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Speaker 3: Radio, Welcome in. It's four hours of chaos. Happy Christmas week.

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Speaker 3: be smart, Just turn the volume up and we'll catch

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Speaker 3: you where you need to go. Smith is off to night,

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Speaker 3: so Jared Smith in instead at Jared Smith mets is

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Speaker 3: where you're finding him. I'm Mike Carmen. You falter here

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Speaker 3: Jared's Weekends on Saturday's part of countdown to Kickoff. Lots

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Speaker 3: going on, who says you can't go home again? Traditions

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Speaker 3: being shut at, all of those things and so much more.

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Speaker 3: Welcome in to another week of The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 3: with Mike Carmen, Jared, Welcome to the chaos. I guess

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Speaker 3: the song says it all. And Philip Rivers and Brock

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Speaker 3: Purty certainly treating us to some disaster.

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Speaker 4: On Monday night. I'm loving it. Merry Christmas to everyone

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Speaker 4: out there. Obviously I'll be talking to you again on Saturday,

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Speaker 4: but I'm enjoying, you know, getting a chance to dive

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Speaker 4: into this, this extravaganza for the night. We're honestly blessed

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Speaker 4: because what we're watching here tonight, Mike, this is a

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Speaker 4: masterclass in quarterbacking, and it really shows me that quarterbacking,

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Speaker 4: to me, is more mental than physical rivers can do. This,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, this is this is truly remarkable

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Speaker 4: what he's done now, back to back weeks against arguably

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Speaker 4: two of the best teams in the league.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the beauty of the San Francisco forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: is they've amassed the record they have with decidedly as

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Speaker 3: much pass rush as you and me and Ian and

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Speaker 3: Elijah and ty Shirt and Steve Disager and Brianna and

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Speaker 3: bursh in the back. If all seven of us come

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Speaker 3: flying at at people, actually that's eight of us. Eight

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Speaker 3: is enough. That's kind of what we're getting. Because Phillip's

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Speaker 3: getting rid of the ball quickly, but he hasn't faced

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Speaker 3: a whole lot of pressure he did on the air

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Speaker 3: and throw and the one that is going to be highlighted.

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Speaker 3: It's like, if you just had a little more arm strength,

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Speaker 3: the Tyler Warren would be. I know, fantasy owners, I

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Speaker 3: have him too. We're all salty that you didn't get

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Speaker 3: that touchdown and instead that they had to settle for

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Speaker 3: a field goal. It was good to see the fire

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Speaker 3: of Rivers because you know, he's not cursing at his guys.

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Speaker 3: He may be yelling at him, but he's not cursing

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Speaker 3: when they had to take the time out off the

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Speaker 3: false start and all of that. But fourteen of twenty one,

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Speaker 3: one seventy five and two. If you bet the over

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Speaker 3: on Rivers in his passing yards, Jared, you already cashed

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Speaker 3: before the halftime gun sounded.

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Speaker 4: And I bet the under on his longest pass. So

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Speaker 4: that was my angle in this game, Mike was you're

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Speaker 4: just and you saw it like the few times that

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Speaker 4: he tried to go deep, like it's just it's like

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Speaker 3: because last week he was two of eight on anything

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Speaker 4: It still kind of looks like that, frankly, but intermediate stuff.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, No, the intermediate stuff, it's all about what

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Speaker 4: don't think he has the arm strength to push. No.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we've certainly seen success through the years, and

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Speaker 3: with Philip towards the end to where it becomes about

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Speaker 3: the cerebrum and it becomes about the ability to read

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Speaker 3: to do thus far. I think they look terrible in

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Speaker 3: these what are they called Indiana Knights uniforms. I think I'm.

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Speaker 4: Watching it like it's like an XFL uniform.

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Speaker 4: I would have given him the classic traditional unis tonight,

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Speaker 3: I mean, if nothing else, go out in elf suits.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you might as well just go all the

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Speaker 3: just absolute chaos. The over under on this game was

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and really it's the Colts defense. If they lose

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Speaker 6: The Niners are doing whatever they want.

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Speaker 4: They've got a sixty three percent success right on passing plays.

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Speaker 4: That's insane for you know, through two quarters plus and

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Speaker 4: is a very dangerous Niners team. I don't know what

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Speaker 4: But this offense right now is really starting to find

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and even if you don't have Ricky piersal tonight,

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Speaker 3: we'll see how quickly he can get back on the field.

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Speaker 3: Juwan Jennings to this point has given them nothing except

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Speaker 3: for Cardio. So we're watching this as it unfolds born

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Speaker 3: and more and DeMarcus Robinson with the touchdown reception, and

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Speaker 3: it's where we're at in the NFL at the end

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Speaker 3: of week sixteen, of trying to decide for what's good

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Speaker 3: top of the standings, there's still a lot of shrugging

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Speaker 3: and a yeah. But to pretty much everybody, the old

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Speaker 3: seems to be tested on a weekly basis in terms

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Speaker 6: I called it a greasy season today.

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Speaker 4: I do a weekly pod on Sunday nights in the

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Speaker 4: Monday mornings and I do a recap of all the games,

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Speaker 4: and I go through all the games and kind of

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Speaker 6: And when I was going.

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Speaker 4: Through it this week, and it's like everyone is so

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Speaker 6: I think I know who the top two teams are.

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Speaker 4: I think LA and Seattle deserve to be number one

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Speaker 4: and two in the power ratings right now, and I

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Speaker 4: I think San Francisco could challenge both of them and

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Speaker 4: your Bears. I mean, they just seem to know how

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Speaker 4: to win close games. I think it's because of their

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I trust them in a big spot,

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Speaker 4: but they're the defending champ, so you've got.

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Speaker 6: To give them respect. It's really a logjam. I like greasy.

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Speaker 4: I think greasy is the right word, because every week

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Speaker 4: cracks and overachieve or underachieve, and it's like, we have

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Speaker 4: to change our whole perspective on what we're seeing.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's fortunate for me you ended with Philadelphia because

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Speaker 3: I didn't do that, but you know, you lay it

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Speaker 3: up and I had to dunk it. And for the Eagles,

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Speaker 3: what we've seen the last couple of weeks is more

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Speaker 3: of a reliance on Saquon Barkley and then all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden there was the untapped resource to close out

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Speaker 3: Tank Bigsby. That's right. They traded for that guy that

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Speaker 3: they do have the one two punch and got the

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Speaker 3: fact that Josh Johnson got himself back up and in

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Speaker 3: the Eagles there. They're just curious right again, health and

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Speaker 3: what you have coming down the stretch. Do they get

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Speaker 3: or not? That will play a long way to it.

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Speaker 3: on a Monday night with you at Swollen Dome, at

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Speaker 3: Jared Smith Betts forty nine ers back in the end

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Speaker 3: zone to your point, like a knife through hot, knife

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Speaker 3: through butter, I think is the old term. Has Brock Purty.

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Speaker 3: Thurs is fourth of the night. This time Juwan Jennings

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Speaker 3: sending evil tweets to him and his family. Leave Malone

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Speaker 3: to catches twenty four yards and a score. Now as

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Speaker 3: the Jennings he's had all right to pass too. And

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Speaker 3: that's where we've watched this Colts d We talk about

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Speaker 3: the missing Sauce Gardner and other elements, even with DeForest

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Speaker 3: Buckner back man. That's just one of eleven we've watched

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Speaker 3: the Colts defense struggle down the stretch. Jonathan Taylor has

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Speaker 3: been more a bystander and then a full on participant

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Speaker 3: these last couple of weeks as well, because well, the

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Speaker 3: stick around and chip a little bit to give Philip

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would imagine that the Niners are going to

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Speaker 4: be very soft in the rest of this game. You

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Speaker 4: might actually get some nice junk yardage from from Taylor

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Speaker 4: if Rivers does, you know, check into some light box runs.

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Speaker 4: There's really no denying San Francisco's candidacy right now. I mean,

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Speaker 4: they've got a chance to prove it the next two weeks.

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Speaker 5: Mike.

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Speaker 4: They really do well, Dude, If they finished with two

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Speaker 4: wins against Chicago and Seattle, it's hard for that. It's

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Speaker 4: hard for us not to say they're the best team

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Speaker 4: in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Well, and that's the beauty of it. Right as you

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Speaker 3: run through and winners of five of their last six.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned a bunch of the participants. But let's go

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Speaker 3: through it. The only loss coming to the Rams forty

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Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, my friend, thanks for joining.

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Speaker 5: Us, Thanks for having me. Happy holidays, Mary Christmas. Almost

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Speaker 5: Happy New Year. Yeah we're almost there, man, Yeah, yeah man.

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Speaker 3: Of chaos in your backyard over there, the Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 3: It's a long time ago. Yeah, absolutely, you know.

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Speaker 5: But I just wonder if hard Ball. I just wonder

435
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Speaker 5: if he's kind of like you know what. People have

436
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Speaker 5: been staying around in the stands to boom me after games,

437
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 5: and you know, they think they could do better than me.

438
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Speaker 5: Maybe they should find out. It could be an interesting

439
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Speaker 5: couple of weeks around here. They've got another Lamar Jackson contract.

440
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Speaker 5: They've got to get done. The roster that everybody kept

441
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Speaker 5: telling me was the best in the NFL is a joke.

442
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Speaker 5: The offensive line sucks, The defensive line sucks. They have

443
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Speaker 5: a whole bunch of corners that they can't. You know

444
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Speaker 5: that they accumulate, well, they can't. They love drafting corners

445
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Speaker 5: in safety and they love signing them. Go watch any

446
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Speaker 5: of them make plays on the ball. None of them

447
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Speaker 5: are balls skills, none of them. None of them. They

448
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Speaker 5: don't underst up. If you fill it right in their

449
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Speaker 5: gut enough times don't catch one eventually, but they do

450
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Speaker 5: not make plays on the ball in flight. So if

451
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Speaker 5: you're not gonna have any task questions and all the

452
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Speaker 5: dbs you collect don't actually kick the ball off, might be.

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Speaker 3: In trouble chaos, and sus I would have been standing

454
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Speaker 3: in the stands with my quickly put together poster board

455
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Speaker 3: that says twelve to fifty three on it, Derrick Henry

456
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Speaker 3: running downhill and then doesn't see the ball. But let's

457
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Speaker 3: stay into Yeah, it's kind of crazy, let's stay in

458
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Speaker 3: division though. Let's go to Pittsburgh. DK Metcalf looks like

459
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Speaker 3: he's gonna lose like forty million dollars guaranteed money by

460
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Speaker 3: getting himself suspended for a couple of games altercation with

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Speaker 3: a fan. But Pittsburgh goes and wins their third in

462
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Speaker 3: a row. Tomlin walking off the field like he's a

463
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Speaker 3: WWE manager, like by Hayward and Aaron Rodgers. So what's

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Speaker 3: the yeah? Is this another? Are we still on the

465
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Speaker 3: one in Donne or are we seeing anything signs of life?

466
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Speaker 3: As the Steelers are finishing things.

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Speaker 5: I think it's going to end up being a one

468
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Speaker 5: and done. I it's a long off season. It's a

469
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Speaker 5: long season. This guy's got so many different, you know,

470
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Speaker 5: pursuits and loves the sound of his own voice. And

471
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Speaker 5: I don't also like the way he wants to run

472
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Speaker 5: his offseasons. I don't know how many teams, right last year,

473
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Speaker 5: there were not many who were willing to put everything

474
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Speaker 5: on hold forever, right to just like to just let

475
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Speaker 5: this happen, like to just come back on on his

476
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Speaker 5: terms when he wants it. I don't know, man, even

477
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Speaker 5: for the Steelers to do that again, they've got to

478
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Speaker 5: find a like this is late Staves Roethlisberger all over again, Like, hey,

479
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Speaker 5: they got to find like somebody who's going to be

480
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Speaker 5: there for more than year to year. But it looks,

481
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Speaker 5: you know, who knows if Tomlin does think the grass

482
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Speaker 5: might be green or somewhere else. Even if they go

483
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Speaker 5: on us run it, it certainly seems like it's going

484
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Speaker 5: to end up in at least one home playoff game.

485
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Speaker 5: Things could still come to a head there as well,

486
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Speaker 5: And once he got one year left on the deals,

487
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Speaker 5: it could be interesting.

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Speaker 6: Man, Jason, you've been doing this a while. Is this

489
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Speaker 6: the strangest NFL season you've ex experience in in your

490
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Speaker 6: career in quite some time.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I use the word greasy to describe it,

492
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Speaker 4: because it just seems like these teams you just don't know,

493
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Speaker 4: they slip through your fingers every week and anyone really

494
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Speaker 4: can win. Like I'm having trouble narrowing my Super Bowl

495
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Speaker 4: contender list to fewer than five or six teams, and

496
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Speaker 4: at this stage of the year usually it's like a

497
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Speaker 4: core five at least, there's there's ten or fifteen teams

498
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Speaker 4: maybe that still of a chance ten at least, And how.

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Speaker 5: Many of them are really you know, in your in

500
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Speaker 5: your normal year, would you be looking at of a

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Speaker 5: team that you you'd think could have beat Deep right

502
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Speaker 5: or or Lamar at his peak or Burrow at his peak.

503
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Speaker 5: Now you're not going to have to go through that

504
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Speaker 5: goment in the AFC. It's going to be different, you know,

505
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Speaker 5: I don't you know. We live in such a what

506
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Speaker 5: have you done for me lately? Society? It's like there's

507
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Speaker 5: part of me that when you start thinking about this stuff,

508
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Speaker 5: I feel like you lose historical try to touch it

509
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Speaker 5: does feel different than me.

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Speaker 8: It feels it feels more wide, It feels like what

511
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 8: Caroline is doing and what Jacksonville's doing, and like, I

512
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Speaker 8: don't know that that happens every year, does it? I

513
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Speaker 8: don't think that happens every year. Like there's three legitimately

514
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Speaker 8: decent teams in the AFC South, Like I don't, you know,

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Speaker 8: I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't recall that. As for New England to have

517
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Speaker 5: sprinted before they ran, like you'd have told me New

518
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Speaker 5: England makes the playoffs this year even with you know,

519
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 5: and look the schedule. We knew coming in you might

520
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Speaker 5: be conducive, and they were, you know, summer preseason, they're

521
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Speaker 5: like if you went week to week on the money line,

522
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Speaker 5: they were gonna be you could tell Willing it was

523
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Speaker 5: gonna be favorite in a lot of these games. And

524
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Speaker 5: we don't even know how good they are. So I

525
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Speaker 5: would have believed you that Vrabel could turn him around.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't have believed that they're you know, they're probably

527
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Speaker 5: gonna put Buffalo to bed and win the division. So

528
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Speaker 5: it does feel like a lot like what's happened in

529
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Speaker 5: the NFC Central. That's kind of that's kind of crazy

530
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Speaker 5: the way Green Bay has lost some of these games,

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Speaker 5: Like you know, even La like I think I'll it's

532
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Speaker 5: the best team in the week. But point la, every

533
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Speaker 5: game they lost, you think of five things they did

534
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Speaker 5: because that actually to blow it, you know, like special teams,

535
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Speaker 5: a turnovers. So it feels more wide open to me

536
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Speaker 5: than other years. Half it does.

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Speaker 3: The fall guy, the special teams coordinator, fell on the

538
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Speaker 3: sort of damacles the other day, so or I dropped

539
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Speaker 3: on him, I should say, all right, I near this

540
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Speaker 3: if we didn't do the quick look at Monday night football,

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Speaker 3: Philip Rivers hit is over for his passing yards in

542
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Speaker 3: the first half. He's moved the ball up and down

543
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Speaker 3: the field, and we've got fifty four points here late

544
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Speaker 3: in the third quarter. I mean, this is this is

545
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Speaker 3: it for me? A guy that comes off the street

546
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Speaker 3: and five years high school coach and now he's yelling

547
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Speaker 3: at his linemen and slamming the ball off a false start.

548
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Speaker 3: It's beautiful.

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Speaker 5: It's nuts. He obviously can't really go and look late

550
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Speaker 5: stage in his career. I mean, part of the reason

551
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 5: he started coaching and not playing was he could not

552
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 5: always had that weird javelin release to begin with. Right,

553
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 5: They couldn't push the ball downfield anymore, and that's that's

554
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 5: been in issue when he's tried to throw it, you know,

555
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 5: thirty five, forty five. I don't know if he's flirting

556
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Speaker 5: really with fifty, but I guess fifty yards downfield that's

557
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 5: not really there. But he's right, he's he's he's managed

558
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 5: the game, he's made plays, he hits guys and stride

559
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 5: him in the ball treatement. Accuracy is ridiculously good for

560
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 5: guy that's old, who's been out of it that long

561
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Speaker 5: and he has to step in like in October or something.

562
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Speaker 5: He's took right in the middle of you know, the

563
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Speaker 5: playoff case, playing teams in Seattle and San Francisco that

564
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Speaker 5: have everything on the line, that are fighting for a

565
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Speaker 5: one seed. So I'm I'm super I'm super impressed. But yeah,

566
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Speaker 5: it comes with some limitations, and they really, I think,

567
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 5: needed to get volume in the run game here to

568
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Speaker 5: keep this thing as close as possible as long as possible,

569
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Speaker 5: and the defense has had no answers and Purty's not

570
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Speaker 5: getting touched and so we'll see how much they still

571
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Speaker 5: lean into Taylor here down stretch.

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Speaker 4: But good all, Philip Rivers party looks fantastic, I'll be honest,

573
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Speaker 4: And that's the next part of this conversation. Jation is

574
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Speaker 4: the Niners have kind of been sleeping under the radar

575
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Speaker 4: all year because of the injuries.

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Speaker 6: They've had a relatively easy schedule.

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Speaker 4: But when push comes to shove, I think the ceiling

578
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Speaker 4: for this offense maybe is as high as the ceiling

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Speaker 4: for the Rams offense perhaps. And the defense, though, is

580
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Speaker 4: where I struggle. Are we sleeping on and I know

581
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Speaker 4: we'll get two games over the next two weeks Chicago

582
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Speaker 4: and Seattle, we're sleeping on. San Francisco is actually the

583
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Speaker 4: best team in the NFC.

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Speaker 5: I can't get there because they're not running the ball

585
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Speaker 5: like they're custom to running it. I don't think they're

586
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 5: certainly not running as well as the Rams can run it.

587
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Speaker 5: They they have no pass for us to speak of.

588
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Speaker 5: And I just don't think he can win in January

589
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 5: that way. I mean, it's really tough, and they finally

590
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 5: got a sack tonight, But like, they don't pick the

591
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 5: ball off. That's kind of like the Raiders. They don't

592
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 5: pick the ball off, and they don't have anybody who

593
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Speaker 5: gets home on their owner even when they scheme enough.

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Speaker 5: We're all stimulated, pressures and prestat nonsense. It's the pressure

595
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 5: rates pathetic, the sack rates pathetic, and I just don't

596
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Speaker 5: think that's gonna fly in the postseason, especially if they

597
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 5: don't win the division and they're a wild card and

598
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Speaker 5: everything's on the road. I don't, I don't buy them.

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Speaker 5: I'd probably buy them more if they were in the

600
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Speaker 5: AFC honestly than the NFC. Like, I don't know, I don't.

601
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Speaker 5: I don't think they have close enough even in this

602
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 5: water downfield to a Super Bowl calenber defense. But maybe

603
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 5: they're starting to peak.

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Speaker 3: He's Jason locking for on the Hotline with Us The

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Speaker 3: in Baltimore. Merry Christmas to you brother, Thank you for

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Speaker 3: everything this year. We'll catch up with you as the

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Speaker 3: new year gets started and we look at the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, guys. I always appreciate you having me on

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Speaker 5: a happy New Year.

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Speaker 3: Blast Man, appreciate it. Thank you a lot of thanks.

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Speaker 3: Coming out of Baltimore. We've got a barn burner here.

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Speaker 3: Late third quarter, an injury in someone needing to stretch

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Speaker 3: on the sidelines. Here with all the details and the

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Speaker 3: big night across the sporting universe, the legend himself. Sorry, guys,

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Speaker 3: Steve Desager, what's going on, Steve? Good evening to you.

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Speaker 9: It's a Niners lead in this high scoring Monday Night

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Speaker 9: game at Indy thirty four to twenty, which just over

622
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Speaker 9: a minute to go in the third quarter. This was

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Speaker 9: the highest scoring first half in a Monday Night game

624
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Speaker 9: since twenty eighteen, the High Scoring Classic when the Chiefs

625
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Speaker 9: played at the Rams. But in this one, the forty

626
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Speaker 9: nine Ers scored a touchdown on each of their first

627
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Speaker 9: three drives. For the first time this season. There has

628
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Speaker 9: been scoring combined on almost every drive tonight, although the

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Speaker 9: Niners at the end of the first half attempted a

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Speaker 9: sixty four yard field goal from Eddie Pinero and missed

631
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Speaker 9: it as it hit the crossbar, his first miss of

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Speaker 9: the season. He had been twenty six for twenty six,

633
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Speaker 9: and that ended the forty nine Ers franchise record of

634
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Speaker 9: thirteen straight games without a field goal missed. Right now,

635
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Speaker 9: late third, it's a two touchdown lead. Is brock Purty

636
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Speaker 9: has thrown for four touchdowns twenty of twenty six two

637
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Speaker 9: hundred and forty eight yards. One of those tds to

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Speaker 9: George Kittle, who with an ankle injury, is limping a

639
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Speaker 9: bit on the sidelines. He does have seven receptions one

640
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Speaker 9: hundred and fifteen yards and a score four different receivers

641
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Speaker 9: for those four touchdowns. One of those Christian McCaffrey. On

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Speaker 9: the ground, McCaffrey fifteen carries eighty five yards. Meanwhile, Philip

643
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Speaker 9: rivers two hundred yards, passing most of that in the

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Speaker 9: first half, two touchdowns, both to Alec Pearce Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 3: What's with the running game?

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Speaker 9: Last month with the Colts, Taylor fourteen carries just thirty

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Speaker 9: nine yards. They've just ended the third quarter. Niners, who've

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Speaker 9: won four in a row, lead thirty four to twenty

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Speaker 9: at Indianapolis. The Colts have lost five of six, and

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Speaker 9: a Colts lost tonight would clinch playoff spots in the

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Speaker 9: AFC for Buffalo, for Jacksonville and for the Chargers. Chargers

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Speaker 9: linebacker Denzel Perriman was suspended two games after another helmet

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Speaker 9: to helmet hit. He will appeal. The NFL suspended Steelers

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Speaker 9: wide receiver dk metcalf for the final two games of

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Speaker 9: the season. He will appeal after a confrontation with a

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Speaker 9: fan yesterday. The Steelers will clinch the AFC North title

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Speaker 9: if they win one of their final two games, or

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Speaker 9: if the Ravens lose Saturday night against the Packers. Seahawks

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Speaker 9: linebacker Derek Hall lost his appeal of a one game suspension.

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Speaker 9: The Kansas City Chiefs will have a new stadium in

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Speaker 9: twenty thirty one in Kansas, the other side of the border.

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Speaker 9: It'll be less than twenty five miles west of their

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Speaker 9: current stadium, Arrowhead, and the new place will have a roof.

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Speaker 9: Quarterback Gardner Minshew injured for the Chiefs yesterday. The knee

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Speaker 9: injury is not a torn acl but he was placed

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Speaker 9: on IR. Kansas City signed quarterback Shane Bouchell. The Bills

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Speaker 9: expect quarterback Josh Allen to play Sunday despite a foot injury.

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Speaker 9: Ravens QB Lamar Jackson is called day to day with

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Speaker 9: a severely bruised back.

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Speaker 3: He was hurt last night.

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Speaker 9: Notre Dame will play against BYU for the next two

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Speaker 9: years instead of playing USC. Wins for New Orleans and

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Speaker 9: Boston and for Cleveland, which beat Charlotte one thirty nine

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Speaker 9: to one thirty two. Donovan Mitchell with thirty points in

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Speaker 9: progress at Denver Nuggets ninety four to seventy one over

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Speaker 9: Utah late in the third. Among the NHL games, Tampa

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Speaker 9: Bay and Philadelphia already with wins. College basketball was on

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Speaker 9: FS one tonight in Saint Louis twentieth rank to Illinois

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Speaker 9: rit Missouri ninety one to forty eight. Arizona is still

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Speaker 9: ranking one number one, and Michigan is a close second.

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Speaker 9: In the APO pol Duke Felt to number six. The

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Speaker 9: Mets traded Jeff McNeil in cash to the A's and

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Speaker 9: the Mets signed reliever Luke Weaver.

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Speaker 3: Back to you, Thanks so much, Steve. Steve's with us

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Speaker 3: all night. Steve Disaga, we got Ian Roddy and Alex

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Speaker 3: the back. Appreciate the team working during this holiday holiday

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Speaker 3: We appreciate you being with us. We talked next about

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Speaker 3: that DK Metcalf situation. I found it curious that the

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Speaker 3: decision came so quickly because you got a lot of

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Speaker 3: would be journalists that you probably need to talk to

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Speaker 3: Jared Smith and for Jason on Mike, we'll do that

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Speaker 3: next here on Fox.

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Speaker 3: football game as we roll forward. The forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: continue to do whatever they want offensively here Jared, it's

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Speaker 3: been a masterclass for Shanahan and company as we roll in,

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Speaker 3: but certainly the Colts not going down without a fight.

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Speaker 3: It's a thirty four to twenty seven game, early fourth quarter,

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Speaker 3: so we keep our eye on that and see what

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Speaker 3: kind of pinball numbers we can get when it's all

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Speaker 3: said and done. Philip up to two thirty five and two.

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor, It's like we set his name three times

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Speaker 3: and he appeared like in a horror movie. Sixteen Carr.

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Speaker 3: He's now forty six yards and a score to go

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Speaker 3: with his three catches for thirty three yards. Conversely, on

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Speaker 3: the other side of the corner, should say we have

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Speaker 3: brock perty in his two sixty five and four and

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Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey. He's up over one hundred total yards on

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Speaker 3: the night with a touchdown, four catches, seventeen yards and

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Speaker 3: a score ninety on the ground in his sixteen carries.

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Speaker 3: So a barn Burner late here will keep an eye

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Speaker 3: on that as it rolls into the fourth quarter. But

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Speaker 3: we got a quick notice from the NFL that they've

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Speaker 3: suspended DK Metcalf two games to the end of the

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Speaker 3: regular season for the altercation with a fan who claims

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Speaker 3: he was only yelling out Metcalf's government name, his birth

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Speaker 3: certificate name. Well, but that's the thing, and that's where

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Speaker 3: we get to it. Whereas from Metcalf, suree was yelling

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Speaker 3: a lot of other stuff. He's had a history in Seattle,

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Speaker 3: and this is a known entity and agitator like my

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Speaker 3: guy Fickers, you know, used to read from a book

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Speaker 3: behind and the benches at NBA games, yelling at players

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Speaker 3: and all of those kind of things. Some immortal antagonizers

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Speaker 3: antagonists in our professional sports history. But this is where

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Speaker 3: it's the NFL makes the two game suspension. I got

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Speaker 3: to imagine you can find a bunch of the season

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Speaker 3: ticket holders from that section and either get a refuted

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Speaker 3: story one way or the other, or corroboration, whichever your look,

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Speaker 3: whichever sides on the defensive here in terms of how

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Speaker 3: this played out, because you can't tell me that as

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Speaker 3: soon as Metcalf took one step towards that sideline, another

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Speaker 3: one hundred cell phones didn't go up to capture the

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Speaker 3: rest of it.

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Speaker 6: And that's the problem. I say this all the time.

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Speaker 4: If there were cell phones in the internet back in

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Speaker 4: nineteen eighty six, the Mets don't win the World Series,

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Speaker 4: it just doesn't happen.

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Speaker 3: We'll get you taking one of the few moments of

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Speaker 3: joy of a young They don't make Jason Smith's.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Jason, But if you're listening, if that season

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Speaker 4: was played in twenty fifteen, which is when the fortunately

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Speaker 4: I was at I was actually I covered that World

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Speaker 4: Series for local cable news in New York when they

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Speaker 4: lost to the Royals. But if that series was played

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Speaker 4: in twenty fifteen, that none of those guys make it

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Speaker 4: through the year.

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Speaker 6: They're all suspended for similar stuff like this. Listen, I

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Speaker 6: can't condone what DK did. It was awful, stupid. You

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Speaker 6: should I don't care what the fan is saying.

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Speaker 4: You can't react, however, just because these guys buy tickets

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Speaker 4: or you know, I'm sure women I would imagine. I

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Speaker 4: don't think you've ever seen a woman harass a guy

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Speaker 4: like that on a playing So I actually no, I

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Speaker 4: take that back. I think it happened to Lebron once.

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Speaker 4: But if you buy a ticket, that doesn't mean you

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Speaker 4: can say whatever you want with these people. Yeah, you

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Speaker 4: need to have some human decorum. And there's no way

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Speaker 4: That's all he said was was his government name. There's

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Speaker 4: no I don't buy that for a minute.

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Speaker 3: Guys names Ryan Kennedy don't do it to give him

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Speaker 3: any publicity positively, but we give to the specificity of it.

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Speaker 3: These allegations are completely false. Said from the law head

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Speaker 3: Murphy Law Firm that that he he hired in all

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Speaker 3: of this. Uh, he's experienced harassment, threats and messages advocating

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Speaker 3: violence since the reports began circulating on social media that

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Speaker 3: he used a racial slur towards Metcalf uh and went

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Speaker 3: after Metcalf's mom. So a larger discussion. Right, when we

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Speaker 3: talk about the NBA, we've seen plenty of players down

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Speaker 3: towards the Bowl just point and security goes and removes

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Speaker 3: a guy.

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Speaker 6: Details happen Lebron once, right then that was a woman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, but that's not the only incident. We've

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Speaker 3: seen Westwood do it. We've seen Durant, like we've seen

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Speaker 3: a number of your top players just point it's and

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Speaker 3: it's done. Uh, that's where Metcalf, you know, he's gotta

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Speaker 3: gotta use.

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Speaker 6: A commerce had prevail.

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Speaker 3: And again, you know there's folks that go to the well,

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Speaker 3: you know, you can say you the guy said something derogatory.

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Speaker 3: It's like yeah, and I'm sure plenty of other guys

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Speaker 3: have as well. And if this guy is a constant

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Speaker 3: agitating as as Metcalf and the story alleges, then that's

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Speaker 3: a whole other issue in terms of what he's got

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Speaker 3: to work with NFL security and facility for security going

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Speaker 3: forward with mister Kennedy and any of the people that

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Speaker 3: might be accompanying him to games. But you know, to

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Speaker 3: take that in your own hands, it may cost him

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Speaker 3: and they're saying that it could activate a forty to

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Speaker 3: fifty million dollar loss based on his contract. Wow, based

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Speaker 3: on a two game suspension. Now it might get reduced

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Speaker 3: to a game, But in the end, you put yourself

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Speaker 4: You know what I've learned over the years, it's just

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Speaker 4: people who think they can get under your skin. If

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Speaker 4: you react, you're playing right into their hands. And this

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Speaker 4: guy knew he can get under DK skin and.

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Speaker 3: Then he doubles down, no question about it. USC Notre

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Speaker 3: Dame Off the Books coming up next