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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a big Sunday night for a number of reasons.

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Speaker 2: First of all, can we all just take a moment

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Speaker 2: to acknowledge one another in the fact that we're struggling today.

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Speaker 2: There's been no football. Miss me with the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I'll say it again, there's been no football, and I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure I dig this, but we better get used

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Speaker 2: to it. We only got one game left. We're going

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Speaker 2: to be touching on it on all fronts, except for

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Speaker 2: I keep hearing Kyle the exact same thing about this game.

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Speaker 2: We're used to it. We heard it for twenty years

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Speaker 2: when Tom Brady and Bill Belichick were doing their thing

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Speaker 2: for the New England Patriots. I keep hearing I'm so

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Speaker 2: sick of the Chiefs, I'm so sick of Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 2: and Kyle I'm sure you hear that too. It makes

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Speaker 2: me laugh because I think that we think we're sick

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Speaker 2: of things, but we actually want that. We want what

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Speaker 2: we know. When you order pizza, you usually order the

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Speaker 2: exact same topings. If you get in trouble, you call

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Speaker 2: the same people. We want repetition in our lives. We

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Speaker 2: want things that we know that we can count on

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Speaker 2: when it gets wobbly. And let's say I don't know,

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Speaker 2: like the Diamondbacks go to the World Series, people are like,

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Speaker 2: what is this? I don't even know how to sink

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Speaker 2: my teeth into this. The forty nine ers are playing

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs. Mahomes will be there, Taylor Swift will be there.

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Speaker 2: I would argue, this is exactly what America wants.

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Speaker 3: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 4: And it's interesting because when you think of the New

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Speaker 4: England Patriots and their dominance over the course of two decades,

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Speaker 4: it was something that, you know, at least for me personally,

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Speaker 4: I thought we'd never see again. You know, there's no

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Speaker 4: way there's going to be a team that goes to

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl four out of five years, you know,

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Speaker 4: a team that has that same kind of greatness and

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Speaker 4: consistency that we saw from the New England Patriots. But

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Speaker 4: it's also really interesting to me because when you think

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Speaker 4: about each organization and kind of the way that they

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Speaker 4: went about things. You didn't see Bill Belichick and Tom

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Speaker 4: Brady or any of those New England Patriots on one

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Speaker 4: single commercial over those two decades, and it was like

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Speaker 4: everything was kept very in house, like you know, their

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Speaker 4: media answers were very scripted and always well thought out.

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Speaker 4: And then now we see this Chiefs dynasty and it's like,

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Speaker 4: I think people are more so on the oh, we're

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Speaker 4: so sick of the Chiefs because you can't turn your

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Speaker 4: TV on and not see Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 4: Taylor Swift. And it's just a little different in that aspect.

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Speaker 4: But you know, for me personally, I've always been one,

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Speaker 4: you know, whether it was you know, back in the

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Speaker 4: day watching the New England Patriots, or watching the New

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Speaker 4: York Yankees or the LA Lakers, the Boston Celtics, all

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Speaker 4: these teams that show sustain greatness over time, and I

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Speaker 4: find myself rooting for it. You know, I have really

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Speaker 4: no allegiance to as a kid a professional sports team.

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Speaker 4: Growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, we didn't have an NBA team,

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Speaker 4: and the Reds and the Bengals were just not very good.

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Speaker 4: So for me, I just I loved watching the Cowboys

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Speaker 4: as a kid in the nineties. I loved, you know,

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Speaker 4: watching teams that were really good. Like you said, you

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Speaker 4: know what you're going to get, you know what to

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Speaker 4: expect when you turn on these teams that have sustained greatness.

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Speaker 4: So you know, I am one and I agree with

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Speaker 4: your point that you hear it quite a bit. I'm

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Speaker 4: so sick of the Kansas City Chiefs, but you know,

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Speaker 4: I don't know that we really are. I mean, why

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Speaker 4: wouldn't you want to watch Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: He's one of the most exciting players in our game.

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Speaker 4: And you know, there's nothing better than seeing the best

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Speaker 2: Mark Willard Kyle rode off with you tonight. It's good

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Speaker 2: to be back with you, buddy. I appreciate you guys

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Speaker 2: holding it down for me. I would have been absolutely

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Speaker 2: no help to you last Sunday that, like I just

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Speaker 2: you know, this is one of those nights where I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I better just let somebody else do this, because that

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Speaker 2: would have been ridiculous distraction to try to do that

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Speaker 2: during the NFC Championship game, particularly with a team coming

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Speaker 2: back from a twenty four to seven deficit. So it

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Speaker 2: was great to hear you and Aaron Torres a little

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Speaker 2: bit and do your thing, and I appreciate it so

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Speaker 2: much and I can't wait to dive into everything that

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Speaker 2: is not only going on but has gone on. I

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Speaker 2: want to revisit that Lions Niners game a little bit

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Speaker 2: later on tonight too, because I really would love to

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Speaker 2: hear your perspective on the way things went down. We

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Speaker 2: that I don't get it. Maybe sometimes when this happens

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Speaker 2: in the NFL, like you even just said, when we're

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Speaker 2: watching the Patriots, I'm thinking this is never happening again,

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Speaker 2: And now maybe it kind of is. We'll see. We're

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Speaker 2: still kind of on the front end of it. But

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Speaker 2: clearly Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are the class of

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Speaker 2: the league now for a five year run. And maybe

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Speaker 2: when this happens in the NFL, it bugs us a

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Speaker 2: little bit more than in other places because this is

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Speaker 2: the place where we don't expect it. We always hear

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Speaker 2: parody in the NFL. You got a hard cap, Green Bay,

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Speaker 2: Wisconsin can compete with New York, New York and so

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Speaker 2: it's an even playing field. We're very used to this

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Speaker 2: in the NBA, where Lebron goes, where Michael Jordan goes,

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Speaker 2: sometimes it's Steph Curry, whatever you're like, I know that

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Speaker 2: that team is pretty much going to be there in

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Speaker 2: the end. But in the NFL, we're under the impression

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Speaker 2: that it reboots every year and new teams have a chance.

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Speaker 2: And when a guy like Mahomes does this, it sort

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Speaker 2: of challenges our NFL senses a little bit.

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Speaker 4: It does, And like you talked about some of the

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Speaker 4: other sports, you know, whether it's it's baseball, and you

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Speaker 4: know the Yankees and the Dodger in the Red Sox

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Speaker 4: that form these these super power teams with multiple superstars

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Speaker 4: like you said, in football, it's it's about parody. Everything

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Speaker 4: that we have is structured to even the playing field.

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Speaker 4: After each year, the draft is set up the way

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Speaker 4: no chance that a team that maybe just misses the

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Speaker 4: So to me, it really does. And Aaron and I

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Speaker 4: the verge. They're at four out of five Super Bowls.

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Speaker 4: So they're playing in their fourth Super Bowl in five years.

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Speaker 4: And if it wasn't for our good friend and your

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Speaker 4: look at Patrick Mahomes, he'd be one Joe Burrow loss

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Speaker 4: he's been the starting quarterback. And you know, I remember

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Speaker 4: Like it's it's ridiculous the amount of succes, sustained success

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Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs just honestly make it look easy. All

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Speaker 4: year long, we talked about there's no way this Chiefs

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Speaker 4: the playoffs. Their offense just isn't good enough anymore. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know everyone counted them out. And that's what greatness

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Speaker 4: it's so enjoyable to root for greatness and to watch

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Speaker 5: Kyle, this is Stevens Studio, and while we redial Mark

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Speaker 5: and it's entertaining greatness. And the theory that was proffered

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Speaker 5: tired of this, I think March Madness is a good example.

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Speaker 5: With college hoops. We think we want to see George

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Speaker 4: That you with me on this, Steve, I'm with you,

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Speaker 4: And it's funny you say that because I couldn't agree

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Speaker 4: with you. More like when you watch March Madness, you

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Speaker 4: please exit stage right. You know, we're so glad that

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Speaker 4: of the NCAA Tournament. The second round of the NCAA Tournament,

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Speaker 4: entire week until they go play again. You don't want

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Speaker 4: Bloods of college basketball battling it out in the final four.

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Speaker 4: And it's funny you say that because the last final

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Speaker 4: Elite eight games that year and like, Kentucky lost the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. I'm Steve Sager

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Speaker 5: in our LA studios with Kyle Rudolf, former Viking side in.

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Speaker 5: And we've got one week till the Super Bowl. Mark

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Speaker 5: Willard is going to Redial from a different location but

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Speaker 4: It pains me to guess this school. But in thinking,

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Speaker 4: why fans are like, hold on a second, like this

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Speaker 4: is no longer. Hey, the guys are big and fast,

434
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Speaker 4: and the game's fast, and the plays are happening, you know,

435
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Speaker 4: bang bang, and it we weren't able to make a decision.

436
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Speaker 4: Then when you slow it down on replay, it's easier.

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Speaker 4: You know, this was simply someone who just didn't do

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Speaker 4: his job, and it cost a lot of sports betters

439
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Speaker 4: a lot of money, and so this whole Vegas Super

440
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Speaker 4: Bowl thing will definitely be interesting as I'm sure gambling

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Speaker 4: and sports betting is something that we'll be talked about.

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Speaker 5: And I'll even broaden the definition of sports betters because

443
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Speaker 5: fantasy football has been popular for so many years, even

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Speaker 5: before gambling has gone into some of these new states

445
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Speaker 5: in recent years. And obviously fantasy football does involve money,

446
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Speaker 5: maybe not weekly changing hands between friends. But you know

447
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Speaker 5: where we're going with this, and what you said, somebody

448
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Speaker 5: might react, ow, what do they care about the Oh? Absolutely,

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Speaker 5: the NFL is obligated to care because they now have

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Speaker 5: gambling sponsorships. There's an official whatever of the NFL in

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Speaker 5: all these other departments of commerce and now in the

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Speaker 5: gambling space as well. So absolutely they have to care this.

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Speaker 5: You cannot sweep this under the rug. And what I

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Speaker 5: as a sports fan, have always wanted is the belief

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Speaker 5: in my game. You hear the expression the integrity of

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Speaker 5: the game. That's a real thing that must be there

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Speaker 5: for an entertainment product like professional sports, because if people

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Speaker 5: aren't believing the product. I know pro wrestling is a

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Speaker 5: popular thing of its own, but they're not believing the

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Speaker 5: product in the same way that they're believing the NFL.

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Speaker 5: You can hear what I'm saying with this, don't screw

462
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Speaker 5: around with my game. If you want an official gambling

463
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Speaker 5: sponsor of your league, whatever, take the money, all of that.

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Speaker 5: But if it starts getting into my game, I want

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Speaker 5: the up and up game that I've always gotten on Sundays.

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Speaker 5: If you screw around with that, then I'm ticked as

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Speaker 5: a fan.

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Speaker 2: And don't screw with our show. Don't screw with our show.

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Speaker 2: Whether you get out of my way, whether I loved

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Speaker 2: your line, I listened to you on my way over

471
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Speaker 2: where you were like, he's gonna relocate, but it's still

472
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Speaker 2: gonna be in northern California, I'm like, oh god, he's right.

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Speaker 2: But I hang on, I think we're okay. That sounds going, yeah,

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Speaker 2: fingers crossed. Why don't we find out what's trendings? Dave?

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Speaker 5: That just in time for you to throw to whoever's

476
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Speaker 5: doing the updates today?

477
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Speaker 2: Who is that guy?

478
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Speaker 5: Well, there was a classic Pro Bowl game, of course

479
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Speaker 5: to talk about today. Who doesn't like watching flag football

480
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Speaker 5: for three hours? But in Orlando, the final score was

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Speaker 5: sixty four to fifty nine NFC as Baker Mayfield was

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Speaker 5: offensive MVP. So there Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco

483
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Speaker 5: forty nine ers each travel to Vegas tonight. The Super

484
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Speaker 5: Bowl is next Sunday in Vegas. Of course, full coverage

485
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Speaker 5: live here. In fact, we so look forward to this

486
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Speaker 5: every year. The guys that are after you, Chris Plake

487
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Speaker 5: and Arnie Spaniard usually get selected by the bosses to

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Speaker 5: be the show on during the Super Bowl game.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 5: It is so fun to be live on the air

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Speaker 5: during the game of the year, and it's the only

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Speaker 5: thing going on, and even if it weren't, it's the

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Speaker 5: only thing we're going to be talking about it. It's

494
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Speaker 5: a sensational day. So join us if you can. San

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Speaker 5: Francisco Kansas City super Bowl eight fifty eight next Sunday,

496
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Speaker 5: and the NFL Honors ceremony is Thursday. By the way,

497
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Speaker 5: the Jets and Giants Stadium will host the World Cup

498
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Speaker 5: Final in twenty twenty six. More on that in a minute,

499
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Speaker 5: but we do have NBA in progress. The Clippers are

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Speaker 5: leading with a second to go at Miami one O

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Speaker 5: two to ninety five, and Kawhi Leonard and company are

502
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Speaker 5: going to pull down this victory In fact, Leonard, I

503
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Speaker 5: know with six minutes to go he was up to

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Speaker 5: twenty one points in this game. Anyway, Clippers are going

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Speaker 5: to wind up with a w here Earlier Phoenix got

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Speaker 5: to win at Washington, won forty to one twelve. Bradley

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Speaker 5: Beal of the Suns back in DC had forty three points.

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Speaker 5: It is now a Clipper final. One oh three to

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Speaker 5: ninety five looks like twenty five points for Kawhi Leonard.

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Speaker 5: Orlando won at Detroit today one eleven ninety nine. Pistons

511
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Speaker 5: record six and forty three. Minnesota is winning again. Approaching

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Speaker 5: mid third quarter, it's Timberwolves over the Rockets fifty eight

513
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Speaker 5: to forty eight, and late third quarter it's still Toronto

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Speaker 5: ahead at Oklahoma City seventy eight sixty four. The thunder

515
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Speaker 5: have been great this year. If they come back for

516
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Speaker 5: a win tonight, they would be thirty five and fifteen

517
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Speaker 5: on the season. Final. Pacers win at the Hornets one

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Speaker 5: fifteen to ninety nine. Charlotte Hornets have lost seven in

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Speaker 5: a row. Guard LaMelo Ball was out again with a

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Speaker 5: sore ankle, and the Boston Celtics wound up winning easily

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Speaker 5: against whatever's left of the Grizzlies one thirty one to

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Speaker 5: ninety one. Memphis literally only suited up eight players, and

523
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Speaker 5: they were not all full time NBA players. As for

524
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Speaker 5: the college hoops, number two Purdue a winner at number

525
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Speaker 5: six Wisconsin seventy five to sixty nine. They've got a

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Speaker 5: minute left in overtime at fourteenth ranked Illinois Alna ahead

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Speaker 5: of Nebraska eighty three to eighty. And we did mention

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Speaker 5: on last night's show that with Arnie Spanier, Arizona Grad

529
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Speaker 5: coming up next after you, it is it is a

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Speaker 5: long history here on weekends in Fox Sports Radio that

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Speaker 5: anytime his Arizona Wildcats are in action, the same time

532
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Speaker 5: he's got a show that night. Whatever sport in the

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Speaker 5: athletic department, they do not do well. It's the Arnie

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Speaker 5: kurtse so here. Eleventh ranked Arizona is a huge favorite

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Speaker 5: at home against Stanford, but of course it's tied twenty

536
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Speaker 5: eight all about six and a half minutes to go

537
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Speaker 5: in the first half. Now, the Jets and Giant Stadium

538
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Speaker 5: is gonna host the World Cup Final in twenty twenty six.

539
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Speaker 5: The NFL Stadium in New Jersey is going to have

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Speaker 5: to remove some lower seats to widen the field to

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Speaker 5: accommodate soccer, and there's talk that in Englewood, California, the

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Speaker 5: La Rams owner is going to have to do the

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Speaker 5: same thing. And both New Jersey and Arlington, Texas and

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Speaker 5: the rest have to replace artificial turf with grass for

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Speaker 5: the World Cup. That is a FIFA rule, So Atlanta

546
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Speaker 5: is going to have to do that. Foxborough, Houston, Philadelphia, Seattle.

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Speaker 5: All eleven US stadiums for the World Cup are the

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Speaker 5: homes for the NFL, which uses also playing fields under

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Speaker 5: fifty five yards wide. World Cup requires seventy five yards wide.

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Speaker 5: So a lot to discuss the back to you.

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Speaker 2: Oh good stuff, Steve, and maybe Arnie will learn his

552
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Speaker 2: lesson from what I did last week. Don't do the

553
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Speaker 2: show when your team is in the middle of a

554
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Speaker 2: big game, and it goes much better. Just take the

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Speaker 2: day off, Arnie. It's gonna be okay.

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Speaker 5: For those who are unaware, the voice you're hearing from

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Speaker 5: Northern California was not on the show hosting last week,

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Speaker 5: not because he was ill, well, he was. He was

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Speaker 5: going through for the second story week. He wasn't on

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Speaker 5: vacation or anything. It's just something more important was happening,

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Speaker 5: and his full attention was devoted.

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Speaker 3: Let's say.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I don't want it to sound selfish, but

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Speaker 2: it honestly was like for everybody else, I'm like, you

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Speaker 2: don't want me in that kind of shape. I'd have

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Speaker 2: been awful, Kyle. You would have been talking to me

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Speaker 2: and you would have heard like, run the ball in

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Speaker 2: the back.

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Speaker 5: No, you're right, You're right.

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Speaker 2: The whole thing would have been a hot mess. So

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I gotta just tap out here.

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Speaker 5: I have an example of what you're saying that is

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Speaker 5: absolutely true from here because when Cavino and rich our

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Speaker 5: Weekday Afternoon host when they started, they were in this

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Speaker 5: slot on Sunday night, like four years ago, when it

576
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Speaker 5: was the forty nine Ers at Rams NFC Championship Game.

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Speaker 5: One of those co hosts is a massive forty nine

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Speaker 5: Ers fan. I could not finish a sentence in the

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Speaker 5: update without him screaming, and I mean just on incomplete passes.

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Speaker 5: It just the show could not function. So you are.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps imagine this, Imagine Jason Smith is on and the

582
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Speaker 2: Jets are in the AFC title game. What are we doing?

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Speaker 2: What we what are we doing? Now? I will say this, guys,

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Speaker 2: I would have loved if I could have gotten sort

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Speaker 2: of in the moment thoughts, especially from you, Kyle. As

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Speaker 2: a player, when Dan Campbell's doing what he's doing, what

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Speaker 2: would you have been thinking? What? What like? If you

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Speaker 2: were on the sideline when those decisions were being made?

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Speaker 5: What would you have thought the two decisions. By the way,

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Speaker 5: Detroit had two turnovers on down second half, a fourth

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Speaker 5: and two incompletion instead of a forty six yard field

592
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Speaker 5: goal attempt, fourth and three incompletion instead of a forty

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Speaker 5: eight yard field goal attempt when they were down three.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we Aaron and I talked about this at

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Speaker 4: length last week, And you know, the big thing for

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Speaker 4: me is we talk about analytics, aggressiveness, whatever, however you

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Speaker 4: want to phrase going forward on fourth down. I don't

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Speaker 4: care what if you say it's an analytical decision or

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Speaker 4: an aggressive aggression decision, I don't care. But you have

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Speaker 4: to take into consideration momentum, situational football, what's going on

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Speaker 4: in the game. And the thing that I couldn't understand

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Speaker 4: for the life of me was not the fourth and

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Speaker 4: two or three their first possession of the second half,

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Speaker 4: after the Niners went down and got a field goal

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Speaker 4: to come to fourteen, or obviously the one late in

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Speaker 4: the game when they had a chance to tie the game.

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Speaker 4: I think it was also fourth and two or three,

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Speaker 4: all three of them, because they also had a fourth

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Speaker 4: in goal at the two right before half. I don't

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Speaker 4: understand why you didn't go for that one. If your

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Speaker 4: if your whole season has been you know, aggressive decision making.

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Speaker 4: We're going to go for it on fourth down. You

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Speaker 4: get two yards on that one before the half, it's

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Speaker 4: six points, and it's the difference of four, you know,

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Speaker 4: seven points or three, you're plus four. So now instead

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Speaker 4: of being up seventeen at the half, you're up twenty

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Speaker 4: one at the half. And the other thing is with

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Speaker 4: the next two fourth downs, And Aaron and I didn't

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Speaker 4: really talk about this. We just talked about the decision

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Speaker 4: to go for it there. Okay, great, you got the

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Speaker 4: ball first and ten. They're not touchdowns. You still have

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Speaker 4: to finish the drive to get the additional four points.

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Speaker 4: If you just kick the field goal, you take three

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Speaker 4: points and you move on. So when I look at

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Speaker 4: all three of those fourth downs as a whole, the

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Speaker 4: one that made the most sense for me when I'm

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Speaker 4: talking about going for it was the one before the

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Speaker 4: half that they'd kicked the field goal, and the next two, yeah,

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Speaker 4: the next two where look, the Niners just went down

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Speaker 4: the field coming out to start the second half and

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Speaker 4: they got they had to settle for three points. So

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Speaker 4: then you turn around and you drive the football right

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Speaker 4: back to the thirty yard line. You have a chance

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Speaker 4: to go back up seventeen points in about eight minutes

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Speaker 4: have gone off the clock in the third quarter.

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Speaker 3: That's huge.

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Speaker 4: You basically have gotten the lead back to what it

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Speaker 4: was at halftime, and you've run half of the third

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Speaker 4: quarter off the clock. So obviously the one at the

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Speaker 4: end of the game, the opportunity to tie it instead

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Speaker 4: of going forward on fourth down. And you know, there

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Speaker 4: was no one open on that play. So you know,

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Speaker 4: I don't know what they were running, what they tried

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Speaker 4: to do, but there was absolutely no one open on

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Speaker 4: that fourth down tempt. So certainly, you know, I give

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Speaker 4: Dan credit because he said, look, that's the decisions that

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Speaker 4: I made. I take responsibility for him. You know, I'll

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Speaker 4: be the one taking all of the criticism and deserve

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Speaker 4: the criticism. So you know, unlike other coaches who go

650
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Speaker 4: for it on fourth down and then dish the blame

651
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Speaker 4: to other people or you know, just to say they're

652
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Speaker 4: going to do things differently and don't. Dan was very

653
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Speaker 4: upfront and honest that I made the decisions.

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Speaker 3: I have to live with them, so be it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I mean I get that the whole this

656
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Speaker 2: is who we are thing, but that just feels like

657
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Speaker 2: a lack of situational awareness. And actually, there's one other

658
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Speaker 2: thing I wanted to ask if he truly because to me,

659
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Speaker 2: there's one other thing that he needed to be aware

660
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Speaker 2: of that's a little quirky and I don't hear a

661
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Speaker 2: lot of people talk about it. And I'll throw that

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Speaker 2: at you next and then we'll continue to get into

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Speaker 2: this chief situation. Obviously, preview the game and ask the

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Speaker 2: question as to why if Patrick Mahomes is this massive

665
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Speaker 2: bohemoth of the NFL, why why is he underdog in

666
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Speaker 2: this game? All kinds of questions, we'll get to them all.

667
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Speaker 2: I feel cautiously optimistic that we're on track here, So

668
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Speaker 2: let's go ahead and stay there. In the tire rag

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Speaker 2: dot Com Studios along with Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard on

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Speaker 2: Okay, we're live ty rag dot com Studios. That is

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Speaker 2: Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard. So glad you're with us.

677
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Speaker 2: Thankful to be with you on on this night. If

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Speaker 2: you've been with us any of the first hours been

679
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Speaker 2: a little rough and tumble on on my end. I

680
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Speaker 2: am in the Bay Area, California, where storms are completely

681
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Speaker 2: taking over. So I hope wherever you are tonight you

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Speaker 2: are safe, and you are sad, and you are dry

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Speaker 2: and indoors and all of those good things. I'm glad

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Speaker 2: there's not a playoff football game here this weekend. Man,

685
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Speaker 2: we really would have been talking about Brock Purdy in

686
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Speaker 2: the rain. But Kyle, your comments a little bit ago

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Speaker 2: about Dan Campbell. Here, here's something that I've been bouncing

688
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Speaker 2: around in my head that I feel strongly about, but

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a crazy take, and so

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Speaker 2: I want to throw it at you. The idea that, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Dan Campbell, this is what we do, so we're gonna

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Speaker 2: keep doing it. Okay, The analytics of it, all right,

693
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Speaker 2: you know the team that you have got a lot

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Speaker 2: of offensive firepower, had some interesting play calls there. Josh

695
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Speaker 2: Renolds could have caught the ball. I get all that stuff,

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Speaker 2: What about this, I sort of feel like that's putting

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Speaker 2: a lot on a group that's never been there before.

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Speaker 2: And I'm almost talking about the fan base as much

699
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Speaker 2: as the players. Jared Goff's been to a super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: The rest of that team is a bunch of guys

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Speaker 2: who've never experienced this. Plus they're being buoyed by a

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Speaker 2: city that's telling them this is the biggest game ever

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Speaker 2: ever for this organization. So it's almost like you've got

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Speaker 2: to protect that group from falling into the uh oh moment.

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Speaker 2: And the uh oh moment only happens if you sort

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Speaker 2: of let that avalanche effect take over. So, in other words,

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Speaker 2: when you're up twenty four to ten and you go

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Speaker 2: for it on fourth and two, I don't want you

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Speaker 2: to be governed by fear, eh, except for maybe a

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Speaker 2: little bit in that situation, like let that run through

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Speaker 2: your head of Okay, what if we go for this

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Speaker 2: and we don't get it? What happens then? And I

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Speaker 2: feel like Dan Campbell should have known that his team

714
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Speaker 2: might emotionally unravel, which sort of looks like what happened

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Speaker 2: with the fumbles and the drop passes that came next. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, when you think about what has to happen

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Speaker 4: for a team to blow a seventeen point lead in

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Speaker 4: the second half of a football game, you know it.

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Speaker 4: Certainly if Detroit just goes out and plays average football

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Speaker 4: for thirty minutes, they can't possibly blow a seventeen point lead.

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Speaker 4: It's back to the Atlanta and New England Super Bowl,

722
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Speaker 4: and when you blow a twenty eight to three lead.

723
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Speaker 4: Atlanta had to do stuff in order to blow that lead.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't just Okay, New England turns around and they

725
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Speaker 4: start playing their best football, they play a really good half,

726
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Speaker 4: they score enough points to win the game. The same

727
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Speaker 4: thing is true with the NFC Championship game. San Francisco

728
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Speaker 4: could not just come out and play a perfect half

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Speaker 4: and ultimately win that game. They needed help from Detroit

730
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Speaker 4: and they got it. And when you watch that second

731
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Speaker 4: and half, I said this on air with Aaron you

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Speaker 4: can tell which team. They showed a graphic at the

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Speaker 4: beginning of the game, and I think the numbers. It's

734
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Speaker 4: been a week, so I don't remember the forty nine

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Speaker 4: Ers had seventy three games of championship game experience to

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Speaker 4: Detroit's five, And I've been to that game. You're one

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Speaker 4: game short of the super Bowl. And each week in

738
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Speaker 4: the playoffs gets bigger and bigger, and there's less teams playing,

739
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Speaker 4: there's more media attention, the stages set there, the Fox

740
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Speaker 4: pregame and postgame show is on the sidelines like it's

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Speaker 4: just you know, each week is bigger, And when you

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Speaker 4: get to that NFC Championship game and you're in the

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Speaker 4: second half of that game and you have a seventeen

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Speaker 4: point lead, you're one half away from again winning the

745
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Speaker 4: biggest game in the history of your franchise. I do

746
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Speaker 4: think that that got to them, and some of the

747
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Speaker 4: decisions were made because of those circumstances, not because of

748
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Speaker 4: this is who we are, this is what we do.

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Speaker 4: And I do think that Dan's stubbornness oftentimes can get

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Speaker 4: in the way. Going back to the Dallas two point conversion,

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Speaker 4: it's like, after the first one, you get a penalty,

752
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Speaker 4: you scoop back kick the extra point. Quit being stubborn, like,

753
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Speaker 4: don't just go for two again from the seven. So

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Speaker 4: I think that played a little bit into it as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you completely because you think about

756
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Speaker 2: what happens next, the fumble, another drop passed by Josh Reynolds,

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Speaker 2: on and on. Okay, so how does that point relate

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Speaker 2: to the super Bowl Because you got Patrick Mahomes versus

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Speaker 2: a pup. We'll talk about that coming up next on

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: I almost have shivers running down the spine right now.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the clock and thinking of the day

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Speaker 2: of the week here, Kyle, and at this hour next week,

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Speaker 2: and Steve already detailed right playing and spam there. You

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Speaker 2: have to come on and just almost do a Fox

767
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Speaker 2: cast of the Super Bowl and it's tons of fun. Well,

768
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Speaker 2: it's tons of fun unless your favorite team is in it.

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Speaker 2: This is freak out time. This time next week, the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter will be starting, and the fourth quarter between

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Speaker 2: these two teams and these two quarterbacks becomes such an

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Speaker 2: interesting thing. Four years ago, the forty nine Ers had

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Speaker 2: a ten point lead halfway through the fourth quarter and

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Speaker 2: then found a way to lose the game by double digits.

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Speaker 2: Now they're back with a different quarterback, and you're talking

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Speaker 2: about how that affected the Lions. Those who have game

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Speaker 2: experience in games at this level. Now, this forty nine

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Speaker 2: er team has a ton. They've got a ton, but

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Speaker 2: the quarterback does not. He obviously won the NFC Title Game,

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Speaker 2: he played a few plays of it last year before

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Speaker 2: he got hurt. The Super Bowl is a completely different animal.

782
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Speaker 2: And I find this endlessly fascinating that mister irrelevant, who's

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Speaker 2: never been here, is twenty three years old and looks

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Speaker 2: like a kid walking home from high school, is going

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Speaker 2: against someone who is already being mentioned as one of

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Speaker 2: the all time greats at the position, and the kid

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Speaker 2: walking home from high school the one who's favored to

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Speaker 2: win the game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's but I think it goes to the point

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00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 4: that you and I have both made all year when healthy,

791
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Speaker 4: and they're healthy right now. They got this a whole

792
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Speaker 4: extra week this for the Super Bowl, to prepare and

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Speaker 4: to rest up and to get guys that maybe have

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Speaker 4: little knicks like Debo one hundred. When healthy. The San

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Speaker 4: Francisco forty nine Ers team has been the best team

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Speaker 4: in football. And I think you see that in the

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Speaker 4: line of the game.

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Speaker 3: You know it came.

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Speaker 4: I think it started at two and a half, maybe

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Speaker 4: worked its way down I'm not sure what it's currently.

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Speaker 3: At, but I don't about to. But yeah, yeah, they're not.

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Speaker 4: A full field goal favorite, so they I think it's

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Speaker 4: because they are a complete team. You know, we've talked

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Speaker 4: about Kansas City's struggles on offense. We've talked about how

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Speaker 4: good their defense is and how their defense has kind

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Speaker 4: of allowed Patrick Mahomes, who through six years in his career,

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Speaker 4: you could say that if he retired after the game

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Speaker 4: this week, he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 4: And it's crazy to talk about, but he does. And

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Speaker 4: so when you have that guy as your quarterback and

811
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Speaker 4: a defense playing as one of the top three defenses

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Speaker 4: in football, it buys you time.

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Speaker 3: And when you look at the.

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Speaker 4: Last two weeks, the first half in Buffalo, they can't

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Speaker 4: stop the run, the Bills run all over them. Well,

816
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 4: that defense titans things up, they lock the rundown and

817
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Speaker 4: it allows Patrick Mahomes to go out there and win

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Speaker 4: the game. Come back this week, this past week the

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Speaker 4: AFC Championship, they scored enough points in the first half,

820
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 4: didn't even score a point in the second half. That

821
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Speaker 4: defense still played stingy as can be eliminate the probable

822
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Speaker 4: MVP on Thursday at NFL Honors and Lamar Jackson. So

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Speaker 4: when I look at this game and the two sides,

824
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Speaker 4: there's so many storylines. I feel like we could have

825
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 4: a six hour show just on this game and the

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Speaker 4: different storylines and angles and things that I'm excited to

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Speaker 4: see and watch play out. And you know, to me,

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Speaker 4: it's on the San Francisco side, and it all starts

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Speaker 4: with Kyle Shanahan. We talk about how big this game is.

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Speaker 4: It's no bigger for anyone except for him. His lack

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Speaker 4: of success in his last couple of Super Bowls, albeit

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Speaker 4: only one as a head coach. I referenced that twenty

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Speaker 4: eight to three loss in the Atlanta Falcons and the

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Speaker 4: New England Patriots, some of the decisions he made as

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Speaker 4: a play caller in that game. I talked about it.

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Speaker 4: New England needed help to come back from twenty to three. Well,

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Speaker 4: Kyle gave him some help. You just referenced that ten

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Speaker 4: point loss the last time they played in the Super

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Speaker 4: Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs. I was at that game.

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Speaker 4: I watched the first three quarters. It's the second Super

841
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Speaker 4: Bowl I've ever gone to. It was my first as

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Speaker 4: an active player.

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Speaker 3: In the NFL.

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Speaker 4: But my wife and I we hopped in the car

845
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Speaker 4: we left. We didn't catch the end of the game

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Speaker 4: till we got back to the hotel and all of

847
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 4: a sudden, the Chiefs scored a touchdown. I was like, Holy,

848
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Speaker 4: we got a game here. Hold on a second, let's

849
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Speaker 4: stay in the hotel lobby bar and watch the end

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00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 4: of this game. So when I think about the San

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00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 4: Francisco forty nine ers, I think it's huge for Kyle

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Speaker 4: Shanahan to take that pressure off Brock Purty.

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Speaker 3: We don't want Brock Purty feeling.

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Speaker 4: Like the Detroit Lions did halfway through the third quarter,

855
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 4: where all of a sudden, now the pressure's on us.

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Speaker 4: This is the biggest game and our franchise is history.

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Speaker 4: For Brock, this is the biggest game of my career.

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Speaker 4: We want brock Purty to feel like he's going out

859
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Speaker 4: there it's no different than any game he's played as

860
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Speaker 4: his first two years as a starting quarterback.

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Speaker 3: In this league.

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Speaker 4: You have weapons galore, you have an incredible offensive line. Yes,

863
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 4: you're going against a really good defense, but you've had

864
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,720
Speaker 4: a lot of success against really good defense in this league.

865
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 4: And here's why we do it. And you're handing the

866
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 4: ball to Christian, you're getting the ball to Debo, make

867
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 4: him plays downfield to Ayuk. You don't want to do

868
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,280
Speaker 4: what Detroit did where you start to put that pressure

869
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 4: on him directly. We know that's not what he does. Bets,

870
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 4: but he does do. Call him a game manager, call

871
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 4: him whatever you want. He's really good at it. And

872
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:44,240
Speaker 4: as long as Kyle sticks to that script, no matter

873
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 4: what the score is, no matter what, no matter how

874
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 4: the game plays out, he's got to stick to his plan.

875
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 4: And to me personally, I think this is the one

876
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 4: he finally gets done.

877
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00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 2: agree with you that if there's one person to put

882
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 2: a circle around and be like pressure's on, it's Kyle Shanahan.

883
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 2: There's absolutely no doubting that. It's not Brock Perdy who's

884
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 2: twenty three years old and you're like, what are you

885
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 2: doing here? But I do still think that that's a

886
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 2: piece of this where I wonder call it the first

887
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 2: quarter of this game, which is you know, and we've detailed,

888
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 2: is so important to the way the forty nine Ers

889
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 2: game plan. It's fascinating that they've had to come from

890
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 2: behind in both of their playoff games because it's so

891
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 2: against what they do and who they are. They're trying

892
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 2: to come out script you to death and then make

893
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 2: you one dimensional and tee off, and they're so good

894
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 2: at it. But I look at the first quarter of

895
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 2: this game and I'm like, dude, Brock, you're human. So

896
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 2: on some level, even if he's good at handling everything,

897
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 2: which he clearly is, on some level, he's gotta be

898
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 2: freaking out inside. And the guy on the other side

899
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 2: is like, this is what I do on Sundays in

900
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 2: February every year. This is what I do. And so

901
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 2: I'm really I'm really interested about that particular first quarter

902
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 2: dynamic call it jitters. It feels to me, especially with

903
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 2: the way the first halves have gone for the forty

904
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: nine Ers, the Niners would have every right to come

905
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 2: out jittery, and I don't expect that from Kansas City.

906
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,919
Speaker 4: You know what's interesting too, because when I think back

907
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 4: to a lot of Kansas City's success throughout this last

908
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 4: five six year run with Patrick as the starting quarterback,

909
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 4: They've come from behind so many times in the place,

910
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 4: and they've been the ones that have started slow. Not

911
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 4: this year in the playoffs. You know, this year they've

912
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 4: they've played well in the first half and you know,

913
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 4: kind of sustained it throughout the game. But when I

914
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 4: think back to some of their previous Super Bowl runs,

915
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 4: even though the one year, I think they came from

916
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 4: behind in all three games to get to the super

917
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 4: Bowl and then ultimately winning the Super Bowl coming from

918
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 4: behind against the forty nine ers, as you mentioned. So

919
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,720
Speaker 4: that was another thing that I've kind of been thinking

920
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 4: about throughout the course of the week, is you know,

921
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 4: you have this, we know the formula for the forty

922
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 4: nine ers. They have a way that they do things

923
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 4: and a recipe for success that allows the most talented

924
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 4: roster in football we can all agree on that do

925
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 4: what they do best. And that's like you talked about

926
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 4: the script, the first ten, the openers, the first fifteen,

927
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 4: whatever Kyle Shanahan calls them, getting brought pretty comfortable, establishing

928
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,720
Speaker 4: the run, getting the ball out in his playmaker's hands

929
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 4: in the wide receiver room, whether it be through the

930
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 4: screen game or play action pass downfield, scoring some points,

931
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 4: getting a lead, allowing all of those guys on the

932
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 4: other side of the ball who rushed the passer as

933
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 4: good as anyone else pin their ears back, and you know,

934
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 4: make the Chiefs one dimensional because you know, Pacheco's been

935
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 4: a big reason to why that offense has kind of

936
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,240
Speaker 4: come along here late in the year and in the playoffs.

937
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 4: Say they could turn around and hand that guy the ball,

938
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,760
Speaker 4: That's not something the Chiefs have done throughout the course

939
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 4: of all of their playoff runs over the years. And

940
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 4: you know, he's a guy that runs as hard as

941
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 4: anyone I've ever seen, and you know, he really brings

942
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:46,760
Speaker 4: an interesting dynamic.

943
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 3: So if you take that away, just by the score.

944
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,879
Speaker 4: And the ability to you know, pin your ears back,

945
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 4: know it's passed, that's what makes this forty nine Ers

946
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 4: team so special. I remember talking about that exact thing

947
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 4: to you during kind of the three game skin and

948
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 4: it was, Hey, Steve Wilkes, like, what are we thinking here?

949
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 4: Scheme pressure rate, blitz And I'm like, the forty nine

950
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,959
Speaker 4: ers do not blitz, Like that's not their deal.

951
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 3: Like they get leads they let.

952
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 4: That front four and all four of those dudes can

953
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 4: get after the quarterback as good as anyone that's their MO.

954
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 4: And that's exactly how this game has to play out

955
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 4: from a forty nine er standpoint, when you're going against

956
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 4: that guy on the other side, who hey, this is

957
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,439
Speaker 4: just another February football game for him, Like it's old

958
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 4: hat at this point.

959
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 2: No doubt, this is what he does this time of year.

960
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 2: So it makes sense to you though that the Niners

961
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 2: are favored.

962
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 4: It does, you know, Cause again, I if I'm a

963
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 4: betting man, it's hard to bet against Patrick Mahomes and

964
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 4: the Chiefs. I feel like that's something like every step

965
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 4: of the way. It was well against the Dolphins, nobody

966
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 4: bet against Patrick Mahomes.

967
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 3: That was obvious. But then it was like, oh.

968
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 4: Okay, Patrick Mahomes, he's got to play his first road

969
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 4: playoff game ever. And the Buffalo Bills they're one of

970
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,359
Speaker 4: the hottest teams in football, and you know he's got

971
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 4: to go to Buffalo. Now it's not at Arrowhead. He

972
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:18,240
Speaker 4: handles the Bills next week. Oh but now it's MVP

973
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson. This is the best Baltimore team. Baltimore's had,

974
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 4: this is their chance. No, he takes care of business.

975
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 4: So you know, once again here we'll see Patrick Mahomes

976
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 4: as an underdog.

977
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 3: But I do see why the Niners are favored. I

978
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 3: mentioned it.

979
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:37,839
Speaker 4: They're the best team in football, they had the most

980
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 4: talented roster. But again, I'd be afraid to put money

981
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 4: against Patrick Mahomes in February.

982
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be afraid to bet for or against either

983
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 2: of these teams. To be honest with you, I totally

984
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 2: get that. That said that, there's another subject with one

985
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 2: of these teams that really is worth our discussion, So

986
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 2: we'll do it next. There was a subject matter that

987
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 2: had to be addressed by multiple forty nine Ers coaches

988
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 2: this week during the practice week, and it blows my

989
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 2: mind that that subject would come up in February. Quite frankly,

990
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 2: any month, but especially February. I'll tell you what I'm

991
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 2: talking about. Coming up next with Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard.

992
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:24,520
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993
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,719
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996
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997
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 2: These here arethetire Rag dot Com Studios with Kyle Rudolph.

998
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:46,320
Speaker 2: I'm Mark Willard. The other Sunday's not Super Bowl Sunday's

999
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 2: not Championship Sunday. It's just Sunday. First one we've had

1000
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 2: to experience like this in a while. You're holding up

1001
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 2: all right. I gotta be honest with you. I'm like

1002
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 2: looking around all day, like, what do we what is it?

1003
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 2: What exactly were supposed to do today? I don't know.

1004
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 2: I got stuff done. It was weird, Kyle, it was terrible.

1005
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:09,240
Speaker 4: I rewatched the NHL All Star Game with my two sons,

1006
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 4: so they're obsessed with hockey, and we watched the semi

1007
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 4: final and final games of the NHL All Star Game.

1008
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 3: So that's what we did today.

1009
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 2: Very exciting. I went to multiple grocery stores and like

1010
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 2: did stuff around the house just I don't know. I'm like,

1011
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 2: when is five o'clock, let's just start to show. I

1012
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 2: don't know what we're supposed to do with today, but anyway,

1013
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 2: we're surviving somehow, some way. I got this question for you, man,

1014
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 2: this one. I got to admit it bug me a

1015
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 2: little bit. How on earth do we get to Super

1016
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 2: Bowl week and you're dealing with the team that's been

1017
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 2: the favorite to win the Super Bowl for most of

1018
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 2: the year, and they are favored to win the Super

1019
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 2: Bowl as of right now as well. And we're watching

1020
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 2: press conferences where coaches are being asked about effort. This

1021
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 2: blows my mind. What are we doing? What on earth?

1022
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 2: How can this be a thing? And I know that

1023
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:31,839
Speaker 2: the poster guy for this has become Chase Young and

1024
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 2: he might be the biggest head scratcher of them all

1025
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 2: because he is caught on tape absolutely lollygagging. And if

1026
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 2: there's any player I'd argue on the entire San Francisco

1027
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 2: forty nine er roster, it would be the new guy

1028
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 2: who's trying to fit into a culture and get a

1029
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,719
Speaker 2: free agent contract. He should be the last one, not

1030
00:55:55,840 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 2: the first one when we're having this question. So the

1031
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 2: coaches can sit here all they want and be like,

1032
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 2: we addressed it, okay, But how did we get here?

1033
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 2: How on earth are we having conversations about effort? And

1034
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 2: how am I supposed to be convinced that they're just

1035
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 2: fixed because you told them to fix it.

1036
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it certainly doesn't seem like effort would be something

1037
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 4: that if addressed after championship weekend would ultimately get fixed.

1038
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 4: I feel like if you're addressing effort with someone on

1039
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 4: your roster because of their lack thereof during the NFC

1040
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 4: Championship game, it's probably just part of their DNA at

1041
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 4: that point.

1042
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 2: You know.

1043
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 4: It's like, if you're not showing effort at that point, like,

1044
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 4: what makes me think, Okay, we addressed it now, it's

1045
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 4: going to show up in the super Bowl. I guess

1046
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 4: the argument to that is, well, I guess the next

1047
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 4: game is the Super Bowl, and you know, if you're

1048
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 4: ever going to leave it all on the line and

1049
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 4: you know, empty the tank, it's going to be for

1050
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. But you know, again you mentioned it.

1051
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,840
Speaker 4: You talked about Chase Young, a guy who got traded

1052
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 4: away for the team that drafted him number two overall,

1053
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:24,919
Speaker 4: didn't give him a second contract. You're trying to fit

1054
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 4: in with a culture. I talked about the front of

1055
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 4: that San Francisco forty nine ers defense and how difficult

1056
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 4: they are to deal with and how they get after

1057
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 4: the quarterback. So that's the room that you're trying to

1058
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 4: fit in with. Those are the type of guys that

1059
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 4: you're around on a daily basis. You know, I think

1060
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 4: about those guys like Nick Bosa and Eric Armstead Hargrave,

1061
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 4: like all just dudes that play at a high level

1062
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 4: all the time.

1063
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 2: You know.

1064
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 4: The saying is like they play with their hair on fire,

1065
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 4: like they're just NonStop all the time. So I would

1066
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 4: kind of present the question, you know, yeah, you may

1067
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 4: have addressed it, but is it really going to change,

1068
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 4: you know, if that's still the effort that you're seeing

1069
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 4: at this point in the season. I mean, maybe the

1070
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 4: carrot in front of the horse is the fact that

1071
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 4: the next game is the Super Bowl and it's the

1072
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 4: biggest one of everybody's career on that roster. So who knows,

1073
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 4: we'll see Sunday.

1074
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:30,439
Speaker 2: Night damage done. I'm with you, you know what I mean.

1075
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 2: Like unless and so maybe this is what the Niners

1076
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 2: hope if we just take Young as an example, you

1077
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 2: go out there and sack Patrick Mahomes twice in the

1078
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, maybe somebody gives you that contract. But based

1079
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 2: on what I've seen so far, and it's been a

1080
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 2: mixed bag with his data and his actual play since

1081
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 2: joining the forty nine ers, but I don't think that

1082
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 2: they were financially focused on him for next year anyway.

1083
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 2: He truly was brought in as a high hired gun

1084
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 2: to help the forty nine ers win the Super Bowl

1085
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 2: this year. I think they've got other priorities starting with

1086
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 2: Brandon Ayuk and and other things down the road that

1087
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 2: will require money, like the quarterback. But so I don't

1088
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 2: know that that he was going to be an option

1089
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 2: or a real priority for the forty nine ers this

1090
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 2: offseason anyway. But now I'd argue it's off the table,

1091
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:29,919
Speaker 2: like why and and why a player would would bring

1092
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 2: that into his repertoire in a situation like this. I mean,

1093
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 2: I guess it's not a new story. There are players

1094
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:41,919
Speaker 2: like this who just don't have that motor. But that's

1095
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 2: shocking to me, especially with the team that won. You're

1096
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 2: you're dealing with a team that was the one seed,

1097
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 2: found a way to grind out two wins and and

1098
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 2: one of the lead topics the next few days is

1099
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 2: effort as you get ready for Super Bowl. I was

1100
00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 2: glad that Steve Wilkes finally came out and said this

1101
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 2: isn't embarrassing, because that's exactly the word. Yeah.

1102
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 4: I mean, you're talking to a guy who is not

1103
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 4: near talented enough to ever have his effort question, because

1104
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 4: I had to try hard all the time or I

1105
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 4: was going to get embarrassed. Now that's not the case

1106
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 4: for every player in the NFL, and it's certainly not

1107
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 4: the case for you know, some of these guys who

1108
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 4: are taken so high because of their physical ability, and

1109
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 4: just I was not someone who was bigger, faster, stronger

1110
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 4: than everyone that I win against. So I had to

1111
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 4: try hard. If if I played sixty five plays, I

1112
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 4: had to exert myself throughout those sixty five plays, hoping

1113
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 4: that the person who was across from me, the chase Young,

1114
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 4: if you would, who's significantly stronger than I am, way

1115
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 4: more explosive than I am, way faster than I am,

1116
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 4: and I have to block him throughout the course of

1117
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 4: the game. I have to bank on the fact that

1118
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:55,919
Speaker 4: I'm gonna wear you down, or you know, it's gonna

1119
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:57,200
Speaker 4: get to the point where you're like, man, I'm just

1120
01:00:57,240 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 4: I'm sick of going against this guy, Like you know,

1121
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,600
Speaker 4: I've kind of had enough. And therefore you may see

1122
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 4: a lack of effort because you're like, hey, look like

1123
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 4: I'm just tired this guy's being, you know, a pain

1124
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 4: in my butt, Like I just can't. I can't deal

1125
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 4: with him anymore. That was the style of play that

1126
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 4: I had to have throughout my career because I wasn't

1127
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 4: as physically gifted as say a Chase Young. So trust me,

1128
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 4: I've gone against plenty of guys throughout the course of

1129
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 4: my career where you know, there may be full games

1130
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 4: where you know, you know, you turn on the tape

1131
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 4: and you wouldn't even know they're out there. But you

1132
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 4: also turn on the tape and there are games where

1133
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 4: you just said it, you know, who knows, Maybe he

1134
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:37,920
Speaker 4: shows up Sunday night in Sacks Patrick mahomes two times.

1135
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 4: It would not surprise me in the least bit because

1136
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 4: when you have that physical ability and you are just

1137
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 4: more physically gifted than most of the guys you go against,

1138
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 4: it can be easy at times to kind of fall

1139
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 4: back to those those lazy habits. If you would but

1140
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 4: the brightest lights, the biggest stage, super Bowl fifty eight,

1141
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 4: it's it's gonna be you know, you would assume that

1142
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 4: effort would not be something they're talking about on the sidelines.

1143
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 2: No doubt. And if there is a weakness on the

1144
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 2: Chiefs offense, it's their tackles, and so There's no doubt

1145
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 2: that this is also a matchup that eyeballs will be on.

1146
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 2: Chase Young and Nick Bosa against the Chiefs, you know,

1147
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 2: the edges of their offensive line and Nick Bosa already

1148
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 2: working the refs a week and a half ahead of

1149
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 2: time when he was asked about the group and said, yeah,

1150
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 2: they hold a lot. It is almost like the PTSD

1151
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 2: of what happened four years ago. He was holding it

1152
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 2: just for that moment and then he let it out.

1153
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 2: So eyes will be on that matchup for sure. We'll

1154
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 2: circle back to the Super Bowl, no doubt. But also

1155
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 2: coming up in a couple of minutes, maybe some insight

1156
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 2: on why one head coaching job was taken while another

1157
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 2: was turned down. So we'll get to that in just

1158
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 2: a little bit. But let's get Steve de Seger in here,

1159
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 2: who is safely back in the comforts of just hanging

1160
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 2: out with us once an hour. Thank you again, though, Steve.

1161
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 5: Happy to be indoors in California, Southern or northern today,

1162
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 5: that is for certain for those who are unaware. No

1163
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 5: golf at Pebble Beach in Northern California today. The final

1164
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 5: round of that tournament postponed to tomorrow due to very

1165
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 5: bad weather, not only rain, but wins at thirty miles

1166
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 5: an hour chance of rain Monday. There By the way,

1167
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 5: which they didn't mention in the press release, NASCAR season

1168
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 5: started last night in La moved up from tonight due

1169
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 5: to rain, so no NASCAR that was supposed to be

1170
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 5: live on Fox TV this evening. It was last night.

1171
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:33,919
Speaker 5: Denny Hamlin won the clash at the Coliseum and once

1172
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 5: the rain started this afternoon in Los Angeles, Man, was

1173
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 5: that a great decision. There's not a chance they would

1174
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 5: have gotten a race in this evening. You talked about

1175
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 5: tackles and earlier the San Francisco talent. This is the

1176
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:49,160
Speaker 5: context of the Niners roster as we go into the

1177
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 5: Super Bowl in a week. And by the way, San

1178
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 5: Francisco just in the last fifteen minutes has landed. The

1179
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 5: team has in Las Vegas. The previous hour, the Chiefs

1180
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 5: landed in Las Vegas. So they're at the Super Bowl

1181
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 5: fifteen eight sites now officially, but from the San Francisco

1182
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 5: roster this year, the All Pro running back in the NFL,

1183
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:09,919
Speaker 5: and it was unanimous, is Christian McCaffrey. Fullback All Pro

1184
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 5: Kyle Yuschek All Pro tight end George Kittle. By the way,

1185
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 5: all Pro meaning some people here and think Pro Bowl, No, no, no,

1186
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:20,680
Speaker 5: not what went on today. All Pro is both conferences combined,

1187
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 5: the best at your position, linebacker Fred Warner, who had

1188
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 5: what thirteen tackles last game unanimously All Pro left tackle

1189
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:31,240
Speaker 5: Trent Williams All Pro. Pro Football Focus had a stat

1190
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 5: on Trent Williams that going into last weekend he had

1191
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 5: not allowed a sack since Week thirteen of the previous year,

1192
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 5: a span of over seven hundred pass blocking snaps. That's

1193
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 5: just silly. By the way, the NFC did win today's

1194
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,200
Speaker 5: Pro Bowl for you degenerates flag football game betting on

1195
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 5: that sure in Orlando, sixty four to fifty nine the

1196
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,680
Speaker 5: final as c. J. Stroud's final pass on fourth and

1197
01:04:56,720 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 5: goal was incomplete. Cliff Kingsbury is the new offensive coordinator

1198
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 5: for the Washington Commanders, and the Arnie Curse has been

1199
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:08,040
Speaker 5: wielding its ugly head again tonight. We mentioned earlier in

1200
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 5: the show that the guy who comes up next, the

1201
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 5: Sunday Night co host Arney Spaniel Listen Spanners a very proud.

1202
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 5: I can't think of a better word. It's it's almost

1203
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:21,200
Speaker 5: an understatement. Very proud alum of the University of Arizona.

1204
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 2: Delusional.

1205
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good one.

1206
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:24,880
Speaker 2: That's a good one.

1207
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 5: He considers Arizona football in the same sentence as Oklahoma football,

1208
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 5: which is co host covers. Yeah, okay, sure, anyway we

1209
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 5: can update that Arizona basketball has actually finally taken the

1210
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,920
Speaker 5: lead against Stanford. The games on FS one ten minutes

1211
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:45,400
Speaker 5: to go. Eleventh ranked Arizona lead Stanford fifty seven to

1212
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 5: fifty two. By the way, did you see the Stanford

1213
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 5: women's game on Friday night? Their ranked top ten They

1214
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 5: lost to usc and the super freshman Juju Watkins had

1215
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 5: fifty one points in the game. The rest of her

1216
01:05:58,160 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 5: team had sixteen composed.

1217
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 2: It's amazing.

1218
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 5: Holy co Stanford rip Ucla today. By the way, men's

1219
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 5: college hoops number two per Due over Wisconsin, number fourteen.

1220
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 5: Illinois in overtime beat Nebraska. We've got a double overtime

1221
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 5: NBA game going on right now, midway through the second

1222
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 5: OT at Oklahoma City Thunder one twenty six, one twenty

1223
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:21,840
Speaker 5: three over the Raptors. It's the Bucks leading in the

1224
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:24,800
Speaker 5: third quarter at Utah seventy six sixty five and the

1225
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 5: late games at halftime with Portland ahead at Denver sixty

1226
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 5: three sixty earlier wins from Minnesota again for the Clippers

1227
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 5: in Indiana, Phoenix and Orlando each one, and Boston beat

1228
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 5: a Memphis team that's lost five in a row and

1229
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 5: seemingly didn't have any regulars on the court tonight, one

1230
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 5: thirty one to ninety one Celtics. And finally, guys, I

1231
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 5: want to wish you a happy Willie May's Day. It

1232
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 5: is officially according to the City of San Francisco, this is,

1233
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 5: after all, two four, twenty four on your calendars, Willie

1234
01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 5: May's Day, who wore number twenty four and happened to

1235
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 5: be in twenty four All Star Games in his Hall

1236
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 5: of Fame career, twelve Gold Glove awards. The only thing

1237
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 5: I don't get is they name the World Series MVP

1238
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 5: the Willie May's Award when that was actually probably the

1239
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:14,400
Speaker 5: worst part of his career, the World Series appearances. But

1240
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 5: none other than the great Vin Scully said best player

1241
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 5: he ever saw. Good enough for me back to you

1242
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 5: fair enough.

1243
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 2: I just hope his statue at third and King doesn't

1244
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 2: blow away on Willie May's Day here in San Francisco.

1245
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 5: If it does blow away, I bet he can catch it.

1246
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 2: That's a good point. That's a good point. Grab it,

1247
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 2: even if it's over the shoulder. Absolutely great stuff, Steve,

1248
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 2: Thanks much, all right, Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph ty IRAQ

1249
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 2: dot Com Studios, Kle let me hey, let me ask

1250
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:47,919
Speaker 2: you this. You're an offensive mind. Let's say you're a coach.

1251
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 2: You're an offensive mind. You're sought after, and an NFL

1252
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 2: team comes to you for an interview, and and and

1253
01:07:57,160 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 2: they're offering you the gig. What's the thing that you're

1254
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 2: looking at in terms of whether or not it's the

1255
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 2: right spot for you.

1256
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 3: Who's the quarterback?

1257
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:12,200
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I knew you'd get the right answer,

1258
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 2: number one answer on the board. And I'm looking around

1259
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 2: at the league, and sometimes it's out of your control.

1260
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:21,640
Speaker 2: Sometimes you're you're looking at a team that's about to

1261
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 2: draft someone at that position. But funny to me all along, Oh,

1262
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:30,679
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh, he's interviewing in Atlanta, and he's bouncing around

1263
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:34,640
Speaker 2: over here that yeah Chargers, duh, duh. Jim Harbaugh is

1264
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:38,439
Speaker 2: no dummy. He not leaving a really good gig to go.

1265
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:43,720
Speaker 2: Coach Desmond Ritter, he's going to coach Justin Herbert, And

1266
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 2: so I think about someone like Ben Johnson. Now this

1267
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:52,480
Speaker 2: is different Harball obviously well traveled head coach, big dollars,

1268
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 2: set for life, all of that. But the Lions offensive

1269
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:59,720
Speaker 2: coordinator who goes down the road with the Washington Commanders.

1270
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 2: And now there's that he said, he said over, oh

1271
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 2: we didn't want you. I didn't want it anyway, Okay,

1272
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:09,720
Speaker 2: whatever whatever's going on there. But I kind of get it, like,

1273
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 2: if you're in a spot like him where you're probably

1274
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:18,680
Speaker 2: going to be named every off season and you know

1275
01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:22,599
Speaker 2: when there will be openings every off season, are you waiting?

1276
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 2: Are you waiting until you're like I'm gonna look for

1277
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:29,840
Speaker 2: a team that's got a guy.

1278
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 4: I mean, again, going back to your question, if you're

1279
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 4: a sought out offensive coordinator and you know a guy.

1280
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:42,600
Speaker 4: Last year we heard about Ben Johnson and interviewing a

1281
01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 4: couple of places, certainly interviewed a few places this year.

1282
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 4: They know what they have in Detroit. It's not like

1283
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:55,599
Speaker 4: you know, sometimes coordinators, you know, you'd look ahead at

1284
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 4: your current roster and say, oh, man, I you know

1285
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Speaker 4: we got sad llary cap issues. We're paying our quarterback

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Speaker 4: a ton of money. I don't know how we're going

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Speaker 4: to continue to have the success that we're having. So

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Speaker 4: therefore I need to take one of these jobs. Because

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Speaker 4: you saw it this past year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Speaker 4: Prior to last season, Byron Leftwich was talked about as

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Speaker 4: becoming a head coach and quit. Frankly, he didn't get

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Speaker 4: any of those head coaching jobs, and you assume, well,

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Speaker 4: I'm going back to Tampa. Tom Brady's still there, I'll

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Speaker 4: interview again after next season, and it didn't work out

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Speaker 4: for him. So when you think about Ben Johnson and

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Speaker 4: going through the interviews and looking at the teams that

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Speaker 4: needed a head coach this year, or you're going to

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Speaker 4: be an offensive coordinator somewhere, I mean, we just saw it.

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Speaker 4: Cliff Kingsbury was supposed to be the offensive coordinator for

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Speaker 4: the Las Vegas Raiders and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: his name's pulled out and a couple of days later

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Speaker 4: he's the offensive coordinator of the Washington Commanders. And you say, well, why, well,

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01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:13,760
Speaker 4: just look at the quarterback position. The Raiders don't have one,

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Speaker 4: and they're not really in position to draft one. They're

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Speaker 4: at thirteen. The Washington Commanders, they don't have one, but

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Speaker 4: they have the second overall pick, and you know, you

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Speaker 4: can start to let kind of the rumors swirl and

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Speaker 4: the rumblings. You know we've heard about, you know, the

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Speaker 4: the Chicago Bears in their situation. You know, what are

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Speaker 4: they going to do with Justin Fields? You know, do

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Speaker 4: they trade him? Do they keep him?

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Speaker 3: Is he their guy?

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Speaker 4: Well, Caleb Williams, you know, does he come into play?

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Speaker 4: You know, whether it's the Bears decide to go elsewhere

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Speaker 4: at one or they they're open for business at one

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Speaker 4: and you're Washington. You only have to move one spot,

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Speaker 4: so maybe you move up to one and get a

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Speaker 4: guy that Cliff Kingsbury's familiar with. So going back to coordinators,

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Speaker 4: coach head coaches, if you're an offensive guy, even if

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Speaker 4: you're not an offensive guy, if you're if you're a

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Speaker 4: defensive coordinator and you get a head coaching job, you

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Speaker 4: you the first thing you're looking at is who's under center?

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Speaker 4: Who's running my offense? Do we have the guy we

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Speaker 4: believe in or do we need to find him now?

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Speaker 2: It's it's well said. You look at the two defensive

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Speaker 2: coordinators that have left San Francisco in recent years and

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Speaker 2: and how differently things have gone for them. Robert Salah

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Speaker 2: with the Jets, who's hanging in there. But man, everything

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Speaker 2: that could happen at the quarterback position has uh and

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Speaker 2: they're still trying to figure that out. Meanwhile, Demiico Ryans

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Speaker 2: goes to Houston. They hit on the pick and it's like, bang,

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Speaker 2: guy's gonna get Coach of the Year votes and uh

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Speaker 2: and and everybody loves the guy because he's got his quarterback.

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Speaker 2: So it's a point where taken. And I'm also glad

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Speaker 2: you brought up Caleb Williams and Justin Fields. Coming up next,

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Speaker 2: five teams, and I'd like to simply ask the question

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Speaker 2: do they currently have their quarterback or not? And yeh

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Speaker 2: spoiler alert, the Bears are on the list, So we'll

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Speaker 2: do that coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: It's raining period where I live, that's for sure. We're

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Speaker 2: live at the tie rag dot com studios with Kyle Rudolph.

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Speaker 2: I'm Mark Willard. All right, so you tell me, man,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you five teams. You tell me if

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Speaker 2: they've got their quarterback or not. We might as well

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Speaker 2: start exactly where we were. Do the Bears have their quarterback?

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Speaker 2: What would you do?

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Speaker 4: I do not believe they do. Wow, I think Justin

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Speaker 4: Fields can play in this league. Yes, but when you're

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Speaker 4: the Chicago Bears and you're in the situation that they're in,

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Speaker 4: you have the draft capital that they have. Again, it

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Speaker 4: goes to kind of where Justin is in terms of

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Speaker 4: his contract, and you know what would be coming down

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Speaker 4: down the line with probably a fifth year option that's

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Speaker 4: north of thirty forty million dollars and then a second

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Speaker 4: a second contract, which, again, if he's your guy, the

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Speaker 4: going rate of starting quarterback second contract is now, you know, north.

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Speaker 3: Of fifty million.

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Speaker 4: So when I think of the alternative, you have the

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Speaker 4: number one overall pick, and it's not even your pick,

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Speaker 4: so it's a bonus pick. You have the upside of

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Speaker 4: a generational quarterback at one who's also significantly cheaper than

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Speaker 4: your current quarterback, so you can put more talent around him.

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Speaker 4: And I also think about the just the Bears as

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Speaker 4: an organization right now. It's a team who quite honestly

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01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 4: should have fired their head coach, but didn't fire him

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Speaker 4: because then you'd have to pay him and pay another

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Speaker 4: head coach as well. So when you look at a

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Speaker 4: team that's, you know, in the process of building a

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Speaker 4: new stadium, and you know where they are from from

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Speaker 4: a cash standpoint with an ownership group, I just I

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Speaker 4: don't think they believe Justin Fields is their guy moving forward.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's one hundred percent a money thing

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Speaker 4: more so than a talent thing for Justin. I think

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Speaker 4: Justin has the opportunity to go play somewhere else and

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Speaker 4: you know, have the opportunity to kind of revitalize his

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Speaker 4: career as a quarterback in this league.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what if if that's the way it goes,

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Speaker 2: and I think you make a lot of sense if

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Speaker 2: that's the way it goes. If I'm the Atlanta Falcon,

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01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 2: I do whatever I can to get my hands on them.

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Speaker 2: That just feel to me. That feels like the spot.

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Speaker 2: It feels like a spot that has offensive weapons. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of a hometown situation for him. It's a fast

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01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:17,720
Speaker 2: track indoors. His legs would just be devastating there. If

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Speaker 2: I'm the Falcons, I want him, I want him bad.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And we've talked about the Atlanta Falcons, as you know,

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Speaker 4: if you're some of these free agent quarterbacks we've thrown

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Speaker 4: around Kirk Cousins and some other names, that's probably the

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Speaker 4: most appealing place to go because you look at the

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Speaker 4: roster and the talent that they have around him, and

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Speaker 4: then you look at the other three teams in the division.

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Speaker 4: It's it's the worst division in football. There are no

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Speaker 4: you know, you talk, we're going to go through this list.

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Speaker 4: I'd imagine that a couple of the other teams on

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Speaker 4: this list are NFC South teams because there really are

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Speaker 4: no good quarterbacks in the NFC South, and it's like,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's a very winnable division. And Atlanta's probably

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01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:03,200
Speaker 4: the most talented roster outside of the quarterback position in

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Speaker 4: that division. So certainly a very appealing place for free

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Speaker 4: agent quarterbacks this offseason.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what about the Pittsburgh Steelers. They've got their guy?

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Speaker 3: Who's their guy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Great? Say there? Well, and therefore the answers, no.

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Speaker 4: I know, because you know, you think about it, who

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Speaker 4: took them to the playoffs, not their QB three.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would have to go with no, what

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Speaker 3: do they do?

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Speaker 2: Though? I mean right that like Rudolph and Trubisky, that's

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Speaker 2: no problem. But but what do they do? Because again,

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin finds a way, whether they've got talent or not,

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Speaker 2: to end up in the playoffs. So they too are

1416
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Speaker 2: not in position to go do something about it. And

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Speaker 2: unless they want to break the bank on the free

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Speaker 2: agent market and go get a Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, does justin fields Paysburgh makes sense to

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Speaker 4: I don't. I don't A team that they've always run

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Speaker 4: the ball well in Pittsburgh, a team that kind of

1422
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 4: always goes back to that roots of running the football,

1423
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Speaker 4: and when you add a quarterback who can run the

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Speaker 4: football too, and and that dynamic that is added to

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Speaker 4: the offense. Certainly, we've we've talked about the drama in

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Speaker 4: the receiver room in Pittsburgh. But I can tell you

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Speaker 4: one thing, they'll complain a lot less about not getting

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01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 4: the ball when they have a quarterback that's running around

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Speaker 4: and you know, winning football games, because honestly, the complaints

1430
01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 4: come when you don't win, not when you're not getting

1431
01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 4: the football. So I think you have talent in the

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01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 4: receiver room. There obviously, there's talent in the running back room. Uh,

1433
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Speaker 4: there's talent in the offensive line room. Certainly would be

1434
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Speaker 4: another place that would make sense for him. Or the

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Speaker 4: other option is what you mentioned, high price free agent.

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Speaker 2: New York Giants. They're paying so some one like he's

1437
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 2: the guy, what do they do?

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Speaker 4: I think the Giants are in an interesting situation, and

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01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:12,720
Speaker 4: I don't think it's because of Daniel jones talent. I

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Speaker 4: think it's because of Daniel Jones's health. When you look

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Speaker 4: at DJ and the health issues. The year I was

1442
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Speaker 4: there with them, you know he missed the back half

1443
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 4: or maybe even two thirds of the season with the

1444
01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:30,680
Speaker 4: neck injury. It's the ACL This year, he missed a

1445
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 4: couple of games before the a CL with a neck

1446
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:36,680
Speaker 4: as well. I've said it and I'll stand by it.

1447
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 4: He's one of the most talented guys I've ever been around.

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01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 4: Incredible thrower of the football and a guy that does

1449
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:47,640
Speaker 4: not get enough credit for his athleticism. But if the

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01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:50,639
Speaker 4: Giants aren't gonna put talent around him, if they're not

1451
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 4: gonna give him an offensive line to protect him, so

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01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 4: he's getting hit all the time. Can he stay healthy,

1453
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:59,160
Speaker 4: can he stay on the field. So I believe that

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01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 4: they have their guy. They just need to protect their

1455
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 4: guy and put talent around him. You know, the Giants

1456
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:08,799
Speaker 4: have not had a number one receiver since Odell left

1457
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 4: and they need to find one.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so interesting spots for them. There's a couple more

1459
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:17,920
Speaker 2: teams on the list, and so we'll go through that

1460
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:21,519
Speaker 2: coming up next. But we'll also then extend it to

1461
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:27,879
Speaker 2: certain individuals and there's one quarterback in particular, I really

1462
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:30,360
Speaker 2: want to talk to you about to see where he

1463
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:33,120
Speaker 2: ends up, what he should do. We'll do all of

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01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:36,080
Speaker 2: that coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Please you're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll get back to that quarterback conversation. And

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Speaker 2: just to segment, Kyle, it looks like we have some

1468
01:20:47,200 --> 01:20:52,280
Speaker 2: breaking news, which is that touchdown. Everybody's down, The Chiefs

1469
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:55,080
Speaker 2: and the forty nine ers are all on the ground

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas, Nevada. And no coincidence that within the

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Speaker 2: last half hour, Taylor Swift also announced that a new

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Speaker 2: album is coming out in April. The Internet is going

1473
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:10,040
Speaker 2: absolutely sideways with pictures and videos of all of this.

1474
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 2: So Super Bowl fifty eight, I guess is officially underway.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm curious how that flight was leaving San Francisco.

1476
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:22,040
Speaker 4: You guys talking about all the weather out there. We

1477
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:26,599
Speaker 4: see that the AT and T was officially canceled. They

1478
01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:29,760
Speaker 4: are not going to resume the final round, so yeah,

1479
01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 4: that's a fifty four whole tournament. They just didn't think

1480
01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 4: it'd be possible with the wind and the rain. So

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01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:39,639
Speaker 4: I'm sure that that was probably a little bit rough

1482
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 4: getting out of the Bay Area to get over to Vegas.

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01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:45,439
Speaker 2: I gotta think that it was more turbulent than the

1484
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:48,080
Speaker 2: first half against the Lions. That would be my guest

1485
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 2: just being here right now, because man, it is a

1486
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 2: mess here. It is an absolute mess for those of

1487
01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 2: you just joining us. I literally had to relocate my

1488
01:21:57,040 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 2: show spot in the first hour because of Gail. Four

1489
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 2: wins just sent the kids over to In and Out

1490
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 2: to get themselves some food because the powers out of

1491
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 2: our house, and they said the line was absolutely wrapped

1492
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:11,439
Speaker 2: around because that's what everyone's doing here. Man it is.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not surprised that they canceled that tournament at all.

1494
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:17,639
Speaker 2: I don't even know what kind of hope they were

1495
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:21,800
Speaker 2: holding out. There's more rain in the forecast overnight and

1496
01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 2: into tomorrow, and because of the winds and the way

1497
01:22:24,600 --> 01:22:28,160
Speaker 2: that the course and everything right now is just soaking

1498
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:32,519
Speaker 2: everything up, there's no way that you're gonna go out

1499
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 2: there and finish up a high level golf tournament in

1500
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:38,639
Speaker 2: this It is an absolute mess. I bet the forty

1501
01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:41,599
Speaker 2: nine ers are very excited to have arrived in the desert.

1502
01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:47,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely excited. It's interesting how super Bowl Week has evolved.

1503
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:50,640
Speaker 4: You know, I think back to the only real experience

1504
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 4: I had around super Bowl Week and teams arriving was

1505
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:57,479
Speaker 4: when it was in Minneapolis because that was home for us,

1506
01:22:57,520 --> 01:23:02,880
Speaker 4: and we actually just got back from the Pro Bowl

1507
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 4: in Orlando. So we landed on Monday about midday, and

1508
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:09,599
Speaker 4: sure enough we saw the Patriots plane as we were

1509
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:12,760
Speaker 4: sitting there at MSP and they flew in on their

1510
01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 4: plane on Monday. We all know the Patriots plane is

1511
01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:20,360
Speaker 4: very recognizable as they're not just chartering a Delta plane

1512
01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 4: or a United plane, whatever it may be. It's it's

1513
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:25,880
Speaker 4: got the Patriots logo and the Super Bowl trophies. So

1514
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:28,160
Speaker 4: it was it was cool to kind of see the

1515
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:31,040
Speaker 4: teams come in and now here they are going a

1516
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:34,639
Speaker 4: whole day earlier, because you know, we started right away.

1517
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:37,080
Speaker 4: You know, super Bowl Week kicks off tomorrow. There's kind

1518
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 4: of something every night along throughout the course of the

1519
01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 4: week along the way, and it's you know, it is

1520
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 4: the biggest spectacle in sports in super Bowl Week is crazy.

1521
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 2: I still can't believe that one went that way. We

1522
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:52,760
Speaker 2: were out there, I was out there in Minneapolis. They

1523
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 2: did a wonderful job hosting the event, but I just

1524
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 2: I spent the whole week feeling for all of the

1525
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 2: people who were out there, because you know, that area

1526
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:06,599
Speaker 2: of the country as hospitable as anywhere that I've ever

1527
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 2: visited in the United States. But you could also tell

1528
01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 2: it was just everybody there was being pulled into directions

1529
01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 2: because it was like the Super bowls here. We want

1530
01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:22,600
Speaker 2: to share our beautiful city and our beautiful way with everybody,

1531
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:24,800
Speaker 2: but damn it, we're supposed to be in this game.

1532
01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:27,760
Speaker 2: We're supposed to be in this game, and we're not

1533
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 2: in this game, and some guy named Nick Foles is

1534
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 2: in our city for some reason right now.

1535
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was it was tough. I remember, like I said,

1536
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:38,760
Speaker 4: we were gone the whole week of the Pro Bowl.

1537
01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 4: So after the NFC Championship Game. You didn't really have

1538
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:44,400
Speaker 4: time to think about it. We got on the plane,

1539
01:24:44,439 --> 01:24:48,600
Speaker 4: we went to Orlando, partake in all the Pro Bowl festivities,

1540
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:52,200
Speaker 4: and then I remember landing back at MSP on Monday,

1541
01:24:53,240 --> 01:24:57,560
Speaker 4: and it was like throughout that week they had decorated

1542
01:24:57,600 --> 01:24:59,600
Speaker 4: and brought in all of the Super Bowl stuff to

1543
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 4: the air So like when we left the Monday before

1544
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:05,479
Speaker 4: going through the airport, there was no super Bowl stuff

1545
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 4: up yet, And then you know, getting off our plane

1546
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:10,439
Speaker 4: walking into the terminal, it was just like you saw

1547
01:25:10,439 --> 01:25:12,800
Speaker 4: all the Super Bowl stuff. Then we saw the Patriots

1548
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:15,960
Speaker 4: plane come in, and it made it sink in and

1549
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 4: become very real that we were going to be entertaining

1550
01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 4: our own super Bowl that we were supposed to be in. So,

1551
01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 4: you know, I made it all the way up until

1552
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:28,360
Speaker 4: I think Sunday morning, the day of the game, my

1553
01:25:28,400 --> 01:25:30,080
Speaker 4: wife Jordan and I and we had our just two

1554
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:32,519
Speaker 4: girls at the time, we hopped on a plane and

1555
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 4: we went to Jackson, Wyoming, and I didn't even watch

1556
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:38,719
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. We were in the mouthains in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

1557
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 4: I didn't even watch the Patriots Eagles Super Bowl.

1558
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 2: I get it, I really do, like I mean, I

1559
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:48,160
Speaker 2: would not normally get Honestly, I don't understand anyone who

1560
01:25:48,200 --> 01:25:50,640
Speaker 2: doesn't watch the Super Bowl. I've long made fun of it,

1561
01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:53,000
Speaker 2: Like when you're at a Super Bowl party or something

1562
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 2: and you look out the window and someone's going for

1563
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:57,559
Speaker 2: a run, I'm like, who is this human? Like what

1564
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:00,640
Speaker 2: are you doing? Like what? Honestly really not going to

1565
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:02,800
Speaker 2: do this with all of us. We're all doing this

1566
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:06,760
Speaker 2: right now. But from your perspective, the story you just

1567
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 2: told and having been there and understanding what that felt

1568
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:14,200
Speaker 2: like for Minneapolis, let alone what it must have felt

1569
01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:18,040
Speaker 2: like for you guys on the team, I get it, man,

1570
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:20,640
Speaker 2: I get it. What just an empty sort of a

1571
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:24,160
Speaker 2: feeling because it really, you know, it had never happened before,

1572
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:27,000
Speaker 2: the idea of the host city having a team in it,

1573
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:31,200
Speaker 2: and it just looked like such a faded complete when

1574
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:34,800
Speaker 2: Carson Wentz is not there that you guys were going

1575
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:38,800
Speaker 2: to You're gonna have your chance. So man, I felt

1576
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:40,879
Speaker 2: for everybody there as it was all happening.

1577
01:26:41,280 --> 01:26:43,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crazy. You know, it was a crazy year.

1578
01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 4: I think when Sam Bradford got hurt Week one, nobody

1579
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:50,720
Speaker 4: really gave us a chance to be there, to go

1580
01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:53,479
Speaker 4: thirteen and three during the regular season with a backup

1581
01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:59,160
Speaker 4: quarterback where a sixty one yard game winning Jake Elliott

1582
01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:01,880
Speaker 4: field goal again to New York Giants away from the

1583
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:05,640
Speaker 4: Eagles having to come to Minneapolis for the NFC Championship

1584
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 4: game instead of us going to Philly. So just you know,

1585
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:11,519
Speaker 4: all kinds of crazy things when you go back and

1586
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:13,840
Speaker 4: look at the course of a season and you know

1587
01:27:13,920 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 4: what could have been. Ultimately, they kicked our butts in

1588
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:20,160
Speaker 4: the NFC Championship Game and then played really well in

1589
01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:22,920
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl as well. For me and my family,

1590
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 4: it was the easiest travel day we ever had. There

1591
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:28,280
Speaker 4: was no one in the airport, especially in the host city,

1592
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:31,719
Speaker 4: and we got on an easy flight out to Wyoming,

1593
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:34,280
Speaker 4: and like I said, we enjoyed the mountains while the

1594
01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 4: game was going on.

1595
01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:39,919
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Speaker 2: way tire buying should be. All right, We were having

1600
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 2: a little bit of a quarterback conversation going through some

1601
01:27:55,080 --> 01:28:00,519
Speaker 2: teams talking about whether or not they currently have their guy. Bears, Giants, Steelers,

1602
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:04,200
Speaker 2: kind of some interesting answers throughout a couple more teams

1603
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 2: I want to get to, and the last one I

1604
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:10,519
Speaker 2: give you will maybe lead to a conversation about one

1605
01:28:10,560 --> 01:28:13,160
Speaker 2: particular individual. But before I get to the last one,

1606
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:15,679
Speaker 2: let me throw one out that that maybe maybe you're

1607
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:20,000
Speaker 2: not thinking of the Seahawks, you know, a transitioning team

1608
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:22,960
Speaker 2: with with Pete Carroll on the way out, and a

1609
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 2: team that's got some answers at certain positions for sure,

1610
01:28:26,160 --> 01:28:29,880
Speaker 2: not far removed from the playoffs and and had a

1611
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:33,640
Speaker 2: shot to get there this year. But whatever magic in

1612
01:28:33,760 --> 01:28:38,400
Speaker 2: a bottle Geno Smith found last year felt like that

1613
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:42,040
Speaker 2: dust rubbed off a little bit this year. What would

1614
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:42,559
Speaker 2: you do there?

1615
01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 4: I think based on on Gino's contract, like, you know

1616
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:50,519
Speaker 4: you have your guy.

1617
01:28:51,040 --> 01:28:52,760
Speaker 3: I get it. It was a three year deal.

1618
01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:58,559
Speaker 4: You know it's you're certainly not gonna move on after

1619
01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:02,200
Speaker 4: one year a team that was in the playoff race

1620
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:06,400
Speaker 4: for majority of the season, so you know it'll be

1621
01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:11,599
Speaker 4: interesting you look at some of the new hires that

1622
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:14,320
Speaker 4: that staff will make. Certainly you're bringing in a young

1623
01:29:15,160 --> 01:29:19,840
Speaker 4: defensive head coach, so you know, who does he make

1624
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 4: as his offensive coordinator? Who are you surrounding Gino with?

1625
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:26,840
Speaker 4: And then you know, you see what you know, what

1626
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:28,920
Speaker 4: can you get out of them? Can you get the

1627
01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:33,680
Speaker 4: two thousand and twenty two version of Geno Smith? Can

1628
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:36,240
Speaker 4: you get that guy who gave yourself, gave your team,

1629
01:29:36,320 --> 01:29:40,040
Speaker 4: your organization a chance to win games weekend and week out. So,

1630
01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:44,360
Speaker 4: you know, I think for right now, Seattle is is

1631
01:29:44,920 --> 01:29:47,880
Speaker 4: okay with Gino. And you know, they want to get

1632
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 4: back to winning games the way that they've won games

1633
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:55,479
Speaker 4: over the last fifteen years or so, playing really good defense.

1634
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:59,559
Speaker 4: It's an extremely talented young defense, you know, getting back

1635
01:29:59,600 --> 01:30:01,679
Speaker 4: to run the football a little bit more, and then

1636
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 4: you know, let Gino make the plays that he made

1637
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:09,559
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two as opposed to just putting so

1638
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:12,840
Speaker 4: much pressure on him to throw the ball all over the.

1639
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:15,280
Speaker 3: Yard one more.

1640
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:18,439
Speaker 2: And this is the one that has an opportunity to

1641
01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:21,760
Speaker 2: be a real soap opera. It already has been. And

1642
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 2: so I think we know that the answer is no,

1643
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 2: they don't have their guy. But the question is what

1644
01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 2: do you do with the guy that you thought was

1645
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:33,280
Speaker 2: the guy? And then where does he go? And then

1646
01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:36,120
Speaker 2: where does everything go from there. I am talking about

1647
01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:42,720
Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos. They made their move, they made their statement. However,

1648
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:47,519
Speaker 2: by some metrics, you look around and go, Russell Wilson

1649
01:30:47,520 --> 01:30:52,120
Speaker 2: actually had a pretty good year. There's a massive contractual situation,

1650
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:55,360
Speaker 2: but it seems like you're headed for a breakup that's

1651
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:57,400
Speaker 2: going to be bumping no matter how you do it.

1652
01:30:57,880 --> 01:31:01,200
Speaker 2: How do you think this whole thing plays out?

1653
01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:06,360
Speaker 4: It certainly seems like the Denver Broncos are just going

1654
01:31:06,439 --> 01:31:11,599
Speaker 4: to absorb the massive dead cap number that Russell has

1655
01:31:11,720 --> 01:31:19,160
Speaker 4: to ultimately move on and allow your offensive minded head

1656
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:22,160
Speaker 4: coach pick the guy that he wants and that they

1657
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:25,559
Speaker 4: can get. So it certainly, as you said, it certainly

1658
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 4: seems like we're headed for a breakup. And you know

1659
01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:31,240
Speaker 4: we've seen, based on what happened the last month of

1660
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:34,559
Speaker 4: the season, we've seen Russell Wilson play his last game

1661
01:31:34,600 --> 01:31:38,920
Speaker 4: as the starting quarterback of the Denver Broncos. Now what

1662
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:42,439
Speaker 4: does that mean in terms of where Denver goes? I

1663
01:31:42,439 --> 01:31:46,480
Speaker 4: have absolutely no idea. You know, when you think about

1664
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:50,320
Speaker 4: how how to construct a roster, and you know when

1665
01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:53,000
Speaker 4: you're trying to put talent around a high priced quarterback

1666
01:31:53,040 --> 01:31:56,080
Speaker 4: that is your starting quarterback. That's one thing, and when

1667
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:59,160
Speaker 4: you're trying to put talent around a quarterback that's not

1668
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:01,400
Speaker 4: on your team any more. But the dead cap hit

1669
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:06,160
Speaker 4: is still there. That's a completely other issue. So you know, certainly,

1670
01:32:07,520 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 4: I do believe Denver ultimately is moving on. They're going

1671
01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:14,599
Speaker 4: to go try to find Sean wants his own guy.

1672
01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:17,680
Speaker 4: You know, he's got a coach that's had a ton

1673
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 4: of success in this league as an offensive play caller

1674
01:32:20,439 --> 01:32:23,680
Speaker 4: and an offensive mind, and you know, clearly he and

1675
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:25,120
Speaker 4: Russell did not see.

1676
01:32:24,920 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 3: Eye to eye.

1677
01:32:25,479 --> 01:32:29,479
Speaker 4: We heard the the rumors of them telling Russell that

1678
01:32:29,600 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 4: he had to either restructure his contract or not going

1679
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:35,320
Speaker 4: to play, and then ultimately they benched him the last

1680
01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:38,320
Speaker 4: couple of weeks of the year. We know about the

1681
01:32:38,520 --> 01:32:42,040
Speaker 4: big injury guarantee at the new league year. So you know,

1682
01:32:42,080 --> 01:32:44,439
Speaker 4: certainly this is something that within the next couple of

1683
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:48,200
Speaker 4: months will we'll find out before free agency starts, and

1684
01:32:48,280 --> 01:32:52,160
Speaker 4: it'll be interesting on both sides. Now in terms of Russell,

1685
01:32:53,160 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 4: you know, what.

1686
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:55,720
Speaker 3: What does Russell do?

1687
01:32:55,840 --> 01:32:56,000
Speaker 2: You know?

1688
01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:59,240
Speaker 4: I feel like with Russell, he's another guy, you know,

1689
01:32:59,360 --> 01:33:01,799
Speaker 4: like in Kirk Cousins, who you know, both these guys

1690
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:05,280
Speaker 4: have have made more than enough money, and both on

1691
01:33:05,400 --> 01:33:08,320
Speaker 4: the field and off the field have been extremely successful

1692
01:33:08,320 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 4: from a monetary standpoint. You know, what's what's important to

1693
01:33:12,200 --> 01:33:14,600
Speaker 4: you now? Is it going and trying to find the

1694
01:33:14,680 --> 01:33:18,120
Speaker 4: highest bidder again? And you know, I saw a couple

1695
01:33:18,080 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 4: of stories come out this week about you know, Kirk

1696
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:24,760
Speaker 4: Cousins projected value and free agency and him seeking a

1697
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:29,760
Speaker 4: two year, ninety million dollar fully guaranteed contract, and I

1698
01:33:29,800 --> 01:33:32,679
Speaker 4: certainly believe that prices the Vikings out of it, giving

1699
01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:37,120
Speaker 4: their salary cap situation. And you know, it's like, what's

1700
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:41,719
Speaker 4: important to you maximizing your earning potential when you've already

1701
01:33:41,760 --> 01:33:43,920
Speaker 4: earned a ton of money, probably more money than you'd

1702
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:48,160
Speaker 4: ever spend, or your legacy on the field, and taking

1703
01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:51,439
Speaker 4: the Tom Brady route where you play for less than

1704
01:33:51,520 --> 01:33:54,320
Speaker 4: maybe you might be worth because you know that that

1705
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:57,400
Speaker 4: money can be allocated to other players on your team

1706
01:33:57,920 --> 01:34:02,040
Speaker 4: to make you more successful. Both of those guys, Russell

1707
01:34:02,040 --> 01:34:06,360
Speaker 4: Wilson and Kirk Cousins are not measured by regular season

1708
01:34:06,400 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 4: statistics Pro Bowls. They're measured by playoff wins and championships only.

1709
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 4: They're at that level of quarterback play. We saw Kirk

1710
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:19,920
Speaker 4: was having a phenomenal year before he got hurt, probably

1711
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:23,520
Speaker 4: one of the best statistical years of all quarterbacks in football.

1712
01:34:24,080 --> 01:34:27,479
Speaker 4: But quite honestly, it doesn't matter because the guy's got

1713
01:34:27,479 --> 01:34:31,000
Speaker 4: one playoff win in his entire career. That's how those

1714
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:35,880
Speaker 4: guys are measured. And personally, if it's me, I'm probably

1715
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 4: gonna go find a situation where which opportunity gives me

1716
01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:43,879
Speaker 4: the best chance to go win playoff games and ultimately

1717
01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:48,559
Speaker 4: play for a championship. The money doesn't matter at this point.

1718
01:34:49,080 --> 01:34:51,320
Speaker 2: And there's not a lot It's funny. I mean, there

1719
01:34:51,320 --> 01:34:54,000
Speaker 2: are always teams looking, but when it comes to those

1720
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:56,920
Speaker 2: two guys and what it would cost, even if it's

1721
01:34:56,960 --> 01:34:59,320
Speaker 2: as you're saying, a little bit less than they'd like

1722
01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:01,719
Speaker 2: in a perfect world, just not a lot of teams

1723
01:35:01,760 --> 01:35:04,880
Speaker 2: out there this year that make a lot of sense. Pittsburgh,

1724
01:35:04,920 --> 01:35:07,720
Speaker 2: New England, maybe Washington. I don't know if there's a

1725
01:35:07,760 --> 01:35:10,880
Speaker 2: team there in the NFC South, but there are not

1726
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:14,760
Speaker 2: a ton of teams out there that are going to

1727
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:16,720
Speaker 2: be looking to break the bank for a veteran. So

1728
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:21,040
Speaker 2: we'll see Mark Weard, Kyle Rudolph, glad you're with us.

1729
01:35:21,360 --> 01:35:25,040
Speaker 2: Coming up next. We circle back to not only the

1730
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:29,000
Speaker 2: Super Bowl matchup, but the Super Bowl experience. We'll explain

1731
01:35:29,080 --> 01:35:31,080
Speaker 2: that coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

1732
01:35:31,920 --> 01:35:34,840
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1733
01:35:34,880 --> 01:35:38,240
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1734
01:35:38,400 --> 01:35:42,479
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1735
01:35:42,560 --> 01:35:43,240
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01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:48,240
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't do blackjack or craps a lot,

1737
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:55,479
Speaker 2: but when in Rome, I mean, come on, So this

1738
01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:59,760
Speaker 2: is interesting to me. File this under first world problems

1739
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:02,759
Speaker 2: and this isn't gonna get under many people's skin. Maybe

1740
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:06,320
Speaker 2: mine a little bit, though, I think it's interesting. So

1741
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:09,759
Speaker 2: you have a team in Vegas, you have a Super

1742
01:36:09,760 --> 01:36:15,400
Speaker 2: Bowl in Vegas, you have a multi multi million dollar

1743
01:36:15,479 --> 01:36:20,639
Speaker 2: deal with DraftKings, but you're gonna make the players stay

1744
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:25,320
Speaker 2: thirty miles away and not let them gamble. I don't know,

1745
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:30,760
Speaker 2: something like if I were the players. I'm sure that's

1746
01:36:30,800 --> 01:36:33,800
Speaker 2: what the coaches want as well. They get it, but

1747
01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 2: I would be like, really, NFL, like you're gonna ban

1748
01:36:36,920 --> 01:36:43,639
Speaker 2: us from Vegas when you take us to Vegas. Something

1749
01:36:43,720 --> 01:36:45,080
Speaker 2: seems a little unfair there.

1750
01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:48,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was the same thing, you know, the last

1751
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:50,559
Speaker 4: couple of years with the Pro Bowl being in Vegas.

1752
01:36:50,600 --> 01:36:53,840
Speaker 4: I know, the guys stayed way off the strip, and

1753
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:56,920
Speaker 4: you know, quite honestly, most of the guys just went

1754
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:00,000
Speaker 4: and got rooms on the strip and stayed down there,

1755
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:04,160
Speaker 4: didn't stay at the team hotel. And obviously I know

1756
01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:07,360
Speaker 4: that's different Pro Bowl and Super Bowl. They they will

1757
01:37:07,360 --> 01:37:09,479
Speaker 4: not be leaving their hotel the week of the Super

1758
01:37:09,520 --> 01:37:12,240
Speaker 4: Bowl and going and getting a room somewhere on the strip.

1759
01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:16,280
Speaker 4: But it is interesting when when you think about that,

1760
01:37:16,479 --> 01:37:20,280
Speaker 4: and you know, if you were to tell me, it's

1761
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:23,760
Speaker 4: more so logistically, because the strip is just going to

1762
01:37:23,840 --> 01:37:26,840
Speaker 4: be insanity in terms of the amount of people and

1763
01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:30,800
Speaker 4: you know, getting five buses to and from you know,

1764
01:37:30,840 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 4: wherever they're practicing, you know, whether it's at you know,

1765
01:37:34,280 --> 01:37:38,280
Speaker 4: the raven Or Rate excuse me, Raiders facility or Bishop Gorman,

1766
01:37:38,400 --> 01:37:42,760
Speaker 4: the big high school there. I don't know if UNLV

1767
01:37:43,080 --> 01:37:45,639
Speaker 4: they're practicing. I don't know where the teams are practicing.

1768
01:37:46,240 --> 01:37:49,320
Speaker 4: But if you were to say, look, just logistically, getting

1769
01:37:49,320 --> 01:37:51,400
Speaker 4: the teams from point A to point B on and

1770
01:37:51,400 --> 01:37:53,760
Speaker 4: off the strip as a nightmare. So we're not going

1771
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:56,360
Speaker 4: to put you on the strip, I get it. But

1772
01:37:56,560 --> 01:37:59,840
Speaker 4: to tell the teams that you're staying thirty minutes away

1773
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:03,160
Speaker 4: and are not allowed to go gamble, Like, what do

1774
01:38:03,160 --> 01:38:05,080
Speaker 4: you mean you're not allowed to go get You're not

1775
01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:07,240
Speaker 4: allowed to go to the sports book. I get that

1776
01:38:07,240 --> 01:38:10,080
Speaker 4: that that's always a rule for us as current players.

1777
01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:12,160
Speaker 4: You're not allowed to go hang out in the sports

1778
01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:16,719
Speaker 4: book during the season is in place. But for these

1779
01:38:16,760 --> 01:38:20,519
Speaker 4: guys on a Tuesday night, which is always our typical

1780
01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:23,920
Speaker 4: night off when the game is on a Sunday, they

1781
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:26,800
Speaker 4: want to go play some blackjack or throw some dice

1782
01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:29,400
Speaker 4: and play craps, Like why are they not allowed? That's

1783
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:32,840
Speaker 4: it's insane to tell them that they can't do that.

1784
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:36,200
Speaker 4: And then it's even more insane when you think about

1785
01:38:36,200 --> 01:38:38,840
Speaker 4: the amount of money that the league and teams are

1786
01:38:38,880 --> 01:38:44,200
Speaker 4: making on DraftKings, Fandel, you name it and all.

1787
01:38:44,240 --> 01:38:45,639
Speaker 3: You know. I always would laugh.

1788
01:38:46,120 --> 01:38:49,840
Speaker 4: You know, we're not allowed to have a hotel or

1789
01:38:49,920 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 4: a casino like comp our hotel room.

1790
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:53,120
Speaker 3: That's illegal.

1791
01:38:54,439 --> 01:38:59,640
Speaker 4: But at us Bank Stadium there can be the you know,

1792
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 4: Miss Sick Lake is the big casino there, and it

1793
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:05,040
Speaker 4: can have Club Purple and they can sponsor an entire

1794
01:39:05,080 --> 01:39:08,040
Speaker 4: part of the stadium and pay the Vikings organization all

1795
01:39:08,080 --> 01:39:11,240
Speaker 4: this money. But we're not allowed to get a free

1796
01:39:11,280 --> 01:39:14,439
Speaker 4: hotel room at a casino because we played cards at

1797
01:39:14,479 --> 01:39:18,519
Speaker 4: that casino. It's quite the double standard, that's for sure.

1798
01:39:19,080 --> 01:39:21,639
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. I mean. And the other thing

1799
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:24,799
Speaker 2: is the cat is out of the bag, or however

1800
01:39:24,840 --> 01:39:27,160
Speaker 2: you want to say this, the shine is off. Like

1801
01:39:28,479 --> 01:39:32,000
Speaker 2: sometimes I look at certain things and I get it

1802
01:39:32,439 --> 01:39:35,720
Speaker 2: and my opinion is not the only opinion. But at

1803
01:39:35,760 --> 01:39:38,559
Speaker 2: the same time, it's like you can all see where

1804
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:42,519
Speaker 2: this is going, right, Like I felt this way for

1805
01:39:42,680 --> 01:39:48,599
Speaker 2: years about the BCS. It's like college football. I don't

1806
01:39:48,640 --> 01:39:52,480
Speaker 2: know if you've let everyone know yet, but your conferences

1807
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:58,000
Speaker 2: are exploding, the NCAA will go down, and the way

1808
01:39:58,040 --> 01:40:02,000
Speaker 2: you finish is going to You're going to expand into

1809
01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:06,679
Speaker 2: a bigger playoff system. And you could see that fifteen

1810
01:40:06,760 --> 01:40:10,200
Speaker 2: years ago, and so it's like, you know it's headed

1811
01:40:10,240 --> 01:40:14,280
Speaker 2: this way, Just do it, Just do it. And I

1812
01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:17,760
Speaker 2: feel that way to a degree about sports gaming. And

1813
01:40:17,800 --> 01:40:21,000
Speaker 2: I'd say that to the government of any state right

1814
01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:24,360
Speaker 2: now that's still holding out. It's like you all get

1815
01:40:24,400 --> 01:40:27,679
Speaker 2: that it's not gonna stay this, Like you're not gonna

1816
01:40:27,680 --> 01:40:31,519
Speaker 2: win long term. Hey, Dan Snyder, that name that you

1817
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:34,439
Speaker 2: hung on to for years, and you're like, we're never

1818
01:40:34,479 --> 01:40:37,920
Speaker 2: gonna change it. It's like, yeah, you are. You're either

1819
01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:40,600
Speaker 2: gonna do it now or you're gonna be forced to

1820
01:40:40,640 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 2: do it and have it go the way that it

1821
01:40:43,640 --> 01:40:46,720
Speaker 2: did go years later. I sort of feel that way

1822
01:40:46,760 --> 01:40:50,959
Speaker 2: about sports gaming and everything that they're doing with the players.

1823
01:40:51,280 --> 01:40:54,080
Speaker 2: In a situation like this, it's like, I don't know, man,

1824
01:40:54,240 --> 01:40:57,240
Speaker 2: just take your grips off, because you could either do

1825
01:40:57,280 --> 01:40:58,679
Speaker 2: it now or you could do it a few years

1826
01:40:58,680 --> 01:40:59,920
Speaker 2: from now. But that's the way it's going.

1827
01:41:01,120 --> 01:41:04,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again, the double standard is what's crazy. You know,

1828
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:07,559
Speaker 4: the league and the teams can can make so much money,

1829
01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:10,280
Speaker 4: but as a player, you know, you see it all

1830
01:41:10,320 --> 01:41:11,960
Speaker 4: the time. And one of the thing that's kind of

1831
01:41:11,960 --> 01:41:19,120
Speaker 4: been viral recently, you know, like the social media video

1832
01:41:19,600 --> 01:41:22,080
Speaker 4: Gronk and Julian Edelman did one and they were like,

1833
01:41:22,479 --> 01:41:25,599
Speaker 4: you know, we're retired players and we you know, it's

1834
01:41:25,600 --> 01:41:27,360
Speaker 4: like say we can still play, and they like go

1835
01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:29,360
Speaker 4: back and forth and say these things. And one of

1836
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:32,679
Speaker 4: the things they said is we can have gambling contracts now,

1837
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:37,360
Speaker 4: like they can represent FanDuel or DraftKings and these organizations,

1838
01:41:37,400 --> 01:41:42,040
Speaker 4: and it's you know the fact that a current player

1839
01:41:42,600 --> 01:41:47,880
Speaker 4: can't get paid by one of these organizations. I don't

1840
01:41:47,960 --> 01:41:51,439
Speaker 4: understand it. I do understand the Hey, it's the week

1841
01:41:51,479 --> 01:41:53,560
Speaker 4: of the Super Bowl, you're not allowed to go in

1842
01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:57,519
Speaker 4: a sportsbook. That makes sense. The rest of it, it

1843
01:41:57,560 --> 01:42:00,000
Speaker 4: does not make sense. And I don't understand why there's

1844
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:04,240
Speaker 4: such the double standard there where the owners in the

1845
01:42:04,320 --> 01:42:07,839
Speaker 4: leagues can make so much money off of sports gaming,

1846
01:42:08,200 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 4: but yet the players don't see any of that, nor

1847
01:42:11,400 --> 01:42:13,439
Speaker 4: can they capitalize on it until they're retired.

1848
01:42:14,320 --> 01:42:17,160
Speaker 2: Well, we only have one standard here, and Steve de

1849
01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:21,360
Speaker 2: Seger meets it every single week, and let's bring him

1850
01:42:21,360 --> 01:42:26,799
Speaker 2: in again right now and find out exactly trending. Hi, Steve, Hello, gentlemen.

1851
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:29,000
Speaker 5: I did see in the Athletic this week that they

1852
01:42:29,040 --> 01:42:31,960
Speaker 5: say the forty nine ers will be practicing at UNLV, which,

1853
01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:34,000
Speaker 5: as you may know, is closer to the Strip, which

1854
01:42:34,040 --> 01:42:36,800
Speaker 5: means the forty nine ers will be what fifteen to

1855
01:42:36,800 --> 01:42:40,519
Speaker 5: twenty miles away from their team hotel every day. Yeah,

1856
01:42:40,760 --> 01:42:45,120
Speaker 5: because the two team hotels are Lake Las Vegas, which

1857
01:42:45,160 --> 01:42:48,880
Speaker 5: is even east of Henderson, Nevada. The Kapper and if

1858
01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:51,840
Speaker 5: this was referenced actually by Chris Plank, Raiders fan, the

1859
01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 5: co host of the next show. Here, if you're a

1860
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:57,439
Speaker 5: Raiders fan here, you get a city to yourself and

1861
01:42:57,520 --> 01:42:59,760
Speaker 5: a great new place to play in and all of that.

1862
01:43:00,240 --> 01:43:03,400
Speaker 5: What's this week going to be like for you? Because

1863
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:06,639
Speaker 5: it's your Bay Area rival, the forty nine Ers, playing

1864
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:11,400
Speaker 5: your rival the Chiefs in your stadium for the Super

1865
01:43:11,439 --> 01:43:17,439
Speaker 5: Bowl topping it, the NFL already designated that whoever wins

1866
01:43:17,479 --> 01:43:20,800
Speaker 5: the AFC is going to use the Raiders team facility

1867
01:43:20,840 --> 01:43:25,719
Speaker 5: for the week in Henderson. So the Chiefs have taken

1868
01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:31,280
Speaker 5: over Kansas City. Chiefs flew there tonight, San Francisco, forty

1869
01:43:31,360 --> 01:43:35,360
Speaker 5: nine Ers flew there tonight. They've arrived. It's official, you

1870
01:43:35,360 --> 01:43:38,920
Speaker 5: could say Super Bowl Week underway. Super Bowl Game next

1871
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:41,240
Speaker 5: Sunday in Vegas, super Bowl fifty eight.

1872
01:43:41,400 --> 01:43:41,720
Speaker 2: That is.

1873
01:43:41,800 --> 01:43:45,200
Speaker 5: Cliff Kingsbury is the new offensive coordinator or the Washington Commanders.

1874
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:48,400
Speaker 5: His talks had broken down with the Raiders. Washington's new

1875
01:43:48,439 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 5: defensive coordinator is Joe Witt Junior from Dallas. The Raiders

1876
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:55,519
Speaker 5: are expected to hire former Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getzy

1877
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:58,320
Speaker 5: to be their new OC. The Chargers are expected to

1878
01:43:58,400 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 5: hire former Ravens offensive coordinator Greg Roman to their staff,

1879
01:44:02,040 --> 01:44:05,639
Speaker 5: along with defensive coordinator Jesse Mentor. The Jets and Giants

1880
01:44:05,640 --> 01:44:08,760
Speaker 5: Stadium will host the World Cup Final in twenty twenty six.

1881
01:44:09,120 --> 01:44:12,960
Speaker 5: To the NBA. The big news tonight Philadelphia's MVP Joel

1882
01:44:13,040 --> 01:44:16,439
Speaker 5: Embiid will have knee surgery this week, a procedure on

1883
01:44:16,520 --> 01:44:21,320
Speaker 5: his meniscus injury. No timetable for his return until after

1884
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:24,719
Speaker 5: the operation. Meanwhile, there's one late game in the NBA,

1885
01:44:24,760 --> 01:44:26,960
Speaker 5: about four minutes to go. The Nuggets have taken the

1886
01:44:27,000 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 5: lead on Portland finally one oh seven to ninety five.

1887
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:33,840
Speaker 5: Utah at home beat Milwaukee won twenty three to one

1888
01:44:33,920 --> 01:44:37,360
Speaker 5: oh eight, despite Giannis An Tenecumpo having thirty three points

1889
01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:41,559
Speaker 5: and thirteen assists. Oklahoma City in double overtime beat Toronto.

1890
01:44:41,920 --> 01:44:45,200
Speaker 5: Minnesota creamed Houston, so another win for the Timberwolves, and

1891
01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:48,439
Speaker 5: that means the Minnesota staff will coach the Western Conference

1892
01:44:48,479 --> 01:44:51,640
Speaker 5: All Stars in two weeks. Indiana sent Charlotte to a

1893
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:55,200
Speaker 5: seventh straight loss one fifteen to ninety nine. Wins again

1894
01:44:55,360 --> 01:44:58,960
Speaker 5: for the Clippers, and Boston Phoenix won at Washington, won

1895
01:44:59,120 --> 01:45:02,400
Speaker 5: forty to one twelve. Bradley Beal back in DC, had

1896
01:45:02,439 --> 01:45:06,200
Speaker 5: forty three points, and Orlando sent Detroit to another loss,

1897
01:45:06,240 --> 01:45:09,320
Speaker 5: one eleven to ninety nine. Pistons record six and forty

1898
01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:12,840
Speaker 5: three college hoops number two, per Due one at number six,

1899
01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:16,559
Speaker 5: Wisconsin number eleven. Arizona came from eleven down at the

1900
01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:19,160
Speaker 5: half to beat Stanford eighty two to seventy one on

1901
01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:23,840
Speaker 5: FS one. Tonight, Illinois in overtime beat Nebraska. Golf's final

1902
01:45:23,920 --> 01:45:27,200
Speaker 5: round of the Pebble Beach Tournament was canceled. The winner

1903
01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 5: Wyndham Clark. He shot a sixty yesterday. Boy did that

1904
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:34,519
Speaker 5: come in handy. Meanwhile, the Live Golf Tour started out

1905
01:45:34,560 --> 01:45:37,679
Speaker 5: with its opening event in Mexico this weekend. It went

1906
01:45:37,680 --> 01:45:40,479
Speaker 5: to a playoff won by Joaqin Neeman, the Suckuy, who

1907
01:45:40,479 --> 01:45:43,479
Speaker 5: shot a first round fifty nine to begin the weekend.

1908
01:45:44,320 --> 01:45:47,679
Speaker 5: It turns out that that tour, Live Golf, is headed

1909
01:45:47,760 --> 01:45:51,160
Speaker 5: to Vegas for an event that starts Thursday. Keep in mind,

1910
01:45:51,280 --> 01:45:55,280
Speaker 5: Live Golf only has three round tournaments, so Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

1911
01:45:55,360 --> 01:45:58,479
Speaker 5: nothing on Super Bowl Sunday. If you're the best and

1912
01:45:58,560 --> 01:46:00,880
Speaker 5: not necessarily against all of the best in the world,

1913
01:46:00,920 --> 01:46:03,519
Speaker 5: but the best for three days, you win four million

1914
01:46:03,640 --> 01:46:07,120
Speaker 5: dollars for any tournament you take and Live Golf, so

1915
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Speaker 5: this guy Neman does, but he woke up this morning,

1916
01:46:10,360 --> 01:46:13,000
Speaker 5: Mark and found out that there were two penalty strokes

1917
01:46:13,040 --> 01:46:17,360
Speaker 5: tacked onto his score from yesterday because of quote taking

1918
01:46:17,439 --> 01:46:20,360
Speaker 5: incorrect relief on a drop from a cart path on

1919
01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:24,559
Speaker 5: thirteen yesterday, topping that he wound up in a tie

1920
01:46:24,680 --> 01:46:27,439
Speaker 5: after regulation had to go to a playoff. It went

1921
01:46:27,520 --> 01:46:31,280
Speaker 5: to a live golf record fourth playoff hole before he

1922
01:46:31,360 --> 01:46:35,320
Speaker 5: finally put away Sergio Garcia. The event finished after sunset

1923
01:46:35,400 --> 01:46:38,760
Speaker 5: in Mexico. Back to you.

1924
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Speaker 2: Oh man, golf is all over the place. Can't figure

1925
01:46:42,479 --> 01:46:49,680
Speaker 2: out who's on what tour. You've got tournaments being canceled,

1926
01:46:49,720 --> 01:46:52,880
Speaker 2: now delayed, then canceled. I'm just glad that the winner

1927
01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:56,360
Speaker 2: that his first name starts with wind. I thought that

1928
01:46:56,479 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 2: was appropriate.

1929
01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:01,880
Speaker 5: We had them, by the way. I did see some

1930
01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:04,880
Speaker 5: of them there live golf this afternoon and on the

1931
01:47:05,040 --> 01:47:08,599
Speaker 5: LA affiliate. You know, they're on these independent stations around

1932
01:47:08,600 --> 01:47:12,679
Speaker 5: the country live golf. They had Clippers TV coverage starting

1933
01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:16,840
Speaker 5: at three pm Pacific, and literally on the eighteenth hole,

1934
01:47:16,960 --> 01:47:19,240
Speaker 5: right before there was about to be a playoffs, they

1935
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:24,520
Speaker 5: just cut away and went straight to Clippers pregame. Clippers

1936
01:47:25,320 --> 01:47:28,599
Speaker 5: scroll across the screen. Nothing just gone done for the day.

1937
01:47:29,520 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't even find out online. I guess yeah,

1938
01:47:32,439 --> 01:47:35,200
Speaker 2: that's that's the way it rocks. All right, great stuff, Steve,

1939
01:47:35,280 --> 01:47:38,920
Speaker 2: thank you for everything this evening as always appreciated so much,

1940
01:47:39,200 --> 01:47:42,720
Speaker 2: Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph live Ti, rag dot Com Studios.

1941
01:47:42,920 --> 01:47:46,599
Speaker 2: It dawns on me, Kyle, And as Steve referenced earlier,

1942
01:47:46,680 --> 01:47:48,920
Speaker 2: right next Sunday is a little bit of a different deal.

1943
01:47:49,560 --> 01:47:53,000
Speaker 2: Our show is at least partially during the game, so

1944
01:47:53,080 --> 01:47:56,040
Speaker 2: we will not have our regularly scheduled show next week,

1945
01:47:56,080 --> 01:47:59,639
Speaker 2: which means these next twenty five minutes are our last

1946
01:47:59,680 --> 01:48:02,280
Speaker 2: chance to really kind of nerd out on the x's

1947
01:48:02,320 --> 01:48:05,559
Speaker 2: and o's of this. You talked earlier, and I could

1948
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:10,080
Speaker 2: tell that you're not like fully fully convicted here, But

1949
01:48:10,160 --> 01:48:12,720
Speaker 2: it sounds to me like you think the forty nine

1950
01:48:12,840 --> 01:48:15,920
Speaker 2: ers are more likely to win here. And I'd love

1951
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 2: to know what the matchups are that you really like.

1952
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:24,120
Speaker 2: And that's an extension of this question because you and

1953
01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:27,799
Speaker 2: I have had so many conversations about it that when healthy,

1954
01:48:28,360 --> 01:48:31,800
Speaker 2: we believe that's the best team in football. Issue is,

1955
01:48:31,880 --> 01:48:37,320
Speaker 2: though last week they were healthy and something doesn't look right.

1956
01:48:37,520 --> 01:48:41,320
Speaker 2: They've won, and so you give them all credit for that,

1957
01:48:42,160 --> 01:48:47,759
Speaker 2: but something particularly defensively, does not look like it should

1958
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:51,200
Speaker 2: look so far in these playoffs, and I think that

1959
01:48:51,200 --> 01:48:54,160
Speaker 2: that is the number one concern for the forty nine

1960
01:48:54,240 --> 01:48:55,880
Speaker 2: ers to try to fix for next weekend.

1961
01:48:57,479 --> 01:49:01,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, and not a great time to fix it against

1962
01:49:01,960 --> 01:49:07,280
Speaker 4: the best guy on the planet and Patrick Mahomes. But again,

1963
01:49:07,479 --> 01:49:11,160
Speaker 4: I think, you know, when when when I have played

1964
01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:13,720
Speaker 4: against this forty nine Ers defense, when I've studied this

1965
01:49:13,800 --> 01:49:18,120
Speaker 4: forty nine Ers defense, watch them on tape. They're a

1966
01:49:18,320 --> 01:49:21,680
Speaker 4: defense that's built to play with the lead. And you know,

1967
01:49:21,760 --> 01:49:25,240
Speaker 4: you look at the Green Bay game, you look at Detroit.

1968
01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:27,760
Speaker 4: Obviously they got in a much bigger hole against Detroit.

1969
01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:31,680
Speaker 4: You know, Detroit helped him out a little bit, but

1970
01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:34,320
Speaker 4: you know, they do not want to get into a

1971
01:49:34,439 --> 01:49:39,040
Speaker 4: game where they get behind. And you know, Patrick Mahomes

1972
01:49:39,080 --> 01:49:41,960
Speaker 4: is able to do his thing, hand the ball off

1973
01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:47,519
Speaker 4: Isaiah pa Checko. They're able to be two dimensional. They

1974
01:49:47,560 --> 01:49:50,800
Speaker 4: can lean on the run game. Patrick can make the

1975
01:49:50,840 --> 01:49:54,559
Speaker 4: plays like he did last week against that Baltimore Ravens

1976
01:49:54,560 --> 01:49:59,040
Speaker 4: defense where the first first read might not be there.

1977
01:49:59,280 --> 01:50:02,479
Speaker 4: But no one a better magician with the football in

1978
01:50:02,560 --> 01:50:05,599
Speaker 4: their hands than Patrick is. And you know, he seems

1979
01:50:05,600 --> 01:50:09,240
Speaker 4: to always find you know his guy in Travis Kelce

1980
01:50:09,439 --> 01:50:13,479
Speaker 4: when it turns into recess and you know, to me,

1981
01:50:13,640 --> 01:50:16,439
Speaker 4: the big thing will be Again it goes back to

1982
01:50:17,000 --> 01:50:21,280
Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan, because it sounds crazy to think about an

1983
01:50:21,280 --> 01:50:25,960
Speaker 4: offensive head coach and the play caller and his effect

1984
01:50:26,200 --> 01:50:29,760
Speaker 4: on his defense, and the effect that he has on

1985
01:50:29,800 --> 01:50:32,840
Speaker 4: his defense is if his first fifteen plays that he

1986
01:50:32,960 --> 01:50:37,280
Speaker 4: dials up, that he's probably already got scripted right now

1987
01:50:37,320 --> 01:50:40,240
Speaker 4: as they land in Las Vegas entering.

1988
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl Week.

1989
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Speaker 4: If those work like they think they're going to work,

1990
01:50:45,200 --> 01:50:47,599
Speaker 4: and like they dial them up to work, and they

1991
01:50:47,640 --> 01:50:50,760
Speaker 4: can score points early in the game, and you at

1992
01:50:50,840 --> 01:50:53,960
Speaker 4: least make it difficult on the Kansas City Chiefs to

1993
01:50:54,439 --> 01:50:58,479
Speaker 4: remain patient and allow that defense that's a top three

1994
01:50:58,520 --> 01:51:02,960
Speaker 4: scoring defense, to do their thing. I think that's what

1995
01:51:03,040 --> 01:51:06,160
Speaker 4: gives them the best chance. That allows all of those

1996
01:51:06,439 --> 01:51:10,639
Speaker 4: all pros that Steve mentioned again, these aren't Pro Bowlers,

1997
01:51:10,680 --> 01:51:13,439
Speaker 4: guys that are you know, top two in their conference.

1998
01:51:13,439 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 4: These are the best players at their position across the

1999
01:51:16,960 --> 01:51:19,640
Speaker 4: entire league. It allows them to go out there and

2000
01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:24,599
Speaker 4: do their things. So again I go back to the

2001
01:51:24,640 --> 01:51:28,840
Speaker 4: pressure and the importance of Kyle Shanahan, and you know

2002
01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:31,960
Speaker 4: his ability to call a good game because you know,

2003
01:51:32,800 --> 01:51:37,799
Speaker 4: it's obvious there's one team that has better players. Now,

2004
01:51:38,560 --> 01:51:42,240
Speaker 4: they might not necessarily have the best player in terms

2005
01:51:42,240 --> 01:51:45,960
Speaker 4: of February football in Patrick Mahomes, but if we're just

2006
01:51:46,080 --> 01:51:49,840
Speaker 4: looking at rosters, one team is more talented than the other.

2007
01:51:50,880 --> 01:51:53,400
Speaker 4: It's the way it's been all year. But can they

2008
01:51:53,439 --> 01:51:55,599
Speaker 4: get the most out of that talent by the way

2009
01:51:55,640 --> 01:51:58,160
Speaker 4: the game is played well?

2010
01:51:58,240 --> 01:52:02,400
Speaker 2: And the interesting thing about the defense being built to

2011
01:52:02,439 --> 01:52:04,960
Speaker 2: play with the lead, and the whole thing is built

2012
01:52:05,040 --> 01:52:08,400
Speaker 2: for the Niners to give them that lead early, but

2013
01:52:08,720 --> 01:52:11,880
Speaker 2: they love to defer. They don't want the ball first,

2014
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:15,439
Speaker 2: and they've always based that idea on the defense kind

2015
01:52:15,439 --> 01:52:19,040
Speaker 2: of you know, with poor field position to start the game,

2016
01:52:19,160 --> 01:52:23,200
Speaker 2: most likely they're going to get off the field and

2017
01:52:23,280 --> 01:52:26,679
Speaker 2: give that offense an opportunity for your seven to nothing lead. Well,

2018
01:52:26,760 --> 01:52:30,040
Speaker 2: the interesting thing in these playoffs is the other team

2019
01:52:30,080 --> 01:52:32,800
Speaker 2: has gotten the ball first and gone right down the

2020
01:52:32,840 --> 01:52:36,040
Speaker 2: field and scored. The Packers was only a field goal.

2021
01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:39,280
Speaker 2: The Lions only took four plays and they were already

2022
01:52:39,280 --> 01:52:42,880
Speaker 2: in the end zone. And so that's kind of what

2023
01:52:42,920 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 2: I'm getting at with that defense. Just it doesn't and

2024
01:52:46,280 --> 01:52:48,519
Speaker 2: those were home games, and one of them was in

2025
01:52:48,560 --> 01:52:52,160
Speaker 2: the rain. And so those are the only two playoff

2026
01:52:52,200 --> 01:52:55,720
Speaker 2: games where the team that did not score first ended

2027
01:52:55,800 --> 01:52:59,920
Speaker 2: up winning the game. And so you're right exactly about

2028
01:52:59,920 --> 01:53:03,320
Speaker 2: the plan. But the plan has not worked twice, and

2029
01:53:03,360 --> 01:53:05,680
Speaker 2: they still found a way to be here. Sort of

2030
01:53:05,680 --> 01:53:07,439
Speaker 2: feels like in this one, the plan's gonna have to

2031
01:53:07,439 --> 01:53:08,799
Speaker 2: work a little bit better, though.

2032
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because again you're you're going against arguably one of

2033
01:53:13,200 --> 01:53:15,240
Speaker 4: the greatest quarterbacks. We've talked about it in six years.

2034
01:53:15,240 --> 01:53:19,000
Speaker 4: He's already got a Hall of Fame resume in Patrick Mahomes.

2035
01:53:19,040 --> 01:53:22,400
Speaker 4: And you know, again, when when I think about this

2036
01:53:22,600 --> 01:53:27,960
Speaker 4: defense and and and what makes this defense successful.

2037
01:53:28,800 --> 01:53:31,040
Speaker 3: They don't give up a lot of big plays.

2038
01:53:31,400 --> 01:53:35,360
Speaker 4: And when I watched them recently, like you talk about

2039
01:53:35,400 --> 01:53:38,559
Speaker 4: that first drive for the Detroit Lions, it's four plays

2040
01:53:38,560 --> 01:53:40,679
Speaker 4: in a touchdown, and the touchdown came on a big play.

2041
01:53:41,240 --> 01:53:45,840
Speaker 4: And that's not something that I'm accustomed to seeing out

2042
01:53:45,920 --> 01:53:50,439
Speaker 4: of this San Francisco forty nine ers defense. So you know,

2043
01:53:50,520 --> 01:53:55,360
Speaker 4: certainly what expect the Fred Warners and the Nick Bosas

2044
01:53:55,680 --> 01:54:00,599
Speaker 4: of that defense to, you know, step up, make plays,

2045
01:54:00,760 --> 01:54:06,360
Speaker 4: get off the field, give your offense every opportunity to

2046
01:54:06,439 --> 01:54:10,960
Speaker 4: go do what they've done all year and get you

2047
01:54:11,040 --> 01:54:13,320
Speaker 4: that lead so you can pin your ears back. We

2048
01:54:13,360 --> 01:54:16,880
Speaker 4: talked about the matchup with the forty nine ers ed

2049
01:54:16,960 --> 01:54:21,799
Speaker 4: rush edge rushers and the Kansas City Chiefs offensive tackles,

2050
01:54:21,840 --> 01:54:24,040
Speaker 4: and I will say this, like, I played with Donovan

2051
01:54:24,080 --> 01:54:28,200
Speaker 4: Smith last year in Tampa Bay and and Donnie's a

2052
01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:31,360
Speaker 4: really good tackle and he's a guy that you look

2053
01:54:31,360 --> 01:54:34,280
Speaker 4: at the Chiefs offense the last three weeks of the season,

2054
01:54:35,040 --> 01:54:37,800
Speaker 4: you know, it was abysmal and and they Patrick had

2055
01:54:37,840 --> 01:54:40,240
Speaker 4: no time. You know, it was a turnstile on his

2056
01:54:40,320 --> 01:54:43,480
Speaker 4: blind side, and that's because Donovan wasn't out there. And

2057
01:54:43,880 --> 01:54:47,200
Speaker 4: since he's gotten back out there in the playoffs, you know, Pat,

2058
01:54:47,240 --> 01:54:49,360
Speaker 4: It's one of the things that I talked about. You know,

2059
01:54:49,360 --> 01:54:51,320
Speaker 4: people are like, what's wrong with the Chiefs offense. I'm like, well,

2060
01:54:51,360 --> 01:54:53,800
Speaker 4: Patrick has no time. And I mentioned it before. He's

2061
01:54:53,840 --> 01:54:57,080
Speaker 4: one of the best creators with the football when he

2062
01:54:57,240 --> 01:55:00,480
Speaker 4: has time, and he can create these off schedules plays

2063
01:55:00,680 --> 01:55:03,480
Speaker 4: where he finds Travis and everybody's well, why can't Travis

2064
01:55:03,480 --> 01:55:06,200
Speaker 4: get open anymore? Why is he not catching the ball? Well,

2065
01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:09,920
Speaker 4: it all boils down to Patrick Mahomes having time, and

2066
01:55:09,960 --> 01:55:13,320
Speaker 4: when you give Patrick time, that allows Travis Kelsey, who

2067
01:55:13,360 --> 01:55:16,560
Speaker 4: in my opinion, is one of the smartest football players

2068
01:55:16,560 --> 01:55:18,640
Speaker 4: that's ever played the game at the tight end position,

2069
01:55:18,760 --> 01:55:22,920
Speaker 4: and his understanding of coverages and leverage, how to break

2070
01:55:22,960 --> 01:55:26,480
Speaker 4: it down, how to get open when the play breaks

2071
01:55:26,520 --> 01:55:29,320
Speaker 4: down is as good as anyone I've ever watched and

2072
01:55:29,360 --> 01:55:33,640
Speaker 4: ever studied. That doesn't happen if there's pressure on the

2073
01:55:33,720 --> 01:55:38,160
Speaker 4: quarterback right away. So again, when I think about what

2074
01:55:38,480 --> 01:55:41,680
Speaker 4: does Kansas City have to do to keep this game

2075
01:55:41,840 --> 01:55:45,320
Speaker 4: played the way they want it to play, that matchup

2076
01:55:45,400 --> 01:55:48,960
Speaker 4: is huge. You got to give Patrick time to do

2077
01:55:49,000 --> 01:55:52,400
Speaker 4: what he does best. Then vice versa. On the other side,

2078
01:55:52,920 --> 01:55:57,200
Speaker 4: if you're the forty nine ers, you've got high paid rushers,

2079
01:55:57,520 --> 01:55:59,160
Speaker 4: what do they need to do? They need to put

2080
01:55:59,240 --> 01:56:01,760
Speaker 4: pressure on the courquarterback. And it's not a guy that

2081
01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:06,680
Speaker 4: you can just pin your ears back and rush undisciplined.

2082
01:56:07,160 --> 01:56:09,800
Speaker 4: You have to maintain your lanes because he's gonna get

2083
01:56:09,800 --> 01:56:11,560
Speaker 4: out of the pocket. And when he gets out of

2084
01:56:11,560 --> 01:56:14,400
Speaker 4: the pocket, you know you might as well trot the

2085
01:56:14,880 --> 01:56:17,840
Speaker 4: field goal block team out there, because it's bad things

2086
01:56:17,880 --> 01:56:22,040
Speaker 4: are gonna happen. So again, like I'm excited to watch

2087
01:56:22,120 --> 01:56:25,360
Speaker 4: all those intricate little matchups throughout the course of the game.

2088
01:56:25,960 --> 01:56:28,760
Speaker 2: No doubt. And some final thoughts on that game coming

2089
01:56:28,880 --> 01:56:31,160
Speaker 2: up next. We're in the ty rag dot com studios

2090
01:56:31,160 --> 01:56:32,600
Speaker 2: with Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard.

2091
01:56:32,960 --> 01:56:35,840
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2092
01:56:35,880 --> 01:56:39,240
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2093
01:56:39,400 --> 01:56:43,480
Speaker 6: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

2094
01:56:43,600 --> 01:56:44,240
Speaker 6: listen live.

2095
01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:48,400
Speaker 2: All right, We're in the tyrag dot com studios. All right,

2096
01:56:48,440 --> 01:56:53,720
Speaker 2: here we go, Kenny Loggins. I think one said it right,

2097
01:56:53,800 --> 01:56:56,960
Speaker 2: this is it? Or was that Huey Lewis. I don't know.

2098
01:56:57,160 --> 01:56:59,520
Speaker 2: I watched that We Are the World doc on Netflix

2099
01:56:59,560 --> 01:57:02,040
Speaker 2: the other night and saw them all. Now everyone's trying

2100
01:57:02,040 --> 01:57:04,120
Speaker 2: to figure out how Dan Ackroyd got in there. It's

2101
01:57:04,120 --> 01:57:07,840
Speaker 2: a good question. But let's ponder some questions that are

2102
01:57:08,280 --> 01:57:10,960
Speaker 2: more Super Bowl related and what I want to know, Kyle,

2103
01:57:12,040 --> 01:57:15,520
Speaker 2: what are the matchups you really like? Like? What has

2104
01:57:15,680 --> 01:57:20,200
Speaker 2: you thinking? I get it? The roster, it's fantastic. There's

2105
01:57:20,240 --> 01:57:22,480
Speaker 2: a lot of should be the forty nine ers should

2106
01:57:22,560 --> 01:57:25,040
Speaker 2: be this, and they should be that. I get that,

2107
01:57:25,720 --> 01:57:31,160
Speaker 2: But I look at, for instance, Kyle Shanahan and his

2108
01:57:31,240 --> 01:57:36,640
Speaker 2: pedigree calling run plays against a defense that should not

2109
01:57:36,760 --> 01:57:40,440
Speaker 2: be able to stop this group. And that's why I

2110
01:57:40,480 --> 01:57:43,880
Speaker 2: think that this offense might be able to do what

2111
01:57:43,960 --> 01:57:46,760
Speaker 2: you suggest, which is make things a little bit easier

2112
01:57:47,320 --> 01:57:50,640
Speaker 2: early on for brock Purdy, who may or may not

2113
01:57:51,560 --> 01:57:54,360
Speaker 2: be prone to get overwhelmed by this moment. I love

2114
01:57:54,440 --> 01:57:56,920
Speaker 2: that matchup, but give me some of the ones that

2115
01:57:56,960 --> 01:57:58,360
Speaker 2: you're looking at. What do you love.

2116
01:58:01,320 --> 01:58:06,280
Speaker 4: It's funny. We joked about this last week, Aaron and

2117
01:58:06,280 --> 01:58:10,800
Speaker 4: I a couple of times, talking about defensive coordinators and

2118
01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:16,600
Speaker 4: covering Travis Kelce. At what point do you just say, Okay,

2119
01:58:16,640 --> 01:58:21,040
Speaker 4: Travis kelce is not going to beat us. Somebody else

2120
01:58:21,120 --> 01:58:26,440
Speaker 4: on that offense, she Rice Kadarius Tony if he's out there,

2121
01:58:28,040 --> 01:58:31,640
Speaker 4: you know, throwing the ball at isaiaha Cheka. Somebody else

2122
01:58:31,760 --> 01:58:35,120
Speaker 4: is going to have to catch the football on that

2123
01:58:35,320 --> 01:58:39,640
Speaker 4: offense besides Travis Kelcey. And when I think about the

2124
01:58:39,680 --> 01:58:42,840
Speaker 4: forty nine Ers, and quite honestly, the last couple of

2125
01:58:42,840 --> 01:58:45,240
Speaker 4: times they've matched up against the Chiefs, Travis has had

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Speaker 4: big games, and you know they historically play a lot

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Speaker 4: more zone coverage. I just got done talking about how

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Speaker 4: no one understands coverage and leverage better than Travis kelce

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Speaker 4: So does Steve Folks decide, Hey, look, I I know guys,

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Speaker 4: we play a lot of zone. You know, we're a

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Speaker 4: single high zone team. You know that that's what we do.

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Speaker 4: But look, here's the deal. You are going to cover

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Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey. We are going to play more man coverage.

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Speaker 4: We are not gonna let him beat us. You know,

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Speaker 4: Nick Bosa, Chase Young on your way to Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 4: I want you going through Travis Kelcey. We're gonna make this,

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Speaker 4: you know, kind of the New England way of doing things,

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Speaker 4: where you know, I played against New England a couple

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Speaker 4: of times in my career. For a tight end, it's

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Speaker 4: miserable because you're you're always going through a defensive end.

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Speaker 4: Then you have a linebacker right there waiting for you.

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Speaker 4: As soon as you get past the linebacker, there's a

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Speaker 4: safety waiting for you. And you know, I think back

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Speaker 4: to some of Travis's comments that he's always made him

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Speaker 4: out Bill and how difficult Bill's made on it.

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Speaker 3: Will Steve Wilks do that?

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Speaker 4: Will Will he adapt what they've done through out the

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Speaker 4: course of the year and what they always rely on

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Speaker 4: to cater to the offense that they're playing against specifically

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Speaker 4: and what can slow them down.

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Speaker 3: And you know, certainly.

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Speaker 4: Taking Travis Kelcey out of the game would slow that

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Speaker 4: offense down given the lack of playmakers around him. So

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Speaker 4: that's the biggest thing for me as a tight end

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Speaker 4: watching that matchup and how the forty nine ers decide

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Speaker 4: to play Travis kelce.

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Speaker 2: I'll go twenty four to thirteen Niners. That's That's what

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with. You gotta score.

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Speaker 4: I will go twenty. We'll go thirty twenty seven niners.

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Speaker 3: Woo.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be tight. Great stuff for Kyle Rudolph. I'm

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Speaker 2: Mark Willend. We'll keep it going on Fox Sports Studio.