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Speaker 2: Let's give you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Greeting is

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Speaker 2: welcome and son Happy Tuesday. Thanks NBC. We got another

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Speaker 2: hour to wait until Lakers Clippers.

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Speaker 1: Yay. Hey, hey, hey, they paid a lot of money

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Speaker 1: to make that.

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Speaker 3: A standalone game.

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Speaker 1: Why the hell are there only three games? That's a

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Speaker 1: whole other thing. You've already given up Thursday. You're not

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Speaker 1: even gonna pretend to play against the NFL. And then

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Speaker 1: you only have three games on a Tuesday, both two

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Speaker 1: of the three of them are on Peacock.

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Speaker 3: What the hell are we doing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how it got silver, That's how I got

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Speaker 1: your ass up.

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Speaker 3: That's how it.

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Speaker 1: Goes to wait another hour. Wait, don't worry, it'll start.

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Speaker 3: What a clown show. I mean, I'm glad they're cashing

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Speaker 3: checks right. The money Princh just the same, but seems

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Speaker 3: to me other than getting U well, I forget what

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Speaker 3: the company is. Giannis is doing national ads, Steph Curry's

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Speaker 3: doing ads where he's pretty much uh taking shots at

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Speaker 3: every every one of his contemporaries.

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Speaker 1: That's all finding good, But nobody can watch your damn games.

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Speaker 1: That's the What have I said from the beginning with this?

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Speaker 1: What have I said from the beginning? And you want

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Speaker 1: to say, oh, well this is no, no, no, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: watched with it can actually schedule more than three games

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Speaker 1: in the night. Well, are we giving it up to

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Speaker 1: lamp pass n c A games in Vegas stuff?

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Speaker 3: Is that what you're doing? You're backing down on that.

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Speaker 1: I watched a lot of holiday Vegas basketball the last

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Speaker 1: couple of I'm not saying I did Syracuse and two

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Speaker 1: in those well, I'm not.

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Speaker 3: Saying I didn't watch it.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, why are we giving up spots on

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Speaker 1: a calendar?

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Speaker 3: Well, look, you can't have games every night. I mean

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Speaker 3: the other it's a lot of teens holiday holiday holiday guys.

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Speaker 4: I think eight o'clock pm Pacific tip is past Kawhi

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Speaker 4: Leonards bedtime.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, he's still he's still out planting trees.

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Speaker 1: Then it's just the sun is just going down, and

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Speaker 1: then he's planning tree Then he comes and plays again.

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Speaker 3: There's something I'm missing. Trees.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, planning trees. He's a tree guy hugger. He's

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Speaker 1: a tree hugger, the trees, the planning, going back to

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Speaker 1: I knew he was a fun guy, but I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: About the trees.

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Speaker 1: No, the whole thing with him, with the with the

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Speaker 1: trees that he planted, no idea what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: I made a harden. The later it gets into the night,

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Speaker 1: the better he is. Oh my god, do you guys,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm Kathy Bates and Misser do you

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Speaker 1: have amnesia? The whole Kawhi Leonard, the whole extra money

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Speaker 1: he was getting because he was playing the other.

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Speaker 3: NBA didn't care about that.

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Speaker 1: So why should we show Bob Okay side show Bob.

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Speaker 3: That's what we get. And the NBA would have you

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Speaker 3: believe that story never exists. Yeah, yeah, exactly. They gave

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Speaker 3: you the neuralizer like it was met in black. I'm like,

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Speaker 3: what are you guys talking about.

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Speaker 1: No, we're well aware of the story. It just became

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Speaker 1: a non story. I mean that was like the the

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Speaker 1: epay and show. Hey that's why issue a year ago.

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Speaker 1: It was two weeks later it disappeared. It was just

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Speaker 1: a throwaway joke. And you guys, what are you talking? Like?

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Speaker 3: Water mine? Did I change planets sometime in the.

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Speaker 1: Last day if you just met him, I feel like,

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Speaker 1: what's his name from yesterday? When he when he finds out,

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Speaker 1: Oh no, what do you mean? Who's Oasis?

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Speaker 3: Check? No Oasis? All right, there's no Oasis. I mean

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Speaker 3: that's that's so I feel like it's happening right now.

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Speaker 3: My good. Sometimes we like to fund you a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, yeah, you get your brain on

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Speaker 3: a track, and it's how do we throw something in

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Speaker 3: the middle. See if we can't get you off your track,

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Speaker 3: like you're at Autopia, No at Disney. But that's okay

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Speaker 3: because now we're a minute closer to the Lakers class.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so exciting fifty six minutes.

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Speaker 3: I have a fifty said tic tic tic tic tic TikTok.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's the beginning of the broadcast. I mean

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Speaker 1: To the uh, you know, the big the latest college

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Speaker 1: Right, early parts of the NBA season so far, I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest with you about something. It's it's been nawn

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Speaker 1: at me all day. Maybe because I've watched my team

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Speaker 3: Sure, Uh? Is that?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: We talk a lot about windows to win a championship

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Speaker 1: in sports, and is this team's window opens? This team's

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Speaker 1: to win it, right, obviously, look at the talent they

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Speaker 3: Some injuries throughout the conference, right, you talk about Indiana.

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Speaker 3: We talked a lot about Halliburton yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Caliberton may be the MVP, he may really be the

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Speaker 3: But just going team for team, the number of guys

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Speaker 3: that are missing in action, Trey Young for Atlanta, they're

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Speaker 3: still above the fold as it were in the playoff birth,

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Speaker 3: what are you getting from mb can Tyrese MAXI carry

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Speaker 1: But the thing that gets me is that you know,

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Speaker 1: windows open and shut much quicker than you think they are.

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Speaker 1: And watching a team like the Knicks right seeing teams

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Speaker 1: he's going to be out for a while. But these

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Speaker 1: But I look at a team like the Knicks and

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Speaker 1: it's that they're slow and younger, more athletic teams, even

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Speaker 1: even the Lakers to an extent. Now, hey, going younger,

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Speaker 1: especially defensively. They struggle because teams get to the basket

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Speaker 1: a lot easier on them. You see, their defensive metrics

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Speaker 1: And the window for teams like that to win, I

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Speaker 1: don't know that it's not shut. I mean this is

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Speaker 1: And maybe you're pulling out some of these games against

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Speaker 1: win a championship is shut. Maybe they're just gonna be

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Speaker 1: they'll beat the contenders now and again. But you get

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder when we talk about playoff basketball and

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Speaker 3: Historically it slows down pace and play advantage. The plotting

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Speaker 3: worry about your squad is that you can't hit free

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs, that you're gonna lose a couple of those,

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Speaker 3: and you're gonna be pulling well your hair out, eyebrows,

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Speaker 3: the eyebrows. You're gonna be plucking your eyebrows like you're

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Speaker 3: that kid in that the Internship because he's stressed out

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Speaker 3: and Vince Vaughan gets all weird out. But no, I

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Speaker 3: get that right. You look at the heat. They just

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Speaker 3: get Tyler Hero back off his injury. He immediately comes

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Speaker 3: back with the twenty four point performance. They're eight and

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Speaker 3: two in their last ten, the Raptors nine and one

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Speaker 3: lose again. So all of that to say, yeah, you're

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Speaker 3: of victory. You're not gonna have a lot of comfortable moments,

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Speaker 3: and maybe that over time becomes an issue. Right, we

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Speaker 3: talk about stressful innings pitchers, right, you know a quick

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Speaker 3: twelve pitch inning versus all right, it went twenty four pitches. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the domino effect is there. And certainly the more that

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Speaker 3: you have to rely on Brunson to try to lead

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Speaker 3: you latent games and we see Kat having to play

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Speaker 3: extra minutes when he's not breaking baseball card packs. That

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Speaker 3: he's a guy that I worry about come April and May.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't have enough left in the tank. As much

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Speaker 3: as they've done a better job at getting more of

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Speaker 3: a rotation going than they did under TIBs, That there

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Speaker 3: is a level of concern, But I'm gonna go glass

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Speaker 3: half full. That playoff basketball is enough to where get

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Speaker 3: in and these guys healthy. You still have a puncher

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Speaker 3: chance to win the conference.

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Speaker 1: So we'll have more basketball throughout again. Forty nine minutes

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Speaker 1: in a few minutes. But is it Max Brosman's not

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Speaker 3: simple plan was best supporting actor. No, I mean because

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Speaker 3: of Shakespeare. I'm gonna go see Hamnet this week. I'll

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Speaker 3: let you know how that. Okay, very good.

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Speaker 1: My wife is actually reading that for a book club.

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Speaker 1: I said, how is it so far? She goes, eh,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, all right, all right, because I always

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Speaker 1: cross off. Okay, whenever she tells me something's good, I'll

441
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Speaker 1: read it from her book club. But if not, I

442
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Speaker 1: just do my no. Sure, and uh, it's right right

443
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Speaker 1: now she's reading Hamnet. And here's how fast I read.

444
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Speaker 1: I just started Lincoln Highway by Amertols, which is one

445
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Speaker 1: of the best books the last twenty five years. I

446
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Speaker 1: always wanted to read it, and now I'm getting around,

447
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Speaker 1: like okay, I'm gonna read it now, and like it's

448
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Speaker 1: like a six hundred page book and like I started that,

449
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Speaker 1: but like Pam started Hamnet like a week before I

450
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Speaker 1: started Lincoln Highway and now I'm gonna finish it tonight.

451
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Speaker 1: And she still has like a third of the book

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Speaker 1: club to go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I just picked up a couple of things. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Lincoln Highway is a doorstop.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: It's like, oh my god, Jake, how are you are?

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Speaker 1: You're really reading those pages like I'm just doing like

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Speaker 1: I'm looking over going turn turn turns and Oh, interesting

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Speaker 1: turn turn turnturt Oh interesting turn turn turn turntory.

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Speaker 3: Interesting. Oh that's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Ah, go to bed out one hundred and fifty pages

462
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Speaker 1: that I'm done.

463
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Speaker 3: I'm going to bed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she she hates that hate way to marker.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Now, positivity there, We've told you for it, talk about

467
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Speaker 1: being ahead of the curve. We're gonna give you something

468
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Speaker 1: new here.

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Speaker 3: So what else is new? Come on? I told you

470
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Speaker 3: for a.

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Speaker 1: Long time the Rams are the best team in the NFL,

472
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Speaker 1: and now you're seeing it a lot. We told hey

473
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Speaker 1: this week they're gonna beat the Seahawks. They're the best

474
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Speaker 1: team in the NFL, and they're the one team you

475
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Speaker 1: can believe in. We talked about this and now congratulations

476
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Speaker 1: all the shows that are saying, you know, the Rams

477
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Speaker 1: are the best. We told you for weeks Rams are

478
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Speaker 1: the best team in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Well, the best was this win was also a not

480
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Speaker 3: a clean win, no right, this was a all right,

481
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Speaker 3: we had to muddy it up and we had to

482
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Speaker 3: go win a different way, right, and they did.

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Speaker 1: And that's the best part about the Rams is that

484
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Speaker 1: they can win any game. The big like the two.

485
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Speaker 1: The one playoff concern about the Rams is obviously when

486
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Speaker 1: you see them have to play on the road deep

487
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, playing in Philadelphia. Yeah, not quite their bag.

488
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Speaker 1: Not that bad, baby, Yeah, not quite their bag. So

489
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Speaker 1: that's the one thing. So home field, right, the Rams

490
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Speaker 1: have everything they want right now. They're the best record

491
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Speaker 1: in the NFC. And yes they lose the tie breaker

492
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Speaker 1: with the Eagles. Boy, the Eagles look like they might

493
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Speaker 1: struggle a little bit. That gas tank might be on

494
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Speaker 1: a little bit on e the rest of the way.

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Speaker 3: But still, how often do you get to Week thirteen

496
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Speaker 3: in a league year though that you're just going, I

497
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Speaker 3: don't know what kind of effort I'm getting weak to

498
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Speaker 3: week because again we talked about it with you and

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Speaker 3: I and then with Jason LOCKEFORI. Yesterday you're up twenty

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Speaker 3: one nothing and then it's it's still a division rival.

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Speaker 3: Why the hell wouldn't you want to go through the throat? Yeah? No,

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Speaker 3: I mean you know what I mean, Like, I just

503
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Speaker 3: don't understand the philosophy and how that the ebb and

504
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Speaker 3: flow of that game. It made no sense. Uh, well

505
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Speaker 3: the Eagles have made no sense, all ya. That's what

506
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Speaker 3: I mean. Like everybody else you can say sucks it

507
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Speaker 3: mostly sucks pretty good at any given Sunday, Rams, Well,

508
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Speaker 3: I tell you this whole place sucks.

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Speaker 1: That's right, it sucks. That's like fifteen teams. But I

510
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Speaker 1: will tell you this about the Rams with the best

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Speaker 1: team in the NFL, right, to give you something a

512
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Speaker 1: little bit different. On the Rams, everything they have done

513
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: so far has been according to what they've wanted to do,

514
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Speaker 1: what they felt they have had to do. We have

515
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Speaker 1: to win early because we can't rely on being a

516
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Speaker 1: hot team at the end of the year. We have

517
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Speaker 1: to have more of an f some winning or we

518
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Speaker 1: have to be ready to play early. We can't wait

519
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Speaker 1: for Matthew Stafford to round into MVP form by the

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Speaker 1: middle of the season. So what's happened. Matthew Staffords decided

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Speaker 1: to say, Oh, I'm an MVP forum right now. Since

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Speaker 1: the beginning, Stafford's been great. The defense has been phenomenal. Right,

523
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Speaker 1: that's basically what they've and you know, hey, this is

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Speaker 1: what great teams are built on. Your quarterback is great,

525
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Speaker 1: Your defense is great. Show me two teams that have that,

526
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Speaker 1: and I'll show you teams at the top that are

527
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl contenders. Right, Your quarterback's great, your defense is great.

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Speaker 1: The only fear I have for the Rams, right and

529
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Speaker 1: this is also a Rams team that hasn't run the

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Speaker 1: football really well yet, and maybe they won't.

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Speaker 3: I want to.

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Speaker 1: I would like to think that, Sean mcvase, you know what,

533
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Speaker 1: when the weather gets colder, we're playing. We're gonna run,

534
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Speaker 1: Kien Williams more, We're gonna run the football. Give you

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Speaker 1: something a little bit different, because right now the running

536
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Speaker 1: game is is really complimentary to it to a fall

537
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Speaker 1: to the passing game. But why would you stop? You

538
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Speaker 1: have guys that are you guys at stop that are

539
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Speaker 1: unbeatable on the outside. Right, You're throwing the football wherever

540
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Speaker 1: you want to all year long.

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Speaker 3: Well, and plus side is do you look at their

542
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Speaker 3: schedule down the stretch. You don't exactly have a bunch

543
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Speaker 3: of cold weather games, no, right indoors or at home?

544
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Speaker 3: Detroit comes to la.

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Speaker 1: The one fear I have for the Rams right in

546
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Speaker 1: this time when we're all looking for something, looking for

547
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Speaker 1: teams to step up. The only thing that about the

548
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Speaker 1: best team in the NFL, the only thing that gives

549
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Speaker 1: me any sort of pause right now, is that are

550
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Speaker 1: they peaking too early? They're playing so well for so

551
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Speaker 1: long Stafford throwing four touchdowns a week up until last

552
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Speaker 1: week at the beginning, at the front of every MVP conversation,

553
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Speaker 1: the defense is shutting everybody down every single week. It

554
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, and that's great, But we're still got five

555
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Speaker 1: games left. Can you sustain this all the way through

556
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Speaker 1: the season and into the playoffs? Because what do we

557
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Speaker 1: see from the Lions last year? Lion's best team in football? Right,

558
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: they ran through everybody, get to the playoffs all of

559
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Speaker 1: a sudden, what happened, Well, we had a bad quarter

560
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Speaker 1: and a half against Washington. What happened, Yeah, we couldn't

561
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Speaker 1: win that game, and guess what, We're going home right

562
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Speaker 1: like it happens that way. That's my one concern is that, Okay,

563
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Speaker 1: the Rams have peaked a little bit too early, and

564
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Speaker 1: maybe by the time the season ends, they're entering the

565
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Speaker 1: playoffs a little bit of the that gas tank closer

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Speaker 1: to e than you want it to be, and we're

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Speaker 1: going to be talking more about teams that are going

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Speaker 1: to be hitting their peak now, because now is when

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Speaker 1: you really want to start peaking. End of November Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: through the end of the year. It's a little bit

571
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Speaker 1: longer season now. Is seventeen games, so but right about

572
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Speaker 1: now you get to that last five four or five weeks.

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Speaker 3: Of the season.

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Speaker 1: This is where we want to enter the playoffs, play

575
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Speaker 1: in our best football when we're on auto pilot as

576
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Speaker 1: far as what we know what we need to do,

577
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Speaker 1: we know how we need to attack every single game.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a complete and total uh plan following that

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Speaker 1: we're comfortable with and we just go out and we

580
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: just railroad teams. But the Rams, now they've played so well,

581
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Speaker 1: are they really going to be one of those door

582
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Speaker 1: to door teams where beginning of the year they were great,

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Speaker 1: middle of the year they're even better, end of the year,

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Speaker 1: great through the playoffs. That's my one concern. That's really

585
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Speaker 1: tough to keep up when you're when you're peaking like

586
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Speaker 1: the Rams are now.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, my my usual fear with this stuff

588
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Speaker 3: is the the injury gods, the football gods. You know,

589
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Speaker 3: they they swing on the pendulum. Uh. To this point,

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Speaker 3: the Rams haven't really been hit very hard in that regard.

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Speaker 3: A little bit on the line, a little bit when

592
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Speaker 3: you're talking, you're missing higbee, uh, changing up how you're working,

593
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Speaker 3: operating with more tight you know, two tight end sets

594
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Speaker 3: are three tight end sets at times, et cetera. To

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Speaker 3: your point, not being able to run the ball. So

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Speaker 3: that's just my fear. It's like you've had all these

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Speaker 3: other teams that have had to fight through a lot

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Speaker 3: of adversity in the RAMS. Historically that's been the case, right,

599
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Speaker 3: the slow start oftentimes due to key guys missing time

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Speaker 3: due to injury or limitations, say on Matthew Stafford who's

601
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Speaker 3: playing but not not playing at full throttle because of

602
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Speaker 3: different ailments. Right now, you're looking at them as one

603
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Speaker 3: of the teams at the bottom end in terms of

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Speaker 3: games lost by starters due to injury. And I always

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Speaker 3: fear that as we get into the winter months that

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Speaker 3: you know, we get some kind of equalization, normalization that

607
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 3: happens in that regard, right, other teams get healthy and

608
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Speaker 3: get reinforcements, and then suddenly you're missing a key pivotal

609
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Speaker 3: cog to either side of your offense and defense. For

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Speaker 3: the Rams, they've the one thing that they have been

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Speaker 3: able to navigate is subpar special teams to this point, right,

612
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Speaker 3: that has been the one thing. And when you get

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Speaker 3: to the playoffs and we talk about the march and

614
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Speaker 3: for error, being a little bit less that perhaps that's

615
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Speaker 3: the thing that may fell them as well. So I

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Speaker 3: got to imagine in the front office there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of time and consideration trying to shore up little inefficiencies

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Speaker 3: in the return games, and certainly when you talk about

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Speaker 3: your placekicker exit out about a Fresco exit, swalling down

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Speaker 4: I thought it was because I've been so good at

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Speaker 4: the deep middle bawl ever since that combine, we've got

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Speaker 4: a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: So there's that too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think his beard is grayer, but sure, you're

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Speaker 4: talking about college football earlier. The Big twelve Championship game

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Speaker 4: is going to be hosted by the Cowboys Stadium a

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Speaker 4: week from Saturday. Texas Tech gets in if it wins

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Speaker 4: its finale as expected. Saturday number eleven BYU gets in

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Speaker 4: with a win in its finelle. Texas Tech, already destroyed BYU,

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Speaker 4: had to head about three weeks ago, twenty nine to seven.

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Speaker 4: In the big picture, the new college football playoff rankings

637
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Speaker 4: came out tonight. The top five stayed the same. Texas

638
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Speaker 4: Tech is ranked number five in the country. Only the

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Speaker 4: teams that finish in the top four in the final

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Speaker 4: Playoff Committee rankings a week from Sunday get that first

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Speaker 4: round by so Texas Tech, as of now, would open

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Speaker 4: the playoff by hosting a first rounder against Tulane, the

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Speaker 4: best of the smaller conference teams at number twenty four.

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Speaker 4: I will say North Texas is having a great season

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Speaker 4: and it will likely finish eleven and one after this week,

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Speaker 4: so it could face Tulane in the American Conference title game.

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Speaker 4: And the North Texas coach, Eric Morris, is leaving the

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Speaker 4: school for the Oklahoma State job after this season. Morris

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Speaker 4: was Patrick Mahomes offensive coordinator at Texas, so I knew this.

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Speaker 1: And Hector Alissando comes in to coach the team and

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Speaker 1: Robert Loja is his defensive Robert Low.

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Speaker 4: They have a very attractive kicker, yes, oh yeah, yeah,

653
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Speaker 4: an old quarterback sinbad on the defensive line.

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Speaker 7: That's another movie from many a decade.

655
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Speaker 3: Ago, Jason Bateman when he couldn't get a job.

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Speaker 7: I think Sinbat even bet on that game.

657
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Speaker 4: Three games in the NFL this Thursday, Thanksgiving Green Bay

658
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Speaker 4: at Detroit, the first of them. Packers running back Josh

659
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Speaker 4: Jacobs was limited at walk through with a knee injury.

660
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Speaker 4: He did not play. Last Sunday. Green Bay quarterback Jordan

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Speaker 4: Love practice fully despite an injured left shoulder. The second

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Speaker 4: game on Thanksgiving, Kansas City at Dallas. The Chiefs confirmed

663
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Speaker 4: that running back Isaiah but Checko will return to play Thursday.

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Speaker 4: He's missed the past month with a knee injury. Cowboys

665
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Speaker 4: wide receiver George Pickens was upgraded to limited practice with

666
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Speaker 4: knee and calf injuries. The Thursday night game Cincinnati and

667
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Speaker 4: quarterback Joe Burrow playing at Baltimore, and there is one

668
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Speaker 4: game streaming only for most people. Black Friday, Chicago at Philadelphia.

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Speaker 4: Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, by the way, did return to

670
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Speaker 4: full practice today. He's had toe, ankle, knee injuries recently.

671
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Speaker 4: Did practice.

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Speaker 1: He's not right, he is trust he is not not

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Speaker 1: even clean sixty percent at best.

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Speaker 4: No, it's it's a little bit like late in Cam

675
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Speaker 4: Newton's career where he couldn't and wasn't running, and now

676
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Speaker 4: he wasn't special anymore.

677
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Speaker 3: You know what.

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Speaker 1: Watching the Jets corral him on Sunday when he couldn't

679
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: get outside and he couldn't scramble reminded me like when

680
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: I was a kid in this and in this one

681
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: kid that would throw a fastball when I was in

682
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Speaker 1: the Little league. He's better than anybody. Brian Cochley, right,

683
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: he could throw a fastball like like seventy miles an hour,

684
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Speaker 1: and I remember, wow, this is no one can touch

685
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Speaker 1: him one.

686
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Speaker 7: We can throw that speedball by big like a fool boy.

687
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Speaker 1: And then, uh, my last year, all of a sudden,

688
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Speaker 1: I started hitting him like all like like it wasn't

689
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Speaker 1: it wasn't, it wasn't anything crazy. Other then I got

690
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Speaker 1: older and maybe his fastball kind.

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Speaker 7: Of sum literally he lost his face.

692
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Speaker 1: So I was like, wow, I can't believe I'm I'm

693
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Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm I'm actually hitting him. And I realized, okay,

694
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Speaker 1: maybe that I kind of felt that watching the Jets

695
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Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson. I can't believe the Jets are slowing

696
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Speaker 1: down Lamar Jackson, how is this even possible?

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Speaker 7: By the way, as far as the Springsteen lyrics. Does

698
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Speaker 7: nobody ever bring this up?

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Speaker 4: Catchers don't put down one finger for the speedball and

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Speaker 4: two for the curve?

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Speaker 3: What what is with that?

702
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Speaker 7: Nobody has ever spoken against that.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he was talking about baseball. Why do

704
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Speaker 3: you think nobody went to see the Springsteen movie? Went No?

705
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Speaker 3: So oddly?

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Speaker 4: It's that movie that's actually a complete unknown.

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Speaker 7: Thank you good night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you couldn't have paid me to walk in on that.

709
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Speaker 3: And I love my guy.

710
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Speaker 1: From MEJ just like the the Gate receipts a complete unknown.

711
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 4: I would have walked out on that movie on a plane.

712
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 4: The Buffalo Bill, sidewide receiver Brandon Cooks, the Saints side Kicker.

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Speaker 1: Ka wait, actually, TJ. That movie was on a Road

714
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Speaker 1: to Nowhere a complete unknown? Was the Bob Dylan one

715
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: Road to Nowhere?

716
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

717
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Speaker 4: The Red Sox acquired pitcher Sonny Gray from the Cardinals

718
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 4: in the NBA only three games. We just got in

719
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Speaker 4: a final Orlando one forty four to one oh three

720
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Speaker 4: over Philadelphia. We're still half an hour away from the

721
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Speaker 4: tip of the late game.

722
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Speaker 3: Would do you say? We're still two and a half

723
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Speaker 3: hours away for seams like that?

724
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Speaker 1: All right?

725
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 3: Very good?

726
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 4: Actually, it's after eleven pm Eastern Lakers hosting the Clippers.

727
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 4: Pajamas optional. Washington ended a fourteen game losing streak with

728
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Speaker 4: a home win against Atlanta one thirty two to one

729
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 4: thirteen c. J McCollum forty six points and in college

730
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 4: hoops number seven Michigan and then Holiday tournament in Vegas

731
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Speaker 4: has just ripped Auburn one oh two seventy two. Earlier

732
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Speaker 4: Tennessee beat number three Houston seventy six seventy three.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, thanks Stevo. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live

734
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Speaker 1: from the Fox Sports Radio Studios coming up next. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you want that big hot take on a quarterback situation?

736
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Speaker 1: Maybe we have seen the last this year of a

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Speaker 1: very popular, very in the news quarterback. That's next, Jason

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Speaker 1: of Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 5: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 5: pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,

743
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. And you want

744
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: a big, fat hot take going into this week of

745
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: the NFL, We got Yeah, let's go. I got one

746
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: for you.

747
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Speaker 3: Hit me so.

748
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Speaker 1: At all good thoughts to Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy in

749
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: concussion protocol after reporting symptoms on the flight home from

750
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Speaker 1: Green Bay on Sunday. It's the third injury that he

751
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 1: has had this year, and the season has been awful

752
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: to the point where you're seeing all these rumors that

753
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: maybe the Vikings go after mac Jones in the offseason,

754
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Speaker 1: somebody else to bring in.

755
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 3: To come go make that Traine JJ McCarthy.

756
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: Right, and we've told you this is an absolute disaster

757
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: for the Vikings because if you're a Vikings fan, you

758
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: want blood. You're like, we not only kicked one Pro

759
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: Bowl quarterback to the curb, but another guy who's going

760
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl this year we kicked to the curb.

761
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: I can forgive them for Daniel Jones. Can't forgive him

762
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: for Sam Darnold. No, no, no, We're stubborn with JJ McCarthy.

763
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Speaker 1: And look, the guy was overdrafted. I told you this

764
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Speaker 1: from the beginning. I've watched every JJ McCarthy Michigan game.

765
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Speaker 1: He was never the reason they won. They won the

766
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: title by limiting his involvement in the game plan. Right.

767
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: I know Harball loves him, He loves all his players.

768
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Speaker 1: He was overdrafted, and it's so embarrassing for the Vikings

769
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Speaker 1: that this is where they're at, where Nick gets even

770
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Speaker 1: it's going to the blowback on this is going to

771
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Speaker 1: be even worse because now it's okay, after you realize

772
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: that you blew it a quarterback, now you have to

773
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Speaker 1: go fix it. When you had your guy and you

774
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: see Sam Darnald have another Pro Bowl season with the

775
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, Okay, we had the guy. We had the guy. No, no, no,

776
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Speaker 1: we couldn't even keep him for a year and bring

777
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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy. No, no, we couldn't even do that. Like

778
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Speaker 1: I said, you want blood if you're a Vikings fan,

779
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 1: But I will tell you this is my Bowl prediction.

780
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: You have seen the last of JJ McCarthy for this year.

781
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: The Vikings know and this is much like what the

782
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: Rams did when Jared Goff came in as a rookie

783
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: and he was awful and he blew chunks and he

784
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: got hurt, and the Rams kept him in bubble rap

785
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season and said, you know what,

786
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: not going to come back out and play because you

787
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: know there's going to be changed in the offseason. Things

788
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 1: are going to happen, and we're going to get him

789
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: a fresh look next year. And so all of a sudden,

790
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: they didn't play him because what were they going to gain.

791
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: He wasn't going to gain confidence, he wasn't going to

792
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: gain There wasn't gonna be a lot of positivity. You

793
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: knew there were going to be changes, So he didn't

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00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: play the rest of that year. That's I think, what's

795
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: going to happen with JJ McCarthy, your third injury. You're

796
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: not playing for anything. You're not going anywhere in the NFC.

797
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the playoff contenders and yeah,

798
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: technically you're alive, but you're in last place, right and

799
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: you're in last place, you still have division games left

800
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: to go. All the teams are better than you are.

801
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: You're not going anywhere this year. You have to preserve

802
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: any sort of possibility that you can rehabilitate McCarthy in

803
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: the offseason and he can come in next year and

804
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: take a little bit of a leap, so you can

805
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: so see, hey, don't fire all of us. We knew

806
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: what we were doing. Just need a little bit of

807
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: time for JJ McCarthy, because here's McCarthy two years with

808
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Speaker 1: a great offensive coach, and this is what you're getting

809
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Speaker 1: from him this year.

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00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 3: Right, that's a whole thing.

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Speaker 1: It's not like, hey, here's an odd match where you're

812
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Speaker 1: playing quarterback for the first year defensive coordinator who's come

813
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Speaker 1: in and figuring things out. Well, you understand that's a

814
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Speaker 1: bad market, that that's a bad uh comparison and a

815
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Speaker 1: bad partnering. Uh, this is Wait a minute. He's in

816
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Speaker 1: with a great with a great coach, with a great

817
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Speaker 1: offensive coach that turned the guy before you into a

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Speaker 1: great quarterback, that kept Kirk Cousins have at a Pro

819
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Speaker 1: Bowl level, and you're not even close to that. You

820
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: can barely stay a starter. So at some point they're

821
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: gonna need to say, listen, we have to do all

822
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Speaker 1: we can to preserve that maybe there's something we can

823
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Speaker 1: salvage from him. What's gonna what's it gonna sell, what's

824
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: it gonna prove coming back this year? If he's not

825
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: ready physically, he's not ready, mentally, he's not ready with

826
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Speaker 1: whatever reason he's not achieving, what positives are you going

827
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Speaker 1: to get from bringing him back? Because the most likely

828
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Speaker 1: scenario is he's gonna get crushed down the stretch he's

829
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Speaker 1: gonna play poorly, his confidence will erode even further, the

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Speaker 1: confidence in him will erode even further. So I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: maybe we've seen the last of JJ McCarthy for this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, at some point you just recognize where you're at

833
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Speaker 3: and you let it bottom out.

834
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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: Maybe Brosemer Rosmer it could be that guy that unleashes

836
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 3: a little bit, because we saw a big goose egg

837
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Speaker 3: from Addison. We've seen how unhappy Justin Jefferson is. You

838
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 3: got a lot of talent there, and you got Ryan

839
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Speaker 3: Kelly back this last week, so you finally had your

840
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 3: offensive line kind of look like he expected it to

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00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 3: look before the season began. And it didn't matter, right

842
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 3: because he's broken, right And to your point, having watched

843
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 3: all those snaps, you were a very anti early draft pick.

844
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Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh should get a fruit basket from the McCarthy

845
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Speaker 3: family this holiday holiday holiday season for how he talked

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Speaker 3: of him in such laudatory terms and certainly helped, and

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Speaker 3: we always get into that unquantifiable he's a winner category

848
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Speaker 3: when it comes down to it. What's interesting is the

849
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 3: six degrees of separation go back to twenty sixteen. You

850
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 3: talk about Jared Goff in Jeff Fisher's final year, and

851
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 3: the coordinator that year was Rob Boris. He had taken

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00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 3: over in twenty fifteen following the fire of Frank Signetti Junior.

853
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 3: That's right, the guy that's currently the offensive coordinator for

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00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 3: the high power Indiana offense. I just thought i'd throw

855
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 3: that in there because it's a fun little six degrees

856
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 3: is what's his buyout? What's his buyout? What do we

857
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,320
Speaker 3: go get him? But yeah, it's just interesting you go

858
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 3: back last year, right, there were a lot of questions of, all, right,

859
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 3: do you bring back Kirk Cousins this offseason? But Sam Darnold,

860
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Speaker 3: can you bring him back on a franchise tag because

861
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 3: you're not sure where McCarthy is health wise and how

862
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 3: much he's going to be able to ascend or do

863
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 3: you not want that competition in the room with Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 3: I think he wanted to go have an opportunity to

865
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Speaker 3: go be a starter instead of being the bright glass

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Speaker 3: in case of emergency of McCarthy wasn't ready, which is

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Speaker 3: how he ended up in Indianapolis and the Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 3: battle there. But right now you're in no man's land

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Speaker 3: and Kevin O'Connell's looking more like the guy I questioned

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Speaker 3: last year when Sam Darnold took all the incoming than

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Speaker 3: the guy that everybody hailed a genius.

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Speaker 1: Exit abya Fresca exit, swollen dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Have we seen

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Speaker 1: the last of McCarthy for the season. I Am not

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Speaker 1: going to be surprised if that's the case. Coming up next, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're looking ahead at a big Week thirteen in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We spotlight two teams with huge games coming up next.

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