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Speaker 1: Falcons getting the football. They have a fourteen to thirty

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Speaker 1: team lead over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who six weeks

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Speaker 1: ago we thought they were great.

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Speaker 3: Now it's.

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Speaker 1: But I do want to say this because I really

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Speaker 1: feel this from the bottom of my heart. Whether this

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Speaker 1: is a game that you know, we probably could have

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Speaker 1: done without on Thursday Night football. Falcons, Yeah, get before

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Speaker 1: the sever Oh the Falcons are gonna be good.

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Speaker 3: No they're not.

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Speaker 1: Michael Pennix well he's not very good. Well and also

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Speaker 1: he's hurt and uh. And the Bucks well, I do

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Speaker 1: have to say we are all winning with this uniform matchup.

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely, we are all winning with this.

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Speaker 1: I mean this is one of the few times, like

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Speaker 1: I get that everybody seems to like certain uniforms and

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Speaker 1: I like this, and I like this.

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Speaker 3: All right, great, I get it. I understand that.

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Speaker 1: But there's something about when you see the Bucks creamsicles

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Speaker 1: that are like they're like the new Charger powder blue.

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Speaker 1: Right when the Charges first started wearing their powder blues,

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Speaker 1: like like twenty five years ago, it was look at

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Speaker 1: the powder best powder blue uniforms. Like Berman made a

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Speaker 1: whole cottage industry of that on primetime with that. Sure,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like that's kind of where we're at

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Speaker 1: now with the creamsicle, Like do you wear the creamsickles?

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Speaker 1: That's ah, like this this is the new whatever you're seeing, whatever,

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Speaker 1: whatever issues you're going through this holiday season. I mean,

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Speaker 1: unless you went to or you go to Michigan, like

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Speaker 1: you know, whatever, you're dealing with. Is this is gonna

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Speaker 1: put a smile on your face. Hey, we get to

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Speaker 1: see the bucks of the creamsickles. Yeah, it's only for

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Speaker 1: a moment or two. It makes you feel good. But

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Speaker 1: then some of the defensive lapses make you feel like

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Speaker 1: you're watching those nineteen seventy six and seventy seven Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay Buccketeers where they couldn't win in this particular combination.

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Speaker 3: Leroy and Dewey salmon shot for sure, Sure, nice Ricky Bell,

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Speaker 3: we never got a lot of run. No, Leroy got

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Speaker 1: Leroy was also I think what fourteen four time All America. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: It's a bunch of successful restaurants and businesses in the Tampa.

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Speaker 3: Sid you're the less successful brother slash twins slash sibling.

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Speaker 3: I just so you know that's gonna happen that way.

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Speaker 4: But in throwback land, with this uniform, right, this helmet

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Speaker 4: and the orange jersey, they're one in five. Yeah, but

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Speaker 4: so with this helmet and the white jersey they actually

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Speaker 4: the units of this now, I would say also defensively,

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Speaker 4: they're playing like those seventy six and seventy seven.

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Speaker 1: There's only two guys that can beat you, Kyle Pitts

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: Well, And the thing is, when Kyle Pitts is one

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Speaker 3: Because the last two weeks thirteen for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, great, yes, Oh, here comes a Kyle

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Speaker 3: The Kyle Pitts breakout is not happening. Yeah, but here

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Speaker 4: Playoffs, and he's uh, he's dominating six for six, one

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Speaker 1: So here we are fourteen thirteen, early in the third

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Speaker 1: wearing the creamsicle colors like and and look, be honest,

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Speaker 1: orange is a tough color to pull off from a

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Speaker 1: just that. Like you get to the falcon side, the

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Speaker 1: this is all going back to the lates at William Andrews. Yeah, sure, sure,

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Speaker 1: like when when when the uniforms are really good, you

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Speaker 1: lack of urgency on the football, Like I bet you

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Speaker 1: Al Michael's seeing these uniforms. He thinks both these teams

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Speaker 1: have tonight? No, except for all the penalties, Well that

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Speaker 1: something special. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean the helmets are

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Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. Uh So again, we'll bring you more on this.

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Speaker 1: Uh again, fourth and eight for the Falcons. They'll punt

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Speaker 1: it away early in the third quarter. They lead the

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Speaker 1: everybody else in the division stinks. So h this is

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Speaker 1: where we are at right now with this story. However,

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Speaker 1: as we said yesterday, the big shock of the Sharon

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Speaker 1: Moore situation with Michigan. He has fired as head coach

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Speaker 1: when the university dismisses him because of an inappropriate relationship

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Speaker 1: with a staffer. We also find out he was then

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Speaker 1: last night it was Okay, we told you last night. Listen,

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Speaker 1: and I can seeing now because now we know more,

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of different things last night, but

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Speaker 1: the concrete things we know because if they've been reported.

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Speaker 1: Early in the day today you had the first reports

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Speaker 1: Pete Thammill on ESPN saying that he had his behavior

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Speaker 1: anything else. Requietly the money gets bumped up, and then

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Speaker 1: starting to open the door to when did Michigan know

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Speaker 1: trillions of dollars that has poured into this because of

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Speaker 1: team is phenomenal. They have they're sports in Michigan, sports

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Speaker 1: and every thing I just outlined this is what's happened.

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Speaker 3: Imagine what this story is like. Okay, what if this

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Speaker 1: And there's there's a reports of assault, and and and

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Speaker 1: now he's fired for cause. And what an absolute messis

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Speaker 1: is yes, and we're you know, Sharon Moore, I get

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Speaker 1: being focused on him, but this is so unbelievably bad

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be what did they know? When did they

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Speaker 1: know about it? Ward Manual, the ad who got an extension,

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Speaker 1: He's got a four year extension a year ago. Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, people understand just how bad this is

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Speaker 1: for Michigan, for the brand, for the football program, because

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Speaker 1: now all their their recruits are gonna wind up leaving.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna Bryce Underwood deserve me talk about him getting

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Speaker 1: poached from from somewhere else, Like that's how bad this is.

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Speaker 1: Just this are on more part of it. This is

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Speaker 1: bigger deal. This is absolutely a lot of people understand

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Speaker 3: Well, i'll take the underwood part first.

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Speaker 4: A week ago everybody was like, he can go somewhere

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Speaker 1: his home not too long ago, the injuries he has

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00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: been dealing with. It's privacy being invaded. How happy he

438
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 1: is playing football and going out having a you know

439
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,920
Speaker 1: when he goes out there, he plays terrific, but he's

440
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,479
Speaker 1: been hurt a lot. The team is not winning. Another

441
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,400
Speaker 1: big effort on Sunday goes by the wayside. He throws

442
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 1: four touchdowns, couple of picks, they lose to the Bills.

443
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,640
Speaker 1: It's officially in done season now in Cincinnati. And when

444
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: I hear him talking like this, right, and everybody jumped

445
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 1: to one conclusion, that's, oh, he's going to pull the

446
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 1: Andrew Lucky's going to retire. You know, if that's where

447
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 1: it was going, that's where it was going. You don't

448
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 1: say stuff like this, right. That's that's something where if

449
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 1: you're thinking about retiring, that's where you talk to yourself.

450
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: You know, you talk to your loved ones about it.

451
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,119
Speaker 1: It's not something that goes in in in public. Right.

452
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 1: You also wouldn't have grinded your ass to get back

453
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 1: on the field when the season was spiraling as it was.

454
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 1: If you were really on the I don't love this anymore.

455
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,640
Speaker 1: You're not killing yourself to get back on the field. Yeah,

456
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 1: and he's and and it's a it's a different it's

457
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 1: a different take. Remember when Andrew Luck did it, nobody knew,

458
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 1: nobody knew he was doing. He was on the sideline

459
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: of their preseason game, and all of a sudden, Adam

460
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,639
Speaker 1: Schefter says, hey, Andrew Luck is retiring. And then he

461
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 1: beats it off the field at the end, and you know,

462
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 1: now he's running Stanford football. So it's a it's a

463
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 1: it would be handled differently if this was a retiring thing.

464
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 1: This is Joe Burrow saying I have to get out

465
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 1: of here, right. And we talked with this a couple

466
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 1: of years ago where the biggest thing that Bengals need

467
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: to do is keep him happy. He's the beginning of

468
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 1: their era of good feeling.

469
00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:57,919
Speaker 3: Right.

470
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,680
Speaker 1: He said four years ago, Hey, you got the right guy.

471
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 1: He's the right quarterback. You got to make sure that

472
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 1: he is happy, because this is how lucky you get

473
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 1: lucky in the draft to get him coming off the

474
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: year he had. How good he is. I mean, he

475
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 1: is a phenomenal talent. You have to keep him happy.

476
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: You have to keep him up right, keeping him up right.

477
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: It's been a problem now. Sometimes it's just hey, maybe

478
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 1: he's not as durable. Sometimes it's their offensive line as

479
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: the twenty eighth ranked offensive line, and he gets hit

480
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: way too much. But he is not happy, and he

481
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,639
Speaker 1: talks about happiness and wanting to do it. Believe me,

482
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 1: he's a pretty smart dude. He knows what he says

483
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 1: and how it's going to be taken. This is him

484
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 1: throwing out there for the very for the very first

485
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: time publicly, Yeah I'm not happy here in Cincinnati. And

486
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: Cincinnati has a plethora of problems. Look how many how

487
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: many stories you have to hear about Cincinnati and how

488
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: badly they're run. How many times you have to see

489
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,199
Speaker 1: the end of season, here's the survey of teams and

490
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: what Cincinnati does worse than anybody else. I mean, you've

491
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,239
Speaker 1: heard so many stories about this is what life is

492
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,080
Speaker 1: for the Bengals. And they got lucky. They got lucky

493
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 1: that they got Joe Burrow. All you got to do

494
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 1: is keep that guy happy. Man, Yeah, you and not.

495
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 1: You gave Jamar Chase money, you gave to his money.

496
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: That's great, but you have to make sure that he

497
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: is happy as far as being able to win, being

498
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: able to succeed, be able to put in a position

499
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: to succeed. It's the offensive line, it's everything that goes along.

500
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: It's being happy coming into work every day. And whether

501
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: it was the combination of losing to the Bills, because

502
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: you could see the look on his face following that loss.

503
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: He was a very quick congratulations of Josh Allen. It

504
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: was an incredible game and you could see him walking

505
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: off the field and you could tell there's gears grinding

506
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 1: in his head about stuff. He has a twenty ninth

507
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: birthday a day ago. No coincidence that he is saying

508
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: this now four games left in the regular season. He's

509
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: letting it be known. I want out and come and

510
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: get me. And since that happened, you know that teams

511
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: have been calling and texting and trying to figure what

512
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: out Does he want out? What are we doing because

513
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: in the offseason there's not a lot of great guys

514
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: available free agency. The draft is pretty weak. It's not

515
00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: like what it's going to be projected to be in

516
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: twe only twenty seven. Doesn't mean quarterbacks aren't gonna get taken,

517
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: but do you have a choice to say, well, I

518
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 1: could take Dante more fourth overall, or I could go

519
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: get Joe Burrow. I'm gonna go get Joe Burrow. He

520
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: is on a different team in twenty twenty six. He

521
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: is starting for a different franchise, a franchise that is

522
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 1: not just anybody that can put draft picks together like

523
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,360
Speaker 1: the Jets. Hey we got first round picks. No, it's

524
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,679
Speaker 1: gonna be I'm going to a place where I'm in

525
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: a position to succeed, where I can win. Because I'm

526
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: twenty nine, I'm seeing my football mortality. I don't know

527
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: how many years I have left. I want to think

528
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: I have a lot, But man, twenty nine, I'm gonna

529
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be thirty and I'm not gonna have anything

530
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: accomplished like I wanted to. Yeah, it's gonna be a

531
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: team that's on the uprise, that's a quarterback away that

532
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna be on next year. Book a new team

533
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: for Joe Burrow.

534
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 4: The Colts asking and what the warranty was on at

535
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 4: Sauce Gardner in getting those picks. But all of that

536
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 4: to say for Joe Burrow, right, this was part of

537
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 4: the big birthday celebration as he met with the media midweek,

538
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 4: talked about getting a Pokemon on box from his teammates,

539
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 4: who was very excited about that. Went deep into Pokemon culture.

540
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 4: So that was the stuff that got the first round

541
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 4: in terms of the publicities. Ah, that's kind of funny

542
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 4: talking about the hobby and scalpers or whatever else. And

543
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 4: then it got very somber on the football side. And

544
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 4: it goes back to when we had the Super Bowl run,

545
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 4: when they were out here and Cincinnati Bengals fans weren't

546
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 4: nearly as I rate and upset about things as I

547
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 4: thought they should have been. The way the fourth quarter

548
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 4: went down against the Rams, Ah, you know, we're just

549
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 4: getting starters, Like, that's not the way this works, man,

550
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 4: It's not the.

551
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 3: Way football works.

552
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 4: And watching the proliferation of injuries for him, it piled up.

553
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 4: They did him right by bringing bringing back Chase and

554
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 4: Higgins and and they've loaded up on the offense. The

555
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 4: offensive line is an exact science that we see from

556
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 4: myriad NFL teams. Nobody gets it right. They try and

557
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,400
Speaker 4: then a lot of it as your quarterback, and he's

558
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 4: had some unlucky breaks along the way defensively, lou Aniruma

559
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 4: was the fall guy last year for what was a

560
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 4: horribly constructed eleven man unit, and then Hendrickson, they have

561
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 4: all the fight in the offseason, then he gets hurt

562
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 4: and he's unavailable right so down the stretch. So that

563
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 4: game against Buffalo was the culmination of a lot of things,

564
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 4: battling back from injury to get back on the field,

565
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 4: doing everything you could with the four touchdown pass, you

566
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 4: had him on the ropes, and then a couple of mistakes,

567
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 4: tip balls all that your defense can't get you one stop.

568
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 4: And that's been the story of the year. Even when

569
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 4: Joe Flacco was out there, right, you couldn't get the

570
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 4: one stop, even if the offense was putting up points.

571
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 4: And after a couple of years of that rehabs and

572
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 4: recognizing nothing's changing at the top, right, it's the old adage.

573
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 4: If you got a bad ownership group and they don't

574
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 4: do right by the players, by the community, by everything.

575
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: Mike Brown, everybody, Mike Brown, and again to his credit,

576
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: he paid his wideouts.

577
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 3: Problem is that that's not a team.

578
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: But look, and and the reason why this is gonna

579
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: happen is because look, I'm old enough to remember when

580
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer wanted out and Mike Brown let him sit

581
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: for weeks and weeks and weeks, Joe Burrow was saying this,

582
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: does he strike you with someone that has any problem, saying,

583
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna sit until you trade me. That's all.

584
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm hurt all the time now here for whatever it is,

585
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: because you can't protect me. I am absolutely okay because

586
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: I know my value. I know what it is for

587
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: a team to get me at the age of thirty.

588
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 1: It's gonna protect me. I am absolutely okay because eventually

589
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: you will trade me. Eventually someone's gonna come in and

590
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna tire of the storyline and you're gonna make

591
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: that move. Something's going to happen. He is He is

592
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: not a guy that I that I said, Ah, he's

593
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: just gonna try to do this and and and and

594
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: bluff his way through and force a trade. No, the

595
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: Bengals have shown we'll let a quarterback sit and he

596
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: he is a guy.

597
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 3: He's telling you, I gotta be happy. I don't know.

598
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: Hey, he is absolutely gonna be fine sitting until they go.

599
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: I'll miss half the season. It's fine, I'll miss half

600
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,239
Speaker 1: the Season's timing week An, I don't think he can

601
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: do that because otherwise he wouldn't be playing right now.

602
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: He wouldn't have come back if he was that guy. Well,

603
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: I don't think he changed that much. I'm just with

604
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: the one game. He came back because he thought, even

605
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: though it's a bad year. The division stinks, right, the

606
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: Steelers are terrible, the Ravens can't get going, and Lamar

607
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: Jackson's hurt. Hey, I can come back and I can

608
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: lead us and we can maybe get back in this

609
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: That's why that's why he came back is.

610
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 3: I know he can still screw up, but now he can't.

611
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: Right, But now he can't because clearly they just lost

612
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: too many games. If they had won last week, boy,

613
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: you think about where they're at. But they lost. The

614
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks were difficult, and now he knows. Okay,

615
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: I came back. I gave it my best shot. I

616
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: thought we could do it.

617
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 3: We're not.

618
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 5: Now.

619
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 3: I got to lay the groundwork for getting on a

620
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 3: new team.

621
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, s angles fans start lining up all

622
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: those Pokemon that you've collected, your PSA graded ones and

623
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: line them at the feet of Joe Burrow and start

624
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: begging him to feel happier about life. Liberty and his

625
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: opportunity with the Cincinnati Bengals make him realize he loves Cincinnati,

626
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: he loves his teammates, because otherwise he gone.

627
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 3: Get ready new team in twenty twenty six, Get ready

628
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 3: for Joe Burrow franchise quarterback in the back. Oh no, no,

629
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 3: he's wants to go fumble that.

630
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, He's got to go to a team

631
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: that's like a quarterback away from being a super Bowl.

632
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: But what's also funny, though, is like we do the

633
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: old ay you know, this quarterback class, because remember this

634
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: quarterback class for twenty six was supposed to be pretty good.

635
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 3: Yeah and it stakes.

636
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 7: Yeah.

637
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: Now, so the fact that we're already going, eh, just

638
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: wait till twenty seven. Yeah, and then we'll wait till

639
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty nine. Yeah, you have proof of concept.

640
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,479
Speaker 4: The guy could actually quarterback on one leg and with

641
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 4: one arm.

642
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 3: You know where he could go. Where's that trending? Now?

643
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 7: Oh?

644
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 3: I like that Frostburg. There you go.

645
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: Let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sportsman.

646
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: Guy who's been called the Joe Burrow of Fox Sports Radio.

647
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: He had a batmobile, except he was six and he

648
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: got it for Christmas. It's Steve de sag.

649
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 3: Slightly different paychecks.

650
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 7: The Bengals, by the way, playing in Cincinnati, Y this weekend. Currently,

651
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 7: the forecast is twelve degrees for the day, Cincinnati four

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Speaker 7: and nine, as they'll be hosting Baltimore this weekend. The

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Speaker 7: Bengals do have the worst defense in the league, allowing

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Speaker 7: thirty two points a game over four hundred yards a game.

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Speaker 7: The Atlanta Falcons at four and nine, are in action

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Speaker 7: right now, and we're actually leading at Tampa Bay fourteen

657
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Speaker 7: to ten, late first half. It's now the Bucks late

658
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Speaker 7: in the third a head at home twenty to fourteen.

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Speaker 7: Baker Mayfield fourteen of twenty six passing two hundred and

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Speaker 7: forty four yards, one touchdown. Mike Evans back after a

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Speaker 7: couple months out he had a broken collar bone. He's

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Speaker 7: finally back from that. Tonight they've targeted him ten times.

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Speaker 7: Evans has five catches one hundred and twenty two yards.

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Speaker 7: Kirk Cousins with two touchdown passes in the first half

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Speaker 7: for Atlanta, both of those to Kyle Pitts, who has

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Speaker 7: seven receptions for one hundred and seventeen yards and two scores.

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Speaker 7: Bijon Robinson sixty six yards rushing sixty two yards receiving

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Speaker 7: on five catches final seconds of the third quarter at

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Speaker 7: Tampa Bay, the Bucks lead twenty to fourteen. The Bucks

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Speaker 7: are tied for first in the NFC South with Carolina,

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Speaker 7: and Tampa Bay plays two of its final three games

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Speaker 7: against the Panthers. Bengals wide receiver T Higgins was limited

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Speaker 7: in practice again today after a concussion. Dallas wide receiver

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Speaker 7: Cede Lamb practice fully after a concussion a week ago.

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Speaker 7: Steelers pass rusher TJ. Watt was hospitalized for a lung injury,

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Speaker 7: so his status for Monday night is in question. Rams

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Speaker 7: wide out DeVante Adams Smiths practice again with a hamstring

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Speaker 7: injury to the NBA just four games tonight, the LA

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Speaker 7: Clippers have just lost by two at Houston Rockets one

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Speaker 7: fifteen one thirteen. The final Clippers record now six and nineteen.

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Speaker 7: At Milwaukee, a win for the Bucks over Boston one

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Speaker 7: sixteen one oh one that ends the Celtics five game

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Speaker 7: winning streak. Also in action, well, New Orleans has lost

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Speaker 7: seven in a row. Orland's wound up winning that is

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Speaker 7: now final. Tonight one forty three to one twenty against

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Speaker 7: the Blazers and the late game. Has Denver had forty

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Speaker 7: six twenty six at Sacramento early in the second quarter.

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Speaker 7: Golden State Steph Curry is due to return Friday. He

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Speaker 7: missed five games with a quad injury. In men's college basketball,

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Speaker 7: on FS one, fourth ranked Iowa State was trailing at

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Speaker 7: home by thirteen late first half, but still beat rival

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Speaker 7: Iowa sixty six sixty two. Syracuse is four and zero

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Speaker 7: at home so far and leading at home tonight fifty

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Speaker 7: eight to fifty four against Saint Joe's with six minutes

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Speaker 7: to go. Green Bay won its first Horizon League game,

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Speaker 7: won and two in conference now eighty five seventy five

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Speaker 7: at IU Indianapolis. Among the thirteen NHL contests.

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Speaker 1: Were any chairs thrown after the game tonight? How don't

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Speaker 1: even know that no chairs were thrown?

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Speaker 7: No apologies tomorrow all right? Tampa Bay and the NHL

701
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Speaker 7: and eight four win at New Jersey Carolina, a shootout

702
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Speaker 7: winner at Washington three to two victories for Boston and

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Speaker 7: the Islanders. The Braves signed former Padres closer Robert Suarez

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Speaker 7: to a three year deal. Atlanta closer Rice Saleyglacias has

705
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Speaker 7: a new one year contract. NASCAR settled the anti trust

706
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Speaker 7: lawsuit brought by two of its race teams, and it

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Speaker 7: is now through three quarters at Tampa Bay. The Bucks

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Speaker 7: lead the Falcons twenty to fourteen. The Atlanta Falcons through

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Speaker 7: three have fifteen penalties for one hundred yards.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, Thank you, Steve Though, Jason Smith, Mike

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Speaker 1: Carmen Live at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 3: Coming up next. You want to know how.

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Speaker 1: Wide open the NFL is. I'll tell you something from

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Speaker 1: today that tells you just how wide open the entire

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Speaker 1: playoffs is. And if your team can get in, you

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Speaker 1: got a chance. That's next, Jason and Mike Fox.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. Baker Mayfield starting to cook after a Bejon

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Speaker 1: Robinson in fumble which Wow, didn't look like he had

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Speaker 1: the football for long enough to fumble, but it stands up.

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Speaker 1: Mayfield throws his second touchdown of the night and they

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Speaker 1: get the two point conversion and now it is a

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Speaker 1: twenty eight to fourteen lead, Tampa Bay over the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Still a lot of time left, about thirteen and a

728
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Speaker 1: half minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: But now some.

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Speaker 1: Daylight for a team that is hoping to put a

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Speaker 1: little bit of positive spin on the last few weeks

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Speaker 1: where they've kind of falling off the lead in the

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Speaker 1: NFC South and really plant their foot towards what could

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Speaker 1: be a big December.

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Speaker 4: Two steps, three steps fumble. We're gonna have that debate

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Speaker 4: once again. But the way you phrase that sounded like

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Speaker 4: a man who was salty. He might have just lost

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Speaker 4: two points in a fantasy.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I did.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm upset about the two points I lost. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I should have lost him. Maybe I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: sue the NFL because of it.

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Speaker 4: It's another one of those great battles, going back to

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Speaker 4: the likely play at about one hundred others over the

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Speaker 4: course of the year.

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Speaker 3: What is a Catch? Twenty twenty five edition.

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Speaker 1: Again, twenty eight to fourteen, thirteen and a half to

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Speaker 1: go in the fourth quarter, Tampa Bay up by two touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Now you've heard a lot the last few weeks, but

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Speaker 1: how wide open the nfls and yes, it is right.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about how the teams at the top, they're interchangeable.

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Speaker 1: We thought the Rams were the best team in the

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Speaker 1: NFL by far. Now maybe they're still the best team,

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Speaker 1: but maybe not by far. Nothing illustrates how wide open

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Speaker 1: it is more than this. Okay, just think about this

756
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Speaker 1: for a second, because in part of my research today

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the show, I saw one of those

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Speaker 1: if the season ended today, here are the NFL playoff

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Speaker 1: matchups for the first weekend. Okay, if the season ended today,

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Speaker 1: and then it goes to the committee and it all

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Speaker 1: goes to help right, No, we're voting, yeah, and I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame's not making it. This is going for you know,

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Speaker 1: the team that finishes, you know, team in first has

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Speaker 1: the bye. This is what the matchup the season ended today,

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Speaker 1: if the season ended today, because that's how you got

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Speaker 1: to play this game. If the season ended today and

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Speaker 1: we were playing the playoffs this weekend, I would take

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Speaker 1: the lower seeded team in every playoff game, in every game,

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Speaker 1: every one, I would take the lower seeded team. I

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Speaker 1: would take Houston over New England. And that's the one

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Speaker 1: that's a little dicey, but Houston's defense. Yeah, I feel

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Speaker 1: pretty good about them against New England and a team

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Speaker 1: getting their first taste of the playoffs. Buffalo in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: I'll take Buffalo, Chargers in Pittsburgh. I'll take the Chargers

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Speaker 1: all day long in that one. Chicago, Green Bay, I'll

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Speaker 1: take the Bears to win the rematch they should have

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Speaker 1: won last week.

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Speaker 3: Well we get we already get it again.

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Speaker 1: So San Francisco, Philadelphia, I'll take San Francisco. Not that

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Speaker 1: I think the San Francisco is great, but wow, Philadelphia

781
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Speaker 1: is just falling apart. Seattle, Tampa Bay. I'll take Seattle

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Speaker 1: like I will take all of these teams. I will

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Speaker 1: take all of the lower seeded teams in the first round.

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Speaker 1: All of that, and I really again Houston, New England

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Speaker 1: the only one that gives me a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a pause, because, look, New England is very good, but boy,

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Speaker 1: their schedule has been really easy. And this Texans defense

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Speaker 1: is the best defense in the NFL. And if we're

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Speaker 1: playing this weekend, right, because that's that's the game right

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00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: season today, if they're playing this weekend, I'll take I'll

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Speaker 1: take them over the Patriots offense. I'll take the lower

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Speaker 1: seed in every matchup.

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Speaker 4: I'll get a noe doubt to Firman to see what

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00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 4: kind of odds you could get on that if the

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Speaker 4: playoffs were to start this weekend, because certainly that's a

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Speaker 4: that's a hell of a parlay along the way, we

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Speaker 4: talk about home field advantage maybe not having that same

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Speaker 4: juice that it once did in a lot of these circumstances,

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Speaker 4: so that that's part of the equation. A lot more

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Speaker 4: indoor teams as we traverse. But yeah, for the Patriots

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Speaker 4: still the jury's out. A lot of love for Drake May.

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Speaker 1: But something we've chronicled all season, part of it fueled

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Speaker 1: by your Jets hate, is their strength of schedule, and

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00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: that really is the underscore, you know, underline and bold

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Speaker 1: face italics. Whatever we want to do to it of

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00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five season is that as we go

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00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: unit to unit, that that's exactly how we have to

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Speaker 1: do it because we're not going team to team. We're

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out, all, right, where's the best side

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00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: of a football team?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: You're used in defense, while is the offense up the

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Speaker 4: task most Sundays?

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Speaker 3: Just enough?

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Speaker 4: Right, Seattle, You love the defense and what they've done.

816
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Speaker 4: Do you trust sam Donold in a big spot right that,

817
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 4: that question still remains.

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Speaker 1: I'll trust them this well, I'll trust them this week

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Speaker 1: play Tampa Bay. I'll trust that defense. Yeah, but I'll tr.

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Speaker 4: But with all of these guys back on the field,

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Speaker 4: I'll take this full compliment of players. I'll take the

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Speaker 4: Tampa Bay offense. But but it does beget a very

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Speaker 4: interesting thing for Roger Goodellen company because they just smile

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Speaker 4: and start cackling, because that means everybody's gonna watch waiting

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Speaker 4: on upsets. All the sports books are excited because wait,

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Speaker 4: you want to put money on all the dogs?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Now, look is that this is not saying that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: all of that's going to happen. But if you're saying

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Speaker 1: to me individual game by game, I'll take all the

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Speaker 1: lower seeded that's how wide open this is. I'll take

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Speaker 1: all the lower seeded teams in the game.

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Speaker 4: With the chaos, I mean, the Bears did play a

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Speaker 4: very good second half of football, and but for the

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Speaker 4: bad read of the situation by camleb Williams on that

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Speaker 4: interception right, having a comet underneath, having the ability to

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Speaker 4: run for the first down, still having time on the clock,

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Speaker 4: all of those things. But yeah, it's it's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a fun final four weeks as we jockey for playoff position.

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Speaker 3: Exit about of Fresca, exit, Swellendome. That's how wide open

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Speaker 3: it is.

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Speaker 1: We got more from Thursday Night Football and okay, smart guy,

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Speaker 1: you say Joe Burrow is gonna get traded in the offseason.

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Speaker 1: Where's he going? I got two teams for you next,

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Speaker 1: Chason and Mike