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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is really into coffee and

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Speaker 1: Danish shoots. Welcome back to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hanzas and I

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Speaker 1: am joined by room filled with some heroes, Mark Sessler

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Speaker 1: and Chris Westling. What's up, boys? Hey? Dan? Championships Sunday

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Speaker 1: in the books boys and it Uh, my goodness. It

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Speaker 1: followed a theme that has taken us through the playoffs. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Here's a quick nugget from NFL media research. The last

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Speaker 1: time before today that both conference championship games were decided

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Speaker 1: by at least nineteen points was the nineteen seventy eight season,

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Speaker 1: which was a very long time ago. Boys. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: want another fact? This when the old zeus are taken

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Speaker 1: up the old calculator. I uh, all ten of the

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Speaker 1: games that have been played in the postseason this year,

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Speaker 1: average margin of victory in the playoffs fifteen point seven points.

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Speaker 1: Take out the Green Bay Dallas and Pittsburgh Kansas City games,

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Speaker 1: was some juice. There's that number again, nineteen points. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm to begin with stunned that you did that amount

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Speaker 1: nailed it where I might have gotten in troubles when

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Speaker 1: I pulled out those two games. I had to pull

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Speaker 1: basic point that we have not been treated to good games,

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Speaker 1: and we weren't today. But you know, let's be fair.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to both the Atlanta Falcons, and of course it

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Speaker 1: pains me to say this, but the New England Patriots

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Speaker 1: who both advanced the Super Bowl fifty one in Houston

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Speaker 1: two weeks from today with convincing winds. Uh. The Falcons

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Speaker 1: The first time we've ever seen these teams play in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowls, which you know, the Patriots are very

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Speaker 1: familiar by now in this game. Mark we've been working here.

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Speaker 1: This is our seventh season and the third time we'll

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Speaker 1: are around. First time for the falcons. West a man

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Speaker 1: of history since the season, So that's nineteen years ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I that I thought was funny. It doesn't sound like

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Speaker 1: a huge number at first. Tom Brady will be under center,

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Speaker 1: under center and fourteen percent of all Super Bowls in history,

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Speaker 1: So Brady is uh, you know, the one constant in

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Speaker 1: him again and a lot of the familiar storylines that

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Speaker 1: we've been hearing about all year will now come to

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Speaker 1: seven years ago and then another a FC title game. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know I've been on this Falcons team all year,

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Speaker 1: but there's nothing that will make me happier in two weeks.

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Speaker 1: Then watching the commissioner hand the Lombardi Trophy to Tom Brady, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll see if that happens. But we got some business

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Speaker 1: to take care of here. In today's show what we

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Speaker 1: do every Sunday. This is our final um Sunday night

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Speaker 1: the twentie of the season something like that. That's that's correct.

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Speaker 1: of course this podcast is sponsored by Mr Flames, economous

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Speaker 1: is what I drank on our walk in Scotland. Lift

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Speaker 1: a dram with me after the games. All the best,

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Speaker 1: Mike Flame. I like the idea of Mr F getting

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Speaker 1: before continuing his hike. Fourteen years ago, where were you

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Speaker 1: not a great period for me. I will say this.

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Speaker 1: the game played at the Georgia Dome. The final NFL

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Speaker 1: the third quarter served as the knockout punch for the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons, who piled up nearly five hundred yards of

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Speaker 1: same story it's been for four months. The Falcons are

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Speaker 1: Get right on that after I squeeze blood out of

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Speaker 1: a turnip. All right, So, as we said, the Packers

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Speaker 1: go home, the Falcons go to their second Super Bowl,

433
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Speaker 1: and unlike the first one where it just seemed like

434
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Speaker 1: a total disaster immediately, and uh with the Falcons squeezing

435
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Speaker 1: by that historic of Vikings team in the NFC title

436
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Speaker 1: game and then getting just wiped out by the Broncos

437
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Speaker 1: who went back to back that year, and Eugene Robinson

438
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Speaker 1: getting popped for at with ladies in the night right

439
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Speaker 1: before the game where he picked up the Man of

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Speaker 1: the Year award. That was an ugly little story in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: We call that pulling a Stanley Wilson, Stanley Willias, pulling

442
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Speaker 1: a Stanley Wilson. This Falcons team, UH is gonna have

443
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Speaker 1: a chance, but it's gonna be a tough battle, um

444
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Speaker 1: because we know who they're facing. But before we get

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Speaker 1: to that team. It's time and now a real commercial

446
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 1: for a real CBS procedural that millions of people watch

447
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Speaker 1: every week. This Monday, the earth will flee, the grown

448
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 1: will sing. If this sinkhole widens, the silo will fall in.

449
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 1: And if the chemicals getting to the sinkhole humanitarian disaster,

450
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: this team of genius, we'll have to sink or swim.

451
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Speaker 1: I got one last big breath that I'm under, Kiff,

452
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Speaker 1: have you out in less than a minute, trust me,

453
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Speaker 1: faster news Scorpion. My favorite line is the not good.

454
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Speaker 1: I figured we've been doing this all season out. I

455
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,719
Speaker 1: haven't started watching yet, and that what one of my

456
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,719
Speaker 1: my two on my to do list for the offseasons.

457
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Speaker 1: Just sit down and binge watch all three seasons of

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Speaker 1: Scorpion only on CBS. Why not ten pm, nine Central Time,

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Speaker 1: UH ten Eastern. Of course, here's a little synopsis courtesy

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Speaker 1: of Wikipedia. If you guys want to jump on board,

461
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Speaker 1: maybe we could have some viewing parties together, Get some popcorn,

462
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Speaker 1: get under a blanket together. I don't know. Scorpion is

463
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Speaker 1: said to be the last line of defense against complex

464
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: high tech threats around the globe, drawing on a diverse

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Speaker 1: set of skills and experience. The team tackles a variety

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Speaker 1: of problems, many of which are extremely complex. Now we

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Speaker 1: know that from these commercials. While they are frequently called

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Speaker 1: into service by the Department of Homeland Security, they also

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Speaker 1: accept work from private individuals and organizations, so they could

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Speaker 1: be a shadow group as well. It's funny because after

471
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Speaker 1: listening to what seven eight of these so called ads previews,

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Speaker 1: no sense of any character, no sense of anyone in

473
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Speaker 1: the show that's of a standout individual. It just seems

474
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Speaker 1: like a hojj page of people that are looking for uh,

475
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Speaker 1: like a chaotic situation and dump themselves into One thing.

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Speaker 1: I that does stand out for me, uh, is that

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Speaker 1: Robert Patrick, who's best known as the two one thousand

478
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Speaker 1: from Terminator two. Uh. He seems to be he gets banned,

479
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Speaker 1: He's the guy that got killed and they had to

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Speaker 1: regenerate him. And he's the guy in this new commercial

481
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Speaker 1: that was like, all right, I'm taking one last breath

482
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Speaker 1: and they sent him underwater in a grate that was

483
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Speaker 1: locked for like a minute straight. He seems to get

484
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Speaker 1: completely banged on the show. Patrick, good old Bob. Pat. Yeah, Pat,

485
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Speaker 1: will let you take a look at the first couple episodes,

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Speaker 1: if not seasons, and then report into us and see

487
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Speaker 1: if it's whether of us, you know, if if it's

488
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Speaker 1: worth getting on that couch together. Katherine mcfee's on the show,

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Speaker 1: Little American idol. I know, Mark, you you're a McFee fan,

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Speaker 1: aren't you. I mean, I can pretend to be for

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Speaker 1: the sake of this, but I really I could not

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Speaker 1: pick her out of a I don't want you to

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Speaker 1: be playing a character like West does. Yeah, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Youre to be yourself. I've heard the name. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm not. Don't have a beat on her. Here's where

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Speaker 1: I go with that, Bid McPhee Hall of Fame, second

497
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Speaker 1: baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, played in the eighteen eighties

498
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Speaker 1: before they had gloves. Okay, not on the show. Not

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Speaker 1: on the show. And with that, let's roll into coverage

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Speaker 1: of Game two of Sunday, and I'm in the flankard right,

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Speaker 1: two receivers, Luck Brady fools right hip to beyond, lows

502
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Speaker 1: back to Brander. Can't Mitchell open he throws and stuff

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Speaker 1: for Hogan to the right, puts down Patriots two choices.

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Speaker 1: Can he finds Hogan for the second time hard fars

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Speaker 1: for everybody. Sounds like the press box at the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: That's Zolac again, who definitely doesn't do these games with

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Speaker 1: the shirt on. Bob Socie, Scott Setlack w b Z.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a trip to the throne of ease, why

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Speaker 1: don't we? Said Tom Brady through three touchdown passes too

510
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Speaker 1: to the immortal Chris Hogan, and the Patriots rolled to

511
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Speaker 1: their seventh a f C championship in the Brady Belchick Era,

512
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Speaker 1: a thirty six seventeen win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Brady

513
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 1: was on target all game, and Hogan, you know, a

514
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Speaker 1: useful minor player everywhere else in his NFL career, went

515
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Speaker 1: off for nine catches for a hundred and eight yards

516
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Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. In fact, that is the exact same

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Speaker 1: stat line as Julio Jones. So in the world we

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Speaker 1: now live, in the world that we operate in now

519
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Speaker 1: as humans in society Trump's America, Julio Jones equals Chris

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Speaker 1: That's what's that's where we are. I think if I've

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Speaker 1: ever called for a good for you to the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: For Mark, Yes, the Steelers lost Levy on Bell early

523
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Speaker 1: in this game, but that is not the story here.

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Speaker 1: The Pats were by far the superior team and that's

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Speaker 1: why they're going back to the super Bowl yet again.

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Speaker 1: You know, we we watched what happened with Tom Brady

527
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Speaker 1: last week where he was rattled a little bit against Houston,

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Speaker 1: had some turnovers, and the question was, wait, is this

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Speaker 1: a you know, a look ahead to what will happen

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Speaker 1: against a much you know, just an equally good Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: defense in another way? And I think we all agreed, No,

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Speaker 1: it's not what's going to happen, and it's not what

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Speaker 1: happened at all. The Brady, the Brady led Patriots were

534
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Speaker 1: utterly efficient. I do think losing Levy on Bell was

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Speaker 1: obviously massive, But but the Steelers came out wanting to

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Speaker 1: throw the ball too. I think that they they were

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Speaker 1: never in rhythm. And it's such a taller task than

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Speaker 1: maybe to be perceived to go into New England, which

539
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Speaker 1: is not a feared venue the way that some of

540
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Speaker 1: these are, just to go in there and and take

541
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Speaker 1: take control of the game. It's so rare in Pittsburgh

542
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Speaker 1: was not up to the task on any level. This

543
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: was an absolute I thought this game was as dominating

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Speaker 1: a performance by the winner as as the first games.

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Speaker 1: As as unimpressive as I was by New England's performance

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Speaker 1: last week against the Texans, I was equally impressed with

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Speaker 1: how they played in this game. And you're right, Sammy Coates,

548
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Speaker 1: let's that ball go through his hands in the first

549
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Speaker 1: right away, Bobie Hamild. I mean, we've seen this a

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Speaker 1: lot in the playoffs, where teams that that on paper

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Speaker 1: it looks like we should have a good game, they

552
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: just don't, don't execute, and then the team that's has

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00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: their crap together dominates. And that's what happened West. They

554
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 1: the Pats played a complete game and the Steelers made mistakes.

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00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: I thought for three quarters, Ben passed as well as

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Speaker 1: Tom did, and he was hurt. They were hurt by

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Speaker 1: leve Bell's injury and Martevis Bryant suspension because they were

558
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: never able to get that second receiver while Malcolm Butler

559
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: was doing a great job on Antonio Brown. Leve Bell

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Speaker 1: is not there, for he's the best receiving back in

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Speaker 1: football with David Johnson right there, but they didn't, you know,

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Speaker 1: those airs by Kobe Hamilton and Sammy Coates and then

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Speaker 1: Jesse James not being able to get over the goal

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Speaker 1: line on that one play. He also had a third

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Speaker 1: down drop where Patrick Chung might have actually passed interfered

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Speaker 1: with him. But I just thought that the Patriots had

567
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: too much and then looking at it the other way.

568
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: Never should anyone pick the Steelers to beat the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady is now twenty two and oh touchdown to

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Speaker 1: interception ratio with a passer raiding near one thirty since

571
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin became the Steelers head coach, the best numbers

572
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Speaker 1: he's hand against any head coach in the NFL. Here's

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Speaker 1: um Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner, on the riser after

574
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Speaker 1: the win. For for a number of reasons, all of

575
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Speaker 1: you in the stadium understand how big this win was,

576
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: but we have to go to Houston. And when one,

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Speaker 1: I mean from a factual standpoint alone, he is correct.

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00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: When one more is that the new do your job.

579
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Speaker 1: I just just let me know I don't need to

580
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: need the big story. I mean it feels bland enough

581
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: to be their new their new man trap. And then

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Speaker 1: uh old Billy Belichick, speaking of a Chrisma vacuum. He

583
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Speaker 1: steps up to the riser. Next, let's hear what he

584
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Speaker 1: had to say about his seventh trip to the Super

585
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Speaker 1: Bowl with the Patriots. It's got players played hard, they

586
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: played smart, We took care of the ball, played good defense,

587
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: hold his team to nine points per fifty minutes. Pretty

588
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: good electric um. All right, So you know Tom Brady,

589
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: what can I say? I said he'd have a slight

590
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: regression this season. Bleue it all right, What do you

591
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: want from me? How many times I have to say

592
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: it that I got it wrong? It's not an easy

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Speaker 1: day for Dan specifically because it's I think it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's something that you've dealt with week to

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Speaker 1: week from September through January. But then it's also the

596
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: high year to year, year to year it's been going

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00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: on since Y two. K uh Tom Brady had ten

598
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: incomplete passes. This is from Nathan Junkie of PFF. Three

599
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: were dropped, two thrown away, one spiked, one spiked, and

600
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: I recalled just one bad pass. I believe Hogan was

601
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: the intended guy behind behind him. It should have been

602
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: like a twenty yard game. But other than that, he

603
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: was absolutely perfect in this game. And and again, Chris Hogan,

604
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Speaker 1: he plays Julio Joan is great in this game. And uh,

605
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: a little another nugget for you guys, this from Alartie Stapleton,

606
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: good boy like Artie of the record. Hogan had more

607
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: yards tonight in the ANFC title game than he had

608
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Speaker 1: his entire collegiate career one year at Mammouth College in

609
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: uh in New Jersey. So it just he takes. And

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Speaker 1: we talked about this. We were on this and we're

611
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: not geniuses, but we were on the Patriots inevitable super

612
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: Bowl trip uh this summer because it just all seemed

613
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: to be really sinking up for them this year. And

614
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: and Hogan the pickup. We had fun with that that, oh,

615
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: obviously this guy is gonna come in and immediately become

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00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: a big time playmaker for him, for the for the Pats,

617
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: and and he is and at the league in yards

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Speaker 1: per catch, and he was a superstar today. And it's

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Speaker 1: um the one I remember writing the post in May

620
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Speaker 1: when they he was a restricted free agent and they

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Speaker 1: put a deal on the table that the Bills were

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Speaker 1: not going to match. And the nugget coming out of

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Speaker 1: some of the Beat reporters was that Belichick, Hey, we

624
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: know he's obsessed with warmer lacrosse players. That's that's in there.

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00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: But I love those little Belichick but he loves lacrosse.

626
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: And and secondly that he found that Chris Hogan's football

627
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: i Q was a rare find and it fits that

628
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: receiver position in New England is not easy. And Hogan

629
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Speaker 1: has not been a week to week when hundred yard

630
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: type guy, but he's had a couple of big games,

631
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: had ninety four yards against Houston and blew up today

632
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: and turn your volume down to zero off your Bills

633
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: fan right now because maybe you forgot about this. But

634
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: on March eleven of two thousand and sixteen, the Bills

635
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: declined to match that offer sheet to Chris Hogan. How

636
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: much it would have cost them to do twelve million total?

637
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: Do you think he would have been a useful part

638
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I'm not saying he would have been this good,

639
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: but I think he they should have held out to

640
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: be kept them away from the bats a cover of years. Dan,

641
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,239
Speaker 1: because I'm about to laviage some some heaping praise on

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Speaker 1: on Belichick, who gets tons of credit for his strategic mind,

643
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: but he's the best team builder in the NFL. It's

644
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: not the best. Fifty three is the right fifty three,

645
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: and he does that better than anyone. When he trades

646
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: a guy like Jamie Collins who won't agree to an

647
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: under market contract, he brings in a guy like Kyle

648
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: van Noy, who made a huge play today, and they've

649
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: been a better defense with Van Noy than with Collins.

650
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: He picks up Hogan, he signs Dion Lewis off the street.

651
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,239
Speaker 1: Nobody else wants to the Garrett Blunt. He picks up

652
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe for for pennies on the dollar in a trade.

653
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: These guys are all playing huge rules. I think if

654
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: you look at this roster, the guys who are making

655
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: big plays, nobody is above a third or fourth round pick.

656
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: Everybody signed off the street for nothing or an afterthought

657
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: free agent. That's a testament to his ability to plug

658
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: guys into the system. I have, you know, I have

659
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: my fun obviously with the Patriots, but I never questioned

660
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: Belichick's greatness. And you're right the fact that they're at

661
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: late in this game, the you know, the Nanson sims

662
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: are talking about how Logan Ryan was one of the

663
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: rising stars at cornerback. We already know that they they

664
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: found a gem and Malcolm Butler and you what And

665
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: I guess you can. You can be overly um critical

666
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: of the page it's and just try to have fun

667
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: with it, or try to have too much fun with

668
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: it and say, oh, well they have Brady and Belichick

669
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: and that's a big part of it. But they have

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00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: all these pieces that they keep rolling in despite having

671
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: low first round picks or none at all. Well, Brady's

672
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: the glue. It works because you have not only the

673
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: greatest quarterback, but the greatest quarterback who takes a pay

674
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: cut to stay there and sets the tone by holding

675
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: everyone else to his standard. When a guy like that,

676
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: I've heard Damna Check in the newsroom go off and say,

677
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: why why does Brady get back like a jerk on

678
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 1: the field? Because he's the leader. He's earned that, he's

679
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: learned that through seventeen years of getting in that building first,

680
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: holding himself to a higher standard than everyone. So when

681
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: he goes off on you, you're gonna take it. He's

682
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: more invested than you are. Tough day for damage Check,

683
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: by the way, well, I feel, I mean I could

684
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: you could he he'd put out a bunch of tweets.

685
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: You could tell he was not having a great well

686
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: he and he he spent the week and this isn't

687
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: piling on day. But this is just part of the

688
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 1: story of this game. Uh, you know, building this game

689
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: up as a big legacy game for both Roethlisberger and

690
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: a Dye. And here's Brady now going to get another

691
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: super Bowl and Big Ben's gonna be fine. Big Ben's

692
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 1: got two titles. Uh, He's gonna have every passing record

693
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: if he doesn't already have it in Pittsburgh history. And

694
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: he's a no doubt Hall of Famer. But if there

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00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,959
Speaker 1: was ever any question about where Brady and and Roethlisberger

696
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: rank in the hierarchy of all time quarterbacks, another reminder

697
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: that Brady is just on another level. Yeah, and Big Ben,

698
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: look what he's gonna have next year. Hopefully has Martavis

699
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: Bryant back, You bring back every other skill position player,

700
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: maybe Ladarius Green comes back healthy. The offensive line, which

701
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: was right there with Dallas is in Oakland's is the

702
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: best in the NFL. And then the young defense that

703
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: got better throughout the course of the season. There's no

704
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: reason to believe the Steelers aren't going to repeat as

705
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,399
Speaker 1: as a f C Central Champs or a FC North Well,

706
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: and it's another This is the same story for them.

707
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: Year after year. They go out of the playoffs without

708
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell in the lineup and without without them

709
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: being at full power. That same thing happened again. I

710
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: would say that it was a week ago that I

711
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: was calling Keith Butler potential assistant coach of the Year.

712
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: And here's the problem. There's zone defense got eaten alive today.

713
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: So you've got to find a way to go and

714
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: match up with Belichick and make adjustments to get out

715
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: of a game like this in the future. All right,

716
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: you know there's one more member of the Around the

717
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 1: NFL podcast in his name is Greg Rosenthal and Greg Risenthal, Yeah,

718
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: NFL Networks. Greg Rosenthal now joins us from Foxborough, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: Happy Greg Rosenthal because his little boys are going back

720
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: to the big dance. Little boy that I want you

721
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: to know, by the way, you haven't heard that by

722
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: been on my best behavior because the Patriots is you know,

723
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: why why fight the obvious that this was a Patriots team, Greg,

724
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: that played close to a complete game as they've done

725
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,240
Speaker 1: all season, and you know they earned everything I got today.

726
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: How about me? You are the hero. It's funny, It's

727
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: like I you know, we talked to Malcolm Butler, you know,

728
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan, all these guys that I thought were the

729
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 1: stars of the day but actually were saying answer his modesty,

730
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: which really is what I'll remember. How about this listening

731
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: on this, Greg, this is Tom Brady who was asked

732
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: on the podium after the game, Uh if after some

733
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: weeks where they didn't quite put it all together? Was

734
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: this more the type of Patriots offense that he expects

735
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: on a week to week basis. It was a good

736
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: day and we're going to the super Bowl. Man, you

737
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 1: gotta be happy now Brady drops the Brown world. That's

738
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: how you know he's in a good mood, Greg. But

739
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: he's enjoying it. He said it, Dude. There's no guarantee

740
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: that they'll ever be here again. There's no guarantee you

741
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: ever get to this, but you know your boy Martelli

742
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:56,280
Speaker 1: Bennett was definitely token in the surroundings and running around

743
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 1: the field dancing with the cheerleaders. I just I think

744
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 1: it's great we get to spend another couple of weeks

745
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,240
Speaker 1: with the Bennett brother. I know that's what you're about.

746
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: I like Martella's I've actually interviewed him a past super bowls.

747
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: Uh he I believe, lives in Hawaiian and plays Uh

748
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: he plays with one of those little guitars called the

749
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: uk ukuk lele um. So he's gonna be a star

750
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: of super Bowl Week. But otherwise, you know the Patriots,

751
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: Greg more than any other team, uh know, the drill

752
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: of super Bowl Week and between jeez, now they think

753
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: about it, between the Patriots, who are, oh what is

754
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: this Greg? What is this thing? One more time? What

755
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 1: is that? Is that your thing? Don't know, I don't

756
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: know those like reporters even asking players about that. That

757
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 1: that slogan. I guess that was some like marketing slogan.

758
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 1: But let's hear from Robert Kraft one more time for

759
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: for a number of reasons. All of you in the

760
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: stadium understand how big this win was. Listen up, this

761
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: is your army. But we have to go to Houston

762
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: and when one is that your new thing? Right? You

763
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: don't try to pin this on me. It was like

764
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: one more game. I guess that was their their slogan

765
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: all year, one more games. That's almost his lame as

766
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: blunt force trauma. All right, so let's go back to

767
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: the game. Champions. You should and I'm really happy for you.

768
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: I'm really happy for you. But in the locker room

769
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: you mentioned it a little bit by touching on Bennett

770
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: was the only guy really jazzed up. Robert clemco of

771
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 1: Monday Morning Quarterback said that it was a very subdued

772
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: Patriots locker room. I assume you got down there. Yeah,

773
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: I mean, he's right that half of them are just

774
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: speaking in cliches, you know. Julian Edelman, like you know,

775
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: I asked him about like the hurry up offense for

776
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: as instance, that they kind of broke out a little

777
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: more today to beat the Patriots, and and he he

778
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: had the ultimate Patriots saying, which is just like you know,

779
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: I'm you know, Josh, Josh McDaniels is the one leading

780
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:08,280
Speaker 1: the herd. I'm I'm just part of the cattle saying

781
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: that and that that is that, that is the Patriots.

782
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: They weren't they weren't getting too crazy after the game.

783
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: But it's also well after that celebration on the field,

784
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: they hold the locker room to keep the media out,

785
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: and then by the time the media gets in there,

786
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: it's kind of you know, they just want to get

787
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: out of there and do their business. What do you

788
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,439
Speaker 1: have some other takeaways you had from the game, Gregg

789
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: being there in person. Uh, you know, I will remember

790
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: the Scott Zolack being up on the scoreboard with the

791
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: sign that says, you know, the poorly written sign that

792
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: said where is Roger but didn't have a question mark

793
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: on it. I mean, the crowd probably was crazier for

794
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: for that, uh than any other moment of the entire crowd.

795
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys probably heard that they were still

796
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: singing the Bond jovial lyrics during a kickoff. I mean,

797
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: that was that was about his memorable. The crowd was

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00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: rock You know, the fox broke coug gets a lot

799
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: of grief, but when when they're up early? Is this

800
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: still special to Patriots fans? That I mean? See I

801
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 1: you know, I I mean with you a bit during

802
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: the game, you sounded like people were there were acting

803
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: like it was one of the first playoff victories. They

804
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: were genuinely into it. Yeah, I think that, you know,

805
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 1: you forget maybe I shouldn't, but the fact that Robert

806
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: Kraft alluded to it, the fact that this is the

807
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: first you know that the season started with the flate gate,

808
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: that this is the first Super Bowl trip um since

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00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: he's been suspended and everything that resonates, Like the fans

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00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: were all I think all about that. They just want

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00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: to ask the NFL. I mean, the chance of Roger

812
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: and everything like that. We're just we're we're kind of crazy.

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00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: And I think that's I think that's what makes it

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00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: a little different. And and I think people finally realize

815
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: you can't count on Tom Brady doing this forever, that

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00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: that you would think this has got to be one

817
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: of the last the last, if not the last chance

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00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: that I don't know about that. That's my theory. That's

819
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 1: not going out. He's just halfway through his career. Shut up. Uh.

820
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: But by the way, yeah, Brady said after the game

821
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: he did not hear the Wars Roger chant. That's what

822
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: his claim was anyway. But he did hear the and

823
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: he did hear the bon Jovi chant. And I'm just

824
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: curious again you being, you know, the spokesman for that

825
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: region and you're back in your hometown or home state.

826
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: Uh today, when did you co opt bon Jovi? I

827
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: thought that was a Jersey thing. Well, he's been friends

828
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: with Pelichick forever, but co opting Jovi though, that that's

829
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: an iconic New Jersey song. I thought, you know it's

830
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: it's it's a song that, let's face it, popular with

831
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: a lot of middle aged whites everywhere. I mean the

832
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: beloved by middle aged whites. The Steelers were using it.

833
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 1: I watched their pepper rally on Friday. I was at work.

834
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: They did a pep rally and that was their theme

835
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: song and their pep rally. So we gotta get some

836
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: new songs that that song literally came out thirty one

837
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: years ago. I gotta be something else out there. There's

838
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: nothing about the Belichick Brady Patriots, this living on a

839
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: prayer that it really made no sense. I mean that

840
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: was the thing. I think that was the thing that

841
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: struck me in person, Like how much of a better

842
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: plan that they had You said it mark in terms

843
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: of the Steelers, not like adjusting out of that zone defense,

844
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: but in the end, like the Patriots were doing a

845
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: lot of the same things defensively that the Steelers were doing,

846
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: kind of dropping it and coverage. It just it just

847
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,760
Speaker 1: worked better for them. And when they did. The Steelers

848
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: i think, really tried to stop the running game early

849
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: and the Patriots just were like, Okay, fine, We're not

850
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: going to even bother to try to run the ball

851
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: at all. We're just gonna play like four or five

852
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: wide and in the work. Don't you think they do

853
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: that better than anyone over the last ten years if

854
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: you take away something they don't bother with. All right,

855
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to run the ball. It's okay, We'll

856
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: just shred you with our passing game, right exactly. I

857
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: think they adjust on the fly like people talk about

858
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: halftime adjustments, Like they're making adjustments very quick. In that game,

859
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: I think they saw what the Steelers were doing instead

860
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: of dropping people out uh into coverage and it was

861
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 1: like it was easy pickings. It was it was too much.

862
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: I think they were really confusing the Steeler secondary with

863
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: the route combinations and everything. It was amazing, Like it

864
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 1: just seems so easy on that for them on third

865
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: and six and seven to find find a receiver open.

866
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 1: I don't wanna um understate, however, Levy on Bell's injury

867
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,240
Speaker 1: and all this, he goes out with a groin injury.

868
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,760
Speaker 1: I believe it was the first quarter, uh six carriats

869
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: or twenty yards. He tries to come back in for

870
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: one play and then goes back on and you see

871
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: that that shot. You see, uh when a player tries

872
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: to go back in and you see the look on

873
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: his face that he knows he's done. And sure enough, Uh,

874
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 1: he had the jacket on the rest of the way.

875
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 1: D'Angel Williams, who's a fine backup and had a little

876
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: bit of juice and his legs on their first possession

877
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: or first touchdown drive, but he couldn't do much after that.

878
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: You you have to there's a bit of a what

879
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: if with this, And I know the Steelers had a

880
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: terrible day on defense, Uh what if would the Steelers

881
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: have been able to make a run and put some

882
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 1: points on the board if Levy on Bell is healthy?

883
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is becoming a familiar uh

884
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: frain for Steelers fans. What if we had leve Bell

885
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: healthy in our playoff loss? Yeah, I agree. I think

886
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 1: the game was a lot closer in the first half

887
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: than the than the score indicated. They were both moving

888
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: the ball up and down the field. The Patriots were

889
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: just kind of better in this each situation, like they

890
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: at the goal line stand at the end of the

891
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: first half was massive and just every little part of

892
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: that game. But that's kind of that's kind of the

893
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 1: Patriots them. Oh, they don't like kill you in terms

894
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,280
Speaker 1: of yardage, but then you look up at the score,

895
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: uh and and it's out of control. They they had

896
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: an interesting game plane where it seemed like they had

897
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: like five guys on the line of scrimmage at all times,

898
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: only one linebacker behind them, and they were double and

899
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:44,240
Speaker 1: triple teaming uh Antonio Brown. The people people say, okay,

900
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: they did the same thing with Butler and Brown. I mean,

901
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: they basically had McCord They had their best two defensive

902
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: backs on Brown for most of the night because it

903
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: was mostly mccordy and Butler. And I remember one one

904
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: sequence when they were trying to score on the goal

905
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: and they had three guys on Brown. So they were

906
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: just like begging Kobe Hamile and one of those other

907
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 1: guys to step up. In a very quiet seven for seventies,

908
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: seven for Antonio Brown. Well, and it's it becomes very tiresome.

909
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: It's just because there's so many different media voices and

910
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: outlets saying it. This week, hearing about Bill Belichick taking

911
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: away the best player, but he actually did exactly. He

912
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: did exactly that he got help with one of the

913
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: other best player being injured. But when I don't know

914
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: how much of this of the Falcons game you got

915
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: to see. But you know who the Falcons are, and

916
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: you've now lived through and you've seen a bunch of

917
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: different Patriots super Bowl matchups. Where did the Falcons and

918
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: they waste? The way they stand today after rifling off

919
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers? Where do they stand for you

920
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: in terms of P level? With all the Super Bowl matchups?

921
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: You know what? This one seems different to me? And

922
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: let me before you answer and make it clear what

923
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: the P level represents. Uh. One, under pants flawless, your jeens,

924
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: no worries at all. Uh, you're in a great zone here.

925
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: You got to use the bathroom. You're gonna find a

926
00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: bathroom all set. Ten. Your pants are soaked, the underwear

927
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: not redeemable. They gotta go in the tris can. You're done?

928
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: Where yet? It's pretty high. It's you know, I haven't

929
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: had it above three all year. I would say it'd

930
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: be a seven. They said, let's pick up some adult

931
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: sized diapers. Go ahead. Sure, I'm not sure that's part

932
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: of my job description, but I'll do what they can

933
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: do your best. I'm gonna get to some diapers. Greg

934
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: for Super Bowl Week. I think we're gonna need it

935
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: because you know, you said rank them. You know it's

936
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: compared to the other Super Bowl. Well, it's it's easily

937
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: the best offense that they've played been you know, the

938
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: first Super Bowl, which the p level wasn't even that

939
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: high because you just assumed that the Rams were gonna

940
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: run up and down. I mean, this is one of

941
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: the best offenses since then. And I think it's exactly

942
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: the type of offense and team that can just go

943
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: up and down the field on them. I mean, Roethlisberger

944
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,399
Speaker 1: played pretty well today and I don't know how they

945
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: come up with the answers for Atlanta. I think it's

946
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 1: just coming up. You know, you know, we'll get into it,

947
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: but it's gonna come be coming up with a few plays,

948
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 1: and it's gonna have be having a perfect game on offense,

949
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: which which they're capable of. Do are we assuming the

950
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna be slight favorites in this game? The

951
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: desert people saying which which shocks me? I don't. I

952
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: think the public, by the way, I think that that,

953
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: you know, I know, we don't get into that, but

954
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: I suspect they will become less of a favorite as

955
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 1: uh as we get closer. But yeah, they opened up

956
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: as a favorite watched in the Atlantic team. How can

957
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: anyone being I'm with you. They didn't play a defense

958
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: today the Falcons, sure, and Seattle is terrible outside of Seattle.

959
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,320
Speaker 1: So who have the Falcons been tested by severely? I

960
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. I don't think the Patriots have

961
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 1: been tested either. But the Patriots have been the best

962
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: team since Brady came back, so that doesn't surprise me

963
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: that they'd be favorite. All right, Greg, you're gonna have

964
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 1: a chance to uh, you know, reconnect with any past

965
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: flames before you get on a plane to come back West.

966
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: I got a right, baby, I haven't even started writing

967
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,760
Speaker 1: up this uh this dandy no my fights and literally

968
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: in like eight in like nine hours. All right, Well,

969
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: you get to work. You're a true professional. And you

970
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: could read Greg's calm when it does land at some

971
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 1: point in the middle of the night at NFL dot

972
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: com Slash Rosenthal. Yes he's NFL Networks Greg Rosenthal. Is

973
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: that NFL Networks Greg Risenthal. But he's nice enough to

974
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: always make time for us. Thanks Budd for guys as

975
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: unbelievable thing to see. All right, there you go. So

976
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: the Patriots and Falcons will square off on February five,

977
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: two weeks from tonight, and um, I think we're all

978
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: excited for that game and hashtag blessed to be there

979
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: to cover. Mark throws his hands up, not excited. No,

980
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: I'm very excited. What was that saying? Of course? I

981
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: mean it goes without saying. Now, I think I I

982
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: the Falcons. I honestly, I'll say this. I'm kind of like,

983
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: I think the Packers are like the hot girl in

984
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: school and like every guy like her, and I'm like, no,

985
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: I'll I want something different. And so the Falcons to me,

986
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: were what I wanted, something different, a different type of team.

987
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: And I think that they make this. They put a

988
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 1: little bit of an intriguing stamp on this. I'm done

989
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. Go home. Okay, there you you finally

990
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: got your wish. It took longer than you thought. It

991
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 1: always takes longer, but Aaron Rodgers took your precious dirt

992
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: nap um. All right, before we go a couple of things,

993
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: I don't wish. I Um, I'm glad that you got

994
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: that in well, I don't special. Thank you to Derek Hackett,

995
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: who is the public information officer for the City of

996
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,720
Speaker 1: my Not. Uh. He sent us a just a massive

997
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: care package, UM, a box filled with shirts, Frisbees, couzies, pens, lanyards,

998
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: Dot's homestyle Pretzels, which is a North Dakota UM classic,

999
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: some city literature. And we have our new official mascot

1000
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: of the Around the NFL podcast because Derek sent us coutar,

1001
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: a beaver that uh sits right now, is perched right

1002
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: at the nexus of all of our cubicles. Yeah, and

1003
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to I mean, unless we're absolute jerks,

1004
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: we would box up a big portion of this and

1005
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: send it on to conra Or, because without Conroor, there

1006
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: is no relationship with this city. Yeah. Of course, the

1007
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: city of my Not is the home of my Not

1008
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: State University, which potentially or or actually not potentially in

1009
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: reality in Connor, Ores, very unique reality is the new

1010
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: head coach of the my Not State football team. Uh

1011
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: go check out our podcast for a couple of weeks ago.

1012
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense because it sounds like a

1013
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: fever dream. But thank you Derek for that. And with

1014
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: that um, gentlemen, we were gonna take our oban Scotch,

1015
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: but we're gonna make our now annual pilgrimage. After the

1016
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: final Sunday night show of the season from the studio.

1017
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna head over the cozy, have a couple of

1018
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: drinks reminisce. Do they let this in? Do they let

1019
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: this kind of bottle of good stuff? And there do

1020
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: we have to I don't know. We're gonna put it

1021
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: unto your jacket like you've never snuck whiskey into a

1022
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: bar before. No comment said, you're welcome to join. I

1023
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: know you don't like going into the watering holes like

1024
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 1: we do. Yeah, I mean I can, I can hang.

1025
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: That's that's why we call our new money. All right,

1026
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: that's it. Uh, this is Dan hands is signing off.

1027
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: Congratulations to the Falcons and the Patriots. Good job, guys.

1028
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: Dan Hands is signing off for the Quiet Storm, the

1029
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: mail Man, the Boss, and uh money behind the Glass

1030
00:52:33,440 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: until Tuesday.