2: Jake Browning. He's second in the NFL behind Brock Party

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Speaker 2: and passing efficiency. I've even heard people make the comparison

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Speaker 2: that he's the new Brock Party zero in the first

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Speaker 2: half against the Steelers and suddenly Pittsburgh looks like an

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Speaker 3: No explaining it.

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Speaker 4: This is the NFL, right, Nothing like controversy to right

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Speaker 4: the ship in a locker room and on the team

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Speaker 4: that's you know, looks like it's about to implode. Winning

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Speaker 4: cures all. That's just what it is in sport, you know,

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Speaker 4: whether you know coaches aren't getting along with the players,

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Speaker 4: players aren't getting along with would manage whatever the problem

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Speaker 4: is winning cures all. And what we're doing is we're

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Speaker 4: watching Pittsburgh take its medicine right. It's curing the ailments

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Speaker 4: that have been running rampant through that locker room for

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Speaker 4: the last month or so. Lack of effort, guy's not

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Speaker 4: buying in Tomlin, losing his mojo, all of these things

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Speaker 4: that we've all been talking about for the last few weeks,

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Speaker 4: it wasn't that bad.

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Speaker 2: Well, what's amazing about this game is the Steeler quarterback

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Speaker 3: Where he was still in the league. I mean he's played.

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Speaker 2: This is only the second game he has played in

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Speaker 2: the last two years.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: They brought Trubisky in and obviously he got Kenny Pickett

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Speaker 2: and Mason Rudolph's still there and he's played well today.

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Speaker 2: Now g here, it's got that running game going a

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Speaker 2: little bit for the Steelers today and they're winning. But

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Speaker 2: this this always gets back to Mike Tomlin. He just

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Speaker 2: refuses to have a losing season. He is not gonna

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Speaker 2: be saddled with a losing season in his Hall of

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Speaker 3: He refuses.

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Speaker 2: They come into today seven and seven, three games to go, Okay,

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Speaker 2: lose two out of three. Man, you got that big

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Speaker 2: losing season on your resumes. No one, No, but it

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Speaker 2: won't happen if they win.

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Speaker 5: It happened last year. It's not gonna happen this year.

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Speaker 2: Is unbll believable. It's for Jake Browny today. Two picks

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Speaker 2: on today we're gonna get another NFL game featuring a

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Speaker 2: team that desperately needs to win versus a team that well,

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Speaker 2: their season is effectively over. That would be the Bills

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Speaker 2: on the road against the charge. Let me ask you this,

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Speaker 2: and again, we're gonna have Adam Kaplan, our NFL insider

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Speaker 2: But I want to get your thoughts on the Charger

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Speaker 2: is going back to what I said a week ago

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Speaker 2: So Jim Harbaugh, all of a sudden is now we

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Speaker 2: But I'm thinking to myself, well, wait a second here,

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Speaker 2: to tell Dean Spanosen company, whatever it takes, you have

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Speaker 2: Is Jim Harbaugh. Spend the money, Dean. That's a mandate

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I get that now. I think actually Jim has

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Speaker 4: So whatever those rumors are, whatever that price tag is,

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Speaker 4: So you know, I think back to back years and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they won all six. So I think it would

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Speaker 4: You don't have to worry about the regulations and and

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Speaker 4: He can, you know, renew his rivalry with his brother.

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Speaker 4: You know, we love to watch them play in the

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl. That was amazing and I really think it's

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 2: I mean Justin Herbert obviously is a great starting piece

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Speaker 2: That organization had hit the skids. That Alex Smith, a

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Speaker 2: he had gone through five offensive coordinators in five years.

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Speaker 2: It was absolutely crazy. After being the number one overall

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Speaker 2: then suddenly Harbaugh comes in. He writes the ship with

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Speaker 4: They were a power outage, yes away. From winning a

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Speaker 2: Herey over state is welcome. I mean, that's the way

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Speaker 2: Harville is. He will give you the jolt.

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Speaker 5: Give the jolt. The Bolts need the jolt.

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Speaker 3: They need the jolt.

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Speaker 2: They need the jolt on the field, but more importantly,

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Speaker 2: they need a jolt in the market. He from you

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Speaker 2: and I are sitting here in this LA market, and

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Speaker 2: it's hard for us to translate the apathy for the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they just won a Super Bowl two years.

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Speaker 2: A right, and they're about to make the playoffs again.

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Speaker 2: Yes they are, which, by the way, is remarkable.

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Speaker 4: Nobody forgot to tell them that they were supposed to

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Speaker 2: I told you that my daughter, Paris babysits Tyler Higbee's daughter,

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Speaker 3: And he got home from the game.

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Speaker 5: Hey we won.

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Speaker 2: They only need one more win, one more win and

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Speaker 2: they're in the postseason. What a remarkable story for the Rams.

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Speaker 2: But still, what the NFL is looking for is a

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Speaker 5: They need it.

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Speaker 3: That's what's Missy.

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Speaker 2: It's not the fact that aren't Ram fans or even

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Speaker 2: on right now. Ivan and I were just talking about

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Speaker 2: this was a This was unbelievable. Right. You got Mason

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Speaker 7: The one thing that Mason Rudolph has over Trubisky is

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Speaker 2: There it is another touchdown, a perfect pass by Mason.

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Speaker 7: It was a mistake. I'm sure the Steelers would tell

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Speaker 7: They went back to him, and boy, how about this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's been tremendous, But I want to talk

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Speaker 5: You just hit on it.

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Speaker 7: He never has had a losing, serious season. He's a

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Speaker 5: Not mistaken, yes, absolutely yeah. And you know and did

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Speaker 7: DeVante Smith here in Philly is all about that. He

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Speaker 7: Then inexplicably, the Bear stupidly gave up a second round

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Speaker 7: I'm told that the reason why Pickens did not go

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Speaker 2: That would be the Buffalo Bills narrow loss on the

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Speaker 7: Well, they've had Steve, They've had major injuries on all

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Speaker 7: that's really hurt them. Yeah, Obviously the offensive coordinator change,

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Speaker 5: That's the way. Oh well, Dallas, Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I'm intrigued by the way that Dallas and Miami could

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Speaker 7: That to me is the the could be the best

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Speaker 5: On the road now.

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Speaker 7: Last week, the Cowboys said their practice got interrupted by

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Speaker 2: In Tyron Smith, well, uh, your Dolphins coach getting a

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Speaker 3: He told members of his team to, with all.

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Speaker 5: And man, sometimes you don't need that at ten and four.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean again, he could have just left it

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Speaker 5: That's that's how bad it's.

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Speaker 5: They should win the nfcist.

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Speaker 7: Not for the Super Bowl? No, they're a second tier

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Speaker 7: filling absolutely hammered them. The game was not even remotely close.

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Speaker 7: They just dominated after the first quarter that Eagles were

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Speaker 7: completely shut down. Jalenhart's is struggling, guys. Let's call it

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Speaker 7: like it is. The craziness of his numbers are he's

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Speaker 7: going to have a career high in yards in a season.

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Speaker 7: He has a chance. He still has a chance to

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Speaker 7: combine for forty touchdowns or more. But he's only thrown

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Speaker 7: one touchdown pass in his last three games. In fact,

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Speaker 7: his last touchdown pass came in garbage time against the Niners.

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Speaker 7: He's not seeing the field well a chance Bradbury, one

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Speaker 7: of their starting corners is struggling. Darius Lay is out

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Speaker 7: potentially till the offseason, until the playoffs. Excuse me, he

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Speaker 7: had knee surgery. Here's the other thing, folks. And you

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Speaker 7: talk about the Super Bowl hangover, one of the biggest

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Speaker 7: reasons why teams don't get back. The number one criterier

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Speaker 7: for that is injuries. All twenty two starters who start

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Speaker 7: in Week one last year started in the Super Bowl

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Speaker 7: for the Eagles. Not so much this case. They've got

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Speaker 7: a lot of guys hurt, and that's part of it,

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Speaker 7: which is.

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Speaker 2: Why again the Buffalo Bill's ability to be the only

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Speaker 2: team in the history of the Super Bowl to play

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Speaker 2: in four st rates Super Bowls and actually lose them all.

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Speaker 2: I still think it's one of the most underrated achievements

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Speaker 2: of any team, any franchise in NFL history. Alright, Adam,

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Speaker 2: good stuff a lot of times to sort of set

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Speaker 2: the table for the rest of Week sixteen.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to again next week. Thanks so much.

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Speaker 5: Sounds good.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Adam Kaplan join us right there, all right.

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Speaker 2: Lots going around in the NFL, A lot of playoff implications,

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Speaker 2: we're going to get to but right now, let's find

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Speaker 2: out what is trendy. Martin is in again doing double duty,

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Speaker 2: triple duty. I'm not quite sure. How long have you

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Speaker 2: been sitting in that room, Martin.

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Speaker 5: It's just about ten thirty this morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll be here to about eight o'clock tonight.

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Speaker 2: All right, That's that's it. He's going the extra mile

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Speaker 2: and trying to get paid. Is your new car holding

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Speaker 2: it's doing well. Okay, it's doing well.

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Speaker 3: We don't want a good ship car fires again.

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Speaker 8: We're in good shape. No, the only car fire right

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Speaker 8: now is the Cincinnati Bengals offense.

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Speaker 5: Oo man I and their defense.

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Speaker 8: They get lit up, I mean, but I mean Patrick

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Speaker 8: Peterson is starting in safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 8: They don't have any more defensive backs pretty much. They're

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Speaker 8: down to TJ. Watt back there almost. T Higgins had

487
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Speaker 8: a seventy five touchdown catch, but that's about our eighty

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Speaker 8: yard touchdown catch.

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Speaker 5: But that's about it for Cincinnati. Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 8: On the other hand, Mason Rudolph making his first start

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Speaker 8: since twenty twenty one, Well, he's got thirty one on

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Speaker 8: the board with halfway through the third quarter. No one

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Speaker 8: had that coming. He's right now, sixteen for twenty four,

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Speaker 8: two hundred and seventy nine yards, two touchdowns for Rudolph

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Speaker 8: and George Pickens, four catches, one hundred ninety five yards,

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Speaker 8: two touchdowns along the eighty six and he's on my

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Speaker 8: fantasy bench. So there you go with that. College foot

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Speaker 8: college football. Oh, this game just wrapped up. Air Force

499
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Speaker 8: beat James Madison thirty one to twenty one in the

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Speaker 8: Lockey Martin Armed Forces Bowl. In the famous Idahopa Tata Bowl.

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Speaker 8: You have Georgia State and Utah State. Georgia State just

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Speaker 8: scored forty five to fourteen. Is the score there. In

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Speaker 8: the NBA earlier today, we had two big blowouts as

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Speaker 8: the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Knicks one thirty to one

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Speaker 8: to eleven Giannis at twenty eight and Boston Celtics and

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Speaker 8: the Clippers right one forty five to one oh eight.

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Speaker 8: Tatum with thirty, Brown with twenty four, Derek White had eighteen,

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Speaker 8: and that's about it. The high score for the for

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Speaker 8: the Clippers. Paul George with twenty one. Trevor Lawrence clear

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Speaker 8: concussion protocol. He'll play against Tampa and tomorrow's game against

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Speaker 8: the Buccaneers. Jaguars are tied in first to the AFC

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Speaker 8: South c j S Drowd did not clear a protocol.

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Speaker 8: He will be benched for Tomorrow's game against the Browns.

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Speaker 8: The Chiefs will be without wide receiver Cadarius Tony, running

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Speaker 8: back Jerrick McKinnon, wide receiver Mcole Hartman attack Donovan Smith

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Speaker 8: neither practice today due to practice this week rather due

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Speaker 8: to injuries. The Raiders in that same game will be

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Speaker 8: without tight end Michael Mayer. Titans quarterback Will Levis unlikely

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Speaker 8: to start against the Seahawks. Ryan Tannehill, you may remember him.

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Speaker 8: He'll make his first starts as getting benched in week six.

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Speaker 8: Adam Kaplan just was talking about Devontae Smith. He's off

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Speaker 8: the injury report. He'll be a full go against the

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Speaker 8: Giants Monday night. The Eagles will be without, however, linebackers

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Speaker 8: Zach Cunningham and cornerbacks of Vonte Maddox and Darius Slay.

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Speaker 5: Steve ephrom Beck to.

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Speaker 3: You all right, Martin, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Once again, We're coming you live from the tai Iraq

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Speaker 2: dot com studios.

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Speaker 3: This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harbin and e from

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Speaker 3: Salam with you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about one of the least interesting

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Speaker 2: games in the NFL this week. That would be the

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Speaker 2: Washingon Commanders on a road against the New York Jets,

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Speaker 2: two teams that have already ended their season in terms

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Speaker 2: of any hopes of getting into the postseason. But this

536
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Speaker 2: was the game that we had circle for the possible

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Speaker 2: return of Aaron Rodgers Christmas. They no, now he's all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, Well, he was circling it.

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Speaker 5: That was the point he was coming on and invisible ink, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: he was circling.

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Speaker 2: I mean seriously, going all the way back to the Jets,

542
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Speaker 2: basically caving into pressure from the NFL to be featured

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Speaker 2: on Hard Knocks. They didn't want any part of it.

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Speaker 2: And the guy that initially really wanted no part of

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Speaker 2: it was Aaron Rodgers. And then if you watched Hard Knocks,

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Speaker 2: it was the Aaron Rodgers show. I mean he was

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Speaker 2: on constantly grabbing the camera.

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Speaker 5: Me me, me, me me, And then.

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Speaker 3: They know a few side bits about the Jets and

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Speaker 3: everything else.

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Speaker 2: And and he started this about I don't know four

552
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Speaker 2: or five weeks ago that he was serious about returning

553
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Speaker 2: this year doing the unthinkable after blown Achilles and he

554
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Speaker 2: was the one that said look out for Christmas Eve

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Speaker 2: jets Ho's in the Commanders.

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Speaker 5: As a possibly turn.

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Speaker 2: This week, he made it clear that he has absolutely

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Speaker 2: no intention of coming back this season.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you in twenty twenty four. What I mean,

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Speaker 3: what is this?

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Speaker 5: Is this the right thing to do?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the right thing, But why was he trying

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Speaker 2: to give this false narrative that somehow he was going

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Speaker 2: to return to a team that not only is a

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Speaker 2: bad team but has arguably the worst offensive line in

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Speaker 2: the National Football Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't know even if he did come back, Like,

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Speaker 4: would you really put a hobbled Aaron Rodgers behind that

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Speaker 4: offensive line?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: Like, no, not if you won him in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 4: No, that was just a bad take the whole time.

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Speaker 4: It was a take him getting clear to being practice him,

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Speaker 4: Like come on, man, just go rehab, get yourself together,

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Speaker 4: get some ayahuasca whatever, go to a silent retreat, hyperbaric chamber,

576
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Speaker 4: whatever that is, and just focus on twenty twenty four

577
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Speaker 4: because that's what it's going to boil down to.

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Speaker 2: Well, and the other part of this was Nathaniel Hackett

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Speaker 2: and that offense. So he had an entire season, entire

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Speaker 2: season against Zach Wilson, right, couldn't do it, and he

581
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Speaker 2: couldn't do it. He had one good game and then

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Speaker 2: reverted back to form, and I don't know it sort

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Speaker 2: of took him out of the last game. We still

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Speaker 2: don't know of one hundred. He was cleared on the

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Speaker 2: concussion protocol, but just said he wasn't going to get

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Speaker 2: back into the game as they got shut out last week.

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Speaker 3: And then you have Robert Sala who has a losing record.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's lost twice as many games as he

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Speaker 2: has won since he was the head coach of the Jets.

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Speaker 3: I get the sense he from that this is Aaron

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Speaker 3: Rodgers call, right. I mean, if you're Whatdy Johnson.

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Speaker 2: You're like, all right, we're all in on Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: to be our quarterback in twenty twenty four. The question is,

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Speaker 2: is Aaron Rodgers all in on Nathaniel Hackett and his

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Speaker 2: head coach Robert Sala.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think he's in on Nathaniel Hackett. I think

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Speaker 4: there's an allegiance there. In terms of Robert Sala. You

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Speaker 4: can't say any thing negative about the Jets defense, and

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Speaker 4: that's what Robert Sala specializes in, but just off the

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Speaker 4: inability to prepare yourself for something happening to Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 4: and then after it happened, not going out and finding

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Speaker 4: someone who can come in and play, which other teams

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Speaker 4: have done, other teams have done. Right, I would have

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Speaker 4: easily gone out and got Jameis Winston from the Saints,

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Speaker 4: traded something to get him to bring him in. Joe Flacco,

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Speaker 4: who had played for the Jets, was at home hanging out.

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Speaker 5: Now he's cooking with the Browns.

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Speaker 4: So the inability to go out and really get someone

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Speaker 4: to come in and be able to weather the storm

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Speaker 4: with this much talent, that in itself is a fireball offense.

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So Sala is known for defense, You're

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Speaker 2: known for defense when you have talent on defense. Remember

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Speaker 2: Brandon Staley was the hottest hiring ticket because he led

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Speaker 2: a ram team of their defense to be ranked number

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Speaker 2: one in league.

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Speaker 5: Yeah he had Aaron Donald in the middle.

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Speaker 4: Yeah he didn't do anything with it. But Robert Sala

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Speaker 4: from his I know Robert, I know, I've known Robert.

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Speaker 3: Is he a head coach or is he just a

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Speaker 3: defensive coordinator?

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Speaker 4: And I've said this multiple times for years. Every great

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Speaker 4: coordinator does not make a great head coach, right, Like,

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Speaker 4: you can be the best defensive offensive coordinator in the

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Speaker 4: league and the worst head coach.

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Speaker 2: Well, think about Demico Ryans and what he's done in

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Speaker 2: Houston this year. Right, we were even saying, why would

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Speaker 2: because he's had offers, oh yeah, over the last couple

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Speaker 2: of years, why would he join an organization that's been

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Speaker 2: one and done with three consecutive coaches, showed no patience

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Speaker 2: at all.

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Speaker 3: Why would you go to an organization like that?

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Speaker 2: It seems like the worst possible fit for a first

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Speaker 2: time head coach, and yet immediately n Ryan shows he

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Speaker 2: has what it takes to be a head coach in

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Speaker 2: this league.

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Speaker 4: And the thing is number one. It's a great story

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Speaker 4: him being the first round pick for them when he

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Speaker 4: came out. Teammate of mine, tremendously intelligent, knows the game

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Speaker 4: up and down, a phenomenal teammate. So when you bring

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Speaker 4: a guy like that in who's played and there's a

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Speaker 4: respect played at the high level, the respect level was

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Speaker 4: instantly there when he walks into the locker room. Guys, understand,

644
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Speaker 4: remember he was the rookie defensive Player of the Year

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Speaker 4: his rookie year, and so that's what they needed in Houston.

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Speaker 4: They needed someone to come in change the culture, chain,

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Speaker 4: the narrative, and someone they were willing to hand the

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Speaker 4: keys over and step away, and Dimiko was a perfect

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Speaker 4: fit for that.

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Speaker 5: I am with you on Robert Salah. I don't see it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he's a tremendous defensive coordinator and he

652
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Speaker 4: will continue to be that for years to come after

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Speaker 4: this head coach experiment is over.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean there have been some great coaching jobs around

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Speaker 2: the NFL. I mentioned this earlier, the fact that the

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Speaker 2: Rams have a winning record right now.

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Speaker 3: If there were any questions.

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Speaker 2: About Sean McVay, and obviously, a guy who's been to

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Speaker 2: a couple of Super Bowls, won a Super Bowl, never

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Speaker 2: had a losing season until last year when the wheels

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Speaker 2: fell off and he thought, all right, you know it's over, Florence.

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Speaker 2: I certainly did I have him on my sheet of

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Speaker 2: paper predicting the Rams would have the worst record in

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Speaker 2: the league this year.

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Speaker 5: Well, we thought, we thought they were in the Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 2: Sweeps early on, right, and they're city at eight and

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Speaker 2: sound very similar to the Seattle story. Last year, we're

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Speaker 2: going into the season, everyone thought, all right, you got

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Speaker 2: rid of Russell Wilson, it's over. You bring it and

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Speaker 2: Drew Locke and then all of a sudden, Gino Smith

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Speaker 2: shows up and you find yourself into the playoffs. But

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Speaker 2: they're doing it again. But that again shows there is

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Speaker 2: a way. And I thought it was interesting with Sean

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Speaker 2: McVay because you know, the Rams now one I think

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Speaker 2: five of the last six games, and he said something

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Speaker 2: very interesting. He goes, it's not that we're playing all

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Speaker 2: that much different football than we did earlier when we

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Speaker 2: were losing. We're just finishing the job now. In other words,

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Speaker 2: you gotta close out games. He felt like the team

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Speaker 2: was playing well, the team was showing good effort. You know,

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Speaker 2: they had a couple of close losses, and you have

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Speaker 2: to learn how to close games out. And all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden it started to click. And of course it

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Speaker 2: helps to have a veteran quarterback like Matthew Stafford. By

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Speaker 2: the way, I've changed my mind on Matthew Stafford. I

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Speaker 2: was one of those guys back in the Detroit days

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Speaker 2: where he was constantly bringing up his negative numbers. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's incredible losing record against teams that have winning records

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Speaker 2: and prime time and all that. And I watched this

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Speaker 2: guy and I know he's still not one hundred percent physically,

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Speaker 2: but he's a leader and he inspires his football team

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Speaker 2: and that's what you need out of the quarterback position.

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Speaker 2: So you talk about two best in season coaching jobs

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Speaker 2: for Sean Payton turning things around for Denver and Sean McVay,

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Speaker 2: and what he has done for this Rams team unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree with that. And look, man, Matthew

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Speaker 4: Stafford can play.

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Speaker 5: Oh he can play. He's always been able to play.

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Speaker 4: He was stuck in Detroit for a decade to a

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Speaker 4: decade a dozen years and the world didn't get to

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Speaker 4: see how dynamic he was. And now he's on the

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Speaker 4: big stage. He won a super Bowl, came right over,

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Speaker 4: won a super Bowl. He's got this team in position

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Speaker 4: to be in the playoffs, and I believe they'll be

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Speaker 4: scary in the playoffs. They will the emergence of Williams

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Speaker 4: and their running game. They're going to be dangerous in

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Speaker 4: the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Well, they have experience a lot of players on that

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Speaker 2: team of getting it done right. Now Steelers lead the

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Speaker 2: Bengals thirty one to eight. What a game for the

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Speaker 2: Steelers today, trying to prove their record to eight and seven.

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Speaker 2: To me, while the Bengals needed this game, it is

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Speaker 2: not looking good. Speaking of we'll talk about the playoff

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Speaker 2: picture and teams that are in serious trouble right now.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 5: The Bengals bring the blitz touch pattern down the left

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Speaker 5: sideline and it's track their guns. George pickins to the

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Speaker 5: ten to five touchdown.

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Speaker 4: He beat corn or losing Bentley And I'll tell you

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Speaker 4: what ration.

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Speaker 5: Rudolph played it in there perfectly.

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Speaker 2: That's the Steelers radio network, and the Steelers are doing

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Speaker 2: a number on the Bengals.

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Speaker 5: They lead that.

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Speaker 3: Game thirty one to eight.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna head to the fourth quarter and that big

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Speaker 2: matchup once again. This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve Hartman

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Speaker 2: and Ephraim Salom with you. We're coming to lie from

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Speaker 2: the tyraq dot com studios. So we get to this

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Speaker 2: point of the NFL season and you dig, you take

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Speaker 2: a look at all the different playoff scenarios and so

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Speaker 2: let's let's let's make it clear on the AFC side,

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Speaker 2: if you want to get into the postseason, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: have to win ten games. On the NFC side nine games.

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Speaker 2: So the AFC significantly better overall this year than the

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Speaker 2: NFC in terms of teams records. Let's start with the NFC.

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Speaker 2: Here e from teams on the bubble, teams in trouble,

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Speaker 2: teams that desperately need to win. So we got four

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Speaker 2: teams that are gonna be in the forty nine Ers,

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys, the Lions, and the Eagles. So that leaves

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Speaker 2: three slots open. With New Orleans losing to the Rams,

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Speaker 2: Tampa is in the driver's seat. And how about last

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Speaker 2: week Baker Mayfield a perfect passer rating of one point

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Speaker 2: fifty eight point three. Tampa's in the driver's seat to

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Speaker 2: win that week. And IFC South, well, let me ask

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Speaker 2: you this. Have the Buccaneers found their quarterback in Baker

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Speaker 2: Mayfield or are you turning the page on Mayfield as

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Speaker 2: just sort of a stopgap guy looking for the answer

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Speaker 2: down the road.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they found the answer to the quiz, not

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Speaker 4: the test. So until you can get the guy you

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Speaker 4: can have for the next twelve years, then he is

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Speaker 4: the answer. He brings a certain amount of energy, swagger

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Speaker 4: to that locker room, and he's willing to do anything

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Speaker 4: to win. Guys respond to that. Now, is he always effective? No,

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Speaker 4: But it's easy to go to war with someone who's

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Speaker 4: willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with you through the

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Speaker 4: good and through the bad. And that's what Baker mayfeel

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Speaker 4: is and that's why people like him. That's why guys

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Speaker 4: like them.

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Speaker 2: As far as the other spot in the NFC, again,

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Speaker 2: the Rams win at least one game other last two,

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Speaker 2: the Rams would appear to be safely in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And then he got the Vikings at seven to seven,

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Speaker 2: the Seahawks at seven and seven, the Saints at seven

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Speaker 2: and eight. Atlanta and Green Bay both at six and eight,

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Speaker 2: are very much on the fringe. Right now, let me

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Speaker 2: ask you about a potential playoff matchup in the NFC.

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Speaker 2: Rams on the road against the Detroit Lions. Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 2: on the road against mister Goff. The two quarterbacks were

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Speaker 2: swapped with each other. The Lions have won exactly one

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Speaker 2: playoff game since nineteen fifty seven. Rams on the road

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Speaker 2: against the Lions.

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Speaker 5: That would be a big game. Can you imagine I would.

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Speaker 4: Take the Rams. I take the Rams because Detroit, we

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Speaker 4: know when they're on, they can put up points with

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Speaker 4: the best of them. Defensively, they're in and out, and

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Speaker 4: you can't be in and out in the playoffs. You

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Speaker 4: got to be able to stop the run, and you

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Speaker 4: got to be able to really put pressure on teams

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Speaker 4: in third and long situations. It's easy to say, well

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Speaker 4: that you can say that about anybody, but Detroit has

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Speaker 4: shown even if they do have a lead, they will

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Speaker 4: give it up. They'll give it up late in games.

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Speaker 4: And that would be great, That would be great ratings

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Speaker 4: right there.

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Speaker 2: Well, I you know, I think about the quarterback matchup,

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Speaker 2: right and who has more to prove.

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Speaker 5: It's Golf.

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Speaker 3: I mean, think about it.

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Speaker 2: Well, they traded Golf and additional number ones to unload him.

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Speaker 5: Gotta go rid.

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Speaker 2: Themselves of his contract and everything else to get Stafford

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Speaker 2: and Goff's coming off that big five touchdown game, so

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Speaker 2: he's back on track right now. It's a great first

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Speaker 2: round matchup if it does happen right now, it's a possibility.

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Speaker 5: So we'll keep our eye on that all right.

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Speaker 2: Coming up on the other side, we're gonna get to

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Speaker 2: some of the playoff scenarios on the AFC side, and

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of them, Pittsburgh leaning thirty one

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Speaker 2: to eleven over the Bengals. Right now for all the latest,

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Speaker 2: keep it right here. This is Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: Rolling along here on another busy sports Saturday, Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 5: We're a little over.

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Speaker 2: Twelve minutes to go in the fourth quarter, the Steelers

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Speaker 2: firmly in control, leading the Bengals by a score of

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Speaker 2: thirty one to eleven.

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Speaker 5: And then later on about an hour.

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Speaker 2: Kickoff as the Buffalo Bills on the road against the

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Chargers.

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Speaker 5: Wow on Peacock.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. I mean, this is another prime time feature of

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Speaker 2: the Chargers. Can you can you think of a less

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Speaker 2: significant team to have had as many prime time appearances

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Speaker 2: as the Chargers? And you say, why is that? And

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Speaker 2: the answer is very clear. The league is desperate to

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Speaker 2: call attention to we have not one, but two teams

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Speaker 2: in La.

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Speaker 8: LA.

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Speaker 3: Wake up, we have NFL football in LA.

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Speaker 2: You have thirty marks that have NFL teams, The Jets,

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Speaker 2: the Giant share of market, the Chargers, and the Rams

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Speaker 2: share of market. In twenty nine of the thirty markets,

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Speaker 2: the NFL reigned supreme, but not in LA, not even close.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the Dodgers have spent a billion dollars on

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Speaker 2: two pitchers, well one pitcher, Slash dh and show Hey

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Speaker 2: Otani and Yakamoto Yamamoto Yamamoto. Yeah, this guy's never pitched

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Speaker 2: a Major league game, just had the richest contract ever

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Speaker 2: in the history of Major League Baseball in terms of

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Speaker 2: the total value of the contract.

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Speaker 3: For a pitcher.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, have you seen this guy pitch.

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Speaker 2: He's about five to eleven, weighs about one hundred and

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Speaker 2: seventy pounds.

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Speaker 5: If you remember, Tim Linskam in.

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Speaker 2: His heyday, was this little guy and he could just

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Speaker 2: throw the ball crazy.

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Speaker 3: He won a couple of Cy Young Awards.

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Speaker 2: Peyton Martinez wasn't a big guy and could just throw

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Speaker 2: filthy stuff. And this is what this pitcher is all about.

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Speaker 2: But you have committed a billion dollars to two players,

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Speaker 2: one who's never pitched a major League game and another

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Speaker 2: guy who you're counting on down the road to be

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Speaker 2: a pitcher for you, who has blown out his elbow twice.

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Speaker 3: Boy, it must be nice to have money to burn,

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Speaker 3: money to burn, because the Dodgers have a barely money

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Speaker 3: to burn.

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Speaker 2: They're literally just trying, so I think one person put

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Speaker 2: it this way. They're just trying to take over all

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Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball?

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Speaker 5: Why not? And yet they had Yankees did it for decades.

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Speaker 2: And this comes from a Dodger fan that goes all

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Speaker 2: the way back to the day. They haven't won a

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Speaker 2: legitimate championships since eighty eight. I'm sorry, I just don't

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Speaker 2: count twenty twenty. Why it was a sixty game season,

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Speaker 2: sixty game.

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Speaker 5: All everybody played sixty games.

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Speaker 2: They played all their games in the postseason the same place, sexas.

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Speaker 3: Okay, no road games, no crowds, so what, no parade?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the world was turned off.

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Speaker 3: It was so, and so was I.

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Speaker 5: So was ir right?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know your beloved Lakers, who, by the way,

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Speaker 2: are one in five since wrapping up the much coveted

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Speaker 2: first ever NBA Cup season tournament championship.

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Speaker 3: They're one and five since then.

877
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got that cup. That better? That better hangs

878
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 5: probably Kobe, what are we doing?

879
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 4: Man?

880
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 5: Kobe's like, what is happening down there? Good lord?

881
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you put legitimacy to their twenty twenty championship?

882
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 5: Of course I do.

883
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 4: I know you well, they had the number one seed

884
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 4: in the West going into the break. I'm going into

885
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 4: the shutdown, right, there was one of the best teams

886
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 4: in the league. The teams that had an opportunity to

887
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 4: make the playoffs all went to the bubble, and they

888
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 4: all were under the same circumstances, and one team prevailed.

889
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 3: It wasn't under the same circumstances.

890
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 5: It wasn't.

891
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 2: There was a lot of things working for the Lakers

892
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 2: that year. The We had a fully rested Anthony Davis

893
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 2: and Lebron.

894
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is all all the teams who

895
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 4: were in the bubble got there.

896
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 5: They had the same break.

897
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, but a lot of teams showed like they weren't

898
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 3: all that motivated.

899
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 5: That's fault. Walk goes down to Miami is like, that's

900
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 5: your fault.

901
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:20,439
Speaker 2: That the Lakers are motivated by the memory of Kobe Bryant.

902
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 4: It was still getting paid, correct, Yes, they were, Oh okay, cool, okay, Yeah,

903
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 4: that's what other motivation do you need? Well, you make

904
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 4: it thirty four million dollars a year. You mean to

905
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 4: tell me you're not motivated to finish? Hello, don't get

906
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 4: me started.

907
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 2: Don't get me started on overpriced athletes to show zero

908
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 2: motivation other than collective.

909
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 5: Well, you see what happened the Zion's contract.

910
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 3: Zion is uh and is no longer guaranteed in three years.

911
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 5: Should it be? Why did they give him that extension

912
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 5: because they're idiots?

913
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 3: Why is Monny Williams the highest paid coach in the NBA?

914
00:45:54,920 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, a certain point, you can't just pay on potential.

915
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 2: Can I ask you this? So, Monny Williams did not

916
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 2: want the Pistons job. No, until they made him an

917
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 2: offer he couldn't reviews. And now they've lost twenty five

918
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 2: straight games That didn't even seem possible, Right, it's impossible.

919
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 2: I am old enough to remember when the Lakers won

920
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 2: thirty three in a row. Yes, and even in that era,

921
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 2: it seems impossible that you could do that. You're going

922
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 2: to have a bad night, somebody's gonna get a hot hand.

923
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 2: You don't win thirty three in a row, but conversely,

924
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 2: you don't lose twenty five in a row.

925
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, I mean, because you will look up

926
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 4: into one exactly.

927
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 2: We see it every single week, every single night in

928
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:45,479
Speaker 2: sports where an upset happens. But for the Pistons, nothing

929
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 2: twenty five in a row.

930
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 4: You gotta get one, man. I mean, that's just that's

931
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 4: just that's gross.

932
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 3: What was the worst team you ever played for?

933
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 4: The worst team I ever played for? It's probably nine

934
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 4: and detri Roy was coming off their oh and sixteen season.

935
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 5: You turned things around that.

936
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 4: Year, Well, we won more games, but it was that

937
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 4: was a year welve for me. I figured it was

938
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 4: probably time to do something else.

939
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 3: I mean, how did you end up on the winless

940
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 3: Lions team?

941
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 5: I was.

942
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 4: I was leaving Houston and I was gonna be like, hey, man,

943
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 4: I got a good eleven years in sure, I feel great.

944
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 4: Houston wanted to go in a younger direction. I said okay,

945
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 4: And then my agent called and was like, hey, Jim

946
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 4: Schwartz just got the head coaching job over at Denver

947
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 4: Scott lending hands offensive coordinator. You've you know, we played

948
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 4: against Jim a million times when he was a defensive

949
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 4: coordinator in.

950
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 5: Tennessee. Do you want to go?

951
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 4: I said, Uh, I said, let's I'll go out there.

952
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 5: Let's let's just we'll go see.

953
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 2: And what did you find joining a team that's coming

954
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 2: off and sixteen? Well, who was that locker room? Like

955
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 2: in training camp?

956
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,479
Speaker 4: Well, the guys were just going to work. Yeah, guys

957
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 4: were just going to work. It was like they weren't.

958
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 4: We weren't in the NFL. We were just going to

959
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 4: work right, right, Like Detroit is hard hat city, right,

960
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 4: you know that we were putting our helmets on and

961
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 4: just going to where we're practicing and showing up.

962
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 5: I'm still around.

963
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 3: No, No, he'd already done that.

964
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 4: He had already, he'd already done enough damage exactly. It

965
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 4: was May mayhw what was Oh?

966
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that?

967
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 5: Yeah? Who was doing damage as well? Yes?

968
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 4: Uh?

969
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 5: And it just.

970
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 4: That was the first time in the history of me

971
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 4: in twelve years or I did get a chance to play,

972
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 4: and I didn't have an opportunity to compete to play,

973
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 4: unbeknownst to me, because I was told when I was

974
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 4: being wooed to come there then an opportunity to start

975
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,280
Speaker 4: it right tackle because the kid they drafted the year before,

976
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 4: prior to the coaches getting there, it just wasn't going

977
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 4: to get it done well.

978
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,399
Speaker 2: They weren't able to find the answer in Detroit for many,

979
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:23,919
Speaker 2: many years.

980
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 5: Mini, I will tell you, well, they did get Matthew

981
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 5: Stafford that year. They did. They did that.

982
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 2: That began more years of losing under Matthew Stafford. I

983
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 2: don't have to go over that, but they you know, yeah,

984
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 2: got Calvin Johnson. I mean there were some positive down row.

985
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you two coaches. You were talking earlier

986
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 2: with Adam Kaplan our Fox Sports Radio NFL insided talking

987
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 2: about Dimiko Rans. I mean, if the Texans make the playoffs,

988
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 2: he should be a runaway down coach of the Year.

989
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 2: But there's a couple of other coaches that are really

990
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 2: approving themselves. How about Chane Stikeen in Indianapolis. First time coach.

991
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 3: You come into the year and you're basically ordered by

992
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 3: ownership to start the rookie Anthony Richardson, who showed promise

993
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 3: early on the season, but he goes down. Incomes Gardner

994
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 3: Minshew and here are the Colts right now? Sitting at

995
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 3: eight and six.

996
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 5: Minche mania. Man, it's the mustache.

997
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 3: It is.

998
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 2: And by the way, my oldest son now has got

999
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 2: the Minshee mustache. I'm telling you, I got to show

1000
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 2: you the shot. It's very much a Minshew mustache. But

1001
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 2: Shane Steigen again, and if you don't know this story,

1002
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 2: Nick Sirianni, the coach of the Eagles, and Shane Steichen

1003
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 2: of the Indianapolis Colts were both low level assistants at

1004
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 2: one point on the still San Diego Chargers under Frank Reich,

1005
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 2: of all people, and Steiken was like the serious guy

1006
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 2: and Sirianni was sort of the goofy guy. But both

1007
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 2: knew what they were doing. And even though they have

1008
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 2: very different styles, certainly Nick Siriano's proved his worth as

1009
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 2: a head coach and now Shane Steigen's doing the same

1010
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 2: thing with Indianapolis. You lose your quarterback early. The guy

1011
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 2: ever won wanted to see Anthony Richardson.

1012
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 5: You're going with.

1013
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew and they're in the mix. And how about

1014
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns and Stefanski? Nine in five? Would Joe

1015
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 2: Flacka as your quarterback right now? I mean he he

1016
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 2: was this last game he threw a couple of interceptions

1017
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 2: that were just ugly, and then he throws that perfect

1018
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 2: crossing past to Maury Cooper.

1019
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 5: For the game when he touched down.

1020
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 3: I don't know what to make of these teams.

1021
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 2: We got the Ravens, you know, finally people are realizing

1022
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 2: what I've been saying for I don't know what the

1023
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 2: last three or four weeks of the Ravens are clearly

1024
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 2: the class of the AFC. They proved it with their

1025
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 2: blot went on the road against Jacksonville. Miami's a pretender.

1026
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 5: The Chiefs are the Chiefs.

1027
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 2: I'm not dismissing Kansas City, but when you look at Jacksonville, Cleveland,

1028
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 2: Cincinnati with this loss today is not getting helped. Colts, Texans,

1029
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 2: and the Bills. All those teams are in the mix

1030
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 2: right now, Ephraim can any of those teams. We know

1031
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 2: Buffalo gets a lot of hype because of Josh Allen

1032
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 2: and the damage they could do.

1033
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 3: But if you were looking at the Colts or the Browns.

1034
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 2: Or even the Texans, are these teams that could steal

1035
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 2: a win on the road in the postseason?

1036
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 5: Are they at that level? Yeah?

1037
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,240
Speaker 4: When you get to the postseason, man, anything can happen.

1038
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 4: That's the beauty about it getting to the show is

1039
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 4: that's the first part of the season. Once you get

1040
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 4: their whole new season starts, it doesn't matter what seat

1041
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 4: you are going to road at home. We've seen as

1042
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 4: Annon Rodgers in Green Bay, right, it doesn't matter, right,

1043
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 4: So it just getting there. That's a goal every team says,

1044
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 4: our goal is to get to the playoffs. When we

1045
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 4: get to the playoffs, our goal is to win the

1046
00:52:58,120 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 4: Super Bowl.

1047
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 2: But the advantage or disadvantage, obviously, you had a remarkable

1048
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 2: rookie season where you're on a team starting as a

1049
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 2: seventh round pick and you're starting in the Super Bowl.

1050
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 2: So no one picked the Falcons that year to get there.

1051
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 2: Everyone had the vikings that fifteen to one team. But

1052
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 2: did you know instantly when you got into the postseason

1053
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:19,280
Speaker 2: that this was a whole new ball game.

1054
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, because we had to buy even as

1055
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,280
Speaker 4: a rookie, Yeah, we had to buy. I had played

1056
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 4: in at the time, I had played in seventeen games,

1057
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 4: all right, so that's almost two full college seasons. And

1058
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 4: the energy around what was going on. We had San

1059
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 4: Francisco coming in. You got to remember it was the

1060
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 4: to crying game in the wild card game with them

1061
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 4: in Green Bay. I remember sitting there saying, please San

1062
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 4: Francisco win this game because they were in our I

1063
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 4: don't know how San Francisco and Atlanta were in the same.

1064
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 2: Atlanta was in the West, which was always amazing. Did

1065
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 2: years they were in the NFCS.

1066
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 4: Didn't understand that, but look, we had faced them twice.

1067
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 4: They beat us there, we beat them at home. We

1068
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,280
Speaker 4: knew they had to come home, come to us to play.

1069
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 4: I didn't want to play against Reggie White. I had

1070
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 4: just a year earlier watch him destroy destroy the tackle

1071
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 4: in the Super Bowl, and I didn't want that smoke.

1072
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:37,760
Speaker 5: And ran them over Super Bowls.

1073
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my lord, So I'm watching that

1074
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:47,439
Speaker 4: game with a whole different perspective and interest in who

1075
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 4: was winning. And t O caught the past and was

1076
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 4: crying and I was crying too, and we were crying

1077
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 4: together because I was like, yes, because we knew we

1078
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 4: had forty nine ers number with Garrison Hurst when they

1079
00:54:59,640 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 4: came to.

1080
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 3: But how much of advantage was it to have a

1081
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 3: coach and.

1082
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 5: Dan Rees and they've done that?

1083
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 2: I mean everything then knew everything about beating the playoffs.

1084
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 5: He prepared us to go.

1085
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a big part of it.

1086
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 2: So like if Indianapolis gets in rookie coach Inge stiking

1087
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 2: to meeke Oryan's root coach to make O'Ryan's yeah, I mean,

1088
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 2: that would be the big question heading in the postseason.

1089
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 3: All right, we're all over it today.

1090
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 2: By the way, we're got we got a college football

1091
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 2: playoff a little over a week away. We're gonna break

1092
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 2: it down because this is a rare year for the

1093
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 2: college football Playoff, because you could make an argument any

1094
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Speaker 2: one of these four schools could easy end up as

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Speaker 2: the mythical national champion of twenty twenty three. Break it down.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harmin and he from Salon.

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Speaker 2: thirty four to eleven Pittsburgh inside two minutes to go.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna get a big win here. Steelers still have

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Speaker 2: a tough road. They got a couple of tough road

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Speaker 2: games coming up against Seattle and then the Ravens if

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Speaker 2: they're going to get into the postseason. Brutal blow for Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Was hoping that Jake Brownie was going to continue the

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Speaker 2: magic today. He was not able to do that. But

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Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph. Who would have thought Mason Rudolph leading the

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Speaker 2: Steelers to the big win today? All right, I want

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Speaker 2: to get ahead to the semi finals for the college

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Speaker 2: football Playoff. The final four school playoff ten years mercifully

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Speaker 2: is over. We're gonna have a twelve school playoff next year.

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Speaker 2: You say that's four schools too many. You they'd rather

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Speaker 2: have an eight school playoff. Some people are even talking

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Speaker 2: already that they're expanding it to sixteen at some point.

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Speaker 2: We'll see how that all goes. But what's interesting about

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00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 2: this year's semi finals is that, unlike years pass where

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Speaker 2: at least one of the games appeared to be a

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Speaker 2: mismatch on paper, neither one of these games looked like

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Speaker 2: a mismatch. Washington, Texas, that's a coin flip. Alabama, Michigan,

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Speaker 2: that's a coin flip. And when you think about these

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Speaker 2: four schools and how they got here, I mean Michigan

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Speaker 2: had Harbor missed half the games before the Big Ten Championship.

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Speaker 2: How about Washington, They won their last nine games by

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Speaker 2: ten or less, nine in a row. In fact, they've

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Speaker 2: had eight wins in single digits this year, which is

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Speaker 2: the most ever by a team that made it to.

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Speaker 3: The College Football Playoff.

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Speaker 2: Texas, how many years have we been saying with Texas

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Speaker 2: getting a nice win during the season, Texas is back

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Speaker 2: and they lay an egg.

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Speaker 5: The next week.

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Speaker 2: Remember that survival Kansas State game, the overtime win, that

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Speaker 2: was the big win for them. And then Alabama. You

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Speaker 2: and I sat here in that Auburn game. Fourth and

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Speaker 2: goal at the thirty one yard line, No way, fourth

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Speaker 2: and goal at the thirty one yard line, touchdown, never

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00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 2: should have happened, never should have happened, but it did happen.

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Speaker 2: And then they took care of business against Georgia. So,

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Speaker 2: at least on paper, this is going to be the

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Speaker 2: most competitive semi finals. And by the way, this is

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Speaker 2: going to be on Monday, January first that.

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Speaker 5: We've ever seen.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully the games are going to live up to the hyde.

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Speaker 2: Are you leaning in any direction with these four teams

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Speaker 2: on who you think is the team to beat?

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I would I would say Alabama was the team

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Speaker 4: to beat.

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Speaker 5: Wow? Is that because of Nick Saban?

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Speaker 4: Nick Sabman Milroy is stepped into his own He's become

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Speaker 4: a huge threat, not only through the air but with

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Speaker 4: his legs, and I just when you get Nick Saban

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Speaker 4: in this position, you just trust him. And that has

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Speaker 4: a lot to do with it. We saw Michigan fall

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Speaker 4: flat a couple of times, not quite sure what we're

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Speaker 4: gonna get out of Texas, don't know. So you know, Washington,

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Speaker 4: this is a huge stage. They went through the gauntlet.

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Speaker 4: With the Pac twelve being as good as it was

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Speaker 4: this year, I'm pulling for Washington.

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Speaker 5: I think that'd be great. I think it'd be great for.

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Speaker 4: College football for the last year of the Pac twelve

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Speaker 4: as we knew it to be the national champions I

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Speaker 4: think that would be a tremendous story and a great

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Speaker 4: way to exit a conference. So I'm looking, I'm pulling

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Speaker 4: for the story.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think Washington is the team to beat, and

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. First of all, it's interesting in

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Speaker 2: their matchup against Texas because you have two schools leaving

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Speaker 2: their conferences. Texas is heading the SEC, Washington's heading to

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Speaker 2: the Big Ten. But they are battle tested. Yeah, they

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Speaker 2: have figured out way. This Debor guy is unreal. I mean,

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Speaker 2: his coaching record is ridiculous, and they have been battle

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Speaker 2: tested week after week after week. As I said, their

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Speaker 2: last nine wins have all been by ten points or less.

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Speaker 2: And they have the best quarterback remaining, Michael Penix Junior,

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Speaker 2: who got my Heisman vote. Folks, It's only the third

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Speaker 2: time ever that I voted for someone to win the

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Speaker 2: Heisman that did not win the Heisman. And this was

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Speaker 2: no knock on Jason Daniels. I mean, he had a

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Speaker 2: phenomenal year. Statistically he was the better quarterback, but what

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Speaker 2: did he do in his biggest games. LSU played four

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Speaker 2: ranked teams this year and they lost three of those games.

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Speaker 2: Well it was their defense, Okay, Well, Penix's defense wasn't

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Speaker 2: always great, but in close games he made big plays.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about the Michigan Alabama game.

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Speaker 2: I mean that is just a wacky matchup to me

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Speaker 2: because Michigan defense is phenomenal. But do you know what's

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Speaker 2: a little overrated is a running game. Corum you know,

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Speaker 2: was like a third team All American this year. He

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Speaker 2: only had I think two hundred yard rushing games the

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Speaker 2: entire year, scored a lot of touchdowns. But here's a

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Speaker 2: stat for you, yards per carry rushing offense. You think

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Speaker 2: Michigan be one of the best. Remember the game against

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Speaker 2: Penn State. They didn't throw it pass in the second half.

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Speaker 3: Seventy fourth in the nation in the yards per car

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Speaker 3: seventy fourth in the nation in the.

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Speaker 2: Yards per carry in the running game. Alabama pretty good

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Speaker 2: run defense.

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Speaker 5: Oh they gonna come get you now.

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Speaker 2: And if Michigan can't run the ball effectively against Alabama,

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Speaker 2: putting it on the arm of JJ McCarthy. I like

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Speaker 2: McCarthy's a winner, But I'm with you. I think Milroe

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Speaker 2: is the better quarterback. And if it came down to

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Speaker 2: Alabama and Washington, I'm going back twelve.

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Speaker 5: Gotta go pack twelve, which would be unbelievable, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: That's the story, would be unbelievable. That is the story.

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Speaker 5: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 4: That's the story, and that's that's what I would hang

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Speaker 4: my hat on right.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually looking forward to this playoff. It's not for real,

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Speaker 2: it's for a mythical national championship. But I am definitely

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Speaker 2: hooked in on these two semi finals coming up on

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Speaker 2: January first, All right, let's find out what is trending

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Speaker 2: right now. And oh, Martin Mason Rudolph the hero of

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Speaker 2: the day.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Christmas spear is starting early.

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Speaker 8: Of course, Mason Rudolph would have a great game as

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Speaker 8: Christmas is right around the corner.

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Speaker 3: It is a Rudolph holiday.

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Speaker 8: But dun anyway. The Steelers thirty four, Bengals eleven. Jake

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Speaker 8: Brown and came back down to earth twenty eight for

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Speaker 8: forty two I mean twenty eight of forty two three

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Speaker 8: hundred and thirty three three hundred and thirty five yards,

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Speaker 8: but only a touchdown in three interceptions. Mason Rudolph seventeen

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Speaker 8: for twenty seven to ninety two touchdowns. And George Pickens

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Speaker 8: had had a day. You know, he was the topic

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Speaker 8: of a lot of conversation.

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Speaker 5: You know, he's but he's not paid out there to block.

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Speaker 8: He had an average of forty eight yards along of

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Speaker 8: eighty six four catches, one hundred and ninety five yards.

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Speaker 8: College football games in action right now South Alabama with

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Speaker 8: ay ten nothing lead over Eastern Michigan at Utah and

1238
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:13,160
Speaker 8: Northwestern getting ready to start. In the NBA, the Hornets

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01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 8: jumped out to a twelve to two lead early in

1240
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 8: the first quarter, but late in the first quarter. Now

1241
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Speaker 8: the Nuggets just trailing by one twenty one to twenty

1242
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 8: against Charlotte and Denver and the Magic and the Pacers

1243
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 8: of Magic have a two point lead twenty four to

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Speaker 8: twenty two. Palo Bank Carroll has eight points, Tyreez Halliburton

1245
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Speaker 8: with seven, and the other game in action right now,

1246
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 8: Zion Williamson has five points as the Pelicans trail the

1247
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 8: Rockets twenty three to nineteen. In the NFL, Trevor Lawrence

1248
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Speaker 8: has clear concussion protocol. He'll travel to Tampa for tomorrow's

1249
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 8: game against the Buccaneers. Jaguars tied atop the AFC South

1250
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 8: with the Colts and the Texans. The Texans who will

1251
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 8: be without C. J. Stroud he has not yet cleared

1252
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:56,120
Speaker 8: his concussion protocol. The Indianapolis Colts will be without running

1253
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 8: back Zach Moss. He's down against the Falcons with a

1254
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 8: form injury all so not playing.

1255
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:01,440
Speaker 5: Michael Pittman.

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01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 8: He cleared concussion protocol on Friday, traveled with the team,

1257
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 8: had some other symptoms come flare up, and now he's

1258
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 8: back in concussion protocol and he's also dealing with his

1259
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 8: shoulder injury. Titans quarterback Will Levis unlikely to start against

1260
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 8: the Seahawks on Sunday. Ryan Tannehill will make his first

1261
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 8: start since getting benched Week six. Eagles receiver Davonte Smith

1262
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 8: as a full goal for Monday Night against the Giants.

1263
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 8: Eagles will be without linebacker Zach Cunningham, cornerbacks Avonte Maddox

1264
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 8: and Darius Slay, and in the Chiefs Raiders matchup, the

1265
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 8: Chiefs will be without Kadarius Tony, running back Jerrick McKinnon,

1266
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 8: wide receiver Mcole Harbmon, and tackle Donovan Smith. The Raiders

1267
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:39,840
Speaker 8: will be without tight end Michael Mayer. Steve Ephrom back

1268
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 8: to you guys, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Martin, thank you very much. Once again, this is

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01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,800
Speaker 2: Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harbin and Ephrom Salam were coming

1271
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 2: to you live from the tai Iraq dot Com studio.

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Speaker 3: So the Steelers get the first one of the day

1273
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 3: coming up.

1274
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 2: Now, the Bills on the road against the Chargers, and

1275
01:04:55,000 --> 01:05:00,800
Speaker 2: the Chargers have a new coach. Give Smith, and if

1276
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 2: you don't know, give Smith's background. This guy's been a

1277
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 2: coach for a long time. Nineteen years in the college ranks.

1278
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:10,200
Speaker 2: He's been in the NFL since twenty ten with the

1279
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 2: Bills of Titans. It's been part of the Chargers coaching

1280
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 2: staff since twenty sixteen, fifty five years old.

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Speaker 5: He's an interim guy.

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01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:18,600
Speaker 2: He's not going to be coaching me on these three

1283
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 2: games as a head coach. How many interim coaches did

1284
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 2: you play under over the course of your thirteen year

1285
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 2: NFL career.

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Speaker 5: None? None, None.

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Speaker 2: You never had a coach that was fired during a season. No,

1288
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 2: That is amazing on my watch, that is amazing. Now

1289
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 2: interim coaches, and we've got plenty of them going already

1290
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 2: this year in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: It's not an uncommon.

1292
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 2: Practice, but it would be like a substitute teacher, right, Yes,

1293
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 2: although I guess when we hear him more about the

1294
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 2: Brandon Staley situation.

1295
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 3: You and I obviously were all over Brandon Staley for a.

1296
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Speaker 5: Long time, long years. I mean almost from the get go.

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Speaker 2: Is first year, you know, when he was going for

1298
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,120
Speaker 2: it on fourth and ten from his own twenty yard line,

1299
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 2: and I don't know, he just you know, he was

1300
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 2: like he was trying to back it up with analytics

1301
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 2: and everything else.

1302
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Speaker 5: Lost so many games for no reason.

1303
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 2: Do you remember his first year that last game against

1304
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 2: the Raiders where if the game ended in a tie,

1305
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 2: both teams would have been in Yes, and he went

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01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 2: for it on fourth and two. It is own like

1307
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 2: twenty four yard line got stucked.

1308
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 5: Should have been fired right then and there.

1309
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 3: And then he lost on a second last second field

1310
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 3: go by the Raiders.

1311
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:33,640
Speaker 5: Did a lost? You should have been fired right then

1312
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 5: and there.

1313
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 2: And then the next year blows a twenty seven to

1314
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 2: nothing lead at halftime in a playoff game. But I

1315
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 2: would imagine if the locker room is loose, right, I mean,

1316
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 2: you're going against the Bills team that hey, everyone's hyping

1317
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 2: up right now? Why do I get a sense the

1318
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,600
Speaker 2: charge is going to hang in there today? Coming off that?

1319
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 2: I mean, when you're down forty two to nothing at

1320
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:59,959
Speaker 2: halftime on national TV, then have your coach in general

1321
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 2: manager fired? How does that sit in the locker room?

1322
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:07,440
Speaker 2: Plus you have had extended time off. How do you

1323
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 2: think that's been sitting with the players are in that

1324
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 2: locker room.

1325
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 4: I think it sits a little bit better than it

1326
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 4: normally would have, because I'm sure they were tired of

1327
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 4: Brandon Staley, just like the rest of us. So when

1328
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 4: you can remove the thing that's causing the most issue,

1329
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 4: there's a sigh of relief. You get to exhale, and

1330
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:31,919
Speaker 4: now you can really focus on moving forward because they

1331
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 4: have been told, hey, everything you do in these last games,

1332
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 4: it's going to matter whether you're here or go somewhere else.

1333
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 5: Everything matters.

1334
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 2: Brand and Staley, after that humiliating collapse in the playoffs,

1335
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 2: walked into that locker room after the game and said,

1336
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 2: these things happen in the NFL. And then this last game,

1337
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 2: down forty two and nothing. At halftime after that game,

1338
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 2: he said, these things happen in the NFL. I can't

1339
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 2: imagine as a player, even if the guy is sort

1340
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 2: of deemed a player's coach and he's got your bag,

1341
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 2: that's not what you want to hear.

1342
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:14,560
Speaker 5: You don't want to hear that.

1343
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 4: These guys are professional athletes, they get paid to play.

1344
01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 4: They have pride. There's a sense of pride in going

1345
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:27,120
Speaker 4: to work and doing your best but what you also

1346
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 4: want is the person who's calling the plays, the person

1347
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:36,719
Speaker 4: who's supposed to be leading you, to also be giving

1348
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:37,320
Speaker 4: it their best.

1349
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 2: If I know you never were down forty two nothing

1350
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 2: at halftime in an NFL game, No, but wouldn't you

1351
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:45,680
Speaker 2: expect a coach to just light it up at halftime?

1352
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:48,400
Speaker 5: We're let it all out.

1353
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 2: I got news for all of you in this room.

1354
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:53,719
Speaker 2: None of you are guaranteed a job after this week.

1355
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 3: Show one or get out, Show up or get out

1356
01:08:59,120 --> 01:08:59,800
Speaker 3: forty two nothing.

1357
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:03,280
Speaker 2: If you think you got a paycheck coming next week,

1358
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 2: there's no guarantee. Right, isn't that what you want to

1359
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:08,759
Speaker 2: hear as a player, and then start looking around saying

1360
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 2: you're right.

1361
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 5: Accountability is everything. But that wasn't right.

1362
01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 2: Brandon Staley his line after the humiliating playoff loss, and

1363
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:24,479
Speaker 2: this humiliation was the same. These things happen in the NFL.

1364
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 5: No, No, they don't, not like this, No, not like.

1365
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:31,680
Speaker 2: This, not like that at all. So it's going to

1366
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 2: be the Bills and the Chargers coming up. As far

1367
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 2: as the Bills are concerned, they are the hot ticket

1368
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:39,799
Speaker 2: right now. They had the close loss against the Eagles

1369
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 2: on the road, then they got the road win against

1370
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:46,240
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. The controversy about the off side against the

1371
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 2: Chiefs that now has been resolved.

1372
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:51,160
Speaker 3: He was offside, you know, the officials didn't.

1373
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:55,480
Speaker 2: They're not obligated to say, hey, dude, you're blind up offside.

1374
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 5: What is your job as a receiver to check? Well,

1375
01:09:57,920 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 5: he was looking down the line.

1376
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 2: If you watch that still photo, him literally looking down

1377
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 2: the line, and he is a half yard ahead of

1378
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 2: everybody else.

1379
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 5: Are you blind? Yeah?

1380
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, take a step back, by the way, how does

1381
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 2: that play in the locker room?

1382
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:14,599
Speaker 5: Not good?

1383
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,480
Speaker 3: So now you're looking at the film.

1384
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:20,639
Speaker 5: That plus the drops over the course of the year.

1385
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm. Not good. No, not good.

1386
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 2: And then of course their blott went against the Cowboys.

1387
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 2: Was that any shock to you? The Cowboys again.

1388
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:34,920
Speaker 3: The cowboy in the egg on the road and getting humiliated.

1389
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 5: No, that is it gonna happen this week with the Dolphins,

1390
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 5: I believe so.

1391
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:43,639
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill apparently is expected to be back.

1392
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 5: That's not good for them.

1393
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 2: That doesn't help the situation. And yet I still don't

1394
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:50,719
Speaker 2: take the Dolphins seriously.

1395
01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 5: Well, they're exciting to watch, I can tell you that.

1396
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:57,360
Speaker 3: Can they win on the road against Kansas City in

1397
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:58,360
Speaker 3: the playoffs.

1398
01:10:58,880 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1399
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 3: Can they went on the rod against the Ravens in

1400
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 3: the playoffs?

1401
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:05,760
Speaker 5: Yeah? Are you with me on the Ravens. I don't

1402
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 5: think you're there, I am.

1403
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 3: I mean, as long as you've got a healthy Lamar Jackson.

1404
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 4: What they're doing defensively and having a healthy Lamar Jackson brother,

1405
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 4: that is a recipe for disaster for other teams. That

1406
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 4: is something that those young receivers ob j likely an

1407
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 4: unlikely source at tight end.

1408
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:32,800
Speaker 5: Hey, this thing is clicking, man, I.

1409
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 2: Thought Doug Peterson. I'm a big fan of Doug Peterson.

1410
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 2: What he's done in Jacksonville to turn that organization around

1411
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 2: after that Urban Meyers is unbelievable. But he said I

1412
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 2: like a straight shooter after that loss at home, convincing

1413
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 2: loss of the Ravens, he just simply said, we're not

1414
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 2: good enough to be a team like that yet.

1415
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 5: We're just not.

1416
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 2: That is It's that's what you say to get your

1417
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:57,439
Speaker 2: team to the next level. Basically, what you're saying is

1418
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,200
Speaker 2: if we're going to take that next step, if we're

1419
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 2: going to beat a team like the Ravens, we gotta

1420
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:07,840
Speaker 2: be better, man, way better. Because we weren't competitive in

1421
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 2: that game.

1422
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:10,280
Speaker 3: So we'll see.

1423
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 2: I as far as the Bills are concerned, they should

1424
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 2: take care of business today. And by the way, the

1425
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:19,519
Speaker 2: Bills still have an outside chance to win the AFC

1426
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 2: East because their last game of the year is against

1427
01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 2: the Dolphins.

1428
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 5: Big time.

1429
01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 1: Man.

1430
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 5: I love I love late December football.

1431
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 2: You know, I always loved the last week of the

1432
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:36,559
Speaker 2: season where you have the scenario like if this team wins,

1433
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 2: the next team, next team, and there's a pecking order,

1434
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 2: right this team loses, that team moves up, that team loses,

1435
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 2: next team.

1436
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:47,559
Speaker 4: Moves And when everybody jammed in at seven and six

1437
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:50,840
Speaker 4: and eight and said, that's what you want because every

1438
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 4: game matters.

1439
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 2: By the way, it is conceivable that we have not

1440
01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 2: won but two eight to nine teams in the NFC.

1441
01:12:57,760 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 3: It's possible, it's not likely.

1442
01:12:59,479 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 2: I think tam is going to finish nine to eight

1443
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 2: and win that NFC South, but they could get upset

1444
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:08,920
Speaker 2: easily by somebody. But it almost looks almost assured one

1445
01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 2: of those wildcard teams is gonna sneak in an eight

1446
01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 2: to nine.

1447
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:17,599
Speaker 5: That's awesome. I love it, man. All right.

1448
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 2: On the other side, we'll give our thoughts on these

1449
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:21,799
Speaker 2: games coming up. They're about to kick it off between

1450
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:24,439
Speaker 2: the Bills and the Chargers. What's going to be the

1451
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:27,960
Speaker 2: big upset game in Week sixteen in the NFL.

1452
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 3: We'll tell you. This is Fox Football Saturday.

1453
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 5: Mason Rudolphin, the Guy and the Empties, the set fast

1454
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:37,479
Speaker 5: over the middle, list cut five pickings. He's on his way.

1455
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 3: He's at the forty, the fifty, the forty five to forty.

1456
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:45,719
Speaker 5: Here comes George Pickens all the way for a pitch perk.

1457
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,120
Speaker 5: Steelers cuts down eighty six yards.

1458
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:52,080
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Speaker 2: Steve Harbin and he from Salam. We are coming alive

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01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:20,840
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Speaker 2: what he does every once in a while. Here working

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01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:27,120
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01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 2: as usual, doing a perfect job. And then our brilliant producer,

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Speaker 2: Brandon who is hitting his stride at this point of

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Speaker 2: the season.

1473
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 5: Brandon.

1474
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:41,679
Speaker 2: We got big news for Brandon in the coming week,

1475
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:44,320
Speaker 2: so we'll keep you up the date on that.

1476
01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:46,599
Speaker 5: All right.

1477
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about potential upsets coming up tomorrow

1478
01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 2: in the NFL, and I'm gonna give you one of

1479
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:58,720
Speaker 2: my choices, and that is the Detroit Lions on the

1480
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:02,839
Speaker 2: road against the Minnesota Now, for the Lions, a victory

1481
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 2: clinches an NFC North championship, and they're coming off a

1482
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:09,639
Speaker 2: really big game, golf through for five touchdowns in their

1483
01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:13,720
Speaker 2: last victory the Vikings. I think Kevin O'Connell is a

1484
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 2: little I'm going to put it this way in some respects.

1485
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:21,080
Speaker 2: He's done a better coaching job this year with a

1486
01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 2: seven and seven team than he did last year with

1487
01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 2: a thirteen and fourteen. Now, remember last year, the Vikings

1488
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 2: did unprecedented eleven and oh in one score games.

1489
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 3: That's unbelievable, eleven and oh in one score games.

1490
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 2: Ironically, they ended up losing at home to the Giants

1491
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:39,759
Speaker 2: in a one score game.

1492
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:41,320
Speaker 5: But this year, you.

1493
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 2: Lose your quarterback, You lost Jefferson for the majority of

1494
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:48,960
Speaker 2: the season, and the Vikings are still in the running

1495
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,040
Speaker 2: and two of their last three games are matchups against

1496
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 2: the Lions. Nick Mullens is in Remember we.

1497
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:56,839
Speaker 3: Had Joshua Dobbs.

1498
01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 2: He was like the hot ticket for a couple of

1499
01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 2: weeks and then the wheels fell off Dobs He is

1500
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:04,280
Speaker 2: now completely forgotten. But I don't know. I look at

1501
01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:07,840
Speaker 2: the Lions. They're gonna be in the playoffs. But the

1502
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:11,839
Speaker 2: Lions to me, are still the Lions until they prove otherwise. This,

1503
01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:14,320
Speaker 2: this to me, seems like the perfect cause. They will

1504
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:16,960
Speaker 2: be hosting the Vikings in the final game of the

1505
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 2: season if that still matters in terms of winning the division.

1506
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:22,720
Speaker 2: But I am predicting right now. And by the way,

1507
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:24,640
Speaker 2: every time I make a prediction, people run to the

1508
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:26,760
Speaker 2: bank and go the other way. And I don't blame you.

1509
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,559
Speaker 2: I've been doing this for a long time. But something

1510
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 2: tells me that Nick Mullins and the Vikings and Kevin

1511
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 2: O'Connell and JJ's back at wide receiver, they're gonna find

1512
01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 2: a way to win at home against.

1513
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:42,560
Speaker 5: The Detroit Lions. Are you jumping on with me on

1514
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:44,320
Speaker 5: that one? I'm not gonna jump home with it that

1515
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:46,880
Speaker 5: you look really skeptical.

1516
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 3: I mean technically they're still alive.

1517
01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 5: They are alive.

1518
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:55,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean again nine and eight. So nine and

1519
01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 3: eight will get you into the playoffs in the NFC.

1520
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 5: But the motivation to your your division in one win,

1521
01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:06,160
Speaker 5: I know when you can do that.

1522
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 3: I'm sure Dan Campbell's gonna have them reed up.

1523
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,799
Speaker 5: Oh they've been Yeah, they've been reffed.

1524
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:16,679
Speaker 4: So now it's time to open the doors, open the gates,

1525
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 4: and let them loose.

1526
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:20,720
Speaker 5: All right, this big, its huge for this.

1527
01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 2: You gotta name Nick Mullets. All right, do you have

1528
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:27,599
Speaker 2: an upset special for tomorrow?

1529
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:32,919
Speaker 5: I'm looking at this and.

1530
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:34,879
Speaker 3: Are you picking the Cowboys at Miami.

1531
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:37,040
Speaker 4: I'm not picking the Cowboys, no way. On the road,

1532
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 4: on the road, no shot. Not against that high powered

1533
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:41,640
Speaker 4: offense M H.

1534
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 3: Ravens on the road against the forty nine.

1535
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:50,799
Speaker 4: Ers, I'm taking I'm taking the Texans over the Browns.

1536
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:53,599
Speaker 3: Really, so, Texans at.

1537
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 5: Home, Texans at home, three point doll.

1538
01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 3: They're gonna be able to shut down Joe Flacco, the unstoppable.

1539
01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:04,599
Speaker 4: Yet Joe has a tendency to power every throw. Yes,

1540
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 4: and one thing that the Texans do. They can take

1541
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:12,320
Speaker 4: the ball away. They will take the ball.

1542
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 5: Away at CJ.

1543
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:13,679
Speaker 3: Stroud back.

1544
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:16,120
Speaker 5: No, no, he hasn't cleared yet. Not no.

1545
01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:21,639
Speaker 4: But I think defensively you're good with Case Keenum. I'm

1546
01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:25,440
Speaker 4: okay with case Keenum. I'm not good. I'm okay. But defensively,

1547
01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:31,559
Speaker 4: I think this is one of those games where they're

1548
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 4: looking forward to seeing Joe Flacco because Joe feels he

1549
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 4: can make every throw. I mean, is cannon for an arm,

1550
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,640
Speaker 4: so he will throw you a few like we just

1551
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 4: saw last week.

1552
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 2: What kind of odds would you have gotten preseason? Just

1553
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 2: saying all right, let's let's look at Week sixteen, a

1554
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:50,320
Speaker 2: game that will matter big time for both teams. It'll

1555
01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:54,480
Speaker 2: be the Browns at the Texans, and the starting quarterbacks

1556
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:56,759
Speaker 2: will be Joe Flacco and Case Keenum.

1557
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 3: With a playoff locations for both.

1558
01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 5: You would have got no action on that at the

1559
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:04,639
Speaker 5: beginning of the season. No action.

1560
01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 2: I think what we are finding out is you remember

1561
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 2: I was sort of making the argument the quarterback might

1562
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 2: be overrated last week because we really had it down

1563
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 2: here for quarterbacks.

1564
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,559
Speaker 5: Overall, none of them are healthy.

1565
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 2: Well, but that makes the point that the most underrated

1566
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:21,919
Speaker 2: positions backup quarterback.

1567
01:19:23,040 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, look, I mean Gardner minshew.

1568
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:28,479
Speaker 5: If you don't have one, you're done right.

1569
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:32,839
Speaker 2: And these teams have been able to stay the course

1570
01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 2: and keep themselves in playoff contention even with second or

1571
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:38,680
Speaker 2: even third string quarterbacks.

1572
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:43,599
Speaker 4: The most valuable player on the San Francisco forty nine

1573
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 4: Ers team is Sam Darnold. Yeah, because God forbid something

1574
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 4: happened to brock Purty. You wouldn't hold your breath if

1575
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:54,800
Speaker 4: Sam got anew with all that talent.

1576
01:19:55,760 --> 01:19:56,800
Speaker 5: That's how big that is.

1577
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 2: If you imagine at the beginning of last year, we'd

1578
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:03,640
Speaker 2: be saying the forty nine ers could ill afford to

1579
01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 2: lose Brock Party.

1580
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 3: This is how crazy.

1581
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 5: This league is.

1582
01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 4: What they learned, the forty nine ers learned, and they addressed.

1583
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:13,040
Speaker 4: They addressed the problem.

1584
01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 3: Are you a party when he says McCaffrey should be

1585
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 3: the MVP.

1586
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:20,280
Speaker 4: No, because you have to, Like I said, you got

1587
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 4: to break a long standing record if you're any position

1588
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 4: outside quarterback.

1589
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:25,599
Speaker 5: Happy holidays, everybody.

1590
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:28,639
Speaker 2: Happy holidays everybody out there, and don't go anywhere. Much

1591
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 2: more coming up this is Fox Sports Radio