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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're always ready to celebrate

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Speaker 1: Boxing Day. I'm Greg Rosenthal. I am here in rainy

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Speaker 1: southern California talking to my friend Will Gavitt, who's joining

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Speaker 1: us in the future at night in Boxing Day in

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Speaker 1: the UK. Welcome Will, regular. You know NFL dailians will

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Speaker 1: remember you joined me for a Thanksgiving show last season,

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Speaker 1: so you are the go to holiday guy, and Merry

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Speaker 1: Christmas to you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 3: The man who will do anything to get a mention

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Speaker 3: and the backup Britt gets on the backup quarterback show,

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Speaker 3: so it couldn't be more perfect.

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Speaker 1: That's not true. Will is the best, an old friend

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Speaker 1: and you can hear him of course on talkSPORT. He's

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Speaker 1: a viral superstar at this point after this season. We

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Speaker 1: enjoyed calling the games together this season, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to be calling the super Bowl together. Little breaking news

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Speaker 1: here with Ross Tucker, so something to look forward to there.

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Speaker 1: And yes, we're gonna recap the three Christmas games. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about Lamar Jackson at the

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Speaker 1: end of this show because a lot's going on there

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Speaker 1: and I just thought this would be a good time

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Speaker 1: to do it. And yeah, it wasn't maybe the Christmas

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Speaker 1: slate that the NFL was expecting, But it had some

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Speaker 1: fun moments. It had some bittersweet moments, and why don't

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Speaker 1: we go to one of those. Let's go to Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: Second down, Minnesota's got minus six pass yards. Is the

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Speaker 4: motion Addison to the slot left snap handoff, Addison off

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Speaker 4: the motion thirty five to forty outside the numbers, forty

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Speaker 4: fifteen to ten.

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Speaker 2: Push to the pylon.

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Speaker 4: He is no signal yet.

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Speaker 5: Daniel Thomas pushed him in touchdown, a.

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Speaker 4: Late signal, but a fruitful one for Minnesota to sleep

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Speaker 4: to the stars Tourdan Addison.

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Speaker 1: That was Jason Bennetti on Westwood One. Vikings win twenty

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Speaker 1: three to ten, ending the Lions season. And yes, holidays

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Speaker 1: can be bittersweet because it's a wonderful time with family

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Speaker 1: and sometimes you're thinking about the people you're missing are

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Speaker 1: just like time gone by. They were all getting older,

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Speaker 1: and in this football sense, watching the Lions miss the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: it was kind of a bummer. It felt it felt

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Speaker 1: like the end of something. But that was a great play,

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Speaker 1: a great call there by Jordan Addison during a game

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Speaker 1: will where at that point the Minnesota Vikings had roughly

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Speaker 1: and yet they were winning the game, and that one

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Speaker 1: just ending the Lion season, giving their fans a big

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned like Max Brosma sacked seven times.

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Speaker 2: I heard Jason Bonde say it there.

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Speaker 3: He ended up with three net passing yards in total

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Speaker 3: the two big runs and the big touchdowns. Of course,

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Speaker 3: but the key is they kept getting short fields because

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Speaker 2: Six Lions turnovers meant they.

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Speaker 3: Had scoring drives of sixteen yards, twenty eight yards, four yards,

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Speaker 3: you just heard. But yeah, unbelievable performance from Brian Flores

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Speaker 3: getting absolutely in his bag. And it's just a shame

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Speaker 3: from a Vikings perspective that this is happening so late

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Speaker 3: in the season. Last five weeks They've been sensational on defense.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy they're in third place now. The Lions are

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Speaker 1: It depends obviously on what happens in Week eighteen here,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, the Vikings have rallied all the way to

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Speaker 1: fitting to see Jared Garf just struggling against the blitz

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned that struggle against the blitz because it

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Speaker 3: And it's slightly frustrating from a liance perspective that you're

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Speaker 3: they're going to do this. This isn't something new, This

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Speaker 3: isn't some wrinkle that Brian Flores has suddenly turned up

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Speaker 3: have absolutely zero answer for it, and Jared Goff just

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it comes down to the personnel. We

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Speaker 1: Yes the starting brit Ally Connolly, who pointed out the

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Speaker 1: that we've come to know and love. Taylor Decker, by

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Speaker 1: the way, wasn't there at left tackle, and then on

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Speaker 1: the interior they had two bad snaps from Kingsley Agu

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Speaker 1: Oseka and Tate Ratleis is the rookies just getting beaten up,

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Speaker 1: the day. Let's actually lett into a man who I

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Speaker 1: room after a Vikings win in London, Harrison Smith, who

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Speaker 1: the single best defensive performance he's ever been a part

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Speaker 1: of it. And he's been a part of a lot

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Speaker 4: He's a long setback on first OUN's that play action

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Speaker 4: to him. GoF loads up and saints it over the

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Speaker 4: middle man are accepted by Harrison Smith. He's down in

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Speaker 4: Lion's territory. It's the thirty ninth of his career, just

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Speaker 4: the second of his season. What can Notre Dane do

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Speaker 6: Harrison Smith baiting Jared Goff into throwing this football. Watching

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Speaker 6: the film, you know that when they do play action past,

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Speaker 2: With both hands.

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Speaker 6: Baby meet the baby carriage.

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Speaker 1: Great call there, That was Ryan Harris, who I believe

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Speaker 1: that Notre Dame grad on Westwood one and yeah, just

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Speaker 1: a cool moment for Harrison Smith. Maybe the end of

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Speaker 1: that was part of a sequence will where there were

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Speaker 1: two straight turnover, two straight interceptions on two straight passes.

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Speaker 1: That one was more on Golf I think, getting a

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Speaker 1: little jumpy. You mentioned the blitz struggles. Yeah, he took

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Speaker 1: Turner sacked him a few plays later on the next drive.

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Speaker 1: Just like a rough day here for Jared Goff. And

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Speaker 1: it's not like they're going to do anything different at quarterback,

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Speaker 1: but I do think the Lions kind of lost their way.

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Speaker 1: This was a team that couldn't like Black and they

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Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball either by the end of this season.

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Speaker 2: No, And look, you mentioned the offensive line struggles.

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Speaker 3: Penne Saw went out of this game briefly as well,

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Speaker 3: to just really compound all of that, and you've got

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Speaker 3: for me is you say, I don't think they're going

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Speaker 2: I expect that.

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Speaker 3: Line to look steah and I expect that line to

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Speaker 3: bit of a drop off, Kelvin Sheppard really does look

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Speaker 3: like the future. They generated a season high pressure rate

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Speaker 3: He had six pressures in this one. You know Max

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Speaker 3: Brosmus struggled I mentioned earlier, sacked seven times as well.

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Speaker 3: So there's a lot to like about this Lion's team

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Speaker 3: going into next year. It feels like a season that

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Speaker 3: you just you carry the ball, you right it off,

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Speaker 3: you burn the tape, you do whatever cliche you need

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Speaker 3: to do, and then you get to righting some of

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Speaker 3: these wrongs in the off season. For the Viking side

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Speaker 3: of it, though, I really want to feel like the

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Speaker 3: fact that over I think it's they're now fifth in

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Speaker 3: passing success rate over forty percent since Week twelve of

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Speaker 3: the season, and they've not played a bunch of Hammon Eggers.

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Speaker 2: That's like playing the Cowboys and the Lions. But yet

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Speaker 2: with you mentioned Harrison Smith's future unclear, Eric Wilson's future unclear,

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Speaker 2: they're massively over the cap for next season, despite the

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Speaker 2: I feel like a tea. Yeah, it feels like this

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Speaker 2: was an opportunity and they just threw it away.

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Speaker 1: They'll feel better about it because of how it finished

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Speaker 1: in December, but ultimately JJ McCarthy and the quarterback decisions

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Speaker 1: and the quarterback play hurt them on a team that

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Speaker 1: could have been competing to win games in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: because we don't know this defense is going to be

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Speaker 1: if nothing else, they just feel better that Brian Flores

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Speaker 1: It is incredible how loaded this division is. It really is,

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Speaker 1: Oh, they held on to that one seed just barely.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what you throw of us.

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Speaker 3: We'll just be able to pick it apart in the

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Speaker 3: more into the front. They need to be getting more

436
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Speaker 3: pass rushed because George garg.

437
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Speaker 2: Isn't a one.

438
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Speaker 3: Chris Jones has flashed in two or three games this year,

439
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 3: but hasn't been the dominant guy we've seen in January

440
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Speaker 3: of recent seasons. Like, I just I don't know letting

441
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Speaker 3: a piece that good go, even if he's had a

442
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Speaker 3: down year.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's kind of wild. I've got a question for you, though, Greg.

444
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Speaker 3: You mentioned about like that you thought that, you know,

445
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 3: the Chiefs still managed to put some stuff together.

446
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Speaker 2: I mean the Chiefs.

447
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 3: The Chiefs are playing like third string tackles, and they've

448
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,920
Speaker 3: got a quarterback that basically like even the most ardent

449
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 3: NFL fan probably hadn't.

450
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Speaker 2: Heard of until two weeks ago.

451
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Broncos get one sack in this game

452
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Speaker 3: and really don't get a lot of pressure on him. Otherwise,

453
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Speaker 3: this is meant to be a much vaunted, absolutely top

454
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Speaker 3: tier defense, and I don't know if they're just holding

455
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Speaker 3: back it, they're saving themselves a little bit.

456
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Speaker 2: But I look back over the last few games.

457
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Speaker 3: I look back over the performance particularly ainst the Jags,

458
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 3: but even the Packers game, the Commander's game, where they

459
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 3: gave him.

460
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Speaker 2: A lot of lot yardage a lot of points.

461
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Speaker 3: So I just think it's clearly a good defense. But

462
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Speaker 3: am I feeling the same way I felt about it

463
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Speaker 3: for the first ten weeks the season. I feeling like

464
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 3: I feel about the Texans, where I'm like, that's a

465
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Speaker 3: defense that can carry a game for you.

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Speaker 2: I'm less convinced all of a sudden.

467
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Traditionally they also load up on these under you know,

468
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Speaker 1: powered quarterbacks and destroy them. And I look, if you

469
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Speaker 1: give up one hundred and forty yards, it's tough to

470
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Speaker 1: kill the defense. But I'm with you that you do

471
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Speaker 1: wonder if a little bit of Vance Joseph's play Colleen

472
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Speaker 1: magic is starting to run out in terms of the

473
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Speaker 1: league catching up with them, and they're gonna have to go.

474
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Speaker 1: But again, some really good offenses depending on the matchups

475
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Speaker 1: and That's why it's so important in the AFC what

476
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Speaker 1: the matchup is, because I think they're they're going to

477
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Speaker 1: be more vulnerable to a team that I think has

478
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Speaker 1: a loaded offense than the vice versa, then being able

479
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,959
Speaker 1: to like play a team like let's say the Chargers

480
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Speaker 1: are Texans who are you know, not as good on offense.

481
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Speaker 1: So if they play the Bills and the Patriots, can

482
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Speaker 1: they keep up in a shootout? That's a fair point. Yeah,

483
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Speaker 1: the casey was playing two tackles that did not play

484
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Speaker 1: tack high school football, which is interesting. It was their

485
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Speaker 1: fifth and six tackles as a pole and another gentleman

486
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Speaker 1: that now is escaping me that I wasn't familiar with.

487
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Speaker 1: You mentioned Kelsey could be his last game. Was pretty

488
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Speaker 1: interesting that Patrick Sartan was on him for most of

489
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Speaker 1: the game and so he was quiet relatively at a

490
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Speaker 1: couple of catches early. He ends up with the most targets,

491
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Speaker 1: the most catches on the team, but that's only five

492
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Speaker 1: for thirty six. He spoke after the game, you know

493
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Speaker 1: about a night where you know, they introduced him last

494
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Speaker 1: and it's getting emotional and if it was the last night,

495
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Speaker 1: it kind of felt like it.

496
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Speaker 9: No The only time it ever crossed my mind is

497
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Speaker 9: I was driving in the other day and I saw

498
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Speaker 9: how much the power ball was and I was like, Man,

499
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Speaker 9: if I could just win, I wouldn't have to work

500
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Speaker 9: another day in my life. Oh no, man, Honestly, I've

501
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Speaker 9: been just focused on trying.

502
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Speaker 7: To win football games.

503
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Speaker 9: Man, I'll let that be a decision that I make

504
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Speaker 9: with my family, friends, the Chiefs organization.

505
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Speaker 1: When the time comes, we'll see. I don't know, by

506
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: the way, I think they've got enough money in the Kelsey.

507
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Speaker 3: That documentary has played in my house over the recent

508
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Speaker 3: week or so, and yeah, watching it back, I'm like,

509
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Speaker 3: I think he's gonna be fine. I do question though, Like,

510
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 3: as much as he's obviously like a walking Hall of Famer,

511
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Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's questioning his place in NFL history

512
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Speaker 3: and what they've achieved. But how much does it say

513
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Speaker 3: about this Chief's offense right now that Patsatown was matched

514
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 3: up on Travis Kelcey, Yeah a lot last night. I

515
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 3: think seven occasions he was targeted twice of those one

516
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Speaker 3: reception eleven year. Like, I know that Travis kelce has

517
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 3: been their best receiver for a long time, but they

518
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 3: just doesn't feel like I don't know.

519
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 2: It feels like there's a lot with this Chiefs team

520
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 2: that has to happen.

521
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 3: We were just talking about with lines and vikings, which

522
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 3: of those teams you think is set up to bounce

523
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 3: back quickly next year? I really like I think it

524
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Speaker 3: was Ollie said this on I can't remember it's on

525
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 3: your show, on his own show. But they need a

526
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 3: new voice in the room. They need somebody there who's

527
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 3: going to try and shake things up a little bit,

528
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Speaker 3: actually help with the run game.

529
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Speaker 2: And I don't know this Chief's team right now.

530
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Speaker 3: As much as this was a fun performance last night,

531
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Speaker 3: we've just picked apart why the defense is gonna be

532
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Speaker 3: great next year without major investment. They're losing Travis Kelce. Like,

533
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 3: outside of Mahomes, what are we excited about about this

534
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 3: team next season?

535
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Xavier Worthy has not really stepped up. They

536
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Speaker 1: had put Racie Rice on injured reserve. Like the biggest

537
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: play they had on offense was a pass interference to Worthy.

538
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: They actually did not complete an air yard pass over

539
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Speaker 1: ten yards, only the tenth time that that's happened all

540
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Speaker 1: season long. The tackle. I feel bad when I don't

541
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: name a man. So it was Chuldwabuca Godrich for the

542
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: Chiefs playing in his first game, and yeah, you're right,

543
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: the pass pro wasn't really a problem. Nick Benito's been

544
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: pretty quiet. He was very hard on himself after last

545
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: week's game, saying that he thought he did not play well,

546
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: and they have been relatively quiet. Shout out to the

547
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: crowd in this game. I just want to give a

548
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: little bit of love that, like they were live, they

549
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 1: were in it. They just found out that they're moving

550
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: the team. You know, I know it's only twenty miles away,

551
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of Chiefs fans that are not

552
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: happy about that. It's Christmas night, this team is out

553
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,959
Speaker 1: of it, and I think the home team gave him

554
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: a good show. They're like showing mahomes up in the

555
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,959
Speaker 1: in the booth and he's cheering after the first touchdown.

556
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 1: I just give them some credit as good fans on

557
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: the end of a tough season.

558
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 3: They got a little of stick few weeks ago as

559
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 3: well for that Chargers game where there were a lot

560
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 3: of people who left early in a three point game,

561
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 3: And so yeah, they deserve a little bit of praise

562
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 3: because generally I've been there before. It's a pretty great crowd,

563
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 3: but may think they've rested on their laurels a bit.

564
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: One of one. Maybe it's I mean, Lambeau is its

565
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: own thing, but Arrowhead is such a unique, great atmosphere

566
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: and they're going to have it for what four or

567
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: five more years here, But there just aren't other places

568
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: like that. And ultimately, Broncos fans you're listing bo Nicks

569
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: is playing well. I think he's playing his best part

570
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: his best football this season. Right now, you did what

571
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: you needed to do, and who cares about style points.

572
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: Let's take a break. On the other side. We are

573
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Speaker 1: going to talk about the Cowboys Washington game, but I'm

574
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: even more interested to talk about this Lamar Jackson John

575
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: Harvar Raven situation. We will wrap with that.

576
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 4: Just shot gun stat Prescott steps up into the pocket,

577
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 4: fires down the middle of the field.

578
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 5: It's turpenen stright at the forty running away from the defense,

579
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Speaker 5: turp into the twenty to ten touchdown.

580
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: Dallas Covan Date Chirpin.

581
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Speaker 5: If it stands an eighty six yard touchdown grab, but

582
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Speaker 5: there is a flag down back at the eleven yard.

583
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: Line, tie defense number four. That penalty has declined.

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Speaker 9: Results of the play touchdown.

585
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 5: It stands in Cavant date Chirpin with an eighty six

586
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 5: yard touchdown, grab breaking away from the defense and breaking

587
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 5: open this game.

588
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: It's twenty to three.

589
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 5: Dallas with seven minutes to go in the second.

590
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Speaker 1: Woof that Cowboys offense, I will miss watching them. That's

591
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: JP Shadduck on Westwood One. Rather, that's Jason Horowitz, our

592
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: friend on Westwood one.

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00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: They scored three touchdowns, three possessions to start the game.

595
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: Cavante Turpin, I've always wanted, you know, let's build a

596
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: little more of the offense around one of the fastest

597
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: players in the league. But whenever they try, it doesn't

598
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: quite work. So maybe one catch one to eighty six

599
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: yard touchdown is the perfect way to use them. The

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00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: Cowboys hold on in the second half to win thirty

601
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: to twenty three. This is what I want out of

602
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: a meaningless game in terms of playoff you know, scenarios

603
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: to start off Christmas date. If we're gonna have no

604
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: playoff scenarios, just give me a lot of offense early

605
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: and that's what we got from the Cowboys.

606
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cowboys get out twenty one three lead early Doors

607
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 3: and Dak Prescott's looking absolutely sensational through this game. They

608
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 3: converted six fourth downs successfully, they round eighty seven offensive

609
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 3: plays to Washington's forty one, and they beat them INtime

610
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 3: posestion by seventeen minutes. Like, how is this game a

611
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 3: one score game?

612
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 2: At the end of it is? What is beyond me?

613
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: Because dan Quinn always finds a way to like make

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00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: it look closer than it really was. He kicked that

615
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: field goal at the end and then kicked it off,

616
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: which wasn't a crazy decision over two minutes to go.

617
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: It was probably his best chance to win. Was hope

618
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: to get a three and out, and of course they

619
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: could not get a three and out, and the Cowboys

620
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: finished the game with the ball. Yeah, you know what

621
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: I was thinking about during this game. You know we

622
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: think about on these holidays, like the past and generations

623
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Speaker 1: before us and stuff. Let just think about Marty Schottneimer.

624
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: This was a Marty Schottenheimer game. The first two drives

625
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: had thirty plays, but for the Cowboys, that's the longest

626
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: any first two drives have been all season in the NFL.

627
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: They finished with forty four rushing attempts for two hundred

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00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: and eleven yards. Just outrageous. They lose Javonte Williams to

629
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Speaker 1: a neck injury at halftime, and yet it didn't really matter.

630
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: Malik Davis, who was getting the ball in the first

631
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: half quite a bit, goes over one hundred yards on

632
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: twenty carries. They're giving the ball the Hunter Lipke, their

633
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: full back as a real tailback. They didn't have anyone

634
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: else will and they picked up a third and eight run.

635
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: At one point to Lipkey, it was like a give

636
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: up play or a setup the fourth down play, but

637
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: they just got the first down anyways. And they only

638
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: punted one time the Cowboys, and that was because George

639
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: Pickens dropped like an easy throw from Dak Prescott on

640
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: third and eight, which had Ceedee Lamb reacting like either

641
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: he was mad that George Pickens dropped it, or this

642
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: is on my raider a little bit. Maybe it was

643
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: mad that the ball didn't go to him. I'm just

644
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: kind of watching that as George Pickens continues to outproduce

645
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: CD Lamb. But yeah, they completely dominated this commander's defense

646
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: all day.

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00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's personally on the commander's defense, which we'll

648
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 3: get onto the shout out. So you mentioned Marty Brian

649
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 3: Schottenheimer has been as surprising and impressive as a head

650
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Speaker 3: coach performance. I think of people that were appointed last

651
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 3: season as I think we've really seen this year, and

652
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 3: him and Clayton Adams between them, they got in their bag.

653
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Speaker 3: They recognized that you were able to run on this

654
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Speaker 3: commandity defense and all this interior stuff as well, and

655
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 3: they basically just went like, draw trap power. Are we

656
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 3: going to throw absolutely everything at you We've got in

657
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 3: our bag and it's just gonna just crush you, just

658
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 3: completely batter those doors down. Malik Davis, I saw he

659
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 3: had one hundred and three rushing yards. Of that, ninety

660
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 3: three of them came on inside carries. It was just,

661
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Speaker 3: you know, it's meant to be the inside carries set

662
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Speaker 3: up the big outside place and that's where we'll get

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Speaker 3: our big plays from. And Nope, they just ran it

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Speaker 3: up the gut time and time again. And Washington don't

665
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Speaker 3: bring a lot of guys to the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: That's part of like how that how that dan Quinn

667
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 3: defense is set up. But I mean, we just talked

668
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Speaker 3: about with Kansas City them needing a new voice in

669
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Speaker 3: the room desperately.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we were in Madrid.

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Speaker 3: When dan Quinn took over the play calling from Joett Junior,

672
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Speaker 3: and I was watching back the last few games, it

673
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 3: kind of preparing for, right, what could dan Quinn throw

674
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Speaker 3: differently at this defense that Joe it hasn't been and

675
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Speaker 3: Joe It was basically calling dan Quinn's defense like to

676
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 3: the letter. None of the play calling has changed at all.

677
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 3: It's still a throwback to the early twenty tens. Dan

678
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 3: Quinn defenses of that kind of Seahawks, Mold, etc.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know. They just when you're that predictable,

680
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 2: you've got.

681
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Speaker 3: To have great players, and instead they're mostly slow and

682
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Speaker 3: old at this point.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's it's difficult to watch, it really is, And they're

685
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: two years into this. So the fact that dan Quinn's

686
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: defense is stunk both years, because they basically stunk last

687
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: year despite making the NFC Championship, is concerning because they

688
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: don't have schematic answers. They certainly don't have answers on personnel.

689
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: Everyone's old on that defense except for Gierson Newton. Johnny

690
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: Newton was the nickname as a draft pick who I

691
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: was really high on at the time. Three and a

692
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: half sacks in this game and another few quarterback hits.

693
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Speaker 1: The crazy thing is Dak Prescott took six sacks in

694
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: this game, a lot of sacks considering their pressure rate

695
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: wasn't that high. But he was trying to make the

696
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Speaker 1: big play. And you asked and TJ. Batt they had

697
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 1: They had some replacements on the offensive line downs. You asked,

698
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Speaker 1: how is the game close when you know the Cowboys

699
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: were so dominant offensive? Well, it was because the Cowboys

700
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Speaker 1: defense was on the field and Washington did pop a

701
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: couple good runs and Josh Johnson looked pretty good. Let's

702
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Speaker 1: actually listen to probably what will be our last Bill

703
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Speaker 1: Krofsky Merritt call of the year.

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Speaker 5: Miss Johnson under center for a first and ten with

705
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 5: a handoff over the right side prosty Marrit brick Spray.

706
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 5: He's at the fifteen on the first timeline. They won't

707
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Speaker 5: touch him. It's at the ten, bangling, It's all touchdown Bill.

708
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 5: His second touchdown today. He just rolled the slave seventy

709
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Speaker 5: two yard here on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 1: That laughter, by the way, is our friend Ross Tucker,

711
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: who joining us on the super Bowl call. They got

712
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: something in Bill. Both his touchdown runs were awesome, Like

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Speaker 1: Bill is who people think Isaiah Piccheco is. He's gotta

714
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Speaker 1: be a role player. But here's a young player that

715
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Speaker 1: you can have and it might be twelve carries a

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Speaker 1: game like maybe he's not playing every down or whatever,

717
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: but he makes people miss watching the prime vision. By

718
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 1: the way, for that Chiefs game, I mean Pacheco cannot

719
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 1: find the whole like he has the worst vision of

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00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: like any starting running back. They actually did a great job,

721
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: that's beside the point blowing open horse, but so did

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00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: the Commanders. A couple of nice runs there by the Commanders.

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Speaker 1: That's how they kept it close as the Cowboys enter

724
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: an offseason where they got to figure out a lot undefensed.

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Speaker 3: I thought Quinn Williams and Kenny Clark flashed in this game.

726
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 3: I mean, Kenny Clark cap it next season is ridiculous,

727
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 3: so there'll need to be some reworking there. It was

728
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 3: the Jadavian Clowney game, a guy who I know you've

729
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 3: had the back of for a very long time. Six pressures,

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00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 3: one and a half sacks. He did well in the

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Speaker 3: run game as well, so like he had a decent game.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, they I don't know, not Ben don't break quite,

733
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Speaker 3: but they just they seemed to once they were up

734
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Speaker 3: twenty one to three, maybe a little foot off the

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Speaker 3: gas ped No, they.

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Speaker 1: Were at the whole time. This is actually one of

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Speaker 1: the worst EBERFLUS games of the season because the Commanders

738
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Speaker 1: only had eight possessions. Even at halftime, Will like, the

739
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: Commanders had only had the ball three times and they

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00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: had driven. You know, they had ten points, which points

741
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: per drive. That's excellent, that's leading the league. You know,

742
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: Josh Johnson averaged over eight yards pert tempt. They averaged

743
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: eight yards per play on the Cowboys. I know it

744
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: wasn't perfect, like they had a couple punts, but they

745
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: they weren't making mistakes. Josh Johnson, I thought if he

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Speaker 1: wanted to earn another year in the NFL, I mean,

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00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: he's certainly nubby. Yeah, I mean he's thirty nine to

748
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Speaker 1: forty years old. He's been in the NFL. They have

749
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: been in professional football like seventeen years. But yeah, he

750
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: could come in. The reason I called for that highlight

751
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: I totally forgot was that was a funny moment in

752
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: the game because I don't know if you had this

753
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: you had a different situation on Netflix but Clinton Portis

754
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: was like part of the broadcast at that moment, and

755
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: Netflix was popping in old stars throughout the day, giving

756
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: it kind of a preseason vibe. They had bad connections.

757
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: It was a bad idea, but the best moment of

758
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: the day in terms of the guests where Clinton Portis

759
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: popped in. First of all, you know, just love hearing him,

760
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: and literally one play in, you know, Bill pops that run,

761
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: so it was like it was like the vibes of

762
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Speaker 1: Clinton Portis led them to a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: We got the ones where they were on the call,

764
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Speaker 3: so like Chris Carter popping up in the Vikings game

765
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 3: randomly for example, we did get a few of those,

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Speaker 3: but nothing.

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Speaker 2: Nothing.

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Speaker 3: In the interim, we got our little Scott Hansen Kyle

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Speaker 3: Long showing us tweets from all around the world and

770
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,240
Speaker 3: telling us how football works, which.

771
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Speaker 1: Was okay, okay, well you're an expert.

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Speaker 3: But no, no, I tell you I was I was

773
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 3: listening to the great man Ross Tucker, That's what I

774
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 3: was doing, and listening to the West, So I.

775
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Speaker 1: Guess that was you know, that was the difference is

776
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: you don't get the commercial. So yeah, rough game, and

777
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: like Washington didn't have two of their offensive line, and

778
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: Piatash got hurt in this game. Tunsel was out for

779
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: this game, and so that's why I think it was

780
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: even worse by the Cowboys deference Week eighteen. You know

781
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: they're they're going to be in the mix for draft positioning.

782
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: I'm in the mix to at least save myself and

783
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: get to that eight eight and one that I say.

784
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: I've been saying since the day they had that tie.

785
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: I said, this team, I don't know how they're gonna

786
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: get there, but they're gonna get to a eight and one.

787
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: It's gonna be annoying, but it will happen, and they

788
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,359
Speaker 1: have I believe. I believe the Giants next week, so

789
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: they got a chance to do it. Jake Ferguson Andevante

790
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: Williams got hurt in this game, so it'll be a

791
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: little higher. If not, I think I have to do

792
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 1: something for Nick right like put up his signage of

793
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: his show in the background of our show, something like that.

794
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: So I need them to get that eighth win for me.

795
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: I think they can do it.

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Speaker 3: You say that you did obviously this is from your

797
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 3: over under draft with me. We did a similar thing

798
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 3: on talkSPORT where we were looking through those records, and

799
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 3: I very famously, for amongst my friends, went on a

800
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 3: earlier in the year and went, are you really telling

801
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 3: me that fifteen win team are going to drop down

802
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 3: to eight and a half wins because they lost? Sam

803
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 3: Donald banged the over on eight and a half on

804
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 3: the bar if they beat the Pacas in the last

805
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 3: week of the season, scriping into the last second.

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Speaker 1: That was one of my draft picks too. I had

807
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: my worst year ever doing that, so that was disappointing.

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00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: All right, that's the Cowboys win. They're up to seven

809
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: eight and one. Now it is time for Quarterback Keeper,

810
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: presented by Snapdragon. I said, we'd finished the show talking

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Speaker 1: a little Lamar Jackson. He's doubtful for Saturday night, so

812
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: very unlikely he plays that game, you know, very unlikely.

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00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: I think that they win that game with Tyler Huntley,

814
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: and so then you kind of think Lamar Jackson's season

815
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Speaker 1: is probably over. We've been talking about the possible, you know,

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00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: Sayonara for John Harbaugh this show now for a couple

817
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: of weeks. I think it's time. Mike Preston, who has

818
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: been writing columns for the Baltimore Sun for a couple

819
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Speaker 1: of decades wrote a fascinatingly timed one after Lamar Jackson

820
00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 1: was already missing practice that he thinks Lamar Jackson and

821
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh could be headed for a breakup and posited

822
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: it as a potential opportunity right now to trade Lamar Jackson.

823
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: When the columnist in town writes this piece, it doesn't

824
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: happen in a vacuum. The timing is purposeful. I want

825
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: to get into some of the specifics of it, but

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Speaker 1: that plus what I already was thinking about, the situation

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00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,240
Speaker 1: to me is really fascinating. And I expect the Ravens

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00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: season to end on Saturday Night, and they really are

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00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: the most fascinating team to watch this offseason. The Chiefs

830
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: are pretty close, the Lions are in the mix. Like

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00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: it's some of the good teams this year that are

832
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: really interesting watch, but the Ravens are at the top

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00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: of my list. What were your takeaways from this article

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Speaker 1: and just the Lamar Jackson story right now?

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Speaker 3: So I did a potentially slightly you know, I don't

836
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Speaker 3: know anyone on Boxing Day who's making such a wild

837
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 3: decision as this. I went to Raven's reddit because I

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00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 3: really wanted to get an impression of what the fans

839
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Speaker 3: thought of Mike Preston as a writer, of the timing

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Speaker 3: of this piece. Like you say it, you get guys

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00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 3: like whether it's Grant Cone with the forty nine ers

842
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 3: or Omar Kelly with the Dolphins, who like they might

843
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 3: sometimes write good stuff in Grant Cone's case, probably not,

844
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 3: but like they are divisive to say the least. And

845
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 3: I did find a piece that somebody posted from two

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Speaker 3: thousand and five where Mike Preston absolutely buries Brian Billick

847
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 3: because of his treatment of ray Lewis and holding him

848
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 3: up too highly and letting him get away with whatever

849
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 3: he wanted to and not having him be a leader.

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00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 3: And essentially it reads very similarly to this Lamar Jackson piece,

851
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 3: slightly differently in terms of it's a different age and

852
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 3: we're not getting video games and late for practice and

853
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 3: things like that with ray Lewis. But I don't know,

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00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 3: it felt like a hit piece, Like it felt like

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00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 3: it was targeted, and it felt like it was something

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00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 3: that was designed to make a change happen. The problem

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00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 3: is it's really interesting, like, as you know, I've been

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00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 3: doing this Channel five stuff here in the UK recently,

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00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 3: which you've done previously on the Monday Night Football, but

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00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 3: they do for the one pm Eastern games. The show

861
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 3: is very much designed to be a bit more of

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00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 3: a layman show. It's designed for like new fans and

863
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 3: trying to track people in and they bring in celebrity

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00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 3: guests to quite often aren't big NFL fans or kind

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Speaker 3: of follow it like semi closely. And the guy who

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Speaker 3: was on this week's a comedian called Sean Walsh, and

867
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Speaker 3: he was asking me, I head coach firings in the

868
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 3: NFL like manager firings in football, where guys last like

869
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 3: six months and just disappear, And I'm like, no, if anything,

870
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 3: quite a lot of the time in the NFL it's

871
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 3: the opposite. It's you know, we get these situations like

872
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 3: Mike Tommlin, like John Harbor, where we're all questioning are

873
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 3: they really the future of the franchise several times over

874
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 3: the course of the last few years, and either consistently

875
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 3: get proven wrong or you just get that back of

876
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 3: look at what they've achieved, look at what they've achieved,

877
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 3: look at what they've achieved.

878
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 2: Over and over.

879
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 3: I just my feeling on this is always there is

880
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 3: only one goal in the NFL. There's only one team

881
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 3: that win at thirty two, there is only one trophy

882
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 3: to lift. And if you really don't feel like if

883
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 3: you feel like I've got a generational quarterback, which what

884
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson is, and you don't feel like what's happening

885
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 3: in the building is working to get that guy to

886
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 3: that place, then maybe it is time to make a change.

887
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: I mean, trading Lamar Jackson's insane. I have so many

888
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: thoughts about this, and I quote tweeted it and I

889
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: got a lot of people misinterpreting what I was saying.

890
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,399
Speaker 1: And what I said was that after reading this, i'man

891
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: even more convinced that Lamar and John Harbor are not

892
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: going to be together next year, and it would be

893
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: insane to trade Lamar Jackson. That's my main takeaway. It's

894
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: not that everything in the piece is true. It's that

895
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: the existence of the piece speaks to an incredible fracture

896
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: between John Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson, and it reads from

897
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: the outside to someone's airing of grievances of Lamar Jackson

898
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: that it's desperation time, it's fourth down. John Harbaugh's career

899
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: might be at the forty seven yard line and his

900
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: hail Mary is letting this thing out because it doesn't

901
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: come out in a total vacuum, and there was like

902
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: no sourcing here. And some of the bigger accusations in

903
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: the piece, which we're interesting to see, was that you know,

904
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson sometimes is a sleep at meetings, that Harbaugh

905
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: is kind of sick of him, and how he I

906
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: think maybe approaches the game that he shouldn't be up

907
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: late at night, like playing video games. That was the

908
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: most ridiculous one that they've moved move practices to the afternoon,

909
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: I think in training camp, I believe, or because of

910
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Oh, like some of those are probably they

911
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,760
Speaker 1: all probably have varying degrees of truth, and there's probably

912
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: some truth to a lot of it. And frankly, it's

913
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: stuff that has been buzzed around that building and outside

914
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: of the building since Lamar's contract negotiation a few years ago.

915
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: You would hear that almost the exact same stuff coming

916
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: out kind of from the Ravens side of things. So

917
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: it might not all be coaching stuff, and maybe front

918
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 1: office it might who even knows. There's I'm sure there's

919
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: elements of truth to all of it. My bigger thing

920
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: was the fact that this is all coming out right now,

921
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: is like, oh, come on, because Lamar's going to see that.

922
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 1: Everyone in the organization's going to see that. John Harbaugh

923
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: goes up on the podium the next day and says

924
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: he has an A plus plus relationship with Lamar Jackson.

925
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:59,280
Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking everyone inside that building knows the truth,

926
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: and now everyone outside the building is starting to realize

927
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: the truth because me doth protests too much. And I

928
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 1: don't care how many picks you're going to get for

929
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. I think it'd be crazy to trade him.

930
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: And if you even considered trading him, will I think

931
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: it'd be even crazier to trade him and keep John Harbaugh.

932
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: Like like if if for some reason you want to

933
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: entertain this, you still are making the coaching change, and

934
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: you're and you're and you're making a full scale, like

935
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,959
Speaker 1: huge change, And I don't even want to get into

936
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: what they would need to come back, Like none of

937
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: that makes sense to me, because I think the obvious

938
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: thing here to do is find the right coach for

939
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Yeah, what are we talking?

940
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 3: We don't need to sit here in the least, we

941
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 3: don't need to sit here and list it off right.

942
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 3: The two time MVP should have potentially won it again

943
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 3: last year, very close in the voting apparently like, yes,

944
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 3: there is this knock against all of these guys, whether

945
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 3: it's him, where there's Josh Allen, where it's obviously Joe

946
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 3: barro has made it's a super Bowl, but all these

947
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 3: other AFC calls backs who haven't got there. But as

948
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 3: we've talked about a lot in the last few weeks,

949
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 3: as the Chiefs went out of the playoffs, it's like, oh, wow,

950
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 3: this is gonna be the first time.

951
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 2: In however many years it's not Brady or Mahomes.

952
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 3: It's so like it's been so dominated by certain teams

953
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 3: that I don't think that means that the Ravens have

954
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 3: necessarily failed. I think this year they will see as

955
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 3: a failure because they went into the year very high hopes.

956
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 3: You know, you think about the continuity coordinator, you think

957
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,439
Speaker 3: about the continuity on the defense, like they really thought

958
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 3: that this year could be a year they can tend

959
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:33,760
Speaker 3: and they're going to look at it from the outside

960
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 3: if they don't make it in and go yeah, no,

961
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 3: mahomes there. This could have been the year that we

962
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 3: stormed the castle and you know, turned up in Santa

963
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 3: Clara in four or five weeks time, and instead they're

964
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 3: going to be sitting and you know, attending Pro Bowl games, etc.

965
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 2: On that week.

966
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 3: So there will be a huge amount of frustration. But

967
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 3: to trade Lamar Jackson would be insanity.

968
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: Like, honestly, he's about to turn thirty. I do think

969
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: it's a to recognize that there are elements of the

970
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 1: column that are worth talking about, including most importantly about

971
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: his body potentially breaking down. And that was what Preston said.

972
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: He didn't think he thinks Lamar is as tough a

973
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: competitor as there is, Like he wants to be out there,

974
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: but the injuries are starting to pile up the running

975
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: nobility in two of the last three years, because I

976
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: think people kind of forget that he didn't look quite

977
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: the same running the ball in twenty three either before

978
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: he looked incredible in twenty four. That like Mike Vick

979
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: talked to Lamar Jackson at some point, like you do

980
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: have to protect your body run a little bit less.

981
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: Lamar has always been great about that, Like there are

982
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: things to think about in terms of maximizing the rest

983
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: of his career, of course, and if approach to the

984
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 1: game as part of it, of course, Like I think

985
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: about another quarterback in the division, Ben Roethlisberger, who to

986
00:49:54,320 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: me famously adjusted his approach mentally, physically everything when he

987
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: got into his thirties and was better, like very much

988
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: relied less on his physical ability. And Lamar's always been

989
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,280
Speaker 1: great mentally in the game. So that's not a question.

990
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: He's a great pocket quarterback. He should age well, but

991
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: finding the right coach for him to do that is

992
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: really important. And Chris is in the in the commons

993
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: saying I should mention that it's a Baltimore Sun columnist,

994
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 1: not a reporter, And to that, I would say, when

995
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: you're that columnist. And I know Preston, I have thoughts

996
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: about I think he's ultimately like it's good to have

997
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: one of those guys in town. And he might be

998
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: serving a lot of different sources and stuff, but he

999
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: knows the truth, he knows what's going on. And I

1000
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: know a lot of Ravens fans kind of don't like him,

1001
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: and because he's he stirs it up a little bit.

1002
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: But these things don't happen in a vacuum, so honestly,

1003
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: it coming from him even as a columnist. That's what

1004
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: a columnist is there for, is actually a column like this,

1005
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 1: even if you don't like totally love it, because it

1006
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: does it does say something about it. We don't have

1007
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: to wrap up here, but I do want to remember.

1008
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,480
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1009
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: snapdragon dot com slash laptops. Just just fascinating. Snapdragon getting

1010
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: their money's worth here with a meaty Lamar Jackson segment.

1011
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 3: I just to finalize the point you were making, because

1012
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 3: I think the Ben Roethlisberger comparison is fascinating. What this

1013
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 3: isn't is Russell Wilson. What this isn't is early career

1014
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 3: success with a brilliant run game, great scrambler, great deep

1015
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 3: all throw. But did he have the capacity to be

1016
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 3: a pure.

1017
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: Pocket or Mike Vick is a good example.

1018
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, another one, Like what.

1019
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 1: Are we talking about here? Lamar is like one of

1020
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: the all time greats who's had like even this season

1021
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 1: which was you know, not great for him. It was like,

1022
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: of course, you're betting on that guy to have a

1023
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: good you know, sorry to cut you.

1024
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 3: No.

1025
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 7: No.

1026
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 3: I think at some point a full story of this

1027
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 3: season might come out where we find out about like

1028
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 3: just how healthy was he when he was playing, because

1029
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 3: there was that six week stretch where he just wasn't

1030
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 3: running the ball at all. I think over six weeks

1031
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 3: he had fewer yards total than his average per game

1032
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 3: in his career up until that point. And you just

1033
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 3: you were surprised he wasn't using that part of his

1034
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 3: game because it clearly wasn't necessarily designed that way. But

1035
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 3: get in one of these kind of young offensive genius

1036
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 3: types who can whether that's as a coordinator or as

1037
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 3: the head coach.

1038
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: And we've seen Daniel to Baltimore. I've been speaking it.

1039
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 3: I was speaking Mike McDaniel to Kansas City as a

1040
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 3: run game coordinator for quite a while. But actually, I

1041
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 3: sure I'd rather take a head coaching job with Lamar

1042
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 3: Jackson in a heartbeat, Like I that's the kind of

1043
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,359
Speaker 3: guy that if you getting them in there and they

1044
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 3: can they're younger, they can connect with Lamar better, and

1045
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 3: they can design an offense that is more suited to

1046
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 3: his skills.

1047
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 2: At thirty maybe than twenty four.

1048
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 3: I still think this is a team that can go

1049
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 3: on and win, not just a super Bowl, potentially multiple

1050
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 3: over the next.

1051
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: DAYLD Okay, let's no. I mean yeah, I mean I

1052
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: think he could, but so much needs to go into it.

1053
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 3: We are in the post Drake May world, of course,

1054
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 3: so you know we're not going to get It's now

1055
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 3: going to be Mahomes May.

1056
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 2: Mahome that May.

1057
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,800
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite damashek bits, Like there's always

1058
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: so many super Bowls to go, right, everyone says, Oh,

1059
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 1: he's gonna get one, He's gonna get one. It's like

1060
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 1: if Mahomes has taken so many and you got the

1061
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: Eagles who are getting back, but this year it is

1062
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: wide open. Josh Allen, by the way, is going to

1063
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: play this weekend. We learned that from Bill's coach Sean McDermott.

1064
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: Some other injury news sas Gardner is going to return

1065
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: for the Colts this weekend, but they lost to Forrest

1066
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: Buckner for the rest of the season after he reinjured

1067
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: his neck. That that's not great. Tristan Wurf's is out

1068
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: for the Buccaneers. So that was just something I was

1069
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on because I picked the Dolphins in

1070
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: that game. I kind of feel like the Buccaneers have

1071
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 1: a little bit of a death witch at least at

1072
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: the very least I think they're going to cover five

1073
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: and a half points there. This was a pleasure. Will

1074
00:53:55,880 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 1: If we were casting the NFL Daily you know, Christmas play,

1075
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 1: you're playing Santa. I mean, you're just you know, I'm

1076
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:10,720
Speaker 1: not trying to type cast, but you're just a jolly

1077
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: pleasant guy to see over the holidays, and I do

1078
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 1: love talking football with you, and I'm looking forward to

1079
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl too.

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Speaker 3: So what many people won't know is, as a twenty

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Speaker 3: year old student living in Leicester in the Midlands, I

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Speaker 3: got off the opportunity to be Santa not only at

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Speaker 3: like a local like the kind of council run local

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Speaker 3: free visit Santa thing, but I also ended up being

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Speaker 3: the one that went on the float at the big

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Speaker 3: turning on of the Christmas lights and everything else. In

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Speaker 3: I did have to still wear a suit, despite the

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Speaker 3: fact that I'm a man of substantial carriage and.

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Speaker 2: With the big beard and everything else.

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Speaker 3: And so I have been publicly in front of a

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Speaker 2: So I've been welcome.

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Speaker 1: It's the Beard. It's wonderful and yeah, no, Will's Will's

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Speaker 1: the best and I'm glad he's been recognized this year

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Speaker 1: as a great play by play man for talkSPORT. You

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Speaker 1: can check him out on talkSPORT. You can also check

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Speaker 1: out a new podcast he is doing called Across the Formation,

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Speaker 1: So everyone go and like and subscribe to that. That's

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Speaker 1: on podcast apps, that's on YouTube, and you can check

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Speaker 1: out talkSPORT there as well. It was a pleasure. We

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Speaker 1: will be back on Sunday. It's a little bit lighter

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Speaker 1: of a Sunday slate, but we have those two big

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Speaker 1: Saturday games. Jordan Rodrigue's gonna the boots on the ground

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Speaker 1: give us an in person update because she's going to

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Speaker 1: Texans Chargers. We also have that pack of Ravens game

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Speaker 1: Eagles bills is a fun one on Sunday. I cannot wait.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to everyone to see that