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Speaker 4: You know who could have used some dude wipes? Well,

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Speaker 4: some of those Bears players.

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Speaker 1: Our lead from Chicago, Sweet Home, Chicago Dump Bears and

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Speaker 1: the Rams final game of the weekend here chance to

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Speaker 1: go to the Final four. And you had Mike too, Rico,

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Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth, they had the call on and we see

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Speaker 1: a blustery day on the shores of Lake Michigan. The

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Speaker 1: Marching in Chowder society was fired up for this game.

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Speaker 4: So you knew I was all fired up here.

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Speaker 1: Surely a California team, you all tell me how soft

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Speaker 1: these California teams are, had no chance in those conditions,

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Speaker 1: zero opportunity unless they did. Now, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: don't know what hell you were doing. Perhaps you weren't there.

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Speaker 1: But the game came down to overtime when the great

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Speaker 1: the Packers last week, but that was it. Bears got

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Speaker 1: And I'd like to thank Caleb Williams. Yeah, you didn't

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Speaker 4: So game ball goes to Caleb Williams. There.

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Speaker 1: The Bears quarterback Matthew Stafford, who didn't have a touchdown

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Speaker 1: coming up on Sunday. But the better story is in

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Speaker 1: Why are you You're going the wrong way, You're going

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Speaker 1: The longest completed pass by air distance in the red

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Speaker 1: it's been a decade that had a completion PROBA variability

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Speaker 1: happened to all of the Bear's momentum? Where did it go?

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Speaker 1: Where did it go? After that late touchdown by Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 1: Collinsworth had his knee pats out. He was so excited

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Speaker 1: for Caleb Williams, and Tarika sounded like he had grew

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Speaker 1: Bears couldn't lose that game. It was a fade accompany.

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Speaker 1: How did they do it? How did they not win

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Speaker 1: that game? What happened to the momentum? So I've got fajitas,

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Speaker 1: freestyle jazz, and spit on your hands, and we will

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Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're going to

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Speaker 1: make some delicious deep dish pizza which is still outstanding,

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Speaker 1: and the Bears could drown their sorrows in big slices

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Speaker 1: of deep dish pizza. Absolutely, all right. So first of all,

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Speaker 1: all right, the Bears momentum. Where the momentum is. It's

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Speaker 1: the same place you can find Bigfoot, the Tooth Fairy,

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Speaker 1: Momentum is sports talk MSG is what is you sprinkling

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Speaker 4: Sprinkle sprinkle, sprinkle sprinkle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and suddenly dumb people think it enhanced the flavor.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't. Oh my god. The Bears didn't lose momentum.

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Speaker 1: They confirmed the diagnosis. Is what they did in this

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Speaker 1: And then the overtime happened for Chicago and the Bears

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Speaker 4: So the cardiac kids they were until the unfortunately the

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Speaker 4: Bye bye, You're gone out of here. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So there they were set up in overtime. Rams fetched

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Speaker 1: that sportscasters like to use when they just want to

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Speaker 1: explain use it for anything. Momentum, you know, I walked

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Speaker 1: lot of mo. Absolutely, yes, clearly it's just mumbo jump.

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Speaker 1: It's like word fahitas. You just throw out the word

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Speaker 1: If momentum were real, the Bears right now would be

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Speaker 1: Alias they're not so, Ben Johnson. It's all about the magic,

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Speaker 1: the magical season for the Chicago Bears. So the Bears

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Speaker 1: ought to go on Amazon Prime, Ben Johnson, and I

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Speaker 1: think they still have some old amazing Cresken magic kits,

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Speaker 1: more Abracadabra, hocus Pocus and presto at Hallas Hall because

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Speaker 1: they ran out of tricks now. Secondly, as for Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 1: the circus throw that everyone was goga for, he just

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Speaker 4: Everything you're not supposed to do. Everything you're not supposed

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Speaker 1: Williams ended this game with three interceptions. Three interceptions in

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Speaker 1: their season is now dune skis is the glass half

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Speaker 1: I'll be fair here. Listen, the glass for Caleb Williams

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Speaker 1: is half full. However, it's got these little microscopic hairline cracks.

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Speaker 1: But the table is built by a guy who just

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Speaker 1: Well, I didn't need to follow the instruction, Williams, and

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Speaker 1: that tells you on a fourth down you've got to

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Speaker 4: Chuck the thing up in the air.

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Speaker 1: Nobody tells you to do that. He did it, and

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Speaker 1: it worked that time. Caleb Williams is a fun zone

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Speaker 1: type of quarterback. He's a one man band. He's got

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Speaker 1: the drums to the right, he's got the guitar to

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Speaker 1: Occasionally that smoke machine sets off the fire alarm, and

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Speaker 1: so Caleb also has it appears to be an underlying condition.

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Speaker 1: It's the old double edged sword here for the Bears.

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Speaker 1: He is the gunslinger quarterback. And if it was music,

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Speaker 1: think of it.

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Speaker 4: Like freestyle jazz.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes freestyle jazz is just a masterpiece, it's genius. And

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Speaker 1: then there's other times it's the solo nobody wanted, nobody

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Speaker 4: What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I've got a headache, I've got a migraine headache from

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Speaker 1: what you called freestyle jazz. It was terrible and so listen,

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Speaker 1: big plays, big thrills, all that for Caleb Williams in

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Speaker 1: this game and the turnovers that make your fan base

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Speaker 1: Was this a sizzle real game for Matthew Stafford? No,

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Speaker 1: It's your minute Street.

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Speaker 4: So I lead this out is from Foxboro.

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Speaker 1: We go to Foxboro the divisional round early game between

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans and the Patriots, and much to the

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Speaker 1: dismay of Mister Irrigation, the Texans rolled out c. J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud on a blustery day in the woods of the Commonwealth,

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Speaker 1: the winner a date with the Broncos in the AFC

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Speaker 1: title game.

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Speaker 4: Were you watching? Of course you were. No, What else

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Speaker 4: were you doing? I don't know? Anyway.

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Speaker 1: Drake May had not one, not two, but three touchdown passes,

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Speaker 1: as Marcus Jones, keeping up with the Joneses, had a

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Speaker 1: return pick six of one of C. J. Strouds not one,

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Speaker 1: not two, not three, four interceptions four If somebody tells

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Speaker 1: you what they are.

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Speaker 4: Listen to them. More on that in a minute.

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Speaker 1: So c J stroud four deceptions and one of them

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Speaker 1: pick six. The Patriots disccombaed related the Texans twenty eight

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Speaker 1: to sixteen the final and they have advanced to the

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Speaker 1: American Football Conference Championship game for the first time in

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Speaker 1: seven years. I mean, think about the seven year old

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Speaker 1: kids that were just a little the newborns. They don't

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Speaker 1: remember that. Those poor struggling children of the New England

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Speaker 1: States that did not get to experience those six year olds,

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Speaker 1: the five year olds their entire lives, the Patriots have

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Speaker 1: sucked and now here they are. You're going to see

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Speaker 1: the Patriots in a final four game. God bless those kids.

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Speaker 1: Those little suffering kids man alive. First second graders didn't

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Speaker 1: see the Patriots ever have any success. So anyway, the

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Speaker 1: better story here is in the losing locker room, and

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Speaker 1: so that is where we were going to go. Despite

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Speaker 1: a absolutely horrid performance. Texas coach Demico Ryans says that

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Speaker 1: he never considered benching quarterback CJ.

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Speaker 4: Straud No.

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Speaker 1: I guess we didn't get that sound, but everyone else

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Speaker 1: has it. But he said, he said CJ is our guy,

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Speaker 1: he said, all right, So that is a good jumping

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Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question what do you

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Speaker 1: make of Texans coach tomko Ryans saying he never considered

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Speaker 1: benching CJ. Stroud despite four interceptions in the first half.

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Speaker 1: So I've got baby draft, designer label, and Paris baguette,

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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of those things and put

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Speaker 1: them together. And we are going to connect one, two

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Speaker 1: and three and play connect three.

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Speaker 4: That's what we're gonna do. So number on.

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Speaker 1: Number yes, all right, So we welcome to the big Top.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the big Top.

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Speaker 1: Step right up, funting for all ages, Theater of the

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Speaker 1: Absurd in Houston, Texas. You won't believe your eyes. And

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Speaker 1: if you can't see, you won't believe your ears. That

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Speaker 1: goes out to Stevie, Meetbols and all the blind members

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Speaker 1: of the mal or militia. But my guy, not for

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Speaker 1: the squeamish or faint of heart. To meek O Ryan's

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Speaker 1: claim that he never thought about benching CJ. Stroud, he

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Speaker 1: must be lying. He has to beat lying, all right.

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Speaker 1: If he did not consider the benching of CJ.

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Speaker 4: Stroud at halftime, then he's really bad as a coach

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Speaker 4: and should be fired. That's it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's the thought right there. If this guy, the head

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Speaker 1: coach of an NFL team whose quarterback had five fumbles

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Speaker 1: in a game a week ago and then as four

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Speaker 1: interception the first half, and it didn't even cross your

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Speaker 1: mind to bench the guy, I have.

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Speaker 4: No skinning him.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a Texans fan, I got I'm just watching

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Speaker 1: as a neutral party. You gotta be joking. That's football malpractice.

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Speaker 4: Is what it is. Read the room, Read the room.

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Speaker 1: When you're quartererback is out there drowning, you need to

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Speaker 1: have the hook ready to go get him out. You

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Speaker 1: could see it. I'm sitting on my ass watching on television.

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Speaker 1: I could see the body language. I saw the look

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Speaker 1: on CJ. Stroud's face. He couldn't get it out of

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Speaker 1: his head. He couldn't do it. And if I know that,

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Speaker 1: how the hell does the coach of an NFL tit.

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Speaker 1: That guy's coach didn't know it. Stroud earned the benching.

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Speaker 1: He deserved to be benched. I don't care if it's

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Speaker 1: a playoff game or not.

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Speaker 4: You throw.

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Speaker 1: You have five fumbles one game and then less than

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Speaker 1: a week later four interceptions. Bye bye, bye bye.

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Speaker 4: Get out of here. Ah right, the moment was just

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Speaker 4: too big.

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Speaker 1: Can't handle it. He's not a big game guy, CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 1: is not it At this point, you are what your

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Speaker 1: record says you are. It was a massive mountain and

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Speaker 1: he was wearing slippers and he had his pajamas on

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Speaker 1: and he didn't want to climb it.

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Speaker 4: And that's it, that's all there is.

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Speaker 1: And Stroud he didn't just wilt under the pressure of

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Speaker 1: the division round the plufs. He soiled the diaper. We

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Speaker 1: all saw it. It was it was what can brown do

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Speaker 1: for you? It's on the back of his white Texas

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Speaker 1: uniform and there's Demiko Ryans staying, what what is CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud done to deserve loyalty? That guy's been a middling

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Speaker 1: quarterback for multiple years now. This is not an all

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Speaker 1: time great c J. Stroud, And you're loyal to him.

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Speaker 1: That's your guy, Demiko Ryan. You still watching him try

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Speaker 1: to play quarterback In the first half c J. Stroud,

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Speaker 1: it was like watching a baby draft learn how to

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Speaker 1: walk on a frozen pond. Now, my theory, my theory

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Speaker 1: on this, using some classic psycho babble, is that Demico

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Speaker 1: Ryans by not benching c J.

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Speaker 4: Stroud admitted that CJ. Stroud is a soft football player. Okay,

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Speaker 4: he's a mister softy, that's c.

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Speaker 1: J Stroud and Dimiko made a calculator decision to not

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Speaker 1: bench him because it would have ruined him for the

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Speaker 1: rest of his time with the Texas. So he sacrificed,

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Speaker 1: if I'm right, Demiko Ryans sacrificed a chance to win

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Speaker 1: a playoff game.

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Speaker 4: Was a winnable game at halftime.

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Speaker 1: He sacrificed the playoff game because of the fragile ego

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Speaker 1: of his suck bag quarterback.

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Speaker 4: That happened? That appen? Please, and what.

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Speaker 1: Did Cid Stroud do to reward Dimiko Ryan's vote of confidence?

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Speaker 1: He went out in the second half and was a

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Speaker 1: three alarmed dumpster fire is what he was.

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Speaker 4: He was the Duke of puke.

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Speaker 1: In the second half there at a fifty nine point

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Speaker 1: two quarterback rating.

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Speaker 4: He had die die diarrhea in the pocket.

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Speaker 1: He did all the way to the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: final whistle there total dud dud, Yeah, and Demiko Ryans

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Speaker 1: he wasted what was a generational defense on a quarterback

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Speaker 1: who is a total zippo.

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Speaker 4: A squad douche from c J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud and the lights get right and he sucks his

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Speaker 1: thumb in the fetal position.

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Speaker 4: My god.

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Speaker 1: All right now, continuing the train of thought here as

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Speaker 1: we recap the playoff games in the NFL this weekend.

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Speaker 1: So the question here is Texans cornerback quarterback c J.

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Speaker 4: Stroud? Is Texans quarterback c J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud and his performance just a mere hiccop or is

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Speaker 1: this a long term problem for the Texans. So I

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Speaker 1: am a believer. You are what your record says you are.

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Speaker 1: And right now CJ. Stroud is if he was a

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Speaker 1: musical group, he'd be what he'd be, Uh, well, he'd

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Speaker 1: be Chubba wabba is what he would be.

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Speaker 4: Right? What great one hit wonder from back in the day.

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Speaker 1: There one hit face plant that's it, see you later,

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Speaker 1: repeat And a quarterback built on a highlight reel that's

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Speaker 1: got a lot of empty calaries, Like a lot of

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Speaker 1: empty calaries for him. Now remember twenty twenty three, Oh,

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Speaker 1: the new kid on the block.

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Speaker 4: Everyone love him.

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Speaker 1: Offensive Rookie of the Year, Offensive Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Balloons in confetti, crowning the King, the new King of Houston. Oh,

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Speaker 1: they were patting themselves in the back. They were pulling muscles.

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00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: They being the Houston Texans organization they'd found there forever Quarterback.

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Speaker 1: The parade was scheduled, and then they had to keep

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Speaker 1: playing the games and the sequel. We're still waiting for

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Speaker 1: the sequel. We're still waiting for that sequel to happen.

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Speaker 1: No second act, no OnCore, no reruns all right, or

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Speaker 1: I guess just reruns here. It's the same thing every

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Speaker 1: year now. So since then, since that moment when CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud was the offensive Rookie of the Year, he has

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Speaker 1: been a jag, not a Jacksonville Jaguar, just a jag

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Speaker 1: with a designer label. Though it's a jag with a

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Speaker 1: designer label, so he's got that going for him.

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Speaker 4: Good for CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud and just a guy inconsistent like a flickering porch light.

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Speaker 4: That's what CJ. Stroud is at this point.

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Speaker 1: Spotty, like a rash that you don't want diagnosed, right,

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Speaker 1: you don't want that diagnosed. It's a little spotty you

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it add is, uh and very unreliable.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing about this.

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Speaker 4: Like c J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud, the inconsistencies of his performance all he's been very

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Speaker 1: consistent in these playoff games.

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Speaker 4: Bad but bad bad bad. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But it's like it's like going flying around and the

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Speaker 1: airline that has the on time departure promise, well, he

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Speaker 1: promised it on time department.

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Speaker 4: And just like just like his throws, c J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud throws are often delayed because he takes too long

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Speaker 1: holes the ball for too long off schedule. He throws

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Speaker 1: it high low, you want to bounce past. That's good

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Speaker 1: in the NBA, not in football, behind the intended receiver.

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Speaker 1: And so if you look at Stroud on his playoff resume,

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Speaker 1: here you got that one Brown's beatdown that fooled a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. They said, oh, that's it. He proved

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Speaker 1: he can play in the Plus he played that Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: It was that Joe Flaccaugh. I believe that was Joe

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Speaker 1: Flacco who started that game for Cleveland. And since that mirage,

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Speaker 1: five playoff games, three touchdowns, six interceptions, seven fumbles, a

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Speaker 1: passer rating of seventy in those other playoff games.

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Speaker 4: That's not growing pains. No, no, no, that.

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Speaker 1: Is regression with a capital R, capital R regression. And

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, c J. Stroud created a new

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Speaker 1: item at Foster Freeze. He put the cherry on top

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Speaker 1: of the poopye Sunday. There he made history five plus

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Speaker 1: interceptions and five plus fumbles in the postseason that had

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Speaker 1: never happened before. In Island of One, they still talk

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Speaker 1: about years ago Jamis Winston the first thirty to thirty

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Speaker 1: guy in the NFL. Thirty interceptions and thirty touchdowns. Well,

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Speaker 1: how about this CJ. Stroud first ever in a playoff

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Speaker 1: run five and five interceptions. The reason no one else

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Speaker 1: has been able to do it is because normally you

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Speaker 1: lose when you have five fumbles in the game.

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Speaker 4: But the Steelers sucks so much. The Texans were able

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Speaker 4: to win that game.

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Speaker 1: And you normally get benched if you have that kind

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Speaker 1: of performance before you get to those numbers, but not

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Speaker 1: if you have Demico Ryans as your coach and you're

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Speaker 1: a mister softy, then you continue to get rolled out there.

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Speaker 1: And that's it. So this is not a hiccup. There's

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Speaker 1: a big issue. And that is not a guy you

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Speaker 1: give a big.

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Speaker 4: Massive contract to and say this is our guy forever

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Speaker 4: and ever and ever.

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Speaker 1: I would look to trade him. If I was the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans, I would say, all right, let's make a deal.

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Speaker 1: There's teams that need quarterbacks. This guy's not the guy.

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Speaker 1: Let's get rid of him. Because the guy can't handle it.

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Speaker 1: He just can't handle them all. Some people are cut

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Speaker 1: out for it, he's not cut.

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Speaker 4: Out for it. Get rid of him all right. Now.

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Speaker 1: Final point to the Patriots side of things. The Patriots

658
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Speaker 1: winning winning, and they are back in the final four.

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Speaker 1: Drake May had good stats. He did have the late touchdown.

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00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 1: It's like the Hail Mary thing before after, but Drake

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Speaker 1: May survived. The Patriots are not one, not two, not three.

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Speaker 1: Four fumbles by tiny hands Drake May little tiny hands.

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Speaker 1: Remember before the draft, that was a big talking point

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Speaker 1: by the nerds. They said, well, the measurements of his hand,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have very big hands, and they said would

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Speaker 1: be a problem in cold weather trying.

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Speaker 4: To grip the football. Patriots play cold weather game at

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Speaker 4: home and he has trouble gripping the ball, holding onto

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Speaker 4: the ball while getting a hit. And sure enough, there

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Speaker 4: you go.

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Speaker 1: So now the Patriots play the Broncos in Denver, and

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Speaker 1: that means they will be going against the New England Patriots.

673
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: A backup quarterback in the AFC Championship game a backup quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So the question how do you sum up the Broncos

675
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Speaker 1: quarterback Jared Stidham standing in the way of Mike Rabel

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Speaker 1: and the Patriots reaching the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: So this is but this issue of the Patriots.

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00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: It's been the same thing all year and they clearly

679
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 1: made some kind of faustian bargain here, the Patriots, because

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00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: this is parting. It's the parting of the AFC, if

681
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: you will, the parting of the AFC for Mike Vrabel squad.

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00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: You look at that treasure map for the Patriots and

683
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: it's a right turn on Easy Street and you just

684
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Speaker 1: keep going, and if you keep going, you can make

685
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Speaker 1: a left turn and it's on Cupcake Alley. So you

686
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Speaker 1: go down Easy Street and then you turn left on

687
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: Cupcake Alley. A generational run of softies for the New

688
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Speaker 1: England Patriots. We really have never seen anything quite as

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Speaker 1: easy as this has been for the Patriots, and so

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00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: good for them. They were horrific last season. Where's girod Mayo?

691
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Speaker 1: Do we even know where Gerard Mayo is? By the way, now,

692
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Speaker 1: we don't know where he is right spell waiting for

693
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Speaker 1: the next check to come in from Robert So the

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Speaker 1: road to the super Bowl. Broadcasters love to talk about,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, the road, It's so difficult, Oh what

696
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? The road to the super Bowl

697
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: has been pathetic, more pathetic, and most pathetic the opposition

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Speaker 1: they're going against. The Patriots have beaten soft surfer boy,

699
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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert poop his pants, C J. Stroud, and now

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Speaker 1: they take on Jared Stidham up next.

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Speaker 4: It's not the heavyweight division.

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Speaker 1: This is not the heavyweight this is the featherweight division

703
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Speaker 1: of football. For the New England Patriots. You know what

704
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: they're doing. They are feasting at Paris Baguette. That's what

705
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Speaker 1: they're doing here. You avoided Mahomes because he got hurt

706
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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs didn't make the list. Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,

707
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, the killers, the murderers, Row of AFC quarterbacks,

708
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Speaker 1: the Golden Age of AFC quarterbacks. You missed all of them,

709
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Speaker 1: and you got handed this gift wrapped light and fluffy croissant,

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Speaker 1: yum yum to my dumb, dumb that's what you got.

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Speaker 4: That's what you got. So you avoided everything, and I

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Speaker 4: get it. Don't audit.

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Speaker 1: The freebies You got a lot of freebies here, except

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Speaker 1: the gift before the winds shift, and they will shift.

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Speaker 1: The winds will shift, So accept the gift.

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Speaker 4: And the crazy thing about it, the Patriots can be

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Speaker 4: in the Super Bowl and we still don't know whether

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Speaker 4: Drake may is a big time guy.

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Speaker 1: We don't know that because you look at the road.

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Speaker 1: It's easy. The Texans forfeited that. I knew the moment CJ.

721
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Speaker 1: Stroud played the second half. They weren't trying to win it.

722
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: This was about the big picture. They weren't trying to

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Speaker 1: win it. My god, what a path you take it.

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Speaker 1: You milk it. Don't look back. If you're the Patriots,

725
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: It'll never be this easy again. It's never been this easy.

726
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,439
Speaker 1: It has never been this easy. Mike Rabels team has

727
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: got a pounce. You got to do it, Mike squad,

728
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: you take advantage of it. This is not playing the Masters.

729
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: This is the Windmill golf course. This is the there's

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Speaker 1: an arcade. There's a pitching putt. You're at the pitching putt.

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Speaker 1: That's what you're at. One more step then you get

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Speaker 1: a shirt and hat.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Even this weekend is coming up. The AFC Championship Game,

735
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Speaker 1: you win, they give you a hat and a shirt.

736
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Speaker 1: They say, well you won the AFC, congratulations, and that's it.

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Speaker 1: So pathetic, guest, it's pathetic. Nobody will remember though, that

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Speaker 1: you were eating just pastries at Paris baget. They're just

739
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Speaker 1: gonna just remember. Twenty years from now, I want a

740
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Speaker 1: Patriots win the Super Bowl. All that stuff gets forgotten.

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Speaker 1: It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you'd like to

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Speaker 1: Do you watch these games? Are you watching the same

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Speaker 1: games I'm watching? And Doctor, Doctor, give me the news.

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Speaker 4: One of the great football mysteries. Will list some conspiracy

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Speaker 4: theories out about it. I'll explain what are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: It involves an injury of the weekend and there's some

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Speaker 4: theories on why things went down the way they went down.

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Speaker 4: We'll get to that and we will do it next.

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Speaker 1: However, it is the Eenie meenie money. I know it's

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Speaker 1: the A Bloc.

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Speaker 4: What hour is it? I don't know. Ben Okay we

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Speaker 4: don't know. You were busy eating.

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Speaker 1: You didn't have.

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Speaker 4: You didn't have because the first hour of the first

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Speaker 4: segment you didn't ask me what number it was. I didn't. Well,

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Speaker 4: that was the last night. It was lasting, last hour.

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Speaker 1: We had to turn the transmitter on, last hour, telling

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Speaker 1: Time Now for the installed trivia, and then we will

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Speaker 1: get to the Mallard of the third degree. So Bill's

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Speaker 1: quarterback Josh Allen is the second player of the last

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Speaker 1: twenty postseasons with two or more interceptions two or more

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Speaker 1: loss fumbles in a single playoff game.

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Speaker 4: And Blank is the other person to do it. That

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Speaker 4: is the question.

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Speaker 1: What is the answer, And let's see does anyone in

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Speaker 1: the Mallard militia know the answer? We go to the

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Speaker 1: from doc Naan Ben Roethlisberger guest by Nick. Who else

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Speaker 1: do we have Celtics mascot Lucky the Leprechaun from shaneon Moine.

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Speaker 1: Our Buddy Ostrich at the Great Artist, says Tom Looney.

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Speaker 1: Shirt I'm trying to forget about it. Benny the Bathroom

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Speaker 1: Bomber from Alf the Alien, O Piner, the dingle Berry

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Speaker 1: in Ohio, Benny bamboozl Noodles, Kirk Dog, Dave Craig gets

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Speaker 1: by Chris and Kent Washington.

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Speaker 4: Who else do we have?

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Speaker 1: Bring it home Jerome, He's committed to finding those lost

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Speaker 1: fumbles from Mather prop Guy jt the Wingman says bugs Bunny,

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Speaker 1: that's what he's going with.

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Speaker 4: Who else do we have? Page Den Dylan from truck

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Speaker 4: Or Joe got to have a fall Guy Paige Down,

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Speaker 4: I see mad Jack, Joey Buttafuco. That's his answer? Do

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Speaker 4: you have an answer? The Rainer. It's got to be

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Speaker 4: Drake May? Is it Drake May? No, it's not. It

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Speaker 4: is Carson Palmers, Cardinals of Arizona and the NFC.

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Speaker 1: Title game against the Carolina Panthers over a decade ago.

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Speaker 4: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go to

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Speaker 4: the third degree. This is one.

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Speaker 1: Ben gets quick and Patrick is in the producer's chair.

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Speaker 4: Hello Pat, Hello, Ben? Hello? What is up? What do

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Speaker 4: we got here? All? Right, Well, I got this one

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Speaker 4: right here.

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Speaker 5: So, Ben, the Steelers are ramping up their head coaching

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Speaker 5: search and one candidate they want to speak to is

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Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy. Do you think this would be a great

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Speaker 5: fit for Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: Well, the only thing that's great about it is he's

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Speaker 4: a local guy, so you can tug at the heartstrings.

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Speaker 4: Miche McCarthy's a Pittsburgher, so that's good. And he doesn't

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Speaker 4: fit what the Steelers have always been about unless they

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Speaker 4: go outside the box. He's coached two other NFL teams

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Speaker 4: as a head coach, he's older than the you know

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Speaker 4: then they normally go for So it doesn't seem like

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Speaker 4: that's a great fit.

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Speaker 5: And they can do better next, all right, Ben, So Trinidad,

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Speaker 5: Shambliss and his team are suing the NC double A

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Speaker 5: over their decision to not give him a six year

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Speaker 5: of eligibility.

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Speaker 4: Do you think he will get this overturned?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Although the argument is if the NC double A eventually

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Speaker 1: just makes these guys employees, which is what they should be,

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Speaker 1: then why stop it four years or five years of eligibility?

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Speaker 1: This guy's already played six years though, Like, come on, dude,

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Speaker 1: I would want to play for twelve years the amount

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Speaker 1: of money they're getting, so I don't. I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna work for him.

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Speaker 5: Next all right, Ben the Bend, Green Day will be

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Speaker 5: opening the Super Bowl and celebrating six decades of championships history,

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Speaker 5: along with past Super Bowl MVPs in attendance.

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Speaker 4: Do you care?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: The only thing I care about is I think this

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Speaker 4: was a late addition. The rumor is because they were

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Speaker 4: getting so much bad publicity for bad Bunny hates America,

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Speaker 4: and so let's get Green Day. They don't hate America,

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Speaker 4: We'll put them in there. So that's why I did it.

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Speaker 2: How do we know how?

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Speaker 4: The psycho? I'm a winner,