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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with special delivery Steve de Sega in for Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: A big football Friday. We got NFL insider Jason Cole

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Speaker 1: coming up at about twenty minutes as we start taking

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Speaker 1: a look at all the big NFL games this weekend.

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Speaker 1: But uh boy, to put a cherry on top of

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Speaker 1: this Sunday for the Indiana Hoosiers, who improved to fifteen

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Speaker 1: and zero. They are one game away from winning the

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Speaker 1: national championship in foot ball. Just think about that. I know,

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Speaker 1: we know that we've watched them all year, but Indiana

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Speaker 1: is going to win the national championship in football.

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Speaker 3: Team basketballs exactly a team that did not even bend

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Speaker 3: to a Rose Bowl since the nineteen sixties until last

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Speaker 3: week they.

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Speaker 1: Dismantle Oregon look and Oregon played terribly. It was their

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Speaker 1: worst played game of the year. But a lot of

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Speaker 1: that always has to do with who you're playing against.

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Speaker 1: You had Dante Moore throwing a pick six on the

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Speaker 1: first play of the game. That should have been your

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Speaker 1: final clue that it's gonna wind up be in Indiana's

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Speaker 1: Night five touchdowns Fernando Mendoza, Indiana actually runs four yards,

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Speaker 1: they throw four. It is a perfect game for Indiana,

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Speaker 1: and it was never in doubt once you got to halftime.

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Speaker 1: Now this is the again. There's certain stories in sports

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Speaker 1: Steve where even years later, I still can't believe they're true,

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Speaker 1: Like I still, I can't believe that happened, Like I still,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I can't believe the Royals won the

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Speaker 1: World Series in twenty fifth. Yes it was against the Mets,

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Speaker 1: but I can't believe the Royals won the World I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, man, the Royals won the World Series. They

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Speaker 1: alost won too, I mean the Royals won the World

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Speaker 1: Series right, like it in some stories. Just I know

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Speaker 1: I saw them and I saw it happen, but I

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Speaker 1: just can't believe it.

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Speaker 3: Marlin's won two.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins won too, Yes, and and they won. They

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Speaker 1: won the first one, dismantled their entire team, got rid

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Giants had not won a World Series

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Speaker 3: their first fifty years in California, and then they win

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Speaker 3: three and five years with and you can't name a

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Speaker 3: batter they had aside from Buster Posey in the entire

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Speaker 3: light up. Probably that's it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, come on, they had Mays McCovey, They had some dudes,

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Speaker 3: Thompson was really good for a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Well he had that one big home run. You know,

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Speaker 1: Tom's just you really just had that one.

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Speaker 3: I bet a good call from John Miller.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and as Cerulean blue as Bobby Thomson looks out

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Speaker 1: I don't know how else you cut this up. Indiana,

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Speaker 1: And we've mentioned this. They have zero football tradition. Zero.

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Speaker 1: had good years. Doesn't mean they haven't had years or

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Speaker 1: I mean their overall record, they are nearly two hundred

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Speaker 3: Had coming into this year the most total losses of

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Speaker 1: They've been playing football since eighteen ninety nine. Okay, they

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Speaker 3: Was the last time they won any league championship outright

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Speaker 1: They have zero football tradition. Again, it doesn't mean you

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Speaker 1: I don't know that there's been a more unlike success story.

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Speaker 3: But even the Villanova won, they had a really not

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Speaker 1: That's one game, I mean, that's what that's Villanova winning

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Speaker 3: And I invite it. And by the way, they have

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Speaker 3: into Indiana if you're wondering who's going to take over

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Speaker 3: new landscape of college football, is that you can't have

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Speaker 3: I applaud all of this. I think this is great

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Speaker 3: But it does, in a weird way, even the playing field,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what it does is is it evens the playing

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Speaker 3: They have huge money. Now, It's not like they've always

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the schools that get hurt are the lower level

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Speaker 3: But I'm leaving UCLA for Oregon exactly.

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Speaker 3: It really does force teams. And I talked about this

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Speaker 3: It's going to be generation after generation passed if don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because now it's the team. That's why. That's that's

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Speaker 1: But now that group of you talk take an average

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Speaker 1: Right now, Steve, we got Jason Cole NFL anals coming

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Speaker 1: All right, let him finish one more, let him finish.

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Speaker 1: the thirty third team on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two.

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Speaker 1: It is Jason Cole. Jake Cole, I'm gonna hit you

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl. So that's a great thing, and you feel

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Speaker 4: really great about the foundation of what the Bears have

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Speaker 4: because Caleb Williams has played so well this year. But

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Speaker 4: as you say, it's the Bears, it could be like

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Speaker 4: some ghosts from Soldier Field that you know, that pop

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Speaker 4: up during the middle of the game and say, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Hollis is not allowing this to happen today.

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Speaker 6: Sorry, you know, you guys aren't ready.

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Speaker 3: We've got Rams at Carolina on Saturday. The only thing

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Speaker 3: that scares me about the Rams is the amount and

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Speaker 3: how they've had these road losses games that frankly they

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Speaker 3: should have won, including at Carolina. They should win this

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Speaker 3: at Carolina on Saturday, right, they should.

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Speaker 4: The problem with the Rams like they have one truly

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Speaker 4: iconic player, they have another great player, and then they

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Speaker 4: got a bunch of really good dudes, you know, like

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Speaker 4: Verse and all the other guys that they have on defense.

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Speaker 4: But like when those guys started to wear out, there's

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Speaker 4: no star who stirs the drink anymore on the defense.

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Speaker 4: Like there's not that one guy. You know, they don't

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Speaker 4: have an Aaron Donald and you only you know, you

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Speaker 4: only get Aaron Donald's every once in a while right,

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Speaker 4: like every fifty years you go from Deacon Jones to

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Speaker 4: Aaron Donald. It takes a while, right, So I just

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Speaker 4: don't know that they can.

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Speaker 6: They're at a point in time.

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Speaker 4: Where they can raise their level to where they were

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Speaker 4: when they were at the peak of their powers earlier

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Speaker 4: this season. I wonder if they can do that, will

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Speaker 4: they get healthy enough fast enough to be able to

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Speaker 4: do that? And that's what I'm that's what I'm concerned about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's the Panthers, j Cole, Come on, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's they're going into Philadelphia to try to win.

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Speaker 6: I understand that the Panthers can do.

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Speaker 4: A few things. Like, it's the Panthers, so yeah, they

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Speaker 4: should win. I just this is this is a game

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Speaker 4: where or it's the Rams to lose, if that makes sense,

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Speaker 4: Like they're gonna They're going to determine the outcome on this.

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Speaker 4: It's all about their level of play. What are they

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Speaker 4: capable of doing because there are only a limited number

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Speaker 4: of things that the Panthers can do right now. But

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Speaker 4: they you know, they kind of hanged up a little bit,

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Speaker 4: you know, they they.

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Speaker 6: Were pretty feisty against Seattle for two and.

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Speaker 4: A half quarters.

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Speaker 1: Jason Cole NFL Insider with us Jason Smith. Do youve

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Speaker 1: disagree from Mike Carbon here at Fox Sports Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: when we jumped to Sunday, harmon Is.

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Speaker 6: Harmon Is, do you fly to Chicago for the game.

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Speaker 1: He's actually he's taking his daughter.

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Speaker 4: To college, taking his start to college.

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Speaker 1: Now, yeah, she's starting h spring semester.

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Speaker 4: Wow, where is young Harmonette going?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Boise State?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: She said, I gotta go someplace. I gotta go someplace

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Speaker 1: where there's a blue field. So she's going to Boise State?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Uh? Is that? Or you know the blue bunny farms

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Speaker 4: for the ice crenk So sometimes I mean, look.

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Speaker 1: I said, how about the red field at Eastern Washington. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: blue field? Blue field? And okay, all r it's where

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Speaker 1: we're going, going to the bluefield.

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Speaker 6: Okay, there we go. All right, So I'm moving on.

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Speaker 1: All right. So you get to Sunday and and you

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Speaker 1: got you know, Bills, Jaguars, the Bills on the road, Jacole,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that this isn't the worst journey for

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Speaker 1: the Bills to have to not be sitting at home

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Speaker 1: waiting and like I know, Josh Allen's record away from

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Speaker 1: home isn't good in the playoffs, But I don't know that, Hey,

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Speaker 1: drawing the Jaguars going on the road and it being

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Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult, I don't know if this

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Speaker 1: isn't might not what the Bills need at this point

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Speaker 1: in their era, in the Josh Allen era.

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Speaker 4: Well, we're trying to sharpen their the medal is this

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Speaker 4: iron on iron? Is that there are some other cliches

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Speaker 4: we're going through out here.

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Speaker 1: Well, play games at home until the AFC Championship game

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Speaker 1: and then lose. So I mean, I've seen all the

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Speaker 1: other ones. Maybe this one's better.

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Speaker 4: It's been said that if Josh Allen is ever going

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Speaker 4: to win a Super Bowl and get through the AFC,

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Speaker 4: like this is the year. Because obviously you know, no Borrow,

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Speaker 4: no Lamar, no, no Patrick Mahomes, right, I mean we

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Speaker 4: all know that. But the problem is that this matchup

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Speaker 4: is match for them. Run defenses are very good, and

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Speaker 4: Jacksonville can run the ball, and Jacksonville's defense is probably

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Speaker 4: the hottest in the league right now, and so you're

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Speaker 4: what you're wondering, can they slow down Buffalo enough and

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Speaker 4: control the tempo of the game to keep this game

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Speaker 4: in the low twenties, because if it's in the low twenties,

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Speaker 4: then Jacksonville, I think has a chance to win this

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Speaker 4: game if it gets over like twenty five points. You know,

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Speaker 4: if it's like a twenty twenty seven game where it

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Speaker 4: gets into the third, that's all Buffalo, you know, because

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Speaker 4: they're just so explosive, and that will put a lot

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Speaker 4: of pressure on Trevor Lawrence, and Trevor Lawrence still is

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Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence. There's going to be some kind of mental

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Speaker 4: laps out there, and the only question you have is

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Speaker 4: is the mental laps going to come at such a

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Speaker 4: time that it is going to kill them? Or are

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Speaker 4: they going to be able to survive it?

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts on the Niners on the road Sunday and

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Speaker 3: the Chargers on the road Sunday, because aren't these two

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Speaker 3: teams a little bit similar in that it's a bit

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Speaker 3: shocking that they win eleven and twelve games with the

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Speaker 3: amount of injuries they've gone through, and the Chargers, especially

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Speaker 3: with the offensive line.

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Speaker 4: I was having a conversation with one of the forty

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Speaker 4: nine ers systems before the actually before the Chicago game,

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Speaker 4: and I go the your team's not very good. I guess,

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Speaker 4: I guess, I know, I know, you know, they all know.

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Speaker 4: It's not a very good team. Yeah no pastorsh you know,

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Speaker 4: they've got injury problems, like it's just it's a mess.

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Speaker 4: But they've gotten through this season. They got a lot

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Speaker 4: of mileage out of Mac Jones, perty played great at

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Speaker 4: certain points and got himself hot. Can they win on

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Speaker 4: you know, can they win in Philly? Yeah they can,

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Speaker 4: But I think it's more like again, it's Philly's game

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Speaker 4: to win or lose. It's if Jalen Carter decides to

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Speaker 4: show up, then they win this game because he can

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Speaker 4: dominate the whole middle of the field, right him and

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Speaker 4: Jordan Davis and so right like like that's that's where

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Speaker 4: this game is. It's a simple matchup. And you just

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Speaker 4: at this point in time, we have no idea which

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Speaker 4: Jalen Carter is going to show up from week to

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Speaker 4: week and Philly doesn't have any idea.

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Speaker 6: And I don't think that you know, Sarahani.

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Speaker 4: Knows how to motivate the kid to get him to

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Speaker 4: play well, and I think you know she's going to

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Speaker 4: play well when there's money on the line, But then

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Speaker 4: he's going to go back to being who he is, right,

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Speaker 4: you know, like there're gonna be three to four games

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Speaker 4: every season at a Carter where you're like, I hope

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Speaker 4: he doesn't spend on somebody in the first minute, you know, right,

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Speaker 4: That's just what it is. So this this game all

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Speaker 4: falls on you know, Jalen Carter because their offense is

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Speaker 4: going to score enough points because they're gonna be able

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Speaker 4: to run on him. And as long as they can

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Speaker 4: keep the forty nine er trom you know again, scoring

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Speaker 4: twenty four to twenty seven points, they should roll through

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Speaker 4: this game. And when it like, you know, twenty four

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Speaker 4: to ten, because again, the forty nine ers aren't particularly good.

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Speaker 4: You know, like I love rock Bertie, I love what

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Speaker 4: they've done, but this is like, yeah, this is this

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Speaker 4: is a shoe string as it guess.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two, that is

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Speaker 1: at Jason Cole sixtyday.

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Speaker 4: Night, Monday night, Monday Pro Foot, Pro Football Hall of

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Speaker 4: Fame voter, author.

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Speaker 1: The only person I know who knows the definition of

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Speaker 1: anti disestablishmentarianism, it is Jason call right, Take it easy, buddy,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to next week. We'll talk and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you Monday going out, all right, there we go,

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Speaker 1: got him after the game on Monday, there we go.

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Speaker 3: And that's the game. We have yet to discuss. Houston

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Speaker 3: at Pittsburgh Monday night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a big one. We'll have more football coming

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Speaker 1: up in ninety seconds. But first, speaking of big discussions,

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Speaker 1: Steve Desager has everything that's going on tonight in the

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Speaker 1: wide world of sports. Is what's trending, Steve.

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Speaker 3: O almost everything. Final, We've got the Lake game in

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Speaker 3: LA and the NBA Lakers have tied up Milwaukee ninety

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Speaker 3: four all with four minutes left. Oklahoma City was down

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Speaker 3: twenty one and came back for a victory at Memphis

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Speaker 3: one seventeen one sixteen now thirty two and seven road

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Speaker 3: wins as well for Philadelphia and New Orleans for the Clippers.

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Speaker 3: In Atlanta, Phoenix beat New York won twelve one oh

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Speaker 3: seven thirty one points for Devin Booker. Portland won it's

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Speaker 3: fifth straight edgeing Houston won eleven one oh five despite

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Speaker 3: thirty points from Kevin Durant. Golden State took off in

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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter and blew out Zacramento one thirty seven,

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Speaker 3: one to oh three. Kings have lost seventh straight Boston

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Speaker 3: beat Toronto to start the night. Anthony Davis and the

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Speaker 3: MAVs could miss a few months if surgery is required

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Speaker 3: on his left hand. He has ligament damage. Well, we

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Speaker 3: talked about it a lot, but yes, tonight was a

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Speaker 3: semi final and college football playoff in Atlanta and number

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Speaker 3: one Indiana looked like a number one team again, fifty

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Speaker 3: six twenty two over Oregon Fernando Mendoza five touchdown passes.

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Speaker 3: The Hoosiers lead was forty two to seven in the

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Speaker 3: third quarter and that included three touchdowns in the first

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Speaker 3: half after forcing turnovers. So college football's finale is in

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Speaker 3: Miami against Miami on Monday the nineteenth. By the way,

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Speaker 3: college hoops USCA in overtime one at Minnesota NHL just

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Speaker 3: three games. Winnipeg had lost eleventh straight but beat LA

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Speaker 3: five to one. Washington a five to one win at Chicago,

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Speaker 3: Utah one at home four to two over Saint Louis Brooks.

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Speaker 3: Koepka applied for reinstatement to the PGA Tour. He just

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Speaker 3: left Live Golf with one year left on his contract.

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Speaker 3: He can still compete in all of the majors this season.

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Speaker 3: We know that based on his PGA Championship title from

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. Former Mets relier Ryan Stanek is signing

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Speaker 3: with the Cardinals. Former Philadelphia outfielder Max Kepler was suspended

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Speaker 3: eighty games for a ped violation. Tonight, figure skater Amber

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Speaker 3: Glenn won her third straight US title. The Olympic team's

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Speaker 3: going to be picked on Sunday, and that'll do it.

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Speaker 3: Can't wait for that final, even if it is this

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Speaker 3: kind of a blowout. Indiana has been so entertaining to see.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait for college football's finale a week for Monday.

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Speaker 1: Incredible night Tonight by Indiana, they blow the doors off

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Speaker 1: of Oregon. We'll have more on that game coming up

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Speaker 1: in twenty minute, but our NFL preview continues this weekend.

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Speaker 1: There are two teams playing. I don't care who they're

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Speaker 1: I don't care if they have buys. I'm gonna pick

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Speaker 1: them to lose because I don't believe in them at all.

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Speaker 1: Who are they? We get into that coming up next

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith, Steve de Seger, and for Mike Harmon, This

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Speaker 1: is Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm. Eastern seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: And before we get to the NFL, just gotta give

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Speaker 1: you a quick update of what's going on right now

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. The Bucks lead the Lakers with sixteen

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Speaker 1: seconds left to go in regulation. It is one oh three,

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Speaker 1: one oh one. Luka Doncic fouls out. He has called

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Speaker 1: for a foul on Kevin Porter taking a three, and

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Speaker 1: it's one of the worst calls I have ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Luca doesn't touch Porter, the official is looking right at him,

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Speaker 1: doesn't even touch him, but Porter just crumples to the

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Speaker 1: ground like he got hit. They blow the whistle. I

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Speaker 1: thought Luca was gonna fight the official. You see the

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Speaker 1: replay and it's insanely bad. How this call was Luca's

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Speaker 1: screaming all the way to the bench. I really don't

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Speaker 1: get it. And Lebron James not a final minute for him.

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Speaker 1: He just had a shot blocked at the rim going

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Speaker 1: in for a layup, and then he just had the

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Speaker 1: ball stolen away. Honestly, the Lakers last possession was Giannis

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Speaker 1: pokes it away as he's driving to the hoop. So

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Speaker 1: you had two bad plays by Lebron and a horrible

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Speaker 1: foul call. Luca is still yelling at the official about this,

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Speaker 1: and the Bucks are gonna win this game over the

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Speaker 1: Lakers with six tens of a second left to go.

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Speaker 1: They have the basketball. I mean, look, two bad possessions

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Speaker 1: by Lebron. I get it happens, but wow, that foul

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Speaker 1: call is just absolutely ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: In Milwaukee's gonna make the two free throws with under

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Speaker 3: a second to go and that will do it. And

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Speaker 3: the Lakers record at home will be ten and seven

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Speaker 3: this year. To write home a bit man.

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Speaker 1: Then that is just that is absolutely Look, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that the call. I don't know what was worse,

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Speaker 1: Lebron's two possessions or the call. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: Lebron's two bad possessions equally as bad as the call

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Speaker 1: on Luca that found them out of the game.

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Speaker 3: You're referring to it like as if this was a

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Speaker 3: playoff game, it would forever be known as the call.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: As soon as you said maybe the worst NBA call,

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Speaker 3: I've whoa, how could we even quantify what has been

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Speaker 3: the worst in the NBA for cred out loud?

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Speaker 1: I mean, just the fact the official is looking right

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Speaker 1: at him, Luca doesn't touch him, and you can see

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Speaker 1: that Kevin Porter just crumples, just crumples to the crowd

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Speaker 1: and it's, oh, come on, man, you have to see

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Speaker 1: that better than that. You have to put yourself. You

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Speaker 1: got to see that play better than that man's that's inexcusable.

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Speaker 3: So Kyle Kuzma gets a win down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, getting at w Right coming off the bench for

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Speaker 1: thirteen points for the Bucks tonight. And Giannis doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to get traded down. Maybe we're on the way back up.

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Speaker 1: Giannis wants to stay. So look, we'll have more basketball

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Speaker 1: up next.

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Speaker 4: Dowt.

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Speaker 1: We got to get to John Morant a little bit

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Speaker 1: here because now suddenly he is on the trading block.

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Speaker 1: But according to what Rick Buker told us last night,

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Speaker 1: it may not happen. But look, with this weekend coming

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Speaker 1: up in the NFL playoffs, there are two teams I

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Speaker 1: am not believing in at all that I am not

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Speaker 1: going to pick to win that I know they're going

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Speaker 1: out in the playoffs because they are paper tigers. And

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Speaker 1: that's the forty nine Ers and the Steelers. All right,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe in the forty nine Ers at all.

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Speaker 1: They were exposed by Seattle's defense. The silver lining is

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan's a great head coach. He's that great for

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Speaker 1: a team that's not any good that got by with

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones and then brock Purty showed up, and they

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Speaker 1: still were able to nearly come within one game of

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Speaker 1: home field advantage over the season. The forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: are not good. They are a paper tiger. And look,

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Speaker 1: I don't expect them to go on the road and

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Speaker 1: win this game. And then the Eagles win this game.

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Speaker 1: They'll be sending home an imposter because the forty nine

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Speaker 1: Ers are absolute imposters. The Eagles win game and the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers going suddenly, It's okay, they had an

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Speaker 1: overachieving regular season, but I'm not believing in them. They're

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Speaker 1: going home.

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Speaker 3: There have been games when Phillies offense has not been

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Speaker 3: that great. I don't think their offense has to be

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Speaker 3: that great to win this game against San Francisco. The

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Speaker 3: turnover margin for the forty nine Ers is a minus six,

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Speaker 3: worst among playoff teams. Needless to say, compare that to

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Speaker 3: what you were talking about earlier in the show with

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Speaker 3: the Bears are the best in the league at turnover

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Speaker 3: margin a plus twenty two. We've got a Niners team

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Speaker 3: that's a minus six and going on the road, and

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Speaker 3: they were in the shootouts recently, and they do not

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Speaker 3: have a pass rush. What do they have to offer

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Speaker 3: at Philadelphia? They've had better teams in the playoffs than

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Speaker 3: this one, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Look and you saw how painful the end of that

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Speaker 1: Seahawks game was for Brock Purty. What he was getting

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Speaker 1: hit so hard on every playoff, Like take him out

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Speaker 1: of the game, you're not gonna You're not winning this game.

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Speaker 1: But he's getting absolutely dis.

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Speaker 3: Like Mick yelling throw in the towel. It is like,

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Speaker 3: I mean from the corner.

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Speaker 1: It's like the Seahawks are in the huddle going, who's

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Speaker 1: getting him on this play?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: I got him, man, I got him lined up. We

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Speaker 1: got a great stunt ready. You want tew I hit

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Speaker 1: Brock party like it was. It was tough watching him

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Speaker 1: get hit. It's like watching Rocky get hitting the ribs

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Speaker 1: in Rocky one. He goes, your ribs are broken, and

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Speaker 1: Apollo's just working on the ribs and working on the ribs. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers, Yeah, they're going.

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Speaker 3: Home even though it's a Monday night game at home.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a Monday night game at home. The

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Speaker 1: thing is, no matter what the weather is, defense travels well,

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Speaker 1: and nobody wants to play the Texans, who have the

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Speaker 1: best defense in the NFL. Look, the top five defenses

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Speaker 1: are all still playing right now. Houston's playing, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: are playing, the Rams are playing, the Broncos are playing,

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Speaker 1: Seahawks are playing. The five best defense in the league

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Speaker 1: are all playing. And the Steelers don't really do anything. Well, yes,

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Speaker 1: they'll get DK Metcalf back and that's great, But like Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: just watching Mike Tomlin do the do the do the

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Speaker 1: whole celebration at the end of the game last week

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Speaker 1: after Tyler Luton missed a field goal, I'm like, do

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Speaker 1: you really think you're that good a team? You happen

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Speaker 1: to get by in the worst division in football? Well, okay,

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Speaker 1: the NFC South, in the second worst division in football.

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Speaker 1: You really think that Houston is gonna come for Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers And they have been licking their chops all week

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Speaker 1: long to get ready for this game. Yes, it's Monday night,

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Speaker 1: and I know Rogers was really good at the end

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Speaker 1: of the season. I give him all kinds of credit

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Speaker 1: in the world from playing as well. But man, is

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Speaker 1: it gonna be a painful Monday Night for him because

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Speaker 1: the Texans defense is that good there at the level

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Speaker 1: we thought they would be at the beginning of the season.

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Speaker 1: The game we saw brock Perdy go through with the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks last week, this is the game Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 1: gonna go through against the Texans. At the end, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna go that's it. I don't care that I played well.

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Speaker 1: I'm retiring. I can't get hit like this anymore. I

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Speaker 1: Am not getting You watch how fast he gets rid

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Speaker 1: of the football and throws it early and throws the

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Speaker 1: ball into the ground to get to so he doesn't

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Speaker 1: get hit by that Texans pass rush because I've seen

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Speaker 1: that happen. He gets happy feet, he throws the ball

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Speaker 1: before his receivers turn around because he just can't get

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Speaker 1: hit anymore. You watch how many possessions go by the

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Speaker 1: wayside for the Steelers, because that's gonna happen on Monday.

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Speaker 4: Just watch.

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Speaker 3: It's a superb Texans defense and they'll force turnovers, and

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Speaker 3: their turnover marchin is best in the AFC, and they

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Speaker 3: only allow seventeen points a game and only about two

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Speaker 3: hundred and seventy five total yards a game, both of

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Speaker 3: those best in the AFC. Just for the record, the

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Speaker 3: trivia is the Steelers at home on Monday Night football

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Speaker 3: have won twenty three straight. It goes back to nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety one. I can't see them winning against a Houston

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Speaker 3: team that, by the way, has won nine in a row.

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Speaker 1: Also, yeah, it is. I'd love to be able to say,

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Speaker 1: at the end of this game, Hey, this is a

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Speaker 1: game where Aaron Rodgers is showing how good he is.

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Speaker 1: Maybe plays another year, but I think this is a

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Speaker 1: game that he says that's it. I can't do anymore.

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Speaker 1: I know this is a great year, but men, if

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Speaker 1: it's gonna end like this, I can't do it. Man,

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Speaker 1: every inch of my body is in pain from this game.

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Speaker 1: Every bit