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Speaker 1: The Around the League Podcast openly fears Papa John. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to another edition of the Around the League Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansons, and I'm joined by a

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Speaker 1: room filled with heroes, Chris Westling, Greg Rosenthal and Mark Sssler.

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Speaker 1: What U boys? How are you um doing? Doing pretty good?

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Speaker 1: How are you guys? Week sixteen A busy week sixteen,

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Speaker 1: doesn't get doesn't get much better? My favorite time of year. Um, Greg,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tee you up with this. One of the

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Speaker 1: more underrated movies of the late eighties in terms of

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Speaker 1: rom com Mr Destiny. But you know the thing about

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Speaker 1: destiny is there's no such You can't control destiny. It's destiny.

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Speaker 1: And that's why this week, this year, the NFL has

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Speaker 1: finally created the perfect playoffs scenario for Week seventeen. Four

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Speaker 1: teams alive, none of them control their own destiny. It's

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Speaker 1: just the NFL admitting finally we don't know, we don't

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Speaker 1: know anything. No one controls their destiny. That's true. Exciting

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Speaker 1: The mystical bar keep and Mr Destiny was played by

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Speaker 1: Michael Kaine. I was gonna guess Brian Brown. That's yeah, alright,

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Speaker 1: So let's get right into it with these destiny mongers

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Speaker 1: across the NFL, and we start in Orchard Park, where

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Speaker 1: some weird happenings went down. Kyle Williams had two sacks,

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Speaker 1: as the Buffalo Bill said, a single season record and

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Speaker 1: put a dent into the Miami Dolphins playoff chances with

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Speaker 1: a nineteen nothing shutout win on Sunday afternoon. Market makes

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Speaker 1: some sense of this to me, because the Dolphins, coming

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Speaker 1: off that great win against the Patriots, everything in the

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Speaker 1: world to play for. Thad Lewis prominently involved stink bomb well,

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Speaker 1: and this is a team that's been swept by Thad

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Speaker 1: for when they're playing bad Lewis. I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: a playoff team in any way, shape or form, except

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Speaker 1: for the fact that the bottom end of the a

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Speaker 1: that this is probably the team that will bounce in

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Speaker 1: there if the if the things go right, Miami, really

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Speaker 1: they came right away. They came out and just looked dead.

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Speaker 1: They went over five on third downs to start the game.

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Speaker 1: you I thought, I was telling you, guys, this has

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Speaker 1: the makings of Miami roaring back in the second half

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Speaker 1: and proving that they got over whatever it was, made adjustments.

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Speaker 1: None of that happened. They just they couldn't get anything going.

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Speaker 1: It was an ugly, ugly game. This is the grizzliest

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Speaker 1: box score since the Jaguars first half of the season,

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Speaker 1: which was a grizzly box score every week. Six first

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Speaker 1: downs for the Dolphins in the entire game. They averaged

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Speaker 1: two yards per play. Tannehill average three yards per pass,

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Speaker 1: and they had fourteen yards rushing as a team. It's

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Speaker 1: about as bad offensive performance as any team has had

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Speaker 1: all year. I don't remember a team having as many

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Speaker 1: head this year. I think that's at least five, maybe six.

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Speaker 1: My takeaway because I think Miami, let's say they're done.

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Speaker 1: They have today proved they have a lot of work

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Speaker 1: to do in the off season. I would not have

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Speaker 1: a problem with rebooting this entire backfield. Well, this sums

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Speaker 1: up how crazy today was. They had one of the

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Speaker 1: worst offensive performances of the year. Mark Sessler hates them,

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Speaker 1: you know, wants nothing to do with him. They actually

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Speaker 1: moved up in the playoffs. I don't hit the season

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Speaker 1: ended today. The Dolphins are in the playoffs. If all

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Speaker 1: the teams, everyone needs help next week, but the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: have the easiest path in out of all the number six.

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Speaker 1: Well back the truck up. I don't hate them. My

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Speaker 1: point is that the that there's so much attention given

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Speaker 1: the look of no matter what happens next week, Miami

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Speaker 1: and then the next week they're gritty. You don't hate them,

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Speaker 1: of teams that annoy you. This list being longer than

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Speaker 1: your child's Christmas list. It's getting long. It's getting long

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Speaker 1: because it's just the amount of attention heaped on mediocrity.

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Speaker 1: Let's give the Bills defense at least a little bit

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Speaker 1: of They were outstandings rushing too, and then the defense

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Speaker 1: five defense, by the way. Seven sacks for the Bills

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Speaker 1: And one thing, there's so many times when we look

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Speaker 1: lot of times it doesn't pan out this one. Right

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Speaker 1: from the start, you realized this is going to be

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of coaching candidates up for

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Speaker 1: a lot of coaching jobs up for grabs. How about

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Speaker 1: Mike Patton as a coaching candidate. I'm reading this book

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Speaker 1: called Collision Low Crossers. Put it on your Christmas list

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Speaker 1: if you're looking for a last minute gift for the

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Speaker 1: football fan, because it's an instant classic. It's a great

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Speaker 1: name wasn't pronounced Patini until about four weeks ago. True

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Speaker 1: story Logan Ryan had two interceptions with Garrett Blunt scored

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Speaker 1: of the defending champs. Greg, here's another team. This was

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Speaker 1: a situation where you had two teams you that wanted

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Speaker 1: show up. Please make sense of it. It was not

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Speaker 1: an easy game to make sense of. The Baltimore Ravens outscored,

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Speaker 1: it's been a tough road. Wrestling said, they're not even

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Speaker 1: Another record was broken today, the largest margin of victory

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Speaker 1: an underdog tail. The Patriots have been the chair. If

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Speaker 1: I have to read one more thing like Tom Brady, Like, listen,

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Speaker 1: all these division titles, they're all meaningful, but this one's special.

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Speaker 1: Shut up. I was all prepared to issue bology saying

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Speaker 1: Tied to recalibrate the entire eighties scale, yes or no? No, No,

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Speaker 1: They have been dominant at home. They haven't lost yet.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy? They're they're good for one week and

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Speaker 1: what seemed to be a possible death blow. A thirty

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Speaker 1: soul food style. Would I would have tried that potentially.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna bring out the

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Speaker 1: softball pants from my bottom drawer. I wore him. We

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Speaker 1: won the championship last week. That was put him away

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Speaker 1: for the for the winter. Congratulations bringing them back out tonight.

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Speaker 1: Put my arm around him. Have a little champagne um.

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Speaker 1: In real life football news, by the way, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: with the win. That's the first three game winning streak

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Speaker 1: of the season. They and they also got help obviously,

436
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Speaker 1: uh from Buffalo and beating the Dolphins and the Patriots

437
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Speaker 1: who beat the Ravens. The Chargers still alive for a

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Speaker 1: playoff spot. Get excited, Southern California and you made the

439
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Speaker 1: case for the realistic scenario for the Steelers. I like

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00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 1: that Charger scenario. They need to win and they need

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Speaker 1: the Ravens and the Dolphins to lose, and they're in.

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Speaker 1: And that'd be fun. Philip Rivers going to Cincinnati or

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Speaker 1: something like that, because get your bolo tie on. I'll

444
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Speaker 1: be happy if either the Chargers or the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I've much rather watch those teams than

446
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Speaker 1: the Ravens or Dolphins. And uh, how about our boy

447
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 1: Ryan Matthews. Well, he came at one yard shy of

448
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Speaker 1: becoming the first running back with six yards games this year,

449
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: and he's averaging thirty touches a game the past three weeks.

450
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: He's carrying that offense. Did I say a tweet that

451
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Speaker 1: his he was in a walking boot after the game?

452
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: He was he should we be worried about that? We'll

453
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Speaker 1: find out tomorrow. Yeah. See, that's the way life is.

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Speaker 1: You can't get two worked up about what you don't know.

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Speaker 1: Just enjoy what you're doing, Alright. I like that. Don't

456
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Speaker 1: sweat the small stuff. You should write a book about it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton through a fourteen yard touchdown pass the dominic

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Speaker 1: Kickson with twenty three seconds to play, lifting the Carolina

459
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Speaker 1: Panthers to a seventeen win over the New Orleans Saints,

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Speaker 1: clinching Caroline his first playoff birth since two thousand and eight.

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00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 1: The Panthers can now wrap up the NFC South and

462
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Speaker 1: the first round by in the playoffs with a win

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Speaker 1: next Sunday at Atlanta. Greg This is a big win

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Speaker 1: for the official a t L team with two that's

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Speaker 1: an understatement. This was, you know, the biggest win for

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Speaker 1: the Panthers, I believe since their Super Bowl run. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was the biggest moment in Cam Newton's career.

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Speaker 1: And everywhere everyone always gets over they talked too much

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Speaker 1: about oh, can he do it in the clutch? Can

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Speaker 1: he do it in the big moments? And this was

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Speaker 1: the type of game. If Tom Brady did it, people

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Speaker 1: would be writing about it like he is the most

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Speaker 1: clutch god in the universe. Because Kim Newton had one

474
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Speaker 1: of his worst games of the year, but he got

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Speaker 1: the ball back with just under a minute ago. They

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Speaker 1: hadn't done anything the entire game. Thirty two seconds later,

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Speaker 1: he's in the end zone after three beautiful passes that

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Speaker 1: not too many quarterbacks could have pulled off. So whatever

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Speaker 1: you want to call that, I mean, it's about as

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Speaker 1: good as it gets. And the Panthers just need to

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Speaker 1: win next week in Atlanta, not a total gimme, and

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Speaker 1: they get a buy in the playoffs and they win

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Speaker 1: the division. The knock on Cam Newton his first two

484
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Speaker 1: years in the league was that he couldn't win close games.

485
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Speaker 1: He had only two game winning drives in his first

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Speaker 1: two years combined. He has four this year. So either

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Speaker 1: he's become clutch with his team, which his teammates and

488
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: coaches have said that he's quarterbacking differently with the game online.

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Speaker 1: He looks more confident, he's a leader. Now, he's not

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Speaker 1: throwing the ball away. He's actually playing smarter with the

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Speaker 1: game on the line, So maybe there is something to that. Well,

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00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 1: he also got helped out because the four drives before that,

493
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: three and out, three and out, three and out, three

494
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Speaker 1: and out. Sean Payton gets the ball back with over

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Speaker 1: two minutes to go, and he calls three straight runs

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Speaker 1: into the line. He does not give Drew Brees one

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Speaker 1: chance to throw the ball to get a first down

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Speaker 1: to win the game. You have Drew Brees back there

499
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Speaker 1: the same exact thing happened in the Patriots game and

500
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: it came back to bite them. He decided to not

501
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Speaker 1: take a chance, not let Drew Brees throw the ball

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Speaker 1: one time. He just wanted to get rid of the

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Speaker 1: Panthers time outs, take time off the clock and they

504
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: lost the Super Bowl. Sean he had an on side

505
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: kicking this game. He did give any reasoning for this,

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Speaker 1: the way their defense was playing at that point. He

507
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Speaker 1: just thought getting the ball to Carolina with that little

508
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: time on the clock would be enough. But they had

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Speaker 1: good field position. Wasn't a good punt. Uh, He just

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Speaker 1: thought a minute left that their defense would win it

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Speaker 1: for him. Basically, what about Louke Kickle In this game?

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Speaker 1: He was first tackles or something like that, first players

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Speaker 1: since Derek Brooks in over a decade, with twenty plus

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Speaker 1: tackles and an interception. There was so much going on

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Speaker 1: in this game, even though his low scoring Steve Smith

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Speaker 1: got injured. Kenny Vaciro looks like he's out for the

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Speaker 1: year with a broken ankle. Smith missed most of the

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Speaker 1: game with a non contact knee injury, which is not

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Speaker 1: a good sign. Kick Lee had one of the defensive

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Speaker 1: games of the year of unbelievable interception, all those tackles.

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Speaker 1: Thomas Davis had a great interception. It was really those

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Speaker 1: two linebackers, I think, kind of making a stand. It

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00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: was really all about those two guys. Think if Steve

524
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: Smith just does a little ice up Son, he should

525
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: be all right. And the Saints are just we're not.

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Speaker 1: They're not. A January player can be happy that the Panthers,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're getting the better team as the buy

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Speaker 1: team here, I guess. I mean, I think these are

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Speaker 1: two pretty even teams. The Saints just whacked them. They

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Speaker 1: actually had you know, a few weeks ago, the Saints

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Speaker 1: had twenty one downs in this game, the Panthers had ten.

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Speaker 1: They really controlled the game. The New Orleans Saints made

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Speaker 1: a lot of errors that kept it closer than it

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Speaker 1: should have. Here's the thing that you talk about one

535
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Speaker 1: of let's say, in theory, one of these teams has

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Speaker 1: to go to Seattle NFC Championship. I want to see

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Speaker 1: Carolina take a shot. We already saw New Orleans try

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Speaker 1: to take their shot. If yeah, if you and who

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Speaker 1: knows even if Seattle is in that building for that game,

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Speaker 1: or if they're even in that game at this point,

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Speaker 1: but um, if there is, if you have to choose

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Speaker 1: between the Niners, the Saints and the Panthers to win

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00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: that game in the NFC title game on the road,

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Speaker 1: Saints are the first one you throw out, so probably

545
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Speaker 1: won't have to worry. Record show around Week six, we're

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Speaker 1: talking playoffs scenarios, and I told Greg I hope the

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Speaker 1: Saints getting on the wild card because the Panthers are

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Speaker 1: winning that division. Did I remember that? And the Saints

549
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: they might not even get in with the wild card.

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00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: It is not clinched. They have to win next week

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Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs. Let's move on. Carson Palmer

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00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: overcame four interceptions to throw a thirty one yard touchdown

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Speaker 1: to Michael Floyd with two thirteen to play, and the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals kept their playoff hopes alive with a stunning,

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Speaker 1: I'll say stunning, seventeen ten win over the Seahawks on

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Speaker 1: Sunday where West at Seattle, snapping the Seahawks four teen

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Speaker 1: game winning streak and at home in that building. Uh West,

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00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: this is this is one of the more impressive road

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00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: performances by any team, or the most impressive this season. Right,

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Speaker 1: you called it stunning? We should mention it's stunning to

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Speaker 1: everyone except Dave Damn Check, who did yes. Carson Palmer

562
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: one of only two quarterbacks in the last three years

563
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Speaker 1: to win a game with four interceptions. Seahawks secondary played great,

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Speaker 1: Cardinals defense played even better. Russell Wilson had the worst

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Speaker 1: QBR of his career, the lowest yards per a tempt

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Speaker 1: figure of the career, lowest passer rating of his season.

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Speaker 1: He was pressured, as he has been all season, did

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Speaker 1: not react well to the pressure, was not accurate. By

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the fourth quarter, John Ryan, the punter,

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00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: had as many punts as Russell Wilson had completions. What

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, though, because they're already in the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: right I mean, I mean Seahawk. There's no way anyone

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Speaker 1: could possibly go into Seattle and win a game. That's impossible. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what is sad is that we very easily

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Speaker 1: could see Arizona watching the playoffs from home while we're

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Speaker 1: treated to a team like Dallas getting into the playoffs. Outrageous.

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Speaker 1: I just this is the whole You need to recede

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Speaker 1: this entire thing, because Arizona isn't is as good as

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Speaker 1: anyone right now outside of Seattle in the NFC. That's

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Speaker 1: wrongheaded thinking. Do you know why, by the way, because

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys if they and they're gonna lose next

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. Let's face it, but if they ever made

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs, how would they not play some great

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Speaker 1: game that went down to the last play and was

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00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: lost in stunning, devastating fashion. That's fun football. I would

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00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: like to see the Cowboys in the playoffs. We're different though.

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00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: I I don't want to see a mediocre eight and

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Speaker 1: eight team get into the playoffs. I would like to

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00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: reseat it and everyone. Division winners get in, but the

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00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: wild cards open it up by conference, so that the

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00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: Cardinals get in over one of these a FC teams.

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00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: How about that? I'll buy that. Like that, it is unfair.

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Speaker 1: Imagine if they win this game, then they beat the

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Speaker 1: forty Niners next week, there's still a good chance they

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Speaker 1: won't make the playoffs. Well, it's ugly that there's no better.

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00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: Say we're ready to get into the postseason then knocking

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00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: off Seattle and the Niners. That they do that, come on, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll be It would be heartbreaking to keep them out

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Speaker 1: of the playoffs. That they beat Seattle and San Francisco

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Speaker 1: back to they're a top eight team I think right now,

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Speaker 1: but back to back coach the year. Sometimes you don't

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Speaker 1: know which tie breakers are gonna get you in that

603
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: New Orleans Arizona game way back, I think in Week

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Speaker 1: five or six is probably what's gonna take Arizona out.

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00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: The Seahawks have one of the craziest stats I've ever

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Speaker 1: heard in football. Their punt returns. They had. They had

607
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: given up nineteen total punt return yards entering this game.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson had six yards on nine returns. That's a

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Speaker 1: quarter of the punt returns. It's a quarter of the

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Speaker 1: yards allowed by the Seahawks punts all year. That's incredible.

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Speaker 1: That's an amazing stat. Peyton Manning has regained his NFL

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Speaker 1: record for touchdown passes with fifty one, and the Denver

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Speaker 1: Broncos have clinched the a f C. West. Manning through

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Speaker 1: for four yards and four touchdowns, including three in the

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Speaker 1: final fourth quarter to pass Tom Brady. That's Greg's boy,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady fifty touchdown passes that he threw in two

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Speaker 1: thousand seven um from a game standpoint, that Broncos won

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Speaker 1: thirteen over the Texans. Extending Houston's franchise record losing streak

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Speaker 1: to thirteen games. West Peyton Manning, Uh, what can you

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Speaker 1: say about the guy at this point? I mean, what

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Speaker 1: a season. I thought the way this game went and

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Speaker 1: the way he broke the record was just perfectly summed

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Speaker 1: up what the Broncos are this year. They struggled the

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Speaker 1: whole third quarter. Uh, Peyton Manning got hit too many times.

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00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: The Texans defront defensive front was getting to him. They

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00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: couldn't move the ball, and then you just see that

627
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: onslaught that the Broncos have done all year, where they

628
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Speaker 1: have three touchdowns in like eight or nine minutes and

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Speaker 1: you can't stop it. So they just it seems like

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00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: there's so many stops and starts with them, but when

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Speaker 1: they turn it on, nobody can stop him. I liked

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Speaker 1: in this game that here on the West Coast, the

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Speaker 1: early games begin at ten a m. And around ten

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Speaker 1: oh four, Greg was up out of his chair calling this,

635
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: uh the match shop Christmas Special, and how it was

636
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Speaker 1: going to be an upset, And by around ten eleven,

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00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: I never heard another word about that shop was terrible.

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00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: That was a big Rosenthalt talking point this week. I

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Speaker 1: just thought it would be glorious. I mean, how exciting

640
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: it would be to see that poor man with the

641
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: receding hairline gets him if if the third and fourth

642
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: quarters perfectly some up the Broncos offense. One play summed

643
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: up Matt Shop. It was a boot action that you

644
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: always seen in the Texans offense. He's got all day

645
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: to throw, and he throws it sideways, hangs Greg Jones

646
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: out to dry. I throw us to his full back

647
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: on a play where if he didn't hang the full

648
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: bat out the fullback out, the dry would have gone

649
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: for three yards with all day to throw. This is

650
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: who my job is now, He's a machine. It's it's

651
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: funny that this record did not It wasn't that big

652
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: of a deal. I mean, it didn't get played up

653
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: that much relatively because there's so much crazy stuff. We

654
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: talked about it all day like this wasn't our lead story.

655
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: This is like, Okay, he broke the all time. Isn't

656
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: the reason for that? Because I think it got a

657
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: lot of attention. Went in around week six you realized, wait,

658
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: he's on pace to do everything, and he stayed on

659
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: pace since. Okay, now he did places, whether it's football

660
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: or baseball at home run Chase's paces or that's a

661
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: fun part of the whole act. I just think that

662
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: in West made a good point. Someone's gonna come and

663
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: break it next year. I think that's just the way now.

664
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: We just expect records to go down and they can

665
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: break the points record too, right. They need eight team

666
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: points next week to break the points record and Peyton

667
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: Manning needs two or sixty five yards to break the

668
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: yards and they play the Raiders next week, and they

669
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: moved the Patriots game. This is interesting to the late afternoon,

670
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: so that the number one seed would be on the

671
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: line in the late afternoon to Denver has to play

672
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: to win. They can't sit Manning. They have to win

673
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: that game against the Raiders to get home field of

674
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 1: Judo schedule, make good job. And you know what my

675
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: my thoughts on it is because I agree that the

676
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: fifty one didn't get played up enough today or the

677
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: build up to it. I think collectively as NFL fans,

678
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: we don't appreciate Peyton Manning as much as we really

679
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: don't this, what this guy had did at this stage

680
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: of his career is outrageous and there should be a

681
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: bigger deal being made of it. But I think it

682
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,879
Speaker 1: goes back to Peyton needs to get the second ring,

683
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 1: and until that everything in the eyes of a lot

684
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: of people all here, he has all more fans than

685
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: any player in the league. I think he gets exactly

686
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: the credit he deserves. He probably gets too much blame,

687
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: but he gets a lot of And the record is

688
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 1: not forty years old. It's it's it's a record that

689
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: any football fan remembers being set very recently. Let's records

690
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: are for baseball. No one cares about stats and records,

691
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: and it's just not what people are in. They're not

692
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: held up as sacred like baseball. That's true. And one

693
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: interesting thing if you want to like just try to

694
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: wrap your head around this, it's considered great. Like on

695
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: a quarterback throw is not great, but it's a nice

696
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: season to throw touchdowns in a season. If you combine

697
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: two seasons of Manning's career two thousand, four and two

698
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: thousands throwing a hundred touchdown passes, he's all right, and

699
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: he's pretty good. It's not that great as staff, but

700
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: it's just like kind of like a lot of touchdown Interesting.

701
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: He has two of the three greatest asking seasons in

702
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: NFL history, It's got a future. You know, I just

703
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: get excited about this ton of stuff. Maybe maybe I

704
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: just I'm just a boy who loves the game. Well,

705
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 1: when I said when I said, this record will probably

706
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: be broken next year, Greg made a good point. Man,

707
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: He will probably break it himself again next year. Every Well,

708
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: they'll have the franchise tag Decker or sign him to

709
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: a long term deal. But everyone else is coming back.

710
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: Let's hope West Welker comes. So you're saying that Matt

711
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 1: Shop quarterback in the Jets, will not break the record.

712
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to see him. He's in the he's

713
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: in the visor and clipboard stage of his career. Just

714
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 1: just let him go. Andrew Luck through yards and a touchdown.

715
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: Is the Indianapolis Colts beat the Kansas City Chiefs seven

716
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: on Sunday and a potential preview of the a f

717
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: C Wild Card playoff game. You know what I think,

718
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: Kevin Patrick's still in line. He's still there, Kevin, what

719
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: or not? Like you didn't know if you were still

720
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: on the show still So you just figger today, this

721
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: is a great podcast. I'm gonna listen. Yeah, I was

722
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: just listening. I told you wait a second. I said

723
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: this earlier that it didn't sound like Kevin wanted to

724
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: get off the phone because he had gone through such

725
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: a traumatic experience. Kelly heard us making fun of him,

726
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 1: like being on the psychiatrist couch. Where's here to support you, Kevin? Kevin,

727
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 1: when we talked behind your back the Dolph that sounds

728
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: voice everything, Kevin, you could stay on as long as

729
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: you want, and then after the podcast, if you want

730
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: to call me Bud. You got So let's talk about

731
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: this game, Kevin. I know you watch this one closely. Uh.

732
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 1: We talked about it on Friday. Uh, you know, at

733
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: least my opinion was that the Colts needed some type

734
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: of signature road win um and going into Casey and

735
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: getting a win. That's pretty good, right. They did get it.

736
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: Andrew look looked very good. Keet Hamilton kind of took

737
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: the wheels off in the second quarter. They had two

738
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: or three owns to start the game, and then he

739
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: just kind of let Andrew Luck throw the ball. He

740
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: went to At one point he went ten consecutive downs

741
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: with an attempted pass, accounting that was called back for holding,

742
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: So officially, nine attempts to passes in a row Um

743
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: and their offense just moved the ball. It's much better

744
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: when they let him let him throw the ball. Uh.

745
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: Donald Brown had a nice catching run on a great

746
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: display design by pet Hamilton for a touchdown, and he

747
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: had one yard run. Other than that, the ground game

748
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: didn't really do much. Tren Regerson is who he thought

749
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: he was. He's the same get two yards and fall

750
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: down um and did the Chiefs defense just did. They

751
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: didn't come to play again. They didn't have a pass

752
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: rush against a very average to mediocre Pulls offensive line

753
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: that was reshuffled this week. They couldn't get in looked

754
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,439
Speaker 1: space very much. They had a couple of drives where

755
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: they did in the second quarter. But other than that,

756
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: he had all day to throw and he picked him apart.

757
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that had eight yards. I mean, here's

758
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 1: the thing that scares you if you're a Chiefs fan. Yes,

759
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: the defense has been inconsistent for weeks now, and then

760
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: you had the game like Alex Smith had today. You

761
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: wonder what happens or if it's going to happen. In January,

762
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 1: he threw for a hundred and fifty three yards, lost

763
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: the fumble through two interceptions. Uh. You know, I don't

764
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: know if I'm ready to trust Alex Smith in a

765
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: big spot this season. What about you, Kevin. It's tough

766
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: because we were just praising him last this past week,

767
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: finally getting on board, and then he comes it out

768
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: and has one of these games where he's just checked down, checkdown, checkdown,

769
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: and when he tried to go along, he's gone. If

770
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: we didn't have time, they had guys in the space.

771
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: Robert Mathis had one play where he knocked the ball

772
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 1: out of Alex mus Sand and it was intercepted, even

773
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: though I would argue that it was a Ford fumble

774
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 1: that was caught in in the mid air. Um but

775
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: Jamal Charles, they went bang bang four plays that he's

776
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: had a thirty three or touchdown run, and after that

777
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: they didn't do anything. They had They went. They didn't

778
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: have over five plays on a drive until two minutes

779
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: left in the first half. This is the cults first

780
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: truly impressive game in two months. And I don't think

781
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: it's a coincidence that Pet Hamilton's It's finally done what

782
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: we've been begging him to do all year. Put the

783
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: put the game in Andrew lux hands, not the running

784
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: game lose that power running scheme. Seriously, Andrew Luck is

785
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 1: is your franchise. He's your best player. Put the game

786
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: in his hands like the Patriots do with Brady and

787
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: the Broncos do with Manny. Put it in Griff Whalen's hands.

788
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 1: You know, Andrew luck can make him a player. If

789
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: you want to extend the Peyton Manning to Andrew Luck,

790
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: I mean, making pretty decently average receivers do pretty well.

791
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: Leading them in the past is making great thros. The

792
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: Chiefs had some busted coverages, but he spread to all

793
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: around really well. Why is the new Blair White? I

794
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: don't know Blair White references Austin College compared to as well.

795
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of this colts team.

796
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: But of all the a f C teams that are

797
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: so up and down, I think they're the one team

798
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: that has the profile of a Ravens or Giants or

799
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: Cardinals that went to the Super Bowl and totally shocked people,

800
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: just because they have a quarterback and they have some

801
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: surprising wins, and they have a good coach and they

802
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: just there's something that it wouldn't They're the one team

803
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: out of that of that four bottom teams in the

804
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: a f C that I think could surprise people, especially

805
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: after this win. This was the one that tells you, Okay,

806
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 1: maybe they are a little friskier than they're letting on. Yes,

807
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: I don't think Dan the official committee, one man's a

808
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: statement committee. Nate Washington scored on a thirty yard reception

809
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter that Tennessee got a much needed

810
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: defensive stop late, and the Titans ended a three game

811
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: losing streak with a twenty six victory over the Jacksonville

812
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: Jaguars on Sunday, Kevin Patrick, I know you you kept

813
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: a close eye on this game. Uh, do you have

814
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: anything else to add or can we just move on?

815
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: You could probably move on. I wouldn't put this ilish.

816
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 1: I was like, man check, I wouldn't send this game

817
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: film in my ownership. But it might be the last

818
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: one he ever has as a head coach. Perhaps, even

819
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: though they want to, I didn't. They didn't do much.

820
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: They had They had a good poleer running team in

821
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: the second half of the first half, was still with

822
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: terrible errors, and the Jags chat Hanny moved the ball

823
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: pretty well on him one in seven record for the

824
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: Jaguars home that's not good, Kevin. So if you wanna,

825
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: if you want to stay in the line, you can

826
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: do it, buddy. But if you want to go go

827
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: to sleep, now you can do that too. I love

828
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: to listen to you, guys. Kevin Patrick coming at you quartet. Well,

829
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 1: you might want to stay on the line for this because, uh,

830
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: this is my favorite read of the day. Gino Smith

831
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: threw two touchdown passes to David Nelson and ran for

832
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: another scores. The New York Jets topped the Cleveland Browns,

833
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler's boyhood team on Sunday in New York's home

834
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: finale and possibly Rex Ryan's fine home finale as the

835
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: Jets head coach. He ran around slapping, high fiving uh

836
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: Jets fans on his way to the locker room tunnel.

837
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: Of course, before the game, it was reported, and it's

838
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: been um backed up by other media outlets now that

839
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: Rex had talked to his team the day before this

840
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: game and said that word on the street, which had

841
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: been getting phased out of cultural vernacular. So it's good

842
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: that word on the streets back was that he was

843
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: going to be fired. Motivational ploy. It sounds classic Rex,

844
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: but he could also be shown the door, But who

845
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: cares about any of that? Mark Cessler and I had

846
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: a big bet the winner of this game would get

847
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: to dress the loser. So Mark Sessler will wear a

848
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,399
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow official Jets jersey tucked into jeans all next

849
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: Sunday for probably about twelve hours. You are a factory.

850
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 1: Look I look forward to this because I do. I'll

851
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: tell you why Cleveland did not deserve this game. They

852
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: have not looked good. We talked about them having a

853
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 1: defense that had some interesting parts to it, challenging teams.

854
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: They flat out look bad today. But why would that

855
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: make you look forward to wearing it? Because it's one

856
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: thing if I promised to do this and then Cleveland,

857
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: as they are wont to do at times, lose on

858
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: some bizarre all where I feel like, you know, this

859
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: could have gone another way. They just flat out this

860
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: is how they are. In late December, it's shut it down.

861
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 1: Time close the curtains, get ready for spring, get excited

862
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: about the draft and the free agency before we shatter

863
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: your dreams next fall. Mark and I had a conversation

864
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: downstairs the The Browns are going to Pittsburgh next week

865
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 1: to finish their season. That will likely be a blood

866
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: bath that they will end up at four and twelve.

867
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: That will be six straight years that the Browns have

868
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: lost either either eleven or twelve games, which is outrageous.

869
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 1: And I mentioned to Mark, and Mark fought me on

870
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: this that Chud. No one's mentioned Chud as a hot

871
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: seat candidate. And perhaps that's fair because of what he inherited,

872
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: But from a Brown's perspective, there's just no progress here.

873
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: It's just you're just stuck in neutral forever and ever

874
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 1: and ever. Well, wait, what I I didn't say, Hey,

875
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: Chud is blown the doors off. What I was arguing

876
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: was that the organization brought shut in to not just

877
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: blow it up one year later like they've done over

878
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: and over and over. There's absolutely literally no it's not

879
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: being written about or discussed because it's already known. It

880
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 1: won't happen this offseason. There's just no question. And and

881
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: listen there their coordinators have been better than always they've

882
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: had in years and years. Do they have the best

883
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: passing numbers ever for any team that had three three

884
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks start at least three games. They've already gone over

885
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: four thousand passing yards. And I think they have passing touchdowns. Well,

886
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 1: that is also tainted by the fact that they literally

887
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: do not have a ground game on any level. All

888
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: they do to move the ball is passed. But with

889
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: the cast of quarterbacks they have that is interesting. You

890
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: should wear remember those belts like in the nineties where

891
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: it was all like loopholes. You remember the belts about

892
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: it was like a weave. It was like a weave,

893
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: and then you pull it inside of it, and then

894
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: you pull it inside and then what happened? They went

895
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: out of style and then Dad's kept wearing them for

896
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 1: another ten years or so. Mark, I'm imagining a woman's belt.

897
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: What is this, well that could also be in pl

898
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: Is there possible? Is there a possibility you could wear

899
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,760
Speaker 1: one of those nineties belts with your tucked in jersey

900
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: rolled the jeans to feel like would be a good listen.

901
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: I will carry this through to the end. Whatever you

902
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: need me to do. I have to wear an ugly

903
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: jets hat too. I believe you don't have to do that.

904
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: But if you want to top it off and don't

905
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 1: worry around the league, listeners, we will get photographic evidence

906
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: of this and put up put it put it on Twitter,

907
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: right caretch We're gonna take care of that, right, we

908
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: always take care of Thank you Brown. You never know.

909
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: Maybe he's the Brown's quarterback next year and I'm and

910
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: you know, and I might. I might put on that

911
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: Brandon weed in Jersey just for fun too. Maybe we'll

912
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,280
Speaker 1: get a picture together, because your team in other ways

913
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: is equally pathetic. Yes, very much so. Um Moving on,

914
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: Zach Stacy rushed for a hundred and four yards and

915
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 1: a touchdown, and two other rookies also had big games

916
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: for St. Louis Rams and the win over the Tampa

917
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Steadman Bailey scored on the twenty seven yard

918
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: of alc Ogletree force two fumbles. Uh, Greg, is there

919
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: anything else we need to know about this game? Just

920
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: the one thing? Robert Quinn said the all time Rams

921
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: sack record with three more to Player of the Year

922
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 1: candidate had another big game in Tampa's offensive line I

923
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,720
Speaker 1: think is the worst in the entire league overall. Quinn

924
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: now leads the NFL and sacks I think he should

925
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 1: be defensive player that he's got my vote today. Eighteen sacks.

926
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: He's got my vote. So apparently the Rams were their

927
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: throwback jerseys from the Super Bowl title. NFC West has

928
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: to be one of the best divisions this year in

929
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: that any division has been in a long time. I

930
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:42,240
Speaker 1: mean believe they're thirty nine and twenty collectively or unbelievable

931
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: outside the division to get that sword record, because think

932
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: of you, your only the division, so to mad that

933
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: good out of the division? Mark and Greg, I ask you, guys,

934
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: because you seem confident of it two weeks ago. Is

935
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: Greg Siano still in good shape to keep his job?

936
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: Le think Gregg made a good point, and you have

937
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: to look at and it's not just hey, compared to

938
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: every other coach, is he good or bad? That organization

939
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: doesn't need jerk. They had to get extremely frustrated with

940
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: the last coach before they made a move. And I

941
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: don't think it happens for that reason more than because

942
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: he's this fantastic coach at his job and they have

943
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: to play in New Orleans next week that probably won't

944
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: go well. But I do think he'd keep his job.

945
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: He's gone, right, he's gone. I don't think all right.

946
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 1: Not the way that the Bucks operate now. I don't

947
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: like the way you operate Mark. Well, listen, I had

948
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: to introduce some context into this day and not just

949
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: Dan's wonderful magic kingdom of who stays and who goes.

950
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: Appreciate moving on, Tony Romo through a ten yard touchdown

951
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: pass to DeMarco Murray on fourth down with one o

952
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: eight to play on Sunday, giving the Dallas Cowboys win

953
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 1: over the Washington Redskins and setting up a winner take

954
00:49:55,880 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: all regular season finale against the Eagles next week. Um,

955
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: this is why Tony Romo is impossible to figure out.

956
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: Last week, he obviously it wasn't all on him. The

957
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: defense also melted down against the Packers, but Romo threw

958
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: too late interceptions that sealed their fate. This time around,

959
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: he saves the Cowboys. He engineers two scoring drives on

960
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: their last two possessions in the fourth quarter, and then,

961
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: to give the defense some credit, they did make a

962
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: stand um with over a minute to play, forced to

963
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: four and out that clinched the game. So the Cowboys,

964
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 1: just like we all thought would happen, It's gonna end

965
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: up in Week seventeen with it all on the line,

966
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: and now they have to need they need to try

967
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: to flip the script. Finally, it's not just the last

968
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 1: two weeks any football writer, any smart fan knows you

969
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 1: can make stats say anything. Tony Romo is a choker, right,

970
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: Only Peyton Manning has more game winning drives since Tony Romo.

971
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: Since Romo entered the league in two thousand and six.

972
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,479
Speaker 1: On the other hand, the Cowboys are too. Went eleven

973
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: in weeks seventeen since two thousand and one, the worst

974
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,879
Speaker 1: record in the NFL over that span. And we get

975
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: the it's an annual game for Dallas three straight years

976
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night, right it was flex They announced it

977
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,919
Speaker 1: in halftime today that that will be the Sunday night game.

978
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: And and they also had an Eagles Cowboys game. I

979
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember in two thousand and eight

980
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: where there was a wild card spot on the line.

981
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: It was not Sunday Night. But they've been in these

982
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: do or die games. They've lost every one of them.

983
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: They've actually lost one to every NFC East team. They

984
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: went Eagles, Giants, Redskins. And so now they come back

985
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 1: and they lose to the Eagles next week, and Romo

986
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: bailed out his coach Jason Garrett again was set up

987
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: for another title wave of criticism um his continued reluctance

988
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 1: to commit to the run. Is is beyond any any

989
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: sense of logic to Marco. Murray was running the ball great.

990
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: The Cowboys fell behind in the third quarter, UM during

991
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: a time where they refused to hand the ball to Murray.

992
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: UM and by the way, DeMarco Murray, this kind of

993
00:51:57,920 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: gets lost in the shuffle when we talked about this.

994
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: Murray's playing the best football of his career right now.

995
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 1: He's healthy. He had a huge game today over total yards,

996
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, and the game winning catch. They have a

997
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,879
Speaker 1: legit big three there with Romo, Dez and Murray. They

998
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 1: just gotta they have to figure out how to make

999
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 1: the most of that, and when they do, they'll become

1000
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: a better team. I just don't know if Garrett will

1001
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 1: ever get it. We're a month and a half removed

1002
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: from reports that the Cowboys want to ship Murray outa town.

1003
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: That's a that's a good point. I mean, I don't

1004
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 1: think they. I think that's one of the reasons we're

1005
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: seeing what we're seeing is they don't something internally. They

1006
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: don't trust that. I thought it was more about not

1007
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 1: trusting him to stay healthy and they wanted another back

1008
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: to complement him. I think that does that does have

1009
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: to do with it, but that's a big part of it.

1010
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: And it's so the Big Three is when everyone buys

1011
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: into it's the Big Three. And everyone killed them for

1012
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: taking Travis Frederick for that first round pick, and he's

1013
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: been probably the biggest part of their run blocking so

1014
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: much better this year. I mean, you talked about it,

1015
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,760
Speaker 1: Chris last week. The Packers were afraid of their power

1016
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: run block. Their zone scheme is the best in the league,

1017
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: according to the Packers, and they were afraid of it.

1018
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: And they basically celebrated when the Cowboys stopped running and said, well,

1019
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: that's what the Cowboys always do. That's why they're Cowboys. Well,

1020
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,439
Speaker 1: one thing on the Cowboys real quickly, this idea that

1021
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: every week, no matter whether they win or lose, the

1022
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: eight posts and stories con our old Tony Romo based

1023
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: wait till Philadelphia's offense gets a chance to deal with

1024
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: Monti Kiffin's defense. That's the story. Seventy burger. That would

1025
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: be a great way to go out. And um, just

1026
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: so you know, we don't need to spend a ton

1027
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: of time on the Redskins, but RG three needn't worry

1028
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: about Kirk Cousins he's not a big time quarterback, he's

1029
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: a suitable backup, and the Redskins have lost both games

1030
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: he started both by one point, mind you, But still

1031
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 1: it's not like the worst case scenario for r G three,

1032
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 1: which would have been Cousin lights it up and the

1033
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: Redskins win all these games and all of a sudden,

1034
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: you have a whole offseason of ridiculous talk about you know,

1035
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:04,240
Speaker 1: what's the best move and Skip Bayless, you know, centering

1036
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: entire summer around that discussion. It won't happen. So or

1037
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 1: the Redskins, who don't have any draft picks, had a

1038
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: chance to market a quarterback to a team stupid enough

1039
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: to make that trade, well that's off the table now

1040
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,280
Speaker 1: to We're going into the final week of the season

1041
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: and there is still a chance that the Redskins pick

1042
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 1: that they traded away for r G three could be

1043
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,919
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick if the Texans win next

1044
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: week and the Redskins lose. It's not clinched, but it

1045
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: looks like it would be the Rams holding the number

1046
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: one pick. Dan we Weep not for Skip Bayless. He

1047
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 1: will find something lame to talk about this summer, regardless

1048
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 1: of what happens. That's absolutely correct, um, and that takes

1049
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 1: us to the Sunday night game. And also the Cowboys

1050
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: is opponent in week seventeen, the Philadelphia Eagles, who, Um,

1051
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: this is a This is a statement game in its

1052
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:59,359
Speaker 1: own right, because when you are playing against a team

1053
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: that has everything play for and you have really nothing

1054
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: to play for. The Eagles were locked into that NFC

1055
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 1: East showdown next week, and they put up a fifty

1056
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 1: burger on the on the Bears, who are not even

1057
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 1: competitive in the game. It tells you a lot about

1058
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: the NFC North, which is terrible, and it tells you

1059
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: a lot about how dangerous the Eagles are. And I

1060
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: throw it to U. K Rich because you've gotta be

1061
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: feeling real good tonight. I'm feeling amazing. I don't know

1062
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: about you guys, but I'm feeling like we just chick.

1063
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: Kelly just came in for this last game and he

1064
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 1: implemented that upbeat tempo. He we started out amazing, the touchdown,

1065
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: the turnover, and then we just kept on making plays

1066
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: the whole time. And just like you said, it's coming

1067
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: down a week seventeen for us. The Bears could have clinched,

1068
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: but they didn't. It's like Oregon Washington State, and he

1069
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 1: just keeps scoring. I love that they don't let up

1070
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: at all. Every time I look up, there's a different

1071
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 1: cowboy with nothing but sixty yards ahead of him, going

1072
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: straight to the internet. What a love affair to different?

1073
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: What a love affair between Eagles fans and Chip Kelly.

1074
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: It's almost ky rich as if seduction Sunday has entered

1075
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: the equation. You guys already know it, and you know

1076
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 1: what for everyone who doesn't know. We have a little

1077
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: blue room downstairs that's where I work, and I don't

1078
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: know if it was a Giants fan that painted it blue,

1079
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 1: but I'm suggesting, because of this fifty plus pointer that

1080
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 1: we painted green, let's go Greenburger. And I have to

1081
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: say the crystal. You know, you're a woman of a

1082
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: thousand haircuts, and you've got a new style here today.

1083
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: Thousand haircuts. Women don't get haircut style, and Kay Richie

1084
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: always go to Pize's barber shop. I'm saying it's a

1085
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: little different today. It's a pulled back but very high

1086
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: and maybe I'm wrong. Is it inspired by Connor Barwin's haircut?

1087
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: It feels very Connor Barwin like, well, I do have

1088
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: a I do have a high on Connor does not

1089
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: have a high bun, but a lot of his hair

1090
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: is in the middle. So I do see what you're saying.

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00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: But you know, I guess I'll just say thank you

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00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: with a question mark. Um. What all right? So the

1093
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: Eagles were We are all impressed by what they're able

1094
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: to do offensively, and we'll see what they do next week.

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00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: What about the Bears? What do we take from this

1096
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: that Josh McCown is better for this offense than Jake Cutler. Yeah,

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00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: I you know, I think Tressman deserves credit because he's

1098
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: stuck by. He's loyal obviously to Cutler. But you gotta

1099
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: go with the hot hand. You're you're heading down the

1100
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: stretch to try to get into the playoffs, and Cutler

1101
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: just did everything just slow down with him in there,

1102
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: it just feels murky. Yeah, but what about the defensive effort.

1103
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:48,439
Speaker 1: We'll get the defense is a disaster. We already knew

1104
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 1: that this is the fourth time they've given up at

1105
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: least forty points this year. It wouldn't matter who was

1106
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: at quarterback. He brought in Josh McCown late in the

1107
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: game when it was a laugher. I doubt he will

1108
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 1: go back to McCaw out as a starter next week,

1109
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a topic all week in Chicago. Alright,

1110
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: That does it for Sunday's edition of the Around the

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00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: League podcast. Mark, by the way, did you did you

1112
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: want to say anything else about your party experience from

1113
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: last week? Why don't you say it for me? Oh? Well,

1114
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: it was it was a joke. It was a joke.

1115
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: I was extremely well behaved at the party. I felt

1116
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: that I was a gentleman, conversational got out of there

1117
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: at a decent out. My entire recollection of your performance

1118
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:28,919
Speaker 1: at the party was you singing the same song over

1119
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 1: and over again. Yeah, it was in a good mood.

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Speaker 1: And then I got I had to be at work

1121
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: at four fifty in the morning. Well it's awards season

1122
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: and I feel like a nomination is coming for Sessler's

1123
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: performance there because we got a lot of tweets, We

1124
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: got a lot of people. We were at your party

1125
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: with Dan and one of your friends was like, what

1126
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: did Mark do? I mean? Everyone was wondering. I got

1127
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: all because you just sold it. I got a text

1128
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: from a girl today, So what did Mark do? At

1129
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: the party. I was told that Greg solda because he

1130
00:58:56,160 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: sounded genuinely uh perturbed slash disappointed it Mark, I I can.

1131
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: I can tell you Mark is an honest man on balance,

1132
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: but Mark is also one of the great liars I've

1133
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: ever known. Well not a liar. I will always tell

1134
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: you that yes, I don't, I don't lie, and then

1135
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: stick to it all scenario, then later tell you it's

1136
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: not right. It's not like a character negative character trait.

1137
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: But you like to tell tall tales. On Tybee, they

1138
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 1: would call it spinning and spinning a yarn, right, Spend

1139
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: some yarn. It's the bar. Spend some yarn. All right.

1140
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: So we will be back when will be back Greg,

1141
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 1: because I'm going to New York tomorrow. We will be

1142
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: back without Dan in the studio on Tuesday, because hey,

1143
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: it's Christmas Eve. Why not do a podcast. We're in

1144
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: at work anyway. Yeah, so enjoy enjoy that and uh yeah,

1145
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to everyone that celebrates the holiday. And uh,

1146
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: we'll be back on Tuesday and then on Friday, right, Okay, good,

1147
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: So we got a nice big week coming up because

1148
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: Week seventeen is on the horizon, and then the playoffs.

1149
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 1: So until then, this is Dan hands as signing off

1150
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 1: for the Mailman, the Sizzler, the Boss, k Rich behind

1151
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: the glass, Kevin Patrick coming at you. What a crew.

1152
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: Until Tuesday, you know he's actually, he texted me, he's

1153
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: been listening to us the whole time I turned his

1154
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: bond down by didn't paying up. You're such a good

1155
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: He wanted to listen to it live while he was

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01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: doing whatever. I can hear you