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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Mark Sanchez, former USC quarterback of course NFL

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Speaker 1: quarterback with the Jets. He stopped by yesterday. We had

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Speaker 1: a chance to sit down with him, and the first

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Speaker 1: thing I asked Mark was, if you're walking around in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, what did people say to you? It's funny,

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Speaker 1: it's hit or miss. Sometimes I get Matt Leiner, sometimes

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Speaker 1: I get Adrian Grenier from Entrepegenny Chase. Yeah, that's usually it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what are you, Lopez? What what do you say when

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Speaker 1: somebody says, hey, Matt Leiner, Well, this is funny. I

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Speaker 1: went to this uh business conference and this guy comes

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Speaker 1: and gives me a huge hug, says, man, that apartment complex.

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Speaker 1: I mean I told you it's blown up. And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: what you're talking about. It's like, you know, we went

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Speaker 1: out on the apartment complex. It's doing so well. They

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Speaker 1: got seven more. I mean, I'm making bank on that thing.

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Speaker 1: You're in it too, And I'm like, dude, what are

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Speaker 1: you talking about? And he finally goes, come on, man,

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Speaker 1: don't mess Heisman guy. Now, Heisman, now you're too big time.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm like, dude, I didn't win. To him, He's

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Speaker 1: like Matt And I said, Mark, he goes, Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Just totally missed good. Oh not a

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Speaker 1: convicted fellow. No, he was just convicted convicted. Okay, Um,

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Speaker 1: good month for USC football. When you say, I think

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Speaker 1: we're winning the off season whatever news media battle, but

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Speaker 1: that's for sure and transfer portal. What does Lincoln Riley's

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Speaker 1: style mean? Um, you know, I think most importantly, it

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Speaker 1: seems like things are shifting the way it was when

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Speaker 1: I was coming out to high school, and that was

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Speaker 1: Carson Palmer, Matt Leiner. That was the only place to go, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: if you're a SoCal quarterback, you look nowhere else. It

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Speaker 1: was Norm Chow, it was Steve Sarkisian, it was Pete Carroll.

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Speaker 1: That's where you wanted to be and for a long time. Now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, look at all the guys in the SEC.

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Speaker 1: Georgia took the kid from modern day JT. Janiel Daniels,

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Speaker 1: the kid from Clemson, Hungel La. H is from Bosco right,

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Speaker 1: Orange County, LA. And then Bryce Young's modern day and

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Speaker 1: these guys are across the country. How did they get

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Speaker 1: out of Southern California? That's the problem is it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a desirable place to go and look at quarterback factory anymore.

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Speaker 1: But now it's Kyler, it's Baker Mayfield, it's um Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 1: Where else are you gonna go? If you're a quarterback?

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Speaker 1: That's the guy. So hopefully that brings people back and

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Speaker 1: reminds them that they don't have to leave, because if

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Speaker 1: we just keep California, even just if you cut California

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Speaker 1: in half and took the southern part. I mean, we're

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Speaker 1: competitive now, but all these guys are leaving. Who was

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Speaker 1: runner up for you coming out of high school? Runner up? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Next school, cheez? I went to Texas, Ohio State and

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. I looked at UCLA briefly, but yeah, mac Brown.

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Speaker 1: Mac Brown was great. He was hard to say no too.

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Speaker 1: But Jim Trussell, I remember we were in the Horseshoe.

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Speaker 1: They had the band. I had an Ohio State jersey.

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Speaker 1: They put my highlight tape up on the Megatron or whatever.

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Speaker 1: They audio dubbed Keith Jackson's voice over it, and it

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be like the Rose Bowl, And then

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Speaker 1: they were showing my high school highlights on this thing,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm a Buckeye. Done deal. I

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Speaker 1: hear Keith Jackson, the young sophomore or from southern you know,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is it? Like I'm about to

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Speaker 1: he said, you know it's it's awesome. Every year we

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Speaker 1: play Michigan right around Thanksgiving ten years in a row,

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Speaker 1: great football weather. It's been snow in every game. And

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Speaker 1: I was like, but I looked at my dad. I

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Speaker 1: was like, what did he say? I was like, snow.

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Speaker 1: We gotta drive to Big Bear for snow. Like yeah,

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Speaker 1: That kind of that really just changed my mind right there. Wait,

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Speaker 1: did you do any research on what weather's like? And

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Speaker 1: it's silly now looking back, I'm like, what a moron?

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Speaker 1: But you look at the jerseys, you look at the coaches,

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Speaker 1: you look at Okay, what am I gonna do here?

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Speaker 1: You know it's a good education. Great. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: and where it's going. Because Caleb Williams is really the

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Speaker 1: first true free agent we've probably seen. I'm curious what

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Speaker 1: he got from USC Yeah, because everything's legal now, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel like here in LA, you

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Speaker 1: have so much to offer these kids. You know, you

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Speaker 1: like you could get maybe twenty grands. So you're doing

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Speaker 1: five quick little talks playing the golf tournament. There's one

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Speaker 1: hundred grand right there. I mean, go sign some autographs

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Speaker 1: at a dealership, like it's so easy. Now, But how

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Speaker 1: did the sec master this? I mean, Young reportedly got

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Speaker 1: one point three million from Alabama and those are just

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Speaker 1: guaranteed deals. I'm sure like he was making more than

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts was as an NFL quarterback. Classes here, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I believe it. I just saw that SoundBite of Jimbo Fisher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah clown ask yeah, Yeah. He wants everybody to think

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Speaker 1: I'm a great recruiter and we would never pay for anybody.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come come on, they got they gotta show

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Speaker 1: money down there. Mark, It's it's legal now, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: like just just let it go like it's on, because

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Speaker 1: you got for me exactly. And the parents. You know,

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Speaker 1: this transfer portal thing is interesting too because I feel

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Speaker 1: like the parents, even when I was coming out, like

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Speaker 1: know how good John he is, you know. And now

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Speaker 1: these kids like play a little bit their first year boom,

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Speaker 1: and they're in the portal just to go on trips again,

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Speaker 1: just to go visit and Okay, what do you have

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Speaker 1: for me? Well, they said they got thirty. You only

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Speaker 1: have twenty. You know. It's um, it's unbelievable, but it's legal.

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Speaker 1: I saw Kenny Pickett went to the Senior Bowl and

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Speaker 1: of course he's got small hands. Mark, So thoughts and

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Speaker 1: prayers for Kenny Pickett. Sure, but then you hear he's

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Speaker 1: the most ready quarterback. And how important you've got big hands.

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Speaker 1: I'm massive hands. So obviously you have to have massive

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Speaker 1: And his thumb it was like his thumb on his

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Speaker 1: But I played golf with them. One time and I

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Speaker 1: he got some extra juice on the ball. But it's

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Speaker 1: it's something. It's not everything, but it definitely helps. But

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Speaker 1: when you've went to the combine like what stood out that,

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Speaker 1: it should. Yeah, I remember, you go so if you

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Speaker 1: thirty two team doctors will go and crank on it.

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Speaker 1: a basketball because I had heard it my senior year

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Speaker 1: forty tomorrow. There's no way I gotta drop back and throw.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we were icing that thing, massaging that thing

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Speaker 1: like crazy because they were just pulling on it, pulling

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Speaker 1: on it, pushing on it, prodding. How does this feel?

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Speaker 1: How does this extend to contract? You know all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, you're like a lab rat.

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Speaker 1: And it was awful. I mean, it was still so

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Speaker 1: swollen when I was running and everything. It sucks. That

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Speaker 1: was the worst part. Paul you got to Mark's measurables.

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Speaker 1: Of course I do. Mark Sanchez coming out of USC

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Speaker 1: measure ten point five inches on your hand size, which

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Speaker 1: is tied for tenth all time in combine history. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I was growing him out for the combine.

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Speaker 1: What you got his forty there eight eight? I got

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Speaker 1: four eight eight? Yeah? Okay, where's that rank with other

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Speaker 1: USC quarterbacks? Carson was faster than that Carson, and it's

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Speaker 1: definitely faster than that Liner. That had to be faster

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Speaker 1: than Line. There wasn't I'm gonna be Matt Barkley. Ah

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Speaker 1: gotta be. I don't know, yeah, PAULI. Yeah, four point

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Speaker 1: nine seconds for Matt Liner. Yes, yes, you owned him,

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Speaker 1: two tens you owned him. Take that. Mark is joining

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Speaker 1: us on behalf of Papa John celebrating it's a New

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Speaker 1: York style pizza fans unique pizza rituals in a special giveaway.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you take the sales pitch from there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's go. So basically Super Bowl Sunday number one day

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Speaker 1: to order pizza. They just introduced this New York style pizza,

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Speaker 1: you know, thirteen bucks eight huge slices folded in half,

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Speaker 1: dipping in the garlic sauce. There's nothing better. So basically

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Speaker 1: to win pizza, free pizza for an entire year. You

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Speaker 1: can upload your pictures of you eating this New York

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Speaker 1: your style, and they will pick a winner. And obviously

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Speaker 1: you brought in some pizza for it. Let's go here,

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Speaker 1: where's the hello? You didn't bring any you know who

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Speaker 1: would have brought pizza? Matt Liner? Oh yeah, it would

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Speaker 1: have been slow. Um if I gave you Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. I love that kid man. I sat down

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Speaker 1: with him right before he has this incredible ascension at LSU.

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Speaker 1: Obviously I'm not taking credit for it, but I went

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Speaker 1: to go visit uh Edio and Seaton does it's a

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Speaker 1: great Let's hear a little coach Well, Dan, I let's

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Speaker 1: just say I thought you were doing Papa johns Um,

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Speaker 1: so answer it if you were Coach O talking about

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Well, Joe number one, go tagos and Joe

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Speaker 1: he got the eye of the tiggle. He got a

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Speaker 1: Who listen. I love Joe. I think he's so impressive,

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Speaker 1: especially nine sacks in that divisional game. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: And that dude didn't even flinch. Most quarterbacks your eyes

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Speaker 1: just start dropping. Okay, I'm I'm guilty of it. Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady's guilty of it. You name it. You get hit

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Speaker 1: I'd love to see him do well. I just think

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Speaker 1: I came in the same year. I just really want it.

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Speaker 1: I want it for him. I really want him to

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Speaker 1: win it. He's been through so much in Detroit and

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Speaker 1: it finally worked out. You know, everybody said, well if

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Speaker 1: he was with another corner, if he had a supporting cast,

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Speaker 1: Well now he does, so i'd love to see him

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Speaker 1: with Did you ever get too cocky beating Brady? Did

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Speaker 1: It's it's so funny because when you you look at

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Speaker 1: an interception on a screen pass by David Harris who

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Speaker 1: got caught by Algae Crumpler. By the way, what that

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Speaker 1: a throw. But basically it was crappy. But um, you

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Speaker 1: to hope for for a bad one from him. And

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Speaker 1: you hear Kobe, Kobe, Kobe. So I got to know

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Speaker 1: I'm just through being out there, and um man special.

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Speaker 1: What about Jordan? How'd you get the jersey? I don't

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Speaker 1: even know how I got that? But I've never met Mark.

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Speaker 1: I've never bet but you know, to me's to me

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Speaker 1: he's the best, So I, um, yeah, I never met him. No, wait,

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Speaker 1: how do you get a Jordan jersey? And you don't

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Speaker 1: remember you're gonna have a story with that I didn't

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Speaker 1: like chase him down in the parking lot. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how I did it, but it was probably some

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Speaker 1: type of silent option. Okay, charity event or something like that.

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Speaker 1: You know what, your house is quiet? Where the kids not? Usually? No? No,

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Speaker 1: we got two. We got two kids in school right now,

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Speaker 1: and then one is playing upstairs, and then we got

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Speaker 1: like a two month old. So we got four now.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, we're in it. Yeah, you caught me.

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Speaker 1: I got I got four. Good luck, good luck winning

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Speaker 1: a World series the easy part, Clayton, I'm finding that out.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Great to catch up with you,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully we baseball at some point this year and

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Speaker 1: have fun on Sunday. All right, Thanks appreciate. That's Clayton Kershawn.

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Speaker 1: the former Bengal quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner here in town

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Speaker 1: at USC Raider quarterback, Arizona Cardinal quarterback and a guy

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Speaker 1: who's been a great contributor to this program. Let's bring

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Speaker 1: him on. Carson Palmer is in the ability to see

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Speaker 1: you boys. Got a pair of got a pair of

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Speaker 1: fresh shoes, fresh shoes on there. Fresh jays. Yeah, some

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Speaker 1: fresh jays. I've been saving these for your Showy look

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Speaker 1: good person, they look good. Thank you. We saw Mark Sanchez, Uh,

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Speaker 1: he came in yesterday and he had his nikes and

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Speaker 1: he had the swoosh that was USC colors. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: had fresh shoes on as well. He did admit you

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Speaker 1: were faster than him barely was Yeah? Was you probably

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Speaker 1: still faster than him? I'm good. A guess he might

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Speaker 1: have had bigger hands than you. I doubt that. Uh

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Speaker 1: do you? I don't know. Do you have a ruler?

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Speaker 1: He had pause? Maybe he had some pause there. See

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Speaker 1: you didn't just shake Carson's hand. Those his hands are gigantic.

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Speaker 1: You have big hands, Mark Sanchez. Okay, check the combine

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Speaker 1: here because I might go Sanchez, Paul, I have from

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Speaker 1: the combine, the tenth highest best hand size of all

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Speaker 1: time is uh, Mark Sanchez at ten point five inches. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not on the top at ten point two five,

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Speaker 1: but check the forty times. That's no, he did admit.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the one thing Sanchez has on you

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Speaker 1: is he has bigger hands. That's it. I'll take speed

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Speaker 1: over hand sized. Oh okay, Yeah. Do hand snice matter?

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Speaker 1: It does, um, especially when you play on the East

485
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Speaker 1: coast in the wind, in the rain. It just helps

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Speaker 1: you get a little bit better grip and and you

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Speaker 1: just don't see that many guys in the league right

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Speaker 1: now with I don't know what the top ten is

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Speaker 1: ten something inches, but you don't see many guys in

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Speaker 1: the eight and nines. It just gets more and more

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Speaker 1: difficult with the wind to spin it. And Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: has big hands. He's talked about that he liked the

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Speaker 1: football inflated a little bit more. And then you have

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Speaker 1: the story with Kenny Pickett where like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't want to do he didn't want to get

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Speaker 1: his hands measured, like that's that's a nail. I guess

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Speaker 1: you punched his hands in his pockets at the combine,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't want to have you measure my hands,

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Speaker 1: like my stock is going to drop? It? Does? I

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Speaker 1: mean that there's so many coaches, there's so many organizations

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Speaker 1: that are looking at that number, and that's an extremely

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Speaker 1: important statistic for those guys. Why didn't you run more? Well?

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Speaker 1: I did run a bit and then I blew my

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Speaker 1: knee out and everything changed after that. I lost a

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Speaker 1: little bit of speed. It took me a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: That's what blows me away about Joe Burrow right now,

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Speaker 1: is he blew his knee out last year mid season,

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Speaker 1: and you don't see any ramifications from that injury. You

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Speaker 1: don't see him tentative. You don't see him. You know

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Speaker 1: a lot of times you'll you'll have an issue stepping

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Speaker 1: into throws, transferring your weight, turning on that front egg

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Speaker 1: and that nie spinning and rotating. You're not seeing at

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Speaker 1: all with Joe. I felt it for at least a

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Speaker 1: couple of years, And it took me a couple of

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Speaker 1: years to really feel one hundred percent with Joe. Right now,

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Speaker 1: he looks one hundred percent. He looks he looks like

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Speaker 1: he did at LSU or before the knee injury with Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: Paul give Carson the pull question. Okay, which quarterback would

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Speaker 1: you bet on? You got a bet on who would

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Speaker 1: have the most Super Bowl appearances in the next decade

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Speaker 1: going forward? Super Bowl appearances Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Justin

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Speaker 1: Herbert Patrick Mahomes. I think I like what's going on

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I like the combination of ownership, GM, coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: and quarterback. With Josh Allen, I think the ceiling is

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Speaker 1: extremely high, not that it's not high. With Burrow, I

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Speaker 1: think he's got an extremely high ceiling. But when you

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Speaker 1: combine the ownership group, coaching staff, and the division, you've

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Speaker 1: got Miami still trying to figure it out for Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: You've got New England, who is still New England, but

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Speaker 1: they don't have Tom Brady. Who else am I missing

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Speaker 1: in the AFC East the Jets? You got the Jets.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I like that set up for Josh to

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Speaker 1: get in the playoffs, and I think we'll see him

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Speaker 1: and at least one super Bowl, if not more coming up. See,

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Speaker 1: I said, Mahomes, just because you still have Tyreek Hill

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Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey. Nobody has that for a couple of

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Speaker 1: years until Tyreek hill has to get paid until Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelsey's next deal up. They've got some issues. They're paying Patrick,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're paying him a much different salary than

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Speaker 1: than Joe Burrows getting right now. So Joe Burrows got him.

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Speaker 1: He's got that going for himself salary cap wise. But

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Speaker 1: I just think Josh Allen's ceiling is only going to

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Speaker 1: get higher. We're going to see him continue to get

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Speaker 1: better and we haven't seen the best of him yet

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Speaker 1: and it's been really good so far. But it feels

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Speaker 1: like that window of opportunity is about five years that

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Speaker 1: you get that rookie contract with your quarterback, because that's

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Speaker 1: how Seattle won with Russ. Once you start paying these guys,

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to pay everybody else. The Bengals are

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Speaker 1: in really good shape right now, justin Herbert with the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: they're in really good shape right now. But then that's

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Speaker 1: going to change when those guys get paid fifty million

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Speaker 1: dollars a year. You know, I think the most interesting

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Speaker 1: thing after the Super Bowl, whether the Bengals win or not,

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Speaker 1: is the Bengals are going into next season with fifty

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Speaker 1: eight or fifty nine million dollars in cap space. They've

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Speaker 1: got Joe Burrow who is watching what they do. When

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Speaker 1: you look at this Bengals roster pre you know, before

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Speaker 1: the season started, this was not a Super Bowl roster.

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Speaker 1: There was not many people saying, oh man, look how

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Speaker 1: deep the Bengals are, Look how talented they are. Nobody

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Speaker 1: saw this coming. Joe Burrows watching how the organization goes

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Speaker 1: forward after this season. He wants to know what they're

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Speaker 1: going to do with that sixty million dollars in cap space.

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Speaker 1: His deal's up is in two years. He can sign

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Speaker 1: a big extension in two years, and he is really

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Speaker 1: really watching, are the Bengals are going to do what

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Speaker 1: they did? In the past, which is just kind of

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Speaker 1: sit around and wait in the draft and hope somebody

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Speaker 1: falls to him. Are they're going to make a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a splash and freeency. This is a chance

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Speaker 1: where they can rebuild that offensive line, get another good

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Speaker 1: swing tackle, get another pass rusher on defense. They've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of cap space going in the next year,

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Speaker 1: and nobody is more curious what they're gonna do with

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Speaker 1: it than Joe. Yeah, and you went through this because

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Speaker 1: the Bengals are a cheap organization or they have been,

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Speaker 1: and you have this opportunity, and you're right if I'm

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, like, let's let's take advantage of this opportunity. Plus,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess free agents are gonna want to play

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Speaker 1: for a team that's led by Joe Burrow. Receivers, offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: You know, guys want to get to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: And Joe looks like he's got that magic, he's got

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Speaker 1: the charisma. He's now done it. He's gotten here. Um

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Speaker 1: and the Bengals in the past haven't pulled out the

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Speaker 1: checkbook and written big checks and signed you know, you

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Speaker 1: got Chandler Jones, who's a great pass rusher, that's a

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00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: free agent. Um, there's some, there's some there's some game changers.

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Speaker 1: Vontae Adams is another weapon. I mean, you know, if

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Speaker 1: i'm Joe, I'm looking at um. You know, Brandon Shirt

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Speaker 1: who's in Washington, who was a top ten pick, who's

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Speaker 1: been a great guard and all Pro he's a free agent.

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Speaker 1: There's some tackles that are free so there's enough pieces

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Speaker 1: to continue to build on this current roster that got

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Speaker 1: to a super Bowl that nobody thought was going to

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Speaker 1: get to get them to a super Bowl. So Joe's

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Speaker 1: watching that and we're all watching as Bengal fans. We

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Speaker 1: want to see them make some moves and free agency,

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Speaker 1: not you know, sit around the draft and hope somebody

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Speaker 1: falls to him, get aggressive and continue to build on

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Speaker 1: what they've got started. Here we're talking to Carson Palmer

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Speaker 1: joining us on behalf of Levels. Select CBD makes you

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Speaker 1: use the promo code Carson forty. Growing up in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: and I tell this story often on the show. If

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Speaker 1: you say you're from Cincinnati, people go, oh, the Bungles,

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Speaker 1: like that would be the first thing that they would say.

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Speaker 1: As the quarterback for Cincinnati, when you guys weren't playing well,

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Speaker 1: What is that feeling like every single day when you're

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Speaker 1: walking around or your wife will hear something. Just be

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Speaker 1: in the quarterback for a team that you know people

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Speaker 1: around the league would laugh at. It's frustrating. And we

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Speaker 1: heard Joe talk about it early. He got tired of

613
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Speaker 1: the narrative of the same old Bengals he's talked about.

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Speaker 1: As soon as they beat they beat the Raiders in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, he started talking about changing the narrative and

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Speaker 1: we're we're a different team, We're a different organization than

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Speaker 1: we were in the past. You know, being in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: the fan base there is so passionate and love. You

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Speaker 1: didn't hear that in Cinci as much as when you

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Speaker 1: would travel or you go to California or you go

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Speaker 1: to these different places and somebody go, oh, you played

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Speaker 1: for the Bungals. It's not that. It's not so much

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Speaker 1: the case in Cincinnati. There's so much passion. That's why

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Speaker 1: this Super Bowl is so excited. This this fan base

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Speaker 1: deserves this. They've been waiting thirty something years for this.

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Speaker 1: They've never won a Lombardi Trophy. So it's an exciting

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Speaker 1: time to be in Cincinnati. It's an exciting time to

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Speaker 1: be a Bengal and I mean for Joe to be

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Speaker 1: here in year two, this is the beginning of a

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady like legacy. You know, Tom got in early,

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Speaker 1: won his first one early, and then continue to stack

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00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: trophies after that. Joe's in that same category of can

633
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: he continue to build after this game? Can he win

634
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 1: multiple super Bowls? He's not wanting to win one. Joe's

635
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,479
Speaker 1: got a different mindset, He's a different individual. He's seeing

636
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: multiple championships and this is the start of them. What's

637
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: going on with Kyler Murray and the Cardinals that he's

638
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: now scrubbed his social media of anything that's related to

639
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. I think it looks like a contract

640
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: play to me. I mean obviously he's he's, you know, upset,

641
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: displeased with his current negotiation between his agent and the organization.

642
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 1: He just wants to up this. He wants to get

643
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: a headstart and get that like Josh Allen got in Buffalo.

644
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: He wants a year. He wants to today. He didn't

645
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: want to wait an extra year and say what you want.

646
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: How different guys go about getting that next contract. It

647
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: certainly to me looks like a contract move and he's

648
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: trying to leverage himself and position himself for a contract

649
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 1: this upcoming season. Have we seen the best of Kyler Murray?

650
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: We have at times. You know that I don't know

651
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: what the ceiling is for a quarterback who plays that way,

652
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: that style and his strengths and weaknesses. Well, you're seeing

653
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: his weaknesses in the last couple of games. Teams are

654
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: not letting him outside the pocket. He is not six seven,

655
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: he's not six two, he's not really six feet tall,

656
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 1: so what they're doing is keeping him in the pocket. Unfortunately,

657
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: from a contractual situation for Kyler this that was his chance.

658
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: The playoffs were his chance against the Rams to get

659
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: a new contract this year. Unfortunately, he did not play well.

660
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 1: They did not play well. He lost a ton of leverage.

661
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: And when you're a player in the league and your

662
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: contract is coming up, or you have a chance to

663
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: sign a new contract and you have leverage, you've got

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Speaker 1: to take advantage of it. He did not take advantage

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00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,439
Speaker 1: of the situation. He all the leverage was on his side.

666
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: All he had to do is play well. They could

667
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: still have lost the Rams, but he had to play well.

668
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: He lost all the leverage he had going into it,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's unfortunate because you don't get it very

670
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: often when you're a player and you're coming up on

671
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: a deal. That leverage is massive, and the weight that

672
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: that carries throughout the organization is massive, and when it's

673
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: on your side, you got to take advantage of it.

674
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: He lost a lot of leverage in that playoff game.

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00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: Same with Baker Mayfield. He lost all of his leverage

676
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Speaker 1: this year by being banged up. And I think that's

677
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: why he kept trying to play, is I want to

678
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,919
Speaker 1: get some leverage here, and it only made it worse.

679
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: Same deal, and both organizations are in the same spot.

680
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 1: They've got to pay Baker and they've got to pay Kyler.

681
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: Both of those organizations. You cannot regardless of how poorly

682
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: Baker played or how bad that playoff game went for Kyler,

683
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: you got to pay him. You took him number one.

684
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Speaker 1: You're not going to go back to the drawing board

685
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: and start all over and try to find the next guy.

686
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: They've got to pay him. Both of those guys lost

687
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: some money and left some money on the table with

688
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: their performance this year. Brady mentioned on his podcast that

689
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: never Say Never after So he's only been home for

690
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: six days. Now, all of a sudden, he's reconsidering, what

691
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: is it like when you retired that first month you're

692
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Speaker 1: at home? What's it like? It was awesome. I wasn't

693
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 1: at home. We traveled, we went up to Lake Tahoe.

694
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: I played a but I did a lot of things

695
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to do. I love to hunt and fish,

696
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: and hunting and fishing season for the most part, is

697
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: during football season. So as soon as I didn't have

698
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Speaker 1: a job playing football, I did a lot of the

699
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: things with my family, with some buddies that I wanted

700
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Speaker 1: to do that I wasn't able to do for you know,

701
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: twenty five years of playing football. So I think, you know,

702
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: Brady is an habitual creature, a creature of habit. He

703
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Speaker 1: likes to do the same thing over and over and

704
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: over again. Now that that's not there and he's just

705
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: gotten a very short taste of it, I think there's

706
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Speaker 1: a thought in his head, like, you know, I could

707
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Speaker 1: win eight. Maybe I could win eight. Let's see what

708
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Speaker 1: happens with Chris Godwin. Are they're gonna resign Chris Godwin?

709
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: And in Tampa, are they gonna resign Ryan Jensen the

710
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: center in Tampa. Maybe he's waiting to sit back and

711
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: see what happens. He's getting a little board he's used

712
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: to starting. You know, whatever point in the offseason he

713
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 1: starts training again and doing his flexibility, you're retiring if

714
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: you're still not fully retired. It's hard to give it up.

715
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 1: It's hard when he'd been doing it for twenty something

716
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: years and at that level. I mean, he could those numbers.

717
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: He could easily be the MVP this year. It's hard

718
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: to retire on top two. It's hard to retire. It's

719
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: really hard to retire on top I at the end

720
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: was done. My body was done. I was beat up.

721
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Speaker 1: I physically knew. He's walking off the field probably feeling

722
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, you know, a little banged up, a

723
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: little beat up from playing a long season. But now

724
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Speaker 1: that his body's recovered, he's starting to, you know, he's

725
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: starting to feel a little bit better. I wouldn't be

726
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: surprised if we saw him come back. How did the

727
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 1: Rams win this game? Upfront? Defensively? Up front, the weakest

728
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: part of the Bengals is the offensive line. I mean

729
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: they sacked, they sacked Joe Burrow nine time. When you

730
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: think about getting sacked nine times in a game, it's

731
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: demoralizing as a quarterback. This has never happened before. I

732
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: don't think you have the guy who has was sacked

733
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Speaker 1: the most times this season playing in the Super Bowl

734
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: and the guy who led the league in interceptions is

735
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: playing in the Super Bowl. That doesn't happen at that position. No, No,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's been a weird season. It's been an

737
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: amazing season. But when you watch this Bengals team, the

738
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: Achilles heel of this team all year long has been

739
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Joe Burrows overcome it. Joe Mixons overcome

740
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: it with just stellar play and being a little bit quicker,

741
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: a little bit faster. You've seen Joe changing protections the

742
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. We saw him do it in the

743
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game, you know, on the road in Arrowhead

744
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: Arrowhead Stadium. So he's got complete grasp and control of

745
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: what's going on around him. He can't overcome Aaron Donald

746
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: just overpowering the center and bull rushing him and ending

747
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: up in his lap. That is what's going to This

748
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: game is gonna come down to can they get the

749
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: ball out quick? Enough. Can they run some screens? Can

750
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: they run the ball against Aaron Donald? And can they

751
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: not give up six plus sacks against Von Miller on

752
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: one side and then Aaron Donald on the other and

753
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: plus you know you've got Jalen Rams. Are you saying, hey,

754
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 1: bring it on, Jamar Chase? Do you avoid Do you

755
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: avoid Jalen Rams? You can't avoid Jalen Ramsey because you know,

756
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're probably gonna see

757
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey trying to match up with Jamar with Chase.

758
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: If you watch these last three games, they were moving

759
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: Chase all over the field. He was motioning, he was

760
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: in the backfield, he was in the slot, he was

761
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: out wide, he was on the three receiver side, the one.

762
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: I mean, they did such a good job trying not

763
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 1: to let any individual defender matchup. At some point, you're

764
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: gonna run into different situations where you just can't continue

765
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: to move Chase. You've got to line them up and

766
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: run a play. That's when you're gonna see Ramsey on him.

767
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: But Ramsey's built for the Megatron, the six four. He's

768
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: built for t Higgins. He struggles against short, quick, fast

769
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: receivers and that's typical. I mean, most big long cornerbacks

770
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: struggle with the short guys. They do really well against

771
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: the big, physical receivers. So it's not a great matchup

772
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: for Jalen Ramsey. There's a quickness dynamic to Chase, There's

773
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: a speed dynamic to Chase. He's got to play off

774
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: him a little bit, so I wouldn't avoid him. I

775
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: like that matchup from the Bengal standpoint of Chase against Ramsey. Okay,

776
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 1: before we let you go. The longest run of Carson

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Speaker 1: Palmer's career. Oh, I want to guess that one day. Yeah,

778
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: I can give you a hint. It was with the

779
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: Cardinals and you were thirty seven years old. Wheels, I

780
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 1: had wheels. How many yards, Carson, I'm gonna say four. Wait,

781
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: the longest run of your career six sixteen yards? Sixteen? Yeah,

782
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: sixteen yards. I was probably at the end of a

783
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: half when they were playing pre event defense and I

784
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: didn't want to risk throwing a pick on a hail Mary,

785
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 1: so I just ran and got out of bound. Ye,

786
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: I'll take it. Sixteen's good. Yeah, you were Josh Allen

787
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: before Josh Allen at that running ability. Do you do

788
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: a drive by at USC just go in and touch

789
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 1: the heisman there. I'm actually driving by the coliseum today.

790
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: We'll swing. I got my son with me, so my

791
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: son fletches with me, so we'll roll up to the

792
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: SEC campus and do a quick tour. But I don't

793
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:56,439
Speaker 1: think you can touch it. I think it's in a case,

794
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: which by the way, by the way, it showed up,

795
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 1: it got there, it made its way to me, but

796
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: the front plaque was broken off of it. Oh geez,

797
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: you didn't have it in the case in the main cave.

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Speaker 1: We put it in the case. No, no, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about like a clear case where nobody can touch it. Um.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what Paulie. I thought Fritzie was the

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00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: charge of the case. Ze. Yeah, the back room got

802
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: can you get it fixed? I fixed it? How much

803
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: was it? I just had to get some new screws

804
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: for it. We're all good, okay, Brood, Brood, I'll pay

805
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 1: for the screws. Cool. I'm so glad you got that

806
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: thing back. I love that you you loaned the heisman

807
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: to us. But man, when that was going back and

808
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: then we couldn't find it, and then you were going

809
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: to the college Football Hall of fame. It wasn't worth it.

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Speaker 1: It was not worth it. Level Selects CBD go use

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Speaker 1: made us smarter every Monday as we recap football. Have

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Speaker 1: a great weekend with your son, and thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Peacock app. Oh, Paulie wants to place a bet with me.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'll paid for your dinner tonight. But what

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Speaker 1: do I get if I'm right? I can't. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to pay for your dinner because I know how

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Speaker 1: that may turn out for me. Okay, I won't order one.

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Speaker 1: I'll buy you a nice bottle of wine back home, Okay,

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Speaker 1: nice for me night, Maybe not m one hundred dollar bottle. Okay,

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Speaker 1: then that's good, right, that is okay? Here does Al

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Speaker 1: Michaels eat a meal before? During, or before? I can

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Speaker 1: do before? You're changing it. It's during the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: Will al Michaels eat during the super fairly confident? Al?

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Speaker 1: Does eat before and after the okay between between kickoff

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Speaker 1: and the final whistle? Does Al eat? I'll say yes,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'll say no, Al Michaels, he'll be calling

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. He joins us his eleventh Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: tying Pat summer All for the most by a TV

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Speaker 1: play by play voice, Al, will you be eating during

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty six? Dan? I love my partner. Chris

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Speaker 1: Poland's worth is like a brother somehow, some way. He

841
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:44,919
Speaker 1: once said, I eat a whole meal during the game.

842
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: Not true. I have a few junior mints, I have

843
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: some grapes. I might have a snack. Well, cookie, that's it.

844
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 1: Chris is a guy who leaves like a horse before

845
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: the game. Sushi, pasta, all of the rest. Okay, that

846
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: is fake news. Okay, I will not be having a

847
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: meal during the Super Bowl. Okay to the judges, So

848
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,919
Speaker 1: who won the bat? Well, I don't think a snack

849
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: is a meal. I don't either, Fritziello, I'm a winner.

850
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: I like how Paulie goes before, during, or after the

851
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. By the way, Al, on this date back

852
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, you know what happened two

853
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: thousand and six. I think I left Disney to go

854
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 1: to NBC. Yep, yep, correct, And there was a rabbit

855
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: involvement in a cartoon Rabbit and uh, you were ending

856
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: a twenty year run on Monday Night Football. Now, I'm

857
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: just bringing that up no reason at all that you know,

858
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: maybe you're joining another network or something on you know,

859
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 1: close to this anniversary. Alit I have, as you well know,

860
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,760
Speaker 1: but all of that behind me if you start thinking

861
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: about other things. I promised myself this year not to

862
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: be distracted, and I will not be distracted until Monday,

863
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: when I can have a ton of distractions in my life.

864
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: But I don't want anything before Sunday. Then I'm working

865
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:26,720
Speaker 1: like a maniac. I mean, look, well, for your television audience.

866
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I have like nine thousand pages of information

867
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: ready to go for this game, the best stories, but

868
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: all of them will wind up, you know, on the

869
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: cutting room floor, as they say, because as John Madden

870
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: said years ago, become armed for war. We have everything

871
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: available to us. And then, as John would say, a

872
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: game breaks out and you do the game, but also,

873
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: well do you prepare for a blowout? Well, I don't

874
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: think you prepare for it necessarily a blow You prepare

875
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: for the game period. You hope the game is great,

876
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: and if it's a blowout, then we're ready to go

877
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: in a different directions. It almost becomes a christ and

878
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: I we laughed about it because we did have a

879
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: blowout in the Christmas weekend game between Dallas and Washington,

880
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: and then it became almost like talk radio, you're going

881
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: back and forth. Fortunately for me, I've done ten Super

882
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 1: Bowls and six of them have gone down to the

883
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: very end, including the last four. And I looked at

884
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: it this way to day. I don't think the NFL

885
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,439
Speaker 1: has ever been hotter than it is right now today.

886
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,919
Speaker 1: I mean, people are just talking about these last six

887
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: teams have been fantastic, and I'm just hoping that we

888
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: get the lucky seventh. And it's not like when you

889
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: go to the craft table and you've got a great

890
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: run going and then you throw a seven and the

891
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: dealer says a seven out of line in due shooter.

892
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: We don't need that, we need we need the Lucky

893
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: Seven this week. How important is it for you to

894
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: meet with coaches or quarterbacks to glean information from them?

895
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: Very and we will. We're going out to see the

896
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: Rams today. We get the bank Us tomorrow. We know

897
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: the Rams very well because we had them three times

898
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 1: this year, We've had them several times over the past

899
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: couple of seasons. We know them. So we'll see you

900
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: know McVeigh, and we'll see Stafford and some of the

901
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: other guys today and then I think Christal was Zach

902
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: Taylor a little bit because he lives in Cincinnati. I've

903
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: met him once, don't know. Burrow will meet him tomorrow.

904
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: I think it's important. I think it's it's great because

905
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, you know enough about them from watching them

906
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: and reading about them, and then you get to talk

907
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: to them and I find, you know, the really good

908
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,800
Speaker 1: stuff that happens is you get a story that hasn't

909
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: been told before going into a Super Bowl. There's so

910
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: many stories out there, millions and millions of you know,

911
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: words have been written, and so much time has been

912
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: spent on television and radio talking about it. You want

913
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 1: to find something that's a little bit different. So hopefully

914
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: that's what will happen, and that's why we got That's

915
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: why it's very beneficial to meet with the principals. We

916
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: always talk about players when they get to the postseason,

917
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: but as a broadcaster, the amount of postseason games you call,

918
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 1: what changes or how does that prepare you better for

919
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: the next one you do and the next one you do?

920
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: It's you know what it's almost like when you're a player, Dan,

921
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, you do what got you there. So if

922
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: you go, you know, in a different direction. I know, look,

923
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: I understand the magnitude of the games, and especially the

924
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and people say, you know, one hundred million

925
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: people are watching. You can't think about that. You want

926
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: to break cleanly. You want to get off to a

927
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: nice start, get the game going. And very much like

928
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: the players who are talking about, you know, the first

929
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: times contact couple of plays into the game, they're playing

930
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: football and we're announcing football. So you don't want to

931
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: have to think about all the extraneous stuff. Once the

932
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: game gets underway, you say, within your lane. I mean,

933
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: Chris and I have done a couple of hundred games together,

934
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: and if we try to do something different or or

935
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 1: go outside where we normally would go, why why do

936
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: you want to do that? So hopefully the game starts,

937
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: we concentrate on the game. The game is closed all

938
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: the way and all I moot for Dan is tripled

939
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 1: over time. Can't get enough of this? How where are

940
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 1: you of? I know the point spread, but prop bets

941
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know. I look, I've been the rastional.

942
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 1: You know that. I'm the guy who's always talking about

943
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: a point spread or the overrunder. And I've sneaked to

944
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: dinner through the years and a lot of people love it.

945
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:38,839
Speaker 1: And now, of course I can come into the front

946
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: door because you've got DraftKings and all these other entities

947
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: that are now involved with the national football You don't

948
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: overdo it, though, I mean in terms of prop bets, no,

949
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: I think that's that's two inside football. I think a

950
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: few people are involved in that. So I looked at

951
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: them the other day. I mean, there are eighteen million

952
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: prop bets, So where do you go with that? I

953
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: think you would be talking to a very very small

954
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: sliver of the audience if you went there. Well, I

955
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: didn't know if there was a prop vet If al

956
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: Michaels will say the following yes, and there he goes,

957
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: you know, that's interesting. I remember, well years ago there

958
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 1: was a prop bet and I think the first game

959
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 1: after the Flake days, and I saw it and it

960
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: got a lot of play on the internet, and I

961
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: think the overrunder was two or two and a half,

962
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: and I said, let's just keep get this out of

963
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: the way to Flake. I went right to the over

964
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: so and there he goes, You know, I can be

965
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: bought in one hundred out of the bottom of wine,

966
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:51,479
Speaker 1: but I can't be bought Okay, steak dinner one hundred

967
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,439
Speaker 1: dollar bo Well, yeah, you can't have a steak dinner

968
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: without one hundred dollars bottom one. No, but um, do

969
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: you talk more to Chris prior to the game or

970
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: less so you save it on the air. Now, you know,

971
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: we're always We talked to each other at least a

972
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: couple of times. We have our production meetings with Fredie

973
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: Delli and drewess Cha Kaffer, producer director Michelle Tafoya is

974
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: working with listening at Katherine Tappers, so we're all kind

975
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: of interconnected. We talked a lot to each other so

976
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: that you know, we know the stories. We share stories

977
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: with each other and then we decide how we want

978
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: to get there. But I mean it's going to be

979
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: like a regular game in that regard. This is the

980
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: same thing we do during the regular season. As I say,

981
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: even though this is the super Bowl and it's a big, big,

982
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: big deal, we do what we do during the get

983
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: the course of the year. The fascination with Joe Burrow

984
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: to be doing this in his second year, and to

985
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: say he's ahead of schedule is a grand understatement because

986
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,240
Speaker 1: even if they're on schedule, you wouldn't think the Bengals

987
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: would be here. How big a story is that going

988
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: to be on Sunday for your broadcasting? Well, very of

989
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 1: course he's the quarterback with one of the teams, so

990
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: obviously that becomes a big story right at the at

991
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: the outset. But I think what I sensed during the

992
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: championship game in Kansas City is that a lot of

993
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: this country either I don't know, want to say, necessarily

994
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 1: fell in love, but we're fascinated by what the banks

995
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: did they down twenty one three. Everybody's thinking up today,

996
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: Mahomes is going back to the Super Bowl third year

997
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: in a row. It's Kansas City against whoever would win

998
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: the RAM forty nine a game and somehow, some way.

999
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: I just sensed the way they came from behind. You know,

1000
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: for Borrow, nothing looks too big for him. I mean

1001
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 1: the way he stepped out of a couple of tackles

1002
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: when it looked like he was going to get sacked,

1003
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: running for first downs, doing what he did that day,

1004
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: winning an overtime, and just his body language and presence. Yeah,

1005
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: you look at it. You think, well, this guy has

1006
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: been in the league for ten of twelve years. But

1007
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: I think the country at that point, unless obviously you

1008
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: were rooting for Kansas City, kind of fell in love

1009
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: a little bit with the Bengals and went, wow, that's

1010
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So that's the sense I get going into

1011
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: this game, and Borrow, of course it would be at

1012
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 1: the forefront of all of that. Do you remember what

1013
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: you thought when the Rams left Los Angeles? Yes, I do,

1014
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: because this is my hometown and I knew that in

1015
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: those years, I'm doing Monday night football and every game

1016
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:29,800
Speaker 1: was going to be a road game. Now I wouldn't

1017
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: even get a game in Anaheim. I understood it, though,

1018
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: because the problem in this city an area was that

1019
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: every stadium was a relic. And that's why the Raiders,

1020
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: who had come down here, moved out of the Combisseum.

1021
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 1: The Rose Bowl was not an NFL type of stadium,

1022
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: but a beautiful setting, but not for the NFL. Anaheim

1023
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,439
Speaker 1: Stadium was really a baseball stadium that they turned into

1024
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: a hybrid football stadium. So I understood it. I was

1025
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: not happy about it. But like everything else, these moves

1026
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 1: their money, or you know, follow the money. It's it's

1027
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: the old cliche about following the money, and that's what

1028
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,839
Speaker 1: the Rams did. Saint Louis gave them a great deal,

1029
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 1: much better deal than they had in a way. They went,

1030
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: as did the Raiders back to open at that same,

1031
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: very same point. Do you think Tom Brady's retired? If

1032
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: I had to bet, I would say yes. I know

1033
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: that there's some other things out there. After his podcast

1034
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: the other day, I didn't hear it. I read about it.

1035
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 1: I felt when we did the Rams Tampa game that

1036
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: he that was going to be I thought it was

1037
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: like sixty four thirty six that he would retire, he

1038
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: would step away, because he gave us an answer in

1039
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:48,280
Speaker 1: terms of when I asked him before that game about

1040
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: the perfect ending, he said, it involves a super Bowl

1041
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: might not be this year. And then he kind of

1042
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: went back and forth a lot, so I did think

1043
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 1: he was going to step away. I wasn't surprised when

1044
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: he stepped away. Now you got this other thing out there,

1045
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: I would be I would be surprised if he came back.

1046
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: Then I'm not saying he won't. And I don't have

1047
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: any inside and information about this stand. But if you know,

1048
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: I say I've had to make a bet, I would

1049
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: say he's not coming back. But does it work for

1050
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: broadcasters when you're at the top of your game, and

1051
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Speaker 1: like you know, if you when how do you walk away?

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Speaker 1: When do you walk away? Who tells you to walk away?

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Speaker 1: I thought for me, I mean in broadcasting, if I

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Speaker 1: couldn't do do it the way I had to do

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Speaker 1: it and want to do it, and my brain began

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Speaker 1: to leak a little bit. Let's put it that way,

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Speaker 1: it would be time to walk away. And I've got

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Speaker 1: some you know, people who are very very close to

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Speaker 1: me who would be the first to tell me, as

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Speaker 1: if I wouldn't know myself. For a player, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a very hard thing to do to

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Speaker 1: walk away, because to recreate the buzz you get playing

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Speaker 1: in Super Bowls and doing what Tom did. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's going to have a really good football afterlife. He's

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Speaker 1: very smart, He's got a lot of things going. He

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Speaker 1: can do any number of things, there's no question about that,

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Speaker 1: and live a wonderful life. I'm not sure you can

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Speaker 1: ever recreate the thrill, the thrill that an athlete can

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Speaker 1: get when you're playing on the biggest stage that long.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can do several things in business, you

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Speaker 1: can do things in broadcasting, but I'm not sure you

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Speaker 1: can recreate that thrill. And that's why a lot of

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Speaker 1: coaches sometimes will step away going to the broadcast movie

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Speaker 1: and then go back because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: if you're coaching, you look up at that scoreboard at

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Speaker 1: the end of the game, you know what you did,

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Speaker 1: did you win, did you lose? In broadcasting, what are

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Speaker 1: you supposed to do? Go on the internet and find

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Speaker 1: that that everybody looks to you. Forget about it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's great to talk to you about and that's always

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Speaker 1: then always have fun and you're eleventh Super Bowl that

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Speaker 1: ties Pat summer All for the most buy TV play

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Speaker 1: by boys and Michelle Tafoya's last game on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: for you guys too. Oh. I just want to say Michelle,

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Speaker 1: she has been such a great partner. I've done three

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Speaker 1: hundred broadcast with her basketball. We did the NBA back

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Speaker 1: in the h three oh four seasons. Football. She is

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Speaker 1: the best of the best. I'll put her up against

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Speaker 1: any reporter in this country, print or electronic. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Michelle tons of fun. She keeps us laughing. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: miss her. I'm gonna miss her terribly because I mean,

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Speaker 1: she's just she's just great to be with. Thank you, Boyd,

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Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Thank you, Al, you bet Man,

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Speaker 1: Thank yous Al Michaels