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Speaker 1: to the Richard Sherman Podcast. It's that time of the year.

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Speaker 1: It's not Christmas, it's the playoffs. It certainly is rich

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Speaker 1: I mean Week eight team. We kind of expected a

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Speaker 1: If the season's not over. Geno broke a number of

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Speaker 1: Because the Detroit Lions showed up even though they got eliminated.

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Speaker 1: That was just the weirdest dynamic of I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: Why would you do it like that because there was

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Speaker 1: this Joe? You don't he played five games? Six games?

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Speaker 1: That's why you don't get just getting a conversation that's

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Speaker 1: like putting party in the Rookie of the Year conversation.

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Speaker 1: You don't get in there six games, Like I mean,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe he gotten I think he got the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Like that's kind of a slap in the face,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? For for the guys who've

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Speaker 1: played the whole season, like impact player, all that congratulations,

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Speaker 1: but six games, no, Like, there's dudes out there that's

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Speaker 1: been been grinding every week, week in and week out,

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Speaker 1: and for you to you know what I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: a story for a different day. But fair enough, you know.

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Speaker 1: But let's let's keep it in the family a little bit.

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Speaker 1: His brother J. J. Watt, and we'll talk about your

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Speaker 1: Niners because we have to. His brother J. J. Watt

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Speaker 1: is retiring now and the Cardinals unfortunately had to go

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Speaker 1: out and give him his farewell tour against your forty Niners.

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Speaker 1: Brock Purty, Rich brock Purty in the Niners look very

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Speaker 1: very very much so for real, this is no you know,

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Speaker 1: new event that is occurring. But when you go and

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Speaker 1: slap thirty eight points on the board, just super nonchalant.

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Speaker 1: And when what is a fifth game in a row

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Speaker 1: for Brock? Now, what's gonna stop the forty Niners? M Um,

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Speaker 1: that's a great question. I don't know. Um, they need

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Speaker 1: to show up that run game. I mean run defense though.

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Speaker 1: That's that's one thing Diana Door Leonore is gonna have

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Speaker 1: to grow up really fast. And he's playoffs, you know,

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Speaker 1: because he's had a rough couple goals at it, you know, Davante,

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Speaker 1: anybody would have had a rough go at it. But um,

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Speaker 1: this week, the big play to A J. A J.

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Speaker 1: Green early in the game, Um is a play you know.

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Speaker 1: The people are gonna take shots and and Tayshaun Gibson

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Speaker 1: Gipp is playing his some of his best football man.

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Speaker 1: He's played well for a long time. And I know

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Speaker 1: he's he's a little older um now, but he got

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Speaker 1: a lot of picks under his belt and it's just

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Speaker 1: he's in rhythm right now. I knew I talked called

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Speaker 1: it when Jimmy Ward came back. I said they would

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Speaker 1: keep him and telling Noah who found it together, um,

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Speaker 1: and I knew that they would keep working well and

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Speaker 1: Jimmy would be on the nickel. They'd get their best

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Speaker 1: eleven out there. And he two interceptions in this game. Um,

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Speaker 1: we're huge, But it was really cool to see j J.

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Speaker 1: You know, two sacks in his final game. He's calling

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Speaker 1: it quits. He's about to be a Dad, class of

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven, another class of two thousand and

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Speaker 1: eleven alumni, and it's really cool to see all the

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Speaker 1: famer he'll get his gold jacket in five years and

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Speaker 1: and hopefully I'll be at the ceremony. Well Richard in

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Speaker 1: this game. And this is a rare stat that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna call it. Brock Purty's the second highest

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Speaker 1: passer wading through five career at QB starts, behind only

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Speaker 1: Kurt Warner. I don't, frankly know how that's even possible,

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Speaker 1: but God bless him that. Some people are just ready

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Speaker 1: for the moment, and he was ready. I mean, they've

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Speaker 1: they've averaged thirty points of games since Christian McCaffrey was acquired.

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Speaker 1: I mean excluding the Kansas City game because he was

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Speaker 1: off of two days. So outside of that game, they're tenant.

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Speaker 1: Oh since then, averaging thirty points a game, like He's

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Speaker 1: made a huge difference. And they gave Deepo a few

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Speaker 1: reps he was on he was on a pitch count

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Speaker 1: this week, but gave him some reps, got him in there,

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Speaker 1: got him contact, you know, because you need that going

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. But the way they were using Elijah Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Jordan Mason, Juwan Jennin's Brandon a Uk win

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Speaker 1: four thousand yards. You know you heard on everything coming

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Speaker 1: into camp, Brandon Aiyuk is gonna be go off this year, Brandon.

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Speaker 1: I you Brandon Aiyuk And he was really very steady

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Speaker 1: the entire year, stay stayed healthy, was consistent through all

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Speaker 1: three quarterbacks. You know, he ate with all three quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: obviously Trey Lance when he played two games, but he

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Speaker 1: was a steady part of the ship and Nicholas john Bosaw.

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Speaker 1: And they won't let let you bet on it no more, Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: they won't let you bet like I put I'd put

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Speaker 1: my life savings on it. You would have been right

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Speaker 1: from week one and rest. You've been right from week

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Speaker 1: one of the preseason, because that's how long you've been

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Speaker 1: tooting it. You know, it's you've been You've been spot

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Speaker 1: on with a lot. And that's why we gotta do

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Speaker 1: a recap session of some of our all out because

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Speaker 1: I don't want to brag, but I called Tony Pollard,

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Speaker 1: you called Nicholas John bo So we had some other

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Speaker 1: good call outs throughout the year. And I'm sure the

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Speaker 1: rest of this postseason, we're gonna have ample opportunity to

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Speaker 1: make some predictions. But Rich, I'm gonna ask you one

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Speaker 1: more difficult question and then what we'll sign this thing off.

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Speaker 1: But if you were still a member of the San

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Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niners going into uh the Wild Car Weekend,

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Speaker 1: which are the three teams would you have most wanted

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Speaker 1: to see as your opponent? Well, probably I'll see the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, the Detroit Lines, or the green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 1: Probably Seattle just because you know him so well. Division opponent,

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Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna get. I feel like Kyle

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Speaker 1: has a plan for him, you know I. I just

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Speaker 1: feel like it'd be a good game. You know, those

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Speaker 1: green Bay would have been fine because green Bay just

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Speaker 1: doesn't deal with San Francisco well in the playoffs, regardless

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Speaker 1: of where the game is. I mean, you're going all

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Speaker 1: the way back to Kaepernick Um going to Green Bay,

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Speaker 1: going to Lambeau and and running for two hundred or

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Speaker 1: something crazy and taking a win when he took This

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Speaker 1: Francisco for nan to the super Bowl that year to

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Speaker 1: last year when they went to Lambeau and got to

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Speaker 1: win on their way to the NFC Championship game tween nineteen.

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Speaker 1: We we took him behind the wood ship. So I

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just not it's just not. Green Bay

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a good track record playing for nine is

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, so that would have been fine. But Detroit.

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Speaker 1: Detroit is just nasty, gritty, grimy, and they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: it done. Their offensive line is way better than you think.

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Speaker 1: Their defensive line is way better than you think. They're

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Speaker 1: young in a secondary, they're too young to know any better.

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Speaker 1: They got a good running they got two good backs.

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Speaker 1: Um Swift is back. Uh, they got a good receiving corps.

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Speaker 1: And the more they get Jamison Williams involved, like more

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Speaker 1: healthy he gets, they're gonna be even more dangerous. Jared

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Speaker 1: Golf is an above average starting quarterback and he showed

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Speaker 1: that this year. He showed it. I think he's top

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Speaker 1: five yards now and it was I mean, it was

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Speaker 1: a good year for him. I never thought i'd see

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Speaker 1: that or here that. Rich, Well, we're gonna have an

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Speaker 1: active week here on this podcast. I know, we got

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Speaker 1: a couple of big time guests and then we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do a little play off preview. But Rich, I'll love

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Speaker 1: let you sign us off as we conclude the regular season. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much this year for rocking with us,

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Speaker 1: for hanging with us, for being here. I know we're

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Speaker 1: not always right, we are a good amount of times,

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Speaker 1: and we appreciate your time, your diligence. You could be

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Speaker 1: anywhere in the world, but you're here with me and

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Speaker 1: Mitch Eisenstein, and we appreciate it. If this is your

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Speaker 1: first time hit that sub button, it's an entertaining place

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Speaker 1: to be. We'll see you next week. I got some

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Speaker 1: information to give, got another cool guest. It's gonna be fun.

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