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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. Just that's true. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. Um Dan

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Speaker 1: Hansas comes to you from a virtual room filled with

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Speaker 1: some heroes, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal. This is the big

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Speaker 1: Super wild Card weekend preview show, and we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to all the games. It's gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Great weekend of football coming up Saturday, Sunday and a

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Speaker 1: Monday night game for the first time ever by by Fall.

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Speaker 1: We do that. Boys. Let's hit a little breaking news alright.

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Speaker 1: The Houston Texas, this just went down just as we

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Speaker 1: were getting going today, have fired David Culley. They waited

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Speaker 1: four days after the season ended to decide to cut

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Speaker 1: ties with the sixty six year old who went one

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Speaker 1: and done with Houston and Greg Cully. As we talked

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Speaker 1: about ad nausea both before the season started and then

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Speaker 1: felt like he was being set up to take the

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Speaker 1: fall and handle a very rough season in the organization's history,

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Speaker 1: and that seems exactly how it played out. Cully did

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Speaker 1: a very good job with a team with almost zero

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Speaker 1: he gets booted. Anyway, the Texans are looking for a

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Speaker 1: total refresh and Cully got caught up in that wash. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, dysfunctional teams do do dysfunctional things. I I

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Speaker 1: can't believe it because Adam Schefter reported that Cully was

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Speaker 1: only guaranteed two years on his five year contracts. So

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Speaker 1: all these tweets are coming out, you know, we do

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Speaker 1: this thing. You know, he gets fired and everyone is

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Speaker 1: kind of disgusted because the Texans knew what they were doing.

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Speaker 1: They knew her. They were hiring a guy to fire

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Speaker 1: him probably in one year, like they knew that. But

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Speaker 1: I was like, well, you know, he's he gets the

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Speaker 1: five year guaranteed money and all that. I mean that

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Speaker 1: it's kind of gross behavior, but there's that. But no,

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Speaker 1: they actually knew when they signed him, and they basically

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Speaker 1: let him know when they signed him, we're probably gonna

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Speaker 1: fire you after one year. And it's like, what are

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Speaker 1: we doing here? Because this is a team that espouses

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Speaker 1: these values of brotherhood often Christianity like other things. When

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Speaker 1: they're they're talking about what the teamwork and organization means,

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Speaker 1: and this is how they like go about things. And

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if by the next time we

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Speaker 1: It just feels like people that know things are saying

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Speaker 1: that that is going to happen. Right Like you, you

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Speaker 1: don't go through all this unless you've got a target

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Speaker 1: in a target that you believe you can acquire as

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Speaker 1: the next head coach. Because I find it UM with

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Speaker 1: eight vacancies now a pretty tough job to sell on

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Speaker 1: its face value, based on the wackiness of the organization UM,

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Speaker 1: the way operates, the way they've operated over the last

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Speaker 1: year plus, the Deshaun Watson situation, the roster in general,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that David Culley took the job of

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Speaker 1: it's a strange move by David Culley. I just think

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Speaker 1: this with Jared Mayo, Flora's or Josh McDaniels and good

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Speaker 1: luck to them. It's it's all about leverage and whatever

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Speaker 1: the businesses. But usually you don't really drop the hammer

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Speaker 1: about what optics mean. Because when you when you give

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Speaker 1: old NFL lifer, say hey, we'll give you a chance

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Speaker 1: to run this team, but we're not going to treat

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Speaker 1: that feels very icky to me, and I just hate

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Speaker 1: the way the whole process run out. And that's what

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Speaker 1: So if I'm taking my second job and this is

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Speaker 1: But I don't think you wanted to go a year

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Speaker 1: ahead of ourselves. You do wonder about Deshaun Watson's future,

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Speaker 1: to that right now. The New England Patriots, the sixth

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Speaker 1: seed in the a f C, travel to Buffalo to

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Speaker 1: take on the Bills. And Orchard Park. Weather is a thing.

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Speaker 1: Weather is a thing. In fact, is it a pressure point? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Why not? It's a pressure point. Pressure point because it

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Speaker 1: is supposed to be cold as a mother up in

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Speaker 1: western western New York. And there are, of course, as

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Speaker 1: you would imagine, a lot of stats flying around about

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Speaker 1: how the Bill's offense is going to perform in cold weather.

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Speaker 1: And that led to Bart Scott over on ESPN on

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Speaker 1: their morning show sharing an interesting take. Ricky play that

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Speaker 1: back the cold he doesn't play well and he says

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Speaker 1: the reason is because he's got bad circulations, so his

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Speaker 1: toes get cold. And guys, you know what's gonna Can

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Speaker 1: I get your suggestion for him listening? Can people get

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Speaker 1: this mentionable by agra take some biography the game? Baby,

442
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:34,880
Speaker 1: you gotta put that circulation going right? Yeah? Stop there

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Speaker 1: a second. You know what I love? First of all,

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00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 1: Bart Scott played in the league for over a decade.

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00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 1: He's not making this up like he's not working blue here.

446
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: He's sharing something crazy. But I love uptight people on TV.

447
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: It's like, oh god, Bart, and then and then uh,

448
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: what's his name? For Monday Night Football? Is like I

449
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 1: don't know how to move off of this. It's like

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Speaker 1: he's sharing something from inside the game that it's about

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Speaker 1: getting circulation in the body. I don't know how it

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Speaker 1: works in the zone, Mark and the old you can

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Speaker 1: tell me the old derogenis zone. I do not. I

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Speaker 1: do not take that particular substance, So I cannot tell

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Speaker 1: you how that works. But so I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's an issue for the guys playing once they pop it,

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Speaker 1: or if it has to be you know, particular one Mark.

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Speaker 1: Are you more like a sealist guy or I do not.

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Speaker 1: I do not partake in any of that stuff. But

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Speaker 1: I think in general you're talking about anyway. I just

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Speaker 1: I liked. I liked how everybody's clutching their pearls play

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Speaker 1: the rest of the drinkie have any medical backgrounds that

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Speaker 1: I can't. I don't really have a response to that,

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Speaker 1: but you you played A lot of us take right

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Speaker 1: because opens up the blood. A lot of us take

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Speaker 1: what do you mean at a lot of NFL players,

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Speaker 1: at least in my day, took biography, open up the blood.

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Speaker 1: Bess's been doing athlete because for heart medicine there's no lines,

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Speaker 1: makes sense. I mean, I also don't know. For all

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Speaker 1: I know It's just like one of those things that

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Speaker 1: got to asked there out among players um and has

472
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Speaker 1: no benefit whatsoever. But I love this world. I love

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Speaker 1: that Dawson Knox, like the Bills tight end, was brought

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Speaker 1: it up or was asked about it and was like

475
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,360
Speaker 1: kind of like Mark just now, like immediately was like high,

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Speaker 1: I've never taken it though I never would take it.

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Speaker 1: I never would take it and I and I would

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Speaker 1: have to get a prescription and I don't have a prescription,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna take it. That was That was

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox's stance. I don't know how to move off this.

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00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 1: Lewis Reddick having a meltdown. Oh my god. He mentioned

482
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Speaker 1: the Boner pill, which I mean, by the way, the

483
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 1: ads are nonstopped during football games for that product, So

484
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: I mean we just relax. Everybody's so uptight. He's sharing

485
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Speaker 1: a really interesting nugget there No, definitely play the first

486
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Speaker 1: part again. I just want to get Riddicks response again.

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Speaker 1: That's what drives me crazy, is that's who it was.

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Speaker 1: I can't I don't really have a response to that.

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Speaker 1: But you you played a lot of us take right,

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Speaker 1: because I ever opens up the blood a lot of

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Speaker 1: us take what do you mean? A lot of a

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Speaker 1: lot of NFL players, at least in my day, took

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Speaker 1: bioggrastive the blood Belts because first heart medicine. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how to move off with that. Relax. That's good insight.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy that what these players do to try

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Speaker 1: to get the best out of their I think it's

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Speaker 1: it's the It's probably the only thing you'll learn from

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Speaker 1: the shows, right. It's definitely the first time get up

499
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Speaker 1: has been clipped off on this show. So it's been

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Speaker 1: great for promotion. It's Bart Scott's biggest moment since uh

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Speaker 1: January of two thousand and twelve, an all new meaning

502
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Speaker 1: of get up. Yeah, well, that nailed it right. Vicky's

503
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Speaker 1: locked in right now, all right anyway, so it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be cold as hell and we'll see how that plays out. Now.

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Speaker 1: These two teams, obviously they've played twice the Vision Rivals,

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Speaker 1: each winning in their own home. But as Mark, it

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Speaker 1: pains Mark that the Pats didn't get enough credit for

508
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Speaker 1: the Monday night game when the conditions were fierce. Well,

509
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Speaker 1: this maybe sets up again here Mark, for the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps I don't want to say it, but I'll say

511
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Speaker 1: it the tougher team, the team that can handle something

512
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Speaker 1: a little bit out of the norm better than the Bills.

513
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: Based on that outcome, maybe this helps the Pats this

514
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: weather situation. We'll start there. I mean, I think I

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Speaker 1: think Bill Belichick having a third chance that the Bills helps. Also,

516
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: you know the Bills have a great coaching step two.

517
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Speaker 1: But that weather game, the first one was was chaotic.

518
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Speaker 1: But also you know, New England can't duplicate what they

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00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: attempted to do in that game. Having Mac Jones throw

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00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: the ball was at three times. They're gonna need to

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Speaker 1: get some big players from mac Jones. That's where I

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Speaker 1: get a little concerned with this entire third rematch is

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Speaker 1: just the mac Jones of the last couple of weeks

524
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Speaker 1: has I think been exposed a little bit, And are

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Speaker 1: they gonna be able to run the ball that you know,

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Speaker 1: I think Isaiah Winn being out that's not good for them.

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00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: You have initially questionable question. They have a bunch of

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Speaker 1: guys who are definitely banged up but limited in practice.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how they are. But I do think

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Speaker 1: that there's a slight edge whenever you get Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: three times coaching against the same opponent. Well, it's not

532
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: just three times, but three times in seven weeks. It's weird.

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Speaker 1: And uh, I do think that's like, that's the that's

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Speaker 1: a source of optimism. I think if you're a Patriots fan,

535
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Speaker 1: just that it's a division game and three times in

536
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Speaker 1: seven weeks, and then if you win it, it'll be

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00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: a Belichick type of coaching game because every other logical

538
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: trend is working against the Patriots. Josh Allen's playing his

539
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: best football of the year. I would say, I know

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Speaker 1: he had that game against Carolina, but even in that game,

541
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Speaker 1: they're running game has been on fire since the second

542
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: half of the Bucks game. Said playing his best football. Yeah,

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00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: I thought he played incredible last week. Interceptions on three

544
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Speaker 1: straight drives against the Falcons of all teams and weeks,

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Speaker 1: I get it. I said in that game that he

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Speaker 1: did run the ball well, they did score four touchdowns

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Speaker 1: in seven drives. Cup one of those interceptions was a fluke.

548
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: The other two were bad throws, obviously, but the throws

549
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: he made against the Jets were just that rageous. The

550
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: play the play in Tampa was as good a half

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00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: as any quarterbacks that all year, and I think the

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00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: game against New England was as good a game as

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Speaker 1: any quarterbacks had all year. He's he's trending up in general.

554
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Speaker 1: And more importantly, their running game is like they finished

555
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,719
Speaker 1: sixth in the year in the league and yards per

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Speaker 1: carry uh in e p a um in yards in

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00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: yards overall, and he's a huge part of that. Singletary

558
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: is running well and so I think that makes them

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00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: a little more complete. More importantly, the Patriots have been

560
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: terrible over the last month and and especially their defensive line,

561
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: where to me that was the difference this year was

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Speaker 1: Barmore in Judean. Barmore is now coming off an injury,

563
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: although he was limited practice. Judean's coming off a month

564
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Speaker 1: where he hasn't done anything and he's probably been a liability.

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Speaker 1: And right it's what's changed to me. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that it can't flip in a wild card game, but

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Speaker 1: I think lately, you know, other than the Jackson game,

568
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: like they have not played well defensively, and and that

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Speaker 1: it's a concern going up against Josh Allen. You also

570
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Speaker 1: might be down there starting corner Jalen Mills as COVID

571
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Speaker 1: by the way, you know, it's your point. The Titans

572
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: ran for two seventy on New England, the Colts two

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Speaker 1: twenty six. Last week the Dolphins put up on them.

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Speaker 1: So if you're Buffalo, whether it's you know, engined obviously

575
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Speaker 1: through Josh Allen, you have to have that balance, you

576
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Speaker 1: have to be able to run against New England if

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Speaker 1: you go back. I think the Bills are gonna take

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Speaker 1: care of business here. I think they're the better team.

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Speaker 1: And I think this sets up very well for the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo defense. Everybody's like focusing on the weather and everything

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Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, Buffalo's defense, with Mac Jones in a

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Speaker 1: big spot, having to make plays, playing at not a

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Speaker 1: high level right now, I think is the recipe for

584
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: a very ugly offensive performance for New England. And if

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Speaker 1: you look back, dating back now to the infamous weather

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00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: game on Monday night in Buffalo, all right, Jones through

587
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: for nineteen yards on three attempts. They hit their bye week,

588
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots, he comes and he's bad for three quarters.

589
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: Against the Colts, has a really nice fourth quarter. They

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00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: come back but lose that game. Then the Buffalo game,

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00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: he plays poorly all game. Uh really gets exposed I

592
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: thought by the Bills Jacksonville game, all right, good job,

593
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: fifty to ten, classic late Patriots season blowout against the

594
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: bad team. And then in Miami he again looks very rough.

595
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: I thought in that game he was very upset with himself.

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00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: He he gave it a very strong term and he

597
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: was I don't know if it was embarrassing or whatever.

598
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: He lost the fumble near midfield, he threw a pick six,

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00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: and I just think I like Mac Jones, and I

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00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: still think he has a very bright future. A rookie

601
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: year on balance has been very good. But I think

602
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: this is a bad draw for him, and I think

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00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: the Bills are going to take advantage of it. He

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00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: looks I mean, I don't know about exhausted, but he's

605
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: not like a physically imposing guy, and I think the

606
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: ware of the NFL season at times mentally physically has

607
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: maybe gotten to me. He also sounds like a perfectionist,

608
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: like he beats himself up in those postgame press conver

609
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: and says like can't you know He's very hard on himself,

610
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: and it's it's a tough matchup, like the Bills are

611
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: number one in defense, you know, I know, yards and

612
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Speaker 1: depending on how you want to look at it. They've

613
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: had a very easy schedule, but there's still a very

614
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: good defense. A rookie quarterback hasn't won a playoff game

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Speaker 1: since Russell Wilson, and the one before that was the

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00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: guy I mentioned before, t J Yates. It's like it

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00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: is hard to do. I still think it's possible, though,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't count out you know, Ramandre Stevenson, Kendrick Borne,

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Speaker 1: some of the guys who have been really good with

620
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: the ball in their hands making plays, and this thing

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00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: turning into a little bit of a defensive game, and

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Speaker 1: and it's close at the end. And in Belichick is

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00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: the difference. I don't think it's impossible. I do not

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Speaker 1: think it's impossible at all. In fact, I'm locking up

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00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Wow. I am tired of the disrespect. Although

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00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: I will say that they have not been the team

627
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: that I was so favored, so, you know, excited about

628
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. So this is dangerous. Um.

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Speaker 1: That is, while they dangerous, they're like four, you know,

630
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: they're underdogs here in this one. It was that is

631
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: that's gutsy. It's this to me, looks this is I

632
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: see it as the Patriots struggling to get into double digits,

633
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills because I don't totally trust their

634
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: offense right now. I don't think they were impressive at

635
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: all uh down the stretch in the last two weeks.

636
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: That could all get wiped out, obviously, but with the

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00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: conditions and Belichick and New England's defense, I don't think

638
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: they have a big scoring weeks. So they're gonna score

639
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: twenty to twenty four, but I think that's gonna be enough. UH.

640
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: The and the Bills move on. It wouldn't be a disaster,

641
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: by the way. It would be a disaster if the

642
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: Bills go one and done this year and lose to

643
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: the Pats like they need to win this game. That's

644
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: the one other you want to talk about pressure points.

645
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo is in this like the Steinbrenner doctrine. UH. In

646
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: the old days of the Yankees, anything short of a

647
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: championship is failure. Anything short of an a f C

648
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: title for the Bills is going to be considered failures.

649
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: You gotta take care of business. Well, they feel that

650
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: pressure on Saturday night, or they like a team that's

651
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: been there. And I guess this is how I've seen

652
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: the Bills all year that like, if they can just

653
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,479
Speaker 1: get to the point where they're into the playoffs have

654
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: have a home game, would be nice that I was

655
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: kind of expecting them to rise up a team that's

656
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 1: been there, like really good, better, they're in that sweet

657
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: spot of continuity, talent, all that stuff. That said, I

658
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: picked the Patriots online just because I didn't want to

659
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: like root against my picked. One last very quick point

660
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: is Ed Oliver has been playing out of his mind.

661
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: We just did. We just did an entire break that

662
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: I don't even believe it. I this is one I

663
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: admittedly don't believe it. But I'm just gonna pick the

664
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: Patriots because I don't want I don't want to, like,

665
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: I just want to be a line to what I'm

666
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: rooting for. Something good here, right, That's what I mean.

667
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: It's like, here's the reality. No one has any clue.

668
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: So in a case where it's you're rooting for your

669
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: team in a playoff, I'm not. I probably will never

670
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: pick against them in the playoffs in my entire life.

671
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 1: I mean that's the Certainly the Patriots could win this game,

672
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: it would not be some crazy upset. But when I

673
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: hear you off your analysis for ten minutes and it's

674
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: basically all pro Buffalo. I'm worried. It actually warms my

675
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: heart a little bit to see you. Then I'm worried

676
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: they could get blown out. But maybe that's my fandom.

677
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: I've been totally off on this team all year and

678
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: never know when they're going to be good or bad.

679
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 1: Mark's making me feel good. Formally, Yeah, I just really

680
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: feel like the Bills are the better team. I think

681
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: the cold will be an issue, and I just don't

682
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: see Mac Jones and Bill Belichick, you know, winning the

683
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: third the third time. You know, we it's split right now,

684
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: and I just think that the Bills are gonna definitely

685
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: get this one done. See now, I'm there was thank you,

686
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: I'm very that was. It was like she was like

687
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: building up for special powers over the last four or

688
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: five weeks sitting out the pics. It was all stratgi

689
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: so that this one could be even better. I had

690
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: a little like doctor Strange vibes to it. You put

691
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: like a witch his hat on. I would be certain

692
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: that also hasked me backing off my lock, because like

693
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: Ricky's powers on this front have been tangible. Side last

694
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: time we talked about it at do not know how

695
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: it works at A well, Plus, the bills are all

696
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,439
Speaker 1: gonna be running around with these huge boners. It's gonna

697
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: be super distracting. I don't know how to move off

698
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: of that. They're actually guess what, TV guy, you actually

699
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: your program, your morning show actually has something interesting that

700
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: just popped up, something that the audience didn't know about.

701
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: Why don't you actually listen to the former player? The

702
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: former pro bowler is a former player, so he should

703
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: he should double down on listening to the former player

704
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: Viagg back in the nineties, Uh, the nineties Browns, who

705
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: knows what you know? Maybe they wouldn't have moved to

706
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: Baltimore if if they did back then, All right, let's

707
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: move on Sunday. Let's move to Sunday. Philadelphia Eagles, the

708
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: seventh seed travel of Tampa to take on the Bucks. Now,

709
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: this sets up obviously very well for Tom Brady and company.

710
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: Tom Brady does not lose Tom Brady Greg. How many

711
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: times did Tom Brady go one and done? I think

712
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: the year after his knee reconstruction, the Ravens got him.

713
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: Has it ever happened well, that Jets game that was

714
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: a one and done wasn't it when you get a buy.

715
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: I don't think that's typically I don't look at it

716
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: that way, but yeah, I guess you're right. Well, the

717
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: Titans got him in the last year of New England

718
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: as well, so it's not unprecedented. So that kind of

719
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 1: blows up my theory there. So it's not like Tom

720
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 1: can't be defeated in the first round, but I can't

721
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: see the Eagles doing it in the wild card round.

722
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: I think you might be right. I don't think he's

723
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: ever lost in the wild card round other than that

724
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: Tennessee game. Yeah, Tennessee in the Baltimore game in two

725
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: thousand nine, right idea? Uh No, no, you're not. It's

726
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: just that was a long time ago. We're very mute.

727
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: The Eagles here, they need to me Mark, they need

728
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: to be in this game for Jalen Hurts to be

729
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: dynamic with his arms and his legs. That's the pressure

730
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: point to this game for me. Pressure point. If he

731
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: is not making those plays, and he hasn't been doing

732
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 1: it really at a consistent level since he came back,

733
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,959
Speaker 1: I don't think they have any chance. But if he does,

734
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: then it could get interesting. The way Tyler Heinek made

735
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: things interesting last year this time, um, but it really

736
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: is going to take something special from Hurts. That's my

737
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: belief with this game. I'm with you. I think you

738
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: know when they played the first time, that was before

739
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: Philly really went through its metamorphosis on offense and became

740
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: what they are and why they're in the playoffs. And

741
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: you know, I know that we like to just look

742
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: at the Bucks and say no one can run against them,

743
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's not true if you look at

744
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: the splits between trying to run between the tackles and

745
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: run outside the town les, and Jalen Hurts is one

746
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: of the best around doing that. I think that he

747
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 1: can make plays against this defensive front. You know, the

748
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: Bucks have a lot of guys right now that are

749
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: practicing who how do we know what they're gonna look like.

750
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have Antonio Brown or Chris Godwin,

751
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 1: but you look at like Lavant to David Shack, Barrett

752
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: is coming off the COVID list, Jason Pierre Paul. They're

753
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: on the practice field. But COVID has told us we

754
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 1: don't know what that guy is gonna look like. Necessarily,

755
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: days later in a game and in general what this

756
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: Buck's defense will look like. I trust the offense even

757
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: with out you know, your star guys in there, because

758
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: it's brady to put up to basically get a lead

759
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: early and put the Eagles into a situation where they're

760
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 1: playing from behind. It's gonna be very rainy too. I

761
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: think that kind of favors the Eagles a little bit

762
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: if it becomes sort of a sloppy run oriented game,

763
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: because you look at who the Bucks have, that's going

764
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: to diminish their passing attack. But maybe that means a

765
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: lot for Rob Gronkowski or something they're gonna I think

766
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: whether it will be again, whether it will be a

767
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 1: factor in this one. Right they the forecast right now

768
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: and things change in Florida pretty quickly. Is there could

769
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: be a big thunder and rainstorm. It could all be

770
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: done by the time the game happens, and it's just

771
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: like a little bit of a wet field in a

772
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: colder game. I think that would absolutely help Philadelphia. They

773
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: they they slow down the pace of play as much

774
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: as any team in the league offensively and defensively, like

775
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: they they gave up the shortest yards per completion of

776
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: any team in the league. But they give up one

777
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 1: of the highest percentage of completion, so it's like their

778
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: defense is built to just like give up a bunch

779
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: of seven yard throws. I worry that they're not a

780
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: team that changes what they do like post snap, and

781
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: I feel like you kind of have to do that

782
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: against Brady. That's what Belichick did in Week four, I

783
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: think was very telling to try to slow Tom Brady down.

784
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: And they don't have that sort of defense. So I'm

785
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: not worried about the Bucks offense at all. You give

786
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: the Bucks offensive line, uh healthy, Tom Brady fine, and

787
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: uh he'll roll. But I think Hurts will play well.

788
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: I think Hurts through the ball well. Late in the year,

789
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: he's still he still had key running plays. And you

790
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: mentioned to Mark this Tampa run the defense has been

791
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: averaged for half the season. It's sixteenth in e p

792
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: A in terms of the run defense for half the season,

793
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: going against one of the best offensive lines, one of

794
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: the best running games, and I think that's kind of

795
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: a recipe. You even saw it last week against Carolina,

796
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: just for not many possessions, Like Tampa was down in

797
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: that game, partly because they didn't have the ball at

798
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: all in the first half, and I could see this

799
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: being like a seven possession game for each team, where

800
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: it's actually pretty close at the end, and in Philly

801
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: covers that eight and a half point spread. And I

802
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: know you like the Eagles, Greg, but I just can't.

803
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: As I watched them week after week, I just couldn't

804
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: get invested in the team. They made the playoffs in

805
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: the back of a four game winning streak that beat Jets, Washington,

806
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,439
Speaker 1: Giants Washington, they got blown out fifty Burger and week

807
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: eighteen they were starting some of some of their guys.

808
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna get crazy about that. But if

809
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: there's ever a team to me that feels like, hey,

810
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: we went nine and eight, we went to the playoffs

811
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: in year one with a new head coach in the

812
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: first full season, a starter with Jalen Hurts. Uh, Yeah,

813
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 1: we got killed in the playoffs in the first round,

814
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: but it was Tom Brady Like that feels like, how

815
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: this is gonna play out now? Again, this is weird.

816
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: This is a weird season mark and you don't know

817
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: there's gonna be maybe an outcome here that doesn't make

818
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: any sense. But to me, if this, if I had

819
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: to pick what the final score and this one is

820
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 1: this one feels thirty four seven something like that. I

821
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 1: I think it's and I'm gonna lock up the bucks.

822
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: I'm all about the defending champs here and taking care

823
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: of business. So there you go. Can you even do

824
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: that based on what the desert is saying? Do we

825
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: still oh, we still ad here to the desert in

826
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs? I thought we waived that. I could certainly

827
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: move off it. I want to not gonna, you know,

828
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: be a schoolmarm about it. I think in the in

829
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: the past we started just forgot about the mirror in

830
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 1: the playoffs. If it's playoffs, if you want to kill

831
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: the mirror, kill the mirror, throw it out the window.

832
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: But I think it's gonna be closer than that. In fact,

833
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna have a weird um element where

834
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: it's the same exact score is the first time they

835
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: met two. That was a weird game. Yeah, I was.

836
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: I was going to base my locks off of, like

837
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: where you guys are going. It's like, well, if we

838
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: were allowed to take the Chiefs, you just take the Chiefs.

839
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: I mean, let's seem but Mark taking his minions on

840
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: me now on Twitter like, well, now Marco eating Dan

841
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: is not looking in the mirror. I was like, I

842
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: have to pick a real game. I would come up

843
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: because the spread is enormous, But what is the spread

844
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: a half or something? No, no, it's this one is

845
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: a eight and a half. Vegas is kind of like

846
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: Philly all year um, and I think it makes sense.

847
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 1: I think your point mark about the injured players is

848
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:44,720
Speaker 1: really important. Those aren't just like guys coming off of injury,

849
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: and even the COVID list Shack Barrett was hurt too.

850
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: They're they're coming off of serious injuries. David is as

851
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,959
Speaker 1: important to their defense as any player. Are they gonna

852
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: be themselves this week? First of all, they're gonna play

853
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: this week, we don't even know. But are they going

854
00:43:58,200 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: to be all the way back? I think this might

855
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: be the right week to catch them. Leonard Fournett is

856
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: another name you didn't mention, and he's coming off of

857
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: an injury that kept him off three or four weeks.

858
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: So these are their best These are the best players,

859
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: you know. These are some of their best players, Shack Barrett,

860
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette, Lavante David and so I think that that's

861
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 1: a huge factor in this one. You you're gonna have

862
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: to get something out of Breshad Perriman. You know your

863
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: guy Dan who you like to You know, he just

864
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: to talk about his hairline a lot. You know. Now

865
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: he's turning into a playoff hero here for the bucks.

866
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: He looked good. I tend to I like to do

867
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 1: it just arbitrarily, and I do a cut and paste

868
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: of Rashad Perriman's head shot and send it to the

869
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: gang on text with no other explanation other than I

870
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: just like to look at it, because, uh, it's like

871
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: he's stuck with the Dreads, even when the forehead was

872
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: racing up north. Uh. And I don't think that's what

873
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: he looks like anymore. But now, yeah, but they never

874
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: they've never updated it. So it's more almost in a

875
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: remembrance of when he was twenty two and was like,

876
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: I'm not willing to give up the Dread battle yet

877
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,439
Speaker 1: now it's over. He made some real plays. He made

878
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: a catch last week that was incredible. Mike Evans looked

879
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: really good last week. He was someone someone I think

880
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: that gets to the point I was making about the injuries,

881
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: like he didn't look like himself for a week or

882
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: two coming off that injury. But last week it looked

883
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: like the old Mike Evans again, which is big. So

884
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: you put Darius Slay on Mike Evans for you know,

885
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: the game, and I do think that puts Tom Brady

886
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: in a tough situation. If if, if the weather and

887
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: wind and rain are a factor here, I I think

888
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 1: it changes what they have to do a little bit.

889
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be closer than what

890
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: you mentioned seven in um we'll see Tampa by the

891
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: way seven and one at home this year. And Tom

892
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: Brady has been an absolute stud and Bruce arians in

893
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: a playoff week, started his availability on Monday by basically

894
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: calling out anyone who says it makes any sense not

895
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,760
Speaker 1: to give the fourth m v P Award to Tom Brady.

896
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: Let's listen to Bruce. I think it's if he didn't

897
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: get it, it's a travesty. I mean, most completions ever,

898
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 1: five thousand yards, touchdowns, the whole, the whole nine yards.

899
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean to me, it's not even it's

900
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: not even a close race. I like it any he's

901
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: got a great case. I think Rogers would probably be

902
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: my pick. But if Brady wanted, there's nobody that can say, oh,

903
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: that's a travesty, because he absolutely has delivered this year

904
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:25,959
Speaker 1: in a big way. I think he was a little

905
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: more consistent. I think he was definitely better in the

906
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: first half of the season, and so it's a little

907
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: bit of recency bias. Rodgers clothes stronger. Although Brady played

908
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: great the last three weeks against bad teams, and I

909
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: think volume should matter a little bit. Like he dropped

910
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,720
Speaker 1: back to pass a hundred and seventy more times than Rogers,

911
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: and to me, they were pretty close in terms of

912
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: their effectiveness when they dropped back to pass. He also

913
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: didn't miss a game, like a game is a significant

914
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: portion of the season, a seventy extra times. I'm giving

915
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: it to Tom Brady. I'll get to Tom's who. But

916
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: think if you're the Saints, thinking what you did to

917
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: both of these m VP candidates over three games, Yeah,

918
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: that's fair, Saints. The Saints. Saints with Jamis Winston would

919
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 1: have been a fun seven seed in this game, for instance,

920
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 1: or in in a in a different wild card game,

921
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 1: they would have been fun. They would have made the playoffs,

922
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: that would have won a game, they would have won

923
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: an extra game with I guess I agree with you,

924
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 1: Like Winston would have given a little bit of sizzle.

925
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: But I was okay with the Saints not being in

926
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: the playoffs. What about Jamis back on the Bucks. We

927
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: just insert him into that situation. I don't like that

928
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: at all. So it's a classic middle of the road guy.

929
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: Is Jamis a free agent? By the way, Yeah, that

930
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: would be amazing if the Bucks won another Super Bowl

931
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: and then they traded Brady and signed Jamis Winston. That

932
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: would be surprising. This amazing, amazing. All right, let's move

933
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: to the uh, the middle game on Sunday right after

934
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: this break. All right, we're back. This is to me

935
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: the best game of the weekend. The San Francisco forty

936
00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: Niners pipe and hot after that really impressive ze comeback

937
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: win uh here in l A to beat the Rams

938
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: there the six seed. They travel now to Dallas to

939
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: take on the Cowboys. The Cowboys are the three seed.

940
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 1: Um and Mark, Uh, this game to me profiles as

941
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: a Dallas team that's gonna be favoriteed to win this game. UM,

942
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: I would imagine they're getting probably about three and a

943
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: half or so, greg Um three and Uh they have

944
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: all the firepower and this this team really when you

945
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,760
Speaker 1: consider all that they have, which is a five thousand

946
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 1: yard passer, a one thousand yard receiver, a one thousand

947
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: yard rusher, a linebacker with ten plus sacks or twelve

948
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: plus sax and Michael Parsons cornerback with ten interceptions, Pro

949
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: bowlers all over the place. They're supposed to win this game.

950
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: And yet doesn't it feel like the Niners are a

951
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 1: really tough matchup and to me feel like the team

952
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 1: that's gonna come out of this game. I think you've

953
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: got to be annoyed if you're the Cowboys that this

954
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: is who you drew in this first round, because I

955
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: think the Niners are a tough matchup for Dallas. It's

956
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: it's guys like Deebo, Samuel, George Kittle, Brandon. I you

957
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: the way he's playing their run game. They're just one

958
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: of the more original teams in all of football, the

959
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: way that they operate on offense. And I know that,

960
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: you know, I it's not just my Shanahan, you know, fascination.

961
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: I think that we're starting to see what it was

962
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: that did fascinate about about them to me, and it

963
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 1: probably comes down to the splits between the Jimmy Garoppolo.

964
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: Games where he's clean, he doesn't turn the ball over

965
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: and cause massive headaches, they're pretty much unstoppable. If you

966
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: get the game where he fumbles around, causes problems, you know,

967
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: misfires a ball into the lap of a Dallas Cowboy

968
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons, then you've got issues. But I am flat

969
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: out picking the Niners to win this game. And I'm going,

970
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm switching my lock to a team

971
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: that I really really support, the Niners, unlocking this team up.

972
00:49:55,600 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: Forget the page pots. This game should be Monday Night football.

973
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: I was impressed, you know, with your faith. But you

974
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: are taking another underdog now, and this is one where

975
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: I feel like they're actually getting picked by the majority

976
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: of people this week because everyone you want to pick

977
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 1: like one underdog, and like, logically they've played better than

978
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, So I like the Cowboys here. I don't

979
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: feel strong about it. I do think they're their matchup

980
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: on the outside in terms of when the Cowboys have

981
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: the ball is so great for them, Like that can't

982
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: be discounted. The forty Niners defense, and I think with

983
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,280
Speaker 1: d v o A a second against the run, first

984
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: against or in the top five, I think in passes

985
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: under fifteen yards and dead last uh in passes over

986
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 1: fifteen yards, which is like something when you watch them,

987
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,959
Speaker 1: just seems almost obvious that they just don't have guys

988
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 1: that can cover deep down the field. And I just think,

989
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, we'll know that, we'll see the mismatches and

990
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: that it's just a day for Doc to be great,

991
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: be great, Ceedee Lamb, be great, Amari Cooper, be great.

992
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: You're You're much better than your counterpart Stack. You're much

993
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: better than Jimmy G. I mean, everyone's you know, you

994
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: guys are going crazy to give Jimmy J a lot

995
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: of credit. Yeah, he made a couple of nice plays

996
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: in that game. He also had two interceptions, including one

997
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter in a fumble in that game. Like,

998
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: you make that those sort of mistakes this week, I

999
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: don't think you you get away. That's what it's about.

1000
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: To me. That's the pressure point of this game. Damn

1001
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 1: pressure pressure. Because if Jimmy G does that stuff, I

1002
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: think that's gonna do in the Niners. But if he

1003
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,800
Speaker 1: plays a clean, efficient game, that's all he has to be.

1004
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: It's a it's a cliche, but with the Niners. Be

1005
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: a game manager. Get the ball into the hands of

1006
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: your playmakers. You don't need to make dynamic throws to

1007
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: do that. Good because Jimmy j doesn't really make dynamic throws.

1008
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: He doesn't have a big arm. But get the ball

1009
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: in Deebo's hands. Uh, They're running game has been very good. Um.

1010
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 1: I think Elijah Mitchell actually finished seventh in the league

1011
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 1: and rushing despite missing a lot of times like this

1012
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 1: is this is a loaded offense. They just need a

1013
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: field general guy that can just get the ball in

1014
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: the hands. So I think that's certainly possible. To your point, Greg, Yes,

1015
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: when you go back and you watch um that Rams game,

1016
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: you get caught up in the moxie that that team

1017
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: showed and how incredible that last drive was to tie

1018
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: the game late in regulation. But yeah, but Jimmy g

1019
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: almost buried him in that game. It was the defense

1020
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: that kind of bailed out, uh the Niners and allowed

1021
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: them to get back into the game. So he needs

1022
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: he needs absolutely to be cleaner. And I just think, like,

1023
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: here's the thing with the Cowboys, and you mentioned it, Greg,

1024
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: like step up, Doc Bedac, all right, but don't don't

1025
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: just be Dac when you're playing Phillies backups, or when

1026
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: you're playing the Washington football team that has three quarters

1027
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 1: of their guys on the COVID list, Like, be doc

1028
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: when it matters, when the competition is there, step up

1029
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: and be better than the best. And I'm a little

1030
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 1: concerned when you look at the way their season played

1031
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: out in the back half, that this team was a

1032
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 1: bully and when they get when they get a team

1033
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,320
Speaker 1: that punches them in the mouth, they start to press,

1034
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: They miss als, And is that going to happen in

1035
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: a playoff spot? And you're gonna get to all those

1036
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 1: cuts to Jared Jones looking forlorn and nervous in the booth.

1037
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: I can just see it now that the Cowboys are

1038
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: gonna come up small at home here. So I hate

1039
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: to be like the guy that's on board with everyone

1040
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: else being on board with the underdogs. But I'm with

1041
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: you too, Mark. I just think that the Niners gonna

1042
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,879
Speaker 1: come in here free and easy and steal a win here.

1043
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: To your point, in nine wins, Jimmy g had four

1044
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: giveaways over those nine wins. In the losses, he had eleven.

1045
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: So it's not just that we always want to talk

1046
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks, but his mistakes matter a ton. I

1047
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: do think though that this Niners team right now, even

1048
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: if they get into if they get down a little

1049
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: bit to Dallas. I I look at that Rams games

1050
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: as something that tells me so much about who the

1051
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: Shanahan led Niners are. And I think they're gonna be

1052
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: an impossible tough out for three plus quarters here. And

1053
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this game comes down to two words.

1054
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: Greg's rline we're gonna be talking about when we come

1055
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 1: out of this thing. Oh my gosh, I was hoping, Um,

1056
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: there wasn't those two words. If it comes down to

1057
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:08,240
Speaker 1: they're they're probably in trouble. Although like that they're kicking

1058
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: situation isn't isn't too good either, You're right like the

1059
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: Cowboys think. Look they have in one playoff games with

1060
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: with Dac, like they this is something that they need

1061
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: to Like, it's a massive game. You have Blake Jarwin back,

1062
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: and I do think when forty Niners have the ball,

1063
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: like that's kind of football porn. This is a great

1064
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: matchup first of all, Like I would like to get

1065
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: rid of the you know, let one of these teams

1066
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: play the Raiders and one of them play the Steelers

1067
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:34,959
Speaker 1: and like let them both advance because I like them both.

1068
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: But when when the forty Niners have the ball, it's

1069
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:42,800
Speaker 1: a rare time where the Cowboys athletes on defense Lawrence

1070
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: and Gregory and Micah Parsons of course, are going up

1071
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: against like equal athletes like in and I don't know

1072
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 1: who has the advantage. And I don't think either side

1073
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 1: is used to playing another team that is just physically

1074
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: gifted as the forty Niners offenses. We didn't mention Jowan Jennings,

1075
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: who has been like incredible for them as a third

1076
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: receiver too. It's just like to like physically imposing sides

1077
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,479
Speaker 1: that are just have like specimens on it. It's about

1078
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 1: as good as it gets. It's it's a ridiculous wild

1079
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: card games. There's only some some players or athletes on

1080
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 1: the Dallas defense. I think they're all fine athletes. My

1081
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: point is they are another let another level of athlete.

1082
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,280
Speaker 1: Lawrence and Gregory and Parsons, and I think the Kiddle,

1083
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: Iuk Debo, Jwan Jennings Mitchell in terms of what they

1084
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: do after the catch is another level of athleticism. Like

1085
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: these two teams are just like big, bad bad men.

1086
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: But are they bad people? Like bad men? Like I

1087
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: don't feel like. I just mean they're they're probably really

1088
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: they're good people. Just played they're like there are the

1089
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 1: two teams that look good coming off of you know,

1090
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: they're just two teams. Those they are two teams. Mark,

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00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: welcome back. You had stepped away? What happened? Well? Have this?

1092
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: Um my voices have gone? You sound good? No, it's

1093
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: probably you might have lost some weight, Is that true? Yeah,

1094
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 1: I think I have. I mean it's been along, it's

1095
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: been a long couple of months, but you know, gonna

1096
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: be all right, getting back on the peloton soon. So

1097
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 1: but my voice is so shot in, like I feel

1098
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 1: like it must be highly annoying to And I thought

1099
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: of that, like COVID couldn't be. You already don't like

1100
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: food famously, so COVID plus not liking food is not

1101
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: a recipe for a lot of food. COVID took about

1102
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 1: eight pounds off me, which I was not expecting. And

1103
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 1: I mean I got that, I got that cough that

1104
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 1: turned into like a lost voice. So uh yeah, remember

1105
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: this ideal situation for someone trying to attempt to broadcast

1106
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: a message. We do appreciate you remember the San Francisco

1107
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 1: Dallas games in the early nineties. That was my favorite

1108
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: rivalry of the nineties, when Dion was bouncing around with

1109
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: both teams and it was so this is gonna seem

1110
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: crazy to younger fans, but there was this crazy run

1111
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: where the a f C was just a lamb being

1112
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: left to slaughter for the Super Bowl. NFC was winning

1113
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: every year for like a twenty year period, so when

1114
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game came around, that four PM game

1115
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: between the Cowboys and forty Niners would just decide who

1116
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: was the champion. And uh, I remember those games well

1117
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: at Old Candlestick and of course, uh what was it

1118
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: the Dallas Stadium? What do they call it? Texas Stadium?

1119
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: Got a Bernie Kozar neel down in the NFC title

1120
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 1: game that put him into the Super Bowl after Bill

1121
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: Belichick cut him saying that he had diminished skills. So

1122
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of a win for him. But the

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00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: other issue that obviously just Greg why do you Greg?

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00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 1: I I don't disagree, but why do you need to

1125
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: just well, you just made it. Belichick was way off base,

1126
00:57:54,920 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: I think, right, but did just run out the clock.

1127
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: It's not like general leading them to the NFC title.

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00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: But you know, I think anyone watching it felt a

1129
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: moment of justice for Bernie. But I thought maybe you

1130
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: left some you left it a little open ended to

1131
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: make it seem like Bernie was responsible and got revenged

1132
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: by playing well. He played a huge chunk of one

1133
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 1: of those Cowboys playoff games and did well. Hey, I'm

1134
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 1: backing off. I'm not aware of that. That was sort

1135
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: of the whole thing was that Bernie came into an

1136
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: excellent job for them. So, Ricky, I need you to

1137
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: go on Pro Football Reference and look up Bernie Kozar's

1138
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: playoff outing in around what so would that be it? Okay,

1139
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on. Do you have Dallas? Mark

1140
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: greg I did take Dallas, but it was more like

1141
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to happen. So, and it's a

1142
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: coin flips. I took him. It would be fun. I

1143
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 1: think it'd be fun to see the Cowboys win this game. Alright,

1144
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: Late games Sunday, Pittsburgh Steelers Zombie Steelers. You know, I

1145
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: saw I saw something today that Juju Smith Schuster was

1146
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, designated to return from i R. And I

1147
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: was like, well, that doesn't matter. They don't play until September.

1148
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a second, the Steelers are in

1149
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: the playoffs, roaming the countryside looking for a new host

1150
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 1: to feed on. They want brains. Why was this put

1151
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 1: into prime time? I'm I'm so baffled with how they

1152
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: buried Dallas San Francisco in the middle of the day

1153
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: versus a putting it on Monday night football or at

1154
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: least in this spot. Well that gets that gets the

1155
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: biggest ratings. Technically for some reason, they don't like no

1156
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: one cares about daytime ratings. But that's the game Fox,

1157
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, wanted or no? Who has that game? Is it? Romo?

1158
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: I think it's CBS. Everyone was fighting I'm sure over

1159
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: that game, and maybe CBS was first in mind those

1160
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: those afternoon games. Dude, just as well there, I mean,

1161
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: I as all do very well. I just I don't

1162
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: want to watch the Steelers, you know, when the sun

1163
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 1: goes down. But also you have to understand, like, zombies

1164
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: at night better visual than zombies during the day, so

1165
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 1: you gotta factor that in. And also the idea of

1166
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: the dead versus the living versus the undead in a

1167
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: in a football match like that feels like that's something

1168
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: people are gonna want to tune into. You want to

1169
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 1: hear what Bernie Cozar did in this game? Yes, alright,

1170
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 1: so he came in for an injured Troy Aikman went

1171
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: five for nine for eighty three yards in a touchdown,

1172
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: no mistakes. Take that belt check you bum you know

1173
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: who was again? So yeah, the forty nine Ers, wow

1174
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: at all? All sets up beautifully, all right. So the

1175
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, by the way, the Pittsburgh Steelers a little

1176
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: quick aside here they're playing because the cults blew it.

1177
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys um had a chance

1178
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: to check it out, but I did make a point

1179
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: to watch the Hard Knox finale last night just to

1180
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: see the post mortem of how that slow motion car

1181
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: crash took took shape around the Colts, and uh man,

1182
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: it was not pretty. It was it was you know,

1183
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: everyone miked up on the Colts sideline and they're cutting

1184
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: two Frank Reich and he's like talking to himself, like

1185
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 1: everything's fine, stick to the plan, stick to the plan.

1186
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 1: And then they cut to Carson Wentz, who is a

1187
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: He is a nothing burger Chrisma wise, there's nothing about

1188
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: him that tells you, I'm going to get the sideline motivated.

1189
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 1: As they're falling behind, He's like going down the sideline

1190
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: being like, it's okay, guys, it's okay, it's okay. And

1191
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: there's just like this creeping dread on the side. I

1192
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 1: highly if you're interested in the house something like it is.

1193
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 1: And by the end of the game, Darius Leonard's like

1194
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,280
Speaker 1: kneeled down during a TV time out and he's like,

1195
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 1: I can't believe this happened. I can't. Like everyone was

1196
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: just shocked. And then m Chris Ballard, uh general manager

1197
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:02,439
Speaker 1: of the Colts, what's your favorite type of fraud? He was, Yeah,

1198
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: that was I was connected to Chris Ballard. You might

1199
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: have to dig through the archives, and I don't even

1200
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 1: remember what it was anymore. But they were asked about

1201
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: what's the future for Carson Wentz, who obviously was very

1202
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: bad in that game, and here's what he had to say, Well, mate,

1203
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: when we made a decision after Philip retired and we

1204
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: made the decision to to make a move on Carson,

1205
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 1: at the time of the decision, we felt good about

1206
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:28,919
Speaker 1: it and I still don't regret the decision. At the time.

1207
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna just sitting here today, just so y'all know,

1208
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 1: I won't I won't make a comment on who's gonna

1209
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 1: be here, going to be here next year. That's not fair.

1210
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: I think that is very notable. That is the translation

1211
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 1: of that, having seen this enough, is that if they

1212
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 1: really were all the way in on a we're running

1213
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: this back will be okay with a quarterback. You say

1214
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 1: it right there and you end it when you leave

1215
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: it open ended. To me, that tells me they are

1216
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: going to kick some tires and they might be in

1217
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 1: a similar situation to your Brown's mark, where it's like,

1218
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 1: if we end up with Carson Wentz behind center, it's

1219
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: gonna be because nothing really came a better thing didn't

1220
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 1: come along, and we felt it was still it was

1221
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 1: a workable situation. But it also feels like if something

1222
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: comes up, they are going to make that move and

1223
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 1: I can finally get you can finally get him on

1224
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: the Browns mark like you wanted back, and I'm not

1225
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 1: longing for that on any level. I mean, I think

1226
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: there's a supply problem, so you've got to like sort

1227
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: of back the guy you have now. Although that didn't

1228
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: feel like the same way that the Brown's back Baker

1229
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 1: Mayfield that common on wins, but then kind of walk

1230
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 1: it back if you find someone better. I mean, I

1231
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: just don't know where you're finding someone better in the

1232
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: veteran heap Right the soundclip didn't sound as bad I

1233
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 1: thought as it looked on Twitter, where it sounded like, oh,

1234
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: this guy sound great, though now it didn't sound great,

1235
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 1: and Right didn't really back him any stronger either, and

1236
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: that's his guy. But I think the odds are more

1237
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: likely that Wentz is back just because it's tricky. Now.

1238
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll they'll draft someone. Maybe not. The thing that

1239
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: I found most interests from all this post mortem was

1240
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: that Jim Ursay never, according to The Athletic, essentially never

1241
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: stopped being pissed that Carson Wentz was unvaccinated. And he's

1242
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 1: the owner of the team, and he he he made

1243
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: um Ballard and Reich show up to work Sunday night

1244
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: after flying home to basically do the season postmortem, where

1245
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 1: he was still like, you know, furious essentially of what happened,

1246
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 1: and like, if the owner of the team was pissed

1247
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,200
Speaker 1: about that the whole time, you can you can probably

1248
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: guess he's not thrilled with Carson Wentz in general, because

1249
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 1: why would he be I wonder if if all this

1250
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: is because in that postmortem just speculation, or is like

1251
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 1: get this guy off my team, like he doesn't want

1252
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 1: anything to do with him. I wonder if that that

1253
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 1: that's where we're headed. So it's already kind of decided

1254
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: at this point. And that was just the opening salvo. Um,

1255
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a break. All right, let's get now.

1256
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: So the Pittsburgh Steelers, the zombie Steelers go to they

1257
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: go to Kansas City now and they get the Chiefs.

1258
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 1: So we have a set can see Chiefs team. Um,

1259
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 1: that feels like a really good draw. Does this have, Greg? Do?

1260
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 1: Do you have any vibes that this could turn into

1261
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,320
Speaker 1: this big Ben's last game? Most likely a Dan Marino's

1262
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: last game situation back in nine with the Dolphins where

1263
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 1: it's seven, Like, is that a possibility here? Yes? Yes,

1264
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: And I've tried to like wonder if like could this

1265
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: game because of course it could be. It's the NFL

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Speaker 1: that like even the worst and best teams aren't quite

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01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 1: as far apart as you as you think. On a

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01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:35,440
Speaker 1: given day, it's possible, like the you know, the Lions

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01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: beat the Cardinals that maybe that's not a good example,

1270
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: but there, you know there the Jaguars beat the Bills.

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Speaker 1: But the Chiefs just played the Steelers three weeks ago,

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01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:45,919
Speaker 1: and it's hilarious that Mahomes said they were still looking

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01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 1: for a complete game and then he left that game

1274
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: in the score was thirty three to three with eleven

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01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 1: minutes to go. They totally dominated Pittsburgh upfront on both sides,

1276
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 1: offensive line and defensive line. And that's where it's just

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01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 1: hard to imagine Pittsburgh scoring here because the Chiefs pass rush, Jones, Clark,

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01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 1: Jaren Reid. I've just been playing great lately, and I

1279
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: know they're their their secondary isn't very good, but I

1280
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: just don't see the Steelers as the team to make

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01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 1: them pay for that and Big Ben under pressure like

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01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: in that game. That was the game where Romo and

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01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 1: and you know, fans of the Steelers are just like, well,

1284
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:23,120
Speaker 1: why is he just throwing the ball right now? Like

1285
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: he was just throwing two yard passes on third and

1286
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 1: eight because he was didn't want to get hit and

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01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 1: didn't want to hold the ball. And I just can't

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01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: I can't see on any other outcome this week. Yeah,

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01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: I mean Andy Reid noting that every Chief practiced. I

1290
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: want to see what version we get of Tyreek Hill.

1291
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: But this could even be a game where you get

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01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: an opportunity to rest Tyreek Hill if it gets out

1293
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: of hand early and and and maybe anyone else. It's

1294
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: kind of banged up. I know what we said before

1295
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 1: they played the Steelers the first time that we love

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01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: to see them run the ball against one of the

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01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 1: worst run defenses in the league. If your Kansas City

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01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 1: didn't really do a ton of that. They tried. They

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01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:58,520
Speaker 1: ran the ball thirty five times for about a hundred

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01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:01,480
Speaker 1: and forty yards that first game against the Steelers, but

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01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:04,040
Speaker 1: it just didn't really matter. And I think this is

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01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: one where you know, from the outside, you'd say, look

1303
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: like unless t. J. Watt goes absolutely ballistic and causes

1304
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 1: hellscape for Patrick Mahomes, you mix in a defensive touchdown,

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01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: and you get a couple of early mistakes by Patrick

1306
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: Mahomes that put the Steelers into a good position. How

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01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: is this not twenty to three? You know, in the

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01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 1: third quarter at some point or ten, and the Steelers

1309
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:27,960
Speaker 1: as zombies do sort of hanging around, but they never

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01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: deserved I'm not deserved because they got in, but they

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01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: don't feel or look like a playoff team. They look

1312
01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: like something far uglier. That's yeah. That to me, that's

1313
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: the pressure point for this game, which itssure that's t J.

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01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: Watt needs to be a monster and that pressure has

1315
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 1: to lead to pressure that has to lead to turnovers.

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01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 1: I know it has to be a flukey weird game,

1317
01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: but you know what, the thing about Kansas City, we

1318
01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: want to act like that version of the Chiefs is

1319
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 1: dead and buried, but I can see it popping up

1320
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: again here. It happened enough during the year where we're

1321
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: trailing in Denver last week. Yeah, ball is getting deflected

1322
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage, ending up in the arms

1323
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: of linebackers uh mahomes trying to do too much or

1324
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:16,240
Speaker 1: receiver clanks offer Nicole Hardman's hands. Uh, and it's taken

1325
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:18,160
Speaker 1: back the other way like all that stuff. But that's

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01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: what it has to be. I think that the talent disparity,

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01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: and really the quarterback disparity, it's the biggest disparity of

1328
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: any matchup. Because Ben Roethlisberger has been to the playoff

1329
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 1: fourteen times and he's going to the Hall of fame

1330
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 1: and he's got multiple rings, but he can't play anymore.

1331
01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 1: He stinks and Mahomes should just be the difference here

1332
01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: in this matchup, even if they'll never share the field, right.

1333
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 1: I think there were a couple of games this year

1334
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:42,080
Speaker 1: where Pittsburgh just tried to just chuck it deep all

1335
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: game just because they have Deante Johnson and maybe Juju

1336
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:48,120
Speaker 1: Juju does play in this game. Not that he's a

1337
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 1: deep threat, but it sounded like he has a chance.

1338
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 1: But you you have him in Claypool, you have a

1339
01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:56,080
Speaker 1: defense in Kansas City that likes to leave their cornerbacks

1340
01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 1: on island, and you just give it a shot, and

1341
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 1: maybe that's a high variance thing where you have some

1342
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: early turnovers and you do lose thirty eight to three,

1343
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 1: or you actually hit on a couple. It could work that.

1344
01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 1: The Ben Roethlisberger press conference this week really cracked me up, though, Um, Ricky,

1345
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,519
Speaker 1: why don't why don't we take a listen to that? Yeah,

1346
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 1: I mean, we're probably underdogs and we're going to the

1347
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,439
Speaker 1: number one, the number one team that I know nothing see,

1348
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:21,719
Speaker 1: But there's the number one two is one d AFC.

1349
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 1: The last two years, um, arguably the best team in football. Um,

1350
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:28,560
Speaker 1: we don't have a chance, so let's just go in

1351
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: and play enough fun. He had a big build up

1352
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:36,040
Speaker 1: to that too, like he didn't hit the sarcasm like

1353
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 1: hard enough. I know what he was trying to do.

1354
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 1: He wasn't being serious, but it sounded too much like

1355
01:09:41,360 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: he actually believed that, and it really cracked me up

1356
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Uh, those words were written out in a

1357
01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 1: post and Naj Harris sent it out um with some

1358
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: words casting doubt on what Ben said, saying like what

1359
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 1: are you talking about? I won't say what what he

1360
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:59,919
Speaker 1: said exactly. He deleted it right away, but it was hilarious.

1361
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:04,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what warfare, you know. Yeah, I don't

1362
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 1: know what else to say to this game. I think

1363
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:10,639
Speaker 1: we kinda we're all on the same page. It would

1364
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:12,760
Speaker 1: be stunning if if it turned out any other way

1365
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:16,600
Speaker 1: than the Chief's winning by multiple scores. Uh. And I

1366
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 1: think also part of Roethlisberger is kind of like if

1367
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 1: it vibe there is like I think everyone's on the

1368
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 1: same page, including the stew was like, we're not supposed

1369
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 1: to be here, like we did our business and one

1370
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: game's down the stretch and then some team totally gagged

1371
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 1: on a historic level down in Jacksonville. Now we're in

1372
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and it's like, Okay, I believed him, because

1373
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 1: I think part of him actually would have been pretty

1374
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 1: happy ending his career beating the Ravens and Browns ending

1375
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:46,880
Speaker 1: their seasons and back to back weeks. Would you rather

1376
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 1: do that? You rather go go play another week in

1377
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 1: the cold against some team that you're probably gonna look like.

1378
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:54,720
Speaker 1: It's not like Ben has played well the last week.

1379
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 1: He's played poorly. He's he's already done the thing where

1380
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:02,200
Speaker 1: you know, go circular around the stadium giving everyone a

1381
01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:04,519
Speaker 1: high five. I mean that happened two plus weeks ago.

1382
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 1: At this point, I don't buy that. Though. Great, I

1383
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:09,760
Speaker 1: know you're not a Ben fan, but he's a great competitor,

1384
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he's happy to be in the playoffs.

1385
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:14,760
Speaker 1: But when it's thirty one three in the third quarter, yeah,

1386
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 1: he might have been. He might be thinking to himself, Man,

1387
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:21,080
Speaker 1: how about about that game ends in a tie on

1388
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: Sunday night? That would have been fine. Steelers fans are

1389
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,599
Speaker 1: gonna be all over us and everyone if they actually

1390
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: alright this game. Deante Johnson said this week, don't jump

1391
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,720
Speaker 1: back on the bandwagon when we win this thing. Who

1392
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,599
Speaker 1: was on the bandwagon in the first place. No one's

1393
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:37,799
Speaker 1: thought this was a big time team. All right, Monday

1394
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,560
Speaker 1: night football, first time ever, we're gonna have a primetime

1395
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:45,040
Speaker 1: game like ever ever, right because Super Bowl is not

1396
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:47,599
Speaker 1: even primetime. That that's a game that kicks off between

1397
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 1: three o'clock and six o'clock. There have been there have

1398
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:55,280
Speaker 1: been four previous Monday games, Monday playoff games. I don't

1399
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 1: know if they were Monday night games, but there were

1400
01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 1: four previous playoff games. I was surprised by this, and

1401
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:03,320
Speaker 1: they were all in Los Angeles except for one. This

1402
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: was um, you know, said by our our our friend

1403
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 1: Andrew Siciliana on NFL. Now, I don't have any more

1404
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 1: information on the Monday during the day. Feels like an

1405
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 1: odd time to have a Yeah, it's probably it probably

1406
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:16,160
Speaker 1: was Monday night game. They said there was one in

1407
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 1: the seventies and stuff. I don't know. Alright. The Cardinals,

1408
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:23,439
Speaker 1: the fifth seed, travel here to Sophie to take on

1409
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 1: the Rams. Um Rams coming off really a bad beat

1410
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:29,920
Speaker 1: to the Niners. But because the Cardinals blew their game

1411
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:33,360
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks, the Rams now are the division champs,

1412
01:12:33,400 --> 01:12:36,200
Speaker 1: which means they are hosting the Cardinals. But guess what,

1413
01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:39,960
Speaker 1: it's probably all for the best for the Cardinals, who

1414
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 1: went three and five at home this year and eight

1415
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: and one, I believe on the road. So the last

1416
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: time the Cardinals were on the road in the game

1417
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: we were all doubting them. They won and beat the

1418
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 1: Cowboys in Dallas. So is it gonna be that version,

1419
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: that scrappy version of the Cardinals that shows up or

1420
01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:00,160
Speaker 1: they just gonna get blown away here, Greg, because as

1421
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:02,720
Speaker 1: they have been trending downward for about a month and

1422
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:05,760
Speaker 1: a half now, and this is how these things end

1423
01:13:05,800 --> 01:13:08,639
Speaker 1: for these teams that typically play like this down the stretch. Yeah,

1424
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: they had that that win against the Cowboys, but other

1425
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 1: than that, they've lost four or five three to non

1426
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:16,680
Speaker 1: playoff teams now, although the Colts you know, felt like

1427
01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 1: they should have been one there. Since Week eleven, which

1428
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 1: is when Kyler Murray came back, they are fifteenth in

1429
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:25,160
Speaker 1: offense and e p A and twenty three in defense.

1430
01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 1: That's a pretty long stretch, and that's with Kyler Murray.

1431
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: That's a mediocre looking team. And the biggest problem I

1432
01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 1: think is up front in terms of their offense. I

1433
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:40,760
Speaker 1: just can't see them protecting or being able to run

1434
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:44,599
Speaker 1: consistently on the Rams. Now. The Rams have run defense issues,

1435
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:47,639
Speaker 1: but I really am impressed with this defensive line in general,

1436
01:13:47,760 --> 01:13:51,679
Speaker 1: especially rushing the pastor lately. Dj Humphries, the left tackle

1437
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: for the Cardinals, has really struggled. Just their offensive line

1438
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: in general is requiring Kyler Murray to be so special

1439
01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 1: play after play. It's a hard way to to live.

1440
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: And I think Von Miller played his best game last week.

1441
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 1: Greg Gaines has been good, a Sean Robinson has been

1442
01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:07,559
Speaker 1: on fire. I just think that mismatch alone is gonna

1443
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:10,160
Speaker 1: make it very hard for a Cardinals offense that just

1444
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: hasn't been explosive to score and too and to keep

1445
01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:15,680
Speaker 1: up with the Rams. Yeah, the Cardinals defense that was

1446
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 1: very special early in the year got absolutely obliterated by

1447
01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny a week ago. You're now dealing with Aaron Donald,

1448
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:26,599
Speaker 1: who had three sacks on Kyler Murray when they last

1449
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,519
Speaker 1: played in Week fourteen and blew up that game plan.

1450
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: And you still see Kyler Murray every game doing incredibly

1451
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: special things that only Kyler Murray could do. But the

1452
01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 1: offense in general We've talked about it a ton of times,

1453
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 1: seem confused, cannot get out of their own way. He

1454
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 1: has seven passing touchdowns in his last seven games. Without

1455
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:49,599
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins in there, his QB rating has dropped by

1456
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 1: almost nineteen points. And so there are legit real problems.

1457
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 1: I'm with you that the offensive line have a lot

1458
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:57,559
Speaker 1: to do with it. The Rams secondary is a little

1459
01:14:57,600 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 1: banged up to the point where they had to go

1460
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: sign Eric Weddle who hasn't played in like seven hundred days.

1461
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 1: So maybe there are opportunities here for this to be

1462
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 1: not a blowout, but we have to get a Cardinals

1463
01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:10,720
Speaker 1: team that looks completely a typical to what they've looked

1464
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:12,880
Speaker 1: like the last three or four weeks. Well, quickly, on

1465
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 1: the defensive backs, I do want to mention, like, it's

1466
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 1: not just that they lost Kendall Fuller, who's a captain

1467
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:22,479
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. They have a shoulder

1468
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 1: injury for their cornerback Darius Williams, and Taylor wrapped their

1469
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 1: other starting safeties in the concussion protocol. That's suddenly a

1470
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:30,920
Speaker 1: lot of defensive backs. Uh. And that's back to back

1471
01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 1: weeks almost that they've lost the guy who has the

1472
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 1: green dot on his helmet, like that was Ernest Jones

1473
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 1: their linebacker. Then it's Kendall Fuller and they lost that

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Speaker 1: back to back weeks. Like guys who are their defensive

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Speaker 1: plaque college, So that that is pretty significant in the

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01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,600
Speaker 1: back end there there could be some opportunities. There are opportunities,

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Speaker 1: and yet who who's the dynamic playmaker left now on

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01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:52,720
Speaker 1: the Cardinals? And I think this has been exposed a

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01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 1: little bit that it didn't go as deep as maybe

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Speaker 1: we thought initially assuming a bad decision. He's banged up,

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Speaker 1: so you have a guy that he could be limited

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01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:08,559
Speaker 1: by injury. A J. Green, Rondelmore, Christian kirk Zacher. It's

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Speaker 1: these guys aren't making big plays, and it's it's putting

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray in a situation where he, to me, he

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01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: looks mortal. I know he has moments every week or

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01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: he's like, oh man, this guy is special. And I

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01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:22,280
Speaker 1: agree with that. But I think it's gonna be a

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01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:25,719
Speaker 1: point of emphasis for this team, uh in the off season,

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Speaker 1: because I think their season does end on Monday Night. UH,

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01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:31,680
Speaker 1: to say we can't just bank on DeAndre Hopkins being

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Speaker 1: healthy this year and we're we're fine. I think they

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Speaker 1: need to kind of retool this thing a little bit.

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01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:38,519
Speaker 1: And there they've been. They've learned the hard way over

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Speaker 1: these last few weeks that the offense isn't good enough.

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01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:43,760
Speaker 1: They just don't not have enough playmakers. The Rams go

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01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 1: through issues when they lost Robert Woods, and had they

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Speaker 1: lost Cooper Cup instead, I mean they'd have they would

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Speaker 1: be a completely different offense. And you know, the Rams

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01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:53,720
Speaker 1: are the better team in this I think from head

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01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:57,120
Speaker 1: to toe, and you've got these guys, they're very star heavy.

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01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: I mean, someone like Aaron Donald would have shock you

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01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:02,519
Speaker 1: if he's like two plus sacks in this game and

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01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:06,040
Speaker 1: is absolutely turning Arizona into a mess. That said, I

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01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:08,719
Speaker 1: mean Matthew Stafford. I know it's like we're almost allergic

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01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:11,640
Speaker 1: to talking about the Matthew Stafford turnovers, but there are

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01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: games where Matthew Stafford's mistakes have put the Rams into

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01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 1: a terrible position, and I just I don't trust them

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01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 1: to every game in the last four weeks. Well, I

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01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:23,080
Speaker 1: don't think we're allergic to it. But he also threw

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01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 1: forty one touchdowns this year, so it's I mean, I

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01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: don't mean us escapes critique to some degree for the

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01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: fact that there have been two or three games I

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01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:34,679
Speaker 1: can think of were like he buried them in a hole.

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Speaker 1: You know what's funny, I thought like, um, because I

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Speaker 1: think that Robert Woods injury is continuing to rear its

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01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 1: ugly head here. O'Dell gave him nothing in that game

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01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 1: last week. That was a big spot, and I just

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01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 1: think that's the Odell experience at this point. He's not

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01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,360
Speaker 1: a big time player. I think that the fact that

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01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,800
Speaker 1: they still don't really have that compliment to Cooper cup

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01:17:56,320 --> 01:17:58,920
Speaker 1: Um in the wide receiving game is something that's eventually

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01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: going to get them. But thes and I like the Rams.

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Speaker 1: I just think this is a really good pull for

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Speaker 1: them matchup wise. Uh, their confidence is a little bit

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01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 1: shaken coming out off Sunday maybe, and now you get

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01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:11,120
Speaker 1: this team Arizona that clearly you would think is doubting itself,

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01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 1: even if they've been better around the road. I like

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01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: the Rams in like a to you know, twenty type game,

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01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:23,280
Speaker 1: maybe seventeen. That's where I'm at on this. I'm similar,

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01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock him up. Marc inspired me not to

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01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 1: take the Chiefs. You know, when he went he went

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01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:32,200
Speaker 1: for an underdog. He went bold. I was like that

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01:18:32,280 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 1: that would be shameful. And I do think the Rams, well,

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01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:35,880
Speaker 1: when this is a game, you need O. B J

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01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 1: and and Van Jefferson to step up. Van Jefferson did

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01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:40,840
Speaker 1: get eight hundred yards, but he's kind of in that

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01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:44,800
Speaker 1: you know, deep trick, deep guy. You know, that's the

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01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:47,120
Speaker 1: one thing he does. Oh b J has been a disappointment.

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01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 1: He hasn't uh total a hundred yards combined in the

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01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:53,960
Speaker 1: last four weeks. There's been a lot of miscommunications. And

1541
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:56,960
Speaker 1: this is a spot that the Cardinals cornerbacks right now

1542
01:18:57,040 --> 01:18:59,120
Speaker 1: have been injured. And I think that was a huge

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01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 1: part of that Seattle all game was they have guys

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Speaker 1: off their practice squad trying to cover Tyler Lockett and

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01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. What could be the same this week with

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Speaker 1: O b J. That that should be a matchup that

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01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:12,680
Speaker 1: you could take advantage of. Al Right, there you go.

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Speaker 1: That is Super wild Card weekend preview. Um, we'll be

1549
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:21,599
Speaker 1: back on Sunday night where we're gonna recap let's see

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Speaker 1: until the five of the six games, and then we'll

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01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:30,960
Speaker 1: be back Monday night and we'll do immediately following Cardinals

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01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:34,320
Speaker 1: Rams will do a recap of that as long, along

1553
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:37,400
Speaker 1: with any other updates with the coaching carousel, So keep

1554
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:39,439
Speaker 1: an eye out for that and keep an eye out

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01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:42,280
Speaker 1: on NFL Network. The return of the Around the NFL

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01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 1: broadcast on Saturday morning at airs on NFL Network, and

1557
01:19:46,880 --> 01:19:51,479
Speaker 1: uh it actually airs back to back at re air,

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01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 1: so if you miss it the first time, if you're

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01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:56,120
Speaker 1: not up bright and bright eyed and bushytail that four

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01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 1: am here in California, you could still catch the five am.

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01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: Or anyone who really he is a true fan of

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Speaker 1: the show would just watch it two times in a row.

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Speaker 1: That's another option. Or set the DVR. Yeah, DVR and

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01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:12,200
Speaker 1: sleep in. I think it's fine, but what you know,

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Speaker 1: you's preferable. Straeger families all gathering around around the hearth

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Speaker 1: and they're watching. Oh they're they're all around that hearth.

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Speaker 1: Little Schrieger, little Man Schrieger, is a big fan of

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Speaker 1: the broadcast. So check that out. And um, thank you

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Speaker 1: everybody for listening as always, All right until Saturday on

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Speaker 1: the TV side, Sunday night on the pod side, enjoy

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Speaker 1: the football, Enjoy West of this he the fault s