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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest, I wish we were live sitting

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Speaker 3: But we are coming to you anyway.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully everybody is safe through the storms that are right

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Speaker 2: be honest, I was so excited for just like two

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Speaker 2: Steelers have hired a head coach.

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Speaker 3: I open up Twitter and I think, oh God, who

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Speaker 3: could this be?

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Speaker 2: This is going to be a delight, only to see

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Speaker 2: the reaction of Steelers fans when they find out today

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Speaker 2: that they have replaced Mike Tomlin. They have replaced a

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Speaker 2: beacon of consistency. They have replaced a man that frankly

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Speaker 2: gets to the playoffs all the time, but just doesn't

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Speaker 2: win the big one with somebody that multiple fan bases

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Speaker 2: had been happy to see leave their franchises, Mike McCarthy,

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Speaker 2: the new head coach of the Steelers. But all I

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Speaker 2: keep thinking about Buck you covered the Titans. There's plenty

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Speaker 2: of Titans fans. We're looking at mc carty and the

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Speaker 2: possibility he could be a head coach there, And all

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Speaker 2: I keep thinking about is if you just blind resume

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Speaker 2: this man, Why has the world decided that Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 2: is a bad football coach?

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Speaker 4: Certainly not a bad football coach, but this is I

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Speaker 4: just experienced something similar over the course of the last

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Speaker 4: I don't know how much. How long have we been

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Speaker 4: doing coaching carousel stuff at this point in time, like

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Speaker 4: three weeks, I don't know. It feels like it's gone

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Speaker 4: on and on and on forever. Since the Harball firing

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Speaker 4: and since basically a third of the league jobs have

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Speaker 4: been opened up. Matt Naggy was somebody who was very

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Speaker 4: much thought to be the next Titans head coach. Whether

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Speaker 4: you're looking at sports books offshore these kind of things,

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Speaker 4: whether you were just essentially reading the tea leaves and

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Speaker 4: the entirety of the fan base down here in Nashville, Tennessee, which,

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Speaker 4: the country like Nashville is where we are under a

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Speaker 4: snow apocalypse type of situation. We hope that you're safe

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Speaker 4: and warm out there, or if you are like Fitzy

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Speaker 4: that you are in good spots and safe and happy

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Speaker 4: and healthy and everybody inside, or.

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Speaker 5: If you want to be outside, whatever your choice is.

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Speaker 4: The Naggy thing was basically going to start a revolt

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Speaker 4: here in Nashville because they ended up with Robert Sala,

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Speaker 4: who has a worse resume and was equally, if not

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Speaker 4: a bigger failure, in fact, was a bigger failure with

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Speaker 4: the Jets than Matt Naggy was with the Bears. But

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Speaker 4: Titans Twitter, for example, just decided that Matt Naggy was

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Speaker 4: not going to be for them and that there would

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Speaker 4: be you know that there would be torches and pitchforks

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Speaker 4: and things like that should the franchise higher Naggy, and

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Speaker 4: they went with the bald and beautiful Sala, even though

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Speaker 4: his resume is considerably worse. Mike McCarthy has never been

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Speaker 4: a loser in any way, shape or form anywhere he's been.

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Speaker 4: All he's had basically is success. I know there was

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Speaker 4: the one year where he got fired in season, and

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Speaker 4: I think that the Packers finished what with like six

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Speaker 4: wins or seven wins or something like that at that

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Speaker 4: point in time. And that was the way that he

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Speaker 4: went out in Green Bay. And then he went to

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Speaker 4: They didn't have the postseason success but the Cowboys never

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Speaker 4: have the postseason success that on Mike McCarthy.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: This is what happens when fans start to group think

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Speaker 4: a certain way and the Internet spreads that message much farther.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a majority of Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 4: fans that are pissed about it. I have a friend

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Speaker 4: actually who works for the Steelers who was saying that

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Speaker 4: the fan base is losing their damn minds. But on

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Speaker 4: the whole, I don't know. Isn't this the very much

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Speaker 4: the most Pittsburgh Steelers move humanly possible? How was this

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Speaker 4: not the predominant thought and in fact, probably the thing

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Speaker 4: that most Steelers fans would prefer.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to my buddy Eric, a big diehard Steelers fan,

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Speaker 2: and he said today that this just proves that the

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Speaker 2: organization is more worried about the brand than they are

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Speaker 2: are ready to rebolt to your point. What's funny is

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Speaker 2: that if you just took the resume the eleven playoff appearances,

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Speaker 2: the super Bowl win the winning percentage. By the way,

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Speaker 2: if you blind resume John Harball and Mike McCarthy, McCarthy's

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Speaker 2: a little better. I just want to remind everybody of

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Speaker 2: that if you blind resume the two. But what's funny

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Speaker 2: to me is that people are genuinely jumping over themselves

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Speaker 2: to try and get somebody like Davis Webb, to try

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Speaker 2: and get somebody like Clint Kubiak, who we have no idea.

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Speaker 3: Like if I told you.

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Speaker 2: Right now that Clint Kubiak in his career would come

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Speaker 2: away with the same winning percentage as Mike McCarthy, that'd

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Speaker 2: be a damn good hire. But the thing of it

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Speaker 2: is there's this perception, well, he had Aaron Rodgers the

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Speaker 2: first time, and you know he only won one Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I love that, like, only one one super Bowl with

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Speaker 4: Twelve franchises don't even have a Super Bowl to their name. Okay,

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Speaker 4: that guy's got one. He's got one more than twelve

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Speaker 2: The Texans haven't even made an AFC Championship game, and

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Speaker 2: like you turning around saying, oh my god, McCarthy only

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Speaker 3: Now this is where Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: There's where Steelers fans tell me they're tired of the

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Speaker 2: same old, same old. I think the problem with this higher, honestly, Buck,

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Speaker 2: is that the Steelers aren't gonna suck enough. And this

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Speaker 2: is just I will die on this hill because immediately

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Speaker 2: what I saw people saying is, well, this could mean

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Speaker 3: I don't think you want.

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Speaker 2: I'd rather have Mike McCarthy is my quarterback than Aaron

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Speaker 3: Why.

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Speaker 2: Because Aaron Rodgers is gonna win you enough games that

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Speaker 2: you are not going to be in range to get

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Speaker 2: a quarterback and you don't have a long term solution.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep dying on this hill all the time.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna hear me say this so much that it's

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Speaker 2: gonna annoy you. You cannot guarantee you can outsuck the

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Speaker 2: rest of the NFL now, and everybody says, next year's

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Speaker 2: quarterback class looks like it's gonna be good, so we're

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Speaker 2: gonna get one next year. Okay, a year ago, we

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Speaker 2: tragically bad.

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Speaker 5: But even above me, beside mood situation.

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Speaker 3: And I took a look.

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Speaker 2: I just went to Tankathon, right, you know, because we

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Speaker 2: all when you're a fan of a team that sucks,

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Speaker 2: you're used to Tankathon. I just went to Tankeathon, and

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Speaker 2: I looked at some of the teams that right now

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Speaker 2: don't have a solution at quarterback that I don't think

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Speaker 2: are gonna have one by next offseason. The Jets, the Cardinals,

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Speaker 2: Let's see what happens with Jackson Dart. I think he's

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Speaker 2: don't know. Let's see Miami definitely needs a quarterback, Atlanta

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Speaker 2: We go through this whole list before we get to Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: The problem is if you end up with Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 2: and Aaron Rodgers, you're gonna win enough games that you

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Speaker 2: won't be able to out trade everybody else, you won't

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Speaker 2: get an answer at the quarterback position. And I don't

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Speaker 2: think you can win in the modern AFC without a

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Speaker 4: Well, and that's the existence that Steelers fans have been

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Speaker 4: perpetually living, right, Like, why not just stick with Mike

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Speaker 4: Tomlin at that point in time? And you kind of

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Speaker 4: walking us through That makes me think about this a

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Speaker 4: little bit differently. Maybe it's not necessarily a Steelers fan

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Speaker 4: problem with Mike McCarthy, right, it's a frustration, and I

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Speaker 4: and working through some of the context that you've just provided.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's the idea that, Okay, what if Tomlin decided

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Speaker 4: Tomlin almost forced your hand to make a change, but

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Speaker 4: it didn't necessarily change the way that the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 4: organization thinks about how a football operation should go. It's

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Speaker 4: not an innovative change of heart type of situation. Okay,

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Speaker 4: we understand that we can't just keep doing the same thing.

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Speaker 4: We can't just keep banging our head on this playoff

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Speaker 4: get a Selhouse who's mcveigh's right hand man in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 4: least stick to what our ethos as a franchise is,

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Speaker 4: like more of the same. Right, So it's really a

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Speaker 4: in a while in quite some time, to an offensive

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Speaker 5: It's just it's it's kind of.

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Speaker 4: The Spider Man meme, right, two different versions of Spider

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Speaker 5: They're basically the same thing.

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Speaker 4: So if you're a Steelers fan, you're probably just pissed

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Speaker 4: that you're sitting in this particular situation looking around and

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Speaker 4: be like, uh, okay, but what's different. Everybody else got

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Speaker 4: a shiny I got a third time around, shiny new toy.

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Speaker 4: I got a third time hand me down. At this

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Speaker 4: point in time, what is this poverty?

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Speaker 5: Christmas?

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Speaker 3: I think that you're right, and so much of it is.

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Speaker 5: About Also, we're just gonna ignore your dog.

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Speaker 2: Was like, I'm in, I'm in on this take.

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Speaker 3: I won't.

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Speaker 2: I mean we can.

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Speaker 5: We can do a pet show today.

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Speaker 4: I got Frank sitting under my chair somewhere around here

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Speaker 4: in my bathroom.

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Speaker 2: Oh, let's go. I don't think cats have as like

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Speaker 2: you see. Cats are more subtle in it. Cats will

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Speaker 2: and say things that don't mean anything out into the wind.

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Speaker 3: Look, I think.

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Speaker 2: Part of the process. I didn't think about this until

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Speaker 2: time that the power that comes with drafting a young

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Speaker 4: Listen, what I do it? Sure, because there's no better

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Speaker 2: There is a reason that there are so many jobs open,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it means, why there's so many

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Speaker 4: Uh and by the way, if you're gonna try and

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Speaker 2: Rise, National champion Buck Rising. This is what happens.

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Speaker 4: No, I've always been this way. Now I'm just now

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Speaker 4: So you don't know what went on at the Rising Estate,

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Speaker 2: You know what, I will refer to you as National

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Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, I screamed at the top of

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Speaker 4: While while you were jumping up and down in a

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Speaker 4: me nostalgia.

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Speaker 5: My god, what a time. Fernando.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, did you see the picture that Holly

444
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Speaker 4: row tweeted out of his throwing arm after the game,

445
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Speaker 4: all black and blue and bruised and broken and things

446
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Speaker 4: like that. He not only did Miami go out there

447
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Speaker 4: with I'm not gonna say ill intent, like they were

448
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Speaker 4: trying to play dirty or anything like that, but they

449
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,160
Speaker 4: clearly had been given the directive no make this guy

450
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Speaker 4: feel you on defense like the Miami Hurricanes defense, which

451
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Speaker 4: is one of the best defensive fronts in the country,

452
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Speaker 4: one of the fastest, most physical defenses anywhere in college

453
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Speaker 4: football this season. I mean, to your point, shot after

454
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Speaker 4: shot after shot, that helmet that he took to the

455
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Speaker 4: chin where I think it's a defensive back coming off

456
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Speaker 4: the edge or a a linebacker. I can't remember exactly. Again,

457
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Speaker 4: I had not yet relived the National championship on television,

458
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Speaker 4: just having been there in the stands on Monday night.

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Speaker 4: The shot that he took to the helmet or under

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Speaker 4: his chin, a helmet directly under his chin after the fact,

461
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Speaker 4: and you know, I thought he broke his jaw for

462
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Speaker 4: a second. And to your point, he gets right back up,

463
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Speaker 4: which he's gonna need to play behind your Raiders offensive line.

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Speaker 3: Exte, Okay, that was a shot.

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Speaker 2: I didn't need that shot.

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Speaker 4: You're a Jets fan back there in Los Angeles. You

467
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Speaker 4: don't want to trade up for my beloved Fernando. Is

468
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Speaker 4: there any talk about the New York Jets trying to

469
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Speaker 4: move up in the draft.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think they're going to trade up for it.

471
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Speaker 3: I think just to me, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong,

472
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Speaker 3: and it sounds like you guys might disagree with this,

473
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Speaker 3: but I don't feel like he's the kind of guy

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Speaker 3: you would like trade up for. I think he's a

475
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Speaker 3: number one pick type of guy, but not like the

476
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Speaker 3: kind of guy that you would like trade the farm

477
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Speaker 3: to go and get.

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Speaker 2: What if I told you that the Jets are not

479
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Speaker 2: going to be in a position to get the number

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Speaker 2: one guy anytime soon, does that change your look?

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Speaker 3: I don't think Jets are going to trade him. Well,

482
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Speaker 3: I mean they're going to be picking very early every

483
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Speaker 3: single year for the rest of that franchise. It's tough.

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Speaker 2: That's probably true. That's I mean, that's probably if they're

485
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Speaker 2: if they're picking top three next year, again, Aaron Glenn's

486
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Speaker 2: going to be fired and the whole thing's again blown up.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's wild.

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Speaker 3: Well, if the Raiders were willing to move out of

489
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Speaker 3: the spot, then I think they would at least entertain it.

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Speaker 3: But I but they're not. Like I just like you said,

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Speaker 3: like you're already screaming that's my quarterback. I just don't

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Speaker 3: think they would even pick up the phone if the

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Speaker 3: Jets called to see you know.

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Speaker 2: What I mean, I don't. I don't either. I think

495
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Speaker 2: I think the pick is in and and this is

496
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Speaker 2: the the age old like do you build the team

497
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Speaker 2: first or the quarterback first? And I think the answer

498
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Speaker 2: is both. I got a stress here. I don't think

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Speaker 2: the Raiders are going to turn around and win games

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Speaker 2: next year. They're gonna be a five win football team

501
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Speaker 2: and Fernando's gonna get just beat up the whole time.

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Speaker 2: But they got one hundred and ten million dollars to

503
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Speaker 2: spend this offseason. They'll have money again next offseason. And

504
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Speaker 2: you know, once you draft the quarterback, yeah, you're on

505
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Speaker 2: the clock a little bit. But I think the most

506
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Speaker 2: important thing is find a quarterback. So if you think

507
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Speaker 2: you know, how often do you have shot, no holds barred,

508
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Speaker 2: no compromises, you get to make sure that you get the.

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Speaker 3: Quarterback you want. That is such a rarity that to me,

510
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Speaker 3: you just can't.

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Speaker 2: As I said in the beginning, and I'm gonna keep

512
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Speaker 2: saying all the way up to the draft, you can't

513
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Speaker 2: guarantee that you're gonna out suck everybody else. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I feel good about it. I feel good. I feel

515
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Speaker 2: good about the pick. I hope that the Raiders don't

516
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Speaker 2: ruin him. Plenty plenty to say that. But also I

517
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Speaker 2: will tell you who the raiders next head coach should be.

518
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Speaker 2: And it's pretty simple. All you gotta do is look

519
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Speaker 2: for the Dragon. I'll explain what I mean next, I know,

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Speaker 2: I'll explaving. I need me next for first button wiss.

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Speaker 2: Get us caught up on what's going on right now,

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Speaker 2: Cisco Dragon, Return of the Dragon entered the Dragon.

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Speaker 5: Cisco.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty good, Martin, thank you, I was good.

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Speaker 6: I'll be here for another hour and a half, all right.

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Speaker 9: The Pittsburgh Steelers have verbally agreed to hire former Packers

527
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Speaker 9: and Cowboys that goes by McCarthy.

528
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Speaker 6: Is their new head coach.

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Speaker 9: The Bills completed a head coaching interview with Anthony Lynn.

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Speaker 9: Lynn coaches running back Washington. He previously worked in Buffalo

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Speaker 9: under Rex Ryan, former Chargers head coach. The Dolphins are

532
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Speaker 9: promoting senior passing game coordinator Bobby Slowan to the offensive coordinator.

533
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Speaker 6: He used to work in Houston with c. J.

534
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Speaker 9: Stroud a few years back before going over to Miami.

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Speaker 9: The Raiders interviewed Brian dave All, the former Giants head coach,

536
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Speaker 9: for their head coaching job, and the former Dolphins defensive

537
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Speaker 9: coordinator Anthony Weaver, is set for a second head coaching

538
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Speaker 9: interview with the Cardinals. The Jets interviewing with Martin Dale

539
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Speaker 9: for their vacant defensive coordinator position. Aaron Glynn making a

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Speaker 9: ton of staff changes. Yesterday, forty nine offense coordator Clint

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Speaker 9: Kubiak has withdrawn.

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Speaker 6: Himself from head coaching consideration.

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Speaker 9: He was being interviewed by the Raiders and also was

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Speaker 9: interviewed with by the Steelers. The NBA announce that today's

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Speaker 9: game between the Warriors and Timberwolves postponed in order to

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Speaker 9: prioritize the safety and security of the Minneapolis community. Game

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Speaker 9: reschedule for tomorrow at five point thirty. Eastern Nicks came

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Speaker 9: back on the second half to beat the seventy six

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Speaker 9: ers one twelve to one oh nine Jalen Brunson with

550
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Speaker 9: thirty nine thirty one points and six assists. Grizzlies announced

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Speaker 9: that John Moray the Guard's gonna miss at least three

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Speaker 9: weeks do a spring u see on his left elbow

553
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Speaker 9: that will eclipse the trade deadline. So tough for people

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Speaker 9: who wanted to see him out of there and Cleveland

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Speaker 9: Guardians and Third Basement Jose Ramirez, I agree to a

556
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Speaker 9: seven year, one hundred seventy five million dollar extension. Fellas

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Speaker 9: back to you, and I know Buck you got that Bathrobball.

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Speaker 9: I know this is a radio show, so please don't

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Speaker 9: turn around and show whatever Cisco might be having back there.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of that, have you ever wiped with the piece

561
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Speaker 2: of dry toilet paper and wondered is this as good

562
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Speaker 2: as it gets? It's not switched to life changing wet

563
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Speaker 2: extra large flushable dude.

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Speaker 3: Wives especially fuck because.

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Speaker 2: We are just cleans better. He's Harry, Available at Amazon

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Speaker 2: and major retailers nationwide.

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Speaker 3: Dude Wipes best.

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Speaker 2: Clean pants down Buck Rise a Jason fitz Bucket fits

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: Just because you are looking at my chest hair for

571
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Speaker 4: the next hour and a half does not mean that

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Speaker 4: you need to regale America with tales of my hairiness

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Speaker 4: like I'm some kind of beast.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean you got a lot of facial hair too,

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Speaker 2: I mean he got a lot. You know, we couldn't

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Speaker 2: be more opposite, Like you know, I'm I'm I'm. I

577
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Speaker 2: like to make sure that everything is smooth, and buck

578
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Speaker 2: likes to make sure that everything is is the opposite

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Speaker 2: of that, like we are. It's Chewbacca and Han solo

580
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Speaker 2: side by side, and that's what we got going on

581
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Speaker 2: now that you can only imagine what we look like topless.

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Speaker 2: How do I get this back on the rails?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, chasing dragons before now you're chasing something.

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Speaker 5: Else at this point in time.

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Speaker 2: So on my day job, yeah, Who Sports Daily, which

586
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Speaker 2: you can hang out with me and Caroline Fetton nine

587
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Speaker 2: to eleven am Monday through Friday on YouTube TV or

588
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Speaker 2: wherever you get your free TV channels. We had the

589
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Speaker 2: opportunity this week to talk to John feliciana offensive lineman,

590
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Speaker 2: former Raider actually and former Bill. We were talking to

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Speaker 2: him mostly about Buffalo, but I asked him about one

592
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Speaker 2: hot candidate that's out there on the for the mines

593
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Speaker 2: of Buffalo Bill's fans and for Raiders fans, frankly, Davis Webb.

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Speaker 2: Now Davis Webb, for anybody that doesn't know, is the

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Speaker 2: quarterbacks coach for the Denver Broncos, but before that he

596
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 2: was a Buffalo Bill and many other teams. Is part

597
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Speaker 2: of his playing career played with Josh Allen. Is a

598
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Speaker 2: tremendous friend of Josh Allen, and for that reason many

599
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Speaker 2: have speculated that the Bills would like to poach him

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Speaker 2: and bring him over to Buffalo, even perhaps as the

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Speaker 2: head coach. Now, knowing that my favorite teams also interested

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Speaker 2: in Davis, I asked.

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Speaker 3: John, I said, what do you think?

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Speaker 2: And his immediate answer is you mean Dragon? Because apparently

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Speaker 2: Davis Webb's nickname, ever since Eli Manning gave it to

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Speaker 2: him is dragon, and everybody calls him dragon. His name

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Speaker 2: in the locker room is dragon Web. And here's the thing. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I went into this a little curious, but now I

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Speaker 2: have talked to a handful of people that have been

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Speaker 2: around him in different locker rooms, and I've watched several

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Speaker 2: different interviews that he's done, and what's pretty amazing is

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Speaker 2: that even when he was at Buffalo, he was running

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Speaker 2: the quarterback room meetings. He was running meetings as a

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Speaker 2: coach in waiting, essentially as say quarterback, and every person

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Speaker 2: I can talk to that has been in a room

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Speaker 2: with him says he's got that it factor. He is

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Speaker 2: absolutely going to be a guy. He's brilliant, and locker

618
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Speaker 2: rooms just gravitate to him. He's thirty, and I get it.

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Speaker 2: It's weird to me to sit here and think thirty

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Speaker 2: year old. But the more I keep thinking about the Raiders,

621
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Speaker 2: particularly drafting Fernando Mendoza, who's going to be a young quarterback,

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Speaker 2: I don't mind the idea of a young coach and

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Speaker 2: a young quarterback growing together. A young quarterback that played

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Speaker 2: quarterback in the league that you know credits the fact

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Speaker 2: that he played for six different offensive coordinators while he

626
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Speaker 2: was playing as a reason why he has such understanding

627
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Speaker 2: of different offensive schemes and systems that he brings together

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Speaker 2: somebody that's been largely part of the development, even of

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Speaker 2: Bonix as we speak right now, that is wildly respected.

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Speaker 2: That comes in maybe not knowing what he doesn't know.

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Speaker 2: I think there is something too, sort of a fresh

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Speaker 2: mindset of coming in saying, hey, I don't really care

633
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Speaker 2: if we've sucked.

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Speaker 3: I know where we are right now.

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Speaker 2: I've bought it in Buck that Dragon Webb should be the

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Speaker 2: next coach of my beloved Raiders.

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Speaker 4: Well, and this is the interesting part, right because we're

638
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Speaker 4: we're going to talk about the AFC Championship Game the

639
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 4: NFC Championship game a little later on in the show,

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Speaker 4: of course, and in fact, should the weather not derail

641
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Speaker 4: us tomorrow, the plan is for us to be back

642
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 4: on Fox Sports Radio to recap these games with you

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Speaker 4: as well, which we're looking forward to very much because

644
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Speaker 4: it should be a fun day of football. They can't

645
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Speaker 4: interview him, any of these teams can't interview him until

646
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Speaker 4: the Broncos season is over at this point in time,

647
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Speaker 4: and maybe it's over tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: They can second, they can second interview starting Monday. So

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Speaker 2: this is the caveat, and this is really confusing. So

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Speaker 2: Bill's fans stick with me for a second. Bill fans flow,

651
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Speaker 2: because I'm you know, I mean you're pretty nut smart.

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Speaker 2: The Bills, because of the timing of their firing, did

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Speaker 2: not already initiate interviews with the Clint Kobiaks or the

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Speaker 2: Davis Webs of the world. There's a very weird rule

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Speaker 2: in the NFL rule book that the way interviews work

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Speaker 2: for coaches, you can do your first interview, and during

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Speaker 2: that little window that was before the Bills were eliminated,

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Speaker 2: the Raiders interviewed Clint Kubiak and Davis Web during that time.

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Speaker 2: The Bills obviously couldn't they still had a head coach.

660
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 2: You can only second interview on Monday. So no matter

661
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 2: what happens to the Broncos, to the Seahawks, Davis Web

662
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 2: and Clint Kubiak can both be second interviewed by anybody,

663
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 2: but the Bills can't touch him until they're eliminated. It's

664
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Speaker 2: a wild and weird advantage depending on what happens in

665
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 2: this game. Because if you're Buffalo and you're sitting around saying, well,

666
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Speaker 2: we want to bring we think we want to bring

667
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: in Davis Web, well you're gonna need in that situation,

668
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: you better hope New England wins the game, because if

669
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Speaker 2: Davis Web gets his second interview with the Raiders, for example,

670
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: either way on Monday, they can offer them a job

671
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: like and then you'd have to sit there and decide

672
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 2: am I going to wait until after the Super Bowl

673
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 2: to interview with Buffalo and then see if I get

674
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 2: the job there? So the timing that we've never seen

675
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 2: this before, but the timing of the first interview in

676
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 2: second interview is so crazy that it could actually complicate

677
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 2: the ability for Buffalo to hire either Clint Kobiak or

678
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Speaker 2: Davis Webb.

679
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Speaker 4: What a disaster if you're Buffalo. I mean, this just

680
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 4: makes you hate that owner even more. What are you doing?

681
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 4: You wait until the Division A round is over to

682
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,959
Speaker 4: open up your job on Vibes Basically, even though and listen,

683
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 4: I understand that McDermott is not viewed as like untouchable

684
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 4: in that situation, they clearly had difficulties breaking through that

685
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 4: fourth wall to have some level of deep postseason success.

686
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 4: And this year where everybody was talking about the level

687
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 4: of pressure that was on Josh Allen without Lamar Jackson

688
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 4: or Patrick Mahomes or Joe Burrow any of these other

689
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 4: superpower AFC quarterbacks in the mix in the postseason, this year,

690
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 4: this was supposed to be the no excuses, Josh Allen

691
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 4: go win it type of year, especially when you see

692
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 4: what happened to the Broncos on the other side and

693
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 4: Bownick has a fractured ankle. All of a sudden, Jared

694
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 4: Stidham starts the AFC Championship game and nobody gets to

695
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 4: see Josh Allen for the remainder of the season. But,

696
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 4: like they, this is such a bizarre cycle. FITZI, I've

697
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 4: been I've been trying desperately to have somebody smarter than me,

698
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 4: and it's not hard to find somebody smarter than me.

699
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 4: But somebody more well versed in the league writ large right,

700
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 4: rather than me looking at it from a hyper local perspective,

701
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,479
Speaker 4: because my jay, my day job is a is a

702
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 4: beat reporter for one NFL franchise, and you keep tabs

703
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 4: on what's happening in the league. But like I keep

704
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 4: asking all my insider buddies, league insider buddies, why the

705
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 4: hell is everybody firing their coach? A third of the

706
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 4: league decided that okay, whatever, let's ride boys, Steelers, Ravens, Bills, Cardinals, Titans,

707
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,479
Speaker 4: all these different things, and maybe it just feels more

708
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 4: visceral because it's McDermott, Harbaugh, Tomlin, three of the guys

709
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 4: who are constantly in the mix, who are thought of

710
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,479
Speaker 4: very very highly uh in these particular situations, and because

711
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 4: of the you know, two of those jobs having MVP

712
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 4: former MVPs at quarterback, it makes feel a little more

713
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 4: I don't know, frantic for lack of a better term,

714
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 4: or spicy, just whatever, however you want to describe this.

715
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 4: And to a man or a woman, I can't get

716
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 4: a straight answer on owners just kind of chase in

717
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 4: these particular situations. And that's what ended happen ended up

718
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 4: happening in Buffalo, and they could inherently harm themselves, like

719
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 4: if the Bills took a step back because they fired

720
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 4: a very successful head coach who had kind of been

721
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 4: making chicken salad out a chicken bleep given that roster situation,

722
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 4: and the guy who's probably most responsible for that got

723
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 4: a promotion. So not only do you not answer directly

724
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 4: to the owner if you're the incoming coach, you answered

725
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,959
Speaker 4: to Brandon Bean, who is the middleman between you and

726
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 4: the guy who's up there saying, oh, it wasn't his

727
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 4: idea to draft key On Coleman. It was our coach.

728
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 4: We fired that guy, even though we're considering hiring Joe Brady,

729
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 4: who was also on the staff that drafted key on

730
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 4: Coleman like just nonsense word vomit type stuff.

731
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 5: What a mess in Buffalo.

732
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Speaker 2: And I mean, look, Buffalo tweeted out a little bit

733
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 2: ago that they completed and in person interview their they're

734
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: in person interview, I believe with Anthony Lynn, but it's

735
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 2: also a reminder that they're so far behind. Remember, because

736
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: of the Rooney Rule, you do have to complete two

737
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 2: in person minority interviews before you can hire anybody.

738
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 3: So even if Buffalo loves somebody, they still have processes

739
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 3: they have to go to.

740
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Speaker 2: Now, as I mentioned, whether the Raiders are, are you know,

741
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,719
Speaker 2: zeroing in on Clint Kubiak or Davis Webb, either one

742
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 2: two respected candidates in the eyes of many, the question

743
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 2: is can Buffalo afford to sit.

744
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 3: There and wait?

745
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 2: Can the candidate afford to sit there and wait? And

746
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 2: it also just shows you buck how botched all of

747
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 2: this is. Because we started earlier by making fun of

748
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: Cleveland for making everybody take tests. Let's also remind everybody

749
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 2: that even though Cleveland opened their their head coaching search

750
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 2: weeks ago. Cleveland is not yet Rooney Rooney Rule compliant.

751
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 2: They have not yet completed two in person minority interviews

752
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 2: with candidates.

753
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 3: So even if Cleveland Lynn.

754
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 2: Loves somebody today and wants to hire them, they can't.

755
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 2: So it's just it's a wild coaching system to be

756
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 2: and it speaks to something we talk about a lot.

757
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 2: I think there's an ownership issue in the NFL. We'll

758
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 2: talk more about that coming up. But tomorrow is the

759
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 2: day of all days too epic battles. Can we actually

760
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 2: believe in Jared's Stidham. I think there's a tiny sliver

761
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 2: of hope, and I'll tell you why when.

762
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Speaker 5: We come back.

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Speaker 2: He's buck Rising. I'm Jason fitzbucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

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765
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766
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 2: This is gonna play for like three straight hours. There's

767
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,400
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Speaker 2: a beacon of light, all right. I want to give

778
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 2: everybody a little bit of hope, all right. I want

779
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 2: to give everybody a reason to celebrate the possibility that

780
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 2: Jared Stidham could be the man that leads the Broncos

781
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 2: to the Promised Land. Hear me out, all right, remembering

782
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: that buck. When Sean Payton took over, the first free

783
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 2: agent that he signed ever as a head coach for

784
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos was Jared Stidham, knew he had to

785
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 2: have him.

786
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Speaker 8: Right.

787
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 2: In fact, even when Josh McDaniel, who's going to be

788
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator on the other side, took the Raiders job,

789
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 2: one of the guys he knew he had to sign

790
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 2: was Jared Stidham. They've been paying Jared Stidham a boatload

791
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 2: of money every single year to come in six million

792
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 2: dollars a year. He's getting right now to be the backup.

793
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 2: Why because sometimes you just need a guy that can

794
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: execute exactly what you need them to execute. He's been

795
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 2: in this offense around Sean Payton since the beginning of

796
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 2: this whole thing. He's going to be very comfortable. The

797
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 2: last time he saw action, although it was limited, he

798
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 2: was actually the quart of of my beloved Raiders against

799
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 2: the San Francisco forty nine ers defense that at the

800
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 2: time was one of the best in the NFL that year,

801
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,959
Speaker 2: and he carved him up. I'm just saying I don't

802
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 2: think that Jared Stindham turns around and is suddenly gonna

803
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 2: be this world beater Dan Marino, Like, we're not seeing

804
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 2: the next great starting quarterback in the NFL. But I

805
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 2: think when you've got a guy who spent time on

806
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 2: task with a coach for several years that's in the offense,

807
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 2: it's a true pro that knows what he's up against

808
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 2: on a team where you've got a tremendous defense and

809
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 2: you can, if you ever actually commit to it, run

810
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,919
Speaker 2: the damn football. Like, I think that there are enough

811
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 2: ways that they can isolate or insulate. I should say

812
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 2: Jared Stidham that I'm not gonna sit here and say

813
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 2: all hope is lost for the Broncos just because they

814
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 2: don't have bo Nicks. Also, I don't through four quarters

815
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 2: of every game bon Nix is great in the clutch.

816
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 2: But part of the reason they need bo Nicks to

817
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 2: be great in the clutch is he's not exactly a

818
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 2: world beater in the first half half the time. So

819
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 2: I don't think that this is suddenly like, oh, I

820
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 2: gotta fill the shoes of Patrick Mahomes. This is like

821
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: I gotta fill the shoes at dot bon Knicks. Jared

822
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 2: Stidham could do this.

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00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 4: Look at you, just spitting Bonnicks's name out of the

824
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 4: side of your mouth. So dismissive of the number one

825
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 4: overall seed in the AFC. So Sean Payton is not

826
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 4: somebody to be trifled with in this particular situation, right,

827
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 4: especially when you still have that cheat cut of a

828
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 4: defense who, by the way, didn't play their best game

829
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 4: against the Buffalo Bills. And I'm sure that advanced Joseph

830
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 4: the coordinator there and the rest of the sports half

831
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,439
Speaker 4: is going to be reminding them on a regular basis that, hey,

832
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 4: you almost let Josh Allen come back against you after

833
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 4: he had as many turnovers in that game as he did,

834
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 4: you were lucky to basically have gotten out of that,

835
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 4: especially given the nature of the Bonnicks injury happening at

836
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 4: a late stage when it did. Jared Stidham is paid

837
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 4: as one of the most expensive backup quarterbacks in football

838
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 4: for a reason. To your points, Sean Payton obviously looked

839
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 4: at him and said, no, this is somebody who I

840
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 4: can just kind of hold the shit down with should

841
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 4: something go awry, and it just so happened to be

842
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 4: in the AFC Championship game. So I'm curious to see

843
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 4: how they can kind of if they try and balance

844
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 4: things out because they're running game without JK. Dobbins, who

845
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,479
Speaker 4: is not going to be available for this game. Again,

846
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 4: it sounds like has it's taken a pretty significant dip,

847
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 4: and that's been I mean, Dobbins has been out since November,

848
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 4: so they've been having to survive this way for quite

849
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 4: some time. Maybe they're confident enough in what they can

850
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 4: piece meal together, but it hasn't been an effective ground

851
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 4: game to support the Broncos passing attack in that way,

852
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,439
Speaker 4: which in an ideal world, of course, every team would

853
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 4: like to be balanced. How they go about this is

854
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 4: going to be fascinating, but like I take Sean Payton

855
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 4: at his word, he's basically threatening people up at the podium,

856
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 4: being like, just watch out, watch out, because I'm not.

857
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 4: I Am not going into this completely with one hand

858
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 4: tied behind my back.

859
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 5: The way that you think that I am.

860
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 4: And certainly not so much that the Patriots would be

861
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 4: favored on the road at Denver. Man, I've seen the

862
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 4: best quarterbacks in the world. I've seen Tom Brady go

863
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 4: to Denver for AFC Championship game and struggle mightily because

864
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 4: that place, even if there's not going to be snow

865
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,280
Speaker 4: tomorrow and it's still going to be pretty bitterly cold,

866
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 4: that place is going to wear you down just by

867
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 4: nature of the atmosphere, the environment, the altitude, all the

868
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,439
Speaker 4: things that people talk about beyond playing a football game.

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Speaker 2: I also want to add one more caveat to belief

870
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 2: in Jared Stidham. Understanding that they got rid of Russell

871
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 2: Wilson and Jared Sidam was the only quarterback on the

872
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 2: roster at that point. They went into the NFL Draft

873
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 2: hoping to get bo Nicks, but certainly in a draft

874
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 2: where we saw a trade up for Michael Pennix Junior,

875
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 2: where we saw all of the quarterbacks just going off

876
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 2: the board over and over and over and over again.

877
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 2: They had no assurance that they were actually going to

878
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 2: get bo Nicks, and they made it clear to people

879
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 2: around the league going into that that they would have

880
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 2: been comfortable with Jared Stidham being their starter. So I

881
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,439
Speaker 2: just think I realized that everybody rolls their eyes because

882
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:55,959
Speaker 2: he hasn't thrown it pass in a couple of years.

883
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 2: But he resigned with this team for a reason. He's

884
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 2: been around this team for reason. He is a capable quarterback.

885
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 2: I think I think we're about to find something out

886
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 2: about Jared Stidham in this game, even against the Patriots

887
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 2: defense that has been running hot. We'll keep breaking this down.

888
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 2: Plus what to expect from Seattle now that they're los

889
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 2: on they've lost one of their stars. We'll get that

890
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 2: to your next bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio.

891
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

892
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 2: Tomorrow is Championship Sunday, and we've got two incredible matchups.

893
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 2: One the Broncos in New England with the team of

894
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: the backup quarterback against the team that just can't seem

895
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 2: to get any respect no matter what they do through

896
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 2: this process, and the other an NFC championship game that

897
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 2: gives us the round three in what has been two

898
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 2: absolute heavyweight matchups. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason fitzbuckin Fits

899
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio, coming at you laugh from the

900
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio studios, having a blast.

901
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 3: Hanging out with you.

902
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: We'll be with you for another hour and again we'll

903
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 2: be with you tomorrow night eight to eleven pm Eastern Storms,

904
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 2: willing and be able to talk to you about whatever

905
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 2: we see tomorrow. Buck, we were just talking about the

906
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 2: AFC Championship game. I want to get to the NFC

907
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 2: champion came but first I do want to ask where

908
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 2: are you on the New England Patriots, because you know,

909
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 2: certainly for every Patriots fan that's got swaggywalking like Vince

910
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 2: McMahon head into the ring right now, I get it.

911
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: And look I'm in Connecticut. For anyone that doesn't know

912
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 2: the bars, it was hysterical to me, and I do

913
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 2: mean genuinely historian Patriots fans. You're gonna think I'm hating

914
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 2: on you. I really don't give a damn. I have

915
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 2: lived in this area since twenty eighteen, when the Patriots

916
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 2: were very good. You couldn't get a seat in a

917
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 2: bar anywhere in the Connecticut area. Everybody had Patriots jerseys

918
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 2: on all over the place. For the last several years,

919
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 2: you could walk into every bar in the Connecticut area

920
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 2: and not see a single Patriots jersey anywhere. In fact,

921
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 2: it became Giants and Jets jerseys everywhere because they're used

922
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 2: to it, and Giants and Jets fans are like me

923
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 2: as a Raiders fan. We're sitting in the bar watching

924
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 2: our teams lose, and we're sharing the misery. Never see

925
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 2: or hear from Patriots fans. At the beginning of this year,

926
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 2: even some of my friends up here that are Patriots

927
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 2: fans were like.

928
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 3: Oh, Bee, Carol's the coach of the Raiders. I didn't

929
00:41:59,080 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 3: know week one.

930
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 2: God, how do you not know why team sucks? I'm

931
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 2: not really paying attention. That's where New England was and

932
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, New England is great.

933
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 3: And what I can't figure.

934
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 2: Out as fans are sitting here saying nobody's giving us respect.

935
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 2: All they're talking about is the soft schedule and the

936
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 2: easy path to the Super Bowl. I genuinely don't know,

937
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 2: because part of me thinks well, the way they're playing

938
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 2: right now, who gives a damn the good But then

939
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: part of me says, a year ago, we thought the

940
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 2: same thing about the Planders, who turns out weren't aren't

941
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: very good any you know what I mean. So, like,

942
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 2: I don't know what to make of it. It's a

943
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 2: great moment for New England. But is New England a

944
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 2: great football team?

945
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 3: Do you?

946
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 5: No?

947
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 4: Not a great football team, but they are very well coached,

948
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 4: which is going to give them an edge. And it's

949
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 4: this particular situation that's why you bring in Mike Vrabel,

950
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 4: the adult in the room, And it's incredibly helpful because again,

951
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 4: I know how Mike's tenure ended here in Tennessee as

952
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 4: I sit here in Nashville and you sit there in Connecticut,

953
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 4: And it's in large part because he had a terrible

954
00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 4: time replacing Matt Lafleur as his first offensive court Arthur

955
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 4: Smith is the second offensive coordinator, and then got into

956
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 4: the Todd Downings of the world and it went very poorly, who,

957
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 4: by the way, is on the Patriots staff, which I mean,

958
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 4: if you want to accuse Mike of being too loyal,

959
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 4: that's probably the place that you start. Now, he's got

960
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 4: the cheat code right, because theoretically McDaniels, Josh McDaniels, should

961
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 4: not be getting another head coaching job. Although if they

962
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 4: win this game and they win the Super Bowl, I mean,

963
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 4: I don't know. I've seen crazier things, I guess, and

964
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 4: we have a third time head coach and Mike McCarthy

965
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 4: announced today. For those of you who are just now

966
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 4: joining us with the Pittsburgh Steelers. As I'm sure many

967
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 4: of you have seen, the Patriots are good enough in

968
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 4: an AFC that is not very good this year, right,

969
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 4: and they did feast on their bad schedule, but to

970
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 4: their credit, like they didn't lose those games, they could

971
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 4: have been a five win roster this year. They hit

972
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:51,240
Speaker 4: home runs basically all throughout free agency. You very rarely

973
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 4: see teams do that well when they spend that kind

974
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 4: of money. And I don't just say that as somebody

975
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 4: who saw the Titans do that and poop themselves in

976
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four with Calvin Ridley and Lagarious Need and

977
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 4: Kenneth Murray and all these deals that have just been

978
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,919
Speaker 4: awful and half of them aren't even on the roster

979
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 4: anymore two years later, but they are playing well enough

980
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 4: at this point in time. Whoever wins on the NFC

981
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 4: side of the bracket's going to be favoring in the

982
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 4: Super Bowl, right, we can agree, no matter if it's

983
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 4: Jared Stidham. Yeah, I would imagine a touchdown and a

984
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 4: half favorite against either of these teams, the Rams or

985
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 4: the Seahawks, depending on who makes it out of the

986
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 4: Super Bowl on either side of the bracket. But they're

987
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 4: playing well enough. Even though Drake may is not playing

988
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 4: very well right now. He's coming up big in a

989
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 4: couple of moments, but he's turning the ball over far

990
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 4: too frequently. That can't make you feel very good about

991
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 4: the situation. Carlton Davis, one of their stud corners, is

992
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 4: not going to be in this game. Harold Landry is

993
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 4: not going to be in this game, one of their

994
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 4: leading pass rushers. It's faught. The line should not be

995
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 4: New England favored in Denver. I feel very strongly about that.

996
00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 4: I understand how seismic of a change the quarterbacks situation

997
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 4: for the Broncos feels. I just don't think that's enough

998
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 4: that doesn't hurt their superpower, which is that defense. And

999
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 4: Will Campbell this first round pick at left tackle who

1000
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 4: has done a pretty admirable job in his first year starting.

1001
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 5: He'll be getting his ass kicked in these playoffs.

1002
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 4: So far, Drake Mayor is going to be under duress

1003
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 4: against the league's best sack defense on Sunday.

1004
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: I think yes, and the defense has carried him so far.

1005
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 2: I just don't know with Drake. I don't know if

1006
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 2: he can protect the football. I don't know how much

1007
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 2: of this is New England has feasted on the week.

1008
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 2: I don't know how much of this is Josh McDaniels

1009
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 2: has just figured it out with Drake.

1010
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 3: I don't know how much of this is they're having

1011
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 3: a hot year.

1012
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 2: It just feels like I'm predicting now that the advanced

1013
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,320
Speaker 2: analytics nerds are all going to tell us this summer

1014
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 2: when you're looking at teams that might take a step back,

1015
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 2: the Patriots are won.

1016
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 3: Even if there's a Super Bowl ahead of them.

1017
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 2: I still think that there are just too many Wow,

1018
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 2: what a years for that to continue to be the case.

1019
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 2: That being said, I think I am going to pick

1020
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 2: the Broncos game. I've gone back and forth on it

1021
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 2: a bunch. I feel like I know, yeah, I'm getting

1022
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 2: spicy I'm gonna pick the Broncos in this game. Not

1023
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 2: an easy thing for me to do as a Raiders fan.

1024
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 2: I mean, like, this is a hate matchup for me.

1025
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 3: Either way.

1026
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 2: I can watch the Broncos or the tuck rule. It's

1027
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 2: bad either way. What about the NFC Championship Game Round

1028
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: three of these two games, as field Gates pointed out,

1029
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 2: if you look at point differential for these two games

1030
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 2: that they played in the first two times, it's even.

1031
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 2: And if you look at the total yards of the

1032
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 2: first two games combined, there's one yard separating. Like when

1033
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 2: you want to talk about a wildly even matchup between

1034
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: two teams, The Rams and the Seahawks have played back

1035
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 2: and forth this whole time. Zach Charbonae being out in

1036
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 2: this game the running back concerns me. Kenneth Walker, the

1037
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 2: third I think is fully capable of taking a bigger

1038
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 2: portion of the workload. But let's also be honest, none

1039
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 2: of that matters. Like this is all to me is like,

1040
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 2: does Sam Donald have a RAMS problem? Or does Sam

1041
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 2: Donald not have a RAMS problem? Because that first game

1042
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 2: that they lost, they turned the ball over four times

1043
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 2: and still had the shot to have a game winning

1044
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 2: field goal. Would have been along one as time expired,

1045
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 2: Like the Seahawks could have swept the Rams, but they

1046
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 2: stepped on their own, you know what, too many times

1047
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 2: to put themselves in that situation. I just don't again, like,

1048
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 2: do we trust Sam Darnold to go out and have

1049
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 2: you know, sort of that epic performance. You don't trust

1050
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 2: him at all?

1051
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say at all, but like an epic performance.

1052
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,919
Speaker 4: Some of his worst games in these big moments, whether

1053
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 4: he's a Vikings quarterback or a Seahawks quarterback, have come

1054
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 4: against the Los Angeles Rams. Like that defense has had

1055
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 4: him in a blender. On multiple occasions. He has thrown

1056
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 4: six interceptions and you know, to your point, four of

1057
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 4: them in that one game against the Rams alone. This year,

1058
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 4: Matt Stafford has not thrown an interception against the Seahawks

1059
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 4: for as good as their defense has and I Diana Roussini,

1060
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 4: our friend of the athletic, was on the local show

1061
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 4: here in Nashville with me talking about the coaching search

1062
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 4: earlier in the week, and she had we were asking

1063
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 4: her about interesting storylines heading into a championship weekend. She

1064
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 4: brought up Matt Stafford, in her words, not he hasn't

1065
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 4: put on the kpe yet in the playoffs. And I

1066
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 4: know that's not the way the coaches think about these things,

1067
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 4: and I know that's not the way the players think

1068
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 4: about these things. And at some point you do expect

1069
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 4: Matt Stafford to come through with big throws like he

1070
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 4: did in that Bears game. My God, that out route

1071
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 4: to DeVante Adams on the sideline fading away is one

1072
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 4: of the most ridiculous arm angle throws I've ever in

1073
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 4: my life scene. And he does that, I wouldn't say routinely,

1074
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 4: but more often than your average quarterback does.

1075
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 5: Matt Stafford is God tear.

1076
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm gonna ride with the guy who, in

1077
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 4: a divisional game, is the more trustworthy component. And if

1078
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 4: Seattle's special teams blows the thing open the way that

1079
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 4: they did against the San Francisco forty nine ers, and

1080
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 4: they've done it in a couple games this year, right, They've

1081
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 4: gotten overwhelmingly heavy contributions on special teams that have mattered

1082
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 4: in this pursuit of the number one seed that they

1083
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 4: ultimately ended up getting. And I don't I don't want

1084
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 4: to like, I don't want to treat this as some

1085
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 4: kind of indictment of Sam Darnold because I think he's

1086
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 4: done a really good job FITSI I'm just simply going

1087
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 4: off the quarterback that I trust more, and that's the

1088
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 4: thirty seven year old future MVP for the first time

1089
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 4: this season that led the league in touchdown passes and

1090
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 4: passing in twenty twenty five. I'm going with Matt Stafford.

1091
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 4: I think that's a pretty that's it's an upset technically,

1092
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:08,760
Speaker 4: but I don't feel like it's an upset.

1093
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,280
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm too pot committed to use the poker

1094
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,439
Speaker 2: term at this point to back off the Seahawks. They've

1095
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 2: been number one of my power rankings for the majority

1096
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 2: of the NFL season. The Rams have been number two.

1097
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 2: This game is in Seattle. I think what you have.

1098
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 2: You know, Sam Darnold absolutely carved carved up this defense

1099
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 2: in the last game, played really well the last time

1100
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 2: these two teams played. I'm really genuinely interesting to see

1101
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 2: what Mike McDonald can do to change that up. He

1102
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 2: is supposed to be the Sean McVay of the defensive

1103
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 2: side of the ball, so let's see him act like it.

1104
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 2: Let's see what changes happen on the defensive side.

1105
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 6: Of the ball.

1106
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 3: I think there will be some. This is a Everything you.

1107
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 2: Say is so spot on with all of why you

1108
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 2: trust the Rams. I think, you know, reminding everybody that

1109
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 2: the Rams special teams got so bad that they fired

1110
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 2: their special teams coordinator in the middle of the season, right,

1111
00:49:58,920 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 2: So that.

1112
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,720
Speaker 5: Turns out that help. By the way, they're still having problems.

1113
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: I mean, it's been a disaster. So in Seattle's all

1114
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 2: year been able to make those plays. Seattle's got to

1115
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 2: avoid a slow start. The Seahawks over the course of

1116
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,879
Speaker 2: the season several times have had a first half where

1117
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 2: it looks like they're still asleep, and then the second

1118
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 2: half they finally sort of get to it. They've got

1119
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 2: to avoid that in this process. But I genuinely believe

1120
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 2: they can. I'm gonna lean. I'm gonna lean Seahawks in

1121
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 2: this matchup. So we don't agree on any of this,

1122
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 2: but you know, I think this one, this one's such

1123
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 2: a flip of the coin that I would not put

1124
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 2: a dollar of my own cash on it.

1125
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 5: I'm not comfortable. No, I wouldn't bet this game.

1126
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,479
Speaker 4: I'd feel much more comfortable betting this Broncos Patriots game,

1127
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 4: just because I think that it's fool to think that

1128
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 4: Denver can't cover that line as a home underdog in

1129
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 4: an AFC championship game with a veteran coach who's won

1130
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 4: one ah super Bowl.

1131
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 5: I almost said super bowls plural, but the.

1132
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 4: It's it's not like we're I don't know, I don't

1133
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 4: I While I am not picking the same way that

1134
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,280
Speaker 4: you are, Fitsy, it's not like I disagree with your logic.

1135
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 4: I mean, it's completely reasonable to say that the number

1136
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 4: one overall seed in the NFC, which is far, by,

1137
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 4: far and away the better conference this year, and having

1138
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 4: played this team already twice in the Los Angeles Rams's

1139
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 4: divisional opponents would find a way to get it done.

1140
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 5: Given all of the advantages that they've had all year long.

1141
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 4: Why would they suddenly just disappear in this particular game

1142
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 4: and this be the thing that turns Sam Darnold from

1143
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 4: carriage into pumpkin, right, I don't. It's one of those

1144
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 4: things in sports analysis that I feel like we do,

1145
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,720
Speaker 4: and I include myself in this, that we do very often,

1146
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,800
Speaker 4: which is I haven't seen that guy do it before,

1147
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 4: so I don't trust that he can do it until

1148
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 4: I see him do it, which of course it defeats,

1149
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 4: It defeats the purpose of the analysis because that's kind

1150
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 4: of nonsense logic. Well, just because you haven't seen it,

1151
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 4: doesn't mean that this person who's done it all year

1152
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,399
Speaker 4: long and done it at a high level and yay

1153
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 4: led the league in turnovers. But they're good enough around

1154
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 4: him to make up for that that you just have

1155
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 4: to discard him immediately or discount him immediately. I don't

1156
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 4: like that, even though that's basically what I just did.

1157
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 4: But I am in a situation where I think that

1158
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 4: Matt Stafford just simply has more tools to be able

1159
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 4: to navigate a difficult situation than does Sam Darnald. Not

1160
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,240
Speaker 4: to say that Sam Darnald hasn't had an excellent performance,

1161
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 4: and he's absolutely been worth the money that Seattle paid him.

1162
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 4: Nobody would argue against that at this point in time,

1163
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 4: but to achieve. To think of Sam Darnald in a

1164
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 4: super Bowl, if you got your way, it would be

1165
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 4: Jarret Stidham and Sam Darnald in a super Bowl. And

1166
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 4: I give fitcy on principle. I simply can't allow that.

1167
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 5: I refuse. I will not.

1168
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Speaker 2: God, that is you are God, You are so so

1169
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Speaker 2: so right about how long?

1170
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Speaker 5: That's what you just did? Not mean you?

1171
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Speaker 2: I made everybody uncomfortable?

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Speaker 3: What makes everybody comfortable?

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Speaker 2: Or dude Wipes? Have you ever wiped with a piece

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Speaker 2: of dry toilet paper and wondered? Is this as good

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Speaker 2: as it gets? Nope, it is not switched to life

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Speaker 2: clean pants down. There is a nightmare scenario both that

1180
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 2: everybody could be feeling after the NFC Championship game. That

1181
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 2: could affect a couple of different fan bases. We'll tell

1182
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 2: you about it next. It's fucking fits on Fox Sports Radio.

1183
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 2: I really missed the line Cash is cashing in. See

1184
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,600
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1185
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Speaker 4: Now, damn it, we're not moving forward with this radio

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Speaker 4: show until you Tellian what a good job he did

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Speaker 4: on that, because he's been here for the past two weeks.

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Speaker 4: He was very disappointed that you bailed on us for

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Speaker 4: of course a wonderful cause last week to do this,

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Speaker 3: That's all I live for in life is just fits

1205
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,720
Speaker 3: giving me props on hemorrhoid rejoins.

1206
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, the only thing is I wish I'd

1207
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 2: known it was coming, because I would have waited for

1208
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 2: the dude wipes, like we could have just made everything

1209
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,399
Speaker 2: about the area at one time. I feel that knee

1210
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 2: and that was particularly well done. Did anyone go watch

1211
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Speaker 2: the hemorrhoids commercial. It's got to be out there on

1212
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Speaker 2: YouTube somewhere, buck if you watched the commercial yet.

1213
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Speaker 4: I have watched the commercial only because many people with

1214
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 4: the Tennessee Titans, who have named their new thee. The

1215
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 4: Titans are getting a new stadium here in Nashville here

1216
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 4: in the next couple in the next two years, essentially

1217
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven is when they plan to open it

1218
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 4: and their giant LED screen that is going to surround

1219
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 4: fully encompass the stadium they have dubbed the Ring of Fire.

1220
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 4: So there are many pissed off Tennessee Titans executives at me.

1221
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 4: It's their way, their Ring of Fire hemorrhoid joke into

1222
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 4: or their their masterpiece of an LED project and their

1223
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 4: cleverly named Ring a Fire into a Hemorrhoids show.

1224
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 3: Good thing, we just played it again, then.

1225
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 4: Run it back, baby. Nothing makes me happier than getting

1226
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 4: calls from pissed off executives.

1227
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,400
Speaker 2: Oh well, but they're missing an opportunity, Like it seems

1228
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 2: like you could get one of those creams to sponsor it.

1229
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, it's.

1230
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 3: Like Ring a Fire brought to you by whichever one.

1231
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 6: It is, Like there we go.

1232
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 3: I mean I feel good about that.

1233
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 2: Like you're out here helping the Titans make sales revenue,

1234
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 2: Like you should get a cut of this.

1235
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 5: God knows it ain't their football team. All right, I'm

1236
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 5: doing a Lord's work out here.

1237
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 2: That is can't be any worse than maybe we could

1238
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 2: put it together with the will Lews Mayo ad and

1239
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 2: then just get everybody really weirded out from the outset.

1240
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Speaker 2: You're welcome, He's buck Rising, I'm Jason fitz Bucket Fits

1241
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. Let's talk about nightmare scenarios for

1242
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 2: so many people, like, Look, there's never a nightmare scenario

1243
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 2: when you go to the super Bowl. I get that,

1244
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 2: But like, I wonder how Vikings fans are gonna feel

1245
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,279
Speaker 2: if they watch Sam Darnold, who's so far throughout the

1246
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 2: course of the playoffs has played well. Up every time

1247
00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 2: this will happens. I'll go all the way back to

1248
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 2: the when I said I don't think they should have

1249
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 2: let him go. Vikings fans just coming at me chirping

1250
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 2: the whole time. You didn't know what you're talking about.

1251
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 2: We've seen the best of San Donald and he can't

1252
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 2: wain football games. They didn't went in anymore. How'd that

1253
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 2: work out for you, Vikings fans? Because you had a

1254
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 2: really good year, didn't you JJ really developed?

1255
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 3: Oh no, you didn't.

1256
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,959
Speaker 2: Waste a year at justin Jefferson. And then every time

1257
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 2: this year that Sam has had a bad game, oh, immediately,

1258
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 2: Vikings fans like, see we didn't run him in the face.

1259
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 3: Place Like you just get this over and over and

1260
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 3: over again. Put in the playoffs. I mean, Sam Donald's

1261
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 3: are pretty good right in the playoffs.

1262
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 2: If he goes into the NFC Championship game and all

1263
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 2: he has to do is just not the bed like

1264
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,839
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, if you're a Vikings fan, this

1265
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 2: is a kick to the no no places that should

1266
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 2: have you looking at your entire organization and saying what

1267
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 2: the hell like?

1268
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 3: Because honestly, for whatever.

1269
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 2: Success he has in Seattle, he's got a defensive head

1270
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 2: coach in Seattle and klink Kubiak an offensive coordinator that

1271
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:56,760
Speaker 2: you know is going to be a hot coaching commodity

1272
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 2: whenever the Seahawks season is done.

1273
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 3: There's no doubt I think Klink Kubiak's gonna be a

1274
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,760
Speaker 3: head coach. So I get it. But KOC in Minnesota

1275
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:05,280
Speaker 3: is much better regarded.

1276
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,359
Speaker 2: Right, So you've got to be looking at your front

1277
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:09,280
Speaker 2: office and your head coach saying, wait.

1278
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 3: You picked that guy while this guy is.

1279
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 2: In the NFC championship game that hacked like in an

1280
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 2: honest moment of true serum, Vikings fans even have to

1281
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 2: admit that right now it looks like they made the

1282
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 2: wrong decision.

1283
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 5: Sure, And.

1284
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 4: It just depends on how much equity somebody like Kevin

1285
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 4: O'Connell has built up with that organization, right, because he's

1286
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 4: kind of backed himself into a corner on the JJ

1287
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 4: McCarthy thing, right, They campai al on that that's his

1288
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 4: whole spield, that organizations churn through players and fail players

1289
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 4: far more often than players fail organizations. And he's talked

1290
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 4: about that in a couple of different public moments. Given

1291
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 4: his background as a backup quarterback and frankly being spot

1292
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 4: on about the rate of quarterback failure in the league

1293
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 4: and people being so quick to blame it on the players,

1294
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 4: he has to, I mean, he just has to get

1295
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 4: it right with McCarthy, with JJ McCarthy. There's no other

1296
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 4: way around it. The other there's no other situation that

1297
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:11,439
Speaker 4: solves that problem for Vikings fans, because they'll go into

1298
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 4: the offseason. I mean, they're already in their offseason. They'll

1299
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 4: continue to go into their off season. They'll head into

1300
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 4: the next season they'll be grumbling about it and be like,

1301
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 4: all right, keV, like you.

1302
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 5: Told us you could do this.

1303
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 4: You told us that the organizations bailing on these players

1304
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 4: is too big a problem. You bailed on a player

1305
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 4: that looked as ready made as humanly possible for this

1306
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 4: particular situation. Who's playing in the in the biggest games

1307
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 4: in the NFL right now, even though he didn't do

1308
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 4: it for us, You better get this right. McCarthy has

1309
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 4: to then, I mean McCarthy has to eventually be better

1310
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 4: than Darnold for Kevin O'Connell to get off the hot seat,

1311
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 4: not a hot seat, like I don't think he's gonna

1312
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 4: get fired in Minnesota, but for his fan base. They

1313
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 4: start to turn up that heat just a little bit

1314
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 4: from a perception standpoint if you don't achieve at a

1315
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 4: similar level with the player that you believed was going

1316
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 4: to be the more cost effe option there, because that's

1317
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 4: when they start to point to blame squarely on you. Okay,

1318
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 4: now you're the organization that's failing your young quarterback. You're

1319
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 4: part of the problem. You good enough to do this?

1320
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 4: How much was Sam Darnold making up on your behalf

1321
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 4: because he went to the Kyle Shanahan school of quarterback

1322
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 4: rehabilitation before you got him in your last stop? Was

1323
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 4: that Kyle Shanahan or was it you? Come on, keV,

1324
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:21,919
Speaker 4: what's the deal?

1325
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 2: I also think there's a Kyle Shanahan comp in all

1326
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 2: of this, because most teams that trade up at Kings

1327
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 2: ransom to move high into the draft to draft a

1328
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 2: quarterback tree Lance and fail with that quarterback Tree Lance.

1329
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 3: Most coaches in GMS that do that get fired.

1330
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 2: Why did that not happen in San Francisco Because they

1331
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 2: were willing to admit that they had the other guy.

1332
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 2: They were willing to admit that brock Purty was better

1333
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 2: instead of, to your point, instead of sitting there and

1334
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 2: constantly trying to shove Trey Lance into a situation that

1335
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 2: he just wasn't good enough for, they turned around and said, Okay,

1336
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:57,439
Speaker 2: you know what all that.

1337
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 3: Matters is we get the guy.

1338
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 2: And that's what I was saying the entire time with

1339
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vikings is it doesn't matter whether or not

1340
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 2: you drafted a quarterback high, or whether or not you've

1341
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 2: got a quarterback in the room that maybe you should

1342
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 2: have seen coming like, and.

1343
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 3: None of it matters.

1344
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 2: All that matters is do you have a quarterback that

1345
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 2: can win you games? And the answer now clearly is

1346
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold is capable of doing that. And if the

1347
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 2: answer that you want to have, the counter to that is,

1348
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 2: well he melted down at the end of the season. Yeah,

1349
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 2: he had a couple of bad games. But because of

1350
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,439
Speaker 2: those couple of bad games, you decided to go all

1351
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 2: in on the other guy. Well, now, man, if the

1352
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 2: other guy isn't successful enough, it gets absolutely wild. Speaking

1353
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 2: of wild, the absolute nail in the coffin For anyone

1354
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 2: that has told you that there's a problem with college football,

1355
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 2: the nail in the coffin to your argument was delivered

1356
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 2: this week.

1357
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Speaker 3: We'll tell you why. But first, Martin, get us caught

1358
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 3: up on what's going on right now.

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01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 9: We got one game live in the NBA. The Cavaliers

1360
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 9: have a twenty to nineteen lead over the Magic with

1361
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 9: two forty five left in the first quarter. Desmond Bayne

1362
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 9: and Donovan Mitchell both have seven points. Earlier, we saw

1363
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 9: the Knicks beat the seventy six ers one twelve to

1364
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 9: one poh nine. Jalen Brunt to with thirty one point

1365
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 9: six assists. Joellen beat with a thirty eight point eleven

1366
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 9: rebound double double. The game between the Golden State Warriors

1367
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 9: and Minnesota Timberwolves postponed today in order to prioritize the

1368
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 9: safety and security of the Minneapolis community player the NBA's

1369
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 9: press release. The game has been rescheduled for Tomorrow at

1370
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 9: five thirty Eastern time. And the coaching cycle, Mike McCarthy's

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01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 9: verbally agreed to be the new head coach of the

1372
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 9: Pittsburgh Steelers. Used to coach the Packers and the Cowboys.

1373
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 9: The Bills A completed a head coaching interview with Anthony Lynn.

1374
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 9: Lynn coaches the running backs in Washington. Used to work

1375
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 9: in Buffalo. He coached under Rex Ryan. Actually he was

1376
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 9: an interim head coach for them after for a couple

1377
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 9: of games there. The Dolphins promoting senior passing game coordinator

1378
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 9: Bobby Sloweck to offensive coordinator. Slower previously an offensive coordinator

1379
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 9: in Houston before it was fired and he took a

1380
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 9: job in Miami. The Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith will

1381
01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:59,960
Speaker 9: be the new offensive coordinator at Ohio State.

1382
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 5: Eight.

1383
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 9: Former Giants head coach Brian Daball interview for the Las

1384
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 9: Vegas Raiders head coaching job. Former Dolphins defensive coordinator Anthony

1385
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,479
Speaker 9: Weavers set for a second interview with the Cardinals. Clint

1386
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 9: Kubiak withdrew himself from coaching consideration. The forty nine Ers

1387
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 9: offensive coordinator had been interviewed by the Raiders, and the

1388
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 9: Steelers and Memphis Grizzies announced that John Moran's gonna miss

1389
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 9: at least three weeks through to sprain ucl and his

1390
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 9: left elbow, and the Guardians sign third baseman Jose Ramirez

1391
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 9: to a seven year, one hundred seventy five million dollar extension.

1392
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Speaker 6: Boys back to you.

1393
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 2: He's Buck Rising on Jason fitz Bucket fits hanging out

1394
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 2: with you on Fox Sports Radio. If you missed any

1395
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 2: of today's show, you'll want to catch the pod. Just

1396
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:43,960
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1397
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:45,800
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1398
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 2: sure to follow the pod. Rated five stars, you can

1399
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,920
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1400
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 2: Radio wherever you get your podcast. You'll find today's full

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01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 2: show posted right after we get off the air.

1402
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 6: Buck.

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01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 2: For anyone that didn't see, I have you. We've been

1404
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 2: working together long enough. We've known each other for years.

1405
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 2: I've been the guy that has been screaming a lot.

1406
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 2: We've been the show that has been screaming a lot.

1407
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 3: College football ain't broken.

1408
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:11,439
Speaker 2: And you got a bunch of old people sitting around

1409
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 2: you got to and I'm old, so this isn't agism.

1410
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 2: But you got a bunch of people my age that

1411
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 2: have been covering college football a long time that are

1412
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 2: sitting there every single day on Twitter X telling you

1413
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 2: this is not sustainable and it's never gonna work, and

1414
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 2: the sport is broken, and we need to fix.

1415
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 3: It right away, do we? Because here's the thing.

1416
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 2: We just went through this entire college football playoff and

1417
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 2: I hated the schedule as much as everybody.

1418
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 3: I think the schedule was awful.

1419
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 2: I even sat there and said, man, this much wait

1420
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 2: before the national championship. It's lost all of its momentum.

1421
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 2: I'm afraid nobody's gonna care about the game. It's not

1422
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 2: the two biggest brands in the world. And then all

1423
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 2: that game did was come back and get the highest

1424
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 2: rating of any game on college football on ESPN in

1425
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 2: a decade. Over a decade, all that thing did was

1426
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 2: pulling over thirty million viewers all that game between Indiana

1427
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 2: and Miami two and we're not talking about your biggest

1428
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,919
Speaker 2: and biggest of brands. For Indiana and Miami, of course

1429
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 2: has a loyal following. I get it, but apparently we're

1430
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 2: not talking about the same power of brands like Alabama

1431
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 2: and Georgia and Ohio State and Michigan. That Indiana game

1432
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 2: against Miami absolutely destroyed Ohio State Notre Dame. In last

1433
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 2: year's championship game. Over thirty million people watched the College

1434
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 2: Football Championship and yet again, it's a nail in the coffin,

1435
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 2: it's a feather in the cap. If you think college

1436
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 2: football is broken, what you're missing is that college football

1437
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 2: is healthier than ever and it's doing better than ever.

1438
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 2: And if you think it's not sustainable, you're missing the

1439
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 2: fact that it will correct itself however it wants. Right now,

1440
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 2: the truth is the audience is telling you they love it.

1441
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 2: And maybe the audience is telling you that you're being

1442
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,520
Speaker 2: left behind if you hate where the game is going.

1443
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 2: But frankly, if the game has to leave the people

1444
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 2: behind that don't want it to get thirty million viewers

1445
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 2: from the.

1446
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 3: People that do, it's worth it.

1447
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 2: I think right now the game is changing, it's making

1448
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 2: fans uncomfortable, but it is better than ever.

1449
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 4: I would agree on that last point for sure. I

1450
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 4: think that we kind of got lucky in terms of

1451
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 4: the competitiveness of that game, because FITZI, we've had a

1452
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 4: lot of blowouts in the college football National Championship final.

1453
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 4: Right this is the closest game that's been played between

1454
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 4: two national championship contenders since Tuatangavloa being inserted into a

1455
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 4: game against Georgia for the National Championship a couple years ago.

1456
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 4: I want to say that was what twenty one Maybe

1457
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 4: I don't think it was COVID. I want to say

1458
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 4: it was either twenty nineteen or twenty twenty one.

1459
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 3: I can't I was there, but I don't remember.

1460
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:44,760
Speaker 4: But it's been a while, right, Like, we've had a

1461
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 4: lot of We've had been a lot of edibles consume

1462
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 4: since then. There's been a lot of bad football played

1463
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,840
Speaker 4: since then. Now we just so happened to a game

1464
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 4: in which Miami came in as underdogs. I don't think

1465
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 4: they ever should have been as big an underdog as

1466
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 4: they were, played an incredibly close game against a team

1467
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 4: that is Whether you think that Indiana is a football brand,

1468
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 4: it's sure as Hell is now national champions I took

1469
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 4: off my crown, but it's still still sitting here on

1470
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 4: my desk, not too far away. The story is something

1471
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 4: that a lot of people identified with and fell in

1472
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 4: love with because it's one of the most improbable sports stories. FITZI,

1473
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 4: I'm thirty two years old. It may be the most

1474
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 4: improbable sports story I've ever seen in my lifetime, full stop.

1475
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 4: And I certainly don't think I'm alone in saying that.

1476
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:38,360
Speaker 4: Maybe it's prisoner of the moment. Maybe I assigned a

1477
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 4: greater weight to it because that's my alma mater, and

1478
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:43,320
Speaker 4: because I mean.

1479
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 5: It's just it's ridiculous.

1480
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 4: It's the most losing college football program of all time

1481
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,560
Speaker 4: until this year. They now have bestowed that gift to

1482
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 4: Northwestern because all they do is win games. They went

1483
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 4: sixteen and oh this year and dug themselves out of

1484
01:06:57,080 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 4: that stigma about them. The competitiveness of the game, I

1485
01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 4: think carries a lot of weight there. We are not

1486
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 4: guaranteed to have those in college football national championships on

1487
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 4: a regular basis. We are also not guaranteed to have

1488
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 4: the kind of story that Indiana is on a regular basis.

1489
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 4: I agree though that the product has never been better.

1490
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 4: I don't think that there's ever been as wide of

1491
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 4: a range of outcomes in college football as the current climate,

1492
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 4: the current atmosphere in collegiate athletics, rightly or wrongly, and

1493
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:28,440
Speaker 4: god knows, there's a lot. I don't know if you've

1494
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:32,959
Speaker 4: been paying attention to this. Daboswiney ole miss stuff crazy.

1495
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 4: By the way, Pete Golding tweeting out a shark emoji

1496
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 4: after all of that is a chef's kiss drama. I

1497
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 4: love the mercenary approach to this. I love the shamelessness

1498
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 4: in it. I just I don't know. I don't know

1499
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 4: how replicable this particular season was in terms of the

1500
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 4: intrigue and the drama on a sustainable year in, year

1501
01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 4: out basis. You can't guarantee that about any sport though,

1502
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 4: right we're talking about an NFL season which has been

1503
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 4: pretty chaotic and ended up with a lot of different results.

1504
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 4: But it's at the end of the day, it's still

1505
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 4: the Broncos and the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game.

1506
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 4: Like the participants may have changed, but the brands are

1507
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 4: still the same.

1508
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,160
Speaker 2: This is where, though, like one thing we talk about

1509
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 2: all the time, is that in the NBA you need

1510
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 2: the right teams in the finals for everybody to give

1511
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:21,720
Speaker 2: a damn right.

1512
01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:23,280
Speaker 3: In the Super Bowl, you do not.

1513
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 2: And what I think we saw on Monday was that

1514
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:30,600
Speaker 2: the college football Playoff has built a college football championship

1515
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 2: that is now because of the Playoff, I believe it's

1516
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:36,759
Speaker 2: become a hell of a lot more like the Super

1517
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:38,600
Speaker 2: Bowl than the NBA Championship.

1518
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 3: Before, when you only had four.

1519
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 2: Teams in it, you didn't have as much opportunity for

1520
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 2: teams to fall in love with the playoff run.

1521
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 3: If you're a.

1522
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:48,880
Speaker 2: Casual fans to say, I should say, if you're a

1523
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 2: casual that barely watches the game. You don't watch a

1524
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 2: lot of college football, But now it's a playoff game,

1525
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 2: and I don't care what sport we're talking about. When

1526
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:58,000
Speaker 2: you hear the word playoffs, suddenly you just want to

1527
01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 2: watch the thing. So you watch India and Miami. You're

1528
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:03,720
Speaker 2: aware of the drama because it gets crammed down your

1529
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 2: throat all week of well, Miami shouldn't have even made

1530
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 2: this thing, So now it's in the back of your

1531
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 2: head when you watch that first game, and you watch

1532
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:12,000
Speaker 2: them and you think, oh, this is this is pretty exciting.

1533
01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 3: Then you get another game, then you get another game.

1534
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 2: Over the process of the playoffs, you start to fall

1535
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:20,360
Speaker 2: in love with players and storylines. I don't think casual

1536
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:23,120
Speaker 2: people that don't watch college football would have given as

1537
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:25,680
Speaker 2: much of a damn about Fernando Mendoza even as they

1538
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 2: did until they fell in love with.

1539
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 3: That week after week after week. That's what the playoffs

1540
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:30,720
Speaker 3: are supposed to do.

1541
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:33,839
Speaker 2: It's why I always say the playoffs are not for diehards,

1542
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 2: They're for casuals. And I think what we saw this year,

1543
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:39,120
Speaker 2: You're right, you can't always replicate this, but you didn't

1544
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:40,560
Speaker 2: need the strongest brands.

1545
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:41,440
Speaker 3: In college basketball.

1546
01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 2: You damn sure need the strongest brands in the final

1547
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 2: or the ratings absolutely plumb it. And it reminds you

1548
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 2: that people really want to see Duke North Carolina as

1549
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 2: many times as they can.

1550
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 3: They love upsets early, they want chalk late.

1551
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,680
Speaker 2: We've talked about that, right, but in college football, I

1552
01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:57,720
Speaker 2: think what we saw this year is that, yeah, it's

1553
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 2: part of Indiana being an improbable story, but it's still Indiana.

1554
01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:03,760
Speaker 2: Like I mean, it's still there's If you're just a

1555
01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 2: casual person not paying attention you turn on the TV

1556
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 2: or thinking Indiana versus Miami, like there is no world

1557
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 2: where nobody that watches the sport is sitting there thinking

1558
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:15,680
Speaker 2: about those brands, usually the same way they would think

1559
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 2: about Alabama Ohio State in that game. But I think

1560
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,600
Speaker 2: the playoffs, the expansion of the playoffs, the drama of

1561
01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:23,719
Speaker 2: the storylines, the way it plays forward creates a very

1562
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 2: super Bowl like insulated. Hey, doesn't matter who's in it,

1563
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 2: thirty million people are gonna watch it. And it's just

1564
01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:33,800
Speaker 2: a reminder that the real audience is the broadest set

1565
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 2: of the audience, not the diehards. College football is ready

1566
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 2: to let the diehards go if they continue to grow,

1567
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,920
Speaker 2: and that's what's happening. Diehards don't like it, but man

1568
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:46,680
Speaker 2: casual sure as hell do.

1569
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 5: I don't.

1570
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:52,479
Speaker 4: I don't consider myself a die hard necessarily because I'll

1571
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:55,679
Speaker 4: be honest, a bandwagon the hell at Indiana football.

1572
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:57,799
Speaker 5: I never went to a game of college We've.

1573
01:10:57,560 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 4: Talked to it, yeah, I mean, but like, to me,

1574
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:01,600
Speaker 4: that's how you create a fan base, Like I'm going

1575
01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:03,280
Speaker 4: to be an Indiana football fan for the rest of

1576
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:06,800
Speaker 4: my life now because of these two seasons and that

1577
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:10,200
Speaker 4: you know, has turned me from a casual into somebody

1578
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 4: who's regularly checking portal updates and things like that in

1579
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:15,840
Speaker 4: ways I have never done for the rest of my life,

1580
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 4: because I want to know who's going to replace for

1581
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 4: Nana Mendoza, and if this Hoover kid from TCU.

1582
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 5: Is worth a dam and if this Michigan.

1583
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 4: State quarterback that they got through the portal is going

1584
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 4: to improve them substantially, and all these different things that

1585
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,719
Speaker 4: I've never, you know, thought twice about in my life.

1586
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:31,920
Speaker 4: That was the whole point of this, to expand the tent.

1587
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 4: College football has been a regional sport. Now it's pointing

1588
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:37,720
Speaker 4: and laughing at the NBA and being like, you know,

1589
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 4: we're still football, and we can do this, and we

1590
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 4: can spread it out nationally. And you see people like

1591
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 4: yourself and Caroline Fenton and Josh Pate and all these

1592
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 4: other college football pundits and things like that rising to

1593
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 4: greater levels of of.

1594
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:56,679
Speaker 5: What's the word that I'm looking for, prominence? Prominence?

1595
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, just because like, oh, people care about college football

1596
01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:02,479
Speaker 4: elsewhere in the country. We should talk about this in

1597
01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 4: national platforms. Why the hell did it take us so long?

1598
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 4: It's kind of because the sport wasn't a place where

1599
01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:10,559
Speaker 4: it was regional, and now you've turned it into something

1600
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:12,800
Speaker 4: that people are going to consume. A free agency every

1601
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 4: year is a disaster for the sport. It's incredibly interesting

1602
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:18,560
Speaker 4: to the general public. If you have that kind of

1603
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 4: personnel movement, if you put it into NFL terms, you

1604
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:24,200
Speaker 4: would boggle people's minds right with this entire thing. So

1605
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 4: I think on aggregate, the moves that they have made

1606
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 4: have accomplished their goal. Now the problem is they're going

1607
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:32,240
Speaker 4: to tinker with this thing to death until there's some

1608
01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:36,599
Speaker 4: actual guardrails put on it, because what is going on

1609
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 4: in college football is both awesome and also wildly unsustainable

1610
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:44,719
Speaker 4: or college sports. I mean, we haven't even talked about

1611
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 4: this Alabama basketball player that's coming out of the G

1612
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 4: League three years removed and playing against Tennessee this weekend.

1613
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:54,320
Speaker 2: Anyway, you're right, they're going to be guardrails put on it.

1614
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 2: But in the meantime, the more people that flock to

1615
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 2: it for somebody that just loves covering the sport, to me,

1616
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:02,439
Speaker 2: the better I want to see the sport healthier than ever.

1617
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 2: I believe right now it is coming up next. We

1618
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:07,640
Speaker 2: will get you the single greatest game show in the

1619
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 2: history of sports talk radio? Would you rather coming up next?

1620
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 2: Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio. I started before I

1621
01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 2: was up. I'm gonna start over like a true professional.

1622
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:20,519
Speaker 2: Have you ever wiped through the pieces of dry toilet paper?

1623
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 5: Wondered?

1624
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 3: Is this as good as it gets?

1625
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 2: It's not switched to life changing wet extra large fleshable

1626
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 2: Dude Wipes because better wipes, just clean better, Available at

1627
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:32,559
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1628
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna learn how to do my job. They do

1629
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 2: a great job behind the scenes, and I did not

1630
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 2: do a great job right there. So he's bug rising.

1631
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 2: I'm Jason fitz bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio, hanging

1632
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 2: out with you.

1633
01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 3: Ian saved me from myself.

1634
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 2: It is time for the single greatest game show in

1635
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:46,559
Speaker 2: the history of sports talk radio?

1636
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 3: Are you ready for?

1637
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 1: Wo you rather?

1638
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:53,519
Speaker 5: God?

1639
01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 3: We get worse as we get slew We rushed.

1640
01:13:55,760 --> 01:14:01,879
Speaker 2: Here, rushing the spinning wheel week. It's where Ian's gonna ask.

1641
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:03,680
Speaker 3: Us a question. Okay, no stage or this time? So

1642
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:07,759
Speaker 3: first one? Would you rather always have to wear shoes

1643
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:11,800
Speaker 3: to bed or never be able to wear shoes at all? Oh?

1644
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 4: I'd rather wear shoes to bed right, to not wear

1645
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 4: shoes at all. I don't want to walk outside in

1646
01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 4: the snow without shoes on what kind of hell is that?

1647
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 5: Absolutely not?

1648
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:22,920
Speaker 3: But do you want to wear shoes to bed?

1649
01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1650
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 4: I mean you could just you could. You could just

1651
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 4: have your feet perpetually hanging off the edge.

1652
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:28,719
Speaker 5: Of your bed.

1653
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 4: You don't have to put the shoes under the covers, right,

1654
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:32,680
Speaker 4: there's logistically well, it's up to you.

1655
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:34,680
Speaker 3: It's up to you. It's up to you. Do you

1656
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:35,360
Speaker 3: want to live like that?

1657
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:35,679
Speaker 2: Though?

1658
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, yeah.

1659
01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:42,760
Speaker 2: Okay, well Buck, maybe maybe you just have to go

1660
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:45,839
Speaker 2: a few weeks without your usual pedicure and feet treatment.

1661
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 3: Maybe.

1662
01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:49,120
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, a pedicure, by the way, is

1663
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:52,280
Speaker 2: like listen, men, listening to this right now. If there's

1664
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 2: anything you should learn from this segment, it's that, my god,

1665
01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:57,800
Speaker 2: pedicures are life changing, especially like once they start doing

1666
01:14:57,800 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 2: the leg rub with it and a like fix your

1667
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 2: toe up a little bit first, like don't go in

1668
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 2: there and make them all gangling and horrible for the technician.

1669
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying a pedicure is a delight. I'm

1670
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 2: gonna go with no shoes though, because I hate wearing shoes,

1671
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 2: Like I just walk around the house with socks on

1672
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:14,439
Speaker 2: all the time, Like I don't really like wearing shoes

1673
01:15:14,439 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 2: in general. I'm gonna believe that the bottom of my

1674
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:18,640
Speaker 2: feet will toughen up over time and all of a

1675
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 2: sudden I'll be out here, you know, like what's his

1676
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:24,639
Speaker 2: name in New England, barefoot in it no matter where

1677
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 2: I go.

1678
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:27,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a mc collins. Thank you mc collins. I

1679
01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 3: couldn't think of maximum.

1680
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 4: I think I don't know, am I I shouldn't do

1681
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 4: that because obviously mccollins is a significantly tougher individual than

1682
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:35,680
Speaker 4: I am.

1683
01:15:35,760 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 5: But that seems so corny to me. Let just put

1684
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 5: the shoes.

1685
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, it's corny's tomorrow when people are like

1686
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 2: topless and it's like, you know, negative whatever, and they're

1687
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:46,160
Speaker 2: trying to show how tough they are. No, you don't

1688
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 2: look tough. You just look dumb. You're just like your

1689
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:50,040
Speaker 2: Nippos will thank you if you wear a shirt. Just

1690
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:50,719
Speaker 2: wear a shirt.

1691
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:53,679
Speaker 4: Those people die from frostbite. That's just survival of the fitest.

1692
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 4: At this point in time, you're weeding yourself out in

1693
01:15:57,080 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 4: the wheel.

1694
01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 3: Okay, would you rather get a surprise wet willy from

1695
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:09,599
Speaker 3: a stranger once a day, or get a surprise wedgie

1696
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:10,800
Speaker 3: from a stranger once a day.

1697
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 2: Uh, surprise what willy? Uh No, I don't, I don't wanna,

1698
01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:17,439
Speaker 2: I don't I look these. I spent a lot of

1699
01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 2: my life on the road as a musician. Uh, I'm

1700
01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 2: pretty used to weird surprises randomly, like shout out to

1701
01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 2: my buddy Jay Dog who might.

1702
01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 3: Be listening in uh in Nashville.

1703
01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 2: Who once at a sound check when I was playing

1704
01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:31,599
Speaker 2: for Phil Basterer, uh, walked right by me on stage

1705
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 2: and I'm standing right there, and all of a sudden

1706
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:35,080
Speaker 2: he went and just pants me right there and I

1707
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,760
Speaker 2: wasn't wearing underwear, and that just that happened. So all

1708
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 2: of a sudden, I just Uh. I leaned into the

1709
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 2: microphone and I said out there was nothing I could do. Like,

1710
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:45,520
Speaker 2: so I'm used to Uh, I'm used to weird surprises,

1711
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,800
Speaker 2: but Wedgie's hurt so much, and like, all I could

1712
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 2: think about is somebody like Taylor l want actually like

1713
01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:52,639
Speaker 2: picking me up by my underwear, and that would.

1714
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 3: Hurt so much.

1715
01:16:53,439 --> 01:16:55,679
Speaker 2: A wet willy is gross, and I would say something

1716
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 2: inappropriate to you after you did it, but at least

1717
01:16:58,240 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 2: it wouldn't hurt my tailbone.

1718
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:01,599
Speaker 3: Buck, so I'll wet willy God.

1719
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 4: Nothing sounds worse though, than just somebody's slimy, gross ass

1720
01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 4: finger in your ear. I don't want that. I mean,

1721
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 4: I'd rather take that. I'd rather just run the odds

1722
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:13,720
Speaker 4: that I'm I mean, I don't know how much I

1723
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 4: weigh right now, probably two hundred and fifteen pounds. Like

1724
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 4: I'm just banking on the idea that if somebody wedgied

1725
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:19,960
Speaker 4: me hard enough that my underwear would rip and it

1726
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 4: would just be a very you know, just just one

1727
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 4: of those things that was unpleasant for a fraction of

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01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:26,760
Speaker 4: a second, and then the underwear rips in You're.

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01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 3: Fine, and both are a surprise too at some point

1730
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:30,639
Speaker 3: in the day that you're just not expecting.

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01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 5: I think i'd rather get the wedgie.

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01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 4: I don't want just people's people's hands and fingers. I

1733
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 4: don't know what are the producers on the local show.

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01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:43,000
Speaker 3: You're wearing nothing but a robe.

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01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 5: I wearing.

1736
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 4: I have, I have socks on, I have pajama pants. Listen,

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01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,799
Speaker 4: if I'm in my home in the snow, I reserve

1738
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:54,679
Speaker 4: the right to do the radio show in my bathrobe.

1739
01:17:54,680 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 4: You're not gonna tell me otherwise, spin a wheel, tell

1740
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:01,640
Speaker 4: me I can't wear my robe.

1741
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:03,920
Speaker 5: I could be a surprise, what willy.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this is actually a good question for both of

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01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 3: you guys. Would you rather be the head of a

1744
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 3: company or the head of a cult? Oh?

1745
01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 4: I think a cult, I think, you know, maybe not

1746
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 4: like a like a don't drink the punch cult or

1747
01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 4: something like that, But I think I think I would

1748
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 4: rather have a loyal army of mindless minions as opposed to,

1749
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 4: you know, the stresses that come with being a fortune

1750
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,559
Speaker 4: five hundred CEO give me that I don't want.

1751
01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 2: Like head of a company has to just constantly work

1752
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,160
Speaker 2: to keep everybody employed and happy.

1753
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 6: Tons of money back rich.

1754
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like head of a cult, I can make

1755
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:41,040
Speaker 2: everybody say I have the power, like I'm he man,

1756
01:18:41,080 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 2: every time I lift the sword out of the stone,

1757
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:44,800
Speaker 2: like I'm in like make me the head of a

1758
01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 2: guy that's not even a close one. I want to

1759
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 2: be the head of a cult, like in a just

1760
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 2: a weird cult that worships something that nobody totally understands

1761
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 2: and we all kind of speak in tongues Ian. That

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01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:54,240
Speaker 2: one was easy money.

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01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:56,719
Speaker 5: Isn't everything Ian fair enough?

1764
01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:57,200
Speaker 3: Fair enough?

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01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 2: I don't.

1766
01:18:57,479 --> 01:18:59,200
Speaker 3: I don't think we have time to squeeze in it anymore.

1767
01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 3: So go around, going around.

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Speaker 2: Well that was spectacular. If you've enjoyed any of what

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01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,559
Speaker 2: you listened to, I'm sorry, and I don't know what's

1770
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 2: wrong with you, but I know we'll be back right

1771
01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:10,479
Speaker 2: here tomorrow night at a PM. He's buck Rising. I'm

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01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:12,760
Speaker 2: Jason Fitz. Thanks so much for listening to buckham Fits

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01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:15,719
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. Stick around for more great stuff

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Speaker 2: from the network all night long.