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Speaker 1: get buck as soon as we can in the meantime, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Like I the excitement was real Alabama Oklahoma for playoff.

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Speaker 1: I can either confirm nor deny. I believe that Buck

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Speaker 4: And that's actually exactly what's happening. And he's not here

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Speaker 4: And let's just for the record, like he's going.

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Speaker 1: like at thirds maybe fourths. Like every time he gets

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Like, he's definitely cracker barrels too good for

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Speaker 1: we got two games in progress right now. You need

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Speaker 1: Who cares any more about our preseason predictions. Preseason predictions

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Speaker 1: then beat the Giants. They beat a fat kid at dodgeball, Sorry,

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Speaker 1: beat the Raiders. I don't know why I said the Giants.

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Speaker 1: They beat the Raiders. They beat my beloved Raiders thirty

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Speaker 1: one nothing. I was asked to predict the final score

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Speaker 1: of that game on Friday on one of my shows.

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Speaker 1: It's the thirty five to three Eagles. So you know

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Speaker 1: what they did? They did exactly what they should have done,

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Speaker 1: exactly what I think anybody that watched the both of

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Speaker 1: those teams this year would expect them to do. And

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean anything for Philadelphia. It just doesn't. The

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Speaker 1: problem is sweeping takes. The problem is we all watch

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Speaker 1: the shows that people want to just yell about something

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Speaker 1: every single week. So we all watch the shows where

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Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's good barbershop talk to sit there

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Speaker 1: and say, oh, are the Eagles fixed? That's the problem

444
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Speaker 1: because the more time we spend focused on the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: the last time we spend on who actually matters in

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Speaker 1: the NFC, which is what I'll do next. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: figure out im gonna se if we got Buck, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna figure out who the actual teams are that we

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Speaker 1: should be paying attention to in the NFC. But first, Mark,

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Speaker 1: why don't get this caught up on what the scoreboard

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Speaker 1: looks like right now on a wild Dale.

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Speaker 5: Football right now, just as everybody drew it up in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 5: it's ten to seven Commanders as Jacross Jacoby krossky Merritt

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Speaker 5: crosses over the end zone for Washington's touchdown. The Eagles

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Speaker 5: missed one field goal with about twenty seconds left in

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Speaker 5: the regular in the first half that was in a penalty.

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Speaker 1: They had another opportunity.

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Speaker 5: Jake Elliott missed another field goal to try to tie

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Speaker 5: this game going into the half. So we'll see if

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Speaker 5: they're able to come out and rebound. After what you

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Speaker 5: said just we're talking about fits that big win against

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Speaker 5: the Raiders. Big win loading for Old Miss against two

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Speaker 5: Lane as Trinidad Chandler slides down at about his fifteen

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Speaker 5: yard about his eight yard line, I should say it'll

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Speaker 5: be first in goal for the ole Miss Rebels thirty

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Speaker 5: four to three over two Lane. John Sumrall will leave

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Speaker 5: this after Two Lane loses this game, will leave to

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Speaker 5: go take the new head coaching job at Florida. He's

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Speaker 5: already been announced. Lang Kivin did not coach this game

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Speaker 5: for ol Miss. Pete Golding looking like he'll get a

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Speaker 5: win in his first game as a head coach. Just

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Speaker 5: happens also be the first win in the playoffs and

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Speaker 5: the Also NFL news, the Rams fire their special teams

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Speaker 5: coordinator after that Thursday night football punt return cost them

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Speaker 5: the game. Chase Blackburns would be looking for a new job.

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Speaker 5: Buccaneers activated Jason Pierre Paul Sunday's game against the Panthers.

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Speaker 5: JPP hasn't played in an NFL game since December eleventh,

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty three. But in a world where Philip Rivers

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Speaker 5: comes back, you know what, anything is possible. Man may

480
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Speaker 5: beat Texas to beat the advanced to the semi finals

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Speaker 5: ten to three. The score cards are back touchdown pass

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Speaker 5: in the last minute, Bryce Fitzgerald with an interception in

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Speaker 5: the end zone.

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Speaker 1: Hurricanes now advanced his face two seed Ohio State and

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Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl.

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Speaker 5: Alabama advanced last night to playoffs against Oklahoma thirty four

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Speaker 5: to twenty four. They will play Big Ten champion and

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Speaker 5: once heat Indiana Fits back to you all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Welcome back to a Bucket Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason fitz I think we have Buck rising. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'll see I don't know. He might still be hanging

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Speaker 1: out at the Golden Corral. We can't figure out whether

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Speaker 1: or not we have him. I'll just I'll defer to

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Speaker 1: Buck if he can hear me and is capable of talking,

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Speaker 1: Just chime in whenever you want. We'll keep the NFC

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Speaker 1: conversation going. Buck.

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Speaker 6: We got you really want to try this live this way.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, come on, I don't know. Well, I don't know

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Speaker 7: how we feel about all this.

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Speaker 1: I got you. I can hear you. It's glorious. Can

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Speaker 1: you hear me? Is this happening? We're doing this on

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Speaker 1: live radio. This is actually happening, and you're in sync.

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Speaker 1: I can see you on my computer. I can hear

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Speaker 1: you in my ear. I feel like this is this

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Speaker 1: is the joy I needed. I feel like Santa Claus

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Speaker 1: just gave me a prison.

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Speaker 6: Well, hopefully the rest of the world can hear us,

508
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Speaker 6: because Mary is trying to call me on the Fox

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Speaker 6: hotline right now. So if I need to bail in

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Speaker 6: the middle of all this, you all just let me know,

511
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Speaker 6: because I'm the only person I can hear right now.

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Speaker 1: Is you okay? I love this? Since I have full

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Speaker 1: control of the world. These are the things you should know.

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Speaker 1: Number one, we established that you get at least three,

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Speaker 1: maybe four plates at the Golden Corral. We established that

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Speaker 1: you have an affinity for creamed corn that none of

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Speaker 1: us knew about. So those are the things that we

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Speaker 1: established while you were gallivanting around eating at the buffet

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Speaker 1: and not doing your work for the first thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: of the show. We also established that I could take

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Speaker 1: nothing away from the Philadelphia Eagles beating the Raiders because

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Speaker 1: they're losing to Washington right now, and maybe we should

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Speaker 1: shift our narrative's thoughts. Oh really, I'll let you on

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Speaker 1: creamed corn or the Philadelphia No, no.

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Speaker 6: No, you think your slick by just glossing over the

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Speaker 6: shots fired in my inability and I have no defense.

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Speaker 6: I have no defense. That doesn't sound like an excuse.

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Speaker 6: So I'm just going to have to eat it, just

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Speaker 6: like I ate the cream corn at Golden Corral the

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Speaker 6: other day. I mean, on the Philadelphia Eagles. This is

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Speaker 6: the thing that I was confused by. Okay, so I'm

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Speaker 6: getting ready for the show. I'm watching the start of

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Speaker 6: the Fox broadcast for this Eagles Commander's game. And no

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Speaker 6: disrespect to Joe Davis and Greg Olsen, but they're opening

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Speaker 6: they're opening the broadcast talking about the idea that the

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Speaker 6: Eagles got a much needed win, a good win, but.

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Speaker 7: They did it against the Las Vegas Raiders.

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Speaker 6: And I heard you monologuing about this, of course, and

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Speaker 6: what the quality of that win actually is. What does

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Speaker 6: it really solve about what's wrong with the Philadelphia Eagles,

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Speaker 6: which is for some reason, all of a sudden, you

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Speaker 6: don't seem to be able to trust their quarterback, and

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Speaker 6: the run game that miraculously appeared against one of the

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Speaker 6: worst teams in football maybe isn't as sustainable as one

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Speaker 6: week might have led us to believe. Again, they're trailing

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Speaker 6: right now at the half ten to seven, as Fitzi

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Speaker 6: said to a Washington commander's team, that isn't having to

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Speaker 6: do very much lifting. And oh, by the way, they

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Speaker 6: start the game off with a fumble that puts Washington

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Speaker 6: a position to try and capitalize there. So not only

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Speaker 6: are they not solved, the problems aren't solved offensively, but

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Speaker 6: they're still making critical errors where their margin seems as

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Speaker 6: thin as it's ever felt now, unlike the Chiefs. So

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Speaker 6: I'm getting ready to cover this week because they're coming

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Speaker 6: here to Nashville to play the Titans, the rare both

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Speaker 6: teams eliminated game so far this season. The Eagles are

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Speaker 6: still finding ways to win enough to keep themselves alive.

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Speaker 6: They have postseason hopes, but it's very complex right now

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Speaker 6: for Philadelphia, and I can't imagine they feel good about this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're broken, no matter how we want to

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Speaker 1: parse this out again. I'll reiterate this as we hit

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Speaker 1: the half. This isn't important. Aj Brown and DeVante Smith

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Speaker 1: have a combined twelve catches on a combined seventeen targets. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's where the offenses come from. Why is that significant?

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Speaker 1: They are the only two players in the entire Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: offense that even have a target from Jalen Hurts. You

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Speaker 1: cannot get so one dimensional. The NFL will let one

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Speaker 1: player beat you ninety nine percent of the time. The

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Speaker 1: NFL will let you get one dimensional because they're not

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Speaker 1: afraid of losing a game that way. And we just

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Speaker 1: watched the Rams with Puka absolutely go off in a loss. Right,

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Speaker 1: most teams will turn around and say, Okay, if that's

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Speaker 1: the way you want to beat us, that's fine, We'll

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Speaker 1: stay in this game. This is the Washington Commanders who

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Speaker 1: were four and ten this year, two and four at

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Speaker 1: home with Marcus Mariota as the quarterback. Right, Like, this

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Speaker 1: is not Jayden Daniels and Washington last year. This is

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Speaker 1: not a chef's kiss team. This is a team where

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Speaker 1: you know, frankly, they don't do a lot of things

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Speaker 1: incredibly well. They don't scare you in anything that they're

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Speaker 1: doing right now, and they're doing it with Mariota with

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Speaker 1: their backup quarterback, and they are beating the Eagles like

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Speaker 1: it's this team is just so damn broken. And to me,

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Speaker 1: all of this comes back to when a head coach

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Speaker 1: has a specialty and that specialty sucks. There's a problem.

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Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, the reason people thought siriotni

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Speaker 1: might be on the hot seat. Their offense just didn't

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Speaker 1: look right. Then they go to the super Bowl because

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Speaker 1: they have the right offensive coordinator in the right mind,

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Speaker 1: everything's working well. Now all of a sudden it's not

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Speaker 1: working again. You know, this is the maddening part of this.

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Speaker 1: There isn't an easy fix when your offensive minded head

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Speaker 1: coach doesn't really seem to have the key to unlock it.

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Speaker 1: Team that offensively just has no identity and no longer

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Speaker 1: does any one thing unstoppably.

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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, but it's it's one of those things where

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Speaker 6: I don't want to let them off the hook, right

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Speaker 6: And certainly Philadelphia is not everybody. Everybody gets the smoke

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Speaker 6: in Philly when it comes to the success or rather

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Speaker 6: failures of the Eagles. But I mean, is what is

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Speaker 6: Nick Sirianni supposed to do about the offensive line just

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Speaker 6: not being up to snuff anymore.

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Speaker 7: I mean, that's really what's at the crux at this issue.

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Speaker 6: We have talked about this time and time again, FITZI,

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Speaker 6: whether it be on your your Yahoo Sports Daily show,

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Speaker 6: or whether I'm talking about the Titans on a local

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Speaker 6: show or something like that, or whether we when we

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Speaker 6: get together on Fox and we talk about this.

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Speaker 7: On a on a wider scale.

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Speaker 6: If you don't have successful units, if you don't have

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Speaker 6: the advantage in the trenches, you're going to lose games

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Speaker 6: more often than not. In the National Football League, and

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Speaker 6: for the for the longest that's been the Eagle superpower,

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Speaker 6: nobody's been worried about their offensive line situation.

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Speaker 7: That's why Joe Buck.

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Speaker 6: And Troy Aigman a couple of weeks ago, when the

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Speaker 6: Eagles were on Monday Night Football, we're joking about the

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Speaker 6: idea of have they called Jason kelcey thirty eight year

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Speaker 6: old Jason kelce because their biggest problems seem to be

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Speaker 6: on the interior of that offensive line, and that yet

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Speaker 6: they've dealt with. They've tried to navigate it as best

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Speaker 6: they can, but turns out you're mortal. If you have

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Speaker 6: something wrong with that unit, the unit that's carried you

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Speaker 6: literally and figuratively for as long as that one has

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Speaker 6: for them, you're just kind of banged because you're just

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Speaker 6: going to lose games that way. It's real, and especially

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Speaker 6: when you expose Jalen Hurts in a couple of different ways. Here,

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Speaker 6: we're just seeing what Jalen Hurts looks like when he's

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Speaker 6: more exposed. Now, you could say that to Mahomes in

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Speaker 6: the Super Bowl against the Eagles, where his offensive line

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Speaker 6: situation is in tatters and the Eagles are just banging

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Speaker 6: his head against the turf right for sixteen minutes of

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Speaker 6: a football game that didn't feel particularly close. But I

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Speaker 6: can't Philly will put it on the coaching no matter what.

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Speaker 6: I can't in good conscience say, yeah, they're a markedly

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Speaker 6: different team.

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Speaker 7: They're a markedly different.

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Speaker 6: Coach team when I know the that they're supposed to

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Speaker 6: be the best at just really isn't working for them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think part of the conversation here has

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Speaker 1: to be about expectations versus what we're seeing to a

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Speaker 1: certain extent, because to be clear, Philly's nine to five right.

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Speaker 1: The only way the Eagles miss out on the playoffs

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Speaker 1: is if they lose all of their remaining games. Now again,

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Speaker 1: they're trailing right now to Washington ten to seven. Next week,

646
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Speaker 1: I believe they have the Bills. If I'm not, yes,

647
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: they have the Bills in Buffalo next week, tough game,

648
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Speaker 1: and then they get Washington again. The chance is that

649
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles are going to lose two games in

650
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Speaker 1: the last three weeks to Washington. To miss out of

651
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Speaker 1: the playoffs feels to me to be very slim. It

652
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: would also require, in this for them to miss the playoffs,

653
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Speaker 1: it would also require the Dallas Cowboys to win out

654
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Speaker 1: and that you know, the Dallas Cowboys have lost all faith.

655
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Speaker 1: I've lost all faith in the Dallas Cowboys, I should

656
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Speaker 1: say so. I think it's pretty likely they're going to

657
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. They're not a good team like that.

658
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Speaker 1: That's why we've talked about this before. There's a difference

659
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Speaker 1: between saying is this a playoff team or is this

660
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Speaker 1: a good football team? In this year's playoff? In this

661
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: year's NFC East, where the Giants are absolutely dreadful, the

662
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: Cowboys have been a wild disappointment and the Commanders suck. Yeah, yeah,

663
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: he was going to win the division. Awesome, that's great.

664
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Speaker 1: They're not a super Bowl caliber football team. So trying

665
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: to manage sort of the expectation of what does that mean,

666
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: because it needs to be a different word, Like, you

667
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: don't suck if you've won nine games, but you are

668
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: certainly not as good as anyone wants you to be.

669
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Speaker 1: You're not fixed, you're not right, you're not reaching your potential. However,

670
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: we want to say it when you are the way

671
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: the Eagles look right now, they are not a super

672
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Speaker 1: Bowl caliber football team.

673
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, just think about it.

674
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Speaker 6: Put it within this context, right Imagine they played in

675
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 6: the NFC South or seven and seven is good enough

676
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 6: to lead your division right now? Like they are basically

677
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 6: I know their record is nine to five and that

678
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 6: they are better in that situation by record than Tampa

679
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 6: Bay is. But you're basically talking about the same principle.

680
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 6: That's a division leader that has flaws, that isn't as

681
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Speaker 6: good as what sits at the top of the conference

682
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Speaker 6: right now, which is currently Seattle locked in to a

683
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Speaker 6: postseason spot after their thirsty Night Football win and right

684
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 6: now with a path to the one seed. Chicago, who

685
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 6: is going to pay play Green Bay for control of

686
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Speaker 6: that division later this evening in Philly. While they're the

687
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 6: three seed, they just that's where it stops. Right you

688
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 6: go Seattle Chicago, you leap frog these other two teams

689
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Speaker 6: that are division leaders. You say, the Rams in San

690
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 6: Francisco in Green Bay are the other three teams in

691
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Speaker 6: the NFC that can actually win a Super Bowl, while

692
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Speaker 6: the rest of them are just the best of what's left.

693
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 6: Right Like, that's how you contextualize the Eagles right now.

694
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Speaker 6: And Philadelphia is not going to want to hear that

695
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Speaker 6: because they constantly have championship expectations.

696
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Speaker 7: But that's just not what it is this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting you just mentioned the Seahawks. I want

698
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Speaker 1: to get to that when we come back. Seattle had

699
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Speaker 1: the biggest win of the year on Thursday Night Football.

700
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Speaker 1: I still don't know what to make of the wildest game,

701
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Speaker 1: the wildest finish, and what to make of a team

702
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Speaker 1: that has looked so bad at times but then figured

703
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Speaker 1: out how to win. We'll break down what to make

704
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Speaker 1: of the Rams and the Seahawks in the NFC as

705
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Speaker 1: a hole when we come back. He's Buck Rise. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jason Fitz bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. You're listening

707
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Speaker 1: to Fox Sports Radio Radio, Chris Think. I'm Jason Fitz

708
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Speaker 1: hanging out with you, coming at you live from the

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio studios. Right now, the second half just underway,

710
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Speaker 1: Washington is beating the Eagles ten to seven Philly with

711
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Speaker 1: the ball first in the second half. We'll see what

712
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Speaker 1: they can make of it. Also, Ole miss to nobody's surprise,

713
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: forty one to three is right now the score over

714
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Speaker 1: two lane, James Madison walking off the bus. Let's see

715
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Speaker 1: if their team can keep up with their social media

716
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Speaker 1: team hype for that game coming up next. We'll keep

717
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Speaker 1: you updated on all that. Buck, I'm trying to figure

718
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Speaker 1: out what to make of the Seahawks, Like they get

719
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Speaker 1: the win, they get to win over the Rams in

720
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Speaker 1: a game that just you know, I found myself. I

721
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: was texting somebodies in the first half as we were

722
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Speaker 1: getting ready for the show the next day that I

723
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: had it was all, oh, my god, the story tomorrow

724
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: is going to be Sam Donald, look at this, my God,

725
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: Like this is just Sam Donald is melting it down again,

726
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Speaker 1: and this is only going to continue to create more

727
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Speaker 1: conversation about what he's incapable of all of these things.

728
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Speaker 1: And then we see a fourth quarter, a sixteen point

729
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: deficit erased in the last nine minutes of a football game,

730
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Speaker 1: and then an overtime and two point conversion win, and

731
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Speaker 1: I look at all of this, I'm genuinely lost. I

732
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Speaker 1: want to sit here and make this proclamation that it

733
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Speaker 1: means Seattle's a great team. But my god, like, they've

734
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Speaker 1: played terrible both times they've played the Rams, and they

735
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: could have won both games. What do you make of that?

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Speaker 7: Oh, we're real easy.

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Speaker 6: Don't over complicate it, don't don't let it turn you sideways.

738
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Speaker 6: In that pretty sweet, simple little ahead of yours. It's

739
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Speaker 6: gonna be okay, Okay, it is pretty. It is pretty.

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Speaker 6: I can confirm, as we sit here on FaceTime, I

741
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Speaker 6: am comfortable making a proclamation about the Seattle Seahawks. I

742
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Speaker 6: think they're a great football team because they're good enough

743
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Speaker 6: to survive all of that, right, They're good enough to survive.

744
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 7: Against the best team in the league.

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Speaker 6: Despite all of the things that went down in that game,

746
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Speaker 6: despite the performance by Sam Darnold in the early on,

747
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 6: because frankly, he was pretty awesome down the stretch in

748
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 6: that moment, and that's just the kind of performance that

749
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 6: you need to give yourselfself a chance to win.

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Speaker 7: They did it against the best.

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Speaker 6: Team in the sport, right now, we can all agree,

752
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 6: right the Rams are the best team in football. Okay,

753
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 6: So they did it against the best team in the sport,

754
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Speaker 6: which means if they get to a final game in

755
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Speaker 6: I mean, I don't even know if there is an

756
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 6: AFC comp right now to the Los Angeles Rams, So

757
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 6: you could say that Seattle is as good as anybody

758
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Speaker 6: in the AFC right now. So if Seattle were to

759
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 6: end up in the Super Bowl, they're good enough to

760
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Speaker 6: get by these teams in a single elimination tournament.

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Speaker 7: May they come up short.

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Speaker 6: In one of these circumstances, sure, because the margin for

763
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Speaker 6: error is that kind of thin, But they are good

764
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Speaker 6: enough to advance against a team like the Rams, which

765
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 6: means to me, they're good enough to win the Super Bowl,

766
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Speaker 6: as simple as that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's fair. It's fair the way you're saying it,

768
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Speaker 1: and it's fair. It's just to that point. I feel

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Speaker 1: like one day, one game, I would be equally I

770
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised to see Seattle out in the first

771
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Speaker 1: time that they play in the playoffs, because I just

772
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: don't know if that meltdown is real. But I also

773
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised to see them go on an epic run,

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Speaker 1: Like I just I don't know, And you're right, like

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Speaker 1: they did that against the Rams, but they did that

776
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: against the Rams when there was no DeVante Adams, Right.

777
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Speaker 1: But then, if I'm looking at the Rams side of it,

778
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Speaker 1: I'm like, how do the Rams keep melting down against

779
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: the Seahawks? Like, remember the Rams won that first game

780
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Speaker 1: where Darnold had four picks and the Rams won it,

781
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: but the Seahawks had a sixty three yard try at

782
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Speaker 1: the end to try and win that game, So like,

783
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: the Rams have a Seahawks problem. So maybe the real

784
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Speaker 1: answer is that these two teams are clearly the best

785
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: two teams in the conference, clearly the best two teams

786
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and they're just gonna get to do

787
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: this a third time in the NFC Championship. Okay, maybe

788
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: it's that simple. I just I want to come away.

789
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Speaker 1: I do. I like proclamations as much as I like

790
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: to tear them down. I want to come away and say, oh,

791
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: Seattle clearly number one, and I look at it instead.

792
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know, if they played that game

793
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: ten times, the Rams should have won that exact game.

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Speaker 1: Nine of those ten times. They just didn't.

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Speaker 6: Sure, I mean to your point, because that's not a meltdown, right,

796
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 6: Matt Stafford had a god tier game. He was excellent.

797
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 6: Pookin and' CooA was awesome to your point. And you know,

798
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Speaker 6: despite his tweets about the officials and all of it.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he started the week off with an anti

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Speaker 6: semitic signal on a Twitch stream or something like that,

801
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 6: so hot start.

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00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 7: For pookin' accua.

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Speaker 6: He comes in on Thursday night football balls the hell out,

804
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 6: tweets about the refs and a conspiracy theory after the fact.

805
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Speaker 6: I mean, they had a good game on the ground,

806
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 6: like they they played a very balanced game. It came

807
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 6: down to a controversial call at the end, which gave

808
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 6: us the drama that we like in those kinds of situations,

809
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 6: just as an NFL viewing experience, because they were two

810
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 6: teams that duped it out back and forth and you

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Speaker 6: got it. While Sam Darnold wasn't special. I think this

812
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 6: is also a larger theme which if we want to

813
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Speaker 6: talk about in the second hour, we can Fitzie. These

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00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 6: two teams show a clear and obvious commitment to their

815
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 6: ground game, no matter what the circumstances, which gives because

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00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 6: they can have success. Kenth Murray or excuse me, Kenneth

817
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 6: Walker was awesome in this game. You still give yourself

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00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 6: a chance for the for the for the quarterback, Acx,

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Speaker 6: Sam Donald, Matt Stafford, whomever in these circumstances. Is what's

820
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 6: as big a problem wrong with the Eagles, as we

821
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 6: talked about early as anything else. You just take the

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Speaker 6: pressure off the quarterback that way, so you can run

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Speaker 6: the ball with success and give yourself more time or

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Speaker 6: give yourself more chances for your quarterback to play an

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Speaker 6: imperfect game.

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Speaker 1: You are a thousand percent right about that. Like the

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Speaker 1: method to the madness, the method to the madness for

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks is to take the ball out of

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Speaker 1: San Donald's hands. Like look, look, I know we all

830
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Speaker 1: love Jackson Smith and Jigba and that story. In and

831
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Speaker 1: of itself, he's become one of, if not the best,

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. I love all of this, but I mean,

833
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: let's be honest that the real key here is to

834
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: make sure that you get that two headed monster going

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Speaker 1: in the running attack, and it is wild to be

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Speaker 1: sitting here to say, like, we're not even including the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers in this conversation. I think maybe this

838
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: is just about the fact that the Rams and the

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00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: Seahawks have separated so much, and this is a year

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00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: where there's very little that I trust across the board.

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00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: I went into that Thursday night football matchup saying the

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00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: one thing I can trust is the Rams, and with

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00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: that that trust, it just feels like it breaks in

844
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Speaker 1: those moments because they have found a weird way. Each

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00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: of their loss has just been a weird way to lose,

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00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: and I don't know what to make of the weird

847
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: ways to lose. I do know what to make here.

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Speaker 1: We are still sitting at ten to seven. Washington is

849
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: ahead of the Eagles. Important Marcus Mariota was set it

850
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,359
Speaker 1: back into the tunnel. So whatever is happening right now

851
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, try to get an update for you,

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00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: and we may have.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think we just got a trash time touchdown for

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00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: two lanes, so they get their first touchdown of the game.

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00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: They were down forty one to three. Now it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be forty one nine pending the extra points, So we'll

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Speaker 1: keep you updated on what all of that means. There's

859
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Speaker 1: gonna be some loud conversations coming in college football about

860
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: who should and shouldn't get into the playoffs after we

861
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: watch these group of five games. Eagles with the ball

862
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,479
Speaker 1: and driving a lot to get you updated on. We're

863
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Speaker 1: just now wrapping up our number one hour number two

864
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: of Buck and Fits coming up next to these Buck

865
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: Rising I'm Jason Fitz. We'll keep you updated on the games,

866
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: keep you updated on the breaking news next you're listening

867
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 1: to Fox Sports. Really, there's no such thing as tough

868
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: divisional wins against bad teams this late in the season.

869
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: If you're the Philadelphia Eagles. Even if they're able to

870
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: scrape this game out, the question is what's it mean

871
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 1: for Philly as they are sitting right now down three

872
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: points to Washington and what is turning into an unexpected

873
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: upset of the day? Bucking Fits, he's Buck Rising up,

874
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 1: Jason Fitz hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio.

875
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: Should be noted twice in this game, there has been

876
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: a goal to go situation on the goal line in

877
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: tush push formation, and the Eagles have been called for

878
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: the false start. So, just like we've been talking about

879
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: everything else that is caught up to the Philadelphia Eagles,

880
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: it looks like the officials that may be finally caught

881
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: up without a best officiate this play. And for all

882
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: of the crying about it all year illegal from all

883
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: the cowards that simply couldn't figure out how to stop it,

884
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: it feels like the NFL has got a handle on

885
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: officiating it and it's coming back to bite the Eagles

886
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: in this game with two different penalties. That being said,

887
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: they just converted a third and long, a third and

888
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: goal situation into a touchdown. I don't care, book, I

889
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: don't care if they win this game. The Eagles are broken.

890
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 6: I mean, listen, they beating the Commanders will not be

891
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 6: their saving grace. Yes, like they're just they're in a

892
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 6: situation where they are going to have to take advantage

893
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 6: of that. They are just simply more talented and healthier

894
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 6: than the Washington Commanders are.

895
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 7: I mean, Marcus Mariota is going to return to this game.

896
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 6: He was evaluated for concussion and was cleared, so at

897
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 6: least in that situation, who is even the Commander's third

898
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 6: string quarterback right now? Can anybody in the class tell me.

899
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 6: I would not be able to guess, but I mean, yeah,

900
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 6: it's just like beating the Raiders. Does it fix the Eagles?

901
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 6: Probably not. Does it allow them to survive for an

902
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 6: additional week? Absolutely so. The rest of their schedule and

903
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 6: how they navigate it is going to be a challenge

904
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 6: because they're now out of the driver's seat. They don't

905
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 6: quite control all their own destiny as far as the

906
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 6: one seed goes. They need some things to happen with

907
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 6: Seattle at the top, with that huge win over the

908
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 6: Rams at this point in time.

909
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 7: So I struggle with what to actually do with them.

910
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 6: FITZI, other than to say, yeah, this is this is

911
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 6: the end of it, Like this is. They're not going

912
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 6: to repeat a Super Bowl champions They, like the Seahawks,

913
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 6: are not able to win in a single elimination sample size,

914
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 6: and if you put them up against a better team,

915
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 6: they're gonna lose. Right now, they're not up against a

916
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 6: better team. They should be able to outlast, outlast Washington.

917
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 6: Even if you do apply the any given Sunday sensibilities

918
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 6: to what this NFL game actually is.

919
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: Looking it up the backup quarterback, your thirty nine year

920
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,760
Speaker 1: old Josh Johnson for the Washington Commanders.

921
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 7: So thirty Wait, how old?

922
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: Thirty nine year old Josh Johnson.

923
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 7: No, he is not thirty nine years old? Stuff.

924
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got to hear. He was the

925
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: drafted in the fifth round of the two thousand and

926
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: eight NFL Draft. Eight.

927
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 8: He's been on pretty much every NFL Absolutely insane.

928
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 7: I've seen Josh Johnson play.

929
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 6: Hell, he almost He came to Nashville as the quarterback

930
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 6: for the Commanders when Adrian Peterson was the running back

931
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 6: and almost beat the Titans. I cannot believe that he's

932
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 6: still out here with an NFL career, but good on him.

933
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, good for him. And this just comes back to

934
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: a reminder for everybody that the NFL has sold you

935
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,720
Speaker 1: Bill Goods. I've said this before about parody that doesn't exist.

936
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: I just want to remind everybody when you're trying to

937
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 1: figure out which of your teams are good and which

938
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: of your teams are bad, that who you play matters,

939
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: because right now, as we sit today, with still three

940
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: games left to play, for most NFL teams, there are

941
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: already already as we stand there are nine teams that

942
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: have lost double digit games. There are nine teams in

943
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: the NFL that are four and ten or worse. And

944
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: then depending on what's going to happen over the next

945
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:50,240
Speaker 1: few weeks, for teams like Miami, Kansas City, Minnesota, Dallas, Baltimore,

946
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: even I don't think, but we'll see Carolina, like you

947
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: could end up with twelve or thirteen teams that have

948
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: double digit losses by the end of this season. The

949
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: bottom of the NFL is the worst to ever been.

950
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that I just want to keep

951
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: hammering home because when you look at at any of

952
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: these teams to try and figure out who's any good

953
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: and who's not any good, you have to put into

954
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: context the college football mentality. Who you played matters.

955
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I mean, and that's that's just the nature

956
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 7: of the situation. Moving forward.

957
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 6: Now, let's go through this thought exercise on both sides

958
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 6: of the brackets as you talk about and we can

959
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,439
Speaker 6: get back into the college football playoff stuff a little

960
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 6: later if you want, But as you sit here talking

961
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 6: about the teams in the NFC that you trust the most,

962
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 6: and again for people listening at home, just to get

963
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 6: you updated before we really get into the rest of

964
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 6: week sixteen, the AFC and the NFC right now, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Tampa.

965
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 6: Those are your divisional leaders, the Rams, the Niners, and

966
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 6: Green Bay again pending tonight, huge game with implications tonight

967
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 6: for both.

968
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:51,760
Speaker 7: The Bears and the Packers.

969
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 6: They'll go head to head for this What is this

970
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 6: the second time in three weeks? I think for which

971
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 6: is a weird scheduling qirk, But whatever it makes for

972
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 6: it may for an interesting game. In the AFC, it's Denver,

973
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 6: New England, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh. The Patriots go to Baltimore, which

974
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 6: is an interesting game. Baltimore is way down at the

975
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 6: nine seed right now, behind Indianapolis, You've got the Chargers,

976
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 6: the Bills, the Texans as the wild card. If I

977
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 6: said do you trust do you trust three AFC teams

978
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 6: the way that you trust probably five.

979
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 7: Teams in the NFC?

980
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 6: Could you make an argument for three AFC teams that

981
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 6: you think definitively can win a championship this year?

982
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: God? No, No, I mean, look, I don't three. Okay,

983
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: so the Denver Broncos I trust. I don't trust bon Nicks,

984
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: but I trust so much of the improvement in Bonocks

985
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,720
Speaker 1: play combined with the fact that he's with Sean Payton,

986
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: who I trust immensely, combined with the defense, it's incredible.

987
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: I will remind everybody. Did the Broncos have two losses

988
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: that both came on the last play the game? The

989
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: Broncos are two plays away from being fourteen in Like,

990
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: that's how good the Broncos have been this year. I

991
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: trust the Denver Broncos. I I don't know if I

992
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,919
Speaker 1: trust anybody else in the AFC. Like the Patriots, much

993
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: like the Bills have beat up on bad teams, and

994
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: the Bills would look wildly inconsistent at times. Plus, I've

995
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: never seen Drake May in the situation of the playoffs

996
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: to know how he's going to handle it. I have

997
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: seen Mike Rabel melt down with the one seed before,

998
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 1: so I mean, if I'm being.

999
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 6: Fairhell melt down with one seed before.

1000
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: My god, that's that is fair. The Jags. I don't

1001
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: trust Trevor Lawrence. The Steelers suck. I don't care if

1002
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: they've won eight games that the Steelers suck. The Chargers

1003
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: are decimated by injuries. The Bills have been as Heckel

1004
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: and Giede Heckel and Jakol and hide heckland Gide wow

1005
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: as Jacquelin Hyde. As you start, I don't care.

1006
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, there we go.

1007
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: What about the Texans? Where you are the Texans?

1008
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 7: All right?

1009
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: Because the Texans defense might be the best single unit

1010
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 1: in the entire NFL this year. I love their defense.

1011
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 1: I still think their offense is really inconsistent. So I

1012
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: love what CJ. Straut is supposed to be on paper.

1013
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: The video game version of that offense looks great, but

1014
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: the actual Texans offense I think has been a little

1015
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: hit and miss this year.

1016
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 7: Well, if you're asking, I mean, you're right. If you're asking.

1017
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 6: About the Texans, it's really a question about the Jaguars,

1018
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 6: right because the Jags, you know, they've They've gone five

1019
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 6: to zero in the last couple of weeks. They've got

1020
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 6: a huge game this weekend at Denver, where, if I'm

1021
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 6: not mistaken, Denver has yet to lose a home game

1022
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 6: in the middle of this incredible run that they've been

1023
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 6: on at the top of the AFC, Jacksonville has, I mean,

1024
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 6: the offense looks totally different. Fincy, I don't know if

1025
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 6: you expected Jacoby Myers to be as big a trade

1026
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 6: piece for a team in the NFL this year as

1027
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 6: he has been.

1028
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 7: But it's the game of three year.

1029
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 6: I think it's sixty million dollars deal earlier this week,

1030
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 6: and rightfully so. He's made Brian Thomas Junior a better

1031
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 6: version of himself.

1032
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 7: I think they were.

1033
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 6: Trending that way away from Brian Thomas Juniors their number

1034
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 6: one wide receiver when Travis Hunter was healthy. Anyway, So

1035
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 6: the question is not can not do you trust the Texans?

1036
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 6: But do you think that the Texans are a better

1037
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 6: team than the Jaguars right now?

1038
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:00,959
Speaker 7: At least That's how I.

1039
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 6: Kind of process it, and I just can't. I can't

1040
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 6: objectively say that they are now. Could Trevor Lawrence come

1041
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 6: back to Earth? And when, instead of playing the Jets

1042
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,959
Speaker 6: defense that does not have a single interception this year,

1043
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 6: you go up against the Broncos, who is leading the

1044
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 6: league in sacks.

1045
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 7: Again, they don't turn the ball over a great.

1046
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 6: Deal, but they will suffocate you in that moment and

1047
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 6: give the the Texans a little bit of breathing room.

1048
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 6: Texans play who this weekend, as a matter of fact,

1049
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 6: they play Oh, they play the Raiders, your beloved Las

1050
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 6: Vegas Raiders.

1051
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 7: Yes, it's go be ugly yes.

1052
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 6: An opportunity. Poor Gino, nobody, poor Gino, poor Genti. That

1053
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:38,760
Speaker 6: offensive line, Fitzy, my god.

1054
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 7: What do you do with that?

1055
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: Here's the thing with the Jag zone. So, yeah, you're right.

1056
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 1: They won five straight against the Chargers team that is

1057
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: just absolutely decimated by injuries, and I'm not convinced is

1058
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: actually good. Against the Cardinals team that sucks, against the

1059
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: Titans team that sucks. In the game the Daniel Jones

1060
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: went out an injury, they were already ahead. I'll give

1061
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: them credit for that. And then against the Jets, Like,

1062
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 1: the last true quality team that the Jags played was

1063
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: the Texans, and the Texans beat them. So I just

1064
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: want to see this moment over the next few weeks too.

1065
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: The Jags are gonna get the Broncos, then the Colts

1066
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: without you know, at this point, let's see if Philip

1067
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 1: Rivers is like it gets a walker to get on

1068
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: the field by that point, and then against the Titans, Like,

1069
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: I think there's a very real chance that the Jacks,

1070
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: who sit at ten and four right now, they lose

1071
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: this weekend, they sit at ten and five, They're gonna

1072
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: get to twelve and five. I just don't think they're great.

1073
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: I don't trust Trevor Lawrence yet in this offense. So

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00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 1: I actually trust the Texans more than I trust the Jags.

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00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: Even if the Texans going as a wildcard and the

1076
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: Jacks go in as the division champs. I just I

1077
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: trust that defense. I think the Broncos and the Texans

1078
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: defenses are the two defenses that scare me the most

1079
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL.

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00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 7: Right now.

1081
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I mean that that should be a that

1082
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 6: should be an argument in favor of Jacksonville, because you don't.

1083
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 6: I mean, it's not a matter of I mean it

1084
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 6: is right. The quarterback can make or break you, as

1085
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 6: we've seen with Sam Darnold Minnesota. I suppose we'll find

1086
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 6: out at a certain point with Sam Darnold and Seattle

1087
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 6: this year. Right that was the thing that broke them

1088
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 6: as a one and done team last year. Despite Minnesota

1089
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 6: feeling really good all year along the side beyond Sam

1090
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,760
Speaker 6: Darnold playing the best football of his career to date

1091
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 6: in Minnesota last year, they just.

1092
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 7: They came up short because the quarterback.

1093
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 6: In a huge game with the division on the line

1094
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 6: at the end of the season, malfunctioned, and then the

1095
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 6: Rams pass rush ate him. Alive in the postseason, and

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00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 6: that's just was what it was. So in this scenario

1097
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 6: where Jacksonville, I guess the question is do you trust

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00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 6: c J.

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00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 7: Stroud more than you trust Trevor Lawrence?

1100
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 6: And I don't know how in good conscience you could

1101
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 6: say that you do. And Stroud has had plenty of

1102
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 6: these scary moments in year three as we work our

1103
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 6: way through. I mean, Davis Mills was the better quarterback.

1104
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 6: He was the more efficient quarterback for a period of time,

1105
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 6: not the more talented player, but he was just operating

1106
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 6: the offense at a better level than we've seen. And

1107
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 6: because the defense is a cheat code, I think you

1108
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 6: could drop a great many quarterbacks in that situation and

1109
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 6: they would still be a nine win football team, if

1110
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 6: not better.

1111
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 7: But I can't say that c. J.

1112
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 6: Stroud is playing the quarterback position at a better level

1113
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:19,439
Speaker 6: than Trevor Lawrence is consistently. And while the Texans are

1114
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 6: the best defense across the board fitsy, the Jags defense

1115
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 6: is damn good too.

1116
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 7: I mean the.

1117
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 6: Turnovers, they're not turning it over in bunches the way

1118
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 6: that they were at the start of the season. They're

1119
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 6: still the best defense against the run. In football, like

1120
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 6: they'll make you one dimensional and they don't get after

1121
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 6: the passer the way that the Texans do what the

1122
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 6: Broncos do, but it's still enough to cause you problems.

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Speaker 7: It's a very interesting question.

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00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm willing to admit that, I think because the

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00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: best of what I've seen from CJ. Stroud makes me

1126
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: think that it's just bottled up there and it's going

1127
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: I give CJ. Stroud more benefit of the doubt because

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Speaker 1: of the last three years, the best of what I've

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00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: seen from c J. Strout, But you're right, like this year,

1130
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: particularly over the last few months since the trade, and

1131
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: I did think, frankly, the Jacobe Meyers trade was going

1132
00:51:58,160 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: to be a good one, just like I thought the

1133
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: DeVante Adam's acquisition was a good one, because so often,

1134
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: I think in a red zone world where you see

1135
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: very little clips of most guys from bad teams, or

1136
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: in a fantasy football world where you see production somewhere,

1137
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,760
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily see how often somebody's opened. Shobe Myers

1138
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: was able to accomplish tremendous success with the Raiders over

1139
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: the last few years, and I do mean tremendous, not

1140
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: just from the Box sport Score. But when your quarterbacks

1141
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: are eight and O'Connell and Gardner Minshew one year and

1142
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: your quarterback the next is you know, Gino having just

1143
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: an absolute meltdown. Any production you get him with Trevor Lawrence.

1144
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: I mean that's just a massive difference. And Liam Cohen

1145
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: has done a beautiful job. All Right, we'll get you updated.

1146
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: There's an injury. Mario Toa is out on the game

1147
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: at this point for Washington, which has led to just

1148
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: terrible quarterback play. That game's going to get out of control.

1149
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: Plus I got to figure it out now that the

1150
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: game is complete, Now that the game is final, do

1151
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: we need to change the college football playoff system. We'll

1152
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: get bucks thoughts on it. Next, bucking Fits on Fox

1153
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. It's true he is a naughty, naughty l

1154
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: if he's Buck Rising, I'm Jason fitz bucking Fits on

1155
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Oh, come an answer from the Fox

1156
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,239
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1157
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,439
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1160
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1161
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,000
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1162
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: find today's full show posted right after we get off

1163
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,879
Speaker 1: the air. I'll be honest. There's a Spirit Christmas now

1164
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: that it is opening Connecticut.

1165
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 4: Oh.

1166
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: I went and checked it out, and like I thought

1167
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 1: long and hard about it. They had like this five

1168
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: hundred dollars massive, like fifteen foot yetti inflatable snowman. Oh

1169
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: I thought long and hard about it, but I didn't.

1170
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: I just I'm gonna wait see if it goes on,

1171
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: Like if it goes half off after after Christmas, maybe

1172
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,760
Speaker 1: buy it for next year. Maybe get that the fifteen

1173
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 1: foot yetti abominable snowman. Where do you.

1174
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 7: Even put a fifteen foot creature.

1175
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 1: In your yard?

1176
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 7: Like, surely you do not.

1177
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 6: You're not living on like a like a twenty five

1178
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 6: acre premises that you can just have these giant things

1179
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 6: strewn about your prop you.

1180
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:03,720
Speaker 1: Know, I'm on like just just under half an acre

1181
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 1: in Connecticut. Like, I just pop it right in front

1182
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: of the front door. Let them neighbors be aware of

1183
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 1: the greatness. Like that's a statement. You gotta make the statement, Buck,

1184
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: you can't be afraid of Christmas. Miss, I mean best

1185
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: thing is to do is just spread Christmas cheer. You

1186
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 1: can't fear this.

1187
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 6: No, the best thing to do was to call you

1188
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 6: hoa and be like that guy, go after that guy,

1189
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 6: like just.

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00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 8: A fe with you.

1191
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 7: By the way, there there was a good.

1192
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,919
Speaker 1: Reason why I have never bought and will never bought

1193
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: buy a house in an hoa like. I love the

1194
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: concept far more than I love anybody telling me whether

1195
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: or not I had to. I went home, Depot has

1196
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: this one that it's an inside one because he's flocked

1197
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: right like he's like he's the from the like the

1198
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: old the Year without of Santa Claus, like those Island

1199
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: of Misfits toys thing they've yet he got there. I looked,

1200
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: oh man, he was like four hundred bucks. I was like,

1201
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: you know what, Happy Christmas to me? Right, I looked

1202
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: at it. I came home. I measured, I don't have

1203
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,479
Speaker 1: any ceilings tall enough for him to be inside, because

1204
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 1: he was just over ten foot and I don't. I

1205
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: don't have tall enough ceilings.

1206
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 6: This feels like it has the potential to become the

1207
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 6: next rejoint. Because Mary was in my ear during that

1208
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 6: last one, being like, you're such a grunch and I

1209
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 6: was like, yeah, but you need one. You need one

1210
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 6: to be able to curb all of this nonsense. You

1211
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,760
Speaker 6: need somebody. You need me on that wall. Okay, listen

1212
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 6: to me. I am the kind of person who looked

1213
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 6: up the other day how to start my own hoa

1214
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 6: to patrol the neighborhood, to police other people, to stop

1215
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 6: people like you from putting up a seventeen foot tall

1216
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 6: skeleton in their yard, leaving it their year round and

1217
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 6: just dressing it seasonally the way that one of my

1218
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 6: neighbors in my neighborhood does the thing. If I was

1219
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 6: a worse person, and I'm pretty close, but if I

1220
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 6: was a worse person, I would take the chainsaw. It's

1221
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 6: honestly the only power tool that I know how to operate.

1222
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 6: I would take the chainsaw and I would just go

1223
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 6: at the legs of this skeleton if I was a

1224
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 6: bad person, instead of just you know, plotting this neighbor

1225
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 6: of mine's demise secretly with secret hoas and things like that.

1226
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: Which is why we are truly two opposite els on

1227
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: this show. Because I if I have one particular if

1228
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: I had to rank all of my fatal flaws, I

1229
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: think one of the highest ranked fatal flaws for me

1230
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: is I have a problem with people pretending to have

1231
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: authority that don't. That's just at my core. So to

1232
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,919
Speaker 1: tie it back to Christmas years ago, we had a

1233
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: group of friends then we went to we were flash

1234
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: mobbing all over the place. I've told you this, we

1235
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 1: flash mobbed, right, but one of the places we flashed

1236
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: flash mobbed just we just started saying we need little

1237
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: Christmas right in the middle of the mall. We're right

1238
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: in the middle of the mall, and a mall cop

1239
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: came up to me like he was going to do

1240
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: something about it, and that my nature in that moment

1241
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: is like, Okay, what authority do you What exactly do

1242
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 1: you think you're going to do? Like I am that type.

1243
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 1: I've always been that type of person in some respect,

1244
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: mad face. Oh yeah, Look, I would eat his lunch

1245
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,880
Speaker 1: because I would like, I would just sit there and say, okay, okay, fatty,

1246
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 1: what do you think what authority? Big boy? Do you

1247
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: think you have to actually stop anything?

1248
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 4: That's so reductive, that's completely completely hypothetical.

1249
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 8: Argument with Paul Blard happening, Oh.

1250
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 1: Man, oh I would I would just absolutely house it me.

1251
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,439
Speaker 1: He would have nothing and The funny thing is, yeah,

1252
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: like as we get older, the number of times there's

1253
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: conflict and somebody. Every time I see it on a

1254
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: social media video where somebody's in somebody's face like I'm

1255
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: gonna kick your ass, it's like, okay, let's play this out.

1256
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: How do you think this is gonna go? What do

1257
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: you think is gonna happen? That's how I'm natured. If

1258
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: you came up within h o A, you know what

1259
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: I do. The next day, I go buy every single

1260
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 1: neighbor a bigger skeleton, and I'd buy outfits for each

1261
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: holiday just to come on. And then I get one

1262
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: from mine that's a sign. And the sign would just

1263
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: have a big old buck, a massive buck on it,

1264
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: and it would just say buck and then the letter

1265
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: you after it, and it would be just for you.

1266
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: So every time you drove by it, you could see buck.

1267
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: You from my twelve foot giant skeleton. Only because you

1268
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: told me I couldn't have one.

1269
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 7: I've I've just been Paul.

1270
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 6: I've just I've just had my because it's you know thet.

1271
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh no, I've got I just got okay.

1272
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 6: The commanders are currently getting blarted by the eagles at

1273
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 6: this point in time, Josh Johnson is one for four

1274
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 6: for twenty yards and a pick. He's not been in

1275
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 6: long enough to throw an interception. Apparently already has an interception.

1276
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 6: It's just bad thirty nine year.

1277
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: Old Josh Johnson out there doing the thing. Marcus Mariota

1278
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: had to leave the game. This game is twenty one

1279
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: to ten. It was ten to seven at the half,

1280
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: but the Eagles are pulling away in the second half.

1281
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 1: That's that's fine. We're about to get to kick off

1282
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: of another slaughter, Like right where I think we can

1283
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 1: all slaughter and I'm sorry, blaunting. Is that what we

1284
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: want to call it? James Madison, that's the game I

1285
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: was talking about jmu versus Organ.

1286
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Speaker 7: You're talking about the Packers and the Bears. I was like,

1287
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 7: what are you talking about?

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00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go to the Packers and the Bears because

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00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: jmu organ is going to be an absolute bloodbath. Who

1290
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: cares Packers Bears? Who you got? Why I'm taking the

1291
00:58:55,800 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: Bears again? I don't know, genuinely excited about that?

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Speaker 6: Okay, why did you did you want to fight? Did you?

1293
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 7: Well?

1294
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: I love this take from you. I want to hear more.

1295
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: I was excited you're taking the Bears.

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Speaker 6: I don't feel great about Caleb Williams, but the beauty

1297
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 6: of the Bears is kind of what we've talked about

1298
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 6: with the Seahawks and kind of what we'd mentioned with

1299
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 6: the Rams, is that I don't have to I don't

1300
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,919
Speaker 6: have to feel great about Kayleb Williams because they run

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00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 6: the absolute hell out of the football like they're just

1302
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 6: a very good offense. They're good enough around a quarterback

1303
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 6: that's still got a learning curve to get the job done,

1304
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 6: and they've got a defensive coordinator in Dennis Allen who's

1305
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 6: getting the most out of them.

1306
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 7: They're turning the ball over at an exorbitant rate.

1307
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 6: I haven't checked the interception leaders lately, but Titans legend

1308
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 6: Kevin Byrd still getting the job done at an advanced

1309
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 6: age makes me very, very happy in Chicago.

1310
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Speaker 7: No, I think the Bears got it. I'm with what.

1311
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 6: The Packers have and I was watching the Fox pregame.

1312
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 6: At this point in time, they're going to come into

1313
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 6: this game with a limited amount of weapons that they've had,

1314
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 6: and they've they've done a good job. I think Matt

1315
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 6: Lafleur deserves a lot of credit for getting as much

1316
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 6: out of this unit as I think that any reasonable

1317
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 6: coach would be able to do with a lot of

1318
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 6: I mean, what do you do, how would you describe

1319
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 6: the collection of Packers' skill position players like wide receivers

1320
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 6: and let's just keep it to wide receivers. Okay, So

1321
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 6: the tight end Tucker Craft, he's hurt. They're a different

1322
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 6: offense without him. Josh Jacobs a good running back, he

1323
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 6: makes a big difference for them, But just the wide receivers, Like,

1324
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 6: I feel like people assume, because of the draft capital

1325
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 6: that's been spent on the lot of them, that they

1326
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 6: are a better group of wide receivers, a more consistent

1327
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 6: group of wide receivers than they actually are, when in reality,

1328
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Speaker 6: I think I'm very disappointed if I'm a Packers fan

1329
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 6: with the way that a lot of those young players

1330
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 6: have panned out, because you just don't trust them down in, down,

1331
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 6: out now.

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Speaker 1: Well, and that's why Christian Watson is such a huge

1333
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 1: part of that offense, right, Like, I think he's the

1334
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:50,760
Speaker 1: one wide receiver I do trust, and the minute he's

1335
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 1: on the field, the entire every time they say all

1336
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: the offense looks different with him on the field. My

1337
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: answer to that, to your point is because he's a

1338
01:00:57,200 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: competent wide receiver. I mean in the downfall of the

1339
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: Packers right now is in part I think at times

1340
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 1: they're inconsistency comes from Watson can't stay on the field.

1341
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: He's been hurt. You're right, Craft is hurt. Josh Jacobs

1342
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: has been hurt. It's a wonder that he's been playing

1343
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: week in and week out. And so then you have

1344
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: Jordan Love who I think is a little inconsistent sometimes

1345
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: with accuracy, so he gets on heaters, but then sometimes

1346
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: he forces balls. He doesn't need to force that everything

1347
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: gets a little crazy. But also he doesn't have a

1348
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: ton of help from the wide receiver position, so that

1349
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: makes it all more difficult for me. Like the Packers

1350
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: are I think should be a better team, but I

1351
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: don't know. I can't decide what the Bears because certainly

1352
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: the narrative has been that they're lucky, and I think

1353
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: that's probably fair to a certain degree, but they've also

1354
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:44,919
Speaker 1: put themselves in this situation week in and week out,

1355
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 1: and there was no luck in the way they beat Philly.

1356
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: Like when the Bears start running the ball the way

1357
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: they ran the ball against Philly. There's literally no luck involved.

1358
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: That's all scale. We'll keep breaking it down because this

1359
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: game is so significant tonight. First we're gonna get Martin's update.

1360
01:01:57,800 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 1: What's going on right now?

1361
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 5: Brother, So if you searched Marcus Mariota on on X.

1362
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 6: All Mariota Mariota, damn it, Mario tah.

1363
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 5: No, but you get a whole bunch of void it

1364
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:19,760
Speaker 5: or I switched to this other sportsbook. Void this void

1365
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 5: that Marioda got heart, void this void that I'm.

1366
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: Trying to find out what the injury actually was.

1367
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 5: Adam Schefter said about seven minutes ago, he's questionable to

1368
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 5: return with a right hand injurie, adding that Mariota was

1369
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:34,920
Speaker 5: and evaluated for a concussion.

1370
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 7: But was cleared of that.

1371
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 5: But when we saw the last play that he played

1372
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 5: in this game, he ran off the field with the limp.

1373
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 5: So I had no head, you know, shoulders, needs and

1374
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 5: toes for Marcus Mariota right now. But Josh Johnson out

1375
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 5: there Philadelphia Eagles.

1376
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: Actually, I believe the last.

1377
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 5: Time I saw Josh Johnson play a game of note

1378
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 5: was against the Philadelphia Eagles in the Energy Championship Game

1379
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 5: many years ago. But the Eagles right now, twenty one

1380
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:02,200
Speaker 5: to ten over the Commanders with about nine minutes left in.

1381
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: The fourth quarter.

1382
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 5: Getting ready for that Bears Packers kickoff in a couple hours.

1383
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 5: Like the boys were talking about Old Miss and two

1384
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 5: lane thirty one point margin for Old Miss and Pete

1385
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:15,479
Speaker 5: Golding's first ever coach, first ever game as a college

1386
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,600
Speaker 5: football head coach, he gets a Old Miss's first ever

1387
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:21,960
Speaker 5: college football playoff win. Trindad Chamberliss had twenty eighty two

1388
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 5: yards passing. We saw both quarterbacks playing this game. He

1389
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 5: had a passing touchdown and two rushing touchdowns. Keiwan and

1390
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 5: Lacey had at eighty seven on the ground with a

1391
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:34,160
Speaker 5: rushing touchdown as well. John Summrall now on the way

1392
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 5: to Florida after losing this game. He was two lanes

1393
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 5: head coach up until taking the head coaching job at

1394
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 5: Florida earlier. Today, we saw Miami be Texas A and

1395
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 5: M to advance the semi finals ten to three. The

1396
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 5: score not much scoring until the final minute when Malachai

1397
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 5: Tony got to the end zone off of Carson beck pass.

1398
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 5: Alabama beat Oklahoma yesterday thirty four to twenty four. They'll

1399
01:03:56,520 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 5: see the Big ten champ and once Indiana Hurricane will

1400
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 5: face two seed Ohio State and the Cotton Ball on

1401
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:05,919
Speaker 5: New Year's Eve. And college basketball, right now, eighth seed

1402
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 5: I mean eighth ranked Houston within an eighty seven to

1403
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 5: sixty five lead over fourteenth ranked Arkansas had wins earlier

1404
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 5: today for ninth thrank Michigan State, eleventh ranc Louisville, twelfth

1405
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:18,919
Speaker 5: ranked at North Carolina, and Kentucky upset twenty second rank

1406
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:22,120
Speaker 5: Saint John's fourth to eight for the Eagles, punting back

1407
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 5: to the commanders, back to you boys.

1408
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: He's buck rising. I'm Jason Fitz's bucket fits on Fox

1409
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. He goes up twenty one to ten. We're

1410
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: good there. I'm trying to figure out from this game tonight.

1411
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: You know, when you think about home field advantage, and

1412
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 1: I know it's early, we got three weeks left, and

1413
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: there's so much chaos in the NFC, particularly, but what

1414
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 1: I keep thinking about is this particular game and what

1415
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: it means, like just for that standing portion of it.

1416
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:50,480
Speaker 1: Because as we sit right now at ten and four,

1417
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 1: the Bears are a game back of the Seahawks for

1418
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: home field advantage throughout the entire playoff, Like just think

1419
01:04:57,040 --> 01:05:00,200
Speaker 1: about how you know, obviously, with a few weeks have

1420
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 1: to go the Bears Packers match, it was huge not

1421
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 1: just for the division, but it's also huge because the

1422
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 1: other teams that we've talked about in the NFC buck

1423
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 1: like we've talked about the Rams, We've talked about the Seahawks,

1424
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers are in there. Those are all

1425
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: West Coast teams. This Bears Packers forcing any of those

1426
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 1: West Coast teams were forcing the Lions should they get

1427
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, to go to Green Bay or Chicago

1428
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 1: is such a massive advantage. It's just one of the

1429
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 1: layers of why I think this game tonight is so

1430
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 1: wildly important.

1431
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 6: It's an awesome setup, and I'm so happy, you know,

1432
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 6: I'm grateful that we get to do this show on

1433
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 6: a regular basis, and not for not for any reasons

1434
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 6: but selfish reasons. Because I have not covered Fitzy a

1435
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:41,440
Speaker 6: playoff game since twenty twenty two January of twenty twenty two,

1436
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 6: when the Titans were the number one overall seed. I

1437
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 6: have wished this football season away so badly, to the

1438
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 6: point where I'm counting down the weeks until the Tennessee

1439
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 6: Titans mercifully come to an end, because that's the team

1440
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 6: that I cover on a local basis to be able

1441
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 6: to talk on this show about games with stakes and

1442
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:59,439
Speaker 6: teams who are jockeying for position and all these things.

1443
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 6: I'll never playoff football for granted, ever again, I swear

1444
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 6: to God I won't because I miss it so so badly.

1445
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 7: But as we sit here, I miss doing.

1446
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 6: Playoff football games obviously, and still watch the playoffs at

1447
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 6: home like a like a like a civilian on the

1448
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 6: couch if I want to.

1449
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 7: But it just doesn't hit the same you.

1450
01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: Just like being in the press box with the elite

1451
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 1: to Is the press brox spread different in a playoff game?

1452
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 7: Oh yes, of course it's uh you know, well, it

1453
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 7: depends on where you are.

1454
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:30,800
Speaker 6: If if a game is hosted in Chicago, I will

1455
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:34,120
Speaker 6: say that the Bears Soldier Field. While it is historic

1456
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 6: and it is nicely located esthetically pleasing where it sits

1457
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 6: on the lake there, it is the worst press box

1458
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 6: food in America. And that is a one percent or

1459
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 6: problem that only I will care about. But it's shameful.

1460
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 6: Shame on you Bears. Do better anyway for the game

1461
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 6: of consequence, for the games of consequence moving forward here.

1462
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:56,840
Speaker 7: It's just it's such a testament.

1463
01:06:56,800 --> 01:07:01,600
Speaker 6: To how you how you need to have patients around

1464
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 6: a certain situation, because even for as badly as the

1465
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 6: Bear's got it, think about how far the Bears have

1466
01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 6: come since firing Matt Eberflus knowing knowing we.

1467
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 7: All knew, everybody in the world.

1468
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 6: Knew that they shouldn't have brought him back last year,

1469
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:15,640
Speaker 6: and they did it anyway. I just covered a team

1470
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:18,200
Speaker 6: shouldn't have brought Brian Callahan back at the start of

1471
01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 6: this year. They did it anyway, just to fire him

1472
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 6: six games in, right, So you really weren't that confident

1473
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 6: in that coach, which means just screwed it up. And

1474
01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 6: you've got the number one overall pick at quarterback who

1475
01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 6: you're screwing it up around, but with the right kind

1476
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 6: of approach, with the kind of patience, with the kind

1477
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 6: of diligence that it takes to get it correct, and

1478
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 6: with an attractive prospected quarterback to lure a coach like

1479
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 6: Ben Johnson.

1480
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 7: In who turned down interviews elsewhere.

1481
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 6: I know that because he turned down the Tennessee Titans

1482
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 6: in the interview process prior to cam Ward being here.

1483
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:48,920
Speaker 6: I don't know if Cam Woard would have made a difference,

1484
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 6: but that's besides the point. You see how much the

1485
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 6: right person can totally flip this thing around. Even as

1486
01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 6: it is the most important or the greatest example of

1487
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 6: teams sports anywhere we're one person. It is so difficult

1488
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 6: for one person to actually affect the outcome in a

1489
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 6: football game, unless you're Ryan Tannehill in a playoff game

1490
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:10,080
Speaker 6: and you throw three interceptions, one on the first play

1491
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:11,919
Speaker 6: of the game, one on the last play of the game,

1492
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 6: one on a goal line in between. Right, if you

1493
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,640
Speaker 6: go for the trifecta, then your banged. Then you've individually

1494
01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:19,559
Speaker 6: impacted the game. But for a coach who can come

1495
01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 6: in with the right pieces and parts and just treat

1496
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 6: it the way that it needs to be run, actually

1497
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 6: have the skills to be both CEO and in this case,

1498
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 6: play caller at the same time, it's a very very

1499
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,200
Speaker 6: difficult thing to do. And I think that Ben Johnson

1500
01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 6: is going to get a lot more people hired and

1501
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,080
Speaker 6: a lot more people fired for teams who are looking

1502
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:37,519
Speaker 6: for their version of Ben Johnson.

1503
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 7: I know because I just covered a team that did it.

1504
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a thousand percent right at some point this

1505
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 1: chase and that's what everybody's going to be chasing this offseason,

1506
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: like who is the person who's the next Ben Johnson

1507
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,000
Speaker 1: in this moment, also trying to figure out where the

1508
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 1: line is between some success and sustainable sets. I mean,

1509
01:08:55,120 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 1: are we not seeing a bit of a warning sign

1510
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 1: from this Washington season right because a year ago, right now,

1511
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: it was, oh my god, the Commanders. They've won a

1512
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: lot of close games, but Jayden Daniels is so good,

1513
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 1: and this defense is ahead of schedule. With Dan Quinn

1514
01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:10,559
Speaker 1: as their head coach now and Cliff King's very such

1515
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 1: an innovative offensive coordinator. The Commanders are back, baby, And

1516
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: now the Commanders are back in the top ten of

1517
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 1: the draft. I realize Jaden being hurt at parts of

1518
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: this year is a large part of that, but man,

1519
01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 1: that's not all of that, right, So it is funny

1520
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:27,440
Speaker 1: that we fall in love with these one year changeovers.

1521
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:29,680
Speaker 1: I think the difference is when you have to me

1522
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:32,280
Speaker 1: the biggest key to it to a franchise is do

1523
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: you have that tag team? Do you have a head

1524
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 1: coach and a quarterback that feel like they are old

1525
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 1: eighties wrestling like they are together in a tag team.

1526
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:40,840
Speaker 1: They speak the same language, they do the same things,

1527
01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:43,080
Speaker 1: They are on the same page. Do you have that?

1528
01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:44,759
Speaker 1: And I feel like part of the reason the Bears

1529
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: can have hope is that they truly have that level

1530
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 1: of you know, innovative play caller miss match together with

1531
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:54,639
Speaker 1: young quarterback. Feels like it's a successful pairing. Well.

1532
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 6: And we haven't talked a lot about the college football

1533
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 6: playoff the games today other.

1534
01:09:57,800 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 7: Than the Miami and M game, and it wasn't a

1535
01:09:59,439 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 7: very good game.

1536
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 6: It was disgusting. It was delightfully disgusting. I enjoyed every

1537
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 6: moment of it. For punishment too. I mean, I just

1538
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 6: I wanted a weird, gross game. I got that. I

1539
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 6: got it last night. I got it today during the

1540
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 6: Miami A and M game as well, Miami in advances.

1541
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 6: Josh Pate came on to the local show this week,

1542
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 6: Fitz here in Nashville, and he looked at me in

1543
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 6: Indiana Lum and said directly to me, Indiana winning a

1544
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 6: national championship would be as bad a thing to happen

1545
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 6: to college football as anything that could possibly happen this

1546
01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 6: year in the sport, because you just can't find another

1547
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 6: Kurt Signetti like, he's not replicable, right, It's going to

1548
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 6: put people in a situation where the Tennessees of the

1549
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 6: world who have been clamoring for championship expectations and the

1550
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:43,559
Speaker 6: right kind of higher and the right kind of coach

1551
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 6: to come turn their program around. It's going to put

1552
01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 6: them in a blender when Kurt Signetti at Indiana of

1553
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 6: all places, has them as the number one seed and

1554
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 6: potentially vying for a national championship. They'll host Alabama and

1555
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:59,719
Speaker 6: the Rose Bowl. We'll see how that goes. I'm Indiana

1556
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:01,519
Speaker 6: open is at least I saw it as a six

1557
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 6: and a half point favorite this morning, which I thought

1558
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 6: was huge, and I don't know that.

1559
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 7: It's not correct. We'll see if it gets bet down.

1560
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 6: But still, that's the kind of thing that we're talking

1561
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 6: about here in the NFL, where yes, ownership will chase

1562
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 6: and there's much, there's much.

1563
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 7: Honestly, there's a more.

1564
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 6: Fertile breeding ground for a Kurt Signetti in the world

1565
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 6: of college football than there is to replicate a Sean

1566
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 6: McVay in the NFL because of some of the lack

1567
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 6: of guardrails that you have in college. It just it

1568
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:31,439
Speaker 6: still doesn't mean that you can find another Kurt Signetti

1569
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 6: or even if you're Vanderbilt, another Diego Pavia right got

1570
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,400
Speaker 6: they got a five star recruit for the first time

1571
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 6: at quarterback in the history of the program.

1572
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 7: Bader built it. And I don't know how much better

1573
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 7: that's going to be.

1574
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:44,600
Speaker 6: Because you're just going to drop a true freshman in

1575
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 6: there and hope to have that kind of that same

1576
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 6: kind of success that Diego Pavia just gave you. It's

1577
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 6: going to be very, very difficult for a lot of

1578
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 6: these programs, a lot of these teams who are trying

1579
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 6: to chase to do exactly what they think is they've

1580
01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 6: they've convinced themselves that they too are capable, when in reality,

1581
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 6: the environment, the the Petrie dish to create that kind

1582
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 6: of a situation really only exists in a few specific places.

1583
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: By the way, to your point. Right now, as it stands,

1584
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 1: the Indiana Alabama line is Indiana minus seven and also

1585
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 1: glearing insane. Miami Ohio state line has already been set

1586
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:28,200
Speaker 1: Ohio state favored by nine and a half. So very likely,

1587
01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:31,559
Speaker 1: at least according to Vegas, we're going to get two

1588
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 1: mismatches going forward, and that it will be wild to see.

1589
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 1: All right, we've got to kick off in the last

1590
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 1: of the first round playoff games. James Madison University has

1591
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:43,920
Speaker 1: kicked off against Oregon. The score is zero zero. We

1592
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 1: are five seconds in, just letting you know that there's

1593
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:48,320
Speaker 1: still hope as we sit right now and the Eagles

1594
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: are pulling away. Coming up next, we'll get to the

1595
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 1: single greatest game show in the history of sports talk radio.

1596
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,800
Speaker 1: It's time for Wood You rather will do it next

1597
01:12:55,880 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 1: on Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio. Oh theme song,

1598
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,839
Speaker 1: Bucket fits over heel.

1599
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:08,720
Speaker 7: You're as cuddly as a cactus. You're as slimy as

1600
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 7: an eel.

1601
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 8: Mister Grid sounds like he's one who sang the song.

1602
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 7: It's actually like I just black pee o. You do

1603
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 7: a cover with the song, please.

1604
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 1: I'll stream it like we need to karaoke night. Honestly,

1605
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:25,880
Speaker 1: buck sings this.

1606
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 4: I mean.

1607
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 1: I can see his face right now. He's swaggy too.

1608
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: He's like, yep, nailed it. He's got that whole Vince

1609
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 1: McMahon like walking down the hall sort of flare going

1610
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 1: right now. Bucket fits on Fox Sports Radio. Bucket is

1611
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 1: the Grinch only a few days before Christmas, so even

1612
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:48,000
Speaker 1: wearing green like, which I respect. I have a pair

1613
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,679
Speaker 1: of Grinch rebox that are pumps that like the firs

1614
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 1: coming out of Like there's the pumps. Yeah, they're like

1615
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: the you know, the rebox pumps, but they first out

1616
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:00,679
Speaker 1: of them. My favorite Christmas shoes? Have you are your rebook?

1617
01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 7: Yes?

1618
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 6: Absolutely, you wear your Rebok pumps to uh to karaoke

1619
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 6: at Miss kelly Is the next time you're in town

1620
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:09,720
Speaker 6: here in Nashville, and I will dazzle you with my

1621
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 6: rendition of the Grinch, and then I will sing my

1622
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,640
Speaker 6: go to karaoke song, which is Toby Keith, how do

1623
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 6: you like Me now?

1624
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 7: And it will make me very happy.

1625
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,120
Speaker 1: Shouldn't we go to Santa's Pub though, instead of like

1626
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:23,839
Speaker 1: Santa's Pub because it's Christmas Carrier, It's Christmas.

1627
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 7: Ok, Christmas Santa died.

1628
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:31,040
Speaker 1: Christmas Santa died. I didn't even know. No, no, no, no, no,

1629
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:35,759
Speaker 1: Santa is publish clarity clic clarity. That was a mistake

1630
01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: from to Nashville and sorry for everyone listening. Santa's Pub

1631
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 1: is a very famous karaoke bar. God please God, no,

1632
01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:47,879
Speaker 1: no no, that's a that's just a mistake. That's a mispeak.

1633
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:51,600
Speaker 1: I apologize for everybody listening. Truly sorry for any confusion

1634
01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:54,800
Speaker 1: on that. Don't not at all santa Is Publishing.

1635
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:58,439
Speaker 4: Listening to Fox Sports Radio or crying right now, that's

1636
01:14:58,479 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 4: all your fault.

1637
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 1: I find myself. Uh. Santa's Pub is a famous karaoke

1638
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:06,560
Speaker 1: bar in Nashville, only takes cash and like celebs go

1639
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,360
Speaker 1: there all the time. And so I obviously haven't been

1640
01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 1: in Nashville in a bit, but it has always been

1641
01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 1: the the sort of go to, Like you want to

1642
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,280
Speaker 1: walk into a place and see Matthew McConaughey singing karaoke

1643
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 1: in the same night. To Kelly Clarkson, is Santas Pub

1644
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 1: has always been the place that you can go to

1645
01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: and do that. That's what we were referencing. So he

1646
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:25,639
Speaker 1: was speaking about the owner of Santas Pop. Just total

1647
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 1: clarity from a mistake by us.

1648
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:29,240
Speaker 7: Have been that wheel Berby.

1649
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's play, let's play. Would you rather know?

1650
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:35,639
Speaker 3: God, it's easy, guys, don't think too hard.

1651
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 1: Would you rather bucket it's no good? Or fix it

1652
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: all right? Would you rather are we ready?

1653
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1654
01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: We're ready?

1655
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 4: Okay, this one could be applicable to one of you,

1656
01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 4: but I'm not gonna say who would you rather be

1657
01:15:58,120 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 4: the ugliest person in the wheel and the world or

1658
01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:01,360
Speaker 4: smell the worst?

1659
01:16:02,479 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 7: Oh? This is this is a shot right across my bow.

1660
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 8: Well I didn't say who.

1661
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, I understand.

1662
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:15,599
Speaker 6: I M I think I could get away with it

1663
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:17,880
Speaker 6: if I was pretty, but I also smelled bad. I

1664
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:19,640
Speaker 6: think I could get away with it. I don't like

1665
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 6: that choice. I don't like it at all, But it

1666
01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:27,920
Speaker 6: feels like that's a more overcomeable circumstance than to be hideous.

1667
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 1: Are perc like, look, if you are hot enough, the

1668
01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 1: fact that you stink doesn't really matter. And I will

1669
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:37,559
Speaker 1: always go back to years ago when I was in Nashville,

1670
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 1: there was a a one of those like loft places

1671
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 1: where everybody, a bunch of my buddies lived and we

1672
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:46,080
Speaker 1: were all doing workouts in that we were doing insanity

1673
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:49,720
Speaker 1: at the time, right, and so they shout out right

1674
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:51,960
Speaker 1: percent we were all doing insanity, but we were doing

1675
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: it on the road. So when we were home, we

1676
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 1: didn't want to lose our reps, so we went we

1677
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:58,120
Speaker 1: went to one of my buddy's places, and it happened

1678
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 1: to be at the time that the Chris Martin, lead

1679
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 1: singer of Coldplay, had just done a workout in the

1680
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 1: same room. I don't know why he was there, but

1681
01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:07,080
Speaker 1: he had done the workout in the gym. Apparently he's

1682
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: not a shower guy. And I'm telling you, like, the

1683
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:14,880
Speaker 1: smell was otherworldly, and nobody like, nobody cared. Nobody cared

1684
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:17,200
Speaker 1: if you If you are famous enough or hot enough

1685
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:20,479
Speaker 1: and you stink, people are fine. So I'll take I

1686
01:17:20,479 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 1: don't want to be the ugliest person in the world.

1687
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: I will take being the stinkiest person in the world.

1688
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 7: What's the.

1689
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:29,599
Speaker 1: Chris Martin did stend to thanky?

1690
01:17:32,520 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 4: Would you rather be able to run on your hands

1691
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 4: or write with your feet?

1692
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 1: Oh? I want to write with my feet. Oh that'd

1693
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 1: be such a good party trick. I'd be like, I'll

1694
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 1: sit back in my chair and be like, hey, somebody

1695
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 1: throw me a pen, and then all of a sudden,

1696
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 1: like a rock heet boom goes in the air. Catch

1697
01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 1: the pen with my with my foot and the poom

1698
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 1: down and I'm like false gore and seven years like,

1699
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,559
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna write. No, I'm gonna it's all gonna

1700
01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: be very beautiful like calligraphy, and it's only gonna be

1701
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:02,600
Speaker 1: truly important documents. So my casual stuff. I write with

1702
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:05,880
Speaker 1: my hands, truly important thing. Boom, feet up in the air.

1703
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 6: You can take the fans for that, Yeah, absolutely, I

1704
01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:11,840
Speaker 6: because I don't want to see your feet.

1705
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 7: I will take running on your hands.

1706
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 4: Thank you, Buck, thank you for not exposing us to

1707
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 4: either of your guys's feet.

1708
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: I got cute feet.

1709
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:25,760
Speaker 7: Okay, you say, but they look like chicken nuggets.

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01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 1: Sufficiently average feet, all right.

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01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:29,840
Speaker 4: Would you rather spend the day wearing wet socks or

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01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 4: spend the day with a popcorn kernel stuck in your teeth?

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01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:35,720
Speaker 8: No, No, to are rejoined.

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01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:39,160
Speaker 7: No, it's the wet socks. I can't do the popcorn kernel.

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01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:39,519
Speaker 1: I can't.

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01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 7: It makes me insane.

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01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:44,240
Speaker 6: I'm literally like, I look like I'm on drugs when

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01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 6: I have a popcorn kernel stuck in my teeth, Like

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01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 6: I'm like digging in my mouth, as if I'm addicted

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01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 6: to meth or something like that.

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01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:50,920
Speaker 7: Now give me the socks.

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01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: You didn't need the back half of that SENTD just said,

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01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:57,080
Speaker 1: I look like I'm addicted to drugs. Oh okay, Look

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01:18:57,160 --> 01:18:58,519
Speaker 1: I don't want the I don't want this.

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01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 7: It's not an addiction that's a happen all right.

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01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 1: It's a half ball. I don't want the socks. The

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01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,040
Speaker 1: socks are gonna make my feet cold, like you if

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01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:07,120
Speaker 1: you get cold, and then you're gonna get blisters on

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01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: your feet. Nobody wants blisters on your feet. Plis, it's

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01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:10,960
Speaker 1: gonna rub it all wrong. That is the wrong way

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01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:12,760
Speaker 1: to go. The right way to go is to stick

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Speaker 1: with Fox Sports Radio. More coming up. He's buck rising up.

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Speaker 1: Jason Fitz thanks for hanging out with us all night.

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Speaker 1: Mary Christmas. Yeah,