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Speaker 2: know normally it is Willard and Rudolph in this time slot,

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Speaker 2: but as Brandon Truffer reminded me at this time of

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Speaker 2: the year, as you will know on Christmas Eve, Rudolph

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Speaker 2: is busy, big day today in the NFL, and we're

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Speaker 2: gonna cover all of it. We may need six hours,

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Speaker 2: but we're going to do it in three. And I

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Speaker 2: want to start with my beloved Detroit Lions, a team

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Speaker 2: I covered for ten years pre and post from ninety

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Speaker 2: eight to two thousand and eight. I often said I

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Speaker 2: saw it all Barrus Sanders last year, Rod Marinelli's owned

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Speaker 2: sixteen team in two thousand and eight. But on January fifth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two, well, the Detroit Lions did something they

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Speaker 2: hadn't done since nineteen fifty seven, and they haven't done since.

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Speaker 2: They won a playoff game. They bet Jimmy Johnson's Dallas

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Speaker 2: Conboys thirty eight to six. And John Matten was on

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Speaker 2: the call that day and he went on to say,

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Speaker 2: you're looking at the two teams of the nineties. He

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Speaker 2: was halfway because the Conboys went on to win three

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Speaker 2: Super Bowls. The Lions looking for their first Super Bowl appearance,

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Speaker 2: but they got their first divisional conference champion today, first

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Speaker 2: time in thirty years. The last time the Lions won

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Speaker 2: their conference checked at their division they were in. The

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Speaker 2: NFC Central didn't even exist anymore. You know, by the

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Speaker 2: way that playoff game I just told you about, Oh

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Speaker 2: my goodness, was optimism in Detroit through the roof. But

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Speaker 2: reality came back the following week as the Lions got

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Speaker 2: stuffed by the Redskins and their Super Bowl, well, our

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl aspirations went down the drain, as it were.

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Speaker 2: But all the teams we're gonna talk about tonight that

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Speaker 2: have qualified for the playoffs or will tell you what

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Speaker 2: they have to do to qualify for the playoffs and

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Speaker 2: where they might end up where they get a buye

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Speaker 2: where they have to go on the road will tell

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Speaker 2: you what we know based on where we are finishing

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Speaker 2: up on week sixteen. We've got a triple header Monday

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Speaker 2: as well. You know, Santa Claus is on the way.

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Speaker 2: The trackers already showing He's in the air everywhere, kind

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Speaker 2: of like Ben Maller every time at this year. On

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Speaker 2: Decembertory fourth say, I'm personally optimistic. Just for me, it's

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Speaker 2: all the same, because I really am hoping. All I

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Speaker 2: ever won for Christmas is the official Red Rider Carbine

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Speaker 2: Action two hundred shot range model air rifle, like Ralphie,

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Speaker 2: you know, with the compass in the stock and the

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Speaker 2: thing that tells time. Yeah, just ONMN Ralfie. Unfortunately, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: oh for forty because something always comes up every time,

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Speaker 2: like no, you'll put someone's eye out. But I'm still optimistic.

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Speaker 2: But optimist optimism can turn into realism, which can turn

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Speaker 2: into pessimism. And you're wonder wait, wait, BURNI, where are

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Speaker 2: you going all these definitions? Well, let me spell it

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Speaker 2: out for you. So we are all on the same

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Speaker 2: page tonight. See, there are only three types of people

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Speaker 2: in the world. There are optimists. There are pessimists who

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Speaker 2: people never really admit to being a pessimist. They're realists.

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Speaker 2: So a realist is someone who's a pessimist who won't

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Speaker 2: admit it. But let me share with you a story

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Speaker 2: that will help help you understand and define where we

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Speaker 2: same page. See, there's a story about the chief of

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Speaker 2: Detectives job opening up in New York City and the NYPD.

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Speaker 2: The police commissioner decided he would handle the final interview.

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Speaker 2: They were down to three candidates. One was an optims,

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Speaker 2: what was a pessimist? What was a realist? The commissioner

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Speaker 2: called each one in and asked him one final question. First,

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Speaker 2: he called in the pessimist. He said, here's your question.

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Speaker 2: Who shot JFK. The pessimist said, oh, simple, Lee Harvey Oswall,

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Speaker 2: one man, one bullet. I don't believe any conspiracy theories.

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Speaker 2: No one can keep a secret in this country. He says,

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Speaker 2: calls in the realist, who shot JFK? Just, oh, come on,

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Speaker 2: he asked them who shot JFK. And he says hmm.

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Speaker 2: He scratches his head because can I get back to you?

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Speaker 2: Police commissioner doesn't know where to go with that. Okay,

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Speaker 2: They already got me working on a murder case. Well,

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Speaker 2: we are op stimistic about our Detroit Lions. What does

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Speaker 2: winning the NFC North mean for the postseason? Look? The

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Speaker 2: offense looks strong, very solid ground attack the Lions. They

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Speaker 2: won their first division crowns since nineteen ninety three. Remember

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Speaker 2: just two years ago they were three thirteen to one.

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Speaker 2: They started out last season one and six, fired their

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Speaker 2: defensive backs. Coach Aubrey Pleasant switched everything around, went eight

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Speaker 2: and two down the stretch. Last year, they're eleven and four.

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Speaker 2: They may yet even have the number one seed. We're

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Speaker 2: not done yet, but let's not get too ahead of ourselves.

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Speaker 2: Two games remaining before the postseason, Detroit still got a

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Speaker 2: tighten up on defense. That's the realism part. Nick mullins, Well,

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Speaker 2: he's the fourth quarterback to start for the Vikings this

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Speaker 2: season and he was letting it fly against Detroit. That

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Speaker 2: should be some concern for the Lions as they're going

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Speaker 2: to face better competition in the playoffs. As far as

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Speaker 2: possible pessimism, special teams maker Michael Bagley his extra point

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Speaker 2: way head Minnesota somehow won that game. I guarantee you

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Speaker 2: John Kaminski would have been a household name of Detroit.

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Speaker 2: All he had to do was fall on that fumble

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Speaker 2: and the Lions go home, goodnight, Division champions. No, he's

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Speaker 2: got to play hero ball. So are you optimistic about Detroit?

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Speaker 2: Are you realistic about Detroit? Are you pessimistic? Kind of

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Speaker 2: like the Cowboys? Can you really be optimism? Be optimistic

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Speaker 2: about the Cowboys because optimism equals trust. Can you really

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Speaker 2: in the past when the playoffs rule around, well, let's

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Speaker 2: face it, they've got a turnover prone quarterback and they've

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Speaker 2: got a coach who often in crunch time, especially when

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Speaker 2: them all parking lot wondering where you parked this car?

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Speaker 2: Can you really trust the Cowboys? Are you optimist? Mystic

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Speaker 2: about the car? Are you pessimistic? Are you realistic? And finally,

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Speaker 2: can they run the ball? Meanwhile, on the Vikings the

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Speaker 2: other side of the Lions game today, is this it

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Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty three Vikings? Most likely yes? According

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Speaker 2: to the power Index, their chances of making the playoffs

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Speaker 2: dropped dramatically. And speaking of playoffs, as we sit here,

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Speaker 2: England Patriots. You tell me if this game is important.

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Speaker 2: The Broncos win, well, they've got a thirty two percent

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Speaker 2: chance of making the playoffs according to these metrics. If

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Speaker 2: the Broncos lose, they've got a three percent chance. And

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Speaker 2: will the real Broncos please stand up? Week seven through twelve,

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Speaker 2: their defense was only allowing sixteen points a game. The

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Speaker 2: last three weeks, they're allowing twenty four points a game.

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Speaker 2: Week seven through twelve, they were only allowing one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ninety one pass yards per game, Now to forty

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Speaker 2: pass ratio for that five week stretch. Inning in week twelve,

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Speaker 2: Broncos opponents five touchdowns, six interceptions. Since then, last three

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Speaker 2: weeks Broncos opponents six touchdown passes, one interception. And speaking

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Speaker 2: of takeaways, they were a takeaway machine for that five

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Speaker 2: about the highlights and the takeaways and the analysis and

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Speaker 2: who is what and where are you optimistic? Are you

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, Everybody, Merry Christmas. Denver Broncos. Seven seconds into

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Speaker 2: the game, Bailey Zappi drops back to pass. He gets

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Speaker 2: get heavily into the playoff. Picture the standings, Who goes where,

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Speaker 2: and we'll do this in orderly fashion. But let's recap

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Speaker 2: what has taken place today. Give it up to Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 2: I always like Baker Mayfield. Yeah, I did remember. He

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Speaker 2: took over a team in Cleveland that was one in

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Speaker 2: Jacksonville thirty to twelve, and with the Saints loss and

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Speaker 2: the Bucks win, Well, how to Tampa Bay's playoff chances? Look?

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Speaker 2: The Bucks put together today arguably the most complete game

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Speaker 2: Bay is the defending the division champion. They're looking for

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Speaker 2: their third division title. It's layout right there for you.

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Speaker 2: Week eighteen. Even with one loss in those two games,

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Speaker 2: the Bucks would win the tiebreaker over the Atlanta New

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Speaker 2: Orleans winner. Go Bucks. Next game hosts the Saints Sunday. Jags, well,

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Speaker 2: is their season slipping away? They still have a sixty

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Speaker 2: five percent chance to win the AFC South for those

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Speaker 2: you know goofy analytics despite their four game losing streak

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Speaker 4: Dan Reeves for the most losses in regular season play. Here,

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Speaker 4: on the opening drive tonight first play, Bailey Zappy was

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Speaker 4: sacked and fumbled, so the Timber Broncos took over first

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Speaker 4: and goal at the six and couldn't score, in fact,

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Speaker 4: nearly through an interception on a third and goal pass

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Speaker 4: from Russell Wilson. It was initially called a pick and

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Speaker 4: then reversed properly on video review, but on fourth and

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Speaker 4: goal from the two stopped at the one, so neither

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Speaker 4: team has scored. We're in the opening minutes, New England

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Speaker 4: at Denvers zero zero. Miami beat Dallas twenty two to

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Speaker 4: twenty on a short field goal on the final play,

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Speaker 4: and not only did the Dolphins clinch a playoff spot,

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Speaker 4: Dallas is in as well. We've got quarterback news from Jaguars. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: they lost again Tampa Bay thirty to twelve the final,

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Speaker 4: and Jags QB Trevor Lawrence not only had one touchdown

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Speaker 4: three turnovers today, but he left with a shoulder injury.

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Speaker 4: Bears led Arizona twenty one nothing late first half twenty

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Speaker 4: seven to sixteen the final. Justin fields one short touchdown, pass,

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Speaker 4: one short touchdown run, one interception and fields on the

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Speaker 4: ground nine carries ninety seven yards and that touchdown. I

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Speaker 4: mentioned Cleveland with the win at Houston, and by the way,

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Speaker 4: c J. Stroud quarterback news for the Texans, was out

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Speaker 4: again with a concussion. Detroit's win at Minnesota was thirty

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Speaker 4: to twenty four. Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison left with

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Speaker 4: an ankle injury. Seattle gets a touchdown pass with about

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Speaker 4: one minute left to win at Tennessee twenty to seventeen.

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Speaker 4: Gino Smith returned. He had missed previous cut couple of

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Speaker 4: games with a groin injury. Atlanta down to Indianapolis twenty

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Speaker 4: nine to ten. Yungway coup five for five on field goals.

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Speaker 4: Jets blew a lead and still beat Washington on a

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Speaker 4: late fifty four yard field goal from Greg Zerline thirty

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Speaker 4: to twenty eight. Green Bay one on a late field

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Speaker 4: goal at Carolina thirty three to thirty. Three NFL games

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Speaker 4: on Christmas Tomorrow, including Philadelphia against the Giants on Fox TV,

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Speaker 4: and veteran kicker Mason Crosby will play for the Giants.

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Speaker 4: Kid York is injured in college football. Three bowl games

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Speaker 4: on Tuesday Wednesday night on Fox TV, the Holiday Bowl

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Speaker 4: from San Diego USC against number fifteen Louisville. No NBA today,

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Speaker 4: College basketball off until Wednesday, NHL off until Wednesday night.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, Steve, great stuff, great recall, great memory.

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Speaker 2: I of course covered that ninety seven Michigan team who

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Speaker 2: beat Washington State twenty one to sixteen in the Rolls Bowl,

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Speaker 2: Ryan Leaf. I was with WTK, then I was at

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Speaker 2: the game at the Rose Bowl, and before I left

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Speaker 2: for CBS Radio the following year, Ryan Leaf and the

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Speaker 2: Washington State Cougar has actually left sixteen to fourteen heads

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Speaker 2: a ball at to ten. A wide receiver was opened

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Speaker 2: in the end zone, ball off his fingertips, so they'd

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Speaker 2: have gone up by two scores. That's the year Charles

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Speaker 2: Woodson won.

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Speaker 4: Remember the interception? Didn't Leaf throw in the m zone

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Speaker 4: as well? That Rose Bowl game? And then he gets

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Speaker 4: drafted by the Chargers and set them back a few

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Speaker 4: years his rookie You thought Peyton Manning's rookie season was bad.

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Speaker 4: Not everybody as good as a rookie, even Hall of famers.

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Speaker 4: But Ryan Leaf was two touchdowns fifteen interceptions as a rookie.

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Speaker 2: We could spend the whole three hours on that tonight,

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Speaker 2: but maybe we'll set that aside for a different day.

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Speaker 2: And one final footnote. I liked your analogy vs. A

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Speaker 2: V height and quarterbacks in predictaous success. Mark McGuire had

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Speaker 2: a brother, Dan McGuire, six foot seven out of San

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Speaker 2: Diego State. He had a cup of coffee and a

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Speaker 2: sweet role in the NFL, never finished his sweet role,

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Speaker 2: couldn't play a lick, and he was six foot seven.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of offense, this game tonight, I tell you they

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Speaker 2: may be setting offense back one hundred years as Denver

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Speaker 2: tries to return out.

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Speaker 4: If you could say that for most Patriots games this year,

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Speaker 4: Denver couldn't.

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Speaker 2: Cash in that early turnover. They were done on the

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Speaker 2: four yard line. As I watched this game.

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Speaker 4: This punt, it was a fifty three yard punt and

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Speaker 4: a fifty two yard return by Denver just now, so that.

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Speaker 2: Would net one yard. I mean, I'm no high school dummy.

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Speaker 2: I went the full six years.

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Speaker 4: Oh, which reminds me of the point you brought up

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Speaker 4: that you don't trust that team special teams. I would

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Speaker 4: add Buffalo to the list. Is that's the one check

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Speaker 4: I would get there.

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Speaker 2: A couple of things we'll get to tonight. We'll preview

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Speaker 2: the triple header and Steve save those duels and tones

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Speaker 2: because there are five names emerging too prominent for the

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Speaker 2: vacant La Chargers job. We're going to get to that

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Speaker 2: later in the show. I want to hear a few

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Speaker 2: on that very much, so I want to remind everybody,

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Speaker 2: folks that after the show. Shortly after the show, our

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Speaker 2: podcast will be going off, So if you've missed any

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Speaker 2: of today's show, be sure to check out the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast,

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Speaker 2: and be sure to also follow, rate and review the podcast. Again,

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Speaker 2: just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast.

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Speaker 2: You'll see this show posted right after we get off

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Speaker 2: the year. That, of course is Willard and Rudolph. Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattle in for Willard and Rudolph, as Lorena would say,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Football Sunday with Bernie Frattle. Not a lot

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Speaker 2: to talk about the Texans except I think CJ. Stroud

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Speaker 2: has been outstanding, and I would also say that I

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Speaker 2: believe Demico Ryans should be Coach of the Year. He

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Speaker 2: took over a team where two coaches couldn't last one year,

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Speaker 2: they weren't expected to do anything, and they've got a

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Speaker 2: shot at making the playoffs. How about those Falcons. You know,

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Speaker 2: as I've mentioned many times on my show, you now

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Speaker 2: know why Derek Carr was sixty three and seventy nine

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Speaker 2: as his starter for the Raiders said all he needed

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Speaker 2: was a defense. Well maybe that defense was John Cochran,

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Speaker 2: because I'll tell you what right now, Derek Carr has

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Speaker 2: trouble scoring as well. That offense couldn't score with a

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Speaker 2: fist full of fifties. And then obviously it'll repute. Can

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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons run the table? They may steal this

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Speaker 2: division if Atlanta plays like it did earlier. Today, they

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Speaker 2: have shown they have a balanced drun pass attack. They

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Speaker 2: put up four hundred and six yards of offense against

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Speaker 2: the above average Indianapolis team. A lot of folks who

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Speaker 2: think Shane Steikin should be former UNB quarterback Shane Steikin

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Speaker 2: should be coach of the Year. And oh yeah, on defense,

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Speaker 2: Atlanta had six sacks, held the Colts to just two

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two yards. So as much as I

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Speaker 2: like Gardner Minshew, you know, let's hold off on that

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Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew first ballot Hall of Fame vote for just

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Speaker 2: a minute. Taylor Heinike, Wow, he like you just needs

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Speaker 2: to rent. This guy's like Vince Evans coming off of

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Speaker 2: B and W A lot starting for the Raiders back

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Speaker 2: in the day. Look it up. I know Hartman knows

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Speaker 2: all about that one. Steve, I know you do too.

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Speaker 2: The first start of Heinike's second stint as the Falcons

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Speaker 2: starter very efficient twenty three to thirty three, two twenty nine,

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Speaker 2: one touchdown, no interceptions, passer rating of ninety nine. The

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Speaker 2: only pessimistic, realistic part Jeff Akuda out of Ohio State,

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Speaker 2: who never really did much with the Lions. They sent

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Speaker 2: him packing. He's in his fourth year, He's lost his

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Speaker 2: job to a rookie cornerback and then Clark Phillips Jeff Acuda. Frankly,

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Speaker 2: he's been playing like Clark Griswold. Now you know why

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Speaker 2: he lost his job. So what does this recent inconsistency

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Speaker 2: say about the Colts? The Colts, they show up very

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Speaker 2: flat today, very flat after Molly Whopping, as Kevin Figures

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Speaker 2: would say. The Steelers in a critical win last week,

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Speaker 2: comes after a blow out lost the previous week in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: So much like I said about the Broncos, will the

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Speaker 2: real Colts stand up? Yes, they've been overachieving and their results,

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Speaker 2: which are so up and down, might really be an

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Speaker 2: indication of who they are. So I don't know about

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Speaker 2: the Colts. Let's move on, but there were some pivotal

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Speaker 2: games last night as well. I really want to give

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Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills their flowers two weeks ago it was

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Speaker 2: looking a little bleak, but back to back wins, you

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Speaker 2: can be concerned about the performance as the Bills continue

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Speaker 2: to playoff push. They host the Patriots next Sunday. But

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Speaker 2: at the end of the year, when they add up

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Speaker 2: all your victories, they don't ask how just how many

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Speaker 2: they stopped Dallas last week they hold on to beat

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Speaker 2: a pesky LA Chargers team Saturday night. Steve, I believe

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Speaker 2: you there won't you that's correct? You any takeaways about

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Speaker 2: the Bills because they seem to make the big plays

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Speaker 2: when they needed to make the big plays. Go ahead,

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Speaker 2: What do you got for?

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Speaker 4: They have the characteristics that contenders had. I'm not picking

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Speaker 4: them to be in the Super Bowl, but I do

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Speaker 4: think they're being overlooked. For starters, They've had a healthy

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Speaker 4: quarterback starting literally every game this season. That alone puts

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Speaker 4: them ahead of a third of the teams in the

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Speaker 4: league this year. Also, the starting offensive line all five

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Speaker 4: have started every game this year. That is notable, and

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Speaker 4: in fifteen games, they've only allowed twenty sacks, that is

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Speaker 4: best in the NFL. They also have a defense that

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Speaker 4: allows under twenty points a game. They also got five

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Speaker 4: more sacks on the defense last night. They're up to

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Speaker 4: fifty sacks. That's top five in the league. They're top

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Speaker 4: five in takeaways on defense. Did you know that this offense,

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Speaker 4: led by Josh Allen, is number one on third down conversions.

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Speaker 4: They convert about fifty percent of their third downs for

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Speaker 4: this season. They're also top five therefore in time of possession,

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Speaker 4: they're top five in red zone tds. When the Buffalo

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Speaker 4: Bills get to the opponent's twenty, they score a touchdown

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Speaker 4: two thirds of the time. There are a lot of

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Speaker 4: good things about Buffalo.

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Speaker 2: Steve that was outstanding. You need to take what you

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Speaker 2: just said. Frame it hanging on the wall at the

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Speaker 2: louver next to the Mona Lisa. That was about as

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Speaker 2: comprehensive as a breakdown as you're going to get. Come

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Speaker 2: it up. There's another team in LA besides the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: You may have heard of them. I want to go

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Speaker 2: back to the Thursday night game. Are the Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: Rams a playoff team? I'll tell you why I think

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Speaker 2: they are. I'm Bernie Fraddlewick Company line from the Las

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Speaker 2: Vegas Fox Sports Radio ti Raq dot Com studios. Keep

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Speaker 2: it locked right here. You're listening to Fox Football Sunday

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Speaker 2: with Bernie Frattle, Well, the floodgates have opened. Ry Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Everybody dender up seven to nothing Gavante Williams on a

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Speaker 2: three yard touchdown round but nodak now Bailey Zappy has

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Speaker 2: got New England in the red zone. I'm Bernie fraddlewre

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Speaker 2: Comedy Live from the Las Vegas Foxsportsradio Tirack dot Com Studios,

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Speaker 2: Fox Football Sunday with Bernie Fratto in for Willard and Rudolph.

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Speaker 2: Seems like a while ago, but Thursday Night the Rams

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Speaker 2: who've now won six of their past seven games, their

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Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens. While they now have a seventy eight percent

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Speaker 2: chance to make the playoffs according to you know those

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Speaker 2: analytic math models there now, had the Rams lost Thursday,

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Speaker 2: their chances would have fallen to seventeen percent. But let's

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Speaker 2: give credit where credit is due. Their offense has very

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Speaker 2: much come alive since Matt Stafford returned from a thumb

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Speaker 2: injury in week eleven, and the Rams well, they've now

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Speaker 2: scored at least twenty eight points in five straight games.

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Speaker 2: Remember that big controversy about running back to the beginning

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Speaker 2: of the year. You got to pay us. Look, the

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Speaker 2: running back position is every bit as valuable as it's

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Speaker 2: ever been. The difference is it's interchangeable. Football is now

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Speaker 2: basketball on turf. You put your athletes in space to

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Speaker 2: make a play. That's the way it works. No longer

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Speaker 2: three yards and a cloud of dusts. Linebackers run like

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Speaker 2: DB's did twenty years ago. Defensive ends run like linebackers did.

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Speaker 2: Enter k Williams. He's a guy that Sean McVay has

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Speaker 2: praised multiple times for making the Rams a much better team.

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Speaker 2: He's on the field, kyn Wims. He not passed one

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Speaker 2: thousand rushing yards for the season. He's the first Rams

641
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 2: player to hit that mark since Todd Gurley in twenty eighteen.

642
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 2: Gurley got paid in What Happened? Where Is He Now? Well.

643
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 2: Even though the Saints tried to close the gap on

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Speaker 2: the Rams, with Derek Carr trying to make up for

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Speaker 2: his first quarter mistakes by going crazy in the fourth

646
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 2: quarter through a touchdown pass to Rashid Shaheed Well, the

647
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 2: Rams would not let the Saints prevail. Stafford completed thirty

648
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: four or twenty four to thirty four for three twenty

649
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Speaker 2: eight two touchdowns against the Saints. He's now thrown multiple

650
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Speaker 2: passing touchdowns in five straight games. This is Stafford's longest

651
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Speaker 2: streak since joining the Rams. That's according to again those

652
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 2: people who like to put all that stuff out, it's

653
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 2: you know, fodder force. But here's a promising trend as well.

654
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Speaker 2: You know, it's good if you've got a team that

655
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Speaker 2: can get after the quarterback, and the Rams have a

656
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 2: couple of rookie pass rushers that continue to get better

657
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 2: and better every week. Kobe Turner. He sacked Derek Carr

658
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 2: on fourth down in the second quarter. That was key

659
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 2: at that juncture in the game. He now leads NFL

660
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 2: rookies with six and a half sacks this season. He

661
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 2: also passed teammate Byron Young, who has six. Turner a rookie,

662
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: Kobe Turner trails only Aaron Donell for the most sacks

663
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Speaker 2: by a rookie since that became an official stat. So

664
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Speaker 2: another breakout performance DeMarcus Robinson. He scored a touchdown for

665
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Speaker 2: the fourth game in a row, and he now appears

666
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 2: to be a solid number three receiver for the Rams.

667
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 2: He passed up to two at well. Robinson finished the

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Speaker 2: game six catches eighty two yards and the touchdown against

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Speaker 2: the Saints. The Rams, I believe are a playoff team.

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Speaker 2: There's your optimism. They visit the New York Giants Sunday

671
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 2: on New Year's Eve. Here's the only thing you've got

672
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 2: to be realistic about. Maybe pessimistic you tell me the Rams,

673
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 2: well their kicker wills continue. They got a guy by

674
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Speaker 2: the name of Lucas Haversik. He missed a field goal

675
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 2: from forty seven yards in the second quarter, but that

676
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 2: doesn't tell the story. The Rams have missed a league

677
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 2: high eleven field goals this season. Don't give me any

678
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 2: Scott Norwood jokes at this time, or hey, if Jason

679
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 2: Sanders hadn't made that field goal. They're never automatic in

680
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 2: the rain at Miami. To be Dallas, kicking is important.

681
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 2: Could that be the Rams Damocles will find out missing

682
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 2: eleven field goals in a season, and by the way,

683
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 2: the season's not done yet, still two games left. It's

684
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Speaker 2: the most missed field goals by any team since the

685
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Speaker 2: twenty fifteen Bucks, who missed eleven. Rams missed one more.

686
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 2: They set the new NFL record. The Rams also had

687
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Speaker 2: another special teams blunder that included a block punt in

688
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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, and what that did was set the

689
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 2: Saints up for a touchdown that made it thirty to

690
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Speaker 2: twenty two. But are the Rams a playoff team? I

691
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 2: say yes, and we could be heading depending on who

692
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 2: gets that sixth seed or if things hell today, We're

693
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 2: gonna get to that. We're gonna get to the playoff picture.

694
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 2: We're gonna break down the triple header that we are

695
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Speaker 2: seeing on Monday, and I want to bring in the

696
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Speaker 2: crew at the top of the hour. What would you

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Speaker 2: like to see under your Christmas tree as a sports

698
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Speaker 2: present for twenty twenty four? Maybe you want a new

699
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 2: coach for the Chargers. Where you're gonna get one. Who

700
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 2: do you want it to be? We're gonna find out.

701
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Speaker 2: In the meantime. Keep it locked right here. You're listening

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Speaker 2: to Fox Football Sunday with Bernie Fratdam on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Brandon Truffer reminded me, you know it's Christmas Eve, Rudolph

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Speaker 2: is a little busy. Speaking of getting busy, let's hear

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Speaker 2: from the crew and I'll start when you wake up.

717
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Speaker 2: What would you like to see on your Christmas tree?

718
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 2: As a sports gift for twenty twenty four and for me,

719
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Speaker 2: I'm unabashed about this. I would really love to see

720
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions in the Super Bowl. Forget whether they

721
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 2: win it, I'd just like to see him get there.

722
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 2: Haven't won a single They've won one playoff game since

723
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty seven. I told you all about that. And

724
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 2: in my fourteen years in the media in Detroit, spread

725
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 2: over WTK and an Arbor, the Michigan Flagship and CBS

726
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 2: ninety one ninety one, the WKRK, we were the flagship

727
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 2: for the Lions and Tigers, et cetera. Thought we covered

728
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 2: several red Wings Stanley cups cover the World Series for

729
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: the Tigers in two thousand and six and lost to

730
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Speaker 2: Saint Louis. Of course, the Pistons in two thousand and

731
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 2: four when they beat the Lakers in five games. I

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00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 2: will tell you take all every one of those and Steve,

733
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Speaker 2: you heard talk about Michigan's national championship team in ninety

734
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Speaker 2: seven when they beat Washington State January first of nineteen

735
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Speaker 2: ninety eight. Well they shared it with Nebraska, but you

736
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Speaker 2: get the picture. Here's my point. I know what the

737
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 2: city looks like when each of those teams win a

738
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 2: championship in Michigan State. Well they won a basketball championship

739
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 2: in two thousand beating Florida. But if the I will

740
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 2: tell you if the Lions has got to the super Bowl,

741
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:04,879
Speaker 2: just got to the super Bowl, they'd have to shut

742
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 2: that city down for three days. So that is my

743
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 2: Christmas gift. Wish that a long on. Maybe you know

744
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 2: some Charleston chews that are frozen, but that's a story

745
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 2: for a different day. All right, let's start with mister

746
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Speaker 2: de Sager. Steve, do you have a Christmas wish under

747
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 2: the tree design.

748
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Speaker 4: Well, now that you brought it up, I would say

749
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 4: pretty easily, I wouldn't have to think any further. A

750
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,439
Speaker 4: Dodger World Series title, because this is a team that's

751
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Speaker 4: in its best era of baseball since they moved to

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles. But they've won the World Series once since

753
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty eight. So and they won one hundred games

754
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 4: without a starting rotation last year. Let's emphasize that. True,

755
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 4: they've had a lot of good teams and a lot

756
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 4: of good performances and plenty of talent. And I'm tended

757
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 4: to say no more excuses. They still need to fill

758
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 4: out the rotation. Perhaps, but you could see what the

759
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 4: spending has done the past couple of weeks. This is

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00:42:59,560 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 4: going to be it.

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Speaker 2: You know, that would be a story. And Steve as

762
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 2: you well know, the Dodgers have been to the playoffs

763
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 2: eleven years in a row. You have to give them

764
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Speaker 2: their props for winning the COVID season. There is no

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00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 2: asterisk like a Roger Merris sixty one home runs in

766
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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty. But the truth of the matter is,

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00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 2: I don't know that Dodgers fans, if they're be an

768
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 2: objective feel that validates nineteen eighty eight. They'd like one

769
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Speaker 2: for a full season, So look, we have a winner.

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Speaker 2: The Guggenheim Group bought the Dodgers in twenty twelve. I

771
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 2: always characterize that as a vanity buy, and I see

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00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 2: that in the most complimentary way. They're business people, dignified

773
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Speaker 2: business people. They want to win. They've now won the

774
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 2: Shohiyo Tani sweep stakes, they've won the Yamamoto sweep stakes.

775
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 2: Now Steve Well said, you'd like to see them finish

776
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Speaker 2: it off of the World Series. Having said that, what

777
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 2: is your level of optimism or pessimism?

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Speaker 4: Well, realism, the pessimism. It's the baseball playoffs. It doesn't

779
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 4: matter who you are or how much. I mean, look

780
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Speaker 4: at the amount of money that was spent by various

781
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 4: teams that didn't even make the playoffs last year, AT's Angels, whoever.

782
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Speaker 4: It's just such a crapshoot because no matter what star

783
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 4: pitcher you get, he may only throw once that week.

784
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Speaker 4: So it's really different than the other sports that you

785
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 4: don't have the same quarterback every game, if you know

786
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Speaker 4: what I'm saying. I will say that as far as

787
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Speaker 4: Dodger fans, the twenty twenty World Series is completely valid.

788
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Speaker 4: What they would want is a World Series they can attend,

789
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Speaker 4: or a parade the attend, and that wasn't the case.

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Speaker 2: Fair people have forgotten they were played in Texas that year.

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Speaker 2: Lorana Peterson, your thoughts on what you'd like to see

792
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 2: unto your Christmas tree from a sports fan standpoint?

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Speaker 6: Okay, Well, besides some official Cowboys socks wrapped nicely, I

794
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 6: could really go for the Cowboys getting into those playoff

795
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 6: thingies you were talking about.

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Speaker 2: What is that the Super Bowl?

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00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, I could go for that with the Cowboys. But

798
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 6: you know they keep on dropping the ball right at

799
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 6: the end. So I I'm going to be a pessive.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to be a pessimist. I don't want

801
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Speaker 6: to be that. I want to be an optimist. I'm

802
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 6: going to stay positively positive that as long as I

803
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 6: get some Cowboys socks, the Cowboys will win.

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00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 2: Well, I like your chances on the socks. As far

805
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 2: as the Cowboys winning the Super Bowl again, it'd be

806
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 2: a great story. I actually liked Jerry Jones. I think

807
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 2: he's done a hell of a lot for the NFL.

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00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 4: I really mean that and he had Los Angeles included,

809
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 4: by the way. He was a big driver in getting

810
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Speaker 4: LA football.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look I heard him in an interview back in

812
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Speaker 2: two thousand and nine when they first opened the Jerry

813
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 2: Dome and the.

814
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Speaker 4: Risk he took, Oh really went into debt with that.

815
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, thank you for clarifying. And you know he

816
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 2: said he's always been an oil wildcatter at Hart and

817
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 2: look he bought the Cowboys. He built him into a winner.

818
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 2: It's the falling out with Jimmy Johnson was unfortunate. I

819
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 2: think if they'd have kept that team together with Jimmy Johnson,

820
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Speaker 2: theydn't won five six Super Bowls in the nineties. They

821
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Speaker 2: won three. They brought it very Switzer to babysit the

822
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Speaker 2: team with Jimmy's players. You saw what happened. Here's the challenge, Lorena,

823
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 2: not to be a grinch. Here see what I did there.

824
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Speaker 2: Here's the challenge. Can Dallas go on the road? They

825
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 2: might have to win three games on the road. And

826
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Speaker 2: I just not feel in Dak Prescott because he's a

827
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 2: turnover prone guy when crunch time matters most. And heard

828
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Speaker 2: what I said about Mike McCarthy. With all due respect

829
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 2: good regular season quote yet coach, And yes he did

830
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 2: win on a green bay, but he resembles that guy

831
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Speaker 2: when the game is on the line and there's clock management,

832
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: like the individual wandering them all parking lot wondering where

833
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 2: he parked his car. Can the Dallas Cowboys really win

834
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Speaker 2: three games on the road? Can Santa deliver that lorena.

835
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Speaker 4: If two of those are Philadelphia and San Francisco? Also?

836
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's that's another good point. All right, Brandon Truffa,

837
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Speaker 2: let's hear from you, buddy. You are a very knowledgeable

838
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 2: sports fan with deep desires. What would you like to

839
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 2: see under your Christmas tree present from Santa? With the

840
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 2: sports world heading into twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 7: Well, contrary to mister de Sager, who I respect greatly,

842
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 7: I am hoping for the Dodgers downfall. But yeah, I'm

843
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 7: a say it at I'm a San Diego Padres guy.

844
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 7: I'd love to see us win the World Series. I

845
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 7: think San Diego deserves one. It's a city that's never

846
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 7: seen a major sports championship.

847
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 4: Since the AFL Chargers in sixty three. Right, you've got

848
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 4: Cleveland had a drought since nineteen sixty four. Chargers longer

849
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 4: City of San Diego. I mean when the Aztecs went

850
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 4: to the Final four last year. Just getting to the

851
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 4: final four was easily one of the top ten moments

852
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Speaker 4: in San Diego sports. Absolutely.

853
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 7: I mean Lamont Butler's buzzer beater might be the best

854
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 7: in San Diego sports history. But yeah, I mean, we

855
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 7: had a team taken from us, as you guys were

856
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 7: just talking about with Jerry Jones, you know, having a

857
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 7: hand and getting the Chargers to Los Angeles.

858
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 4: City of San Diego had something to do with them

859
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 4: moving also.

860
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 7: And unfortunately, you know it's it's the passing of Peter

861
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 7: Sidler this past year. I would love to see dri

862
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 7: I would love to see the team kind of win

863
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 7: it for him because he invested so much into the

864
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 7: team and last year's team was so good.

865
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 4: Since when were the Padres paying a luxury text three

866
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 4: years in a row? Exactly?

867
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 2: Is that the truth?

868
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 7: I would love to see Peter Seidler's vision come to fruition,

869
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 7: I guess is what I want under my sports Christmas Treeth.

870
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 2: Well, as someone who spent a lot of time in

871
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 2: San Diego back in the day, of course, my good

872
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 2: buddy Tim Flannery name dropped. I played ball with in college.

873
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 2: He was the third base coach of the Pottery is

874
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 2: one of the most popular potteries played eleven years in

875
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: the organization. I loved going down to Jack Murphy Stadium,

876
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 2: and they should just rebuild it and move the Chargers back.

877
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 2: I don't understand. It feels like they It's like the

878
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 2: Oakland A's coming to Vegas. They showed up hat in hand, uninvited.

879
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 2: It doesn't even though the Chargers were born in Los Angeles.

880
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, props to Steve de Seger.

881
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 2: That's sixty three Chargers team, according to Sid Gilman and

882
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 2: many other NFL executives who've spoken off the record, is

883
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 2: the greatest team of all time. They challenged the NFL's

884
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,280
Speaker 2: sixty three Chicago champion Chicago Bears to a game.

885
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 4: And the Bear said no, the Super Bowl wasn't invented yet,

886
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 4: so the game never happened. But the Chargers in the

887
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 4: AFL title game were going up against the Patriots and

888
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 4: beat them fifty one to ten, one.

889
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 2: Of the most prolific offenses of all time. And you

890
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 2: can still find some of their games on film if

891
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 2: you look hard enough. That was an incredible team and

892
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 2: who could forget the great aeric coyeral teams of the eighties.

893
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 2: They did get to the Super Bowl with Stan Humphrey

894
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety five. They were a twenty point underdog

895
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: against the San Francisco forty nine Ers. We won't tell

896
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 2: you what happened next.

897
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 4: The forty nine Ers scored forty nine, that's re and.

898
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 2: The Chargers scored twenty seven.

899
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 4: It was over in the first quarter.

900
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 2: Ye I think Gate Ricky Williams over the middle for

901
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 2: six before the seats were warm. It it was fourteen

902
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 2: to nothing.

903
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 4: It was a secondary that we had seen before for

904
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:46,240
Speaker 4: the Chargers.

905
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 2: So we need some Cowboys socks and a Cowboys Super Bowl.

906
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 2: We also need a Dodgers World Series, and we need

907
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 2: a Potter's World Series. Perhaps a Lion Super Bowl. I

908
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 2: don't know. We will remain optimistic and we'll light a

909
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 2: candle in church tomorrow because who knows whop springs internal

910
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 2: maybe any of these things can happen. Speaking of tomorrow,

911
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 2: we've got a triple header Raiders, Chiefs, Yeah, Giants, Eagles,

912
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 2: A not so much Ravens, forty nine Ers, but all three,

913
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 2: in their own way have playoff implications. We'll break down

914
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,600
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Speaker 2: coming to you live from Las Vegas, Fox Sportsradio, Tireck

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Speaker 2: dot Com studios. Keep it locked listening to Fox Football

921
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 2: Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Well that's what I'm talking about.

922
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 2: A little Motown on Christmas. Outstanding selection, Lorena. Meanwhile, Denver,

923
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,439
Speaker 2: New England winding down seven to three Denver with about

924
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 2: three minutes to go in the second quarter. Game is

925
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 2: a little fugly if you get my drift, but it

926
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 2: means a.

927
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 5: Lot to.

928
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 2: Denver, all right. I don't even think Stevie Wonder would

929
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 2: enjoy watching this game, but I Digress Raiders. They'll visit

930
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 2: the Chiefs in the first game of a triple header

931
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 2: on Monday, kicks off ten am Pacific, one pm Eastern.

932
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 2: And by the way, the Chiefs, they become sort of

933
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 2: like Rodney Danger for if you've forgotten. Okay, look, they

934
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 2: still have a top ten offense and a top ten defense,

935
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 2: and if Kadarius Tony hadn't dropped a wide open pass

936
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 2: Week one against Detroit taking nothing away from the Lions,

937
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 2: Chiefs probably win that game. And if he doesn't, if

938
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:42,439
Speaker 2: you figure out how to line up on the line

939
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 2: of scrammers like a high school wide receiver, the Chiefs

940
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 2: probably win that game. But they'll win Monday. They're a

941
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 2: ten point favorite against the Raiders, and the Raiders will

942
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 2: be bringing their twenty eighth ranked offense into that game,

943
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs mean business. This may be the first

944
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 2: year Patrick Mahomes actually has to play a playoff game

945
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 2: on the road. I'm not so sure he wants to

946
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 2: do that, but it's not spoken for yet. There is

947
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 2: still hope that the nine to five Chiefs can still

948
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 2: finish twelve and five. They've beaten the Raiders ten of

949
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 2: eleven times with Patrick Mahomes at quarterback. That doesn't really

950
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 2: tell the whole story, though, and only three of those

951
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 2: victories was the final margin less than fourteen points. Otherwise

952
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 2: they've been lopsided. So the question heading into this one

953
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 2: can the Raiders actually find a way to stay close,

954
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 2: give themselves a chance to win, making plays late in

955
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 2: the game. They're playing for Pride and they're playing for

956
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 2: maybe Antonio Pierce, who I think wants the job. And

957
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 2: I think they could sell that press conference. Having watched

958
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 2: the physical latitude, the demeanor of the Raiders since Antonio

959
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 2: Peers took over for Josh McDaniels, I think you could

960
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,840
Speaker 2: sell that press conference. Now they've got a ways to go.

961
00:52:57,120 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 2: We'll see how the Raiders finish down the stretch. And

962
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 2: obviously after Mark Davis, the owner here in Las Vegas,

963
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 2: when big name hunting John Gruden didn't work out, clearly

964
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 2: Josh McDaniels didn't work out. I'll never forget when I

965
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 2: heard they were bringing in McDaniels and they didn't give

966
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 2: Rich Spasaci a chance. Two years ago, wins the final

967
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 2: four games probably could have been Cincinnati in the playoffs

968
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 2: if Derek Carr hadn't gone. Derek Carring throwing interceptions, spiking

969
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 2: the ball and fourth down, you know that kind of stuff,

970
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 2: struggling in the red zone and you know in the

971
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 2: fourth quarter and third down. Bisacia will always wonder what

972
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 2: he might have been able to do. So I think

973
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 2: you'll see the Raiders give an effort. They're just overmatched

974
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 2: in this game, I expect the Chiefs to win. I

975
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 2: expect it to most likely be by double digits. Not

976
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 2: a game I will be involved in from a betting standpoint.

977
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 2: But let's put it this way. Teams who score sixty

978
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 2: points plus it's only happened six times in the NFL

979
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 2: in the last thirty five years. The following week, they're

980
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 2: zero to six against the spread. So do with that

981
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 2: what you will. As the Raiders tee it up on

982
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 2: Monday morning, ten am Pacific one a one pm Eastern,

983
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 2: it feels like it feels like a thirty four to

984
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 2: seventeen game for the Chiefs. I'll just throw that out there.

985
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 2: The Giants and the Eagles will also square up at Philadelphia,

986
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 2: and I know people are panicking about the Eagles. Remember

987
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 2: they lost in the Super Bowl this last year. And

988
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 2: history tells us that fifty percent of the teams the

989
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,919
Speaker 2: following season not only not even make the playoffs. They don't.

990
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 2: They don't. They're not even five hundred. The Eagles are

991
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,439
Speaker 2: ten and four. If you woke up from a deep

992
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 2: sleep and it was week fifteen, sixteen, and the Eagles

993
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 2: were ten and four. You said, wow, it's pretty good.

994
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 2: The problem is they've lost three in a row and

995
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 2: look good. They lost them to a hungry Cowboys team

996
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 2: who played probably their best game of the year, the

997
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 2: best team in the NFL, the forty nine ers, and

998
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 2: then a very pesky, plucky Seattle team at home who

999
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 2: got it done on Monday night and it took a

1000
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 2: miracle at the end. Philly has already clinched the spot

1001
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 2: in the playoff, but they're still fighting for the NFC East.

1002
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 5: Now.

1003
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 2: The Eagles would have a seventy eight percent chance to

1004
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 2: win the Vision title if they beat the Giants right now.

1005
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 2: If they were to lose that game to Tommy DeVito

1006
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 2: nine percent, they'd have a nine percent chance to be

1007
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 2: the conference's top seed. So you, if you are the Eagles,

1008
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 2: you don't really don't want that fifth loss. So in

1009
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 2: a game of I don't know who's going to be

1010
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 2: healthy at quarterback, and of course you got Matt Patricia,

1011
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 2: which is never a good feeling. In his second week

1012
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,439
Speaker 2: is Eagles defensive play caller. After taking over for Sean

1013
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 2: to Side, all I can say is I feel like

1014
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 2: this is a get right game for the Eagles. They

1015
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 2: are land thirteen and a half points. They probably cover

1016
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 2: that number. You know me, I don't lay double digit

1017
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 2: spreads in the NFL. But when you have a Super

1018
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 2: Bowl losing team that had already been nine to one,

1019
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 2: straight up, seven to three against the number, and then

1020
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 2: they have three consecutive losses, well, in that fourth game,

1021
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 2: history tells us they win by an average margin of

1022
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 2: fourteen points. I look for the birds, the Eagles, that is,

1023
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 2: to fly fairly high on on a Sunday afternoon, dude.

1024
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 2: The game kicks off at four thirty Eastern time, one

1025
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 2: point thirty Pacific. Finally, the game that people are talking

1026
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 2: about all week. Some people insist on want to you know,

1027
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 2: implying that this may be a Super Bowl preview. I

1028
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 2: don't know. I do think the Niners are going to

1029
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 2: be there. I'm not one hundred percent sure the Ravens

1030
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 2: are going to be there. You've got two eleven and

1031
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 2: three teams. San Francisco lay in five. This is a

1032
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 2: Christmas gift. By then, your eggnox should have settled in

1033
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 2: and you know Grandpa's cough syrup, o't I have you

1034
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 2: feeling good and relaxed. You've had your meal, you've opened

1035
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 2: your gifts and you get one last gift this game. Again,

1036
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 2: you have to say it because everybody else is group think,

1037
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 2: echo chamber. I hate that, but I'll do it. Could

1038
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 2: be a preview of Super Bowl fifty eight. Could be

1039
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 2: Niners and Ravens. Well, they are the betting favorites to

1040
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 2: represent their conferences. But again, you've got to remember the

1041
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:08,320
Speaker 2: long and the short of it is.

1042
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: You know.

1043
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 2: That even though the odds tell you that the Ravens

1044
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 2: are the favorite to get to the Super Bowl in

1045
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 2: the AFC, Las Vegas is not in the prediction business.

1046
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,439
Speaker 2: They're not in the fortune telling business. All they're trying

1047
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 2: to do is put up a number that will create

1048
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 2: egal action on both sides. So when I hear people say,

1049
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 2: well Vegas has them doing this, We're not a monolith.

1050
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 2: There are ninety seven different sports books here, and betting

1051
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 2: odds in numbers are based on very sophisticated math models

1052
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 2: and power ratings. Be that as it may, this is

1053
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 2: only the second matchup of teams holding their share of

1054
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 2: the NFL's best record in the final two weeks of

1055
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 2: the season in the last fifty two years. It's also

1056
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 2: a great primetime opportunity for Brock Perdy and Christian McCaffrey

1057
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 2: and Lamar Jackson to stake a claim on the Most

1058
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 2: Valuable Player award. We will see what we will see again.

1059
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 2: Both teams have already locked up playoff berths. The forty

1060
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 2: nine ers have already won the NFC West. The Niners

1061
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 2: actually have a Week sixteen path to the number one seed.

1062
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 2: They need to win now. Dallas lost, but Detroit won,

1063
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 2: and they need Philadelphia to lose to wrap it up.

1064
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 2: If the Niners win Monday, the Ravens can take home

1065
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 2: the AFC North if they win and Cleveland would have lost.

1066
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 2: Cleveland's already won, but a win still puts them at

1067
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 2: eighty three percent to get the number one seed, fifty

1068
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 2: three percent with the loss. There you have it for

1069
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 2: all of the crazy numbers. I don't think this game

1070
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 2: is going to be as high scoring as people feel.

1071
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be right around the number.

1072
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 2: I think. I see twenty four to twenty forty nine ers,

1073
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 2: twenty one seventeen forty nine ers. I don't feel like

1074
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 2: the the Eagles stroll into San Francisco and steal a win.

1075
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 2: I think it could be a could be a field

1076
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 2: goal game. Kyle Shanahan is fifteen and three straight up

1077
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 2: and eleven and six at home in his career. When

1078
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 2: the Niners have a seven to fifty or greater win

1079
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 2: percentage and they're playing another team above five hundred, which

1080
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 2: means when they need to be great, they are great,

1081
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:15,919
Speaker 2: and they have been great. This is where you hope,

1082
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 2: to me everybody just stays healthy. It could be a

1083
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 2: little bit of a body bag game. These two defenses

1084
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 2: are going to get after it. So there you have it.

1085
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 2: We've got a terrific triple header. And by the way,

1086
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 2: not for nothing, kind of interesting Christmas Day because the

1087
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 2: NBA has already felt they have a lock on Christmas Day. Right, Well,

1088
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 2: if you are so inclined, at these are all Eastern times.

1089
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 2: The Bucks will teed up against the New York Knicks

1090
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 2: at noon, but they're going to be going head up

1091
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 2: against the Raiders and Chiefs when they kick off an

1092
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 2: hour later. Then the Warriors and defending champion Nuggets. Well,

1093
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 2: they'll play at two thirty Pacific. They'll be right in

1094
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 2: the middle of the Raiders Chiefs and that'll lead into

1095
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 2: the Giants and Eagles at four point thirty Eastern. Meanwhile,

1096
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics visit the Los Angeles Lakers a marquee

1097
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 2: game five pm Eastern, but they'll also have to compete

1098
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 2: against the forty nine Ers and Raiders later. Meanwhile, the

1099
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 2: seventy six Ers and Heat also have an eight pm

1100
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 2: Eastern tip off. And finally, for you, night owls Dallas

1101
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 2: and Phoenix will go at ten thirty. You have to

1102
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 2: figure out what you want to watch or buy three

1103
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 2: or four more TVs. Speaking of another conversation, which we're

1104
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 2: gonna pick up after Steve's update, the Los Angeles Chargers

1105
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 2: they got to hire a coach. Now, I respect Steve

1106
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 2: Hartman a lot. I'm not sure where he weighs in

1107
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 2: on this, but we're hearing the group echo chamber tell

1108
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 2: us that, well, this time they might actually spend some money.

1109
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 2: They have three opportunities. What do they do? You go

1110
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 2: for the veteran coach, the known commodity. We'll talk about

1111
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh. I've got some information thanks to my moles

1112
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 2: and Ann Arbor. Could it be Belichick? I don't think so.

1113
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 2: Could it be another veteran coach for a missing Maybe

1114
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 2: a guy like a Dan Quinn who's currently a defensive coordinator,

1115
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 2: but in over five seasons with the Atlanta Falcons, he

1116
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 2: managed to be one game over five hundred. He was

1117
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 2: three and two in the postseason. He did have a

1118
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 2: Super Bowl appearance. They led the Patriots twenty eight to three.

1119
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 2: You know what happened there. But Quinn has a good

1120
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 2: reputation in the league. Or do you go with the

1121
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 2: hot shot coordinator, the Ben Johnson from Detroit, the Frank

1122
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 2: Smith from Miami, or maybe a defensive coordinator a hero

1123
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 2: a Verro from Denver. But right now, nine of the

1124
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 2: twelve teams in the National Football League they're a playoff bound,

1125
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 2: have offensive people or dare I say, bite your tongue,

1126
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 2: hold your nose. They even dip into the college rigs

1127
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 2: and talk to a Lincoln Riley or Matt Campbell. I

1128
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 2: think that will not happen. You got a better chance

1129
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 2: of Led Zeppelin re recorded the Gillians Island theme song

1130
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 2: and selling a million copies, then the Chargers doing that.

1131
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 2: If they do that, you gotta be you gotta protest

1132
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: coming apple chop all this up with Steve die Sager,

1133
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 2: who very much has his finger on the pulse with

1134
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 2: the Chargers, and I really want to get his thoughts.

1135
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 2: But first let's go back the afore mentioned Steve Disagert.

1136
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 4: With the last we do have games to update. I

1137
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 4: will say there are some lazy hosts here and elsewhere

1138
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 4: who sometimes mentioned that the Chargers don't spend money, period,

1139
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 4: which couldn't be further from the truth. Right when you

1140
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 4: look at the cap hell they're in for next year.

1141
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 4: They were all in for this year. Look the amount

1142
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 4: of talent they had. They're forty mil over the cap.

1143
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 4: Believe me, they've spent. They've spent on long term contracts,

1144
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 4: pass rushers, defensive back, quarterback, on and on.

1145
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 2: Core.

1146
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 4: A coach is a different thing, but sometimes it all

1147
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 4: gets lumped in. Well, New England lump of coal. Patriots

1148
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:46,400
Speaker 4: three and eleven this year, they're missing running back Romandre

1149
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 4: Stevenson Tonight out with an ankle injury, Hunter Henry out

1150
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 4: with a knee injury. They settled for a field goal

1151
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 4: after a long drive of nearly seven minutes, wound up

1152
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 4: kicking the field goal for their only first half scoring.

1153
01:02:57,840 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 4: Early second quarter, and they've just missed a field goal

1154
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 4: attempt to forty seven yards wide. Right, so the Broncos

1155
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,439
Speaker 4: still lead in the cold of Denvers seven to three

1156
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,439
Speaker 4: against New England about thirty seconds left in the first half,

1157
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 4: each team with a fumble. In this game, there was

1158
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 4: in fact a strip sack fumble on Bailey's appey on

1159
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 4: the first play of the night, So the Broncos took

1160
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 4: over first in goal at the six and got no

1161
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 4: points out of it, turned it over on down stopped

1162
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 4: on a run at the one yard line. Broncos have

1163
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 4: lost two of their last three. Their final two games

1164
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 4: are against the Chargers and then at the Raiders. You

1165
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 4: mentioned the Raiders are in action as Kansas City hosts

1166
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,320
Speaker 4: them in one of the Christmas games tomorrow. The one

1167
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 4: on Fox TV is Philadelphia trying to get back in

1168
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 4: the wing column going up against the Giants. Baltimore plays

1169
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 4: at San Francisco Monday night. Ravens currently the one seed

1170
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 4: in the AFC by a half game, forty nine Ers,

1171
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 4: currently the one seed in the NFC by a half game.

1172
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 4: We had Miami beat Dallas today twenty two to twenty

1173
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 4: on a short field goal on the final play. In fact,

1174
01:03:55,640 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 4: we had this NFL week five different teams scored the

1175
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 4: game winning score in the last two minutes of regulation.

1176
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,760
Speaker 4: Because we had the Miami thing came with no time left.

1177
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 4: Seattle game winning touchdown with under a minute to go.

1178
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:11,959
Speaker 4: Jets had blown a lead but got a game winning

1179
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 4: field goal in the final seconds. Green Bay game winning

1180
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 4: field goal with about twenty seconds left. Despite blowing a

1181
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 4: league green Bay won. And you had Buffalo last night

1182
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 4: a game winning field goal with about thirty seconds left.

1183
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 4: That's the NFL weekend so far. Miami beat Dallas on

1184
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 4: this short field goal on the final play, and I

1185
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 4: have to mention it was Jason Sanders who was the hero.

1186
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 4: The Miami kicker was five for five on field goal attempts,

1187
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 4: hitting from fifty two, from fifty four, from fifty seven,

1188
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 4: and from thirty five and twenty nine yards out, and

1189
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 4: his team wins by two points. Tampa Bay beat Jacksonville

1190
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 4: thirty to twelve. Bucks led thirty to nothing late in

1191
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 4: the third quarter. Chicago led Arizona twenty one nothing late

1192
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 4: in the first half twenty seven to sixteen. The final,

1193
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 4: Khalil Herbert of the Bears twenty carries one hundred twelve

1194
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,600
Speaker 4: yard cards in a touchdown. Cleveland a winner at Houston

1195
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:06,000
Speaker 4: thirty six to twenty two. Amari Cooper eleven receptions two

1196
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 4: hundred sixty five yards and two scores. Detroit clinched a

1197
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,320
Speaker 4: division title for the first time in thirty years, winning

1198
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 4: at Minnesota thirty to twenty four, Seattle one on a

1199
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 4: touchdown pass with about a minute to go as Gino

1200
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:23,120
Speaker 4: Smith returned twenty to seventeen. The final at Tennessee Jets

1201
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 4: on the late fifty four yard field goal edge Washington

1202
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 4: thirty to twenty eight. Green Bay's late field goal made

1203
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 4: it a thirty three to thirty final at Carolina Atlanta

1204
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 4: over Indianapolis twenty nine to ten. In college football, three

1205
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:40,440
Speaker 4: Bowl games on Tuesday, Wednesday night on Fox TV, USC

1206
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 4: against number fifteen Louisville in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.

1207
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,960
Speaker 4: We were mentioning the Chargers earlier that game and it

1208
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 4: used to be my favorite December Bowl game, so much

1209
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 4: excitement there over the years. Was played where the Chargers

1210
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 4: used to play in Mission Valley area of San Diego.

1211
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 4: Was the Chargers moved out of that dump they were

1212
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 4: playing in. They raised this but it does not exist anymore.

1213
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 4: So they shoehorn a football field into the Padres Ballpark

1214
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 4: and we get a Holiday Bowl that way. Wednesday nights

1215
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 4: on Fox TV no NBA game today. By the way,

1216
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 4: Philadelphia is Joel Embiide is out for one of the

1217
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 4: Christmas games tomorrow Tomorrow night. They're playing at Miami, but

1218
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 4: sprained ankle. The problem and we can update the NFL

1219
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 4: Sunday night game appropriately. To end the first half, Denver

1220
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 4: has missed a field goal attempt of fifty seven yards

1221
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 4: in the altitude seven to three Denver at the half

1222
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 4: against New England. I think you described this properly.

1223
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 2: Back to you, Steve, I'm so glad you mentioned the

1224
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 2: Holiday Bowl. One of my great memories was heading down

1225
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:42,800
Speaker 2: in mid December. That Friday night, December nineteenth, nineteen eighty,

1226
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 2: one of the greatest college football games ever played, known

1227
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 2: as the Miracle Bowl.

1228
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 4: At BYU SMU forty six forty five.

1229
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 2: BYU trailed forty five twenty five with five minutes to go,

1230
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,240
Speaker 2: and on fourth down, Lavelle Edwards, head coach at BYU,

1231
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 2: sent the punt team on the field. Jim Man looked

1232
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:04,880
Speaker 2: across the way and said, get the f off the field.

1233
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 4: He was Mormon, by the way, McMahon.

1234
01:07:07,080 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 2: And he dip scoll.

1235
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 5: Well.

1236
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 2: I know this because I got recruited to play baseball

1237
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 2: By who took a trip up there in seventy eight

1238
01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 2: met Clay Brown, who scored the game winning touchdown. They

1239
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 2: scored three touchdowns in the final five minutes, and Eric

1240
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 2: Dickerson and Craig James and the Pony Express, yes, that

1241
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 2: Pony Express, were shocked. At about three or four in

1242
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 2: the morning, we found ourselves a taco bill with the

1243
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 2: kicker for yeah, it was SMU. His name was Eddie Garcia,

1244
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 2: not our Edigarcia, but his name was Eddie Garcia.

1245
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 4: The one who went to the Lions.

1246
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't recall what his NFL exploits were.

1247
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 4: But not Eddie Garcia that works here. You're correct, I do.

1248
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 2: It was not the Eddie Garcia that works here, but

1249
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 2: this Eddie Garcia. I'll never forget this. He might have

1250
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 2: had a few cream dements in him. And it was

1251
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 2: three in the morning, and somehow we knew he was

1252
01:07:55,200 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 2: the kicker. He admitted whatever, and we said something stupid like, well,

1253
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 2: what did you think of that game? I can't believe

1254
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:07,600
Speaker 2: we lost. That FN team couldn't have been beat Texas Arlington, Steve.

1255
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 2: But the Holiday Bowl, the Holiday Bowl is one of

1256
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 2: the great goble games of all type of festivities. Honest

1257
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 2: to god, Michigan, Michigan in nineteen eighty four got their

1258
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:21,760
Speaker 2: mythical national championship. That by you got it by bening

1259
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:26,360
Speaker 2: Michigan Bass. That's exactly right, exactly right. So there was

1260
01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:27,720
Speaker 2: a lot of great games there. I'll tell you.

1261
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 4: Listen, I looked it up. He kicked for Green Bay.

1262
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 4: They said, Garce that what he did.

1263
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll tell you. Don't bring up that game

1264
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 2: around Eric Dickerson either. They're not too they're not too

1265
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 2: happy that that team coached by Ron Meyer. B Why

1266
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 2: you didn't know what's happening in the first half. I'll

1267
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 2: tell you what, Steve, Let's do this I want to give.

1268
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 2: I want to give this conversation that'stue because I want

1269
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 2: to tell you what I know about Harball and I

1270
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 2: want to get your thoughts on the Chargers, the five

1271
01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 2: names bandied about there. And I believe you and you

1272
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 2: are correct that John Spanos, the Spanos family has paid

1273
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 2: for players and they have a died. Well we'll see

1274
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 2: if they do it for a coach. But the larger

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01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 2: issue is how much control now. John Spanis is currently

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Speaker 2: the head of football Operations the.

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Speaker 4: Family controls the team. You're absolutely correct.

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Speaker 2: How much control will he give to a new head coach.

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Speaker 2: We've got to talk about that. I want to get

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Speaker 2: your preference. We're gonna do that. Coming up, I'm Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattower coming to your life in the Las Vegas Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio Tirac dot com studios. Keep it locked Fox

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Speaker 2: Football Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Allright back on Fox

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Speaker 2: Football Sunday. Bernie fratt is sitting in for Willard and Rudolph.

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Speaker 2: Come to you live from the tyrack dot Com studios

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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas. Coming up top of the hour,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna dive heavily into the playoff picture. In the

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Speaker 2: standings for week sixteen. In case you missed it, Dolphins

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Speaker 2: clinched the playoff spot today. The Cowboys now out of

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Speaker 2: the f C lead. Let's bring in Steve de Sager. Steve,

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Speaker 2: before I get your thoughts on the Chargers, which I

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Speaker 2: think will be a very pivotal hire, let me just

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Speaker 2: say this about Jim Harbaugh. I talked Thursday to one

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Speaker 2: of my moles who talked to Harball the day before.

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Speaker 2: He's got a man crush on Justin Herbert. He can

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Speaker 2: do something with him. Now the stars are aligning. Two

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Speaker 2: years ago, Jim wanted back in the NFL, got the

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Speaker 2: courtesy interview with the Minnesota Vikings. That was never gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: The Wolfs didn't want him. They already made up their

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Speaker 2: mind on Kevin O'Connell. It was thanks to Queasy and

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Speaker 2: doulfol Mensa who'd worked with the forty nine ers, that

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Speaker 2: got him that opportunity. But it was a fagezy. Last year,

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Speaker 2: the Broncos were very much interested in Jim Harbaugh. He

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01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 2: wasn't interested in them, and he had forty four seniors

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Speaker 2: coming back. Thinks he's got twenty guys that will be drafted.

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Speaker 2: They won the Big Ten, they beat Ohio State, and

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Speaker 2: they're back in the playoffs this year. I believe the

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Speaker 2: stars are aligning. If you understand Jim Harbaugh and his makeup.

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Speaker 2: He never got overbeating his brother, losing to his brother

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Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl ten years ago. Now, what will

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Speaker 2: it take? I'm hearing fifteen million, I think if that happened. Remember,

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01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh has a contract on his death for an

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01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:06,719
Speaker 2: extension five years, eleven million per Michigan, but it contains

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Speaker 2: a clause that Harball will never agree to that, he

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Speaker 2: won't go back to the NFL, and he's got a

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01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 2: very little buyout two point two million, and that's by design.

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Speaker 2: Compare that to jimbo Fisher's and some of the others.

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Speaker 2: So let's start with the elephant in the room, the

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Speaker 2: reality of Jim Harbaugh to the Chargers based on what

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Speaker 2: you know they're in Los Angeles, Steve optimistic, pessimistic, realistic

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Speaker 2: or do you even want him?

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Speaker 4: I think it is realistic. I don't know if I'm optimistic,

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Speaker 4: but people need to realize there's also a Harball connection

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Speaker 4: that his last couple of years in the league he

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Speaker 4: was Chargers quarterback and wasn't just a clipboard holder either,

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Speaker 4: and then stayed in San Diego as a head coach

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Speaker 4: in college at the University of San Diego. We saw

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Speaker 4: Josh Johnson quarterbacking in the NFC title game for the

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Speaker 4: Niners last year. That was Harbaugh's quarterback. And then you

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Speaker 4: know all the Stanford success in the turnaround and all

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Speaker 4: the success with the Niners. The thing that comes to

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Speaker 4: mind with any Harball higher anywhere is, boy, the guy

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Speaker 4: sure eventually wears that as welcome where the Chargers aren't

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Speaker 4: in a position to have that even as a consideration,

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Speaker 4: even on page fifty. They need somebody who can do

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Speaker 4: something now, and if you only have him three to

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Speaker 4: five years, so be it. You need to turn it

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Speaker 4: around and do something now and waste this good quarterback

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Speaker 4: that you've drafted. So Jim Harbaugh, I would say, is

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Speaker 4: at least with the not only the coach himself, but

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Speaker 4: would it fit those two items? Yeah, that's at least realistic.

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Speaker 4: I don't think the Belichick thing is as realistic.

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Speaker 2: And the Chargers are not exactly a reclamation project. They

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01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 2: were in the playoffs last year. They had that infamous

1345
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 2: twenty seven point blown lead, to which their fearless leader said, oh,

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Speaker 2: you know, things like this happen in the NFL. Are

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Speaker 2: you kidding me?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't know what's going to happen with Harball there.

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Speaker 2: And PEG's another question. I'm glad you referenced the fact

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Speaker 2: that he was a former Charger because I threw this

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Speaker 2: name out there, Steve, and I was summarily rejected. But

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Speaker 2: I want to throw it out to you, Eric b

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Speaker 2: Enemy he's a former Charger. Is in time to give

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Speaker 2: him his chance? Would you sell that press conference. Could

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Speaker 2: you see the Chargers giving him an interview?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would put to It's not to a one

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Speaker 4: for one comparison. I would say there's three competitors for

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Speaker 4: the Chargers opening one is Harball, one is Belichick. One

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Speaker 4: as any coordinator, So he would fall into that. Whether

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Speaker 4: Dan Quinn or Ben Johnson fill it in any coordinator

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Speaker 4: is obviously a possibility. I mean, how did Brandon Staley

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Speaker 4: get the job? He was defensive coordinator of the top

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Speaker 4: ranked defense in the NFL with the Rams and then

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Speaker 4: just stayed in the same stadium and became a head

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Speaker 4: coach with the Chargers. I wouldn't say that's a bad hire.

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Speaker 4: The bad part of the hire was giving somebody who'd

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Speaker 4: never been a coach a four year contract, because I

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Speaker 4: think that kept the Chargers from getting rid of him

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Speaker 4: earlier this year, or even before this year after the

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Speaker 4: spectacular defeat in the playoffs at Jacksonville last year, because

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Speaker 4: they wouldn't have paid off two years.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's chop up the Belichick name for just a second.

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Speaker 2: He will be on his way. He won six Super

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Speaker 2: Bowls with Tom Brady, and let's be fair, Bill Barcel's

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Speaker 2: never won a Super Bowl without Bill Belichick by his side.

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Speaker 2: He was a critical component as a defensive coordinator for

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Speaker 2: two Super Bowl championships. The franchise has great respect for

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick and what he's accomplished. But we're back to

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Speaker 2: that sixty four dollars question with the Spanos family not

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Speaker 2: only be willing to pay what it might take to

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Speaker 2: bring Bill Belichick to southern California even though he's never

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Speaker 2: coached west to Cleveland and give him the personal control

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Speaker 2: that he has had in New England. And the other

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Speaker 2: thing that's got to come up in the interview Steve

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01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 2: is who is Belichick going to bring in as an

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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator given the fact that New England has many

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Speaker 2: much publicized issues on that side of the ball last

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Speaker 2: couple seasons. It would be an interesting bridge higher. I

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Speaker 2: can't see him staying more than three or four years,

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Speaker 2: and the chance to create a culture for sustainable winning

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Speaker 2: might be the reason you bring him there. But I'm

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Speaker 2: dubious and I'm not sure why would you be okay

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Speaker 2: with Belichick? Is it possible?

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Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't, and I think that's because a trade

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Speaker 4: might be involved. It's kind of like when the Chargers

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01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:12,360
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five years ago, needed a really good hit

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Speaker 4: on a first round draft pick. They were picking so high,

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Speaker 4: and remember that one draft they wound up getting Ladanian,

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01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 4: Tomlinson and Drew Brees and kind of setting themselves up.

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Speaker 4: Sure do they need bodies, They don't need to give

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Speaker 4: up things and then overpay on top of that, because

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Speaker 4: the coach that you're getting, yes, has a ridiculously great resume,

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Speaker 4: but this is also the coach of the last three

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Speaker 4: four years of the Patriots. And there's nobody out there

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Speaker 4: who has that resume for the last three four years

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Speaker 4: that people are clamoring to get as their guy. And also,

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Speaker 4: I have a fundamental problem in sports, particularly football, of

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Speaker 4: somebody being coach and GM. You know, did it work

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Speaker 4: with Parcels, Has it worked the last few years with Belichick?

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Speaker 4: I just don't. I think those are two separate jobs

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Speaker 4: should be owned by two separate people. You talked about

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Speaker 4: the great drafting that the Chargers x GM did over

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Speaker 4: most of the last decade that helped set the team

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Speaker 4: up for being so well regarded preseasons. The drafting has

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Speaker 4: largely been good. What made me sad to see is

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Speaker 4: the Florio report today that the Steelers intend to sign

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Speaker 4: head coach Mike Tomlin to an extension this offseason before

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Speaker 4: the last year of his current deal kicks in next year.

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Speaker 4: That's a guy who would give you culture and accountability

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Speaker 4: and all of that in one hire, and he would

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Speaker 4: have an actual quarterback. But apparently that's not going Let

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Speaker 4: me show one story that the Chargers radio announcer Matt

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Speaker 4: money Smith, who's a local co host in LA, talked

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Speaker 4: about that. In that playoff game, you remember, Joey Bosa

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Speaker 4: was upset that an offensive lineman wasn't being called for

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Speaker 4: foul and Bosa was trying to beat him for sex

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Speaker 4: and wasn't able to and Boa last January and threw

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Speaker 4: his helmet and got called for it, and Brandon Staley

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Speaker 4: went over and picked up the helmet and gave it

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Speaker 4: to him and didn't discipline him, didn't punish him, and

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Speaker 4: didn't yell at him, didn't it was you know, coaches

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Speaker 4: can't always be friends, was Matt's point on this. And

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Speaker 4: whoever the next hire can't just be young or not,

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Speaker 4: can't be buddy buddy with the players.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the very reason why I think it

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Speaker 2: would be a huge mistake to go the coordinator out,

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Speaker 2: even if it's a Ben Johnson or Frank Smith. I

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Speaker 2: don't think you can bring a guy into that situation

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01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 2: in the number two media market in the country and

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Speaker 2: have him learn on the jobs. But I will share

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Speaker 2: with you another name, Steve on the left field. Hear

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Speaker 2: me out and I want to get your thoughts here.

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Speaker 2: Dan Quinn, as a defensive coordinator in Dallas, has built

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Speaker 2: one of the best units in the NFL. He was

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Speaker 2: the head coach of the Falcons for five season, went

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Speaker 2: to the playoffs, went through a Super Bowl. You know

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01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:37,280
Speaker 2: what happened. He's fifty three years old. He has a

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Speaker 2: very good personality, gets along with with players, but he

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01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:43,600
Speaker 2: can still be demanding. He's very deep detailed. As a

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Speaker 2: head coach, he would likely bring along Brian Schottenheimer, whose

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Speaker 2: father Marty, served as the.

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Speaker 4: Head coach of the Tigers back and Charger staff.

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Speaker 2: Your thoughts could dan Quinn be could be a reality?

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Speaker 4: Yes? I think that's also very realistic and people might

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Speaker 4: remember him as a good seat defensive coordinator a decade ago.

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Speaker 4: You know, there was a go back twenty years plus

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Speaker 4: when the Chargers hired Marty Schottenheimer as their head coach.

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Speaker 4: People might have said at the time, Oh, either retread

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Speaker 4: or he doesn't win the big game. The Chargers at

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Speaker 4: the time were not in a position to even consider

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Speaker 4: that they needed someone to take them to the next step.

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Speaker 4: And he more than did that. And then guess what,

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Speaker 4: they became a one seed and he didn't win the

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Speaker 4: big game.

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Speaker 2: He went fourteen and two, and I was befuddled when

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Speaker 2: they let him go, honest to God, because he had

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Speaker 2: success in Cleveland.

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Speaker 4: Too, mm hmm, and all the yeah, Conference championship appearances plural,

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Speaker 4: but that fourteen and two, which meant they actually got

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Speaker 4: to host Tom Brady and the Patriots in a playoff game.

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Speaker 4: The Chargers did and had the lead in the fourth

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01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 4: and typical Charger game, got an interception. The guy went

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Speaker 4: to return the interception instead of taking in thee and

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01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 4: fumbled it back.

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Speaker 2: I remember that, Marlon, that was Oh my goodness, gracious, yes.

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Speaker 2: And I talked about John. That's why I talked about

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01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 2: John Kominsky the Lions today who couldn't fall on a fumble,

1479
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Speaker 2: but the Lions escape. One final thing about Dan Quinn,

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Speaker 2: he does check a lot of boxes, not like does

1481
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 2: he have head coaching experience, he does have a very

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Speaker 2: commanding presence. He's stable. He would add stability to this organization.

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Speaker 2: He would be able to write this ship. It's not

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Speaker 2: a big splash hire, but it might be a necessary here.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure where they go with this. All I

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Speaker 2: know is this is going to be a story we're

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Speaker 2: going to follow. I think the NFL is nonplussed about

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Speaker 2: how poorly the charges have done in LA. Coming up,

1489
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:37,040
Speaker 2: we look at the NFL playoff picture. Keep it locked

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Speaker 2: right here. You're listening to Fox Football Sunday with Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattle on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: to get real. Dolphins have clinched the playoff spot, Cowboys

1504
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 2: are out of the NFC lead. But what does the

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01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:31,639
Speaker 2: playoff picture really look like? What are the standings? Who?

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Speaker 2: What and where? Here's what you need to know. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna mow through this lightning round style. The Baltimore Ravens

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01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:41,120
Speaker 2: they play Monday night. They're up two games in the

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01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:43,919
Speaker 2: AFC North. They're the number one seed in the conference.

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01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 2: Heading into Week sixteen, which we're still in, the Ravens

1511
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 2: will clinch the number one seed in the AFC if

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01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:53,400
Speaker 2: they went out. Might not be so easy. They're at

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01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:56,479
Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers. Then they host the Dolphins and

1514
01:20:56,600 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 2: they'll play the Steelers. Can they do it? Yeah, it

1515
01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:04,960
Speaker 2: won't be so easy, Miami. The Dolphins entered Week sixteen

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01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:06,840
Speaker 2: is the number two seed in the AFC and they

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01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 2: remain there with their huge win over the Cowboys. Dolphins,

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01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:14,599
Speaker 2: they play the aforementioned Ravens in Week seventeen, they will clinch.

1519
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 2: The Dolphins will clinch the number one seed if they

1520
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:21,280
Speaker 2: went out. They've got to beat Baltimore at Baltimore, and

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01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:25,720
Speaker 2: then they will host the Buffalo Bills Week eighteen the

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01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:28,720
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs. They lead the AFC West by two

1523
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:31,760
Speaker 2: games over the Broncos, and if this keeps up well,

1524
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 2: the Broncos might be Syinara. After the Chiefs beat the Patriots.

1525
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 2: Heading into Week sixteen to the number three seed, they're

1526
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 2: two games back of the Ravens for the top spot.

1527
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,040
Speaker 2: They get the Raiders Monday, they get the Bengals at

1528
01:21:45,040 --> 01:21:48,000
Speaker 2: home next weekend, and they finish up the season in

1529
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:53,080
Speaker 2: Los Angeles at the Chargers. Well, in spite of their

1530
01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 2: debacle today the Jaguars Jacksonville Jaguars, they are still the

1531
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,600
Speaker 2: number four seed in THEFC thanks to the Texans and

1532
01:21:59,680 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 2: Colts losses, Jags still first in the AFC South. They

1533
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:06,400
Speaker 2: only had to head tiebreaker over the Texans and Colts

1534
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:10,160
Speaker 2: despite losing four in a row. Coming up, they host

1535
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:13,719
Speaker 2: the Panthers and they visit Tennessee to wrap up the season.

1536
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:17,559
Speaker 2: How about those Cleveland Browns. Yes, even without Deshaun Watson,

1537
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 2: they're the number five seed in the AFC. They're one

1538
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 2: and a half games out of the af SED North,

1539
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:26,120
Speaker 2: but they're up two games over the final wild card spots.

1540
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:29,080
Speaker 2: They're in a pretty good position. All the Browns and

1541
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco. Need to do is win one of their

1542
01:22:32,439 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 2: final two games, and they punched their ticket to a

1543
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 2: playoff berth. They've got the Jets at home New Year's

1544
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 2: Eve weekend and then the first weekend of January they

1545
01:22:42,240 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 2: visit Cincinnati. How about the Bills two weeks ago they

1546
01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 2: look like a kid who flunked his mid tournament was

1547
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 2: in danger not graduating two key wins. They jump into

1548
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,759
Speaker 2: the number six seed. With their win over the Charters

1549
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:58,479
Speaker 2: and Texans and the Colts losing, they're up one game

1550
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 2: over the team in the final playoff spot. Where we

1551
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:04,879
Speaker 2: going with this? They still got to beat the Patriots

1552
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 2: at home and they got to go to Miami in

1553
01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:09,200
Speaker 2: week eighteen. But by the way, if Buffalo wins out,

1554
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 2: they could still win their division. So give it up

1555
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 2: to the Bills. You heard what Steve di Seger said

1556
01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 2: about them. There are a lot of pluses there and

1557
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:18,600
Speaker 2: they always remember what you did in December, and the

1558
01:23:18,680 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 2: Bills are getting it done. The Colts, believe it or not.

1559
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 2: After the egg they lay it today, still the number

1560
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:28,679
Speaker 2: seven seed in the AFC despite losing to the Falcons,

1561
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 2: and they do hold they had to head tiebreaker over

1562
01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 2: the Texans who are at number eight. Yes, you heard

1563
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:35,599
Speaker 2: that right. I don't know how you don't give Dimigo

1564
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 2: Ryan's coach of the year. Seriously, Well, the Colts also

1565
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 2: have the head to head tiebreaker over the Steelers, who

1566
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:43,759
Speaker 2: are at number nine, and they're head of the Bengals

1567
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 2: due to Pittsburgh holding they head to head tiebreaker over Cincinnati.

1568
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 2: Hopefully you'll followed all that Cincinnati or checked that Indianapolis.

1569
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 2: They host the Raiders next week and they host the

1570
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 2: Texans in week eighteen. It feels like the Colts and

1571
01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 2: Guard Minshew are gonna sneak in. They'll be saved by

1572
01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:06,839
Speaker 2: the bell mister building. All right, Houston Texans. Whatever happens,

1573
01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:10,479
Speaker 2: it's already been a hugely successful year. They're currently eighth,

1574
01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 2: they sit outside the playoffs. I get it after Sunday's

1575
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 2: lost to Cleveland and they drop their head to head

1576
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 2: tiebreaker against Indianapolis for the number seven seed. But the

1577
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:21,760
Speaker 2: Texans also have the head to head tiebreaker over the Steelers,

1578
01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:24,519
Speaker 2: who are ahead of the Bengals due to Pittsburgh holding

1579
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 2: their head to head tiebreaker over Cincinnati. Did you follow that? Well,

1580
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:30,240
Speaker 2: Houston stug got to beat the Titans at all next

1581
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:33,320
Speaker 2: week and at the Colts. I don't know it's gonna

1582
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:36,080
Speaker 2: be rough, but what a terrific job Demiko Ryans has

1583
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 2: done and what CJ. Stroud has done in restoring that culture.

1584
01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 2: Steelers also on the outside looking in, even though they

1585
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 2: did beat the Bengals on Saturday that moves them up

1586
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 2: to the number nine seed, but they only had to

1587
01:24:47,479 --> 01:24:50,000
Speaker 2: head tiebreaker over the Bengals, who are at number ten

1588
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:53,840
Speaker 2: by virtual sweeping Cincinnati. But they lose their head to

1589
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 2: head tiebreaker to the Colts and the Texans. Gotta be

1590
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:59,120
Speaker 2: tough sledding for the Steelers. They finish up with two

1591
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:04,640
Speaker 2: games on the road at Seahawks at Ravens. Tomlin's eight

1592
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:07,880
Speaker 2: and seven never been under five hundred splits. One of

1593
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:10,720
Speaker 2: those games he finishes over five hundred again. And I

1594
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 2: never understood the talk about Mike Tomlin leaving or being fired.

1595
01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 2: We're talking about Mike Tomlin here, not Lily Tomlin. This

1596
01:25:17,640 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 2: guy has presided over a lot in Pittsburgh and as

1597
01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:23,680
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl pedigree, and if you let him go,

1598
01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 2: who the hell you gonna replace him with. I was

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01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:27,720
Speaker 2: glad to hear Steve's update because I was going to

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Speaker 2: talk about Tomlin later in the show, both him and

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01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:31,479
Speaker 2: Sala they're both coming back, and frankly, I think they

1602
01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:34,519
Speaker 2: both deserve to all Right, the Bengals, they fall out

1603
01:25:34,560 --> 01:25:36,600
Speaker 2: of the playoff picture with their loss to the Steelers.

1604
01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:39,479
Speaker 2: They're only in the tenth position. They lost their head

1605
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:42,479
Speaker 2: to head tiebreaker with Pittsburgh for their division standing. Well,

1606
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:46,280
Speaker 2: that affects any potential tie breakers with Houston and Indianapolis.

1607
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:48,360
Speaker 2: I don't like Cincinnati's chances right now. Is a nice

1608
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:50,680
Speaker 2: story with Jake Browning for a while. They got to

1609
01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 2: visit Kansas City next week. That's going to be tough,

1610
01:25:53,280 --> 01:25:55,680
Speaker 2: and they finish up the season at home against their

1611
01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:59,160
Speaker 2: Inn State rival, the Cleveland Browns. Well, the Broncos, they're

1612
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 2: doing everything they can to end the season in disappointing fashion.

1613
01:26:03,760 --> 01:26:07,639
Speaker 2: They're currently eleventh in the AFC as they're heading tonight's

1614
01:26:08,160 --> 01:26:11,240
Speaker 2: game against the Patriots. But after that you're home against

1615
01:26:11,240 --> 01:26:14,559
Speaker 2: the Chargers and then at the Raiders. Raiders, they're one

1616
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:16,360
Speaker 2: and a half games out of the final playoff spot

1617
01:26:16,360 --> 01:26:19,400
Speaker 2: in the AFC. Their twelfth doesn't matter. Same with the Jets.

1618
01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 2: They've been eliminated for playoff contention since Aaron Rodgers went

1619
01:26:23,479 --> 01:26:26,799
Speaker 2: down the fourth play the season. You can't blame them. Titans,

1620
01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:30,800
Speaker 2: they're eliminated. The Chargers they were eliminated two years ago.

1621
01:26:31,280 --> 01:26:35,559
Speaker 2: The Patriots, they've been eliminated since Clinton was president. There

1622
01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:37,880
Speaker 2: you have it. That's what we have in the AFC.

1623
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,759
Speaker 2: Coming up, we'll take you on a tour in the NFC.

1624
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 2: What does the playoff rundown look like? What do we expect?

1625
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 2: We'll take it from the top. By the way, did

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Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fratdower comes to you live from Las Vegas.

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01:27:08,720 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Tireck dot Com Studios. Keep it locked

1633
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:14,800
Speaker 2: right here. You're listening to Fox Football Sunday with Bernie

1634
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:19,360
Speaker 2: Fratto on Fox Sports Radio. Now we're back on Fox

1635
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:24,439
Speaker 2: Football Sunday. Bernie Fratto in for the guys. Rudolph is busy.

1636
01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 2: It's Christmas Eve. We'll take you up to eight o'clock

1637
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:33,680
Speaker 2: Pacific eleven pm Eastern. By the way, the Broncos if

1638
01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:36,800
Speaker 2: they lose, they have a five percent chance of making

1639
01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:39,320
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and they're losing nine to seven. All of

1640
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 2: a sudden, this New England defense looks like the Teddy

1641
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:45,880
Speaker 2: Bruski days. They've got Denver pinned fourth and twenty two.

1642
01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:48,559
Speaker 2: They're punting from their own two, So Lincoln's gonna get

1643
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:51,000
Speaker 2: the ball back with good field position four minutes to

1644
01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:55,880
Speaker 2: go in the third quarter. Not looking good for the Broncos.

1645
01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:58,719
Speaker 2: My goodness, talk about not coming up with an effort.

1646
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,160
Speaker 2: All right. What does the NFL the playoff picture look like?

1647
01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 2: In the NFC, Well, the forty nine Ers remain the

1648
01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:07,680
Speaker 2: number one seed heading into Week sixteen, which we are

1649
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:10,800
Speaker 2: still in. They'll play the Ravens Monday night. They have

1650
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 2: a half game lead over the Lions for the top spot.

1651
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 2: Guess what, the Lions won, hence the half game lead.

1652
01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:21,960
Speaker 2: So San Francisco it behooves them to win because should

1653
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:24,799
Speaker 2: they get beaten, they'll have the same number of losses

1654
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:27,080
Speaker 2: in the lost column and you can get really interesting.

1655
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:32,400
Speaker 2: After the Ravens Monday night, San Francisco will visit Washington

1656
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:35,280
Speaker 2: d C play the Commanders, and they'll wrap it up

1657
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 2: at home against the Rams week eighteen. How about those Lions.

1658
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:40,720
Speaker 2: We talked about this at the top of the show.

1659
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:43,839
Speaker 2: They clinch the NFC North where they win over the Vikings.

1660
01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:46,800
Speaker 2: They're currently the number two seed with the Cowboys loss,

1661
01:28:47,080 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 2: and guess who they play next week? The Lions are

1662
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:52,479
Speaker 2: at the Cowboys. That is going to be a little

1663
01:28:52,479 --> 01:28:54,880
Speaker 2: bit of tough duty. I expect to see a massive

1664
01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:58,120
Speaker 2: effort out of the Cowboys, and then they'll close out

1665
01:28:58,120 --> 01:29:01,519
Speaker 2: the season at home against the Minnesota Vikings. Anyway you

1666
01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:03,800
Speaker 2: slice it, the worst the Lions can do is have

1667
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:07,040
Speaker 2: a bye week one in the check that they won't

1668
01:29:07,080 --> 01:29:08,840
Speaker 2: have a buye. They'll have a home playoff game. Excuse me,

1669
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:11,439
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get to all that in just a second. Well,

1670
01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 2: the Eagles. They take over first place in the NFC

1671
01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:19,160
Speaker 2: East by virtue of the Cowboys losing at Miami, and

1672
01:29:19,240 --> 01:29:21,320
Speaker 2: the Eagles have already clinched the playoffs, but but you

1673
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:23,920
Speaker 2: know they want more. I'm gonna go out on a limb.

1674
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:25,599
Speaker 2: It's not much of a limb. I think the Eagles

1675
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:28,600
Speaker 2: run the table, and they finished thirteen and four. They

1676
01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:31,839
Speaker 2: host the Giants Monday night, then they host the Arizona Cardinals,

1677
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:35,160
Speaker 2: and then they visit the Giants in the final game

1678
01:29:35,640 --> 01:29:38,439
Speaker 2: of the season. You're gonna hear from this Eagles team.

1679
01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:43,920
Speaker 2: I think rumors that their demise is very premature. I

1680
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:45,880
Speaker 2: gotta give it up to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In

1681
01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield. They continue to lead the NFC South. After

1682
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:51,679
Speaker 2: a very impressive win today over the Jaguars, they extend

1683
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 2: their lead to one game over the Saints and Falcons.

1684
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:59,679
Speaker 2: Next up they play the Saints, then they visit the Panthers. Look,

1685
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:05,240
Speaker 2: I always like Baker Mayfield. Some people don't. He inherited

1686
01:30:05,280 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 2: a very difficult situation in Cleveland after the Hugh Jackson era.

1687
01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:12,439
Speaker 2: They were one in thirty one. Baker Mayfield comes in

1688
01:30:12,479 --> 01:30:14,200
Speaker 2: within two years or in the playoffs, even wins a

1689
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 2: playoff game, even had Kansas City on the ropes in

1690
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:19,439
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, and then it went downhill from there

1691
01:30:19,479 --> 01:30:21,719
Speaker 2: and he kind of peaked early. He became a victim

1692
01:30:21,720 --> 01:30:24,360
Speaker 2: of his own success. He ends up in Carolina, you

1693
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:26,000
Speaker 2: know what, had ended up there. They running him for

1694
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 2: the Rams a couple of years ago. He seems to

1695
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 2: have very much found a home in Tampa Bay, and

1696
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:33,880
Speaker 2: if he can keep his head on straight, this seems

1697
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:35,639
Speaker 2: to be a fit when not surprised me if Baker

1698
01:30:35,720 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 2: Mayfield is under center again in twenty twenty four for

1699
01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:40,920
Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But in the meantime they've got

1700
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:44,759
Speaker 2: designs on maybe making some noise. There are no great group.

1701
01:30:44,840 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 2: Maybe the forty nine ers maybe, but again, God forbid

1702
01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:50,600
Speaker 2: they get someone gets injured. You see what happened in

1703
01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:52,799
Speaker 2: that three game stretch when they didn't have Deebel Samuel

1704
01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:56,479
Speaker 2: and Christian McCaffrey missed some time. So there you have it,

1705
01:30:56,520 --> 01:30:59,639
Speaker 2: all right, Dallas Cowboys. They fall out of the NFC

1706
01:31:00,240 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 2: lead today after losing to the Dolphins. The Cowboys are

1707
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:06,720
Speaker 2: still to the number five seed, and yes, they've at

1708
01:31:06,760 --> 01:31:10,800
Speaker 2: least clinched a playoff berth the remaining schedule, they host

1709
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:14,000
Speaker 2: the Lions next weekend and then they visit the Washington

1710
01:31:14,479 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 2: Commandos the Los Angeles Rams. I sung their praises earlier

1711
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:21,599
Speaker 2: in the show. I believe they are a playoff team.

1712
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:23,560
Speaker 2: Well currently they are. They're the number six seed in

1713
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:26,680
Speaker 2: the conference. After they win over the Saints and they

1714
01:31:26,760 --> 01:31:30,959
Speaker 2: actually hold they head to head tiebreaker over the Seattle Seahawks,

1715
01:31:31,000 --> 01:31:33,439
Speaker 2: who are at number seven. Coming up, the Rams got

1716
01:31:33,520 --> 01:31:36,280
Speaker 2: to travel across country to play the New York Giants

1717
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:39,040
Speaker 2: next week and then they have to finish up on

1718
01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:43,519
Speaker 2: the road at the forty nine Ers. The Seahawks. They're

1719
01:31:43,680 --> 01:31:46,960
Speaker 2: back as the number seven seed in the NFC because

1720
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:51,599
Speaker 2: they won today when they beat the Tennessee Titans. Pull

1721
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:54,320
Speaker 2: it out late, give it up to Gino Smith. Now

1722
01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:56,640
Speaker 2: the Rams do hold the head to head tiebreaker for

1723
01:31:56,680 --> 01:32:00,960
Speaker 2: the number six seed, but Seattle is, you know, still

1724
01:32:01,040 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 2: up for a game in that final playoff spot. Look,

1725
01:32:04,479 --> 01:32:08,640
Speaker 2: they host the Steelers and then they go to the Arizona.

1726
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 2: Would not surprise me if Pete Carroll finds a way

1727
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:13,320
Speaker 2: to get it done in those last two games. The

1728
01:32:13,479 --> 01:32:17,880
Speaker 2: Vikings tough duty for them, tough duty. It was bad

1729
01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:21,200
Speaker 2: enough they lost Kirk Cousins and then Dobbs. Now they're

1730
01:32:21,240 --> 01:32:25,400
Speaker 2: not to Nick Mullins. A pretty impressive effort today by

1731
01:32:25,439 --> 01:32:27,400
Speaker 2: the Vikings. They couldn't get it done against the Lions.

1732
01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:29,960
Speaker 2: They fall to eighth in the conference with their loss

1733
01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:33,439
Speaker 2: to Detroit. Minnesota does actually own the head they head

1734
01:32:33,479 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 2: tiebreaker over the Falcons at number nine, and you know

1735
01:32:37,680 --> 01:32:39,479
Speaker 2: they hold the Actually the Falcons hold they had to

1736
01:32:39,520 --> 01:32:43,640
Speaker 2: head tiebreaker over the Saints. This could get jumbled if

1737
01:32:43,680 --> 01:32:46,200
Speaker 2: the Vikings win their next two games against the Packers

1738
01:32:46,240 --> 01:32:50,280
Speaker 2: and Lions. Again, this is not decided yet the Falcons.

1739
01:32:50,439 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 2: They are one game out of the NFC South lead

1740
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:57,160
Speaker 2: after beating the Colts today. They're also one game out

1741
01:32:57,200 --> 01:32:59,720
Speaker 2: of the final wild card spot as they have the

1742
01:33:00,280 --> 01:33:02,840
Speaker 2: nine seed as they head into Week seventeen, but they

1743
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 2: do own they head to head tiebreaker over the Packers

1744
01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:08,360
Speaker 2: and the Saints, but they don't have the head to

1745
01:33:08,400 --> 01:33:10,920
Speaker 2: head tiebreaker over the Vikings, who are currently the number

1746
01:33:10,920 --> 01:33:15,360
Speaker 2: eight seed. Atlanta travels their final two games. They go

1747
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:18,799
Speaker 2: to Chicago play the Bears, and they head the New Orleans.

1748
01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:23,679
Speaker 2: They'll see what their fate is after that. The Packers

1749
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:26,040
Speaker 2: tough deal for them. They sit in tenth place in

1750
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:29,080
Speaker 2: the NFC. They did beat the Panthers today. They are

1751
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 2: one game out of the final playoff spot, but they

1752
01:33:31,400 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 2: do own the head to head tiebreaker over the Saints,

1753
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:37,679
Speaker 2: but they lose they head to head tiebreaker over the Vikings,

1754
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 2: who they play next week in Minnesota, and they don't

1755
01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:44,760
Speaker 2: have the tiebreaker against the Falcons, who they don't play

1756
01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:47,840
Speaker 2: the final two games of the season. Well, the Green

1757
01:33:47,880 --> 01:33:50,200
Speaker 2: Bay Packers will visit Minnesota as I just mentioned, and

1758
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:55,400
Speaker 2: they finish up at home against the Chicago Bears. The Saints.

1759
01:33:55,560 --> 01:33:59,280
Speaker 2: They're just they're fugly to be but they still on

1760
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 2: paper they're only a game out of the NFC South,

1761
01:34:03,560 --> 01:34:06,880
Speaker 2: even after they lost to the Rams Thursday night. They lose,

1762
01:34:06,920 --> 01:34:09,080
Speaker 2: they had to head tiebreakers to every team they are

1763
01:34:09,160 --> 01:34:11,639
Speaker 2: tied with record wise for the number eight seed. That's

1764
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 2: exactly why they're at number eleven. How do they finish

1765
01:34:14,439 --> 01:34:19,240
Speaker 2: up the season at the Buccaneers and home against the Falcons.

1766
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 2: And as I say that, with ad minutes ago, about

1767
01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 2: a minute thirty to go in the third quarter in Denver,

1768
01:34:25,120 --> 01:34:28,840
Speaker 2: New England takes a sixteen to seven lead over Denver.

1769
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:31,840
Speaker 2: So after Denver scores the first touchdown of the game,

1770
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:36,479
Speaker 2: New England sixteen unanswered points. Hey, it's looking like Bill

1771
01:34:36,560 --> 01:34:41,040
Speaker 2: Belichick getting one win closer to the all time victory

1772
01:34:41,080 --> 01:34:45,479
Speaker 2: record owned by Don Shula and Denver getting one game

1773
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:48,920
Speaker 2: closer to going nowhere. I'd be curious to see if

1774
01:34:48,960 --> 01:34:53,160
Speaker 2: the marriage between Sean Payton and Russell Wilson continues after

1775
01:34:53,240 --> 01:34:56,680
Speaker 2: this year Denver misses the playoffs. All right, New York

1776
01:34:56,720 --> 01:34:59,040
Speaker 2: Giants not a lot here. They hold the common record

1777
01:34:59,080 --> 01:35:01,640
Speaker 2: tiebreaker over the Bear, but they don't really have a

1778
01:35:01,760 --> 01:35:04,680
Speaker 2: chance of getting into the playoffs. Okay, they do play well,

1779
01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:06,680
Speaker 2: they do. I mean, it's right, Okay, I get it.

1780
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:09,599
Speaker 2: Bob Uker once hit a home run off Sandy Kofax,

1781
01:35:09,640 --> 01:35:13,840
Speaker 2: but it's not likely to happen again. The Giants are

1782
01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:16,320
Speaker 2: at the Eagles. I expect the Eagles to have a

1783
01:35:16,680 --> 01:35:19,680
Speaker 2: get right game in a big way Monday night, and

1784
01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:23,200
Speaker 2: then the Giants get to host the Rams. That's not

1785
01:35:23,280 --> 01:35:24,720
Speaker 2: going to be a picnic, and they get to play

1786
01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:28,439
Speaker 2: the Eagles again in week eighteen. I think you can

1787
01:35:28,479 --> 01:35:31,599
Speaker 2: scratch the Giants off your dance card. Really not exactly

1788
01:35:31,720 --> 01:35:34,680
Speaker 2: going out on a limb. There, Bears two games out

1789
01:35:34,680 --> 01:35:37,320
Speaker 2: of the final playoffs, spot through the twelve seed. I mean,

1790
01:35:37,479 --> 01:35:39,639
Speaker 2: if you want to give it one of those mathematical dudes,

1791
01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:41,840
Speaker 2: like a zero point four percent chance, you want to

1792
01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:44,479
Speaker 2: shoot bebies at the moon, all right, you want to

1793
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:47,280
Speaker 2: play needle and a haystack, have fun with that. Bears

1794
01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:51,040
Speaker 2: did win today, they beat Arizona, but they host the

1795
01:35:51,080 --> 01:35:52,960
Speaker 2: Falcons next week and they're at the Packers. I don't

1796
01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:55,040
Speaker 2: expect the Bears to be in the playoffs.

1797
01:35:55,080 --> 01:35:55,320
Speaker 5: Come out.

1798
01:35:55,360 --> 01:35:58,120
Speaker 2: Let's be serious, all right, Commanders. They've been eliminated for

1799
01:35:58,160 --> 01:36:01,200
Speaker 2: a while. The Arizona Cardinals have been eliminated for a while.

1800
01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:05,200
Speaker 2: The Carolina Panthers have been eliminated for a while. So

1801
01:36:05,320 --> 01:36:08,760
Speaker 2: let's unpack this for just a second because if the

1802
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:10,880
Speaker 2: season end of the day, which it doesn't, but just

1803
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:15,639
Speaker 2: to give this some some texture, the current playoff matchups

1804
01:36:15,760 --> 01:36:19,920
Speaker 2: as of today, right now seven to twenty five pm

1805
01:36:19,960 --> 01:36:24,040
Speaker 2: Pacific time on December twenty fourth, the San Francisco forty

1806
01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:27,120
Speaker 2: nine Ers would have a buy the number two seed

1807
01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:31,560
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions would host the number seven seed Seattle Seahawks.

1808
01:36:32,720 --> 01:36:37,040
Speaker 2: The number three Philadelphia Eagles would host the number six

1809
01:36:37,520 --> 01:36:40,000
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Rams. And the Cowboys, and you know how

1810
01:36:40,040 --> 01:36:42,400
Speaker 2: they play on the road. I've told you about their

1811
01:36:42,439 --> 01:36:44,960
Speaker 2: home road splits not in and I talked about it

1812
01:36:45,040 --> 01:36:46,400
Speaker 2: last night. I'll revisit that in a second.

1813
01:36:46,439 --> 01:36:46,599
Speaker 5: Here.

1814
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:49,559
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay would be the number four seed. They would

1815
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:51,519
Speaker 2: get a home playoff game. They would host Dallas as

1816
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:53,920
Speaker 2: the number five seed. Cowboys are seven to zero at

1817
01:36:53,920 --> 01:36:56,280
Speaker 2: Att Stadium the season they average thirty nine points a

1818
01:36:56,320 --> 01:36:58,600
Speaker 2: game four hundred and thirty one yards per game. But

1819
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:01,160
Speaker 2: they're three and five on the road. The only average

1820
01:37:01,200 --> 01:37:03,200
Speaker 2: twenty one points a game on the road three hundred

1821
01:37:03,200 --> 01:37:05,520
Speaker 2: and four yards per game on the road. They've outscored

1822
01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:08,639
Speaker 2: their opponents one hundred and seventy one points at home

1823
01:37:08,720 --> 01:37:13,120
Speaker 2: on the season. Put their point differential is minus sixth

1824
01:37:13,479 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 2: on the road. They would have to go on the

1825
01:37:15,800 --> 01:37:17,800
Speaker 2: road to play Tampa Bay. Look, I would just say

1826
01:37:17,880 --> 01:37:21,000
Speaker 2: this about this. The last team I believe any NFC

1827
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:24,240
Speaker 2: squad wants to see in the playoffs right now, if

1828
01:37:24,280 --> 01:37:27,640
Speaker 2: I'm being honest, aside from the forty nine ers, might

1829
01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:31,639
Speaker 2: be the Los Angeles Rams. Their offense is really gaining momentum,

1830
01:37:32,400 --> 01:37:35,639
Speaker 2: and Matthew Stafford is playing his best football. Although look,

1831
01:37:35,720 --> 01:37:38,240
Speaker 2: I saw too many debacles in Detroit when it mattered most,

1832
01:37:38,680 --> 01:37:41,639
Speaker 2: he got it done. He got a Super Bowl paiging

1833
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:43,880
Speaker 2: Takwaski Tart, But we won't go down that road. He's

1834
01:37:43,880 --> 01:37:47,200
Speaker 2: got a super Bowl, but give it up. Matt's a veteran,

1835
01:37:47,280 --> 01:37:50,599
Speaker 2: he's a leader, He's popular in the clubhouse. He plays herd,

1836
01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:53,559
Speaker 2: he plays hard. In his last five games, he's throwing

1837
01:37:53,600 --> 01:37:57,000
Speaker 2: fourteen touchdown passes, only one interception. He's making the types

1838
01:37:57,080 --> 01:38:00,200
Speaker 2: of throws that he made during the Super Bowl year

1839
01:38:00,240 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty one, if he can just stay consistent.

1840
01:38:02,680 --> 01:38:05,360
Speaker 2: But again, if the standings hold, they'd have to go

1841
01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:08,200
Speaker 2: play the Eagles, who already beat the Rams twenty three

1842
01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:11,120
Speaker 2: to fourteen in Week five. And I get it, they've

1843
01:38:11,120 --> 01:38:13,040
Speaker 2: lost three straight. But I think that would be very

1844
01:38:13,160 --> 01:38:15,640
Speaker 2: tough duty to go into Philadelphia and try to get

1845
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:20,880
Speaker 2: a playoff win. But you have to be honest here

1846
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:23,920
Speaker 2: and that Philadelphia is suspect through the air and they

1847
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:27,080
Speaker 2: would be challenged to stop Cooper Cup and pukin Asua.

1848
01:38:27,520 --> 01:38:31,040
Speaker 2: And again I mentioned this earlier. DeMarcus Robinson very rejuvenated,

1849
01:38:31,520 --> 01:38:35,840
Speaker 2: and kyn Williams He's as important is any offensive piece

1850
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:39,879
Speaker 2: they have because he is helping that Ram offense become balanced.

1851
01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:44,400
Speaker 2: In eleven games, Kyen Williams just under eleven hundred yards

1852
01:38:45,240 --> 01:38:48,000
Speaker 2: and nine touchdowns. That would be I believe the best

1853
01:38:48,160 --> 01:38:52,320
Speaker 2: wild card matchup of the postseason. All right, Dallas in

1854
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:56,519
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay, maybe Seahawks Lions. May remember, the Seahawks beat

1855
01:38:56,520 --> 01:38:59,439
Speaker 2: the Lions pretty soundly. Well, I actually went overtime, but

1856
01:38:59,520 --> 01:39:01,559
Speaker 2: they up thirty eight pots against him. I think back

1857
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:04,320
Speaker 2: in Week two right over in the AFC, it's the

1858
01:39:04,360 --> 01:39:06,559
Speaker 2: season end of today, and I'm glad it doesn't. Still

1859
01:39:06,560 --> 01:39:09,680
Speaker 2: I got two more weeks. The Baltimore Ravens would have

1860
01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:13,040
Speaker 2: a buye. We'll see if that continues after tomorrow night.

1861
01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:15,800
Speaker 2: But the Miami Dolphins, now the number two seed, they

1862
01:39:15,840 --> 01:39:18,960
Speaker 2: would host again if it ended today, the Colts, who

1863
01:39:18,960 --> 01:39:22,600
Speaker 2: would check in as the number seven seed. Meanwhile, the

1864
01:39:22,800 --> 01:39:25,720
Speaker 2: Chiefs at number three would host the Buffalo Bills, who

1865
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:27,560
Speaker 2: are the number six seed. They've worked their way. I

1866
01:39:27,600 --> 01:39:30,960
Speaker 2: think they're going to be very dangerous. And the Jacksonville Jaguars,

1867
01:39:30,960 --> 01:39:32,679
Speaker 2: even though they laid an egg today and they're reeling,

1868
01:39:33,080 --> 01:39:35,439
Speaker 2: still a number four seed, they would host the number

1869
01:39:35,520 --> 01:39:37,800
Speaker 2: five Cleveland Browns. The game that stands out the most

1870
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 2: of any of these potential matchups is obviously Buffalo Kansas

1871
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:44,200
Speaker 2: City Come on be a rematch of their Week fourteen matchup.

1872
01:39:44,439 --> 01:39:47,200
Speaker 2: So the Bills pick up the twenty seven victory, check

1873
01:39:47,240 --> 01:39:51,040
Speaker 2: that twenty to seventeen victory amid that, well, give it

1874
01:39:51,120 --> 01:39:54,400
Speaker 2: up to Cadarius Tony and they call it a controversial

1875
01:39:54,600 --> 01:39:56,920
Speaker 2: late game penalty. I have no idea why it would

1876
01:39:56,920 --> 01:39:59,320
Speaker 2: be controversial. The guy was a foot pass the line

1877
01:39:59,320 --> 01:40:01,280
Speaker 2: of scrimmage. If you don't learn how to line up

1878
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:03,120
Speaker 2: on the line of scrimmage in high school, I can't

1879
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:07,639
Speaker 2: help you, Kadarius Tony, I'm telling you, man' he dropped

1880
01:40:07,640 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 2: that past week one against Detroit. They made a beaten

1881
01:40:09,920 --> 01:40:12,640
Speaker 2: the Lions, and he's they're sticking with him, But I

1882
01:40:12,680 --> 01:40:15,519
Speaker 2: will tell you that lit a fuse for the Bills.

1883
01:40:15,640 --> 01:40:18,240
Speaker 2: They have not lost since they had a dominant thirty

1884
01:40:18,240 --> 01:40:20,840
Speaker 2: one to ten victory over the Cowboys that got them

1885
01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:24,040
Speaker 2: back in the playoff conversation, Josh Allen playing some of

1886
01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:26,880
Speaker 2: the best football in December, as he has, and as

1887
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:29,400
Speaker 2: Josh Allen goes, so goes the Bills. You heard Steve

1888
01:40:29,439 --> 01:40:33,400
Speaker 2: de Sager's commentary on the Bills what he observed Saturday

1889
01:40:33,479 --> 01:40:37,400
Speaker 2: night in Los Angeles. Very insightful observations. When Buffalo brings

1890
01:40:37,439 --> 01:40:40,040
Speaker 2: their A game, they're going to be tough Chiefs. On

1891
01:40:40,080 --> 01:40:41,679
Speaker 2: the other hand, two and three in their last five,

1892
01:40:41,960 --> 01:40:44,240
Speaker 2: they have not looked like the defeating Super Bowl champions.

1893
01:40:44,800 --> 01:40:48,160
Speaker 2: Some frustration has set in. You're seeing Patrick Mahomes express

1894
01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:51,400
Speaker 2: it some anger. Of course, that interception that was caused

1895
01:40:51,400 --> 01:40:54,120
Speaker 2: by the tip off from Kadarius Tony during the Patriots

1896
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:56,640
Speaker 2: game in Week sixteen. The offense may not have been

1897
01:40:56,720 --> 01:41:00,280
Speaker 2: crisp is in years past, but do not go to

1898
01:41:00,360 --> 01:41:03,960
Speaker 2: sleep on the Kansas City Chiefs. We don't know. I

1899
01:41:04,040 --> 01:41:06,240
Speaker 2: don't know at this point. If someone goes into Kansas

1900
01:41:06,240 --> 01:41:08,160
Speaker 2: City and beats him in the playoffs, all the Chiefs

1901
01:41:08,200 --> 01:41:09,720
Speaker 2: have to go on the road as the number three seed.

1902
01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:12,120
Speaker 2: At some point, maybe their rain comes to an end.

1903
01:41:12,200 --> 01:41:13,760
Speaker 2: But you got to knock out the champion. It's not

1904
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:16,000
Speaker 2: going to be easy. They still got a guy named

1905
01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:19,599
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes and Andrew Reid Mahomes the two time league MVP.

1906
01:41:19,840 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 2: He can turn it on the flip of a switch

1907
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:23,680
Speaker 2: in the playoffs without question. If you don't believe me,

1908
01:41:24,800 --> 01:41:26,960
Speaker 2: you know, bet against him at your own risk. Coming up,

1909
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:30,280
Speaker 2: we've even got a little NBA action Monday. We're bringing

1910
01:41:30,320 --> 01:41:32,840
Speaker 2: our guy Mark Medina, who joins me every Saturday night

1911
01:41:33,120 --> 01:41:36,320
Speaker 2: from Medina Magic. We've got a quintuppleheader in the NBA

1912
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Speaker 2: on Monday, and it's going to go head up with

1913
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:41,360
Speaker 2: the NFL. We'll see how they feel about that. But

1914
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Speaker 2: first let's bringing our guy Steve di Seger with the latest.

1915
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Speaker 4: Well, the Denver Broncos just concluded one of their worst

1916
01:41:47,680 --> 01:41:51,040
Speaker 4: quarters of the season, just an astoundingly bad third quarter

1917
01:41:51,120 --> 01:41:54,080
Speaker 4: at home, and the New England Patriots now lead twenty

1918
01:41:54,160 --> 01:41:56,800
Speaker 4: three to seven at Denver going to the forest. Keep

1919
01:41:56,800 --> 01:41:59,479
Speaker 4: in mind the context the Broncos are seven and seven.

1920
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:03,439
Speaker 4: They need to leap over multiple teams to get into

1921
01:42:03,520 --> 01:42:07,120
Speaker 4: the playoffs. A loss tonight would put them sub five hundred. Also,

1922
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:10,880
Speaker 4: wide receiver Courtland Sutland Sutton left the game due to

1923
01:42:10,960 --> 01:42:14,040
Speaker 4: a concussion. He's not returning tonight. They're facing a Pats

1924
01:42:14,080 --> 01:42:17,120
Speaker 4: team that's three and eleven, that's missing starting tight end

1925
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:19,840
Speaker 4: Hunter Henry due to a knee injury, missing running back

1926
01:42:19,920 --> 01:42:23,599
Speaker 4: Rmandre Stevenson out with an ankle injury, and hear Zeke

1927
01:42:23,680 --> 01:42:26,880
Speaker 4: Elliott from Bailey Zappy is one touchdown on the third quarter.

1928
01:42:27,240 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 4: Mike Gasicki from Bailey Zappies and other Pats touchdown in

1929
01:42:30,560 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 4: the third and then Denver fumbles the kickoff and it's

1930
01:42:34,600 --> 01:42:39,040
Speaker 4: return for a touchdown. So twenty three seven is New

1931
01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:41,880
Speaker 4: England's lead as they've just started the fourth. How is

1932
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:44,719
Speaker 4: this happening? New England has missed a field goal attempt

1933
01:42:44,800 --> 01:42:47,040
Speaker 4: and an extra point, So maybe it's not over yet,

1934
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:50,040
Speaker 4: but a lot of booze reigning down from the fans

1935
01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:52,640
Speaker 4: that showed up in twenty five degree weather and are

1936
01:42:52,680 --> 01:42:55,120
Speaker 4: not seeing the home team get it done tonight. Denver

1937
01:42:55,240 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 4: has lost two of its last three games. Miami on

1938
01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:00,559
Speaker 4: a short field goal on the final play, beat Dallas

1939
01:43:00,640 --> 01:43:03,719
Speaker 4: twenty two to twenty. Jason Sanders went five for five

1940
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:07,040
Speaker 4: on field goals, including three of them from over fifty

1941
01:43:07,120 --> 01:43:09,880
Speaker 4: yards out. Tampa Bay won its fourth straight game. In fact,

1942
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:12,960
Speaker 4: led thirty to nothing against Jacksonville late third quarter thirty

1943
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:15,840
Speaker 4: to twelve. The final. Jaguars have lost four straight and

1944
01:43:16,040 --> 01:43:19,240
Speaker 4: quarterback Trevor Lawrence left with a right shoulder injury. He

1945
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:22,720
Speaker 4: had one touchdown three turnovers in this game. Chicago led

1946
01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:25,200
Speaker 4: Arizona twenty one to nothing late in the first half

1947
01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:29,559
Speaker 4: twenty seven sixteen Bears the final. Cleveland won at Houston

1948
01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 4: thirty six to twenty two. The Browns Amari Cooper with

1949
01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:37,280
Speaker 4: eleven receptions two hundred sixty five yards and two touchdowns.

1950
01:43:37,600 --> 01:43:40,240
Speaker 4: Detroit clinched a division title for the first time in

1951
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:43,120
Speaker 4: thirty years with the win at Minnesota thirty to twenty

1952
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:46,640
Speaker 4: four by the way, the league points out that this

1953
01:43:46,840 --> 01:43:48,800
Speaker 4: is the first time in the Super Bowl era, so

1954
01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:51,880
Speaker 4: going back to the nineteen sixties that Detroit has clinched

1955
01:43:51,880 --> 01:43:54,320
Speaker 4: a playoff spot with at least two weeks to play.

1956
01:43:55,000 --> 01:43:58,960
Speaker 4: Detroit was the only remaining NFL team that had not

1957
01:43:59,240 --> 01:44:02,519
Speaker 4: done that in nineteen sixty six when the Super Bowl

1958
01:44:02,600 --> 01:44:05,560
Speaker 4: Era began. With this Lions win today, it means the

1959
01:44:05,640 --> 01:44:08,160
Speaker 4: forty nine Ers cannot clinch the one seed or a

1960
01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:11,679
Speaker 4: bye or home field throughout tomorrow night. With the Cleveland

1961
01:44:11,720 --> 01:44:14,400
Speaker 4: win today, it means the Ravens cannot yet clinch the

1962
01:44:14,479 --> 01:44:18,320
Speaker 4: division title this weekend. With Indy's loss today, that gave

1963
01:44:18,479 --> 01:44:21,519
Speaker 4: Miami the chance to win and clinch a playoff spot

1964
01:44:21,560 --> 01:44:25,240
Speaker 4: against Dallas, and the Dolphins cashed in. Indy lost its

1965
01:44:25,280 --> 01:44:28,360
Speaker 4: game twenty nine to ten at Atlanta's Yung Wayku went

1966
01:44:28,439 --> 01:44:31,320
Speaker 4: five for five on field goals. By the way, the

1967
01:44:31,439 --> 01:44:35,000
Speaker 4: Giants can be eliminated tomorrow officially with a loss. Vegas

1968
01:44:35,080 --> 01:44:38,600
Speaker 4: can officially be eliminated with a loss at Casey. And

1969
01:44:38,720 --> 01:44:41,240
Speaker 4: one other note on the Lions. With today's victory here,

1970
01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:44,200
Speaker 4: they've clinched their first division title since nineteen ninety three,

1971
01:44:44,680 --> 01:44:47,839
Speaker 4: and Amen Ross Saint Brown was great again twelve catches.

1972
01:44:48,280 --> 01:44:50,400
Speaker 4: In fact, he had one hundred and six yards receiving

1973
01:44:50,479 --> 01:44:53,639
Speaker 4: and a score. He's just the fourth NFL player ever

1974
01:44:53,840 --> 01:44:56,760
Speaker 4: with three hundred catches in his first three seasons in

1975
01:44:56,800 --> 01:44:59,880
Speaker 4: the league. That's what Justin Jefferson did, and Michael tom

1976
01:45:00,280 --> 01:45:03,680
Speaker 4: the Saints and Christian McCaffrey as well. Seattle got a

1977
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:05,840
Speaker 4: touchdown pass with about a minute left to win at

1978
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:09,000
Speaker 4: Tennessee twenty to seventeen. Jets blew a lead but still

1979
01:45:09,040 --> 01:45:11,519
Speaker 4: won thirty to twenty eight over Washington on a late

1980
01:45:11,600 --> 01:45:14,200
Speaker 4: fifty four yard field goal. Washington's lost six in a

1981
01:45:14,320 --> 01:45:17,519
Speaker 4: Rowen Green Bay blew a late lead but still won

1982
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:20,040
Speaker 4: its game at Carolina thirty three to thirty on a

1983
01:45:20,120 --> 01:45:23,280
Speaker 4: late field goal. Aaron Jones twenty one, carries one hundred

1984
01:45:23,280 --> 01:45:27,040
Speaker 4: and twenty seven yards. Three NFL games on Christmas Tomorrow,

1985
01:45:27,240 --> 01:45:31,560
Speaker 4: no NBA tay five NBA games for Christmas. College basketball

1986
01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:35,200
Speaker 4: is off until Wednesday again. The New England Patriots are

1987
01:45:35,360 --> 01:45:38,639
Speaker 4: leading at Denver twenty three to seven, about thirteen minutes

1988
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:41,840
Speaker 4: to go in the fourth quarter. Russell Wilson with just

1989
01:45:42,040 --> 01:45:45,559
Speaker 4: eighty four yards passing. He has been sacked five times

1990
01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:46,240
Speaker 4: back to you.

1991
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Steve. All Right, you heard Steve say,

1992
01:45:50,439 --> 01:45:53,759
Speaker 2: we've got a quintuplet of Christmas games, so the NBA

1993
01:45:54,120 --> 01:45:56,639
Speaker 2: and the NFL will go ahead to head. This gentleman

1994
01:45:56,800 --> 01:46:01,080
Speaker 2: usually joined me at midnight Onday night because there's no

1995
01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:04,680
Speaker 2: shortage of news in the NBA. It's a twenty four

1996
01:46:04,720 --> 01:46:11,280
Speaker 2: to seven league. Yes, it's that time, Little Medina magic

1997
01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:15,880
Speaker 2: on a Christmas Eve, Mark Medina, hear him all over

1998
01:46:15,960 --> 01:46:20,639
Speaker 2: these network airwaves. He is our Fox Sports Radio NBA

1999
01:46:20,760 --> 01:46:23,440
Speaker 2: guru Mark First Merry Christmas.

2000
01:46:23,960 --> 01:46:26,960
Speaker 5: Christmas Ferney, trying to deliver some holiday goodness to.

2001
01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:31,080
Speaker 2: You like Santa always. So listen, let's talk about this

2002
01:46:32,200 --> 01:46:35,920
Speaker 2: butting heads between the two leagues on Sunday. It's fairly unprecedented.

2003
01:46:36,000 --> 01:46:39,320
Speaker 2: The NFL will play a triple header, but the NBA

2004
01:46:39,400 --> 01:46:41,880
Speaker 2: will play a quintupleheader leading off with the Bucks and

2005
01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:45,320
Speaker 2: Knicks at nine am Pacific. Your general thoughts on the

2006
01:46:45,360 --> 01:46:46,280
Speaker 2: slate for Sunday for.

2007
01:46:46,360 --> 01:46:50,479
Speaker 5: Monday, Yeah, well this happened last season as well because

2008
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:54,280
Speaker 5: it coincided with NFL Sunday. And you know, obviously, if

2009
01:46:54,320 --> 01:46:57,599
Speaker 5: the NBA had its wish, they would only have their

2010
01:46:57,640 --> 01:47:00,479
Speaker 5: own games because they do that the NFL. It's such

2011
01:47:00,520 --> 01:47:03,040
Speaker 5: a ratings draw. But it's interesting and bring this up, Bernie,

2012
01:47:03,120 --> 01:47:05,720
Speaker 5: because I talked to some people around the league as

2013
01:47:05,760 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 5: well as some of the play by play announcers, and

2014
01:47:08,800 --> 01:47:11,360
Speaker 5: even though they can see that the NFL they're going

2015
01:47:11,439 --> 01:47:14,960
Speaker 5: to win the ratings race, so to speak, they feel

2016
01:47:15,520 --> 01:47:18,880
Speaker 5: pretty optimistic that they can still build off of, you know,

2017
01:47:19,000 --> 01:47:21,559
Speaker 5: some of the ratings increases that they saw last season

2018
01:47:21,920 --> 01:47:23,800
Speaker 5: during the Christmas Day games as well as the n

2019
01:47:23,880 --> 01:47:26,960
Speaker 5: season tournament. And the reason is this, they know that

2020
01:47:27,160 --> 01:47:30,160
Speaker 5: NFL's king, but they had a lot of good individual matchups,

2021
01:47:30,240 --> 01:47:33,680
Speaker 5: they had the momentum from end season tournament, and you know,

2022
01:47:33,760 --> 01:47:37,519
Speaker 5: there is that recipe of it's almost a good thing

2023
01:47:37,600 --> 01:47:41,000
Speaker 5: that you have sports fans engaging in both events because

2024
01:47:41,560 --> 01:47:45,120
Speaker 5: that's more likely to draw the sports viewer if there

2025
01:47:45,240 --> 01:47:48,960
Speaker 5: is a competitive game on another channel versus a non

2026
01:47:49,080 --> 01:47:52,240
Speaker 5: sports fan trying to draw them in. So, yeah, the

2027
01:47:52,400 --> 01:47:54,519
Speaker 5: NFL is going to win the ratings, but the NBA

2028
01:47:55,080 --> 01:47:57,840
Speaker 5: feels like, hey, they can have their own victory too.

2029
01:47:58,720 --> 01:48:01,559
Speaker 2: I understand now that Jewel Embiid will miss the game

2030
01:48:01,640 --> 01:48:04,240
Speaker 2: against the Heat. Does that change the luster of that game?

2031
01:48:04,840 --> 01:48:07,519
Speaker 5: Oh, it totally does. I mean, Joel Embiid was has

2032
01:48:07,560 --> 01:48:10,639
Speaker 5: been playing an MVP level all season, I think, even

2033
01:48:10,680 --> 01:48:13,840
Speaker 5: better than last season, and he's one of the reasons why,

2034
01:48:14,160 --> 01:48:16,559
Speaker 5: you know, the Sixers have been able to just hum

2035
01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:20,160
Speaker 5: right along without James Harden. So yeah, it takes a

2036
01:48:20,200 --> 01:48:23,120
Speaker 5: lot of luster out of it also changes my thoughts

2037
01:48:23,120 --> 01:48:25,200
Speaker 5: on how the game was. I thought that the Sixers

2038
01:48:25,240 --> 01:48:28,719
Speaker 5: would be heavily favored against the Miami Heat because Miami

2039
01:48:28,800 --> 01:48:31,680
Speaker 5: Heat ironically have been dealing with their own injuries in

2040
01:48:31,840 --> 01:48:34,439
Speaker 5: recent games. But you know, I put the advantage now

2041
01:48:35,280 --> 01:48:39,160
Speaker 5: to Miami because Joel Embiid is that important. But you know,

2042
01:48:39,240 --> 01:48:40,920
Speaker 5: I think that this is telling that he is to

2043
01:48:40,960 --> 01:48:43,840
Speaker 5: stay out this Christmas Day game because the NBA had,

2044
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:48,400
Speaker 5: you know, talked to teams about their new participation policy

2045
01:48:48,520 --> 01:48:51,840
Speaker 5: and saying, hey, you guys can't rest stars unless it's

2046
01:48:51,920 --> 01:48:55,840
Speaker 5: something serious. And considering that, you know, he looked pretty

2047
01:48:55,920 --> 01:48:59,120
Speaker 5: much in pain when he had this injury during Friday night.

2048
01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:02,360
Speaker 5: Friday night game against Toronto shows if this is something

2049
01:49:02,479 --> 01:49:05,120
Speaker 5: that could be serious later on as well.

2050
01:49:05,680 --> 01:49:07,280
Speaker 2: Mark a bit of a time crunch tonight, So I

2051
01:49:07,400 --> 01:49:09,479
Speaker 2: just got time for one more but the word game,

2052
01:49:10,040 --> 01:49:12,720
Speaker 2: the one game, Mark, We're actually think the NBA might

2053
01:49:12,800 --> 01:49:15,559
Speaker 2: win the head to head ratings. The Lakers Celtics tip

2054
01:49:15,640 --> 01:49:18,720
Speaker 2: off in five pm Eastern. The New York Giants and

2055
01:49:18,760 --> 01:49:22,880
Speaker 2: Eagles tip off or kickoff in four thirty Eastern. Of course,

2056
01:49:22,960 --> 01:49:24,880
Speaker 2: by then the Chiefs will be having their way with

2057
01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:27,439
Speaker 2: the Raiders. Is that the one game you think the

2058
01:49:27,600 --> 01:49:29,640
Speaker 2: NBA wins the knockout punch in terms of.

2059
01:49:29,680 --> 01:49:31,960
Speaker 5: Head to head, Well, I don't think that they're going

2060
01:49:32,040 --> 01:49:34,519
Speaker 5: to win any knockout punch to the NFL. But where

2061
01:49:34,680 --> 01:49:38,120
Speaker 5: they have a chance to grab some viewers that I

2062
01:49:38,320 --> 01:49:40,160
Speaker 5: was talking about the sports fans that want to draw

2063
01:49:40,200 --> 01:49:44,559
Speaker 5: a competitive game, It's Warriors Nuggets because it's Steph Curry,

2064
01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:49,760
Speaker 5: the Warriors lately, Nuggets defending champs, and then Laker Celtics

2065
01:49:49,800 --> 01:49:52,960
Speaker 5: because of the history of them being the greatest rival.

2066
01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:55,519
Speaker 5: You got Lebron James, you got the Laker brands, obe

2067
01:49:55,640 --> 01:49:58,080
Speaker 5: those two teams. But look, the NFL is going to

2068
01:49:58,120 --> 01:49:59,919
Speaker 5: win the ratings race. That's just inevitable.

2069
01:50:00,600 --> 01:50:03,080
Speaker 2: Mark Listen, great stuff. As always, Merry Christmas to you

2070
01:50:03,120 --> 01:50:05,680
Speaker 2: and your family. We'll have you again next Saturday night

2071
01:50:05,800 --> 01:50:08,400
Speaker 2: midnight on The Bernie Frattle Show for a little Medina

2072
01:50:08,439 --> 01:50:11,600
Speaker 2: Magic enjoy your Christmas Day. NFL and NBA, thanks so

2073
01:50:11,760 --> 01:50:17,280
Speaker 2: much Christmas. Thanks. That is Mark Medina, our NBA Fox

2074
01:50:17,320 --> 01:50:20,280
Speaker 2: Sports Radio guru. You catch them every Saturday night at

2075
01:50:20,320 --> 01:50:23,960
Speaker 2: midnight on the Bernie Frattle Show. Coming up, we bring

2076
01:50:24,040 --> 01:50:26,000
Speaker 2: you well, we're gonna wrap up the show and wish

2077
01:50:26,040 --> 01:50:29,280
Speaker 2: everybody at Merry Christmas. But coming up, we're also going

2078
01:50:29,360 --> 01:50:32,519
Speaker 2: to bring you Brandon Truffaz Progressive Play of the Day

2079
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:34,519
Speaker 2: on Bernie Frattle. We're coming to you live from the

2080
01:50:34,560 --> 01:50:37,080
Speaker 2: Las faas Fox Sports Radio, Tiret dot Com Studios. Keep

2081
01:50:37,080 --> 01:50:41,800
Speaker 2: it locked. You're listening to Fox Football Sunday Bernie Fratto

2082
01:50:41,840 --> 01:50:46,360
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. We're wrapping it up on Fox

2083
01:50:46,680 --> 01:50:51,479
Speaker 2: Football Sunday. Bernie Fratto in for Willard and Rudolph. Obviously,

2084
01:50:51,680 --> 01:50:55,519
Speaker 2: Rudolph is busy on Christmas Eve. I believe there are

2085
01:50:55,600 --> 01:50:59,320
Speaker 2: some Santa sightings around the country. But before you go

2086
01:50:59,400 --> 01:51:04,240
Speaker 2: any further, it's time we bring you Brandon Trufless Progressive

2087
01:51:04,640 --> 01:51:05,280
Speaker 2: Play of the Day.

2088
01:51:05,680 --> 01:51:06,240
Speaker 4: Minnesota.

2089
01:51:06,280 --> 01:51:08,400
Speaker 1: Now thirty yards from the EDG zone. They've got to

2090
01:51:08,520 --> 01:51:11,960
Speaker 1: have down six fifty eight seconds to go. Clock will

2091
01:51:11,960 --> 01:51:15,240
Speaker 1: start on the staff. Mullins takes the shotgun snap.

2092
01:51:15,040 --> 01:51:18,439
Speaker 3: He's back Mullins looking pressure, comes stepping up, looking throwing

2093
01:51:18,520 --> 01:51:21,439
Speaker 3: deep down field. It is picked up by the Lions,

2094
01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:25,560
Speaker 3: intercepted coming back the other way. He fought to Malapadwu,

2095
01:51:25,920 --> 01:51:28,640
Speaker 3: this is gonna be over, Clons, You're gonna win it.

2096
01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:29,960
Speaker 1: Clyon for bringing the.

2097
01:51:30,080 --> 01:51:36,040
Speaker 2: NFC North title back to Detroit, courtesy my al stomping Grounds.

2098
01:51:36,120 --> 01:51:40,000
Speaker 2: That's the voice of the great Dan Miller. Ninety seven

2099
01:51:40,000 --> 01:51:44,920
Speaker 2: to one WXYT. The tacking Detroit couldn't be happier for

2100
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:47,360
Speaker 2: those guys. I was there in O eight when the

2101
01:51:47,400 --> 01:51:50,679
Speaker 2: Lions went on sixteen. Dan was there for that as well.

2102
01:51:50,800 --> 01:51:53,439
Speaker 2: To go with the play by play two D's back

2103
01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:55,680
Speaker 2: in two thousand and five. He's been a fixed ure

2104
01:51:55,760 --> 01:52:00,120
Speaker 2: for eighteen years. So happy for the Detroit Lions. They

2105
01:52:00,160 --> 01:52:03,400
Speaker 2: have won the NFC North. They've got two games left.

2106
01:52:03,720 --> 01:52:09,120
Speaker 2: They could perhaps even advance their fortunes, but we shall see.

2107
01:52:09,760 --> 01:52:14,360
Speaker 2: So look, it's been a great day in the National

2108
01:52:14,400 --> 01:52:17,760
Speaker 2: Football League. And before I go any further as well,

2109
01:52:17,800 --> 01:52:20,879
Speaker 2: I want to thank my broadcast team back in Los Angeles.

2110
01:52:21,600 --> 01:52:25,320
Speaker 2: They've been here since five pm Pacific, actually probably earlier

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Speaker 2: in the day. LORRAINA. Peterson, outstanding job. Brandon Truffa always good,

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Speaker 2: my man. We've got some history. And of course Steve

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Speaker 2: di Seger and the dulce of tones on all the

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Speaker 2: updates could not do the show tonight. Appreciate you dedicating

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Speaker 2: your time tonight on Christmas Eve for Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Outstanding job, peeps, I really mean it. And again Today's

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I get my hopes up. They

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Speaker 2: may be going down with more of a fight than

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Speaker 2: a whimper, but they've had two and a half hours

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Speaker 2: to do something and they have kind of fritter away

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Speaker 2: their opportunity. I don't think this is going to end

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Speaker 2: well in Denver, just my opinion. A couple of notable

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Speaker 2: coaches are in the news today, and I think for

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01:53:30,840 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 2: good reason. Look, we all know that the New York

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Speaker 2: Jets have had an incredibly disappointing season, a very tumultuous season,

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Speaker 2: But there is a new report that suggests that it

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Speaker 2: will not cost Robert Salad their head coach, his job.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Robert Salad, the Pride of Dearborn Michigan,

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Speaker 2: played at a little football factory there forts and High

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Speaker 2: school in Dearborn, Michigan. Look Jets owner Woody Johnson. He

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Speaker 2: seems to be pragmatic and realistic. Okay with the men

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Speaker 2: at Aaron Rodgers went down, The fortunes of the season

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Speaker 2: went along with it. So can you really put that

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Speaker 2: on Joe Douglas? Can you put that in Robert Sala?

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Speaker 2: The defense has actually been pretty good this year, and

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Speaker 2: I think you run it back. Do you really want

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Speaker 2: to start over with everybody and bring Aaron Rodgers back.

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Speaker 2: The only question mark in the room, I think is

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Speaker 2: their offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, but I understand he's also

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Speaker 2: considered likely to return, probably because of his relationship with

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. Now, I know people have been critical of

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Speaker 2: Robert Sala, and under normal circumstances, you might see a

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Speaker 2: coach who is sixteen and thirty three as a head

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Speaker 2: coach of the Jets find his way out the door. However,

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Speaker 2: Sala Douglas, they're gonna get a pass for the season,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's the correct thing to do. Again,

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Speaker 2: after Aaron Rodgers suffered his season ending Achilles tier, just

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Speaker 2: force naps into the season. Come on, what are you

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Speaker 2: gonna do? And by the way, it didn't hurt that.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, it's my understanding, has firmly endorsed both Robert

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Speaker 2: and Joe Douglas and he's done it on the Pat

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Speaker 2: McAfee show as well. That can only help. And again,

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Speaker 2: you can't blame Solid for Rogers injury. I get he's

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Speaker 2: faced some criticism over how he's handled the quarterback position

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Speaker 2: this season, but I think his demeanor, okay, I've seen

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Speaker 2: how things look bad and go bad. I saw it

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Speaker 2: with Rod Marinelli in Detroit No. Eight when they started

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Speaker 2: to go off the rails. He didn't quit himself well.

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Speaker 2: And I saw it with Marty morning Wagon in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and two. He didn't quit himself well. I think

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Speaker 2: Robert Sala has been fairly stoic. Another coaching icon. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna call this guy in icon because I'm a big

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin fan. There were actually rumors this past week

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Speaker 2: that Mike Tomlin and the Steelers could be headed for

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Speaker 2: a party of the ways. It's a matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: and Steve de Seger alluded to this. There were folks

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Speaker 2: around the NFL that believed that the Steelers could consider

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Speaker 2: trading Tomlin to another organization. He's entering the finals even

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Speaker 2: of his contract. But I think, as Steve reported earlier,

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Speaker 2: there's talks of Tomlin getting a contract extension. But I

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Speaker 2: will tell you it's already leaked out that if that

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Speaker 2: would have been the case, and Mike Tomlin would have

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Speaker 2: entered the open market, and it would have required draft

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Speaker 2: picks or trades, and its happened with John Gruden twenty

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Speaker 2: one years ago when he was traded to the Tampa

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Speaker 2: Bay Buccaneers. It's my understanding the Washington Commanders, who have

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Speaker 2: a coach Ron Rivera, Chicago Bears, still have Matt Ebrafus

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Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers, they were among the teams that would have

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Speaker 2: been willing to give up draft picks to trade for

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin, who's been a fixture there in Pittsburgh now

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Speaker 2: longer than Bill Cower was. But the most likely outcome

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Speaker 2: is it looks like cooler heads are going to prevail.

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin will be returning to Pittsford for probably not

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Speaker 2: only another season, but multiple seasons. And again, here's a

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Speaker 2: guy who he faced a lot of scrutiny over the

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Speaker 2: past few weeks. The Steelers season fell apart why they

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Speaker 2: had an incredibly inept offense, and there is there's a

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Speaker 2: thought that there might be a few players in the

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Speaker 2: locker room that don't necessarily buy into Tomlin. And he's

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Speaker 2: got kind of that competitive, hard no style and a

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Speaker 2: matter of fact style and a no nonsense style. Well, look,

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Speaker 2: Tomlin was probably there long before you were there'd probably

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Speaker 2: be there long after. And let's keep in mind he's

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Speaker 2: been the Steelers head coaches two thousand and seven. Over

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Speaker 2: that period, he's seventy one games over five hundred, he's

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Speaker 2: won one hundred and seventy one games, and he has

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Speaker 2: a super Bowl title. So there you have it. Tomlin

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Speaker 2: will be back, Sala will be back, and I'll be

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Speaker 2: back on these eer waves Wednesday night, sitting in with

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Speaker 2: Arnie Spaniard as we will host the Jason Smith and

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Speaker 2: Mike Carmon shall also be sitting in for Ben mallor

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Speaker 2: on on Thursday night before I get to my regular

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Speaker 2: shows Friday. And all right, if you don't know what

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Speaker 2: to watch Monday, I'll tell you. You got the Bucks

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Speaker 2: and Knicks tipping off at nine am Pacific time. An

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Speaker 2: hour later you got the Raiders and Chiefs. Then an

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Speaker 2: hour and a half after that at eleven thirty Pacific time,

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Speaker 2: you have the Warriors and the Nuggets. Two hours after

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Speaker 2: that one thirty Pacific time, you'll have the New York

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Speaker 2: Giants at the Philadelphia Eagles. Half an hour later Boston

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Speaker 2: Celtics at the Lakers five pm Pacific. Check that these

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Speaker 2: are Eastern time. That's an Eastern time two eight two

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific six Ers in Miami five pm Pacific on

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Speaker 2: ESPN and rad at that time. Fifteen minutes later, the

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Speaker 2: Ravens and the forty nine Ers. Well they'll you know,

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Speaker 2: people want to think this is a Super Bowl preview.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it is a fifteen Eastern on ABC and ESPN.

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Speaker 2: Plus it should be a hell of a game. Finally,

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Speaker 2: ten thirty pm for you Night Owls Eastern Dallas Mavericks

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Speaker 2: and the Phoenix Suns will wrap up Denver trailing twenty

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Speaker 2: three point fifteen five minutes and thirty seconds to go,

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Speaker 2: They've got the ball. Do you believe in miracles? I don't.

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Speaker 2: We'll see what Denver can do. It's gonna do it

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Speaker 2: for Fox Football Sunday, Bernie Fritto. But you don't want

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Speaker 2: to go anywhere. Keep it locked right here. Up next,

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Speaker 2: Arnie Spanier and Chris Plank as the Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: family of talent continues. Merry Christmas, everyone,