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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast. He's being blackballed by the lead.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Kansas, and I'm joined by Real

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Speaker 1: Build with heroes Mark Sesler, Connie Fox, and Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: Well what's up people, Hi, Hey, hey, hey, Now that

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Speaker 1: was accurate by Matt money Smith. It's true. They've been

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Speaker 1: trying to hold us down for five plus years now,

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Speaker 1: and I will not stoop. Nobody do it, do it,

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Speaker 1: can't stop us. This is UH the flagship program on

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday, special occasion, because of course Christmas UH fell

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Speaker 1: on a Monday. Did everybody have a happy Merry Christmas?

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Speaker 1: It was great. I was on the East Coast and

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Speaker 1: the West coast. Look at you. Yeah, bit of a

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Speaker 1: humble brag, but nobody back on Christmas? It was great.

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Speaker 1: Business class I did. I treated myself well, I have

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Speaker 1: I have all the miles. It's not like you're going

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Speaker 1: back though. Once. Once you've flown business class a couple

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Speaker 1: of times, it's like that's it. That's your life. The

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Speaker 1: amount of miles I've racked up from flying back and forth,

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Speaker 1: it's like nothing. That's amazing. Um. The show is presented

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Speaker 1: by Head and Shoulders. Collie is also on video or

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Speaker 1: a video show tonight, and someone pointed out to me

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Speaker 1: that Connie on her laptop has NFL network. This is

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Speaker 1: the lap top of the business class right here. So

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Speaker 1: I asked if I could just get a regular NFL shield.

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Speaker 1: I feel like this is so like a weird thing

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Speaker 1: to have on my computer. That is what I got,

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Speaker 1: But you obviously went out of your way to get

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Speaker 1: something other than the network now sticker before and they

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Speaker 1: and they had me take it off. It's putting the

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Speaker 1: people around you in their place. I think it's good.

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Speaker 1: It's a shot, it's a power movement. I respect. I

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Speaker 1: think they're putting in a bad situation right now. Um.

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Speaker 1: Each of us, each of the men in the room

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Speaker 1: have three children. Um, one quick anecdote I want to

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Speaker 1: share to children. That was news to me. Dan has

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Speaker 1: one we haven't heard about in the state, but I

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Speaker 1: but uh, it was really annoying my Christmas. Cleaning the

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Speaker 1: those two rooms about fifteen times over the course of

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Speaker 1: fourteen hours was exhausting. That was my Christmas. Yeah. We

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Speaker 1: mirrored each other to some degree where I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've vacuumed this section of the house three times and

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Speaker 1: it is am what were you guys vacuums. It's just

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Speaker 1: it's just like I have a one year old and

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Speaker 1: a three year old. My one year old, Harry, his

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Speaker 1: only goal is just to throw stuff around. That's how

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Speaker 1: he plays by making him mess. Jack, the more customary

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Speaker 1: three year old boy, um moves from thing to thing,

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Speaker 1: new toy to new toy, leaving just complete havoc in

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Speaker 1: his wake. And and then there's food. It's Christmas. It's

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Speaker 1: crumbs everywhere and their spills, you know. Yeah. Luke and

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Speaker 1: Colton are back to bona fide Ruffians at this stage,

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Speaker 1: so they you know, every room is uh a total

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Speaker 1: grab bag. Sounds really great, guys, Yeah, it was joyous.

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Speaker 1: I don't have kids yet, so you'll have three kids, Connie.

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Speaker 1: I had a great time. It was it was you know,

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Speaker 1: it was an excuse to just stay home, hang out.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty easy, easy peasy. Yeah, all right, Greg

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Speaker 1: puts it in perspective. It is important to be with

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Speaker 1: rare to have that. All right, Now, we got to

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Speaker 1: get down to business because we have so much to

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Speaker 1: course of Saturday, Sunday, Monday, UH, and I think we

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Speaker 1: should just get into it. And a good way to

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Speaker 1: get into it, UH is starting in the NFC South,

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Speaker 1: a huge rematch between two rivals. Let's get going. Bunch

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Speaker 1: of trips near left, breeze takes the snap, backside pressure comes,

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Speaker 1: John Sadak Westwood one true story ted again. That was

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Speaker 1: his one million career touchdown of fifty or more yards.

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Speaker 1: and that's an NFL record. Yeah. Anyway, the mighty UH

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Speaker 1: Saints defense made UH New York made two goal line

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Speaker 1: once again, Greg there was no question who was the

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Speaker 1: deliver on all the Saints Falcons rivalry, hype, a quiet game,

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Speaker 1: different than the other five Sean Payton Saints teams that

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Speaker 1: and I think it's it's better prepared than they have

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Speaker 1: best interceptions I've seen ever, Marshawn Lattimore's butt pick. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that maybe maybe we could watch a lot of crazy

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Speaker 1: bring in Marvin Hall, who's had two catches all year.

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Speaker 1: wildly unlucky interception. Things that just could go wrong against

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Speaker 1: They need to win against Carolina. But I'm ready for

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Speaker 1: But I can see the Cardinals going into Seattle. That's

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Speaker 1: This Falcon team is not going to flip the switch

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Speaker 1: like they did last year. Um, they couldn't flip a

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Speaker 1: switch a season. No. Alright, let's check in with another

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Speaker 1: NFC South superpowers. The ball picks it up, touch Stoff guys,

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Speaker 1: Mick Mixon, Eugene Robinson w BT with the call. Cam

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Speaker 1: went to the playoffs four of the past five seasons. Connie,

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Speaker 1: why was this game so close? You know what, Tampa

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Speaker 1: Jerry Richardson's name, the team owner who is now selling

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Speaker 1: the team. That sort of doesn't make But then you

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Speaker 1: They still have a chance for a bye. You know,

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Speaker 1: the Rams don't have a chance, the Saints don't have

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Speaker 1: at it buy it's crazy. I mean, right now where

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Speaker 1: that um greg. The final score here though, didn't quite

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Speaker 1: Bills dropped a touchdown that looked exactly like the Jesse

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Speaker 1: James play the play before this, So it was just

429
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Speaker 1: the feeling that the Patriots are getting every break possible,

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Speaker 1: and it certainly that's the case. I mean, this comes

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Speaker 1: seven days after the abomination of the catch rule. Jesse James.

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Speaker 1: It's just amazing. By the way, Bill's owner Terry Bagoula

433
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Speaker 1: was on the Buffalo Sabers team produced radio program Tuesday.

434
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Speaker 1: He owns the Sabers as well. It's an NHL team, Mark,

435
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Speaker 1: I am well aware, well, because there was a period

436
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Speaker 1: where Rex Ryan, you know, his painting his truck and

437
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 1: were roaming around with Sabers gern you know. Anyway, this

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Speaker 1: is what Pagoula had to say. Obviously not happy. Um,

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Speaker 1: they obviously weren't looking at the same television the rest

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Speaker 1: of the country is looking at were they. You know what,

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Speaker 1: You could probably find somebody in the country that disagrees

442
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Speaker 1: with that catch and I know one would one and

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Speaker 1: I know one guy would be Al Riveran sitting in

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Speaker 1: New York City. But everyone I talked to and they're

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Speaker 1: not Bills fans, and they're not necessarily antipatriots. They're all

446
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: baffled by the call, which just wasn't consistent with what

447
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: replay should be added. I don't know what's going on,

448
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 1: but we have to fix it. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that as the owner of the Bills. I'm saying that

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Speaker 1: as a football fan, we can't have stuff like this

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Speaker 1: happening in our league. Preach. It's well said any anyone

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Speaker 1: inside the a f C. East if you had any

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Speaker 1: hopes or notions that this season might be a little

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Speaker 1: bit different than the past twenty you know, if you're Buffalo,

455
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Speaker 1: it's exactly the script to play that exactly the same.

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Speaker 1: In the end of that game from that catch on,

457
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Speaker 1: played out like every other Bills Patriots game. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Bills took a lead, like they were pretty competitive

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Speaker 1: through midway through the third quarter. Yeah, and but Gronk

460
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Speaker 1: took over. Gronk is at his absolute peak. He trashed

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Speaker 1: a pro bowler and Mike Hide in that game and

462
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: the eight straight buys. We could go back four years

463
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Speaker 1: and listen to the podcast we did in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and twelve and I went on I think I went

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Speaker 1: on a big soliloquy how the fourth or fifth straight

466
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Speaker 1: by which tied the all time record, was the greatest

467
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Speaker 1: achievement in like modern football history, that will never be

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Speaker 1: Time's been doubled because because I think being one of

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Speaker 1: the four top teams in the entire NFL, the entire

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Speaker 1: NFC playoffs isn't even gonna make it back this year

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs being one of the bye team two

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Speaker 1: or three straight years. You know, at that point, four

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Speaker 1: or five Street years is so incredible. And here we

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Speaker 1: are four years later and the streaks still going, and

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Speaker 1: one quick difference between them and the Steelers, you could

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Speaker 1: say all the Steelers are gonna knock New England out potentially,

477
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Speaker 1: is that if you're in New England every week, it's

478
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Speaker 1: a different player that you're using to upend the opponent.

479
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Speaker 1: Dion Lewis had a career game and three weeks ago

480
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Speaker 1: was Rex Burkehead and the Steelers. They lose one or

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Speaker 1: two main characters and then he's a top ten back

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Speaker 1: right now in the league, can play. Speaking of Gronk,

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Speaker 1: he has asked about this incredible run by New England

484
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Speaker 1: over the past eight years, and here's what he had

485
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Speaker 1: to say. Rob this is the eighth straight year that

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Speaker 1: disorganization has won twelve and more games. In your feeling,

487
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Speaker 1: what does it say about the consistency of this organization

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Speaker 1: to be able to accomplish something like that. It's unbelievable. Yeah,

489
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Speaker 1: if you think about it, I just I got here

490
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Speaker 1: eight years ago. Stay too hard. Maybe that's the reason

491
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Speaker 1: you're watching this on video, and that would be wrong.

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Speaker 1: He's not wrong. He's not wrong. I'll check by the

493
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Speaker 1: one look on his face. He'll be cleaning up trash

494
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Speaker 1: on the side of the mass Pike for like a

495
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Speaker 1: week in the off season for making a joke like

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Speaker 1: that during the Prescott Bill doesn't like that. That's where

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Speaker 1: the two ball the two you know, Patriots ball boys

498
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Speaker 1: are buried underneath the master. So let's check in, uh

499
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Speaker 1: with um not quite the throne of ease. The New

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Speaker 1: York Jets Rivers in the shotgun, takes the snap looking

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Speaker 1: to the right, throwing middle of the end zone, caught touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Rivers the gates. I don't need to tell you who

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Speaker 1: that is. Matt money Smith with the call. I talked

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Speaker 1: to Money by the way um in the studio last week.

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Speaker 1: We were just catching up and I asked him about

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Speaker 1: his call dangerous humble brag by you, which, well, no,

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Speaker 1: definitely I was thinking it too. Yeah, but his call,

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Speaker 1: of course, his touchdown call is right knock um and uh,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't use it for every touchdown. I found that interesting.

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Speaker 1: He he picks his spots, would knock on wood. That's

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Speaker 1: he's a pro knock anyway Philip Rivers. So he didn't

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Speaker 1: use it. There's what I'm saying. So if you're, oh,

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Speaker 1: where I was knock on wood? Did you cut it

514
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Speaker 1: too soon? No? There knock Philip Rivers through a touchdown

515
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Speaker 1: past Antonio Gates. Melvin Gordon ran for a score. The

516
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Speaker 1: Chargers keep their playoff hopes alive a fourteen to seven

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Speaker 1: win over the Jets on Sunday in the meadow Lands.

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Speaker 1: Here is the path. I'm letta jump in for you, Greg,

519
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Speaker 1: Give you a little blow, Give the modum a blow. Please?

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Speaker 1: What now we're given the modum a blow, Take it off,

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00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 1: Get off the bone, dad, Yeah, exactly. Um. Anyway, the

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Speaker 1: Chargers get in, they gotta win against the Raiders, and

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Speaker 1: then they need wins by the Jaguar Jaguars over Tennessee

524
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Speaker 1: and then the Ravens over the Bengals. So it's a

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Speaker 1: hat trick, but not exactly. Miracles are needed in any

526
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Speaker 1: of those cases. So the Chargers have a very clear path.

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Speaker 1: And my my thought about this game specifically is, yes,

528
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Speaker 1: all those things need to happen. But the Charges really

529
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Speaker 1: need to focus on themselves because I thought for the

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Speaker 1: second straight week, they delivered a flat performance. Um. I

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Speaker 1: didn't see any of the kind of the magic that

532
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Speaker 1: we had seen for about two months prior to that

533
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Speaker 1: Chiefs game. And it makes you wonder if the Chargers

534
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Speaker 1: have peaked already of the season and there if they'll

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Speaker 1: be able to take care of business next week. UM,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see. So that was my thought

537
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Speaker 1: in this game, that they didn't really against the Jets

538
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: team that is a mediocre team in general or worse.

539
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Speaker 1: I think they've lost eight of nine now by the way,

540
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Speaker 1: there five and ten and playing without Moe Wilkerson and

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Speaker 1: Josh McCown and Bryce Petty is one of the very

542
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Speaker 1: worst quarterbacks in the league right now. Um, this should

543
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: have been an easy win for a team l a

544
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Speaker 1: team that was desperate for a victory, and yet the

545
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Speaker 1: Jets are knocking on the door in the final couple

546
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Speaker 1: of minutes of the game with a chance to tie

547
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Speaker 1: the game. Uh, Billy Powell ran all over the Charges

548
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Speaker 1: run defense, which is suspect. And if the Jets had

549
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: Josh McCown or a better quarterback. They probably win this

550
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: game because there were throws left all over the field

551
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Speaker 1: by Petty who just wasn't competitive. So the Chargers got

552
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: away with one. I thought, uh, and need to be

553
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Speaker 1: better uh in week seventeen and if they get there

554
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Speaker 1: beyond You've had a lot of injuries and Hunter Henry

555
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: I think, really changes their offense. That said, I think

556
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: we need to be careful about worrying too much about

557
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: style points in the this late season. It is a

558
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: long season, there's a lot of injuries, you're on the road,

559
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: it's cold, like I heard a lot of criticism, Like

560
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: heard some criticism of the Vikings offense, like it's ten degrees,

561
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: you know in Philadelphia last night. They're that's that's part

562
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Speaker 1: of the reason at least that some of these games

563
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Speaker 1: are ugly. And if nothing else, the Chargers got the win.

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Speaker 1: I'll be more worried if they don't speak against the

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Speaker 1: Raiders in a must win game at home. I get

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Speaker 1: your theory, but it also sounds like a little bit

567
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Speaker 1: of an excuse for a team that yesterday and they

568
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Speaker 1: blew out their opponent. That I think that a good

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Speaker 1: team should just take care of business. The Chargers, especially

570
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Speaker 1: to coming off of the game that they played against

571
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs where the offense and Philip Rivers they just

572
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,239
Speaker 1: didn't look the same at all. And then you have

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Speaker 1: this performance which also didn't inspire any confidence at least

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Speaker 1: in me. But I think you know Hunter Henry, you

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Speaker 1: mentioned him, he goes down. How about end ONEO Gates,

576
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Speaker 1: He's still kind of got it. Yeah, he can't move anymore,

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Speaker 1: he can't really move, but he he's got that the

578
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Speaker 1: old man skills. And uh, Jamal Adams was a very

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Speaker 1: good young safety. Struggled on a couple of plays, including

580
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Speaker 1: he gave but he was in coverage on the touchdown,

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Speaker 1: Gates going one and a touch I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: something to expect every week at this point, but the

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Speaker 1: fact that this happens right after Hunter Hunter Henry goes down,

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Speaker 1: maybe the old guy's got one last running. And it

585
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Speaker 1: would be kind of fun if Antonio Gates, who has

586
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Speaker 1: never sniffed the Super Bowl, got in the playoffs and

587
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: was making big plays with his quarterback one more time.

588
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: It's a big part of their offense. But if we

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Speaker 1: want to say, oh, you know, the Chargers aren't consistent,

590
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Speaker 1: consistent enough to get into the playoffs. We need something better.

591
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Speaker 1: You're gonna get Buffalo or Tennessee and I and and

592
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Speaker 1: all these teams go through these rough patches. I would

593
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Speaker 1: rather take my shot. And then with the Los Angeles

594
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Speaker 1: and they have a few routes in like they can

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Speaker 1: get in if the Bills and Titans lose two, so

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Speaker 1: they they if they get their win over the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: I like the Chargers chances. It's better than fifty fifty

598
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Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs. All right, let's move snap back.

599
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: Alex Smith fires for Kelsey. He pulls it out and

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00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: touched down. Kansas City. Terrific throw, terrific route, terrific catch,

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Speaker 1: Kelsey and traffic just firm the Pro Bowls safety Rashad

602
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Speaker 1: Jones and the Chiefs the little eggnog full of sweet

603
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Speaker 1: nectar in the end zone. Yes, got it, got it,

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00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,479
Speaker 1: got it. Inch Halt is not only that he had

605
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Speaker 1: that little flare at the end. That was a very descriptive.

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Speaker 1: I'm good at my job. Touchdown, we have like a

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00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: field of sixty Mitch Halt is k c f X

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Speaker 1: with the call, Alex Smith through for three yards and

609
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: a touch cream Hunt ran fore and score. The Chiefs

610
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Speaker 1: beat up on the Dolphins on Sunday. Guess what, guys,

611
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: they won back. They won the AFC title a C

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Speaker 1: West title. With this win, this is the first time

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Speaker 1: in their fifty eight year history they've won back to

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Speaker 1: back titles, which really surprised me because there have been

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00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: some runs of good Chiefs teams, specifically the Marti era

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Speaker 1: in the nineties. Is that why Andy Reid dressed up

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00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: as Santa Andy Reids celebrated by dressing up like Santa.

618
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: Gotta love Andy Reid, who wherever he goes, he wins.

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Speaker 1: And um, this is interesting. When we were talking about

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Speaker 1: on our Pickum show do we handed out gifts? I

621
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: jokingly said that that the Chiefs, the gift I was

622
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Speaker 1: giving was the neuralizer for men in Black to completely

623
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: wipe out the middle of their season. And I'm not

624
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: saying that happened. I'm not saying it didn't happen. But

625
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: they are now playing like that middle portion of the

626
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: season never happened. Five and oh, then they lost six

627
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Speaker 1: of seven. Now they've won three straight and they won

628
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Speaker 1: each of those games by double digits, and their defense

629
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Speaker 1: is playing well and the offense is making plays downfield

630
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Speaker 1: again once again, Greg out of nowhere. The Chiefs look

631
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Speaker 1: like a team that could be dangerous in January. Four

632
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: times in five years, Reads made it to the playoffs.

633
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Speaker 1: They like you said, you about score the opponent to

634
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Speaker 1: forty one, And so if they had done that after,

635
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: you know, if that had just been a continuation of

636
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Speaker 1: the beginning to see and we'll be thinking of them

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00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: as a real contender ultimately. Like the a f C

638
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: is pretty similar to last year, where the Steelers, Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and Chiefs are the three teams I take the most serious,

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Speaker 1: and I think the Chiefs have a chance. I give

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Speaker 1: Andy Read a chance in a one game playoff to

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Speaker 1: come up. I know it hasn't happened for him in

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Speaker 1: the past, but I still think he's a tough coach

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Speaker 1: to prepare for. Yeah, I think too. Ever, since they

645
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Speaker 1: switched the play calling to Matt Nagy, it's made such

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Speaker 1: a difference. That's when everything sort of turned around, especially

647
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Speaker 1: for the offense. But now Marcus Peters to the in

648
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Speaker 1: these two games since he was suspended, I mean, he

649
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Speaker 1: has been playing out of his mind. He's forcing turn

650
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Speaker 1: trying to fire pour and he Read a few weeks

651
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Speaker 1: ago come that was a complicated relationship, get out of here.

652
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Speaker 1: But Peter, yeah, you're right. He had two interceptions and

653
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Speaker 1: a forced fumble gets the Chargers last week, recovered the fumble,

654
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Speaker 1: forced another on Sunday. Five turnovers in two weeks after

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Speaker 1: the deer of his season and really the chief season

656
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Speaker 1: when he picked up the flag like a baby through

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Speaker 1: it in the crowd, walked to the locker room at

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Speaker 1: the metal ends, came back out with his shoes on,

659
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,239
Speaker 1: and then they lose to the Jets like that was

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00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: the low point for the Chiefs, and now they've come

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Speaker 1: all the way back. Uh And by the way, Greg,

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Speaker 1: this thank you. This is interesting. They are locked into

663
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Speaker 1: the fourth seed, which and they got the Denver Broncos

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Speaker 1: next week. They can basically give all their key guys

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Speaker 1: another by league going into wild card weekend and double

666
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Speaker 1: edged sword there because you give them the rest and

667
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: that's the most important thing. But maybe lose a little momentum,

668
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Speaker 1: that's a negative thing, but you'll take the rest. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't find it find the Chiefs. I mean, outside of injury.

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Speaker 1: They haven't earned to me the concept of resting in

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Speaker 1: week seventeen because of what happened to them in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the year go in wo Yeah, it does

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Speaker 1: it year by year, depending on how he thinks his

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Speaker 1: team is looking. For instance, if they had clinched everything

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Speaker 1: this year, I don't think there's any chance they would

676
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Speaker 1: rest anyone in week seventeen because I don't think he

677
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: thinks they look good enough. And that The one weird

678
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: thing is is Patrick Mahomes going to start the game. Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that. I think the ideal scenario is

680
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Speaker 1: you play so great against the Broncos that you start

681
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Speaker 1: sitting guys early in the second half because three. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the best scenario. And I think Reid's history is

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Speaker 1: that he does rest players. So we'll see how how

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Speaker 1: it plays. One last staff before we get and I

685
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Speaker 1: think we had to say good by the colleague. I

686
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Speaker 1: know I was going to hit the alarm. I now,

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Speaker 1: um just as just a fun statin involving the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: um Landry Jarvis Landry went five for fifty one. He

689
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Speaker 1: now has an NFL leading one hundred and three catches

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Speaker 1: this season. His stat line one oh three for eight

691
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Speaker 1: ninety five and eight touchdowns. This bro can potentially drop

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Speaker 1: a one ten spot for catches as a wide receiver

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Speaker 1: and not eclipse. A thousand yards just seems a little weird. Mean,

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Speaker 1: while Todd Gurley is averaging like twelve yards per catch

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Speaker 1: more than I talked to a handsome Hank who's uh,

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Speaker 1: You're talking to lots of people all over the instant

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Speaker 1: Master client. I said, Jarvis Lander, this is a weird

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Speaker 1: stat line. I don't like it. Is this guy actually

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Speaker 1: being used properly? Can it? Would it be better in

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00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: a different role? And he seemed to be, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a pure slot receiver, but one oh three for

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Speaker 1: eight nine. Come on, come on, let me get some

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Speaker 1: yardage before you go. Colleen. We have a great listener,

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Speaker 1: Mark lem Cooler, who sent us, and one of them was,

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Speaker 1: if you can watching the video show Popcorn mixed with

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Speaker 1: chocolate popcorn on it sounds like something that this is

707
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Speaker 1: exactly what I had last week that made me sick,

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Speaker 1: and now I'm gonna probably just do it all over again.

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Speaker 1: Connie's Tuesday Night is locked down. It is it is im.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming off of a night where I also had

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Speaker 1: lots of sweets, so this is great. I woke up

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Speaker 1: with the shakes a little bit and it was not

713
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Speaker 1: from alcohol. It was from sugar. I'm just saying artic

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Speaker 1: protest too much. I gotta go that's sound protest too

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Speaker 1: But no one asking. But she's telling us alcohol like

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Speaker 1: I went hungover at all? How do you guys talking

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Speaker 1: of us concerned originally about that? Didn't bring it up

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Speaker 1: except for a person A wine bottle falls out, those

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Speaker 1: little mini wine bottles. Bottle of jack falls out of

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Speaker 1: her pocket. Isn't whoa whiskey? Uh? Come back in the

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Speaker 1: off season for the Intervention podcast. The only female I

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Speaker 1: know that would categorize as a whino. I don't know

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Speaker 1: a lot of female winos. I mean you see them

724
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Speaker 1: around personally. Do you know any moms? Sure, mom's you know.

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Speaker 1: I don't talk to mom. I'm not really even talking

726
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Speaker 1: to moms. You should, so you gotta reconnect with your wife.

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Speaker 1: It's very My wife is not a whino. Intervention is

728
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Speaker 1: an underrated show. There is I have not depressing. There

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Speaker 1: is a wine bottle brand that actually got from my

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Speaker 1: mom wants. It's a joke called Mommy's Little Helper, which

731
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Speaker 1: is funny. It's a weird culture that we live in.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on to a sad NFC North game takes

733
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Speaker 1: a throw to the left now he whips it out

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Speaker 1: to the right, intercepted by Harrison Smith at the fort

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Speaker 1: yard line. Two pits tonight for Harrison Smith, who has

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Speaker 1: a five season and the Vikings turnover green Bay once again.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if I can go on with

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Speaker 1: the show after listening to that. Anyway, the Minnesota Vikings

739
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: shut out UH, their opponent for the first time in

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Speaker 1: over twenty years. How about that UH beating up on

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Speaker 1: the green Bay Packers without Aaron Rodgers sixteen to zip

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Speaker 1: on Saturday night in lambeau Field. The Vikings still in

743
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Speaker 1: the mix to get UH um the well, they're still

744
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Speaker 1: in the mix for a bye. Right, they have a bye.

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00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: They need to clinch the bye. They are in great position.

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Speaker 1: All they need is a win or even I lost

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00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: by the Panthers to officially clinch it. Mark, there were

748
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: a lot better things to do on Saturday night before

749
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Speaker 1: Christmas than watch this version of the Packers against the

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Speaker 1: Purple people eaters of today. This was a sleepy affair,

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Speaker 1: I mean, greg We mentioned that the Vikings offense didn't

752
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Speaker 1: exactly rain down vengeance on Green Bay, but they did

753
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Speaker 1: what they needed to do, and Harrison Smith snubbed by

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl voters. I don't know what else could

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00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: go wrong with that scenario, but this, to me is

756
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: another example. And look to the Vikings, I think we

757
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: trust deeply. It starts with their defense, it extends to

758
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: their offense. There isn't a part of the Vikings roster

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00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: or team that you could point to and say some

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00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 1: sort of Achilles heel or a weakness that has this concerned.

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Speaker 1: It's the exact opposite the team building situation in Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: You talk about them not shutting them out in twenty

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Speaker 1: years because you had through that entire time. Obviously, Brett

764
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Speaker 1: Farve to Aaron Rodgers, it is embarrassing to watch what

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Speaker 1: happens to this Green Bay team the minute you take

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Speaker 1: one player off the field. They are simply not a

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00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: good football team. Outside of any player, though it's one

768
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they'd be a good team this year with Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: and there's no way to ever find out. I question

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Speaker 1: if they would make the I started off down because

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Speaker 1: they were a successful team with Aaron Rodgers in the lineup, right,

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Speaker 1: But they if you remember those games, it was like

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Speaker 1: logging against Mike Glennon and the Bears. It was different games.

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Speaker 1: It was games like that where Aaron Rodgers Brilliants carried

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Speaker 1: them and he could have carried them far like he

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Speaker 1: does every year. But ultimately, I mean, when you go

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Speaker 1: up against balanced teams, I don't think the Packers, because

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00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: of what you're saying, would have had enough. I just

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Speaker 1: wonder if there's a lot of changes coming on that

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00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: roster in the off season. But back to Minnesota, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I have to use Jordy Nelson a lot of gains.

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Speaker 1: All those guys could go. I love watching the Vikings play,

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Speaker 1: and this wasn't the most exciting version of the team,

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Speaker 1: but I really feel like they could knock anyone off

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Speaker 1: in the NFC. I cannot wait. I love to see

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Speaker 1: them play the Rams. That would be a fascinating NFC

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Speaker 1: title game. One of the more depressing games I've watched

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Speaker 1: this season, just because the hopelessness of it all. Minnesota

790
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: was just such a superior team, and and and Huntley

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Speaker 1: is just you know, he's He's a tough watch, let's

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Speaker 1: face it. And there are a better team than the

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Speaker 1: than Green Bay. With Aaron Rodgers, though, I think it

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Speaker 1: really it would have been a great game, because what

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers does when he's healthy is he shocks you

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00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,399
Speaker 1: and he does things and carries that team. We saw

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00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: it last year and every other year has been healthy

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Speaker 1: just about. But we're not going to see it, and

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Speaker 1: we're stuck with that version of the package, which was

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00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: a tough watch. Let's face it, it absolutely was. But

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Speaker 1: it shouldn't take away any of the joy of the

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00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: Vikings fans on Christmas Eve eve to take over lambeau

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Speaker 1: Field and start doing your skull chance late in the night.

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Speaker 1: And you shouldn't feel bad at all that Brent Hanley's

805
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Speaker 1: that quarterback because you know what. You went in there,

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00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,959
Speaker 1: you know, and had Joe Webb in a playoff film,

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Speaker 1: you had Christian Ponder. Enjoy this moment. They're gonna end

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Speaker 1: up with the most wins they've had her the second

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Speaker 1: most in fifty seven years. So like, savor this and

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Speaker 1: not got a chance to host a Super Bowl. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: The think about this Vikings team is flukey. I mean

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Speaker 1: you always point to certain teams to get these thirteen

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Speaker 1: and three or twelve and four records to say come on,

814
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Speaker 1: but not with this Viking team. They are legit chance

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Speaker 1: to have play the Super Bowl in their home stadium,

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Speaker 1: Wich would be incredible. The Vikings are in a lot

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00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: of ways a cursed franchise. They've had a lot of

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00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: heartache over the decades. Things have really broken well for

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Speaker 1: them this year. Well, the Arson Wentz injury, Aaron Rodgers disappearing,

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Speaker 1: and they of course lost Sam Bradford. But then they

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Speaker 1: they had these guys waiting in the wings case Keenan

822
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: wrighting in the wings. This is all lining up in

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00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: a really positive, uh inspiring way for a Minnesota Vikings fan.

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Speaker 1: But and one of my closest friends back in New

825
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Speaker 1: York is randomly a vikingspan. I don't know how it happened,

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Speaker 1: but Greg, you know who you are. Greg with one um,

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Speaker 1: something bad happens to the Vikings, and I'm worried that

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Speaker 1: the fans are with it all in front of them.

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Speaker 1: But that's for another time. That's where January. I hope

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Speaker 1: that this team does take care of business because I

831
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Speaker 1: think they're good enough to go to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: But they are the Vikings well in their corner. Eagles

833
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: fans would say the same about their team. Rams fans

834
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Speaker 1: have no idea what's happening, right now. So it's like

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Speaker 1: the Saints fans, I mean, everyone's sort of waiting for

836
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Speaker 1: the other shoe to drop. The Eagles fans had the

837
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Speaker 1: same bad baggage, UH, and they got burned and they

838
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: lost their quarterback. Will get to them in a little bit,

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Speaker 1: Rams And you're right, there's a little bit of an

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00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: unknown entity to them, which is a good thing. Let's

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00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: move on. In comes Jack Elligam, hold your breath, Bottle

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00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: Spotting kicks away. It's got the distance. Now. Maybe the

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00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: call from the Vikings Green Bay game could learn a

844
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: little bit of a lesson in terms of enthusiasm. Right there,

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Speaker 1: Merril reason Mike quick w I p with the call.

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00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: Jake Elliott a tone for an earlier miss With a

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Speaker 1: forty eight yard UH field goal right down the middle

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Speaker 1: of twenty two seconds to play. The Eagles tacked on

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Speaker 1: another one of those silly lateral touchdowns. I think the

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00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: people in the desert might have enjoyed that, uh, and

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Speaker 1: they clinched the number one seed UH for the NFC Playoffs.

852
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 1: A sloppy nineteen to ten win for the Eagles over

853
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: the Raiders on Christmas night, h and Mark the Eagles.

854
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: They found a way against an inferior opponent, but one

855
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: can imagine Eagles fans aren't wildly overconfident as we get

856
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: closer to the playoffs. Right now, I found this game

857
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: far from a delight to witness. Uh late on Christmas night.

858
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: I was not what I needed in my life. But

859
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: I will say this, wife and kids weren't plugged into

860
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: this one. I don't think I earned any points by

861
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: you know, locking myself away to watch this on the

862
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: couch for three. There are other opinions, probably inside my household,

863
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: but I will say this. Can I always do like

864
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 1: the game pass next morning route saves time? These days

865
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: start earlier. I don't know about that. Whatever you sat

866
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: through it if you're an Eagles fan, Christmas is what Mark? Yeah?

867
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: They basically I come out of this really concerned about

868
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 1: because you know, last week's very promising showing on offense

869
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: and and in promising game by Nick Foles came against

870
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: the Giants defense, which is you know, what do you

871
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: judge coming out of that. I don't know what to

872
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 1: take from this, to be honest, if I'm the Eagles

873
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: other than a major concerns very nervous. If I'm an

874
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: Eagles fan that if this is closer to the version

875
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: of reality now post Carson wentz that I'm going to

876
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: host the playoff game in the second week of the playoffs,

877
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: and we're going to find our selves down, you know,

878
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: fourteen to six late in the third quarter, and we

879
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 1: can't move the ball and Nick Foles cannot escape pressure

880
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: and he can't make a throw because he doesn't have

881
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: a big arm, and I'm very nervous. Problems the accuracy

882
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: of the it is. It is a real concern that

883
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: you're going to get an instant replay against us, against

884
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: a good team in the place. I don't feel like

885
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: they're a team that could play from behind very well,

886
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: and that's what you're gonna get. No, they the one thing,

887
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: and I would be really concerned because Gruden pointed out

888
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: falls very streaky and this guy's got the NFL record

889
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: for touchdowns in a game. Uh, he looked great a

890
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: week ago. When things start going bad, they really start

891
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: going bad when he starts getting pressure in the pocket.

892
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 1: He was just so flustered, making poor decisions of when

893
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: to run, when to throw, Like he had a first

894
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: down just sitting in front of him late in the game,

895
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: and he threw the ball out of bounds, which was

896
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: just like a mental sort of midget moment. At least

897
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: the defense. At least the defense bounced back from a

898
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 1: few add weeks and won this game for them in

899
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: a way that is surprising and as bad as they've

900
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: played the last two weeks, overall, they did find a

901
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: way to win those games and get that one seed,

902
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: which is important because I think they're gonna need everything

903
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 1: that they can get. I mean, since the moment when

904
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: got hurt, they were trailing in the in the Rams game,

905
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 1: found a way to win that found the way to

906
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: win to at least like they've got the number one.

907
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: Does the NFL need to look at these late year

908
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: Saturday slash Holiday games and say, we've got to find

909
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: a way to not give America the Houston Texans which

910
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: is an automatic loss, and a Raiders Eagles game that

911
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: could it's just bad luck. Last year you got literally

912
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: the game of the year on Christmas. This year you

913
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: could have had Deshaun Watson. You've had a team who

914
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: has been in the playoffs three straight years, and you

915
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: thought Raiders were not gonna be You know, if there

916
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: be an opportunity to say hey, instead of wishing for

917
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: good luck. We could maybe a month ahead or two

918
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: months ahead flex something that important on Christmas, I think,

919
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: and you look at the NBA, you're not gonna mess

920
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,399
Speaker 1: with people's families and Christmas like that. They're gonna it's

921
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: just there. It's yeah, when you look at the NBA,

922
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: for instance, and it's in the middle of a season,

923
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: of course it's a different setup, but they give you

924
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 1: Warriors Calves on Christmas afternoon. Thunder Rockets is the other

925
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: national game. Two of the best teams that conference. The

926
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: NFL is locking in the schedule for Christmas Day and

927
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: Christmas Night. I think that's something it's an important and

928
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 1: I know it only happens once every six or seven years,

929
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 1: where you may be flex and make sure these are

930
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: great games, because frankly, I don't think it was a

931
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: good look look for the league to have these dog

932
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: teams involved on what's a really high profile sports day

933
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: for people. I just think it's unavoidable. I mean, if

934
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: if Deshaun Watson and Carson Wentzer in this game, but

935
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: they're not games, but we love them, They're not gonna

936
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 1: flex out. It's just you can't. You're not gonna flex

937
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: out a team that's not Honestly, it would have been

938
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: better without without the games than bad time about this.

939
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: Don't have games on Christmas then if you're gonna potentially

940
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: and I imagine and we just saw they canceled the

941
00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: week seventeen. Uh shocking bit of a strength by the NFL,

942
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: and I wonder, I just wonder, honestly if they saw

943
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: the way Christmas looked and it wasn't a great look,

944
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it wasn't a ratings bonanza and they said, well,

945
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: we don't want to do that again. And I know

946
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: there was another reason, and it was about the competitiveness.

947
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: I don't think it was even I don't think there

948
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: was any decision. When I worked at NBC every year,

949
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: the main thing was you had to have a game

950
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: that was gonna be dicissected by what happened earlier, and

951
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: there were many complaints over the years. The Bengals Jets

952
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: got into Sunday Night a couple of years in a

953
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: row when there were better teams available, but they didn't

954
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: know for sure. The Titans played the Colts backups one

955
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: year and when there were better games available, but again

956
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: they had There was a scenario where those games weren't

957
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: gonna matter. I think it just happened that this is

958
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: the year that that that for the first time ever

959
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: that there were no games. So they just didn't even

960
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: have a choice. But I guess they could have thrown

961
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: some ham and Egger contest up there, and they didn't.

962
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: And that's actually kind of a crazy promising move by

963
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: the end of their their car. By the way, he's

964
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: going to go into the off season with lot of

965
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: people down here. We will never know how much his

966
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: back injury is affecting him, but he is just not

967
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 1: the same guy. I think. Where five or six turnovers

968
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: in the second half. That was a very strange game overall.

969
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: Let's move in and this was a loser goes home

970
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: match on Christmas Eve in Big Day's checkers amongous distance

971
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: and he missed that him to the right. Dan Bailey

972
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: pushed a chip shot right for the closing act in

973
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: a dizzy and red zone fail for the Cowboys and

974
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: twelve lost to the Seahawks, who peeled themselves peeled themselves

975
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,720
Speaker 1: off the matt following last week's humiliation against the Rams

976
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: at the clink. Will get to the Seahawks in a second,

977
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,720
Speaker 1: but I want to start with that sequence, uh, because

978
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: it represented the epitome of a team coming up small

979
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: when it mattered most. The Cowboys down. Uh. They have

980
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: first in goal at the Seattle three yard line with

981
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: seven to play. Everything is set up in front of him,

982
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:59,439
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott back from suspension, and what happens. They throw

983
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: the ball to Wie, they take a sack, uh, and

984
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: then they have to settle for a field goal. He's like,

985
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: all right, Dan Bailey can count on him. He pushes

986
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,760
Speaker 1: it right as you heard, and all of a sudden,

987
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,919
Speaker 1: it's a two score game, uh, with five minutes to play,

988
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: game over, and you have to be wondering what was

989
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: going through Jerry Jones's mind because they cut two, which

990
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: I love when they do is for high profile Cowboys losses.

991
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:28,240
Speaker 1: They cut immediately to Jared's box as the pick sales

992
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: right and Jones gets up and walks out, And I'm

993
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, oh boy, with that play calling and

994
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: the fact that the Cowboys are gonna go eight and

995
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: eight or nine and seven and missed the playoffs, could

996
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: heads roll in Dallas after a loss of this magnitude.

997
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: Our guy Ian Rapport says, it's not gonna happen, and

998
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is kind of putting it out there that

999
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: that's not even a consideration that Jason Garrett will will

1000
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: be there. You know, I think he could end up

1001
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,839
Speaker 1: changing his coordinators. Rod Marinelli is the name you here

1002
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: most I don't know if Rod Marinelli is the problem.

1003
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: He certainly wasn't from this game. The Seahawks had a

1004
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty six yards. The Seahawks won a game

1005
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: where they had more penalty yards forty two, and they

1006
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: had yards on offense. To me, these are these are

1007
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: two dead teams and one of them had to win.

1008
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: Sorry Seahawks. And maybe that you have enough, they have

1009
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: enough like championship kind of metal inside of them that

1010
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna find their way into the playoffs. But for

1011
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: a team that's been in Super Bowls, I don't know

1012
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: if a first round loss is going to feel that excite.

1013
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: If you're a Cowboys fan and you knew ahead of

1014
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: time that you were going to hold at one point

1015
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: m v P Candate Russell Wilson and the Seahawks to

1016
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: sixty net yards passing seventy six yards on the ground,

1017
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: you'd say, you know what, we're the team heading to

1018
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And this is why I'm I'm surprised, uh,

1019
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: why Jason Garrett has so much rope in that organization

1020
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,280
Speaker 1: is because this is not the first time the cows

1021
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: Cowboys have come up small and a high profile spot,

1022
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: and they've only been to the playoffs why twice and

1023
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: as time there and this is a bitterly disappointing season.

1024
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: I know the Zeke suspension kind of havoc on this team,

1025
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: maybe behind the scenes as much as it did in

1026
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 1: terms of losing your best offensive player for six games.

1027
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,800
Speaker 1: But I just don't under Garrett. To me. You wonder

1028
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: if he's part of the problem why the Cowboys never

1029
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: are never able to put together back to back big seasons,

1030
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: why they come up small down the stretch in these games,

1031
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: why they lose these playoff games in these ways? Why

1032
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: should Garrett be so safe? I thought, I think it's

1033
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 1: I think there if I'm a Cowboys and I'm probably

1034
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 1: getting a little anoyed of seeing Jason Garrett being perturbed

1035
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: on the side of You're not You're not alone. I

1036
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: think that they long ages ago, when there were issues

1037
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: about Garrett potentially coming back. Jones has said over and

1038
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: over we he was our backup quarterback back in the day.

1039
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: He's been an assistant with us a head coach. They

1040
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: feel like they put decades of work into Jason Garrett,

1041
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 1: so you have to find someone that they believe enough

1042
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: in the switch. Secondly, I think there's enough hubris within

1043
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 1: this organization to think Jerry Jones on down thinks, oh,

1044
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 1: we're a super Bowl team. Every year, we're a super

1045
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: Bowl team, and what happened this year is the NFL's

1046
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: fault for doing this to Ezekiel Elliott versus our own

1047
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: issues on offense. But it's not. It's it's their passing

1048
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 1: games fault, ultimately. And I'm not putting that all on

1049
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. It's on the coaches, It's on Dez Bryant,

1050
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: it's on you know, Jason Witten, Terrence Williams. In terms

1051
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: of just the personnel that they've had over the years.

1052
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 1: When push came to shove with Zeke out, the passing

1053
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 1: game was miserable, and for most really of the season,

1054
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: they've been erratic at best, and they never could figure

1055
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: it out. And they're just not good enough. Otherwise you

1056
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: don't have a good enough They had to be a

1057
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: great offense, and they were so far from it with

1058
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: with Dak, and I think it's unfair to call it

1059
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: a lot of ravil magnifico season for Dak Prescott. But

1060
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 1: at the same time, again he did not show up

1061
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: in this game. That interception, the pick six, I mean

1062
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: that was a bad throw and a bad decision, bad footwork.

1063
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: He did not They really needed him to kind of

1064
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: be at a higher level to make up for a

1065
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: lot of things this year, and I don't think he

1066
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: was up to it this year. Maybe he is down

1067
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: the stretch, but I don't think he was ready for

1068
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: it this year. Just a lost season for the Coup

1069
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: it is, and in the Seahawks, their scenarios very doable.

1070
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 1: The nfls Eric does a good job of setting up

1071
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 1: all the games that matter at the same time of days,

1072
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 1: so they will kick off at the same time the

1073
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: Panthers and Falcons kick off, and all they need is

1074
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: the Panthers to lose that game, and they need to

1075
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: beat the Cardinals in Seattle, and they're dancing and and

1076
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 1: very possibly going to Los Angeles for Round three with

1077
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 1: the Rams, which is interesting. And they did split by

1078
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: the way, we all remember that they got absolutely plastered

1079
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. But they beat him in l A

1080
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: already this season, so we'll see how it plays out.

1081
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,240
Speaker 1: Let's check it. Listen, we're here to talk Broncos Redskins,

1082
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: so let's get to it. Cousins gonna float it to

1083
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: five touchdown touchdown Redskins. George Stockson baby yes, oh yes,

1084
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:51,959
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins through for two and three touchdowns. That could

1085
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: have been his last home game with the Redskins. They

1086
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: beat the Broncos to eleven um. Greg, the brock Oswelder

1087
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: hot streak lasted exactly one game. And is there anything

1088
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: else we need to really talk about in regards to

1089
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: this game. No, let's dig in. I think we should

1090
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:08,760
Speaker 1: treat the rest of the show as a speed round.

1091
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:13,439
Speaker 1: I mean, j J Gruden. I guess if these last

1092
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 1: couple of weeks mean anything, it might be Jay Gruden's,

1093
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: you know, chance to keep his job if that's if

1094
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: that's open if they win these games. And yet there's

1095
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: whispers that the Bengals are you know, quietly interested in

1096
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden. And and and similarly for the Broncos, I

1097
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: think there are definitely questions about Vans Joseph after this

1098
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 1: year there are so many and I want to write

1099
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: about this. It's I've never seen as many teams that

1100
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: are up in the air in terms of coaches. Practically

1101
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 1: half the league. Yeah, it's pretty crazy, and you have

1102
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: to factor that in teams that are on the bubble.

1103
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 1: Do we want to fire a coach when Harriett League

1104
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: is trying to hire a new Exactly? I think when

1105
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 1: you have someone like Jay Gruden, that to me, who

1106
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: I think has been a good coach, should be a

1107
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: reason not to fire. And that's what's your answer with Garrett,

1108
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: because Garrett will turn around and get another job in

1109
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: two seconds. People say that I think you Garrett would

1110
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: get hires a head coach quickly ring I don't know.

1111
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: He doesn't he's not involved in the offense or the defense.

1112
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: I would take Jake Gruden over tip Bowls, get hired

1113
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: in a second to all right, let's move up. Andy

1114
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: Dalton takes the snap, he hands it off to Giovanni

1115
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: Bernardo hand score, touchdown for the Bengals. That should be

1116
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: coffin nails, bam, bam bam. I like I like it.

1117
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,439
Speaker 1: You know, every win matters. Dan Horde and Dave Lapp

1118
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,720
Speaker 1: and W E b n with the call. Gio Bernard

1119
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: ran for one sixteen and a touch in the closing minutes,

1120
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: sending the Bengals to win over the lines that knocked

1121
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: Detroit out of playoff contention. Hey guys, maybe get the

1122
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: training camp on time next summer. Lessons learned? How about

1123
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,359
Speaker 1: how about this showed up the first day possible at

1124
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: this point? How about this barn angle? The Bengals football

1125
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: football's worst team over the previous two weeks, pulled off

1126
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: a win for the Gipper and what was supposed to

1127
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: be Marvin Lewis's final home game in Cincinnati, thus opening

1128
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 1: the door for a dramatic contract extension this week. Buy

1129
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:14,839
Speaker 1: or sell an idiot, A hard sell. He doesn't want

1130
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: to be there. He doesn't want to be the coach

1131
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: of the Bengals. My least favorite storyline these final weeks

1132
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: or the press conferences when they asked Lewis about, you know,

1133
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: him leaving, and they said it was was this an

1134
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: emotional game for you? And He's like, why would it

1135
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: be emotional? Why would be emotional? You know something I don't.

1136
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: It's like, bro, just what are you? What are you?

1137
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: You've operated as the source of these reports? What are

1138
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: you trying to what are you trying to do? Jim

1139
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: Caldwell meanwhile, who was kind of you know, similarly, doesn't

1140
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: like given much away in a press conference, you know,

1141
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: talked on and they asked him, like, you know, is

1142
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: there anything your team excelled at this season? And he said, no,

1143
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: there hasn't been anything across the board we've been good at.

1144
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 1: That's fair because that's true. Not a good case to

1145
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: keep your job. Another bloss season for the lines and

1146
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: we'll see if Jim. I think I think you're gonna

1147
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: see a former Patriots coordinator in Detroit next year with Charlie,

1148
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: whether it's Patricia or that makes sense with the gym.

1149
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: None of those guys, but Chaz Wise gets another shot.

1150
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: Current pot. I think someone employed by the Patriots. I

1151
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: think is University of Kansas was really taken out. All right,

1152
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: let's let's move tell paper, set empties the backfield, he

1153
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: stands in the gun, takes the snap, rose incomplete. No

1154
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: no flights by the bard. The Ravens playoffs all star

1155
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: still very much intact. Thank you, Lord, Jerry Sandusky and

1156
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: Jared Johnson w B A L with a call. Yes,

1157
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens got to stop they needed at the

1158
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: end of the game, and Joe Flacco through for two

1159
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 1: thirty seven and two touchdowns as the Ravens took a

1160
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 1: step closer to the playoffs with a win over the

1161
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: Colts on Saturday. Uh Baltimore will get into the playoffs

1162
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:01,439
Speaker 1: as an a f C wild card if they could

1163
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: beat the Bungles at home next Sunday, which is not

1164
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: going to be easy, not with Marvin Lewis still on

1165
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: the sidelines. Idiot. Greg have won five of start five

1166
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: of six following their four and five start, and this

1167
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: was that kind of like grinded out win that makes

1168
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: you think they can make some noise if they get

1169
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: into the postseason. Sneaky good game in a weekend that

1170
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: didn't have many no turnovers, just about no penalties, uh

1171
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: long drives. It was tense if you didn't know that

1172
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: the If you just took away the fact that the

1173
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: Colts are terrible and the Ravens aren't pretty to watch,

1174
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 1: it was actually kind of a fun late season football game.

1175
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: I'm a little worried as a guy who I think

1176
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: the Ravens could go to the Super Bowl, but they

1177
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: have not played that level of defense over the last

1178
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: few weeks, including this game where they let Jacoby Brissette

1179
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: go up and down the field quite a bit. And

1180
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: their whole recipe for making the Super Bowl is with

1181
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: a very good defense, and they just haven't been the

1182
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: same since Jimmy Smith got hurt, and I don't know

1183
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: if that's the reason. I don't know if that's going

1184
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: to change when they get to the playoff. I don't

1185
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 1: see them as a super Bowl team on on any level.

1186
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 1: We've obviously differed on this one. Uh, they can win

1187
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 1: a platas played well over the last month. Seven touchdowns,

1188
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: seven yards pert and so will Tom Brady went matters.

1189
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's like, I get it. They're counting

1190
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: on special teams and defense and a league leading turnover margin.

1191
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: I mean, these are recipes that have happened before, and

1192
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: people think about like these old Ravens days a news flights.

1193
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: This is what old Ravens games look like. It's not

1194
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: like they won pretty back then either. You'd also need

1195
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 1: like a flock of star players in the f C

1196
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 1: two be like taken away kidnapped by you know, Baltimore

1197
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: area kidnappers, low level Baltimore criminals to come in and

1198
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: help out New England. Know, take out New England and

1199
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: and we get Big Ben removed mezzanine level criminals. Um,

1200
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: how about this, Greg, You mentioned special teams, but I'm

1201
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: gonna call him out. Mr Justin Tucker who doesn't miss

1202
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: any kicks at all. Seventeen seventeen and Foxburg on the

1203
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: divisional playoffs and Tucker comes on for a fifty three

1204
01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 1: yard it could all happen. That's what I'm saying, turnovers,

1205
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: special teams. The defense needs to be better because I

1206
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: think we're at a point with Joe Flacco where now

1207
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 1: he's like okay again he's okay, and then but the

1208
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: defense needs to be better. H let's move on. Pressure coming,

1209
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 1: It's picked up. Roethlisberger throws why open over the middle,

1210
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 1: Joe Juice Smith Schuster will walk in for the touchdown,

1211
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 1: and Smith Schuster will sit Indian style underneath the goal

1212
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: posts to celebrate his touchdown, making it thirty three to

1213
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: six Steelers. Tricky to narrate juju Smith Schuster's touchdown celebrations.

1214
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 1: It's so he's a lot going on there. Um. That

1215
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: is Bill hill Grove w d V with the call.

1216
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger through for two twenty six yards and two touchdowns,

1217
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: and the Steelers clinched a first round playoff by with

1218
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 1: a thirty four six win over the Houston Texans on Monday, Greg,

1219
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: this was as easy as the final score indicated. They

1220
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 1: looked awesome. And I'm not sure if the the second

1221
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: half of the season Steelers offense is ever going to

1222
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: get to play with the first half of the season

1223
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 1: Steelers defense, because if that team ever played, that's the

1224
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions, that's the best team in the league.

1225
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: Their defense had you know, defense played great in this game.

1226
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if what you can take out of it,

1227
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: but that loaded offense we were so excited about coming

1228
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: into season. It's here. You need Antonio Brown back, but

1229
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: maybe Smith Schuster and Vance McDonald who's playing well, and

1230
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: Bryant are getting even more reps in a bigger role

1231
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: in these couple of weeks here, and that's going to

1232
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 1: help them in the playoffs if Brown is Brown. There

1233
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 1: have been a lot of big blowouts and whiteouts this season,

1234
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 1: but this was about as powerful and utter destruction of

1235
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 1: the opponent that you've This game felt over and I

1236
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 1: know I often like say this and sometimes it's not

1237
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 1: always true, but like eight or nine minutes in, you

1238
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: knew this thing was utter toast for the Texans. You

1239
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: got the terrible towels waving brow energy field. It was

1240
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: a great sign for this offense. And it's it's the

1241
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 1: second week. It's it's to go be able to do

1242
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 1: what they did in the passing game. It's still it's

1243
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: it's still you're still playing in NFL defense. They just

1244
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: small with the Steelers. Keep him on. They are twelve

1245
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: and three and they lost Antonio Brown early in their

1246
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: showdown against the Pats and still outplayed New England. Should

1247
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: have won that game if not for some interference from

1248
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: the rule book. And it puts you in the situation

1249
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,120
Speaker 1: where it's like, yes, yes, yes, yes, the Steelers are

1250
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: the real deal contender against the Pats. Would it have

1251
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,840
Speaker 1: been saucier if it was in New England? Potentially, But

1252
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 1: I still believe in their chances because there they are

1253
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 1: a machine. They are this team is ready to win.

1254
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 1: And this is probably this is going into kind of

1255
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: mental territory which you don't really know, but just judging

1256
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 1: the Steelers over the years, I feel like going through

1257
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: those tough games Cincinnati, Baltimore and New England, and having

1258
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 1: lost that New England game, maybe isn't the worst thing

1259
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: for this team, which feels itself a little too much sometimes,

1260
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 1: like losing that game, you know, maybe it gets them

1261
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 1: a little refocused. I'll say, catch of the year maybe

1262
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 1: be DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah, that was the one little bit

1263
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 1: of juice that this game got. Later on, Hopkins making

1264
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 1: a leaping tapping the ball with one hand into his

1265
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 1: other hand and then somehow getting two ft down. In fact,

1266
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 1: our boy Mike Tariko of ESPN, he knew he had

1267
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 1: a dog game on his hands, so he really soaked

1268
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 1: up what was one of the catches of the year.

1269
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 1: So I asked Lindsay to cut together a little sizzle

1270
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 1: reel of Tarko's reaction to that play. Here's Hilton blitzing

1271
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: off the slot again passer Hopkins. Oh my goodness, did

1272
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: he catch that? Did he catch that? That's the touchdown

1273
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: catch of the year. If that's good, they're still talking

1274
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 1: about it. There's a flagdown. If he got that inbound,

1275
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 1: that's the touchdown catch of the year. Oh, Merry Christmas.

1276
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable what he just did. Let's see what did

1277
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:50,480
Speaker 1: he get that second foot down? Possession there? Or did

1278
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: it just one down? I don't I don't think anything

1279
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: else is down. That's a bummer. Check it out here

1280
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: to see him get the one toe down. Oh yeah,

1281
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: they're that angle. Great job, guys, that angle gives it

1282
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 1: to you. Wow, he's the best point, He's he's the

1283
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: best of the best by far. Right now, I was

1284
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: thinking of watching this game the way he was like

1285
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 1: setting up Kurt Warner. He is so good. He like

1286
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 1: how you view Bob costas a lot of kids how

1287
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler views Mark Bob costas growing up Costs. I

1288
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 1: feel like some kids, uh should be growing up feeling

1289
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 1: about Mike Rico. That's how good he is. Well the

1290
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: way Toriko feels, the way about custom he's gonna pass

1291
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 1: about Syracuse grits. One of the um aspects that makes

1292
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 1: Trico so pleasurable to listen to is like Tony Romo,

1293
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 1: He's like, way into the game. You can tell he

1294
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: loves what he's doing. Maybe get those two together, let's fly.

1295
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:49,000
Speaker 1: I like that. But one one guy Hilton on that play,

1296
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 1: not the not the greatest thing that happened to him,

1297
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 1: But that guy that Steelers found something in Mike Kilton.

1298
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 1: Like the ninth week in a row, he's been awesome.

1299
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: Kaiser shot gun takes the snap, looks right up in

1300
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: the pocket, dumps it off. Higgins caught it. He's got

1301
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 1: a first town. He gets back up and runs at

1302
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: the fifteen, at the ten, at the nine, at the five,

1303
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 1: and he fumbles into the end zone and the Bears

1304
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: recovering prints. Mukamaris got it. He's running in the end

1305
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: zone and he goes down in the enson as he

1306
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:20,720
Speaker 1: is tagged out on the plane. Jim Donovan w K

1307
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 1: and R with the call. The Cleveland Browns are O

1308
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 1: and fifteen. Deshaun Kaiser through two more interceptions, the pan's

1309
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 1: NFL worst total, and the Browns coughed it up twice

1310
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:33,440
Speaker 1: overall in the red zone, a twenty to three loss

1311
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: to the Bears. Uh. Even the old Zeus are trying

1312
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: to throw them some positive lock juju. Did not help

1313
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: the Brownies, who are now the challenge Steelers to avoid

1314
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: the second oh and sixteen season in NFL history. Not good, Mark,

1315
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 1: But the good news is you do have the first

1316
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:56,360
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. Yeah, and it's uh, it's gonna

1317
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 1: be a very interesting next couple of weeks if you're

1318
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: John or See the new general manager or anyone that

1319
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 1: follows this team, because I don't understand, despite various reports

1320
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 1: that Hugh Jackson has, you know, ownerships support, how do

1321
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: you go into this, into this offseason and into next

1322
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 1: year trying to sell what's happened over the past two

1323
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: years to this fan base. I mean, they they are

1324
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: a team that I think, with a better coaching staff,

1325
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,120
Speaker 1: should have four to five wins. We've been saying that

1326
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 1: for a long time. The way they lose these games

1327
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 1: is beyond hext in nature. It's incredible, the the stuff

1328
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 1: that happens in the red zone over and over weekly.

1329
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 1: I thought this game turned when Myles Garrett had a

1330
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 1: really athletic, fantastic pick six of Mitchell Drabinsky and then

1331
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: it was called back by a flag. I mean, they

1332
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: cannot catch a break on the Bear side. I think

1333
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:52,439
Speaker 1: you got in the second half one of the better

1334
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 1: performances by Mitchell Robinsky. It wasn't it's not flashy. That

1335
01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:58,760
Speaker 1: doesn't happen for him in this in this Bear's regime

1336
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:01,840
Speaker 1: right now, but he picked a part Cleveland secondary, every

1337
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: part of the Browns fell apart down the stretch in

1338
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:07,400
Speaker 1: this game, Owen sixteen. That's what they're gonna be. You're

1339
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 1: not You could Pittsburgh could put the bottom half of

1340
01:08:09,840 --> 01:08:12,160
Speaker 1: its roster on the field and find a way to

1341
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 1: be Cleveland, and the Steelers still have a chance to

1342
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: write home field advantage. They they line up at the

1343
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:21,479
Speaker 1: same time as the Patriots, So you would think Tomlin

1344
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:23,839
Speaker 1: is gonna play his starters, although he might be scoreboard

1345
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 1: watching and call off the Dogs at some point. We'll see.

1346
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: Let's move up. Here's the shotgun staff. He's back, he

1347
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:32,720
Speaker 1: looks right, comes back left. Garoppolo goody that was left

1348
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 1: being Chase Girls ends off. It is caught touchsdoff San

1349
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:41,679
Speaker 1: Francisco Trent Taylor with the catch of five yards strike

1350
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: from Jimmy Garoppolo. Ted Robinson k s a n with

1351
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:49,599
Speaker 1: the call Jimmy g the God. Jimmy Garoppolo threw two

1352
01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:52,759
Speaker 1: touchdown passes ran for another touchdown in the forty Niners

1353
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: one their fourth straight with their new QB a forty

1354
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:58,760
Speaker 1: four to thirty three win over the Jags at that

1355
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: Big Bell Bottom quiet storm. It is looking increasingly likely

1356
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 1: that the Forts will never lose again. Did Jimmy G

1357
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:09,720
Speaker 1: and the Niners expose Jacksonville's vaunted defense on Sunday. They

1358
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,320
Speaker 1: seem to be exposing everyone everyone they play. This was

1359
01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: a very bizarre game. Um, let me start with Jacksonville

1360
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 1: that they clinched the a f C South minutes into

1361
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: this thing, which I guess the team could react in

1362
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:26,960
Speaker 1: various ways, but with it, they went on to have

1363
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:29,680
Speaker 1: one of the ugliest losses you could imagine from a

1364
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:32,479
Speaker 1: team that's been really kind of one of the turnaround

1365
01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:34,599
Speaker 1: stories of the league. Where at one point Maleiague Jackson

1366
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:38,800
Speaker 1: and Aaron Colvin are battling each other on the Jaguars sideline.

1367
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 1: There was a later like that later on where the

1368
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:44,880
Speaker 1: receiver's coach and a receiver getting into it and they yeah,

1369
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: keeno mccardinal Jacksonville legend. But it's just they been fights

1370
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: throughout the game or or penalties, awful penalties like later on. Yeah,

1371
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: and I mean and then on field, Jimmy G and

1372
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 1: I already am seeing people. There's already a backlash, uh,

1373
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 1: where people and settled down on Jimmy Garoppolo. You know,

1374
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,280
Speaker 1: it's just a couple of weeks. I get it. At

1375
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: the same time, are you taking heat for that? I

1376
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: mean I've I praised him because what I've seen week

1377
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,559
Speaker 1: after week is just well yeah, no, it's definitely if

1378
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 1: you if you tweet something other ones like two out,

1379
01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 1: it's like I would just say, go watch him. I mean,

1380
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 1: he is the kind of guy that you look at

1381
01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: what this team was when they had Brian Hoyer and

1382
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,800
Speaker 1: everyone else under center, that it's a bunch of just dudes,

1383
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:26,639
Speaker 1: look like they're barely going to hang onto the roster

1384
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: going in the next season. And he is turning guys

1385
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 1: like Kyle used Jack who I think it's a good player,

1386
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: but he needs the right quarterback with him to make

1387
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:36,720
Speaker 1: that happen into a big play machine. I mean, Mark,

1388
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 1: he's good like Garoppolo is making throws. He made more

1389
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:44,640
Speaker 1: throws in the past couple of weeks and honestly in

1390
01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:47,320
Speaker 1: the back twenty minutes of this game. Then you will

1391
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:50,599
Speaker 1: see some quarterbacks make all season. He is an artist.

1392
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: He's fantastic. I think it's the trade of the decade.

1393
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:58,200
Speaker 1: I think you got it, young franchise pastor off On.

1394
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:00,760
Speaker 1: I want to see more before Trade of the decade. Okay, well,

1395
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:03,320
Speaker 1: I'm saying trade of the looking to be able to

1396
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:08,320
Speaker 1: import someone with this potential who's showing immediate giving an

1397
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 1: immediate dividence to the team, and you didn't give up

1398
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 1: a first round pick or multiple first round picks, or

1399
01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:15,560
Speaker 1: mortgage your future to get him. That is a definition

1400
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,680
Speaker 1: of an amazing trade. And but on the Jackson on

1401
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 1: the jack side, Greg that that is a little bit

1402
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: concerning in terms of and West talks about it a

1403
01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 1: lot um that they're not a come from behind team,

1404
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,800
Speaker 1: and we saw that again in this game. This team

1405
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:32,680
Speaker 1: has facing some adversity. How do they react if they

1406
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: fall behind? Like, are they a team that's gonna keep

1407
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,400
Speaker 1: it together when the game when the gauntlet of the

1408
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 1: playoffs arrived. Although they did fall behind sixty nothing and

1409
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 1: then took the lead, that was what was strange in

1410
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: this game. They made that come back and then fell apart.

1411
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:48,800
Speaker 1: I'm more worried about them just in terms of their maturity.

1412
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: I mean, the defense was the problem in this game.

1413
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 1: They could not get a stop. The maturity of hearing

1414
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 1: forty Niners players and pretty much every opponent saying no

1415
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,879
Speaker 1: team in the league talks more trash than the Jaguars,

1416
01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:02,599
Speaker 1: and team I think was more confident going into this game,

1417
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:04,680
Speaker 1: and they played like a bunch of clowns. You've got

1418
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:07,200
Speaker 1: the bad Blake Bortles for most of this game, making

1419
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: some and Leonard four net has not been effective for

1420
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:15,640
Speaker 1: a while now, and I don't think it's on him,

1421
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:17,599
Speaker 1: and it's a little bit of a coincidence that all

1422
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 1: their best games are without Leonard four net. But it's

1423
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: a problem when you can't establish the run, and they

1424
01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:24,880
Speaker 1: couldn't in this game. So I think they're just like

1425
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:27,679
Speaker 1: an immature team, and this was a big immature game,

1426
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 1: and you would think they'll bounce back from it. I

1427
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:33,360
Speaker 1: think they were incredibly frustrated by Garoppolo two and that's

1428
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 1: that's That's weeks in a row where defenses seem to

1429
01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:38,679
Speaker 1: feel that way. And now you got what the Rams

1430
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 1: in the and the Niners next this Sunday. That's gonna

1431
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 1: be an interesting game. A quick thing on Jimmy G

1432
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 1: is it's not just Jimmy G. It's Jimmy G and

1433
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:48,280
Speaker 1: who I think is the best offensive mind flash play

1434
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:50,879
Speaker 1: caller in the league, Kyle Shannon. You put those two together.

1435
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:53,280
Speaker 1: A lot of open guys in this game, and you're

1436
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 1: really cooking with gas, all right, let's one more game

1437
01:12:56,439 --> 01:12:58,240
Speaker 1: to get to. It's the one everyone's been waiting for.

1438
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,080
Speaker 1: Third and two for the Giants other and the pressure

1439
01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 1: on Eli Manning. He fumbles the balls picked up by

1440
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 1: Kim DC at the breaks a tackle, the ten running

1441
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: of the five pit of the Young song for a

1442
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:14,439
Speaker 1: touchdown day pass k t a R kim D Jack

1443
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:17,760
Speaker 1: m D jacim d ch Did you fall out that

1444
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 1: ween tho chim d chick him D jack him d J.

1445
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,760
Speaker 1: No sacks are forced bumbles this season? We aren't you

1446
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 1: supposed to have your breakout season? Chem D jacim d

1447
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:32,519
Speaker 1: jack him d J. It's a great question because he

1448
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:36,439
Speaker 1: looked amazing in the preseason. That's uh, that's why people

1449
01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 1: were waiting. Yeah, this whole Cardinals team though, if you

1450
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:41,679
Speaker 1: look holiday tuned for the ages, can you find two

1451
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:44,479
Speaker 1: teams that played each other this weekend? I mean that

1452
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:47,599
Speaker 1: really have had more depressing seasons when we went into

1453
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 1: the into into September thinking that Martinals at least you

1454
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:53,600
Speaker 1: can if you're a Cardinals fan, and it just was

1455
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 1: bad luck. It was a lot of injuries. Considering everything,

1456
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 1: the fact there's seven and eight and if this was

1457
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:01,919
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald's final game, he goes over a hundred yards,

1458
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: he goes over a hundred catches for the season, has

1459
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 1: a monster game, felt like one of those games. Hey,

1460
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: let's just feed Larry and let the home crowd enjoy it.

1461
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 1: And you know what, it's because he can deliver, because

1462
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: he's still the best player on their offense. It's pretty

1463
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:15,559
Speaker 1: amazing that he didn't remember the shady lawyer from the

1464
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:18,720
Speaker 1: Simpsons voice by Phil Hartman. He would have abandoned his

1465
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 1: client at the first sign of trouble, and that he

1466
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 1: would leave behind his briefcase and they'd open the briefcase

1467
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 1: and would just be filled with like confetti and shredded paper.

1468
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 1: That that was the That's how I imagine the game

1469
01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:32,439
Speaker 1: plan for Week sixteen and look for the Giants, it

1470
01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 1: was a twenty three nothing lost. By the way, there

1471
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:37,120
Speaker 1: was no reason to win this game. You you are

1472
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:39,640
Speaker 1: one week away, two weeks away from getting one of

1473
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: the top two picks and what is said to be

1474
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 1: a premium quarterback draft class class. This is exactly what

1475
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 1: the John's should be doing. I don't care if they

1476
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: get shut out. I don't care if Eli looks old again.

1477
01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:53,680
Speaker 1: Giants are doing exactly what they should be doing get

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Speaker 1: two and fourteen and the people got a little too

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Speaker 1: excited honking after last week. And I'm thinking of your

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Speaker 1: boy Mike for incessa about like this is the Eli

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Speaker 1: that could have been there all year if he was.

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Speaker 1: It's like, all right, it's one game here, yeah, but

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Speaker 1: that's fair. But also in Arizona he did throw for

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Speaker 1: four hundred against the contender without O'Dell Beckham, So there

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Speaker 1: is another possibility that Eli is something on the tank

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Speaker 1: with a good team. This is not a good team. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: There you go. That's Week sixteen recap in full. Thank

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Speaker 1: you to everyone for listening. Remember this is our video show.

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Speaker 1: Uh so if you go to NFL dot com slash

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Speaker 1: a t N video at nine pm Eastern six pm Pacific,

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Speaker 1: it should be there if you can find it, tell

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Speaker 1: us how and uh you can enjoy enjoy it all.

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Speaker 1: And um we will be back with our next show

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, where yes, we will preview uh the final

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Speaker 1: week of the regular season and and the playoff calculator

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Speaker 1: will be tuned up and ready to go. And we

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Speaker 1: are coming down the home stretch there, Sissler, let's do

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Speaker 1: this thing. We are past the halfway point. This is

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Speaker 1: Dan Hanson signing off four Quiet Storm, Catty Fox in absentia,

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Speaker 1: the old Foss, Lindsey Fulton, behind the glass, Ryan Bartlett

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Speaker 1: helping out today like that, it's till Thursday