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Speaker 1: And no bigger story tonight than the absolute clinic that

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Speaker 1: Indiana put on as they beat Oregon fifty six twenty two.

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Speaker 2: I thought you're gonna talk about the Sun's game tonight.

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Speaker 2: I thought that's where you were going with this. No,

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Speaker 2: there was no basketball tonight against the Knicks. Oh No,

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Speaker 2: there was.

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Speaker 1: No basketball tonight. If you know that or not there's

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Speaker 1: no basketball.

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Speaker 2: Well you can make a case.

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Speaker 1: Well usually if I say Indiana, you're thinking basketball, right,

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Speaker 1: so I get absolutely, Uh Indiana one went away from

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Speaker 1: twenty three. If someone said that to you a twenty

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Speaker 1: to win the national championship, like you know how much money?

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Speaker 1: Like that's like if I could go back in time,

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Speaker 1: like forget forget uh bif ten and making all that

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Speaker 1: money with the sports Almanac, I would just say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd put everything on Indiana for two years and yeah,

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Speaker 2: No better, even won better. And six months ago, if

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Speaker 2: you said to the people in that state, Indiana, who's

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Speaker 2: your football is gonna have more victories than the Indiana Pacers.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be the case, isn't it? If you said that,

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Speaker 1: you know you said that. If you said the day

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Speaker 1: before Game seven of the NBA Finals, yes, hey, guess

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Speaker 1: what next year Indiana football have more with than the

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Speaker 2: Because the Indiana Pacers have played about forty games and

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Speaker 2: still only have seven victories. Indieah football is fifteen and

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Speaker 1: I mean I don't know that Indiana like this for

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Speaker 1: like up until this point, I mean the rest like India.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Indiana is gonna get to fifteen wins?

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Speaker 1: Like are they are they gonna get? I mean, now, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm guess if the football team gets that sixteenth win,

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Speaker 1: that'll really salted away. I don't know that Indiana is

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Speaker 1: getting to sixteen wins. I mean, think about that for

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's gonna be one of your prop

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Speaker 2: bets super Bowl week in Vegas, does it not?

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, I Indiana basketball give me.

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Speaker 2: A better NBA prop than that Vegas.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good, man, I mean really, yes, six and

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Speaker 1: you know, finally for Indiana and and and and and

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Speaker 1: Rick Carlisle beating Charlotte one fourteen to one twelve, that

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Speaker 1: finally gave Rick Carlile his thousandth win of his NBA career.

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Speaker 1: He's been waiting to crack open that champagne since December eighth, Right,

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Speaker 2: Or something like that, losses.

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Speaker 1: So he finally gets it. A big night for Pascal Siaka.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations with the Pacers as they head towards the lottery,

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Speaker 1: but at least they get that thousandth win for Rick Card.

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Speaker 2: You know, Indiana Pacers are playing I think on the

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I think what is it? Points

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Speaker 2: I still say it. Just compare the two teams in state.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen, possibly sixteen. They're in lies the rum oh

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Speaker 2: How can you know?

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Speaker 2: You see the last few weeks exactly what you just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and me being a Knicks fan, it's entertaining

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Speaker 2: Seeing why did I keep somebody from the finals last year?

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Speaker 1: keeping the big market teams from beating them, and that's

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Speaker 1: what's too soon. Uh So, here's Indiana into the National

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Speaker 1: if this, if this Indiana team shows up, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter what Miami does. But to look ahead, just for

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Speaker 1: a little bit closer than you think. Oregon's matchup against Indiana.

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Speaker 2: Something very rare happened is Indiana beat a top five

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Speaker 1: Mendoza threw five touchdowns. Anything he wanted to do he did.

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Speaker 1: was a perfect game for Indiana. You're gonna get a

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna play at this level. Now you look

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Speaker 1: You know, they've been able to come out every game

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Speaker 1: Boy was oh Indiana was on the ropes in this game,

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Speaker 1: You see them play the long drives. They don't hit

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Speaker 1: And you get a couple of quarters where you control

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Speaker 1: that can give Indiana some problems here, especially a team

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Speaker 2: I will nominate the two thousand and one Miami Hurricanes

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Speaker 1: All gonna be there, are you kidding? Steve Ye, every

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Speaker 1: member of that team. They're gonna have forty seven caps.

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Speaker 2: Frank Gore was on that team, wasn't it. Jeremy Shockey,

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Speaker 2: that team, and Reed was on that team. Jonathan Vilma,

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is a college team we're talking about.

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Speaker 2: They were so dominant and undefeated and number one, it's

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Speaker 2: the best roster I've see, even better than some of

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Speaker 2: What scares me about Miami in the final is that

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Speaker 2: Mendozas had so many more good games for Indiana than

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Speaker 2: their quarterback Carson Beck has had for the Hurricanes, and

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Speaker 2: he's had a good year, but we're not that far

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Speaker 2: removed from Indiana. Excuse me, Miami at Texas A and

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Speaker 2: And wasn't there an LSU game where it happened to

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Speaker 1: We'll have more on tonight's big win from Indiana, the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Hoosiers. Yay can win the national championship in football?

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Speaker 1: They saw in ten days in football. Just think about that.

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Speaker 2: I mean two years all they won in conference. Two

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Speaker 2: But what kind of why the Rams played starters? Isn't

434
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Speaker 2: it last week?

435
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, look, you know they're looking for certain things,

436
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Speaker 1: but not every team is built that way. Because you

437
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 1: have the Bears, who you know, look, they lose a

438
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Speaker 1: game when you thought, oh, we're gonna seize the number

439
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 1: two seed. They lost. But the Eagles, who didn't play

440
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,400
Speaker 1: their starters lost, so they give up that two seed.

441
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 1: In this questions in Philadelphia about Nick Sirianni, I'm pretty

442
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,120
Speaker 1: sure Nick Sirianni knows what he's doing, So I feel

443
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 1: okay about that Chargers didn't start their guys. They could

444
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 1: have improved their playoff seeding Green Bay as well. For

445
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 1: teams that don't have a winner go home situation in

446
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,400
Speaker 1: week eighteen, there's zero correlation between how they're playing week

447
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 1: eighteen and how they play the next week. Right, it

448
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 1: just isn't the same. It's you know, yes, you want

449
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,880
Speaker 1: to play Hey, okay, you know, yes, we're a six seed.

450
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 1: We could be as high as the four seed. Well

451
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 1: is that really enough to have you go absolutely crazy?

452
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Speaker 1: To win this game, because at this point, you know

453
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Speaker 1: your eyes are on the following week. Even if you're

454
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Speaker 1: a team, Hey you're a three seed, you can be

455
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Speaker 1: a two seed. Are you really playing with that kind

456
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Speaker 1: of impetus knowing full well one eye on this game

457
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Speaker 1: and one eye on making sure we're healthy and we're

458
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Speaker 1: ready for whatever game we play a week from now. Right,

459
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you're into a team that has quit and you

460
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Speaker 1: win the game anyway. Sometimes you were into a Week

461
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Speaker 1: eighteen team that, even though they were eliminated, has a

462
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Speaker 1: lot to play for. Right. The Lions came into the

463
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Speaker 1: game last weekgainst the Bears like they had the playoffs

464
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Speaker 1: on the line even though they were eliminated. Right, So

465
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Speaker 1: they played a lot harder than we expected them to.

466
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Speaker 1: But there's no correlation. I'm not looking look at any

467
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Speaker 1: team or ding them or think they're gonna lose because

468
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Speaker 1: of what happened last week. Right, whether it's Chicago, Green Bay, Philly,

469
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Speaker 1: the Chargers, nobody like it's all gonna be about what

470
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Speaker 1: we see this week in the games. Because unless you're

471
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Speaker 1: in a winner go home situation, if you lose in

472
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Speaker 1: Week eighteen, you know what it happens It's one of

473
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Speaker 1: those things. It's a weird phenomenon, but you know, look,

474
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Speaker 1: we've seen teams lose games Week eighteen and go, boy,

475
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Speaker 1: what happened to them this week, and then go on

476
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Speaker 1: a huge run in the playoffs. So I'm not concerned

477
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Speaker 1: about these teams at all. From last week going into.

478
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Speaker 2: This weekend, Green Bay Packers have not won a game

479
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Speaker 2: since early December, been a full month since they had

480
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Speaker 2: a w four losses in a row. But their Week

481
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Speaker 2: eighteen offense was no Josh Jacobs and they had Clayton

482
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Speaker 2: Tune at quarterback and they were completely out of tune,

483
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Speaker 2: and they barely scored at Minnesota. What scares me is

484
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 2: the week before is when Derrick Henry completely rolled them.

485
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 2: And if this matchup wasn't Packers at Bears, and those

486
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 2: have been two very close, very exciting games in December,

487
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 2: if it was somebody else, Frankly, I wouldn't give the

488
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Speaker 2: Packers much of a chance to win on Saturday night

489
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Speaker 2: against the Bears, right back in Chicago where they played

490
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Speaker 2: this overtime classic just a couple weeks back. I do

491
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Speaker 2: give the Packers a chance because I don't quite trust

492
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Speaker 2: what the Bears are at this point in the franchise's maturation.

493
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Speaker 2: I do believe in the ground game, and I do

494
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Speaker 2: believe that the quarterback can be spectacular. But they had

495
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,199
Speaker 2: a losing record Chicago in division games, and if it

496
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Speaker 2: wasn't for absolutely magical finishes, including in Chicago against Green Bay,

497
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 2: there'd be nowhere near the two seed in the nfseed.

498
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Speaker 2: That game when they were hosting the Packers, that Saturday

499
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Speaker 2: night game, you remember before Christmas, the offense did nothing

500
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 2: until the final couple of minutes of regulation and kind

501
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 2: of stole that game. But these wins count, and the

502
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 2: Bears shockingly have six wins this season when trailing in

503
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Speaker 2: the last two minutes of the fourth quarter. Last season,

504
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Speaker 2: they didn't have six wins total.

505
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Speaker 1: See, I'm all in on the Bears. I knew they

506
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Speaker 1: would be good beginning of the year. I knew Caleb

507
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: Williams and Ben Johnson were going to work. It was

508
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit of time. They've won every

509
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 1: kind of game, and this is a Packers team that

510
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: is banged up, has not played well. This should be

511
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,919
Speaker 1: the Bears all the way through, right. The Bears have

512
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 1: so many weapons, it's somebody different every week. Sometimes the

513
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: big week from DJ Moore. Sometimes it's both running backs

514
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: playing well. Sometimes it's Colston Loveland who was starting to

515
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 1: break out a little bit and out the Bear and defensively,

516
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: as opportunistic as they are, the turnovers they get. This

517
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: should be Bears all the way through. But and I've

518
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: said this, and I'm you know, I feel bad because

519
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: I'm I know Harmon's texted me stop throwing this out

520
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,400
Speaker 1: there for my Bears. But I feel like, like, the

521
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: only way I see the Bears losing if there's some

522
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: incredibly embarrassing play that happens in the fourth quarter of

523
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: the game that flips it towards the Packers. It's closer

524
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Speaker 1: than anticipated, and something nutty happens, like like of the

525
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: double doint variety, Like something like that happens, you go, well,

526
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 1: of course that's going to happen to the Bears, and

527
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: we spend all next week talking about it, playing the

528
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: play by play on the show, like that's the that's

529
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 1: my only fear for the night we saw tonight. That happens.

530
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Speaker 2: The quarterback goes back to pass right, he is not

531
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 2: handed off, and then the running back nudges the ball

532
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,439
Speaker 2: out of his hands. Yeah, and there's your turnover in

533
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 2: your own red zone, and oh my goodness, how could

534
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 2: that happen? There are two things that don't make me

535
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 2: that confident about the Bears. They should win, and not

536
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 2: just because they're at home. They should beat the Packers

537
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. But that shootout that they played at San

538
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 2: Francisco that the Bears lost a couple of weeks ago

539
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 2: not a good sign. They should be not not playing

540
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 2: high scoring games like that. And on top of that,

541
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 2: these past couple weeks, they've had a chance for the

542
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 2: last two minutes magic and to win the game anyway,

543
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 2: and they've lost both of those games. But these Bears

544
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 2: full season allow over twenty four points a game, which

545
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 2: is easily the worst among this year's playoff teams. If

546
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 2: the Packers are just healthy enough to get the offense

547
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 2: into the twenties, yeah, they've got a chance at Chicago.

548
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: See. But I'm okay because I could see the Bears

549
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 1: as that told me. The Bears can win any kind

550
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: of game. You know, they can win a game where

551
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: they need to run the football. They can win the game.

552
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: If Caleb Williams has to go, you know, through the

553
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: air fort they can win against.

554
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Speaker 2: San Francisco at the end.

555
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look though they had a chance that

556
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 1: they could have won that game. That had a chance

557
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: at the end. You know, a couple of things go

558
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: that way. If Caleb Williams waits one more like another

559
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: half second, he's got DJ Moore open for a game

560
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: winning touchdown on the final play, right another half second,

561
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: he's got DJ Moore for a touchdown. So yeah, look,

562
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Speaker 1: I have no problem with the Bears in this game.

563
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: They're playing it with everything going on, playing at home

564
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: again unless they bear, you know, Bears might bear and

565
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: that that's my one. That's my one.

566
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 2: By the way, with this game Saturday night. Two things,

567
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 2: this is going to be the windiest of all the

568
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 2: NFL games. Not terribly surprising is they're going to be

569
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 2: in the Windy City. The other thing to keep in mind,

570
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 2: it's unless you live in the areas of Green Bay

571
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 2: and Chicago. This is a streaming only playoff game, the

572
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 2: only one in this postseason.

573
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, speaking of streaming, how about hey the Mets

574
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: are playing Opening Day next year against Paul Schemes. Yeah,

575
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: streaming on. You're not gonna get the game unless you

576
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: can stream it. Yeah, tream it all the big opening

577
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 1: day games next year. Yeah, you gotta stream it all.

578
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 2: These leagues are just accepting check after check. They don't

579
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 2: care who. At some point are you going to establish

580
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 2: something now the game.

581
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: That I I'd like to be able to say, I

582
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: could see a way where they can win, but I can't.

583
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: If the Rams don't win tomorrow by twenty points, you

584
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: got to blow this team up and start over. Like

585
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: the Rams. This is still, for my money, the best

586
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: team in the NFC right now, as far as their roster,

587
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: what they've shown you over the course of this year. Now,

588
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: they didn't finish the way I thought they would because

589
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: they started out great this year. They knew that, hey,

590
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: we have to We can't every year. Can't be the

591
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: last half of the year with the best team in

592
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: the NFL because you don't want to play the one seed.

593
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: Yeah they don't want to. Yeah, they don't want to

594
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: play the NFC title game in Philadelphia at the end

595
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: of January, right, you don't want that. Yeah, But they

596
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: didn't finish the way I expected. But this is a

597
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: game tomorrow against the Carolina team that's not any good.

598
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: If Bryce Young goes up and down the field and

599
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: beats the Rams. This should be where, Okay, even though

600
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: you have Matthew Stafford this team, you need to break

601
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: it up and start over because clearly you're not as

602
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: good as you think you are. I know they beat

603
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: him earlier this year. It's a different situation the Rams

604
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: in the playoffs where they've been everything is new for Carolina.

605
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: The Rams are a big switch flip team from the

606
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: regular season to the playoffs. That's a team that knows, okay,

607
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: it's now for time for a different kind of intensity,

608
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: different kind of focus, different kind of execution. They've been

609
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: waiting for. This moment didn't end the way they wanted.

610
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: They're not going to have home field, and especially now

611
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: probably pissed, you know, being on the road in a

612
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: Sea that's eight to nine. But this should be a

613
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: game where they win. If they don't win by twenty points,

614
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: I'll be surprised. And again if they lose, break up

615
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: the Rams and start over again. But this should be

616
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: a huge Rams win.

617
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 2: It should be a Rams win, and they should have

618
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 2: won the last time they were in Charlotte. But Matthew

619
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: Stafford had easily one of his worst games of the

620
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 2: year and Bryce Young was very good, and will both

621
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 2: of those things happen in the same game at Charlotte

622
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 2: again tomorrow afternoon. I'm not so sure. Panthers are also,

623
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 2: by the way, hosting their first playoff game in a decade.

624
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 2: But the Rams have the best offense in the league

625
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 2: thirty points a game, almost four hundred yards a game.

626
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 2: I don't think the Rams have to be special to

627
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 2: win this game tomorrow. They just can't. I mean, they

628
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: have absolutely gagged some roadue games this year Seattle the

629
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 2: early season, Philadelphia as well. If they don't do something

630
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: extreme like that, this game should be theirs.

631
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be. It should be a game where,

632
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: at the worst they win a game, they win it

633
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: like twenty seven thirteen and you say, ah, it was

634
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: a little bit closer than expected, but the Rams still well,

635
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: like like that's as bad a game as it should be.

636
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: Like it.

637
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: Honestly, it should be forty one to ten. That should

638
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: be the score of this game, and it should be

639
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: interceptions and turnovers and the Rams and the Rams defense

640
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: look Rams up one of the top five defenses in

641
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: the NFL. Clearly, that's the way it should be. Like

642
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: a disappointing Rams win is like twenty seven to ten,

643
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: like on something like that is disappointing. But man, I'll

644
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: tell you what there is if they lose. That is

645
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: one of those look in the mirror, is is it

646
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: time to blow it up? Because you can't suddenly just

647
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: say well, let's get the band back together. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get there next year. It doesn't happen that.

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Speaker 2: Way because that would mean three ridiculous road losses. If

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Speaker 2: this is well four two in the same place.

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Speaker 1: Exit out about a fresco Jason Smith Steve to say,

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Speaker 1: you're in for Mike Hartmon. We got more football coming up.

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Speaker 1: But right now, Steve's got what's trending tonight in the

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Speaker 1: wide world of sports. There was no basketball tonight. Games

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Speaker 1: were canceled in Phoenix and the Greater Phoenix area. So

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Speaker 1: everything else Steve's got for you if you know that

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Speaker 1: or not.

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Speaker 2: Was there condensation on the court yet?

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Speaker 1: Too much condensation? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Well you know that hockey team. By the way, A

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Speaker 2: great stat from the SEC network as the Indiana Hoosiers

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Speaker 2: dominate tonight. They beat a top five Oregon team again

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Speaker 2: fifty six twenty two in the College football Playoffs semi final.

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Speaker 2: They had won at Oregon during the regular season in

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Speaker 2: conference play in October. Here's the stat Indiana Hoosiers football

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Speaker 2: enduring this season. All time, it's record against ap top

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Speaker 2: five clubs was one and seventy two. This now makes

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Speaker 2: three different wins against the top five in this one season, including,

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Speaker 2: as i say, two against Oregon, a team that went

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Speaker 2: thirteen to zero against everybody else. By the way, Fernando

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Speaker 2: Mendoza five touchdown passes tonight, Hoosiers led forty two seven

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Speaker 2: in the third quarter. Dante More of Oregon two touchdown

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Speaker 2: passes and one pick six that was on the first

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Speaker 2: play of the game. He had one fumble. Hoosiers with

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Speaker 2: eight touchdowns. They only had ten drives on offense in

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Speaker 2: the game. Miami had defeated Ole Miss in the other

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Speaker 2: semi Thursday in Arizona. City of Miami is hosting college

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Speaker 2: football's finale Monday the nineteenth. It will be Miami against

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Speaker 2: number one Indiana, which is fifteen and oh. The NCAA

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Speaker 2: denied a sixty year of eligibility at Old Miss quarterback

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Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss. The school will appeal. Michigan running back Justice

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Speaker 2: Haynes will enter the transfer portal the Washington Commanders promoted

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Speaker 2: David Bloud to offensive coordinator, replacing Cliff Kingsbury. Tonight, figure

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Speaker 2: skater Amber Glen Runner third US title, third straight. I

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Speaker 2: should say the Olympic ice skating competitors will be selected

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Speaker 2: formerly on Sunday. Brooks Koepka reapplied or applied for reinstatement

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Speaker 2: to the PGA Tour. He just left liv goal. He

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Speaker 2: can still compete at all the majors we know this

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Speaker 2: season NHL Utah winner and victories for Winnipeg and Washington

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Speaker 2: as well college hoops USC one in overtime at Minnesota

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Speaker 2: seventy to sixty nine. NBA Anthony Davis and the MAVs

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Speaker 2: could miss a few months if surgery is required on

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Speaker 2: his left hand. He has ligament damage. Portland won its

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Speaker 2: fifth straight, beating him.

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Speaker 1: That trade gets better and better for the Batwicks, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: It just gets better and better.

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Speaker 2: You know they should get get rid of that general manager.

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Speaker 2: Whoever that'll solve. Oh maybe not. Portland won eleven one

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Speaker 2: oh five over Houston despite thirty points from Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 2: Milwaukee edge the Lakers in LA in the late game,

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Speaker 2: one oh five, one oh one, Golden States in the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter outscored Sacramento forty to nineteen, wound up putting

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Speaker 2: him away one thirty seven to one oh three. Kings

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Speaker 2: have lost seventh straight. Steph Curry twenty seven points at Phoenix,

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Speaker 2: thirty one for Devin Booker at a win over the

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Speaker 2: next victory's on the road for the Clippers, and Atlanta

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Speaker 2: wins on the road for Philadelphia and New Orleans. Boston's

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Speaker 2: won nine eleven after beating Toronto one twenty five one seventeen. RJ.

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Speaker 2: Barrett of the Raptors left with an ankle inch in

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Speaker 2: Oklahoma City is thirty two and seven. Even though Shay

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Speaker 2: Giljos Alexander did not play at Memphis tonight due to

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Speaker 2: his brained ankle, and even though OKC was down twenty one,

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Speaker 2: they came back to win one seventeen one sixteen. Grizzlies

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Speaker 2: reportedly opened offers for guard Jahn Morant the NBA trade

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Speaker 2: deadline February fifth.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, thank you, Steve. Oh coming up next, Hey,

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Speaker 1: what about some upsets in the NFL playoffs this weekend?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you want one? I got two for you coming

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Speaker 1: up next, right here, Jason Smith, Steve to sagre In

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Speaker 1: for Harmon. This is Fox Sports Radio My Upsuck Special.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 3: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 3: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get down to business. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith's show is Steve de Seger and for Mike

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Speaker 1: harmonn Come on, Steve, Yeah, what'd you sease?

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Speaker 2: Jay?

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Speaker 1: The Huns a seven point underdog in the game in

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Speaker 1: this matchup, let's see what we have. Let's go live

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Speaker 1: to Genghis Khan who has left.

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Speaker 2: Uh carrying that? Because that's back when Mulan was a

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Speaker 2: good movie.

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Speaker 1: Mulan. Oh I love Mulan. Yeah, Donny Osmen doing the

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Speaker 1: singing for that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, comedy and then of course Disney remakes it completely

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Speaker 2: devoid of comedy. Well I'm sorry, why did you make this?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, we're gonna make it serious. Oh that's what,

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Speaker 1: because that's what people go to Disney for. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go for serious animated facts.

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Speaker 2: What we can see people ride horses? Okay, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: love horses, like I.

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Speaker 1: Watched people ride horses a lot of different places. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but they're riding horses. Oh, Okay, all right, guys, you're right.

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Speaker 1: I have to go see that now one percent. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: here we are in a night that Indiana heads to

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Speaker 1: the National Championship Game, they'll take on Miami. We broke

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Speaker 1: that down like the game was over basically after the

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Speaker 1: first pick six. Congratulations of Dante Moore, proving he is

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Speaker 1: a Jet right away. But and when you're a Jet,

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Speaker 1: you're a Jet all the way from your first pick

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Speaker 1: six to your last time you get cut and put

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Speaker 1: on waivers. But this weekend in the NFL, you big

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Speaker 1: private wildcard weekend. We talked about a couple of big

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Speaker 1: games tomorrow. You want a couple of upsets for you?

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Speaker 1: I got a couple. Number one. Look, you think I

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Speaker 1: would say this is time for a Trevor Lawrence appreciation moment.

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Speaker 1: As well as he has played, yes, he's been better.

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Speaker 1: He's been good mostly versus awful teams. He was great

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Speaker 1: against Denver. But I'm sorry, when you're really really great

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Speaker 1: against Arizona, Tennessee twice, Indianapolis who finished one in seven,

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Speaker 1: your best game was against the Jets, that doesn't count. Look, yes,

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Speaker 1: it's been a great year for Jacksonville, Liam Cohen, great

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Speaker 1: should be finishing the top three for Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Hundred percent, right, absolutely, hundred percent. But you beat Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you all the flowers you need. But I'm

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Speaker 1: going Buffalo because I expect this for Buffalo to sort

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Speaker 1: of kind of be what they need, because it's been

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Speaker 1: a season of stops and starts and to suddenly if

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Speaker 1: the Bills are sitting at home with a week, hey

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Speaker 1: we have a minor playoff. You know, we have a

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Speaker 1: team we should beat here. Like, I've seen this path

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Speaker 1: for the Bills and it's fallen short before. I think

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Speaker 1: maybe having to do it the hard way is what

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Speaker 1: this Bills team specifically needs. It's not like the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: are unbeatable. They've played a lot of bad teams. But

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Speaker 1: at this point I expect to see the Bills make

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Speaker 1: a big run to the AFC Championship game. Give me

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Speaker 1: them over the Jaguars. But if somehow Trevor Lawrence, I

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Speaker 1: will give him his flowers next week on the show.

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Speaker 1: But that's not gonna happen. This is where the Bills

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Speaker 1: start their run. It's what they need. They win, they

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Speaker 1: upset the Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's good and bad news for

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Speaker 2: the Bills. Good news is the Chiefs aren't in your

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Speaker 2: way in the AFC playoffs this time. The bad news

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Speaker 2: is I feel like there have been better Buffalo teams

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Speaker 2: entering the playoffs than this year's team. And the good

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Speaker 2: news is your past defense is number one in the league.

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Speaker 2: The bad news is run defense is bottom five in

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Speaker 2: the league. So if Jacksonville just has a basic game

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Speaker 2: on the ground, they can stay in this one. I

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Speaker 2: know they are a slight favorite at home. I was

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Speaker 2: expecting Jags to be much more of a favorite at

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Speaker 2: home because their run defense is great, and this team

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Speaker 2: has won eight in a row, and they have a

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Speaker 2: quarterback that how does anybody in the NFL, and they've

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Speaker 2: been good in the conference games ten and two this year.

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Speaker 2: There are so many things currently in Jacksonville's favor on

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Speaker 2: paper going in. I just can they put it all

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Speaker 2: together on this one day at home against a Buffalo

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Speaker 2: team that still has the talent at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: In a game like this, I will still take Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen over Trevor Lawrence. Great points of it, I will

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Speaker 1: take Josh Allen over Trevor Lawren.

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Speaker 2: I just watched back this week NFL networks had shown

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Speaker 2: the Trevor Lawrence first half of the playoffs against the Chargers,

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Speaker 2: and Brandon staleyrecose four interceptions in the first half, five

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Speaker 2: turnovers in the first half, and still Brett Heads to

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Speaker 2: be lost that game.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's why Brandon Staleley's not a head coaching

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Speaker 1: Yes it is. But you want another upset, give me

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Speaker 1: the Chargers over the Patriots. The Patriots easy schedule comes

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Speaker 1: back to bite them. They've been a great front running team,

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Speaker 1: right when they all season long against these bad teams

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Speaker 1: are able to get out ten thirteen nothing. It's a

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Speaker 1: lot easier to play that way. Defense travels in the playoffs. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's Sunday night, but weather's going to be

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Speaker 1: about thirty degrees. That's not going to be overwhelmingly awful

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Speaker 1: for the Chargers. This is a top five defense. How

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Speaker 1: does do England respond when they get punched in the mouth?

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Speaker 1: Give me Justin Herbert to get it done in the

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Speaker 1: game where the Chargers play their best all around game

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Speaker 1: of the year. I'll take the Chargers because of their

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Speaker 1: defense to make things problematic for Drake May in an upset,

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Speaker 1: they get the w.

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Speaker 2: Bad news for the Chargers. Is they still have the

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Speaker 2: offensive line that's completely unreliable. Good news is they're not

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Speaker 2: facing a great defense like Denver or Houston.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a that that that's a that's a big

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Speaker 1: h that's a big equalizer, especially if Herbert's able to

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Speaker 1: get the ball out quick. Be a big game for

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Speaker 1: that Rokey. This is gonna be. And Hampton's coming back

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Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, I'll take the charges an upset for Steve.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason coming up next. It's fn A on FSR.

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Speaker 1: You are listening to Fox Sports Radio. Enjoy the football

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Speaker 1: this weekend.