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Speaker 1: They Around the NFL podcast Found Love and the Diabetes

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Speaker 1: at the Santa Summits. Hello and welcome to a very

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Speaker 1: special Christmas Eve edition of Around the NFL, the flagship program,

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Speaker 1: Week sixteen. Can you believe it? Dan Hans is here

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Speaker 1: with Mark Sessler Greg Rosenthal in our respective homes and yes,

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Speaker 1: right now upstairs from where I'm recording this, my in

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Speaker 1: laws from Texas are here and they are having the

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Speaker 1: traditional chicken spaghetti dinner and then going to church and

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Speaker 1: then you know, celebrating with the family. But the three

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Speaker 1: of us talking football, all right, that's fine too.

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Speaker 2: This is somewhat of a tradition too. I feel like

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Speaker 2: we've had a number of Christmas Eve type shows over

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Speaker 2: the year, one in the office, so that this one

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Speaker 2: I'll take.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean we had the advantage of working

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Speaker 3: from home today, which Greg, I don't know about you.

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Speaker 3: We've spent a lot of consecutively together in that office

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Speaker 3: and it's perhaps not as vibrant as our last NFL headquarters.

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Speaker 3: We're on game days, but I right, I quite enjoyed

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Speaker 3: being home on the couch wearing the clothing night shows

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Speaker 3: while these games unfolded.

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Speaker 1: Very nice, very well, said Mark as always and yes,

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Speaker 1: the gift the way the calendar fell was a full

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Speaker 1: slate of Sunday action. Also two games to get to

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Speaker 1: on Saturday, and just you know, a little program note here,

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Speaker 1: a little bit different show here. We're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: be a little bit tighter with the games. We're not

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Speaker 1: gonna do Sunday Night football. We're gonna hit Sunday Night

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Speaker 1: Football and the Christmas triple header on Tuesday morning. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna kind of spin through the league, get you

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Speaker 1: caught up where you need to be, and we thank you.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening right now on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning,

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Speaker 1: or you're hiding in the bathroom because your mother in

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Speaker 1: law's driving you insane, you know we're here for you.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into it and start with the big game

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. It was at what was called a Joe

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Speaker 1: Robbie Stadium that is outrageous. Whatever that plays in Miami's

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Speaker 1: called I think it's hard rock, where the Cowboys and Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: two ten and four teams looking to make a statement.

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Speaker 1: Only one could ferguson his nap hold down by Bailey,

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Speaker 1: the kickers up.

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Speaker 4: It's good at the Miny Dolphins defeat the Dallas Cowboys twenty.

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Speaker 5: Two to twenty here at hard Rock Stadium.

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Speaker 1: What a last drive by two of his offense.

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Speaker 6: Great running by Wilson and Jason Sanders, a perfect.

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Speaker 1: Five for five in this game, and that's gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: What a finish. What a finish indeed, Jimmy Sevalo and

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Speaker 1: Joe Rose with the call WBGG fun fact boys, little

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Speaker 1: Christmas gift for you. I did the research myself. Kickers

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Speaker 1: were fifteen of fifteen in the four games that I

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Speaker 1: tracked today, but nobody was more nails than Jason Sanders,

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Speaker 1: who went five for five, including three pipes from fifty

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Speaker 1: plus and that game winner chip shot you just those

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Speaker 1: are the three points that were the difference in a

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Speaker 1: twenty two to twenty win for the Dolphins over the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: Gregi Dak Prescott led the Dallas offense on what could

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Speaker 1: have been like an MVP season winning touchdown drive in

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Speaker 1: their final possession, but that Cowboys d just didn't have

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Speaker 1: an answer for Miami's offense when it mattered most.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe the Dolphins win this game scoring one touchdown.

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Speaker 2: I had to had to double check that just now.

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Speaker 2: As I'm looking at it, and yet it felt like

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Speaker 2: their offense was in control this whole time. They could

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Speaker 2: not finish drives, but I think on that last drive

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Speaker 2: to point. They've been trailing throughout the second half, and

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Speaker 2: it's very much a okay, what do you got right now,

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Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins, and they made it look fairly easy, and

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Speaker 2: I think the gravity of Tyreek Hill was such.

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Speaker 5: A big part of that.

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Speaker 2: On one big third down play where they bring Tyreek

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Speaker 2: Hill in motion, or else they would have had to

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Speaker 2: kick a longer field goal and they would have given

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Speaker 2: falling down on the ground before the balls even snapped

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Speaker 2: a very creative play call from Mike McDaniel. They ran

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Speaker 2: the ball a handful of times really effectively on that drive,

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Speaker 2: something Dallas could not do. And then a couple of

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Speaker 2: the top. And that was the case throughout the day.

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Speaker 2: He went nine for ninety nine. That the Cowboys were

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Speaker 2: able to kill the clock, and I thought that was

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Speaker 2: a difference between these two teams. Yes, it was close

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Speaker 2: in the end, but the Cowboys couldn't run the ball,

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Speaker 2: a very deserved one, even though it was close. I

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Speaker 2: really felt like the Dolphins were the better team throughout

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Speaker 3: I think it's definitely a case of what if for

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Speaker 3: the Cowboys, and it would have been for the Dolphins

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Speaker 3: had they not been able to close it out the

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Speaker 3: way they did, because you know, both teams in a

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Speaker 3: low scoring game. Dolphins lost the ball on fourth down,

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Speaker 3: essentially a drive fizzled out on the Dallas five. Dallas

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Speaker 3: had that opening drive fumble where they looked so good,

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Speaker 3: until Dak went and did what we've been asking him

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Speaker 3: to do as an MVP candidate, which just marched down

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Speaker 3: a way, it's kind of like the atypical Monday Morning

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Speaker 3: Cowboys talking head scenario goals. Dak went and did it,

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Speaker 3: and then it was like two of the other guy

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Speaker 3: it went and did it too. And it wasn't because

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Speaker 3: of him necessarily, but that third and three conversion to

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Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill. He's such a special player, and then they

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Speaker 3: were able to force the Cowboys into timeouts and you

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Speaker 3: get that one Jeff Wilson run in these inflection points

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Speaker 3: for that drive for the Dolphins where he converts and

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Speaker 3: Dallas is out. They're out of options to that point

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Speaker 3: and Jason Sanders you mentioned it Dan on the day

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Speaker 3: for kickers, I mean he went three for three on

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Speaker 3: fifty plus before that game winner, which was much shorter.

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Speaker 3: He's the first Dolphins player in a long lineage of

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Speaker 3: mind me Dolphins players to kick three fifty plus yard

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Speaker 3: field goals in a game. And that was the difference,

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Speaker 3: because you're right, these two teams could not close drives

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Speaker 3: and to have a kicker like that on a day

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Speaker 3: like this made a big difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I had a mega spicy Christmas Eve hot take

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Speaker 1: on Twitter that kicking is now too good and we

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Speaker 1: have to maybe start doing something about it. A listener

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Speaker 1: and tweeter replied that maybe we could do something that

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Speaker 1: which I kind of like that. And this is coming

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Speaker 1: from the guy that built the kicker Club, I Rick.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I think full kit like his eightieth

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Speaker 5: It's still going. Actually, I was like, wait, that thing's

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Speaker 1: This is It's really crazy. What's happened to that position

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Speaker 1: over the course of this podcast life, which has been

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Speaker 1: eleven seasons now. Yeah, And I'm going to preface this

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Speaker 1: to preface this by saying, this is not a shot

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Speaker 1: against dak against Tua because the way it's set up

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Speaker 1: was was beautiful because it was a back and forth game. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Dallas had a big fail inside the five yard line

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Speaker 1: on a fumble with the full back, which come on, guys, UH,

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Speaker 1: give it to your best players. This game is too

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Speaker 1: big for that. Uh. And then the Dolphins fail on

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Speaker 1: and then it comes down to these last two drives

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Speaker 1: and it's and it's like Hey, Dak, this is it.

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Speaker 1: This is the type of stage that you all this

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Speaker 1: talk and you you mentioned it Mark the talking head type.

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Speaker 1: Shut them all up, or this is what everyone's going

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Speaker 1: to talk about. And Dak makes so many big plays

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Speaker 1: on that drive. He's taking a beating. The offensive line

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Speaker 1: and Dak keeps on finding away with Ceedee Lamb with

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Speaker 1: a couple of big catches one on third, one on fourth.

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Speaker 1: great catch by Cooks. It was like everything you could

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Speaker 1: ever want as a Cowboys fan for your quarterback and

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Speaker 1: then speaking of Twitter, I then tweeted, okay, now too,

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Speaker 1: it's your turn, and there wasn't it wasn't too uh

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Speaker 3: Right, I would say, I want to say one quick

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Speaker 3: He was on with Ceedee Lamb. But they got to

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Speaker 3: got a lot of heat on him. In general, there

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Speaker 3: then on fourth and goal it's incomplete, but defensive holding

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Speaker 3: I feel like today.

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Speaker 5: I saw those were like two clear penalties on that.

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Speaker 3: Bill, so they were, but it's just like that's the

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Speaker 3: that's the particulars of the game. But Dak also, I

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Speaker 3: thought today had a handful of throws where he was

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Speaker 3: absolute money while getting crushed by someone and put it

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Speaker 3: positive plays that I think you cannot blame anything on

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Speaker 3: Dak and anyone does that does that didn't watch this thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Cowboys defense just isn't that special to me.

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Speaker 2: I think that's what we've learned the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: And that's when you kind of zoom out and think

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Speaker 2: about how he thought this season was going to be.

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Speaker 2: I think that a disappointment because I had no faith

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Speaker 2: they were going to stop the Dolphins there at the

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Speaker 2: end of the game. And when you watch these two defenses,

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Speaker 2: I thought that the Dolphins defense made life much tougher

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Speaker 2: on the Cowboys. Twelve QB hits, four sacks on Dak

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Speaker 2: that's concerning because as well as Dak's playing, they don't

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Speaker 7: They've got to have down six fifty eight seconds to go.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, bongos deserved. How about this for a Christmas gift, Detroit.

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Speaker 6: And this is special. This is special. It's something you

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Speaker 1: They're staying tame at this point because the Lions believe

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Speaker 2: Yeah, back it up even a couple of years, just

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Speaker 3: you said it on NFL Plus on Thursdays, like I

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Speaker 1: But there's so much everyone being eliminated in the divisional playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Well they will, but it's like they're not like people

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Speaker 1: And let me let me uh rephrase that because or

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Speaker 1: the field of the season on the line, which is

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Speaker 1: a tough spot. But like several other teams across the league,

436
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Speaker 1: it's it's dire straits at the quarterback and you're just

437
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Speaker 1: you're just looking for a miracle. Let's give the final

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Speaker 1: word to Taylor Decker. He's in his eighth season with

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Speaker 1: the Lions. He was born in nineteen ninety three, the

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Speaker 1: last time the Lions had a home game. He was

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Speaker 1: emotional after this win. When you.

442
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Speaker 3: When you love the guys that you're playing with, it

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Speaker 3: means a lot more.

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Speaker 1: Ben Boscher tweeted, He's been a Lion for twenty seven

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Speaker 1: and ninety six days and for the first time he

446
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Speaker 1: could call himself a champion. And you know it, boys,

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Speaker 1: I feel like we're kind of champions because they were

448
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Speaker 1: the team of ATN where when they were dirt, when

449
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Speaker 1: they were nothing, and we believed.

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Speaker 3: Maybe this means that the Vikings, you know, a year

451
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Speaker 3: from now, are doing something similar. We've been that prescient again,

452
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Speaker 3: just not at the moment.

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Speaker 2: I felt bad for these little because in my heart

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Speaker 2: watching this, it's like I kind of want the nice

455
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Speaker 2: things for the Lions, even though the Vikings are the

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Speaker 2: team of atn Cynthia Friedland, Kevin Patra, all the great

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Speaker 2: Lions fans out there enjoy this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how could you root against the Lions? All right,

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Speaker 1: let's keep moving. How could you root against the Cleveland Browns?

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Speaker 10: Harris you in the backfield of the left Lacko from

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Speaker 10: under center from the twenty five play, fake to Hunt

462
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Speaker 10: and a roll out to the left, Flaco Eyes down field,

463
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Speaker 10: deep shot left sideline.

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Speaker 1: What's Cooper? He hasn't funny for the twenty At the ten.

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Speaker 10: Touchdown, the Maury Cooper is in the end zode with

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Speaker 10: a seventy five yard touchdown.

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Speaker 1: That is what you call a tone center. Amari Cooper

468
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Speaker 1: set a franchise record with two hundred and sixty five

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Speaker 1: yards receiving. Hey, everybody, this is the semifinals of the

470
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Playoffs. My goodness, I think Greg, your powerhouse daughter's

471
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Speaker 1: team took a dirt nap because of that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, she's still got a chance as we're taping,

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Speaker 2: but yes, Cooper dropping fifty two on her is put Thank.

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Speaker 1: God, that's legendary. I mean, that's not. That's not Alvin

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Speaker 1: Kamaro with like seven touchdowns of Christmas Day in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty legendary. But it's it's close anyway. Cooper two sixty

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Speaker 1: five and two touchdowns and he added a two point

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Speaker 1: conversion because why the hell not? And the Joe Flacco

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Speaker 1: piloted Browns beat the Texans thirty six twenty two. They

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Speaker 1: are in great shape to play relevant January football. Mark,

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Speaker 1: What a fun time to be a Browns fan, and

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Speaker 1: what a damn performance by their number one wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 3: It was an incredible game for Browns fans. And I

485
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Speaker 3: can only imagine, you know, Andrew Siciliano, you know calling this,

486
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Speaker 3: who has been a Browns fan since he was a child,

487
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Speaker 3: and watching something that seems so atypical once again for

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Speaker 3: typical Browns teams. And it's like Flacco made it very clear, right,

489
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Speaker 3: away that Amari Cooper was going to have a huge game.

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Speaker 3: Within like minutes, he had whipped a fifty three yard

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Speaker 3: bomb to Cooper that set up a quick touchdown for them.

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Speaker 3: There was later on a seventy five yard touchdown. We

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Speaker 3: just saw it just kept coming. At the end of

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Speaker 3: the first half. Flacco had eleven completions for two hundred

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Speaker 3: and forty six yards at the end of the first half.

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Speaker 3: Like he right now leads the NFL since Week thirteen

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Speaker 3: with four hundred and eighty six yards on deep passes.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the game, he had three hundred

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Speaker 3: and seventy. And this was a weird game because it

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Speaker 3: was clear Cleveland's gonna win. But they took Flacco out

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Speaker 3: and they took a Mariy Cooper out minutes into the

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Speaker 3: fourth quarter. And you know, Cooper at that point was

503
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Speaker 3: nine yard shy of Josh Gordon's single game receiving record

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Speaker 3: with the Browns, and you could see him talking to

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Speaker 3: Stefanski kind of playfully, like you want to throw me

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Speaker 3: back in there so I can like get this thing

507
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Speaker 3: done before and Stefanski sort of hell, according to CBS,

508
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Speaker 3: was just like no, absolutely not. But then Houston did

509
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Speaker 3: a bunch of garbage time, theatrics came back into it,

510
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Speaker 3: Flaco and Cooper come back into the game, and so

511
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Speaker 3: then there's a huge third down completion to Cooper that

512
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Speaker 3: essentially set the record, And I think that probably prevented

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Speaker 3: a lot of annoying conversation this week about Stefanski not

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Speaker 3: putting him in there for that final couple plays.

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Speaker 1: Mark Mark if Antonio Peers can call some fugazi and

516
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Speaker 1: then like a sixty nothing game to get DeVante Adams

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Speaker 1: a touch in one of the great plouts ever. Absolutely,

518
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Speaker 1: when Cooper's done something that special, you let him cap

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Speaker 1: it off and put his name in the record books.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you, and I'm glad it ended up that way.

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Speaker 3: There was a really strange b line today because with

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Speaker 3: all the kickers succeeding Cleveland, who Dustin Hopkins has been

523
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Speaker 3: absolute money in the bank for them and won games

524
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Speaker 3: for them. He had a hamstring injury very early, and

525
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Speaker 3: so from the very first moments of the game, they're

526
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Speaker 3: having to go for two on every touchdown. They're having

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Speaker 3: to like go for it on fourth and eight from

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Speaker 3: the sixteen. Like Stefanski was asked at halftime, do you

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Speaker 3: not have anyone else, like even your punter that could

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Speaker 3: kick a field goal, and he's like, we flat out

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Speaker 3: do not, And so it caused them, I think, to

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Speaker 3: be more aggressive. And it was kind of a case study.

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Speaker 3: And if like a kicker free roster because a couple

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Speaker 3: of that's set that to set up more touchdowns where

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Speaker 3: it could have been field goals. But it's like it

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Speaker 3: leaves you concerned because their punter also was banged up.

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Speaker 3: So they come out of the game like in great

538
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Speaker 3: position for the playoffs. But if the Hopkins thing is real,

539
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Speaker 3: you're taking like a massive factor to their offense away.

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Speaker 3: But I just cannot believe what their defense was. Their defense,

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Speaker 3: I cannot believe what Flacco has done over these couple

542
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Speaker 3: of weeks. It's got to be one of the most

543
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Speaker 3: predictable things, unpredictable things we've seen in ten years covered

544
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Speaker 3: and doing the show well.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they averaged one point eight yards per carry

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Speaker 2: and they put up thirty six They had under thirty

547
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Speaker 2: rushing yards last week when they ended up winning that

548
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Speaker 2: game against the Bears. I give Stefanski so much credit

549
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Speaker 2: because he's just leading on what's working and the kicker

550
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Speaker 2: being hurt. Absolutely you know, got them an extra couple

551
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Speaker 2: of touchdowns because I mean one of those theft fourth

552
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Speaker 2: and eight one where Flacco is basically in the grasp

553
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Speaker 2: and throws an opposite hash throws to Cooper on the sideline,

554
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Speaker 2: and Cooper had maybe one of the best games I've

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Speaker 2: ever seen any receiver have because of the difficulty of

556
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Speaker 2: all these throws. I mean, they were great throws, but

557
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Speaker 2: it's unreal the plays that they made. It wasn't even

558
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Speaker 2: bad defense most of the time. The Browns are going

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Speaker 2: to the playoffs. I know it's not official, they're ten

560
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Speaker 2: and five, but they're basically going and heck, they actually

561
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Speaker 2: have a little chance here to win the The.

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Speaker 1: AFC is Wonky. Our favorite Canadian, Stacy Dall's, was at

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Speaker 1: the game and she spoke with Amari Cooper, who predictably

564
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Speaker 1: was feeling good about himself. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, every time I step on the field, you know,

566
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Speaker 4: I try to put forth my best effort.

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Speaker 5: I do truly feel like I'm unguardable.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's all about opportunities, and I had a

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Speaker 3: lot of opportunities today, so I was able to take

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Speaker 3: advantage of him.

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Speaker 1: You know, I booted Amari Cooper out of the Superstar

572
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Speaker 1: club a couple of years ago, and I'm not saying

573
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Speaker 1: that he's going back in this summer, but at the

574
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Speaker 1: same time said he had like a really interesting career

575
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Speaker 1: like he is, even if he's not a superstar per se,

576
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Speaker 1: whatever that means in terms of how you view it.

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Speaker 1: He is an absolute legit number one for the Browns,

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Speaker 1: and you know he was for the Cowboys there for

579
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Speaker 1: a while too. He's had he's had a great career.

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Speaker 2: And Mark Flaka the second player ever to have three

581
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Speaker 2: two hundred yard games for three different teams too being

582
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Speaker 2: the other one, which says a lot.

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Speaker 1: Three different team. Where's the other one?

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Speaker 5: The Raiders?

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Speaker 1: Come on?

586
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Speaker 5: You know that's sure?

587
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Speaker 1: You know what I kind of I kind of glanced

588
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 1: over his Raiders' career. That's where he started and he

589
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: got traded, Yes to the Cowboys. Man, We've been doing

590
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: this long time, the Flacco mark. He keeps on going

591
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,959
Speaker 1: through my head. The Flacco nineteen ninety eight Vinny Testaverdi

592
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: season keeps spinning in my mind that this you know,

593
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 1: kind of forgotten big armed pocket passer who actually did

594
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Speaker 1: have something left in the tank. Even if people didn't

595
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Speaker 1: think that necessarily to be the case goes on a

596
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Speaker 1: special run and the team starts believing, Yeah, why can't

597
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: this is actually a good year mark and we could

598
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: we could lament you know, their injuries and imagine if

599
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb was here to help Flacco that we're talking.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're they're a true like super Bowl contender, but

601
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Speaker 1: in the AFC, Like, why can't the Browns get and

602
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: win some games? Like I think this is a great

603
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: exciting time in Cleveland.

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Speaker 3: Well, their defense, you know, which has never complained the

605
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 3: whole year, is really well coached, is playing with a

606
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 3: lot of the same players with intense confidence compared to

607
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 3: an organization compared to a year ago. Are getting helped now.

608
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 3: I mean it's like you're through for two hundred and

609
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 3: fifty yards in the first half. I you know, the

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Speaker 3: Texans are without c. J. Stroud or you know and

611
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Speaker 3: other players. A bunch of them were easy pickens today,

612
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 3: but Cleveland destroyed them in the first half. And so

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Speaker 3: I am left one of that. I would say one

614
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 3: little football note, Dan, like I don't think that Bill

615
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,719
Speaker 3: Parcells goes after Vinnie Testaverdy in that situation, in that

616
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Speaker 3: time period, if Bill Belichick wasn't part of that staff

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Speaker 3: or part of that who had gotten him in Cleveland

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Speaker 3: in ninety four. I've getten a lot of tweets today

619
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Speaker 3: about Vinnie Testaverdi taking Cleveland to the playoffs and their

620
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Speaker 3: last playoff win before Baker Mayfield as an aging quarterback

621
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Speaker 3: for the Browns when they beat Parcels and the Patriots

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs. So it all like comes full sert.

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Speaker 1: Of any kind of washed out from baltim Or to

624
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Speaker 1: get to the Jets. You're right, interesting, All right, let's

625
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: and yeah, I don't know what else we really need

626
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: to say about the Texans other than it sucks because

627
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: the injuries have been an absolute nightmare for them, and.

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Speaker 2: Take it a lot drowd back next week and they're

629
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Speaker 2: still tied for first place, so it was not a

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Speaker 2: damaging loss for them, right.

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Speaker 1: Uh So they get Stroud back and hopefully he stays healthy,

632
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Speaker 1: and we'll see if they have a run in them.

633
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: But time's running out. Time is also running out for

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Speaker 1: us to take the Jacksonville Jaguars even a little bit

635
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Speaker 1: seriously because their struggles continued on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Here's the snap on first down from the twenty two

637
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Speaker 4: Bayfiel throws.

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Speaker 1: Toward the endzone.

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Speaker 5: Cop Myke Covene touch down Tampapee. Haven't chasked to today, Harry.

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Speaker 1: Christmas, Michael m m Merry Christmas, the Jean Knucker off.

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Speaker 1: If he celebrates, you don't know, We don't know. Producer

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Speaker 1: Eric find out if Gene Deckerhoff is Christian. Thank you.

643
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield threw for two hundred and eighty three yards

644
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns to help the NFC South leading Tampa

645
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers defeat Trevor Lawrence and the stumbling, bumbling Jaguars

646
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: thirty to twelve. That is four straight wins, four straight wins.

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Speaker 1: Now for the Bucks, who you know I was talking

648
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: about Amari Cooper's had a weird season. The Bucks have

649
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: had a weird season. It started out strong, Mark and

650
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,719
Speaker 1: then it went into a deep tailspin and they were

651
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: a complete afterthought. And now they got to be seen

652
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: as a pretty substantial favorite to win the South and

653
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: again a team that can make noise in the playoffs.

654
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: If you get this version of Baker and the team

655
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: playing at this level in terms of confidence.

656
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 3: Right now, man Baker Mayfield and that you know Dan,

657
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 3: we again we kind of we keep nailing it with

658
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 3: these Thursday plus segments on Greg we talked about Baker

659
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 3: the Lions having their mow, which wasn't wholly unpredictable, but

660
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 3: then also like the rise and fall of Baker Mayfield,

661
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 3: then the rise again because this version of Baker Mayfield

662
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 3: what he did today, I was just like, this, this

663
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 3: is a team that could go into a weird NFC

664
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 3: and be the team you kind of don't want to

665
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 3: deal with. They're going to be at home that they

666
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: win this division, but not to get ahead of ourselves.

667
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 3: I just thought that he today once again, it was

668
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 3: very much the kind of performance we've seen for him

669
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 3: over and over. I mean, he galvanized the sideline and

670
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 3: the entire offense with a string of key like third

671
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 3: down conversions on the ground. He's sort of underrated. He's

672
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 3: not going to go run for forty one yards, but

673
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 3: he will barrel over people to get us six yards

674
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 3: on third and five. His connection with Mike Evans, after

675
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 3: watching that connection with Tom Brady a year ago be

676
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 3: so frustrating, has been absolutely on and it's like he

677
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 3: kept getting the team out of jams with great throws.

678
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 3: He had a pristine first half, but this doesn't happen

679
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 3: also without the full and entire meltdown of Trevor Lawrence.

680
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 3: On the first drive, a terrible interception to Devin White,

681
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 3: he is destroyed on a sack on third and twelve

682
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 3: on the second on the second drive, a terrible interception

683
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 3: on a miscommunication with Evan Ingram on the third drive,

684
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: I mean, and then he stripsacked to open the second

685
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 3: half with the team down, you know, like twenty seven

686
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 3: and nothing. They never climbed back in. And then to

687
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 3: top it all off, Trevor Lawrence, who probably should not

688
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 3: there's I don't even know if he was healthy coming

689
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 3: into this game. He did not look right. He only

690
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 3: practiced once this whole week. He was completely off with

691
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 3: an offense that's missing a bunch of wide receivers. And

692
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 3: then he left with a throwing shoulder injury that we

693
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 3: don't know exactly what is going on with that too,

694
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 3: And so it's like tough year, right. Shaguars are like

695
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 3: we for weeks, we've been seeing their kind of disappearing

696
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 3: before our eyes. I mean, they are hardcore disappearing. I

697
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 3: don't know what will happen, and they can sneak back

698
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 3: into this playoff race at this point, but they look

699
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 3: like the opposite, the polar opposite of the defense and

700
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: offense that we knew mark from even a.

701
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: Month everyone lost in the South. So like back, there's

702
00:33:59,160 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: still that.

703
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 3: I get that, Yeah, you know that stuff starts to

704
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 3: get me annoyed because I get that I'm saying that

705
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 3: right now. The quarterback is hurt, he's playing terribly. They

706
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 3: have no running game. Their defense is a hot mess

707
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 3: and was totally eating up today. So it's like, it's

708
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 3: not the way I want any team to go into

709
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 3: the playoffs.

710
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 5: That's all right.

711
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 2: I had that on our Wednesday show. It was my

712
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 2: bold prediction that they're not gonna make the playoffs. I

713
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 2: just don't think they're a good team. And Lawrence I

714
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 2: think has played better than his numbers have shown most

715
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 2: of the year, but that's not true the last three

716
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 2: or four weeks as he keeps taking these injuries. I mean,

717
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 2: they were down thirty to nothing in this game. I

718
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 2: think they're even though the because of their schedule, the

719
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 2: you know, projections have them making it because they have

720
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 2: I think Panthers Titans and so those are relatively easy matchup,

721
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 2: like they're capable of losing to any team right now,

722
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 2: including the Panthers. The way the Panthers are playing late

723
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 2: in the season, so everything is sort of falling apart

724
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 2: at the same time that it's coming together for the Bucks.

725
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 5: The Bucks are a.

726
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 2: Week eighteen win away against the Panthers, and in between

727
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 2: they have the Saints, and then they can really fit.

728
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 2: They can finish it first. But even if for some

729
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 2: reason they lost to the Saints, all they really got

730
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 2: to do is beat the Panthers in Week eighteen and

731
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 2: they're almost certainly the NFC South champs. And the way

732
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 2: they're playing well offensively, they're a better offensive team than defense.

733
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't they beat the Saints next week?

734
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 3: Anyways, Hey, I think Todd Bowles. There's a lot of

735
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 3: Coach of the Year candidates, but Todd Bowles like.

736
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 2: The oh my gosh, you wouldn't be in my top ten.

737
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 3: Wouldn't be I'd say one thing he's done really well

738
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 3: is like too far, he's kept his team together and

739
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 3: like I will say one defensive player of the week.

740
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 3: Here's another prediction. Antoine Winfield interception, forced fumble, like a

741
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 3: huge sack on third down. He's been really good, but

742
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 3: like he was a huge nuisance to the Jaguars the

743
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 3: entire day.

744
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 5: My all pro. He's been so good all year, so good.

745
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: Hey, the Bucks might not be a great team, but

746
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: they're they're in a great division to be an okay team,

747
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: and they're playing better than okay right now. And you

748
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 1: mentioned they scored in their first four possessions, two touchdowns,

749
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: two field goals. They held the ball for more more

750
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: than eighteen minutes in the first test, they outgained the

751
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: Jacks two twenty four to eighty four, and they went

752
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: into halftime up twenty nothing. They just they ended the

753
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: game immediately. So the Bucks, and don't tell me Baker

754
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: and Yolo mode if they do close this division out,

755
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: which I think that they will, and the Cowboys coming

756
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: to Tampa on like a Saturday night, that ain't a

757
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: gimme it ate. Like last year when Dak carved up

758
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: a Brady Carcass Bucks team, this could be a little

759
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: bit different.

760
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 5: So it is crazy.

761
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 2: This offense is unquestionably better than the Tom Brady Bucks.

762
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 5: Like there's not even a debate about it.

763
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: I mean, Brady was like seventy four at the time.

764
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 5: Yet it I know what you mean. It's still kind

765
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 5: of crazy.

766
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: All right, one more game before we take a break.

767
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: Let's head to Atlanta, where another NFC South team, the Falcons,

768
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,479
Speaker 1: was looking to kind of stay in the race.

769
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 4: Lined up at the right side of Indianapolis's offensive line,

770
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 4: and here is Minshew on a drop. He'll be forced

771
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 4: up in the pocket, going to take the shot for Pierson.

772
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: Who else has picked it?

773
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 4: But Jesse Bates on his feet forty five and tripped

774
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 4: up at the forty three and for Baits, that's his

775
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 4: sixth interception of the year. Boy, you cannot throw the

776
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 4: ball late down the middle with a guy like that

777
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 4: guy in the middle.

778
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: Nope, can't do it. Means shoe Jesse Bates with another

779
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: big play to seal it. Taylor Heineke did not turn

780
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: the ball over a quarterback. That's I mean, that's a win.

781
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: I don't need anything else with that team. Just don't

782
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: turn the ball over a quarterback for the Falcons and

783
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: that was enough, adding one touchdown pass, leading Atlanta to

784
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: a twenty nine to ten win over the Colts. I mean,

785
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 1: come on, Indy, get blown out here by the Falcons.

786
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: The Falcons keep themselves in the mix whe whether or

787
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: not we want them there. Greg they're here, They're still around.

788
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, the formula they came into the season with hoping

789
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 2: for I was finally there.

790
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:56,240
Speaker 5: This was a very.

791
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 2: What's the opp just game? Just like there was nothing

792
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 2: extraordinary about this game. But it was exactly the Falcon

793
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 2: nothing burger like Bajon for one hundred and twenty two yards,

794
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 2: like an entire drive coming out of halftime. That was

795
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:16,479
Speaker 2: all Corterrell Patterson, Tyler al Jeer and Bajon Robinson, Kyle

796
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 2: Pitts with like a long early touchdown they ran for

797
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: one seventy seven. Other than giving up an early long

798
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 2: touchdown drive by the Colts, they basically just shut him down.

799
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 2: And I think it's all because Arthur Smith's kid wanted

800
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,479
Speaker 2: him to get rid of the facial are He's back

801
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 2: to the no mustache.

802
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: Let's listen.

803
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 7: The last time you showed up without a mustache, she said,

804
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 7: it was like a three am impulselve.

805
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: I had a change momentum. But you know, clean up,

806
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: church myself up.

807
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 5: Loadays hey, he's got to church himself up. They're not

808
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 5: that seven to eight.

809
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: The charisma is just as exploding out of my laptop

810
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: scream right now.

811
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 2: You know, there was no Michael Pittman for the Colts,

812
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 2: Like at some point when what's his name, Noah Grayson

813
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 2: and Will Mallory are your two leading receivers, Like you

814
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 2: just don't have enough on offense, and Heinegi got lucky

815
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 2: on like one pass that could have been a pick Sex,

816
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 2: but other than that was very steady hit open receivers

817
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 2: was solid. The Falcons finish at Chicago at New Orleans.

818
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 2: Even if they won those two games, they probably wouldn't

819
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 2: get in, So they are still kind of just barely

820
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 2: holding on.

821
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 3: And I mean, I've been like touting the Colts is

822
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 3: a solid team, and they are. They have been a

823
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 3: solid team, and they've been consistent, but like you cannot

824
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 3: have Gardner Minshew getting sacks six times and having tribes

825
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 3: fizzle out, you know long they you know, they had

826
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor back and that looked like it would make

827
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 3: a difference early, but like they just fell apart today

828
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 3: and I don't know, I'm struggling. I'm trying to find

829
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 3: teams to believe in, and it's like, I guess the

830
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 3: Cults are just another one of these flotsom jets and operations.

831
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 2: Here's a hot take Dan the AFC South is worse

832
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 2: than the NFC South. At least the NFC South has

833
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 2: some teams that have outscored opponents this year. There's no

834
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 2: one in the AFC South that's done that. So hopefully

835
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,919
Speaker 2: C J. Stroud saves us there, because yeah, the cold

836
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 2: schedules so easy that they might get in and I

837
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 2: don't know, I just don't think they have enough Firebarer,

838
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: Mark about this.

839
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: You got the Browns Man, that's a team to believe in.

840
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: Just ride Baby's card. I think it's just like it's

841
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: it's we can't force these like bottom of the wild

842
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: card teams to be something they're not. They're inconsistent and

843
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: sometimes good, sometimes bad, and they're they're seat fillers come

844
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: January ultimately, no doubt.

845
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 3: But then I also don't need to go down avenues

846
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 3: like with deep math constructions to figure out how like

847
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 3: a completely lifeless operation is going to sneak into the

848
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 3: seventh seed. I just that's not doing it for me either.

849
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: Don't need to do it.

850
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 3: I'm not going to.

851
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: Remember that Netflix summer, remember that, Mark, or you just

852
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: got up and left the studio for that series? That comment?

853
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: I could do that right there. Whenever we're doing a

854
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 1: premiutaations of a team that you don't believe in. Yeah,

855
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,720
Speaker 1: you don't have to walk away. Just do the Tiki

856
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: Barber move when he got mad at Joe Beningo a

857
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: few months ago. Just turn the mute button off, sit back.

858
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: We won't get mad.

859
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 3: We'll get it, Okay, message received.

860
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 1: Anything else on this one, Gregy, No, we're good, all right, good,

861
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: good for you. That was. And by the way, I

862
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: got my Jets Christmas sweater on Mark. You have a

863
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: nice red plaid shirt. And Greggy is best of his

864
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: foot right now with his Santa hat.

865
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 2: You know, we're trying to help oh Eric on the

866
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Speaker 2: edit here Christmas Eve. But there's a little bee before you.

867
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Speaker 2: But yeah, you can check us out. I think this

868
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Speaker 2: will go up on YouTube.

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Speaker 3: There wasn't awkward dynamic though, because Dan like, you know,

870
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 3: this is all for the show, like like entreated you know,

871
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 3: Greg and I to go find our like ugly Christmas

872
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 3: sweaters which in the past we owned, and like Greg

873
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 3: couldn't find his, and I was like, I don't even

874
00:41:59,000 --> 00:41:59,760
Speaker 3: know where mine exists.

875
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 2: I think I moved and I lost a lot of

876
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 2: clothes on purpose, but I got rid of I think

877
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 2: it was gone in the move.

878
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 3: But there was a sense that like early this morning

879
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 3: is the games were kicking off, Like I think we've

880
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 3: really disappointed Dan, and I'm not sure how this is

881
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 3: going to go down on the show. But you've been

882
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 3: very you understand how it is to move and have possessions, and.

883
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: It's tough. You just don't know where everything is. Listen,

884
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: I'm the blind ambition of the show, Like I want things,

885
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: I want to do things and try things, and and

886
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: sometimes it gets you know, eyebrows go up, and like

887
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 1: why is he even worrying about wearing matching Christmas gear

888
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: on the four box or the three box on the

889
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve show. I just think it's nice. I think

890
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: it makes the show three percent better.

891
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 5: Three percent that's pretty big.

892
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: Eric. I'm sorry for the f bomb, but you have

893
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: to admit that Greg's hat is festive as fun it is.

894
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: I will it's worth it. It's worth it a couple

895
00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:04,479
Speaker 1: of all Right, let's take a break and we'll keep going. Yeah,

896
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: drop that beat, hip hop, Santa, Santa's coming tonight, Santa's

897
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: having a nice year, a nice year for the kids,

898
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: Jack and Harrison, some you know, some high points, some

899
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: low points, but overall enough where they don't get cold.

900
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: And what is the big gift that's arriving in your

901
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: respective homes for your children? For me, let me just

902
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: make sure Santa Santa's got the PS five coming with

903
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: the Spider Man game bundled in there, and you know

904
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: the people are just going to be going off in

905
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 1: the house at about seven thirty am tomorrow.

906
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did our Christmas last weekend because my kids

907
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 2: are now they've arrived in Japan. It's already Christmas there.

908
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 2: They've already opened their second load of gifts from Santa there, which.

909
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: Is our time zones. Pretty crazy when you.

910
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: Think, yeah, it's way ahead. And but I did the

911
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: thing where they opened their presence. They were happy, and

912
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 2: then it's like, oh, I think there's one more thing.

913
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know if this is a

914
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 2: little risky, this is gonna work. I think there's one

915
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 2: more thing I left upstairs. Bring it out was a

916
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 2: PS five as well, and.

917
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 5: They went freaking.

918
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 2: They went nuts, like like, no, no, that was that

919
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 2: was when we were here. That was when we were

920
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 2: here last.

921
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Speaker 1: But it was it was made in Japan, so yes,

922
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: go ahead, Mark.

923
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 3: I was Greg, I was gonna say, you think you

924
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 3: should have had two ponies waiting upstairs. That would have

925
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 3: been theatrical. So Luke is very into plane spotting. He's

926
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 3: got his own Instagram site that is kind of it's exploding.

927
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 3: So he got a flight simulator console or he's getting

928
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 3: it tomorrow. Colton's at the age and this will happen

929
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 3: to you soon where he's just like, yeah, just give

930
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 3: me like money so I can go buy what I

931
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 3: want when I want, Like, okay, that's easy versus you know,

932
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Speaker 3: targeting a gift that a child doesn't want. That that

933
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 3: is you can't force that.

934
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Speaker 1: Yes, along the lines of what you did, Greg, I'm

935
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: taking a page out of a Christmas story with the

936
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Speaker 1: red Ryder bb gun. You know, after all the toys

937
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: were open and Ralphie was like, ah, like he didn't

938
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,439
Speaker 1: want parents to know he's disappointed, but he was PS

939
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: five is gonna be in a little different area and

940
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: that will be like, oh, you do one of these moves,

941
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: and this is you know, I'm now father of a

942
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Speaker 1: nine year old and a seven year old, so you know,

943
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of years and I heartily endorse

944
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: this to any young parents out there, do the old

945
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: rope adope, let them open the presence, the one that

946
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: they want most, they don't get and then all of

947
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 1: a sudden, Oh, what is that. You want to go nuclear?

948
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: You want to see the house explode? I can't wait.

949
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 1: I actually I'm more excited as a as a parent

950
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: for Christmas morning than I was as a child. I

951
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: didn't think that was possible. That's one of the great

952
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: things about being a parent. And my kids are getting

953
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: older and I know there's only so many years that

954
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 1: it's special like this. So cannot wait. Let's get back

955
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: to the games. And you know, I just shared some

956
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: intimate feelings about how I feel about family. But I'm

957
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: also very passionate about the Sunday Drive presented by the

958
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:15,479
Speaker 1: first ever Toyota Grand Highlander. Let's head to the Saturday games,

959
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: starting with Cincinnati Peters Lean Is twenty.

960
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 6: Four to eight, all corporate s Bengals bringing the Blitz

961
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 6: touch pattern down the left sideline and it's Trada comes

962
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 6: George Pickens to the ten of five touchdown.

963
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: He beat corner or loosing Bentley And I'll tell you what,

964
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph played it in there perfectly. He sure did yeah,

965
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper was probably in most starting lineups. I don't

966
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: know about George Pickens, but if he was, congratulations. Mason

967
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,919
Speaker 1: Rudolph threw for two hundred ninety yards and two long

968
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: touchdowns to George Pickens, who's been under fire for some

969
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: of his effort and tued this season to say the least,

970
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: and the Steelers gave a little jolt to their fading

971
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 1: postseason dreams with a thirty four to eleven win over

972
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Gregy, I'm so mad at myself. Last week

973
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: we did the fearless predictions and I said the Steelers

974
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: were done winning this season. But I forgot the golden

975
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 1: rule of pro football, which is Mike Tomlin literally can't

976
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: have a losing season. And I wish if one of

977
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: you just would have said it to me in the moment,

978
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: I would have pulled back the reins on everything. I

979
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: would put up a hard stop sign and pivoted. I

980
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: think maybe you did that on purpose so I could

981
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: look like a fool today because they absolutely stomped the

982
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: Bengals in a game where everyone was not only counting

983
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: out Pittsburgh entirely. Everyone that already was busy writing the

984
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: obituaries about Tomlin in Pittsburgh. We'll see what happens down

985
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: the line, but for now they're still alive, right.

986
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 2: I was one of those everybody's I thought the Bengals

987
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 2: were gonna drop a hammer on him. Pickens goes Randy

988
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 2: Moss four for one, ninety five and two. He has

989
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 2: an eighty six, a sixty six, and a forty four,

990
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 2: almost all of them on a woozy one was the

991
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 2: first one was a little flukey, was you know, it

992
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 2: was a nice throw. But Dax Hill comes down and

993
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 2: takes out two defenders by taking a bad angle, and

994
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 2: suddenly he's off. But the Bengals are just kind of soft.

995
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 2: They're zero to five and the AFC North, which is crazy.

996
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,359
Speaker 2: It was symbolically, I think there was that play where

997
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 2: Warren just decleted the Bengals linebacker Jermaine Pratt on the

998
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 2: Calvin Austin rushing touchdown, and then on the opposite side,

999
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 2: the Bengals are just stuck on like the one yard

1000
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 2: line or was a five yard line media yard and

1001
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 2: they can't get a foot for three straight plays, So

1002
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 2: then they try to throw it and they don't get that.

1003
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 2: It's just like they're not tough, and for this game,

1004
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: the Steelers are tough, and at least they kind of

1005
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 2: they brought the Bengals back into their mucke. It's like,

1006
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 2: if we're probably not going to the playoffs, you're probably

1007
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 2: not either.

1008
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 3: I mean, this was sort of the Steelers offense we

1009
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 3: were expecting when they fire the oc or hoping for

1010
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 3: not expecting. But Mason Rudolph, who's been an afterthought, it

1011
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 3: was kind of surprising that they even brought him back,

1012
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 3: Like this season, is throwing the ball with confidence downfield.

1013
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 3: It's like the connect between him, him and Pickens had

1014
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 3: a lot to do with the fact that he's sort

1015
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 3: of like fearlessly tossing deep balls and they're working. And

1016
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 3: I'm with you, Greg, Like my one concern for the Bengals,

1017
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 3: it's like, yes, Jake Browning, it massed over a lot

1018
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 3: of sins and you know, he had a couple of

1019
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 3: terrible interceptions in this game. But like they both lines

1020
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 3: seems so easily dominated. And this defense, which has been

1021
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 3: like not talked about, I think a lot nationally is

1022
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 3: having like major issues, like completely fell apart, and so

1023
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 3: at this point this very I thought there were the

1024
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,240
Speaker 3: most hopeful notes that we had in the AFC because

1025
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 3: of Browning. Reality struck hardcore yesterday.

1026
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: It does feel like these quarterbacks, even the ones we

1027
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: believe in, and I'll use Dobbs as an obvious example,

1028
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: Browning as well, some of them. You know, once once

1029
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: a few games pass and there's some tape that they

1030
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: get exposed a little bit. And I hope that's not

1031
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: it with Browning. I hope he bounces back. Who do

1032
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: they have after this? Greg? What do we have left

1033
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: for his chiefs?

1034
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 5: In the Browns at Kansas City?

1035
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: That's tough. That's obviously, that's a tough close for Cincinnati,

1036
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: and I think.

1037
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 2: They want them both. They're probably in. That's the thing

1038
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 2: with all these teams, because they probably won't win them both.

1039
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 5: That's the thing.

1040
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: No, like you gotta win, you gotta win the Pittsburgh

1041
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: game when the Steelers are on their back, and they couldn't.

1042
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: So that is that. So we'll see in terms of

1043
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:25,439
Speaker 1: for Mike Tomlin, how this could change his future even

1044
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: if they don't make the playoffs, if they they close

1045
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: out with him winning record, you know, does that quiet

1046
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: anything about him being fired or traded? I don't know.

1047
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: But one other take I have is in the fourth

1048
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 1: quarter when there were Mason Rudolph Chance. He's been there forever,

1049
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: and you know, he's been all sorts of stories around

1050
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: Rudolph forever. He'll probably be I don't know. I was

1051
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 1: gonna say he'll be somewhere else next year, but he's

1052
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,280
Speaker 1: been around Pittsburgh for a long time. They're playing Rudolph

1053
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: the Red Nose Reindeer on the PA after the game,

1054
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:59,720
Speaker 1: and if he's being interviewed, and when the sideline reporter

1055
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: mentions that to him, he kind of rolls his eyes, like,

1056
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: don't bring up this damn song again. I don't like it.

1057
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: It does nothing for me. It's way on the nose,

1058
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: Red Nose nailed it. Let's just move on.

1059
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 7: You know.

1060
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 2: I did like how much Alex Heismith, this teammate, was

1061
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 2: gassing him up, just like this guy's the man. Like

1062
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 2: the players, I think, like Bason Rudolph, and they were

1063
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 2: all but saying like, don't go back to Kenny Pickett,

1064
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 2: and I kind of don't think they will. I think

1065
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 2: they'll they'll give Rudolf another try.

1066
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 1: Oh do you see Kenny Pickett in Chabinsky next to

1067
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: each other as the crowd is chanting. I was thinking,

1068
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: what's going through those minds? Do they share any words together?

1069
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 1: Is seventy thousand? Like hammered? Pittsburgh Yinzers are going nuts

1070
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 1: channing Mason Rudolph's name. Bengals playoff chances down to fourteen

1071
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: percent after the loss, So yeah, they're in a bad way.

1072
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Speaker 1: That was the Sunday Dry presented by Toyota Let's Go Places.

1073
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 1: Learn more at toyota dot com. Slash Grand Islander Saturday

1074
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: Night Football at SOFI Stadium.

1075
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 4: Let's go right to Allen takes the snap pocket collapsing,

1076
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 4: has to roll out to his right to buy time.

1077
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: Looking downfield, He's got Dave Davis over the.

1078
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:11,399
Speaker 7: Shoulder, caught it to fifteen, and he drives his way

1079
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 7: into the end zone.

1080
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:19,879
Speaker 1: For the touchdown. Wow. Josh Allen buys time, rolls out

1081
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: and drops it over Davis's shoulder. Then he drags a

1082
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: defender the last eight yards.

1083
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 9: For the score.

1084
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: That might have been. Eric Roberts was at the game

1085
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: with family. The Bills fan producer Eric in the call

1086
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: from Chris Brown, the most important throw of the season

1087
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,280
Speaker 1: for the Bills. We'll see they're down ten to nothing,

1088
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: and you know gave Davis hasn't done a damn thing

1089
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, and Alan hits him. He

1090
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: drags the dB into the end zone with him. It

1091
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: gets them on the board, calms the game down. Josh

1092
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 1: Allen helped to do the rest. He rushed for two

1093
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: touchdowns through for that one, and you needed the twenty

1094
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: nine yard field goal from Tyler Bass with twenty eight

1095
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: seconds to play to escape with a twenty four to

1096
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: twenty two win over the Chargers. Mark A loss to

1097
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: the rudderless and Herbert free Bolts would have been, especially

1098
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: after what happened the previous game for the Chargers, who

1099
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 1: gave up, you know, a sixty burger and everybody got fired.

1100
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 1: That would have been an absurd and almost fitting stumble

1101
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: for this particular Buffalo team, But they narrowly avoided catastrophe,

1102
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: checked the box for the w and their playoff and

1103
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: division hopes are still alive as a result.

1104
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it just like almost doesn't matter how

1105
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 3: they got the win they did, but it kind of

1106
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 3: reminded me early on because they were real sleepy. It

1107
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 3: reminded me of the way they showed up in London

1108
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 3: against the Jaguars where it's like, what's going on with

1109
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 3: this Bills team. I mean, if anything, it was.

1110
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: Much send year, excuse me, too much of that this year,

1111
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: too much of that.

1112
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 3: It looked like other Bills games on that front, and

1113
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 3: they got in their own way. They had a you know,

1114
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 3: James Cook, who was awesome a week ago against Dallas,

1115
00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 3: had a killer fumble that nearly caused them this victory.

1116
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 3: The Josh Allen interception was on an incredible throw across

1117
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 3: his body. It was just a wild interception and a

1118
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 3: great play by the defense. But guys like Ed Oliver,

1119
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 3: you know, I think like Razulla Douglas, they bailed out

1120
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:15,879
Speaker 3: this offense until it got going, and I mean, you're

1121
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 3: still gonna get I think Josh Allen down the stretch

1122
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 3: on third down, through the air and on the ground,

1123
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 3: He'll always do these incredible things. But it didn't leave me.

1124
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 3: It just kind of left me like encouraged by their

1125
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 3: defense to some degree about late what happened kind of

1126
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 3: later in the game. But again I'm just wondering what

1127
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 3: when the Bills season might just end because they don't

1128
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 3: show up for four full quarters.

1129
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 5: Well it's nine and six.

1130
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 2: I think Collinsworth was fair to keep hammering the like

1131
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 2: short week coming off an emotional high. It is hard,

1132
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 2: I think for these teams to get emotionally as high

1133
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 2: as possible for each one of these games. The fired

1134
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 2: coach principle is real three and zero this year. I

1135
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 2: know the Chargers didn't win this game, but they were

1136
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 2: eleven point under dog give Smith. I mean they were

1137
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 2: played hard and like Brad and Staley's watching this game

1138
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 2: thinking like, oh my god, he complete eatly changed our

1139
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 2: defense and it's totally working. Derwin James around the line

1140
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 2: of scrimmage, like doing different concepts and Easton sticks playing

1141
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 2: clean ball like it just it was a tough night

1142
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 2: for Staley, but like Alan also made the plays, like

1143
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 2: he had to get a field goal basically to keep

1144
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 2: their playoff, you know, likelihood going. And he hits a money,

1145
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 2: very difficult throw to Stefon Diggs on third and eight

1146
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 2: and then hit Shakir which what looked like a touchdown

1147
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 2: at first, but they ended up calling it back, but

1148
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 2: that was still a money play by him, Like they

1149
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 2: got it done. You just got to escape these things.

1150
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 2: And I have a feeling we'll have a better performance

1151
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 2: next week. Those fumbles are what killed them. The Bills,

1152
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 2: by the way, before this were one in seventy two

1153
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,800
Speaker 2: on the road when being negative three in turnovers. The

1154
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 2: only other win was against Sam Darnold and Adam Gase

1155
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 2: in Week one in twenty nineteen, so like they overcame

1156
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 2: a lot, they got out of there with a win.

1157
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 2: I suspect we'll see a much better Bills team the

1158
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:53,439
Speaker 2: next couple of weeks.

1159
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: Come on, clean it up, guys. I mean, how long

1160
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: are we going to be doing this to turn it

1161
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: over three times until your season hanging in the balance

1162
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: and need your kicker to make sure you know, if

1163
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: your kicker slips or someone blows a blocking assignment, your

1164
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: season's like all but over. And it's just like, guys,

1165
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: we just can't keep flirting with disaster like this. Eventually

1166
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,959
Speaker 1: your season is gonna be ruined because of its shout

1167
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: out by the way, you know two hashtag too easy

1168
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: for Kickers Cameron Dicker, who had a listen a commendable

1169
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: social media post put out by the Chargers in the

1170
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: wake of that disaster against the Raiders where they had

1171
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 1: some fun with Dicker trying to gain a Pro Bowl spot,

1172
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: and it was kind of a fun viral video. That

1173
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 1: obviously nice to follow up a viral video like that

1174
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: with a five for five performance in prime time, but

1175
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: it just it was not enough for the Chargers. And

1176
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:53,440
Speaker 1: by the way, Greg fired coach principal. That's fine, but

1177
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: it's the Pasachia bump.

1178
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,280
Speaker 5: My bad. I was going and using the Brad Spicer

1179
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 5: you know we're you're right.

1180
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:04,359
Speaker 1: That's eighteen you certified, bro, Like, what are we doing?

1181
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 1: My bad?

1182
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 5: You know, I regret you did.

1183
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,319
Speaker 1: It's okay if you don't. If you think fire coach

1184
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: principle is better than.

1185
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 5: Now, it's not Bisachia bump just rolls out the tongue.

1186
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: Anything else on this one.

1187
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 2: Bill's got to win these next two. I know they're

1188
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 2: nine and six, so it seems like they're super safe.

1189
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 2: But of all the teams tiebreaker wise, if they go

1190
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 2: ten and seven, like if they win next week against

1191
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 2: the Pages then lose week eighteen against the Dolphins, they're

1192
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 2: probably out, which is I think would be surprising to people,

1193
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 2: even though they'd be ten and seven, so they probably

1194
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 2: got to win both.

1195
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: They're driving me crazy. I want to get behind them.

1196
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: I want to see them as and Eric. I want

1197
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: to see your team as like the real AFC team

1198
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: that could just blow through January. But I mean they're

1199
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: they're hard to trust, but they survived. You know who

1200
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: else survived? The Packers against a bad Panthers team. What's

1201
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: so bad today? In the shotgun?

1202
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 8: Here's the snap right shunk looking around close the middle

1203
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 8: gods Man had him playing on inside of thirty five down,

1204
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 8: not even time, running down down to one second goal.

1205
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 8: They get the ball, spice and do they have a

1206
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 8: chance for a field goal try?

1207
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 9: And the officials are conferring trying to figure out fast

1208
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 9: hit the ground was zero on the pocket.

1209
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: The game is over and there is your Christmas Eve

1210
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: the dagger all right, Wayne and Wayne Larravie with the

1211
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: call WRNW. I didn't think it was even a chance there.

1212
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 1: I was watching them for the first time.

1213
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 5: It was so close. It was like half a second.

1214
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 5: They got it right, but it was so close.

1215
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jordan Love threw two touchdowns, ran for another, made

1216
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: some big throws to set up and Carlson's go ahead

1217
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: field goal nineteen seconds left. And yes, the Panther's painfully

1218
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: run out of time on that last gas rally hold

1219
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: on thirty three to thirty Greggie. The pack defense still

1220
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: obviously stinks. My god, come on, guys, but Love and

1221
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: company did enough to survive a two to thirteen opponent.

1222
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1223
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 2: I thought it was a really mature effort by Jordan Love.

1224
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 2: It helped the Aaron Jones is back, getting over one

1225
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty yards on the ground, but they kept

1226
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 2: having to score, and they kept scoring like he had

1227
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 2: to answer there when Bryce Young tied it up at thirty.

1228
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 2: It was obviously Bryce Young's best game of his career.

1229
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 2: I thought from the beginning he made a lot of

1230
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 2: good throws and people will be like, oh, the Packers

1231
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,919
Speaker 2: defense sucks. He was hit ten times in this game,

1232
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 2: and so the Packers eveense sucking was part of it.

1233
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 2: But watched if you ever do watch this game, like

1234
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 2: he was on the run, made a great touchdown throw, there,

1235
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 2: had a two point conversion overturn. A lot of these

1236
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 2: were while getting hit. So I thought he had a

1237
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 2: really nice game, but not as nice as Love, who

1238
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 2: was didn't have as many difficult throws to make. But

1239
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 2: I just thought it was really mature and he had

1240
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 2: to deliver late and had a dime to Dobbs. That

1241
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 2: was a controversial call. That Panthers fans were upset about

1242
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 2: looked like he might have dropped it. I think they

1243
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 2: were right to keep the call on the field. Then

1244
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 2: another dime to Craft and they're winning again with like

1245
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 2: these rookies and guys like Bo Melton who picked off

1246
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 2: the scrap heap. It's like, it's very impressive what they're

1247
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 2: doing offensively defensively, they stink.

1248
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 3: It's got to be tough to be Joe Berry, because

1249
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 3: you're getting talked about week after week. You know you're

1250
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 3: gonna be without a job in a couple of weeks.

1251
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 3: Here you gave up three hundred and ninety four yards,

1252
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 3: twenty six first downs, and six point four yards per

1253
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:36,440
Speaker 3: play to an offense that has been almost entirely unwatchable.

1254
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 3: And so I am glad for Bryce Young. And it's

1255
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 3: not just because of Green Bay. You're right, it's we

1256
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 3: needed to see this. I think if you're a Panthers fan,

1257
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 3: you're dying to see some shred of evidence that this

1258
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 3: first overall pick has something inside of them that speaks

1259
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 3: to more than what we've seen. Like, I think guys

1260
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 3: like there are these unsung heroes on that offense, like

1261
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 3: an Adam Feel and who it feels like week to

1262
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 3: week was just cast off as a useless free agent signing.

1263
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 3: He's been there a week for a week, he had

1264
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 3: to He had nearly two hundred yard receivers today Bryce Scheung,

1265
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 3: which would have been quite different than what he's experienced.

1266
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 3: But I mean, Green Bay's defense to me, is like

1267
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 3: putting Jordan Love in this terrible spot week after week,

1268
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 3: and it's like it almost is just like ride this

1269
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 3: thing out. I get it there. They can go nine

1270
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 3: and eight if they want, But it's like it's just

1271
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:24,919
Speaker 3: like you've got to change so much on this side

1272
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 3: of the ball.

1273
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: Mark imagine they followed your Thursday game plan a ran

1274
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: the ball fifty times. Bryce would never have this moment

1275
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: where he could build off it. This is whenever you

1276
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 1: have Joe Barry defense. Uh it is It's like all

1277
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: bets are off. It seems like we should try to

1278
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: get out who are they playing next?

1279
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 2: Let's get on to that roster, Nick Mullins in the

1280
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 2: in the Vikings in the elimination game.

1281
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: Basically, yeah, let's let's find a way onto the Vikings roster.

1282
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 1: Like will be Uh, we could fill in behind uh

1283
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 1: Hockinson as tight end Mark, we're gonna put you at

1284
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: uh the number three wide receiver. Greg We're gonna put

1285
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: you in a nice scatback role, and we're gonna charge it.

1286
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna put up about three hundred total yards combine.

1287
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: I feel it. I feel it, and there's nothing Joe

1288
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 1: Barry can do to stop us. All right, let's move on.

1289
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 1: Let's head to Nashville, where the Seahawks were looking to

1290
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: keep their playoff hopes alive after that dramatic Monday Night win.

1291
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:29,439
Speaker 9: Third down and goal from the sixth Parkinson on the left,

1292
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 9: Gino looks that way, throws back shoulder. Parkinson has the catch,

1293
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 9: touchdown Seahawks. A perfect back shoulder throw by Gino and

1294
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 9: the Seahawks go up nineteen to seventeen.

1295
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: Steve Rabel with the call Kiro Gino Smith threw his

1296
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 1: second touchdown pass on the fourth quarter, that five yarder

1297
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: to Kolbe Parkinson. With fifty seven seconds to play, Seahawks

1298
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: they are in the playoff picture for sure, in clear

1299
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: focus by beating the Titans twenty seventeen back to back victories. Now,

1300
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: Mark last year was Drew Locke playing the hero. Today,

1301
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 1: Gino got in the act.

1302
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 3: It was, you know, before the game, because when we

1303
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 3: did our draft on Thursday, it was my impression that

1304
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 3: when Greg took Green Bay Carolina at the end of

1305
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 3: the lineup there that he was he labeled it as

1306
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 3: the last available game. But sitting out there was Seattle

1307
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 3: at Tennessee, and we've got a true Geno file here.

1308
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 3: So I like, I DMed him this morning and said Greg, like,

1309
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 3: if you want this like Seattle game to see your

1310
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 3: guy like, and he was like, no, I'm actually fine

1311
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 3: with what I picked. So I went on to enjoy

1312
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:42,959
Speaker 3: Gino Smith's fourth comeback victory of the year, which leads

1313
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 3: the NFL among all quarterbacks. And it took a while

1314
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:48,360
Speaker 3: for him to get going. You know, it was a

1315
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 3: bit of a sleepy star for Seattle and Tennessee. I

1316
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 3: got to give them credit, and I really think Rabel

1317
01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 3: like this is this is the sign of Mike Rabels,

1318
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 3: Like Tennessee battled in this thing. They just simply they're

1319
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 3: Outmann offense, but they just battled and they gave Gino

1320
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 3: Smith a lot of troubles early on. But this drive

1321
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 3: I wrote down this is Gino's moment with three twenty

1322
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 3: one in the fourth quarter, down seventeen to thirteen. Go

1323
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 3: show me Gino Smith that you can do exactly what

1324
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 3: Drew Locke did a week ago. And he unfurls a

1325
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 3: total money throw to Tyler Lockett on third and six.

1326
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 3: He is destroyed on a sack, but he does not

1327
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 3: give up. He hits on third and fourteen Jackson Smith

1328
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 3: and Jigba for eighteen. Another couple of big conversions to Lockett,

1329
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:31,320
Speaker 3: then a deep shot to dk Metcalf that this happens

1330
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 3: all the time, but it drew a Pi gave them

1331
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:37,440
Speaker 3: first in goal. Zach Charbonay slammed twice, but then he

1332
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 3: hits Colby Parkinson on that touchdown. It was like Gino

1333
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 3: just made these throws. I think he was like six

1334
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 3: for six, five for five or six or six with

1335
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 3: like sixty yards when it mattered most. And then the

1336
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 3: defense put the coffin on Ryan Tannehill and the Titans

1337
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 3: offense in the final last gap gas ptend. So Seattle,

1338
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:55,959
Speaker 3: I believe you if you're gonna go win win games

1339
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 3: like this, Like what's not to like in the NFC?

1340
01:04:58,480 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 3: I mean they can do it with two different quarter

1341
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 3: backs in six days.

1342
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 5: Hmmm, very similar games too.

1343
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1344
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 2: The Titans of us five games by four points or less.

1345
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 2: This is kind of like every Titans game.

1346
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:08,880
Speaker 5: It's just like this.

1347
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 2: They could have had a very different season, and so

1348
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 2: cond Seattle like they've will won a lot of their

1349
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 2: games just like this. I think Gino now is tied

1350
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 2: for the league lead in game winning drives. It's not

1351
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:23,919
Speaker 2: necessarily like even a stat that means you're doing great.

1352
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:25,800
Speaker 2: I think Kenny Pickett is also tied with him, and

1353
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 2: like Ritter's up there. Uh, but they've won a lot

1354
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 2: of these games. On the last drive, Pickett and Ridder

1355
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:32,200
Speaker 2: up there.

1356
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 1: We got to eliminate the whole stats.

1357
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 5: You don't know what That's what I mean. That's like

1358
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 5: I saw. It was like, wow, Gino has four.

1359
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 1: I think I QB wins in the Twitter COGNACENTI we

1360
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta come for the late game drives too.

1361
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 5: That's I I'm with that.

1362
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:50,160
Speaker 2: I'm not really into the game winning drives thing, but

1363
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 2: uh made it happen when it mattered most. And they

1364
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 2: get to eight and seven and they're they're in pole position,

1365
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 2: but their two games are are pretty tricky with the

1366
01:05:59,000 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 2: who is it?

1367
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 5: It's pits and then I forget who it.

1368
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 3: Is in Pittsburgh in Arizona.

1369
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably have to win both of them to

1370
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 2: get in. They could, they could win one and then

1371
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 2: get some help. They'd have a better chance than most teams.

1372
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 5: But we'll see.

1373
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: All right, Let's head to the Meadowlands where the Jets

1374
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: jumped ahead big and then had to hold on for

1375
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 1: their lives against the Commandos.

1376
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:22,960
Speaker 11: Out of the hold of more steat to try and

1377
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 11: put the Jets on top. Fifty four yards away, Fannessy

1378
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 11: will snap there, it is the placement down, it's away,

1379
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:34,200
Speaker 11: it's got the distance.

1380
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 9: It is gone.

1381
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 5: Greg Sarlock does it.

1382
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: Five seconds to go, and Bob was, Susan, you're the call.

1383
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 1: I mean, calm down. Let's calm down with you.

1384
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 5: He's partying tonight. He's partying.

1385
01:06:56,280 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 1: What I mean every day is just it's the Jets

1386
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: are God's cruel joke. Greg Zerline kicks a fifty four

1387
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 1: yard field goal five seconds to play, and the Jets,

1388
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: after blowing a twenty point third quarter lead, hold on

1389
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: with the They don't hold on. They actually lose the lead.

1390
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:17,400
Speaker 1: They go down twenty eight to twenty seven, and then

1391
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 1: Zerline bails them out another kicker having a monster year.

1392
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: He's missed one kick all season, fifty four yard or

1393
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: with five seconds left. That was enough. And I say

1394
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: that it's the Jets are a cruel cosmic joke, because

1395
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:37,120
Speaker 1: the day begins with Brian Costello of The New York

1396
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: Post reporting via direct conversation with Woody Johnson that indeed,

1397
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: Robert sala is coming back, and so is Joe Douglas,

1398
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:48,440
Speaker 1: and we're running this thing back. Essentially, this entire year

1399
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 1: was a mull again. And this isn't necessarily a surprise.

1400
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 1: It feels like it's been trending that way. I don't

1401
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 1: necessarily agree with it, but this is kind of how

1402
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: it's been trending. And it would have been so on

1403
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:01,439
Speaker 1: brand for the Jets. Then to blow a twenty point

1404
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: lead to one of the worst teams in football at

1405
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: home on Christmas Eve, no less, and and and it's

1406
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:11,240
Speaker 1: also kind of funny in a sad way that they

1407
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:13,959
Speaker 1: find a way to thread the needle where they don't

1408
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 1: even give us like just a real fun afternoon. We

1409
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:18,160
Speaker 1: had to suffer through the second half, and then they

1410
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 1: make the kick that actually makes our draft kick pick worse.

1411
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:23,640
Speaker 1: It just they are masters of the craft. I have

1412
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 1: to almost give the Jets credit for what they do

1413
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:27,960
Speaker 1: to their fan base. But anyway, you should know this

1414
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 1: about the game. And shout out to Jake Briskett, who

1415
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:34,200
Speaker 1: once again came in for Sam Howe. And we're going

1416
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: to get into that in one minute, but first let's

1417
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:41,360
Speaker 1: hear from Bob Sala, who has very strong takes that

1418
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 1: might might upset one Patrick Clayboon, but wouldn't necessarily a

1419
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: complacency or anything. It was just momentum shifted and listen

1420
01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 1: the blowing that lead. It was just momentum and there's

1421
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 1: nothing you could do, nothing you could do about it.

1422
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,920
Speaker 2: But they got it back like they it didn't. It

1423
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,519
Speaker 2: didn't they did something about it, you know, because then

1424
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 2: they were that's.

1425
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 3: An NFL coach telling, you know the world where we

1426
01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 3: sit with momentum, So you know, just it's you just put.

1427
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:10,960
Speaker 1: Its four dollars a year to coach football. So am

1428
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: I going to I? Am I going to sit up there?

1429
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 1: Check would say on Mount Pius, you'd say that he's wrong.

1430
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,320
Speaker 2: Shout out to Greg Zerline, by the way, hitting that kick,

1431
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 2: just I just feel like it helped the mood of

1432
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,120
Speaker 2: this this whole show, you know, like we this would

1433
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:28,559
Speaker 2: have been a dark day for the Jets.

1434
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 5: I feel like, I know, I know, you're got me

1435
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:31,320
Speaker 5: all wrong.

1436
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 2: Greg's fun, but I'm just saying if they had on

1437
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,479
Speaker 2: the day they announced Salah is getting the job blown

1438
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:38,919
Speaker 2: that lead to the commanders, it would have been a little.

1439
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 1: Totally a piece with it, Mark Greg. I was totally

1440
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 1: a piece with them losing the game because of the

1441
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 1: draft pick, and it provided very little joy the fact

1442
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:50,680
Speaker 1: that they won because they played so damn poorly. I

1443
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: want to just give a little shout out to Jake Briskett, who,

1444
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 1: at one point factoring in the last week's game and

1445
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:03,839
Speaker 1: this week's game had five executive touchdown drives, which is awesome.

1446
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:06,640
Speaker 1: And I really have to you have to say, we

1447
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:08,879
Speaker 1: know Ron Rivera is not part of the future in Washington,

1448
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 1: and we don't need to say much more about this game,

1449
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:13,879
Speaker 1: but like we know, he's not the future in Washington,

1450
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:17,400
Speaker 1: but now Ron is benched Sam Howe like two weeks

1451
01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:20,200
Speaker 1: in a row, and how played like dog poop in

1452
01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 1: this game, and he wasn't getting a lot of help

1453
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 1: from his offensive line. But to see Jacoby Brissett, who

1454
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:28,840
Speaker 1: we all like in respect, but a career backup coming

1455
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: and just for the second straight week, light up the

1456
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:33,519
Speaker 1: opponent and get his team back in the game. It's

1457
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 1: like you would make even in a playing for nothing situation,

1458
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: you might go with Brissette the rest of the way.

1459
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if Rivera will, but I think Sam

1460
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 1: Howe is really mortally wounded his opportunity to be the

1461
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 1: quarterback of the future in Washington with these last six weeks.

1462
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:53,679
Speaker 1: The play has just not been there. And I feel

1463
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,320
Speaker 1: bad for him because it's a tough situation there. But

1464
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:58,680
Speaker 1: he's you know, he hasn't been playing the guitar. Put

1465
01:10:58,720 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: it that way.

1466
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:00,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's. I'm with you. I think he's.

1467
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 3: You couldn't be in a more perfect storm of problematic

1468
01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 3: scenario for future young quarterback with issues. Ownership change happened,

1469
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 3: coaches gone like I don't like it for Eric b Enemy,

1470
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 3: who finally became a soul play calling OC who's gonna

1471
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:15,960
Speaker 3: be out of there? And it's like Sam Howe's probably

1472
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 3: gonna be swept out with the rest of them.

1473
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 1: All right, one more game it is the Chicago Bears

1474
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 1: and Cardinals. Hold on to your butts.

1475
01:11:24,400 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 7: Field's under center brings morning in motions, DJ Mortal left

1476
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 7: snap play fake fields fakes the end around the morning

1477
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 7: now rolling to his right band Chase zings it into

1478
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:39,799
Speaker 7: the end zone, wide up, Marcedes Lewis touchdown, touchdown, Bears

1479
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:46,200
Speaker 7: one yard toss hand the fortieth career touchdown for Marcedes Lewis.

1480
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:53,200
Speaker 1: Marcedes Lewis everybody our buddy, MJD's favorite dude, always talking

1481
01:11:53,240 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 1: about Marcedes Lewis in the theater on Sunday nights.

1482
01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:58,719
Speaker 5: I think they were in the same draft, like literally

1483
01:11:58,800 --> 01:11:59,679
Speaker 5: the same draft class.

1484
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 1: Believe Marcedes Lewis has now caught touchdown passes in the

1485
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:07,800
Speaker 1: National Football League in two thousand and six, in two

1486
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 1: thousand and twenty three. That's cool anyway, justin fields through

1487
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 1: for that touchdown to Lewis and ran for another score.

1488
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 1: The Bears beat the Cardinals twenty seven to sixteen. Cole

1489
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 1: Comet had another big game in this one, four for

1490
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:24,880
Speaker 1: one oh seven, even though he missed the second half

1491
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: with the knee injury. Hopefully he's okay. Khalil Herbert goes

1492
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 1: for one to twelve and a touchdown. So the Bears

1493
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: bounced back after you know, melting down against Cleveland the

1494
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 1: prior week. And uh, you know, the Bears have four

1495
01:12:39,200 --> 01:12:41,040
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards of offense in this game, two

1496
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty rushing. So we're talking about how this

1497
01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 1: team and is it too little, too late for the

1498
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: coaching staff. I don't know, but they do seem to

1499
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: have an identity and fields. While he wasn't perfect in

1500
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 1: this game, he had a bad interception in the red zone,

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01:12:56,880 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 1: but he started out beautifully. He throws for one, he

1502
01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 1: adds ninety seven yards rushing, and I just you know,

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01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how he closes here and

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01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:08,639
Speaker 1: what that means for Chicago.

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01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:12,839
Speaker 3: And it's like it's such a there were two things happening,

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01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 3: and we talked a little bit about on Thursday that

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01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:20,240
Speaker 3: you nearly have Green Bay falling to Carolina. Instead, they

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01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:23,599
Speaker 3: nip Carolina and the Green Bay Packers can celebrate tonight,

1509
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 3: but they brought the Bears one step closer to having

1510
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 3: the first overall pick that they can do whatever they

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01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 3: want with and maybe change the future of both teams

1512
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 3: in that division for the next fifteen years.

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01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 2: Bears and Jets both win both at six and nine.

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01:13:37,479 --> 01:13:39,799
Speaker 2: They are the eighth and ninth pick in the draft

1515
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:42,880
Speaker 2: right now, so the Bears happy they have the one

1516
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 2: pick on top of the eighth pick and they're not eliminated.

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01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 5: How about that.

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01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,719
Speaker 2: We're going into week seventeen. The Bears are technically still alive,

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01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:54,559
Speaker 2: and again a lot is technically live. The Cleveland Browns,

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01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 2: Mark I, just as I was looking for eliminations, are

1521
01:13:57,160 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 2: still alive for the one seed in the AFC.

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01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:01,200
Speaker 5: That you know, how many things could happen.

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01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:04,839
Speaker 1: So is that the the Browns win out and everyone

1524
01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:05,639
Speaker 1: loses out.

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01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:07,880
Speaker 2: More or less, Yes, to get the one seed. But

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01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 2: I think they have a chance to win the division

1527
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:12,800
Speaker 2: in a more realistic way than people would understand, because

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01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 2: they would win the tiebreaker over the Ravens if the

1529
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 2: Ravens lost twice.

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01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 3: Well, that is not I mean that's not probable. That

1531
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:22,600
Speaker 3: is we're at the point where that is far from impossible.

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01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:27,360
Speaker 1: H Kyler Murray, by the way, their passing game, you know,

1533
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: he's given them a little boost, but their passing game

1534
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:33,240
Speaker 1: just is not clicking. And that was the sixth game

1535
01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:37,880
Speaker 1: of Murray running the offense. So they they have work

1536
01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:39,920
Speaker 1: to do. I know, Greg, you're you're pretty confident that

1537
01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:42,320
Speaker 1: they're running it back with him, but it would be

1538
01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: nice to see him have one of those like vintage

1539
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:47,840
Speaker 1: Kyler games before we fold up the tent. And I

1540
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 1: don't really have anything else to add about this game.

1541
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:55,280
Speaker 2: No, I just want to wish you guys a merry Christmas.

1542
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 2: Good luck on the you know they we're a big

1543
01:14:56,920 --> 01:15:00,040
Speaker 2: reveal tomorrow, Dan, I want to hear that are I

1544
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 2: want to tape it at the time. I have mixed

1545
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:04,519
Speaker 2: feelings about that. You want to you wanna be in

1546
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:08,560
Speaker 2: the moment, so I sort of pleaded with Emmaica to

1547
01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:11,720
Speaker 2: tape it quietly, like and I am glad that I

1548
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 2: have it because I've watched it a few times since.

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01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 5: It makes me happy.

1550
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:21,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it is the eternal quandary Christmas morning. I

1551
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: could still picture my mom deb in you know, nineteen

1552
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:29,799
Speaker 1: ninety with that big old video camera on our shoulder

1553
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 1: and we hated it, my sister parents and I just

1554
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 1: despised it. And my brother was younger so he didn't

1555
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 1: you didn't care. But do we want to do that

1556
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 1: same thing? However? Mark, Like, this is a different culture

1557
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 1: now and and cameras are everywhere, the phones are always out,

1558
01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 1: so kids aren't nearly as self conscious as we once were.

1559
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:48,680
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of uh, there's a lot of

1560
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 1: different angles to look at it.

1561
01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 3: From this, I think I would I would get the

1562
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 3: moment recorded and sort through the feelings around that at

1563
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:57,799
Speaker 3: a later at a later time.

1564
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:01,800
Speaker 1: With a licensed there therapist. That would be a good

1565
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:07,120
Speaker 1: but yes, Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and thank

1566
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 1: you for listening to this show and every show, and

1567
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: until next time, which will be Tuesday, do one thing,

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01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:19,680
Speaker 1: have yourself, Merry Christmas and heed the call