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Speaker 1: Gregg Rosenhal. What is up? Boys? Oh? Happy Sunday Week fifteen?

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Speaker 1: A lot of bangers. Always like a happier, kind of

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Speaker 1: It's uh, especially when you think about it. Was it

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Speaker 1: brilliant play, design and execution, and the Ravens are back

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Speaker 1: in it. Rookie quarterback Lamar Jackson, anointed the Ravens starter

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Speaker 1: earlier this week, rewarded his bosses with another winning performance.

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Speaker 1: L Jacks ran for ninety five yards through forty one more,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens twenty to twelve victors over the Bucks. And

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Speaker 1: now welcome back our good buddy looking yokes Nick Shook,

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Speaker 1: Hey buddy, how are you the Ravens inch closer to

447
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Technological apocalypse happening right there, Everything's fine. The

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Speaker 1: Ravens Inch closer to the playoffs with a now reliable formula,

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Speaker 1: trust your d and run the damn football. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that doesn't necessarily pass the ball well,

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Speaker 1: but runs it really well because their quarterback is a

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Speaker 1: serious running threat. Exhibit A. This week, he rushed eighteen

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Speaker 1: yards for eighteen times for ninety five yards. Gus Edwards

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Speaker 1: outdid him a little bit more night and carries a

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Speaker 1: hundred four yards and a touchdown. But the point being

456
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Speaker 1: on a wet, rainy, kind of muddy day in Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: they were suited for this. And this is kind of

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Speaker 1: a formula that a lot of other teams in the

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Speaker 1: division have done in the past, which is, let's run

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Speaker 1: the crap out of the ball and let's play good defense.

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Speaker 1: And it worked, not to perfection, but it worked well enough.

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Speaker 1: They're good counterbalance to a lot of teams in the

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Speaker 1: NFL right now. They're the team that likes to get

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Speaker 1: down and dirty and do some grunt work and pound

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Speaker 1: ground and pound baby. Yeah. But they became that once

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Speaker 1: they made the quarterback change. Because that's not who they

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Speaker 1: were earlier. And people kind of been pointing out, okay,

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Speaker 1: this this can't last, you know, this style or whatever.

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Speaker 1: And yes, they're a great running team with Jackson that

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Speaker 1: that's a good identity. It's not just that they're great running,

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Speaker 1: they're one of the last five weeks is one of

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Speaker 1: the best stretches that any NFL team has ever had

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Speaker 1: running in the football period. They've gone to sixty seven

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Speaker 1: to two oh seven to forty two, so they were

475
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Speaker 1: only six yards off last week from being the first

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Speaker 1: team since the seventy eight Patriots to go two five

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Speaker 1: street and then they went back to two forts. So

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Speaker 1: this isn't just okay, like we have an identity. It

479
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Speaker 1: is like, we are one of the best running teams

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Speaker 1: at least for this stretch that we've seen. And oh,

481
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Speaker 1: by the way, we limited Dirk Cutter's bucks to have

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Speaker 1: twelve first downs, which was the lowest in his entire

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Speaker 1: time running the team. It's a formula that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: It's it's kind of out of necessity, but it works.

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Speaker 1: And if it works, like you said, why change it?

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Speaker 1: And and it works because you have two guys who

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Speaker 1: are able to run the ball. At any time, even

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Speaker 1: when he's dropping back to throw, a lot of times

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Speaker 1: he's pulling it down and running and it's not a

490
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Speaker 1: bad thing. Long term, we'll see, but right now they're

491
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Speaker 1: on the edge of the playoffs. They held the ball

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Speaker 1: for more than thirty seven minutes, They had two drives

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Speaker 1: that lasted more than seven minutes, and and the the

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Speaker 1: final drive that closed out the game seven oh eight.

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Speaker 1: This is an interesting way to play football in ten

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Speaker 1: and it's working. I also think, because you know, there

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Speaker 1: were whispers about John Harbaugh in one of the guys

498
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Speaker 1: that might be, you know, on the breadline, come after

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Speaker 1: this season, we'll forget all that because I think he's

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Speaker 1: done a really nice job in terms of the transitioning

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks in a drama freeway and showing that you know,

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Speaker 1: if you think all the ravens of the same thing

503
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Speaker 1: year after year, we can completely change our philosophy, you know,

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Speaker 1: midway through the season and become a much more intriguing,

505
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Speaker 1: potent team. And it's kind of like what we stop

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Speaker 1: about the Vikings, where it's like you're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: re change their identity. Not easy to do, but they've

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Speaker 1: handled really well and it's been. They're one of the

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Speaker 1: most unusual NFL teams around right now. Huge game at

510
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Speaker 1: the Chargers next week. If they lose and missed the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of John Harbor's job security? Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. If there's five or six or seven teams

513
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Speaker 1: looking for a coach, how do you say, how do

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Speaker 1: you figure out that you're going to go get a

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Speaker 1: better coach than John Harvey? Agree? I feel like what

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Speaker 1: he's done. I think changing this team and his philosophy

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Speaker 1: has saved his job. I think he'll keep the job.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and barring them losing the last two games,

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Speaker 1: they would have to lose to the Ravens too, I

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Speaker 1: mean to the brown too. And I think Don Martindale

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Speaker 1: has done a really good job as their coordinator too,

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Speaker 1: as a first year higher and Harbo has done I

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Speaker 1: think you can look at who he's hired for his

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Speaker 1: staffs for the most part and done a really good

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Speaker 1: job doing that. You get a chance to say wink

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Speaker 1: and you pass. Yeah. I mean, Don doesn't get a

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Speaker 1: lot of pop on this show for the coordinator of

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Speaker 1: you know, statistically the number one defense is either coordinator

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Speaker 1: of a t L. Now, is he even the coordinator

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Speaker 1: of the winger on his own team. Look what the

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Speaker 1: offensive sides done. Conversation with a Marty Morning I love

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Speaker 1: there and on this game, Nick, any of the thoughts

533
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Speaker 1: on this um tough day for the Buccaneers overall, but

534
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Speaker 1: they do have some, you know, things to be excited.

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Speaker 1: I kind of like Peyton Barber. He's a little bit

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Speaker 1: of an interesting running back. Rushed for eighty five yards

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Speaker 1: against one of the league's best rush defense. You don't

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Speaker 1: love him as much as Tom Brennaman loves him. No,

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Speaker 1: Bob loves Peyton Barber. Let us move on the kick.

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Speaker 1: They're kickers, Pulsi Pulsar Hopkins. That's it. The Redskins winn that.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Claylon, No, it's Larry Michael of the Redskins radio network.

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Speaker 1: Uh yes, Dustin Hopkins made a thirty six, thirty six

543
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Speaker 1: yard bill goal on the final play of the game

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Speaker 1: that won it for the Redskins, who went finishing over

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars on Sunday. It snaps a four game losing

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Speaker 1: streak for Washington, somehow keeps him on the fringe of

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Speaker 1: the playoff picture. Shook. I mean, what how did the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars lose this game. Let's dive into this one. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's go deep. First starters, Cody Kessler ran for more

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Speaker 1: yards than he threw. What if you went an indicator

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Speaker 1: seven yards passing. We're not talking about Josh Allen here

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Speaker 1: sixty eight yards rushing on six attempts. It was one

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Speaker 1: of those days for the Jaguars. This is pretty much

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Speaker 1: what this team is at this point. They lack they

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Speaker 1: lack skill up front because of injuries, and uh it

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Speaker 1: kind of trickles down from there with the rest of

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Speaker 1: their offense is just pretty inept. And you know, credit

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Speaker 1: their defense for holding the wonderful world beating Josh Johnson

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Speaker 1: to uh, you know, sixteen total points in this offense.

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Speaker 1: What you're crediting the Jaguars defense. It was a joke.

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Speaker 1: That's dry humor being employed, really ugly game to watch.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I know that David Eally, your supervisor,

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Speaker 1: is at a wedding this week, and I'm glad that

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Speaker 1: he could take essentially a bye week to enjoy whatever

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Speaker 1: the friend is that got married. That's nice. But because

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Speaker 1: they was like, was it a Sunday wedding? It was

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Speaker 1: a cousin. It was a Sunday wedding. Well, that's very

568
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: nice that someone got married, but the fact that he

569
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Speaker 1: has a parting gift handed this to you as an assignment.

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Speaker 1: I think you need to sort of circle back and

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Speaker 1: say a little more respect. Listen, I have paid some

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Speaker 1: dues in my days. I watched a lot of forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers games in the in the Chip Kelly and

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Speaker 1: uh and year before that, and uh, this is nowhere

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Speaker 1: near as bad. It's it's crazy because the Redskins aren't

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Speaker 1: really even on the fringes. I mean, they're half a

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Speaker 1: game out. We've all written them off and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to write them off. But the

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Speaker 1: fact of the matter is they're half a game out

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Speaker 1: of the playoffs, and that you know going they could

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Speaker 1: have been all the play they play at Tennessee and

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Speaker 1: then home against the Eagles. Could they win one of

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Speaker 1: those games with Josh Johns. I don't know. I feel

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Speaker 1: like maybe could. It's kind of it spells out the

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Speaker 1: Kaepernick issue. I feel like even a little stronger the

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Speaker 1: fact that they were able to win a game with

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Speaker 1: Josh Johns team whose quarterback through for fifty seven yards.

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Speaker 1: They beat a team who, let's calm down on acting

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Speaker 1: like the Redskins are relevant that they beat a team. Also,

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00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: who uh they're best player? Perhaps, Jalen Ramsey said after

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Speaker 1: the game when asked about their Doug Maron's future, I

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Speaker 1: ain't worried about nobody, but by myself not a surprising

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Speaker 1: quote coming from Jalen Ramsey. Uh. And Tom Coffin might

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Speaker 1: be the head coach by week seventeen at this rate.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's the new working theory on my end.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on that. Denver has to have

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Speaker 1: this or the ball game is over. Low snap Keenom

598
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: takes it pressure Country sacked. He has taken down to

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Speaker 1: the crowd by the safety Jabrill Peppers in Cleveland is

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Speaker 1: gonna snap their eleven game losing streak to the Denver Brockos.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Gouten of Westwood One with the call it's moved

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Speaker 1: to Saturday football. On fourth down and the season on

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Speaker 1: the line, Brown safety Jabrill Pepper shop through the line

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Speaker 1: took down pace Keenom the decisive play in Cleveland seventeen

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Speaker 1: sixteen win over the brown Goes at mile high Mark

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Speaker 1: Sessler was not pretty, but the Browns came through with

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Speaker 1: a huge road win, ending the season of an old

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Speaker 1: nemesis in the process. E l A. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: for Nick and I long time, long suffering Browns fans. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this was a long time coming because I can remember

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Speaker 1: they had not beaten Denver since nine when I was

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Speaker 1: at the University of Miami or Miami University. I took

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Speaker 1: a Saturday car trip with some friends up to go

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Speaker 1: watch the Browns play the John Elway lead Broncos. The

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Speaker 1: brown said Mike tom Zack as a quarterback, so you

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Speaker 1: knew it was gonna be a tough ask. But they

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Speaker 1: lost twelve nothing, and on the way up, our car

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Speaker 1: that we were in burned to the ground on the highway,

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Speaker 1: and I did not realize at Yeah, at that moment,

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Speaker 1: that was a microcosm of what would be not just

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Speaker 1: Cleveland's uh situation with Denver, but the situation as a

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Speaker 1: football team for many many years to come. So last night,

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Speaker 1: because when they beat Denver and things have changed now,

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Speaker 1: it's it's highly unlikely outside of some sort of national

625
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: crisis that they're not going to make playoffs. But when

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Speaker 1: you went to bed last night, there was a chance,

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Speaker 1: and the national crisis, well, how does the national crisis,

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Speaker 1: make the Colts and Titans tie a game in weeks.

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Speaker 1: I mean Indianapolis would need to like sink into the earth,

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Speaker 1: I mean something like that, and that would be a

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Speaker 1: world crisis. But uh, it's not gonna happen. But you

632
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: cannot feel anything but satisfaction with the way that they've turned.

633
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Speaker 1: It's another team that trans formed their season by making

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Speaker 1: coaching changes. And it was not a pretty game. And

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00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: Greg Williams is lucky that a horrible time out call

636
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Speaker 1: as Denver was being flagged for a neutral zone in

637
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: fraction did not cost Cleveland that game. But luckily they

638
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: played at coach and Vance Joseph who was pretty good

639
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: at hurting his own team with decisions. So it was messy,

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Speaker 1: but I like watching them when they don't win a

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Speaker 1: lot of messy games like this. This was a completely

642
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: unique type of Browns win. It's actually had the feel

643
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: of a of a textbook Brown's loss because of the

644
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: aforementioned time out that you know, erased what would have

645
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: been an encroachment penalty would give him a first down,

646
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: you know, going forward on fourth down. Uh, not knocking

647
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: the field goal in that situation, not getting the yard

648
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: that you need and then watching case keenom of all

649
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: quarterbacks lead them down the field for a game tying

650
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: field or a game winning field goal, which didn't happen,

651
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: but for a long time I had a feeling it

652
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. I mean, it felt like Joseph Vance

653
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: Joseph the Broncos coach, like had bet on the Browns

654
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: or something when he decided to kick field But when

655
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: he when he decided to kick the field goal on

656
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: fourth and one inside the ten midway through the fourth quarter,

657
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: I thought, like, what is happening here in what situation?

658
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: Is that a good idea? And his players and Brown's

659
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: players both talked about it after the game, how stunned

660
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: they were by the decision. You don't want to you

661
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: don't want to stun your players in a bad way.

662
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: Decision was not I mean credit to Greg Williams for

663
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: turning the season around, but Van's Joseph's decision was not

664
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: nearly as bad as Greg williams decision. Greg Williams has

665
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: felt like bad game that would have given him a

666
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: four point lead. That was an indefensible decision, I would agree.

667
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: I think he narrowly avoided being crucified in Cleveland and

668
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: losing any shot and maybe hanging on looked agitated at

669
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: himself after he made it, like I wonder if there

670
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: was no I know, I mean, I I don't know

671
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: if that he was thinking, here's what I'm gonna do.

672
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna nullify like this penalty. I think it just

673
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: was bad timing and a bad idea and it came

674
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: together to be, you know, near disaster. One of our

675
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: big takeaways both vans Joseph and Greg Williams maybe not

676
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: the future of the head coaching position, but the future

677
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. What do you do fans Joseph too, Because

678
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: on one hand, it's and case King who served up

679
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: too awful interceptions and was pretty pretty poor for the

680
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: second straight week. He's playing without his top players, they're

681
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: missing offensive lineman. On some level, it made me realize,

682
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: like the Browns would be a fun six seed, but

683
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: they're not ready. I don't think they go on the

684
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: road and win a playoff game by any means if

685
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: you can't do better against this broadcast team. But it's like,

686
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: does anyone think vance Joseph's gonna be a better coach

687
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: next year? I don't know. He I think he's probably

688
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 1: one of those guys who could slide on the list

689
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: of firing watch late and end up losing it. Well,

690
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: there's four or five games that stand out where Vance

691
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 1: Joseph decisions hurt his team, and you can't be one.

692
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: It's not You're not even could be Bill Belichick. You

693
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: can't be one of those coaches that's costing your team

694
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: every other week or every week sometimes in the Browns

695
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: are six seven and one, no playoffs, but this is

696
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: mathematically still alive. Oh there you go. Oh that's right.

697
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: How many in a row? Mark, I don't want to

698
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: sleep on this eight in a row? H R. And

699
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 1: how are you? I know that you and Dan got

700
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 1: to a local watering hole to watch the Jets Brown's

701
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: doubleheader at a day that Lakisha the Paramore described as

702
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: what a cute date for them, Right, it was a

703
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: cute but by the end, that's a long day. So

704
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, how how are you doing by the

705
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: end of that day? Oh we were, we were in

706
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: great spirits, um like. And I can assess that you

707
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: know the royal well, we actually it wasn't just a date,

708
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: it was we had it. It was Henry Handsome Hank

709
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: showed up too, and he helped grease young Jack. We

710
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: had a child there, which seemed like a responsible move

711
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: for what we were up to. Uh yeah, it was fun.

712
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: It was a glorious day. Watched the game with my

713
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: children at the end, speaking of children, as your car

714
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: burned down to the ground about four hours away across

715
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: the state of Ohio, I was struggling to hold my

716
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: head up as a newborn. Yeah, I get it. I'm

717
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: not like, I'm not claiming to be. I feel twenty

718
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 1: one inside, but I am not twenty um Nick Nick.

719
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: As a Browns fan, I know you're feeling good too,

720
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 1: So get to that gym and use the two thousand

721
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: nineteen season when you go twelve and four as motivation.

722
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: The slim playoff, hope endorphins like that. As for Mark,

723
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: well done. You really tiptoed around the events of last night.

724
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean there's also like some Instagram stories

725
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: that would suggest exactly what was happening. So you have

726
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: some missing clothing items, a pair of bi vocals. Oh,

727
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: I lost my Yeah, I lost my glasses, which I

728
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,720
Speaker 1: lost previously on a road trip to Houston with John

729
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: Gonzales and so again, you know, I cannot go to

730
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I won't even be able to see

731
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: the field without these so called rocko's this place and

732
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: the guys like, hey, we're too busy. We got a

733
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: full slate of games here. Call back tomorrow during like

734
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. It's like, yeah, all right, let's check in

735
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: with that another Saturday game. Face the handoff rolling left

736
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: side wants DeAndre hot guns and Nolk What the TV catch?

737
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, he hauls it in, shake it up

738
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: as he hits the ground. What a grab by Hopkins?

739
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: Another masterpiece Mark VanderMeer kilt with the call DeAndre Hopkins

740
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 1: was the entire Texans offense. At least that's what it

741
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 1: felt like on Saturday at the Metal Lands, going off

742
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: for ten one seventy and two TVs, including that go

743
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: ahead score late in the fourth quarter. The Texans hold

744
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: off the Jets. Uh. The Texans can clinch the a

745
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: f C South with the win next week in Philly

746
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: or some losses with other teams in the mix in

747
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: the a f C South and Titans of colts Um.

748
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: This is the game when Houston jumped out to a

749
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: sixteen three lead and like I said on Thursday, I

750
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: was excited to watch a Jet game and you know,

751
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: have a have a couple of Tito's and and and

752
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: enjoy myself. And then it's sixteen three and it's like, oh,

753
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 1: so is this gonna be a thirty four to six loss?

754
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: And Sam Donald gets his ass handed to him. But

755
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: then a very exciting thing happened. The Donald got hot,

756
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: and I thought this was one of Sam Donald's best games,

757
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: if not his best game as a Jet, and he

758
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: lead the team on um multiple scoring drives and just

759
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: looked like a guy that's just begging for a better

760
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 1: surrounding talent. And if he gets that, I really feel

761
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: confident that this guy is gonna be legit franchise starters.

762
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: So this the foot injury that cost him three weeks. Uh,

763
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: He's come back with two back to back really quality games,

764
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 1: and I'm feeling good that he comes out and finishes strong. West.

765
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: I know you you like the way he played as

766
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: well I did, and it feels like he's got a

767
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,720
Speaker 1: lot on his shoulders. It almost feels like the play

768
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: breaks down and he's running the offense, not the offensive coordinator,

769
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: which I give him a lot of credit for that,

770
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 1: and I know you want to see the Jets win,

771
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: but this is best case scenario, that is that Donald

772
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: plays enough too straight weeks that you really confident in

773
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: him and the Jets move ahead of the forty niners

774
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: in the draft order because they lost one. That time

775
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: off for him might have been a positive to take

776
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: a kind of a blow in the middle of the

777
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: season figure out some things that have gone wrong, because

778
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: he looked awesome yesterday. I mean, I know a lot

779
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: of it was second reaction plays and you can't count

780
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: on that every week, but for to to be pulling out,

781
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: I thought that was his best game of the year

782
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: by a decent amount, and it was really fun to watch.

783
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: And there is there is no doubt um that the

784
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: s Starn nick name is has taken off officially. There

785
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: was a lot of shot heat around that, and I

786
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: think it's playfully. Uh it's just the right kind of

787
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: nickname for him because it's so versatile. And I would say,

788
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,280
Speaker 1: let's cont love love We'd be remiss not to mention

789
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: Nuke going ten for one seventy and two. To me,

790
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: he if a receiver should he's the most valuable receiver.

791
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: I'm putting him in my top five of the m

792
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: v P candidacy. He to me, their whole team falls

793
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: apart without DeAndre Hopkins, and this was another reason why, Like,

794
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 1: you watch this game and you didn't think these two

795
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: teams were that different than the Texans just have like

796
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: these superstars kind of propping them up, and Nuke to

797
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: me is at the top of that. That's a good

798
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,280
Speaker 1: way to put it, because Deshaun Watson made big plays

799
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 1: when it mattered. Hopkins is such a valuable uh studley,

800
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: UH playmaker at j J. Watt had two and a

801
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: half sacks clowne. He made some big plays in this game.

802
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: But you also, yeah, you kind of expect them to

803
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: take care of businesses against the Jets team with a

804
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: half empty metal and stadium. So I was kind of

805
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 1: all in on the Texans or earlier in the season

806
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: their tenant four and that that's great. But do I

807
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: think they're at the level of some of these other

808
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: teams in the league. I don't think these other double

809
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: digit teams. I don't think so that they got a

810
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: number two seed right now, so if they can finish

811
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: off that they're in Philly and then home to the Jaguars.

812
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: Pretty good slate there win those two games, and you're

813
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 1: hosting a game in Houston, that's a tough place to play.

814
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: I think that they're a team. I think home field

815
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,959
Speaker 1: advantage doesn't mean a lot And all all credit given

816
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: to new Hopkins, but he got a helpful assist from

817
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls, who refused to ever double team that since

818
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: number one threat and Tremaine Johnson, who they gave a

819
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,720
Speaker 1: trillion dollars, didn't even cover them for the large majority

820
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: of snaps. They had more Claiborne on an island and

821
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: Mo Claiborne is a nice number two cornerback, but on

822
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: an island against one of the top wide receivers in

823
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: the game, Todd Bowles please please go away. Hey, how

824
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 1: do you have a week to scheme for this game?

825
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: And that's that's what you come up with as your

826
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: best plan for covering this dangerous wide receiver. I want

827
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls to have a happy life and to continue

828
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: his professional career. But I'm just I'm all set with

829
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls in I think you're getting your wish here

830
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: and and I if I had to guess, I think

831
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna go full house clean. There's gonna be a

832
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: new personnel guy there in New York. We shall see. Yeah,

833
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: it feels fifty fifty in me, but I would not

834
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 1: be shocked. Let us move back to the Sunday action.

835
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: Let's go Luck out of the gun. Matt two is

836
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: left as the running back and they'll hand it off

837
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: to Mac. He's at the five piece of the end zone. Touchdown,

838
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: Maryland Mac his second rushing touchdown today, that one from

839
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: six yards away in the pay dirt Man. The Cults

840
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: now leading sixteen and nothing. Matt Taylor with the call,

841
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: so the Texans with the Colts trying to keep pace,

842
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: trying to make it a race in the a f

843
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: C South, Marlon Mack goes off for a career high

844
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: buck thirty nine two touchdowns, and the Colts defense shut

845
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: down the previously rolling Dallas Cowboys. Final score twenty three

846
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: zip at Lucas Oil Stadium. And the Colts have all

847
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: the looks of the team you do not want to

848
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 1: see on Wildcard weekend. West You're loving it. This quotes team.

849
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: The defense has improved throughout the year. I think the

850
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: last five weeks you should credit their cornerback trio for

851
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: shutting wide receivers down the last three weeks. They've been

852
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: a downright dominant defense. Over the last past eight games,

853
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: they are seven and one, allowing only fifteen points per

854
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: game and scoring twenty seven point five per game. This

855
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: is a good team. And this was not your typical shutout.

856
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: This is not what you think about a shutout. The

857
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys came out the first three drives went ten plays,

858
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: fifteen plays, four team plays. First one blocked field goal UM,

859
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: second one fullback all A Wally dropped a touchdown, a

860
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: terrible drop and then Margus Hunt stonewalled Elliott in the

861
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: backfield on fourth down. And then the third drive UM

862
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: Tae Kwon Lewis rookie second round picks sack Doc Prescott

863
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: for forced him out of field goal range. And really

864
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: the Cowboys dominated time and possession in the first half

865
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: more than two to one, and the Colts just put

866
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: it in the bank from there, They just they leaned

867
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: on the ball and took over from there. But this

868
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: Deniko Autry another big game, Darius Leonard outplayed late in

869
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: Vanderesh and the defensive Rookie of the Year Battle Um.

870
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: This Colts team is rolling pretty well right now. There

871
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: was also a moment when they were down seventeen nothing

872
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: trying to climb back in where Prescott hit Cole Beasley

873
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: was on a on a third down pass that would

874
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: have been it was second or third past would have

875
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: been a first down, and it's called back by flag.

876
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: At end of that drive, It's like they could not

877
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: get out of their own way despite being able to

878
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: move the ball go ahead. I was just gonna say

879
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: the Cowboys made mistakes and the Colts really didn't. The

880
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: Colts played a very clean game, and they got big

881
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: defensive efforts in key situation. So I think they're just

882
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: really well coached. I mean, I'm so impressed with Matt

883
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: Eberflus just because he has your assistant Coach of the

884
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 1: Year candidate. I think I think he should be one

885
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: of them. Because you looked at this roster going into

886
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: the season, you said, who's an above average starter on

887
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: this defense? Maybe there's two, you know, Clayton Gathers and

888
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: Jabal Seared. Maybe two that's stuck out, I guess, I

889
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: mean or whatever, Malik, I don't know. Like when you're

890
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: talking about their secondaries playing really well, that has stood out.

891
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: Here's their secondary. It's Clayton Gathers, Malie Hooker, Kenny Moore,

892
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: George odom Uh, and Pierre de Seer. I mean that

893
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 1: Quincy Wilson, Quincy Wilson, I think, yeah, Quincy Wilson as well.

894
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous that group. And then you have Sheared and

895
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: Marcus Hunt and Daniko Autry and then Anthony Walkers played

896
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: pretty well next to Darius. I mean, it's just like

897
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys kind of playing as one, very

898
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: similar to the Cowboys, where they're not gonna do much,

899
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: not then do a lot of blitzing, not gonna show

900
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: you too much. It's just like fundamental, let's tackle them,

901
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: let's make plays in the red zone. One one note,

902
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: there is someone in the room that wrote an article

903
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 1: in a July or so about why the Indianapolis could

904
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: will make the playoffs. Now, I wrote one for every

905
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: single team along with Adam Rank, but um nailed this one,

906
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: nailed it and felt confident. One of my favorite running

907
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: features in the history of this website. I mean, the

908
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: thing is your I essentially predicted all twelve playoffs. Well,

909
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: the great thing about it whatever that we don't need

910
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: to worry about that side of it. Though it's you can.

911
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 1: You can market it anyway you want. You did such

912
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: a good job with it, though I know you split

913
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: it with Rank. Next year, do you go all thirty

914
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: two teams? You know? I I feel like I did

915
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: the lord's work with that series, and I'm gonna let

916
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: someone else take that on next year, maybe Dan. I

917
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: would love like a thing. I would love like an

918
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: analytics breakdown of you versus Rank. Who got more right?

919
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 1: I mean, we were essentially just to sign them, so

920
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: it wasn't even that we can't you know, twelve for

921
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: twelve baby go out on a limb and say the

922
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: site does not need that article. Well you take that

923
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: up with someone else. That's that's not my call. So

924
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: that Jack's Titans game could be a winning in Sunday

925
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: Night Football, which is not what NBC wants probably, I

926
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: mean Titans. I think there's a better chance than not

927
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,959
Speaker 1: that that game is gonna get flexed because it's really

928
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: hard to see the Steelers and Ravens both winning against

929
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: the Saints and Chargers next week. M M all right,

930
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,640
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Speaker 1: all gives it to Henry to the right, nice cut

944
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 1: he goes in Standing up TUXTA Titans Derek Henry with

945
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: two on the day, eleven on the campaign another one

946
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 1: of my favorites. My cap with the Call Titans Radio

947
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry had a second straight big game career high

948
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,439
Speaker 1: thirty three carries that's big boy work for Bucks seventy

949
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:49,760
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. The Surgeon Tyitoons ended the Giants playoff

950
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: hopes with a seventeen to nil win at the rainy,

951
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:59,439
Speaker 1: generally miserable Metal Lands, which they pulled off a nice

952
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,720
Speaker 1: feet there that that facility. And uh. In North Jersey

953
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: they played host to two home teams that lost this

954
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 1: weekend in the NFL. Tough here from New York football.

955
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: It's hard to do then anyway, how did the Titans win? Like? Like,

956
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: just think the two New York teams combined don't have

957
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: the wins that either l A team have. Eat it,

958
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: East Coast, We're the home of football. Slightly aggressive and

959
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: you're not true West Coast, or don't try to you know,

960
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: say I say home is where you are. Home is

961
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: where you are, and I'm at home in l A.

962
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: What if your kidnapped by Russians? Greg, I love Russia

963
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: your home. It's like Central Moscow. I chose them here.

964
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 1: So did you guys? So how do you How did

965
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: the Titans win? I don't know, Greg, turning into a

966
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: different conversation. I love it out here as well. That

967
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: is not what the question is. It's about loyalty. I mean,

968
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: what agenda are you driving here? It's it's undetectable. I

969
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,280
Speaker 1: cannot figure it. How did the Tytoons win? They shut

970
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: down se Kwan Barkley, who did nothing. Uh, they benefited

971
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: obviously from the absence of Odell Beckham, the Giants passing

972
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: offense did nothing and Uh, in fact, the Giants on

973
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: the day where we gotta report, I believe from rap

974
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 1: sheet that the Giants were leaning toward rolling with Eli.

975
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: Uh in twenty nineteen, they just had two d sixty

976
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: yards of total offense. So the dream is over um

977
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: for Big Blue. West can sleep easily tonight. I was

978
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: sleeping just finding Dandy and the Titans. Uh. They have

979
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 1: won three straight, so they are once again. It's been

980
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: a topsy turvy season for them, but they once again

981
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: have themselves in good position. If they could close strong.

982
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 1: All they have to do West is a void those

983
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: pitfalls that haunt this franchise where they suck people in

984
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: and then lay a stinker, and it's always possible. Well,

985
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: despite Greg's best efforts to prop up the Redskins as

986
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: some kind of dangerous team, all I said that doesn't

987
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: even matter if they're half a game, they're not a

988
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: real team. Well, you told me that in season was

989
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: over to three weeks ago, and I we pointed at

990
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,439
Speaker 1: the schedule, and sometimes the schedule matters, and you don't

991
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:06,919
Speaker 1: have to beat you don't have to be a great

992
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: team to beat the Giants or be back. Okay, So

993
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,879
Speaker 1: in order to satisfy Greg, yes, there is a mathematical

994
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,479
Speaker 1: chance to the Redskins pull off an upset next week.

995
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: But really, as far as analysis goes, the Titans are

996
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: a much better team than the Redskins with their third

997
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: string quarterback. So this should be an easy victory for

998
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: the Titans next week. That they're doing what works for

999
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: them right now. And I don't know, I think, I

1000
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: don't know if it can last. I don't know how

1001
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: much I trust them. But you've won a game seventeen

1002
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 1: nothing on a day when your quarterback through eight eight

1003
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 1: eight yards. It was I cannot I can't stress us enough.

1004
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: One of those awful Northeast December games where it was

1005
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: a constant Imagine you went to that games there was

1006
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: a constant downpour with swirling wins, and the way to

1007
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: win this game was to get on Derrick Henry's back,

1008
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: because I mean, I know, this guy's kind of been

1009
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: hit and miss in his career, but for the second

1010
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: straight week, he looked like a guy that you could

1011
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,240
Speaker 1: win playoff games with uh and his with his ability

1012
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: to run through arm tackles, to chew up yardage, to

1013
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: get first downs to control the clock. And this game

1014
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: wasn't his outrageous. We went for two thirty eight and

1015
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: four last week, but this one was the game that

1016
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: they really needed in these conditions. And that's a guy

1017
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: that you can get behind. I mean, he's thinking how

1018
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: much money he has made Fantasy league owners, I mean

1019
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: going a hundred and seventy and two. If you go

1020
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: and went into your you know, semi final today, you

1021
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: got Derrick Henry, the other guy got Sake, went Barkley.

1022
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: You just put a hammer and nobody feels bad for you.

1023
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: If you left Henry on the bench last week, and

1024
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: that was understandable, but if you then left him on

1025
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: the bench again against a bad Giants team, we do

1026
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: not care. In fact, we don't care either way. But

1027
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: it really don't have sympathy. I absolutely it's a little

1028
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,919
Speaker 1: on my and I'm usually not the anti fantasy guy,

1029
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: and maybe because my season is already over in my

1030
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: fantasy league. But all the millennials in the newsroom today

1031
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,959
Speaker 1: jumping out, you mentioned that three separate times. Very rarely.

1032
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: I was like, that's normally coming out of my mouth, Yeah,

1033
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: very rarely. Does it kind of get on my grid

1034
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,320
Speaker 1: but like there's a big upball game going on between

1035
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,720
Speaker 1: the Steelers and Patriots, and people are going nuts about

1036
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: whatever Doug Baldwin they had. Yeah, Doug Baldwin found the

1037
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: end zone. Are the Giants officially eliminated? Yes they are.

1038
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: Percentage went from like zero point seven to zero. It

1039
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: did very You can you can't mock the Giants. The

1040
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: Packers are in the same situation version, but they're five

1041
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,720
Speaker 1: and nine and their bit they were lucky, not lucky,

1042
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 1: but they didn't look like a team that was gonna

1043
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: go on a run, did they The same amount of

1044
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 1: wins is Green Bay. I'm looking forward to reading how

1045
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: the New York media handles this devastating loss to their

1046
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: playoff chance. I guess the wet the weather was rough,

1047
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: but they gotta get some sort of pass The game,

1048
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: the the Mariota and the passing game is going in

1049
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 1: the wrong direction, going in the wrong game. Out of

1050
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: January football. Please, Colts will take care of him. Let's

1051
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: move up. Here's a toss sweep mixing with blockers in

1052
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: front five Parlon touchdown Bengals as Chill mix in sprints

1053
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: fifteen yards for what could be a clinching touchdown. Dan

1054
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:13,399
Speaker 1: Hord Bengals Radio Network with the call Joe Mixing continues

1055
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 1: to get the job done. He went for twenty seven

1056
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: for one, twenty nine and two touchdowns and that was

1057
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: all you needed. Evil With Jeff Drescal at quarterback, they

1058
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: take care of business thirty to sixteen over the Raiders

1059
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: with fall for three and eleven, and they continue to

1060
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: search towards the number one overall pick West Mixing, It's

1061
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: been a quiet breakout season for that gentleman. I'm not

1062
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: saying he's Zeke Elliott, Todd Gurley or or se Kwon Barkley,

1063
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: but he's in the next year down from them. It's

1064
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 1: been a legitimate breakout year. We've been saying it since

1065
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: week one. He looks explosive, he's cutting well, He's taking

1066
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: thirty touches today for a hundred and thirty yards and

1067
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: a couple of scores, and he is he is the

1068
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: focal point of their offense. I think going forward into

1069
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: next year. Tyler Boyd is the other breakout guy this year,

1070
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 1: and he left with a knee injury, didn't play the

1071
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: rest of the game, but did say afterwards that he

1072
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: should be okay for next week. They're really banged up.

1073
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: I would ask you this like because maybe not everyone's

1074
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: monitoring the Bengals heavily at this point, Jeff Driscoll, Andy Dalton,

1075
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: do you see a major fall off from one to

1076
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: the other. Yes, Andy Dalton is a much better court.

1077
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: But I mean we I'm just asking. I don't have

1078
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: a lot of respect in this room. But he's about

1079
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 1: the eighteenth or twenty best quarterback in the NFL. If not,

1080
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: we have covered that, actually, if not a little bit better,

1081
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: And Jeff Driskell's just not even now. Last week, I

1082
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: my scouting evaluation was I um drisc All though going

1083
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 1: sub fifty percent completion three point nine yards p attempt

1084
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: against the Raiders. Not. It was a bad performance by Driscoll,

1085
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: and that ends a five game losing streak for the

1086
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: Bengals and Marvin Lewis, who maybe coached his final home

1087
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: game in Cincinnati. But we'll believe it when we see it.

1088
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 1: Their defense is a little bit better. Two weeks in

1089
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,479
Speaker 1: a row, they've played pretty good. But the Raiders aren't

1090
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: really a stiff test either. Gino Atkins had three more

1091
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: sex so he's back in double digits again. Raiders are

1092
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: just seeing if they can mess up to one seat.

1093
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: At this point, if you're a Raiders fan, you gotta

1094
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: feel a little mixed feelings with these games. Let's move up.

1095
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: Here's the staff falled out my pinion chick all the

1096
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: way by Robbie Gold. It is done out of the

1097
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 1: Quarners beats about Ted Robinson, who John k NBR with

1098
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,439
Speaker 1: the call. You love these guys that have been calling

1099
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: the games forever and even though these teams might not matter,

1100
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: the games matter when you're this close to the team.

1101
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 1: After you heard it Ted Robinson's voice there, Robbie Gold

1102
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: kicked the thirty six yard or with three or six

1103
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: to play in overtime and the Niners snap a ten

1104
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:47,879
Speaker 1: game losing streak against the Seahawks. Win on Sunday and

1105
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: West we uh. We've talked about how the Seahawks have

1106
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: seemed pretty locked in where they're going to be in

1107
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but still you did not want to go

1108
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: to San Francisco and lose this game. It like deflates

1109
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 1: you a little bit. Seattle has done this, I think

1110
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: in four of the past five years in December, where

1111
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,959
Speaker 1: they lay in the egg against a division opponent that's

1112
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: not really good, and that happened again today. Um, I

1113
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: think Nick Mullins is probably a little bit better than

1114
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: we thought at first. I think he's all right. Like

1115
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 1: when when I first watched him, I thought, Okay, if

1116
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 1: he stays with a Shanahan, if he stays with some

1117
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: kind of Shanahan offense, he can be pretty good. But

1118
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: I didn't think he had the size of the arm strength.

1119
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: And now I think he has total control of this offense.

1120
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: He grasps it very well. He's a very accurate quarterback.

1121
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: He took a ton of hits, and I worry how

1122
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: much how many hits he can take because he's not

1123
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: a big guy. Um. And he also missed a couple.

1124
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: He probably left a hundred yards and a touchdown on

1125
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: the field on two throws to George Kittle that he missed.

1126
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: But he had the He had this team moving up

1127
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: and down the field, and a lot of that is

1128
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,359
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan just being one of the best schemers out there.

1129
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously this has not been a very

1130
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: good season for San Francisco and the Garoppolo industry. Injury

1131
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,839
Speaker 1: was devastating and you hope he's back to full strike

1132
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 1: next year, but Mullins gives you, if nothing else, you

1133
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: learned this year that you have a very good, solid

1134
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,280
Speaker 1: backup quarterback in a year where they've played their second

1135
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: and three third string quarterbacks most of the year. They

1136
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: entered this game sixth in the NFL in big place.

1137
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: I think you can see his improvement to Mullins over

1138
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: the last few weeks that he's getting better. He's like

1139
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: he's like earned himself a lot of years in the

1140
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: league as as a back. I mean, as long as

1141
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan's around, he can just pulling a Colt McCoy

1142
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: just hang out a big game at that at worst,

1143
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: who knows he's a rookie. I mean, you have c J.

1144
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: Beth or two. Could you ever see someone falling for

1145
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: the Nick Mullins mystique and trade I'm not saying you're

1146
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: trade much for him, but then they try to get

1147
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: him out of the Niner system on your own roster.

1148
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: I think it would have to be somebody who runs

1149
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: a similar offense to Kyle Shanahan. Right, It's it's Mullins

1150
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: from Mayfield, straight up, who says do it. It's a

1151
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: tough loss, though, because played the Chiefs next week, and

1152
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: they still want to clinch that five spot, which in

1153
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: theory will go against the Cowboys instead of the Bay Errors,

1154
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 1: and you just want to get in. I mean, you

1155
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: can't count on anything necessarily. If you're the Seahawks. You

1156
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: get Doug Baldwin back today, who looked they played good,

1157
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like the Cowboys, and they're the

1158
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: first half of the Cowboys game reminded me of this

1159
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: that the style that they play invites these close games.

1160
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't They don't necessarily score as much as

1161
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 1: you feel like they should based on how well they

1162
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: move the ball, and that's what happened. I think it's

1163
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: a big deal if you have to face the Bears

1164
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: in Chicago instead of the Cowboys in Dallas. If they

1165
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: don't have a franchise record for penalty yards in a game,

1166
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: they probably win this game. But they had a hundred

1167
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: forty eight yards and penalties and they lost because of it.

1168
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: Let us move on. There's the snap. Alan takes a

1169
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: look standing in the pocket, fires it down field, looking

1170
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: for Foster makes you catch up the five heading into

1171
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: the end, Downes in touchdown, touchdown two yards. Robert Fuster

1172
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 1: makes the catch up the five and stool tity end

1173
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: zone touchdown Buffal That's what I'm all about. John Murphy

1174
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: of w g R. He doesn't care at the Bills steak.

1175
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: That's an exciting football play and he called it. Josh

1176
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:10,680
Speaker 1: Allen yard touchdown pass the Robert Foster early in the

1177
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. The Bills rally back win over the Lions Detroit. Well,

1178
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 1: not this has been a surprise anybody, but they're not

1179
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs. They're officially eliminated with his defeat

1180
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: Greg This sounds like a positive performance for Josh Allen,

1181
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: who made some big plays and did not turn the

1182
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: ball over. Yeah, more of the same where he made

1183
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: enough really nice throws or at least a sprinkling of them,

1184
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: to get them a win on a day where their

1185
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: defense played well. Where they were on their fourth string

1186
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: running back Keith Ford, who also was in and out

1187
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: of the game himself with injuries after they lost their

1188
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: starter in His leading three receivers are Robert Foster, Isaiah

1189
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: Mackenzie and Jason Crum And he just won an NFL game.

1190
00:59:56,400 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: I don't know as how that happens. It happens. It's

1191
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: almost like mcderm is trying to tell everyone I can

1192
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: field essentially a vastly known name offense and still win games,

1193
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: and it's like, this is one of the most no

1194
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 1: name offenses I've ever seen in my entire right. An

1195
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: injury play Robert Foster that I do think you're you're

1196
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: hoping if you're the Bills, you find some things at

1197
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: the end of this year. Robert Foster, to me, has

1198
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: popped the last few weeks and the big plays that

1199
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 1: he makes. He's an undrafted rookie from Alabama who now

1200
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: has more yards this season in the NFL than he

1201
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: had in all four years at Alabama combined. He was

1202
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: like a huge, huge, five star recruit that was all

1203
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: hyped up, couldn't get his act together in college. But

1204
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, he looks like we found something. I'd

1205
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: love to know. How many guys in the history of

1206
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: the league got promoted off the practice squad and then

1207
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 1: had three yard games in their first five games played.

1208
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: That's pretty good and part of its opportunity. You're not

1209
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 1: buried behind anyone because there's no one. There's anybody pops

1210
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: like that touchdown play. He's explosive and you can see it.

1211
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: He's been a nice a nice combo with that one

1212
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: Matt Praytor mrs a forty eight yard or that could

1213
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: have given the lines to win in the fourth quarter.

1214
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 1: And it's just, you know, more of the same in Detroit.

1215
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: Another not only a law season, but just kind of

1216
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: a blast season. Well, and this is one year. This

1217
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: year stands out as a year where there's a bit

1218
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 1: of a changing of the guard happening. Number One, there's

1219
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 1: a lot of new young quarterbacks that are putting their

1220
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: stamp on their offenses and their teams, and a lot

1221
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 1: of attacks that are flexible enough to change mid season

1222
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: and change their fortunes, and the Lions remains stuck in

1223
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: the mud looking well or a lot of credit for

1224
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 1: what he's able to do once he took over. I

1225
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 1: guess it was a year and a half ago something

1226
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: like that, But I don't know if that's stalled out

1227
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: or if now he's in danger. But it's just like

1228
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: it's it's if you're a Lion, span I feel for you,

1229
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: because I also root for a team that seems perpetually

1230
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 1: stuck in the mud, and it's just there's there's no

1231
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: pop and the only thing that makes them a strange team,

1232
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: and while plenty of time to talk about this is

1233
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 1: that they have obstensibly a franchise quarterback behind center, and

1234
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 1: these years just continue to pass them by a guy

1235
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: who seemed to improve the l two years to be

1236
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: the steady sort of top ten quarterback and this year

1237
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: taking a big step back. And it's hard to say

1238
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: how much of it's him, how much of it's the offense,

1239
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 1: and how much of it is all the injuries they've

1240
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: had on that off The whole offense is throwing up

1241
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 1: jump balls to Kenny Golladay, and I don't know if

1242
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 1: there's anyone better at it right now other than Nuke Hopkins.

1243
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 1: He had two more today that we're just amazing on

1244
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: Tradevious White. He's a special player. All right, Let's move on.

1245
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 1: Here's a snap, the Rosen Quick throw batted in the

1246
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:33,920
Speaker 1: year and intercepted Dion Jones twenty fifteen, ten five touchdown, Atlanta,

1247
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,520
Speaker 1: forty one yards to the house for Dion Jones off

1248
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:44,479
Speaker 1: the Vic Beasley deplection. He's back Western of Falkins Radio

1249
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,000
Speaker 1: Network with the call and Dion Jones, who was badly

1250
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: missed in Atlanta during a lengthy apps and absence this season.

1251
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: Returned in an interception for a score. The Falcons win

1252
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: for the first time in a month forty fourteen over

1253
01:02:56,400 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: the helpless Arizona Cardinals. Atlanta's league or defense force three

1254
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: turnovers that Zack Josh Rowlinson seven times. Mark Josh Rosen. Sorry, here,

1255
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: he's in an a possible spot. He is because where

1256
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: you see some rookies and I think that Donald someone

1257
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: who needs a coach and new coaching step from him.

1258
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: But he's continuing to, as West mentioned, almost just take

1259
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,160
Speaker 1: the offense on his shoulders and make progress. It's just

1260
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: not possible for Josh Rosen, and I give him a

1261
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: free pass on this season because you're playing behind an

1262
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: awful offensive line. He takes some of the worst hits

1263
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 1: you see week after week. He also throws a couple

1264
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 1: of terrible passes each week that that generate typically turnovers,

1265
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 1: and a couple of super pretty ones too. Where you

1266
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 1: see that, you see the possibilities with him. But this

1267
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: is one of the teams that I feel like, coaching wise,

1268
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: there's just simply no vision on either side of the ball.

1269
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: And I I I don't wish anyone to lose their job,

1270
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 1: But if you're Steve Wilkes, you have to what is

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Speaker 1: your argument to go into year two or year three

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Speaker 1: of this experiment. I don't I don't understand what they're

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01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: doing that he's pushing for, that they're succeeding at it all,

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01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 1: and the foul can just put them on it. The Falcons,

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01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 1: like the Vikings, where they've not been able to run

1276
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: the ball and their offense has been, you know, anemic.

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01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: They got it today with Tevin Coleman. He had a

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01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,840
Speaker 1: sixty five yard run to set up a field goal,

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01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: had a forty three yard touchdown run, and then had

1280
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: a forty four yard touchdown runt that was called back.

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01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: I mean, he got it done where. I don't know.

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01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 1: I think it's because you're playing a lost at S

1283
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: team as well. But they did what they needed to

1284
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: and you know, when you're going to go notch a

1285
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: bunch of turnovers, get a pick six. The game just

1286
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 1: kind of streaked the way it did to a forty four.

1287
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: I don't know why we're burying this game at the end.

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01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 1: It was such an exciting affair. I mean, you're giving

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01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 1: it appropriate love. I'm just saying. I mean I was

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01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:41,959
Speaker 1: captivated by it and it reminded me why I chose

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01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: this line of work. I mean, it was just a

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01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 1: fascinting way to space and spent Sunday afternoon. I think

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Speaker 1: one of the things that bothers me about Steve Wilkes

1294
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 1: the most is his repeated insistence in the off season

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01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 1: that the offensive line was the strength of his team.

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01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 1: And granted they have been injured. Every starting offensive lineman

1297
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: been injured on this team, but even before they were injured,

1298
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 1: this was a terrible offensive line. I just that worries

1299
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 1: me that he thought this was the strength of his team.

1300
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 1: And when Byron Leftwich took over as the O C

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01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 1: midway through the season, David Johnson started looking like David

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01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 1: Johnson again. And I know he had a couple of

1303
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: impact plays in this game, but his numbers week after week,

1304
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: he's not producing. So when you take him out of

1305
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 1: the out of the mix is a productive player, you're

1306
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: kind of hanging Rosen out to dry. Yep. And I

1307
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 1: should mention that like Rosen was essentially mercy benched by

1308
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: the end of this game from Mike Glennon because it's like,

1309
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 1: how much to rest do you want to put a

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01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:36,440
Speaker 1: first year quarterback through when there's no stakes attached to

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01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 1: the to the season at the State Well, Glenden went

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01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: ten of fourteen a hundred and eleven yards in a touchdown,

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01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 1: so he should be signed for about seventeen million dollars. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he's got some cash coming in. Hey, Still in search

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Speaker 1: to Sunday Night. Kindless team that has had so much adversity,

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01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 1: let's save them the joyce swuf of will here comes

1330
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: the wash. They're come again. Here's firing in complete, incomplete,

1331
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 1: the game is all and tell the for Renals the

1332
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 1: Eagles wims the Eagles will they how upset the lamp

1333
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: Yes On the final play of the game, Jared Goff

1334
01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: sales it high. Josh Reynolds incomplete game over. Philadelphia. Eagles

1335
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: shock the Los Angeles Rams thirty to twenty three at

1336
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 1: the Colisseum and whoa. The Rams fall to eleven and

1337
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 1: three and their hopes to be the number one seed

1338
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 1: in the NFC all but evaporate. And for the Eagles,

1339
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler pulled a seven and seven in the They

1340
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 1: are in the middle of the hunt now in the playoffs,

1341
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 1: even for the in their own division. With the Cowboys

1342
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: losing this week. What a huge win and what an

1343
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:43,439
Speaker 1: unlikely performance by affiliate team. A lot of people wrote

1344
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,640
Speaker 1: off and it just tells me that all they really

1345
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 1: needed to do all along was to, you know, get

1346
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz out of the picture, plugged Nick Foles back

1347
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 1: in there, and just get back on this magic carpet ride.

1348
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 1: They're back alive. They've got games remaining, a manageable slate

1349
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:04,600
Speaker 1: against the Texans and Redskins. Say I was gonna help

1350
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: you out, but you got it. I was waiting for

1351
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 1: my page turn. That Texans game is big, that that's

1352
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: suddenly one of the biggest games in Week sixteen because

1353
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 1: with the Redskins and Josh Johnson sitting there a week

1354
01:08:18,320 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: seventeen and you think, well, if the Eagles could find

1355
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: a way to beat Houston, there's a real chance that

1356
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:29,439
Speaker 1: they get back into the playoffs. Obviously, Houston's fighting for

1357
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 1: a bid. This is one of the most surprising results

1358
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 1: of the season, just because this Eagles team, to me,

1359
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:38,559
Speaker 1: had looked so dead and falls did play really well

1360
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 1: in Spurts in this game. He had some beautiful throws

1361
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: in the first half, But when it started falling apart

1362
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 1: for them in the fourth quarter, you kind of felt

1363
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 1: like it was gonna be another Eagles collapse and it

1364
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: didn't happen. I'll be worried about the Rams a little bit.

1365
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:53,679
Speaker 1: Are they that classic team that does peak too soon?

1366
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:56,479
Speaker 1: And there's so much uh, there's still even with two

1367
01:08:56,479 --> 01:08:58,639
Speaker 1: straight losses now, there's still in great position. They could

1368
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: still get a buy and still be a team to

1369
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:04,640
Speaker 1: be reckoned with in the NFC playoffs come January. But

1370
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,759
Speaker 1: they really was have not been the same team since

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01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: that incredible double fifty burger shootout. They went into their

1372
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 1: by and the team that's come out, especially on offense,

1373
01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 1: is just not the same team where their quarterback is

1374
01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:18,800
Speaker 1: in a deep slump. This is now three games and

1375
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 1: Golf did not play well again. He missed some easy throws.

1376
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 1: He looks a little spooked in the pocket, and he's

1377
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:27,719
Speaker 1: not playing well at all. I mean, the last play

1378
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 1: was I think fitting. How do you not give he

1379
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 1: made the right call. Blitz is coming from that side.

1380
01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 1: You got one on one coverage. You throw it to

1381
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: the outside there and let Josh Reynolds try to make

1382
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:42,600
Speaker 1: a play on Avante Maddox and you sail it. You

1383
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 1: don't even give him a chance. To me, that's unforgivable.

1384
01:09:45,320 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: And he had some throws like that, and I think

1385
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 1: part of it is that the line has not played

1386
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:52,719
Speaker 1: well over the last three weeks. The Lions pushed around

1387
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: the offensive line of the Rams. The Bears certainly did,

1388
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:59,000
Speaker 1: and for much of this game, Fletcher Cox was the

1389
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: most impact full defensive lineman in the game, not Aaron Donald.

1390
01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: The entire game was a disappointment for the Rams, but

1391
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:07,559
Speaker 1: it was almost a microcosm. The last three minutes of

1392
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 1: the game. They get set up really well after a

1393
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: stop there down seven, and then Joe Joe Nats and

1394
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 1: muffs a punt Jets legend, Joe Joe Nats and muff

1395
01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 1: muffs a punt that that goes up and smoke. They

1396
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 1: get the three out, three and out, and then a

1397
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:23,639
Speaker 1: missed field goal by attempt by the Eagles gives them

1398
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 1: new life again. And then didn't even that last drive.

1399
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:27,600
Speaker 1: And maybe this is a team that too much has

1400
01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: gone well for them over the uh, the last three months,

1401
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:34,160
Speaker 1: where a little bit of adversity is not uh, they're

1402
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: not handling it too. While you have who was it?

1403
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:40,600
Speaker 1: It was Todd Gurley second, Gerald Devid first staying in

1404
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 1: bounds when they did not at the time and kill

1405
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:44,759
Speaker 1: them and that cost them the two of those plays

1406
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 1: combined probably half a minute that they could not afford

1407
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 1: to give up, which led to the desperate last last

1408
01:10:49,520 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 1: second throw that fell incomplete. I felt like it ever

1409
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: did that on two drives in a row, he didn't

1410
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:57,719
Speaker 1: get out of bounds. One thing working at working against

1411
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 1: the Eagles right now is is very likely the Bears

1412
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: are gonna have nothing to play for in week seventeen

1413
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 1: and they go to Minnesota for that game. M yeah,

1414
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:10,840
Speaker 1: that said they could they sit players. You're right, there's

1415
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: a few things that would have to happen. Well the Rams.

1416
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: The Rams get the Cardinals and Forts in the next

1417
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 1: two weeks. I'm not sure if that's the order that

1418
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 1: they get them in, but they they just need to

1419
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,519
Speaker 1: win those two games. And but now that they're only

1420
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 1: one back, you're right, Actually they should go into weeks

1421
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:31,639
Speaker 1: seventeen with the chance. Uh, the Bears should be playing,

1422
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:34,519
Speaker 1: you know, to win that game in week seventeen, just

1423
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: because they have the tiebreaker over the Rams, and it

1424
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: opened up at least the slight possibility if the Rams

1425
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: lost to the forty niners, who are playing a little

1426
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 1: better lately. You know, they beat the Broncos and the Seahawks,

1427
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:48,720
Speaker 1: that that game, that game means a little something. Well,

1428
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 1: it didn't strike what I said. The Bears do have

1429
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 1: something to play the Rams. If the Rams ever go

1430
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 1: from that high they were on after the Chiefs classic

1431
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:00,640
Speaker 1: shootout to falling out of a bye would be a

1432
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 1: studying free fall. Would make you wonder if that team

1433
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:06,320
Speaker 1: is long for the playoffs. But you never know, and

1434
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:08,639
Speaker 1: you never know what the Eagles even. I mean, look

1435
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:10,720
Speaker 1: at the last year's team with the Nick Foles goes

1436
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:12,800
Speaker 1: and it gets hot. I mean, the fact that lightning

1437
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 1: could strike twice. Probably not, but if you're an Eagles fan,

1438
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:18,640
Speaker 1: now the season that felt all but over after that

1439
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:20,559
Speaker 1: Cowboys lost all of a sudden, like wait a second,

1440
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: we got Nick Foles back, we got a big win.

1441
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 1: Things are getting weird in the NFC. What else can

1442
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:29,680
Speaker 1: you ask for? It's crazy because they're so shorthanded, you know,

1443
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:32,280
Speaker 1: they're so banged up. Doug Peterson a good coach. Again,

1444
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 1: somebody update me, well, this isn't a good team. I

1445
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 1: think he's been fine all along. This has been a

1446
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:41,680
Speaker 1: there a seven and seven team that's looked like it

1447
01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:43,439
Speaker 1: from day one. I think they've been almost one of

1448
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:46,400
Speaker 1: the more consistent teams in the league, consistently the middle

1449
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: of the pack. But yeah, you went, this was the

1450
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: first game. This might have been the most impressive game

1451
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:54,760
Speaker 1: the Eagles had all season. Right, Oh, Scott on the

1452
01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: road and so and I know, and I don't, I

1453
01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:59,799
Speaker 1: know you are joking around about you know, taking Carson

1454
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:02,680
Speaker 1: when it's out in folds and all that. Mark you

1455
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 1: weren't kidding. Well, there is gonna be some hot takes,

1456
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:06,840
Speaker 1: you know about Folds anything. I thought he did come out,

1457
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,160
Speaker 1: They came out with with some fire and he came

1458
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:11,640
Speaker 1: out throwing the ball well, which he wasn't early in

1459
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:13,680
Speaker 1: the year. And so you've seen Nick Foles get hot.

1460
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:16,519
Speaker 1: Can he get hot for a couple more games? No,

1461
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 1: the Eagles gonna win the NFC East rocket run. I

1462
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: think the magic number for the Cowboys that was one,

1463
01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 1: so all they needed or one, you know, they lost

1464
01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:30,519
Speaker 1: one time in the last six weeks they and they

1465
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 1: host the Bucks. I do not think the NFC East

1466
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:36,120
Speaker 1: is two up for graphs, but that wild card only

1467
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 1: half a game out. That's that's that's tasty wild The

1468
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: Eagles alive and well how about that? All right? That's

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Speaker 1: it for our Sunday night flagship program. The next time

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1475
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:10,360
Speaker 1: we head toward the home stretch. This is Dan Hansas

1476
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:15,000
Speaker 1: signing up four quiet storm lamil Man, the old boss

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01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood, behind the class that we already see a

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01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:23,680
Speaker 1: hot take Eagles better with holes the quarterback until Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Damien