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Speaker 1: They Around the NFL podcast wants the NFL to change

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Speaker 1: the name of every holiday.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of Around the NFL. My name

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Speaker 2: is Dan Hansis, and I have with me heroes virtually

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Speaker 2: across the Southland and beyond. Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler. Happy

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Speaker 2: Day After Thanksgiving presented by the National Football League in

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Speaker 2: honor of John Madden. I don't think I have all

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Speaker 2: the wording right, but probably close enough.

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Speaker 3: Happy Thanksgiving Day After, presented by John Madden? Did did you?

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Speaker 3: Did you boys enjoy and enjoy the day?

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Speaker 4: Yes, had a great day. I noticed that the Black

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Speaker 4: Friday Jets Dolphins ad that they ran came very close

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Speaker 4: in tone and sort of authority to Dan's suggestion that

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Speaker 4: at some point will just be rolling games out on

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Speaker 4: Easter Sunday. They kind of like made it clear, are

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Speaker 4: we now own this day?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: They got it, They got thanks They've always had Thanksgiving

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Speaker 2: and now they have Friday. And that's coming up in

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Speaker 2: a couple hours. We're gonna be watching that game and

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Speaker 2: we'll have the recap of that on the Sunday Show.

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Speaker 1: But for today, and it was a very nice Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: We host it every year at our house and it's

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Speaker 2: a friends giving, but you know the friends are very close,

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Speaker 2: so it's a like family. So it's a it's a

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Speaker 2: great holiday. And the one thing in the NFL really

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving without football, and especially without that first game in

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Speaker 2: Detroit with the Lions. A game boys that we're gonna

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Speaker 2: get to first, we're gonna go in order that none

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Speaker 2: my thoughts about the NFC underneath, you know, the big boys,

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Speaker 2: which I don't count the lines among At this point,

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Speaker 2: let's hit it. Twenty three fourteen Packers, three forty five

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Speaker 2: to go in the third, watch into the left, snap

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Speaker 2: to Love Loft the left side of the end, ton

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Speaker 2: kut touchdown, Christian Watson.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they make the Lions pay sixteen yard touchdown reception.

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Speaker 1: It's twenty nine to fourteen. Wayne Larravie with the call

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Speaker 2: And you know, we thought we were gonna hear from

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Speaker 2: Wayne from Dan Miller of the Lions, because everything seems

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Speaker 2: set up for the Detroit Lions in this great revitalization

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Speaker 2: period to announce themselves as a dominant force and kick

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Speaker 2: butt on Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: But it went the other way.

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Speaker 2: The Packers win twenty nine to twenty two, and it

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Speaker 2: really wasn't that close things were. The tone was set

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Speaker 2: on a Jordan Love fifty three yard pass to Christian

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Speaker 1: Greg, we talked about it on the Wednesday preview show.

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Speaker 2: They lead the league and explosives like that, and they

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Speaker 2: just kept taking it to the Lions. Greg, Lions team that,

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Speaker 2: they could not put it together.

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Speaker 3: They couldn't. I mean, on some level, it starts with

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Speaker 3: But I really think it starts back in Week seven,

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Speaker 3: see how that goes. Since then, they've played four pretty

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Speaker 3: And that's a five week sample size. And that's against

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Speaker 3: And all these guys are having career days against them.

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Speaker 3: The Lions, you think are going to test for them?

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about I'm saying Green Bay absolutely now.

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Speaker 4: I think the Lions, like to me, like the good

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Speaker 4: He came in with a surprising game plan. They stomped

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Speaker 4: It's like they're still kind of growing before our eyes.

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Speaker 2: Listen, there's room for the Packers and the Vikings eblines

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Speaker 2: get their game on on Monday night to continue to

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Speaker 2: build for them. But yeah, I think I don't think

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Speaker 2: I'd be very worried about a tailspin for this team,

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Speaker 1: It's probably closer to a slump.

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Speaker 2: But the schedule is so soft that I think Detroit

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Speaker 1: I would not have predicted that a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Did we fork them?

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Speaker 3: Know, Okay, good, I have no recollection whatsoever of our

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Speaker 3: but after that all the games are winnable, and so

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Speaker 3: whatever happens this season is somewhat about Jordan Love the

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Speaker 3: GM goota cunts. I think he said that. I don't

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Speaker 3: it in these last four weeks, and you saw it

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Speaker 3: yesterday was some next level quarterback stuff. He's a very

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Speaker 3: weird quarterback, but he passes the test where if he's protected,

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Speaker 3: he could obviously make some big plays. They cooked up

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Speaker 3: But the thing I like about him is you see

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Speaker 3: he seems like he's making decisions, he's recognizing blitz as

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Speaker 3: But like the processing, the men mentality of it all

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Speaker 3: we've got year two of Jordan Love in this very

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Speaker 4: Yeah, i'd also, you know, we on Thursday we noted

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Speaker 4: like the laundry list of injuries that the Packers had

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Speaker 4: for him. But the aggressive nature of what Lafleur has

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Speaker 4: because I don't know about a month ago, I was like,

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Speaker 4: I don't know about this Jordan love thing. It's like,

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Speaker 4: and there has been like tangible, visible growth and their

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Speaker 4: young wide receivers are growing along with him. The same

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Speaker 4: year with all these like young weapons and I don't

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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh is how I feel about Green Bay now. So

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Speaker 4: it's like I thought yesterday was one of these games

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Speaker 1: We have to.

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Speaker 5: That's the type of team we are. That's where we're at.

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Speaker 3: Tweet, Eric, let's hear it out loud.

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Speaker 3: Quiet storm.

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Speaker 4: No, it was more that, like, you know, the aunt

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Speaker 3: and so now like they just don't get enough pressure

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Speaker 3: line starts creaking, then you're right, Dan, But I'm not

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Speaker 3: panicking in both of these games. It's like, even in

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Speaker 1: There was a garbage lipstick on the pig there late too.

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Speaker 3: Greg, absolutely, but they were moving the ball when they're

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Speaker 3: I'm not too worried about them there, but the defense

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Speaker 2: If I'm a Detroit fan. I'm I'm not letting it

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Speaker 4: That's what ID degree, A little bit.

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Speaker 1: Analytics off. Greg. You said that sounds like the worst

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Speaker 2: And by the way, I did last night watched the

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Speaker 3: I watched the first hour maybe so far. I was

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Speaker 3: I loved it that Barry was just a man the life,

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Speaker 1: That, it's nothing.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, parallel, it was kind of crazy to watch

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Speaker 3: all and you're like, oh, yeah, that would still be

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Speaker 2: It's Sanders story, which I think I've shared on the show,

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Speaker 2: and I was hoping he was going to make it

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Speaker 2: into the dock, but nobody contacted me. Is when our

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Speaker 2: old boss, Justin Hathaway Mark worked us eighty hours for

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Speaker 2: that first Super Bowl in Indianapolis Giants Pats two, and

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Speaker 2: he had me cover the flag football a celebrity flag

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Speaker 2: football game, and Barry Sanders is on the game. It

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Speaker 2: Minunos and Barry Sanders is there. Nobody's even talking to him,

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, that's like maybe the greatest running back

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Speaker 4: That's an odd that's not approach to offense. It feels

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Speaker 1: All right, good stuff.

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Speaker 2: And the Packers, by the way, thank you Eric Roberts.

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Speaker 2: Seventeen players were on the injured list in that game

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Speaker 1: So interesting.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's move to the middle game. And by

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Speaker 1: So those are the four teams. Maybe we'll revisit it

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Speaker 3: Broncos, you know, making a sweat a.

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Speaker 1: Little bit, a little bit, a little bit time.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's head to Big d where the Cowboys

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Speaker 2: were not in the mood for any type of competitive contest.

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Speaker 2: Second and ten as a Dallas forty three howls back

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, god, it's playing. It's plain.

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Speaker 2: He's got one, no way twenty he touch left, he

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Speaker 1: Stop is he's did it?

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Speaker 2: But god, the whole defense is going on the land

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Speaker 1: That is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: That's the most pick sixers in one season.

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Speaker 4: In NFL history. Five touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Where did you come from?

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Speaker 2: Great call and what you if you watch on YouTube

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Speaker 2: you could see it, or if you watched live yesterday,

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Speaker 2: Dan Quinn up in the booth, the DC, the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: Pick sixes in the season, I mean his fifth, the

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Speaker 1: Doron Bland is a quarterback. He's got five pick sixes

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Speaker 1: this year. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: And that was just the little like stamp at the

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Speaker 2: the Commanders, got their DC fired. We're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about it. Forty five to ten from Jarro World. This

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Speaker 4: It was and you know, I've been critical of the

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Speaker 4: points to sixty in those five wins. That's insane. But

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Speaker 4: it is not nearly as insane as what Deron Bland

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Speaker 4: anyone touches this because it's such a confluence of insane

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Speaker 4: You get clipped, you're down the ground. It's just kind

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Speaker 3: Well, are you saying I'm not gonna live to ninety four?

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Speaker 4: That's my I did not guarantee that, Greg.

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Speaker 1: I'm so much.

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Speaker 4: Older than you, Greg that you know, according to the

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Speaker 4: two of you, that I was more suggesting perhaps I

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Speaker 2: And that's that is pretty wild.

440
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,160
Speaker 4: That would be wild. That's a long time from now.

441
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:48,560
Speaker 3: This Cowboys team does feel different now. Could they lose

442
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 3: in the second round of the playoffs, of course they

443
00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,359
Speaker 3: could because like I don't I don't think they're a

444
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 3: step apart from these other teams, but they do. They

445
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,200
Speaker 3: do have everything they need right now, and the most

446
00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,880
Speaker 3: important thing is just Dac dots down the field. He's

447
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:04,880
Speaker 3: he's so comfortable and Romo. I know he gets over excited,

448
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 3: but I don't think he says things like this might

449
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 3: be the best offensive line in the league right now,

450
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 3: especially in terms of pass protection willy nilly, and they

451
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,640
Speaker 3: are just playing out standing up front. Now everyone looks

452
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 3: out standing up front against this Commander's pass rus it

453
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 3: doesn't exist. But he's throwing the ball deep down the field.

454
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 3: That's eighteen vertical throws for a touchdown this year, according

455
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 3: to next Gen Stats, way more than any other player,

456
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 3: and fourteen of those are in like the last six weeks.

457
00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 3: So this is a bombs away offense. And I thought

458
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,880
Speaker 3: these last couple of weeks it's almost like they're working

459
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 3: on things that they'll need in bigger games. They got

460
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 3: Gallup and Cooks involved last week, and then this week.

461
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,879
Speaker 3: I thought Pollard ran really well. I know it was

462
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 3: only thirteen carries, but from quarter one quarter two when

463
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 3: it mattered, they were consistently running the ball and that

464
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 3: was excellent. It was actually not a game they were

465
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,440
Speaker 3: dominating in total yardage through three quarters or anything, but

466
00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 3: they were getting everything they wanted to done. I think

467
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 3: fifteen of their first twenty six plays or first downs.

468
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 2: This was in many ways the ultimate Cowboys game, at

469
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 2: least in terms of the regular season. The game on

470
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:15,159
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving with the Salvation Army Red kettle out for the

471
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,719
Speaker 2: first time you have a blowout of a hated rival.

472
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 1: You have Doron Bland making history.

473
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,920
Speaker 2: You have Dak once again saying I am a very

474
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,360
Speaker 2: real MVP candidate. You had a certain celebrity that I'll

475
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 2: get to in a moment. At halftime, Jared Jones was

476
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 2: over the moon with this one.

477
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:35,640
Speaker 1: This is so real day.

478
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 4: I wouldn't even day or as much as I imagine

479
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 4: or as big as I might dream or think.

480
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 1: I couldn't have.

481
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,160
Speaker 6: Drawn for daylight today. Yet I couldn't have imagined it.

482
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: It really covered a lot of ground. And don't you

483
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 1: get the feeling that.

484
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 2: The just the atmosphere And maybe Jane Slater would be

485
00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 2: the best person to asked this question too. But when

486
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 2: things are going well for the Cowboys, it just seems

487
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 2: everyone when you see those like group interviews and stuff

488
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 2: around Jered like everything is good. Everybody's in a good mood.

489
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,400
Speaker 2: The Cowboys are kicking butt and and spirits are high.

490
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 2: And if Jerry's spirits are high, you can tell that

491
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 2: whole vibe around that team is glowing.

492
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: And that's certainly where it is right now.

493
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 4: I'm totally with you. I think he's really well liked.

494
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 4: I'll never forget actually being in Dallas a number of

495
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 4: like Thanksgivings ago, it's like two thousand. Drew bledsoe era

496
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 4: and went with my uncle and cousins too of the

497
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 4: Cowboys game, and I watched Jerry Jones before kickoff individually

498
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 4: shake hands with I would say roughly four hundred people

499
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 4: like he took that time. So it's like it is

500
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 4: his baby, it's his thing. We've always known that, and

501
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,360
Speaker 4: I've always felt like there's always like an era of

502
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 4: like hyperbole to anything he says about the team. But

503
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 4: in this case, this season and yesterday, I did not

504
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 4: feel that. I think it was like a this is

505
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 4: a different Cowboys team to me than one that we've

506
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 4: experienced together.

507
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 3: On this show, he was quoted as part of that

508
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 3: scrum is saying I'll put some super Bowls in there.

509
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever had a better day

510
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 3: with the Cowboys than today, and that that's all about Thanksgiving.

511
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 3: Like I believe that he believes that in the moment

512
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,640
Speaker 3: he's saying that, in the moment, Thanksgiving is the ultimate

513
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 3: Cowboys holiday celebration. Wes and I love this book Billy

514
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 3: Fountains Long Halftime Walk, which is a great book sort

515
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 3: of about the NFL and military service and and football

516
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 3: and how and it's set on Thanksgiving at these games

517
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 3: and there's something so American for for good and bad

518
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 3: like about all this. And the Cowboys putting a bang

519
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 3: thing on the Commanders is like.

520
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 2: That, I'm sorry, what's bad about it? Out of the

521
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 2: out of curiosity?

522
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 5: Uh?

523
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 3: Well, read the book, I would say, like some of

524
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 3: the ways.

525
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: I was talking about just yesterday, Okay, the book nothing.

526
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 3: Bad, yes, just the over the top sort of the

527
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 3: way they used that it was written for the perspective

528
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 3: I was a military guy.

529
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, because and Greg is very well known for putting

530
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 2: myself in line on this, the celebration of people being

531
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 2: fired from their jobs because the Cowboys decimated the Washington

532
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 2: defense to the point that the new owner of the team,

533
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 2: Josh Harris, fired defensive coordinator Jack del Rio after the game.

534
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 2: They also parted ways with defensive backs coach Brent Wisselmeyer.

535
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 2: So tough Friday. Here is a missive from the new

536
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 2: owner of the Commanders. We haven't heard from him obviously

537
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 2: a lot. He just succeeded Daniel Snyder a couple months ago.

538
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: I feel exactly how our fans.

539
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 2: Feel today disappointed and frustrated. It's how our players and

540
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 2: staff feel as well. I knew our first season of

541
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 2: ownership would include challenges along the way, and we will

542
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 2: not shy away from hard work, nor.

543
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: Will we be deterred by adversity.

544
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 2: As coach Rever and I discussed, all of our energy

545
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 2: for the remainder of the season will be focused on

546
00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 2: playing better, more consistent football and developing our players well,

547
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 2: intently evaluating the areas in which we need to improve

548
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 2: this offseason. Our fans deserve a team that can compete

549
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 2: with the NFL's best and win sustainably over the long term.

550
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: I will not waiver from that mission.

551
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 2: Okay, so strong words there from the new owner, and

552
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 2: it did make me think when I heard this morning

553
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 2: guys that you know, we talked about a couple of

554
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 2: weeks ago, that the setting an environment in the league

555
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 2: right now is very, very ripe for mass dismissiles at

556
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,199
Speaker 2: the end of the year, head coaches in danger. And

557
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 2: what do head coaches and dangers do when there's an issue.

558
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: You start firing your assistance and you start reshuffling the decks.

559
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 2: So I feel like we're seeing a lot of that

560
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 2: the last a week or so, and now Washington's doing

561
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 2: it as well. But I just think it's a little unfair,

562
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 2: you know, to candel Rio and the defensive backs coach,

563
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 2: when you just traded away like your two most impact

564
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 2: players on the defensive line, two of your most impactful players,

565
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 2: and what did you expect in this setting? Honestly, I

566
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,239
Speaker 2: guess you could be more competitive.

567
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 3: But still I think it's it's warranted only because this

568
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 3: defense has been in It's Ron Rivera's defense. So it's

569
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 3: a weird move because like Ron Rivera's on was certainly

570
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 3: going to get fired at the end of the Year's

571
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 3: almost a move that signals to me, look, we we

572
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 3: want Ron Rivera to land this thing, but we want

573
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 3: to show our fans we want to do something now,

574
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 3: and we're not going to fire Rivera till the end

575
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 3: of the season or maybe Week eight team whatever it is. Uh,

576
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 3: but this this is a really poorly coach defense. I

577
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 3: thought del Rio was an uninspired hired to begin with.

578
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 3: He lasted a while, and no team has more like

579
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 3: coverage bus over the last four years than del Rio.

580
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: They're either really awesome like or they're terrible, and there's

581
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 3: nothing in between there was a scout for the that works.

582
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 3: I think for Cowboys dot Com Brian Brotus, who pointed

583
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 3: out on the Cooks touchdown, they've run that route a

584
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 3: lot all season. But the only team that like fell

585
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 3: for it like a banana and the tailpipe and played

586
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 3: it so poorly all year was Washington and they had

587
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 3: to walk in touchdown.

588
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were thirty second in DVOA. It's weird because

589
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 4: under del Rio there were seventh last year, twenty seventh

590
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 4: the year before that, and fourth, so they've been all

591
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 4: over the map. I'm with you, Dan in the sense

592
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 4: that I just think it was more of a statement

593
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 4: move or a try. I look like what you just read.

594
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 4: It's like a signal to the fans, like we're not

595
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 4: just sitting pat, we see what you see. We're as

596
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 4: frustrated as you are. I just part of me wonders

597
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 4: that maybe Ron Rivera is allowed to land the plane,

598
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 4: as you said, Greg, but I do wonder if maybe

599
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 4: this would be an opportunity, if you want to go

600
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 4: interim to see what Eric the enemy could do for

601
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 4: a stretch of time here.

602
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 3: I think this, I think this really signaled we're not

603
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 3: going to do that I mean, you know what I mean,

604
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,959
Speaker 3: like today would have been the day to do it.

605
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 4: I would I I guess the problem there then he's

606
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 4: he'll get swept out too potentially. It's like it's another

607
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 4: time he's done a good.

608
00:28:51,760 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: Just over yep, right by the let's give it up Arthy,

609
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: come on, now he's got this team humming.

610
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 2: He does remember when Kellen Moore left in the offseason,

611
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 2: everybody their little jabs like, oh, he's gonna run the offense,

612
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 2: how imaginative Texas Coast offense is?

613
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: Humming?

614
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 3: Okay, you're right, and I like, by the way, they've

615
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 3: set up a really nice stretch run. Now they'll be

616
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 3: heavy favorites over the Seahawks, but that's still an interesting game.

617
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 3: And then Eagles Bill's Dolphins Lions really fun stretch run.

618
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 3: We got a lot of Actually I looked at all

619
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 3: these contenders schedules, there's a lot of good regular season

620
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 3: games left. The schedule makers did nice.

621
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: Nicely done, Greg.

622
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 2: And finally, I thought the best part of this middle game,

623
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 2: because it wasn't overly competitive as you could see, was

624
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: Tony Romo just yeah, basically losing control of his emotions

625
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 2: when talking about Dolly Parton's halftime performance while wearing a

626
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 2: Cowboys a cheerleader uniform.

627
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: She's like eighty years old.

628
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 2: It's very impressive, Dolly, and she's a national treasurer and

629
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 2: we love her, but nobody loves her more like Tony Romo.

630
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 2: Please watch this or listen, and you could hear Jim

631
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 2: Nance getting and getting increasingly concerned as Tony can't move

632
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 2: off the idea of Dolly Parton in a Dallas Cowboys

633
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 2: cheerleaders universe. The field is all set after the Dolly performance,

634
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 2: we are the champions, and she.

635
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 3: Was wearing the Cowboys cheerleading outfit. I saw that coming.

636
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 5: Did I think she's gonna go with a little cheerleading

637
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 5: outfit tonight?

638
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, it's pretty good. What do

639
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: you think we're gonna see me? She looks amazing. You

640
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen here. Who doesn't like Dolly

641
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: part Now? She's absolutely an American treasure, that's for sure.

642
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 2: And you are too fast becoming as you look at

643
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 2: the quarterback comparison.

644
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 3: I've got like another take on Dolly that might even

645
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 3: top this from our old friend on the show, Mary

646
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 3: Kay Cabot. She's actually over in Deck mentioned here was

647
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 3: a tweet from Mary kay Cabot. Yesterday, I'm Dolly sitting

648
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 3: on the couch watching some football, like a big stuff Turkey,

649
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 3: and then Dolly happened, hopped on the treadmill, booked a

650
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 3: consultation for implants and reassessed my life's goal LF let's

651
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 3: let's f and go Mary kay Cabot feeling no pain

652
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 3: on Thanksgiving out.

653
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: There, no feeling good, feeling real good.

654
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 4: That is unlike any other Mary kay Cabot tweet. Ever,

655
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 4: it's amazing.

656
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 2: The kind of the glow in Romo's face is really

657
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 2: what takes it to the next lot.

658
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: Like he's not ready to get back to being an

659
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: analyst at that point.

660
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 4: Nance feeling Nance tried so hard to get out of that.

661
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 2: NaN's desertly trying to pivot. But you know, like everybody's

662
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 2: got to stop clutching their pearls. And you know what,

663
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: Tony's right, that was incredible. And Dolly Parton, you know,

664
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: if you want to do some And I didn't really

665
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: know Dolly that well other then how everyone else knows her,

666
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 2: but she is My wife loves Dolly Parton and she

667
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 2: is an incredible kind of humanitarian and the amount of

668
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 2: charity she does in addition to being obviously very talented

669
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 2: actress and singer and all that.

670
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: See now I'm romoing out to her.

671
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 4: No, I think it's appropriate. You've done You've done a

672
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 4: nice job, and we didn't try to sidetrack you off

673
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 4: of that.

674
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, let's take a break.

675
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 2: Just, you know, talk a little more dolly off mic

676
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 2: and then when we come back, we'll hit.

677
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: The primetime game. All right, we are back Mark Sessler

678
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: in the v neck.

679
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 4: There is one other Cowboys.

680
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: Note.

681
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,959
Speaker 4: I don't know about you guys, but this, like this

682
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 4: is more of like a parabolic mic item. I think,

683
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 4: depending on you know, game to game. It's an island

684
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 4: game in the middle of the day. Dak Prescott's pre

685
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 4: snap cadence. Can we just play this, producer Eric, please.

686
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 3: Producer Ic?

687
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: Yeah?

688
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 3: Did you yet?

689
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 4: It's like three hundred and forty seven times this played

690
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 4: during the game yesterday, and it just seemed to get

691
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 4: louder and louder, and it's like, I don't know, is

692
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 4: it to tell as a as a pre snap cadence.

693
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 4: I love how he says it, It just it doesn't

694
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 4: sound like a human almost.

695
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's his uh Grenatine Grenadin, you know, it's

696
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 3: it's his thing, and he's been he's been going hard

697
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 3: at it now for a month plus. I would say, yeah,

698
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 3: here we go to the I'm just saying that sometimes

699
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 3: just in my everyday life, just yeah, here we go.

700
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 3: And I think it's a nice way to just set

701
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 3: off a conversation.

702
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 5: Like.

703
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 2: A Creed rips into my sacrifice in the encore, and

704
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 2: then half the audience does this.

705
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

706
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 4: I feel like some of these quarterbacks like they know

707
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 4: what we're going to talk about it, and like do

708
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 4: they lean in from an inflection or vocal point on

709
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 4: some level to make it a little even more absurd

710
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 4: than it needs to be. I think we all know

711
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 4: what he's trying to say.

712
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 3: Well, I got to tell you this, Mark. I haven't

713
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 3: released my top five Cadence rankings for the season. It's

714
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 3: an annual event people really look forward to. But between

715
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 3: his voice, how strong his pipes are, and and the

716
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 3: unique nature of yeah, here we go, I mean he's

717
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 3: a strong favorite for number one this year.

718
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go, like with you with MVP talk, it's

719
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: too early to talk about the Caenance rankings. Yet you're

720
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,919
Speaker 2: not allowed to now.

721
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 3: It's it's by the way, it's not too early anymore.

722
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 3: My point now is that like whatever's happened to this

723
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 3: point almost doesn't matter. It's still going to be moving forward.

724
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 3: Dak started it yesterday. That was a nice, nice one

725
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 3: because everyone's watching that game.

726
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 2: That's it's like the most one as opposed to the

727
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 2: other Cowboys games that nobody was watching.

728
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 3: Right, nobody watched any of those. Speaking of which has good?

729
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 3: What does a sham god did with that call?

730
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: Sham good?

731
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 5: You know?

732
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 3: And we're talking Nance and Romo. What a job by

733
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 3: Jim Nance on the Deran Bland. Uh call there. I

734
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 3: loved seeing Nance getting excited in a big spot. Let's

735
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 3: hear it.

736
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: Second and ten there it is, this is history.

737
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 4: The plan could take.

738
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: It to discharge.

739
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 3: This will be the record by for the fifth time.

740
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 2: Has a pig six It's never happened in the history

741
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 2: of the NFL.

742
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 3: And want a call by you?

743
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: You got me with goosebumps Nance.

744
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 2: That was unbelievable, excellent, you're right, accent call by Nance,

745
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 2: who's a Hall of Fame broadcaster and uh and it's

746
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 2: also a very Romo move to his first analysis is

747
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 2: on the call by Jim Nance.

748
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 3: I wish he didn't do that.

749
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: No, he didn't need to do that, but he can't.

750
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 2: I think that's part of like the give and take

751
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 2: with Romo, like he just's his exuberance. He just he

752
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: just says what's on his mind, like the Dolly Parton

753
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 2: situation from minutes ago. All right, let's get to the

754
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 2: final game. This one was also a one sided affair.

755
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 2: Well first and goal, eight yard lines left, tossed to

756
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 2: McCaffrey coming left, stacked up, Stay's patient, scorns through and takes.

757
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 3: It all the way down to the goal line. Touchdown.

758
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,280
Speaker 3: See and see what a run that one?

759
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 5: Cmct CB A slow fuse on that one.

760
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 4: Because there was nowhere to go an McCaffrey taking care.

761
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: Of pisit man?

762
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 2: They love the acronyms over there, Greg popping Tim Ryan

763
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 2: with the call. Awesome, awesome performance by Christian McCaffrey. Who

764
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 2: if now Greg has Dane that we're allowed to talk

765
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 2: about the MVP race man?

766
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: Where is he in the conversation? Producer? Eric is a

767
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: mark referred to you earlier? I called you human, Eric.

768
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 2: Eric's can you see? Or Eric, can you see? But

769
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 2: where Christian McCaffrey is in the Vegas MVP odds because

770
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 2: he deserves to be there. He ran for a buck

771
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 2: fourteen and two scores in the first half, putting the

772
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 2: forty nine Ers ahead, and they cruised to a thirty

773
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 2: one to thirteen win over the fading Seattle Seahawks, who

774
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 2: are in a lot of trouble Gregy.

775
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: The Niners did what.

776
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 2: They wanted on offense, and even the Seahawks touchdown came

777
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 2: on a pick six. So yeah, this was dominance on

778
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 2: both sides.

779
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 3: It couldn't be one more one side, and I think

780
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 3: has a lot of soul searching going on in Seattle.

781
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the team that matters the most here

782
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 3: first and that that's the forty nine Ers. And watching

783
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 3: this game, it occurred to me, like Kyle Shanahan's forty

784
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 3: nine Ers system, essentially, this offense has now been there

785
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 3: for seven years. It's been in an NFL where a

786
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 3: lot of things change, Like he this has been an

787
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 3: awesome offense that's brilliantly constructed and play called for a

788
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 3: while now, it's been a great run and to me,

789
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 3: this is this is the best one and it's the

790
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 3: best one because of Party, first of all, and because

791
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 3: he elevates their offense in a way that Jimmy g

792
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 3: and certainly any of the other backups never did. And

793
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 3: because they're healthy, which they often aren't right now, they

794
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 3: are healthy, and that's when they weren't winning games a

795
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. That that was a big part

796
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 3: of it. But also because these guys have been there

797
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 3: now for a while. Outside of Purty, Deebo and a

798
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 3: Yuk and Kittle and Trent Williams and even a lot

799
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 3: of a lot of the line's been there for a

800
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 3: while and it's all just coming together and they've they've

801
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 3: been so close every year and I'm not saying they

802
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 3: couldn't be close in another year, but man, you look

803
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 3: at this Shanahan thing, it just feels like, Man, this

804
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 3: is the time. Listen, this is the team. This is

805
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 3: the team to do it.

806
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 4: Yep, I absolutely feel the same way. It's it is

807
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 4: so key that they stay healthy. When all five of

808
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 4: their offensive stars have been on the field together for

809
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 4: full games, they've been undefeated. That shouldn't change. They're so dominant.

810
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 4: I think it really mattered last night to see that

811
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 4: you got Deebo Samuel as the core element. Again, he's

812
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 4: such a change agent. But it's like, we talk about

813
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 4: the offense as we should, but their defense is an

814
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 4: absolute destroyer. I mean what they did last night. At

815
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 4: one point in the first half, the Niners had sixteen

816
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 4: first downs and the Seahawks had run eighteen plays and

817
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 4: it never really got better for Seattle. And I mean,

818
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 4: you know, the same way that you know the first

819
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 4: game changed the way we thought about Detroit and Green Bay.

820
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 4: I'm looking at a Seattle you know schedule where you've

821
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 4: got to go to Dallas, you got the Niners and

822
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 4: then the Eagles. I don't know it feel it kind

823
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 4: of feels like curtains to me, and is brilliant as

824
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 4: Pete Carroll is at all times. I thought the look

825
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 4: on his face at the end of that game spoke volumes.

826
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 4: I think they're in a bit of a dark corner

827
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 4: that will be hard to escape from.

828
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 2: Here are the MVP odds, by the way, Jalen at

829
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 2: plus two fifty what this from DraftKings Lamar plus three

830
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 2: fifty mahomes plus four twenty five two of plus five

831
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 2: fifty DAK plus eight fifty CMC plus sixteen hundred these

832
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 2: is so annoying.

833
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,439
Speaker 1: Come on, right, I think, yes, sixteen touchdowns.

834
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 3: Why is Jalen Hurts the favorite? DAK was plus three

835
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 3: thousand a couple of weeks ago, So if you caught

836
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 3: on at any time, I think that's still value. And

837
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 3: where where is Tyreek Hill? Who's literally my vote right now?

838
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: Greg? Nobody likes Tyreek Hill. I think that factors in.

839
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 3: That's just positioned on against McCaffrey. Though, yeah, I don't

840
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 3: think that factor is he's plus four thousand. I don't

841
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 3: think that factors into the draftking odds. But I hear you.

842
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: Right now, he has some rough stuff in his personal history.

843
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 2: Let's see, let's get back to it. So, yes, McCaffrey,

844
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 2: I believe he's got sixteen touchdowns this year and he's dominant.

845
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 2: Brock Purdy statistically not his best game. He threw that

846
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 2: pick six. I mentioned that briefly made the game somewhat

847
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 2: interesting in the third quarter, but also kind of put

848
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 2: a stamp on the game and put the game away

849
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 2: with a beautiful throat to Brandon Nyuk in zone coverage,

850
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 2: and Shanahan after the game made a point to really

851
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 2: pump up Purdy in that spot. He said, you know,

852
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 2: that is a play where we have something underneath a

853
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 2: little checkdown that could have went for twelve yards. So

854
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 2: when he decides to put it over the middle on

855
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 2: a line from about thirty yards out, that is a

856
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 2: high level throw. And I think it gets to mark

857
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 2: what we were talking about on Wednesday about you know,

858
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 2: Purdy and the kind of season he's having and this

859
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 2: like we act like he's this little boy that was

860
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 2: plucked out of obscurity.

861
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 1: That's a high level football throw.

862
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 2: So, yeah, he might not have the arm talent of

863
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 2: those other quarterbacks we mentioned just now, but he's got

864
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 2: enough to make it happen when he's pulling the trigger

865
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 2: and using his instincts for good.

866
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that you brought up that throw because

867
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 4: I think that's an argument in favor of the fact

868
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 4: that this quarterback has elevated the play of Brandon Ayuk,

869
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 4: who I mean, Brandon Ayuk was for multiple years in

870
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 4: a row talked about this will be the year he

871
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 4: totally breaks out and becomes a start. Has a lot

872
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 4: to do with him, but it has a lot to

873
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 4: do with Purdy as well, and like their connection has

874
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 4: been essentially flawless for weeks on end, and that throw

875
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 4: was not the kind of throw that like a mid

876
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 4: tier quarterback that we'd want to write off as a

877
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 4: system guy makes. And now I look at those MVP

878
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 4: odds and it's like, where is Perdy? To be honest,

879
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 4: it's like I find that to be slightly absurd that

880
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 4: he's not near, like in the top five, top six

881
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 4: of that list, if not higher. I think it's just

882
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 4: we're looking at a perception problem when it comes to

883
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 4: brock Party in this offense.

884
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. If they get the one seed, and

885
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 3: I'm not ruling them out of that, like he's got

886
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 3: a chance. It's stupid the fact that Jalen's plus two fifty,

887
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 3: because that's just like they have the one seed. And

888
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 3: I just love the way they started this game. I

889
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 3: think of NBA teams, you talk about two man games

890
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 3: a lot, just like the two stars kind of playing

891
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 3: off each other, you know, Porzingis and Jalen Brown right now,

892
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 3: beautiful two man game. They got a two man game

893
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 3: going with CD, I mean with Debo and CMC and

894
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 3: where they're just using them interchangeably and matching them up,

895
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 3: and they have the Seahawks defense had no freaking clue

896
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 3: what to do the first couple drives of that game.

897
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 3: Shanahan just owns this matchup. He owns Pete Carroll, who's

898
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 3: a defensive coach. When when the forty nine ers have

899
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 3: the ball and the way they use those two guys

900
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 3: is it's pretty beautiful.

901
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 2: It's funny, and that's obviously credit to Kyle Shanahan, the

902
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 2: offensive mastermind.

903
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: I like this thing that's going on this show.

904
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 2: I feel like there's been an uptick in it this

905
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 2: year of just like shots to Mike Shanahan, Kyle's father

906
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 2: sitting stonefaced in the stands with that shock of white

907
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 2: hair and a lot of like, younger fans don't even

908
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 2: know that Mike Shanahan. Kyle Shannan is who who he

909
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 2: is in large part because of Mike Shanahan, who was

910
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 2: a genius in his own right and won multiple Super Bowls.

911
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 2: And now Kyle has kind of taken the league over

912
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 2: and it is that dude Seattle, You're right, had no answers.

913
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: It looked like Reek Wollan got benched in this game,

914
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 2: although Carol downplayed it afterwards, but he was he misstackles,

915
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 2: he said it. Carol said after the game that he

916
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 2: had a bad shoulder, but he was playing special teams

917
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 2: after they took him out of the game for Michael Jackson.

918
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 2: So I mean, you talk about Reek Wollan was one

919
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 2: of the best young additions to the league last year

920
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 2: and now he's on the bench on.

921
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: The offensive side of the ball.

922
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 2: Obviously, Gino Smith is dealing with the arm injury, but

923
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 2: this offense just is not humming anymore. Greg And if

924
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: Gino is not physically right, and we'll have to see,

925
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 2: he played that game with a big kind of like

926
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 2: not on his throwing elbow, maybe.

927
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: It is that time to have a jewe Lock conversation.

928
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 2: But at the same time, like nobody was like pumping

929
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 2: the brakes on the Drew Block experience harder than me

930
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 2: a couple of years back in Denver. It's not necessarily

931
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 2: a great second option. But the offense has hit a rut.

932
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it.

933
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 3: They're disappointed, Like everything about this team is disappointing. They're

934
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 3: six and five, And what you said about the Packers

935
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 3: and the Vikings can get in is in large part

936
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 3: because the Seahawks can fall right out of this thing.

937
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 3: I mean, think about these two games against the Ravens

938
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 3: where absolutely this game in the Ravens game where absolutely

939
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 3: Gino didn't excel. But and he's not gonna be able

940
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 3: to elevate things going really wrong around him. But find

941
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 3: a spot on this team that's not getting blasted. They

942
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 3: spent their whole offseason building up this defensive line, completely

943
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 3: changing it, spending tons of money, draft picks. They got

944
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 3: young guys coming at Draymont Jones, they trade for Leonard Williams.

945
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 3: They get blown off the ball, They can't tackle anyone.

946
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 3: Seem see their defensive rookie of the Year, Tarik Willans

947
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 3: getting benched. Their linebackers are slow. DK metcalf is having

948
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 3: one of the worst seasons for US for a quote

949
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,439
Speaker 3: unquote superstar wide receiver. The guy can't make a catch.

950
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: I was gonna, I'm telling you the club I think

951
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: greg I had.

952
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 2: I think.

953
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 3: So he's killing my guy, Gino. Gino's not great, but

954
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 3: two drops that killed Drives. And then when it's fourteenth

955
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 3: to three and you're trying to change the game, and

956
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 3: that could have been a touchdown or at least a

957
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 3: fifty yard play down the field, and DK just drifts

958
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 3: and drifts and trust me, Seahawks fans have been losing

959
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 3: their mind over DK's play in this game, and then

960
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 3: their own lines stunk in this game. Most of those

961
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 3: sacks were quick sacks. So it's like, I just don't

962
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 3: see what they're they're good at. They maybe they're average

963
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 3: enough to win nine games again, but man, it's it's

964
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 3: pretty disappointing.

965
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,760
Speaker 4: It's very This is also one matchup that they've they've

966
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 4: just they cannot solve. And I think, like last year

967
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 4: on Thursday Night, like Sharvariusward versus DK Metcalf was physical

968
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 4: and it went both ways. Like last night, he was

969
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 4: just taken out of the game DK Metcalf and and

970
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 4: then you got nowhere to go.

971
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 2: I'll give the final word to Christian McCaffrey, who deserves

972
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 2: to be way better than plus six thousand, because he has.

973
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 3: Been sixteen hundred buddy by the way, sixteen sixteen accuracy sick,

974
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 3: thank you, and Purty's plus three thousand, number eight, so

975
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 3: he's sort.

976
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 4: Of in the max but not really ridiculous.

977
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 2: One of the things I like about the write ups

978
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 2: by the AP and others on Thanksgiving is like just

979
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 2: like a lot of turkey talk, Just like turkey talk

980
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 2: slips in there, and I want to hear this quote

981
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 2: from McCaffrey because I'm reading it and I'm like, man,

982
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 2: this guy's really going into detail about this turkey. And

983
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 2: it's like slotted in between two like beefy graphs about

984
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 2: the you know, and of this like statistics about this win.

985
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 2: And then you have all, right, here's I'm going to

986
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 2: drop in the CMC quote here and the guy just

987
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 2: going on and on about the turkey.

988
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 3: That was awesome.

989
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 6: It was actually really good turkey too. I have no

990
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 6: idea how they kept all of the dishes were hot.

991
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 6: I was bummed. I didn't get the sweet potato with

992
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 6: the marshmallows that I didn't I don't know if they

993
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 6: had the they had a fork, but then they you know,

994
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 6: we had to pick the turkey leg up. By that time,

995
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 6: I was eating the turkey. But the turkey was really good,

996
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 6: well cooked, wasn't dry at all, and like I said,

997
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 6: still hot, which was impressive for being, you know, twenty

998
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 6: minutes after the game. I don't know where they kept it,

999
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 6: but it was good turkey.

1000
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 2: Somebody gives them, say an update, how they kept the

1001
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 2: turkey warm?

1002
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 3: What did they use?

1003
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: Was it an oven kept on low?

1004
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 2: Was it just covered and kept maybe in a microwave

1005
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 2: with the microwave off?

1006
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: Like what what? How did they keep it?

1007
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 2: Was there one of those burners underneath, but they they

1008
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 2: were very careful not to have the burner turned up

1009
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 2: too high, you know what I'm talking about?

1010
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: Those things. I don't know.

1011
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 3: They got to have it. They got to have a

1012
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 3: kitchen somewhere in the bows of that stadium. But I

1013
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 3: was thinking, as we're listening to that, like, man, I've rarely

1014
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 3: heard CMC talk at length, and maybe that's why he

1015
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 3: just gets super nerdy about turkeys, and that's.

1016
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: Just he was just a matter there. That actually was

1017
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: a quote from July. I mean, the guy, that's all

1018
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:53,720
Speaker 1: he talks about.

1019
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 3: I gotta say, I watched this game with you know,

1020
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 3: friends and their families and and a lot of kids

1021
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 3: were there, and no moment all day popped to them

1022
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 3: like George Kittle throwing that turkey leg up into the

1023
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 3: crowd and running turkeys afterwards. That was huge in the

1024
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 3: ten year old set they were talking about they wanted

1025
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 3: to throw some turkeys. It was just like that pop.

1026
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 3: So that was a nice, nice moment for Kittle to

1027
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 3: really break.

1028
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 2: By that by that moment in my house, and I

1029
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 2: still have a family here that stayed the night. The

1030
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 2: Princess Bride had been turned on by that way.

1031
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that makes sense. Had late.

1032
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 2: We had a late as you wish anything else. No,

1033
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 2: all right, I'm gonna go play football with some kids now, really, Yeah.

1034
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: Damn, I.

1035
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 4: Hope people dominate them like that sounds a good spot

1036
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 4: for you to really shine athletically.

1037
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 2: Yesterday we played also and it was tough because I

1038
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 2: had to be We used to call it automatic QB,

1039
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 2: but I think my son corrected me and say now

1040
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 2: that they call it all QB or something. But anyway,

1041
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 2: we had an uneven number, so I played QB and

1042
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 2: it was tough when you automatic QB on both sides

1043
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 2: because it's like Barrys anders in that flag football game.

1044
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 2: Like I'm trying to distribute to all these kids and

1045
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 2: there's so many mouths to feed, and nobody's happy.

1046
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:20,959
Speaker 1: At the end of the game.

1047
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 2: You can't win QB because everyone thinks they should have

1048
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 2: been targeted more.

1049
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: And here I am.

1050
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 2: I've completed probably about sixty or seventy percent of my

1051
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 2: passes and half the kids can't even catch that's pretty

1052
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 2: high percentage. And after the game, I'm being told that

1053
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 2: I was leaving people out of the game plan. So

1054
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 2: we got another game about to play this Now we

1055
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 2: have even number because some people went home, and I'm

1056
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 2: going to be playing defense and I'm going to be

1057
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 2: very physical, and I'm going to send messages to those

1058
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 2: who complained about my quarterback play, specifically my eldest son,

1059
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 2: jack who thought that I cost him the game yesterday

1060
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 2: by not throwing it to him literally every time. So

1061
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I want our friend Kareem What was it,

1062
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,399
Speaker 2: Kareem Jackson. Yeah, I'm hitting like Jackson in this game.

1063
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 3: Okay, I wish I was there. I had not to

1064
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:19,760
Speaker 3: sound like Sessler when he plays in tennis with his family.

1065
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 3: But we played a little football too yesterday, and I

1066
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 3: almost thought I was dominating in the game so much

1067
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 3: that I had to back off and not not be

1068
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:32,479
Speaker 3: as show offye with what was going on, like you said,

1069
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 3: distribute it around. But the explosiveness was absolutely there, and

1070
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:38,439
Speaker 3: I was. I was very proud of my son. Though

1071
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 3: to finish the game had a key Charvarius Ward like

1072
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 3: pass breakup on me, so in a big spot, I

1073
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 3: I ultimately didn't come through for the team, and he

1074
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 3: just he knocked that thing out of my hands, like

1075
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 3: Charvarius words.

1076
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 4: I mean, we've we've you know, we've played with Walker

1077
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 4: in the past and you've seen that those innate dB skills,

1078
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:56,720
Speaker 4: So I'm not surprised to hear that update.

1079
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 2: I I don't really I like to keep my sons

1080
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 2: in games where I'm involved, but very rarely do they

1081
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 2: get the W And that's the way I was raised

1082
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 2: as well. My dad and one on one basketball took

1083
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 2: me into I was like a sophomore in high school.

1084
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 2: To finally beat him, he did this back down move

1085
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 2: in the post where he would back me down and

1086
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: then he'd use his left arm as a clear out

1087
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 2: and do a little jump hook and it was total bs.

1088
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:26,439
Speaker 2: And I would tell him that. I actually told him

1089
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 2: that last week because we were reminiscing about it. And

1090
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 2: when I finally beat him, it was all the more

1091
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 2: rewarding and it was a changing of the guard athletically

1092
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 2: within the family dynamic.

1093
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: And that's why I've.

1094
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 3: Recovered due to me, you know, right, it talks about that.

1095
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 2: So when they beat me, they'll beat me, and that

1096
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 2: will be a moment or they'll never beat me.

1097
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: Perhaps as well. I'm like, now, I'm like Barry Sanders's

1098
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:48,439
Speaker 1: monster of a dad.

1099
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 4: No, that's good, dad, work the tennis court. I keep

1100
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:53,919
Speaker 4: the foot on the gas though, I'll tell you that much.

1101
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:55,720
Speaker 1: I know you do, buddy.

1102
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 2: Never forget that Barry Sanders' dad on the day that

1103
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 2: ran for two thousand yards in nineteen ninety seven, when

1104
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,720
Speaker 2: the first thing, excuse me, not at the two thousand

1105
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 2: yard when he went to the Hall of Fame, Barrass Sanders'

1106
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 2: dad for Santras' induction and gave the speech. The first

1107
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 2: thing he said was that Jim Brown was the greatest

1108
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 2: running back of all time. And then he said that

1109
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 2: his son was the third greatest running back of all time.

1110
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 2: And everybody was like, Who's what did he mean, who's

1111
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 2: the second? He called himself the second greatest running back

1112
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 2: of all time. Imagine now that's taking it to an extreme. Yes,

1113
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 2: his dad was a handyman.

1114
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 3: Right, and he literally did not play professional football.

1115
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: Anyway.

1116
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 2: Be nice to your kids. One day, they'll have to

1117
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 2: take care of you, all right. Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everybody,

1118
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 2: enjoy it. We'll be back on Sunday with the full

1119
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 2: recap of both the Black Friday Jet Stoppins affair, Can't

1120
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 2: wait and everything on Sunday. Until then, you know what

1121
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 2: you gotta do.

1122
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: Heed the Car