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Speaker 2: It is ugly in Baltimore, talking about the weather and

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Speaker 2: the game right now, tied at half seven and seven.

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Speaker 2: Coming up a little bit later on Houston and Indianapolis,

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Speaker 2: the first two games of this week eighteen and even.

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Speaker 2: We could actually sit here for the entire two hours

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Speaker 2: and try to explain all the different playoffs scenarios, I mean,

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Speaker 2: just for the Steelers alone. Now we know the Ravens

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Speaker 2: have already clinched the number one overall seed. Yes, Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 2: who most likely is going to be named the most

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Speaker 2: valuable player this year in the NFL, is sitting out today.

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Speaker 2: Tyler Huntly is in a quarterback member. He was a

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Speaker 2: Pro Bowler, Yes, what was that? Two touchdown passes and

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Speaker 2: he made the Pro Bowl as a twentieth alternate.

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Speaker 3: Nobody wants to play in that.

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Speaker 2: And then you got the Steelers. So try and explain

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Speaker 2: all the different Steelers scenarios to make the postseason. There

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Speaker 2: are actually five. They're too complicated except for one. One

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Speaker 2: is easy. One is easy. If Pittsburgh wins this game

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Speaker 2: and Buffalo loses tomorrow night at Miami, the Steelers are

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs. So that's the easiest one. Steelers win,

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Speaker 2: Bill's lose, done deal, and the Steelers are in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Done deal, all right, So that's how it works on

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Speaker 2: that as far as everybody else is concerned. Normally, and

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Speaker 2: we've talked about this ephrin we get to week eighteen,

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Speaker 2: and it's pretty easy to figure out, all right, this team,

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Speaker 2: this team this year is so complicated. I mean, think

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Speaker 2: could actually miss the playoffs entirely. Think about that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they win the East if they win at Miami tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: but if they lose, they could actually miss the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: So when you're on one of those bubble teams going

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Speaker 2: into the final week of the season, are you up

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Speaker 2: to date on all the scenarios or is it just look,

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Speaker 2: we can't control anything else. We know this. If we

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Speaker 2: lose or out, we have to win. How does that work.

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Speaker 2: Do you actually keep track of this stuff as players?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, because it's your lifeline.

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Speaker 2: You gotta watch the scoreboard.

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Speaker 3: Watch the scoreboard. It sucks when something is happening the

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Speaker 3: same time you're playing, like you need a team to

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Speaker 3: same time, a little bit hard to focus. Coaches always

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Speaker 3: say take care of what some of you play. Gotta

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Speaker 3: eat your food before you start looking at other people's plate.

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Speaker 3: And it's one of these situations. Now, I think it's

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Speaker 3: great for the NFL. I think it's great for us

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Speaker 3: as fans that these games matter. It's been years where

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Speaker 3: the last week of the season doesn't matter. You know,

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Speaker 3: five teams sending players out. Back when two teams got

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Speaker 3: to buy from each conference, that's four teams nobody's playing.

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Speaker 3: The games were meaningless, right, got a bunch of teams

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Speaker 3: jockeying for draft position. That's not entertaining all right, So

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Speaker 3: there's a testament to having Now seventeen games, eighteen week

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Speaker 3: love that as a fan, I love that as a player.

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Speaker 3: That means you've weathered the storm throughout the whole year,

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Speaker 3: and now you have an opportunity to accomplish the goal,

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Speaker 3: the number one goal that you set. Every team sets

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Speaker 2: All right, So the two number one seeds were decided

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Speaker 2: last week. The forty nine ers and the Ravens are

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Speaker 2: they are the teams to be no question about that.

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Speaker 2: But here's a problem. Let's go back to twenty nineteen

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Speaker 2: that year, I mean the Lamar Jackson put up historic numbers.

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Speaker 3: Blowing the door.

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Speaker 2: Remember that. Remember that game against New England that year.

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Speaker 2: The Patriots defense got off to a hot start and

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Speaker 2: I want I want a Lamar Jackson, not one of

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Speaker 2: Tamar Jackson not playing today, Rock Party will not play tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: That means you're off this week, you're off next week,

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Speaker 2: three weeks between games? Is that the smart move?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: I understand the weather situation maybe a big factor as

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Speaker 3: It's wet, it's slippery. You know, you know one thing

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Speaker 3: you don't want to do. Remember Brendon Staley, who's no

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Speaker 3: longer a head coach. Yes, yes, so you might know

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Speaker 3: what I'm getting ready to say.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm ready.

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Speaker 3: Remember they had an all they had two All World receivers, Yes,

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Speaker 3: Do you remember Mike Williams playing in a game that

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Speaker 3: didn't matter going into the playoffs? You remember that?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I remember last year?

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Speaker 3: So what happened?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he went out, he broke his back. What you

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Speaker 2: know who never broke his back and never sat out

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Speaker 2: a game? Tom Brady, do you how many times. The

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Speaker 3: And it's not a running quarterback I understand that would

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Speaker 2: Would he would play a half to sort it.

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Speaker 3: Before you could touch him, the ball was gone a game.

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson is a dual threat quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Made Manny never sat out again once.

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Speaker 3: Again, neither one.

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Speaker 2: They had legs that didn't Why don't you just have

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Speaker 3: We're not doing that, all right. We're not doing that

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Speaker 3: because we're not gonna build bad habits. We're not gonna

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Speaker 3: do something that we're not used to doing all season.

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Speaker 3: I would rather sit in my Ferrari in the garage

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Speaker 3: and a driving rainstorm collect us and go out there

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Speaker 3: And that's what they're doing. The one thing they can't

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Speaker 3: this game there, that's how you get fired. Okay, you

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Speaker 3: get fired. You wouldn't make decisions like that, Brendon's Daley,

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Speaker 3: you get fired. And this is what we're talking about here.

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Speaker 3: Their work is done. They did their work, trust me.

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Speaker 3: The San Francisco forty nine ers, the Baltimore Ravens, they

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Speaker 2: They're gonna get rest. They have a buy next.

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Speaker 3: not three weeks, it's just two weeks. It's this week

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but then you play a week ago, so that's

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Speaker 2: three weeks, all right. Lamar Jackson's postseason record is one

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Speaker 2: guys that win in the postseason. That's why you obviously

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Speaker 2: have them a homes you have. You know, Joe Burrow

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Speaker 2: has had runs in the postseason. Lamar Jackson is one

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Speaker 2: as expected when his second MVP award, it's not gonna matter.

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Speaker 2: Fair or Quarterback is the only position in the league

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Speaker 2: where they actually show your win loss percentage. And his

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Speaker 2: regular season's sky unbelievable, unbelievable regular season record, but that

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Speaker 2: postseason record one and three. So I'm hope I'm well wrestled.

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Speaker 2: Remember what Lamar Jackson plays, well.

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Speaker 3: What Peyton Manning was in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he didn't. He wasn't one and three.

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Speaker 3: Remember early on, Remember what Peyton Manning wasn't the playoff

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Speaker 3: All right, let's not be this might be like, oh, oh,

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Speaker 3: you know, right, tremendous.

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Speaker 2: Regular season quarterback, five time MVP tremendous, and he'll never

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Speaker 2: be Tom Brady never was.

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Speaker 3: Right, So it comes with it, man, it comes with it.

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Speaker 3: This is an excellent opportunity for Lamar Jackson to take

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Speaker 3: another step. Beginning of the year, we were all questioning,

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Speaker 3: with Lamar Jackson at the helm. Well we got our answer.

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Speaker 3: He's the odds on favor to be the MVP.

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Speaker 2: Fifty eight to nineteen regular season one and three.

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Speaker 3: Signing up for that all day, I'm signing up for that.

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Speaker 2: He's like Clayton Kershaw all right.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, and they keep giving him money.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're gonna give Lamar Jackson plenty of money, but

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Speaker 2: it is about your legacy, hey man. And quarter back

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Speaker 2: has tied two rings.

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Speaker 3: So let's see, we're not gonna get him hurt in

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Speaker 3: the game. That doesn't matter on any scale metric or

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Speaker 2: After what they did to Miami last week, complete beat.

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Speaker 3: Down the last four games.

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Speaker 2: You're as bad as Kansas has been playing all seasoners

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Speaker 3: Just got They're not coming in and doing that. We

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Speaker 3: Does Kansas City have ten wins? Yet?

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Speaker 2: They have ten? And the Yeah they're tennis tennis.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, well.

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Speaker 2: They've hosted the last five AFC championships. Not well this

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Speaker 2: time unless Baltimore goes down in the first round. Hey man,

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Speaker 2: we'll see now the Rams got to host an NFC

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Speaker 2: championship game? Is the four seed?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it happens. Look. The beauty about sport, yes, and

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Speaker 3: the beauty about playoffs, especially football playoffs. Not talking about basketball,

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Speaker 3: not talking about baseball. I'm talking about the NFL playoff system.

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Speaker 3: Is you must show up. Yes, the one game, right,

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Speaker 3: there's not a series. We know how we're gonna get

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Speaker 3: him next week. Yes, it's whoever shows up that game

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Speaker 3: deserves to win.

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Speaker 2: You're a rookie with the Atlanta Falcons. You're in Minnesota

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Speaker 2: against a fifteen to one Vikings team. Randy Moss's rookie

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Speaker 2: year the whole bag. Gary Anderson has not missed a

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Speaker 2: field goal the.

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Speaker 3: Entire year, two years.

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Speaker 2: Mister field goal, He is about to kick a field

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Speaker 3: Yep, guess what happened? Miss hey man.

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Speaker 2: Next thing you know, you're on your way to Miami.

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Speaker 3: You show up and you show out. I don't care.

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Speaker 3: I don't care who, what seed? What reck? We were

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Speaker 3: fourteen and two that year, they were fifteen to one.

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Speaker 3: We got zero respect. We have zero respect until we

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Speaker 3: took it. That's what the playoffs are for.

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Speaker 2: All Right. We're gonna get much more into all the

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Speaker 2: and Week eighteen in the NFL, We're gonna check in

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Speaker 7: But that's going to be interesting to see what Kevin Warren.

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Speaker 3: today and tomorrow's game, some of them mean a lot.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot on the line, and you know we

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Speaker 3: didn't used to get this, you know before when they

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Speaker 3: had two buys in each conference. Then you know that's

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Speaker 3: four teams nobody's playing, and then you know people jockeying

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Speaker 3: for the first picking in the draft. Given what we

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Speaker 3: see now you got the Texans, you got the Coats

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Speaker 3: coming up. If the Texans, when you just talked about

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Speaker 3: Demico Ryan as the coach of the year, if the

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Speaker 3: Texans win this game then make it to the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: does that solidify him coming from what that team was

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Speaker 3: that roster? Does that solidify him as the odds on favorite,

447
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Speaker 3: as you know, if they win this game and get

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Speaker 3: to do I mean, it's got to be something right.

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Speaker 7: From here's the problem. No, right now I would lean

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Speaker 7: towards him. But here's the thing, though, when you look

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Speaker 7: at coaches of the year, Dan Campbell's got to be

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Speaker 7: right up there. I mean, he's done a phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: We expected them to win the division I did.

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Speaker 7: I mean that was getting credit though, but you can't

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Speaker 7: look if you look at the futility of that franchise

456
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Speaker 7: for the last thirty years, you just got to give

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Speaker 7: it to him, right And that's why I got to

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Speaker 7: get him.

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Speaker 3: How about Sean mcvagh. Did anyone expect him to No? No, No,

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Speaker 3: that's another thing.

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Speaker 7: You have to And Kevin stefanskit four different starting quarterbacks, Okay,

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Speaker 7: that counts for something, Shane Steich and no one expected

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Speaker 7: them to have a chance to be a playoff team

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Speaker 7: or winning division. That's why it makes it so hard. Look,

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Speaker 7: it's not easy for me here, But again it's about expectations.

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Speaker 7: And I would say, do you make a little bit

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Speaker 7: over stiching for that coach of the year?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: Final thing, sinsee Mitauki mostly coaches right now? The future

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Speaker 2: of Bill Belichick? I mean you've got either he stays,

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Speaker 2: he retires, or he goes elsewhere. Obviously, having had full

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Speaker 2: control of personnel and everything with the Patriots all these years,

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Speaker 2: can you see him taking a job without having that

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Speaker 2: kind of clout in terms of personnel? And are there

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Speaker 2: really any interested suitors right now to hire Bill Belichick

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Speaker 2: at a low point of his career into his seventies

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Speaker 2: and hand him full control of an organization? Is there

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Speaker 2: an organization out there that says, absolutely, where do we

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Speaker 2: sign up?

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Speaker 3: Look?

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Speaker 7: Watch Washington here, because Josh Harris is the owner who

482
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Speaker 7: owns the devil, His group owns the Devils of the

483
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Speaker 7: NHL and the Sixers of the NBA and other properties.

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Speaker 7: Watch him because he he'll spend the money he's showing them.

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Speaker 7: He's always shown the willingness to spend the money. Now,

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Speaker 7: you make a great point, Steve. He has full personnel control. Now,

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Speaker 7: I I know with the New England I cannot see

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Speaker 7: him agreed. Let let's say Craft approaches him says, hey, hey,

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Speaker 7: I want you to have a general manager. I want

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Speaker 7: to take he's the burden like Andy Reid, and he's

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Speaker 7: kind of handed off personnel more or less to his

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Speaker 7: general manager there Brett Veach, who he brought over from Philly.

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Speaker 7: And I think that's helped Dandy, whereas in Philadelphia he

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Speaker 7: had it and things got away from him.

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Speaker 3: But I don't see that.

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Speaker 7: By the way, Robert Craft, I'm told basically told Bill

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Speaker 7: you have to bring in an offensive coordinator, which he

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Speaker 7: did with Bill O'Brien.

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Speaker 3: That was a.

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Speaker 7: Mandate and and that that see, that's the thing you mentioned, Steve.

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Speaker 7: He Bill really fell off and his his inability.

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Speaker 3: To develop quarterback.

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Speaker 7: And I'm a huge spellcheck fan, but what happened in

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Speaker 7: twenty two is embarrassing to have Matt Patrici would be

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Speaker 7: the play caller.

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Speaker 3: Yep, and he kind of ruined mac Jones.

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Speaker 7: Mac Jones is completely lost and they don't have a

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Speaker 7: franchise quarterback and they wasted a first round pick. And

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Speaker 7: that's on Bill's record. Let's call it like it is,

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Speaker 7: and that if there's a split here, which I still

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Speaker 7: think is a decent probability, that'll be one of the

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Speaker 7: biggest reasons is his inability to develop a franchise quarterback

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Speaker 7: that was a complete failure after Brady was left.

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Speaker 2: By the way, if Commanders lose their final game, they'll

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Speaker 2: have the second pick in the draft. And you know,

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Speaker 2: the Bears obviously with the number one pick, they don't

517
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Speaker 2: need a quarterback. Three number ones, that's a starting price

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Speaker 2: for Caleb Williams. But it would be interesting if Belichick

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Speaker 2: goes to the Commanders and they have an opportunity to

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Speaker 2: get Caleb Williams in the draft, how will that play out?

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Speaker 2: Like you say, his track record with the young quarterbacks,

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Speaker 2: he was one and O with Tom Brady and after

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Speaker 2: that not so much. Oh gosh, Adam, yeah, real quick.

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Speaker 7: If you go back and look at those quarterbacks to Brady,

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Speaker 7: people don't forget about Cam Newton and others. It's been

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Speaker 7: a nightmare. That's on Bill's record. I've been so defended.

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Speaker 7: I've defended him for years of all the nonsense.

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Speaker 3: When he and.

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Speaker 7: Brady were having some issues, I kept warning people be

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Speaker 7: careful of the criticism.

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Speaker 3: But now you look at it and it's absolutely fair game.

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Speaker 2: Well you remember twenty nineteen Brady's last year when they

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Speaker 2: got destroyed by Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. Remember their

534
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Speaker 2: defense was off that historic start, and all of a

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Speaker 2: sudden he saw Lamar Jackson. He goes, that's the kind

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Speaker 2: of quarterback. I want none of this, Tom Brady. Get

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Speaker 2: rid of this old guy.

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Speaker 3: I want.

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Speaker 2: I want one of those mobile quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: Didn't work.

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Speaker 2: Didn't work? All right, Adam, Happy New Year related there,

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Speaker 2: you know he from gets off about that.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 2: Happy new Year to you, and we look forward to

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Speaker 2: your improot throughout the playoffs coming up. Thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate It's the Super Bowl, guys, absolutely absolutely in Vegas.

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Speaker 3: Here, we all go to the game. Steve, that's your Yeah,

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Speaker 3: let's all go to the game. Guys.

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Speaker 2: All right, I was just there, you know, the charge,

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Speaker 2: the Raider game, and what a debacle that was with

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Speaker 2: my boys. All right, there he is Adam Kaplan. Let's

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Speaker 2: find out what's trending right now. Look who's here in

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Speaker 2: the house? Brian here in a while. By the way, congratulations,

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Speaker 2: he got engaged. I did, Yes, I did.

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Speaker 8: And you know, with her, you can't find a way

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Speaker 8: to have any sort of surprise. She stiffs out everything.

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Speaker 2: What does she do for a living? She is well,

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Speaker 2: actually close.

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Speaker 8: She is a therapist and so I am her subject

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Speaker 8: in psychoanalysis.

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Speaker 2: I hope I'm beyond that. Well, she may have to

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Speaker 2: be on the couch after trying to now you know.

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Speaker 8: Although I would love to hear from her, and against

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Speaker 8: this is against client confidentiality.

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Speaker 2: If you were to have assession with her, she would

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Speaker 2: be uh, she would be thrown off forever. I break

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Speaker 2: all the rules, right yeah, yeah, that would be a story,

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Speaker 2: to say the least. And I'll leave it right there,

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Speaker 2: as he from knows. The biggest story right now there

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Speaker 2: is the NFL, and we'll get to that in a moment.

571
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Speaker 2: But the NBA has reinstated Golden State Warriors guard or

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Speaker 2: not guard, excuse me, star Draymond Green after serving an

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Speaker 2: indefinite suspension that lasted all but about twelve games. ESPN

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Speaker 2: is reporting the Green will be back at the team

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Speaker 2: facility in the next few days and then we'll need

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Speaker 2: a week or so to reacclimate himself to the flow

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Speaker 2: and the swing of things before playing in a game.

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Speaker 2: And of course this is all related to Green missing

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Speaker 2: after essentially performing a WWE move on the court and

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Speaker 2: a game back on December twelfth. As far as the

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Speaker 2: NFL is concerned, right now, it's a rainy one. It's

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Speaker 2: soggy in Baltimore. The Ravens and Steelers deadlocked at seven

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Speaker 2: lay stages of the third quarter. Isaiah Likely has a

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Speaker 2: touchdown cash before Baltimore and Najie Harris has run in

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Speaker 2: a score as well, both of those coming in the

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Speaker 2: first half. And no Lamar Jackson. He is resting, Tyler

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Speaker 2: Huntley is playing. And as far as the other game, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's gonna start up at eight fifteen Eastern time. Colts

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Speaker 2: and Texans, and some good news. According to NFL Network four,

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Speaker 2: the Texans Lermie Tunchel Dunsel, their star left tackle, and

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Speaker 2: Willie Anderson Junior the defensive ends standout. They're both working

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Speaker 2: their way back into playing so we're expected to see

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Speaker 2: them in the game as well. And lastly, guys, I

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Speaker 2: know that we're talking football, but there are a couple

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Speaker 2: of key noteworthy college basketball games going on. Number three

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Speaker 2: Houston just pulverizes West Virginia eighty nine to fifty five.

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Speaker 2: Number two Kansas with an eighty three to eighty one

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Speaker 2: victory against TCU. Hunter Dickinson, the transfer, scored a bucket

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Speaker 2: with about three seconds to play. Thirty points eleven rebounds

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Speaker 2: was his stat line, so he played a big part

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Speaker 2: in that one. And then I'll leave you guys with

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Speaker 2: one more. Number eight North Carolina sixty five to fifty

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Speaker 2: five their winners against number sixteen Clemson. We do have

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Speaker 2: U c l A Basketball playing later on tonight. Steve

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Speaker 2: and Ephraim. I know that they're not ranked, but against

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Speaker 2: the Cal team, I would hope that the Bruins, well,

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Speaker 2: they better. And by the way, Ephraim's as tag, Hey man,

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Speaker 2: hey hold on, I'm not telling anything about their but

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Speaker 2: I'm saying after beating Gonzaga on the road, Yeah, still

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Speaker 2: we're not in the top twenty five.

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Speaker 3: That's fine, man.

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Speaker 2: How's that possible team that was in the championship game?

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Speaker 2: A year ago, two losses on the on the road

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Speaker 2: against Gonzaga, you win by double digits and you can't

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Speaker 2: crack the top twenty five.

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Speaker 3: And I told Eve, I'm taping the game.

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Speaker 2: Yes I'm not saying anything, so.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to know the scores or okay, you're

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Speaker 3: not mentioned I'm going to It's very hard to work

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Speaker 3: in its sports broadcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, after beating Gonzaga on the road.

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Speaker 3: All we gonna do is win the games. That's all.

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Speaker 3: We don't have to worry about the rain ranking, raining

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Speaker 3: rankings or anything like that. We will see you all

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Speaker 3: in March.

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Speaker 8: But even what I don't understand is, okay, so you

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Speaker 8: want the outside the radar perspective. You want to be

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Speaker 8: under the radar as a college basketball We.

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Speaker 3: Can't be under the radar because we were in the

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Speaker 3: national championships. Let teams know so.

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Speaker 8: But you said you kind of prefer not being outside

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Speaker 8: or being outside of the top twenty five. At what

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Speaker 8: point do you want the credit or what point do

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Speaker 8: you think it's not due or you use it as motivation.

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Speaker 3: It will definitely be motivation. Right, we know what the

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Speaker 3: type of team we have. We probably in my opinion

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Speaker 3: have the best player in college basketball? Maybe bias. You know,

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Speaker 3: have you seen Jaydan Lade play the Gonzaga thinks he's

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Speaker 3: the best player in college basketball. I can tell you

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Speaker 3: that all right, Washington does when he's thirty seven and

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Speaker 3: fifteen on him.

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Speaker 2: I mean, last time San Diego State, before last year's running,

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Speaker 2: the tournament got a lot of respect. They shut down

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Speaker 2: the whole NCAA tournament to ban them from the nc

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Speaker 2: That is true, right, shut him down. Somebody put COVID

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Speaker 2: out there. It was a conspiracy. We are shutting everything

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Speaker 2: down out there. Defense. Great to have you out here.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on your engagement. Very good. Once again, this is

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Speaker 2: Fox Football set to day Steve Harbin and he from salam.

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Speaker 2: We are live from the ti rack dot com studios.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I'm feeling really good about my Heisman

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Speaker 2: vote for Michael Pennix junior. Did you did you happen

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Speaker 2: to catch his performance?

654
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Speaker 3: He's pretty good man.

655
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 2: He throws a very accurate deep ball. He throws a fastball.

656
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Speaker 2: I mean, he was.

657
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Speaker 3: Goodness gracious, draft Stock moving on that.

658
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, no no doc on James Daniels

659
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 2: and everything else. Michael panis Junior should have won the

660
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy. We should have a lot of people voted

661
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: for him, including yours truly, and he was on foot.

662
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 2: You know why, because I've said this about Washington, why

663
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 2: I'm picking Washington on Monday night. Battle tested, week after

664
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Speaker 2: week after week, this team finds a way. I mean,

665
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 2: it was a crazy ending to that game against Texas.

666
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: I mean, you know your running back gets hurt. That

667
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 2: stops the clock when you're trying to run out.

668
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 3: The bar, and then you have a guy run into

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Speaker 3: the turn guy.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy.

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Speaker 3: I was explaining to my wife, Yes, why that was

672
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Speaker 3: a disaster.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: And I said, he has to know as a player,

675
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 3: you have to get up. You have to get up

676
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 3: and get off the field. You when you lay there,

677
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Speaker 3: it's all I mean.

678
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 2: Stop the clock. They lost the game, and then you

679
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 2: run into the receiver on the punt. I mean they

680
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: had four shots of the twelve yard life. But again,

681
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 2: this Washington Husky's team is a team of destiny. It

682
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 2: is destined that the Pack twelve.

683
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Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be just has to.

684
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Speaker 2: Win this championship. Harbaugh and Michigan. They should have lost

685
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Speaker 2: him at Alabama Alabama out played him for much of

686
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Speaker 2: that game.

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Speaker 3: Ye wouldn't that be so poling right now?

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Speaker 2: Oh, they're showing some highlights right now. I'm looking forward

689
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 2: to that game on them exciting and by the way,

690
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Speaker 2: both we were talking about for the first time in

691
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 2: a long time very evenly matched. Semis could have gone

692
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 2: any better. Those games literally went down to the final

693
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Speaker 2: play of the game.

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Speaker 3: Florida State did not belong in there.

695
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Speaker 2: But watching those two games, you think Georgia would wipe

696
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Speaker 2: the floor with all four of those teams.

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Speaker 3: It would have also been one of those competitive games. Yeah,

698
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 3: the physicality of Michigan and Alabama and even Washington with

699
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Speaker 3: their physicality.

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Speaker 2: By the way, did you know Florida State only suited

701
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,919
Speaker 2: up twenty nine scholarship players for that game. You heard

702
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: what Kirby Smart said after the game about the name,

703
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 2: image and likeness and everything else. Florida State, forget their quarterback,

704
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 2: they only dressed twenty nine scholarship players for that game,

705
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 2: which is why you lose sixty three to three. All right,

706
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Speaker 2: coming up, we're gonna have much more on the games

707
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Speaker 2: today and tomorrow and what this means for this NFL season.

708
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Speaker 2: Is there a team out there that can derail the

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Speaker 2: likelihood of a raven forty nine Ers super Bowl. We'll

710
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Speaker 2: tell you who we like. This is Fox Football Saturday,

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Speaker 2: Steve Harvin and ephrom Salam Fox Football Saturday coming alive

712
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 2: from the tyrack dot com studios. Deontay Johnson broke Frady

713
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 2: seventy one yard touchdown reception as Mason Rudolph delivered right

714
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 2: on the money for the big score. So the Steelers

715
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 2: lead the Ravens fourteen to seven. Fourth quarter is just underway.

716
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 2: A lot of difference for scenarios for the Steelers. They

717
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 2: can actually lose this game and still get in the playoffs.

718
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 2: But here's the easiest one. If the Steelers win and

719
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 2: Buffalo loses at Miami, the Steelers are in the playoffs.

720
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Speaker 2: So just keep in mind, Steelers win, Buffalo loses, the

721
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Speaker 2: Steelers are in the postseason, all right. So eventually we're

722
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 2: gonna have fourteen teams punch their ticket into the postseason, Ephraim.

723
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Speaker 2: We have two number one seeds that have already clinched

724
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Speaker 2: going into Week eighteen, resting their quarterbacks this week forty

725
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: nine Ers and the Ravens, so they are clear favorites.

726
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 2: Path goes through San Francisco, Santa Clara, or Baltimore to

727
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 2: get into the Super Bowl. I want you to give

728
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 2: me a choice in each conference of a team that

729
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,720
Speaker 2: could break through that Ravens slash forty nine Ers wall

730
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 2: and FI their way into Vegas for this year's Super Bowl.

731
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Speaker 2: Let's start with the NFC right now. NFC, if you

732
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 2: got forty nine ers versus the house, and you got

733
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Speaker 2: to pick a team from the house, it's going to

734
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Speaker 2: get to the Super Bowl? Where are're putting your money on.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the conventional team would be the Eagles, right

736
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 3: they were there last year, Talent, all of that. But

737
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Speaker 3: for me, given their woes as of late, secondary is

738
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 3: really bad, not getting the pressure that they had it,

739
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,479
Speaker 3: lost a lot of guys up front, replaced with younger

740
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 3: players who still haven't hitten their stride yet. So you know,

741
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Speaker 3: I take them off. You know. Now, the Dallas Cowboy

742
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 3: fans would be of course obviously as us. You know,

743
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys can't win a game on the road when

744
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 3: it really matters against a real team. But there's a

745
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 3: team that's streaking right now that a lot of people

746
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 3: didn't see this coming. It's rebuilding type of year.

747
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 2: Yes, I know you're staring right at me. I know

748
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 2: who this team.

749
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Speaker 3: Is, the Los Angeles Rams.

750
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: They have Super Bowl pedigree.

751
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 3: They do.

752
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 2: By the way, did you know Matthew Stafford was named

753
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 2: to the Pro Bowl for the first time in his career.

754
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 2: He actually has credit for a Super Bowl where he

755
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 2: was an alternate. This is the first time in his

756
00:37:54,640 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 2: career that he was actually named to the original.

757
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 3: Pro Bowl roster, which is crazy.

758
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 2: Is that amazing?

759
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 3: Yes? But just watching them play, watching their weapons on

760
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 3: the outside, when you not only the emergency of Williams

761
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 3: in their running game is I mean.

762
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 2: That's second leading rusher in the league.

763
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Speaker 3: It's been crazy.

764
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Speaker 2: Phukakua made the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 3: But that's what made the Rams the Rams when they

766
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 3: when they went to the Super Bowl and won it. Right,

767
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 3: their running game. There's a lot of that thrown on

768
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Speaker 3: the shoulders of Todd Early and so girl, excuse me,

769
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Speaker 3: Todd Girley and and so. Now it's it's it's that

770
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Speaker 3: they have they have less bigger names, but they're playing

771
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Speaker 3: the same style of the bask I mean football. Excuse me.

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Speaker 2: I love your Rams choice because you have a quarterback

773
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 2: that's already done it. Yes, and so and the Rams

774
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 2: had to win some road games that you remember they

775
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 2: knocked out Tom Brady that on the way to win

776
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I like them a lot. I'm going

777
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 2: to give both my picks simultaneously. Because I talked about

778
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Speaker 2: this last week, I'm going to talk about it again

779
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 2: because if one of these teams makes it, the other

780
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 2: team is guaranteed to make it. It's going to be

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Speaker 2: a repeat of the long away to rematch of the

782
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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty seven NFL Championship game between the Detroit Lions

783
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 2: and the Cleveland Browns, two teams when the merger happened

784
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Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy. There are only two teams from that

785
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 2: merger that have never been to the Super Bowl. Now,

786
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 2: the old Browns became the Ravens. You could say this

787
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 2: is an expansion, but you know, Cleveland brown Detroit Lions.

788
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Speaker 2: And the last time the Lions won the championship was

789
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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty seven and they beat the Cleveland Browns. And

790
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 2: by the way, Buddy Parker is going to be named

791
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 2: to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was the

792
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 2: Lions coach back in the fifties and he twice beat

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Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns in fact they faced each are the

794
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Speaker 2: three straight times he and Paul Brown in the NFL

795
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Speaker 2: Championship Game. I feel like it's tied together that if

796
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Speaker 2: one makes it, they both make it.

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Speaker 9: Lions Browns in the Super Bowl. Well, I do have

798
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Speaker 9: your Browns pick for the AFC, So you like the Browns.

799
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Speaker 9: I do like the Browns. That would be my AFC

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Speaker 9: team outside of the Ravens. The Browns absolutely.

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Speaker 2: All right, So we got some thoughts about this. We

802
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Speaker 2: also have a lot of games to catch up on. Well,

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Speaker 2: preview tomorrow's schedule. This is Fox Football Saturday, all right,

804
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Speaker 2: rolling along here Week eighteen of the National Football League.

805
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Speaker 2: We got a national championship game in college football coming

806
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Speaker 2: up on Monday. In other words, a very busy weekend.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Football Saturday. Once again. We are broadcasting

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813
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Speaker 2: now in the fourth quarter. And the Steelers, it's not

814
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Speaker 2: like they're eliminated if they lose. But let's put it

815
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 2: this way, it's a lot easier for them to stay

816
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 2: alive in the playoff picture with a victory. And they're

817
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 2: leading fourteen to seven. Mason Rudolph is seventeen of nineteen

818
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Speaker 2: passing in this game. Where's he been all year? I mean,

819
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Speaker 2: I mean, where's he been for the last couple of years.

820
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Speaker 2: It's just unbelievable to me. You draft Kenny Pickett, right,

821
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Speaker 2: you bring in Trubisky, and Mason Rudolph's been sitting on

822
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Speaker 2: the bench the entire time. Number One. Mason Rudolph, originally

823
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 2: out of Oklahoma State, was going to be the air

824
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Speaker 2: apparent to Big Benks and they just at some point

825
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Speaker 2: sort of lost their faith that he could develop into

826
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Speaker 2: that kind of quarterback. But somehow they kept him on

827
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Speaker 2: the team. I'm running in the scout team and everything else,

828
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Speaker 2: and this guy is come in. If they win today,

829
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Speaker 2: that's three straight wins with Mason Rudolph to get you

830
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Speaker 2: into the playoffs most likely. That's an unbelievable story. What

831
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Speaker 2: do you do with Kenny Pickett? I don't know. Does

832
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Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph look to you like a better quarterback than Kenny.

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Speaker 3: Pickett right now, Yes, yeah, yeah, I.

834
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Speaker 2: Mean that capacity just through the Deontay Johnson. It was

835
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Speaker 2: a time right there, Boom boom in stride nowje Harris

836
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Speaker 2: getting a job done on the ground as well. Twenty

837
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Speaker 2: carries eighty five yards and a score. By the way,

838
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Speaker 2: that brings up a question I have for you. It's

839
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Speaker 2: always a plus for any quarterback when you have an

840
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Speaker 2: effective running game. You just talked about the Matthew Stafford

841
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Speaker 2: situation with Kyron Williams, who has hurt most of his

842
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 2: rookie year a year ago, second the league in rushing

843
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Speaker 2: this year on his way to the Pro Bowl. Kyron Williams,

844
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Speaker 2: anyone had him penciled in as a Pro Bowl running

845
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Speaker 2: back this year. But what a difference it makes in

846
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 2: an offense when you have an effective running game. So

847
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 2: we started this year from all this talk about well

848
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Speaker 2: running backs of you know, they don't matter.

849
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Speaker 3: Well and I said, then they don't matter until you

850
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Speaker 3: don't have one, thank you exactly.

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Speaker 5: You know.

852
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Speaker 2: The charters are prime example, Well Eckler, remember that you

853
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 2: were going to keep Eckler had these incentives and he

854
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: just did not have a good year, and all of

855
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Speaker 2: a sudden he doesn't have a good year and suddenly

856
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Speaker 2: Herbert's numbers go down. So I don't understand why there

857
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 2: isn't more of a premium on running backs. You gotta

858
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Speaker 2: have a running game in this league, you have to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think anytime with team's owners can start to

860
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 3: devalue a position. They're not saying they don't want running backs.

861
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Speaker 3: No one said that. No one said that they don't

862
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Speaker 3: want to have running backs on the roster. Well, they

863
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Speaker 3: said they don't want to pay running backs because when

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Speaker 3: you draft a running back in the first you get

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Speaker 3: five free years. Basically you five for years to run

866
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Speaker 3: him into the ground, and that's what they do. And

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Speaker 3: so they're like, well, I mean, Ezekiel Elliott destroyed the model.

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Speaker 3: The Dallas not him, The Dallas Cowboys destroyed the model

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Speaker 3: because when he when they gave him that money two

870
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 3: years prior to it was time. He'd never been the

871
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 3: same player since every year diminishing returns. And so that

872
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 3: kind of really set the market outside of someone like

873
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 3: a Christian McCaffrey and uh uh in Tennessee, what was

874
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 3: big boy's name, Derrick Henry, Dereck Henry, Right outside of

875
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 3: those The.

876
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 2: Reason I got a little I was actually looking up

877
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 2: another guy right now, Dalvin Cook.

878
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,760
Speaker 3: Calvin Cook, you know Pro Bowl, Pro.

879
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 2: Bowl with the Vikings. He ends up with the Jets.

880
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 2: Everyone's like, oh wow, Brice Hall and Dalvin Cook. They

881
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 2: he never got off the bench. Now he joins the Ravens.

882
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 2: That was very bizarre. And then people are ripping him

883
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 2: for that.

884
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 3: No, don't rip him. That's that's a brilliant move. It's

885
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 3: a brilliant move. That's a brilliant move because he is

886
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 3: still a home run hitter. He was just he went

887
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 3: to a dysfunctional team. Damn.

888
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 2: But don't you know it. The one thing if and

889
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 2: I like Brice Hall brees also as a quality running back.

890
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 2: But he never even got off.

891
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 3: The bench because they had so many other issues. They

892
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 3: couldn't complete the ball down the field.

893
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 2: Well, maybe your passing game would have been a little

894
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 2: bit better. If your running game.

895
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 3: Is defensive line. You can't run the ball without an

896
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 3: offensive line. I don't care who unless you got Barry Sanders,

897
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 3: which no one on the planet has or have ever

898
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 3: had since Detroit had him. If you don't have an

899
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 3: offensive line, if you can't protect the quarterback, you probably

900
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 3: can't run the ball either, because that means teams are

901
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 3: going to put nine men in the box. They're not

902
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 3: afraid of you passing the ball down the field. They're

903
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 3: not afraid of play action pass to open up those

904
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 3: windows downfield. So it's going to be tough sledding for

905
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 3: a running back. I don't care how good he is.

906
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 2: Running backs are in necessity, yeah.

907
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 3: As an offensive lineman, yeah yeah, they are.

908
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 2: By the way, Nijee Harris is over one hundred yards

909
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 2: now for the Steelers. Steelers six minutes to go, looking

910
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 2: good and driving with the ball and the lead fourteen

911
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 2: to seven, Steelers six and a half minutes to go

912
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter of that game. All right, coming

913
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 2: up a little bit later on Texans and the Colts.

914
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 2: Both these coaches have done an unbelievable job, Damiko Ryan

915
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 2: Shane Steichen. I mean, we're talking two rookie coaches whose

916
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 2: teams are nine and seven, and both started the year with,

917
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,720
Speaker 2: you know, the second and fourth overall pick in the draft,

918
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 2: quarterback c J. Stroud Anthony Richardson. And you're a rookie coach,

919
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 2: They're like, here's here's your here's your assignment. You take

920
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 2: a bad team We're gonna give you a rookie quarterback

921
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 2: and we want you to minute win immediately. And guess

922
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 2: what they did even with losing Anthony Richardson and bringing

923
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,479
Speaker 2: him Minshew. That's exactly where the Colts are right now.

924
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 3: And just think about it like this. If c J.

925
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 3: Stroud doesn't get a concussion and missed the two games, yep,

926
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 3: the Texans are already in and probably have won the

927
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 3: division already, right So, you know, having CJ back their

928
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 3: first pick in the draft, having Will Anderson back what

929
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 3: was it, the third pick in the draft, I mean

930
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 3: that they further only won the draft and now they're

931
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 3: about to win the division. And me being a former Texan,

932
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 3: I'm pulling for him. You know, normally you gotta be

933
00:47:55,440 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 3: a little biased when you are unbiased, but look I'm pulling.

934
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:05,399
Speaker 2: For in his rookie season. I believe Peyton Manning through

935
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 2: like twenty six interceptions.

936
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, CJ.

937
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 2: Straut has five. He set an NFL record for most

938
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 2: passes at the start of his career without throwing an interception.

939
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 2: But for a rookie quarterback who most passie, well yeah,

940
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 2: I mean he'll be He'll with a decent day to day,

941
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 2: he'll be over four thousand for the year. But five interceptions, Amen,

942
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 2: I mean that that is the kind of maturity that

943
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,879
Speaker 2: is so rare in a rookie quarterback because your your

944
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 2: instinct is a rookie quarterback is everything's moving really fast

945
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 2: and not seeing. That's always the excuse, right, that's the

946
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 2: excuse for rookie quarterbacks why they make so many mistakes. Well,

947
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 2: the game's going fast, they're they're forcing things. You know,

948
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 2: guys that were wide open at the college level are

949
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 2: not wide open in the NFL. You start throwing the

950
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 2: ball into space as you Why isn't it that complete?

951
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 3: And c J.

952
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 2: Stroud from the opening Bill, how much is that in

953
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 2: terms of Demiko Rance, who's a defensive coach, but just

954
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 2: the mindset of a head coach and a rookie quarterback

955
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 2: to have success from the opening Belt.

956
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 3: It's a belief. It's the locker room. If guys believe

957
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 3: in you, right number one, respect you, respect what you

958
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 3: bring to the table, and then believe in you. And

959
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 3: that's what leadership is. That's what leadership is. If you're

960
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 3: a young coach and you can come immediately in the

961
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 3: locker room and guys trust you believe in you, then

962
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 3: you'll see tremendous growth quick on the field. If you

963
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 3: start doing things that make guys as a head coach

964
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:06,320
Speaker 3: question you just, for example, have a defensive coordinator be

965
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 3: the offensive coordinator, you start to lose a little bit

966
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 3: of the locker room. Another example, you bring in a

967
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 3: guy who's been out of football for seven eight years

968
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 3: and you take up a camp spot at a position

969
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 3: he's never played before. Guys are looking like, I don't know, man,

970
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 3: this doesn't seem.

971
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 2: You didn't believe in Tim Tebow is a tight end, right, so,

972
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 2: but no why Tebow was there? But it was there

973
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 2: to sell everybody that Urban Meyer was the greatest thing ever.

974
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 3: So what I'm saying is you can fool us, but

975
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 3: you can't fool them. And that's what I mean by

976
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 3: the trust and the respect. When you mismanaged the first game,

977
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 3: guys are now, look, you're supposed to be head and

978
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 3: shoulders above it everybody else. So now in the locker room, guys, man,

979
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 3: we could have won that game. But such and such

980
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 3: happened when you consistently fall to analytics instead of knowing

981
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 3: the pulse of your team and what you need to

982
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,760
Speaker 3: do and what you don't need to do you lose

983
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 3: trust in the locker room. This we've seen it play out,

984
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 3: Jamiko Ryans, Shane Steichen trust in the locker room. That's

985
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 3: why the product that they're putting out there, it is

986
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 3: what it is.

987
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: And by the way, as much as the Jaguars have struggled,

988
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 2: the Jags are still in the driver's seat where they

989
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:45,359
Speaker 2: win to get themselves a division title and into the postseason. Jacksonville,

990
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,280
Speaker 2: of course, will be on the road against the Titans.

991
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 2: All right, there's a lot of different scenarios to play

992
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 2: out as far as the playoff picture is concerned. But

993
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 2: there are teams that are on the verge that no

994
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 2: one saw coming. Talked a little bit earlier about this

995
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 2: Rams team, but what about another team in the NFC

996
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 2: that surprised a lot of people in twenty twenty three,

997
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 2: we'll talk about some of those teams that could be

998
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 2: punching their ticket for the postseason. This is Fox Football Saturday,

999
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 2: third and.

1000
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 4: Four Steelers from there, twenty nine shot gun snap and

1001
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,839
Speaker 4: it is Mason Rudolph turn a middle on his way

1002
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 4: Dennis Deontae Johnson thirty twenty five, fifteen ten. He's gone

1003
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 4: for that Steelers touchdown seventy one yards.

1004
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:36,399
Speaker 2: Rudolph to Johnson, that's WDVEE one of two point five

1005
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 2: FM Steelers radio network. To say that was the only

1006
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 2: real highlight of this game would be the understatement of

1007
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 2: the world. But it's enough to give the Steelers looks

1008
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 2: like a big victory on the road against the Ravens.

1009
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 2: Once again. This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harbiny from

1010
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 2: salam were Company Alive from the tire rack dot Com

1011
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,520
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1012
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:00,600
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1013
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,040
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1014
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,560
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1015
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:10,239
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1016
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Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts. You know, see this show

1017
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 2: posted right after we get off the air. So it's

1018
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 2: seventeen to seven right now, Ravens with the ball but

1019
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 2: trailing by ten two minute warning in this game, but

1020
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: that one big play is all the Steelers needed. And

1021
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 2: once again Mike Tomlin getting the job done despite the

1022
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 2: fact that he's gone through several quarterbacks this year, dusted

1023
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 2: off Mason Rudolph of all guys on the bench and

1024
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 2: gets it looks like a third consecutive victory. Now they

1025
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 2: still need some help. But the Steelers, with this victory

1026
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 2: on the road against the Ravens, will be guaranteed a

1027
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 2: playoff spot. If the Bills lose on the road to

1028
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 2: the Dolphins tomorrow, I'm going to talk about the Buffalo Bills.

1029
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 2: This is how crazy the playoffs are. The Bills could

1030
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 2: win the AFCAST with a win tomorrow night, or missed

1031
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 2: the playoffs entirely. They could be out if they lose

1032
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 2: that game tomorrow night.

1033
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 3: Ouch.

1034
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 2: So this is the Bills team that's been in the

1035
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 2: mix the last several years. Wait, so they have that

1036
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 2: triumphant of the Chiefs, the Bills, the Bengals all based

1037
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 2: on the quarterbacks. Burrow went down this year. Bengals sort

1038
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 2: of held it together. You know, Jake Brown wasn't terrible

1039
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 2: at all.

1040
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,240
Speaker 3: He actually played extremely well.

1041
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 2: He played really well. You know, I had moments, but

1042
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 2: you know, he's still not Joe Burrow. But what about

1043
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 2: the future of the Buffeto Burrow. Now, Joe Burrow is

1044
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 2: a special breed. Josh Allen, I mean, you will say

1045
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 2: this about the Bills. They've been basically playing playoff football.

1046
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,839
Speaker 2: The last several weeks, we had to just to keep

1047
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 2: a lot uh and they have a chance. I don't

1048
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 2: know what the Dolphins game plan is for tomorrow. I

1049
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 2: would hope it's to win, because again, if they lose,

1050
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,720
Speaker 2: they lose the AFC East. There's a big difference between

1051
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 2: hosting playoff games and having to run the table on

1052
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 2: the road. There's a huge difference, especially for a team

1053
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,320
Speaker 2: like Miami. They're like the Cowboys. They like the home cookie,

1054
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:16,720
Speaker 2: but Sean McDermott and company law was expected that spills

1055
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 2: team again if they lose today, even if they sneak

1056
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 2: in back door into a wildcard slot, but don't win

1057
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 2: the AFC East, is it time for a change of Buffalo?

1058
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 3: Well, I think they just made a change. I think

1059
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 3: two years ago when they lost Brian Dave Ball, Yes,

1060
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 3: they lost the core of who they really were. I

1061
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 3: think Brian's relationship with Josh Allen was symbiotic. I think

1062
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 3: that they were in lockstep. Remember after that first year

1063
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 3: that they were together, Josh pretty much was like, please

1064
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,879
Speaker 3: don't go because Brian's name was circulated as a head

1065
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:07,439
Speaker 3: coach because he turned a quarterback who was completing fifty

1066
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 3: six percent of his passes into a guy who was

1067
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 3: completing seventy two percent of his passes, a jump that

1068
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 3: had never happened in a year in the NFL at

1069
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 3: the quarterback position, and you saw a different type. Now.

1070
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 3: Josh is always when you can make every throw, then

1071
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 3: you try to make every throw. And the relationship between

1072
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 3: him and Brian, Brian kind of ranged them in a

1073
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 3: little bit, right.

1074
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 2: He did the unthinkable. He took a guy that was

1075
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 2: a fifty eight percent passer and made him a sixty

1076
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 2: eight percent passer.

1077
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 3: That's crazy. It's ten percent in ullege. He was that.

1078
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 2: He never was seventy percent ever, never in college. So

1079
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 2: then they fire Ken Dorsey. That's never a good look

1080
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 2: when you were firing your offensive coordinator during the season.

1081
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:58,240
Speaker 2: And yet Joe Brady comes in. Remember when Joe Brady

1082
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 2: was it down at LSU. The guy the young made

1083
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow made Joe Burrow. Then he goes to Carolina

1084
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:09,280
Speaker 2: not so much.

1085
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:11,359
Speaker 3: So.

1086
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 2: Now he shows up in Buffalo and you're Josh Allen,

1087
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 2: and like you say, first of all, I have to

1088
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 2: believe that when Dorsey was promoted offensive coordinator, that had

1089
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 2: to get the green light from Allen Right, Yeah, is

1090
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 2: this quarterback coach? She's ready to be offensive coordinated.

1091
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 3: Just not the same. Yeah, it's not the same. It

1092
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 3: really isn't.

1093
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 2: But do you think McDermott come to coach has still

1094
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 2: come down to do you have the locker room? Do

1095
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 2: you think Sean McDermott still has that lockero I.

1096
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:44,600
Speaker 3: Think he has a locker room. He hasn't made any

1097
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 3: of the giant missteps that you know some of these

1098
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 3: other coaches have been fired and are getting ready to

1099
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 3: get fired. Half. I know he needs to mend the

1100
00:57:56,920 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 3: relationship with him and Stefan Diggs because when they're when

1101
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 3: Diggs is digging him, they're tough team.

1102
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 2: To beat Tampa Bay with a win on the road

1103
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 2: against Carolina is in. Baker Mayfield is at a remarkable

1104
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 2: and we're not talking about Todd Bowles. I mean a

1105
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 2: lot of people, you know, when we when we talk

1106
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 2: about Tampa the story's Baker Mayfield, Yes, come back. You

1107
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 2: know there's got a lot of guys, you know, in

1108
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 2: the running for comeback Player of the Year. Joe Flacco

1109
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 2: obviously making a late run, but Baker Mayfield back from

1110
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 2: the dead.

1111
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 3: Love dead, dead, deaeased.

1112
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 2: And he comes to Tampa and he's a win on

1113
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 2: the road against Carolina from getting into the postseason. But

1114
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 2: we don't talk about Todd Bulls. How much credit does

1115
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 2: he give for potentially likely Tampa coming away with a

1116
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 2: division title.

1117
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 3: Well, he's got to get the credit, man, because but

1118
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 3: he's not in the wake of the Tom Brady exit.

1119
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 3: Like I mean, last year was awful and a lot

1120
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 3: of fingers were pointed at Todd Bowles because Bruce Aaron

1121
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 3: stepped away and handed the rings over to Todd Bowles

1122
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 3: and it was underwhelming. So I blame went to Todd Bowles

1123
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 3: last year. We need to have that same energy this year.

1124
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 3: When you take a kid off the scrap heap and

1125
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 3: you haven't your one game away from winning the division,

1126
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 3: that's a big deal. That's a big deal.

1127
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people are saying that his job

1128
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 2: could be in jeopardy now if they lose. Can't you

1129
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 2: imagine if they lose tomorrow on the road against Carolina.

1130
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 3: You can't do that. You can't lose that game. Well, no, no,

1131
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 3: you can't. Wa can't.

1132
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 2: By the way, this game is not over yet. The

1133
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 2: Ravens have kicked a field goal with sixteen seconds to go. Now,

1134
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 2: normally on site kicks are just routine. But it's hory

1135
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 2: and rain. That field is a quagmire. And you got

1136
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 2: the best kicker in the game in Justin Tucker, who,

1137
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 2: by the way, was just named his seventh Pro Bowl. Hey, guys,

1138
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 2: on his way to the Hall of Fame. That's a

1139
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer right there, all right, So where's Tucker

1140
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 2: gonna go? You gotta aim, for guys, what I would think,

1141
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 2: Hit a line drive and just hit it as hard

1142
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 2: as you can and try to hit somebody. Let's see

1143
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 2: what Tucker does. And he scribs it and oh, a

1144
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 2: little bit loose it? Yet a little bit loose, all right,

1145
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 2: that's gonna be it. So the Steelers are gonna come

1146
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 2: away with a victory. Ten and seven on the season.

1147
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 2: Pretty impressive for Mike Tomlin. Anybody would think that Mike

1148
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 2: Tomlin's days in Pittsburgh are over based on what We've had.

1149
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 3: Three coaches, none of them were fired.

1150
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 2: Since nineteen sixty nine. Two of them are in the

1151
01:00:57,240 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, and the next one will also be

1152
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame. That would be Mike Tomlin.

1153
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 3: They all won Super Bowls, they.

1154
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 2: All won Super Bowls. They all went to multiple Super Bowls.

1155
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Well, I mean when I hear people being

1156
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 2: critical of Tomlin, I mean, okay, who would who would

1157
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 2: be the right fit for Pittsburgh? Give me the guy,

1158
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 2: give me give me a guy Chuck No, Bill Cower

1159
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 2: and Mike Tomlin. Who's that next guy in line? I

1160
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know, But this guy ten and

1161
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 2: seven this year.

1162
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 3: They did what they were supposed to do.

1163
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 2: They're one of the ugliest ten and seven teams ever. Hey,

1164
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 2: but then we say that year after year after year

1165
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 2: with them. Hey man, even ugly girls get to go

1166
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 2: to the front the Steelers. So the Steelers need a

1167
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 2: little bit of help. But the Steelers put themselves in

1168
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:47,479
Speaker 2: a pretty good position after this win on the road

1169
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 2: against the Ravens today. All right, let's find out what

1170
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 2: is trending right now. Befen is back. I mean, Mike Tomlin,

1171
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 2: how does this team win ten games?

1172
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 8: Because he's the best coach in the NFL. He never

1173
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 8: gets enough credit because he never really has the players

1174
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 8: to win like he could imagine if he had the guys.

1175
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 2: Well, think about the quarterback situation, because the last one

1176
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 2: three or four years a big ben, his arm had

1177
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 2: fallen off, he was anywhere near the quarterback he was

1178
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 2: early in his career. And then he goes with can

1179
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 2: He Pickett a year ago and now he falls with

1180
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph. Three straight wins to get themselves in a

1181
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 2: position where they again they need a little bit of help,

1182
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 2: but could make the playoffs.

1183
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 8: Ten wins, ten wins or better in ten seasons. Right,

1184
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 8: put that into perspective.

1185
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 2: He's got a bus waiting for him in COOPERSN and

1186
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 2: COOPER'STWN and Cantons on day. But yeah, there's still people

1187
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 2: out there saying now they need to make a change. Really,

1188
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 2: I don't know. I like a coach that could get

1189
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 2: me into the postseason more years than not.

1190
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 3: And they seemed like that would be the thing to do, right.

1191
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, there's no guarantee. There's a lot of

1192
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,439
Speaker 2: luck involved sometimes when it comes to a postseason run,

1193
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:00,439
Speaker 2: but you got to get there.

1194
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1195
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 8: Ask the Nebraska college football fans why they made a

1196
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 8: change with Mike Riley, right, was it?

1197
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 3: Mike? Mike?

1198
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 8: They had some good years and then they just the team.

1199
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 8: The program has never been the same eight wins a

1200
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 8: year for some of these programs is really good and

1201
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 8: their fans have the outlandish expectations of wanting more. But

1202
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 8: you spoke remember both Pauline, Well that was the name

1203
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 8: I was.

1204
01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 2: He won at least nine games seven years in a row. Yeah,

1205
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 2: but every year was nine and four nine, nine and

1206
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 2: four nine, and they get rid of him and now

1207
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 2: they can't even finish five hundred. Yeah, that Mike Riley

1208
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 2: got one good year. That's that is true. By the

1209
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 2: way you said Canton.

1210
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 8: And maybe somebody we could see in the future in

1211
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 8: Ken would be Steelers TJ.

1212
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 3: Watt.

1213
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:46,240
Speaker 2: As far as the.

1214
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 8: Game, he came out of this game with a knee injury,

1215
01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 8: so that is of note. Seventeen to ten was the

1216
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 8: final score Steelers over the Ravens. No Lamar Jackson. He

1217
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 8: was out resting for the postseason. The other game that

1218
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 8: is coming up at eight fifteen Eastern time will feature

1219
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 8: the Colts hosting the Texans. Laramie Tunsall, along with Willie

1220
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 8: Anderson Junior coming off injuries, are expected to play for

1221
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 8: Houston in that prime time matchup. As it relates to

1222
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 8: the NBA, Draymond Green is suspended no longer. The league

1223
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 8: has reinstated him after what they called an indefinite suspension,

1224
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 8: but indefinite in the form of twelve games. That was

1225
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 8: all it was for Draymond Green. As ESPN reports that

1226
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 8: within the next couple of days, Green is going to

1227
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:33,919
Speaker 8: be back of the team facility. Give him a week

1228
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 8: after that and he will be playing in games. And

1229
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 8: he got himself, of course, in trouble with this suspension

1230
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 8: after essentially doing a WWE move on the court.

1231
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:46,400
Speaker 3: Well not even a WWE move, that was more like

1232
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 3: a mixed martial arts move because WWE is fake.

1233
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 2: So that is true.

1234
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 3: He actually made contact, that is true.

1235
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 8: And I would not want to be on the receiving

1236
01:04:56,440 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 8: end of that contact because it would have heard. So

1237
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 8: that being said, John Morant is questionable for tomorrow's game

1238
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 8: against the Suns. When the Grizzlies take on the Suns.

1239
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 8: He's dealing with a shoulder injury. College basketball notable top

1240
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 8: twenty five games that have come across as far as

1241
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 8: on today's slate, we do know right now the number

1242
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 8: fourteen Duke is a head forty one to thirty eight

1243
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 8: against Notre Dame thirteen minutes to play in the second half.

1244
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 8: There number twenty two Old Miss they're thirteen to zero,

1245
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 8: and it might not be undefeated much longer, as they

1246
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 8: are getting voter raced by Number five Tennessee seventy to

1247
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 8: forty seven in Knoxville halfway through this second half. And lastly,

1248
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:42,440
Speaker 8: number two Kansas with a win over TCU eighty three

1249
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 8: to eighty one. Number six Kentucky floors at Pass, Florida

1250
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 8: eighty seven to eighty five, with a ten point outscoring

1251
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 8: of the Gators for the Wildcats in that second half.

1252
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 8: And lastly, we do know that another team is no

1253
01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:01,520
Speaker 8: longer undefeated nineteenth rank James Manda now fourteen and one

1254
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 8: after Southern Miss was victorious against eighty one or what

1255
01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 8: was victorious eighty one to seventy one, and he from

1256
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 8: salam and the guy Steve Hartman. When I get it

1257
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 8: back to you, who would have thought that Southern Miss

1258
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 8: would have been mentioned in the update? I guess you

1259
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 8: could add that to your BNGO card.

1260
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 2: You never know, you never know. I mean, this is

1261
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 2: the beauty of sports across the board. You know, things

1262
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 2: happen that you don't expect to happen. Where else does

1263
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:30,919
Speaker 2: this happen but the sports world completely unexpected. No explanation

1264
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 2: for it. But then again, you have to have an

1265
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 2: actual knowledge and appreciation for sports to truly appreciate it.

1266
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:39,440
Speaker 8: And I have appreciation for you because in the middle

1267
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 8: of a commercial break you got out of your radio

1268
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 8: attire and now you're in your television attire. I have

1269
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 8: ton't say it's like Superman coming out of a phone booth.

1270
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 2: I love having a lot of things going on. You

1271
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 2: know that I'm a busy guy. You're not good at

1272
01:06:57,040 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 2: sitting still. Let me tell you him not I need.

1273
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:02,280
Speaker 2: I need to be buss busy as pos really to

1274
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 2: stay out of trouble is what I need to do.

1275
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 2: If I stay busy, it's like like the little kid,

1276
01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:09,840
Speaker 2: you know, give him something to do, except I never

1277
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:12,400
Speaker 2: grew out of that. Now you're a little kid at heart, always,

1278
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 2: never never changed. B Fena is great to have you back, man,

1279
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Once again. This is Fox Football Saturday.

1280
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 2: Steve Harbernea from Salam. We are live from the tai

1281
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 2: IRAQ dot com studios. You mentioned that Tampa Bay will

1282
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 2: punch their ticket to the postseason with a win on

1283
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 2: the road against the Panthers. I mean, we're going to

1284
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:33,920
Speaker 2: look back on this twenty twenty three Panthers team. They're

1285
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 2: only two wins, Ephraim. They beat the Texans at home

1286
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 2: fifteen to thirteen, and they beat the Falcons at home

1287
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 2: nine to seven. That's it two and fourteen. So we

1288
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 2: mentioned the fact that you got Jim Harbaugh potentially out there,

1289
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick, you got a young quarterback in Bryce Young.

1290
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 2: You know what reminded with Bryce Young is Jared Goff.

1291
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 2: Do you remember how bad Jared Goff was as a rookie?

1292
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 3: Yep?

1293
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:11,439
Speaker 2: Do you remember? I had this opportunity, So my high

1294
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:16,040
Speaker 2: school classmate Jeff Fisher got fired that year. Goff wasn't

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01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 2: just bad, like he literally did not look like he

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01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,720
Speaker 2: belonged in the league. Owen seven is a starter as

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01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:26,360
Speaker 2: a rookie and was worse than that. And they hired

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Speaker 2: Sean McVay, some thirty year old head coach, and I

1299
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:32,759
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to do a one on one interview

1300
01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 2: long before training camp even opened, to sit down and

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01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:39,759
Speaker 2: meet this guy. And as I was talking to Sean McVeigh,

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01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:41,920
Speaker 2: I was doing the math like that when I was

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01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:48,200
Speaker 2: working for the Raiders. He was born Okay, So I'm

1304
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 2: looking at this guy and my immediate question was can

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01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 2: you salvage golf? I mean he looks awful. And his

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01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 2: answer was, we have to erase everything that happened last

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01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:08,479
Speaker 2: year and what happened his first year. They go to

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01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 2: the playoffs and golf, it's like night and day.

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01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 3: Got to throw it out, man.

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01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 2: So they need a Carolina to find that coach they

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01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:19,759
Speaker 2: can do. Trust what Sean McVay did with Jared goff

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01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:24,559
Speaker 2: to do with Bryce Young. I know Bryce Young's got talent,

1313
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:27,800
Speaker 2: but you got a hope. I mean the one stat

1314
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 2: he leads the NFL in most yards sacked. His average

1315
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 2: sack was eight and a half yards. That's the average

1316
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 2: sack eight and a half yard loss. That is crazy.

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Speaker 3: The bad habit quarterbacks, especially dynamic quarterbacks, Heisman level quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: make uh when they make it to the next level

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01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 3: in the NFL, is the retreat ankle. If you watch

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01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 3: great quarterbacks, they very rarely spin out. They very rarely

1321
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 3: spin behind out right. They always escape up in the pocket.

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01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 2: Right, step up when you span out right.

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01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 3: Normally pressures coming from guard center guard, well, where do

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01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:27,240
Speaker 3: you think the defensive end is? Where do you think

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01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 3: the defensive end went? He went outside? So when you

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01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,640
Speaker 3: spin out and you turn and there's a defensive end

1327
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:38,839
Speaker 3: there because the offensive tackle has washed him wide around.

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01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 2: And by the way, these defensive ends that are running

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Speaker 2: four seven forties.

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Speaker 3: You run right into them. But now you're not five

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01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,639
Speaker 3: yards behind the line of scrimmage. You're nine yards behind

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Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 2: Two quarterbacks that stand out of my mind that were

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01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 2: great at stepping up in the pocket, Tom Brady, obviously

1335
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:59,880
Speaker 2: Philip Rivers did the same thing. Zero mobility, zero.

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01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 3: Mobile, but all the mobility in the world.

1337
01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 2: Pocket awareness.

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01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:05,800
Speaker 3: Man, all right, it's a magical thing.

1339
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:09,679
Speaker 2: Do you believe Bryce Young is salvagable? Can you? Can?

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Speaker 3: You?

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01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:12,400
Speaker 2: I just gave an example of a guy that looked

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01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:16,599
Speaker 2: completely out of his element as a rookie. Right coach

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01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 2: Ripe system helped to have Todd Gurley and suddenly he's

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01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 2: a completely different quarterback. Is that possible with Bryce Young?

1345
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:30,200
Speaker 2: Or The size situation is more complicated than a lot

1346
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 2: of people gave it credit for.

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Speaker 3: The size thing, for me is an issue when you

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01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 3: look at Bryce Young in the huddle, he looks like

1349
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:42,759
Speaker 3: a slot receiver. Yeah, he's little.

1350
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:45,679
Speaker 2: He's the smallest quarterback in the league.

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Speaker 3: So to me, that's a problem because now his passing

1352
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:57,520
Speaker 3: windows are no longer the same, right, so his windows

1353
01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 3: have diminished in terms of his release point. How he

1354
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:08,040
Speaker 3: can approach certain throws, Well, that's something you can't coach

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01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:10,560
Speaker 3: out of. So if you can't coach him to be taller.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that was the argument when when Doug Flutie

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01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:17,000
Speaker 2: brought his game to San Diego one year starter while

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01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 2: Drew Brees waited his turn. I remember asking Flutie, who

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01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:26,839
Speaker 2: is under five to nine, how do you see anything serious?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're you're five foot nine. I'll give you that.

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01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 2: He's not really, but let's say five nine and you

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Speaker 2: got offensive Linemann eight six eight six seven six five

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Speaker 2: six eight. But let's just say they're all six five

1364
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Speaker 2: in front of you, across the board, sixty five across.

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Speaker 2: How do you see down the field?

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Speaker 3: You don't.

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Speaker 2: And here he had a good explanation. He goes, well,

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Speaker 2: first of all, I've only been this height. So I

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01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 2: was this tall in high school, I was this tall

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Speaker 2: in college. I was this tall when I was winning

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Speaker 2: MVP awards in the Canadian Football League. I was this

1372
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 2: tall when I made a Pro Bowl in Buffalo. So

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Speaker 2: my height has never changed. So my perspective on the

1374
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 2: field has always been the same and how I can

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01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:15,599
Speaker 2: actually see down the field, But a lot of it

1376
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:21,280
Speaker 2: is also feel. You gotta have instincts. Yeah, so sometimes

1377
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:22,679
Speaker 2: you're throwing a little bit blind.

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01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 3: Gotta have chemistry, but you gotta know where that receiver is.

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01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:27,640
Speaker 3: You gotta have the chemistry.

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Speaker 2: So and I believe, I do believe Bryce Young has that,

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01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:36,280
Speaker 2: but he has to get it. He has to get

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01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 2: somebody to settle down that offense that can put him

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Speaker 2: in a position to succeed.

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Speaker 3: There is no doubt that he's talent. He's talented. How

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01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 3: that translates into the NFL game mm hmm, that's yet

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01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:53,559
Speaker 3: to be seen. All right.

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Speaker 2: On the other side, which will ultimately be the most

1388
01:13:58,280 --> 01:14:03,800
Speaker 2: shocking team to get into this NFL postseason, We're going

1389
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Speaker 2: to tell you. This is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Harbin

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Speaker 2: and e from Salam Fox Football Saturday, coming live from

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Speaker 2: the tiraq dot com studios. I thank the crew today.

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01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 2: It was good to see Brian Finley back in the house.

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01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 2: Lorraine is back for more. Rookie of the Year in

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01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, Sophomore of the Year in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: and of course now I get to see a lot

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Speaker 2: of bow. Have we decided on what's happening here on Saturday's, Bou?

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Speaker 2: I know we see you on Sundays, but when I

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01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 2: see the list, your name is highlighted in a different color,

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01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 2: which means that Bo's here today. Would you mind hanging

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01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 2: out with us on Saturdays?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,680
Speaker 2: No, but not my first choice.

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01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:54,320
Speaker 6: Boy.

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Speaker 3: You better get this money, man.

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01:14:55,640 --> 01:15:00,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, You're my first choice. Thank you well, our

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01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:05,840
Speaker 2: first choice? Absolutely? All right, guys, we again have so

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Speaker 2: many different playoffs scenarios going on again. With the Steelers

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01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 2: winning today against the Ravens, the Steelers jump up temporarily

1409
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 2: into the seventh slot. There's still not guaranteed a playoff spot,

1410
01:15:17,960 --> 01:15:23,600
Speaker 2: but if Buffalo loses to Miami who, it could be

1411
01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:26,639
Speaker 2: really bad for Buffalo. They could go anywhere from winning

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Speaker 2: the division to out of the playoffs. Meanwhile, we essentially

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01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 2: have a playoff game going on right now between the

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Speaker 2: Texans and the Colts. The winner of this game could

1415
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:44,799
Speaker 2: win the division if Jacksonville loses, but even if Jacksonville wins,

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01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:47,600
Speaker 2: the winner of this game is going to be in

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01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 2: the postseason as a wild card and if that's the

1418
01:15:52,080 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 2: Houston Texans based on where we were before the season began.

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Speaker 2: If the Texas win today, they will be in the

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Speaker 2: postseason at the very least a wild card, possibly a

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Speaker 2: division winner. That would have to trump any other team

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Speaker 2: in terms of their presence in the postseason.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because they're young and dumb enough to be dangerous.

1424
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:22,400
Speaker 3: And I don't mean dumb in the sense of a

1425
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 3: derogatory term. I mean in terms of experience, and they

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Speaker 3: have any electric quarterback who can gobble up yards by

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Speaker 3: the boat load, and they're d that's a dangerous team.

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01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 3: When you're when you don't know, you're not supposed to

1429
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:54,840
Speaker 3: be this good, and you're just out there playing guys

1430
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 3: are getting along and having a good time, that's dangerous.

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01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 2: Nico Collins, tank down, who, Noah Brown? Who Dalton Schultz.

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01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 2: That's your receiving core. Those are the top four receivers

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Speaker 2: this year for the Texans. And Devin Singletary it's had

1434
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:19,720
Speaker 2: a pretty solid year running the man.

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01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:22,519
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and your backup running back Pierce.

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Speaker 2: So it gets down to Demico Ryans. Remember we were

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Speaker 2: even questioning about Demiico Ryans of all jobs. I know

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Speaker 2: we had a he played for the organization everything else,

1439
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 2: but they had had what three straight one and done coaches.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a difficult one. You know all African

1441
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 3: American coaches right gone.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't like Demiko rans didn't have choices. He could

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01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 2: have waited it out. He'd have a better opportunity than

1444
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 2: going there.

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01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 3: But I like what he did because Domico means something

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01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:01,640
Speaker 3: to that community. He means something in that building. I

1447
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 3: was there with Demiko his rookie year when he won

1448
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 3: Defensive Rookie of the Year. I've been a teammate of him.

1449
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 3: I know his knowledge of the game and the respect,

1450
01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:19,840
Speaker 3: the instant respect that guys have for him walking into

1451
01:18:19,880 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 3: that locker room is what I was talking about earlier.

1452
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 3: You need that if you're trying to do something most

1453
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:29,559
Speaker 3: people or most teams don't think you can do. You

1454
01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 3: need that level of trust and respect starting with the

1455
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:36,839
Speaker 3: head coach. And once you get that, guys start buying

1456
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:43,719
Speaker 3: into things, they start performing at a higher clip. Carolina

1457
01:18:43,760 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 3: Panthers have to be kicking themselves in the back of

1458
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:49,200
Speaker 3: the head because they had c J. Stroud.

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01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:53,720
Speaker 2: Okay, do you believe CJ. Stroud would have had the

1460
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Speaker 2: same success in Carolina that he's had a Usta.

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Speaker 3: I think he would have been better than Bryce Young.

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01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 3: I think he would have been better just for the

1463
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 3: simple fact like you can't speed this young man up.

1464
01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 3: The game never seems too big for and his command

1465
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:25,599
Speaker 3: of that offense and the trust level that those players

1466
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:29,360
Speaker 3: have in him. Those are tangibles that travel with you

1467
01:19:29,439 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 3: wherever you are. Those are great quarterback intangibles.

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01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:42,240
Speaker 2: So he can have intangibles. Gardner Minshew thrown into action

1469
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 2: after the injury. I mean, I'm looking up Minshew's record

1470
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 2: in his National Football League career and as a starter

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01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 2: fifteen and twenty one, not much to speak of. But

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Speaker 2: if he leads this team into the postseason, he he's

1473
01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:00,639
Speaker 2: in demand.

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Speaker 3: Guys love him. He took Jacksonville by storm. Yeah, everybody

1475
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:08,280
Speaker 3: was wearing mustaches and all kinds of stuff.

1476
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what happens in this one. Again. The

1477
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 2: winner of this game between the Colts and the Texans

1478
01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:17,639
Speaker 2: clinches a spot in the postseason. Don't go anywhere, folks.

1479
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 2: New Year coming up, Happy New Year. This is Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.