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Speaker 2: have you on the show today. We got everything, and

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Speaker 2: we got college basketball going on. We've got bowl games

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Speaker 2: going on today, and yes, we got National Football League action.

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Speaker 2: Already one outstanding game of the books as the Bengals

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Speaker 2: cover behind to get a big victory. Today we've got

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Speaker 2: the Steelers and the well, let's put it this way,

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Speaker 2: the resilient Colts almost at half time in indiaposis score

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Speaker 2: to take a fourteen to thirteen. League will be all

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Speaker 2: over that game. Then later it's the Broncos on the

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Speaker 3: Matt, how you doing today?

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Speaker 2: How are you feeling about this very exciting time in

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Speaker 2: the sports world.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great, Happy to be back on with you.

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Speaker 4: Excited that you were there to see those Chargers really

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Speaker 4: put up a nice effort Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: But this will be this will be a great day.

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Speaker 1: We got games going.

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Speaker 4: Like you said, minshoes just doing crazy stuff. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I've enjoyed watching him just improvise, make some gorgeous throws.

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Speaker 4: Pittman's making plays at first game, had everything, I mean,

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Speaker 4: Mullins for most of that game, which just incredible.

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Speaker 1: Some great performances today. All right, I'm going to say

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Speaker 1: something about it.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say something right at the time.

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Speaker 1: I want to get your thought on this. Matt.

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Speaker 2: Quarterback is the most overrated position in football. And I

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Speaker 2: say that because we are now. When you think of

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Speaker 2: the thirty two teams in the NFL, how many teams

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Speaker 2: right now have their opening game quarterback at quarterback this week?

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Speaker 2: Half less than half. I mean, we're just talking about

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Speaker 2: this game right now between the Steelers and the Colts.

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Speaker 2: It's Trubisky versus Minshew. That those where you're not your

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Speaker 2: opening gay quarterbacks. The game I want to on Thursday,

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Speaker 2: the debacle for the Chargers backup quarterbacks. And when I

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Speaker 2: say overrated, you know I'm watching Jake Browning lead that

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Speaker 2: come from behind victory for the Bengals today and I

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Speaker 2: don't know he looks especially like Joe Burrow at the

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Speaker 2: and wide receiver Tee Higgins a couple of big catches

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Speaker 2: even some of the quarterbacks that get all the notoriety,

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Speaker 2: suddenly the quarterback position, which has been I think so

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Speaker 2: where you can sort of throw these quarterbacks in and

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Speaker 2: out and honestly, you're not seeing a great deal of difference.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's always exceptions, there's always you know, like

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Speaker 2: but overall, quarterback plays been down in the NFL, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know. My takeaway from this is is that

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Speaker 2: there really isn't a lot to differentiate the quarterbacks around

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Speaker 3: Get all this action.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but none of those guys ever get a team

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Speaker 1: To a super Bowl. Well, you just gave one example

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Speaker 1: one season. I know what about Party.

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Speaker 2: Last year back Party was the third round, third fourth

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Speaker 4: I would say it's extremely rare over the years, and

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Speaker 4: you're using as example, Mahomes is there knocking on the

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Speaker 4: a team that'll have him for whatever ten to fifteen years,

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Speaker 4: and they'll be in a title game half of those

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Speaker 4: you know, if you don't have one, you're you're not

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, Trubisky's not leading anybody anywhere. Although

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Speaker 4: the end, it'll be like big time quarterbacks like it

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Speaker 2: So Jalen Hurts was not exactly the guy that was

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Speaker 4: But by the time he played the Super Bowl, he

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Speaker 3: Well that's my whole point, though in other words, it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't like Jalen Hurts was like, Oh, there's a

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Speaker 2: remember when they drafted Hurts and I kept asking people

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Speaker 2: because I was a fan of his. I always I

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Speaker 2: But I remember, everybody, what do you think, what's his ceiling?

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Speaker 1: You know, he's he's a guy. He's a guy.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, he's he's like a poor man's

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Speaker 4: I bet you can't find any of those guys now, Like,

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Speaker 2: Purdy was going to be a player, so, you know,

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Speaker 2: being the last pick in the draft. And my point is,

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Speaker 2: about can we develop a system and going back to

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Speaker 2: Doug Peterson decided we can't run the Carson Wentz offense

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Speaker 2: the Eagles. Let's use that offense and the next thing

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Speaker 2: you know, the guy is winning a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it'd be interesting.

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Speaker 4: Like you, so you think the system in Kansas City

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Speaker 4: elevated it to another level. I think it is interesting

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Speaker 4: To me, it's just not sustainable.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: Purdy is remarkable, but I think Perdy he's proving that

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Speaker 4: he's like a he's like an MVP candidate. Of course

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Speaker 4: nobody knew it, but he's turned himself into that. I mean,

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Speaker 4: he's he's he's great, he really is. He's after Dak

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Speaker 4: Dak is your lead MVP candidate. Party's in there. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I think the Dak story is an amazing one because

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Speaker 1: On him and and he right now.

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Speaker 4: Is off the charts like he's he's he's, you know,

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned, Matt, I was at the debacle that

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Speaker 2: So during the game, I was actually texting with Matt

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Speaker 2: It was just absolutely embarrassing. I sent out on x

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Speaker 2: Once Stan Crocky committed to building a stadium in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: putting the NFL in a city doesn't guarantee success. The

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Speaker 2: to have LA embrace the NFL. Instead, they're afterthoughts behind

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Speaker 1: Think the league?

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Speaker 4: So you do think the league got in touch and

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Speaker 4: said you have to do yes that you don't understand

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Speaker 4: how it works with you.

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Speaker 2: Deen Spanos does not operate without being told what to do.

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Speaker 3: I promise an.

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Speaker 4: Idea how I orgs over the years, But most of

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Speaker 1: The head coach in the GM.

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Speaker 4: Well, he was basically givin a Yeah, there's some overstepping

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Speaker 2: I mean they have the You know, the NFL studios

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Speaker 3: They just awarded them another super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: They need LA to work and they're trying desperately, but

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Speaker 1: Why are we shocked by this? Though? Los Angeles was

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Speaker 4: This was yeah, for twenty years or however long they

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Speaker 4: In the LA Times. Was working harder than anybody there.

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Speaker 3: Hey Hartman, when are we going to get an NFL

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Speaker 2: Never once did I ever receive a phone call from

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Speaker 1: It was the Raiders.

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Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, whether it was a direct call

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Speaker 3: They never get in LA. There's no grounds.

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Speaker 2: The sixth year the Chargers have been in LA, the

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Speaker 2: The sentiment out of San Diego, Matt is uh now,

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to go back in Thursday. So, Adam.

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Speaker 2: I took my sons to the game at Allegian Stadium,

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Speaker 3: It's an impressive place. I liked it a lot.

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Speaker 2: The game, though, got so out of hand it was

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Speaker 2: absolutely ridiculous. And I was sharing this with Matt. As

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Speaker 2: you know, I have known Dean Spanos for over thirty years.

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Speaker 2: I know everything about Dean and he knows that I

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Speaker 3: We cannot fail in LA.

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Speaker 2: And I almost get a sense at and maybe I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm talking Jim Arbaugh into LA to turn this mess

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Speaker 9: But they're not going to get like is Jim Harball

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Speaker 9: By the way, it's not going to happen. They could

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Speaker 9: From talking to so on high up in their organization,

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Speaker 1: It's tough, Adam.

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Speaker 4: Can we talk about some good teams? Can we talk

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Speaker 4: about the Eagles and Cowboys and Niners? By the way,

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Speaker 4: Eagles security chief Dom Desandro big Dom breaking news will

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Speaker 4: not have sideline access for the remainder of the regular season.

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Speaker 4: So he's they think he could come back for the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it doesn't.

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Speaker 9: I mean, honestly, it's a non story story.

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Speaker 4: Well I guess, but it's like lead headline on some

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Speaker 4: sites right now.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, but no, But what I'm saying is, so who

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Speaker 9: cares that he can't be on the sideline during the game,

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Speaker 9: by the way, as he did the last time he

452
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Speaker 9: escorted Syriana out the field. He just couldn't be on

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Speaker 9: the sideline. Still, I know Don personally, he's a good dude.

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Speaker 9: He's his phenomenous job. You guys know these directors security

455
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Speaker 9: are very important. Now. It's one thing. If he was

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Speaker 9: banned from actually going to the games, that's a different story,

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Speaker 9: which is not which I never thought would happened anyway.

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Speaker 9: But yeah, look it's the Eagles are certainly reeling and

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Speaker 9: as you know, Matt covering the business this market in Philly,

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Speaker 9: that fans are up in arms and now a dary

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Speaker 9: slave's going to be out for a while their best corner.

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Speaker 9: And you know, look, sky's falling. Talk ready, here's ridiculous.

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Speaker 9: Fans won everybody fired. It's kind of comical.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's stay with the Cowboys for a second here,

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Speaker 2: because the Cowboys obviously are rolling right now, and they

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Speaker 2: blow the doors off the Eagles. Whether they had a

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Speaker 2: fully loaded secondary or not, the Cowboys are clicking right now.

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Speaker 1: Prescott is playing outstanding football.

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Speaker 2: Now they go on the road against the Bills, and

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Speaker 2: the Bills wake up with the big road win against

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, and you know, if you had circled this

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Speaker 2: game before the season Bills at home, you would favor

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Speaker 2: the Bills, and the Bills actually are a slight favorite

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Speaker 2: at home in this game. So I'm going to get

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Speaker 2: into this with Matt a little bit later. But give

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Speaker 2: me a reason to bl be lave that the Cowboys,

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Speaker 2: who have been the ultimate teas for the last twenty

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Speaker 2: five thirty years, have finally arrived to trust as a

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Speaker 2: team in a big showdown on the road like this game.

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Speaker 3: Convince me or convince me against.

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Speaker 2: Well, the idea that the Cowboys have actually gotten to

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Speaker 2: that point.

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Speaker 9: Well, it's funny you ask it that way because I

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Speaker 9: do television for Sports Grid and with Scott Farrell on Fridays,

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Speaker 9: I'm on there three days a week. And he actually

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Speaker 9: asked me that because we go and we picked the

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Speaker 9: games on Fridays, and I said, look, I've felt the

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Speaker 9: Cowboys that they.

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Speaker 5: Fail in every big moment.

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Speaker 9: You just go back to Jason Garrett, you just go

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Speaker 9: back decades, as you said, Steve, for the most part,

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Speaker 9: that's been the case. Now, the reason why I'm going

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Speaker 9: to pick the Bills, I see some the Cowboys because

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Speaker 9: Dak Prescott has not played this well in years, and

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Speaker 9: I could tell you. If I'm talking to people close

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Speaker 9: to situation, do not unestimate the addition to Brian Schottheimer

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Speaker 9: as the offenseive coordinator. I know he's not calling the plays,

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Speaker 9: but he is a super aggressive play called. He was

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Speaker 9: the one who went to the Seahawks front office and

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Speaker 9: Pete pig Caroln twenty twenty. The lett Russ Cook thing

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Speaker 9: was really more Broughten Schoenheimer's idea.

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Speaker 5: He wanted to throw the football.

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Speaker 9: He's very analytically based and could you believe the Cowboys

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Speaker 9: in first half play calls of each game are throwing

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Speaker 9: them ball sixty four percent of the time, even higher

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Speaker 9: than the Eagles. He goes are a number eleven that

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Speaker 9: the Cowboys are number nine. Mike McCarthy was not that

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Speaker 9: aggressive before he came here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's interesting Schottenheimer getting some credit here. I mean,

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Speaker 4: the man who had an appendec to me came off

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Speaker 4: the operating table. I mean that was big time McCarthy

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Speaker 4: out there. He showed great energy, and I think his

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Speaker 4: team responded to him.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be fascinating. By the way, ninety percent chance.

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Speaker 4: Of rain about forty won't be that cold forty in

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Speaker 4: Buffalo that'll be tough.

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Speaker 1: You realize Dak is going to end up with the.

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Speaker 4: Biggest contract in NFL history, Like he'll surpass the Borough

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Speaker 4: because it's Dallas. It's he's having an MVP season, and

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Speaker 4: they got to do his deal. They got to do Micah,

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Speaker 4: they got to do CD and Adam. You've always been

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Speaker 4: really good on contracts, that sort of understanding the.

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Speaker 1: Cap and all of that.

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Speaker 4: That's extremely tough because you have, you have three of

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Speaker 4: the best players at their position in all the league,

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Speaker 4: and you got to get them done in relatively the

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Speaker 4: same amount of time. I mean, something has to give.

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Speaker 4: But I mean I think Nak is gonna blow everything away.

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Speaker 4: I mean he's thirty, but that doesn't mean anything anymore, right,

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Speaker 4: I Mean they're thirty to thirty five.

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Speaker 1: There is when they're at their best.

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Speaker 9: So, Matt, this is interesting because you know this from

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Speaker 9: covering the team closely. Jerry Jones has this really bad

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Speaker 9: history of waiting to extend contracts. You try to you

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Speaker 9: try to get them done earlier so you don't pay

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Speaker 9: market prices, and they know because Jerry put it off.

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Speaker 9: You know, he's talked about it. So Stephen Jones, his

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Speaker 9: son for nine months now. They yeah, yeah, yeah, we know,

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Speaker 9: we have to get it done. We have to get

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Speaker 9: it done. So they waited and and here we are

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Speaker 9: and that contract will be a minimum fifty five million

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Speaker 9: a year. Todd Franz is his agent. Todd does some

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Speaker 9: of the best deals in the National Football League. It's

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Speaker 9: never easy talking to contract negotiation with doing with France.

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Speaker 5: He's great at what he does. And then you've got

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Speaker 5: Michael Parsons. It's just it's surely interesting. These are sort

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Speaker 5: of good problems to have. But look, Dak is playing

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Speaker 5: some of the best ball of his career.

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Speaker 9: He went from have a zero chance for the first

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Speaker 9: half of the season to even talked about the MVP. Heck,

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Speaker 9: he wasn't even a top ten quarterback. But they are

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Speaker 9: so aggressive call throwing the football downfield.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 9: When I was there at training camp and I knew

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Speaker 9: Brandon Cooks could still play, and I think that that

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Speaker 9: MCL's bring probably slowed him down a little bit earlier

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Speaker 9: in the season. But he looks great. They're playing really,

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Speaker 9: really well, but the thing for them is to handle success.

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Speaker 9: Matt that's the biggest criticism of people I've talked around

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Speaker 9: the league on the Cowboys. You got and Steve was

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Speaker 9: alluding to us, and he's right, you got to handle success. Well,

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Speaker 9: you can't think you've arrived. And that's one thing McCarthy's

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Speaker 9: got to get through to his players here.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely right, Adam, unbelievable that the week fifteen, I mean.

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Speaker 3: We barely started.

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Speaker 2: This question could go longer, to be honest, I mean

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Speaker 2: I know we got always got more, but yeah, I

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Speaker 2: know you got more. Adam has always appreciated. We'll catch

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Speaker 2: up with you next week. Thanks so much. Thanks Adam

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Speaker 2: Kaplan joining us there our Fox Sports Radio NFL Insider.

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Speaker 2: Let's find out what is trending right now. Kevin Wirt

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Speaker 2: is in the house. Kevin, what's going on?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we got the second of our NFL triple header

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Speaker 8: today and don't look now, but the Indianapolis Colts have

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Speaker 8: scored three uncer touchdowns after the Steelers took in early

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Speaker 8: thirteen to nothing leads. So it's twenty one to thirteen

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Speaker 8: in favor of Indianapolis. And that's because Gardner Minchell He's

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Speaker 8: done three touchdown passes already and we're about two quarters

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Speaker 8: plus a few minutes into this game. So Gardner Minshew

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Speaker 8: playing incredibly well as the Colts now seven and six,

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Speaker 8: same with the Steelers, So win by either of these

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Speaker 8: two teams really makes a difference in the playoff standings.

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Speaker 8: That's because the Bengals won earlier today against the Minnesota Vikings. Now,

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Speaker 8: this game started off incredibly mundane, a matchup of backup quarterbacks,

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Speaker 8: but it really heated up in that second half, and

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Speaker 8: the Bengals, down seventeen to three at one point, tie

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Speaker 8: it up on a t Higgins touchdown catch. And this

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Speaker 8: is one of the best catches of the year. I mean,

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Speaker 8: he caught it sure of the goal line, had to

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Speaker 8: fight a tackle to stretch his arm across the goal line.

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Speaker 8: They ruled it a good touchdown that tied the game

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Speaker 8: at twenty four. The Bengals then in overtime, with the

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Speaker 8: Vikings having the ball fourth and short, just outside a

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Speaker 8: field goal range, stopped on fourth and sure, they tried

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Speaker 8: that brotherly shove tush push play however you want to

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Speaker 8: call it, but the Bengals defense holding strong. They would

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Speaker 8: then march in a field goal range where they'd win

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Speaker 8: a twenty seven to twenty four And now in the

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Speaker 8: playoffs standings, the Bengals, despite losing Joe Burrow find themselves

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Speaker 8: in the number six spot. So a lot to be

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Speaker 8: determined still in the AFC playoff standings, especially depending on

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Speaker 8: how this game turns out between the Steelers and the Colts.

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Speaker 8: One other game coming up later tonight, the nightcap at

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Speaker 8: eight fifteen Eastern time, the Broncos in Detroit Lions at

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Speaker 8: Ford Field. As for the college ranks, we had a

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Speaker 8: couple of great games earlier today, especially that Celebration Bowl.

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Speaker 8: Howard was up sixteen to ten at the break and

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Speaker 8: it was a back and forth fourth quarter after that

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Speaker 8: where Florida A and M comes back to win the

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Speaker 8: HBCU National Championship thirty to twenty six.

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Speaker 3: Myrtle Beach Bowl.

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Speaker 8: Not nearly as exciting, the Ohio Bobcats run away within

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Speaker 8: forty one to twenty one against Georgia Southern. A couple

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Speaker 8: other games in action right now. They are in the

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Speaker 8: fourth quarter in New Orleans and it's all noted up

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Speaker 8: between Jacksonville State and Louisiana, and actually Jacksonville State going

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Speaker 8: in winning it in overtime as the scoreboard refreshes right there,

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Speaker 8: Jacksonville State thirty.

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Speaker 1: Four to thirty one.

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Speaker 8: There as they went in overtime, a little lagging right

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Speaker 8: there in the fourth quarter about three minutes ago. Appalachian

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Speaker 8: State leading Miami of Ohio thirteen to nine. At the

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Speaker 8: next the Avocados for Mexico Cure Bowl in Orlando, it's

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Speaker 8: again that looked like it has been played in the monsoon,

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Speaker 8: with it being low scoring and you can hardly see

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Speaker 8: the game on the TV right now. And then in

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Speaker 8: the New Mexico Bowl, Fresno State leading New Mexico State

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Speaker 8: ten to nothing. They've got eleven forty to go win

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Speaker 8: the second Quarterback to you guys, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Kevin.

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Speaker 2: As far as those bowl games are concerned, some of

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Speaker 2: the titles for these bowl games are so long you

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Speaker 2: can just say and in another bowl game, yeah much,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean, who cares whether the names of

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Speaker 2: any of these bowl games are Kevin? Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Once again, Steve Harmon, Matt Mosley with you. This is

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Speaker 2: Fox Football Saturday. We're coming alive from the tire rack

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Speaker 2: dot Com studios. All right, I want to get back

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Speaker 2: to the Cowboys here. Matt so a perfect seven to

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Speaker 2: zero at home this year. They have three road wins

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Speaker 2: this year against the Giants, the Chargers and the Panthers.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna dare say, I'm going to go out on

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Speaker 2: the limb that the Bills are a better team than

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Speaker 2: any one of those three teams. So I asked Adam,

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Speaker 2: But I'm more concerned about your answer to try to

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Speaker 2: convince me and believe me. You know, the whole bringing

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Johnson into the Ring of Honor. I feel like

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Speaker 2: Jerry Jones is trying to change the dynamic, maybe getting

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Speaker 2: the football gods a smile on him, like they owe

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Speaker 2: him what Like I keep saying at some point the

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Speaker 2: Cowboys are going to have a breakthrough season.

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Speaker 3: At some point.

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe they won't, but it convinced me now because

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Speaker 2: they're the hot team. Everyone's jumping on the Cowboys bandwagon.

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Speaker 2: You've covered this team for a long time, Matt. If

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Speaker 2: anything feels different about this year, tell us what is

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Speaker 2: it about this year's team that is different from years

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Speaker 2: past when we thought the Cowboys would have a breakthrough

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Speaker 2: season and obviously came up short.

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Speaker 1: I think they kind of know who they are right now.

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Speaker 4: I think they've had some identity issues in the past,

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Speaker 4: and I think Dak's playing so well that they thought

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Speaker 4: they were going to run the ball a lot this

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Speaker 4: year and lean on a defense, and it turns out

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Speaker 4: they still can lean on the defense at times.

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Speaker 1: They have a great pass rush.

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Speaker 4: But Dak is throwing it so well that that's what

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Speaker 4: they win with, and it's throwing the ball downfield making plays.

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Speaker 4: And then they've had a tight end emerge, and the

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Speaker 4: Cowboys have always been at their best when they have

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Speaker 4: a great tight end. And Jake Ferguson, I don't know

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Speaker 4: if he's great yet, but he's really really I mean,

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Speaker 4: I don't know how much you've watched him these last

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Speaker 4: five six weeks, Steve, he's emerged as and he's already

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Speaker 4: surpassed like what Dalton Schultz was. And Dalton Schultz is

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Speaker 4: really good for Dak, but Ferguson is nastier. He seems

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Speaker 4: to be more athletic. He catches the ball extremely well.

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Speaker 4: So again, the Cowboys function well when they have a

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Speaker 4: good tight end. And they're incredibly deep at wide receiver

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Speaker 4: right now. I mean, you know, Gallup's kind of coming on.

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Speaker 4: He can make some plays hardy, I mean, they just

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Speaker 4: kind of they're deep there. And then Cooks we were

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Speaker 4: talking about with Adam is getting better and better I mean,

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Speaker 4: and CD is probably a top two or three wide

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Speaker 4: receiver in the NFL right now. So there's no there's

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Speaker 4: really no weak spots. I mean, they have issues, like

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Speaker 4: a lot of teams with depth in their O line,

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Speaker 4: but when everybody's healthy on the O line, they can

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Speaker 4: be dominant. Das had plenty of time. Uh So I

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Speaker 4: think this does feel different. But to your point from earlier,

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Speaker 4: they do have to do it on the road at

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Speaker 4: some point. I mean they you know, they their best

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Speaker 4: road win is I don't know. I mean, now we

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Speaker 4: know how bad the Chargers are. At the time, that

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Speaker 4: seemed like an okay win, there's no there's three and

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Speaker 4: three on the road.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Giants and the Carolina Panthers are the other two

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Speaker 2: wins on the road.

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Speaker 4: Those are Giants are a little better lately with the veto,

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Speaker 4: but those are bad teams.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Uh and so yeah, they that this is a this

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Speaker 4: is a great you know, that was a test against

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Speaker 4: the Eagles that they passed with flying colors. Can they

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Speaker 4: beat a good team? And I know people say, well

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Speaker 4: the Eagles don't look that good right now. Well, they

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Speaker 4: came in with what two losses in that game? They

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Speaker 4: came in a two loss team, I mean at ten

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Speaker 4: and two, I think you got to show them some respect,

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Speaker 4: and the Cowboys went out there and just beat them down.

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Speaker 4: Cowboys are great at home, but the Cowboys desperately need

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Speaker 4: to be at home in the playoffs. Like that's the

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Speaker 4: part Steve that like more than any other team right now,

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Speaker 4: the Cowboys desperately need to be at home because if

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Speaker 4: they have to go on the road. Now, maybe in

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Speaker 4: that wild card they could get an easy first round game,

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Speaker 4: but the second round game, it's just been too tough

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Speaker 4: for them. Fifteen straight at at and t It's, for

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Speaker 4: whatever reason, turned into one of the great home field

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Speaker 4: advantages in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And I never would have predicted it.

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Speaker 4: With the huge scoreboard, the jumbo tron, and all the

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Speaker 4: massive stuff that's there, all the eye candy that people get,

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Speaker 4: you know, are looking around. It's become loud and they

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Speaker 4: bludgeon teams there.

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Speaker 1: The only close game was against the Seahawks.

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Speaker 4: But I cannot tell you how important how Boys do

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Speaker 4: not function well on the road in the playoffs if

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Speaker 4: they could be at home.

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Speaker 1: Jerry and I think.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people think they finally have a chance

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Speaker 4: by the way, they haven't been to an NFC title

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Speaker 4: game in twenty eight years.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: On the other side, I want to get into this,

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Speaker 2: Matt about pretenders versus true contenders, including this week. Only

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Speaker 2: four weeks left in the regular season of the National

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Speaker 2: Football League. It seems like half the AFC is at

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Speaker 2: seven to six and we started this week already. One

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Speaker 2: team's gotten eight and six. That would be the Bengals

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Speaker 2: with their victory today as they moved to that number.

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Speaker 3: But I want to go over some of these.

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Speaker 2: Teams with you because I have a pretty clear sense

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Speaker 2: in my mind which teams we could actually cross off

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Speaker 2: as pretenders in terms of winning a conference championship and

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Speaker 2: getting to the Super Bowl. We're going to tell you

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Speaker 2: who they are. This is Fox Football Saturday, Steve Harman

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Speaker 2: and Matt Mose. This is Fox Football Saturday. We are

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Speaker 2: live from the tire IRAQ dot Com studios and just

752
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Speaker 2: checking on Indianapolis. With that twenty four to thirteen lead

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Speaker 2: four minutes to go in the third quarter, a battle

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Speaker 2: of seven and sixteens. By the way Steelers go down,

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Speaker 2: that would be three straight losses. At least this week

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Speaker 2: they would lose to a decent team. Speaking of decent teams, Matt.

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Speaker 2: When I look at both the AFC and the NFC

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Speaker 2: right now, and by the way, you mentioned how important

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Speaker 2: was for the Cowboys to have home field advantage, I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you a team that definitely needs home field advantage,

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Speaker 2: and that's the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes has never had a

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Speaker 2: road playoff game. Well, actually he had won, and that

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Speaker 2: was the Super Bowl against the Buccaneers in Tampa, and

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Speaker 2: that game did not go well at all. Otherwise, he's

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Speaker 2: never actually had a road playoff game in his entire career.

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Speaker 2: And if you look at the AFC right now and

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Speaker 2: the NFC, if the two teams currently sitting in the

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Speaker 2: one seed, the Ravens and the forty nine Ers, secure

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Speaker 2: home field, no.

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Speaker 3: One's going to beat them. The Cowboys, are the Eagles

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Speaker 3: or the Lions. No one's gonna go into San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: Now, again, this is all predicated on the idea that

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Speaker 2: your quarterback is healthy. But no one's going to go

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Speaker 2: into San Francisco and beat the forty nine ers if

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Speaker 2: they're healthy.

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Speaker 3: And I feel the same way about the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: If Lamar Jackson is healthy, do you see any teams

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Speaker 2: that could win a road playoff game in a conference

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Speaker 2: championship game and beat either the Ravens or the forty

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Speaker 2: nine Ers.

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Speaker 4: I don't really see anybody beating the Niners. The Cowboys

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Speaker 4: would get another crack at them after getting beat whatever

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Speaker 4: it was forty two to ten. I do think this

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00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 4: is a much different Cowboys team, but I don't think

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Speaker 4: they're built to win huge games like that on the road.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens, I probably don't.

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Speaker 4: Have as much confidence as you do in them.

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Speaker 1: I think if.

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Speaker 4: The Bills could beat the Cowboys and get rolling, I

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Speaker 4: think the Chiefs, I'd never count them out. They've had

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Speaker 4: some really tough home losses this year and they don't

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Speaker 4: all they just haven't looked the same, and they've had

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Speaker 4: some kind of ridiculous things happen. But their pedigree is such,

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Speaker 4: so I just don't I don't have the respect for

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Speaker 4: the Ravens that that's like a lockdown if they get

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Speaker 4: full home fill advantage, even if Lamar is healthy. I

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Speaker 4: don't think of them like I think of the forty

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Speaker 4: nine Ers. I don't think they're nearly as good a

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Speaker 4: team as San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's fair, and I've been saying all along.

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Speaker 2: I felt like on the NFC side before the Eagles

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Speaker 2: obviously got blown out, the last couple of weeks that

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Speaker 2: you know in the NFC was the Eagles and the

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Speaker 2: forty nine ers, and it was the Ravens and the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs on the AFC side. I keep waiting for the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs to wake up up. I mean, they were screaming

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Speaker 2: about that blatant off side penalty that you know, cost

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Speaker 2: them a possible victory obviously against the Bills. And of

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Speaker 2: course you know Mahomes has stepped that back and everything else.

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Speaker 2: But they just haven't looked right all season long. Their

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Speaker 2: wide receivers suck. They've been dropping balls all over the place.

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Speaker 2: Teams have finally realized, gee, if we double up on Kelsey,

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Speaker 2: what else do they have?

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Speaker 3: And it's not a lot. I just I don't see it.

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Speaker 2: And the Chiefs, again with Mahomes at quarterback, have never

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Speaker 2: played a playoff game on the road. I mean, the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowls are neutral site games except the one game

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Speaker 2: they played in Tampa and got They got blown out

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Speaker 2: of that game. And that knows how neither one of

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Speaker 2: us are talking about the Dolphins. See I put the

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Speaker 2: Cowboys sort of in the same breath as the Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: Because the Dolphins and the Cowboys all season long have

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Speaker 2: really been beating up on some bad teams and putting

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Speaker 2: up some very impressive numbers. But does that translate into

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Speaker 2: the kind of grit necessarily to guide them to, you know,

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Speaker 2: all the way to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: The Dolphins have felt somewhat fraudulent to me. I do

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Speaker 4: think they put up amazing numbers. I like to obviously

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Speaker 4: I love their wide receivers, but no, it does not

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Speaker 4: seem like a team that's going to march through the

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Speaker 4: playoffs and do major damage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and then you got the Jaguars. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the Browns are eight and five. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: and going back, the Lions are nine and four. Does

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Speaker 2: anybody believe in these teams? So again, unless the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: start showing me that they resemble the team we've seen

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Speaker 2: in the last couple of years, I'm sorry. The Ravens

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Speaker 2: and forty nine ers are on track for a Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl meeting, which will buy a bit the rematch from

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Speaker 2: many years ago. We got much more coming up. Keep

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Speaker 2: it right here. This is Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Rolling along here on a big football Saturday. We got

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Speaker 2: NFL action going on right now. We got into the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter. Indianapolis Colts Pittsburgh Steelers two seven to six

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Speaker 2: teams trying to stay alive in the playoff chase. Colts

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Speaker 2: lead that one twenty four to thirteen. We are broadcasting

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Patrick Mahomes got fined fifty thousand dollars for

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Speaker 2: bitching the moaning about the officiating in that loss to

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Speaker 2: the Bills. You know, there was a sense of privilege.

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Speaker 2: I guess with the Chiefs after the game that they

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Speaker 2: should have had the officials tell them that Tony was

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Speaker 2: actually lined up off sides. I don't see that in

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Speaker 2: the rule book. I mean, sometimes the officials say, hey, guy,

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Speaker 2: moving back a little bit. Maybe they feel like, well,

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Speaker 2: we're the Chiefs, you owe it to us. But apparently not.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, that wasn't the last play of

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Speaker 2: the game. They turned it over on downs after that,

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Speaker 2: so they must have forgotten that part of what happened otherwise.

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Speaker 2: But and it just gets back to what I say

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Speaker 2: about the Chiefs. You know, there was this thing about

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Speaker 2: Tom Brady, the reason that Tom Brady, and now, of

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Speaker 2: course in the aftermath of Brady leaving the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's something to keep.

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Speaker 2: In mind, including this obviously disastrous season for Belichick. This

874
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Speaker 2: makes eleven years at Belichick in the course of his career,

875
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 2: five in Cleveland, six and New England has not had

876
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: Tom Brady as his starting quarterback. And in those eleven

877
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 2: years he will have won a total one playoff game

878
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 2: without Tom Brady.

879
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 3: So you know who made who. But here's the thing

880
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 3: about Brady.

881
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 2: Back in the day, so Brady, you know, they could

882
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 2: take a Wes Welker off the waiver wire, or you know,

883
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 2: convert a former college quarter like Julian Edelman and suddenly

884
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 2: make them all pro players when you have Tom Brady

885
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 2: a quarterback. And I think the Chiefs Runner, the delusion

886
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 2: they could do the exact same thing with Patrick Mahomes.

887
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 2: You know, you lose Tyreek Hill and they overcame that

888
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 2: to win a Super Bowl of years ago. Then they

889
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 2: lose Juju Smith Schuster, and they got a bunch of

890
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 2: guys that dropped the ball, and suddenly Mahomes looks ordinary.

891
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 2: You still have to have guys on the receiving end

892
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 2: of the ball. So to me, again, this is what

893
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 2: separates Tom Brady from the rest of the path because yeah,

894
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 2: he had Gronk, he had Randy Moss for a couple

895
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 2: of years, but outside of that, a bunch of guys

896
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 2: and yet didn't matter. They were in the Super Bowl

897
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 2: seemingly every other year and winning Super Bowls as well.

898
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 2: And so this is why I look at the Chiefs

899
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 2: right now and I just don't see the Chiefs team

900
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 2: that we've seen over the last five years.

901
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 1: They don't.

902
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 4: But I do think I don't think it's any kind

903
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 4: of delusion. I think he's proven his greatness and Mahomes

904
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 4: is already legendary, and I think he will elevate.

905
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you see a mistake.

906
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 4: Like what Tony did, you want to just move on

907
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 4: from them, But year after year they do lose really

908
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 4: good receivers and he still puts up unbelievable numbers. I mean,

909
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 4: the one common denominator is that tied in with Kelsey.

910
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 4: But I just would never give up on him because

911
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 4: I think he elevates his game so much.

912
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: Now you've had a good point.

913
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 4: If they have to go on the road, it is

914
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 4: going to feel different and look different, but it's still

915
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 4: the same system and it's still the unbelievable quarterback.

916
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: So I.

917
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,919
Speaker 4: Have trouble moving off of the Chiefs just because they've

918
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 4: done it so often. And I do not think like

919
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 4: I never think of him as looking ordinary. I mean,

920
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 4: I do think he threw a fit last week and

921
00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 4: that it was somewhat unbecoming of him because he just

922
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:04,720
Speaker 4: lost it. But he just couldn't believe in that moment

923
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 4: when generally you know a receiver looks over and they'll

924
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 4: help you out a little bit, that they let that

925
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 4: impact the game, except for when you look back at

926
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 4: it and realized.

927
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: He was like a full yard off the wide of scrimmage.

928
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 4: But I yeah, I don't I think he's I think

929
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 4: the greatness is still there, and to me, he almost

930
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 4: never looks ordinary.

931
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to have a lot.

932
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 4: Going wrong around him for them to perform poorly, and

933
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 4: quite honestly, they have had.

934
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: A lot around him going the wrong direction.

935
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 2: He has the lowest passer rating of his career. He's

936
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 2: twelfth in the league and passer rating this year. He's

937
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 2: also fourth in the league in interceptions thrown. I think

938
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 2: the problem again is dealing with adversity. He hasn't had

939
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 2: a lot of adversity. Remember they have hosted the AFC

940
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 2: Championship Game five years in a row and lost two

941
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 2: of those by the way, and the frustration to me

942
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 2: what happened in the end of that Bills game was

943
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 2: he's just normally by this time. Like last year, after

944
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 2: losing Tyreek Hill, they started the year slowly, but as

945
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 2: the year moved on, all of a sudden, the Chiefs

946
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 2: at their stride and obviously navigated themselves all the way

947
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: to another Super Bowl time. I'm not going to take

948
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 2: away anything that he has done. Ye, Like I say,

949
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 2: this guy's always secured his spot in NFL history.

950
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 4: But who wouldn't trade for him? Like, what team in

951
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 4: the entire NFL wouldn't trade straight up for him?

952
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 2: Right now, So you would replace right now Dak Prestott

953
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 2: or Patrick.

954
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 4: This consolutely yes, in a heartbeat. I think Dak probably

955
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 4: deserves to win the MVP. There's not a single franchise

956
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 4: that wouldn't trade for him. I mean, if you're talking

957
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 4: about the next five years, Cincinnati would do it with Burrow.

958
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,720
Speaker 4: You go right down the line. There's not a single

959
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 4: organization that wouldn't trade for him. Well, it will be

960
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 4: interesting to see again because we never seen. Look, he

961
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 4: may he may do it again.

962
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 5: You know.

963
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: And I even said a year ago, and I ate

964
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 2: my words because I thought you lose Tyreek Hill. It

965
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 2: changes the whole dynamic of the offense because it was

966
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 2: pick your poison, You're gonna cover double up on Tyreegan,

967
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 2: to cover up on Kelsey. They overcame that to win

968
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl. So I'm all in on Mahomes. But

969
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 2: what has concerned me if I'm concerned, I'm not a

970
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 2: big Chiefs fan. But what concerns me about this year's

971
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 2: Chiefs team. They've looked ordinary all season long. Their offense

972
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 2: is not generating anywhere near the production that we have

973
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 2: seen over the last five years. So that's why at

974
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 2: least in the moment, I do not include them in

975
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 2: the conversation.

976
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: I can't do that anymore.

977
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 2: The Cowboys are better than them right now, the Ravens

978
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 2: are better than them. I mean, there's a lot of

979
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 2: teams are playing much better football right now than the

980
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs.

981
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: I do agree with that.

982
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 4: I mean, the only thing I would say on your

983
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:02,240
Speaker 4: comment about the adversity man, he's had those playoff games

984
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 4: where he got down twenty eight to three or twenty

985
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 4: one to nothing, and then he had one where he

986
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 4: could barely you know, he was limping around, and he

987
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 4: still won the game. And he's and he's led comebacks

988
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 4: time and time again. So I think they function well

989
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 4: at home. You're right, I do think he's had some

990
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 4: adversity at times in the playoffs. I just think I

991
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 4: just think he's still the best.

992
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: Like I don't. I don't.

993
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 4: I mean, I think overall, you know, you could say

994
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 4: Purdy and Dak are playing better than him right now.

995
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: But I don't.

996
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 4: Think there's a single franchise that would be like, nah,

997
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 4: we're good with our guy. Like if they had the

998
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,320
Speaker 4: chance to straight up trade for him, I think almost

999
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 4: every franchise would.

1000
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 2: All right, So by the way, Colt Sleety and the

1001
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 2: Steelers twenty seven and thirteen nine to seventeen to go

1002
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, Garden Minshew eighteen to twenty eight,

1003
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 2: two hundred fifty yards, three touchdowns, no picks. By the way,

1004
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 2: my son, my oldest son is twenty, has grown the

1005
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 2: Gardner minshew mustache. It's quite alarming. We were in Vegas

1006
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 2: and I kept looking at him, like, where have I

1007
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 2: seen that mustache before? That's right, that's the minshew mustache. Hey,

1008
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 2: I wanted to find out from you map, because you know,

1009
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 2: we're in different regions of the country. What was the

1010
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 2: overall buzz about the decision on the college football playoff

1011
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 2: where they elevated you know, an eight seed Alabama into

1012
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 2: a top four slot, of seven seed Texas into a

1013
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 2: top four slot, and then dumped an undefeated Florida State

1014
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 2: right out of the playoff.

1015
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: What was the buzz down there?

1016
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:35,240
Speaker 6: Oh?

1017
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 4: I think everybody felt really bad for Florida State.

1018
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: But I'm in an area where there's.

1019
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 4: Just tons of long horns, so they were just very

1020
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 4: happy to have their spot secured. And then it was

1021
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 4: kind of like, well, that's somebody else to worry about.

1022
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 4: I mean, I think I just think the Florida State

1023
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 4: it was one of empathy and it's just really hard

1024
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 4: to see a team win every game and then you say, well, sorry,

1025
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 4: you don't have your starting quarterback and you played horrible.

1026
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 4: I mean, the offense looked horrible, so you can't be

1027
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 4: in it. But it's a and again, some of this

1028
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 4: expanded playoff will change that, but it just this was

1029
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 4: the unprecedented chaos scenario that we'd always kind of wondered about.

1030
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 4: But a lot of us down here, I mean, it's

1031
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 4: not the first time a team that was deserving was

1032
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 4: kept out. Like twenty fourteen, nobody ever talks about it

1033
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 4: anymore because they weren't blue bloods. But both Baylor and TCU,

1034
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 4: and by the way, Baylor beat TCU that your had

1035
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 4: to add. But both of those teams, I mean TCU

1036
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 4: was number four and that last week and they beat

1037
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:47,240
Speaker 4: a team fifty five to three, and Ohio State jumped

1038
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 4: them in that final parodom. Ohio State proved to be

1039
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:54,240
Speaker 4: a worthy participant in that twenty fourteen season.

1040
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:55,240
Speaker 1: But I think.

1041
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 4: People get caught in this recency bias and go, oh,

1042
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,919
Speaker 4: this has never happened before. Hey, other teams have been

1043
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,439
Speaker 4: unfairly left out.

1044
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,280
Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is, I mean.

1045
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 4: Florida State probably would have been in a bad situation

1046
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 4: in this playoff.

1047
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: Is that a reason to keep them out? I think

1048
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: that's the debate.

1049
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, but here's the problem again.

1050
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 2: The quarterback they used in the a SEC championship game

1051
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 2: was their third string quarterback. Their second string quarterback is

1052
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 2: a veteran quarterback who would have played in the playoff. Look,

1053
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 2: this was rigged from the beginning. And I said this

1054
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 2: when they started the playoff, and a not blaming ESPN,

1055
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 2: they're the one forking over all the money. But I said,

1056
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 2: if you're unhappy with the BCS championship game, when do

1057
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 2: you get a load of this four school playoff? You

1058
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 2: got five power conferences, meaning automatically at least one conference

1059
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 2: is going to be left out. And we've seen teams

1060
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 2: that didn't even get to their conference championship game get

1061
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. So the whole thing was rigged from

1062
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 2: the beginning. But here was my one point about the

1063
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 2: quarterback situation. Of the nine teams that have won the

1064
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 2: college Football Playoff of the nine seasons, four of them

1065
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 2: started quarterbacks in the championship game that were not their

1066
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 2: starting quarterbacks at the beginning of the year. For of

1067
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,760
Speaker 2: the nine teams head including that first year with Ohio

1068
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 2: State with Cardel Jones, was their third string quarterback, so

1069
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 2: they thought they had like this built in excuse. Wow,

1070
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 2: you know they are on their third I'm sorry for

1071
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 2: of the nine teams that actually won the championship had

1072
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 2: their backup quarterbacks in the championship game that won the championship,

1073
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 2: So that was just a lame excuse.

1074
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 1: They thought it would fly. It didn't.

1075
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,839
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the twelve school playoff, I guess

1076
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 2: the big concern is and what's the feeling about Texas

1077
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 2: now moving into the SEC along with Oklahoma and this

1078
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 2: complete dismantleion of college football as we've known it all

1079
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 2: these years. I mean, my UCLA Bruins are going to

1080
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 2: limp into the Big Ten. Unfortunately we can't fire Chip

1081
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 2: Kelly because they won't pay off his contract.

1082
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: It's an absolute train wreck what's going on in UCLA

1083
00:52:58,680 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: right now.

1084
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 2: But I mean, going to go into the Big Ten

1085
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 2: get our doors blown off? I mean, is this ultimately

1086
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 2: going to be a positive moving forward?

1087
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 3: All these changes and by the way. There are more

1088
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 3: to come.

1089
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 2: But this idea of you know, to hell with tradition,

1090
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 2: wherever the money's being thrown around that's best for us,

1091
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:20,720
Speaker 2: is that gonna work for college football.

1092
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 4: Some of it will stay and some of them are

1093
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 4: going to keep playing each other.

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00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: Texas at OU will always play.

1095
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 4: Now Texas and Texas, A and M will start playing again,

1096
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 4: and it'll be like it never happened.

1097
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: They're back to.

1098
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,919
Speaker 4: Get you know, A and M wanted its own thing,

1099
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,399
Speaker 4: and now Texas has followed it. In the SEC. That's

1100
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:43,879
Speaker 4: a huge rivalry. They'll play again. I don't know how

1101
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 4: Oklahoma will function. What Texas looks really good right now

1102
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 4: sarcasm in the right direction. They're recruiting beautifully. I mean,

1103
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 4: they're now the land of the five star. They're not

1104
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:59,720
Speaker 4: quite Georgia, but they're recruiting at a similar type level,

1105
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 4: and so they much as I hate to see it, well,

1106
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 4: they're they're coming into the SEC pretty hot.

1107
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: Now. I think this will beat them down.

1108
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 4: You know, there are there aren't as many breaks as

1109
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 4: maybe they would find in a big twelve schedule. But

1110
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,280
Speaker 4: let's not act like there aren't some teams that aren't

1111
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 4: that great in the SEC. We sometimes build the SEC

1112
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 4: to be bigger than it actually is.

1113
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 1: There's actually, what.

1114
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 4: Four really good teams and then a bunch of kind

1115
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 4: of OK teams and then two, two or three really

1116
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 4: bad teams. Right, I mean there's there, there's there's Georgia

1117
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 4: and Alabama, Uh, Texas, I don't know the way they're

1118
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 4: playing now may enter that group. Auburn is good once

1119
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 4: every seven or eight years, right, or every once a

1120
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 4: decade or something, they get a good team. So we

1121
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 4: probably overrate the you know, and like Missouri had a

1122
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 4: good year this year, Well that's once every what ten years?

1123
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: I think we overrated a little bit.

1124
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 4: It'd be interesting to see some of these conferences big

1125
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 4: ten what that's gonna look like.

1126
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be unwieldy. How many teams is that?

1127
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 4: It's hard to keep up with eighteen teams? See, it's

1128
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 4: just kind of weird. I mean the ACC. I keep

1129
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,759
Speaker 4: trying to get it through my mind, Like, I mean,

1130
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 4: think about the teams going into that Stanford, Stanford in

1131
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 4: the SMU. All those teams are going to the ACC,

1132
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 4: and meanwhile Florida State, you know, desperately wanting out. The

1133
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 4: thing is I don't know if the SEC or the

1134
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,919
Speaker 4: Big ten's dying to have them right now, but they

1135
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 4: want out of the ACC. I mean, it's a mess.

1136
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 4: By the way, Florida State and the ACC did this

1137
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 4: to themselves with that whole alliance thing that they did.

1138
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 4: You know, because there were twelve team would have already

1139
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 4: been in place for this year had they not done

1140
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 4: that in trying to form some kind of weird alliance

1141
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 4: that didn't work.

1142
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 1: And by the way, the Big Twelve and a lot of.

1143
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 4: Ways has surpassed the ACC, the new Big Twelve with

1144
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 4: Colorado and Dion, the whole gang in Utah and Arizona

1145
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 4: and Arizona State. I think you can make the argument

1146
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 4: it's a better conference than the ACC.

1147
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 2: All Right, Well, I'm again I'm a traditionalist. I think

1148
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 2: there's some goods. I'm not hanging on to tradition across

1149
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 2: the border. There are some things will be positive. And

1150
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 2: of course a lot of people just make the argument, well,

1151
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 2: tradition doesn't mean anything, create new traditions. We'll see if

1152
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: that actually happens with a completely different look for college

1153
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 2: football in twenty twenty four.

1154
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: Coming up.

1155
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:30,720
Speaker 2: On the other side, we're going to talk about can

1156
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 2: you buy a championship? One team is going to find

1157
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 2: out because if they didn't pay the right guy, it

1158
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 2: could be a disaster. We'll explain. This is Fox Football Saturday.

1159
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:47,320
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1160
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,880
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1161
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,160
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1162
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,200
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1164
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1165
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1167
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1168
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 2: off the air. We just talked about all the big

1169
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 2: money floating around the college scene. Of course, in the

1170
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 2: professional ranks, it's always been about money, and the Dodgers

1171
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 2: just spent a boat load on show. Hey Otani, by

1172
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 2: the way, I know you are in football country, but

1173
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 2: it must have been sweet for the Texas Rangers to

1174
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 2: finally break through and win a World Series. Of course,

1175
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 2: guided by one of my favorite people in the world.

1176
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 2: I've known him for thirty years. That would be Bruce Bochi.

1177
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 2: Knowing him since he took over as the Padres manager

1178
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 2: way back in nineteen ninety five. There is no better

1179
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 2: person in my book in that business than Bruce Bouchie.

1180
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 2: But you know, I just find it interesting that the

1181
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 2: guy that won the series MVP is a guy that

1182
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 2: was also a series MVP the Los Angeles Dodgers, Corey Seeger,

1183
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 2: and they just felt like, yeah, we really don't want

1184
00:57:55,640 --> 00:58:00,160
Speaker 2: to spend money on Corey Seeger. The Rangers did and

1185
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 2: got rewarded mightily for that decision.

1186
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 3: I find it interesting.

1187
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 2: And this is no shot on sho Heyo TONI because

1188
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 2: obviously he is unlike any player that we've ever.

1189
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: Seen in Major League Baseball over the last three years.

1190
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: No one has.

1191
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 2: Ever done ever, not even Babe Ruth, of what Shoheyo

1192
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 2: has done over the last three years. But I also

1193
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 2: look at six years of the Angels and I six

1194
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 2: seek six losing seasons. I mean, he's never even been

1195
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 2: on a team that's at a winning record. Must it's

1196
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 2: a team that actually got into the postseason. So when

1197
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 2: we talk about because now this is what the college

1198
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 2: ranks are talking about, like, well, how much money we're

1199
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 2: gonna spend, how much money name, image and likeness. Do

1200
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 2: we have to fork out As we have the transfer

1201
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 2: portal and all this money being thrown around, you still

1202
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 2: have to get the right chemistry together, right, I mean,

1203
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 2: it's still got to be the right pieces. Just paying

1204
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 2: somebody doesn't mean that that's instantly going to translate into

1205
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 2: winning a championship. I feel for the Dodgers because they

1206
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 2: really need pitching, and Otani's not going to pitch a

1207
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 2: single pitch in twenty twenty four, and we don't know

1208
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 2: if he's ever gonna be a guy that comes back

1209
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 2: from two elbow surgeries for a guy that throws one

1210
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour.

1211
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: Why Why did you feel for the Dodgers?

1212
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 4: Like nobody should feel bad for a team that can spin.

1213
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: Well, I shoven hundred billion dollars on a player.

1214
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 2: But here's why I feel because the Dodger fans don't

1215
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 2: give a crap about that. Okay, I've been surrounded by

1216
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 2: Dodger fans my entire life, and they dismissed twenty twenty.

1217
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 2: They won a World Series when it really didn't count.

1218
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 2: All the games were played in Texas, there was no parade,

1219
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 2: it was a shortened season. They haven't won a legitimate

1220
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 2: World Series since Kirk Gibson his home run in nineteen

1221
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 2: eighty eight. So they're desperate and they want to believe

1222
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 2: that Otani's going to be the missing piece. But again,

1223
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 2: we saw it in Texas. I mean, I don't know,

1224
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 2: did I mean, the Rangers spent a lot of money

1225
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 2: and it all worked out for them. Of course, they

1226
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 2: had one of the great managers of all time in

1227
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 2: Bruce Bochi. But this whole idea about buying championships and

1228
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 2: now we're faced with this on the collegiate level just

1229
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 2: doesn't work that way.

1230
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:12,959
Speaker 4: Well, the Rangers brought in Simeon and Seeger for a huge.

1231
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: Amount of money.

1232
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 4: They went out and got a pitcher, and obviously it

1233
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 4: didn't work out. They spent a massive amount of money

1234
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 4: and he gets hurt and that course that was his

1235
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 4: reputation before he showed up from the Mets. But the

1236
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 4: Rangers just kind of had everything fall, you know, Adolis

1237
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 4: Garcia emerges is not only a postseason hero, just the

1238
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 4: emotional leader of the team. And then out of the blue,

1239
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 4: Evan Carter shows up late in the season and is

1240
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 4: some kind of unreal rookie.

1241
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 1: So, I mean, there were a lot of things that

1242
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: had to come together.

1243
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 4: And as you said, Boshee is incredible in a time

1244
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 4: when we're trying to go with all analytics, and not

1245
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 4: that he doesn't appreciate analytics, but man, some of these

1246
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 4: old school managers can still get it done.

1247
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: And he's unbelievable.

1248
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 4: And he just had the perfect Everything he did seemed

1249
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 4: to and then they had Chris Young come in and

1250
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 4: do a really nice job, you know, as their GM.

1251
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 4: Now O'tani joins an organization that wins a lot. Let's

1252
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 4: not act like this is the Angels.

1253
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 5: This is a This is.

1254
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 4: A group that's been what ten times, I mean ten

1255
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 4: straight years to the postseason. They've got plenty of postseason trips,

1256
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 4: plenty of success. But you're right, only the one breakthrough

1257
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 4: I would be that would be interesting to me. I

1258
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:33,000
Speaker 4: did not realize that Dodgers fans I would think they

1259
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 4: would take any title and celebrate it.

1260
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 1: I would that'd be interesting.

1261
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 4: I did not realize that they view that as not

1262
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 4: the full A full title.

1263
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 2: I mean, the last four full seasons they've won at

1264
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 2: least one hundred games. The embarrassment of losing to division

1265
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 2: rivals the Padres and the d Backs in the first

1266
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 2: round the last couple of years. Yeah, I mean they

1267
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 2: are absolutely starving for a legit World Series championship, hoping

1268
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: that guy, the who has never even been on a

1269
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 2: winning team. Ever, it's going to be the difference.

1270
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: Which is not his fault.

1271
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:08,959
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, and by the way, he's done

1272
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 4: everything possible, including being a great pitcher and then being

1273
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 4: you know, the home run king. I mean, he's unbelievable.

1274
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 4: But you know, you got Aaron Judge with the Yankees.

1275
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 4: It doesn't necessarily just because you hit a million home runs.

1276
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 4: You still have to have the other players and the

1277
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 4: other pieces around it. But boy Otani is I mean

1278
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 4: it's a massive piece of the puzzle.

1279
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the biggest they've done. It had

1280
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: a lot of huge moves.

1281
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 4: I mean, I remember when they brought in you Darvish

1282
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 4: and he had his moments, you know, with the Cubs.

1283
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 4: He certainly started out with the Rangers all of that.

1284
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 4: But Otani is a different level. And I mean, this

1285
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,760
Speaker 4: is and what he's willing to do is pretty cool.

1286
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 4: I mean, this is a new deal. You can't do

1287
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 4: it in the NFL, right, can't do it these a

1288
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 4: lot of these other sports this, this whole deferring. Yeah,

1289
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 4: six hundred and eighty million is wild. I mean, I

1290
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 4: honestly think he's one of the most selfless superstars of

1291
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 4: our time.

1292
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 1: Now, talk about overplay it. Now.

1293
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 2: The guy's been making He's been making over forty million

1294
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 2: dollars a year already in endorsementers.

1295
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 3: Who cares.

1296
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 1: So he's taken two million a year.

1297
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 2: He doesn't two million. He's making forty million endorsements. That's

1298
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 2: gonna probably be sixty million endorsements. Man, here, here was

1299
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 2: my finance guy. He said, all right, so all this

1300
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 2: money he's deferring, right, the six hundred and eighty million dollars,

1301
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 2: if he just sits on that, if he lives off

1302
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 2: the fifty sixty million dollars a year, he's gonna make

1303
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 2: anyway with endorsements and everything else. If he lets that

1304
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 2: money sit every nine years, it doubles. Every nine years,

1305
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 2: it doubles. So I mean, we're talking billions and billions

1306
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 2: and billions.

1307
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 4: Still selfless though, because he's allowing the Dodgers to keep

1308
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 4: doing stuff.

1309
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,919
Speaker 1: He wants to win. I get that he wants to win.

1310
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: That's all you can want. I mean, I mean, I

1311
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,439
Speaker 1: would think the fan base has to be over I mean, oh.

1312
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're not excited, but the problem is

1313
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 2: if they don't win, fair or not, he's got a

1314
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 2: seven hundred million dollar target on his back. That's the

1315
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 2: problem when you sign, when you have record contracts, knowing

1316
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 2: that it's a team sport.

1317
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1318
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,479
Speaker 2: The one thing that always gets to me when everyone said,

1319
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 2: well I won a super Bowl, No you didn't. You

1320
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:23,360
Speaker 2: were on a team that won a super Bowl. When

1321
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 2: championships in team sports are not individual honors. MVP batting titles,

1322
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 2: those are individual honors. But when you say, well, Kobe

1323
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 2: Bryan won fight. I did this with Kobe. I'm back

1324
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 2: in the day and we covered you know, we're the

1325
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 2: Lakers station, and Kobe was great and everything else. But

1326
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 2: I used to get on and say, Kobe, you didn't

1327
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:43,760
Speaker 2: win five championships. The Lakers won five championships. You were

1328
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:45,880
Speaker 2: a key player on those five teams. Of course, he

1329
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 2: had Shack at bal, you had other guys around you.

1330
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 2: But winning championships is not an individual thing ever in

1331
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 2: a team sport. Now, if you play golf or you

1332
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 2: play tennis, you win an individual title, that's an individual title.

1333
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 2: But anyway, We'll see how it all plays out. But

1334
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 2: I just I feel, yes, I do feel for Dodgers

1335
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 2: fans because I know a lot of them, and I'm

1336
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 2: just saying, you know, let's see if this guy could

1337
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 2: actually pitch again, because his greatest impact in the postseason

1338
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 2: well would be as a pitcher.

1339
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:18,919
Speaker 3: And it's not gonna happen in twenty twenty four.

1340
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 4: To your point, nobody ever gets to the end of

1341
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 4: these things, these contracts, and go, boy, this was a

1342
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 4: great contract, right, I mean, like.

1343
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: Pool Hooles did the huge deal.

1344
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 4: And you knew right when he signed it that maybe

1345
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 4: the first two three four years would be okay.

1346
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: And quite honestly, it wasn't. It wasn't.

1347
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 4: It wasn't and he wasn't really ever. I mean, it

1348
01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 4: was like his career.

1349
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 1: Wasn't it an amazing then?

1350
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 3: Wasn't amazing?

1351
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 8: Though?

1352
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 2: Those last two months that he played with the Cardinals,

1353
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:49,280
Speaker 2: he suddenly reverted.

1354
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: Back to the guy he was. How does that in

1355
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: the water in Saint Louis?

1356
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 2: All right, we got much more on the other side,

1357
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 2: but first let's find out what is a trending right now?

1358
01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 2: Kevin Wirrett is back on a very busy sports day came.

1359
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a great Saturday for sports, especially for football.

1360
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:07,360
Speaker 8: The final seconds have just ticked down in Indianapolis and

1361
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 8: the Colts beat the Steelers thirty to thirteen. And keep

1362
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 8: in mind the Steelers are up thirteen to nothing early

1363
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 8: in that second quarter and was all Indianapolis ever since.

1364
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:21,800
Speaker 8: Gargner Minshew with three touchdown passes to help Indianapolis jump

1365
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 8: into a playoff spot, and they actually are behind Cincinnati,

1366
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 8: so they're in the number seven spot after beating Pittsburgh.

1367
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 8: Cincinnati does have the tiebreaker over them because of best

1368
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 8: win percentage in a common games, so Cincinnati in the

1369
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:39,440
Speaker 8: number six spot. Indianapolis in the number seven spot. Pittsburgh

1370
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 8: now falls to seven and seven. They fall all away

1371
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 8: to number twelve, although there are three teams that are

1372
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 8: seven and six that will play later this week, so

1373
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 8: still a lot to be determined on the AFC side

1374
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 8: of the playoff standings. We were talking about the Bengals.

1375
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 8: They played earlier today against the Vikings, and this game

1376
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 8: started off slow, kind of those regrettable matchups of backup

1377
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 8: quarterbacks in the like a great game early on, but

1378
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 8: that second half it really heated up and the Bengals

1379
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 8: would tie the game, t Higgins making a catch with

1380
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 8: thirty nine seconds to go. It was short of the

1381
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 8: goal line, but he just had the raw strength to

1382
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 8: break a tackle and stretch his arm across to get

1383
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 8: the score. Force overtime and the Bengals after they were

1384
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 8: stopped and had to punt in that overtime period, the

1385
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 8: Vikings would get the ball fourth and short would come

1386
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 8: up just short as they tried to do that push

1387
01:07:26,680 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 8: push play so the Bengals would stop them would march

1388
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:30,919
Speaker 8: in a field goal range after that kick the game

1389
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 8: winner to win a twenty seven to twenty four and

1390
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 8: without Joe Borrow, the Bengals now eight and six and

1391
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 8: have the number six spot in the AFC playoff standings.

1392
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: The final game of the day coming up.

1393
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:45,480
Speaker 8: Later tonight eight fifteen Eastern time, Broncos and Lions set

1394
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 8: to get going at Ford Field. In the college ranks,

1395
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 8: we had a few bowl games go final already today

1396
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 8: the Celebration Bowl, the HBCU National Championship. Howard took a

1397
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 8: sixteen to ten lead into the half time break, but

1398
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 8: Florida in them with a big fourth quarter to win

1399
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 8: at thirty to twenty six. Took overtime at the New

1400
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 8: Orleans Bowl. Jacksonville State gets their first ever bowl win,

1401
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 8: thirty four to thirty one. Keep in mind they were

1402
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 8: not eligible initially to compete in the postseason because they're

1403
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 8: still transitioning from the FCS to the FBS, but because

1404
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:19,800
Speaker 8: there weren't enough six and six teams, they were given

1405
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:21,640
Speaker 8: a waiver to compete in a bowl game and they

1406
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 8: win it against Louisiana again thirty four to thirty one.

1407
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:27,000
Speaker 8: App State against Miami and this was a low scoring

1408
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 8: game in the Cure Bowl. And the reason four that

1409
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:32,800
Speaker 8: was it was an absolute monsoon coming down there at

1410
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 8: the stadium where Central Florida plays and app State wins

1411
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:36,840
Speaker 8: it again.

1412
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:38,719
Speaker 1: I hope you had the under in this one thirteen

1413
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:39,559
Speaker 1: to nine.

1414
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:42,680
Speaker 8: Ohio A blah went against Georgia Southern forty one to

1415
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 8: twenty one, and Fresno State at halftime leeds New Mexico

1416
01:08:47,280 --> 01:08:49,600
Speaker 8: State seventeen to three in the New Mexico Bowl. And

1417
01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 8: a couple of interesting scores in college hoops today, one

1418
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 8: especially featuring number six Baylor. They were undefeated coming in

1419
01:08:55,800 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 8: today against a struggling Michigan State team get blown out

1420
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:03,439
Speaker 8: eighty eight sixty four the final there number two Kansas

1421
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:06,320
Speaker 8: seventy five to seventy one winners against Indiana Number thirteen

1422
01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:10,720
Speaker 8: Clemson upset by Memphis seventy nine to seventy seven four.

1423
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 8: Frank Houston stays unbeaten with a seventy sixty six win

1424
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 8: against Texas. A and m back to you guys.

1425
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 2: Thanks for not mentioning UCLA losing Ohio State. Okay, our

1426
01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:22,599
Speaker 2: soun baol rough here for my Bruins basketball. We had

1427
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 2: a big turnovers, you know, three straight years on the

1428
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:27,800
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen. By the way, Haimi Hawkins junior playing well

1429
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 2: for the Miami Heat. Kevin great stuff. As always, once again,

1430
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 2: we're coming to live from the tire rack dot Com studios.

1431
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 2: I'm actious here at match to see my UCLA Bruins

1432
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 2: are about to kick off the Starko Brands La Bowl

1433
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 2: hosted by Gronk.

1434
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,720
Speaker 3: That's the actual name of the bowl game.

1435
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:50,320
Speaker 2: Starko Brown Starko Brands La Bowl hosted by Gronk. What's

1436
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 2: going on there, Brandon with this game Ucla. Everyone's sitting

1437
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:54,520
Speaker 2: out this game for UCLA.

1438
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:55,120
Speaker 5: I know.

1439
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 1: Uh. Fox Sports Radios owned Nick.

1440
01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 5: Cope is calling it.

1441
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 2: Nick Cope is calling the game very good. Well he's again,

1442
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 2: does he have to say that every time? This is

1443
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 2: the Starko Brands La Bowl hosted by Gronk, because that's

1444
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 2: the full title.

1445
01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 1: Of the Bull game.

1446
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:09,640
Speaker 5: I do not know.

1447
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: He said that. Gronk is singing the national anthem though,

1448
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 1: So we'll see how that goes. Okay, I'm not quite

1449
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:18,879
Speaker 1: anxious to see that. Yeah, I don't know about you.

1450
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 2: You know, Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl,

1451
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 2: those are easier times, you know, as far as calling

1452
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:30,559
Speaker 2: the bull games and stuff like that. But we're just

1453
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 2: in a completely different world these days when it comes

1454
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 2: to that. I want to get back to a guy,

1455
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:40,719
Speaker 2: you know, well, Jerry Jones and the decision they made

1456
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 2: to finally put Jimmy Johnson in the Ring of Honor.

1457
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 1: My theory was.

1458
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 2: The football guys had told Jerry he might work from

1459
01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 2: a sleep, you know it had a dream that if

1460
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 2: he finally put Jimmy Johnson into the Ring of Honor,

1461
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 2: that the Cowboys would win another Super Bowl. Have they

1462
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:02,000
Speaker 2: lost the game since that happened, by the way, No, No,

1463
01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:05,000
Speaker 2: that's amazing how that turned around. What was the real

1464
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 2: story behind the delay? Because Jimmy. Jimmy came out and said, no, no, no,

1465
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 2: Jerry said it was always going to happen. It was

1466
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 2: just a matter when, well, what is what was the

1467
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 2: real story behind that? Because these guys obviously have been

1468
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 2: friends dating back to their days at the University of

1469
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:24,080
Speaker 2: Arkansas when they were part of that sixty four national

1470
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 2: championship team. But what was the real story in keeping

1471
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:29,640
Speaker 2: Jimmy Johnson, who, by the way, if it wasn't for him,

1472
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 2: Jerry would have zero Super Bowls to his credit as

1473
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:34,480
Speaker 2: an owner with the Billy.

1474
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 4: It's exactly what you just said. I mean, Jerry knows

1475
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 4: that's the perception. And I don't know. I don't know

1476
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 4: why he finally decided to go ahead and get it done.

1477
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:50,959
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was just the pettiness over two guys

1478
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 4: that had a lot of success together, but we're at

1479
01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 4: each other's throat. And I mean, after winning a Super Bowl,

1480
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 4: you know, to fire a coach and bring in Barry Switzer.

1481
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 4: I mean, think about that happening modern day. Think about that.

1482
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 4: I guess that was modern day actually, but think about

1483
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:11,600
Speaker 4: that happening now. It wouldn't happen. It was such a

1484
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 4: crazy thing when it happened, and I mean there's just

1485
01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 4: over the years, there's just been some bad blood between

1486
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:22,240
Speaker 4: both of them and they finally put it aside. And

1487
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:25,439
Speaker 4: it was weird because it was kind of rushed, and

1488
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 4: it was weird how they did it because they basically

1489
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:31,839
Speaker 4: announced it and did it like five minutes before kickoff

1490
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 4: of a game against the Panthers and then he had

1491
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:36,639
Speaker 4: a news conference like as the game was going on.

1492
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 4: It seemed a little bit disrespectful toward the Panthers, although

1493
01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 4: they've probably earned the disrespect. I think they're like one

1494
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 4: in twelve right now. Yeah, But it just this thing

1495
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:49,960
Speaker 4: that just it's like one of those stories you would have,

1496
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 4: like from the Raiders days, Okay, and if I said,

1497
01:12:54,080 --> 01:12:57,600
Speaker 4: tell me what happened with Al Davis and Art and

1498
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,600
Speaker 4: that game? You know, just all and why did he

1499
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 4: get mad at this guy? I mean you would say, well, Matt,

1500
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:04,720
Speaker 4: I'm gonna need all afternoon to tell you.

1501
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 1: Well, this is a similar deal. This is like it

1502
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 1: just goes.

1503
01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 4: Way back, and they've been through a lot together and

1504
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,800
Speaker 4: there were moments where the relationship was better and then

1505
01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 4: it kind of got a little ugly again and they

1506
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 4: just got to a good spot and I don't know,

1507
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:24,400
Speaker 4: there might be something to what you said, like the curse.

1508
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 4: It sounds funny and like a joke, but I don't

1509
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 4: Jerry may kind of be thinking this could create some

1510
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 4: goodwill and some good things.

1511
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:35,759
Speaker 1: And he also loves he's a showman.

1512
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:41,200
Speaker 4: And the thought of you know, putting Jimmy in, you know,

1513
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 4: before a big game, I guess it's gonna happen before

1514
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 4: this Lions game. I mean, he just kind of adds

1515
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:49,679
Speaker 4: to the But this was a this was a thrown

1516
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:53,480
Speaker 4: together type deal, so it is kind of fascinating.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you there's years and years.

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Speaker 4: Of those guys thinking the other guy I was getting

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01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 4: too much credit, Jerry being very resentful of what you

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01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 4: just said earlier that everybody thought it was because of

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01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:09,840
Speaker 4: Jimmy that they did it and it ended poorly, And

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01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:13,400
Speaker 4: quite honestly, you say there's a curse, and well, they

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01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 4: won another super Bowl, but there is a thought that

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01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:18,800
Speaker 4: they could have won more, and if Jimmy had a

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01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 4: stayed and they have not been back to an NFC

1526
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:26,679
Speaker 4: title game since the ninety five season, right as nineteen

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01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 4: ninety six when that game was played, and it's just

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01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 4: crazy to think of you think you would almost stumble

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01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 4: into one. Think about exactly the point, right, Think about like, how, yeah,

1530
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:40,639
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers, we beat him up for not being better

1531
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,479
Speaker 4: in those games, but how many has he been to?

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01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 4: Like he's at least gotten to quite a few NFC

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01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 4: title games. Cowboys none like great players like Romo and

1534
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 4: Witten and whoever else has been through now, Dak, they

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01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:56,880
Speaker 4: haven't done it.

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01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: I mean they haven't done it. You know, since Eateman

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01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:02,160
Speaker 1: was around and eight, when's what fifty eight to fifty

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01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 1: nine years old?

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01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 2: Now, don't age me. He was a kid, and back

1540
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 2: in the day, I remember him as a kid.

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01:15:08,439 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 1: Look, I was.

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01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 2: My last year working for the LA Raiders was eighty eight,

1543
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:15,679
Speaker 2: the year we hired Mike Shanahan, this unknown quarterback coach

1544
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:17,760
Speaker 2: for the Denver Broncos. And if you really want to

1545
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 2: know what happened between Al Davis and Mike Shanahan, by

1546
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:23,719
Speaker 2: the way, to show you how how how I feel,

1547
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:27,040
Speaker 2: Mike Shanahan gets hired. We had a press conference and

1548
01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 2: I met his eight year old son, Kyle. So I'm

1549
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 2: the media relations director for the Raiders and this new

1550
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:37,280
Speaker 2: coach comes in and he introduces me to his eight

1551
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 2: year old son, Kyle, So how do I.

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01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 3: Feel about that?

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01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 1: All Right, on the other side, we'll give you some

1554
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: of whatever happened to that guy.

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01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 3: Whatever happened you know, he showed promises an eight year old.

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01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:50,519
Speaker 2: All right, coming up on the other side, we're going

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01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 2: to give you some of our best plays for some

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01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:53,839
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Speaker 1: This is Fox Football Saturday.

1560
01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 3: Benshe drops a throw on first down over the middle.

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01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:01,360
Speaker 1: Of it, caught and it's a touchdown.

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01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:06,080
Speaker 2: O Allie Cox touchdown as he walks across the goal line.

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01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:11,799
Speaker 1: Touchdown in d why one play, no problem?

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01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 3: Eighteen yards to the tight end and the Colts lead

1565
01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:16,519
Speaker 3: twenty to thirteen.

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1567
01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 2: Colts take care of business at home against the Steelers

1568
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 2: thirty to thirteen. Colts, at least in the moment, are

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Speaker 2: Saturday Live from the ti IRAQ dot Com studios. Want

1576
01:16:47,280 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 2: to thank the crew today. Kevin Wyer bringing his updates

1577
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:55,040
Speaker 2: on a very very busy sports day. Lorena is always

1578
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 2: just brilliant on the board, pushing all the right buttons,

1579
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 2: making this show actually operate. And then there's Brandon that

1580
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 2: he's getting a little anxious right now, Matt about his

1581
01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 2: San Diego Padres and what their next move is going

1582
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 2: to be.

1583
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: A lot of big names are coming off the board.

1584
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:13,080
Speaker 1: What are the potter's saying?

1585
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 2: They're letting the dust settle a little bit before they

1586
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 2: make any big moves. Is that what Aj Breller said

1587
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:19,400
Speaker 2: something along those lines.

1588
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:21,559
Speaker 1: I don't know. I kind of tuned amount a while ago.

1589
01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:23,519
Speaker 8: I'm still coming down from the high of watching the

1590
01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 8: Chargers just get destroyed.

1591
01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:28,040
Speaker 2: You have to task there's so many there were so

1592
01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 2: many more people that hate the charge. You're asking earlier,

1593
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 2: Matt about the San Diego support the Chargers.

1594
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 3: The absolute answer is nobody does zero.

1595
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 2: I mean, I remember when you know, being on the

1596
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:43,680
Speaker 2: air in San Diego when the Chargers left and I

1597
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:46,479
Speaker 2: did something and I thought it was it was going

1598
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 2: to take a while I said, I want to identify

1599
01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 2: a fan of every single team in the NFL that

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01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 2: lives in San Diego, and you figure out, oh, come in,

1601
01:17:57,240 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 2: they're Panthers fans. And the way we did this without

1602
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 2: telling the caller, they'd say, all right, I'm a Panthers fan,

1603
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 2: and we would ask them a question that only a

1604
01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:06,839
Speaker 2: Panthers fan could answer.

1605
01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:07,160
Speaker 1: Right.

1606
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:11,880
Speaker 2: We were able to identify legitimate fans of every single

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01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 2: team in two days.

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01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:17,600
Speaker 3: Two days in San Diego.

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01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:19,320
Speaker 2: It's not like we would take a lot of phone

1610
01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 2: calls otherwise, but it just goes to show it's a

1611
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 2: melting pot and everything else. Hey, I want to ask

1612
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 2: you about this game coming up between the Broncos and

1613
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:30,679
Speaker 2: the Lions. From the Broncos standpoint, this is a team

1614
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 2: that was zero to three with a seventy point give

1615
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 2: up against the Dolphins, the team that literally looked like

1616
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:38,640
Speaker 2: they quit on the field. They went to one and

1617
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:43,400
Speaker 2: five and they're six and one ever since. And Sean

1618
01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 2: Payton is someone I got to know a little bit

1619
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 2: when he was in New Orleans. I like him on

1620
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 2: a personal level. I didn't know if he could turn

1621
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 2: things around with the Broncos, but they're in season turnaround.

1622
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:57,840
Speaker 2: I mean, you could talk about Demico Ryans. Obviously, what

1623
01:18:57,880 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 2: the Texans have done this year is probably gonna be

1624
01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:02,920
Speaker 2: your runaway coach of the Year, deservedly so. But as

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01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:06,200
Speaker 2: far as in season is concerned, especially what they've done

1626
01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 2: on the defensive side of football, in my opinion, is

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01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:15,840
Speaker 2: nothing short of remarkable, unbelievable coaching job by him, Vaughn,

1628
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 2: you know, Evince Joseph on the defensive side, and they're

1629
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 2: in the playoff chase.

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01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's phenomenal what he's done. And I

1631
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 4: think this quarterback a lot of people had lost faith in.

1632
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:35,599
Speaker 4: You saw him react during that one and five start,

1633
01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:39,360
Speaker 4: and late in at one of those games he got

1634
01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:42,599
Speaker 4: you know, you don't normally see a quarterback or a

1635
01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:48,240
Speaker 4: head coach just unload on a veteran somewhat thought was

1636
01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 4: headed toward a Hall of Fame career quarterback like that,

1637
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 4: but Sean did, and well, that thing could have gone

1638
01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:57,559
Speaker 4: either way, and somehow he kind of got it together.

1639
01:19:57,760 --> 01:19:59,760
Speaker 4: But I mean, I think this is great for his

1640
01:19:59,880 --> 01:20:02,120
Speaker 4: life legacy because yes, you know a lot of these

1641
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:04,880
Speaker 4: guys just get credit because they had won. He had

1642
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:08,559
Speaker 4: Drew Brees and he had that great run with him,

1643
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:10,680
Speaker 4: but he just won the one super Bowl. I mean

1644
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 4: you can say the same about Mike McCarthy with the

1645
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 4: one super Bowl with the Packers.

1646
01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: But when you can turn.

1647
01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 4: A team around that was this far in the tank, boy,

1648
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:23,640
Speaker 4: I think it really really helps your legacy. And this

1649
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 4: is helping Sean Payton well.

1650
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 2: Like the other games today, big game for both of

1651
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 2: these teams. The Lions have been a little shaky as

1652
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 2: of recent weeks, but still nine to four. All right,

1653
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:35,080
Speaker 2: a few seconds left. I want you on the record, Matt,

1654
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 2: will you predict that the Cowboys make it at least

1655
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:40,559
Speaker 2: to the conference championship game this season?

1656
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:42,320
Speaker 1: No, No, I can't.

1657
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 5: I can't go that far.

1658
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 1: I try to get him to say he doesn't buy

1659
01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 1: into it.

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Speaker 3: Give it right here. This is Fox Sports Radio.