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Speaker 1: another edition of the Around the NFL podcast, presented by

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Speaker 1: Head and Shoulders, joined by a stadium filled with heroes

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Speaker 1: the quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons. A for the Falcons

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Speaker 1: That didn't end the way you wanted it. But this

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Speaker 1: for you. It's unlikely that he's a listener. From the

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Speaker 1: brief moments of interaction with him, with him and his handlers,

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Speaker 1: I didn't get a sense that he was a big

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Speaker 1: podcast listener and spending a lot of time listening to

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Speaker 1: our show. Sights and sound takeaway before we get out

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Speaker 1: of here and move back to studio for the second

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Speaker 1: part of the show. Well, this is this is a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a game angle too. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: talked about the crowd, but we saw a field tonight

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Speaker 1: that was a very typical Los Angeles field. It was

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Speaker 1: a little glossy and players were slipping and we were

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Speaker 1: when we were in getting our food at halftime, there

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Speaker 1: were ex players up. They're saying, this is how it

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Speaker 1: always is in Los Angeles at nights, So get ready,

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Speaker 1: this is Rams games when they're gonna have five or

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Speaker 1: six Monday night games and Thursday night games next year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things Karen was talking about.

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Speaker 1: Kara Sneave was saying, the fields always like this. It's

447
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Speaker 1: just the the marine Layer, you know, this kind of

448
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Speaker 1: a little marine layer dropping based to live in the Marina.

449
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Speaker 1: Marine layers every night. So June gloom, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I love this place. This is we might be who

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Speaker 1: knows how the Rams season closes out if they come

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Speaker 1: back here um as a home team next year. We

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Speaker 1: know have their season closed out this year, but there

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Speaker 1: might not be too many NFL playoff games in these

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Speaker 1: type of I'm gonna call it an old girl. Is

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Speaker 1: that weird? Is that in this climate the Colosseum, And

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Speaker 1: I think it's a lot of fun in this bowl

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Speaker 1: setting where you just now anytime we we cover a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl or a big playoff game that there's seven

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Speaker 1: thousand luxury suites and there's all the decks to suggest

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Speaker 1: it was a fun environment. And I have to give

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Speaker 1: credit to Rams fans. It doesn't feel like a fan

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Speaker 1: base that's trying to like pretend like they're into football.

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Speaker 1: It felt very authentic that that that they were into

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Speaker 1: this game, they're into this team, and it didn't go

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Speaker 1: the way they wanted to. But the only time it

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Speaker 1: really felt synthetic to me was some of the There

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Speaker 1: was a montage that they played during one commercial during

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Speaker 1: one commercial break where it was running down Dream by

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Speaker 1: Tom Petty and they were playing some Rams super Bowl highlights,

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Speaker 1: some super Bowl thirty whatever it was, and I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: that's not really yours. And then they cut to Isaac

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Speaker 1: Bruce at one point. It's like he got a polite

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Speaker 1: applause because people like, oh, he's on my fantasy team.

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Speaker 1: But that's the one trade off. When you move around

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Speaker 1: you you do lose a piece of your history and

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Speaker 1: it's hard to how do you represent that. But otherwise

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Speaker 1: it was really cool vibe here and I think RAMS

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Speaker 1: football is back in l A. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: have to pretend exactly, And in the lass societe, I

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Speaker 1: mean where This team was a year ago, coming out

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Speaker 1: of the Jeff Fisher experience, one of the dullest, ugliest

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Speaker 1: teams to watch. I mean, it was a chore to

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Speaker 1: watch these guys on game pass. Where they've come in

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Speaker 1: one year, I mean the loss aside, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of hope. They're gonna have five or six primetime games.

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Speaker 1: Everything about them is young and there's no reason to

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Speaker 1: expect any sort of offseason drop off in terms of personnel.

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Speaker 1: You've got the formulas there. Yeah, I think you know,

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Speaker 1: also look for a change into the guard and in

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Speaker 1: this this whole division. You know, with Seattle, you don't

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Speaker 1: know who's coming back from the Legion of Boom. You've

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Speaker 1: got Jimmy g and San Francisco. The Rams should be

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Speaker 1: good every year now. They've got a really good coach

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Speaker 1: in Sean McVeigh, They've got Wade Phillips, and the town

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Speaker 1: is there. So I think you're gonna see the Rams

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Speaker 1: every year now. Should be the top of the division.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to do some damage control. West the

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Speaker 1: Paramour was in the game at the game today. She

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Speaker 1: was weighing on this Rams team. It did not work

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Speaker 1: out tonight. How are you gonna handle She's been there

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Speaker 1: for you during your fight with the big city. Now

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Speaker 1: you've got to be there for her. Well, I think

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing is I'll have to calm her down.

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Speaker 1: She's probably gonna hear the Isaac Bruce thing. And she

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Speaker 1: wore in Isaac Bruce jersey to the game. But she's

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Speaker 1: in St. Louis. She's like a legit. She's like in

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Speaker 1: that small demographic of I was in St. Louis, I

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Speaker 1: moved to l A. It worked out perfectly for hers.

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Speaker 1: So paramore no disrespect to you, of course. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: think she'll handle that better. Yeah, we're trying to pass

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Speaker 1: it off on me. Well, look, you know she did.

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Speaker 1: Isaac Bruce played a couple of years in l A

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Speaker 1: before St. Louis. I think you know she interviewed him

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Speaker 1: last week. Bruce. Pretty clear West is still formulating, how

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Speaker 1: do how do a game plan this when he gets

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Speaker 1: Also the same woman that tweeted to the world last

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Speaker 1: week that she had a nightmare in which I was

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Speaker 1: trying to kill her. You bring that up in people.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but it seems to

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Speaker 1: be somewhat universal and weird. Dude, I guess you're all right,

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Speaker 1: So there it is. We had a lot of fun here.

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Speaker 1: The Shadowy League figures did us good by giving us

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Speaker 1: a chance to come here and and be at this game,

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Speaker 1: and we had fun. We had fun right time. It's

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Speaker 1: just the first time we've ever credited the Shadowy League

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Speaker 1: figures on the podcast. Things are changing, Things are changing

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Speaker 1: for the good. Shout out to Danny trey Ho and

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Speaker 1: his tacos and his quality control system. Shout out to Tone. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man's right now. We're gonna throw it back

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Speaker 1: to us in the studio to go through the rest

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Speaker 1: of wild Card weekend games, including our phone call with

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, who's at the Super Dome. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: we have this cupboard. Let's move on. Mariota takes the snap,

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Speaker 1: looks to his right, looking looking popping throwing into the

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Speaker 1: end zone. No, he kept it, don't for the end

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Speaker 1: zone itself, and got in. Oh my goodness, I thought

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Speaker 1: for sure Mariota had thrown it. Want to play It

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Speaker 1: was batted back to him. He did throw it, he

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Speaker 1: caught it for a touchdown. Touchdown. Titans want to play

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota who just threw and caught a touchdown pass.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, what else can you say about

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Speaker 1: the means? That was tremendous. Welcome back to the studio now,

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Speaker 1: Mike Keith and w g f X team with the

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Speaker 1: call Marcus Mariota lad the Tennessee Tit tunes to a

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Speaker 1: trio of second half touchdowns, including the one you just heard,

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Speaker 1: A shotgun pass that deflected off Darell Rives. Hands of

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Speaker 1: all people, go home, drill and back into Mariota's hands.

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Speaker 1: He dove to the pylon, held on to the ball,

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Speaker 1: control that ball. Marcus Mariota uh a turning point in

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Speaker 1: the Titans twenty two to one victory over the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs in Arrowheads, stunning the Chiefs who had entered

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Speaker 1: the third quarter up twenty one to three. My goodness,

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Speaker 1: it is the first playoff win for the Titans in

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Speaker 1: fourteen years. The Chiefs, meanwhile, are at a crossroads after

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Speaker 1: an inexplicable letdown in their building. West. I'll start with

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Speaker 1: you on this one. Uh, inexplicable doesn't matter how you

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Speaker 1: want to explain it. It cannot happen. Campelown eighteen point lead.

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid's first year, they blew a lead against the Colts,

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Speaker 1: but that was on the road and that was a

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Speaker 1: new UH Chiefs relationship with Reid. This time though, you

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Speaker 1: have to close this game out, even if Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: is out of the game, which he was in the

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Speaker 1: second half. Yeah, there was a lot going on. In

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Speaker 1: addition to Travis Kelsey, they lost Chris Jones, one of

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Speaker 1: their best defensive players, I think late in the third

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Speaker 1: quarter early fourth Travis butt kicker dot com as Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid called him Mr. Forty eight year on vehicle in

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Speaker 1: a game that was decided by one point or since

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Speaker 1: Charles had a big third down drop, tyreek Hill had

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Speaker 1: three drops. There was a holding penalty on a clutch

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Speaker 1: up Alex Smith scramble late in the game. There was

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Speaker 1: a lot going against the Chiefs. And then you take

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Speaker 1: the fumble that Derrick Johnson returned for a touchdown and

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Speaker 1: got called back, the two point conversion that was returned

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Speaker 1: for two points, that cut called back. You know. Finally,

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00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: the Titans showed up in the second half, and I

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Speaker 1: would give them a ton of credit for the toughness

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Speaker 1: and resiliency they showed. My question about the Titans was

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Speaker 1: where was that team all season? I think the Chris

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Speaker 1: Jones every It was easy to see how the loss

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Speaker 1: of Travis Kelsey affected Kansas City's offense. But Chris Jones

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Speaker 1: went out and that second half for the Titans. Those

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Speaker 1: three touchdown drives. The first one, the Marcus Mariota touchdown

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Speaker 1: past two Marcus Mariotta was a fifteen play nine one

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Speaker 1: nearly nine minute drive. You're completely wiping Kansas City out

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Speaker 1: of the equation. They then have a six place sixty

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Speaker 1: two yard touchdown march. Then in eleven play eighty yard

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Speaker 1: march that swallowed up five minutes, and then they closed

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Speaker 1: the game powerfully with this seven play thirty nine yard

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Speaker 1: thing that just squeezed the clock out, ended the game.

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry was fascinating. I mean, this is the game

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Speaker 1: that we've been waiting for from him all season long.

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Speaker 1: He was he was in total control on the ground.

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Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray out with the injury. There was a Blitz

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Speaker 1: pick up that Derrick Henry missed on the Derrick Johnson

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Speaker 1: sack that we'll get to in a mit because that

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Speaker 1: was a controversial play. So maybe Derrick Henry has some um,

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Speaker 1: some growth to have in terms of being a complete back.

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Speaker 1: But we saw what he can do West with the

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Speaker 1: ball in his hands, he could be dominant. A franchise

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Speaker 1: that had Earl Campbell and Eddie George never had a

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Speaker 1: game with his many yards from a running backs as

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Speaker 1: Henry had on Saturday. And you know, watching the second half,

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Speaker 1: I had to go back and watch it when I

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Speaker 1: got home because we were in route to the Rams

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Speaker 1: game while this was going on. And it's just stunning

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Speaker 1: that the Titans comeback. Happens when they go against what

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Speaker 1: the coaches want to do. They want Mariota under center,

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Speaker 1: they want a ground and pound attack, and it's not

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Speaker 1: until they go hurry up, no huddle in the second half.

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Speaker 1: Really started late in the second quarter that they find

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Speaker 1: the rhythm and Mariota is playing with a confidence that

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Speaker 1: he hadn't had all year. Derrick Henry's playing with a

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Speaker 1: confidence in a rhythm he hadn't had all year. And

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Speaker 1: it's it's sort of like the Patriots and your answered prayers.

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Speaker 1: Your prayers are answered because Tom Brady is the greatest

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Speaker 1: forty year old quarterback and the greatest thirty nine year

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Speaker 1: old quarterback in history, But your prayers answered by losing

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo and compromising your next decade. The Titans prayers

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Speaker 1: are answered because they win a playoff game and now

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Speaker 1: Malarkey's still there in an offense that doesn't fit their personnel.

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Speaker 1: They put out a statement this morning basically saying, enough

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Speaker 1: with the chatter and the gossip around Mike Malarkey. He's

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Speaker 1: coming back. He's part of the process. We believe in him,

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Speaker 1: which is nice to say, by the way. But they

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Speaker 1: did not have his back before that announcement came, and

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Speaker 1: that's probably because they were going to fire him. But

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Speaker 1: Malarkey was candid, probably at his chest out a little

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Speaker 1: bit after what was an incredible comeback. Here's what he

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Speaker 1: had to say when asked if all the rumors swirling

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Speaker 1: around him basically being a dead man walking had gotten

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Speaker 1: to him. Usually you hear coach say, oh, we block

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Speaker 1: all that out, but Malarkey kept it real and was

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Speaker 1: honest about his thoughts about his own organization. Much I'm

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Speaker 1: disgusting today was which is ridiculous. Which is ridiculous approach today.

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Speaker 1: Um I can say it. Uh, you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's fair to my family. Um So when it

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Speaker 1: has an effect in my family has effect on me.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'd say it had a big effect on me.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel you were secure no matter what happened?

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Speaker 1: Now I know I haven't had any support to say

643
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: that I was so um now I just assumed, you

644
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: know the worst. Yeah, so Malarkey is safe, but he's

645
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: not happy about how this was handled in his own

646
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: building obviously. Can I ask a question, though, because if

647
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: this one game, and it was a remarkable comeback, it's

648
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: one of the rare early Saturday wild card tilts that delighted.

649
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: Is this one game going to change the way an

650
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: organization feels about their coach because one of the things

651
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: we heard was that the concern was about players not developing,

652
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: So that's not going to necessarily change at all. Had

653
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: that same lingering issue If that's the way they feel,

654
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: does one playoff win that that probably will melt away

655
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,719
Speaker 1: when they get wiped by the Patriots potentially next week potentially.

656
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, you could have maybe gone after

657
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, You could have gone after someone that could

658
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: have changed this Franchi tricky spile. Here's how it gets

659
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: even more tricky because thirty one franchises in the NFL

660
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: believe you never let your head coach enter a contract year.

661
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,479
Speaker 1: The Bengals are different than everyone else. But Malarkey's contract

662
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: expires after next season. Does he get an extension now

663
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: because they want a playoff game? Not only is John

664
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: Mcjosh McDaniels not coming to save Mariota, but Malarkey could

665
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: be extended. I think it's an extremely unique situation and

666
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: that they were ready to dump him. They didn't think

667
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: they were gonna win this game. Probably inside the building.

668
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 1: They stunned. They stunned everybody by beating the Chiefs. And

669
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna get back to the Chiefs in a second

670
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: here and now ownership has kind of caught with their

671
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: hands tied a little bit, and we'll see he's gonna

672
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: come back, but maybe that ends up hurting both the

673
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: team and Mariota in the long long term. I feel

674
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: like that could be the case the Chiefs. By the way,

675
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: Andy Reid now and we all like Andy Reid. He's

676
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 1: a good coach, he's a good guy, but he has

677
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: no ring in all these years as a head coach,

678
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: and he's now one in four with the Chiefs in

679
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I mentioned it at the top of

680
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,479
Speaker 1: this game. They were down thirty eight, they were up

681
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: thirty eight to ten against the Colts in the third

682
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: quarter of the playoffs. Blew that one. And now Andy

683
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: Reid has blown two leads of eighteen points or more

684
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and that's as many as every coach

685
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: in the NFL since nineteen thirty three. Is Andy Reid

686
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: part of the problem in Kansas City after another meltdown

687
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: in January? I mean, I look at the My reaction

688
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: to the first twenty minutes of this game, if not

689
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: the first entire half, is that I looked to Kansas

690
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: City and thought they can play the way they are playing,

691
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: and that at that portion of the game they could

692
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: have gone into Pittsburgh or New England and one. And

693
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: then we got the second half and you see, is

694
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: it Travis Kelsey alone? I mean, he's a huge part

695
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: of their offense, but Andy Reid had There has to

696
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: be questions around the way he managed the second half

697
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: of this game, But what are you gonna do about it?

698
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: He's one of the top five coaches in the NFL

699
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: who their hands are tied. You're not going to find

700
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: a better coach than Andy Reid who's going to be

701
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: an upgrade on him. I wonder if it perhaps in

702
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: terms of the butterfly effect, does it it prompts Alex

703
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: Smith to be moving on now, Not that the game

704
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: was his fault. He really got hurt by some drops

705
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: in the second half and maybe a coaching plan that

706
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: wasn't great. The Kelsey lost though, was huge. I think

707
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way they lose this game

708
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: if Kelsey doesn't go down with that concussion. But it's

709
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: just the way it works with the Chiefs. They are

710
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: they are cursed him. If there is an upshot for you,

711
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: you chief Sins that are listeners, you're back on the

712
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: pain rankings. He got bumped off back on after loss

713
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: like this. Congratulate again though with one game like I

714
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: don't understand why it should usher Alex Smith out of

715
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: the building unless unless there's in some internal mandate that

716
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna move forward with your rookie quarterback. Because what

717
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: what's wrong with Alex Smith taking another year as the

718
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: starter and let letting Patrick Mahomes who every there's a

719
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: lot to like, but everyone agrees that he needed this

720
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,240
Speaker 1: entire year and probably necessarily more worked for Aaron Rodgers,

721
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: It's worked for other quarterbacks, Jimmy Garoppolo, what's the difference here?

722
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: It's logical, it's crazy the vicissitudes on which these decisions rest.

723
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: I didn't think Alex Smith was the problem in the

724
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: second half of that game. There was just a lot

725
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: of fluke plays and a lot of stuff that didn't

726
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: go the Chiefs way. But rap sheets report went from

727
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: sat from before the game to the Chiefs will field

728
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: phone calls and they're open to trading Alex Smith to

729
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, the Chiefs are over the moon was the

730
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: quote for Patrick Mahomes and raps. She expects the Chiefs

731
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: to the nature of sports, and it doesn't always make sense.

732
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: But when you lose that game, organization needs to react

733
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: that or we're not going to get rid of our

734
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: coach or our GM or totally tear apart the roster.

735
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: But maybe this type of loss, like what what should

736
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: we do? Maybe it's time to turn the page and

737
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,919
Speaker 1: and get because what they are in a great spot

738
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: with Alex Smith, and we could talk about all this

739
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: as we head into the off season, but he's coming

740
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: off a career year. His value has never been higher,

741
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: So you could trade him clean clean up in a

742
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: trade with with any any number of QB needy teams

743
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: and then have this young kid locked in load and

744
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. Shout out to Dick Lebose defense,

745
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: by the way, they deserve credit for what I did,

746
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: and so do the Titans in general, who have been,

747
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: you know, up until yesterday, decimated by this podcast. And

748
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: I think for fair reasons, because they were an impossible

749
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: team to watch. What they did in the second half

750
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 1: is the team we've waited for all seasons. Absolutely were they?

751
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: They were the West of a standard, weren't they? They were?

752
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: But you can never rely on a non Bengals team

753
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: to lose. And and Mariota, particularly the toughness he showed

754
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: at the end of the Jacksonville game in the ringular finale,

755
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: and the toughness he showed in that second half. I'm

756
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: impressed with him and throw. You know, maybe too much

757
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: gets made of it, but I just love it. He's

758
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: such a he had such a complete game. Uh and

759
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: even through the block that Derrick Henry to to as

760
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: salt away that game, doesn't it make you think watching

761
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: him play that second half to just give him a

762
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: good coach and he'll be back on his way to

763
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 1: being that's why they're in a Turkey spot. And now

764
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: they got a fox But it's like, it's just like

765
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: the Tim Tebow miracle overtime touchdown to beat the Steelers,

766
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: and every like, oh, this is Tim Tebow's team. And

767
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: then a week later they went to Foxborn and lost

768
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: by ninety points, and everyone's like, oh, get rid of

769
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow. I wonder if the malarkey thing is gonna

770
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 1: come back a week from now. Yeah, that's a fair comparison.

771
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: But the owner, but the owner is now on the records. Well,

772
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: you're right, I mean, I guess they had to do that.

773
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, Like you said, it creates a very

774
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: complex scenario for a team that could be interviewing Josh

775
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: McDaniels in another scenario, another universe. Right, And we will

776
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: get into next week's games in due time. But I

777
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: just want all the Titoons fans out there to know,

778
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: if you ever went to Foxborough and beat the Throne

779
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: of Sleeves, you would never be called Tittoons on this podcast. Ever. Again,

780
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: they didn't earn that just by beating the cheese. No,

781
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: almost that they're not getting called I won't call them

782
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: the tittoons in relation to this game, but it goes

783
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: away forever. If you shocked the world next week, let

784
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: me ask you one question. Yes, his butterfly effect officially

785
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:31,240
Speaker 1: closed the door on the sliding doors phenomenon. It feels

786
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: like with with the popularity of butterfly Effect, nobody references

787
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: the Gwyneth Paltrow vehicle anymore. It's fair and maybe sliding

788
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: doors is disappearing from uh the pop culture universe. It's

789
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 1: one of the few things I have left. I enjoyed

790
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: that movie. One last note before we moved to the

791
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: next game. Terrible officiating in this game, my god, And

792
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: you know what, Jeff Triplett led the crew. I don't understand.

793
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: And I'm not the first person to make this point,

794
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: but let's make it again. I don't understand how um

795
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: any team, whether it's a podcast or a football team

796
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: or the factory like the coal mines where I grew up, like,

797
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: you always work better when you're with a crew that

798
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: you know and trust, and you you get each other

799
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: and you know the nuances in the in the playoffs

800
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL, they break up all the crews and

801
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: just cobble together All Star teams quote unquote, and I'm

802
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: not saying that's why they botched like five calls in

803
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: this game, including some big ones like that um sack

804
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: by Derrick Johnson which should have been a fumble in

805
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs ball and it led to three points for Tennessee.

806
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: And there's several other mistakes. So bad was the game

807
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: that Jeff Triplett a d D King Kabala reported uh

808
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: today is retiring. I'm not saying this game is making

809
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: him retire, but it's probably time for Jeff to go.

810
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: Just that poorly officiated game makes me wonder why the

811
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: system is the way it is. To your point, what

812
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: if we were suddenly doing this podcast Daniel were with

813
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: like Nancy from accounting and Tim from sales, right, or

814
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: it's like everyone's performed well in their department, so you

815
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: go to a podcast. We do seventeen weeks together and

816
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: then it's me Ian, Judy Batista, and Mike Silver. Uh,

817
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: and I'm not it's not gonna be a better podcast. Well,

818
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: I don't know Judy Batista, Mike Silver dynamic with me

819
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: like mixing it up. I don't know s I went

820
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: Nancy from accounting because there is no Nancy from accounting.

821
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: You've suddenly put three actual co and co workers on

822
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: the firing line with you. You know those ties that

823
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,919
Speaker 1: bind from digging cool together. That's the whole conceit behind

824
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: the show Justified with Boyd Crowder and Raylan Gibbons is

825
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: the two main characters Doug Cool together in their late

826
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: teens in early twenties, and that whole phenomenon drives the show.

827
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,760
Speaker 1: Who said that you've been left behind in pop culture?

828
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: Look at that Justified, Justified reff and the last few years.

829
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: Al right, that proud of you. Wait before we move on,

830
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: don't you guys want to hear like one of the

831
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: best calls of the year. It wasn't a radio call,

832
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,479
Speaker 1: so that might be why it wasn't on your radar.

833
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: Have to play this, that's right, just no display. At

834
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: the end of the game, the Chiefs looked like they

835
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: might have stole a game in all time fashion. It

836
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: was later reviewed not to be a touchdown, but in

837
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: the moment, one ESPN play by play man got a

838
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: little fired upon the all time Sean McDonough everitt, that's

839
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: the most excite I've ever heard of. I also think

840
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: this game had some impact on the lock off between up.

841
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: I am in a all time skin. I think it

842
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: was well, we know one fair too well yesterday. All right,

843
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: now let's move Sean mcdoneh by the way, I don't

844
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: know kind of love it. I don't know if that's

845
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: his last game because Gruden's gone. Now. McDonagh got emotional

846
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: saying good bye to Gruden, and I wonder if the

847
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: emotions if he if maybe he called his last game.

848
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: We'll see what the Monday Night Football crew does. Uh. Alright,

849
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: So that's the Saturday games. Let's move on now to

850
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: the the Sunday games, starting with the game in Jacksonville.

851
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: Peterman drops the throw, throws it off to the right side.

852
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: It is knocked and picked off by Jaylen Ramsey. He

853
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: tipped it in the air, he made a diving interception,

854
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: and it's the Jaguars football at midfield. Jalen Ramsey's acrobatic

855
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:29,240
Speaker 1: interception of Nathan Peterman yip that guy ended a last

856
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: gasp drive for the Buffalo Bills and allowed the Jaguars

857
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: to escape but a ten three win at the Chlorine

858
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: Pit that was every bit as ugly as the final score.

859
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: Hint Tyrod Taylor couldn't move the Bills on offense before

860
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: he suffered a concussion late in the fourth quarter, and

861
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles couldn't hit the ocean from a boat, but

862
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: the quarterback used his legs to make something happen for Jacksonville.

863
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: Go figure, Mark Setsler. What an odd game? Seventeen punts

864
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: for nearly eight hundred yards. I mean it was ten

865
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: three when you think of a tentory game, that's what

866
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: this was from start to finish, and Blake Bortles uh

867
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: performed in a way that the final line was something

868
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: so incredibly rare that how often does this happen? He

869
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 1: ran for more yardage than he threw four The really

870
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: only thing that the only thing that Blake Bortles did

871
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: that I thought was effective and it helped his team

872
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 1: in the second half was used his feet, and he

873
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: is good at that, and he is he is fun

874
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: to watch when he gets out of the pocket and scrambles,

875
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: but the passing anti clinic he put on was disgusting

876
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: to watch. I mean it's you can look at the

877
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: wide receiver stats and say, well, he doesn't have a

878
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: lot of wide receivers around him, but there's they have

879
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: no ability to move the ball through the air. I'd

880
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: be very concerned about that as they head into Pittsburgh.

881
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: Their defense though, and they didn't have a lot to

882
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 1: deal with either in terms of buffaloes. You know, Lashawn

883
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: McCoy performed admirably. I think he's not healthy, but he

884
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: looked okay. Tyrod Taylor could get nothing done, but Jack's

885
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: fills defense. I would not be surprised to see them

886
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: give Pittsburgh problems again next week. Blake Bortles is so

887
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: bad though, Well, they're gonna They're gonna have to find

888
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: a way to do more than score ten points, and

889
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how I thinked how they do that.

890
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: Leonard four nette Um had a really nice drive later

891
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: in the game, but he still is not putting together

892
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: four quarters and Bortles, I think Tony Romo, who's a

893
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: pretty positive guy calling this game repeatedly, was like, well,

894
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: this is a tough situation for Blake Bortles, who's not

895
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: a natural thrower of the football any any type of conditions.

896
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: In this case, it was wind. The guy was missing

897
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: just screen passes, any type of touch pass. It worked

898
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: today because he was able to get big first down scrambling,

899
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: but West, how does this work when the competition gets

900
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: better in the next round of the playoffs. Tweeted after

901
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: the forty game and Week sixteen that if I was

902
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: a Jaguars fan, the one thing that would freaked me

903
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: out the most is the book. Bortles mechanics reverted to

904
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen warm in the fourth quarter that game.

905
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: His mechanics were off against the Titans in the in

906
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: the regular season finale, and they were off again today.

907
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: The difference in the game in the first half was

908
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: his awful, awful throwing in The difference in the game

909
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: in the second half was him salvaging it with his

910
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: with his legs, and it was you know, I guess

911
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: it's a double edged sword with him. But you can't

912
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: count on beating a really good team that way. The

913
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: Bills are not a really good team. And I think

914
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: it brings up a philosophical debate with running quarterbacks like

915
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor. Is it better to throw off the mark

916
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: like Bordles did, or is it better to not even

917
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: throw at all and just sit there and hold the

918
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: ball like Tyrod Taylor does? They both result in the

919
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,240
Speaker 1: same thing. Yeah, the when when the when the Jaguars

920
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: finally got into they had one drive. It was a

921
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,399
Speaker 1: fifteen play eighties six yard. It was the touchdown drive

922
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: where you saw Bordles start to regain a little bit

923
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 1: of confidence because he was running, he was moving the

924
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 1: chains with his feet. Leonard Fournette finally awoke after a

925
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: very quiet first half, and you really need to kind

926
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: of drag Bordles along with you behind a strong ground game,

927
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: and they had it down that one drive, but when

928
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: that vanished for mostly the rest of the game, and

929
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: Bordles is so quickly exposed, it's hard not to predict

930
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: kind of doom as soon as next week for them,

931
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: because Pittsburgh is going to find a way to do

932
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: what Buffalo couldn't, and that's move the ball. I mean Buffalo. Yes,

933
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: it was a great defensive effort by Jacksonville, but Buffalo

934
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: really did not challenge that defense with much of anything.

935
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: And a great defensive effort by the Bills too, who

936
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: were shure, tackling, pumped up, making plays. Lorenzo Alexander game

937
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: of play out of his mind in this game. I mean,

938
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: they really did show up to play, but they just

939
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: didn't have the firepower to take on that that Jaguars defense,

940
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,439
Speaker 1: which is one thing after we got both Saturday games

941
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: wrong across the board, we all believe this is kind

942
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: of how this game would play out. Maybe Jacksonville would

943
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: score more points, but the fact that the Bills wouldn't

944
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: be able to move the ball, and they certainly did

945
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,280
Speaker 1: not Blake Bortles. Just going back to one more second,

946
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: one of the strangest stat lines that you'll see in

947
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: playoff football. Twelve of twenty three for eighty seven yards

948
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,439
Speaker 1: three point eight yards per attempt, through for eight seven

949
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: ten for eighty eight on the ground. He rushed for

950
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: more yards any through and it wasn't like a situation

951
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: where only through six passes three passes he could not

952
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: do anything. But the Bills couldn't do it either, And

953
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: that's it was an ugly game and somebody had to win.

954
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: For quarterbacks that throw twenty five or more passes but

955
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: then run for more yardage, I was downstairs. I believe

956
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: it goes back to the thirties, the last time it's

957
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: someone through through twenty three. Had he threw two more incompletions,

958
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: he would have set an incredible statistic right there. Meanwhile,

959
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor three point six yards per throw. I mean,

960
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: this was it looked this way. I also think it

961
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: became it was so ugly that it almost became beautiful

962
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: at one point because it was such an odd, unusual

963
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 1: football game to get some of Greg's asset or something.

964
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: You know, I just enjoy it. It was like, you

965
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: can't call it a great game except that it really

966
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,479
Speaker 1: was completely set apart from almost any thing I've watched

967
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 1: in ye. I mean, it's not like watching Matt Castle

968
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: against Jake Cutler was. I think what's saved it, I

969
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: guess is that the stakes involved. It's a playoff game.

970
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: But I mean if this was a game on Thursday

971
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: Night Football, we would have been saying it was one

972
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: of the worst games ever, all right, I mean it

973
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: was an awful thing. Like you gotta give credit to

974
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: the defense is in that play by Jalen Ramsey was

975
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: one of the best players I've ever seen a cornerback

976
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: make and they and they almost There was all this

977
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: question about whether or not that final pick was a catch.

978
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: I thought his arm was under it, but they got

979
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: it right. They got it right, and it was they

980
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,760
Speaker 1: got it right, and Romo called that. Romo had another

981
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: great game. By the way, Romo called that well, because

982
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 1: that's what River I Ron has failed in my opinion,

983
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: in many people's opinion this year, is that he's taken

984
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: the rule, which was don't touch the call unless there's

985
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,919
Speaker 1: overwhelming evidence that they got it wrong on the field.

986
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: That could have gone either way if the referee was

987
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: calling on the field, but there was nothing clear in

988
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: the booth. Sean McDermott obviously was hot and the pants

989
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: about it. He had the hot pants because he sought

990
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 1: out the official. Probably a about that right as the

991
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 1: game ended. But the one thing that I went through

992
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: my mind, it's Nathan Peterman generated a first down with

993
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: a minute plus to go, and that you know he

994
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: was starting. Then he threw a fourteen yard completion. I thought,

995
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman is gonna dial up a touchdown here, They're

996
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: gonna do something crazy like get the two point conversion,

997
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get Nathan Peterman in the Bills going

998
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: into Foxborough. I mean, you had to you had to

999
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: want Jacksonville if you want a competitive playoff picture next

1000
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: week and take the game at that point, you would

1001
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: have had to rewrite your entire postgame. Oh you know

1002
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: how that goes. I always like that thing was in

1003
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: the books. With all due respect to the Titans and

1004
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, I've never been more confident that what everyone

1005
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: kind and most people thought Greg din It. Gregg thought

1006
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: every a f C team is a landline for the Patriots.

1007
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: But this has always felt like a collision course between

1008
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,439
Speaker 1: the Steelers and Pats. And I still I don't see

1009
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 1: either of those top two contenders in the a f

1010
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: C struggling next week. Do you guys think that Jaguars

1011
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: d is good enough and Blake Bortles isn't bad enough

1012
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 1: that they can actually day in the game in Pittsburgh. Well,

1013
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: I think everybody's gonna point back to the early season

1014
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: game when the Jackson Jacksonville one handily and Big Ben

1015
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 1: through five interceptions. But these are two different teams now.

1016
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: The Steelers offense is clicking on all cylinders with Antonio Brown,

1017
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: as rap sheets said is going to be, and they

1018
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: were not playing well entering that game against the Jaguars. Meanwhile,

1019
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette has not been the same back now since

1020
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 1: he's been dealing with multiple lower leg injuries. He doesn't

1021
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: have that explosive Nissy had against Pittsburgh and Bortles now

1022
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 1: has the mechanical issues again. The only thing I feel

1023
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: gets the kind of game And I mean, listen, I

1024
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: got essentially almost all my game picks wrong last week.

1025
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: So what stopped listening and just fast forward for thirty seconds?

1026
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: But if if you get a quarter or a quarter

1027
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 1: half into that game in Pittsburgh is nestled with three

1028
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 1: or seven points and Jacksonville's hanging around, it gets scary.

1029
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: I think they need enough to a big start and

1030
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: shake up that the Niners got into the head of

1031
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: the Jaguars defense so quickly with Jimmy g I think

1032
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 1: the Steelers need to follow that same recipe. Frank Fregie,

1033
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: by the why of w j XL have that call

1034
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: at the top of this highlight. Uh. So there you

1035
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: go that Jacksonville Jaguars move on, uh to play at

1036
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh in the divisional playoffs. Let's now, um, move on

1037
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: to the final game of wild card weekend. Oh yeah,

1038
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,399
Speaker 1: it's a DOWNLA. Here's Newton under pressure and he's gonna

1039
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: be tackle and sacked and dropped. And it's two Saints.

1040
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 1: You have him Dai Jordan being one and Von Bell

1041
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: being the other. And that is the final play of

1042
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 1: this game. Let's go to Minneapolis. Indeed, Jim Henderson w

1043
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: w L with the call, Cam Jordan and Von Bell

1044
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: seized upon Cam Newton on a fourth and long around midfield,

1045
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: a sack that sent the Superdome into a frenzy and

1046
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 1: clinched a hard fought win for the Saints, who advanced

1047
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: to face the Vikings next week and the divisional playoffs.

1048
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: Now joining us on the phone from New Orleans is

1049
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: NFL dot COM's Gross allg. Greg's got a couple of

1050
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: hurricanes in him. I know Greg likes to hit like

1051
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: a lot of commercial haunts in the in the French quarter. Right.

1052
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: I still got to write this article, but I did

1053
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: probably wake up um, you know next to my hotel

1054
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: room that's trying to sleep. Greg. All right, let's talk

1055
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: about this game. You were at that frenzied Superdome. Uh

1056
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: And in this game we'll start here, Sean Payton asked

1057
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: his offense to close it out. When that didn't work,

1058
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: your boy Cam Jordan's and the defense did the job. Yeah,

1059
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,800
Speaker 1: it was somewhat fitting, you know, based on the season

1060
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: that the defense ended up having to make some plays.

1061
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it was their their best game of

1062
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: the year, but you've heard me honking about Cam Jordan's

1063
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: all year, and this game was a reminder because they

1064
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: don't really have any other pass rush other than him.

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00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: But when it came down to it, he got those

1066
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: two QB hits right at the three bell making a

1067
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: three TV hits right at the end, von Bell making

1068
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: a play. And I love the way they ended that game.

1069
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 1: I love the fact that Sean Payton went for it

1070
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: on fourth and two and you still win the games.

1071
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: It's like it's it's he and he and Drew Brees

1072
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: talked about it after the game. They were just like

1073
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: we talked about it. We wanted to go for you play,

1074
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: you play to win, and in his words, it gave

1075
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: them a chance to go win the game twice. And

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00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: I love that thinking because that's the only way they're

1077
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: gonna keep advancing is if they just start dropping bombs

1078
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 1: and dropping lots of points on every team they play.

1079
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: Then your boy, Cam Jordan's who you've been pounding the

1080
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: table for Jordan on our podcast. Maybe he hasn't gotten

1081
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,879
Speaker 1: the national love quite that he deserves, but he did

1082
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,399
Speaker 1: get the postgame interview on Fox with Aaron Andrews, which

1083
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: is a nice start. So let's listen to that. I

1084
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: don't know if you heard it, Greg while you were

1085
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 1: up in the booth, but here it is. We wanted more.

1086
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: I mean, they've been in the super Bowl. Let him

1087
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: go for another one next year. We went a run.

1088
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: I mean honestly, we put in the work. You know,

1089
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: we were owing two body doubt at us and we

1090
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: still got you know, we had a fight today to

1091
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: play next week. I mean Cam dows point, I thought

1092
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,399
Speaker 1: we I thought we sent him out. We're not gonna say,

1093
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: you know somehow. I mean that boys blessed he came

1094
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: back in after a major hit. That last references to

1095
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, which that will be a big talking point

1096
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 1: Greg in this game. Um that Cam appeared to take

1097
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: a shot to the head, dropped to one knee, walking

1098
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: back to the sideline. UH. And then this is about

1099
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: six minutes to play. If this new strengthen concussion protocol

1100
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: UH is done to code, he probably has to go

1101
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: back to the locker room, and who knows if he

1102
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: even sees the field again. But instead he went back

1103
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: on the field and Ron Rivera explained that he was

1104
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: actually just poked in the eye. What do you what

1105
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: do you hear about that? Or did you anything downstairs

1106
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: or while you were there about that situation? They said

1107
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:48,839
Speaker 1: he went through the protocol, he went inside the tent,

1108
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I mean, they have the concussion

1109
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: doctor evaluate him. Clearly, he came back in the game

1110
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: and you know, played pretty well, got them a touchdown

1111
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: drive before that, that last one. So people are all

1112
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 1: fired up about it. I don't know it it seemed

1113
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: like they you know, he was in that tent for

1114
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,879
Speaker 1: two or three minutes and ultimately it wasn't a huge deal. Greg.

1115
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: That was such I thought an emotional game for Cam

1116
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 1: Newton on the Panther side. I I gained a lot

1117
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: of respect for him because he also dealt with it

1118
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: seemed to be a knee injury at one point. He

1119
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: was clearly just not healthy at all. And it came

1120
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: down to that intentional grounding call that Rivera said he

1121
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: thought that that was a bum call. Obviously Cam didn't

1122
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: agree with it. Uh your take on that, because I

1123
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 1: think a lot of for a lot of fans, intentional

1124
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: grounding was a bit of a hazy territory. I thought

1125
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 1: it was intentional grounding. Um, you know the I guess

1126
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: one of the officials that you know, Greg Olsen said

1127
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: that he heard one official thinking that Cam was outside

1128
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: the pocket and then it wouldn't have been otherwise. To me,

1129
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: it definitely was intentional grounding. And the ending it kind

1130
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,280
Speaker 1: of overshadows that Camp played awesome. I mean, Drew Brees

1131
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: and Cam we're playing vintage games. Drew Brees had one

1132
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: of this not his best game of the entire season,

1133
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 1: and the only reason they were in that game is

1134
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:07,280
Speaker 1: Cam Newton was following and like if if Ron Rivera's

1135
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: defense or the running game that they went into the

1136
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: season wanting to have showed up. Uh, they win that

1137
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: game because Cam Newton was the only reason why they

1138
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: were hanging in at all. The Panthers, you know, they

1139
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: clearly the Saints are the better team here. They beat

1140
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: them three times this season. But at this at the

1141
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: same time, they're probably kicking themselves right now because Ingram

1142
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,240
Speaker 1: and Kamara have been the engine that made the Saints

1143
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: offense go all all season. They held them to a

1144
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: combine sixty eight total yards and they still couldn't get

1145
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: it done. And it just does illuminate what is kind

1146
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,240
Speaker 1: of what makes the Saints team so dangerous and special

1147
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 1: here is that even if that amazing duo gets shut down,

1148
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is still involved and he's very much still

1149
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,320
Speaker 1: Drew Drew Brees. He had one of his best games

1150
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 1: of the season. They that was really interesting with everyone

1151
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:02,280
Speaker 1: talking after the game was the Panther clearly did everything

1152
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: possible to stop Camara, especially but the running game in general,

1153
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: because Camara had just watered them in both their games,

1154
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: and they brought a safety down and they were pressuring

1155
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: with five they basically had a five, and they were

1156
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: daring Drew Brees ultimately to beat him, which is great.

1157
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: Like you just don't expect a team to go into

1158
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: the Superdome and try that, but you kind of understand

1159
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: why they did. It's a desperate situation. Ultimately, It's like,

1160
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,800
Speaker 1: I mean, go ahead, try to beat this in your building,

1161
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. I can't help but wonder what this game

1162
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: would have turned out to be if Ted Ginn were

1163
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: still a Panther. I mean, Michael Thomas, let's I mean

1164
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas talking about cam Jordan not getting enough love.

1165
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: I feel like Michael Thomas statistically and also game by

1166
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,439
Speaker 1: game is just like this completely obvious number one wide

1167
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,439
Speaker 1: receiver who's a star in hiding almost but ted Ginn.

1168
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: Also that they were closing out drives early while the

1169
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,879
Speaker 1: Panther's offense was moving the ball but stuck kicking field goals,

1170
00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 1: and you can't only wonder would have happened if they

1171
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 1: open one to the house early on a Get extended

1172
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 1: his streak of at least one fifty yard touchdown in

1173
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,280
Speaker 1: every game he's ever played in, So he's a pretty

1174
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 1: good player that yet he uh. He also was wearing

1175
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: kind of like a I don't know if it was

1176
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: like a mink, but a furry sort of coat. And

1177
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: then he had a cane, like a decorative cane, basically

1178
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: like Slick from w W. Yes, you can't bring a

1179
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 1: cane unless you're confident you're gonna score eight yards. I

1180
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: wonder if he is a Reverend Slick fan. Was could

1181
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,919
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas though diving catch to set up the Zach

1182
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:42,439
Speaker 1: line touchdown, a forty six yard crossing route to set

1183
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: up Alvin Kamara's touchdown, and then he has uh a

1184
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: back shoulder reception against Captain Munderland on that big third

1185
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: Beautiful Town play he was. He had another play down

1186
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 1: in the red zone where he looked like he was

1187
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: going to go out of bounds, he stepped back inbounds

1188
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: and got past another guy to convert a first down.

1189
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: He was all over the field. Phenomenal game. That Brandon

1190
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: Cooks trade has really worked out well for the Saints. Yeah,

1191
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: because they picked up Ryan Ramcheck, whos started every game

1192
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: at right tackle. And and you're right. I I asked

1193
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: Promise and Breeze about that third down play because that's, like,

1194
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: that's a high level play on one of the biggest

1195
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: snaps of the year where he's where Breeze is throwing

1196
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: the ball way before Thomas even turns around on a

1197
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: back shoulder and Breathe basically just said, like, yeah, everyone

1198
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: else is great, but that's my guy that I trust.

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00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: That was who the fourth down play was, you know,

1200
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: designed to go to two. It was Michael Thomas. That

1201
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: was what the head getting touched down play was originally

1202
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: designed to go to Thomas and getting just kind of

1203
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: saw something. So you're right, Mark, like he doesn't really

1204
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: get mentioned with the top receivers in the league, but

1205
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: but he shouldn't even show number one, al right, So Greg,

1206
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: you were missed yesterday when we were at the Coliseeum,

1207
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: but everything went well. Um, we want to know just

1208
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: some general observations you've had in your latest trip to

1209
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: New Orleans on the NFL's time. Wow, the first thing

1210
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: is like this, it felt like such a homecoming game.

1211
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: They haven't had a home game here in like six years.

1212
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: So I thought you were referring to yourself. Oh no,

1213
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: not myself, although that was nice too. I love I

1214
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 1: get to walk to the stadium and stuff. They got

1215
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: Manny Fresh. Um, you know, I know, Mark, you're a

1216
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: big big Timings fan, but they got Manny Fresh on

1217
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: the turntable before the game. I mean back when I

1218
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: was in college, it was like he was like Paul

1219
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: McCartney in the Beatles, that's how popular he was here.

1220
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: So they had him on the turntable. And then when

1221
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: when I'm walking, you know, into the locker room after

1222
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 1: the game, the walls are just wind with X old

1223
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: Saints great. And when I you know, when I left tonight,

1224
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: it was like Vegeta and Reggie Bush and Tracy Porter

1225
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: and Breeze and Kayton and they're all just kind of

1226
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: like reliving old times. It was like you almost felt

1227
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: like on Payton didn't know if they're ever going to

1228
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: get a chance to do this again, So let's just

1229
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: blow it out and have like this awesome party. And

1230
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: Breeds even mentioned like none of those guys you know

1231
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: I played with. He's the only one that's left that

1232
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: played with all those guys. He's older than all of

1233
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: those guys. And they're getting kind of like you know,

1234
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: Brady and Belichick, they're getting at least one more chance

1235
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: to kind of take a run that maybe people didn't

1236
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: really think they were ever going to get a chance to.

1237
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:26,919
Speaker 1: I know Greg on a personal level that the town

1238
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: was a buzz for your return. You were there earlier

1239
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 1: in the year, some controversial things happened to you out

1240
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:36,120
Speaker 1: on the streets. Did you have a chance to tie

1241
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: up loose ends? Uh, you know, heal some wounds with

1242
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 1: some of the city's people that you you know, potentially

1243
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: offended last time with your late night behavior after you

1244
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 1: filed your column. It's basically out of control right now.

1245
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what you're talking about, but uh,

1246
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 1: I might hit up some Daisy Dukes for some you know,

1247
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: scrambled eggs and a bloody marry after yourself, buddy, just

1248
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: make sure you're back by Tuesday. We've got more pods record,

1249
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: I've got a six am flight. I got something for

1250
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: your beloved Saints here. Greg. Okay, if they make a

1251
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 1: run all the way to the super Bowl, there's a

1252
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 1: decent chance they'll never have to play outside of a dome.

1253
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: They go to Minneapolis, and then if Atlanta beats Philadelphia

1254
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: and nick fools, they would go back to the Superdome,

1255
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: and then if they win that game, they would go

1256
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: back to Minneapolis. Hello, there's so much there's so much

1257
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: better inside. Everyone here is kind of thinking that, which

1258
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:37,920
Speaker 1: is ridiculous because they're going to face the best team

1259
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: in the NFC right now. But everyone in New Orleans

1260
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 1: is thinking saying stop in NFC Championship, Like, wouldn't that justus?

1261
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 1: You don't want to be overlooking the vikings, not with

1262
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 1: the running the revenge of the parade float after um.

1263
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:55,440
Speaker 1: One last quote before we say goodbye to you, Greg,

1264
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: because I think you'll appreciate this Cam Jordan's and by

1265
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: the way, good job with you the hip hop pioneer

1266
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 1: that you were happy to see spin but we got

1267
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 1: to see Tone Loke play at the end of the

1268
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: first quarter at the Colisee. He didn't Funky called Medina.

1269
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: So Funky called Medina a song that really works when

1270
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: you're in your early twenties, but I don't know if

1271
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: it works when you're anyway, I'll send you off with this,

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Speaker 1: Greg cam Jordan, your boy on Panthers left tackle, Matt Khalil,

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Speaker 1: let's call him speed bump, speed bump McGee, ouch pack.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what what mccalil does does to cam

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01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 1: Jordan's but when he would beat him, he would just

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01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 1: talk in his face for like ten fifteen seconds after

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Speaker 1: every time that he beat Matt Khalil, like, alright, Greg,

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Speaker 1: get your scrambled eggs and your bloody marry and then

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Speaker 1: get on that plane. Come all right, all right, um,

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Speaker 1: all right, there you go. Do we eat? Should we do?

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01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: We wanna? David Ee he's a big Panthers fan. He's

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01:02:57,880 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: dealt with a lot of setbacks in his life and

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01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 1: dis appointment, and tonight was no different. I actually got

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01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:04,920
Speaker 1: many of them based on our behavior towards him. But yes,

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01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: do you think maybe we should give him just the

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01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 1: call just to see how he's doing? Here for another

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01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,439
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes according to his schedules. All right, why don't

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01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: we make a phone call Lindsay and we'll call the

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01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:17,680
Speaker 1: news room as as we do and get Elie on

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Speaker 1: the phone. Just check in on it. Let's be caring. Yeah,

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01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: we're not looking to like, you know, stomp on his heart.

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01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: It's more, hey, Dave, I have some information that he

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01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 1: had even than you think. Okay, well, let's say hold

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01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 1: on to that. I just want to check in on.

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01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 1: He's like a little brother to us, you know, doesn't

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01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 1: it kind of him? Kennic? Can I speak with Dave really? Please? Yeah? Sure,

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01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: hold on you, Kenna. She's nice, nice person, She travels

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01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah she hasn't yea, Devin, really, what's upbout it?

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01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: Dan hands a something around the NFL podcast. I thought

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01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 1: this might happen now you, Well, what's up? How's it going?

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01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 1: You might you might think we're calling you right now

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01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: to give you a hard time and and just be jerks.

1303
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 1: But actually this is, as Mark you put it, this

1304
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: is more like a we're checking in on your well being.

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01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 1: David's my supervisor. It's not a great move to offend him. Yeah,

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01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 1: I'm doing fine. You know, it's actually it's funny, um

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01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 1: on our I am clients. I told Mark at the

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01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: start of the fourth quarter that it was only fifteen

1309
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: minutes left in this tedious season for the Panthers, and

1310
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,080
Speaker 1: then they just stucked me back in and you saw me.

1311
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 1: I was hopping up and down after the McAthy McCaffrey touchdown.

1312
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 1: So it was a disappointing. You've dealt with a lot

1313
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:42,919
Speaker 1: of disappointment in your life, haven't you did ups and downs?

1314
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 1: You know? I have inside information that your day might

1315
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,439
Speaker 1: have been even worse than you let on. What's that West?

1316
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 1: Did you have car travels this morning? This is Charlie

1317
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 1: Brown stuff. So yeah, I had an uber to work,

1318
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 1: um this morning? So um and you know because um,

1319
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:03,480
Speaker 1: on Friday, I was doing laundry on my day off.

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01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 1: I was reading a book in my car and listening

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01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 1: to music and then I, um had to get a

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01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: jump on Friday and haven't used my car since then.

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01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 1: And I guess it didn't charge. It didn't drive around

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01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: enough after the fact. So so yeah, caring, So I

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01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 1: still have to get an uber home to be honest, Dave,

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01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:29,200
Speaker 1: is your car also your home? Uh no, no, it's

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01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: not okay, So things aren't going that bad, David. You

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01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 1: paint the picture of someone who seeks out and achieves

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01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 1: sort of the high lifestyle that Los Angeles offers. Has

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01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:42,160
Speaker 1: any of this brought back into the fold your ex love,

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01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: even contact with her, or some remote chance of you know, reunited.

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Speaker 1: For new listeners to the show, David found love once

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01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 1: in his life. Um, she left him and that's been

1334
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 1: kind of a that hole in the middle. We didn't

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01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: need to revisit that. This is the caring call we

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Speaker 1: were discussing. I mean, if she has a car with

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01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: a function battery, then maybe that would be good for

1338
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 1: me to check in on. Is that a metaphor. I

1339
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. That'd be kind of a

1340
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: weird metaphor. Um, do you want to talk? Uh? Not really.

1341
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: We just wanted to check in with you, though, But

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01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 1: it seems like you're doing okay. I did get I

1343
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 1: want to tell you, want to be honest with you.

1344
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:21,440
Speaker 1: I sit on the opposite end of the newsroom. I

1345
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 1: did get video of the moment of the camp sack.

1346
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: I had video of you from a distance. Uh. I

1347
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:31,040
Speaker 1: haven't decided whether or not to publish that on Twitter yet.

1348
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 1: I wanted to run it by you if you were

1349
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 1: okay with me sending that out to the masses. Um uh,

1350
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 1: maybe I liked to vet it first, like how how

1351
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: it was it a good angle? It was somewhat flattering.

1352
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: I mean it was from thirty yards away. I zoomed in.

1353
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 1: I think we should just let it fly. I think

1354
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 1: you'll do it. Why not? I mean, that's all I know.

1355
01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 1: You're just playing it right now on the podcast as

1356
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: we're talking. No, da, do you act like we don't

1357
01:06:58,320 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: want to see you be happy? We do want and

1358
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: one day, definitely everything's gonna turn up early. That's not

1359
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 1: true because I remember the after you and see won

1360
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 1: the National championship. After I hung up, you said that

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01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 1: part of you had hope that they had lost. Because

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01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:11,919
Speaker 1: it's basically a little more interesting. It is a show

1363
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 1: element your disappointment. So you might be on to something

1364
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 1: and I can be a that is true, and I apologize.

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01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 1: It's it's it's all good, all right, Dave. Well, we'll

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01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 1: see you back in the office first thing in the

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Speaker 1: morning and hanging there. Buddy. Um, your dog is cam.

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01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 1: Also it's the name of your dog, and you got that.

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Speaker 1: You got a great dog. She's she's doing. She's probaly

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01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,440
Speaker 1: little disappointed right now, but she still still get a

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Speaker 1: walk when I get home. So even out there you

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Speaker 1: go a happy ending to the story. Good dog gets walked. Sure,

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01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 1: all right, I'll talk to get all right. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's it for the wild Card Show. We're just checking

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Speaker 1: in with Eally. That's all, um, great show, an important

1376
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 1: show over the podcast. Um uh you know. And and

1377
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: thanks to everyone behind the scenes that helped us with

1378
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 1: the what happened at the coliseum and um, we have

1379
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: more football to come west. You got to hear what

1380
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 1: Monday is? What's Monday? My last chemo treatment? Oh yeah, yeah,

1381
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:12,959
Speaker 1: comes Wednesday, will be I'll be on for forty eight hours.

1382
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 1: I have to take my pump home with me, but

1383
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: after that I should be done for good. Things are

1384
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 1: going in a great direction in I like to feel

1385
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 1: all right, Lindsey full time, let's get out of here.

1386
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 1: Good job by Lindsay today. Also, everybody's brought their a game.

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Speaker 1: This is Dan Hansons signing up, signing up for the

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01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:36,680
Speaker 1: Quiet Storm. The old man, excuse me, the mailman, the

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Speaker 1: old boss. Lindsey Glass Tuesday, Sorry was a great beard