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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio rad I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: It's never ever a comfortable thing when somebody else pulls

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Speaker 2: you aside and says we need to have a conversation.

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Speaker 2: But I think that's the way to start the show tonight,

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Speaker 2: and it might mean a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: But Ephram Salaam, good evening to you.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 2: Mark Willard here, we are getting down to the nitty

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Speaker 2: gritty championship weekend will be set by the time you

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Speaker 2: and I are done tonight.

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Speaker 1: Hello, how's my guy? I'm great man. How you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I'm glad that the night or game

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Speaker 1: was last night, so I had a night to sleep

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Speaker 1: and get over the whole damn thing.

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Speaker 2: But but there's actually two other things that I want

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Speaker 2: to put ahead of that, and I do want to

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Speaker 2: start off with that phrase, Ephraim, we need to have

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Speaker 2: a conversation, and I'm gonna start with this one because

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Speaker 2: I do think there's a little bit of it's near

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Speaker 2: and dear to you. We need to have a conversation

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Speaker 2: about CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, we do.

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Speaker 1: Let's have a conversation about CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud, who is at that sort of spot in his

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Speaker 2: contract and life and whatnot where somebody needs to officially

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Speaker 2: put a label on him, like you're our guy, You're

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Speaker 2: our franchise quarterback, You're worth X amount of dollars, whatever

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Speaker 2: it may be.

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Speaker 1: And he goes to the playoffs every year.

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Speaker 2: He's had some really shiny moments, but there's something that

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Speaker 2: feels like, A it's regressing a little bit, and B

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Speaker 2: he's become that quarterback this year that feels like he's

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Speaker 2: just being held afloat by an amazing defense. And today

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Speaker 2: the boat popped. Let's have a conversation about c J. Stroud.

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Speaker 2: Talk to me.

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Speaker 3: I struggle with this because I'm a c J.

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Speaker 4: Stroud fane, and of course I'm a Texas fan, a

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Speaker 3: I spent five years there.

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Speaker 4: Demiico Ryans was a teammate of mine, the whole nine yards.

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Speaker 4: And I struggle with this because I can see just

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Speaker 4: how good that defense is, to the point of that's

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Speaker 4: a Super Bowl winning defense, and to sit here and

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Speaker 4: watch c J. Stroud undo that and and and not

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Speaker 4: give give his team a shot. They saved him by

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Speaker 4: scoring twice last week against Pittsburgh when they got that

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Speaker 4: one sack, and I'll shire I think he fell on it.

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Speaker 4: I was like, he should have scooped it and scored it.

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Speaker 4: He should have picked it up and ran it in.

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Speaker 4: He was trying, he's bobbling a little bit, and then

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Speaker 4: just fell on it. But I said to my wife,

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Speaker 4: I would I would Jalen hurts him. I would Jalen

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Speaker 4: hurts two of him. I wouldn't have let him come out.

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Speaker 4: And this would be controversial because and I explained why

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Speaker 4: it would be. I said, I wouldn't have let him

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Speaker 4: come out in the second half. I would have let

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Speaker 4: Davis Mills come out and play. I said, but if

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Speaker 4: you do, I said, but if you do that, then

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Speaker 4: he's done. He's done. He's not your quarterback of the future.

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Speaker 4: If you do that, it's it's over. You're gonna move

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Speaker 4: on from him because you don't do that to the

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Speaker 4: guy who's going to be there for the next ten years.

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Speaker 1: I get the Jalen Hurts reference. Now you're talking.

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Speaker 4: About college and college got it okay?

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Speaker 3: In the National.

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Speaker 4: Championship, No, no, no, And you're right. Let me explain

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Speaker 4: it on the Eagles off season here so and and

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Speaker 4: in college Jalen Hurts was the starting quarterback at Alabama,

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Speaker 4: led them all the way to the National Championship game.

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Speaker 3: They were rocking and rolling.

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Speaker 4: He just didn't throw the ball down the field as

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Speaker 4: accurately and as much. They were heavily a run team.

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Speaker 4: It sounds kind of familiar and to a tongue of

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Speaker 4: Ilil was the backup who was a young kid who

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Speaker 4: was waiting his turn. And the National Championship game, they

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Speaker 4: I can't remember what they were. The Alabama was down

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Speaker 4: that game and won a national championship.

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Speaker 2: That's why I got confused, because when you said Tua,

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Speaker 2: you were talking about the one transaction, and I'm sitting

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Speaker 4: Right What I got you, I got it, which is

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Speaker 4: that bad racing a thousand times all got you out.

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Speaker 3: And so I would have.

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Speaker 4: Done that because they that Davis Mills would have gave

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Speaker 3: So if I'm coming off last week.

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Speaker 4: I made the same statement last week he can't he

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Speaker 4: couldn't even get the snap last week that he couldn't

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Speaker 4: get the snap, he was fumbling the snap. Like so

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Speaker 4: at the first thing you do as a quarterback is

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Speaker 4: secure the snap. If the play is wrong, if they're blitzing,

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Speaker 4: that is, the first thing you do is.

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Speaker 3: Get the snap.

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Speaker 4: And so I think that's two weeks where he's had

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Speaker 4: what eight turnovers in the playoffs. I mean, so, who

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Speaker 4: gives you a better opportunity to win? Because it just

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Speaker 4: looked like number one, after the fourth interception, he was

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Speaker 4: in huddles looking at quarterbacks eyes like, oh he not here.

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Speaker 4: And that's what I said. I said to my father,

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Speaker 4: going on there? I said, that's a problem. Now, maybe

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Speaker 4: he's just a you know, just to there. There was

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Speaker 4: no urgency, there was no energy, there was no anything.

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Speaker 4: It was just like, has he gotten worse? He has

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Speaker 4: gotten It feels he's gotten worse. He's gotten worse. That's

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Speaker 4: what I can't figure out. He's gotten worn figure it out.

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Speaker 4: And the crazy part about it is he'll have three

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Speaker 4: bad plays and he'll have a spectacular throw. You're like,

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Speaker 4: oh my god, yep, oh he's there. He can make

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Speaker 4: all the throw it's in there, We've seen it. His

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Speaker 4: mentality right now is fraid, which is more important than

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Speaker 4: the ability to make the throw. If you lack confidence,

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Speaker 4: it's hard to get it back when you keep taking

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Speaker 4: and so he was never on So what do you

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Speaker 4: gotta do? You gotta shake it up. I would have

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Speaker 4: what it's gonna be. Let's figure it out. And I

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Speaker 4: had to do something to joke our system. Our defense

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Speaker 4: We've turned the ball over three times, and we turned

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Speaker 2: That's that's maybe it should have been a clue maybe

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Speaker 2: in this year for the Houston Texans and in a

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Speaker 2: four week stretch, three of the four teams he played

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Speaker 2: were AFC playoff teams, double digit win teams, and he.

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Speaker 1: Went three and one.

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Speaker 2: He went three and one, and he beat the Bills,

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Speaker 2: he beat the Jags, He beat the Jags in a shootout,

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Speaker 2: and so maybe that should have been.

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Speaker 1: A little bit of a clue.

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Speaker 2: You know, prior to Davis Mills coming in, you and

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Speaker 2: I had a lot of conversations about how the Houston

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Speaker 2: They beat the forty nine ers twenty six fifteen against

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Speaker 2: the next game that he got hurt, and so Mills

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Speaker 2: But Mills was the starting quarterback for the first three

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Speaker 2: I think we can comfortably say and a lot of

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Speaker 2: winning all these games despite CJ down the stretch, that.

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Speaker 3: Is a true statement.

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Speaker 4: He may not be the quarterback we thought he was

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Speaker 4: after his rookie year, and that's sad because he's got

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Speaker 4: all the talent. He said.

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Speaker 3: Look, the mental.

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Speaker 4: Fortitude that you need to be an elite quarterback and

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Speaker 3: It's just not talent.

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Speaker 4: Now. For the most part, if you get an opportunity

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Speaker 4: You may not throw it as hard and as far

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Speaker 4: make throws. But being able to lock in and zone

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Speaker 3: I couldn't I make it a joke. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 3: he point shaving.

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Speaker 4: I kept saying that last last week and my wife

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Speaker 4: it's just something you say when someone's playing so bad,

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Speaker 4: it looks like they're playing bad on purpose. So we

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Speaker 4: had back to back weeks where it looked like he

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Speaker 4: was point shaving. Now I'm not casting that out there.

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Speaker 4: That's not a hot take. I'm not saying that's what

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Speaker 4: it was, but watching it, that's what it felt like

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Speaker 4: because I didn't think he could play any worse. I

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Speaker 4: And I feel bad for Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter

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Speaker 5: That's a championship defense. One championship if you take that.

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Speaker 5: If you would have took that defense into Denver against

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Speaker 5: Jared Stidham, oh.

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Speaker 1: My god, yeah, you would have gone to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: You're going if that.

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Speaker 4: Whoever won this game today between Houston and England has

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Speaker 4: a seventy nine percent chance of making the Super Bowl. Now,

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Speaker 4: because of bo Nicks's injury, you almost have an eighty

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Speaker 4: that on the line, Yeah, if I'm demko, hey man,

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Speaker 4: thank you brother. Uh, but we're gonna let Davis. We're

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Speaker 4: gonna see what you got. We need a spark, need

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Speaker 2: And and the bigger question, and I know nothing's bigger

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Speaker 2: than a shot at the super Bowl, But the bigger

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Speaker 2: question now is going forward now?

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Speaker 1: Like and CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud has one more year on the rookie contract, that right,

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Speaker 2: and that's before you've got to decide.

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Speaker 3: Thank goodness, that's that's thank you for the fifth year album.

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Speaker 1: Right, that's what Thank goodness he's got.

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Speaker 2: He's three years in, which means he's got another full

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Speaker 4: No, he's gotten not getting probably this offseason for sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: de Seger in five minutes, Aphrom, you had more to say.

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Speaker 2: Ephram has more. You you were not done with your CJ. Strouding.

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Speaker 4: No, Look, it was evident to me that the games

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Speaker 4: Like if you live in the ooh, I don't want

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Speaker 4: They got that's some update music right there.

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Speaker 7: It wound up a thirty to six final. Twenty eight

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Speaker 7: at top seeded Denver next week for the AFC crown.

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Speaker 7: We'll see who's Seattle's hosting next weekend in the NFC

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Speaker 7: title game. Right now, at Chicago, with snow dusted on

441
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Speaker 7: the field, it's mid third quarter. The Bears and Rams

442
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Speaker 7: are tied at ten. Matthew Stafford one hundred and fifty

443
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Speaker 7: yards passing, Caleb Williams won sixty one Williams with one touchdown,

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Speaker 7: one interception. Now, Cairo Santos of the Bears did kick

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Speaker 7: a forty eight yard field goal with about a minute

446
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Speaker 7: left in the first half, but the Rams answered to

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Speaker 7: tie it at halftime. Drove in a minute ten drove

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Speaker 7: eight plays sixty six yards to get close enough for

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Speaker 7: a thirty two yard field goal that knuckled through from

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Speaker 7: Harrison MeVis. Keep in mind, special teams has been the

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Speaker 7: bugaboo all season for the Rams. They're twelve and five

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Speaker 7: for the season, yet it could have been a whole

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Speaker 7: lot better with just basic NFL kicking and punting. This

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Speaker 7: year ten ten. Right now, it's mid third quarter in

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Speaker 7: snowy and under twenty degree Chicago. By the way, the

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Speaker 7: odds stat from Pro Football Talk this week. Rams coach

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Speaker 7: Sean McVay. He's already coaching his fifteenth career playoff game.

458
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Speaker 7: It's come against fifteen different opponents. Wow, that's almost mathematically impossible.

459
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Speaker 7: We do have an NBA game to give you the score.

460
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Speaker 7: There was a London game today. Memphis beat Orlando, won

461
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Speaker 7: twenty six one oh nine. John Morant twenty four points,

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Speaker 7: thirteen assists. Late game will be in an hour with

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Speaker 7: the Lakers hosting Toronto Luca don Apparently you've seen the

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Speaker 7: Lakers defense. Luka Donsig questionable for the game. He was

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Speaker 7: out last night lost to Portland due to a groin injury.

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Speaker 7: The All Star Game starters will be announced on Monday.

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Speaker 7: Of course, College football's National title game is Monday, nights

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Speaker 7: Indiana at Miami, NHL wins for Tampa Bay for Detroit

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Speaker 7: in overtime, and these notes about the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 7: as day. As it turns out this weekend, are the

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Speaker 7: only team that did not score a touchdown in the

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Speaker 7: divisional round. The Chargers, of course, did not at New

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Speaker 7: England a week ago, and the Steelers did not against

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Speaker 7: Houston's defense a week ago. So that's three teams now

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Speaker 7: this postseason who've been held without a TV and a

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Speaker 7: playoff game. The record is five such games in one postseason.

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Speaker 7: I will add, though, that Christian McCaffrey made it through

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Speaker 7: the year. Not many Niners did healthwise, but as long

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Speaker 7: as the year was for him physically, he did wind

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Speaker 7: up after last night with over one thousand snaps on

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Speaker 7: offense for the third time in his career. By the way,

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Speaker 7: brock Purty season is over, his passer rating against non

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Speaker 7: playoff teams was number one. His passer ratings against playoff

484
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Speaker 7: teams this year was ranked twenty fifth. And this odd

485
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Speaker 7: item from Associated Press that there's an edge rusher for

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Speaker 7: the forty nine Ers, Keon White, who's getting money because

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Speaker 7: the Patriots won today. He's getting an eighty one thousand

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Speaker 7: dollars full share, just like the rest of the Patriots,

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Speaker 7: because he was a Patriot for eight games this year,

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Speaker 7: didn't play all late, but he was a new England

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Speaker 7: player before his trade during the season to San Francisco.

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Speaker 7: Congrats eighty one thousand bucks and his season ended yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, of all forty nine ers, which

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Speaker 2: one had the best day?

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Speaker 1: Today? We got our answer.

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, Steve, aren't your Christian McCaffrey point.

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Speaker 2: Just a quick early word to the wise. To two parties.

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Speaker 2: One of them is the forty nine Ers. The other

499
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Speaker 2: one is for anybody who likes to play fantasy for

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Speaker 2: oh boy, also known as everybody, don't do it, Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 7: This is just like, don't take Barkley this year.

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Speaker 2: Next year, and you forty nine Ers, you better get

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Speaker 2: ahead of this and whatever it is you're doing out

504
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Speaker 2: of the backfield better be he worked on this offseason,

505
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Speaker 2: because you're not doing that again.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, because look what it's gonna look like. There is

507
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Speaker 7: a keen parallel between the Chargers and all their injuries

508
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Speaker 7: this year and the forty nine Ers and their ridiculous

509
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Speaker 7: amount of injuries because it got to playoff time, and

510
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Speaker 7: last weekend what happened the Charger quarterback Just like Mahomes

511
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Speaker 7: getting killed in the Super Bowl a year ago. The

512
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Speaker 7: stats were just identical. We're getting sacked the same number

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Speaker 7: of times and hit eleven times. Mahomes was down forty

514
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Speaker 7: to six in the fourth quarter. Chargers were only down

515
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Speaker 7: nine to three in the fourth quarter at New England

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Speaker 7: last weekend. But the Niners have had at least as

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Speaker 7: many injuries, and they had McCaffrey still in his hundred

518
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Speaker 7: yards and they won last weekend. Right, if you have him,

519
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Speaker 7: you still have a chance. That was proven this year.

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Speaker 7: They had no business getting this far this year.

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Speaker 2: They were really good in the red zone two years ago,

522
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Speaker 2: I think topped in the league. Then last year they

523
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Speaker 2: really really really sucked at it, and then this year

524
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Speaker 2: they're really really good at it again. And that is

525
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Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey. So what are the Niners going to do?

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Speaker 2: I almost look at it that way, like he'll be

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Speaker 2: on the team next year, But what are you doing

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Speaker 2: without Christian McCaffrey. Because it has to change. There's no

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Speaker 2: way in hell he can do next year what he

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Speaker 2: did this year.

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Speaker 7: No No, it's the good news for drafting and running

532
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Speaker 7: back is teams tend to wait on them they're available direct.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and hopefully Kyle has that thing that his dad

535
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Speaker 4: had in Denver where they really specialized in finding guys

536
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Speaker 4: and turning them into Pro Bowlers.

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Speaker 2: It's odd he did early in his forty nine Ers campaign,

538
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Speaker 2: right Raheem Moster, Matt Breda, and like he would get

539
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Speaker 2: a lot of good numbers out of just undrafted free agents,

540
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Speaker 2: Jordan Mason, undrafted free agent. But then they draft guys

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Speaker 2: in the third round, and they always think it's the

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Speaker 2: craziest thing. They'll get a lot of stuff out of

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Speaker 2: undrafted free agents. But your Trey Sermons and your ty

544
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Speaker 2: Davis Prices and all these guys the Niners have drafted

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Speaker 2: at that position in the third round.

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Speaker 1: Ooh, it's just been bust after bust.

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Speaker 7: But what if, like Javonte Williams was certainly on a

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Speaker 7: one year deal with Dallas, right or Traves etn finishing up.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of options.

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm suggesting, do one do not make that

551
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Speaker 2: a one headed monster next year.

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Speaker 4: No, you can't, you can't, and you gotta be very

553
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Speaker 4: selective and you can't miss. Now, I'm not saying use it,

554
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 4: you know, an early draft pick, but what I'm saying

555
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 4: is the guy you pick has to be that guy yep,

556
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Speaker 4: skill set, because you don't want to find yourself in

557
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Speaker 4: the middle of the season like, okay, it didn't work

558
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Speaker 4: like we needed it too, and heap that level of

559
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 4: workload on Christian McCaffrey again, it's no way.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and that guy at running back combined with a

561
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Speaker 7: line because I think the Raiders had the right running back.

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Speaker 7: They had no offensive line and it wasn't because of injuries.

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00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 7: They just stunk. And I couldn't count, literally could not

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Speaker 7: count the amount of times he was contacted in the

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Speaker 7: backfield right after they hand off to him. It was constant.

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Speaker 2: It was brutal. It was brutal. Yeah, I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of work needs to go into

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Speaker 2: that offensive line. The Seahawks aren't going anywhere, so they're

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Speaker 2: going to have to work on dealing with that team

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Speaker 2: for the next few years. So Steve, great stuff. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk to you next hour. We're live in the Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio studios. Three things are top three observations each

573
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Speaker 2: of us individually coming up here at the top of

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Speaker 2: the hour. But coming up next, Nick Foles has sent

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Speaker 2: out a tweet and I bet everybody would enjoy hearing

576
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Speaker 2: what Nick Foles had to say about the Denver Broncos situation.

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Speaker 1: So that is coming up next.

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Speaker 2: Marketing from Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Listen, ain't no Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: We are live in the Fox Sports Radio studios. I'd

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Speaker 2: like to read something to you, Mark Witharty from salam

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Speaker 2: h three point fifty eight to go. Third quarter, Bears,

583
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Speaker 2: Rams still tied at ten. Rams just got to turnover.

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Speaker 2: We'll see if they could do something with it. Quote

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Speaker 2: note for the Broncos and their fans, I know it

586
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Speaker 2: has been an emotional twenty four hours. I feel for

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Speaker 2: bow and the team and I'm sending prayers for a

588
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Speaker 2: strong recovery. A positive note going into the game versus

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Speaker 2: the Patriots is that they struggle against backup quarterbacks in

590
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Speaker 2: championship type games.

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Speaker 1: End quote Nick Foles two hours ago on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: Hilarious, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: There is that history.

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Speaker 3: Hilarious it is.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, you can Hostetler me, you

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Speaker 2: can folds me and he from you and I may

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Speaker 2: circle back together in another week or two and I'll

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Speaker 2: have egg all over my face. I'm not even gonna

599
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Speaker 2: sit here and tell you the Broncos can't win. But

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Speaker 2: here's what I am gonna tell you. From Nick Foles

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Speaker 2: to Jeff Hostetler to whoever else you want to bring up.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Jared Stidham is those guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you might have a point there, or you do

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Speaker 4: have a point there. Look, the most valuable non starter

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Speaker 4: on a team is a backup quarterback, and you can

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Speaker 4: spend your whole career and not be needed until you

607
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Speaker 4: are That's Gary Kolbiek, the dynamic offensive coordinator and head

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Speaker 4: coach who was John L. Wade's backup for twelve years.

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Speaker 4: Best friends, roommates, never needed them.

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Speaker 1: What a great job.

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Speaker 4: The best job you can possibly get serious on the

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Speaker 4: planet Earth is that job.

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Speaker 2: You get a great seat, you get a really good salary,

614
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Speaker 2: and you also get to like not be in pain.

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Speaker 1: On Monday morning.

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Speaker 3: You get all the power, none of the blame, and.

617
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: Everybody loves you just for existing.

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Speaker 2: Everybody inflates what you could do if you were in there.

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Speaker 4: You know, if Gary had an opportunity, we'd be fine.

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Speaker 1: Issues put Gary in sometimes.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, if you come in and you

622
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Speaker 2: look even a little bit good.

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Speaker 4: Matt Flynn, Hello, what was happening?

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Speaker 2: Are favorite phrase? God, we had so much fun with

625
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: this in the Bay Area this year. Our favorite phrase.

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00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 2: That totally went away when Rock Purdy came back. But

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Speaker 2: remember what it was. I think the forty nine er

628
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Speaker 2: should ride the hot hand, right, ride the hot hand.

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Speaker 1: That Mac Jones guy, he's five and three. Ride the

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Speaker 1: hot hand. The hot hand.

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Speaker 2: I mean, your other quarterback's been largely hot his entire career.

632
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Speaker 2: But okay, but that's what the backup quarter I mean,

633
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Speaker 2: what if he does go out and win.

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Speaker 1: This game next Sunday?

635
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Speaker 4: Man, look here, man, then whoever is coming out of

636
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Speaker 4: the NFC is celebrating.

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00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: Stoked, provided that they got their quarterback.

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Speaker 3: They are celebrating.

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Speaker 4: Uh huh, they're I mean they're like, oh, it'll be

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00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 4: harder to coach them because you would have to keep

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Speaker 4: them focused.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 4: That's like when something like that happens, it's like, oh,

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00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 4: I mean Bo Nicks in some circles was an MVP candidate.

645
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 4: If you look at his numbers, you had a tremendous year.

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00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 4: Interceptions a little bit tabit high. But outside of that,

647
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Speaker 4: passed for over four thousand yards all like, I mean.

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Speaker 2: Wow, based on what I'm looking at right now, and

649
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 2: we can't do this because styles make fights. And there's

650
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Speaker 2: always said, right the NFL is a week to week league,

651
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Speaker 2: and all of that is true. Based on what I

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Speaker 2: have watched this weekend, I.

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Speaker 1: Believe that Sam Darnold will be in the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: in three weeks.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, that's a hard that's a hard thing to uh.

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Speaker 1: It sure is.

657
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Speaker 2: And I just all right now, remember what I get

658
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 2: I got that to you a week ago.

659
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Speaker 1: Which was people.

660
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 2: The biggest misnomer in the biggest mistake people make as

661
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,720
Speaker 2: fans is that they think they like parody.

662
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Speaker 1: Isn't that great? Like this, ain't you?

663
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 3: Anybody could win?

664
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Speaker 2: This is not youth sports? Is this isn't great? That

665
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 2: everybody's evenly matched. But we think that this wide open? Right,

666
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 2: It's wide open, and we are dangerously close to Sam

667
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: Donold versus Jared Stidham at the Super Bowl.

668
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Speaker 1: How we do in America?

669
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Speaker 4: Are we doing? That's tough?

670
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Speaker 1: Uh huh? So Drake may please and whoever wins this.

671
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 3: Game, pleaase, like.

672
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Speaker 1: Save us.

673
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: You are obi wan, you are our only hope. Hmmm, because,

674
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 2: by the way, Seattle is fantastic. They deserve all the

675
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 2: credit for whipping the living you know what's out of

676
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers yesterday?

677
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Speaker 1: But did you notice.

678
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 2: Sam Donald didn't He didn't do any like and this

679
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 2: isn't a rip job because he didn't have to. But like,

680
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 2: I didn't see anything that looked all that impressive from

681
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold yesterday.

682
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: Game didn't flow that way.

683
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 4: No, he didn't have to, right, he didn't have to.

684
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 4: He didn't. He really just had to play composed it.

685
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 4: They didn't.

686
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: You know.

687
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 4: The ineptness of the started with the bank well, with

688
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 4: the ninety seven yard kick return.

689
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 3: That's set the tone for sure.

690
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 2: When you're when you're going on the road to a

691
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 2: situation where I already think you're probably not gonna win.

692
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 1: You've got to play really well.

693
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 2: Things got to go perfect and then maybe you've got

694
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 2: a shot, yes type situation, and then you go opening

695
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 2: kickoff return and then a few minutes later you fumble

696
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Speaker 2: in your own tear.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're done, You're you're you're done, and they were.

698
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, it got it got real ugly, real fast, to

699
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 4: the point where it was like, am I why am

700
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 4: I still watching? Why isn't there other things I could

701
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 4: be doing?

702
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: Yeah? And the answer was yes, yeah, and go for

703
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: a walk. All these things? All right?

704
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Speaker 2: Three things coming up right around the corner of Fox

705
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

706
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

707
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Speaker 2: Oh man, I like that you use the word bad ass,

708
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 2: because you need to be a bad ass to be

709
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 2: involved in what's happening right now.

710
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: That cold is starting to set in. Steve said it correctly.

711
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 2: The Rams went on an opening drive touchdown, and then

712
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 2: that's pretty much been it. A knuckleball field goal happened

713
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 2: as well. But outside of that, we're getting late into

714
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Speaker 2: the night. It's nine o'clock in Chicago. The snow is

715
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 2: on the ground, it looks, you know, really cold, and

716
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 2: points are going to be hard to come by. Big

717
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 2: play for the Rams right now to flip the field

718
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 2: and get to the Chicago territory. But we are in

719
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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter and this thing is hide ten ten

720
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Speaker 2: Rams Bears. We'll keep you up to date broadcasting live

721
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Speaker 2: from the Fox Sports Radio studios, but as we always

722
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Speaker 2: do at six o'clock in the West and nine o'clock in.

723
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Speaker 1: The east, this time for three things.

724
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Speaker 2: Our top three individual observations that each of us have

725
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Speaker 2: after the sports week. I always go first, so can

726
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 2: go last. I have a prediction about what you're going

727
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 2: to talk about last.

728
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: We'll see if I'm right.

729
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 2: But Ephrom I'll start, And I started the show off

730
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Speaker 2: tonight by saying we need to have a conversation, and

731
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 2: it was about CJ.

732
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: Stroud, but I said we need to have two conversations.

733
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Speaker 2: So I'm going to bring up the other one here

734
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Speaker 2: in the hopes of us having maybe even a further

735
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Speaker 2: conversation about it later on.

736
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Speaker 1: In the show.

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Speaker 2: And it is this the Bills got jobbed, But it's

738
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 2: not really about that. It's about the bigger picture, because

739
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 2: there will always be the people that will be like,

740
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 2: you know, if Josh Allen did turned the ball over

741
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 2: all those times, and if they'd played better, and if

742
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,479
Speaker 2: they had this and they had that, And that's all

743
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 2: true too, but so is what I'm about to say.

744
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 2: Sometimes in sports, one call at the end of the

745
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 2: game is very highly likely to have changed the outcome.

746
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: And that happened yesterday.

747
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 2: And I just think in the most popular sport in

748
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 2: the world, we have got to figure out somehow, some way,

749
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 2: what the hell of catch is because we've been doing

750
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 2: this for years.

751
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 1: It's if it's not one thing, it's another.

752
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 2: If it's not feet, and if it's not surviving the ground,

753
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 2: and if it's not did it touch the ground and

754
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 2: wear your arms, And if it's not one thing, it's another.

755
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 2: By every single angle, I could figure out in my

756
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 2: world what Brandon Cooks did yesterday was a catch down

757
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:03,280
Speaker 2: by contact field goal and Josh Allen is playing football

758
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 2: again next week. But that's not what happened. So instead,

759
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 2: Josh Allen was in tears at a press conference. Tough

760
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 2: to swallow in my opinion.

761
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 4: Yes, tough to swallow, because Josh knew this was his moment,

762
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 4: this was his time, and he knew what it would

763
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 4: become in terms of when you're talking the legacy and

764
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 4: you're talking all anyone could ever talk about was if

765
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 4: he can't do it now, then it's probably going to

766
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 4: pass him by. And that's not necessarily true. But the

767
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 4: way I see it is to put all of that

768
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Speaker 4: on one call. It's hard to do that now. In

769
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,359
Speaker 4: the playoffs is a little bit different because it's back

770
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 4: and forth. It's you know, if you would have got

771
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Speaker 4: one more stop, or if you would have, you know,

772
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Speaker 4: not let them get that last touchdown if there's so

773
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Speaker 4: many places there, right, like some people were going the

774
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 4: pass in apperance like or where those passing afferance cass

775
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Speaker 4: like it ultimately did them and they had fifty eight

776
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 4: they had fifty eight penalty yards on the final possession

777
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Speaker 4: in overtime, yep, and like.

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Speaker 3: You can't do that.

779
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Speaker 4: You can't do that, So take those away, right, get

780
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Speaker 4: a stop, get the ball back, like, So there's there's

781
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 4: a lot of different things that you can say. I

782
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Speaker 4: don't ever like to just hinge it all on. That's

783
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 4: a catch to come out field goal.

784
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Speaker 3: It's over. I get it.

785
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 4: It's frustrating, but for Josh Allen not to go out

786
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Speaker 4: there and just take command of the game in a

787
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 4: way we would have hoped he would have, because you know,

788
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 4: being the MVP either no one has been crowned yet,

789
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 4: so he's still the raining MVP, and the interceptions, the

790
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 4: two picks, like, you just can't do it.

791
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 3: You can't do it. And so I look at it

792
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 3: like that.

793
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 4: I know everybody was frustrated, and Josh was crying, and

794
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 4: Doug had a lot to say about it. But the

795
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 4: fact of the matter is you had an opportunity and

796
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 4: you had him on the ropes and you let him off.

797
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 4: You did essentially you know, you were outplayed by bo Nicks.

798
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and like this is what I like. You are right,

799
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: and so am I.

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00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 3: Yes, that's exactly right.

801
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Speaker 1: This can all be true. Did the Bills mess it up? Yes?

802
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 2: Is there a completely separate conversation about you know, once

803
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 2: I saw today that I loved Andrew Brandt tweeted this out,

804
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: and you're seeing this in college football in some sort

805
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 2: Can we hear what the what the replay officials and

806
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 2: and and I want to hear what they're talking about. Yeah,

807
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 2: bring be transparent. Let's hear it. What do you think

808
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 2: you saw? Because bottom line is this, I know what

809
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 2: jeens Terator said on the air and all of those things.

810
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 2: If we pulled America today, the refs got it wrong,

811
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 2: That's what we all think. And so I'd love to

812
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 2: hear what it is they saw or if they just

813
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 2: thought it was inconclusive and so the call on the

814
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 2: field stood or what like, let's hear that, because the

815
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 2: Bills do probably win the game if that call goes

816
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Speaker 2: the other way.

817
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yeah, and theory, yes, yeah, do we

818
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 4: get a black kick? Do we miss the field? For me,

819
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 4: it's I got a question. And it is just not

820
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 4: one game. It's when you look at this game here,

821
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 4: you look at the New England game, uh, the games

822
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 4: last week, the games that are in that are in

823
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 4: inclement weather. I know that's part of football, right, This

824
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 4: is part of football being outside. The weather, the wind,

825
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 4: the rain, the snow, it's all part of it. My

826
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 4: thing is are we being robbed as fans? Are we

827
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 4: being robbing? And this is coming from a player like

828
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 4: I'm like, I like a muddy feel sometimes when we're

829
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Speaker 4: running the ball heavy and it's wet and it's sloppy,

830
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 4: and we get to be, you know, overly aggressive. It's

831
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Speaker 4: less for neess more brute strength when when inclement weather happens.

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00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 4: But if you take these two teams and you put

833
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 4: them inside or you put them like that, the game,

834
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 4: the different game was beautiful. The weather was amazing right

835
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 4: to start the game. The sun was out. It was

836
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 4: maybe a little nippy, but it was a beautiful day.

837
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 4: And look what we got. Look what we got from

838
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 4: that game. Yep, we gotta shoot out, we got overtime.

839
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Speaker 4: And so I'm like, man, I would love to see

840
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 4: offenses at full strength and just monoing mono. The weather

841
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,760
Speaker 4: has a huge effect on this, and so my question

842
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 4: is to you. I'm not saying, look, let's do away

843
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 4: with it, but how much more enjoyable are the games

844
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Speaker 4: to watch as a fan when the climate is controlled?

845
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Speaker 3: What do you think?

846
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 2: I think there's no question. And by the way, Karen

847
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 2: Williams just went in for a touchdown for the Rams.

848
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:48,280
Speaker 2: They've got the lead now seventeen to ten on the Bears.

849
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:53,720
Speaker 2: I think that there's some NFL film's majesty that would

850
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 2: clearly be lost. So somehow someway, I don't know if

851
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 2: you can just do away with that. I think there

852
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 2: are certain home field advantages with the way teams are

853
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 2: built that that would be lost. But I'm just answering

854
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 2: my friend's question, and yeah, yeah, these games where people

855
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 2: are just scratching and clawing to maybe get to seventeen

856
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 2: or twenty points.

857
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 4: Like was it me?

858
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 3: Like I was watching?

859
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, I would I was just like, I

860
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 4: just think.

861
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 2: There's too many teams that go about life a certain

862
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 2: way for three and a half months and then they

863
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 2: show up at one of these and it's like Okay,

864
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 2: now play a completely different game and see if you

865
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:35,879
Speaker 2: can you can win.

866
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 1: But if what you're proposing is thirty two domes, no, no,

867
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Speaker 1: I just you know what I mean, Yeah, start, I

868
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Speaker 1: don't know if we can I don't know if we

869
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Speaker 1: can go.

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Speaker 3: Well, they got to do it like the college playoffs.

871
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Speaker 4: Start neutral sighting it uh, endoored not I look say that,

872
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 4: I say that.

873
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 3: I know it's impossible to you.

874
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just watching the games, like, man, this

875
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 4: would be more a exciting and interesting in some aspects

876
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,280
Speaker 4: if we could see the offenses at full strength.

877
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 3: Now that takes that takes right.

878
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 4: The super Bowl is as super producer lead the fourth

879
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 4: has mentioned.

880
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 3: But it's like.

881
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 4: I don't want to see nine to see like that.

882
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 4: Although the score got up to thirty last Monday the

883
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh in Houston game, like it was like, oh, it

884
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 4: was like, you know, just dragging through mud almost. I

885
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 4: just thought for an excitement level, huh, that would be nice.

886
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 2: I hear you, I hear you, and I agree with

887
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 2: you all right. For my number two, I don't know

888
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 2: the exact name. It might be Kirk Cousins, it might

889
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 2: be Mac Jones. We could discuss maybe a few other names,

890
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 2: but one of those guys should be a Texan next year. Oh,

891
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if, and maybe Davis Mills is the

892
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 2: guy they want to do this with. But that team

893
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 2: desperately going into decision year with CJ. Stroud, needs what

894
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 2: I always call a placeholder. It's kind of like what

895
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold was when the Vikings got him at the

896
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 2: beginning of last year, when they thought JJ McCarthy was

897
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 2: going to be the guy. But they're like, let's bring

898
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 2: in Sam. We don't know exactly when JJ is going

899
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 2: to be ready. We might have a guy that we

900
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 2: need to go to to be a starter. Turns out

901
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 2: it was the whole year and they won fourteen games.

902
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 2: The Houston Texans have a phenomenal defense, They've got a

903
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,240
Speaker 2: great young head coach. They make the playoffs every single year.

904
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 2: Do not put all of the eggs into the CJ.

905
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 2: Stroud basket. Make your decision on the guy start in

906
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 2: Week one. But boy, you need a pivot option at

907
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 2: the quarterback position in Houston next year.

908
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 4: And you're right, But guess what those names you said,

909
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 4: Mac Jones, who else was it? Kirk Cousins, They're not

910
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 4: gonna be available. To be backups.

911
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: Well, I think Kirk is available. Kirk is available.

912
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is I think though they will

913
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 4: be consumed and gobbled up to come in and be starters.

914
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't. I don't think that. I think

915
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 4: the market for them to come in and be starters

916
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 4: they've done enough for that.

917
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: I wonder what the forty nine ers are even gonna

918
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: do with Mac Jones.

919
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 2: He's under contract. Yeah, so you're gonna have to go

920
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 2: get him with.

921
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 3: A if somebody knocks on the door.

922
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 4: Like, hey, we we need that because he he showed out.

923
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: Better be a better, be a second round or better.

924
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 3: Right.

925
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 4: So, but I'm just saying I think those guys are

926
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 4: have have played well enough and in reserve duty to

927
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 4: warrant another look. Surely, I really, I really believe that.

928
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 4: I think that's uh wow, look a look at him. Boy,

929
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 4: That boy can go that. Caleb Williams he that too.

930
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 4: He should have been tackled about four times. He turned

931
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 4: that into about twenty five yards. This young man can

932
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 4: play for my second one. It's I want to give

933
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 4: along those lines. It was just perfect segue. I want

934
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 4: to give flowership to Sam Donald. Sam Donald, I believe

935
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 4: is the only player to ever take Tuesday to win

936
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 4: fourteen games with two different teams and back to back years. Now,

937
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 4: everybody was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and

938
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 4: depending on how you saw it, last year, the other

939
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 4: shoe came off in the last, the final game of

940
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 4: the regular season and in the playoff game, in the

941
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 4: wild card game.

942
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 3: And so what is the what?

943
00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 4: What? What?

944
00:53:58,239 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 3: What happens?

945
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 4: Is it will they will be a market And we

946
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,720
Speaker 4: know he lost about one hundred million dollars in those

947
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 4: in that two week span.

948
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 3: Now that's a lot.

949
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 4: Is anyone going to take a chance on a guy

950
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 4: who had a rebirth but kind of went back in

951
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 4: and said, hey, it's warming here. And he shows up

952
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:23,479
Speaker 4: in Seattle, They trade away Geno Smith and he does

953
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 4: nothing but wins fourteen games again, number one seed in

954
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 4: the NFC. He only threw the ball seventeen times yesterday

955
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 4: in a dominant performance. He had a quarterback rating of

956
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 4: one hundred point ten. And this started all in that

957
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 4: game against the forty nine ers two weeks ago. That's

958
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 4: how important that game was because everyone was waiting to see, oh,

959
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 4: this is just like last year. Is he going to

960
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 4: show up against against the forty nine ers like he

961
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 4: did against Detroit and with the bed he didn't. And

962
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 4: then he followed it up with the true a dominant

963
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 4: performance in the divisional round of the playoffs. And so

964
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 4: now it looks like Sam Donald is underpaid at his

965
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 4: price point or I believe thirty three or thirty four

966
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 4: million a years. It looks like he's underpaid. So I

967
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 4: want to give Sam his flowers because he deserves what

968
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 4: he's been able to do with two different You know

969
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 4: how difficult that is.

970
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 3: It's so difficult. Nobody's ever done it.

971
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:37,280
Speaker 1: There's no question.

972
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 2: And I know what the Seahawks have been doing for

973
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:42,919
Speaker 2: the last few years, and what's different this year. Sure, sure,

974
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 2: you got a new regime a year ago, you got

975
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 2: young defensive players. But yeah, yeah, yeah, Sam Donald better

976
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 2: than Geno Smith.

977
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 4: So I want to give a shout out to them.

978
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 4: He has positioned Seattle to welcome in whoever wins this

979
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 4: game and be a slugfest. It's gonna be It's gonna

980
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 4: be a difficult task. I can tell you this.

981
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: Okay. My third one is this.

982
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 2: Look, he probably should get some MVP votes this year.

983
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 2: He was unbelievable as a key to one of the

984
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 2: reasons that the very very injured San Francisco forty nine

985
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 2: ers were able to achieve what they achieved this year.

986
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: But I want to throw a stat at you. I

987
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: want to remove his rookie year, and I want to

988
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: remove any seasons in which he had an early significant injury.

989
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 2: But if I do that with Christian McCaffrey, these are

990
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 2: his average yards per carry in full seasons as a

991
00:56:54,160 --> 00:57:01,320
Speaker 2: pro five point zero, four point eight, four point seven,

992
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 2: four point seven, five point four, three point nine.

993
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: Anyone want to tell me which one stood out? My

994
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: point is this.

995
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 2: What an unbelievable achievement, What an incredible warrior, What an

996
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 2: amazing future Hall of Fame player, But a player who

997
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 2: will have his thirtieth birthday this year, and a player

998
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 2: whose days as a three hundred and fifty plus touch player,

999
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 2: in my opinion, should be over. I'm not saying he

1000
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 2: doesn't have the willingness. I'm not even necessarily saying he

1001
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 2: doesn't have the ability. But I just think that the

1002
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 2: law of diminishing returns is overwhelming right now, and the

1003
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 2: forty nine ers need to be ahead of the game,

1004
00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 2: and they need to find out who the I is

1005
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:04,919
Speaker 2: in their fire and ice backfield where Christian McCaffrey next

1006
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 2: year gets about two hundred and fifty touches, maybe two

1007
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five touches, and somebody else is a

1008
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 2: big part of that offense as well.

1009
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's.

1010
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 4: You know, just watching it's funny watching Christian McCaffrey be

1011
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 4: the player he is. I'm known Christian McCaffrey since he

1012
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 4: was a baby. I played with his father, the great

1013
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 4: Ed McCaffrey. I know his mom well, Lisa McCaffrey, who

1014
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 4: is a spark plug. And so just seeing him become

1015
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 4: that's how you make yourself feel old, especially as an athlete. Yeah,

1016
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my goodness. They were holding they were

1017
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 4: holding him at the games, and now he's holding up

1018
00:58:57,240 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 4: a franchise. Yes, and so if they do want to

1019
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 4: continue to use him at a tremendous clip when they

1020
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 4: need him, then they've got to do something. They've got

1021
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 4: to find a seventh round. Look at Manonghui for Chicago,

1022
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 4: sure right, look at what they've been able to do.

1023
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 4: They bring Swift in and then they have Manungay, a

1024
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 4: hungry young seventh rounder who is a battering ram they've

1025
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 4: got to go find one of those guys who has

1026
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 4: a lot of miles and a lot of tread who

1027
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 4: can also be effective out of the backfield, and then

1028
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 4: you can really save Christian from when you really need him.

1029
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 4: And that's the playoffs. I force feed him in the playoffs.

1030
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 4: In the regular season, I give them ten twelve touches

1031
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 4: if that that's just what it has to be for

1032
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 4: him to continue to go on.

1033
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you, all right.

1034
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,919
Speaker 2: Bring us home also with the knowledge that the Bear

1035
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 2: phase fourth and goal just outside the one yard line

1036
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 2: in a one score game here in the final five minutes.

1037
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: We'll keep you up to date.

1038
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 4: I'd be remissed on the day before doctor King holiday

1039
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 4: not to mention him. So my third one is paying

1040
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 4: homage to doctor Martin Luther King. August twenty eighth, nineteen

1041
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 4: sixty three. He gave a riveting speech in front of

1042
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 4: the Capital in Washington, d C.

1043
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 3: I have a dream speech, and it's because of.

1044
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 4: People like doctor King who saw an injustice in the

1045
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 4: world and knew the world could be a better place

1046
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 4: if we could all just see the human and the

1047
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 4: humanity within each other, no matter the color of our skin,

1048
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 4: our religious beliefs, our upbringing, whatever that is. Equality is

1049
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 4: equality no matter who you are, no matter what you

1050
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 4: believe in. And a society and in the world is

1051
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 4: so divisive right now. It's so divisive right now. We

1052
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 4: need those words in the leaders like Doctor King, because

1053
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 4: we've fallen off of the path that we were on

1054
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 4: in terms of equality, acceptance and love and so on

1055
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 4: Doctor King's birthday weekend, I just want to say, it's

1056
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 4: proud for me. Look, we wouldn't mark you and I

1057
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 4: wouldn't be able to do this show.

1058
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 3: Amen in nineteen sixty, Amen, right in nineteen.

1059
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 4: Fifty, we wouldn't be able to do what we're doing.

1060
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 4: And so I pay homage to the great Doctor King

1061
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 4: and all of the other leaders of the civil rights

1062
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 4: movement to make this country, which is a great country,

1063
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 4: a better country.

1064
01:01:55,960 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 2: Perfectly said, I can't add anything other than to say

1065
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 2: what he said, exactly, exactly right. We're live in the

1066
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio studios. Steve di segro Be along in

1067
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 2: a handful of minutes with a full update. The Bears

1068
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 2: did not get in on fourth down, So here we go,

1069
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,919
Speaker 2: final three minutes RAMS with the ball at their own

1070
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 2: two Bears have all their timeouts, and they're the Bears,

1071
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 2: so they wouldn't have done it with three minutes left. Anyway,

1072
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 2: They're waiting for more drama. Let's find out if it works.

1073
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:33,920
Speaker 2: All of that is still ahead along with me from

1074
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 2: Salama Mark Willard on Fox Sports Radio.

1075
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,360
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1076
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,760
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1077
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:47,000
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1078
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:47,760
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1079
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 2: Okay live Fox Sports Radio Studios. Lots going on in

1080
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 2: the game. I'm gonna leave that for Steve, who's gonna

1081
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 2: be here in a minute. But from do you understand third?

1082
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 2: And with the two minute warning about to happen, what

1083
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 2: is the point of running the football?

1084
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 1: Do you do? You get it? No? Sean McVay is.

1085
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 2: Having a weird year with play calling really bad, and

1086
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 2: he's one of the greats in this game.

1087
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 4: And this punter would I don't know what's going on

1088
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:19,919
Speaker 4: right now, but that was awful.

1089
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 2: I don't I don't get Maybe maybe Steve de Sager

1090
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 2: could explain it. Steve de Sager, maybe he could explain it.

1091
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 7: Is there any explaining it?

1092
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 1: The two minute warnings coming? The cost just stop no

1093
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: matter what you do.

1094
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 7: I was in a booth for a Rams Cowboys playoff

1095
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:39,480
Speaker 7: game where this exact situation was about to happen before halftime,

1096
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 7: and a timeout was taken because then it opens up

1097
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 7: the playbook, right, you're gonna get the two minute warning

1098
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 7: after the play Anyway, the analyst on the national game

1099
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 7: broadcast turned around and said to it why would he

1100
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 7: call it time out there? So okay, let's I'm not

1101
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:57,919
Speaker 7: saying give mcfait pass. He's not the only guy who's

1102
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 7: been in football for years who might say no, let's

1103
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 7: get the macro on this of what might actually occur.

1104
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 7: So where we stand is a minute forty five left

1105
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 7: in the playoff game, with snow on the field in Chicago.

1106
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 7: The Rams are leading the Bears seventeen to ten, but

1107
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 7: the Bears now have the ball. The Rams have two

1108
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 7: touchdown runs from Kyra and Williams, one on the first

1109
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 7: drive of the game, one on their well until this

1110
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 7: punt their most recent drive of the game, and the

1111
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 7: Rams importantly did have a thirty two yard field goal

1112
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 7: made on the final play of the first half that

1113
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 7: made it ten to ten at the break. Two hundred

1114
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 7: and fifteen yards passing for Matthew Stafford. Caleb Williams with

1115
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 7: one touchdown, two interceptions thrown. He has just completed a

1116
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 7: near twenty yard pass to his tight end.

1117
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 4: Kingston loved him.

1118
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 7: The gun that guy has over the middle is I

1119
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 7: mean on the touchdown pass to DJ Moore to start

1120
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 7: the second quarter, that was there was no space whatsoever

1121
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 7: and hit him in the back of He's.

1122
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 2: Got some stuff going on, but every now and again

1123
01:04:58,120 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 2: he'll uncork something.

1124
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 1: And you're like, well, you're the only person planet who

1125
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 1: can do that.

1126
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 7: And so now they hand to DeAndre Swift and he

1127
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 7: gets down to about the twenty yard line, so field

1128
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 7: goal means nothing. They're down seven. We're approaching a minute

1129
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 7: to go right. We want them because of what you mentioned.

1130
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:18,600
Speaker 7: The Bears still have one time out left to use.

1131
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 7: We are literally at a minute left and counting. And

1132
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 7: DeAndre Swift, by the way, seventeen carries eighty one yards

1133
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 7: passing Colston Lovelin the tight end has been targeted ten times.

1134
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 7: He has four catches for fifty six yards. Williams has

1135
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 7: just thrown incomplete. We are down to thirty five seconds

1136
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 7: left in this game, and the Bears at home are

1137
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 7: losing seventeen to ten. Matthew Stafford is playing despite last

1138
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 7: week's sprained index finger. He practiced fully under twenty degrees

1139
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 7: in Chicago windy as well as the snow that's dusted

1140
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 7: the field. The winner of this game goes to top

1141
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 7: seeded Seattle for the NFC title the AFC Championship. Next Sunday,

1142
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 7: we'll have Denver hosting New England. The Patriots eliminated Houston

1143
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 7: twenty eight to sixteen. Drake May three touchdown passes, three turnovers.

1144
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 7: He was sacked five times, but CJ. Stroud through four

1145
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 7: interceptions in the first half, one pick six. Remember, the

1146
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 7: Patriots offense was not good last weekend. They wound up

1147
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 7: winning sixteen to three against the Chargers, but Drake May

1148
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 7: was sacked five times in that game. He couldn't run,

1149
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 7: but he did have one touchdown two turnovers in that one,

1150
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 7: and the Pats that night red zone tds were zero

1151
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 7: for three. How did the Patriots offense do today? Fifteen drives,

1152
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 7: thirteen first downs against Houston's defense. Patriots punted eight times.

1153
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 7: Caleb Williams has just thrown another incompletion. We're at fourth

1154
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 7: and four for Chicago. This is it just under thirty

1155
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 7: seconds left in the game. If they turn it over

1156
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 7: on downs, I repeat, they only have one time out left.

1157
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 7: That is it. The Rams are one defense Vsive play

1158
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 7: away from going to the NFC Championship game. So we'll

1159
01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 7: keep it right here, because are they going to use

1160
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 7: their time out? Rams defense just called time out? My goodness, Okay,

1161
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,720
Speaker 7: NBA scoreboard, there is a game in London today. Memphis

1162
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 7: beat Orlando one twenty six to one oh nine. John

1163
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 7: Morant twenty four points thirteen assists. He did not play

1164
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 7: Thursday's first game against him after a calf injury. The

1165
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 7: Magic on Thursday came back to beat him in Berlin.

1166
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 7: The Lake game's about to start in LA with the

1167
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 7: Lakers hosting Toronto. Luka Dodsich was listed as questionable. He's

1168
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 7: available after missing last night's loss at Portland due to

1169
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 7: a grond injury. Lebron James is also available in case

1170
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 7: you are wondering. For those who haven't seen the Lakers recently,

1171
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 7: that's an appropriate response to recent Laker games. Chicago Bulls

1172
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 7: won at home against Bert Lakers.

1173
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,919
Speaker 1: The only thing that can make that sound come out

1174
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: of Ephraim. By the way, this is the Los Angeles Lakers.

1175
01:07:57,200 --> 01:08:00,040
Speaker 1: Maybe his sons, that's probably, but the asked.

1176
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 7: Or right the March Madness shot down play for the

1177
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 7: Chicago Bears. Huge rush on Kayle, Oh.

1178
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:08,960
Speaker 3: My gosh, Oh my god.

1179
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 1: That did not just happen.

1180
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 7: How did not know catches it?

1181
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 2: He had to run backwards of yards just to throw

1182
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 2: the ball.

1183
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:23,080
Speaker 7: It counts as a fourteen yard touchdown. He probably did

1184
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 7: thirty yards in the air and an extra point. We'll

1185
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 7: tie the game. So I field going crazy?

1186
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:31,679
Speaker 2: Is there an extra point? Or do we just bears

1187
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 2: the hell out of this thing?

1188
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 3: You gotta do it EXTRAX point?

1189
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:38,599
Speaker 4: I agree with you.

1190
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 1: But do it whatever. I'm like, this is the Bears

1191
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 1: just right.

1192
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 3: This is the smartest thing Ben Johnson has done all year.

1193
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:48,920
Speaker 7: This kicker already made a forty eight years.

1194
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:50,599
Speaker 4: It's the smartest thing he's done all year.

1195
01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:52,880
Speaker 7: He's gonna make this.

1196
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 1: He got it, he got it. Okay, we got a

1197
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: tie football game? Wow? My good.

1198
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 7: Kulliams how a minute and a half, seven plays, fifty

1199
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:10,960
Speaker 7: yard drive listen, and it was a fourth and four

1200
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:13,120
Speaker 7: throw that gets them the touchdown.

1201
01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: Here.

1202
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 7: The Bears had not been good when running on third

1203
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 7: and short. Fourth and short tonight. They're usually good at that,

1204
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:23,639
Speaker 7: not tonight, and they just heave it into the end zone.

1205
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:27,640
Speaker 7: He went straight backwards toward midfield and they threw it

1206
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 7: over forty yards.

1207
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:29,680
Speaker 4: He was he was.

1208
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:33,759
Speaker 2: Standing at the forty maybe the forty one again, snapped

1209
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 2: at the fourteen.

1210
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 3: He's crazy.

1211
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 1: He receives it at the twenty one. Fight in the air,

1212
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:40,840
Speaker 1: back to the forty one foot in the air and

1213
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: on his back foot.

1214
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:46,200
Speaker 2: Wow throws a dot a dot to Cole Combat in

1215
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:47,400
Speaker 2: the back of the end zone.

1216
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what fender.

1217
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 7: If they win this add this to the legendary list.

1218
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.

1219
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,560
Speaker 4: They have to win now this this throw and have

1220
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 4: to They deserve to win.

1221
01:09:58,400 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 1: This is This is.

1222
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:01,600
Speaker 2: Up there with some of the most memorable stuff the

1223
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:02,839
Speaker 2: Bears have ever done.

1224
01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 7: Well, there are only so many things that the Bears

1225
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:09,280
Speaker 7: have ever done. Erect we can update a stat that

1226
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 7: I believe we mentioned on last Sunday Night show.

1227
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 4: Wow.

1228
01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 7: Caleb Williams is now tied for second in playoff touchdown

1229
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 7: passes in the entire long history of the Chicago Bears,

1230
01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:26,920
Speaker 7: with four total. Oh Sid Luckman had seven, Caleb Williams four.

1231
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 7: Rex Grossman for playoff TV passes and Jim McMahon four,

1232
01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:36,040
Speaker 7: there's your Bears passing history. You know when he said

1233
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 7: at the beginning of the season, I think I can

1234
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 7: go four thousand yards. No Bears quarterback ever thrown for

1235
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 7: four thousand yards. Yeah, it's not match an offensive passing.

1236
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:48,760
Speaker 4: We've seen a prolific quarterback with thirteen seconds and a

1237
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 4: time out. Yeah, yeah, win a game, playoff game, yep.

1238
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 3: So sure, let's just keep that in mind.

1239
01:10:56,240 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 7: They're not going to turn whatever.

1240
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 1: No nothing. Well a question, I wonder if Sean McVeigh

1241
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: would like to redo that play call on third and

1242
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 1: nine and maybe try to get a first down.

1243
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:08,960
Speaker 4: They take a knee.

1244
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 1: They're taking a knee.

1245
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 7: Okay, let's go to overtime. And remember this I said

1246
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 7: at last hour. The glaring weakness of an otherwise great

1247
01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 7: Rams team this year is special teams. Are they gonna

1248
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:25,680
Speaker 7: have to win this with a field goal kick? That

1249
01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:28,320
Speaker 7: thirty two yarder that went through at the end of

1250
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:31,680
Speaker 7: the first half was a low knuckler. This is what

1251
01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:35,519
Speaker 7: they're stuck with. They already fired the original kicker this season.

1252
01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 7: They already fired the special teams coach. The punting has

1253
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 7: had its problems Harris and Nevis. The thicker kicker is

1254
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 7: the guy they're stuck with to win the game if

1255
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 7: it comes to a kick.

1256
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:47,480
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.

1257
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:55,919
Speaker 3: I'm just kid. That was crazy.

1258
01:11:56,080 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 2: That was absolutely bananas, and I just want also, can

1259
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 2: we bring this up like I joked, I joked to

1260
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:08,200
Speaker 2: you ten minutes ago, Oh, the Bears didn't want the

1261
01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:11,680
Speaker 2: touchdown with three minutes to go because they're the Bears.

1262
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:12,680
Speaker 3: This is.

1263
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:15,879
Speaker 4: Anything like this in my life.

1264
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:17,839
Speaker 1: Want more drama.

1265
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:20,759
Speaker 2: And now we get one of the most memorable Bears

1266
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 2: individual plays we've ever seen.

1267
01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: And we'll see what it leads to.

1268
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:26,960
Speaker 4: But I don't know you want to talk about, Oh

1269
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 4: my goodness foraging a legacy. This is this is out

1270
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:32,200
Speaker 4: of control.

1271
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:35,200
Speaker 7: Bears won the toss, but they're kicking to start overtime.

1272
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 4: Absolutely, that's what you want.

1273
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:39,240
Speaker 7: Each team will get a possession.

1274
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 1: Wow, this is wow. Chicago Bears, man, I don't know

1275
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:47,679
Speaker 1: who they are this year. I don't know what they are,

1276
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 1: but they're fun to watch.

1277
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:54,679
Speaker 2: Bear down same team that let's see, was down by

1278
01:12:54,840 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 2: uh seventeen against the Packers last week, down by fifteen,

1279
01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:04,280
Speaker 2: down by fifteen to the Packers this last week.

1280
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, twenty one to three at half three, at a

1281
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 7: half twenty one to six.

1282
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 2: Early forth, here we go, okay, and then scored three

1283
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 2: touchdowns fourth quarter.

1284
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 7: Yeah three of them bout the last ten minutes, and

1285
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 7: the Packers kicker had missed two field goal attempts. Remember

1286
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,640
Speaker 7: at missed an extra points and the Bears wound up

1287
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:22,600
Speaker 7: winning last weekend. Can we just say that one of

1288
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:25,640
Speaker 7: the hallmarks of the Bears throughout the regular season this

1289
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 7: year has been forcing turnovers. They had thirty three takeaways

1290
01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 7: in the regulation, and what have they done in the

1291
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 7: postseason eight quarters not a single takeaway. Is overtime the

1292
01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:41,400
Speaker 7: time for the Bears to finally do what they have

1293
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 7: been doing. This is a the number one rushing team

1294
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 7: in the NFC regular season and be the best in

1295
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:51,280
Speaker 7: the league at turnover margin. The defense really wasn't there,

1296
01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:55,320
Speaker 7: not at playoff elite type level, and yet low scoring game,

1297
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:58,519
Speaker 7: they're alive. They get the magical touchdown pass in the

1298
01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 7: final seconds, they're at seventeen with the Rams, they're in

1299
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:04,519
Speaker 7: commercial break, overtime starts shortly.

1300
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:08,599
Speaker 4: I can't even believe that happened while we're on the air.

1301
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:15,559
Speaker 1: There's no way that happened. What are we doing? Oh man,

1302
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:17,480
Speaker 1: this weekend.

1303
01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:19,200
Speaker 2: Needed this too, by the way, Yes, indeed, I like

1304
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 2: the Bills Broncos game was great, but I found the

1305
01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 2: ending to be frustrated because it was it was all.

1306
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,639
Speaker 1: Pass interferences and controversial.

1307
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:32,679
Speaker 7: Calls and that last PI, I mean, the game was over.

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01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 7: It's gonna be a short field goal. This was not

1309
01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 7: just the amazing throw. It was on fourth and four

1310
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 7: and Caleb Williams on fourth downs already in these two

1311
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 7: weekends of the playoffs had thrown three interceptions. Nobody in

1312
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 7: the last thirty five years had that many fourth down

1313
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:52,760
Speaker 7: interceptions in the playoffs for a career in the last

1314
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 7: thirty five years. He's done it in just two weekends.

1315
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 7: And yet end of game fourth down it's not an interception,

1316
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:02,840
Speaker 7: it's an a play just to be open to throw

1317
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:04,679
Speaker 7: the long pass and get the TD.

1318
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:11,839
Speaker 4: It's like he's the most dangerous quarterback in the league. Yeah, yeah,

1319
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 4: he can make any throw.

1320
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:19,720
Speaker 7: It's like the maneuverability of the Lamar Jackson and the

1321
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 7: arm of Caleb Williams, you.

1322
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 4: Know what I mean.

1323
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:25,759
Speaker 7: Goodness, there's so few. I mean, this is what Matthew

1324
01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:27,719
Speaker 7: Stafford was talked about when it came out of college

1325
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:29,880
Speaker 7: and was drafted number one. It's like, you got to

1326
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 7: see this guy's arm the deep middle. He can just

1327
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 7: throw rockets and that's what we're seeing with Williams. And

1328
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 7: remember throwing against his body last week. Feet aren't even

1329
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 7: on the ground and this ridiculous.

1330
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: That it all took place.

1331
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:48,599
Speaker 7: Fig guys, we have the numbers from next Gen Stats.

1332
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:52,160
Speaker 7: The game tying touchdown pass from Caleb Williams traveled how

1333
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 7: many yards in the air? Fifty one. It was a

1334
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 7: fourteen yard touchdown pass. It went fifty one in the air,

1335
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:04,679
Speaker 7: the longest completed pass by air distance in the red

1336
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:08,639
Speaker 7: zone since they've had next Gen Stats the last decade.

1337
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:11,320
Speaker 2: Yes, what a beautiful thing. And he did it in

1338
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:14,800
Speaker 2: the snow off of his back foot. Okay, Rams are

1339
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 2: gonna have the ball first, we got we got more

1340
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:19,600
Speaker 2: to figure out and talk about.

1341
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 1: No doubt, and all of this is happening live here

1342
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:24,760
Speaker 1: in these.

1343
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio studios. That's it from Salava Mark Willard,

1344
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:29,080
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

1345
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:33,360
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio live in the

1346
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio studios.

1347
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:38,000
Speaker 2: The quick update is the Bears now have the ball

1348
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:41,759
Speaker 2: and they will be facing a third and long Rams

1349
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 2: have already had the ball unpunted, so the.

1350
01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: Next score wins the game. Will keep you up to date.

1351
01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:47,960
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1352
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1353
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1354
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:54,960
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1356
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:58,240
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1357
01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:01,599
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1358
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:04,880
Speaker 2: find today's show, post an in full right after we

1359
01:17:04,960 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 2: get off the air. Can I ask you, like, this

1360
01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 2: is a dumb well does it stupid? This like a

1361
01:17:12,520 --> 01:17:16,600
Speaker 2: dorky question, but it just crossed my mind. It's the playoffs,

1362
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 2: So why is there a clock right now?

1363
01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 4: Because it'll be they'll break right so they'll get time.

1364
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:28,639
Speaker 4: It's like at the end of a quarter. Yeah, okay,

1365
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 4: it's just not a running clock. You just don't just

1366
01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 4: going up and down and up and down, just like

1367
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 4: at the end of ten. Then you take a break,

1368
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 4: you do the coin coin flip again, switch the oh

1369
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:42,920
Speaker 4: coin flip again, everything everything again, all right, all right.

1370
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:45,840
Speaker 2: I was just like, I don't even I don't think

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01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:48,639
Speaker 2: we need this, Like a tie is off the table.

1372
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:51,439
Speaker 1: You can't have the bears and Rams go to Seattle next.

1373
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:55,519
Speaker 4: Week, Bears played, the Rams played the first half, the

1374
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 4: Bears definitely played a second half.

1375
01:17:57,320 --> 01:17:59,240
Speaker 2: Or what if they just draft the best players from

1376
01:17:59,240 --> 01:18:03,760
Speaker 2: both teams play the out and then here's here's a

1377
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 2: here's an observation that I'd love to run by. You

1378
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:14,840
Speaker 2: Remember when everybody's sent spent last year going like, the

1379
01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 2: jury is still kind of out on Caleb Williams.

1380
01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: But the one thing for.

1381
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:21,559
Speaker 3: Certain, what jury is out?

1382
01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 1: Well?

1383
01:18:22,439 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 2: Last year, oh yes, last year the jury was out,

1384
01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:28,920
Speaker 2: but people went. What we know for sure is the

1385
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 2: Bears picked the wrong guy. They They should have gone

1386
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 2: with Jaden Daniels. How are we feeling about that now?

1387
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:39,599
Speaker 2: I went with the right guy.

1388
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 3: I was just talking to Lee the fourth.

1389
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:52,679
Speaker 4: And I was like, no, he's a Packers fan, Tiger fan. Yeah,

1390
01:18:52,720 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 4: he's dying in here, like dying his need to die.

1391
01:18:56,479 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 4: And then he was like, yo, they deserve But he's

1392
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:04,679
Speaker 4: kind of going, He's like, I mean, I hate him,

1393
01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 4: but I do I hate him?

1394
01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, just I don't know, man, when your team leads

1395
01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:12,840
Speaker 2: the playoffs like whatever.

1396
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 4: Rival, Yeah, I'm good, believe me. I'm oh it's a pig.

1397
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 4: Look he just cheered.

1398
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:21,519
Speaker 3: He cheered, and the Bears still suck.

1399
01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:26,719
Speaker 1: Look, I mean it works as a punt. That's actually

1400
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:29,320
Speaker 1: not even that big of a deal. It's not third

1401
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 1: and long.

1402
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:32,879
Speaker 2: And that works as a punt. The Rams are excited,

1403
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 2: but yeah, that was just that was a punt. And

1404
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:37,960
Speaker 2: the Rams are winning the turn up a battle three

1405
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:41,599
Speaker 2: to nothing. Yet they're in overtime with only seventeen points.

1406
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 4: Man, is it put a game? And we got a

1407
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:48,000
Speaker 4: whole another.

1408
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:48,400
Speaker 1: Hour to go.

1409
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 4: We got a whole another hour to go normally, normally

1410
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 4: you know the game is over.

1411
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 2: I'd like to tell both teams to just just keep

1412
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 2: doing this. Just play for another hour.

1413
01:19:57,920 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 4: Play for another hour.

1414
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 1: You know who's winning right now? The Seahawks. Yes, they're like,

1415
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 1: we got an extra day rest.

1416
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 2: You guys are really you're playing your second game of

1417
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 2: the night.

1418
01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:13,000
Speaker 1: So we so we.

1419
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think, Uh, the Vegas line is going up,

1420
01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 2: up up for Seattle as the favorite coming up next week.

1421
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 2: All right, lots to get to We ain't done yet.

1422
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 2: Stay where you are.

1423
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:30,800
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

1424
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:34,840
Speaker 2: We sit in these Fox Sports Radio studios and we've

1425
01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 2: been asking questions today and trying to get answers. We

1426
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 2: started off by asking is C. J. Stroud the right

1427
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 2: guy in Houston? That is debatable? What is the actual

1428
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:49,520
Speaker 2: issue with what's a catch and officiating?

1429
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:51,599
Speaker 1: And now we're trying to answer the question.

1430
01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 2: Was that one of the greatest plays and Bear's playoff

1431
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:57,720
Speaker 2: football history? Well, it's gonna have to be attached to

1432
01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:01,639
Speaker 2: a victory in order for that to be the case.

1433
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:06,240
Speaker 2: Can the Rams special teams, if it comes to that,

1434
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 2: finally not let them down and send them to the

1435
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:13,360
Speaker 2: NFC title game. The Rams are facing third and long,

1436
01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:16,400
Speaker 2: but they're well into field goal range, and yes, from

1437
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 2: it is not body shaming to use the man's nickname,

1438
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:24,599
Speaker 2: the Thicker Kicker awaits and Rams fans know that's not

1439
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:29,560
Speaker 2: necessarily the greatest thing. But here we sit in overtime,

1440
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 2: seventeen to all and the Rams are at the twenty

1441
01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:35,439
Speaker 2: four yard line. So we will keep you up to

1442
01:21:35,560 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 2: date in what has been a breath taking football. Oh

1443
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 2: a throat of the end zone that was damn close,

1444
01:21:44,439 --> 01:21:45,440
Speaker 2: but it is incomplete.

1445
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 1: So here we go.

1446
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 2: It's Thicker Kicker time and should be about a forty

1447
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:51,440
Speaker 2: two yarder in the snow in Chicago.

1448
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: What could go wrong?

1449
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 4: Everything?

1450
01:21:55,280 --> 01:22:01,040
Speaker 1: Every man?

1451
01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 4: Now, I do this all the time period periodically throughout

1452
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:07,599
Speaker 4: the year was we're watching games and all of that.

1453
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 4: This is the moment where you get to be part

1454
01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 4: of the team or not part of the team. This

1455
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:18,479
Speaker 4: is it. This is the moment. Is he on the

1456
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:21,800
Speaker 4: team or he's on the team.

1457
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:24,800
Speaker 1: He's on the team and the Rams are on a

1458
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:26,520
Speaker 1: plane for Seattle.

1459
01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:32,479
Speaker 4: Wow, wow, Lee is going crazy in there. Oh how

1460
01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:38,800
Speaker 4: you feeling feeling good? A lot of hate, a lot

1461
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 4: of hate going on, and you got hate your lit

1462
01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:43,479
Speaker 4: it up.

1463
01:22:44,240 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 1: Wow.

1464
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 2: Well now now now it becomes a forty nine or

1465
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 2: fan nightmare whether your arrest of the NFC West will

1466
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:53,280
Speaker 2: get together. And I actually I do think a lot

1467
01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:57,600
Speaker 2: of people believe that this is probably unfair to the Patriots.

1468
01:22:58,040 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: But you're gonna get a lot of talk.

1469
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 2: That this game Seattle next weekend is the actual Super Bowl.

1470
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 4: Yes I would, I would, Yeah, yeah, I would. I

1471
01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:08,240
Speaker 4: would see things leaning that way.

1472
01:23:09,320 --> 01:23:12,720
Speaker 2: Drake May is wonderful, and I think the Patriots are

1473
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:16,360
Speaker 2: are you know, they're they're capable, and they're scary, and

1474
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 2: they'll give anybody a game, but they've got their own

1475
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:22,240
Speaker 2: game and difficult defense to go against. To win first,

1476
01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:29,080
Speaker 2: but to have the Seattle defense and Matt Stafford.

1477
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:30,960
Speaker 1: And all of that. One of them and then you

1478
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 1: know the other the other game is.

1479
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 2: Giving you Jarrett Stidham and you know, a quarterback in

1480
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 2: his second year. I do think that that's that's the

1481
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 2: way people are gonna look at this one.

1482
01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:52,200
Speaker 4: Yeah it this is wow. What a game?

1483
01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:53,080
Speaker 1: What a game?

1484
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:53,880
Speaker 4: What a game?

1485
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: What a game? Like I said, this weekend needed this one.

1486
01:23:57,400 --> 01:24:03,560
Speaker 2: Last weekend was unbelievable, and this weekend. Great game yesterday afternoon,

1487
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:06,679
Speaker 2: but it sort of led to a frustrating finish for many.

1488
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 2: And then you had the dog of the weekend with

1489
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:11,680
Speaker 2: Seattle just blowing the forty nine ers away.

1490
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: And obviously the game earlier with CJ.

1491
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:17,080
Speaker 2: Straud throwing four picks in the first half didn't really

1492
01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:17,960
Speaker 2: measure up either.

1493
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 1: So this weekend needed this and got it.

1494
01:24:21,640 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this about yesterday, San francisc what

1495
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:26,200
Speaker 4: was your expectation as a Niner fan?

1496
01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:29,639
Speaker 2: Not high, not high, But it wasn't very high against

1497
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:35,360
Speaker 2: Philadelphia either, And I just think that when you look

1498
01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 2: at that matchup, that's now twelve quarters. A lot of

1499
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:43,160
Speaker 2: different scenarios different months on the calendar, but twelve quarters, well,

1500
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers have played the Seahawks this year

1501
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:50,000
Speaker 2: and they've scored two touchdowns two and they've played them

1502
01:24:50,040 --> 01:24:52,559
Speaker 2: eight quarters in just the last three weeks and they've

1503
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:59,040
Speaker 2: scored zero touchdowns. That defense is real, that environment was legit.

1504
01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:03,800
Speaker 2: The forty nine ers were so hampered by injury. But

1505
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, Ephraim, even if they hadn't been,

1506
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:11,760
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent sure they're fully equipped to go

1507
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:14,759
Speaker 2: win that game. It's hard to say if Fred Warner,

1508
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 2: Nick Bosa and George Kittle and everything and everybody's all

1509
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 2: playing in that game and you're structured completely differently I

1510
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:26,680
Speaker 2: think as a football team. But the better team clearly

1511
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 2: wins that football game. And the way I looked at

1512
01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:31,000
Speaker 2: it going in, it's a little bit similar to the

1513
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:34,480
Speaker 2: game in Philly, a little bit where I think, Okay,

1514
01:25:34,560 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 2: the Niners are good enough to give them a game,

1515
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:38,800
Speaker 2: but you're in a situation where you're going to have

1516
01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:43,639
Speaker 2: to play really well and then create a close game

1517
01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 2: and then have some things pop your way there in

1518
01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:48,679
Speaker 2: the second half to win.

1519
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: So when that's your scenario and you give up.

1520
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:56,120
Speaker 2: An opening game kickoff, re turn touchdown, and then a

1521
01:25:56,120 --> 01:26:01,240
Speaker 2: handful of minutes later you fumble in your own side

1522
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:06,719
Speaker 2: of the field, the game's over. They like they had

1523
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 2: to play damn near perfect and they played nowhere near it.

1524
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 4: How about this, How big was that final regular season game?

1525
01:26:15,080 --> 01:26:15,960
Speaker 1: How big was that?

1526
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 4: How big was how.

1527
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:19,760
Speaker 1: Different would things be?

1528
01:26:20,800 --> 01:26:25,479
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, that's how important that game was. And they

1529
01:26:25,479 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 4: forgot to bring the offense to it.

1530
01:26:27,479 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean credit Seattle for that, But that's

1531
01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 2: that's the undoing for the forty nine ers when you

1532
01:26:35,320 --> 01:26:41,439
Speaker 2: think about ball security in those big moments against Seattle,

1533
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 2: even with everything going the way that it did in

1534
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 2: that final regular season game, a chance to make it

1535
01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 2: a three point game there in the fourth quarter and

1536
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:53,200
Speaker 2: McCaffrey bobbles it and gives it to the other team.

1537
01:26:53,280 --> 01:26:56,439
Speaker 1: And that's all she wrote it.

1538
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:00,320
Speaker 2: But that's not what it could have shot or or

1539
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:02,800
Speaker 2: you know, ifs and butts and candies and nuts. For me,

1540
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 2: it just isn't like Seattle. They made that. They get

1541
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:11,759
Speaker 2: they get credit for that. They were they were clearly better.

1542
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:13,800
Speaker 2: They're clearly better.

1543
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:17,160
Speaker 1: I just that's the way I look at a lot

1544
01:27:17,200 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 1: of the Niner season, which is like you can cobble

1545
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:24,120
Speaker 1: together a game and then see if you can make

1546
01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:25,920
Speaker 1: the plays in the end, and more often than not

1547
01:27:26,040 --> 01:27:28,719
Speaker 1: they did, but not against that defense.

1548
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:36,280
Speaker 4: No, No, it was time they did. They did a

1549
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:42,720
Speaker 4: yeomen's job with what they were dealt with.

1550
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:43,680
Speaker 1: They maxed it out.

1551
01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,000
Speaker 3: They completely maxed it out.

1552
01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:50,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, they just ran into a team that's healthy, a

1553
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:52,759
Speaker 4: team that's well coached, and a team that's on fire.

1554
01:27:54,400 --> 01:27:55,240
Speaker 1: I think if you.

1555
01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 2: If you follow what the Niners were doing last off season,

1556
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:02,400
Speaker 2: they cut they some money, decided to go young on

1557
01:28:02,439 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 2: the defensive side, and so a lot of these guys

1558
01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:06,240
Speaker 2: ended up.

1559
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:08,480
Speaker 1: Getting some playoff experience.

1560
01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:12,479
Speaker 2: But when you add in how young they were and

1561
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 2: then all the injuries that they sort of sustained, no,

1562
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:20,240
Speaker 2: they should not. They should not have been a twelve

1563
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:22,799
Speaker 2: and five football team.

1564
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:23,680
Speaker 1: So I don't know.

1565
01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:26,639
Speaker 2: Look going forward, I look at it this way. Party's

1566
01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:32,880
Speaker 2: contract starts now. I think he played absolutely well enough

1567
01:28:32,920 --> 01:28:35,040
Speaker 2: to justify everything that's coming his way.

1568
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:41,599
Speaker 4: And yeah, anybody still thinking they overpaid him, they're not understanding.

1569
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:43,840
Speaker 1: You're not clear on what you are.

1570
01:28:43,920 --> 01:28:44,759
Speaker 4: We're not paying attention.

1571
01:28:45,640 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 2: But they won twelve games, yet somehow they get a

1572
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:50,960
Speaker 2: third place schedule next year.

1573
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:54,719
Speaker 4: That's huge.

1574
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: However, here's their problem.

1575
01:28:56,479 --> 01:29:00,600
Speaker 2: Their problem is is these same two teams are going

1576
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:02,840
Speaker 2: to be sitting there again next year. And Seattle's young,

1577
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:07,120
Speaker 2: so like they've got to now start thinking about how

1578
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 2: to build a team that can attack the Seahawks.

1579
01:29:12,320 --> 01:29:13,880
Speaker 1: And they got some work to do there.

1580
01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 4: Luck with that.

1581
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:19,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're short on playmakers, some for reasons that

1582
01:29:19,720 --> 01:29:20,679
Speaker 2: were out of their control.

1583
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk in his car.

1584
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 2: But and you know, and Kristen we talked about that

1585
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 2: getting older blah. But they need some more playmakers. And

1586
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:33,479
Speaker 2: George Kittle is what at least gonna missed the first

1587
01:29:33,479 --> 01:29:33,880
Speaker 2: half of the.

1588
01:29:33,920 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 4: Year, Yeah, yeah, if not more.

1589
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 2: If not more, I mean, but you know, yeah, the

1590
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:47,599
Speaker 2: doctors think at least the first four or five games.

1591
01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:50,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe the whole season, maybe four or five games.

1592
01:29:50,200 --> 01:29:53,400
Speaker 4: I just think the type of player he is, and

1593
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 4: think about the Achilles injury, you know what.

1594
01:29:56,120 --> 01:29:58,519
Speaker 1: I mean, the same guy when he gets.

1595
01:29:58,360 --> 01:30:00,760
Speaker 3: Back, he's that guy who.

1596
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:04,160
Speaker 4: Number one, one of the best blocking tight ends in

1597
01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:09,160
Speaker 4: the league, yep, best route runners. Like there's a lot

1598
01:30:09,360 --> 01:30:13,479
Speaker 4: going on with his lower body and the way he

1599
01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:18,000
Speaker 4: plays and and not the biggest thing coming back from injury,

1600
01:30:18,080 --> 01:30:21,760
Speaker 4: especially the severe injury like that is the mental wear

1601
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 4: and tear. Is this? Can I do it right? It's it.

1602
01:30:27,720 --> 01:30:32,560
Speaker 4: That's why normally when players have those type of injuries,

1603
01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:38,800
Speaker 4: it's the year after the year they return because they've

1604
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:42,800
Speaker 4: gone through a year, they've made it through, didn't re

1605
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:47,679
Speaker 4: hurt themselves, and so now they feel confident in going

1606
01:30:47,760 --> 01:30:51,400
Speaker 4: full speed, all out, one hundred percent without the thought

1607
01:30:51,439 --> 01:30:57,639
Speaker 4: of it could literally rupture again. Yeah, you gotta remember,

1608
01:30:58,080 --> 01:31:01,640
Speaker 4: especially the non contact injuries. It's one thing to be

1609
01:31:01,680 --> 01:31:05,040
Speaker 4: locked up with someone, I'm getting driven over, somebody falls

1610
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:08,320
Speaker 4: into you. But when you're just out running a route

1611
01:31:08,439 --> 01:31:11,720
Speaker 4: or so now every route you run is tentative, it's

1612
01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:15,640
Speaker 4: very like, oh do I can I come out of

1613
01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:16,640
Speaker 4: my break like I used to?

1614
01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:20,920
Speaker 2: I mean, like we're all talking about the achilles, which

1615
01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:24,880
Speaker 2: leaves out the fact that he had a complete tear

1616
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:26,519
Speaker 2: of his hamstring Week one.

1617
01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:31,040
Speaker 4: While just running, just running, just running, and then he

1618
01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:31,880
Speaker 4: missed the game.

1619
01:31:31,960 --> 01:31:34,599
Speaker 2: He missed the game against the Bears, that crazy Sunday

1620
01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:39,200
Speaker 2: night game during our show. He missed that game because

1621
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 2: of an injury. There's three injuries for him this year.

1622
01:31:44,320 --> 01:31:47,680
Speaker 2: He is well past thirty. He now has a torn achilles.

1623
01:31:48,040 --> 01:31:50,880
Speaker 2: I've already said what I've said about Christian. The Nighters

1624
01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:52,920
Speaker 2: are in a good spot, but they got players to

1625
01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 2: go get big time.

1626
01:31:56,400 --> 01:31:59,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got a big time. They got some work

1627
01:32:00,080 --> 01:32:00,280
Speaker 4: to do.

1628
01:32:00,439 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 1: They got work to do.

1629
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 2: They got work to do, They got some things in place,

1630
01:32:04,640 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 2: They've got some advantages in place. I think they've got

1631
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:09,160
Speaker 2: maybe the best coach in the game, certainly one of them.

1632
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:12,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, and let's be clear, the best front office too,

1633
01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:16,559
Speaker 4: because you know him and John Lynch coming over and

1634
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:21,320
Speaker 4: the ownership group allowing them to do their thing and

1635
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:24,760
Speaker 4: build it their way. You gotta remember remember they they

1636
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:28,800
Speaker 4: came in and they signed a five year guarantee when

1637
01:32:28,840 --> 01:32:32,840
Speaker 4: they first got there. They say, give us time to

1638
01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:34,600
Speaker 4: build this thing the right way and the way we

1639
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 4: want to build it. And I think that was the

1640
01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:43,240
Speaker 4: Look at Pete Carroll, right, you look at some of

1641
01:32:43,280 --> 01:32:50,720
Speaker 4: the other first year coaches who were fired, and it's like, oh, okay,

1642
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:53,160
Speaker 4: Nathaniel Hackett right, like he was offensive coordinate that he

1643
01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 4: gets to Green Bay. I obviously couldn't even it shouldn't

1644
01:32:56,040 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 4: never have been there. But very few of them get

1645
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:03,960
Speaker 4: brandan stay treatment where they just gonna ride with you

1646
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:06,960
Speaker 4: no matter what. And so I was built into their contracts.

1647
01:33:06,960 --> 01:33:11,479
Speaker 4: Both of them, John Lynch and Kyle o'shanahan allow us

1648
01:33:11,520 --> 01:33:14,760
Speaker 4: to build this thing out, and they did, and shout

1649
01:33:14,800 --> 01:33:18,519
Speaker 4: out to them. Now you know, you can see how

1650
01:33:18,560 --> 01:33:21,599
Speaker 4: they keep finding this talent and and how things are

1651
01:33:21,600 --> 01:33:24,080
Speaker 4: shaken out for him.

1652
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:26,599
Speaker 2: I think also important if you're going to tell that story,

1653
01:33:26,640 --> 01:33:29,559
Speaker 2: to remember what that roster was when they took it

1654
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:34,400
Speaker 2: over and famously, uh, Kyle Shanahan I think pretty much

1655
01:33:34,479 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 2: told the ownership group in the interview, this is the

1656
01:33:37,080 --> 01:33:38,360
Speaker 2: worst roster in football.

1657
01:33:38,439 --> 01:33:40,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, So that's why it.

1658
01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: Was like, give us time and I mean just all

1659
01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:45,160
Speaker 1: on their watch.

1660
01:33:46,120 --> 01:33:50,400
Speaker 2: Sure, there's been some high profile mistakes Trey Lance on

1661
01:33:50,520 --> 01:33:52,960
Speaker 2: and on. There's been some very high profile mistakes, but

1662
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:56,919
Speaker 2: there's also been a handful of Hall of Fame players

1663
01:33:57,280 --> 01:34:00,080
Speaker 2: drafted and some of them late and and George Kill

1664
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:01,000
Speaker 2: and Fred Warner.

1665
01:34:00,720 --> 01:34:03,880
Speaker 1: At the top of that list. So yeah, I'm with

1666
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:06,960
Speaker 1: you on all that. But this division.

1667
01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:12,880
Speaker 4: Has tough, tough that's a tough division.

1668
01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it certainly, it certainly was this year.

1669
01:34:17,320 --> 01:34:23,040
Speaker 1: And Caleb Williams season ends tonight, but he's changed the

1670
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:27,800
Speaker 1: whole narrative about him going forward. Although as we.

1671
01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:30,960
Speaker 2: Talked this out, let me also say this, Abram, Uh,

1672
01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 2: sign me up right now for a bet on the.

1673
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 1: Bears under wind total next year right away.

1674
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:43,439
Speaker 2: Well, and that's not to be rude, but listen to

1675
01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:46,479
Speaker 2: what we're talking about. It's no different than the Chiefs

1676
01:34:46,479 --> 01:34:46,840
Speaker 2: this year.

1677
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:48,360
Speaker 4: The different.

1678
01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:54,160
Speaker 2: A you can't duplicate this and you're playing a first

1679
01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:58,200
Speaker 2: place schedule now and you don't really have you don't

1680
01:34:58,240 --> 01:35:02,120
Speaker 2: have the wherewithal the handle that. I don't believe you're

1681
01:35:02,160 --> 01:35:04,800
Speaker 2: not that kind of a team.

1682
01:35:04,840 --> 01:35:09,200
Speaker 4: Now. What happens is they're young enough for them to

1683
01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:13,880
Speaker 4: go out and add quality pieces to keep. Now instead

1684
01:35:13,920 --> 01:35:18,479
Speaker 4: of winning the close games, now you're beating teams right.

1685
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:20,559
Speaker 4: So now you're getting into the fourth quarter and you're

1686
01:35:20,640 --> 01:35:26,560
Speaker 4: up to touchdowns. That's the maturation process. You can't duplicate

1687
01:35:26,680 --> 01:35:29,599
Speaker 4: this year. So you have to build a roster that

1688
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:34,519
Speaker 4: can compete early and often and not wait til the

1689
01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:37,960
Speaker 4: heroics at the end. It won't happen like that again.

1690
01:35:38,320 --> 01:35:43,599
Speaker 2: Defense, defense, Yep, yep, you have to it's important.

1691
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 1: Yep.

1692
01:35:44,439 --> 01:35:49,479
Speaker 2: They like they might consider while drafting to tell Ben

1693
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:53,080
Speaker 2: Johnson to stay home. We got this, but we're doing

1694
01:35:53,120 --> 01:36:00,479
Speaker 2: defense all seven rounds because it's not very good defense. No, anyway,

1695
01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:04,280
Speaker 2: all right, who let's take a breath. That was some

1696
01:36:04,320 --> 01:36:06,640
Speaker 2: stuff right there. You know who I go out and

1697
01:36:06,640 --> 01:36:08,280
Speaker 2: get who.

1698
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:15,080
Speaker 4: Uh Trey Hendrickson from uh right, I'll be started doing

1699
01:36:15,120 --> 01:36:18,320
Speaker 4: things like that those yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah. I

1700
01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:24,560
Speaker 4: start looking at things like that, like okay, who's unhappy

1701
01:36:24,560 --> 01:36:27,320
Speaker 4: and who's up right?

1702
01:36:27,880 --> 01:36:31,120
Speaker 3: Like is is Pittsburgh gonna keep.

1703
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:33,840
Speaker 4: T J Watt?

1704
01:36:34,120 --> 01:36:37,120
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I would think, but I don't know.

1705
01:36:37,320 --> 01:36:40,160
Speaker 3: Hey man, we gotta see who coming in there and coaching.

1706
01:36:42,360 --> 01:36:44,920
Speaker 4: I would be That's where I would be because if

1707
01:36:44,960 --> 01:36:48,120
Speaker 4: you can get someone to to pair with sweat coming

1708
01:36:48,120 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 4: off the edge, I go get me a uh you know,

1709
01:36:53,439 --> 01:36:58,559
Speaker 4: a side sideline, the sideline linebacker, and you add one

1710
01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:02,200
Speaker 4: more big beefy guy up the middle or to stop

1711
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:02,679
Speaker 4: to run.

1712
01:37:04,760 --> 01:37:05,599
Speaker 3: That's what I would do.

1713
01:37:06,800 --> 01:37:10,360
Speaker 2: That's what they need, That's what they need. On offense. Man,

1714
01:37:10,400 --> 01:37:13,559
Speaker 2: it looks all set. Boy, they hit on their second

1715
01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:17,080
Speaker 2: tight end. The rookie Colston Lovelan looks great. Receive it course,

1716
01:37:17,120 --> 01:37:18,719
Speaker 2: fantastic Colston.

1717
01:37:19,120 --> 01:37:23,280
Speaker 1: I mean Caleb Williams is now got himself. You know

1718
01:37:23,880 --> 01:37:25,599
Speaker 1: a little Jenni si qua about him.

1719
01:37:25,640 --> 01:37:30,920
Speaker 2: So anyway, all right, the final four set will talk

1720
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 2: that out there is something non football that I'm gonna

1721
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:38,400
Speaker 2: need about a minute or two from you on from

1722
01:37:38,400 --> 01:37:41,280
Speaker 2: I want to get your reaction, uh, and we'll get

1723
01:37:41,280 --> 01:37:44,200
Speaker 2: to all of that throughout our final hour in these

1724
01:37:44,240 --> 01:37:45,519
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio studios.

1725
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:47,200
Speaker 1: That's e from my mark, Fox Sports Radio.

1726
01:37:47,439 --> 01:37:50,360
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1727
01:37:50,400 --> 01:37:53,759
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1728
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1729
01:37:58,080 --> 01:38:00,000
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1730
01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:02,440
Speaker 1: Live in the Fox Sports Radio studios.

1731
01:38:02,479 --> 01:38:05,040
Speaker 2: The numbers are set, the lines are out, you want

1732
01:38:05,040 --> 01:38:11,280
Speaker 2: to hear them. The Seahawks ephraim will be a two

1733
01:38:11,479 --> 01:38:17,040
Speaker 2: and a half point favorite over the visiting Los Angeles Rams.

1734
01:38:18,800 --> 01:38:24,080
Speaker 2: The over under has been set at forty seven. The

1735
01:38:24,120 --> 01:38:29,439
Speaker 2: New England Broncos game next week opened at Patriots minus four.

1736
01:38:29,640 --> 01:38:30,840
Speaker 1: It has already been.

1737
01:38:30,720 --> 01:38:35,320
Speaker 2: Bet up to minus six, and as far as Super

1738
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:40,040
Speaker 2: Bowl lines and favorites, the super Bowl favorite is the

1739
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:45,680
Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks at three to two. Narrowly behind them is

1740
01:38:45,800 --> 01:38:48,920
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Rams at eleven to five.

1741
01:38:49,040 --> 01:38:49,920
Speaker 1: The New England.

1742
01:38:49,680 --> 01:38:52,480
Speaker 2: Patriots are next at eleven to four, and the Broncos

1743
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:57,559
Speaker 2: are the dog at eleven to one. Those are the

1744
01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 2: current numbers and lines for the NFL Final Four.

1745
01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:08,120
Speaker 1: I'm liking Seattle's chances right now.

1746
01:39:09,280 --> 01:39:12,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna be a tough game, though, no doubt,

1747
01:39:13,439 --> 01:39:19,280
Speaker 4: no doubt. I think like I wouldn't, I wouldn't underestimate

1748
01:39:20,840 --> 01:39:24,920
Speaker 4: number one Sean McVay and number two Matthew Stafford. Oh

1749
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:25,400
Speaker 4: I don't.

1750
01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:26,160
Speaker 1: You're right?

1751
01:39:26,240 --> 01:39:26,719
Speaker 3: And so.

1752
01:39:28,800 --> 01:39:29,520
Speaker 4: I mean.

1753
01:39:30,800 --> 01:39:33,240
Speaker 3: One game away like they've been here.

1754
01:39:33,080 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 2: Before, Yes, they have it is I mean it's Matthew Stafford,

1755
01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:40,559
Speaker 2: an elder statesman, super Bowl champ, against Sam Darnold who's

1756
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:43,599
Speaker 2: won checks notes one playoff game in his life.

1757
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:45,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a real.

1758
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:50,400
Speaker 2: Thing, and it was last night. This is one day

1759
01:39:50,439 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 2: old as a playoff winner.

1760
01:39:53,960 --> 01:40:00,640
Speaker 4: So I'd be cautious about what the what that is?

1761
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:07,000
Speaker 4: What that looks like? Yep, Because I mean and Matthew

1762
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:13,800
Speaker 4: Staffords the last remaining unks like he's a hunk in

1763
01:40:13,840 --> 01:40:24,800
Speaker 4: the league, right meaning older statesman thirty, you know, mid

1764
01:40:24,840 --> 01:40:29,000
Speaker 4: to late thirties, still slinging that thing can make every

1765
01:40:29,080 --> 01:40:37,360
Speaker 4: throw highly intelligent, hard to trick him. Won't be a snowstorm,

1766
01:40:37,439 --> 01:40:38,720
Speaker 4: maybe a little rainy.

1767
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:42,360
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna look not that I not that seven

1768
01:40:42,439 --> 01:40:45,640
Speaker 2: days advanced weather reports.

1769
01:40:45,280 --> 01:40:47,320
Speaker 1: Matter but I'm gonna give it a whirl. Here.

1770
01:40:47,439 --> 01:40:54,759
Speaker 2: Seattle long range forecast next Sunday forty eight degree high,

1771
01:40:54,880 --> 01:41:01,559
Speaker 2: forty two degree low, thirty six percent on the precipitation meter,

1772
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:03,320
Speaker 2: So possible.

1773
01:41:02,880 --> 01:41:09,639
Speaker 4: Showers, yeah, like I you know, and.

1774
01:41:09,680 --> 01:41:11,639
Speaker 1: Not a lot of wind, which is actually what usually

1775
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:12,479
Speaker 1: affects quarterback.

1776
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:16,120
Speaker 3: That's the thing that really gets them. Yeah, so I

1777
01:41:17,200 --> 01:41:17,919
Speaker 3: hey man.

1778
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:20,160
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no I'm not I'm not here telling you

1779
01:41:20,160 --> 01:41:23,840
Speaker 2: the Rams can't win. I'm not telling you that at all.

1780
01:41:26,479 --> 01:41:28,839
Speaker 3: I think, Look, this is this is exciting.

1781
01:41:29,720 --> 01:41:33,320
Speaker 1: Uh, there's just there's two defenses left that I like.

1782
01:41:33,479 --> 01:41:33,840
Speaker 1: One of them.

1783
01:41:33,920 --> 01:41:35,880
Speaker 2: I love one of them. I just kind of like.

1784
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:41,760
Speaker 2: And the one that I kind of like lost their quarterback. Yeah,

1785
01:41:42,280 --> 01:41:43,679
Speaker 2: that's gonna be tough.

1786
01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:44,880
Speaker 4: That's gonna be really tough.

1787
01:41:45,920 --> 01:41:51,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we have to do the obligatory so aphram,

1788
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:56,599
Speaker 2: what's the NFL want? They obviously want the Patriots, you know, nobody.

1789
01:41:56,840 --> 01:41:59,160
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry to the young man. Nobody wants Jared

1790
01:41:59,160 --> 01:42:04,639
Speaker 2: Steadham in the super I hate that, like, but I'm sorry,

1791
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,320
Speaker 2: they just don't know. I think he has one win

1792
01:42:07,400 --> 01:42:08,639
Speaker 2: as a starter in his career.

1793
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:14,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody wants that because there's no that it he had,

1794
01:42:14,760 --> 01:42:17,400
Speaker 4: he wouldn't have done enough for it to be a

1795
01:42:17,439 --> 01:42:18,080
Speaker 4: story there.

1796
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:23,200
Speaker 2: No, you know, nobody, once upon a time, nobody wanted

1797
01:42:23,280 --> 01:42:24,280
Speaker 2: Nick Foles in the super Bowl.

1798
01:42:24,320 --> 01:42:26,320
Speaker 1: It's one of the most watchable games we've ever seen.

1799
01:42:26,439 --> 01:42:27,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.

1800
01:42:28,680 --> 01:42:32,160
Speaker 2: I think so okay, league wants the Patriots. Who do

1801
01:42:32,160 --> 01:42:35,800
Speaker 2: they want him to play?

1802
01:42:36,600 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 3: It would have to be the Rams.

1803
01:42:40,960 --> 01:42:41,599
Speaker 4: Have to be right.

1804
01:42:44,120 --> 01:42:45,760
Speaker 2: I don't know that it matters that much, to be

1805
01:42:45,800 --> 01:42:49,360
Speaker 2: honest with you, I think you know, I get where

1806
01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:55,360
Speaker 2: you're coming from. But like the whole like big market thing,

1807
01:42:55,880 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 2: I never think that really matters in a Super Bowl.

1808
01:42:58,520 --> 01:43:01,280
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about like up the market. I'm talking

1809
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:03,559
Speaker 4: about in terms of the story of the narrative. So

1810
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:05,400
Speaker 4: you you'll look at it like this, if the Rams

1811
01:43:05,479 --> 01:43:12,480
Speaker 4: end up making it, this is essentially this is essentially

1812
01:43:14,479 --> 01:43:21,720
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford's final game. Right, Remember this one's for John Yeah,

1813
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:24,600
Speaker 4: go off on the on the horse on top of

1814
01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:27,599
Speaker 4: he's probably gonna win the m v P this year.

1815
01:43:27,800 --> 01:43:30,720
Speaker 2: Well, if he doesn't, it would be the other quarterback, right,

1816
01:43:30,920 --> 01:43:33,479
Speaker 2: that's all the other that's the I think that's why

1817
01:43:33,520 --> 01:43:35,599
Speaker 2: what you're saying is correct, is it's gonna be one

1818
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:37,479
Speaker 2: and two in the m v P race playing each other.

1819
01:43:37,560 --> 01:43:45,000
Speaker 4: Yes, And so I'm looking at it like, Okay, that's

1820
01:43:45,040 --> 01:43:48,559
Speaker 4: something you can latch it. This is it like this

1821
01:43:49,160 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 4: that'll be leading up to it. Those will be the conversations.

1822
01:43:54,280 --> 01:43:58,080
Speaker 4: And is this Matthew's last? Can he go out on

1823
01:43:58,200 --> 01:43:59,920
Speaker 4: top like John did?

1824
01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:00,200
Speaker 1: It?

1825
01:44:00,280 --> 01:44:01,839
Speaker 3: Can all of these things?

1826
01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:06,160
Speaker 4: And I think that's a better He won the MVP,

1827
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:13,400
Speaker 4: and I think that's a that fits a storytelling narrative.

1828
01:44:17,120 --> 01:44:19,639
Speaker 3: More so than anyone else.

1829
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:24,599
Speaker 2: He is under contract for forty two mil next year. Yeah,

1830
01:44:25,720 --> 01:44:27,519
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's gonna that's not happening.

1831
01:44:27,560 --> 01:44:28,040
Speaker 3: We know that.

1832
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:29,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1833
01:44:28,720 --> 01:44:33,280
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, third in the MVP voting behind

1834
01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:37,840
Speaker 2: Stafford and Drake May this year shockingly Steve de Seger

1835
01:44:38,000 --> 01:44:40,439
Speaker 2: as it turns out, third place.

1836
01:44:41,520 --> 01:44:45,479
Speaker 7: Yeah, keep in mind with the NFL schedule, it's whoever's

1837
01:44:45,479 --> 01:44:49,000
Speaker 7: hosting the Super Bowl gets to host the NFL honors

1838
01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:52,439
Speaker 7: when we find out who wins the MVP in the

1839
01:44:52,479 --> 01:44:55,639
Speaker 7: May area and the Pro Bowl that flag football game

1840
01:44:55,680 --> 01:44:58,000
Speaker 7: they had Now the Pro Bowl games are all in

1841
01:44:58,080 --> 01:45:00,640
Speaker 7: the super Bowl city now as well, well, not in

1842
01:45:00,720 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 7: a separate place. By the way, I did see that

1843
01:45:04,160 --> 01:45:08,160
Speaker 7: it was Matthew Stafford voted the All Pro quarterback that's

1844
01:45:08,200 --> 01:45:12,360
Speaker 7: both conferences combined, ahead of Drake May thirty one votes

1845
01:45:12,400 --> 01:45:16,280
Speaker 7: to eighteen. There were three guys in the entire NFL

1846
01:45:16,360 --> 01:45:19,680
Speaker 7: that were unanimous selections from the AP voting board. They

1847
01:45:19,720 --> 01:45:23,720
Speaker 7: were wide receiver Puka Nakua, who's in a conference championship

1848
01:45:23,920 --> 01:45:27,639
Speaker 7: next weekend at Seattle, wide receiver Jackson Smith in Jigma,

1849
01:45:27,680 --> 01:45:31,240
Speaker 7: who's in that same conference championship in Seattle next weekend.

1850
01:45:31,320 --> 01:45:34,800
Speaker 7: And Miles Garrett as well. We'll get to basketball in

1851
01:45:34,840 --> 01:45:37,639
Speaker 7: a moment, but my goodness, has the football been good.

1852
01:45:37,680 --> 01:45:41,160
Speaker 7: The Bears have been eliminated in overtime. You thought they

1853
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:43,080
Speaker 7: were going to do it again, didn't she The Rams

1854
01:45:43,120 --> 01:45:47,280
Speaker 7: were twenty to seventeen in ot with the snow dusting

1855
01:45:47,320 --> 01:45:49,960
Speaker 7: the turf throughout the game in Chicago, where it was

1856
01:45:50,040 --> 01:45:53,080
Speaker 7: under twenty degrees windy, of course, in the Windy City,

1857
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 7: but on a forty two yard field goal by Harrison MeVis,

1858
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:59,880
Speaker 7: the Rams advanced. Meavis also kicked a thirty two yarder

1859
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:02,320
Speaker 7: at the end of the first half. Kyron Williams two

1860
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:05,840
Speaker 7: touchdown runs. Keep in mind not only Caleb Williams with

1861
01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:09,519
Speaker 7: the three interceptions one in overtime. Remember, the Bears with

1862
01:46:09,560 --> 01:46:13,160
Speaker 7: about three minutes left in regulation got no points on

1863
01:46:13,240 --> 01:46:16,800
Speaker 7: a gold to go situation, no gain on third down,

1864
01:46:16,960 --> 01:46:20,719
Speaker 7: incomplete on fourth down at the two. Eventually, the Caleb

1865
01:46:20,760 --> 01:46:25,400
Speaker 7: Williams magic got them along touchdown pass I say long

1866
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:28,040
Speaker 7: fifty yards in the air, but a fourteen yard TD

1867
01:46:28,760 --> 01:46:31,719
Speaker 7: late in regulation in the final thirty seconds to send

1868
01:46:31,720 --> 01:46:34,200
Speaker 7: it to overtime. This is a Bears team that had

1869
01:46:34,240 --> 01:46:37,960
Speaker 7: had a record seven wins after trailing in the last

1870
01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:41,120
Speaker 7: two minutes of the fourth quarter. Previous season, the Chicago

1871
01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:44,400
Speaker 7: franchise had five wins total. So yes, magical is the

1872
01:46:44,400 --> 01:46:47,160
Speaker 7: proper word to the kind of year the Bears had

1873
01:46:47,760 --> 01:46:51,240
Speaker 7: past tense had. It is over Rams at Seattle in

1874
01:46:51,320 --> 01:46:55,000
Speaker 7: the NFC Championship next weekend, and that, by the way,

1875
01:46:55,080 --> 01:46:57,439
Speaker 7: will be the later of the two games, so that

1876
01:46:57,479 --> 01:47:01,719
Speaker 7: would be six thirty pm Eastern time. Before that, Denver,

1877
01:47:01,840 --> 01:47:03,759
Speaker 7: top seed in the AFC, is going to be hosting

1878
01:47:03,760 --> 01:47:05,920
Speaker 7: a New England team that played its final home game

1879
01:47:05,920 --> 01:47:09,280
Speaker 7: of the year today and eliminated Houston twenty eight to sixteen. CJ.

1880
01:47:09,840 --> 01:47:12,679
Speaker 7: Stroud and a loss through four interceptions in the first half,

1881
01:47:12,960 --> 01:47:16,320
Speaker 7: one of them but picked six Drake May three touchdown passes,

1882
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:19,080
Speaker 7: but three turnovers as well. He was sacked five times

1883
01:47:19,120 --> 01:47:22,760
Speaker 7: by that great Texans defense to the NBA scoreboard. At

1884
01:47:22,760 --> 01:47:26,639
Speaker 7: Sacramento mid third Gord Portland up eighty to seventy. Lakers

1885
01:47:26,720 --> 01:47:29,840
Speaker 7: are tied at fifty two. At home final minute of

1886
01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:34,280
Speaker 7: the first half against the Toronto Raptors, Lebron James playing

1887
01:47:34,400 --> 01:47:38,160
Speaker 7: thirteen points, Luka Doncic is playing has fifteen points, and

1888
01:47:38,200 --> 01:47:41,360
Speaker 7: DeAndre Eighton is playing. He has twelve points and six

1889
01:47:41,439 --> 01:47:45,719
Speaker 7: rebounds in the first half. Earlier home wins for Houston

1890
01:47:45,800 --> 01:47:48,400
Speaker 7: and Chicago. Can I just say out loud, the NBA

1891
01:47:49,280 --> 01:47:52,400
Speaker 7: had a Chicago Bulls home game at the same time

1892
01:47:52,520 --> 01:47:54,679
Speaker 7: there was a Chicago Bears playoff game.

1893
01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:59,479
Speaker 2: Jeeze, Okay, yeah, guess played in San Francisco at five

1894
01:47:59,640 --> 01:48:00,479
Speaker 2: thirty night.

1895
01:48:00,600 --> 01:48:01,400
Speaker 7: Ah, there we go.

1896
01:48:01,600 --> 01:48:06,280
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was a damn trend all weekend long. Unfortunately.

1897
01:48:06,479 --> 01:48:09,840
Speaker 7: Actually yes, because yesterday we had the Buffalo Bills losing

1898
01:48:09,880 --> 01:48:14,080
Speaker 7: in overtime and the Buffalo Sabers losing in overtime owned

1899
01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:17,200
Speaker 7: by the same guy by the way, in college. Great

1900
01:48:17,280 --> 01:48:20,799
Speaker 7: day for him college basketball Number seven. Houston whipped Arizona

1901
01:48:20,840 --> 01:48:23,920
Speaker 7: State one, three to seventy three NHL wins for Tampa

1902
01:48:23,960 --> 01:48:26,519
Speaker 7: Bay for Detroit in overtime. The only other game eight

1903
01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:29,559
Speaker 7: minutes left at Edmonton Oilers five nothing over the Blues.

1904
01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:33,760
Speaker 7: You mentioned Jared Stidham, He's going to be setting some

1905
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:38,479
Speaker 7: history before he even throws a pass next weekend. You see,

1906
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:42,320
Speaker 7: they Stats Inc. Went back into the records. They first

1907
01:48:42,320 --> 01:48:47,240
Speaker 7: started tracking quarterback starts in nineteen fifty, So going back

1908
01:48:47,280 --> 01:48:50,120
Speaker 7: to at least nineteen fifty, Jared st Didnon's going to

1909
01:48:50,120 --> 01:48:52,880
Speaker 7: become the first quarterback in NFL history to start a

1910
01:48:52,920 --> 01:48:56,960
Speaker 7: conference championship round or later after not throwing a single

1911
01:48:57,120 --> 01:49:03,519
Speaker 7: pass during the regular season. Now that you mentioned you

1912
01:49:03,640 --> 01:49:06,599
Speaker 7: mentioned the weather as for Denver, I looked it up

1913
01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:09,000
Speaker 7: and although it's supposed to be in the thirties heading

1914
01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:11,880
Speaker 7: into next Sunday, it's a possibility of close to fifty

1915
01:49:11,920 --> 01:49:15,280
Speaker 7: degrees and sonny for the AFC Championship game. And the

1916
01:49:15,400 --> 01:49:20,200
Speaker 7: NFL points out, every AFC Championship game since the twenty

1917
01:49:20,200 --> 01:49:24,519
Speaker 7: eleven season has featured either the Patriots or the Chiefs,

1918
01:49:24,720 --> 01:49:29,880
Speaker 7: every one of them. No Buffalo Bills appearances in the

1919
01:49:29,880 --> 01:49:32,960
Speaker 7: Super Bowl in all of that time, notable because the

1920
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:36,519
Speaker 7: Bills actually set a record. I mean, they're probably saying no,

1921
01:49:36,680 --> 01:49:39,680
Speaker 7: thank you, but they actually won a playoff game for

1922
01:49:39,880 --> 01:49:42,800
Speaker 7: now six straight seasons. But they're the only team to

1923
01:49:42,920 --> 01:49:45,559
Speaker 7: do that six straight seasons and still not win a

1924
01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:48,880
Speaker 7: Super Bowl in those six years. The Bills got eliminated

1925
01:49:48,960 --> 01:49:53,080
Speaker 7: in yet again heartbreak fashion yesterday, losing in overtime by

1926
01:49:53,120 --> 01:49:55,960
Speaker 7: three at Denver. They had lost by three to the

1927
01:49:56,040 --> 01:49:58,280
Speaker 7: Chiefs the year before in the playoffs, and lost by

1928
01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:00,960
Speaker 7: three to the Chiefs the year before that. So yeah,

1929
01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:03,400
Speaker 7: the Buffalo Bills are the first team in NFL history

1930
01:50:03,479 --> 01:50:06,960
Speaker 7: to lose by three or less in the playoffs three straight.

1931
01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:07,879
Speaker 3: Mental health watch.

1932
01:50:09,320 --> 01:50:11,639
Speaker 4: Back to you. Uh thanks Steve.

1933
01:50:11,640 --> 01:50:16,280
Speaker 2: Yep, Steve, great stuff tonight, as as always appreciated. Who

1934
01:50:16,680 --> 01:50:18,920
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm still having a hard time

1935
01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:19,840
Speaker 2: catching breath here.

1936
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:21,719
Speaker 4: And that was a lot.

1937
01:50:22,640 --> 01:50:26,920
Speaker 1: That was a lot live in the Fox Sports radio studios.

1938
01:50:26,920 --> 01:50:28,439
Speaker 1: And I'm also sitting here just.

1939
01:50:28,439 --> 01:50:32,120
Speaker 2: Kind of thumbing through social media and getting all the

1940
01:50:32,640 --> 01:50:36,760
Speaker 2: reactions to Caleb Williams and Matt Stafford.

1941
01:50:36,400 --> 01:50:38,479
Speaker 1: And also play calling.

1942
01:50:38,760 --> 01:50:41,200
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people even like the game was great,

1943
01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:44,599
Speaker 2: But I guess Sean McVeigh even admitted after the games

1944
01:50:44,600 --> 01:50:47,040
Speaker 2: like didn't didn't didn't like my coaching tonight, and I

1945
01:50:47,080 --> 01:50:49,040
Speaker 2: wanted to let him know neither did we.

1946
01:50:51,120 --> 01:50:55,320
Speaker 1: He made some really weird decisions and could have called.

1947
01:50:55,280 --> 01:50:58,680
Speaker 2: Characteristic and and I'm almost, uh, you want to know

1948
01:50:58,720 --> 01:51:03,240
Speaker 2: what's uncharacteristic is that you haven't yet pointed out Ben

1949
01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:08,599
Speaker 2: Johnson's first half decisions in a three point overtime loss.

1950
01:51:09,560 --> 01:51:11,519
Speaker 1: The man does like to pass up a field goal?

1951
01:51:13,240 --> 01:51:17,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure does. Look I'm not going to beat a

1952
01:51:17,800 --> 01:51:25,880
Speaker 4: dead horse, but hopefully I've spoke on this enough throughout

1953
01:51:26,400 --> 01:51:31,240
Speaker 4: the years where as soon as it happens, people like, oh, nope,

1954
01:51:31,320 --> 01:51:33,040
Speaker 4: see see.

1955
01:51:34,640 --> 01:51:35,840
Speaker 3: They they're tripping.

1956
01:51:37,200 --> 01:51:41,480
Speaker 4: Right. No, no, take the points, especially in the playoffs.

1957
01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:44,080
Speaker 4: Always always always take the points.

1958
01:51:45,080 --> 01:51:49,320
Speaker 2: I just I mean, like I hear you, I might

1959
01:51:49,360 --> 01:51:55,160
Speaker 2: stop short of all three always like there's there's situations

1960
01:51:55,240 --> 01:51:58,120
Speaker 2: where I get it, but like, who.

1961
01:52:00,120 --> 01:52:00,559
Speaker 1: Not like this.

1962
01:52:01,040 --> 01:52:05,200
Speaker 2: We've gone so so so over the top with the

1963
01:52:05,520 --> 01:52:10,439
Speaker 2: with the whole thing that I just how many games

1964
01:52:10,760 --> 01:52:14,080
Speaker 2: in just the last month have you and I watched

1965
01:52:14,080 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 2: a coach leave a three or two of them in

1966
01:52:17,960 --> 01:52:20,080
Speaker 2: the first half and then lose the game by one,

1967
01:52:20,120 --> 01:52:21,280
Speaker 2: two or three points in the end.

1968
01:52:21,400 --> 01:52:22,920
Speaker 1: Jacksonville just did it last week?

1969
01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:23,519
Speaker 4: Just did it?

1970
01:52:23,640 --> 01:52:27,639
Speaker 1: Chicago? Did it today? This is it's every week.

1971
01:52:28,520 --> 01:52:31,880
Speaker 4: I always equate it to money. Take your money right,

1972
01:52:32,280 --> 01:52:36,040
Speaker 4: don't leave your money. Like when I'm coaching my kids

1973
01:52:36,040 --> 01:52:42,120
Speaker 4: in basketball, the layup is the money. So I equated

1974
01:52:42,200 --> 01:52:44,280
Speaker 4: to that, you wouldn't leave your money on the ground.

1975
01:52:45,720 --> 01:52:48,160
Speaker 4: Go get your money, man, like you've you've earned it.

1976
01:52:48,680 --> 01:52:49,679
Speaker 1: You ever played black jack?

1977
01:52:50,479 --> 01:52:54,920
Speaker 4: Man? I'm a blackjack guy? Okay, so what happened that one?

1978
01:52:55,160 --> 01:52:56,480
Speaker 3: Huge in blackjack?

1979
01:52:56,600 --> 01:52:59,080
Speaker 2: What happens when you get a blackjack and the dealer

1980
01:52:59,120 --> 01:53:01,160
Speaker 2: has an ace and they go even money?

1981
01:53:01,360 --> 01:53:01,920
Speaker 1: What did you say?

1982
01:53:02,120 --> 01:53:02,640
Speaker 3: Taken?

1983
01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:05,799
Speaker 1: Man? The day oun thank you? Please money?

1984
01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:08,479
Speaker 4: Yes, please, thank you?

1985
01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:10,320
Speaker 1: Thank you? All right?

1986
01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 5: The books is the book.

1987
01:53:15,280 --> 01:53:17,000
Speaker 2: The book says you're about to be out of money.

1988
01:53:18,479 --> 01:53:19,880
Speaker 2: We're live in the Fox Sports.

1989
01:53:19,640 --> 01:53:22,960
Speaker 1: Radio studios and not done yet.

1990
01:53:23,120 --> 01:53:25,360
Speaker 2: We got a few more thoughts on the final four

1991
01:53:25,400 --> 01:53:27,880
Speaker 2: that are set, and I have a quick I just

1992
01:53:27,960 --> 01:53:34,120
Speaker 2: need a minute of your reaction to something non football.

1993
01:53:33,680 --> 01:53:37,439
Speaker 1: Related that happened this week. Uh, we'll do that next.

1994
01:53:37,479 --> 01:53:40,720
Speaker 2: That's the from my Mark Fox Sports Radio.

1995
01:53:41,360 --> 01:53:47,080
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1996
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1997
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1998
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1999
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2000
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2001
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2002
01:54:02,080 --> 01:54:04,800
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2003
01:54:04,800 --> 01:54:07,360
Speaker 2: iHeart app so it will always pop up right there

2004
01:54:07,400 --> 01:54:08,839
Speaker 2: at the top of your screen.

2005
01:54:10,200 --> 01:54:13,160
Speaker 1: I just want your reaction. I just I just want

2006
01:54:13,200 --> 01:54:13,759
Speaker 1: your reaction.

2007
01:54:19,360 --> 01:54:25,120
Speaker 2: Seven hundred million, three hundred and sixty five million, three

2008
01:54:25,200 --> 01:54:29,679
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five million, two hundred and forty million,

2009
01:54:30,600 --> 01:54:34,080
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty two million, one hundred and sixty

2010
01:54:34,080 --> 01:54:38,680
Speaker 2: two million, one hundred forty million, and one hundred thirty

2011
01:54:38,720 --> 01:54:39,480
Speaker 2: six million.

2012
01:54:40,560 --> 01:54:42,040
Speaker 3: Third World Series in a row.

2013
01:54:42,680 --> 01:54:50,200
Speaker 1: Probably, boy, I'd think so. So you help me, Dodger fan,

2014
01:54:52,280 --> 01:54:57,400
Speaker 1: how does a non Dodger fan or non Dodger player.

2015
01:54:57,760 --> 01:55:00,280
Speaker 2: Don't forget Jeff pass And said this week, I've thought

2016
01:55:00,280 --> 01:55:02,760
Speaker 2: a lot of players reach out to me and be like, well,

2017
01:55:02,800 --> 01:55:06,400
Speaker 2: we don't have any chance to win. The Dodgers have

2018
01:55:06,480 --> 01:55:11,280
Speaker 2: done nothing wrong. The Dodgers I want to know. I

2019
01:55:11,320 --> 01:55:13,760
Speaker 2: want a Dodger fan to tell me, how does a

2020
01:55:13,840 --> 01:55:18,200
Speaker 2: non Dodger fan talk about this without sounding like sour

2021
01:55:18,280 --> 01:55:23,480
Speaker 2: grapes because the truth of the matter is Ephraim No

2022
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:30,960
Speaker 2: matter what anybody wants to say about it, this is

2023
01:55:31,000 --> 01:55:36,640
Speaker 2: not good for the sport salary cap, salary floor. The

2024
01:55:36,880 --> 01:55:40,320
Speaker 2: true people to be mad at are not the Dodgers.

2025
01:55:40,400 --> 01:55:43,320
Speaker 2: It's more like the people like the A's That's who

2026
01:55:43,400 --> 01:55:47,040
Speaker 2: fans should be mad at. So the Dodgers didn't do

2027
01:55:47,080 --> 01:55:51,200
Speaker 2: anything wrong, but to have a support like this is

2028
01:55:51,240 --> 01:55:55,920
Speaker 2: the Harlem globetrotters, Like whoever you're bringing to the show

2029
01:55:56,080 --> 01:55:59,600
Speaker 2: is just there so that you're allowed to have a schedule.

2030
01:56:02,320 --> 01:56:07,040
Speaker 4: Uh, you tell me, the Dodgers have already made back

2031
01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:11,440
Speaker 4: the money that you've spent on these on the contracts,

2032
01:56:11,480 --> 01:56:20,600
Speaker 4: just from from last year. So if if there was

2033
01:56:20,640 --> 01:56:25,360
Speaker 4: a way as an owner and we didn't have a

2034
01:56:25,440 --> 01:56:32,760
Speaker 4: salary cap for me to put a roster together like this,

2035
01:56:33,080 --> 01:56:36,000
Speaker 4: I would do everything I possibly could to do it.

2036
01:56:37,760 --> 01:56:39,960
Speaker 3: I would do what the Dodgers do. We'll give you

2037
01:56:40,040 --> 01:56:40,600
Speaker 3: twenty more.

2038
01:56:41,560 --> 01:56:48,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, but you have to start it now because

2039
01:56:48,560 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 4: it's going to take a year or two.

2040
01:56:52,880 --> 01:56:56,560
Speaker 3: For it to really take it. Like you gotta start building.

2041
01:56:56,120 --> 01:56:59,200
Speaker 4: The blocks or three or four, right, because the Dodgers

2042
01:56:59,200 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 4: had a dynamic team prior to show, Hey coming, That's

2043
01:57:03,400 --> 01:57:10,240
Speaker 4: why he came right, right, They had a dynamic manager.

2044
01:57:12,240 --> 01:57:15,480
Speaker 4: So the pieces have been being put in the place,

2045
01:57:16,240 --> 01:57:19,800
Speaker 4: and now when it comes to the salaries and the

2046
01:57:19,840 --> 01:57:26,000
Speaker 4: contracts and the talent they're bringing in, guys are like, yeah,

2047
01:57:26,120 --> 01:57:29,480
Speaker 4: I'll come play for the Dodgers and take twenty more

2048
01:57:29,520 --> 01:57:33,240
Speaker 4: than anyone else was at one and live in Los Angeles.

2049
01:57:33,360 --> 01:57:34,160
Speaker 4: It's police.

2050
01:57:34,240 --> 01:57:35,240
Speaker 1: It's an easy decision.

2051
01:57:35,320 --> 01:57:38,919
Speaker 4: It's an easy sale. So until owners of other franchise,

2052
01:57:39,200 --> 01:57:43,080
Speaker 4: until they start thinking like that, you could be mad

2053
01:57:43,080 --> 01:57:44,080
Speaker 4: at the Dodgers all you want.

2054
01:57:44,320 --> 01:57:48,040
Speaker 2: No again, it's it's not the Dodgers. I'll say it again.

2055
01:57:48,240 --> 01:57:51,520
Speaker 2: They've done nothing wrong. They've done nothing wrong. They've done,

2056
01:57:51,760 --> 01:57:55,440
Speaker 2: in fact, everything right. They've they're within the rules. They've

2057
01:57:56,080 --> 01:57:58,000
Speaker 2: like I mean, I'd love for the whole thing to

2058
01:57:58,040 --> 01:58:00,760
Speaker 2: feel a little bit more home grown. People talk about

2059
01:58:00,800 --> 01:58:03,000
Speaker 2: the Yankees back in the day, and I'm like, they

2060
01:58:03,080 --> 01:58:05,839
Speaker 2: drafted a lot of those guys like this is almost

2061
01:58:05,960 --> 01:58:10,200
Speaker 2: exclusively free agents and trades. Will Smith the only guy

2062
01:58:10,240 --> 01:58:12,600
Speaker 2: on that list of eight players I just read off

2063
01:58:13,280 --> 01:58:16,720
Speaker 2: of their contracts, the only homegrown one with the Dodgers,

2064
01:58:16,720 --> 01:58:19,920
Speaker 2: So I'd love that. But whatever, it's all within the rules.

2065
01:58:20,080 --> 01:58:24,240
Speaker 2: They've done so many things right. But I think, like

2066
01:58:24,360 --> 01:58:26,560
Speaker 2: I even know, I got Dodger fans in the family

2067
01:58:26,640 --> 01:58:30,200
Speaker 2: who almost like it. It's such a Kevin Durant Warriors

2068
01:58:30,240 --> 01:58:33,840
Speaker 2: field to it where it's just like, okay, al, it's

2069
01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:36,480
Speaker 2: a little embarrassed. It's like, what what are we doing?

2070
01:58:37,160 --> 01:58:40,040
Speaker 2: The eighth graders are playing the kindergarteners. Yeah, they're gonna win.

2071
01:58:41,080 --> 01:58:44,120
Speaker 3: They're gonna win.

2072
01:58:44,200 --> 01:58:47,600
Speaker 1: It's almost embarrassing if they don't be honest with you.

2073
01:58:47,600 --> 01:58:48,160
Speaker 4: And they know that.

2074
01:58:48,520 --> 01:58:52,800
Speaker 3: Yep, that's why they win. Yeh, that's exactly why they win.

2075
01:58:54,480 --> 01:59:01,280
Speaker 1: Okay, that's it. Ram Seahawks Broncos Patriots in National Championship

2076
01:59:01,320 --> 01:59:01,840
Speaker 1: game to morning.

2077
01:59:01,880 --> 01:59:03,600
Speaker 4: Oh, that's gonna be good. I can't wait. Do you

2078
01:59:03,600 --> 01:59:07,600
Speaker 4: think Indiana's got Oh yes, big time Indiana fans. I

2079
01:59:07,680 --> 01:59:10,720
Speaker 4: do too, big time Indiana fan. Look, I'd say, look,

2080
01:59:10,840 --> 01:59:13,040
Speaker 4: Miami's had one of the best defenses in all of

2081
01:59:13,080 --> 01:59:14,480
Speaker 4: college football the entire year.

2082
01:59:17,960 --> 01:59:19,520
Speaker 3: Indiana's right behind them.

2083
01:59:19,800 --> 01:59:22,160
Speaker 4: So if it comes if the both defenses canceled each

2084
01:59:22,160 --> 01:59:24,680
Speaker 4: other out, what does it come down to? It comes

2085
01:59:24,720 --> 01:59:31,600
Speaker 4: down to quarterbacks of course. Yep, are you taking uh

2086
01:59:32,080 --> 01:59:34,680
Speaker 4: back over Mendoza?

2087
01:59:34,360 --> 01:59:37,480
Speaker 1: No, no, no one is no.

2088
01:59:37,320 --> 01:59:39,480
Speaker 3: I'm not, no one not.

2089
01:59:39,640 --> 01:59:41,120
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I don't know if the defense

2090
01:59:41,200 --> 01:59:42,760
Speaker 1: is just cancel each other out, though, I don't know

2091
01:59:42,760 --> 01:59:43,560
Speaker 1: if it works that way.

2092
01:59:43,600 --> 01:59:45,320
Speaker 3: That Indiana defense is serious.

2093
01:59:45,520 --> 01:59:48,080
Speaker 1: They are the Indiana everything is serious.

2094
01:59:48,160 --> 01:59:51,880
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well they're older. They built their roster through the

2095
01:59:51,880 --> 01:59:56,720
Speaker 4: portal and they're older. They're not any five star athletes,

2096
01:59:56,760 --> 01:59:59,600
Speaker 4: they're not. But I'll take I'll take a twenty three

2097
01:59:59,680 --> 02:00:05,080
Speaker 4: year old offensive line in college over a eighteen nineteen

2098
02:00:05,120 --> 02:00:07,400
Speaker 4: year old five star defensive end any day.

2099
02:00:07,840 --> 02:00:10,640
Speaker 2: Things that are happening this week that I never thought

2100
02:00:10,720 --> 02:00:15,120
Speaker 2: I would say or see in my lifetime. Indiana as

2101
02:00:15,160 --> 02:00:18,600
Speaker 2: the big old favorite to win the college football National

2102
02:00:18,680 --> 02:00:22,200
Speaker 2: Championship and Jared Stidham gets ready to start the AFC

2103
02:00:22,280 --> 02:00:25,280
Speaker 2: Championship game. Wow, didn't think i'd say these things, you

2104
02:00:25,360 --> 02:00:28,080
Speaker 2: know what I mean. But we'll talk to you next week, Bud.

2105
02:00:28,200 --> 02:00:28,720
Speaker 2: Great job