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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast didn't come here to make friends.

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

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas, and I am joined by

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Speaker 1: a room filled with some heroes, Mark Sessler and Greg

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Speaker 1: Ross at the hold's up, boys, What is happening? What

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Speaker 1: is happening? Indeed, very concerned now about speaking right into

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Speaker 1: from listeners from the last show that you know, some

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Speaker 1: of us were a little low at times. So have

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Speaker 1: of the show. It's almost like my supposed heel turn,

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Speaker 1: which people seem to its surprisingly enjoy it for the

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Speaker 1: most people put on the black Cat out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: You know you enjoy it. I hadn't eaten. Yeah, one

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Speaker 1: guy run Raiders fans that he used to never like me,

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Speaker 1: I'm But it's almost like, you know, maybe I had

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Speaker 1: a point if the if this sound was quite somehow

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Speaker 1: this comes around to Gregg being corrected. Congratulations, you're kind

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Speaker 1: of like Ed Harrison West World. Now, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you follow that HBO to make sense to me.

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Speaker 1: But a little. Harris asked, Yes, this is the Thursday

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Speaker 1: edition of the Around the NFL podcast, sponsored of course

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Speaker 1: and always I by Mr Flames economics class in the

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Speaker 1: Hague dot Netherlands. And Mark, I do have to say

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Speaker 1: are much closer to Mr f than perhaps anyone in

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Speaker 1: the one to say, hey, guys before we go on.

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Speaker 1: It's a fair point because you know, considering all the

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Speaker 1: kind things that he's done for us as a sponsor,

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Speaker 1: you'd think that during super Bowl week this is sort

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Speaker 1: of what he would have wanted a little bit more mentioned.

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Speaker 1: So that falls directly on my shoulders. Also, I will say, Mark,

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Speaker 1: last podcast. How's your super Bowl Week? Oh? It's just

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Speaker 1: been absolutely pleasant. You know. Just you imagine Mark periodic

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Speaker 1: can't do it. I'm just I'm I'm a soldier. Well

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Speaker 1: no doubt. You know, a lot of the Falcons have

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Speaker 1: one two o'clock in the afternoon, you know, your day

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Speaker 1: starts off. The Patriots are doing it at four to five.

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Speaker 1: the end of Super Bowl week. Have that? Has that

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Speaker 1: it's a big one, super Bowl fifty one, and this

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Speaker 1: A game between of course, the New England Patriots and

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Speaker 1: Uh So, Mark, Greg, I know this one's special to

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Speaker 1: seen a team have a dynasty at Damna Check likes

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Speaker 1: I was a guest on the John gabris a friend

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Speaker 1: We talked about the super Bowl and everything connected to

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Speaker 1: lately from you listen you're up late at night. I

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Speaker 1: watched a little Dana Carvey stuff. You canadas a new

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Speaker 1: Netflix special. Mcvie's got a new comedy special well, let's

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Speaker 1: let's hold on, hold off on that. Here's here's my

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Speaker 1: first thought when I saw this was I've not been

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Speaker 1: a pro athlete. I have been a sports journalist. That

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Speaker 1: about four or five months into this gig, he's going

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Speaker 1: to realize, Wait a minute, this isn't nearly what I

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Speaker 1: thought it would be. He will be punting by by Halloween.

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Speaker 1: He will be He will be punting again by Halloween.

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Speaker 1: That is what I wanted to tweet last night. But

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Speaker 1: I know he's a little aggro on Twitter, so I

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Speaker 1: just I said, you know what, have your day, have

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Speaker 1: your little thing, but he will be punting by Halloween.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to put a sandwich on it? I'll

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Speaker 1: put sandwiches on it. Shore I would. I would take that,

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Speaker 1: although I'm with you if you said by two thousand,

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Speaker 1: you know, eighteen, I'd probably I wouldn't take the sandwich.

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Speaker 1: By two thousand nineteen, for sure, he's back. Because punting,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. You really could take two or three

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Speaker 1: years off for comedy, get your get your feet away,

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Speaker 1: and then go back in punt another six years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this could also be a giant I mean. The Colts

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Speaker 1: tweeted out that he's retired, so it's not completely it

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Speaker 1: doesn't see it's not a bit, but it may be

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Speaker 1: an extended bit. Well maybe I'll maybe I'll give him

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Speaker 1: a call because I have experienced, you know, hosting a

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Speaker 1: podcast with a professional comedian. You do what podcast was

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Speaker 1: and I don't. I don't. That doesn't ring a bell

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Speaker 1: that coming back. Now, the NFL did not allow that

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Speaker 1: to come back a few weeks ago. I did not

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Speaker 1: have a hand in that, despite people thinking it was possible.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he'll be back to or do you

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Speaker 1: find do you buy this? We should get him on

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Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast, love to have him on

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Speaker 1: on our show. Will Pat be back? No? I think

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Speaker 1: he's very serious about this, and uh, good luck to you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: All right. Finally, finally in the news, Um, Lady Gaga

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Speaker 1: had a press conference and uh, you know, I'm excited

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Speaker 1: about it. I gotta say I was at the press conference.

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Speaker 1: That's part of my job here and uh and one

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Speaker 1: of the most underrated aspects of the halftime performer. And

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Speaker 1: I actually I like cold Play, but you don't. You

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Speaker 1: need to have the career is my factor to carry

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Speaker 1: a show like that? And it was obviously telling to

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Speaker 1: me that last year, uh Cold Blake, they decided to

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Speaker 1: have them flanked by Bruno Mars and Beyonce, who's like

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Speaker 1: the charisma um perfection machine. But uh, Gaga really does

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Speaker 1: have that, like that energy when she's in the room.

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Speaker 1: And I thought it was a good press conference. Terry

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Speaker 1: Bradshaw showed up. He is really perfected by the way, uh,

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Speaker 1: the buzzed uncle stick Like, I don't like he taking

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Speaker 1: I think it's taking him. It's taking him a long way.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's always been folksy, that's part of

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Speaker 1: the Terry thing, but now it's kind of like, you know,

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Speaker 1: he hit the egg nog a little bit, and he

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Speaker 1: started he's telling Gaga that, you know how much his

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Speaker 1: favorite Gaga song ever his Edge of Glory, which is

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Speaker 1: kind of a lesser known single, and was asking for

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Speaker 1: like set list hints, and then asked if Gaga's grandmother

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Speaker 1: was single. Uh, and then God uncomfortably answered, well, she's

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Speaker 1: widowed and I don't think she's ready to date again.

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Speaker 1: And Terry Bradscha, I mentioned he's married too, so that's

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Speaker 1: that's how I did. Yeah, he's married as well, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, being there a person, it made me.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited for the show. I I always enjoy the

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Speaker 1: halftime show, uh, the spectacle of it, and I think

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Speaker 1: it'll be good. I think it would be good. Was

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Speaker 1: there you? Do you have any takeaways? Greg? I know

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Speaker 1: you were in the newsroom area watching it as you

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Speaker 1: were jotting down notes about Wow. That's not true, but

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Speaker 1: I did have one thought. It was more about Luke

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Speaker 1: Brian Uh, an artist I'm not overly familiar with, and

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Speaker 1: a trend at these press conferences, and Gaga had had

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Speaker 1: the same trend. It's a tradition every time they're asked

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Speaker 1: about who they're rooting for, they like they hem and

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Speaker 1: haw as if they're protecting some sort of state secret

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Speaker 1: because they because they say they don't want to like,

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Speaker 1: offend any section of their fan base. It's like, get

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Speaker 1: over yourself. The egos either, they don't want to affect

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Speaker 1: the game, right. I mean, look, Brian was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: first of all, he hemmed and hot and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: I do have to admit usually I wouldn't say this,

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Speaker 1: but you know I did grow up in Georgia. You know,

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Speaker 1: I feel bad for all my all my fans I've

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Speaker 1: sold out Gillette Stadium a couple of times. Like coming

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Speaker 1: back to you and be announced and have half the

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Speaker 1: stadium heard that you're going to happen. It probably won't

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Speaker 1: come back to us, Luke Ryan, you were you were

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Speaker 1: raised in Georgia, went to college in Georgia. Oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna go that far. How about this. I'll put

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Speaker 1: the team I'm rooting for in my shoe, and after

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Speaker 1: my performance I'll share it. What it's not. I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to announce who I'm rooting for in this game

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Speaker 1: or my pick either during this podcast. What yeah? I mean?

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Speaker 1: I liked. I like what she's done, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: keep my pick a secret up until the end. And

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Speaker 1: pulled out of my shoe. You see, it's not too late.

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Speaker 1: We shared a nice moment at the Super Bowl forty

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Speaker 1: nine mark, and we could that could happen again. I

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Speaker 1: don't feel quite as fired up for the Patriots this

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Speaker 1: time because they go into press conferences at four pm.

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Speaker 1: But they kind of poisoned the well. This is many

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Speaker 1: times coldplayer. Like many of the halftime shows, I kind

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Speaker 1: of just said, give me a break, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: into it. This one I like Lady Gaga like her

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Speaker 1: a lot. I'm gonna stand up and watch this thing

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Speaker 1: from wire to wire. Good for you, Mark, Um, that's

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Speaker 1: what's happening in the news. I wanted to share a

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Speaker 1: couple of nuggets from the NFL research team. They do

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Speaker 1: such a good job. I wrote a post on this

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Speaker 1: on the end Around blog, which you should check out. Um,

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Speaker 1: some of my favorite nuggets since the Super Bowl was

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Speaker 1: set from the media team. I'm going to share some

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Speaker 1: of them with you now before we get to hidden figures. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: let's mess it up. Uh And and Sydney. What I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna need your help with on this is I would

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Speaker 1: love to hold up the Super Bowl fifty one research

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Speaker 1: notes in my hand. In fact, I'm doing it right

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Speaker 1: now even though you can't see me, said uh And.

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Speaker 1: Then I wanted you to play the Final Countdown by Europe,

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Speaker 1: but we're not allowed to play anything under the strict

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Speaker 1: laws of the Shadowy League figures. So if you can

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Speaker 1: find generic catalog music that sounds like the Final Countdown

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Speaker 1: by Europe, do it now. Okay with that some nuggets

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Speaker 1: I like, Greg to your point about the city of Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: they have one championship in one hundred and seventy nine

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Speaker 1: seasons from their major professional sports teams. Can you name

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Speaker 1: the championship? Well, yeah, easily, I just I just said

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Speaker 1: the Braves. They I will tell you the year. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it was ninety five and they beat the Cleveland Indians.

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Speaker 1: Of all teams, I think I would have gotten it.

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Speaker 1: I would have got six games. That was the strike

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Speaker 1: short nine season. Otherwise, nobody that we're talking the Hawks,

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Speaker 1: We're talking, uh, the Thrashers, short lived in NHL team.

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Speaker 1: We're talking the w n b a's Atlanta Dream. Oh

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Speaker 1: too much. Shut out. You're always you're always risking it.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have a nickname with an S on

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Speaker 1: the end, it's more Nugs image. Uh. In this final

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Speaker 1: countdown towards Super Bowl fifty one, each of New England's

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Speaker 1: six Super Bowls in the Brady Belichick era decided by

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Speaker 1: four points or fewer. That's pretty crazy all of them.

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Speaker 1: You would think that they would have wiped someone out

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Speaker 1: in one of them. The Eagles one is misleading. Where

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Speaker 1: whereas it wasn't the worst game of all time, they

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Speaker 1: essentially had control of it. It was never truly in doubt.

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Speaker 1: But you have the other five all came down to

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Speaker 1: one play. It's wild. And if you even go back

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Speaker 1: to Belichick as a defensive coordinator, you know, the game

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Speaker 1: he made his reputation on, you know, took a miss

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Speaker 1: kick by Scott Norwood. It's like his whole career he

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Speaker 1: could have he could have eight or nine super Bowls,

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Speaker 1: or he could have one. Yeah, that's sports. Uh. With

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Speaker 1: a win in Super Bowl fifty one, the Falcons defense,

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Speaker 1: we've become the worst scoring defense. They've allowed point four

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Speaker 1: points per game, uh this season to win a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: But here's the funny thing. Here's the really interesting nugget

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Speaker 1: about this. You want to hear the other five Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl winners is the five that have qualified. The two

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Speaker 1: thousand eleven Giants, the two thousand six Cults, the two

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Speaker 1: thousand seven Giants, the two thousand twelve Ravens, and the

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Speaker 1: two thousand nine Saints. What does every team but that

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Speaker 1: Saints team have in common? They beat the Patriots in

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Speaker 1: the title Game or the Super Bowl in those seasons.

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Speaker 1: How about that. You're a little nervous about that. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's also all in the last nine years because scoring

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Speaker 1: is up just a decade worth of a sample size no,

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Speaker 1: I mean it. It's interesting because that that Saints, uh,

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Speaker 1: that Saints Colts game reminds me a lot of this one,

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Speaker 1: where it's the two best offenses in the league. And

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Speaker 1: that score wasn't crazy high, but there was almost no

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Speaker 1: stops in that game. And that's exactly how I anticipate

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Speaker 1: this game going long drives, lots of scoring and uh,

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Speaker 1: don't give it away, Greg instead of Tracy Porter, it's

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Speaker 1: logan right now. I don't know, I'm just making this

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Speaker 1: our predictions coming at the end of the show. Everybody

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Speaker 1: on the edge of their and this again all due

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Speaker 1: respect to the Patriots, uh, in terms of how they

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Speaker 1: build a team. Every year in the off season, they'll

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Speaker 1: sign one guy where everyone universally goes, oh, this guy

607
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Speaker 1: is gonna like kill everybody. It's gonna he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a perfect signing. Martellis Bennett was one of two of

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Speaker 1: those this offseason, which and then you can figure out

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Speaker 1: why they're sixteen and two right now. They also got

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Speaker 1: Chris always open Hoken, but Martella's Bennett is uh the

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Speaker 1: has the highest passer rating when targeted amongst any tight

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Speaker 1: end in the league, one six point eight. You know,

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Speaker 1: we were all doom and gloom about the Patriots after

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Speaker 1: Gronk went out, and we all respected Bennett, but maybe

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Speaker 1: we didn't quite like factor in just how good Marty

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Speaker 1: Bennett is. He's a big time X factor because he

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Speaker 1: hasn't been the same guy the last section of the season.

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Speaker 1: He's playing her. He has not played his best in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. You know, he had a great regular season overall.

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Speaker 1: To me, he he he is a huge X factor

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Speaker 1: because if you get his a game, they are almost unstoppable.

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Speaker 1: But he he was kind of a you know, as

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Speaker 1: a receiver almost non existent the last two weeks, but

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Speaker 1: also a major X factor during what would otherwise be

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Speaker 1: one of the maybe the worst hour of you know,

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Speaker 1: a team that produces nothing during it's it's our long

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Speaker 1: media availability. Bennett over there riffing on the new like

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Speaker 1: people asked about his time with the Giant, said, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's my second year of marriage. It's so great to

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Speaker 1: be in your second year of marriage. I was in

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Speaker 1: New York, we went all over the place. How much

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Speaker 1: he loves the New York art scene, and that the

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00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: Giants would put I get the Maras, would put little

635
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Speaker 1: notes in his lockers saying, Hey, there's an art show

636
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Speaker 1: downtown on your day off here and go check it out.

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Speaker 1: So Bennett, actually I just sat there by him, by

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00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: him for like thirty minutes because it's like it's an

639
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: intriguing human being who actually does have less of a

640
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Speaker 1: filter than the rest of the roster. How about that,

641
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Speaker 1: Well we let's get into that. Let's get into some

642
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: availability takeaways both Greg and Mark. Well, he can talk

643
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 1: to your Patriots. I feel like if you're a dynamic

644
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:34,720
Speaker 1: tight end, you're allowed to talk. If you're a dynamic

645
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: tya with the Patriots, a lot of things can happen.

646
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: Let me just say that beyond just talking. But uh,

647
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: come on, Greg, help me on the ride in the darkness. Okay,

648
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: but yeah, he does stand in contrast to almost every

649
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: other Patriot through the years. Well, you might you might

650
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: be onto something. I think if you prove yourself as

651
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: a hardworking, tough player who performs at a high level,

652
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: and I think the one thing Belichick said about Bennett

653
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: all years, how tough he is, that he's playing through

654
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: a cracked bone in his ankle, that he practices harder

655
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,760
Speaker 1: than anyone, I think you have a little more leeway

656
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: than than people think under Belichick. Yeah, that's fair. What else, Greg?

657
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: How about you? You were on you checked that Mark.

658
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: You've been covering the Patriots all week. Uh? Greg, you've

659
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: kind of jumped back and forth a little bit, right, Yes,

660
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: I have. How about don't steal my fire and talk

661
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: about the well? Who you want to talk about? Your

662
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: little boy, Jimmy G passing around him Alayan Salt. Jimmy

663
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 1: G is you know what, He's got a great personality.

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Speaker 1: He's he seemed extremely relaxed. He to me, I think

665
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: he's he's an interesting guy. He's not a tea when

666
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: says Jimmy G is so amazingly handsome, Like I'm gonna

667
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't really I don't get that, uh

668
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: the way I would with like Tom Brady or someone else.

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Speaker 1: I see it. But I just think that Jimmy G

670
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: is sort of a bro and he's sort of like

671
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: a dude. I don't know, he's he admits he still

672
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: has so much to learn. But but you're over there,

673
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, I see the I see the tweet you

674
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: sent that where you're comparing recipes or whatever, and I'm thinking,

675
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: you know, Mark is getting the intel and potentially the

676
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: next potential savior. And there's been a few potential saviors

677
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: and they haven't worked out for the Cleveland Browns, and

678
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: this one is realistic. And and if I were you up,

679
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: not just being a homer, he would be the guy

680
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: that gets me most excited as a possibility this offseason. Yeah,

681
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,919
Speaker 1: I mean from another adult, when you're at these things,

682
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: you want to send out a couple of tweets to

683
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: kind of check a box and show the employer, Oh,

684
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: he was there, so there's no high read it tweet

685
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Speaker 1: the early stages of courtship with your significant other, and

686
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,479
Speaker 1: you want to show like this nuanced, kind of fun

687
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: side to you, Like Mark doesn't like talking about food,

688
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 1: but when Jimmy G was there, all of a sudden

689
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: he was way plugged in on the recipe for guacamole.

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00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: Well that was Nate Solder, but in general, Yeah, but

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00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. Well, I think also you're roaming from

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00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: player Jimmy G to be watching you being an intrepid

693
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: journey be like, hey, you play. And because they're also

694
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: we're creating this reporter's notebook each day, and there are

695
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: like five other people from NFL Network there and so

696
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: if I get anything, I say, that's it. That's what

697
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: I'm writing about. Because it's like you don't with the

698
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: Patriots and it's easy to say, oh, they're all incredibly boring.

699
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: I would say, guys like Nate Solder incredible impression this week.

700
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the he's one of the

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00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: smarter players on the team. I think, to a man,

702
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: you can kind of get a feel for why the

703
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: Patriots are the way they are, and it's annoying if

704
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: you're a fan of another team, because they are all in.

705
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: There aren't any players there that don't seem to not

706
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: basically speak the jargon in the code, and it isn't like,

707
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: oh they've got to say this, and then they go

708
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 1: behind closed doors and there's someone completely else. They are

709
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: a bought in team, and this game to me feels

710
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: like they're from what I saw that they're just preparing

711
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: for another game. That there's no heightened Uh it's not

712
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: that it's a super Bowl or that it's this or that,

713
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: or it could be a Week six game. They prepare.

714
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,439
Speaker 1: I asked some of them, you had an extra week.

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00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: You haven't you don't have a lot of familiar already

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Speaker 1: with the Falcons. Does that mean that you Rob Ninkovich,

717
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: I asked him about his film watching, do you watch

718
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: twice as much film? Do you do as much as

719
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: you possibly? Kenny said, I do it the same way

720
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,439
Speaker 1: that I've done it for every opponent all year. That's

721
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: how we're taught. You don't suddenly do something completely different.

722
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: I think that's a really good sign for Patriots fans

723
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: that the team just seems completely be line the way

724
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: they've been all years. That's what Brian Cox, the Falcons

725
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: evensive line coach said that was like if you go

726
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: out drinking on you know, Monday night and you get

727
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 1: lit up. He's like, I want you going out drinking

728
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: and getting lit up on Monday night. Don't do anything different,

729
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: do everything the same this week. I think you're right

730
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: to on on the Patriots in terms of there's a

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00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: reason they become I know this is gonna sound like

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Speaker 1: a Homer, but there's a reason why the Patriots take them.

733
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Speaker 1: I mean, Doron, Harmon, Logan Ryan, those two guys, they

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00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: sound like the same guys. They're very smart. They said

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00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have been drafted if they couldn't tackle, Like

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00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: that's a weird thing that they brought them there to tackle.

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00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: Not many teams are stressing that, and they talked about

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00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: the specific thing that Belichick would tell them in practice

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00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 1: to help them on a very fundamental level. And it

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00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: got me thinking, like, there's not many other head coaches

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00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 1: in the league that are able to execute a vision

742
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: from that top down. That he's gonna look for specific

743
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: traits and players as a general manager, pick them and

744
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: then be able to coach them very fundamentally. Doesn't mean

745
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: he's perfect at it, but he at least gets the

746
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: guys and that Thomas de Mittroff said this, uh this

747
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: week too. Belichick, if nothing else, always knows what he wants.

748
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: He knows he wants very specific things, and he gets him.

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Speaker 1: Danny boy, you know, congratulations, I'm happy for you. You

750
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Speaker 1: know who. I like that Falcons take boys. Yeah, they

751
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: were talking about the Falcons alright. They were pretty Yeah,

752
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: that's fair. They were pretty dry on in contained too.

753
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: I think, you know, there was a few more guys

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00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: who I felt like, we're almost trying to convince themselves

755
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: on the defensive side that like, you know, we can't

756
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: overthink things because Brady he you know, they were talking

757
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: just today Jalen Collins. You know, Brady's seen everything. It's

758
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: almost like both defenses, no, they're not gonna stop. There's

759
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: like Brady seen everything, He's gonna know what defense were in.

760
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: We can't like overthink it, we can't do it. And

761
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 1: they almost they felt a little younger on that side

762
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: of the ball. But one guy that stuck out to

763
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Speaker 1: me as a great talker and a great story here

764
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: is Dwight Freeney. I mean, he's talk about legacy guys.

765
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 1: He to me is a Hall of Famer, no doubt,

766
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: and he, like Michael Strahan, could kind of make himself

767
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 1: a total no doubt Hall of Famer by going out

768
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: with a big game in the Super Bowl to win

769
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: what would be his second Super Bowl. And I thought

770
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 1: he was funny this week just talking about like haven't

771
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: I seen Tom Brady enough? You know, I I've run

772
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: into this guy. It's like again, I've been running into

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Speaker 1: this guy in Belichick for fifteen years. They stopped me

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Speaker 1: in the A f C. And it's like, come on,

775
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: can we just mix it up? And I mean those

776
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: are the words he used. He literally was just like

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00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 1: enough enough of these guys. I'm with him. I'm with hi.

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00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: All right, that was a good takeaways guys, anything else

779
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: not really? Alright, well, then let's move on. I've been

780
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: excited about this ever since Gregg hatched the name of

781
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: the segment. This segment is called Hidden Figures. It's equal

782
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: I have there. We go from the film Hidden Figures

783
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: in Theaters, OSCAR nominated film set at NASA in Houston,

784
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: the site of Super Bowl fifty one connected dots. I mean,

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00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 1: what a month, what a year it's been for Janelle

786
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 1: mon A, I mean, out of nowhere into performance Best

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Speaker 1: Picture nominees, and uh, how about how she looks in

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00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: the moon like mama mi ba ba boom. By the way, um,

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00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: one more note about the guy. Everyone, she's a beautiful,

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00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: talented woman. Don't be at shames, Greg, I was just choking.

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00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 1: But how many years? And I've been covering these press

792
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: conferences for six years now. Anytime as a female artist

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00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: you have to ask if their nipple is going to

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00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: come out at the game and say, oh, you know, Janet,

795
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a w wardrobe malfunction. They asked that

796
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: every year artist. The question was absurd. It was, well,

797
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: as you know, the Patriots last time they were the

798
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in Houston. Uh, there was a wardrobe malfunction.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any concerns? And she and Gaga had

800
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,439
Speaker 1: an interesting response, which was this, are you gonna blame

801
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:35,320
Speaker 1: with that on the Patriots? It's this coincidence? Well, uh,

802
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: everything is going to be nice and tight for the game,

803
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't worry about that. Unfortunately, some of you

804
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: might have been excited for that. So good answer. But

805
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: come back to his journals. Just because it's a woman,

806
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: you don't have to ask if if the boobs are

807
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: coming out? That feels a little forced. Well, it is

808
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: the press conference every year from the one or two

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00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: that I've been to where suddenly like People Magazine and

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Speaker 1: like E and everyone else's po super Bowl exactly. So

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Speaker 1: I mean I I can see where they where it's

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00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: coming from. But I did get I saw a little.

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00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: Uh the Orlando Ledbetter got a question, Yeah, who who

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00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: would have thought? Boy from the Atlanta Journal Constitution in

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Speaker 1: the Okay, so now it's time, yes to talk hidden figures.

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00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: Dan still warming up to this entire concept. It was Dan.

817
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: If it was Dan's bed, I mean he'd be selling it.

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00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: There would be sound effects, there were clowns coming in

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00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 1: and dancing. Yeah, so hidden for Greg, can you explain

820
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: the segment to both myself and the audience? And Mark,

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Speaker 1: it's just a couple of guys maybe under the radar

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Speaker 1: that you think of hidden figures. Oh what about the

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00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: space program? Does it tie into NASA and Houston? Their

824
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: performance will be shooting off into the moon into the

825
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,919
Speaker 1: sky like that. Alright, let's see, let's hear some Mark,

826
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: you have some hidden figures. I got a couple. Yeah, okay,

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00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna moderate this one. I don't have any hidden figures. Second,

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00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: we'll go punch for punch. How you go first? Go

829
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 1: for it at Atlanta Falcon. And again, it's not that

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00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: I think hidden figures, isn't I think this isn't a

831
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: great player. That's someone that's going to make it play

832
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Sometimes like these names come out

833
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: of nowhere, Malcolm Butler, I think maybe Falcon Falcon's quarterback

834
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 1: Brian pool I it just I was looking at their

835
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: whole roster and do you want a huge rationale behind it?

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00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: I feel like Brian Poole is in a nickel or

837
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: dime package, is going to have a massive play in

838
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter book it right now. Wait, so this

839
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: is more a Sessler. It is a Sessler. So you

840
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Speaker 1: don't have You're just basically I have other arts. No,

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00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: I have, No, I have others that I have are

842
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: hidden figures that I think we'll be that have consistently produced.

843
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: Pool has been good this year for them, and that

844
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: secondary is a trouble spot. I think as a Patriots fan,

845
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: when I look at Kean O'Neil is a rookie, Jalen

846
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Speaker 1: Collins is basically as the experience of a rookie, Brian Pool,

847
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: Robert Alfred, I think these guys are gonna These guys

848
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: are in for a long day. And that's the biggest

849
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: advantage that the Patriots have is that secondary. I don't

850
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: trust them. They're the ones this week. I haven't really

851
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: quite bought their bravado. But of all those guys, I

852
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: think Brian Pool, he's like a hard hitter. He I

853
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: like Brian. We'll see. I think it's just that weird

854
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: names pop up in the Super Bowl and suddenly everyone

855
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 1: remembers the Patriots are going to find themselves in the

856
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: deep end. Yeah, I like, hell, I'm gonna throw out

857
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: another Falcon. What is he? What kind of figure it

858
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: would you define your if you were looking for him,

859
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: might not be able to find him because he's hidden.

860
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 1: We got it now, I get the second go ahead,

861
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:51,399
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper. They're they're tight end. They're rookie tight end,

862
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: very speedy player. And the reason I point him out

863
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: here is I don't think the opponents in this offseason,

864
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: I mean this playoffs actually have taken advantage of the

865
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: weakness that the Patriots could have covering big players. That's

866
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: Patrick Chung, who's a key player for them, and Belichick

867
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 1: loves him and he says he it keeps them out of,

868
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 1: you know, having to change their defensive But I worry

869
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: about Patrick Chung covering the tight end. I worry about

870
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: him in coverage. And if it's not Patrick Chuck, maybe

871
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: it's Eric Roe sometimes taking a big guy like a

872
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: tight end. And those are two weaknesses where the Falcons

873
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: have hurt teams all year with their depth, and I

874
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: don't think the depth and the Patriots secondary is particularly good.

875
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: And Ryan like Aaron Rodgers, is good at just finding

876
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 1: those weaknesses and they'll just be going after Chung, going

877
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,439
Speaker 1: after Row. And I think Hooper could have a nice game.

878
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: That's a that's a nice hidden figure. I mean, it

879
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be too hidden. We don't have to

880
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:52,360
Speaker 1: go you know, it doesn't have to be like bottom

881
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: of the roster. Even if he has a great game,

882
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: he'll be hidden because it's a position that's just hidden

883
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: in general. But it's so important to what the Falcons

884
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: do on offense, and it's Alex Mack the center. And

885
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: I realized that Alex Mack is not an unknown player.

886
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,760
Speaker 1: He's a pro bowler. But you can I'm the relative.

887
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: What happens is is that six days later, I think

888
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: if the Falcons win this game, that there'll be some

889
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: think pieces that show Alex Mack did his job. He

890
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: absolutely dominated the way he has all season, and it

891
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: kept Matt Ryan upright. And if they if you, if

892
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: you suddenly that doesn't happen. Their line has been their

893
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: line was such a mess for years. The minute Alex

894
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: Mack came in, everything started to fall into place. And

895
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: I think he is he is. He was an absolute

896
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: I know Cleveland was never successful, but he was an

897
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: unbelievable player for Cleveland, surrounded by likable guy and I

898
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: think that I think that you know, some of these

899
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 1: guys that have come to these teams from terrible places.

900
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: Alex Mack understands the perspective of how much different it

901
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: is than this is than any other experience he's had

902
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: planned pro football. He's gonna go out there. I think

903
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: he's gonna be hell And I really think Alex Mack

904
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: is a key to this game. Well, I gotta I

905
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: gotta respond because for the first time in Hidden Figure history,

906
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: I've got a hidden figure black Alan Branch on the

907
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: opposite side of Alex mckin race is Alex Mac. He's

908
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: the hidden figure. Who would have thought, uh, two hidden

909
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 1: figures going up again happens each other? If someone how

910
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: do they then get Are they further hidden by someone else?

911
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: If they're just like blown off the out of the

912
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: ether of the universe. The key here is that when

913
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 1: when Alan Branch and maybe Malcolm Brown, they're kind of

914
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: a tag team combination, when they stand their ground and

915
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 1: Alex Mack and Andy Levitre and this running game aren't

916
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: able to get any push in the middle and don't

917
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: really protect Matt Ryan as well as you would hope

918
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: up the middle. Either. People are going to think back

919
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: to Mark Hidden Figure and think, oh, Greg, Greg got

920
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 1: this right. Because Brown defensive tackle has been a long

921
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,399
Speaker 1: time week spot. This is one one area where I

922
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: can say this Patriots defense is better than they have

923
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: been in a while. These two defensive tackles. We cannot

924
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: get to Dan's hidden figure quick enough. I will close

925
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 1: out the hidden figure segment, which was very good, Greg

926
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,399
Speaker 1: with a name, and I'm trying to think the Patriots. Uh,

927
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: let's assume because they're there's such a glory train that

928
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: they put points on the board and win another Super

929
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: Bowl on Sunday. Who is going to be the surprise

930
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: player on offense? Because you know, the Falcons have dedicated

931
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: a lot of time in the last two weeks studying

932
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: up on Chris Hogan obviously, Julian Edelman looking out for

933
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: Martelli's Bennett. Uh, you know Dion Lewis. Uh, the well

934
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: worn stat that the Patriots are undefeated when Dean Lewis

935
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: is activated. But I'm gonna throw a hidden figure out there.

936
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: This one was a little saucy. I'm proud of myself

937
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: because he he was very effective, got hurt, came back,

938
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: didn't really have any role in NFC Championship game. But

939
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: I expect Malcolm Mitchell okay to again be active over

940
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: Michael Floyd and given two more weeks to rest up

941
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: that knee injury. Uh, he gets deployed in a way

942
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: that leads to a saucy five for ninety one and

943
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: a touch. A nice performance from Malcolm Mitchell in in

944
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: this game. Good outside receiver. And this the difference I

945
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: think between these two defenses are the Falcons give up

946
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: more big place and Malcolm Mitchell. I think it's a

947
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: good candidate to get over the top. If they're gonna

948
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,240
Speaker 1: throw it deep, it's gonna be to Hogan or Malcolm Mitchell.

949
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: I could see that. I thought you were gonna go

950
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: with Super Bowl forty nine hero Danny Amondola. I thought

951
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: he hasn't really done a lot super Bowl hero and

952
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: hidden figures. Well, he's been pretty quietly like the West

953
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: isn't here. That's West's corner to pump up. Danny Amadola

954
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: is one of the greats of all time. I'm going

955
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 1: I'm getting with Malcolm Mitchell in a big spot. All right,

956
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: good hitting figures. Let's move on, uh, gentlemen, before we

957
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: make our picks, our official Super Bowl fifty one picks,

958
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: which will include the final score. Uh, and the m

959
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: v P of the game. And we will not be wrong. Well,

960
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: some of us will be wrong. Uh, let's do some

961
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: sandwich props some Super Bowl. Go get my lunch, your

962
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: garbbage pal yea piece of done. You nobody get my sandwich.

963
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 1: So many appealing images for food and to be eating

964
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: food with. All right, Mark, you will you will go first.

965
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: You're not a fan of food. But now that you're

966
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,479
Speaker 1: swept up in love over Jimmy Garoppolo, you're talking about

967
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 1: guacamole winking at him across the room. Uh yeah, like

968
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: again that was Nate's solder. But you are right. I've

969
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: talked to multiple Patriots and well someone else even asked

970
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 1: that question, so I was just essentially recording it. You

971
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: did privately text me after one of the availabilities and said,

972
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 1: I know this is gonna sound corny, but the temperature

973
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: in the room changes when Jimmy walks. You know what.

974
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna deny it. I think the listener

975
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: knows that is absolute garbage. All Right, He's like, I'm

976
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: gonna stay in my hotel room tonight, and you know,

977
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: I just said Jimmy and that will be fine. At that.

978
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: That will be absolutely fine. Greg, that's some crude humor.

979
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: Enjoyed it. I'll tell you what I was actually doing.

980
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: Can I take off? McAfee is coming on to our corner.

981
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: We gotta up our bro game. Let me let me

982
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 1: plug some meal fast in the room two nights and

983
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: writing a story about the Houston Astrodome and went to

984
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: check it out. Well. I went into it thinking, you

985
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: know what, Okay, this it's an interesting building. I remember

986
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,439
Speaker 1: watching the oilers back in the day, but real quick

987
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: talk to Jerry Glanville and Bruce Matthews talking to Jerry Glanville.

988
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: One of the is a twenty minute interview. I cannot

989
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: believe what he told me. The guy is absolutely hilarious.

990
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: I tried to get as much as I could have

991
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: it into the article and the rest of them to

992
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: say for an a f C Central article down the road,

993
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: but it's on the NFL dot com right now. Onto sandwiches, beautiful,

994
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: nice plug. Me call you, Sailor. He called you something like,

995
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, Sailor. He was, He's you know, he's

996
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: exactly the same guys. One of my favorite analysts on

997
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 1: inside the NFL and the old Men dawstin Nick Monakanie days.

998
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, get us going. Uh, if

999
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with this game. And by the way,

1000
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: so many, so many um people in this area of

1001
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: fans of the show. I've had several people come up

1002
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 1: to me at different bars saying they love the pod. Uh.

1003
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 1: So thank you to everyone that listens. And yeah, if

1004
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 1: you see Mark Cessler in the wild, which might be

1005
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: hard to do, but if you see him, let him

1006
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: know you're a big fan. Yea, and tell him we

1007
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 1: said hi. Alright, tonight's possibility I've been hidden away. All right,

1008
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: go ahead, Mark, all Right, I told you like Lady Gaga,

1009
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: So this is Lady Gaga oriented. Here we go. Okay,

1010
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga will do something during Super Bowl fifty one,

1011
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 1: during the Super Bowl fifty one halftime show that will

1012
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: immediately qualify as legitimate breaking news beyond the sports world

1013
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,919
Speaker 1: and still be debated and discussed ten years. So now

1014
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: it won't be a wardrobe malfunction number one as I

1015
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: did with the Trent Richardson prop, though I will pay

1016
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: up the sandwiches at the first part. The breaking news

1017
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: part does not happen, it will be shocking and fascinating,

1018
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: But who who decides? We need someone to depend on

1019
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: our judge this because most westlan can decide it. But

1020
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 1: I again, I think it will make breaking news on

1021
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: other out I think that will be if you see

1022
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,280
Speaker 1: it happening on We're talking major news stories. This connect

1023
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: to your There will be no final score in the

1024
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: super Bowl prediction, not directly, not directly, but I do

1025
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: think I do think that she would. It's a kind

1026
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: of thing that people will be talking about what she

1027
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: did long after they're talking about this game. All right,

1028
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 1: I will take you up on that. I'm excited about

1029
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: her performance. I think she detailed the months and months

1030
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,919
Speaker 1: of planning that have gone into building out the show,

1031
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 1: and she did say it will be a very physically

1032
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: demanding show where she'll be up on I'm guessing that

1033
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: usually translates to she'll be up on wires at some point.

1034
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: Now I don't want to see. Then you start to

1035
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: get to a tricky area. Could something bad happen to

1036
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga? That I mean, I'm not going there, like,

1037
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 1: what could happen that would qualify as breaking national news? Well,

1038
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: breaking news is not. The bar for breaking news is

1039
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 1: lower than it's ever been. But that's why I think

1040
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: we can have an arbiture. But I think it's the

1041
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: kind of it'll be a talk piece, the kind of

1042
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: thing people are talking about. Still, she makes a really

1043
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: bold political statement that would probably, but I didn't get

1044
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: the sense listening to her you never know, But listening

1045
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: to her today's I feel like she she made it

1046
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: clear that she wasn't gonna going to let her message

1047
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: speak for itself. That's so um does. All right, here's

1048
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: before I do officially take you up out in our past,

1049
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: I'm taking it. Did left Shark, for instance, which became

1050
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: a nationally trending story. Would that count? I don't think

1051
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: left Shark was breaking news. I think that was pop

1052
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: poultry and trendy. If she does something that she wears

1053
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: an outfit that everyone else starts wearing, I don't think

1054
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: that would be it. I'd be giving you a sandwich.

1055
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: That's a good remark. You hung a little onion there

1056
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed it. Well, let's you know what without

1057
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: it's sad enough to have West here, but it's one

1058
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 1: less sandwich. I can get bold. All right, go ahead, Greg,

1059
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,879
Speaker 1: you hit us with a sandwich, so you I've got

1060
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: like I've got so many, I know, but you just

1061
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,760
Speaker 1: gotta pick a couple, buddy. It's called pre show prep.

1062
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: No I did. I have three and I want to

1063
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 1: do them all, bro Dion Lewis, we'll finish the game

1064
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: with over one hundred yards from scrimmage. Now, you might

1065
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: say that's not barely hanging too much Onion only done

1066
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,879
Speaker 1: it once this season in many games? Well, only done

1067
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 1: it once all season? Was uh not that recently Week

1068
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: fifteen against the Broncos. He did score three touchdowns in

1069
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:10,919
Speaker 1: the playoffs, only six yards that game. Dean Lewis over

1070
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: a hundred yards. I think he's gonna be a big

1071
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: time factor. He was my bold prediction in on the

1072
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: written written side. You know, it's kind of I've been

1073
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: riding this Dean Lewis train. I think it's a good

1074
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: chance of it happening. I think it's logical that, you know,

1075
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: if they if they want to keep the ball out

1076
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: of the hands of the Falcons, that they use the

1077
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: running backs in multiple ways. But you know what I'll

1078
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: take you for take you up on it? Why not,

1079
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: I'll take you up. I will also take you up

1080
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: on I thought West had a good um take on

1081
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: Tuesday's show or yeah, I think it was on Tuesday.

1082
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: He believes that the Patriots will attack the Falcons by

1083
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: being physical, and I think that means a lot Lark

1084
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: Legarrett Blunt, which I think although you're saying total yards

1085
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: right from scrimmag show that receiving yards you can run

1086
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: up the middle two, I think de yeah, I just

1087
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: I will take you up on that because I think

1088
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: Blunt's gonna have a big part of the game plan

1089
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: which will affect the production from a number standpoint. But

1090
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: I think Lewis, obviously you can have a big impact

1091
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: packed in this game. My first one will have we'll

1092
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: tie into Dean Lewis as well. M hmm. Actually know what.

1093
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that one though, because we

1094
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: just did it. I was just for fun. I'll let

1095
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: you know what it was. But DeVante Freeman and Tevin

1096
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: Coleman will have more total yards than Dion Lewis and

1097
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: Lagart Blunt. That's interesting to get too far, too far

1098
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: off topic. But today Thursday, Dan Quinn, who was at

1099
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: the Light all week, was really stressing you know, we

1100
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about anything but being physical. You

1101
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: wouldn't think he would really give things away. But he's

1102
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: talking about offense. He was like, that's our number one thing.

1103
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: Don't worry about what they're doing. Be physical. And it

1104
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 1: made me think, like, we can see a lot of running. Yeah,

1105
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: we could. We'll see about that. Um, I still think

1106
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: we'll see plenty of pigskins being tossed in the air

1107
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: to Greg. Hey, these guys two of the best passes

1108
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: of all times. It all right? Here is my first one.

1109
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: The Falcons will score an opening drive touchdown for the

1110
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: ninth straight game. I will take you up on that.

1111
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: You know that? So you think that the Patriots, after

1112
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: two weeks of planning, will find a way to stall

1113
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: the Atlanta attack, which has been week after week after

1114
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: week perfect in their goal on their first drive of

1115
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: the game. I do you know the offenses are good

1116
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: when a popular question all week has been about whether

1117
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: they would take the ball if they win the coin toss,

1118
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 1: because both offenses are just so good, that's been a

1119
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: question you as a defensive player, do you like that

1120
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 1: or not? Yeah, Patriots gotta try to make a statement defensively,

1121
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: and I think if they win it'll be by forcing

1122
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: you know, lots of field goals and so I'm going

1123
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 1: that they get a field goal. Okay, I think it's

1124
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: a coin toss that they scored up. But I will

1125
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: take you up on it because it Mark, You're starting

1126
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: to learn how to play the game after four years.

1127
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, one more round, all right, I'll show

1128
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: you that I'm not really learning how to play the

1129
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: game with this one. For the time ever, the super

1130
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 1: Bowl will go into overtime. I like that. I hope

1131
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: it does. But I will take you on that because

1132
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: the odds are in the favor, right. I mean, every

1133
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: sandwich bet I produce is absolutely low odds for me,

1134
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: but it does. It is one of my favorite like

1135
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: statistical oddities of the Super Bowl, which has been going

1136
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: on since nineteen sixty seven. I believe, fifty straight games

1137
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: without an overtime affair. It's weird. We should, uh, we

1138
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: should do this. We should make it happen over time

1139
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: of the game. Mark well canon in its hie. So no, yeah,

1140
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: it's really this and everything that I say, because there's

1141
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 1: so much that we have to say, ties into that

1142
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: if you think about it. This entire episode is problematic

1143
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: for Mark because he predicted that the game won't finish

1144
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 1: and yet that really changes almost everything. You would say,

1145
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: well downstairs to come up with something edgy and daring.

1146
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know how to top the prediction

1147
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: that the game will not end or have a result.

1148
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: The bar too high. Alright, Matt Ryan will throw for

1149
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 1: over three hundred in fifty yards in a performance that

1150
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: I guess we would need an independent army there here.

1151
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: That he's going to impress the world doesn't mean he's

1152
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: gotta win. He goes over impresses the world is gonna

1153
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: be in a losing effort, you know, spoiler alert. But

1154
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: because of Matt Ryan passing, that's it. I'm not going

1155
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 1: to take you on that because I've completely believe that

1156
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: he will completely at it's a lot. It's gonna I

1157
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 1: say he won't. He won't reach that number. He could

1158
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,960
Speaker 1: throw for three hundred nine yards, but fifty that's a

1159
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: true carving potentially, which I would love to see, or

1160
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: or it's them coming from behind and but it's not

1161
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:03,600
Speaker 1: quite enough. Yeah, you can throw for four end up

1162
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: just being uh and come back mode the whole time.

1163
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, here we go. This one is actually

1164
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: a little often advance this uh, the winner of the

1165
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 1: Super Bowl will not have an official White House visit. Well,

1166
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: that's that's interesting. It's kind of it's tricky because yeah,

1167
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: I won't be decided I suppose until you know, midway

1168
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: through the offset. But that's fine, there's no room. This

1169
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 1: one just got a little I love it. Um, I'm

1170
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: not gonna I'll take you up on it just for

1171
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:37,520
Speaker 1: the sake of it. But I think you gotta I think,

1172
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: because what do you think. I agree with you that

1173
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 1: it's a very possible that it won't happen. But but tradition,

1174
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with what has been tradition that it will.

1175
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 1: But I will say that we're at a time where

1176
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: either the team or the White House could could be

1177
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 1: just as high of a chance to cancel it and

1178
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: anything like that Donald wants to happen. Well, it's it's

1179
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: it's if it's the Patriots there that absolutely, that's I

1180
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: think if New England, if New England wins, they're going

1181
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: to the White House. Because you got to think about

1182
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, who has not been a fan of how

1183
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: this is all reflected back to him based on his

1184
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: make America Great Again. But there's always players that don't

1185
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: go Brady would seemingly be the most likely to go.

1186
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: I think the the problem would be if if they

1187
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: get the sense thirty to forty players don't want to

1188
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: go as a sign of unity, do they just cancel

1189
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 1: it because it's embarrassed. I'll take you up just because

1190
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: let's see where we are. But it's a great one.

1191
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: It's a great one. I'm not taking you up on

1192
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 1: that because I think it's a strange time in our

1193
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 1: nation's history. I mean, like we played the clip last

1194
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: show right about Arthur Bryant Blank and Robert Krafts, you know,

1195
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: with with Trump. Kraft was at a fundraising or uh,

1196
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: you know the night of the inauguration or that was

1197
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: for donors. I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't

1198
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 1: think there's any White House trip. All right, So there

1199
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 1: you go. There are sandwich props um are good friend.

1200
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 1: Nick Fortier. Uh, if you would not mind updating the page,

1201
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: go get your lunch dot org, which shows are all

1202
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:13,919
Speaker 1: time standings season by season. Uh, really in depth. Also

1203
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 1: has been around the NFL soundboard, which is a lot

1204
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: of fun. So check that out. Go get my lunch

1205
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:26,640
Speaker 1: dot Org. Okay, we've come two. The final the final

1206
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: countdown of today's podcast, it is time to predict the

1207
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 1: winner of Super Bowl fifty one. Um, I will go first,

1208
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, you know you know me. You know

1209
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 1: I don't like the Patriots. I Uh, I ain't no

1210
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 1: fan of the Pats. I think they've had more than

1211
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:50,480
Speaker 1: enough glory. Um. And I'm I'm factoring in all the

1212
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 1: different things, how great they're playing, what a great team

1213
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: they are on both sides of the ball effect. This

1214
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 1: is Tom Brady's final Super Bowl, and I know that that, Uh,

1215
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of there's a creeping sense

1216
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 1: of dread in that locker room, even if nobody else

1217
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 1: knows about it yet, that this is it for the

1218
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: Belichick Brady. So they're gonna want to go out a winner. Um,

1219
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: But I don't think they do. I don't think they do.

1220
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: I don't. I think the Falcons are a special team

1221
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 1: that is going to finally get the full recognition they deserve.

1222
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: And I think they're gonna do it the same way

1223
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: they've done it all year, which is they are going

1224
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:31,040
Speaker 1: to railroad teams. With that offense. I think they have

1225
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 1: one of the best offenses of all time. And I

1226
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: think this game will be the rubber stamp of that.

1227
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: I do not expect uh them to all of a

1228
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: sudden cower in the spotlight. And I don't think the Patriots,

1229
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:47,959
Speaker 1: despite having uh statistically the best defense in the league now,

1230
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: I still in my heart don't believe they've been tested,

1231
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 1: not certainly, not at this level. And I think they're

1232
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: gonna crack now. I totally believe in Tom Brady and

1233
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 1: that offense and and and their co chink. So I

1234
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:03,439
Speaker 1: think it's a close game. Twenty one weeks you're back

1235
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: on the Brady train. But I think a late touchdown

1236
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:11,880
Speaker 1: by Matt Ryan touchdown drive wins it. The street continues.

1237
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: The final score four points or less, thirty four to thirty.

1238
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 1: The Falcons win Super Bowl fifty one. Uh, let's give

1239
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,040
Speaker 1: the m v P to Julio Jones who goes over

1240
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: a hundred and eighty yards with a couple of touchdowns.

1241
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 1: And that is my prediction. Come on, dirty birds, do

1242
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:35,720
Speaker 1: it for America. Mark Well, I talked a little earlier

1243
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: about what could happen with the Samewich. I think they

1244
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 1: are going to do it. I'm with you, Didy. I

1245
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: I didn't think that anyone was going to pick the Falcons.

1246
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:48,480
Speaker 1: I I'm stay to see it's not a backstab at all,

1247
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: because I think it's going to be an absolutely fascinating

1248
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Uh remember I picked the Broncos last year.

1249
01:06:54,840 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: We pats, so we hain't in the press box anymore.

1250
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 1: We yes, all right, so we know that. But I'm

1251
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 1: going Falcons, and I have this going into overtime. It's

1252
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 1: gonna be tied thirty to thirty, and the Falcons are

1253
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:11,440
Speaker 1: gonna get out there with a game winning touchdown, and

1254
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna have that camera shot on Belichick and he's

1255
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 1: just gonna be like staring with his like his hoodie

1256
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 1: and his sweatshirt flowing in the wind, and everything's going

1257
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 1: crazy down the field. Matt Ryan is named m v P.

1258
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 1: I think he crosses the three fifty yard barrier. It

1259
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: is not a knock on the paths. I agree with Dan.

1260
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be one of the most competitive

1261
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: games we've seen. Forget the defense, forget the number one defense.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be offensive firepower. It's gonna be an

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Speaker 1: enjoyable one. Atlanta takes it. They're gonna get their second

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Speaker 1: title of all time in pro sports. On Sunday, I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to win this game. How come things didn't work out?

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Speaker 1: Do I want it to grumble? Grumble as as the

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Speaker 1: uh as the confetti is falling. It would if it

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Speaker 1: worked out that way, market would be painful, but it

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Speaker 1: would it would cush. And it's somewhat that I would know.

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Speaker 1: I'd get a sandwich out of it because the game

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Speaker 1: will have ended in this entire prediction is a farce

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Speaker 1: that you have to pick a winner. As I always do,

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Speaker 1: I find a way that if I am going to

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Speaker 1: pick a bet, I find in another medium somewhere else

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Speaker 1: to pick the bet. All down the middle. Cessler we

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Speaker 1: to check his NFL dot com PEXI yeah, before Greg,

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Speaker 1: you make your your pick, which I can imagine what

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be um as much as people knew who

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Speaker 1: I was gonna pick. But I will just say that

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Speaker 1: I checked this. Thirteen of twenty h one, NFL media

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Speaker 1: quote unquote experts a group that includes both uh, Greg

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01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: and I on the written piece that's up on NFL

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01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 1: dot com pick the Patriots to win. That's pretty close

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Speaker 1: to And now I want to I want to let

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Speaker 1: you know that last year twenty of twenty two NFL

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Speaker 1: media quote experts picked the Panthers to win, including everyone

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Speaker 1: but Mark, I know if you were online you were

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01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:04,080
Speaker 1: not there. No, you picked No, you picked the Panthers

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Speaker 1: also online online, Well, we make those earlier in the week.

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Speaker 1: And then, you know, here's the thing, I remember exactly change.

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Speaker 1: I covered the Broncos all week, and something struck me

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Speaker 1: about the fact that I kept asking, does what happened

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01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: to you two years ago matter? And they were a

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Speaker 1: completely different team, and I started to buy into the

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Speaker 1: fact that you know, you can overstudy for these games

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Speaker 1: if you're if you're an analyst too, And then I

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Speaker 1: was like, Manning's gonna get his moment that just came.

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Speaker 1: That just was how it felt, And so yeah, I

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Speaker 1: probably switched my pick at the end. I didn't even

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Speaker 1: file thee with NFL dot Com because I operate on

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Speaker 1: my own clock. This time. I also didn't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know about it. So there's that your own clock, Mark,

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01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 1: I didn't even know about it. Let's let's put it

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01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:50,839
Speaker 1: there anyway. So my point being that whatever popular opinion

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01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: is right now, don't assume anything. Because everyone thought the

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Speaker 1: Panthers were going all the way last year, this time

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Speaker 1: last year. Okay, Greg, now we need somebody to pick

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. We'd seem weird if nobody did. And you're

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Speaker 1: gonna step up and be the hero New England needs.

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Speaker 1: Of course you You mentioned Julio Jones, by the way,

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01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: which we haven't even mentioned this show or or week,

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01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 1: and I think he is going to have a monster game.

1313
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 1: Forget this, they take the best UH weapon away from you.

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Speaker 1: It's Julio Jones. This guy is one of the greatest

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01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:26,519
Speaker 1: receivers we've ever seen, and he is someone throughout the

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01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 1: week that I will have a different image of Julio

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01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:32,639
Speaker 1: Jones after this week then before. Very likable guy, very personal, smart.

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01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 1: It seemed to be just ready, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Patriots defense is gonna really stop them. I think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be an outstanding game. I'm really excited for.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be, like I said, like that

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01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 1: Cult Saints game where there's very few stops. There might

1323
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: be some field goals, maybe there's one turnover that flips it,

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01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:53,559
Speaker 1: but both teams go back and forth because they don't

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Speaker 1: have any pass rush. Everyone always told us the pass

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Speaker 1: rush is like the most necessary thing in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and yet two teams are in the Super Bowl that

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01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,519
Speaker 1: really don't have a great pass rush, and I don't think,

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01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, Vic Beasley is gonna get past Marcus Cannon.

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Speaker 1: I think Kyle Shanahan and Bill Belichick are two of

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Speaker 1: the best coaches on their respective sides of the ball

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Speaker 1: in NFL history, at least the Shanahan family. You know,

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick one said, Mike Shanahan is the best game

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Speaker 1: planner and best guy at adjusting in game, and that's

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Speaker 1: what I would say about Bill Belichick. They're great at

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Speaker 1: changing on the fly. So it's as great a matchup

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Speaker 1: when the Patriots are on defense as could be possible

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Speaker 1: in terms of the coaches. But I give the Patriots

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Speaker 1: the slight edge because their defense has been better, better

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Speaker 1: in situational football all year. That's why they're number one

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01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 1: in scoring defense. The number one scoring defense does always

1342
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,679
Speaker 1: take it out the number one offense in the Super

1343
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Speaker 1: Bowl almost time after time. They prevent the Falcons from

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Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns. They stopped field goals, and for the second

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01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 1: time in five years, I get the score exactly right

1346
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: on a hair her o pick on the podcast, just

1347
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Speaker 1: like two thousand and twelve, when I had thirty four

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Speaker 1: to thirty one Ravens, I'm going thirty four to thirty

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Speaker 1: one Patriots. Hello, Larry one point off dance prediction. Wow? Greg?

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Speaker 1: All right, that was good. Greg. I mean, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be wrong, but it was good. It was a lot

1352
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 1: of passion argument, a very good argument. UM. So there

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Speaker 1: you have it. Uh, the old Zeuser has the thirty

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Speaker 1: four thirty for the Falcons, Mark has thirty six thirty

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01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 1: in overtime for the Falcons, and Greg, so we're all

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Speaker 1: in the same ballpark and thinking that this will be

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Speaker 1: a high scoring, uh, tight taught battle of two superpowers

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. So hopefully it ends up that way,

1359
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 1: and hopefully Gaga performs well and UH and survives, thus

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01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:55,719
Speaker 1: avoiding Mark's prediction. UH for prop and pop Sandwich and

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Speaker 1: and hopefully this country heals itself. Uh. All right, now

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Speaker 1: I'm spinning away a little bit. I'm gonna come on

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Speaker 1: Sunday happen. Next time you hear from us, of course,

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01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 1: will be Sunday night, and it will be uh the

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Speaker 1: only podcast in town, the only game in town, UH

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01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: that will have a full recap of Super Bowl fifty

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Speaker 1: one the night of the game. We will go straight

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Speaker 1: from the stadium where where we cover the game, back

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Speaker 1: here to I Heart Radio studios here in Houston. And

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Speaker 1: thank you again to Sports Talk seven ninety a m

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Speaker 1: H for helping us with giving us a home to

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Speaker 1: record this podcast. So thank you to them. Thank you

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01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 1: for everyone for listening. Mark, thank you for hanging around.

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Speaker 1: And now you're off to uh to Jimmy g once more,

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01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 1: off to cover the team that's about to lose the

1376
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. It feels almost unnecessary. I can't believe you

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Speaker 1: turn on them. Love that moment. You know you have

1378
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:52,000
Speaker 1: a turning on on anyone. It is all the same.

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01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:53,880
Speaker 1: They don't even know I exist. After a while, you

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01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:56,320
Speaker 1: just you start to wonder if Mark just likes rooting

1381
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Speaker 1: for the losing team. I mean pick the winning team.

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Speaker 1: Last year that was like in the NPR category of

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Speaker 1: low low digs. That was worse. N We'll get back

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Speaker 1: to our studio where Greg becomes, you know, a friendlier individual,

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Speaker 1: hopefully back in Los Angeles. The microphone changes a man

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Speaker 1: and we learned that. Okay, so thank you everyone, and

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Speaker 1: let's get excited because Super Bowl fifty one is coming

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