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Speaker 1: Welcome to Between the Horns. Everybody. It is Wednesday, January

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Speaker 1: twenty third. I'm Miles Simmons. Across from me at this

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Speaker 1: table is DeMarco far and the Los Angeles Rams are

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Speaker 1: NFC champions. They are headed to Super Bowl fifty three

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. I'm pumped, demarc I love it. You're getting

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Speaker 1: louder and louder and louder. It's awesome. Are you happy

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Speaker 1: that they qualified for the Super Bowl or they beat

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Speaker 1: the Saints in Rolands or both? Yes? Yeah, yes, I

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Speaker 1: am happy that both of those things happen. Great answer, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Who cares about a miss call? Right? Yeah, there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of misscalls in games. There are a ton

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Speaker 1: of miss calls in that and that's not the reason

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Speaker 1: why you want or lost. It is not and we

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Speaker 1: will talk plenty about that. But the Rams did win

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Speaker 1: twenty six to twenty three over the Saints. They're in

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Speaker 1: the Superdome. And I do want to point out before

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Speaker 1: we go any further than on our last episode together,

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Speaker 1: DeMarco and we were texted this yesterday by our friend

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Speaker 1: mail Back Matt. Yeah, you literally said zeroline longfield goal

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Speaker 1: to win it. That is how we closed the show.

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Speaker 1: I remember, yeah, so what are the lottery numbers? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Let me think about him. You know, but

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Speaker 1: it was going to be close. I mean that's your

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Speaker 1: third meeting with them, you know, you know them, they

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Speaker 1: know you, right, your third meeting in the last two years,

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Speaker 1: I mean third meeting this year including preseason. I mean, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's bound to be close. I mean it's not

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Speaker 1: going to be easy to move the football either team.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to be easy for them to do.

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Speaker 1: So you you figured it was going to be close.

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Speaker 1: And if it comes down to a last possession, you

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Speaker 1: have a guy that can kick it from the moon,

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Speaker 1: you know, and pretty much he did to win the game.

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Speaker 1: But what did you see on that Where were you standing?

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Speaker 1: Right under the goal post? Okay, so I had a

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Speaker 1: view of the Saints defense. Yeah, and then I saw

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Speaker 1: the ball come out and it was straight. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm right under the goal post. I knew the minute

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Speaker 1: he hit it this is good. So I could see

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Speaker 1: the crowd just go dead. So I'm watching the football

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Speaker 1: goes through and I'm telling you, Myles, that ball hit

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Speaker 1: them hit the net hard. I believe it. That was good.

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Speaker 1: From sixty seven maybe even beyond beyond. I think it

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Speaker 1: was good from seventy, Like Jared Goff set it after

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Speaker 1: the game, JJJ. John Johnson the third set it after

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Speaker 1: the game too. That thing looked good from seven. I

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Speaker 1: mean I was right at the net with the guys

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Speaker 1: that catch it, and then it made the net move.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's in the fifth row. If there's no

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Speaker 1: no net from where he kicked it. Amazing. So I

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Speaker 1: go from the ball to the field and I just

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Speaker 1: see white jerseys on the field going nuts and I

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Speaker 1: could hear them and nothing else. Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: and it was great. I mean, you know, you listen

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Speaker 1: to Jav's call of that and he goes and the

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Speaker 1: Superdome is silent. Yeah, great call. I mean, but you

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Speaker 1: know you have to give them credit. And I don't

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Speaker 1: want to take anything away from the Saints defense. Please

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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong if I say this, a lot

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Speaker 1: of what went wrong for the rams on offense had

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Speaker 1: less to do about the Saints players and more about

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Speaker 1: that crowd noise. I would agree with that. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: just couldn't here. That changed a lot. You couldn't change

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Speaker 1: the snap count. They caught you slipping a few times.

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Speaker 1: What do they call that when you're singing in the shower?

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Speaker 1: Sound deprivation. That's closely what it was. I mean, sensory deprivation.

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Speaker 1: Sensory sensory deprivation. You couldn't change anything, and they were

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Speaker 1: taking advantage of that, right. But once the Rams figured

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Speaker 1: started to move to football. You know, that was interesting.

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff talked about that after the game, the fact

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Speaker 1: that like you, you couldn't hear and be his helmet

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Speaker 1: went dead. The comms unit in his helmet was just dead.

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Speaker 1: On the first couple of drives, he was actually wearing

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Speaker 1: Sean Manion's helmet. Wow. So yeah, that's Hollywood, right. I

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Speaker 1: mean it explains some stuff, I mean like just them

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Speaker 1: lot of things that they had to overcome, just in

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Speaker 1: terms of that technology aspect of things. Even the first

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Speaker 1: you thirteen to nothing, you spotted them thirteen points. If

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Speaker 1: you look at the offense, the players were there, the

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Speaker 1: busting out being big. There was a screen that was

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Speaker 1: I mean, you just couldn't hear or see the middle

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Speaker 1: function of crowd noise that was disrupting the offense less

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Speaker 1: what the Saints were doing. Right, And when that happens,

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Speaker 1: I think it tells you what home field advantage is

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Speaker 1: because when you don't when you can't get the snap

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Speaker 1: can't communicate, it takes away that element of it. So

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Speaker 1: you're not you're less the hammer and more than nail

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Speaker 1: in the situation. You know what I mean? Absolutely? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you're you're you're the one, you're the you're

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Speaker 1: the catcher's mit. Yeah, they're pitching and you're not dictating

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Speaker 1: as you usually would on offense, right, and if you

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Speaker 1: to pick that up and communicate it out and change

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Speaker 1: the play. When it's loud like that, you have no choice.

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Speaker 1: You can't get it out. Just run the play and

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Speaker 1: let's see what happens. Right, So you mentioned this, and

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Speaker 1: the non past interference call for nikel Robie Coleman. I

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Speaker 1: feel bad for the officials, now, really, however, we do.

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Speaker 1: I feel bad for the officials because it's so obvious, man.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's an obvious miss. There's no gray area.

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Speaker 1: It's just two guys, two officials that just blew a call,

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Speaker 1: and you have to own it, just like players and

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Speaker 1: coaches do when you make a mistake. You have to

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Speaker 1: own it. So not coming down harder on them than

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Speaker 1: we do players or coaches or gms or anybody that

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Speaker 1: They think that play changed the entire season. I don't

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Speaker 1: I feel like in that situation, especially, the bigger problem

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Speaker 1: can take it from two ways. Well, the bigger problem

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Speaker 1: that was the bigger problem with the Rams. The bigger

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Speaker 1: time outs. That is a Sean Payton issue. Now, Sean

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Speaker 1: Payton did the exact right thing, which has pointed the

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Speaker 1: rests and say they made the mistake, because it gets

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Speaker 1: you run the football in that situation and at least

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Speaker 1: forced the Rams to burn timeouts, right, yeah, you can't

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Speaker 1: help them, so not only so, that's exactly it. So

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Speaker 1: that happens, and then instead of the Rams having no

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Speaker 1: yeah yahabouts if you even if you run, if you

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Speaker 1: throw it on third down, that's what would have happened. Right,

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Speaker 1: So instead of that happening, you have the You give

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Speaker 1: right to go down the field and score. That to

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Speaker 1: Watching that game back, they were shooting at him, they were, yeah,

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Speaker 1: There was one that he almost got up in the pick.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Wow. Right, stay, yeah, exactly. So to me,

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Speaker 1: from the New Orleans perspective. You know why, like this

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Speaker 1: particular call is such a big deal. However, I think

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Speaker 1: that there are bigger things. And a game has never

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Speaker 1: won or lost on one play, right, Like the Saints

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Speaker 1: have the ball first and overtime. Right, did the past

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Speaker 1: interference or the non call happened before or after Breas

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Speaker 1: through the pick before? Right? So there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: that's the reason you lost, but we all know what happened.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of football left. There was play defense, right,

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Speaker 1: But I'm just saying I feel bad for the officials

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Speaker 1: of the game. Sure, but it wasn't everything. No, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely was not right. You could have slipped somebody through

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Speaker 1: my guest. Yeah, that's what they seem to want to do.

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Speaker 1: But it's not going to affect the ultimate outcome, which

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Speaker 1: is that the Rams won twenty six twenty three and

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Speaker 1: we're going to the Super Bowl and they're not. I

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Speaker 1: heard about that rule. I won't even quote it, but

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Speaker 1: they said that Roger Goodell could actually line both teams

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Speaker 1: is a chance. The rule, the language is it's a

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Speaker 1: catastrophic event. Right, I'm pretty sure that wasn't catastrophe. This

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Speaker 1: does not count. Yeah, no as catastrophic, but good luck.

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Speaker 1: If he wanted to line both teams up good right,

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Speaker 1: There'd be no way in hell I would do it

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Speaker 1: if I was a player. I'll ask you this, Do

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Speaker 1: you think that they should expand replay and allow all

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Speaker 1: these different things to review? You know? After that? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I do. Really, you can't allow that to happen again. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I'm I was never against it to begin with.

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Speaker 1: I mean, replaying passe interferrans. I mean, how much time

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Speaker 1: does that add to a football game? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't really care. Just get the call right. But

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Speaker 1: I do feel bad for the officials because you have

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Speaker 1: told them this from training camp. When I see a

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Speaker 1: the head came in, right. I'm like, now they want

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Speaker 1: you to be judges on the field of that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what else can they ask you guys to do. You're

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Speaker 1: just human. So if you want to really help them out,

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Speaker 1: then I think pis are plays like that should be reviewable.

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Speaker 1: I think that they're I'm I'm of the camp where

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Speaker 1: I think it's a slippery slope and I think that

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Speaker 1: not after. Yes, when he scores, it's your box. Go ahead, exactly.

425
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Speaker 1: If you don't like it, stop him, right, Yeah, if

426
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Speaker 1: you don't like what he did, don't throw picks. Exactly right, exactly.

427
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about Jared Goff too, because he's speaking

428
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Speaker 1: of guys growing up, coming into their own whatnot. It's funny.

429
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Speaker 1: Um Gary Klein lost Angelist Time sort of asked him

430
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,440
Speaker 1: that question, you know, do you feel like you took

431
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Speaker 1: the next step? Blah blah blah blah blah. What do

432
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Speaker 1: you after the game? And he goes, Jared goes, I

433
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,359
Speaker 1: don't know, that's Gary, that's for you to write. God. Wow,

434
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,880
Speaker 1: they don't let dummies in the cow for the most part.

435
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 1: They don't let dummies go to cow. Right. So he's

436
00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,440
Speaker 1: obviously a thinker, he's athletic, and he obviously loves the game.

437
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 1: So he's going to get better. I was I was

438
00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,560
Speaker 1: trying to explain to some people what I like about Goff,

439
00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,959
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, and usually these stock answers are what how

440
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,920
Speaker 1: he throws it, where he throws it, when he throws it.

441
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,560
Speaker 1: Yadi Yadiyada absolutely all that stuff, accuracies, athletic blah blah

442
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,399
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Then it dawned on me. The stuff

443
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,040
Speaker 1: I like about Jared is it's not actually when he

444
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,119
Speaker 1: throws it, it's when he doesn't. And there was a

445
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,840
Speaker 1: play early in the second quarter. They're throwing off play

446
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 1: action and Brandon Cooks is obviously the route that you

447
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,119
Speaker 1: want to throw here, but the safety is driving on

448
00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,480
Speaker 1: the football. He read it, They are in the play.

449
00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,359
Speaker 1: They knew it. So he's Dan and Cooks has his

450
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 1: head turn looking back at Golf. If Golf lets it go,

451
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,600
Speaker 1: Cooks his road kill. Bro. I mean, I'm serious. You're

452
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: up to the discretion of the safety where he wants

453
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Speaker 1: to hit Cooks, but it's going to be a shot

454
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,159
Speaker 1: and he's going to be defenseless. But he dead's the

455
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,160
Speaker 1: play Golf reads it, doesn't throw it. Dead's the play

456
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 1: moves on the second down. To me, that's genius. He's

457
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,359
Speaker 1: not just running plays whatever McVeigh calls. I'm just gonna

458
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 1: run regardless of what the defense does. No, he's out

459
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,639
Speaker 1: there plan. That was Aaron Rodgers like, and I know

460
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 1: they went to the same school. Sure, it's beyond the

461
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 1: play that's cold. It's a guy that's playing quarterback, calling

462
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,000
Speaker 1: the play, seeing the field and deciding, you know, this

463
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 1: play is dead, We'll move on to the next one.

464
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Speaker 1: That is stuff that moves you into elite territory. Well,

465
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Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing that I don't necessarily know

466
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 1: that people can't appreciate. You know, when you talk about

467
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,880
Speaker 1: system quarterback, right, and that's the label that everybody wants

468
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,400
Speaker 1: to give to Jared Goff. But when it's just a system,

469
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,719
Speaker 1: then if that's where the play is, then you're probably

470
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 1: just going to throw the ball and make your receiver

471
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 1: roadkill if that's what you are, right. Yeah, So that's

472
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 1: what I call throwers. All you are as a thrower, Yeah,

473
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: you're just coming in and just whatever he says. You're

474
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,119
Speaker 1: throwing it there regardless of what the defense does. Right.

475
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 1: And so that's the difference I think when you have

476
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Speaker 1: a young quarterback. Young quarterbacks oftentimes might not know that

477
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,800
Speaker 1: because these that's what's really different from college, at least

478
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Speaker 1: in my opinion. You know, you you're not necessarily making

479
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Speaker 1: those kinds of reads where the safety can just come

480
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 1: up and blow up somebody. That doesn't happen that often

481
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Speaker 1: in college. But in the NFL, everything is better. You know,

482
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: the athletes are better. They understand what you're trying to

483
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 1: do to attack them better. So they come up and

484
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 1: they hit guys right right. And so when a young

485
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Speaker 1: quarterback is going out there, he might throw that ball.

486
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Speaker 1: But once that guy is taking the next step, he

487
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 1: has more experience and so he understands what it is

488
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Speaker 1: that he's seeing. He's not going to make that throw.

489
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Speaker 1: You're going to dead the play and you're going to say,

490
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Speaker 1: all right, we're going on to something. Don't just limited

491
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Speaker 1: to young guys. I've seen some some old veteran quarterbacks

492
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: that throw it in there and get their guys just splattered.

493
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 1: I mean absolutely, I mean that that's a smart play.

494
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 1: That's playing chest not checkers. Right. You know, look, we

495
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 1: have second down coming up, and whatever play comes off

496
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 1: the sideline or in my headset is going to be

497
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,640
Speaker 1: just as good as the one I turned down. Sure,

498
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 1: because the defense won on that play. So let's save it,

499
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: throw the ball out of bounds, let's get the second

500
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: down play in, and let's move the football. You mentioned

501
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 1: the headset, and I think we mentioned this at the

502
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Speaker 1: top of the show. It was really interesting just to

503
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,400
Speaker 1: see the methods that the rams were employing in order

504
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: to like sort of get the crowd noise out of

505
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Speaker 1: Goff's head so he could hear a little bit. So

506
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 1: they put tape over the year holes. You see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

507
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen that before. Oh really,

508
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Speaker 1: But I came across it on Twitter, like somebody was

509
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,360
Speaker 1: like tweeted it at me and was like, I used

510
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,239
Speaker 1: to do well that that's an old trick. I mean,

511
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 1: that's for crowd noise for quarterbacks, but we used to

512
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: do that for defensive linemen that kept jumping off sides.

513
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,640
Speaker 1: You can look, dude, and they don't hear anything. Get

514
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,199
Speaker 1: your eye on the football, Michael Brocker's yeah, get your

515
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: eyes on the football. You move when it moves, not

516
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: before or after. See you when the little brown thing moves. Yes,

517
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 1: when the point of the football moves, you move right right,

518
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 1: And so that that that's the difference. But I did

519
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: think that was interesting that that they did that for

520
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: Golf's home, and he said, you know, I wish we

521
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: had done it earlier because then I would have been

522
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: able to hear it right right next time you look

523
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: at like a guy that's like, if it's Sue or

524
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: if it's Brocker's that has one of those encroachment penalties,

525
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: look at the quarterback's head and look at where he's barking.

526
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 1: Ninety percent of the time, he's barking right at that guy,

527
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 1: which means you are a jump threat now right. Yeah,

528
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 1: they think Brady will try to do it. They think

529
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: they can get you when they need to get you,

530
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 1: and they're gonna bark right at you. Yes, you know

531
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Speaker 1: how I know that. I was that guy. I'm like,

532
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,360
Speaker 1: are you shouting at me? Yeah, he's shouting at me. Yeah? Right?

533
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: How many offs? Oh? Man, they're a virus man, Like

534
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: there was a year when I had like ten and

535
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: then none next season. Like when it starts, you just

536
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 1: can't stop yourself. Huh yeah, And believe me, it's not

537
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: because you want to make a mistake. It's just your

538
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: desire to make a play. I want to make a

539
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: play so bad, and sometimes you forget fundamentals, as in

540
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: move when the ball moves right. Interesting. Yeah, I don't know.

541
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 1: I've never really played defense, so oh yeah, that's part

542
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: of why, because I just wasn't good at getting home.

543
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: I remember God in Atlanta Chris Chandler got me off

544
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: side and I was seven yards beyond him. I swear

545
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: I came off the football with my eyes closed. That's

546
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: all hard. I was trying to make a play, right,

547
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: I shouldn't do that. But in terms of golf, though,

548
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about his two minute drives

549
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: because I mean, you have one at the end of

550
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: the first half that was instrumental, and then to be

551
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 1: able to get the ball back at the end of

552
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: the second half do what he did and get the

553
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Speaker 1: Rams in position to tie the game. There was a

554
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: lot going on there that I think is being a

555
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: little bit underrated. Go ahead in terms of Golf's skill

556
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 1: set and what he does. And this did not the

557
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: first play I want to talk about. I guess is

558
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: not necessarily on those two minute drives. But I think

559
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: one of his plays of the game was when he

560
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: was rolling to his right. It was kind of deep

561
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 1: in La territory a third and ten, rolls to his right,

562
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 1: settles and finds Gerald Everett just off schedule. Gerald Everett separates,

563
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: He's able to make the catch, and then Gerald Everett

564
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: gets up field. That was a special play, yeah, because

565
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: that's off schedule. It is that's not system quarterback man.

566
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: When they we used to train or just for fun

567
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: and special teams, I mean, just to get our attention

568
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 1: and understand how intricate special teams are. Our special teams.

569
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 1: Coaches get really flowery. So we're studying how they had

570
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 1: to land a capsule on the moon and how they

571
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: had to train the astronauts way back in the day

572
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: before we had all these computers and everything. Just the

573
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: old school guys, way back when you know what I'm

574
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: talking about. Yes, when a computer was like you know

575
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: the length of a building, yes, yeah, one big as

576
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: the studio. Yeah, that little laptop was you know, yards

577
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Speaker 1: and yards. So they would train him in the simulator

578
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: and they would drop them down and then all of

579
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: a sudden they would just take things away. Okay, now

580
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: you have no radar. Now you're missing a thruster. Now

581
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: you're missing this, and just see how they react. And

582
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: the best pilots are the ones that went to the

583
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: moon were the guys that didn't panic. They just moved

584
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: on to the next thing. Same thing with quarterbacking. Okay,

585
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: when you run it in practice, it is always going

586
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: to be perfect and the guy's going to be wide

587
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: open on schedule. Okay, what if it's not What if

588
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: you miss a block, what if the guy runs a

589
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 1: wrong route? What are you gonna do if you have

590
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: to hold the football? All that type stuff goes on

591
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: in his head within five seconds or less than that,

592
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: and you have to make the right choice when you

593
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: can't hear. Yeah, I'm with you. That stuff is special.

594
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: It's not about the tear drop drop in the bucket

595
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 1: to branding Cooks special stuff. I mean, that's a seven

596
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: on seven pass and that's beautiful. But the stuff you're

597
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: describing that moves you from average quarterback to great if

598
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: when you ask me when it's not perfect and you

599
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: can still make a play, I agree, and that's why

600
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: that is so impressive. But even on that drive that

601
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,959
Speaker 1: you know with that had the thirty six yard at

602
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks the play before on third and ten where

603
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: he's able to get it above that second level player

604
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: I think it was a linebacker and then into Brandon

605
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: Cook's hands. You know that. No, no, no, no, it's

606
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: seventeen yarder. This is the play before. Okay, go ahead,

607
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, So that's on the right side, and Cooks

608
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: is basically just running a comeback route. It's third down

609
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 1: and ten. You're down at that point thirteen to three.

610
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: You need a touchdown, right, and he's able to continue

611
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: that drive with that big play. It's seventeen yards. I

612
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 1: was huge time. And then the Rams take the time

613
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: out and then they come out next play thirty six

614
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: yard down the left sideline to Brandon Cooks. See. I

615
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: think that's what Kurt Warner was talking about when we

616
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: were talking about what it means to be special in

617
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,719
Speaker 1: the postseason right before we kicked off versus Dallas. Right,

618
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,719
Speaker 1: it's you have to make the throws you should make,

619
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: and those are throws you should make and have to make.

620
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: It's not the big ones. It's not the ones that

621
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: that wind up on you know, every body's Sports Center replay.

622
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: It's the average throws that look easy that really aren't.

623
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: That you're taken with. The defense gives you that you

624
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: trust your receiver to be in the right spot and

625
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: you're laying it in there. Those are the special players

626
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: that keep you on the field and keep you in contention,

627
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: keep you around long enough and on the field long

628
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: enough so you have a chance to either tie it

629
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: up or win the game. Well, not only that, But

630
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: I think what you're talking about there, you know, when

631
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: you have to make the throw, when you're finding a

632
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: way to make the throw. Those two ones that he

633
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: made to Higbee in the overtime period, Yeah, we're huge. Yeah,

634
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: because Kim Jordan was right down his throat both times

635
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,959
Speaker 1: all and he refused to let that be the end.

636
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: And he did it in a way where how do

637
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: you say it? It was risky, but it was a

638
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: calculated risk. It wasn't like Jamis Winston backing up and

639
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: throwing it over the middle for nobody exactly. He did

640
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: the exact right thing with the football and got the

641
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: ball out. I mean that's you know, say what you

642
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: want about Jared Goff, but it's hard to dispute what

643
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: your own eyes see it is. Yeah, well that's funny

644
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: because you know those throws specifically, I see the rams

645
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: working on those kinds of things all the time. You know,

646
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: when the building pressure coming into your face, how do

647
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: you flip your hips make sure that you can get

648
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: off an accurate throat of where you wanted to go? Yeah,

649
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: exactly right, yeah, no exactly. I mean, like I don't

650
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,959
Speaker 1: do you remember last year, Maybe it was earlier this year.

651
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: I don't know time is a flat circle or whatever. Yeah,

652
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: but there was at one point, you know, they were

653
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: like throwing a bouncy ball at Jared Goff in the pocket.

654
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's like those are things you're doing, yes,

655
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: so you're not panicked, right, Like I remember Matt Lafleur

656
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: when he was still here before he became the head

657
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: coach of the Green Bay Packers, but they would run

658
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: drills in the red zone where all right, Matt, like

659
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: this is before practice or doing a special teams period.

660
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: Lafleur is running at Jared Goff pretending he's a defender.

661
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: So what does Jared Goff have to do in order

662
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: to make sure he avoids that defender? And then boom,

663
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: He's going to get rid of the ball quickly and efficiently.

664
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: Those kinds of things are like when you drill them

665
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: all the time and then you see them in practice

666
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: on the field, it's like, Okay, that's not that much

667
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: of a surprise that golf is able to do that,

668
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: because it's something that they've been working on since Sean

669
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: mcvig got here and implemented these different practice things, and

670
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have the wheels of say, Lamar Jackson,

671
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: just to run, you're gonna have to throw your way

672
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: out of danger, right, and you have to be smart

673
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: with it. So yeah, I'm with you. I mean, not

674
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: to pick on a guy, but I mean I think

675
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford would be the opposite. You saw what he

676
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: looked like when he came here, really bad, right, I

677
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: mean he was given up on the play after two steps,

678
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: like let me run over here, let me run backwards,

679
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,239
Speaker 1: throw the damn thing away. But here's a guy that, hey,

680
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: look okay, if I get pressure, I still have time

681
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: to do this and get the ball out, you know

682
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's not dead if they get pressure

683
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: on the play. So yeah, he's he's really really mature.

684
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: Now the other guy that you're about to see in

685
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: two weeks top of the heat, man, I mean, there's

686
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: there's nothing he hasn't seen. Even if you have a

687
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: guy Scott Free on him where it's a kill shot,

688
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: it won't be. He won't be there by the time

689
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: you get there. Yep. The guy just has an eighth

690
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: sense about him. Absolutely, yeah. He knows what's going on

691
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: with his own offense, his defense. And even if you

692
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: slip a guy through. It's it's not going to be

693
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: the hit you think it's going to be right, right,

694
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: And that's the when you have guys like that, that's

695
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: how they become durable. Yeah, you know, remember the conversation

696
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: when Jared Goff was coming out of college, like, oh,

697
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: he's so slight, he's this, he's that. You know he

698
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: has tiny baby hands, which was funny at the combine. Yeah,

699
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: which he doesn't act, I mean, never mind, But so

700
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: the conversation is always how is he going to be

701
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: able to stand up two hits and take a sixteen

702
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: game season? And I saw this in a tweet and

703
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: I should give credit to it, but I can't remember

704
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: who the tweet was from. But the conversation with Goff

705
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: was that, and then with Wins it was always big,

706
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: he's durable, he's this, he's that. Well, who's the guy

707
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: that's been playing the last two seasons completely healthy and

708
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: able to do it? And like, this is not a

709
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: slight at Carson Wentz. Which I know that there were

710
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: some things in Philadelphia this week that came out, but

711
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz has been the one that has had more

712
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: injury concerns. True, I'd rather have a quarterback that protects

713
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: his body versus one that puts it at risk. And

714
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: that says a lot because I like guys like him Newton,

715
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: I do like mar Jackson. I like those type of quarterbacks.

716
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: They just put so much pressure on a defense. But eventually,

717
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the bottom line is, I don't want

718
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: you to touch my quarterback at all. Your best your

719
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: best ability is available. I don't want you to hit

720
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: him at all. And I used to get mad at

721
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner. Your body's not sure as man. That belongs

722
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: to us. Bro. Yeah, and when you're scrambling around, Look,

723
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: it's not for you to make a play run in

724
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: the football. That's Marshall's job. If you've got to scramble it,

725
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: find a safe spot to lay down and don't let

726
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: him touch you, right. We need you upright and healthy.

727
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: So I think that's I know that's what Brady has,

728
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: and I believe that's where Jared Goff is headed. I agree.

729
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,959
Speaker 1: I agree that's there is a play where I think

730
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: it was second and six and then golf. Instead of

731
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, throwing it away or whatever, he takes the

732
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,239
Speaker 1: running lane, gets the first down and gets down, right,

733
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: That's what you want yeah, man, you are the flag, bro,

734
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: you are You're the prize in the Game of Thrones. Yeah, man,

735
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: I mean, look, one hit on you is is all

736
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: it takes to fire up a sideline, and you can't

737
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,479
Speaker 1: give that to them. Ever. That's what Brady does, right.

738
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: Brady is like the mister untouchable. Even when I said,

739
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: even when you've got him dead to rights and it

740
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: should be a kill shot, you're gonna come away unsatisfied

741
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,959
Speaker 1: with the hit you get because he's not giving you much,

742
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: no question at all, um, before we get out of here,

743
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,720
Speaker 1: because I do actually already we're I know your stink.

744
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: We're a little short today, but we just qualified for

745
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and you're cutting it short. We're on

746
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: assignment and the studio was occupied, so we had to

747
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: kind of a little bit. Where are you headed? I

748
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: am headed to? What's so important? You have to leave

749
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: less sea? Okay, shut up now, Yeah, he's gonna he's

750
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: gonna be talking to the media at news and so

751
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 1: I gotta get out of here in a few minutes.

752
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: But I do just want to talk a little bit

753
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: about early impressions of the Patriots, and we've sort of

754
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: been oh boy, talking about that the last few minutes.

755
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: But I I think that it's so interesting. You know

756
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: how things sometimes come full circle? Oh yeah, the storylines, right, yeah, yeah,

757
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: we won the Super Bowl in Atlanta, you lost one

758
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: in New Orleans by hook or by crook, to the

759
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: Patriots started their run, and now you face the Patriots

760
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, yeah at what could be the end of

761
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 1: their run and the start of yours. Right, Yeah, I know.

762
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: Belichick has more Super Bowl championships than any other coach,

763
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: and Sean McVay is considered the next If anybody's going

764
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 1: to catch him, catch what Belichick has done, you're gonna

765
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: have to start at a young age. So you might

766
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: be looking at the guy that's going to replace Belichick someday,

767
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: or at least chase him down or try to. There's

768
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 1: a lot of storylines in this game, That's what I'm saying. Yeah,

769
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: fun stuff. It's exciting. It's really exciting. And I think

770
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: when you're going against somebody like Brady, who you know,

771
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: I have been watching since I was a kid, and

772
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: I asked John Johnson this, like, you know you've been

773
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: what is it like to now? No, You're going to

774
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 1: face Tom Brady in a Super Bowl right as he's

775
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: going for a six one, and John Johnson was like,

776
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,479
Speaker 1: you know, it's crazy because you grow up you watch

777
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. You know all the stories. You know what

778
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: he's done and what he said though, and I think

779
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: that this is true. You know he said he's beatable, though.

780
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: You know they all are exactly, yeah, just like you are,

781
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 1: right exactly. You know, they put on their shoes one

782
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: at a time, they go to the restroom and have

783
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 1: to wipe their rear end Like, yeah, you know that's true.

784
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: But when he gets on the field, he is very,

785
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: very good and sometimes better than you. Yes, yeah, you're

786
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to raise your game, everybody. I mean, you

787
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: are playing the gold standard, no question, no question, at

788
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: the number one spot. He is the guy. So you know,

789
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: everyone has that moment. I hope everyone does if you

790
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 1: stay in it long enough. I had posters of Joe Montana,

791
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: John Elway, Dan Marino, Marcus Allen in my room as

792
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: a kid, and then one day in Kansas City, I

793
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: look up and there's Joe Montana barking signals at me,

794
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: and it's like, wow, here I am. But yeah, you're

795
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with these sort of things. Boxers

796
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: do it all the time. Man, Mike Tyson hated to

797
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: knock out Larry Holmes, but you had to. It's your job. Yeah,

798
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: you have to. That's just the way it goes, right.

799
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: And so when you have that, and you have the

800
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: Patriots and they've done what they've done over the basically

801
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: the last twenty years, this is unprecedented dominance in the NFL, especially,

802
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: you know, with the salary cap, with the way that

803
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: this sport really is designed so that you have different

804
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: champions every year, every couple of years. Yes, it is

805
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: designed for parody. And you see that in the NFC, right,

806
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: you know you keep seeing these different teams come up ones.

807
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: This one's that you're thinking about the last four teams

808
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: that have come out of the NFC. Now you know

809
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: you've got or you can go back to five, you know, Seattle, Atlanta, Carolina,

810
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: not necessarily in this order, but the Eagles and now

811
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: the Rams. Right, it changes every year, it's right, Yeah, yeah, exactly.

812
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: And so to have the Patriots and to have what

813
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: they've done since starting, you know in two thousand and

814
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: one when they got there and when they beat the Rams,

815
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: this is amazing. Yeah, the Chicago Bulls fell apart towards

816
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: the end, not because they got old, because it just

817
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: had to like enough was enough. It just blew up

818
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: from the inside. Well, the Patriots, you know, just look

819
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: at their media guide and just read Robert Kraft read

820
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: about what was what the Patriots were before him and

821
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: what they are with him now. So you know, he

822
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: had a goal in mind, and they're firing on all

823
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: cylinders still. So you know, it's funny you say that

824
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: this might be the easier draw in the Super Bowl

825
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: because it's not Kansas City. You don't have to deal

826
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: with Mahomes, you don't have to deal with Tyreek Hill

827
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 1: and all this sort of stuff, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

828
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: If you avoid them, you just happen to get probably

829
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: the best head coach quarterback combo ever. Yeah, yeah, that's

830
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: your consolation for skipping the Kansas City Chiefs is them.

831
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: So I'll say this, there was no easy draw coming

832
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 1: out of the AFC. Of course, not if you want

833
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: to be a champion. It was gonna be a tough,

834
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: tough draw no matter what I mean. This is the thing.

835
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: You can't say that there's a matchup you want, you know,

836
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: in air quotes whatever. At this point. These are the

837
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: last two teams in the NFL this year. Right, They're good.

838
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: Both of them are very good. No one's played more

839
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: football this year than these two teams. Yeah, they're going

840
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 1: to be better than everyone else and everything you get,

841
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna know and vice versa. Right, and so's that's

842
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: going to be the interesting thing. I mean, can the

843
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: Rams come up with something that will be effective against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots? How will Todd Gurley be utilized? I mean

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Speaker 1: that's something that we didn't necessarily get to you in

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Speaker 1: this episode because of the time constraints. But you know,

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Speaker 1: when Gurley has what five touches for thirteen total yards,

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Speaker 1: that's weird. Yeah, and the fact that you could still

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Speaker 1: beat the Saints with that kind of production from Todd Gurley.

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Speaker 1: If you had told me last week at this time

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Speaker 1: that Todd Gurley would have five touches for thirteen yards,

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Speaker 1: I would have said, well, the Rams are probably gonna

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Speaker 1: get blown out. True, But I smile. Why do I smile?

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Speaker 1: Because he only had five touches in the NFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: That's more rest, yep, And he gets two weeks before

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Speaker 1: his next game more rest. So there's no way on

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Speaker 1: this planet. He's only going to get five touches in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not. Yeah, it expects five times as many touches.

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Speaker 1: I think that that's probably fair, and I think that

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Speaker 1: it's interesting because what do we know about Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: He wants to take away what you do best, right

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Speaker 1: so or make it difficult for you to get to

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Speaker 1: get to the things you want to get to. Now,

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Speaker 1: you can have the guys in the right spot. But

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Speaker 1: if Todd Gurley, Robert Woods, Jared Goff, Aaron Donald and

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Speaker 1: Domickinsue decide that I'm just not going to be stopped

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Speaker 1: or blocked today, there's nothing Belichick can do about it.

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Speaker 1: Belichick did call Aaron Donald pretty much unblockable yesterday on

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Speaker 1: a conference call with New England Media. Saw that from

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Speaker 1: a couple of reporters. So it same with Gronk too.

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Speaker 1: If Gronk decides he doesn't want to be covered today,

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Speaker 1: then I just have to do. That's what I'm It's

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Speaker 1: special on both sides, So we'll see what happens. We

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Speaker 1: will see what happens, and guys, we will have plenty

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Speaker 1: more coverage leading up to Super Bowl fifty three, both

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Speaker 1: from here in Los Angeles and then in Atlanta, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be there starting Sunday line with the team DeMarco.

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Speaker 1: You will be there Thursday, So between me, DeMarco, JB Serena, Yes,

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Speaker 1: we will have you all covered. So keep it locked

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Speaker 1: to the rams dot com for that and all the

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Speaker 1: latest news and updates on your LA Rams have great

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