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

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Speaker 2: Welcome in everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Football Saturday Er Tords.

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Speaker 3: Jason Martin broadcasting live.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we are live eleven oh one Eastern Time from

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Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 3: Two NFL playoff games.

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Speaker 2: One is essentially in the books, jaymar a lot to

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Speaker 2: take out of Denver Buffalo.

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Speaker 3: Don't really know.

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Speaker 2: How much we're gonna be talking about breaking down third

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Speaker 2: and seven in the second quarter of Seahawks forty nine

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Speaker 2: ers as de Sega just told you about. Midway through

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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, forty one to six, Seattle leads. Seattle

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Speaker 2: returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown. It has not

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Speaker 2: slowed down since then. Jason Martin, hope you're well plenty

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Speaker 2: to talk about. As I said, don't think we're gonna

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Speaker 2: be really breaking down very much of Seattle San Francisco.

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Speaker 4: Here, Seahawks look awesome pretty much like you said, from

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Speaker 4: the kickoff return. And finally, all these injuries and all

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Speaker 4: this like sorcery that Kyle Shanahan has been pulling out,

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Speaker 4: it just ran out like they just they're just not

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Speaker 4: as good. They don't have the players, and not to

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Speaker 4: mention they're on the road, and once the momentum got going,

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Speaker 4: you looked up it was seventeen to nothing. And then

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Speaker 4: when they got that extra touchdown there right before the

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Speaker 4: end of the half made it twenty four to six,

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Speaker 4: it felt like it was over, and indeed it was.

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Speaker 4: And that's pretty much that's my thoughts on that game.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty much it. Seahawks have looked dominant. They look

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Speaker 4: like the number one.

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Speaker 2: Seed really quickly. I have a couple tiny more thoughts

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Speaker 2: before we get to what was both a thriller and

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Speaker 2: frankly a disappointing result for both Denver and Buffalo. With

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Speaker 2: how it resulted with Denver and Buffalo real quick, Sam Darnold,

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Speaker 2: does he does?

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Speaker 3: Does he really have an oblique injury?

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Speaker 4: Twelve?

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Speaker 1: Dude?

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Speaker 4: Like I did want to make that matter go ahead.

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Speaker 4: I saw a whole lot of article Is he gonna play?

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Speaker 4: Is he gonna of course he's gonna play unless he

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Speaker 4: doesn't have legs? Like I didn't buy that for a second,

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Speaker 4: not that he wasn't hurt, but this idea that it

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Speaker 4: was questionable if he was gonna play. Are we serious

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Speaker 4: about this? And then the talk was, well, I mean,

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Speaker 4: Drew lock will be backing them up. Well, guess what

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Speaker 4: Drew lock is playing in the game, because it's a

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Speaker 4: thirty five point blowout and Donald is now on the

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Speaker 4: sidelines twelve to seventeen in the game, and every pass

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Speaker 4: that I saw him throw looked like Sam Darnald to me,

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Speaker 4: like it generally seemed like it wasn't bothering him all

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Speaker 4: that much. I'm not saying that they lied. I'm saying

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Speaker 4: that the media blew this thing way out of proportion

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Speaker 4: in my opinion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, forty one to six, Sam Narnald twelve of seventeen

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Speaker 2: passing one hundred and twenty four yards, one touchdown. If

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Speaker 2: there is a major injury, it was not exposed. Tonight,

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Speaker 2: Seattle will be hosting the NFC Championship game.

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 2: For those of you just joining us, six point fifty

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Speaker 2: left Seattle up forty one to six. I can't believe

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Speaker 2: these two teams played literally two weeks ago today and

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Speaker 2: it was a back and forth game that could have

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Speaker 2: gone either way. Admittedly it was in San Francisco, but

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Speaker 2: Seattle gets the win. They will be hosting the winner

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Speaker 2: of the Rams Bears game. That is the second game

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Speaker 2: on Sunday. First game on Sunday Patriots and the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: The winner there will be headed to Denver. Denver gets

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Speaker 2: the thirty three to thirty victory over Buffalo. Now, Marnon

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Speaker 2: Monci de Sager, they've been on since the end of

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Speaker 2: that game. They got you all the details. It's worth

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Speaker 2: noting bo Knicks is out for the playoffs. We'll probably

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Speaker 2: talk about that maybe next segment. But I do think

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Speaker 2: I want to start with not quite the way this

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Speaker 2: game ended, but sort of the way this game ended.

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Speaker 2: In overtime, Buffalo gets the stop to open overtime. First

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Speaker 2: possession on offense for Buffalo, Josh Allen deep pass to

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Speaker 2: Brandon Cooks. He catches, it comes down with it. It

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Speaker 2: is cold an interception on the field. The refs don't

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Speaker 2: even bother to go to review. Now, admittedly, you know

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Speaker 2: once the play is fully fully fully over, the defensive

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Speaker 2: could go. I actually, j Mart, we have two really

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Speaker 2: good pieces of sound from Sean McDermott. But before we

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Speaker 2: get to them, listen, Buffalo had five turnovers, including that

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Speaker 2: one in overtime. It's not the sole reason that they lost.

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Speaker 2: But first of all, am I even framing this correctly

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Speaker 2: deep past two Brandon Cooks catch comes down, ball ripped

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Speaker 2: Sean McDermott sound in half a second. But am I

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Speaker 2: setting this upright? Am I over selling it? Did it

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Speaker 2: look like a catch to you? Did it look like

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Speaker 2: a clean interception to you? I want to be fair

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Speaker 2: to the Broncos fans listening, But what was your takeaway

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Speaker 2: before we hear from Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 4: So I wasn't sure in the moment. Now you know

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Speaker 4: where my allegiances lie as a fan.

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Speaker 3: You're a I want to set that up.

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Speaker 2: You're a Broncos fan, so I but I think you'll

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Speaker 2: be fair one way or the other.

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Speaker 3: So go ahead.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was a catch when I saw the

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Speaker 4: first replay. I heard Gene Stertor on the CBS broadcast say,

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Speaker 4: I don't know that he had possession fully in his

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Speaker 4: was jostling enough that the simultaneous possession came into effect

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Speaker 4: and the dB was able to rip it away. I

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Speaker 4: still felt afterwards. It's not that I felt like there

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Speaker 4: was robbery, but I definitely felt cloudy about it. Like,

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Speaker 4: I wasn't sure and I felt like whatever had been

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Speaker 4: know that there was evidence enough to overturn. But I

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Speaker 4: am surprised that they didn't go to review, they didn't

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Speaker 4: replay it a little bit more because it was a

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Speaker 4: huge play in the game, obviously, Ja.

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Speaker 2: Mart, I'll tell you what. You were confused as to

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Speaker 2: why they didn't go to replay. So was Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 2: Here was Sean McDermott, Buffalo Bill's coach after the game

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Speaker 2: about this very controversial play in overtime ruled an interception

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Speaker 2: on the field, and they did not go to replay.

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Speaker 5: I called a time out to try and slow it down.

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Speaker 6: It would just it would seem logical to me, the

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Speaker 6: head official would walk over and want to go and

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Speaker 6: take a look at it, just to make sure that

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Speaker 6: everybody from here who is in the stadium to there

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Speaker 4: That's too big.

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Speaker 6: Of a play, in a play that decided the game

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Speaker 6: potentially as well to not even.

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Speaker 4: Slow it down.

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Speaker 5: And I've had a chance to look at it's hard.

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Speaker 6: For me to understand why it was ruled the way

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Speaker 6: it was ruled, and if it is ruled that way,

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Speaker 6: then why wasn't it slowed down just to make sure

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Speaker 5: That would have made a lot of sense to me.

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Speaker 5: So I'll just leave it at that.

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Speaker 2: Sean McDermott had a little bit more to say. Here

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Speaker 2: was the second part of this.

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Speaker 6: Sound I'm saying because I'm standing up for Buffalo, damn it.

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Speaker 6: I'm standing up for us because what went on is

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Speaker 6: not that is not how it should go down. In

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Speaker 6: my estimation, that plays these guys spend three hours out

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Speaker 6: let's just slow this thing down.

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Speaker 5: That's where That's why I'm bothering.

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Speaker 2: Sean McDermott after the game. You know, J Mart, I

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Speaker 2: think what you said. Okay, so two things can be true.

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Speaker 2: I think what you said is accurate. I think whatever

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Speaker 2: it over turn it either way. Where I am at though,

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Speaker 2: is it is twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: How do we not know what it can?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: How do we not know what a catches?

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Speaker 1: And?

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Speaker 2: J Mart, listen, all I'm saying is is that first

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Speaker 2: gonna be a second time in about five years that

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Speaker 2: you know we might have to revisit a role in

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Speaker 2: the offseason because of a way that Buffalo lost in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. My thing is this, though, I mean, listen,

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Speaker 2: we all from the time you started playing in the

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Speaker 2: backyard with your neighbors through the NFL. If you catch it,

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Speaker 2: if you come down with the ball, I don't know

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Speaker 2: how it isn't a catch. And then listen to Sean

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Speaker 2: Mcdermot's a larger point. How do you in the biggest

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Speaker 2: game of the year, the biggest game of the year

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Speaker 2: playoffs over time, you don't even go to review. Now,

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Speaker 2: I'll say this to your point, I think because of

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Speaker 2: you go to review if that play gets overturned. But

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Speaker 2: I guess just what I'm saying is this is that Look,

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Speaker 2: we've talked about catch versus non catch for fifteen years

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Speaker 2: now whatever I mean, dating back to Dez Bryant, dating

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Speaker 2: back to whatever, and it's like, I don't know, man,

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Speaker 2: Like you have the ball in your hands, your knee

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Speaker 2: and I actually saw some people arguing this on social media,

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Speaker 2: saw some people saying, well, he let up and he

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Speaker 4: So I didn't see that. I'll need to see that again.

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Speaker 4: I would disagree with that based on what I've seen so.

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Speaker 3: Far, but broader point.

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Speaker 4: But more to the point though, I agree, and I

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Speaker 4: listening to Sean mcdartott, I agree with his analogy, and

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Speaker 4: I actually believed when he called the time out that

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Speaker 4: they were assuredly going to go look at it, because

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Speaker 4: I understood why he called the time out. I was

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Speaker 4: actually stunned that they did not do it. But I

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Speaker 4: shouldn't have been, because you know what, I hate to

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Speaker 4: do this kind of But Carl Cheffer's crew is not good. Wow,

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Speaker 4: And they haven't been good for a very long time now.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's the exact same crew he's

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Speaker 4: whatever crew he's with, there's some sketchy stuff that goes on.

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Speaker 4: They are way too prevalent in a lot of the

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Speaker 4: the games. Carl Jeffers is definitely an official who likes

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Speaker 4: to be a star. He's definitely somebody that you hear

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Speaker 4: a lot from when his guys are out there. And

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Speaker 4: what was this game? In the end, it was back

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Speaker 4: to back DPI calls. After that interception call, it leaves

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Speaker 4: a sour taste in your mouth. And I understand why

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Speaker 4: Bill's fans would be frustrated by it. I understand why

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Speaker 4: Josh Allen would be frustrated by it. I understand why

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Speaker 4: Sean McDermott would be frustrated by it. I will say this,

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Speaker 4: and I know no one is going to disagree. The

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Speaker 4: officials did not cause Josh Allen to fumble the football

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Speaker 4: at the end of the first half, or throw the

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Speaker 4: first interception, or cause James Cook to fumble the football.

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Speaker 4: They turned the ball over five times in the game.

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Speaker 4: You want to take the other one out, maybe it's

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Speaker 4: four if you don't want to call that last one

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Speaker 4: an interception. Of course, that's what it was on the field.

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Speaker 4: Josh Allen was in tears after the game, saying he

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Speaker 4: those are the things that happened in sports back and forth.

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Speaker 4: The biggest issue, though, is you hate that this thing

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, it was a great game

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Speaker 2: joining us the game in Seattle's final Seattle forty one,

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Speaker 4: So well, First off, I got to ask you a question.

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Speaker 3: Ask me a question.

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Speaker 4: If you're the Jets or a Jets fan. You saw

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Speaker 4: Geno Smith, you know, basically come back from the dead

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Speaker 4: Sam Donald, who was just bust material left and right,

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Speaker 4: and seems to be confident, has his swagger back. Everybody

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Speaker 4: just think it's it's just you, Like, if you're the Jets,

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Speaker 2: So it's very interesting you asked that because one I

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Speaker 3: It can't be you know.

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Speaker 2: By the way Robert Sawa, I know it didn't go

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Speaker 2: doing calling the defenses this year. You know, you go

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Speaker 2: just let you answer that. I know how I feel,

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Speaker 2: but I'll just let you answer that question. Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: nailed at jamrd It's it's pretty hopeless man.

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Speaker 9: But but I I will say, Sam Darnold has been

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Speaker 9: And it's not just you, Like there's plenty of people

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Speaker 9: But but he was bad with the Panthers, he.

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Speaker 3: Say, real quick up on the Niners.

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Speaker 2: This does not happen if he stays like it's not

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Speaker 4: That's part of the hopelessness. That's the whole point.

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Speaker 4: It's not that it's not how did you let this

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Speaker 9: They just get Aaron Rodgers all time, worse year playing

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Speaker 4: I mean, Justin Fields was never going to light the

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Speaker 2: Well, really quick let's this isn't a topic that I

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Speaker 2: Well, that's why I ask, do you think do you

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Speaker 4: I mean, personally, I think it's the former. I think

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say it ever gonna be okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: everyone's gonna tell us it's gonna be great, and then

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Speaker 4: It's not just like this year. Yeah, yeah, it's just

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Speaker 4: There's not a whole lot of future stars, I don't

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Speaker 4: so you have a better chance of success. But I

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Speaker 4: If you're a.

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Speaker 2: Quarterback, Yeah, do you have anything to addie? And you

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Speaker 2: know we got other stuff that I think that Jane

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Speaker 9: But yeah, I mean I think I don't think it

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Speaker 9: but I think it at least had to play some

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Speaker 9: it wasn't just because it's the Jets, I'm not gonna go, Yeah,

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Speaker 9: But playing for the Jets certainly didn't help. Alrightyan, you

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Speaker 9: they're not really rivals. But Buffalo Bills. So Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 9: we talked in the first segment. They lose thirty three

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Speaker 9: a questionable call could have been called to catch on

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Speaker 9: the field by Brandon Cooks. It was not called to

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Speaker 9: Refs did not even attempt to review the call. Denver

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Speaker 9: ends up winning the game. However, to a point that

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Speaker 9: fact that it was one of five Buffalo Bills turnovers.

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Speaker 9: There was a crucial fumble late in the first half

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Speaker 4: By the way, it wasn't just a crucial fumble, it

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Speaker 4: was no reason to do what he did in that spot.

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Speaker 4: I understand that he's competitive and wants to be aggressive,

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Speaker 4: but there was basically no chance outside of a miracle,

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Speaker 4: potential reward, and it ended up costing them three points.

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Speaker 2: Ended up costing him three points. Here is Josh Allen

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Speaker 5: Can't win with five turnovers.

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Speaker 4: I fumble tize through two picks and can you shoot

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Speaker 4: yourself in the foot like that? You don't deserve one

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Speaker 4: football games.

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Speaker 3: That was Josh Allen after the game talking about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jamar, I don't know that I really have a

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Speaker 2: ton to add and I will say this, and you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe after we get to Disager we talk about Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've been critical of Sean McDermott. I still

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Speaker 2: do worry big picture. I mean, this is now five

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Speaker 2: straight years where you have a crippling playoff loss.

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Speaker 4: But as a I don't put it on him.

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Speaker 3: Don't as a.

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen defender twenty five of thirty nine, two interceptions

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Speaker 2: as a team, five fumbles.

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Speaker 3: We just set up that.

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Speaker 2: We just referenced the fumble that set up a Broncos

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Speaker 2: field goal right before the half. You know, the path

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Speaker 2: was there for the Bills, but the path was there

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Speaker 2: for Josh Allen specifically, and he didn't do enough on

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Speaker 2: Saturday Jays.

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Speaker 4: Look, there was no Joe Burrow, there was no Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 4: there was no Patrick Mahomes. But the fact of the

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Speaker 4: matter is I saw this comment and it's accurate, at

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Speaker 4: least at the time. Then we found out Nicks was out.

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Speaker 4: So we can now say this, either Drake may c j.

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Speaker 4: Stroud or Jarrett Stidham will reach a super Bowl before

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Speaker 4: Josh Allen.

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Speaker 3: Crazy.

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Speaker 4: That is unreal. It really is. Look, it's happened seven

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Speaker 4: times in the playoffs to Josh Allen. He has played

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Speaker 4: miraculous in a lot of those games. He didn't play

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Speaker 4: great in the first half last year against Baltimore. In

468
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Speaker 4: this game, he just didn't have his best stuff. He

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Speaker 4: really did not. He was off on some throws, both

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Speaker 4: underthrowing and overthrowing guys. He missed a few that would

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Speaker 4: have potentially been walk off shots in this game. But

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Speaker 4: I mean he also made some stellar plays that kept

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Speaker 4: him that got him back in it. Although I think

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Speaker 4: that James Cook was probably most responsible because for whatever reason,

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Speaker 4: Denver could not stop the run in this game to

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Speaker 4: save their lives. But I mean, think about this, you know,

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Speaker 4: I see a lot of people have read some articles

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Speaker 4: since the game about the lack of receiving talent for Buffalo.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Denver lost two wide receivers to concussions on

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Speaker 4: their first possession, Mems ends up coming back thankfully, and

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Speaker 4: then they lost Franklin later in the game. They lost

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Speaker 4: three wide receivers during this game, two of them who

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Speaker 4: did not come back in and they still found a

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Speaker 4: way to win this football game. It's not that Josh

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Speaker 4: Allen is not good enough in the playoffs. I'm not

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Speaker 4: sure how you. I don't know that there's a trend

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Speaker 4: to what's happening. But I will say this because we

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Speaker 4: were both on record if they did not reach the

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Speaker 4: AFC Championship Game, or even further than that, if they

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Speaker 4: didn't reach the Super Bowl, McDermott had to go. I

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Speaker 4: don't think any of this is on Sean McDermott. I

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Speaker 4: think he coached a pretty good game. I really do.

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Speaker 4: I felt like, generally speaking, Joe Brady was doaling up

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Speaker 4: a solid offense, and generally McDermott was was doing what

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Speaker 4: he was supposed to do, even to the point that

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Speaker 4: he called the time out to try and slow things

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Speaker 4: down to get the replay on the questionable call in

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Speaker 4: ot that didn't end up going their way. I can't

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Speaker 4: put this on the coach. There's nothing that I can say.

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Speaker 4: What are you doing McDermott. I didn't see that, not

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Speaker 4: at all. As a matter of.

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Speaker 2: Fact, well, I'll tell you what. Why don't we come back.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk Sean McDermott's future in the future of the Broncos, who,

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Speaker 2: as Disager is about to tell us in half a second,

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Speaker 2: they're going into the AFC Championship Game. Shorthanded Disager first

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Speaker 2: update of our show taken away, sir.

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Speaker 10: Good evening to you, gentlemen. And you talked about Carl

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Speaker 10: Shecheffer's crew. By the way, in the playoff game. This

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Speaker 10: isn't his crew. It's a postseason so it's a so

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Speaker 10: called all star crew. So not a single guy that

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Speaker 10: he worked with in the regular season, including back judge,

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Speaker 10: everybody else. Not a single guy he worked with regular

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Speaker 10: season was on the field for him today. I've always

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Speaker 10: thought that curious, frankly, because crews tend to be like teams,

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Speaker 10: you know, yeasty right exactly, and yet this is how

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Speaker 10: they award things.

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Speaker 4: Also, Cheffers is just bad generally, is what I mean. Then,

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Speaker 4: so I guess it wasn't his crew. It's just it's

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Speaker 4: just Cheffers, who reminds me of the former president on

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Speaker 4: twenty four.

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Speaker 10: I will say, if you just look at the resume,

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Speaker 10: I think he's been the ref for three different Super Bowls.

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Speaker 10: I'm not in any way saying every guy who's had

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Speaker 10: a Super Bowl assignment has just had a stellar career.

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Speaker 10: He has been an NFL ref for a long time.

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Speaker 10: He's from southern California. I've known the name for a

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Speaker 10: long time. He was a Pack ten reft, his dad

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Speaker 10: was a Pack ten ref. Just saying for today's crew

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Speaker 10: and for anybody that's working postseason, really not their crew,

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Speaker 10: so to speak. But the amazing stat is the Bills

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Speaker 10: come so close and they're out again under Josh Allen

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Speaker 10: and coach Sean McDermott in postseason overtime games. They're now

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Speaker 10: zero and three, and so Denver wins at home in

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Speaker 10: ot against Buffalo thirty three to thirty on a short

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Speaker 10: field goal, Bills with five turnovers. The big news that

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Speaker 10: quarterback bow Knicks of Denver suffered a broken ankle late

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Speaker 10: in the game.

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Speaker 11: He's out for the postseason.

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Speaker 10: Which means Jared Stidham, who has not thrown a regular

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Speaker 10: season pass in over two years since he started a

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Speaker 10: couple games after Russell Wilson was benched, is going to

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Speaker 10: start the AFC Championship game in Denver next weekend. In

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Speaker 10: fact stats in look back to nineteen fifty in their numbers,

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Speaker 10: because that's when quarterback starts first began to be tracked.

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Speaker 10: Jared Stidham next weekend would become the first ever NFL

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Speaker 10: quarterback to start a conference title game or later in

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Speaker 10: the playoffs after not throwing a single pass during that

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Speaker 10: regular season.

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Speaker 2: Jared Stidham and Russell Wilson. That was like a crappy

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Speaker 2: quarterback's mad libs. R.

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Speaker 4: Well, dude, you got to look at this though, like

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Speaker 4: this is former Auburn quarterback to former Auburn quarterback. Oh,

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Speaker 4: that's next to Jared Stidham.

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Speaker 11: That is correct synergy and not the.

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Speaker 3: Right kind of synergy if you've watched Auburn No No.

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Speaker 6: So.

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Speaker 10: One seed Denver will be hosting the AFC Title Game

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Speaker 10: next weekend. One seed Seattle will host the NFC Title

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Speaker 10: Game next weekend. Seahawks have won eight in a row

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Speaker 10: that beat the forty nine Ers forty one to six.

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Speaker 10: Sports Illustrated had an incredible stat that tonight snapped a

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Speaker 10: streak that had been going on for over twenty years

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Speaker 10: where the forty nine ers either got to the NFC

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Speaker 10: title game or later or missed the playoffs entirely every

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Speaker 10: season since two thousand and three. Wow, and they're out

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Speaker 10: in the Divisional roun at least what's left of the

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Speaker 10: forty nine Ers, we should say, is out in the

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Speaker 10: divisional round. The last time the Niners franchise lost at

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Speaker 10: this point of the postseason was two thousand and two.

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Speaker 11: Steve Mariucci Seger, did you see the.

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Speaker 2: Story about the forty nine ers practice field? Yes, I

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Speaker 2: feel like you would have an interesting take on that.

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Speaker 2: Do you have one?

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Speaker 11: If they're saying that it's responsible for injuries?

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Speaker 2: What is it basically on like an electrical lighter by Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's some sort of like electrical facility there, and yet apparently.

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Speaker 10: Before the stadium was built, they did practice in that area,

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Speaker 10: So that makes no sense to me.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there you go. There's your interesting take.

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Speaker 4: Ken, go ahead and move it, though, Like, go ahead

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Speaker 4: and eliminate that excuse. Don't continue to exactice there if

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Speaker 4: you think that's a problem.

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Speaker 11: Not saying it's not anything.

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Speaker 10: I mean, you shouldn't live next to it, so maybe

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Speaker 10: practicing for an hour or two it would be bad.

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Speaker 10: Kenneth Walker tonight became the first Seahawks player with three

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Speaker 10: rushing tds in a postseason game since Sewn Alexander over

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Speaker 10: two decades ago. Seattle eliminated the Niners forty one to six.

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Speaker 10: Walker nineteen carries one hundred and sixteen yards. The coaching

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Speaker 10: carousel can be updated. The top candidate for the Falcons

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Speaker 10: job is Kevin Stefanski X of Cleveland and now NFL

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Speaker 10: Network and others reporting tonight he and Atlanta are working

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Speaker 10: towards a deal. The Giants finalized that five year contract

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Speaker 10: with coach John Harbaugh. Green Bay gave head coach Matt

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Speaker 10: Lafleur a multi year extension. There is one late game

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Speaker 10: going in the NBA and the Lakers defense showing again.

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Speaker 10: He says, sarcastically. It is Portland already eighty to sixty

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Speaker 10: seven over the Lakers. They've just started the third quarter. Earlier.

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Speaker 10: San Antonio Edge Minnesota won twenty six to one to

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Speaker 10: twenty three despite fifty five points from Anthony Edwards at

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Speaker 10: Denver forty two points for Jamal.

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Speaker 11: Murray in a win over Washington.

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Speaker 10: Boston got forty one points from Jalen Brown in a

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Speaker 10: victory at Atlanta. College Hoops Cincinnati upset number two Iowa

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Speaker 10: State number five perdue one at USC sixty nine sixty four.

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Speaker 10: And I mentioned this on the prior show, but the

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Speaker 10: owner of the Buffalo Bills is also the owner of

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Speaker 10: the Buffalo Sabers. Buffalo Savers played on home ises tonight

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Speaker 10: and lost in overtime to Minnesota.

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Speaker 11: Back to you.

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Speaker 2: Good thing is they're getting a nor'easter through the northeast,

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Speaker 2: so they got that going for him, So I guess

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Speaker 2: they're gonna show. They're gonna have a lot of shoveling

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Speaker 2: to do. That'll distract him.

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Speaker 10: But there won't be any more shoveling out the seats

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Speaker 10: in Buffalo because they're done with the fifty year old stadium.

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Speaker 10: The new place being built next door ready for next season.

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Speaker 2: All right, to Sega, thank you very much. Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio er towards Jason Martin. We're taking it up till

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Speaker 2: two am Eastern, jmart real quick. I don't really have

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Speaker 2: anything to add on Sean McDermott. I have been very

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Speaker 2: anti Sean McDermott. I still do think to a degree,

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Speaker 2: you know, I I.

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Speaker 4: Were both on the same page, we always have been.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I worry about what bringing him back.

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Speaker 3: I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I do think there is A definition of insanity is

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Speaker 2: doing the same thing over and over. But I also

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Speaker 2: think the combination of it's hard for me, like you said,

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Speaker 2: to blame him for doing anything wrong, and then beyond that, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know the the I mean, how many openings do

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Speaker 2: we still have eight? I think we still have eight openings.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's only so many good jobs, only so

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Speaker 2: many good candidates to go around. And admittedly, obviously the

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Speaker 2: Bills would immediately be the best job available, but Harbaugh

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Speaker 2: is officially off the market. John Harbaugh, that is, Mike

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Speaker 2: Tomlin doesn't seem like he's coming back. And I don't

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Speaker 2: even know that I would necessarily want. I don't know

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Speaker 2: whatever point I'm trying to make, I don't really have

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Speaker 2: much to add on. Sean McDermott really quickly. You are

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Speaker 2: the resident Broncos fan. Is there any hope next week

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Speaker 2: with Jared Stidham? You are at home and you're either

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Speaker 2: gonna be playing a Houston team that obviously struggled last

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Speaker 2: week against Pittsburgh Drake may would have to in theory

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Speaker 2: be going on the road. Do you give the Broncos

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Speaker 2: any chance at home with Jared Stidham as the quarterback

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Speaker 2: for people who just missed it. Bow Nicks broke a

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Speaker 2: bone in his ankle, having surgery Tuesday and is out

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Speaker 2: for the year.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you give him a little bit of a

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Speaker 4: chance because it's one football game and a lot of

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Speaker 4: crazy stuff can happen. We also don't know, you know,

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Speaker 4: you have no idea what comes out of tomorrow's game either, right,

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Speaker 4: Like we weren't expecting on Saturday for bow Knicks to

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Speaker 4: end up with an ankle bone broken and be out

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Speaker 4: of the playoffs. God forbid something happens to one of

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Speaker 4: the quarterbacks tomorrow, but their team still advances, and you

658
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Speaker 4: have a weird scenario there. But barring the unforeseen, it

659
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Speaker 4: would seem to be a tough road because Houston's defense

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Speaker 4: is just going to key off on Stidham and I

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Speaker 4: don't know that the O line, as good as they've been,

662
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Speaker 4: can hold up there. And it's just not going to

663
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Speaker 4: give you much room if you're you know, Harvey or

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Speaker 4: one of the backs to get much done. So I

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Speaker 4: don't like it if it's Houston. Although it being a

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Speaker 4: low scoring game, it's possible that the defense can score points.

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Speaker 4: If you're Denver or if you're Houston. In that case,

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Speaker 4: New England, to me, would be a little bit more difficult,

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Speaker 4: only because I think their offense is more dynamic and

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Speaker 4: more consistent. The same time, you have Drake May that's

671
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Speaker 4: just in his second year, so they may be a

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Speaker 4: little ahead of schedule. So yeah, I mean, because of

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Speaker 4: the teams involved, you still give them a chance. But

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Speaker 4: I mean I'm gonna take the orange glasses off and

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Speaker 4: say they're gonna lose. I just I can't see a

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Speaker 4: scenario where a guy in Jared Stidham, who hasn't taken

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Speaker 4: a snap all season long or thrown a pass all

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Speaker 4: season long, is going to go into this game and win.

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Speaker 4: I saw had a friend send me a photo of

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Speaker 4: Philip Rivers in a Broncos uniform. Said, one more ride,

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Speaker 4: one more rodeo, and I'm not gonna lie. For about

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Speaker 4: two seconds, I said, do it. Then I thought no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 4: And look, I mean Stidham's been with them all year

684
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Speaker 4: and so he understands Peyton's offense. They were always higher

685
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Speaker 4: on him than I have been. But I expect the

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Speaker 4: winner of tomorrow's game to represent the AFC in the

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl. But look, as a fan, you gotta be

688
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Speaker 4: blinded to some degree and just hope that things go.

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Speaker 4: I think that losing Nicks on a day where he

690
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 4: played really, really well three touchdowns to the one interception,

691
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Speaker 4: ran the ball effectively, that last drive in particular, which

692
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Speaker 4: just kind of one of those make it drives where

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Speaker 4: you just don't forget it as a quarterback, and then

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Speaker 4: for that to just be overshadowed by the injury at

695
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Speaker 4: the end, it just feels like, well, your snake bit here.

696
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Speaker 4: And then if your TV, this is the other thought,

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Speaker 4: if your TV in this scenario, if you were carrying

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl, you lost a chance to have Josh

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Speaker 4: Allen in that game. And there's not anything nearly as

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Speaker 4: exciting as that remaining in the playoffs, it's.

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Speaker 2: A lot to consider. Buffalo eliminated. Denver advances without bow

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Speaker 2: Nicks again. He is out for the season with a

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Speaker 2: broken bone in his ankle. Denver will host the winner

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Speaker 2: of Houston and New England. Fox Sports Radio er Toorys

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Speaker 2: Jason mart broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 2: We mentioned I actually am gonna correct myself. I said

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Speaker 2: there were eight jobs open still, it's actually seven because

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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcon has just made an interesting hire as

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Speaker 2: we came on air. We'll discuss that next, we'll discuss

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Speaker 2: a little John Harball.

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Speaker 3: A lot of football.

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Speaker 2: Now till two am Eastern Fox Sports Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio er Tords Jason Martin

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Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 4: Ghetto Boys bringing us back in. Josh Allen's gonna be

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Speaker 4: tossing and turn in tonight.

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Speaker 2: You know, we didn't play sound that their sound of

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Speaker 2: him getting very emotional, basically saying that he felt like

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Speaker 2: he let the team down.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we get to it here.

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Speaker 2: In hour two, hour three, Broncos beat the Bills thirty

723
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Speaker 2: three to thirty in overtime. Controversial call in over time

724
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: gives the ball back to Denver. However, Buffalo did have

725
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 2: five turnovers in the game. Not gonna get the job done.

726
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 2: Another wasted season for Josh Allen and they mentioned it

727
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Speaker 2: on the broadcast. When he takes the field to start

728
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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty sixth season, he will be thirty years

729
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Speaker 2: old and yeah no, and that's you know, listen, we

730
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Speaker 2: did the McDermott stuff, you know today Saturday, whatever wasn't

731
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Speaker 2: on Sean McDermott. But this is what I keep going

732
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Speaker 2: back to and why I was so you know, tough

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Speaker 2: on Sean McDermott. Is you know, Josh Allen doesn't get

734
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Speaker 2: a prime in perpetuity, Like you know, he's not twenty

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Speaker 2: six anymore.

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Speaker 3: He's, like I said, he's gonna be thirty.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you just don't know how many more

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Speaker 2: cracks are gonna get at it if you're Buffalo. And

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Speaker 2: as everybody knows, this one was the interesting one because

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Speaker 2: of course, never forget no Patrick Mahomes, no Lamar Jackson,

741
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Speaker 2: no job, no Joe Burrow. I think it's safe to

742
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Speaker 2: assume that any run that Buffalo could hypothetically go on

743
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 2: going forward, the chances of you going zero for three

744
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Speaker 2: and not even having them in the playoff feels highly unlikely.

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Speaker 3: Let's switch gears sort of.

746
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Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens, of course, are coachless because they did not

747
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Speaker 2: make the playoffs. John Harbaugh now the head coach of

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Speaker 2: the New York Giants. It is official. There was some

749
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Speaker 2: talk of like, is it possible that maybe just maybe

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Speaker 2: something as a hold up and he's not gonna sign. Well,

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Speaker 2: he does sign officially on Saturday, not a surprise, Jmark,

752
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Speaker 2: But do you have any big picture thoughts on this one?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't see that if you're the Giants,

754
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 4: you could have done better than bringing in somebody that's tenured,

755
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Speaker 4: that's won. You're not bringing in a first time head

756
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Speaker 4: coach here. Yeah. Were the Ravens as strong as they've

757
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Speaker 4: been like the last couple of years, had they tailed

758
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Speaker 4: off a little bit? Maybe? So. I don't know how

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Speaker 4: much of that is Hall. I feel like there were

760
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Speaker 4: some issues there with players in that roster and Harball

761
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Speaker 4: change of scenery, that kind of thing. I felt more

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Speaker 4: like this was a Kyle Whittingham sort of situation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: For John Harball even said that in advance of him

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Speaker 4: losing that job that maybe he would want to just

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Speaker 4: step somewhere else. But I still obviously thought that he

767
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Speaker 4: wanted to coach. Question is did he go to the

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Speaker 4: right place, Because as much as he likes Jackson Dart,

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Speaker 4: Dart is going to be an injury risk, I'm afraid

770
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Speaker 4: throughout his career. Scattabow has already dealt with an injury

771
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Speaker 4: that knocked him out for his season. Neighbors was out

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Speaker 4: for the year with an injury and John Harball. If

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Speaker 4: you know anything about the NFL behind the scenes, the

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00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 4: Baltimore Ravens practiced their guys extremely hard, to the extent

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Speaker 4: that they deal with a lot more injuries than a

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Speaker 4: lot of teams because of how hard they go in practice.

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Speaker 4: So you add those two things together, something's going to

778
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 4: have to give. But the big thing if you're the Giant,

779
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 4: says since Tom Coughlin, you've had absolutely nothing whatsoever to

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Speaker 4: talk about. They've been one of the worst franchises in

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Speaker 4: the NFL, despite being in New York City, even though

782
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 4: they play in Jersey. But I just think that this

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Speaker 4: is this is a home run for them, because what

784
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Speaker 4: else were they gonna do. Like, John Harball doesn't come available,

785
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Speaker 4: and there could have been better opportunities for him elsewhere,

786
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Speaker 4: but he picked you. So I think it's a good hire.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really have anything to add. Yeah, I

788
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Speaker 2: really don't have anything to add. I think there's a

789
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Speaker 2: reason for excitement. We'll see if it ends up coming

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Speaker 2: to fruition. Obviously interesting division with Philadelphia. Very quickly, we

791
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Speaker 2: got about a minute left. The Atlanta Falcons hire. Kevin

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Speaker 2: Stefanski think that's a nice landing spot for him and

793
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Speaker 2: vice VERSA lot of weapons in the toolbox there for

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Speaker 2: the quarterback under Kevin's defanse.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but who's the quarterback?

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Speaker 2: That's why I was very careful as to how I

797
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Speaker 2: frame that company.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot, there are some weapons, There's no question

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Speaker 4: about that. But Stefanski, I'll tell you what. Stefanski is

800
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Speaker 4: used to not having quarterbacks. They that are, you know,

801
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,919
Speaker 4: kind of in the spot. But that makes me It's

802
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Speaker 4: like I felt like there were opportunities out there where

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Speaker 4: that wasn't the case. But if you really look around, like, honestly,

804
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Speaker 4: Tennessee might have been your best role because everybody seems

805
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Speaker 4: to love cam Ward inside the league and he's the

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Speaker 4: entrench starter. Uh in Nashville, in Atlanta, I don't know

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Speaker 4: what you've got a quarterback, And if you don't have

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Speaker 4: a quarterback, I don't care how much of an offensive

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Speaker 4: genius you are. Unless you're Kyle Shanahan, it's not gonna work.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: There's a conversation about Pittsburgh that we can have later

812
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Speaker 2: on in the show, but coming up, we got to

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Speaker 2: talk college football, Indiana Miami.

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Speaker 3: Who wins next? Fox Sports Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: Welcome in everybody, hour two towards the martin Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we are live, twelve oh one Eastern Time, eleven

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Speaker 2: oh one Central, on and on, and we're taking you

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Speaker 2: up till two am Eastern.

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Speaker 3: And there is so much much to get to.

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Speaker 2: Two NFL playoff games are complete in the divisional weekend.

823
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Speaker 2: Denver beats Buffalo thirty three to thirty in overtime, Seattle

824
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 2: the forty one to six beat down of San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: We talked about those two games an hour one. We

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Speaker 2: will get back to them later on in the show.

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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and switch gears, though not to the

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Speaker 2: Sunday NFL games. We'll also talk about those later on

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Speaker 2: in the show. But let's get to what we get.

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Speaker 2: Monday night, Monday Night, Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Indiana,

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Speaker 2: Miami National Championship Game, real quick, Jmar. Before we get

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Speaker 2: to it, one little rant. We gotta get this thing

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Speaker 2: earlier on the calendar.

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Speaker 3: Man, like, we just do it.

835
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't feel like it feels like the season

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Speaker 4: is over right.

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Speaker 2: A few weeks ago, I had a buddy who's like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I just in my head I was like, Oh, yeah, Indiana,

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Speaker 2: Miami just co national champions and seasons over and we

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Speaker 2: just know, you know, I'll say, I'll say this, and

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Speaker 2: I do want to talk a little bit about the game.

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Speaker 3: Understand.

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00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 2: So ESPN is the not the exclusive, but they they

844
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 2: own the rights the entire playoff. And I know that

845
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 2: they have Monday Night football and they like the branding

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00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 2: and this and that. If we're gonna play the semi

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Speaker 2: finals on a Thursday Friday, why are we not playing

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Speaker 2: the championship game on a Thursday Friday. I think the

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Speaker 2: other thing too, and somebody it might have been Dan Byer,

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00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 2: somebody mentioned it to me though, you know, after you know,

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Speaker 2: if we're trying to grow college football, and I don't

852
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Speaker 2: even know that ESPN necessarily cares about it, but I

853
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 2: will say that having the National Championship game after four

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00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: divisional round playoff games in the NFL, it's like, if

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Speaker 2: you're trying to get that casual fan that maybe isn't

856
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Speaker 2: a huge college football guy, but they're gonna tune in

857
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Speaker 2: and watch kind of the next generation whatever doing it

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Speaker 2: on a Monday night after there's two straight days of football.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that that brings the casual fan in,

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00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 2: so college football has bigger issues. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you have anything to add to the game being on

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Speaker 2: Monday night, it should be on a Thursday or Friday,

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Speaker 2: in my opinion, anything to add there before we actually

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Speaker 2: talk about the game.

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Speaker 4: No, I mean, I agree with you. It just it

866
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Speaker 4: feels this break between it, you've just kind of forgotten

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Speaker 4: all about it, Like you know, the game is still

868
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 4: there to be played, but I mean, the NFL has

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Speaker 4: taken center stage the last two weeks, and outside of

870
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 4: this game that we just finished about an hour ago,

871
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 4: in the NFC, a lot of these games have been

872
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 4: bar and burners. So now we're watching that, we're talking

873
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 4: about that, and it just kind of is like, oh, yeah,

874
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 4: Indiana and Miami still have to play for the national championship,

875
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 4: and I think there would have been excitement, but you

876
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 4: had to play it faster than this, and you had

877
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 4: to play it before the NFL got this close to

878
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 4: its own conference championship game because nothing can compete with that.

879
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there are broader conversations about the college football

880
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 2: calendar and how everything overlaps and does the season go

881
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,760
Speaker 2: on too long? And those are conversations that are valid,

882
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,760
Speaker 2: but I don't know that tonight is the night, especially

883
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 2: with the only three hours on air.

884
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 3: So let's get to the game.

885
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 2: You know, Indiana is about a seven to seven and

886
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 2: a half point favorite, depending on what sportsbook you look

887
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: at some places the number has even gone up. And

888
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 2: I'll say this, j mart I am a little surprised.

889
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 2: I haven't really seen a lot of people.

890
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 4: Now.

891
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 2: I did talk to Martin Weiss between between shows, Martin

892
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 2: Weis and Manzie Bolanio's host before us and main Martin

893
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 2: is taking Miami. But for a team that beat Ohio

894
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 2: State one at Texas A and m beat Ole Miss.

895
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 3: At one point.

896
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 2: By the way, I think it's easy to forget this too.

897
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 2: And I've heard a couple of people bring this up,

898
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 2: and I'll readily admit that even I forgot it. Is

899
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 2: with the way they started the season beat Notre Dame

900
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 2: Florida State at the beginning of the year, when we

901
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 2: thought Florida State was good, they won there. I mean,

902
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 2: there was a time where we were talking about is

903
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 2: Miami the best team in college football? But now they're

904
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 2: entering this game as well over a touchdown underdog in

905
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 2: most sports books. I haven't really heard very many people

906
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 2: make the definitive argument for the Miami Hurricanes to win

907
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 2: this game outright. I'm not asking you to make it,

908
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 2: but just curious where you stand on this game going in.

909
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it does. It feels like a lot.

910
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,760
Speaker 4: But Indiana has been so dominant in so many games

911
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 4: all year and they've just obliterated teams, you know. I mean,

912
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 4: Miami certainly outlasted Ole Miss and they were the better

913
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 4: team in that game, but that thing still came down

914
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 4: to the wire, and Indiana just hasn't played a lot

915
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 4: of games that came down to the wire. The Penn

916
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 4: State game is really the only one that you really

917
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 4: can go back to and recall that way. Obviously, the

918
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 4: Oregon game was pretty tight as well, not the not

919
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 4: the playoff game, but the one in the regular season, but.

920
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 3: The Ohio State I think ten championship games.

921
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a tight tooo, that's true. I think

922
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 4: it's more just Miami's in the ACC. I still don't

923
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 4: I still people, I still think that a lot of

924
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 4: people saw it eye them and what is the number

925
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 4: generally designed to do? As somebody that is anti gambling,

926
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 4: I can tell you. It's done to generate, you know, interest,

927
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 4: it's trying to get people to place money, and it's

928
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 4: not necessarily designed to tell you who's gonna win and

929
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 4: all of those things. But it does seem like a

930
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 4: lot considering that Miami has this feel of Ohio State

931
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 4: last year, where during the regular season it was kind

932
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 4: of like eh okay, and then you know, they don't

933
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 4: play in the conference championship game they eke in. But

934
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,760
Speaker 4: then just look at what they've done since that point

935
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 4: that defens has looked dominant. They've been able to run

936
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 4: the ball at everybody. So I feel like this is

937
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 4: more I don't know that it's as much shade to

938
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 4: Miami though, as it is just ultimate respect to an

939
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 4: Indiana team that, should they finish this off, especially if

940
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 4: they win it by double digits, will go down as

941
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 4: one of the greatest college football teams we've ever seen

942
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 4: because of how dominant they've been throughout.

943
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 2: It is crazy, huh like that we are having that

944
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:10,240
Speaker 2: conversation about what Indiana could be historically. I mean, you know, listen,

945
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,280
Speaker 2: I know it gets hyperbolic to talk about the Indiana story,

946
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 2: but it is crazy to think about not only are

947
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 2: they going to win a national championship, but if they

948
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 2: are to close this out, could go down as one

949
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 2: of the greatest teams ever. You and I can have

950
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 2: that conversation next Saturday if they do win. In the meantime,

951
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 2: I will say I agree with basically everything you said,

952
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 2: is that I do understand the argument of yeah, Indiana

953
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,399
Speaker 2: is gonna win and dominate, because that's what they've done

954
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 2: in this college football playoff, destroyed Alabama, destroyed Oregon. I

955
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 2: do think though it's not as though they haven't been

956
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,760
Speaker 2: tested throughout the year. And you brought up the games

957
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 2: Penn State they needed to rally Iowa. By the way,

958
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 2: it was actually a very close game as well Ohio State,

959
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 2: certainly in the Big Ten championship game. And I guess

960
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 2: what I would say is this is that you know

961
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 2: you mentioned you don't gamble, blah blah blah blah blah,

962
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 2: But I bring it up because yes, the points spread

963
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 2: is designed to get action on both sides. But the

964
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 2: counter to that is also you me everybody listening knows

965
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 2: that when everybody feels like a certain game is gonna

966
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 2: go a certain way, generally it goes the other. And

967
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 2: it does feel like virtually everybody is taking Indiana in

968
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 2: this game. And I'll be honest, I'm not gonna, you know,

969
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 2: not to spoil the end of the segment. I do

970
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 2: think Indiana is gonna win. But I will say Miami

971
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 2: the way to your point that they've been able to

972
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 2: run the ball, you know, Jamart, Again, part of this

973
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: is because there's way too much time between these games.

974
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 2: I have kind of forgotten this, and then you know,

975
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 2: going back and looking at stuff over the last day

976
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 2: or so. Miami against Ole Miss in the in the

977
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 2: in the semi final, right, we remember the thriller, you know,

978
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 2: last play? Was it pass interference?

979
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 4: Was it not?

980
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 2: Miami had the ball forty one minutes and twenty two

981
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 2: seconds in that game. They ran the ball fifty one

982
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 2: times for almost four yards per carry.

983
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 8: It.

984
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 2: It's like, and I will admit that's also part of

985
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 2: the reason that worries me about Miami is that, you know,

986
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 2: crystal ball certainly has a reputation, but I think even

987
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 2: outside of crystal ball, beyond that. You know, we talked

988
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 2: about it last week, like didn't love the play calling

989
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 2: against Ole Miss. There was a there was a possession

990
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 2: in early in the fourth quarter where they were up

991
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 2: bit and they were up you know, wanted to take

992
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 2: time off the clock, run the ball on first down,

993
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 2: immediately drop back and pass twice, have to punt the

994
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 2: ball away. So I guess all I'm trying to say

995
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 2: is that's where my concern is is that they physically

996
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 2: dominated pretty much everyone they've played in this playoff. But

997
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 2: you know, against Ole Miss, I just thought they got

998
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 2: way too cute. And the one thing you cannot do,

999
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 2: clearly against Miami or against Indiana excuse me, is give

1000
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 2: them any wiggle room is try to outsmart yourself, outsmart them.

1001
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 2: I think if Miami sticks to run the ball, keep

1002
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:03,240
Speaker 2: running the keep it away from Fernando Mendoza, and conversely,

1003
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 2: you know, frankly, keep it away from Carson Back. I

1004
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 2: know he was great late in the game against Old Miss,

1005
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 2: but but hasn't been great for most of the playoffs.

1006
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 4: Right.

1007
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 2: I think they have a shot, but I do worry

1008
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,919
Speaker 2: about Like I said, there's just been times where whether

1009
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 2: it's Mario Cristobaul driven, whether it's the offensive coordinator or whatever,

1010
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 2: I just haven't loved some of the in game coaching.

1011
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 2: And that's what worries me.

1012
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 3: You cannot give Indiana ninch because obviously they'll take a foot.

1013
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 4: Yeah. So the point about Beck is right, because I

1014
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 4: felt like in their last game, Miami kind of overcame

1015
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 4: their own quarterback for more than three quarters of the game. Sure,

1016
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 4: that last drive, notwithstanding where he played, you know, as

1017
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 4: good as you could possibly play in that role like

1018
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 4: he had that calls oh, this is the drive that

1019
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 4: makes him one of the most you know, his legacy

1020
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,280
Speaker 4: at Miami. He's famous and all this. I'm like, dude,

1021
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 4: come on, like it was a good drive. But for

1022
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 4: three quarters, it was because of how they ran the

1023
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 4: ball and played defense that they were able to kind

1024
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 4: of overcome his mistakes or his deficiencies. And here's the

1025
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 4: thing that Kurt Signetti does, maybe better than anybody else

1026
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 4: in the country. He understands what you're bad at and

1027
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 4: he says, you're gonna have to beat me with that.

1028
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 4: And when you look at Miami, what do we know

1029
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 4: they can do. We know they can run the ball

1030
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 4: with multiple backs. Nobody's really been able to run the

1031
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 4: ball in Indiana all year long. So this is I

1032
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 4: can't wait to see that. I want to see Fletcher

1033
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 4: hit those d linemen and see what happens there. But

1034
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 4: if the ball is in Beck's hands, do you trust

1035
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 4: him to win the game, because I don't think Signetti

1036
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,919
Speaker 4: is going to let him run the ball the way

1037
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 4: that he did in the previous game. Like I was

1038
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 4: wondering watching it, Aaron, I was just kind of like,

1039
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,919
Speaker 4: at what point are you going to stop allowing him

1040
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 4: to get you know, eight nine yards every time? Because

1041
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 4: he can go do that. He's a little bit athletic,

1042
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 4: he can run, and I just feel like Signetti's gonna

1043
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 4: dare him to do that and light him up when

1044
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 4: he does. Like, the more I talk about it, the

1045
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,800
Speaker 4: more I think that number they're going to clear that number.

1046
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 4: And then some I do think that they are the

1047
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 4: better football team, but Miami is very dangerous and they

1048
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 4: have some really, really good football players. I think it

1049
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 4: comes down to not trusting the quarterback on one team and

1050
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 4: thoroughly trusting the quarterback on the other team.

1051
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 2: And the other thing that I'm gonna keep going back

1052
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 2: to Indiana doesn't make mistakes and this is kind of crazy.

1053
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 2: So they have now played fifteen games, which is obviously

1054
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 2: two more than most teams, three more than a lot

1055
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 2: of teams. They are still in the top ten nationally

1056
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 2: in fewest penalties and oh, by the way, on top

1057
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 2: of that, in fewest turnovers. Despite playing three more games

1058
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 2: than a lot of teams in college football, they have

1059
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 2: top ten fewest penalties, top ten fewest turnovers. So when

1060
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,959
Speaker 2: you don't commit penalties, when you don't turn the ball over,

1061
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 2: and when you are really good, it leads to a

1062
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 2: situation where, clearly, to beat Indiana and nobody has this year,

1063
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 2: you can't beat yourself. And again, I just keep going

1064
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 2: back to that's what worries me about Miami. To your point,

1065
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 2: with Carson Beck, he's been up, he's been down. To

1066
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 2: his credit, the game winning drive, but the counter to

1067
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 2: the game winning drive is that he hasn't really been

1068
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 2: great for essentially, what would that be eleven quarters of

1069
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 2: the college football playoffs prior to the fourth quarter against

1070
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 2: Ole Miss. So the first four quarters against Texas A

1071
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 2: and M first four quarters against Ohio State, and then

1072
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 2: the first three against Old Miss. Yeah, I don't really

1073
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 2: know that. I really have a ton else to really

1074
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 2: say about this game. I'm gonna take Indiana twenty four

1075
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 2: to twenty. I think it'll be close. I don't know

1076
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 2: if anybody can truly slow down the Miami run game.

1077
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 2: But to your point, if anybody's gonna do it, it's

1078
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 2: gonna be Indiana. But I just think at the end

1079
00:53:56,160 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 2: of the day, they're just so mistake fore that you

1080
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 2: gotta play perfect and you gotta be really good. And

1081
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 2: I don't know that. I mean to get four quarters

1082
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 2: of not only perfect execution from Miami, but I think

1083
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 2: four quarters of, you know, in game play calling things

1084
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 2: like that. So certainly, if you have more on the game,

1085
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 2: you're you're certainly, you know, take it wherever you want.

1086
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 3: J Mart.

1087
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna go ahead and take Indiana to win

1088
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty. I do think it'll be close.

1089
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it will be that close. I

1090
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:29,280
Speaker 4: do think they're gonna win the game by double digits.

1091
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 4: I just think they're the better football team by and large.

1092
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,280
Speaker 4: And your point is right, I don't see them making

1093
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 4: those critical mistakes. Mendoza just he protects the ball so well.

1094
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 4: Now are they gonna get after him and try to

1095
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 4: make him uncomfortable. There's no question that's gonna be what

1096
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 4: they do. And Mario Cristobal has built this team from

1097
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 4: the line out, as he usually does, but his offense

1098
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 4: and his defensive line, they're not gonna be bullied around.

1099
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 4: But they haven't seen anything like they're gonna see on

1100
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,399
Speaker 4: the other side from Indiana. So I do think that's

1101
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 4: going to be a fascinating matchup to watch. I just

1102
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:10,400
Speaker 4: feel like Mendoza has had the answer all season, and

1103
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 4: he's got weapons that he trusts. The chemistry is outrageously

1104
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 4: good right now. If they need to run the ball,

1105
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 4: they can, But this is an offense that's high powered,

1106
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 4: that scores on absolutely anybody. I would be shocked if

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00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 4: they don't get thirty in the game. I think that

1108
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 4: Miami's defense is good enough to potentially make it the

1109
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 4: score that you said. I just kind of feel like

1110
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,879
Speaker 4: it'll be tight for a minute, but it's just as

1111
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 4: the game wears on, Indiana is inevitable and I feel

1112
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 4: like that's that's how it's going to play out. So

1113
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 4: I see it being more like a thirty five to

1114
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 4: twenty one kind of game.

1115
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 2: Mendoza's stats, by the way, in the playoff just ridiculous

1116
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 2: against Alabama fourteen of sixteen, one hundred ninety two yards,

1117
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,919
Speaker 2: three touchdowns, and no interceptions. So not great at math,

1118
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 2: but more touchdowns than incompletions, and then against Oregon it

1119
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 2: was the same seventeen of twenty passing, five touchdowns, no interceptions.

1120
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 2: So in both games he has more touchdowns than interceptions

1121
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 2: and he is completing thirty He's completed thirty one of

1122
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:16,360
Speaker 2: thirty six passes. I don't have the math off the

1123
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 2: top of my head, but that's pretty darn good. Indiana

1124
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 2: and Miami play on Monday night. J Martin and I

1125
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 2: both have Indiana winning. I have it a little bit

1126
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 2: closer than Jmr. Fox Sports Radio Aertors Jason Martin broadcasting

1127
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,240
Speaker 2: live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 3: Hey, j Martin, I'll tell you what.

1129
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:36,240
Speaker 2: All this time between the semi finals and the finals,

1130
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 2: you know what, it gave Miami a chance to do

1131
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 2: tamper like hell, Oh my goodness, tamper like hell of

1132
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:44,240
Speaker 2: the transfer portal.

1133
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 4: We gotta talk about this.

1134
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 2: Welcome back and talk about the twenty twenty six Miami Hurricanes.

1135
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 2: Nothing's official yet, but we certainly seem to know who

1136
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,840
Speaker 2: the next quarterback may be. And boy did this get interesting.

1137
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 2: On Friday, Er Tors Jason Martin Sports.

1138
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 3: Radio, Welcome back, everybody. Fox Sports Radio.

1139
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,760
Speaker 2: Er Geors Jason Bartin broadcasting live from the Fox Sports

1140
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 2: Radio studios with a new and improved iHeartRadio apps, stream

1141
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:14,799
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1142
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,880
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1143
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:20,760
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1144
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,440
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1145
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,440
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1146
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 2: your presets in the iHeart app, so will always pop

1147
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 2: up at the top of your screen. Gotta come back

1148
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 2: and discuss an interesting week in college football off the field.

1149
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 2: Before we do, though, let's get it over the news

1150
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 2: desk Steve Disager.

1151
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 3: What is trending well?

1152
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 10: The Seattle Seahawks won their eighth straight game. They'll be

1153
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 10: hosting the NFC Championship next weekend after eliminating San Francisco

1154
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 10: forty one to six and a divisional playoff. Tonight's Kenneth

1155
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 10: Walker three touchdown runs one hundred and sixteen yards. By

1156
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 10: the way Jackson Smith and Jigma, I won't say he

1157
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,479
Speaker 10: was invisible. He did have a touchdown catch late first quarter,

1158
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 10: but only two other receptions for Seattle. This is a

1159
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 10: guy who had one hundred and nineteen catches during the season.

1160
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 10: Almost eighteen hundred yards worth. In fact, he was the

1161
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 10: first player to lead the league in receiving yards while

1162
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 10: playing for the one seed in his conference since Jerry

1163
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 10: Rice nineteen ninety four. Seattle nonethe last fifteen and three overall,

1164
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 10: and Rashid Shaheed ran back the opening kickoff tonight ninety

1165
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 10: five yards for a score. The Seahawks last played a

1166
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 10: couple weeks ago, so they had rest between games. San

1167
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 10: Francisco last played last Sunday, so five days rest between games.

1168
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 10: Since nineteen eighty four, teams that have that big of

1169
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 10: a rest advantage heading into a playoff matchup have all

1170
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 10: won their games eight to zero. Now, those winners, like Seattle,

1171
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 10: were also the higher seeded team and playing at home.

1172
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 10: Denver at home, eliminated Buffalo in overtime thirty three thirty

1173
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 10: as the Bills committed five turnovers. Denver quarterback Bo Nick

1174
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 10: suffered a broken ankle late in the game. He is

1175
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 10: out for the postseason, so Jared Stidham will start the

1176
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 10: AFC title game in Denver next weekend. Khalil Shakir, who

1177
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 10: was so good last weekend for Buffalo, had seven receptions

1178
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 10: today seventy five yards. Tight end Dalton Kincaid six catches

1179
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 10: eighty three yards in a score. Buffalo threw an interception

1180
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 10: on a deep pass. In overtime, Denver winds up winning

1181
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 10: on a short field goal after driving seventy five yards

1182
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 10: for that field goal. And by the way, I did

1183
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 10: notice the Josh Allen stats, and they put up the

1184
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 10: graphic how he hadn't had an interception thrown in recent

1185
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:31,479
Speaker 10: playoff games. In his whole pro career, fourteen career playoff games,

1186
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 10: he'd only had two fumbles, four interceptions. And yet he

1187
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 10: finished with two interceptions today and two fumbles. By the way,

1188
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 10: after that PI call late in overtime, one of the

1189
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 10: NFL writers, Zary Mirov, tweeted out, Sean Payton finally gets

1190
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:49,439
Speaker 10: his pass interference call in a playoff game. Green Bay

1191
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 10: gave head coach Matt Lafleur a multi year extension. The

1192
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 10: Giants finalized a five year deal with coach John Harbaugh.

1193
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 10: The top candidate for the Falcons job is Kevin Stefanski,

1194
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 10: and reports say he and Atlant are working towards a

1195
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 10: deal now. In the NBA's late game, under four minutes

1196
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 10: to go at Portland, the Blazers now lead the Lakers

1197
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 10: one twenty eight to one oh six. Lebron James twenty points,

1198
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 10: Marcus Smart for LA has twenty five. Luca Donzitch out

1199
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Speaker 10: with a groin injury. Tonight at Denver forty two points

1200
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 10: for Jamal Murray and a win over Washington one twenty

1201
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 10: one to one fifteen. Miami edged Oklahoma City one twenty

1202
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 10: two to one twenty even though Shay Gilgis Alexander scored

1203
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 10: thirty nine points, but the heat and about the last

1204
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,439
Speaker 10: two minutes outscored OKC five nothing. Boston got forty one

1205
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 10: points from Jalen Brown and won easily in Atlanta. Dallas

1206
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 10: beat Utah today even though Cooper Flag of the MAVs

1207
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 10: was out again with a sprained ankle, and Tonight at

1208
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 10: San Antonio what a shootout. Spurs edged Minnesota one twenty

1209
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 10: six one twenty three. Victor Wembin Yama had thirty nine points.

1210
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 10: Anthony Edwards of the Timberwolves had fifty five in the loss.

1211
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 10: He returned tonight after missing the previous two games with

1212
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 10: a foot injury. Edwards had twenty six points just in

1213
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 10: the fourth quarter. There is an NBA game in London

1214
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 10: on Sunday, Orlando against Memphis. The Magic came back to

1215
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 10: beat him in Berlin on Thursday. Grizzlies guard John Morant

1216
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 10: did not play the first game. The team said there's

1217
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 10: a good chance he'll play Sunday after a calf injury.

1218
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 10: The All Star Game starters will be announced this Monday.

1219
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 10: Fan voting just ended on Wednesday, and as you mentioned,

1220
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 10: college football's national title game is Monday night, Indiana at Miami.

1221
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 2: Back to you, thank you very much, Steve Sayer, Fox

1222
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday into Sunday, depending on where

1223
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 2: you're listening Air Tours, Jason Martin, and we are in

1224
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio studio. So I mentioned this before

1225
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 2: the break. Miami will play for a national championship on

1226
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 2: Monday night. You probably know about that. What you may

1227
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 2: or may not have heard is that they probably have

1228
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 2: their quarterback of the future.

1229
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 3: All right, So I'll set it up real quick.

1230
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 2: Jmark so Darien Mensa, one of the top quarterbacks in

1231
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 2: college football this year at Duke, actually led Duke to

1232
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,320
Speaker 2: the ACC championship, which is how the weird you know,

1233
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 2: James Madison gets in whatever, has an awesome year. A

1234
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 2: lot of people actually thought he was gonna go pro.

1235
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 2: He announces very shortly after the season that not only

1236
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 2: is he not going to go pro, but he is

1237
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:17,960
Speaker 2: going to stay at Duke. It's a huge win for Duke,

1238
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 2: at least until Friday, when we found out that he

1239
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 2: is going to enter the transfer portal and did in

1240
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 2: fact enter the transfer portal just hours before it closed.

1241
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 2: Why does this have to do with Miami. It appears

1242
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 2: as though Miami is the school where he will land.

1243
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 2: Of course, earlier this week, I don't even think you

1244
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 2: can call it a report. Ty Simpson confirmed that Miami

1245
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 2: offered him six million dollars.

1246
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 4: Six and a half.

1247
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I was gonna say over six million, so yeah,

1248
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 2: six and a half. I think the number was six

1249
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 2: and a half.

1250
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 4: That's crazy.

1251
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 2: Yes, ty Simpson confirmed that, So that's not like. I mean,

1252
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 2: it could be not true, but I don't know why

1253
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 2: he would lie about it, but ty Simpson said they

1254
01:02:57,080 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 2: were offering up six and a half million. He decides

1255
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 2: to go pH Darien Metsa now in the portal really quickly, Jmar,

1256
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 2: I just want to give just a little bit more context.

1257
01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 2: There's all sorts of talk about buyouts and I don't

1258
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:15,360
Speaker 2: know all I do know is that Miami appears to

1259
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 2: be ready to pay a preposterous amount of money to

1260
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 2: get Darien Mensa to the Hurricanes. It's a crazy story.

1261
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 2: And of course the loser is Duke, which lost a

1262
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 2: you know, a potential All American quarterback hours before the

1263
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 2: transfer portal closed. There is zero percent chance they'll be

1264
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 2: able to replace him.

1265
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 4: So Darien Mensa put out a video was it a

1266
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 4: month ago, three weeks ago, something like that, where he

1267
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 4: did his own lebron decision, and at the end of

1268
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 4: it he says, and so I'm gonna take my talents too.

1269
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm just playing around. We're going to run

1270
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 4: it back and aha, that's that's hilarious. And then eight

1271
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 4: hours before the as for portal closed, he said, actually,

1272
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 4: now I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna go to Miami. This

1273
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:12,840
Speaker 4: is incredible because it just reveals again that college football

1274
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 4: is just in an uncontrollable, untenable state in terms of

1275
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:23,080
Speaker 4: anything that we have known before. The most compelling argument,

1276
01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 4: I guess it's not about you know, the guys getting

1277
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:30,200
Speaker 4: paid and you know all that kind of thing. That's

1278
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 4: that's just part of it at this point. But I

1279
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 4: will say this when he committed to come back or

1280
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 4: when he said, yeah, I'm gonna run it back. It

1281
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 4: doesn't you know, you changing your mind is one thing,

1282
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 4: But how many other Duke players or individuals that decided

1283
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:53,520
Speaker 4: to come to Duke, how many choices were made based

1284
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 4: on what they believed was going to be the situation

1285
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 4: with Mensa being the quarterback at Duke. That's the argument

1286
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 4: that that's the argument that compelled me. Now, can those

1287
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 4: guys then make other choices in the last hour, perhaps,

1288
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,520
Speaker 4: but you know, what they had in the portal were

1289
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 4: what opportunities they had. Some of those things are not

1290
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 4: available now. So it affects a lot more than just Mensa.

1291
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 4: And of course it puts Duke in a position where

1292
01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:25,360
Speaker 4: all the other transfer quarterbacks are landed and so they

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Speaker 4: basically don't have a quarterback going into the year. So

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Speaker 4: it's a mess for them. Nobody's gonna feel sympathy from

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Speaker 4: any daz I even saw that. You know, well, Diaz

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Speaker 4: did this exact same thing as a coach, and Duke

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Speaker 4: did this to Tulane when they got Mensa in the

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Speaker 4: first place, And then of course they start talking about

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Speaker 4: Duke basketball and all this other stuff. I think that

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Speaker 4: the overarching point is just college sports is completely out

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Speaker 4: of control and no one has any respect for any

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Speaker 4: level of like authority when it comes to rules, regulations

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Speaker 4: or governing bodies. Like it is completely and totally the

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Speaker 4: wild West is said a lot in regards to college football.

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Speaker 4: It's one hundred percent accurate, though, because I don't even

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Speaker 4: know what this sport is. Like, you're a Yukon grad.

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Speaker 4: I'm a Western Kentucky grad that also attended NC State.

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Speaker 4: But like, from year to year, every player is a mercenary.

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Speaker 4: It's like everyone is a free agent every single year,

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Speaker 4: and that is I don't know what to make of that, Aaron,

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01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:31,720
Speaker 4: I really don't. It's just you are literally now just

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Speaker 4: cheering for the school because the athletes from year to

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Speaker 4: year are gonna be completely different, and there's almost no

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Speaker 4: way to wrap your brain around it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, no.

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Speaker 2: And it's actually funny you mentioned the Yukon thing, not

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Speaker 2: because this has to be a Yukon segment, but you know,

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Speaker 2: I as an outside you know, we cover this on

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Speaker 2: a day to day basis, and you know, you kind

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Speaker 2: of just take for granted this is how it is,

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Speaker 2: and you know, coaching changes happened but it really did

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Speaker 2: strike me being a kind of lum. Yukon wins nine games,

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Speaker 2: Jim Mora leaves after the season, and the team that

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Speaker 2: took the field in the bowl game was it didn't

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Speaker 2: even resemble like, you know, the team that won nine games.

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Speaker 2: And this isn't a Yukon segment, but I just bring

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Speaker 2: it up because it was the first time it really

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Speaker 2: hit me of like if I'm a Yukon fan, or

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Speaker 2: if I'm a donor, or if I'm somebody who gives money,

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Speaker 2: like every player that I rooted for for twelve weeks

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Speaker 2: of this season is not going to be here going forward.

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Speaker 2: It's not because they all graduated. So that part is

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Speaker 2: interesting to me. But the bigger picture is one you know,

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Speaker 2: first of all, I will be curious. There will be

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Speaker 2: more reporting as this gets deeper into the week, but

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Speaker 2: like one, I agree with what you said, but I

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Speaker 2: also like, I don't know what you can do if

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Speaker 2: you know, all the reporting is that there is a buyout,

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Speaker 2: it's an expensive buyout, and Miami's just gonna pay it,

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Speaker 2: and it's it's just like you know, again, it's I

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01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 2: don't even know what the analogy is in sports, but

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01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 2: like I don't know what you can do in a

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01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:13,480
Speaker 2: situation like that, but I will say to a point

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Speaker 2: that you made, I also do think there is some

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01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:19,799
Speaker 2: degree of integrity that has to take place. I understand

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01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 2: the notion of it's a lot of money. It's potentially

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01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 2: to a degree even life changing money for Darien Mensa,

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Speaker 2: And who am I to say that he shouldn't take

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01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:32,719
Speaker 2: millions of dollars. It's on It's like a known thing

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01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 2: that he was gonna make four million dollars a duke

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Speaker 2: this year. And so my thing is, I understand that

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01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:41,960
Speaker 2: you know, if he's gonna make six million dollars at Miami,

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01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:45,680
Speaker 2: that is a fifty percent pay increase, and everyone in

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01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 2: America would take a fifty I'm just saying, I do

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01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:51,560
Speaker 2: think if this is something that you're considering, there's a

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Speaker 2: right way to go about it in a wrong way,

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01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,759
Speaker 2: And I do think doing this hours before the portal

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Speaker 2: closes because of all of the lives as you said,

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01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 2: that it impacts, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a better way to do that.

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Speaker 2: And so that's my only real takeaway is man, dude,

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Speaker 2: like and I do feel bad for Duke, and I

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01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 2: know like you said, you know he transferred from Tulane.

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Speaker 2: You know this happened to do an hour before the

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Speaker 2: portal closes. I mean, you just torpedoed their entire season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But I also will say, like again, if he has

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Speaker 2: some huge buyout and and all the reporting is that

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01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 2: there is a buyout, I just don't know what you

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01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:31,000
Speaker 2: can do.

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Speaker 3: But I do agree this is weird. It's gross, and.

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Speaker 4: It's a bad look for him to like to the

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01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 4: point about money. Yeah, you can't decry him for her

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01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 4: you understand it from a financial standpoint, but like, man,

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01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 4: the optics are bad. They're really really bad, especially when

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Speaker 4: he put out that video three weeks beforehand.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And if I could jump in on one more thing too,

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01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 2: is you know who else I think needs to step

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01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 2: up in this situation is actually the ACC because it's

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Speaker 2: one thing if and I'm just gonna use hypotheticals, but

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01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 2: we know Tennessee needs a quarterback as well. If Tennessee

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01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:12,240
Speaker 2: tampered with this guy, he ends up in the portal.

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Speaker 2: But when you're talking about two schools in the league

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Speaker 2: and Miami just basically saying none of these rules apply

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Speaker 2: to us, I understand Miami's doing great things for the

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Speaker 2: AC right now. But like I was thinking about this,

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01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 2: like if I was Manny Diaz, I would be calling

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Speaker 2: out the ACC league office and the commissioner specifically, because

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01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 2: again to your point, there's a way to enter the

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Speaker 2: transfer portal and there's a way not to enter the

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Speaker 2: transfer portal. This was bad enough, and the fact that

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Speaker 2: it's happening in the league. I haven't looked ahead to

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01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 2: schedules next year, but the fact that Miami, in theory

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01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 2: could be playing Duke, I think that makes it even

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Speaker 2: a worse.

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Speaker 4: Look.

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Speaker 3: But I didn't mean to cut you off. I just

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Speaker 3: want to add that as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I mean, it's just not that much more

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01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 4: to say. It's just it's a really bad look for mensa.

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01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 4: It's unfortunate. You understand what he's doing again from a

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01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 4: financial standpoint, but it's just if you're gonna go, then

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01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 4: go a month in advance. Don't screw Duke right at

1405
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,120
Speaker 4: the end. Even though you can. Just because you can

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01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:12,320
Speaker 4: do something doesn't mean that it doesn't feel disgusting, and

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01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 4: it kind of does now. Look the coaches have been

1408
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 4: able to make moves and leave kids high and dry

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01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 4: and all this stuff. No one is disagreeing with There's

1410
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:25,599
Speaker 4: a lot of imperfection to be found in college football,

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01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 4: but this is just like it's like mensa becomes a villain,

1412
01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:32,439
Speaker 4: and I don't know that that's that's just not a

1413
01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 4: good result. He's gonna get paid, but for what And

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01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:38,840
Speaker 4: then the other thing is what if he doesn't end

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01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:40,080
Speaker 4: up being great there?

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01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:43,720
Speaker 2: That's my thought too, and I think that's very possible. Well,

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01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 2: and I think that's like a low key huge risk.

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01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 2: And I don't I'm not gonna lie this time of year.

1419
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 2: I'm not thinking a ton about the NFL draft. But

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01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:54,639
Speaker 2: there were people that thought, you know, not QB one,

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01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 2: not QB two, but you know, first second round pick this,

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01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:00,519
Speaker 2: you know, late first early second round pick this year.

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01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 2: Now you're going to a third system in three years,

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01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 2: third off.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:06,680
Speaker 2: I just I actually think in a weird way, it's

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01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 2: actually a huge risk where if you run it back,

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01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 2: same coaching staff, obviously, same teammates, I don't know. I

1429
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:15,679
Speaker 2: actually think that part of it is maybe a little

1430
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,640
Speaker 2: bit understated, the risk that you're taking to transfer to

1431
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 2: a third school in three years.

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01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:23,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I agree, I do. And eventually some

1433
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:25,360
Speaker 4: of these are you're going to crap out on some

1434
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:29,720
Speaker 4: of these moves. And it also I do think this.

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01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 4: I saw this in one of the articles about this story.

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01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:36,519
Speaker 4: Now it's even now you really want Indiana to win

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01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:39,400
Speaker 4: because Miami looks kind of villainous and this whole thing

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01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:42,720
Speaker 4: as well. Doing this, it's just like, all right, now

1439
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 4: go get crushed by signetti, so you have that storyline

1440
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 4: as well. College football is just insane. It's completely nuts,

1441
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 4: and you can really take the college part out of

1442
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 4: it because this is now semi pro at.

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01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 2: Worst, it's semipro it worst, without all the rules of

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Speaker 2: professional football that are actually enforceable. Fox Sports Radio Air

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Speaker 2: Forty five Eastern Time, as we do every week, Let's

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Speaker 2: everything you missed.

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Speaker 3: Steve de Sager, the floor is yours.

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Speaker 11: A lot of.

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Speaker 10: NFL to get to just about everything's final tonight. By

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01:13:57,680 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 10: the way, at Portland, the late NBA game did go

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Speaker 10: to the Blazers over the Lakers, and in late night

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Speaker 10: hockey at Vegas, Golden Knights seven to two winners against Nashville,

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Speaker 10: while Edmonton won six to nothing at Vancouver, still one

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Speaker 10: game going it's in overtime. Kings tied at Anaheim one

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Speaker 10: to one in ot We did have home playoff wins

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Speaker 10: in the NFL for Seattle and Denver. Those are the

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Speaker 10: one seeds in their conferences. They will be hosting the

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Speaker 10: conference title games a week from tomorrow. There are multiple

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Speaker 10: coaching items to pass along, including the fact that the

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Speaker 10: Giants officially finalized the five year deal with coach John Harbaugh.

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Speaker 10: He says he will report to the team owner, not

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Speaker 10: to the general manager. The New York Giants haven't won

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Speaker 10: their division since twenty eleven, and they just went four

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Speaker 10: and thirteen. On a recent Sunday night, Harbaugh's Ravens gave

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Speaker 10: up two fourth quarter touchdowns lost to the Patriots. So

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Speaker 10: that meant that John Harbaugh, in his Baltimore career, lost

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Speaker 10: for the twentieth time after leading by double digits in

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Speaker 10: the second half regular season and playoffs than any other

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Speaker 10: coach since the early nineties, and eight of those late

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Speaker 10: losses had come in the last four seasons, so he

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Speaker 10: was fired recently. By the way, in this postseason, it's

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Speaker 10: the twentieth straight NFL campaign where at least one team

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Speaker 10: with a new head coach is in the playoffs. That is,

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Speaker 10: a guy in his first year with that team making

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Speaker 10: the postseason. The Bears, for example, Jacksonville this year, New

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Speaker 10: England as well. Tomorrow on the schedule, it is New

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Speaker 10: England fifteen to three hosting a Houston Texans team that

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Speaker 10: has won ten in a row. That's at three pm

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Speaker 10: Eastern time. Houston in conference games win eleven and two.

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01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:38,640
Speaker 10: Their turnover margin regular season was plus seventeen, best in

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Speaker 10: the AFC, and then their quarterback CJ. Stroud has three

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01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 10: turnovers at Pittsburgh, they did pull away, it was only

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Speaker 10: a seven to six lead early fourth quarter at Pittsburgh

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01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 10: last round thirty to six was the final. Wide receiver

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01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 10: Nico Collins is out tomorrow due to a concussion, while

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01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 10: new England star defensive back Christian Gonzales cleared concussion protocol.

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Speaker 10: The second game, it'll be cold and windy and Chicago.

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01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 10: The Bears are hosting the Rams. Rams. They are coming

1505
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 10: off a victory obviously to advance and stay on the road.

1506
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:11,719
Speaker 10: While the Bears had a home win and incredible comeback

1507
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 10: with about three about last ten minutes three touchdowns to

1508
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 10: come back and beat Green Bay thirty one to twenty seven.

1509
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 10: And yes, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford will play tomorrow with

1510
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 10: the sprained index finger from last week and he has

1511
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:27,000
Speaker 10: practiced fully this week. The news from Green Bay today

1512
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 10: they have given head coach Matt Lafleur a multi year extension.

1513
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:33,600
Speaker 10: Twenty twenty six would have been his final season under contract.

1514
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:34,559
Speaker 11: The Packers are.

1515
01:16:34,479 --> 01:16:37,640
Speaker 10: Expected to give extensions to their general manager and to

1516
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 10: their executive VP as well. The team just lost its

1517
01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 10: last five games in a row this past season. Green

1518
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:46,559
Speaker 10: Bay lost three different games after leading by ten points

1519
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 10: or more in the last five minutes, first team since

1520
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 10: the merger in nineteen seventy to do that. The front

1521
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 10: runner for the Dolphins head coaching job is reportedly Green

1522
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 10: Bay defensive coordinator Jeff Halflee. He still might talk to

1523
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 10: other teams, but it does seem to be settled for

1524
01:17:00,560 --> 01:17:03,640
Speaker 10: the Falcons job that Kevin Stefanski X of Cleveland is

1525
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 10: getting that Multiple reports say he and Atlanta are working

1526
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:09,640
Speaker 10: towards a deal now. The Raiders are scheduled for a

1527
01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:13,320
Speaker 10: second interview next week with Carolina defensive coordinator as Juro

1528
01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:16,840
Speaker 10: Avero and the Mac mcmike daniel, the former head coach

1529
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 10: of the Dolphins. McDaniel due to interview with Las Vegas

1530
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 10: on Monday for head coach and due to talk with

1531
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:27,480
Speaker 10: the Chargers on Tuesday for offensive coordinator. The Denver Broncos

1532
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 10: in the home win against Buffalo, eliminating the Bills in overtime,

1533
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:35,720
Speaker 10: won thirty three to thirty. The bad news is bo

1534
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:38,840
Speaker 10: Nick suffered a broken ankle late in the game, so

1535
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 10: Jared Stidham is going to have to start in the

1536
01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 10: home game next weekend. It's been very rare that a

1537
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 10: team starts two different players at quarterback in the same season.

1538
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:52,599
Speaker 10: In fact, AP sent out a list. You might recall

1539
01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:55,920
Speaker 10: the Buffalo Bill's early nineties had a huge comeback win

1540
01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 10: with Frank Reich at quarterback because Jim Kelly was injured.

1541
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:03,639
Speaker 10: Since nineteen ninety two and the Bills, only one NFL

1542
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 10: team has started two different players in the same postseason,

1543
01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 10: and the asterisk was it was the Rams five years

1544
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:13,960
Speaker 10: ago when they had Jared Goff and just chose to decide.

1545
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,680
Speaker 10: They decided I should say to start John Wofford and

1546
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 10: then got rid of golf in the offseason. But the

1547
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 10: Broncos will be hosting another conference title game eighth in

1548
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:26,639
Speaker 10: their franchise history. They've only lost one of those ever,

1549
01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:29,680
Speaker 10: six and one at home in the AFC Championship, and

1550
01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 10: it was twenty years ago. The one home loss that

1551
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:35,280
Speaker 10: was to Pittsburgh. By the way, Pittsburgh has hosted eleven

1552
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 10: AFC championships, forty nine ers have hosted a conference title

1553
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 10: game eleven times, Patriots with eight and counting maybe and

1554
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:47,760
Speaker 10: the Broncos now with eight as well. There was controversy,

1555
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 10: as you referenced earlier, and in fact, there was a

1556
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:54,599
Speaker 10: pool reporter speaking to the referee from the Denver game today.

1557
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 10: First off, what about on the deep pass to Brandon

1558
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:01,640
Speaker 10: Cooks that was ruled in interception by Carl Scheffer's The

1559
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:04,200
Speaker 10: ref said, the receiver has to complete the process of

1560
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 10: the catch. He was going to ground as part of

1561
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,599
Speaker 10: the process, and he lost possession when he hit the ground,

1562
01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 10: so the defender gained possession of it at that point.

1563
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:15,600
Speaker 10: Scheffer says, the defender is the one who completed the

1564
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 10: process of the catch, so the defender was awarded the ball.

1565
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:24,480
Speaker 10: In overtime, Broncos eliminate a Buffalo team that committed five turnovers.

1566
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:28,520
Speaker 10: Josh Allen had three TD passes, two interceptions, two fumbles.

1567
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 10: James cook after such a great regular season and held

1568
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,600
Speaker 10: down by the great Jacksonville run defense last week and

1569
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:38,679
Speaker 10: cooked today one hundred and seventeen yards rushing but one fumble.

1570
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:41,320
Speaker 10: You mentioned earlier in the show. Injuries. Two Denver wide

1571
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 10: receivers left in the first half. Troy Franklin hamstring, Pat

1572
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:47,880
Speaker 10: Bryant concussion. Courtland Sutton wound up with four catches. He

1573
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:52,360
Speaker 10: had none until late in regulation. Today, Marvin Mims was

1574
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 10: targeted eight times and had eight receptions for Denver ninety

1575
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:59,680
Speaker 10: three yards and a touchdown. Bronco scored ten points in

1576
01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:02,680
Speaker 10: the left thirty seconds of the first half. That was key,

1577
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 10: got a touchdown pass, then amazingly, weirdly a Josh Allen

1578
01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:10,719
Speaker 10: fumble and then a fifty yard field goal in Denver

1579
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:11,679
Speaker 10: wins by three.

1580
01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 2: Thank you very much to Sayger, A lot of ground

1581
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 2: covered there on a busy Sunday in the world Saturday,

1582
01:20:17,880 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 2: in the world of sports, heading into Sunday, and when

1583
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 2: we come back, we're gonna recap it all. We're gonna

1584
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:26,800
Speaker 2: talk the thriller in Denver. Denver survives, but what do

1585
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:29,559
Speaker 2: they do without bow Nicks. We're gonna look ahead to Sunday,

1586
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,240
Speaker 2: and of course we'll talk a little bit about a

1587
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:34,719
Speaker 2: wild coaching carousel. What's next in Pittsburgh, what's next to Baltimore,

1588
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:37,519
Speaker 2: what's next for John Harbaugh? Fox Sports Radio.

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01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:40,519
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:44,679
Speaker 2: Welcome in everybody our three tours Martin Fox Sports Radio.

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01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:49,720
Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live. Yes, we are live one am

1592
01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:52,520
Speaker 2: Eastern Time from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

1593
01:20:54,720 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 3: Takeing it till two am Eastern.

1594
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 2: Bernie Fratto of The Bernie Fratto Show follows us, and

1595
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:03,479
Speaker 2: do you know, Bernie's gonna have all sorts of interesting

1596
01:21:03,520 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 2: stuff on the two NFL playoff games that happened on Saturday,

1597
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 2: the two NFL playoff games coming on Sunday, and of

1598
01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:16,920
Speaker 2: course Monday's College Football National Championship. Bernie fratdo one hour

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01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:20,960
Speaker 2: from now. We still got fifty eight minutes left, though,

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Speaker 2: Jay mart Let's go ahead and get to the stories

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01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 2: plural of the day, and obviously the big one it

1602
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:35,479
Speaker 2: did come Saturday afternoon into evening, the big game in Denver,

1603
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 2: final score thirty three to thirty. The Denver Broncos win

1604
01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 2: in overtime. A very controversial call in overtime in which

1605
01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:49,120
Speaker 2: a deep pass to Brandon Cooks appeared to be a catch.

1606
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 2: He caught it, he came down with it, it was

1607
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 2: ultimately ripped away by the defensive back. The defensive back

1608
01:21:56,320 --> 01:22:02,160
Speaker 2: was awarded the interception. Clearly, Buffalo got no points. Denver

1609
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:04,639
Speaker 2: drives the length of the field scores a game winning

1610
01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:08,559
Speaker 2: field goal. Very controversial. After the game, Sean McDermott asked

1611
01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:11,120
Speaker 2: about the call and asked about the fact that the

1612
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:15,160
Speaker 2: refs did not even review it. Here's what Sean McDermott

1613
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:15,639
Speaker 2: had to say.

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01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:17,639
Speaker 5: I called a time out to try and slow it down.

1615
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:20,680
Speaker 6: It would just it would seem logical to me, the

1616
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 6: head official would walk over and want to go and

1617
01:22:23,439 --> 01:22:25,439
Speaker 6: take a look at it, just to make sure that

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01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:28,840
Speaker 6: everybody from here, who is in the stadium to there

1619
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:30,280
Speaker 6: are on the same page.

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01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:31,320
Speaker 4: That's too big of.

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01:22:31,280 --> 01:22:34,680
Speaker 6: A play, in a play that decided the game potentially

1622
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:38,400
Speaker 6: as well, to not even slow it down.

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01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 5: And I've had a chance to look at It's hard

1624
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:42,200
Speaker 5: for me to understand why it was ruled the way

1625
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:42,799
Speaker 5: it was ruled.

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01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:46,679
Speaker 6: And if it is ruled that way, then why wasn't

1627
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 6: it slowed down just to make sure that we have

1628
01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:49,760
Speaker 6: this right.

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01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:51,920
Speaker 5: That would have made a lot of sense to me.

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01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:53,120
Speaker 5: So I'll just leave it at that.

1631
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:56,439
Speaker 3: As a vocal critic of Sean McDermott, I loved what

1632
01:22:56,479 --> 01:22:58,599
Speaker 3: he had to say defending his guys, and he even

1633
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:01,360
Speaker 3: took it a step further more from Sean McDermott after the.

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01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 6: Game, I'm saying it because I'm standing up for Buffalo, dammit.

1635
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:08,360
Speaker 6: I'm standing up for us because what went on is

1636
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 6: not that is not how it should go down. In

1637
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 6: my estimation that plays these guys spend three hours out

1638
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 6: there playing football, pouring their guts out to not even say, hey,

1639
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 6: let's just slow this thing down.

1640
01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 5: That's why I'm bothered.

1641
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:27,160
Speaker 2: This is now Sean McDermott's Sean McDermott and the Buffalo Bills.

1642
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:31,599
Speaker 2: They're one, two, three, four five six, seventh straight season

1643
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:38,439
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, zero Super Bowl appearances. Tough, tough, tough

1644
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 2: way to end the season, j Mart, What did you

1645
01:23:41,080 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 2: make of the call? But also a game in which

1646
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:47,879
Speaker 2: Buffalo turned the ball over five times, including that overtime interception.

1647
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:51,679
Speaker 4: Look, I don't know what I make of the call

1648
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 4: itself in terms of catch not a catch, whatever they

1649
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 4: were going to rule whether it was a catch or

1650
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:00,719
Speaker 4: whether it was an interception. I think it's probably gonna stand.

1651
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 4: When he listened to Jeans Stereotor on the broadcast, he

1652
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 4: basically said he felt like they got it right. I

1653
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 4: was watching it and in real time I thought it

1654
01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 4: was a catch, and as a Broncos fan, I thought

1655
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:15,880
Speaker 4: we just lost the game. And then when he saw

1656
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 4: the replay, Stereotor was arguing that he really didn't have

1657
01:24:19,520 --> 01:24:24,520
Speaker 4: possession Cooks did not have possession enough. He hadn't established

1658
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 4: it enough that when he hit the ground the ball

1659
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:30,800
Speaker 4: belonged to him, and so it kind of was free

1660
01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:32,759
Speaker 4: and there was a hand on it from the defender,

1661
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:36,640
Speaker 4: and so they ruled it as they did. And I

1662
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:39,400
Speaker 4: think the biggest issue was I agree with mcdermo one

1663
01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:41,639
Speaker 4: hundred percent, and when when he called the time out,

1664
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 4: I thought, Okay, well, I wouldn't be surprised if this

1665
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:46,760
Speaker 4: gets fixed or if something changes here. They didn't even

1666
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:52,480
Speaker 4: look at it. And in a playoff game that's in overtime,

1667
01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:57,160
Speaker 4: to not even look at it was and look, I'm

1668
01:24:57,200 --> 01:25:00,120
Speaker 4: as big a Broncos fan as you'll find, and I

1669
01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 4: and I was stunned, and I said, man, we may

1670
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:04,559
Speaker 4: have just gotten away with one there, or at the

1671
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 4: very least, at least make sure it's right, like that

1672
01:25:09,280 --> 01:25:12,719
Speaker 4: call has got to be right in that moment, and

1673
01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:18,240
Speaker 4: unfortunately for Bill's fans, it didn't go their way. And

1674
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 4: then Dever goes down and they get a couple of

1675
01:25:21,080 --> 01:25:25,160
Speaker 4: DPI calls in addition to some good plays and then

1676
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 4: kick a field goal and win the game. So it

1677
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 4: just it's just kind of a sour taste in your

1678
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 4: mouth at the end. And look, I'm a fan of

1679
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:33,360
Speaker 4: the team that won, and I still was just like, man,

1680
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 4: that game was too good to be just riddled with

1681
01:25:37,200 --> 01:25:40,880
Speaker 4: zebras in the last you know, drive and a half.

1682
01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:46,960
Speaker 2: It's tough because you know, I don't think even if

1683
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 2: they went to the monitor that they would have overturned it.

1684
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:52,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't either, really.

1685
01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:52,799
Speaker 3: I don't.

1686
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 4: But it's still it's like, but if they had said

1687
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:58,880
Speaker 4: that Cooks caught it, they also wouldn't have changed that exactly.

1688
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 2: And it's just I don't know, I don't know how

1689
01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:04,559
Speaker 2: to express it because I'm just gonna start yelling and

1690
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:06,600
Speaker 2: screaming like I did in an hour one. And I

1691
01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 2: think McDermott's point, you know, he said, listen, these guys

1692
01:26:08,920 --> 01:26:11,800
Speaker 2: played sixty plus minutes. You know you needed to do

1693
01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:14,439
Speaker 2: more due diligence. I'll take a step further. They you know,

1694
01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:17,519
Speaker 2: they open training camp in July. To get to this

1695
01:26:17,720 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 2: point and to not even review it, I just think

1696
01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 2: is abominable, and I'm curious. I'm sure the league won't

1697
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:26,240
Speaker 2: do anything, and I'm sure the leg will just hide

1698
01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 2: from it, and I'm sure you know there's gonna be

1699
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 2: two games tomorrow and by by Monday morning. I don't

1700
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 2: want to say everybody'll forget about it, but something will

1701
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 2: happen tomorrow that overshadows this. But it's just for that

1702
01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 2: to be the way to end things is just so

1703
01:26:40,479 --> 01:26:44,559
Speaker 2: so so brutal, really quickly. I mentioned this j Mart

1704
01:26:45,120 --> 01:26:47,880
Speaker 2: six straight years where the Buffalo Bills have made the

1705
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:51,599
Speaker 2: playoffs under Sean McDermott, six straight years with Josh Allen

1706
01:26:52,320 --> 01:26:54,360
Speaker 2: and Sean McDermott. I do want to just read you

1707
01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:56,240
Speaker 2: something really quick and then I'm gonna.

1708
01:26:56,080 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 4: Throw it over to you.

1709
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 2: But overall, this is the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs

1710
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 2: the last five years. Blow a fourth quarter lead at

1711
01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:10,479
Speaker 2: Denver in twenty twenty six, blow a fourth quarter lead

1712
01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 2: at Case in twenty twenty five, blow fourth quarter lead

1713
01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:15,880
Speaker 2: in Case in twenty twenty four, blow blown out at

1714
01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:18,559
Speaker 2: home by Cincinnati in twenty twenty three, blow a fourth

1715
01:27:18,640 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 2: quarter lead against Case in twenty twenty two. Should Sean

1716
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 2: mcdermer be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills next year.

1717
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 4: No, But that's because I thought that's because I thought

1718
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:31,240
Speaker 4: he should have been relieved last year.

1719
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:32,440
Speaker 3: I agree.

1720
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:34,519
Speaker 4: I don't think it has anything to do with this

1721
01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:36,679
Speaker 4: game because I don't think he did anything wrong here.

1722
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 4: I don't think that his reputation should take any kind

1723
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:42,240
Speaker 4: of a hit because of this loss. I don't think

1724
01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 4: that he coached a bad game. I think that game

1725
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 4: could have gone either way. You know, there were mistakes made,

1726
01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:50,880
Speaker 4: but that loss, honestly is much more on Josh Allen

1727
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:53,639
Speaker 4: than it was on Sean McDermott. It just was because

1728
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:55,840
Speaker 4: of the turnovers involved. It just it wasn't a great

1729
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:57,960
Speaker 4: night for Josh Allen, and he kept him minute late

1730
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:01,519
Speaker 4: because he's able to do that, but he also put

1731
01:28:01,600 --> 01:28:03,120
Speaker 4: him in the hole. He's the one that fumbled the

1732
01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:05,120
Speaker 4: ball at the end of the first half that I

1733
01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,320
Speaker 4: mean that put three more points on the board for Denver,

1734
01:28:07,400 --> 01:28:09,519
Speaker 4: and you know that ends up being the difference in

1735
01:28:09,560 --> 01:28:13,920
Speaker 4: the game. So I believe that McDermott should have been

1736
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:18,439
Speaker 4: gone last year, and so I can still suggest that

1737
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 4: you move on from him, but not because he's done

1738
01:28:21,160 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 4: anything wrong this year, which leads to me to believe

1739
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 4: he's coming back. I don't think that they are going

1740
01:28:26,360 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 4: to make a change there because there's a very plausible

1741
01:28:31,240 --> 01:28:35,360
Speaker 4: argument that that he if he was coaching for his job,

1742
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:38,960
Speaker 4: he didn't do anything that should cost him his job here,

1743
01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 4: like this was just the way that this game went.

1744
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:45,760
Speaker 4: So I'm torn on it because I'm with you and

1745
01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:47,800
Speaker 4: we've always kind of been on the same page as

1746
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:50,599
Speaker 4: I don't know about McDermott. I mean, Josh Allen's now

1747
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:54,439
Speaker 4: thirty years old, but Sean McDermott is not the reason

1748
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 4: that they lost this football game. And I don't think

1749
01:28:57,520 --> 01:28:59,320
Speaker 4: anyone will argue that he was.

1750
01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:04,280
Speaker 2: Ye Paul Bill's mafia would disagree, but very passionate Bills

1751
01:29:04,280 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 2: fan says, don't let McDermott's speech fool you. He's trying

1752
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:10,519
Speaker 2: to save his job. You know, listen, two things can

1753
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,640
Speaker 2: be true. And it was funny because somebody said to me,

1754
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 2: oh ha, you know you really think that he's the

1755
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:18,840
Speaker 2: reason that they lost? Let me let me see because

1756
01:29:18,840 --> 01:29:22,040
Speaker 2: somebody did chirp at me on social media and I

1757
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 2: can't find it now, but basically the argument was like, oh,

1758
01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:27,800
Speaker 2: you think you lost the game? No, but I think

1759
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,439
Speaker 2: that probably many years ago he should have been out.

1760
01:29:30,880 --> 01:29:34,160
Speaker 2: I think the only real argument is essentially the John

1761
01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 2: Harball Baltimore Ravens argument of it's run its course, it

1762
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:41,160
Speaker 2: feels weird, it is worth noting, by the way, first

1763
01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 2: time in four years now. Part of this is to

1764
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:46,240
Speaker 2: the credit of the buff of the New England Patriots

1765
01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:49,679
Speaker 2: excuse me, but first time since twenty twenty, they did

1766
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:53,160
Speaker 2: not win the division. And so you go back and

1767
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:57,400
Speaker 2: look at this season, and I do still think it's tough.

1768
01:29:57,560 --> 01:30:00,200
Speaker 2: It's tough, like I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go

1769
01:30:00,280 --> 01:30:02,320
Speaker 2: back on anything that I've said.

1770
01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:05,280
Speaker 3: Previously to your point, weird losses.

1771
01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:08,240
Speaker 2: You lose it, you know, against the Dolphins, you lose

1772
01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 2: against the Falcons, whatever. But it's tough because I think

1773
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 2: I see every side of this, almost like the interception,

1774
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:21,040
Speaker 2: Like I see both sides and it's and I kind

1775
01:30:21,040 --> 01:30:24,400
Speaker 2: of agree with you is if it happens, I won't

1776
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:26,960
Speaker 2: be surprised, well, I will be surprised. Actually, if it happens,

1777
01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:28,880
Speaker 2: I don't think it is the worst decision that has

1778
01:30:28,920 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 2: ever been made. And I think it's under the John

1779
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:33,760
Speaker 2: Harbaugh edict of its run its course. And if you

1780
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:36,400
Speaker 2: listen to Steve Bashatti this week to Baltimore Ravens owner,

1781
01:30:36,800 --> 01:30:38,439
Speaker 2: they asked him, Hey, if we had if we had

1782
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:40,479
Speaker 2: kicked that field goal to win the division, would John

1783
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 2: Harball still be the head coach, and he said for

1784
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:45,639
Speaker 2: one more week. The insinuation being that I made the decision.

1785
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:48,640
Speaker 2: This guy lost the locker room. I don't know if

1786
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:51,160
Speaker 2: Sean mcdermis lost the locker room or not. They did,

1787
01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:53,960
Speaker 2: in their defense, win five of their final six games

1788
01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:56,000
Speaker 2: on the season. They only lost that one point, lost

1789
01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:59,360
Speaker 2: to the Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, I don't have much much

1790
01:30:59,360 --> 01:31:01,080
Speaker 2: else to add on Sean McDermott. I don't know if

1791
01:31:01,080 --> 01:31:02,760
Speaker 2: you have anything else to add because I do want

1792
01:31:02,760 --> 01:31:07,759
Speaker 2: to ask you very quickly about bow Knicks and the Broncos. Denver,

1793
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:10,840
Speaker 2: of course wins the game, but we find out after

1794
01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:14,320
Speaker 2: the fact that bow Knicks is out for the year.

1795
01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:17,160
Speaker 2: He broke a bone in his ankle. He is unavailable.

1796
01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:20,640
Speaker 2: Jared Stidham will be your starter. De Seger gave us

1797
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:23,120
Speaker 2: the great stat that he will be the first player

1798
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:27,479
Speaker 2: ever to start a conference championship game at the quarterback

1799
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:31,400
Speaker 2: position after having not thrown a pass the entire game.

1800
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:37,519
Speaker 2: This having not thrown a pass once this season. Certainly,

1801
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:39,120
Speaker 2: if you have more on McDermott and the Bills, but

1802
01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:42,960
Speaker 2: I also want to ask your take on the Denver Broncos. Obviously,

1803
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:46,320
Speaker 2: going into the AFC Championship game very shorthanded.

1804
01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:50,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, not really. I mean I think that I think

1805
01:31:50,160 --> 01:31:52,920
Speaker 4: we pretty much covered it there in terms of the Broncos. Look,

1806
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 4: I'm a Denver fan and that's heartbreaking, especially considering the

1807
01:31:57,120 --> 01:32:01,000
Speaker 4: game that Bownicks played. This was one of those kind

1808
01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:03,439
Speaker 4: of coming of age games where he really did show

1809
01:32:03,520 --> 01:32:05,840
Speaker 4: up and then the I mean, look, his guys kind

1810
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 4: of let him down early. He had a touchdown dropped

1811
01:32:08,960 --> 01:32:11,479
Speaker 4: by little Jordan Humphrey in the end zone on the

1812
01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:13,599
Speaker 4: first drive that ends up being a field goal when

1813
01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:16,080
Speaker 4: it should have been a touchdown for him. But he

1814
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:18,920
Speaker 4: made big plays with his legs, He made big plays

1815
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:22,360
Speaker 4: with his arms in the game, had three touchdown passes.

1816
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:26,280
Speaker 4: Randon Ball effectively moved the chains. Was a leader and

1817
01:32:26,400 --> 01:32:29,640
Speaker 4: afterwards sounded like a leader when he when he was

1818
01:32:29,640 --> 01:32:31,720
Speaker 4: speaking to the media. You know what, I didn't even

1819
01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 4: realize he was hurt. I had no idea until I

1820
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:37,120
Speaker 4: saw and I said that message. I was just like, man,

1821
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:40,240
Speaker 4: my heart just broke, kind of like apparently bo Nix's ankle.

1822
01:32:40,280 --> 01:32:43,720
Speaker 4: I had no clue that it happened until halftime of

1823
01:32:43,840 --> 01:32:48,120
Speaker 4: the the NFC game, when Jay Glazer mentioned it on

1824
01:32:48,240 --> 01:32:50,439
Speaker 4: Fox and I was just like, oh, no, tell me,

1825
01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:52,240
Speaker 4: this is not what I think it is. And so yeah,

1826
01:32:52,240 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 4: he's out for the postseason. It's gonna be Jared Steam.

1827
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 4: So it's just it's unfortunate and it's a bad it's

1828
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:01,400
Speaker 4: bad for the NFL just because and you mentioned this

1829
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 4: to me in a text message, and I think it

1830
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:07,800
Speaker 4: bears it bears out. The Super Bowl matchups are not

1831
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:13,200
Speaker 4: particularly enticing right now now. I think the best result

1832
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:17,920
Speaker 4: probably is going to be the Patriots and the On

1833
01:33:17,960 --> 01:33:20,639
Speaker 4: the NFC, I do think you have some appetizing teams there,

1834
01:33:20,680 --> 01:33:25,040
Speaker 4: but the AFC has become really light when it comes

1835
01:33:25,080 --> 01:33:27,599
Speaker 4: to box office. Now, I'm not saying that the bow

1836
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:32,479
Speaker 4: Knicks Broncos were super box office either, but they were

1837
01:33:32,640 --> 01:33:36,000
Speaker 4: far more interesting than the Jared Stidham Broncos. This doesn't

1838
01:33:36,040 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 4: feel like Nick Foles to me. This doesn't feel like

1839
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:42,160
Speaker 4: that kind of a situation. This feels like, even though

1840
01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:45,160
Speaker 4: they're hosting the AFC title game, the defense is going

1841
01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:46,880
Speaker 4: to have to score a couple of touchdowns or they're

1842
01:33:46,880 --> 01:33:47,719
Speaker 4: not going to have a chance.

1843
01:33:48,120 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, for people who maybe haven't put two and two

1844
01:33:50,240 --> 01:33:54,600
Speaker 2: together yet, the AFC will be represented by either the

1845
01:33:54,800 --> 01:33:58,720
Speaker 2: bow nix list Denver Broncos starting Jared Stidham in his

1846
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:04,320
Speaker 2: second star of the season. The Houston Texans, who, while

1847
01:34:04,360 --> 01:34:05,960
Speaker 2: certainly winning a lot of games, I don't know that

1848
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:08,599
Speaker 2: they totally moved the needle. Or the New England Patriots.

1849
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:09,800
Speaker 2: You know, I hadn't thought of this, but I'll give

1850
01:34:09,800 --> 01:34:14,240
Speaker 2: you a quick quick thought on this. Do the Patriots again,

1851
01:34:14,920 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 2: even with the new head coach and the new QB,

1852
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:20,560
Speaker 2: become hateable if they make the Super Bowl? Because we

1853
01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:25,400
Speaker 2: come off this incredible dynasty that was basically twenty years

1854
01:34:25,439 --> 01:34:28,599
Speaker 2: when you break it down, you know, all these super

1855
01:34:28,640 --> 01:34:32,599
Speaker 2: Bowl wins, all of that, then it finally falls apart

1856
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:38,080
Speaker 2: under Belichick, He's out and then immediately two years later

1857
01:34:38,320 --> 01:34:41,680
Speaker 2: after firing Bill Belichick. In theory, they still have to

1858
01:34:41,720 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 2: win two games, but under the argument that they make

1859
01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:46,920
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, do they instantly become hateable by all

1860
01:34:46,960 --> 01:34:49,920
Speaker 2: of a sudden two years later being back in the

1861
01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:52,720
Speaker 2: Super Bowl with a new coach, a new quarterback and

1862
01:34:52,760 --> 01:34:55,599
Speaker 2: seemingly no reason to think that they aren't again going

1863
01:34:55,640 --> 01:34:57,559
Speaker 2: to be elite for the very foreseeable future.

1864
01:34:57,960 --> 01:35:00,920
Speaker 4: No, they don't. I mean, this Patriots team is not

1865
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:03,840
Speaker 4: to me as hatable they're just not. I mean, Drake

1866
01:35:03,920 --> 01:35:06,280
Speaker 4: May doesn't seem to be a bad guy. Like I

1867
01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:11,200
Speaker 4: covered Mike Rabels's entire tenure with the Titans, and certainly

1868
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:15,120
Speaker 4: he had some knockdown dragouts with the media and he

1869
01:35:15,280 --> 01:35:18,920
Speaker 4: was polarizing, but generally speaking, he was a really good

1870
01:35:18,960 --> 01:35:23,559
Speaker 4: head coach. And he's royalty in that city, so obviously

1871
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:27,839
Speaker 4: he's popular there. But like, I really like Trevion Henderson.

1872
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:29,679
Speaker 4: I like what he stands for. I love his faith,

1873
01:35:29,840 --> 01:35:33,320
Speaker 4: I love how outward he is about it. There's a

1874
01:35:33,360 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 4: lot to like about that football team. Now, look, there's

1875
01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:38,200
Speaker 4: some problems off the field with a couple of guys

1876
01:35:38,760 --> 01:35:41,040
Speaker 4: as well, But I don't think this feels like the

1877
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:44,400
Speaker 4: Belichick Patriots at all. It doesn't I think that. I

1878
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 4: know that hasn't felt like very much time because it

1879
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:51,360
Speaker 4: hasn't been much time, but I kind of think that

1880
01:35:51,439 --> 01:35:55,519
Speaker 4: page has been turned. Also, I thought about this, we

1881
01:35:55,720 --> 01:35:59,160
Speaker 4: do have the possibility. I'm not saying it's gonna happen.

1882
01:36:00,120 --> 01:36:02,920
Speaker 4: You have the possibility of Caleb Williams versus Drake May

1883
01:36:02,960 --> 01:36:03,759
Speaker 4: and the Super Bowl.

1884
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 2: So I had a stat that I was gonna throw

1885
01:36:07,520 --> 01:36:10,800
Speaker 2: out but decided against it solely because you know, given

1886
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:15,040
Speaker 2: the bow Knicks context of whatever. But twenty twenty four

1887
01:36:15,160 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 2: NFL draft, okay, you may remember that was the Caleb Williams,

1888
01:36:19,160 --> 01:36:21,320
Speaker 2: Jade and Daniels draft. And let me just make sure

1889
01:36:21,360 --> 01:36:25,960
Speaker 2: I have my stats correct. Here, five quarter six quarterbacks

1890
01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:29,040
Speaker 2: off the board in the first twelve picks. Of those

1891
01:36:29,160 --> 01:36:33,519
Speaker 2: six quarterbacks, four of them already have a playoff win

1892
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:36,800
Speaker 2: bow Knicks, Jade and Daniels, Caleb Williams, and Drake May

1893
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:39,200
Speaker 2: And I was gonna throw out the stat that that

1894
01:36:39,320 --> 01:36:41,800
Speaker 2: is more, all four of them have more playoff.

1895
01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:46,120
Speaker 3: Wins at this point than justin Herbert oh Man.

1896
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:48,439
Speaker 4: I was gonna I didn't see that. I didn't see that, Herbert.

1897
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:51,040
Speaker 4: I didn't see the Herbert shroutnell coming, but I should.

1898
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:53,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no, And it was like it didn't

1899
01:36:53,200 --> 01:36:57,000
Speaker 2: really fit for the show, especially when bow Nick shatters

1900
01:36:57,000 --> 01:36:57,559
Speaker 2: his ankle.

1901
01:36:58,200 --> 01:37:00,400
Speaker 3: But one, it is crazy.

1902
01:37:00,840 --> 01:37:03,320
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's very conceivable, and we'll preview

1903
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:06,240
Speaker 2: the Sunday games coming up, but I just think bigger picture,

1904
01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:12,000
Speaker 2: you know, in theory, we could essentially get two second

1905
01:37:12,080 --> 01:37:15,360
Speaker 2: year quarterbacks boom right off the bat with those two,

1906
01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:17,559
Speaker 2: and then of course the Broncos would have been in

1907
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:20,240
Speaker 2: theory led by a second second year quarterbacks. So no,

1908
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:25,200
Speaker 2: it's crazy how this is playing out and really quickly.

1909
01:37:25,240 --> 01:37:29,440
Speaker 2: I don't think it's some like indictment on some new generation.

1910
01:37:29,680 --> 01:37:33,120
Speaker 2: I still think Josh Allen Lamar Jackson, if Mahomes can

1911
01:37:33,160 --> 01:37:35,760
Speaker 2: get healthy, if Burrow can stay healthy, Like, I still

1912
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:37,519
Speaker 2: think they got a lot of Super Bowls between the

1913
01:37:37,520 --> 01:37:39,559
Speaker 2: four of them, and who knows, maybe it's just Mahomes

1914
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:42,599
Speaker 2: the way things are going, but but it is interesting

1915
01:37:42,600 --> 01:37:44,559
Speaker 2: that we could get two second year quarterbacks. I will

1916
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 2: also very quickly disagree. I think if we actually do

1917
01:37:47,960 --> 01:37:50,400
Speaker 2: get the Patriots in the Super Bowl, I do think

1918
01:37:50,439 --> 01:37:52,639
Speaker 2: they will become hateable and it's like, I know it's

1919
01:37:52,680 --> 01:37:54,600
Speaker 2: not the same group of guys, but I think a

1920
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:56,800
Speaker 2: lot of people are gonna be like, really, we're doing

1921
01:37:56,800 --> 01:37:59,840
Speaker 2: this again after twenty years we thought the dynasty was dead.

1922
01:38:00,360 --> 01:38:02,400
Speaker 2: But hey, they still got to get two wins before

1923
01:38:02,439 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 2: we get there.

1924
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:07,519
Speaker 4: So what are they the John Shire Duke team reaching

1925
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Speaker 4: the championship game. Yeah, that's a fair way to kind

1926
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Speaker 4: of look at it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, Yeah, I mean I guess because like I don't

1928
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Speaker 2: think Shire that happened, like if Duke had won the championship.

1929
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Speaker 2: But I'm just making the argument of going to the

1930
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl. I think part of it too, and I'll

1931
01:38:26,200 --> 01:38:28,519
Speaker 2: be quick on this, I think part of it too

1932
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Speaker 2: is like the Boston fans and the Boston media. And

1933
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Speaker 2: I will say, like, you know, I grew up in

1934
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Speaker 2: the in the Northeast. I'm not necessarily a Boston fan,

1935
01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:42,439
Speaker 2: but like, I forgot how annoying and obnoxious all these

1936
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:45,599
Speaker 2: Boston people are when the Boston teams are very good

1937
01:38:46,280 --> 01:38:50,120
Speaker 2: and and I don't know, I think if we get

1938
01:38:50,160 --> 01:38:52,559
Speaker 2: two weeks of it, you'll be like, oh, yeah, I

1939
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:55,439
Speaker 2: forgot how annoying these people are. And I don't think

1940
01:38:55,439 --> 01:38:57,639
Speaker 2: it's like a Drake Mayor or even a Mike Vrabel thing.

1941
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Speaker 2: I just think people will be like, we're really doing

1942
01:39:00,680 --> 01:39:03,200
Speaker 2: this again after twenty years after you know, what was it,

1943
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Speaker 2: six super Bowl wins, another three super bowls. I believe

1944
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Speaker 2: that they appeared in.

1945
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Speaker 3: We're doing again. So that's just my opinion. But obviously

1946
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Speaker 3: you're welcome to disgrease.

1947
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Speaker 4: Well, no, I mean that's interesting. I mean, I just

1948
01:39:15,640 --> 01:39:17,880
Speaker 4: I think in order for the Patriots to be truly hated,

1949
01:39:17,920 --> 01:39:20,479
Speaker 4: there has to be like this insanely likable team on

1950
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:22,360
Speaker 4: the other side, I don't know that that's there. I'm

1951
01:39:22,360 --> 01:39:27,000
Speaker 4: not saying that, like there are like teams to hate

1952
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Speaker 4: in addition to the Patriots specifically in the AFC, but

1953
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:35,879
Speaker 4: like I mean, the Texans really moving the needle Broncos

1954
01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:39,000
Speaker 4: outside of nuddobs like me and Justin Cooper, who, by

1955
01:39:39,040 --> 01:39:41,920
Speaker 4: the way, he told me he was there. He told

1956
01:39:41,960 --> 01:39:44,320
Speaker 4: me a couple of weeks ago he went there. He

1957
01:39:44,360 --> 01:39:46,240
Speaker 4: was there for the divisional round game, and he told

1958
01:39:46,280 --> 01:39:48,240
Speaker 4: me what he paid for the tickets, and I was like, wow,

1959
01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:52,599
Speaker 4: that's a high price. But he saw a good one.

1960
01:39:53,320 --> 01:39:55,640
Speaker 4: We could say that, even though it ended poorly for

1961
01:39:55,720 --> 01:39:59,360
Speaker 4: Broncos fans. When it comes to losing their quarterback man

1962
01:40:00,280 --> 01:40:02,040
Speaker 4: quite a year. I will say this too. I saw

1963
01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:05,439
Speaker 4: this stat This is not relevant at all today AFC.

1964
01:40:06,320 --> 01:40:10,000
Speaker 4: Sam Donald fourteen and three with the Seahawks this year.

1965
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Speaker 4: Nobody was with the Vikings last year fourteen and three,

1966
01:40:14,360 --> 01:40:18,840
Speaker 4: fourteen and three really good quarterbacks. Seahawks coincidence is starting

1967
01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:21,120
Speaker 4: to change when it comes to Sam Donald.

1968
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we didn't even mention that game, and

1969
01:40:23,439 --> 01:40:26,040
Speaker 2: we really don't have to. Seahawks win that one forty

1970
01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:29,920
Speaker 2: one to six. If there was an oblique injury. Sam

1971
01:40:29,960 --> 01:40:32,160
Speaker 2: Donald certainly hit it well. He only had to throw

1972
01:40:32,240 --> 01:40:36,400
Speaker 2: seventeen pastes, twelve of seventeen with one touchdown. J Martin,

1973
01:40:36,400 --> 01:40:38,240
Speaker 2: You're certainly allowed to jump in if you have some

1974
01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:38,880
Speaker 2: big bowl.

1975
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's playing with a with like two collapse

1976
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:47,160
Speaker 4: lungs and diverticulitis and everything under the sun. Based on

1977
01:40:47,160 --> 01:40:49,360
Speaker 4: the way it was being talked about before the game.

1978
01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:53,680
Speaker 2: Well, it was a regular Willis Reid moment because he

1979
01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:56,439
Speaker 2: was awesome. And the Seahawks win the game, they will

1980
01:40:56,479 --> 01:40:59,519
Speaker 2: advance to the NFC Championship Game, where they will host

1981
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:04,000
Speaker 2: the NFL Championship Game against the winner of the Bears

1982
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 2: and Rams on Sunday. Speaking of Bears Rams Sunday one

1983
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Speaker 2: of two games, we will come back preview the Sunday games.

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Speaker 3: That's next Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back everybody. Fox Sports Radio.

1985
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Speaker 2: Here Torris Jason Martin broadcasting live from the Fox Sports

1986
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Speaker 2: Radio studios. We'll preview Sunday's two divisional round games in

1987
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Speaker 2: just a moment. Before we do, though final time this evening,

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Speaker 2: Let's get it to the news desk with Steve Sager.

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Speaker 2: What is trending to Sega?

1990
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Speaker 10: Well, last weekend, the Buffalo Bills at Jacksonville got their

1991
01:41:37,880 --> 01:41:41,840
Speaker 10: first road playoff wins since nineteen ninety two. Today on

1992
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:44,479
Speaker 10: the road, they lost in overtime at Denver on a

1993
01:41:44,520 --> 01:41:48,280
Speaker 10: short field goal thirty three thirty. The Bills with five turnovers.

1994
01:41:48,280 --> 01:41:50,599
Speaker 10: Broncos had taken the lead with about a minute left

1995
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Speaker 10: in regulation, then Buffalo kicked a fifty yard field goal

1996
01:41:53,479 --> 01:41:53,960
Speaker 10: to tie it.

1997
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Speaker 11: In the lost.

1998
01:41:54,960 --> 01:41:57,839
Speaker 10: James Cook one hundred and seventeen yards rushing, won fumble,

1999
01:41:58,200 --> 01:42:02,080
Speaker 10: Josh Allen three touchdown pass but two interceptions two fumbles.

2000
01:42:02,479 --> 01:42:05,120
Speaker 10: The big news from Denver right after the game in

2001
01:42:05,160 --> 01:42:08,519
Speaker 10: the coaches press conference, quarterback Bonick suffered a broken ankle

2002
01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:11,080
Speaker 10: late in the contest. He is out for the postseason,

2003
01:42:11,520 --> 01:42:15,320
Speaker 10: which means, as you referenced, Jared Stidham, of all people,

2004
01:42:15,400 --> 01:42:19,640
Speaker 10: is going to be starting quarterback in a conference championship

2005
01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:22,200
Speaker 10: game in Denver next weekend. Yes, the one seed will

2006
01:42:22,200 --> 01:42:25,880
Speaker 10: be hosting the AFC Championship. The folks at stats Inc.

2007
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 10: Went in their statistics dating back to nineteen fifty because

2008
01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:33,240
Speaker 10: that's when quarterback starts were first tracked, and yes, Stidham

2009
01:42:33,240 --> 01:42:36,720
Speaker 10: would become next weekend the first NFL quarterback ever to

2010
01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:40,160
Speaker 10: start a conference championship round or later after not throwing

2011
01:42:40,200 --> 01:42:44,639
Speaker 10: a single pass during the regular season. Stidham did play

2012
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:47,000
Speaker 10: one snap this season that was a kneel down in

2013
01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:50,120
Speaker 10: October apparently, but he hasn't thrown a regular season pass

2014
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Speaker 10: in over two years, when he started a couple games

2015
01:42:52,680 --> 01:42:56,200
Speaker 10: after Denver had benched Russell Wilson, and the NFL reports

2016
01:42:56,240 --> 01:42:59,320
Speaker 10: tonight that the last quarterback to even make his first

2017
01:42:59,320 --> 01:43:02,760
Speaker 10: start of the seas a conference championship game or later

2018
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Speaker 10: was Roger Staubuck nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 11: Two for Dallas.

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Speaker 10: Of course, he had thrown passes in the regular season,

2021
01:43:09,280 --> 01:43:11,840
Speaker 10: but hadn't started because in seventy two, the Hall of

2022
01:43:11,920 --> 01:43:15,000
Speaker 10: Famer Stawback had missed most of the season after one

2023
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:18,519
Speaker 10: of their many preseason games saw him separate a shoulder,

2024
01:43:18,560 --> 01:43:20,519
Speaker 10: so they went with Craig Morton as the starter, and

2025
01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:22,479
Speaker 10: they were having a good year, so even later when

2026
01:43:22,520 --> 01:43:25,160
Speaker 10: Staubuck was healthy, they kept Morton. It was Stawback that

2027
01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:28,040
Speaker 10: had the big comeback playoff win over San Francisco, and

2028
01:43:28,080 --> 01:43:31,320
Speaker 10: then they kept him as a starter for the NFC Championship.

2029
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Speaker 10: And I got to mention, I've seen this in NFL

2030
01:43:33,200 --> 01:43:36,639
Speaker 10: films the year before that for Dallas nineteen seventy one.

2031
01:43:36,680 --> 01:43:38,920
Speaker 10: And this is with a Hall of Fame legendary coach

2032
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:41,960
Speaker 10: Tom Landry. He had these two guys that could be

2033
01:43:42,120 --> 01:43:46,840
Speaker 10: NFL starting quarterbacks. He literally alternated the two guys. Each

2034
01:43:46,960 --> 01:43:50,600
Speaker 10: play there was a different quarterback. He would send in

2035
01:43:50,680 --> 01:43:53,519
Speaker 10: the quarterback the new guy with the play call the

2036
01:43:53,560 --> 01:43:57,280
Speaker 10: new play from the sideline. That's how it actually worked.

2037
01:43:57,600 --> 01:44:00,920
Speaker 10: Never imagine I would be mentioning Jared stidhaman Roger Staubach

2038
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:03,559
Speaker 10: in the same segment, but there we are. Stidham had

2039
01:44:03,720 --> 01:44:06,320
Speaker 10: played his freshman year at Baylor in Texas. A couple

2040
01:44:06,439 --> 01:44:09,599
Speaker 10: years at Auburn, was drafted fourth round by New England

2041
01:44:09,640 --> 01:44:14,439
Speaker 10: twenty nineteen. Well, I got to mention about Seattle. They've

2042
01:44:14,479 --> 01:44:16,840
Speaker 10: won eight in a row. They'll be hosting as one

2043
01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 10: seed the NFC Championship next week and tonight against the Niners,

2044
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:24,360
Speaker 10: eliminating San Francisco forty one to six. Rashid Shaheed what

2045
01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:27,639
Speaker 10: a pickup mid season. Ran back the opening kickoff ninety

2046
01:44:27,680 --> 01:44:31,120
Speaker 10: five yards for a score. Kenneth Walker of Seattle wound

2047
01:44:31,200 --> 01:44:34,519
Speaker 10: up on nineteen carries, having one hundred and sixteen yards

2048
01:44:34,600 --> 01:44:38,759
Speaker 10: rushing and three scores. Meanwhile, San Francisco's four running backs

2049
01:44:38,800 --> 01:44:42,799
Speaker 10: combined had twenty one carries just sixty four yards. Seattle

2050
01:44:42,880 --> 01:44:45,880
Speaker 10: had seventeen to nothing in the first quarter. San Francisco

2051
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:50,080
Speaker 10: finished with two field goals, three turnovers plus three turnovers

2052
01:44:50,080 --> 01:44:52,599
Speaker 10: on downs, and it was a quiet night for Jackson

2053
01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:55,320
Speaker 10: Smith in Jigba. He did have a late first quarter

2054
01:44:55,439 --> 01:44:59,880
Speaker 10: touchdown catch from San Darnold, but only two other receptions

2055
01:45:00,400 --> 01:45:03,559
Speaker 10: the entire evening. And this is a guy who not

2056
01:45:03,640 --> 01:45:08,040
Speaker 10: only led the NFL in receiving yards, he became the

2057
01:45:08,080 --> 01:45:10,760
Speaker 10: first player in the entire Super Bowl era to lead

2058
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:13,759
Speaker 10: the league in receiving yards while playing for a team

2059
01:45:13,800 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 10: that was ranking bottom three in pass play percentage.

2060
01:45:17,040 --> 01:45:18,160
Speaker 11: He is the guy.

2061
01:45:18,720 --> 01:45:21,720
Speaker 10: And even without him starring, it was forty one to

2062
01:45:21,800 --> 01:45:26,679
Speaker 10: six Seattle. That defense for Seattle allowed only seventeen points

2063
01:45:26,680 --> 01:45:29,920
Speaker 10: a game regular season, best in the NFL. So we

2064
01:45:29,960 --> 01:45:34,080
Speaker 10: can update a stat for coach Kyle Shanahan. He took

2065
01:45:34,120 --> 01:45:37,360
Speaker 10: over the Niners in twenty seventeen and all those years since.

2066
01:45:37,439 --> 01:45:40,040
Speaker 10: When his team is down double digits at any point

2067
01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:43,400
Speaker 10: in a game, his Niners are six and forty nine

2068
01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:48,160
Speaker 10: including playoffs, including tonight. Meanwhile, the Seahawks have won eleven

2069
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:51,920
Speaker 10: straight home playoff games when fans are there. There was

2070
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 10: a twenty twenty home playoff game. They lost no fans,

2071
01:45:55,120 --> 01:45:58,559
Speaker 10: but Mike McDonald's team advances. In fact, McDonald in his

2072
01:45:58,720 --> 01:46:01,720
Speaker 10: last three playoff games as head coach and before then

2073
01:46:01,840 --> 01:46:05,519
Speaker 10: defensive coordinator, his teams have not allowed a point in

2074
01:46:05,560 --> 01:46:09,400
Speaker 10: the second half in his last three playoff games. What's

2075
01:46:09,400 --> 01:46:12,519
Speaker 10: coming up tomorrow? Houston winners of ten straight, playing at

2076
01:46:12,520 --> 01:46:16,040
Speaker 10: New England three pm Eastern Times Sunday. Texans wide receiver

2077
01:46:16,120 --> 01:46:19,280
Speaker 10: Nico Collins out with a concussion. New England star defensive

2078
01:46:19,280 --> 01:46:23,720
Speaker 10: back Christian Gonzales cleared concussion protocol the visitors. Houston did

2079
01:46:23,760 --> 01:46:26,840
Speaker 10: go eleven and two in conference games. To this point,

2080
01:46:26,880 --> 01:46:29,759
Speaker 10: they had the best turnover margin in the AFC. Of course,

2081
01:46:30,120 --> 01:46:33,120
Speaker 10: C J. Stroud had three turnovers at Pittsburgh last weekend

2082
01:46:33,120 --> 01:46:35,840
Speaker 10: and Houston was only up seven to six early fourth quarter.

2083
01:46:36,320 --> 01:46:39,080
Speaker 10: Thirty to six was the final. You could say New

2084
01:46:39,120 --> 01:46:42,040
Speaker 10: England's offense failed to impress last weekend as well. They

2085
01:46:42,040 --> 01:46:44,040
Speaker 10: had the what nine to three lead in the fourth

2086
01:46:44,120 --> 01:46:46,360
Speaker 10: quarter Drake May and a sixteen to three win over

2087
01:46:46,400 --> 01:46:50,360
Speaker 10: the Chargers one touchdown pass two turnovers, sacked five times.

2088
01:46:50,360 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 10: He was great on the ground and their two running

2089
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:56,000
Speaker 10: backs combined nineteen carries eighty yards on the ground as

2090
01:46:56,000 --> 01:46:57,040
Speaker 10: well in.

2091
01:46:56,960 --> 01:46:58,600
Speaker 11: The cold and windy conditions.

2092
01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:02,160
Speaker 10: Tomorrow in Chicago, the Bear will host the Rams Bears,

2093
01:47:02,200 --> 01:47:05,200
Speaker 10: coming off that incredible comeback against Green Bay with three

2094
01:47:05,240 --> 01:47:08,320
Speaker 10: touchdowns in about the last ten minutes. Top candidate for

2095
01:47:08,360 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 10: the Falcons job, and they're working towards a deal, according

2096
01:47:10,960 --> 01:47:14,960
Speaker 10: to NFL Network Kevin Stefanski for the Falcons X of Cleveland,

2097
01:47:15,200 --> 01:47:18,599
Speaker 10: the Giants finalized a five year deal with coach John Harbaugh.

2098
01:47:18,800 --> 01:47:22,840
Speaker 10: Green Bay gave head coach Matt Lafleur a multi year extension.

2099
01:47:23,160 --> 01:47:26,760
Speaker 10: Right there was an NBA game with Anthony Edwards coming

2100
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:29,200
Speaker 10: back after missing his last two games with a foot injury,

2101
01:47:29,400 --> 01:47:31,640
Speaker 10: and he scored fifty five points and they did not

2102
01:47:31,760 --> 01:47:34,840
Speaker 10: win at San Antonio. In this shootout with Victor wembin Yam,

2103
01:47:34,920 --> 01:47:37,560
Speaker 10: who had thirty nine points, Spurs won twenty six to

2104
01:47:37,640 --> 01:47:40,559
Speaker 10: one to twenty three the final. Anthony Edwards had twenty

2105
01:47:40,760 --> 01:47:45,000
Speaker 10: six just in the fourth quarter. Denver's Jamal Murray forty

2106
01:47:45,040 --> 01:47:48,360
Speaker 10: two points in a win over Washington. Jalen Brown of

2107
01:47:48,439 --> 01:47:52,000
Speaker 10: Boston forty one points in a win at Atlanta Miami

2108
01:47:52,160 --> 01:47:54,479
Speaker 10: edged Oklahoma City won twenty two to one to twenty

2109
01:47:54,520 --> 01:47:57,599
Speaker 10: despite thirty nine from Shay Giljess Alexander and we haven't

2110
01:47:57,600 --> 01:48:00,679
Speaker 10: mentioned it, but there was college hoops today. Kentucky stole

2111
01:48:00,720 --> 01:48:04,639
Speaker 10: one at Tennessee, Georgia beat Arkansas number three Yukon one

2112
01:48:04,760 --> 01:48:09,240
Speaker 10: sixty four to sixty two. At Georgetown, Cal beat North Carolina,

2113
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:14,200
Speaker 10: Texas Tech over BYU Cincinnati upset number two Iowa State

2114
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Speaker 10: back to.

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Speaker 2: You, thank you very much to Saga, have a great evening.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate the extensive update. This is Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: eron TOURUS, Jason Martin, broadcasting live from the Fox Sports

2118
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Speaker 2: Radio studios. Let's get us some music. Let's put us

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Speaker 2: in the mood ian, go ahead and get us started.

2120
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Speaker 2: Two games on Sunday that we got a preview.

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01:48:34,880 --> 01:48:35,360
Speaker 3: What do we got?

2122
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Speaker 9: Ile's jump in with three pm Eastern time. The Texans

2123
01:48:38,479 --> 01:48:40,680
Speaker 9: are going to New England to take on the Patriots

2124
01:48:40,760 --> 01:48:42,479
Speaker 9: New England as the home team are favored by.

2125
01:48:42,439 --> 01:48:43,000
Speaker 11: A field goal.

2126
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:44,639
Speaker 3: Here three points. We'll start with you, j mart Who

2127
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Speaker 3: you got?

2128
01:48:45,640 --> 01:48:49,439
Speaker 4: That's I don't know of the units? Which one do

2129
01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:53,040
Speaker 4: I trust? The lease it's probably the Texans offense, although

2130
01:48:53,040 --> 01:48:55,479
Speaker 4: Woody Mark's you know, he can catch the ball out

2131
01:48:55,479 --> 01:48:57,640
Speaker 4: of the backfield and he can run it for you.

2132
01:48:57,680 --> 01:49:01,120
Speaker 4: But you look at Stevenson Anderson, I think both of

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01:49:01,160 --> 01:49:05,320
Speaker 4: them could could actually be critical here. The of the

2134
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:07,920
Speaker 4: four units, I think Houston's defense is probably the one

2135
01:49:07,960 --> 01:49:10,800
Speaker 4: you trust the most and then the Patriots offense. So

2136
01:49:11,320 --> 01:49:13,840
Speaker 4: who gets the better of that matchup probably dictates who

2137
01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:17,200
Speaker 4: wins the game. A little bit torn here because defense

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Speaker 4: does generally win championships. It has been true more often

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Speaker 4: than not. And Houston's defense will travel. And this is

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Speaker 4: a quarterback in Drake May Who's had a whole lot

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Speaker 4: of answers, but I'm not sure he's seen something this

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01:49:30,600 --> 01:49:33,360
Speaker 4: relentless that's gonna be coming after him. I'm still gonna

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01:49:33,360 --> 01:49:36,920
Speaker 4: take the Patriots. I'm gonna take New England to win

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Speaker 4: the game. But the Houston defense is an absolutely frightening prospect.

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01:49:43,720 --> 01:49:47,000
Speaker 2: Well, the Houston defense is a frightening prospect. I'm actually

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01:49:47,000 --> 01:49:49,720
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and take Houston. Listen, I know the

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01:49:49,760 --> 01:49:53,920
Speaker 2: games in New England. Neither offense look great. This is crazy, Like,

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01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:56,240
Speaker 2: you know, we talk about all these winning streaks that

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01:49:56,280 --> 01:50:00,080
Speaker 2: all these different teams had. Houston hasn't lost since the

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01:50:00,120 --> 01:50:05,800
Speaker 2: first week of November. Now, I understand AFC South Division's

2151
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:08,639
Speaker 2: kind of weird, not a lot of tough competition late

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01:50:08,680 --> 01:50:11,719
Speaker 2: in the season. I'm gonna go ahead and take Houston

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01:50:11,720 --> 01:50:15,040
Speaker 2: to win this game outright in New England, though, I

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01:50:15,080 --> 01:50:18,639
Speaker 2: think that defense carries against a young offense. New England's

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01:50:18,640 --> 01:50:21,840
Speaker 2: ahead of schedule. Give me Houston, all right.

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01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:25,599
Speaker 9: Rams at Bears six thirty Eastern Time on NBC. Got

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01:50:25,600 --> 01:50:28,080
Speaker 9: the Rams as the away team are actually favored by

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01:50:28,080 --> 01:50:30,320
Speaker 9: three and a half in this one. Aaron will start

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01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:30,760
Speaker 9: with you this time.

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Speaker 3: Who you got? You know, I'm really torn.

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01:50:33,760 --> 01:50:35,519
Speaker 2: You don't want to get too caught up in the

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01:50:35,560 --> 01:50:39,200
Speaker 2: emotion of what we saw really from both games last week.

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01:50:39,200 --> 01:50:41,479
Speaker 2: I think it's easy to forget because of the Bears

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01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:45,000
Speaker 2: comeback that the Rams also had a comeback of their own.

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Speaker 4: Darn it.

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Speaker 3: I was hoping you go to j Mart first, even

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01:50:49,720 --> 01:50:50,800
Speaker 3: though I knew you were coming to me.

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Speaker 4: It's hard call. I see your dilemma.

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Speaker 2: No, I will total take the Rams because listen, I'll

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Speaker 2: just say this really quick, and I want to get

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Speaker 2: it to you.

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01:51:04,000 --> 01:51:04,519
Speaker 4: J Mart.

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Speaker 3: Is that listen? The Chicago thing was awesome.

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01:51:10,920 --> 01:51:14,360
Speaker 2: They needed a lot of stuff to go right last week,

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01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:20,519
Speaker 2: you know, from miss field goals to play calling to

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01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:24,040
Speaker 2: stuff going right when they had the football, and you

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01:51:24,080 --> 01:51:26,400
Speaker 2: just sit there and you say they had a million

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01:51:26,439 --> 01:51:28,439
Speaker 2: ways that they could have lost it. The Rams again

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01:51:28,520 --> 01:51:31,280
Speaker 2: easily could have lost in Carolina. But I'll go ahead

2180
01:51:31,320 --> 01:51:34,200
Speaker 2: and take the Rams to pull off the win in

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01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:36,280
Speaker 2: Chicago against the Bears.

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Speaker 4: How cold are going to be in Chicago? That's really

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01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:41,960
Speaker 4: I think that's That's kind of my determining factor.

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Speaker 3: I'm seeing twenty one degrees on ESPN.

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01:51:44,280 --> 01:51:46,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'm gonna take their Yeah, six thirty Eastern,

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01:51:46,640 --> 01:51:49,080
Speaker 2: five thirty Central, so it'll be dark and cold by

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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take the Bears. I really am. I think

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01:51:51,800 --> 01:51:54,320
Speaker 4: that matters. I think that matters tremendously in a game

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Speaker 4: like this. The Bears defense is suspect, to say the least,

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01:52:00,080 --> 01:52:03,439
Speaker 4: but man, every HiT's gonna hurt more, and the Rams

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01:52:03,439 --> 01:52:05,920
Speaker 4: are just this is not something that they're as used to.

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01:52:06,600 --> 01:52:10,840
Speaker 4: This is where them not playing at home bites them. Like,

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01:52:11,120 --> 01:52:13,960
Speaker 4: I think the Rams are the better football team, but

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Speaker 4: I do not like them going to Soldier Field in

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01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:23,240
Speaker 4: this circumstance in twenty degree weather, like seeing when I

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01:52:23,280 --> 01:52:26,040
Speaker 4: see Matthew Stafford, seeing his breath, I'm worried. If I'm

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01:52:26,040 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 4: a Rams fan, I just am, so I'm gonna take

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Speaker 4: the Bears really quickly.

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Speaker 2: We talked about the Patriots potentially being hateable if they

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01:52:33,720 --> 01:52:35,920
Speaker 2: make the AFC or if they make the Super Bowl.

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01:52:36,600 --> 01:52:39,839
Speaker 2: Are the Bears America's team as far as the most

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01:52:40,280 --> 01:52:43,519
Speaker 2: like the team that would get the most love if

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01:52:43,560 --> 01:52:46,160
Speaker 2: they made a Super Bowl? I just feel like, I

2205
01:52:46,200 --> 01:52:48,280
Speaker 2: know they made a Super Bowl with er Locker, you know,

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01:52:48,360 --> 01:52:53,520
Speaker 2: a decade ago, but the history of the organization, especially

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01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:56,719
Speaker 2: on the offensive side of the ball, even as recently

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01:52:56,760 --> 01:52:59,040
Speaker 2: as last year, they were terrible on that side.

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Speaker 3: Of the football.

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01:53:00,120 --> 01:53:03,479
Speaker 2: Do you think they become kind of the rooting favorite

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01:53:03,520 --> 01:53:05,840
Speaker 2: at that point if they were to actually make a run.

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01:53:06,640 --> 01:53:09,400
Speaker 4: I mean, if Caleb Williams would stop the nail thing,

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01:53:10,920 --> 01:53:12,680
Speaker 4: I think that might help him out. I mean, I

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01:53:12,680 --> 01:53:15,679
Speaker 4: don't know that the Rams are particularly hatable, but they've

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01:53:15,760 --> 01:53:18,200
Speaker 4: kind of been around, and McVeigh has been near Super

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01:53:18,200 --> 01:53:20,559
Speaker 4: Bowls and been two Super Bowls of course, and won

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01:53:20,600 --> 01:53:25,520
Speaker 4: a Super Bowl. I think that the best story remaining

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01:53:26,120 --> 01:53:29,839
Speaker 4: is still probably Seattle just because of the Darnald effect.

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01:53:30,680 --> 01:53:34,360
Speaker 4: And then I just wonder, is Ben Johnson polarizing because

2220
01:53:34,360 --> 01:53:38,080
Speaker 4: he's a little outspoken and he's certainly bristly, and some

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01:53:38,120 --> 01:53:41,280
Speaker 4: people are gonna like that, but other people are not.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that there's like I don't know if

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01:53:43,439 --> 01:53:47,960
Speaker 4: they become like super likable. I don't dislike the Bears.

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01:53:48,000 --> 01:53:49,800
Speaker 4: I mean, I find myself kind of rooting for them,

2225
01:53:50,400 --> 01:53:53,960
Speaker 4: but I don't know. I'm not sure. I don't think

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01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:59,439
Speaker 4: it's overwhelmingly likable. It's not like Indiana likable in college football.

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01:53:59,479 --> 01:54:00,639
Speaker 4: It's much different than that.

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01:54:01,160 --> 01:54:01,920
Speaker 3: Totally fair.

2229
01:54:02,840 --> 01:54:04,960
Speaker 2: We will see what happens, and we'll see what happens

2230
01:54:04,960 --> 01:54:06,960
Speaker 2: if the Bears do make it. I do think there's

2231
01:54:07,000 --> 01:54:09,639
Speaker 2: some good points there. Certainly don't think the Packers will

2232
01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:13,040
Speaker 2: be Packers fans will be rooting for the Bears after

2233
01:54:13,120 --> 01:54:14,720
Speaker 2: some of the stuff that Ben Johnson said in the

2234
01:54:14,760 --> 01:54:20,479
Speaker 2: postgame locker room last week. Bears Rams is the late game,

2235
01:54:20,560 --> 01:54:24,080
Speaker 2: the early game New England against Houston. That is a

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01:54:24,240 --> 01:54:28,759
Speaker 2: three pm Eastern start time. The Houston New England winner

2237
01:54:28,800 --> 01:54:30,920
Speaker 2: goes to Denver next week, and of course, the winner

2238
01:54:30,960 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 2: of Chicago and the Rams goes to Seattle. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: One segment left and Jay mart I do have a

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Speaker 2: question for you. Is the Steelers job actually a good job?

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Speaker 2: We'll discuss that next Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back everybody,

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01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:52,640
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Air towards Jason Martin broadcasting live.

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Speaker 2: after we get off air, jam mart So I teased

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01:55:22,400 --> 01:55:27,280
Speaker 2: it before the break. We have still I think seven

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01:55:27,320 --> 01:55:34,280
Speaker 2: openings with Stefanski taking the Atlanta Falcons job the Pittsburgh Steelers,

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Speaker 2: and so I was thinking about this this week, is that,

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Speaker 2: you know, like the Steelers job opens. And obviously there

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01:55:40,320 --> 01:55:42,520
Speaker 2: was the Mike Tomlin stuff and it was, you know,

2258
01:55:42,560 --> 01:55:45,640
Speaker 2: certainly crazy how it happened. But my whole thing was

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01:55:45,640 --> 01:55:48,360
Speaker 2: this is I did find it funny. And again, maybe

2260
01:55:48,360 --> 01:55:51,520
Speaker 2: it's because I'm a college football guy, but I heard

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01:55:51,720 --> 01:55:55,040
Speaker 2: two things said basically in one breath by everybody talking

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01:55:55,040 --> 01:55:56,080
Speaker 2: about the Steelers job.

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01:55:56,280 --> 01:55:57,920
Speaker 3: I saw Danie orro Lovsky talk about. I saw a

2264
01:55:57,960 --> 01:55:59,080
Speaker 3: bunch of people is.

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01:56:00,120 --> 01:56:03,200
Speaker 2: You know, Steelers don't know how good of a job

2266
01:56:03,200 --> 01:56:06,280
Speaker 2: it is, don't have a quarterback, overpaid defense, whatever. And

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01:56:06,320 --> 01:56:09,160
Speaker 2: then I immediately saw, well, you know they if you're

2268
01:56:09,240 --> 01:56:12,760
Speaker 2: Marcus Freeman, you got to take the call from the Steelers.

2269
01:56:12,760 --> 01:56:14,680
Speaker 2: And I said, why does Marcus Freeman have to take a

2270
01:56:14,680 --> 01:56:15,480
Speaker 2: call from the Steelers?

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01:56:15,520 --> 01:56:15,720
Speaker 3: Now?

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01:56:16,120 --> 01:56:19,480
Speaker 2: I only bring it up to say this, I don't

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01:56:19,480 --> 01:56:21,400
Speaker 2: think the Steelers' job is a good job. And I'll

2274
01:56:21,440 --> 01:56:22,960
Speaker 2: be very quick and I'll get it over to you.

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01:56:23,760 --> 01:56:26,480
Speaker 2: I laid it out. They don't have a quarterback. Defense

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01:56:26,560 --> 01:56:31,480
Speaker 2: isn't good. And the only argument is I heard people say, like, well,

2277
01:56:31,520 --> 01:56:32,720
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, but they.

2278
01:56:32,560 --> 01:56:33,120
Speaker 3: Give you time.

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01:56:33,200 --> 01:56:36,240
Speaker 2: Three coaches since the nineteen sixties, blah blah blah blah blah,

2280
01:56:36,280 --> 01:56:38,240
Speaker 2: and it's like, well, one Tomlin won a Super Bowl

2281
01:56:38,240 --> 01:56:40,640
Speaker 2: like his second or third year, but two and by

2282
01:56:40,720 --> 01:56:44,160
Speaker 2: the way, for all the criticism never finished below five hundred.

2283
01:56:44,320 --> 01:56:47,000
Speaker 2: Made the playoffs pretty consistently. That is part of the

2284
01:56:47,000 --> 01:56:49,320
Speaker 2: reason that he lasted that long and almost certainly would

2285
01:56:49,320 --> 01:56:52,400
Speaker 2: have continued as the coach had he not resigned. But

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01:56:52,400 --> 01:56:55,840
Speaker 2: my other thing is, if you're a super competitive guy

2287
01:56:55,880 --> 01:56:57,720
Speaker 2: and you have options, and I'm not talking about the

2288
01:56:58,120 --> 01:57:01,360
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator from wherever that might take this job. I'm

2289
01:57:01,400 --> 01:57:05,000
Speaker 2: talking about good coaches with good options. I don't know

2290
01:57:05,160 --> 01:57:08,040
Speaker 2: that the only appeal of a job being well, they

2291
01:57:08,040 --> 01:57:13,200
Speaker 2: don't fire coaches. I don't think that's appealing because competitive

2292
01:57:13,200 --> 01:57:15,840
Speaker 2: people want to win right away, don't want to be

2293
01:57:15,840 --> 01:57:18,240
Speaker 2: in a rebuild. I'm certainly not saying it's the worst

2294
01:57:18,320 --> 01:57:21,320
Speaker 2: job available, but I think we're giving this job way

2295
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:24,000
Speaker 2: too much credit. I think it's a mess, not a mess,

2296
01:57:24,040 --> 01:57:26,760
Speaker 2: but I think it's a rebuild, and I don't care

2297
01:57:26,800 --> 01:57:27,960
Speaker 2: how much time you're getting.

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01:57:28,240 --> 01:57:30,680
Speaker 3: People want to win. I don't think it's a very

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01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:31,080
Speaker 3: good job.

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01:57:32,600 --> 01:57:35,880
Speaker 4: So it's a It's a great place to be when

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01:57:35,920 --> 01:57:39,640
Speaker 4: you're winning, it's great fan base. There's all sorts of tradition.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned the three coaches that they have had, and

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01:57:43,480 --> 01:57:46,560
Speaker 4: they've all, you know, had long tenures. They've all been

2304
01:57:46,560 --> 01:57:51,000
Speaker 4: incredibly successful. But there will come a time when somebody's

2305
01:57:51,000 --> 01:57:54,720
Speaker 4: gonna come in there and fail, like it's not going

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01:57:54,800 --> 01:57:57,720
Speaker 4: to go this way forever. When Mike Tomlin rolled in there,

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01:57:58,040 --> 01:58:02,560
Speaker 4: Ben Roethlisberger had just rolled in there. Also, They've had

2308
01:58:03,280 --> 01:58:10,200
Speaker 4: good luck with quarterbacks except recently, and somehow Tomlins still

2309
01:58:10,240 --> 01:58:12,080
Speaker 4: got them to ten wins this year, which I'm just

2310
01:58:12,160 --> 01:58:15,040
Speaker 4: baffled by, Like, I don't know how it was possible.

2311
01:58:15,080 --> 01:58:17,920
Speaker 4: But look, Aaron Rodgers played pretty well this year, but

2312
01:58:18,640 --> 01:58:21,520
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody expects that he will be back.

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01:58:22,600 --> 01:58:26,040
Speaker 4: They are not in a great position from a draft perspective.

2314
01:58:26,120 --> 01:58:28,440
Speaker 4: I don't think their cap situation is all that good.

2315
01:58:28,480 --> 01:58:30,960
Speaker 4: But I think the biggest thing is many of the

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01:58:31,040 --> 01:58:36,160
Speaker 4: players that you associate with this last group of Steelers,

2317
01:58:36,200 --> 01:58:38,840
Speaker 4: this great Steelers team, they're aging out. If they haven't

2318
01:58:38,840 --> 01:58:43,120
Speaker 4: already retired. Cam Hayward's not gonna be around much longer. TJ.

2319
01:58:43,280 --> 01:58:46,640
Speaker 4: Watts is at least over the peak of his career,

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01:58:46,960 --> 01:58:49,840
Speaker 4: and he's getting hurt more and more often. You have

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01:58:49,960 --> 01:58:53,240
Speaker 4: some guys, but I mean, your number one wide receiver

2322
01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:56,440
Speaker 4: is a complete head case. So that doesn't help you

2323
01:58:56,560 --> 01:58:59,080
Speaker 4: very much. Friar moves have been around forever. A lot

2324
01:58:59,120 --> 01:59:02,000
Speaker 4: of these guys have been aroun forever. But the biggest

2325
01:59:02,040 --> 01:59:05,960
Speaker 4: concern again is like it is not a good job

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01:59:06,080 --> 01:59:09,960
Speaker 4: if the quarterback is not right it. At that point,

2327
01:59:10,040 --> 01:59:13,000
Speaker 4: it's like you're taking over the San Antonio Spurs before

2328
01:59:13,040 --> 01:59:17,240
Speaker 4: Wemby got there for Greg Popovich when they weren't winning

2329
01:59:17,280 --> 01:59:20,480
Speaker 4: for years. Like, it has a ton of tradition and

2330
01:59:20,600 --> 01:59:23,440
Speaker 4: aura behind it, and you would love to think that

2331
01:59:23,560 --> 01:59:25,960
Speaker 4: you could bring that back. But that's gonna be a

2332
01:59:26,120 --> 01:59:29,640
Speaker 4: hard job. It's gonna be a hard position to be

2333
01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:32,840
Speaker 4: in because they're not used to losing in Pittsburgh. The

2334
01:59:32,880 --> 01:59:35,680
Speaker 4: fans aren't used to it. They were tired of what

2335
01:59:35,760 --> 01:59:39,080
Speaker 4: Tomlin was bringing them. And Tomlin, I think he was

2336
01:59:39,160 --> 01:59:43,280
Speaker 4: doing miracles more often than not. So you look at

2337
01:59:43,320 --> 01:59:45,200
Speaker 4: all that, like, I don't know what they're gonna do

2338
01:59:45,200 --> 01:59:47,480
Speaker 4: at quarterback. And so if I'm Marcus Freeman, I'm not

2339
01:59:47,600 --> 01:59:52,280
Speaker 4: leaving Notre Dame for a very uncertain, high pressure situation

2340
01:59:52,400 --> 01:59:53,200
Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh.

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01:59:53,520 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Marcus Freeman was just maybe the example of

2342
01:59:55,920 --> 01:59:56,160
Speaker 3: the guy.

2343
01:59:56,240 --> 01:59:57,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was a good example.

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01:59:57,520 --> 01:59:58,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, good job with good options.

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01:59:58,920 --> 02:00:00,640
Speaker 2: By the way, it is worth noting what Signetti was

2346
02:00:00,640 --> 02:00:05,120
Speaker 2: asked about the NFL at media availability today and he said, yeah,

2347
02:00:05,120 --> 02:00:07,080
Speaker 2: I'm a college guy, not going anywhere. All right, We

2348
02:00:07,080 --> 02:00:08,640
Speaker 2: got to get out of here. I want to thank

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02:00:08,680 --> 02:00:11,400
Speaker 2: the crew producer, Ian, thank you for your help. Same

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