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Speaker 2: I got a couple of things to say to lay

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Speaker 2: it out here right now. I'm talking about the games yesterday.

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Speaker 2: There was two NFL games, three college games that meant something.

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Speaker 2: I thought, I'm gonna say this right out good my chest.

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Speaker 2: It was embarrassing, it was wrong, it was shameful, it

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Speaker 2: was a sham, and really, to some extent, it was

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Speaker 2: a waste of time watching those college football games. I

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Speaker 2: don't get it. I don't get it. I really don't.

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Speaker 2: And first let's start with the team that was not invited,

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Speaker 2: no Ja Dame, right right now, and Bucky, how are you?

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Speaker 3: How's everything okay? Everything good?

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Speaker 4: You said, all right?

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Speaker 3: I watched it. I know you watched the games yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I think maybe now we need to bring no Ja

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Speaker 2: see no Ja Dame play yesterday.

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Speaker 3: They did not have a better resume than Alabama or Miami.

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Speaker 3: We knew that. Okay, I remember that Miami beat the

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Speaker 3: Irish in Week one.

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Speaker 2: If the committee claimed that No, Jed Dame was the

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Speaker 2: better team week after week after week, Okay, I get it.

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Speaker 2: And then they snubbed the bowl season. They said, you know,

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Speaker 3: We'll go home. That thought that was a week move.

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Speaker 2: But after what I watched yesterday, After I watched Oregon

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Speaker 2: playing yesterday against James Madison, Bucky, I'm telling you I'm

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Speaker 2: not an athlete by any stretch of the imagination. I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you now, if I went to James Madison University,

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Speaker 2: I could have made the varsity. I'm telling you that really.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the score was thirty four to six at halftime.

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Speaker 2: It was disgusting. James Madison, Tulane. Get your own league,

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Speaker 2: get your own division, get your own playoff. It was

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Speaker 2: embarrassing to watch that game yesterday. I'm telling you, I

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Speaker 2: don't know how you felt about that, but I think

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Speaker 2: I do think it was a waste of time. The

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Speaker 2: the second half, you know positive, but Oregon five hundred

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Speaker 2: they even block the field goal, they blocked the punt.

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Speaker 2: I mean their quarterback Dante Moore was nineteen for twenty seven,

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Speaker 2: three hundred and thirteen yards, four touchdowns. I mean, really,

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Speaker 2: is this what we're waiting for?

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Speaker 3: Is this what they.

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Speaker 2: Played all full long to see this kind of a game?

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Speaker 2: Fifty one to thirty four was at the final score?

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Speaker 2: I think it was fifty one to thirty four. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's a waste of time. It's a joke. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I think it even hurt the Gamblers.

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Speaker 2: I just think that this whole situation has to be revamped.

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Speaker 3: It really does, this whole playoff situation.

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Speaker 2: And right now, after watching the games yesterday, I more

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Speaker 2: than ever would have liked to have seen Notre Dame

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Speaker 2: Did James Madison in Tulane? I mean, really, it just

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Speaker 2: didn't make any sense. I don't know, I would. Okay, Buck,

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Speaker 3: Yes, I thought it was a waste of time.

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Speaker 5: To some extent, it was a waste of time.

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Speaker 4: But there's no way that you would have made jam

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Speaker 4: You would have made jam Us team. I'm just telling you,

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Speaker 5: You would not have made Jmu's team.

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Speaker 4: So I understand your point, and I know you're trying

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Speaker 2: Let me just say one thing, Okay, I got two

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Speaker 2: I used to have speed. Now I got two fake hips.

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Speaker 2: I ran too much all my life. That's why I

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Speaker 2: got two fake hips. I had speed and good hands.

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Speaker 2: Other than that, not much football knowledge. But I think

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but outside of that, your point is on the mark.

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Speaker 4: It was a waste of time. But we all knew

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Speaker 4: it was gonna be a waste of time, right, How

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Speaker 4: competitive games. Nobody signed up for that. No one thought that.

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Speaker 4: Even the committee couldn't have thought that they were just

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Speaker 4: there's a decided mismatch between those those teams. There's powerful

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Speaker 4: Notre Dame would have been more compelling matchups than what

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Speaker 2: Right, And you know what, it's funny because all those

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Speaker 2: come forth today. I'm not so certain that after playing

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Speaker 2: or anybody else that Notre Dame should have been in.

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Speaker 2: But at least the games would have been a little

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Speaker 2: more competitive, and that's what we want to see. You know,

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Speaker 2: I don't really have a rooting interest, but I want

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Speaker 2: When I see Old Miss rolling over two Lane forty

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Speaker 2: a better chance making Tulane than JMU.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. You know, it's a toss up between

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Speaker 2: I think if you put Tulane and JMU together as

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Speaker 3: How's that?

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Speaker 4: I may I may agree with you there, And the

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Speaker 4: fact that it's not only the fact that they weren't

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Speaker 4: like I'm not saying that they were checked out. They

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Speaker 4: didn't do their due diligence to get their teams ready,

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Speaker 4: but they had other jobs, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: So it just wasn't the right environment, wasn't the right situation.

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Speaker 4: so weird to have the best game, the most competitive game,

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Speaker 3: Well, I agree with you there.

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Speaker 2: And you took about the Old Miss game, Old Miss

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Speaker 2: winning forty one to ten over Tulane, I understand now,

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Speaker 2: and I reach some reports that Lane Kiffin still got

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Speaker 2: a bonus for All Miss winning in that game. I mean,

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Speaker 2: what kind of a I like to get a whold

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Speaker 2: of his agent? What kind of a contract was that?

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Speaker 2: How the hell does he get a bonus? I mean,

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Speaker 2: he wasn't even coaching the game. He's gone. He bolted

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Speaker 2: for them. They wouldn't let him coach in that game.

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Speaker 2: But I guess you know it was in his contract

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Speaker 2: that should they move on in the playoffs, he gets bonuses.

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Speaker 2: So if they go to the next round, they get

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Speaker 2: to another check.

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Speaker 3: Is that it? I don't get it.

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Speaker 4: I mean somebody was baked into the I mean the equation.

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Speaker 4: though Lane Kiffin isn't currently coaching Ole Miss, he's the

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Speaker 4: beneficiar building a team that is a playoff team, a

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Speaker 4: though he's not there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's talk about probably the best game of

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Speaker 2: Miami over Texas A and M ten to three.

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Speaker 3: And you you.

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Speaker 2: Called that, I believe to some extent give you credit.

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Speaker 2: I think you said watch out for Miami. We didn't

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Speaker 2: But watching the game a sort of halftime stats, I

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Speaker 2: the defense was that strong?

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Speaker 3: I can't figure it out. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I thought builth defenses coming into the game.

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Speaker 4: Both defenses were viewed as strong parts of their respective teams.

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Speaker 4: Miami might have been a bit of a surprise just

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Speaker 4: based on how their defensive line dominated the offensive line

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Speaker 4: Because if you can dominate the line of scrimmage, you

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Speaker 4: on defense. It wasn't necessarily that Texas in them played bad.

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Speaker 4: Marcel Reid had turnovers in those things, but they could

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Speaker 4: Mike Elko said as much in his postgame Presserent.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's funny you mentioned Ruby Bain.

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Speaker 2: That guy finished something like with five tackles, four for

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Speaker 2: a lost, three sacks, he blocked the field goal. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that guy was all over the place, he really was.

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Speaker 2: And you talk about the Miami defense, and their defense

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Speaker 2: obviously was tremendous. Seven sacks against Texas A and M

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Speaker 2: and they think that tied for the most by a

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Speaker 2: Miami defensive unit in the past six years. So right

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Speaker 2: he got a Oregon playing Texas deck, which isn't a

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Speaker 2: bad one. That's January first, that's the Orange Bowl. Got

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Speaker 2: It's not a good look. Really, it's really not a

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Speaker 5: Gauntlet of heavyweights to show that they're worthy of being

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned that because I'm not too thrilled

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Speaker 4: Maybe, but maybe they're just hoping to make it very

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Speaker 4: Get rid of the bowl games because the bowl games

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Speaker 3: I gotta correct you there.

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Speaker 2: You know what for It's for the gamblers and if

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Speaker 3: That's what they do. I mean.

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Speaker 4: But they're not even they're not even watchable. Like Memphis

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Speaker 2: Watched the January Second Bowl. I don't even know the

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Speaker 3: Young. It's just look like, but you know what.

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Speaker 3: In the NFL.

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Speaker 2: And he's always injured in the NFL anyway, But still

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Speaker 3: That's the deal.

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Speaker 5: These are afterthoughts.

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Speaker 4: When it comes to how players view them, and even

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Speaker 3: You know what, it's great. You busted your ear end

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Speaker 2: No, you're wrong, he's he's in he's in church, thanking

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Speaker 3: It was like two teams switching, switching styles at halftime.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: The NFL, thank goodness, they saved the day. You know,

484
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Speaker 2: there was a normal game to watch. And this game

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Speaker 2: was a goodie, not for the Green Bay package, but

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Speaker 2: for the Chicago Bears and Bears fans. Twenty two to

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Speaker 2: sixteen was the final and Buckie Brooks, I gotta ask

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Speaker 2: you this. With the Bears winning the game that that

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Speaker 2: game yesterday, whoever won got into the playoffs. So the

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Speaker 2: Bears are in the playoffs right now. They got to

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Speaker 2: go one and a half game lead in the division.

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Speaker 2: They went down by ten with about five minutes to

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Speaker 2: go in that ball game. I don't get it. I

494
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Speaker 2: just don't understand how teams could choke like that. It's

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Speaker 2: it's amazing. I'm seeing bad snaps. I'm seeing you know, guys,

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Speaker 2: you know kicking What's It's just too many things when

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Speaker 2: on site kicks. These things shouldn't happen in games like that,

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Speaker 2: meaningful games.

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Speaker 4: I mean they shouldn't happen, but they do happen. That's

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Speaker 4: why we played the game. Wow, what we're seeing from

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Speaker 4: the Green Bay Packers, I would just say it's just

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Speaker 4: the toll of the attrition with the injuries and those things.

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Speaker 4: Every look, every NFL team is like a boat and

504
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Speaker 4: they can take on some water for a while, but

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Speaker 4: at some point it overwhelms them.

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Speaker 5: Micah Parson's being out.

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Speaker 4: You just think about the number of guys being now,

508
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Speaker 4: Jordan Love knocked out last game, Christian Watson in and

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Speaker 4: out the lineup, you lose Tucker Kraft, you have offensive

510
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Speaker 4: linemen that have gone off the lineup, Elton Jenkins and others.

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Speaker 4: At some point, it has an effect on the product

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Speaker 4: on the field, and people will talk about next man

513
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Speaker 4: up mentality in those things, but everybody's not the same,

514
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Speaker 4: and the backups can total line so for so long.

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Speaker 4: But ultimately, it is a player's game. You got to

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Speaker 4: have the players to be able to get it done.

517
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Speaker 4: And what we saw when the Packers needed their players

518
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Speaker 4: to come through, they just they couldn't get it done.

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Speaker 4: I mean Josh Jacobs fumbling going in, Romi Dads fielding

520
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 4: to get the OSAC kick Malik Wills is a backup quarterback.

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Speaker 4: You can't necessarily count on him to be able to

522
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Speaker 4: orchestrate these late game drives to win it. But yet

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Speaker 4: they were up ten. They got to find a way

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Speaker 4: to finish the game right.

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Speaker 2: And I'll say this, you know you played the game,

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Speaker 2: and you know the game, and you got the eye

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Speaker 2: of the game. You know, no, Michael Parson's got the

528
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Speaker 2: Achilles deal. What was the difference in the defensive scheme

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Speaker 2: for the Green Bay Packers without Michael Parson?

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't know. I couldn't tell me.

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Speaker 2: What difference does it make him not being in the

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Speaker 2: lineup for Green Bay?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you talk about a four time All Pro

534
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Speaker 4: pass rusher, a guy who had accounted for maybe two

535
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Speaker 4: times the amount of quarterback pressures as anybody else on

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Speaker 4: that team.

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Speaker 5: Losing him is everything, and they acknowledge that.

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Speaker 4: You know, you lose a great player of someone who

539
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Speaker 4: can take over the game, tilt the field in your direction.

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Speaker 5: It's hard to overcome that.

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Speaker 4: And they look like a team that are struggling to

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Speaker 4: overcome the injuries in those things that said they were up,

543
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Speaker 4: they had the game in hand, They're up ten, fourth quarter,

544
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Speaker 4: it's a party, and there's no better party than to

545
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Speaker 4: be on the Packers. Being able to have your weight

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Speaker 4: with your division rival. Man, that's a gut point. I

547
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 4: mean that one's gonna leave scars for the pack It's

548
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Speaker 4: going to impact them not only next week but going forward.

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Speaker 4: And we already talked about, like quietly, there's been conversation

550
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Speaker 4: around the league about Matt Lafleur and those those guys

551
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Speaker 4: being on.

552
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Speaker 5: The hot seat.

553
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Speaker 4: If they're not able to get it done, it's slave warm.

554
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Speaker 4: It's the warm up in lambo right now.

555
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Speaker 2: I like to see players come back and say they

556
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Speaker 2: were wrong when they say stupid things.

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Speaker 3: All right.

558
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Speaker 2: I remember back this past summer Caleb Williams, I think

559
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Speaker 2: he had a book, and he said that Chicago is

560
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Speaker 2: the place where quarterback's gonna die. Remember he said that,

561
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Speaker 2: I would hope after going nineteen for thirty four years

562
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Speaker 2: today and pass he at two fifty to two touchdowns,

563
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Speaker 2: he would say, I take it back. I didn't mean it,

564
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Speaker 2: and Ben Johnson has made me a better quarterback. I'd

565
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Speaker 2: love to see it. It probably won't happen. And I'll

566
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Speaker 2: tell you what else I don't like. I think he

567
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 2: threw that forty six yard game when he touched down

568
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Speaker 2: past the DJ Moore when the game started, there was

569
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Speaker 2: a cheap shot in DJ Moore. I thought he was hurt.

570
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 2: He just laid on the field for a while and

571
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Speaker 2: then he walked off on his own speed. But it

572
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 2: was just a bad shot. He wasn't even involved in

573
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Speaker 2: the play. Some guy in Green Bay just gave him

574
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Speaker 2: a real rap. I think it was in his chest

575
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Speaker 2: or his back. I didn't remember that, but it was.

576
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Speaker 2: It was a cheap shot, there's no doubt my mind.

577
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Speaker 5: I mean, some of those things happen in rivalry games.

578
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Speaker 4: Sometimes you get an inavertent, you know, little little contact,

579
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Speaker 4: little tasty cake. Given the fact that the stakes are

580
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Speaker 4: high in this game and there's a lot of conversation.

581
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Speaker 4: We saw the very short, terse handshake or exchange between

582
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Speaker 4: Matt Lafloor and Ben Johnson because Ben Johnson took the

583
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Speaker 4: job and directly called out Matt Lafleur and the packers

584
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 4: that talked about how much he enjoyed whipping on them

585
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Speaker 4: during his time in Detroit. Yeah, I mean, look, it's contentious.

586
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Speaker 4: I don't worry about those things. Like those things are minor,

587
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 4: Like that's kind of a part of what you're going

588
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 4: to get when you have a rivalry game.

589
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Speaker 2: Right, So now the Bears control their own destiny. I

590
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 2: guess I look at this schedule. Now, they got to

591
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Speaker 2: play the forty nine ers, which is not easy. They

592
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 2: have ten win team right there. And then they go

593
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Speaker 2: back to Chicago they host the Detroit Lions.

594
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Speaker 3: Of the Detroit Lions.

595
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Speaker 2: They lose today, they're out of the playoffs, but that's

596
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Speaker 2: gonna be a tough game. Okay, next week the package

597
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,439
Speaker 2: they're going to lambeau Field, their home against the Baltimore Ravens.

598
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 2: That's not easy as well, close the season in Minnesota

599
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 2: against the Vikings. So the NFL did a good thing

600
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 2: as far as making the schedule kind of tough down

601
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 2: the stretch for all these teams. In years past, if

602
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: you clinched the playoffs spot, they rest these players the

603
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 2: last two weeks.

604
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Speaker 3: Can't do that anymore, and that's good. I like that.

605
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Speaker 5: No, you can't do it anymore.

606
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 4: And they have tried to put these matchups down the

607
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 4: stretch to have compelling TV viewing, to make it around

608
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 4: the clock. You notice they haven't even published what times

609
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 4: people are playing in Week eighteen. Because they like to

610
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 4: create this march madness whip around effect where your scoreboard

611
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 4: watching you don't know if your team is gonna get in,

612
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 4: and the ramifications behind each game to add a little drama,

613
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 4: little spice to life. Chicago has to finish it out.

614
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 4: But look, man, I'm worried with the Green Bay Packers

615
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 4: and the Lions, and the Lions having to win out.

616
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 4: They're up against it. A team that we were celebrating

617
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 4: as a heavyweight for most of the year's gonna be

618
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Speaker 4: on the outside looking in when it comes down to

619
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 4: the tournament.

620
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they've been killed with injuries. I mean, the

621
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 2: defensive backfield is ridiculous. I mean, it's amazing what they've

622
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 2: done right now. But you know they're not going to

623
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 2: say that. They won't use that as an excuse because

624
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 2: everybody says it's part of the game. They're going to

625
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 2: say the fact that they lost Ben Johnson that's the

626
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: reason why the Lions won't be in the playoffs. And

627
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 2: speaking of Ben Johnson, with what he's done thus far,

628
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 2: he's got to be Coach of the Year, right normal.

629
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, whoa, Calm down, he's a candidate. But coaching

630
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,479
Speaker 4: year candidates would be him, Mike Rabel, Liam Korn, all

631
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 4: those first time guys have done a great job getting

632
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 4: their teams over ten wins. You just can't be a

633
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 4: prisoner of the moment because last night you were eating

634
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:43,439
Speaker 4: skyline chilling, you saw the miracle in the midway and

635
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 4: be like, oh, yeah, let's give him the trophy. Yeah,

636
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 4: I mean, he's worthy of being in the conversation. Let's

637
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 4: see how it finish this out.

638
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 2: Rabel didn't help himself with that lost to Buffalo last week.

639
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 2: That was that's another disappointment. But he's done done a

640
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 2: great job though he really has.

641
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 7: Can I tell you right now?

642
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 10: Coach of the Year odds on DraftKings Mike Rabel plus

643
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 10: one fifty, Mike McDonald plus two fifty, and Ben Johnson

644
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 10: third place plus three fifty ahead of.

645
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Speaker 5: Oh Mike Mike McDonald from Seattle.

646
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Speaker 2: I would say his name doesn't even come up in

647
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 2: conversations most of the time.

648
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 4: Really, nah, see you know why because they would say

649
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 4: they're disrespected because they're tucked away into Pacific Northwest No

650
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 4: one season. You got a chance to see him on

651
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 4: Thursday night on Prime but yeah, that's it. And Lee

652
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 4: brought up probably the guy who has done his best

653
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 4: coaching job, and I would say Kyle Shanahan with all

654
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 4: the injuries that they've had to endure, no Nick VOTs

655
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Speaker 4: and no Fred Warner CMC in and out the lineup.

656
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 4: I mean, if he was my fantasy guy, I would

657
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 4: never know whether I could plan him or not because

658
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 4: it's always you know.

659
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 5: It seems a game, game time decision.

660
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 4: But Kyle Shanahan has been able to navigate that on

661
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 4: top of having to play two quarterbacks Brock Peride and

662
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 4: Mac Jones. Give him credit. He'll get votes. He won't

663
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 4: win the award, but he's definitely should get some votes.

664
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good, cool, good cool, Lee. Thanks.

665
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny that that was a great game

666
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: Thursday night as well. And the funny thing is to

667
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: take after that ball game, no one talked about the game.

668
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: You know what they were talking about, and I couldn't

669
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 2: stand it. I had to turn the radio off talk

670
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: about al Michaels saying al Michaels has lost it, He's

671
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 2: not get off his back. You wish you could be

672
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 2: half as good as al Michaels. Al Michaels is the greatest. Well,

673
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: he's too old. Stop it with the age already. I mean,

674
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 2: you know what, I think some of the greatest announcers

675
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 2: in sports are greater when they're older.

676
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 3: I look locally other than the Cincinnati market.

677
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 2: Marty Brenneman, tremendous Hall of Fame announcer, Vince Scully older,

678
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 2: Marv Albert was older.

679
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 3: Al Michael's older. These guys are great.

680
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 2: Age doesn't have anything to do with it, because you

681
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 2: could be young and bad. You can, all right. Al

682
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 2: Michaels has been dealt many a bad game on a

683
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 2: Thursday night. That Thursday night schedule was horrendous. It was

684
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 2: a great game Thursday. He called the game good, all right?

685
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 2: Did he get excited?

686
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 4: No?

687
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 3: Did he go nust? Did he let his pants know?

688
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 3: All right?

689
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 2: You don't have to. He's a great announcer. Get off

690
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 2: his back. That's all I got to say on that.

691
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 5: I mean, he is a great announcer. He's also a

692
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 5: guy who doesn't like the veggies. I mean, I know,

693
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 5: if you won those guys, like.

694
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 4: If you're trying to get your kids to make sure

695
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 4: they get their quarter veggies, make sure they don't watch

696
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 4: al Rikaels because he doesn't believe anything.

697
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 5: But he's had a great and story career, and.

698
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 4: I mean it's not the first time that an older

699
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 4: announcer has kind of you know, had some moments in

700
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 4: those things.

701
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 5: But he's still great at what he does.

702
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 4: I don't know if we need to move them away,

703
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 4: but yeah, the criticism, the critiques were loud, loud about albnucles.

704
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 3: I love them, I really do.

705
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 2: Let me just touch on this Philadelphia Washington game from yesterday.

706
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: The Eagles went twenty nine to eighteen and Jalen Hurts

707
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 2: was twenty two to thirty for one to eighty five

708
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 2: two touchdowns. Sae Kwon Barker finally runs for one hundred

709
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 2: yllars around one thirty two, and they won the you know,

710
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 2: the nfca's first time and win a team wins at

711
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,959
Speaker 2: back to bats is four. My question is this, They

712
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 2: talk about franchise quarterbacks. I in my heart of heart,

713
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 2: so I don't think Jalen Hurts is a franchise quarterback.

714
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 3: But hold the horses right here.

715
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 2: I don't think you have to be a franchise quarterback

716
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 2: on a team for a team to win. Just don't

717
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 2: make mistakes, do mechanical things that are correct, and you

718
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 2: can win with a good surrounding cast, and everybody talks

719
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 2: about franchise quarterback. Hey, the Cincinnati Bengals have a potential

720
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 2: franchise quarterback when healthy and Joe Burrow they can't get

721
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. You don't need a franchise quarterback to

722
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 2: be successful, period.

723
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 3: Agreed.

724
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 4: I disagree, And the reason why I disagree is because

725
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 4: the tournament is all about quarterback play.

726
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 5: And you know, Jalen.

727
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 4: Hurts catches the ire of a lot of people just

728
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 4: because I really don't.

729
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 5: Know why he catches so much heat.

730
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 4: You look at his winning percentage, you look at what

731
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 4: he's done, You look at two Super Bowl appearances where

732
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 4: he outplayed Pat Mahomes in both of those, I think

733
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 4: you'd be hard pressed to say he's not a franchise quarterback.

734
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 4: I think stylistically, the way they play isn't necessarily the

735
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 4: way that most people want their football teams to do it.

736
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 4: Like they are teams that are a run team. They

737
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 4: better when they're running through say or him or doing

738
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 4: those things. Everyone wants to see the ball fly through

739
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 4: the air. But I will say his style works for him,

740
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 4: and it works for that offense, and when that team

741
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 4: operates the right way outside the end, feeding AJ.

742
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 5: Brown on the passing game or whatever.

743
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 4: They're very difficult team to beat and did the defending champs.

744
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 5: So all the outrage about the defending champs and.

745
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 4: Their quarterback play, to me, is silly, especially when he

746
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 4: is coming off a season which he was the Super

747
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 4: Bowl MVP when they won their first trophy with him

748
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 4: at the hill.

749
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: Right last, but not least, as mentioned with Sakwon, Barkley

750
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 2: ran twenty one times with one point thirty two. It

751
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 2: was only the third time he had one hundred plus

752
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 2: yard rushing game this year. And believe me, there's a

753
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 2: correlation between the amount of games they win and the

754
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 2: amount of times he rushes for one hundred yards. There's

755
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: no doubt in my mind. And they don't give them

756
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: the ball. I mean, I don't know why. Team's key

757
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 2: on him for sure, but they were going for the

758
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 2: passing game because of the AJ Browns of the world

759
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 2: who are whining and crying that they weren't getting a

760
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 2: ball enough.

761
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 3: Right, wasn't that the deal?

762
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 5: I mean, it was deal.

763
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 4: But you know what of late when he's gotten the ball,

764
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 4: they've been more efficient on offense, particularly against zone he

765
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 4: is a premier wide receiver. He does have the ability

766
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 4: to take over the game and make the game easy

767
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 4: for everybody else.

768
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 5: But it's a.

769
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 4: Delicate balance of making sure he gets his touches while

770
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 4: staying committed to the running game, which is true to

771
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 4: the quarterback and how he best plays. There are a

772
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 4: lot of things to go and that's why Nick heirean

773
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 4: he had to become a little more involved in the

774
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 4: offense to manage all of the things that are required

775
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 4: to get this offense humming at a high level.

776
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: All right, there we go. We're live from the Fox

777
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 3: Bust Radio studios. He's Bucky Brooks.

778
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 2: I'm Andy Furman, and we call him the answer man.

779
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 2: You call him Bucky. Why ask Bucky? A's next listen?

780
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: Fox Sports?

781
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there it is Adam Sandler.

782
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 2: I love it, thank you, thank you very much. All right,

783
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: it's Bucky coming on right up. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm

784
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 2: Andy Furman, and we'll live from the Fox Bus Radio studios.

785
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: And it's that time. It's time for ask Bucky and Mark.

786
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Faddy, Adam Sandler, because it's the

787
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 2: last night of Hanukkah, and I know you have a

788
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 2: question for Bucky.

789
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 11: So my question is, Bucky, what potentially has to happen

790
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 11: to change the date of when basketball starts, because that's

791
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 11: been a topic almost every year of when basketball starts.

792
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 11: So it get end at a certain time and have

793
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 11: its place in sports time.

794
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, to be honest, like they should start

795
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 4: right around Christmas time because no one tunes into the

796
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 4: NBA into Christmas. But then they got to figure out

797
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 4: how to rush to be done at the beginning of June.

798
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 4: It's too long now, I mean, it's stretched out too long.

799
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 4: You can't keep up with it. It's boring once you

800
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 4: get to the playoffs and those things. So they got

801
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 4: to make it quick. They got to find a way

802
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 4: to make it fun. Right now, it's not a lot

803
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 4: of fun to watch.

804
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 3: No doubt about that. Anything else, Mark, You're good.

805
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 7: That's pretty much it. Could they do double headers in

806
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 7: the day? Would that make it a thing.

807
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 5: The team played twice? Yes, like the Cups two. Yeah.

808
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 5: I mean that that would be.

809
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 4: Great, great if they could do it, but that I

810
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 4: think that'd be a little difficult to pull off.

811
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 11: Right, beautiful game, There you go, I got one for you, Buck.

812
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 3: Toukanakua to receive it.

813
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 2: For the Rams, he made an anti semitic gesture the

814
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 2: other day, was on social media. He said he didn't

815
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 2: know it was an offensive gesture. Now in the workplace,

816
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 2: I know it's a different animal. But in the workplace,

817
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 2: one will be terminated immediately for this. He didn't even

818
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 2: get a suspension in the NFL, not even a fine.

819
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 2: Why why is there a difference?

820
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 4: Hold on, they haven't even announced the fines for the

821
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 4: week yet, so he may be fined at some point,

822
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 4: like just TBD when it comes to it.

823
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 5: Uh, there's not a difference.

824
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 4: They're really trying to clean up a lot of this

825
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 4: stuff when it comes to NFL workplace and right behavior.

826
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 4: And I think some of the immediate reaction that you

827
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 4: saw is the league and the RAMS and the teams

828
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 4: trying to be on the front end of that stuff

829
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 4: as opposed to being reactionary.

830
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 3: You know, I will tell you this story.

831
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 2: I think a lot of it has to do from the top,

832
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 2: from the missioner, you know, and the commission when when

833
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: David Stern, may he rest in peace. When he was

834
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 2: a commissioner, he was tough. He was tough on the

835
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 2: dress code of NBA players and I remember at one

836
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 2: point in time, I think when one player from the

837
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 2: seventies sixes, I forget who it may have been, didn't

838
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 2: stand for the national anthem, he went nuts, he went crazy.

839
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, there's a difference when you have

840
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 2: a tough guy at the top and a guy who's

841
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 2: just like a money hungry guy looking to get money

842
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 2: for people and making the owners happy. And I think

843
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 2: that's what it is in the National Football League, I

844
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 2: really do.

845
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 3: Who knows.

846
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 5: I mean, there's there's there's some of that. There's there's

847
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 5: some truth to.

848
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 3: That, Thank you very much.

849
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 2: Now, speaking of the NBA, the New York Knicks just

850
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 2: won the NBA Cup, big woops, right, but they would

851
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 2: not recognize it with a banner hanging in Madison Square Garden.

852
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 3: Your comments on that, I loved it. I love that well.

853
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 4: I mean, no one recognizes it because a lot of

854
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 4: the fans won't take it seriously and it won't be

855
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 4: treated on par with an NBA title. So it's a

856
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 4: nice accomplishment, But I don't know if you can hang

857
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 4: a banner for that, that'd.

858
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 2: Be I agree with you there, it's like a banner

859
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 2: of people don't even know what they're talking about.

860
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 3: They really don't participation ban, that's what it is.

861
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 2: Okay, with the late season injuries like Patrick Maholmes and

862
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 2: Michael Parsons to name a few, and the league is

863
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 2: talking now to move to eighteen games. What does the

864
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,439
Speaker 2: NFLPA think about this?

865
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 4: I mean, they certainly won't like it when it comes

866
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 4: to a health situation, But I know what everyone likes

867
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 4: is more dollars, and if you move to an eighteen game,

868
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 4: there's gonna be more dollars in the pockets of players

869
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 4: and everyone else. So you're here some bitching and morning,

870
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 4: but they'll figure out a way to get it done.

871
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 5: You may see two by weeks from teams.

872
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 4: You will see a different level of approach when it

873
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 4: comes to training camp, more modifications with the practice schedules

874
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 4: in those things.

875
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 5: But please believe they're gonna get the eighteen games.

876
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 2: It's just too lucrative, right, and I think they need

877
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 2: to even it out because seventeens is an odd number

878
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 2: and sometimes you have, you know, a different amount of

879
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 2: home games with various people who buy the season tickets.

880
00:37:58,320 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 3: It's crazy, all right.

881
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson, the quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. He got

882
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: clearance to play tomorrow night, yet Philip Rivers will start

883
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 2: in the Monday night against the forty nine Ers. Philip

884
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 2: Rivers obviously is not the future of the Colts. Why

885
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 2: would they have Philip Rivers play and not Anthony Richardson.

886
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 4: Because he's a better player than Anthony Richardson has ever

887
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 4: even thought of being. That's why Philip Rivers, five years

888
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 4: removed from playing, gave the Colts a chance to win.

889
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 5: Anthony Richardson is not gonna be able to do that.

890
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 4: And in spite of his draft status as the fourth

891
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 4: overall pick.

892
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 5: All the allure over, what is he going to be? Like?

893
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 4: Nah, you, Shane Styke and your jobs on the high seat.

894
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 4: Play the person that you trust the most, and that's

895
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 4: gonna be Philip Rivers.

896
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 3: Okay.

897
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 2: On Thursday night, the Seattle Seahawks now twelve and three,

898
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 2: they overtook the Rams the first place in the division

899
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: thanks to that thirty eight thirty seven overtime win the

900
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Rams and fired this special teams coordinator, Chase Blackburn,

901
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 2: like immediately after the game, I believe it was.

902
00:38:59,120 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 3: Is that normal?

903
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 2: I mean, really, one game you're gonna fire the defensive

904
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 2: coordinated because of the special teams.

905
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 3: I don't get it.

906
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 5: Nah.

907
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 4: They had a series of miscues, blockfield goals, punts, things

908
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 4: that it hindered them and they had to get it right.

909
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 4: And if you are the Rams, the one way to

910
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 4: get it right, to get their attention, you got to

911
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 4: remove the coordinator. It's not something that you ideally like

912
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 4: to do. But if you're Sean McVay, he didn't look.

913
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 4: He didn't take lightly to a this move and the

914
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 4: magnitude of it. He did it because he feels like

915
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 4: it's gonna make the team better.

916
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: In a situation like that, do players go to the

917
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 2: head coach and said, we got to get rid of

918
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 2: this guy, gets someone new?

919
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 3: Does that ever happen? Is it like a rebellion at times?

920
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 5: Uh? No?

921
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 4: I mean that situation there, it won't even get that far.

922
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 4: Like Sean McVay knew what was going on. He saw

923
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 4: the lack of output and how it cost his team.

924
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 4: It cost his team a game and it's cost his

925
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 4: team other games and they're trying to build their team

926
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 4: for the playoffs.

927
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 5: So you got to make these moves. Now there we go.

928
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 2: Okay, one team is closing in on NFL history, that

929
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,280
Speaker 2: and so much more. Where right here Fox Football Sunday next.

930
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: Don't listen, hey no, Fox Sports Radio.

931
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 2: All right, this team is now in the driver's seat.

932
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: That's right around the corner. Good morning, everybody, It's a

933
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 2: football Sunday and this is Fox Football Sunday on Fox

934
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

935
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 3: He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Fermanent.

936
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 2: We're broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios as

937
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 2: opposed to broadcasting dead. Okay, and be sure to subscribe

938
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 2: to the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Just search Fox

939
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 2: Sports Radio on YouTube and you'll see our best videos

940
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 2: from all of our shows. And don't stop there. Hit

941
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 2: that thumbs up icond of comment the way. Let us

942
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 2: know whose takes that you like and even those you

943
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 2: don't like. Just search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube and

944
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 2: subscribing here. He is the man himself. We call him

945
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 2: Mister Football. His name is Bucky Brooks. Hell, Bucky, how

946
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 2: are you?

947
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 5: Life is good and he can't complain.

948
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 2: You're in Denver today. Your Jaguars are playing the Broncos.

949
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 2: The Broncos undefeated at home. I'll tell you what we

950
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,439
Speaker 2: talked about. Potential Coach of the Year candidates. Your guy

951
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 2: could be up there as well.

952
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean like this is a big one.

953
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 4: This is a big one just in terms of just

954
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 4: maybe commanding a little national respect right now. It's been

955
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 4: a story that has fallen under the radar or that

956
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 4: has been flying under the radar. The Jaguars getting the

957
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 4: ten wins and those things I went against the Broncos

958
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 4: today will maybe bring some legitimacy to the team in

959
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 4: terms of like how the perception is on them and

960
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 4: what they potentially could do in the tournament.

961
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 3: All right, okay, we'll get into that in so much more.

962
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 2: But there's a couple of odds and Enzi, I want

963
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 2: to clean up with you because you have missed a

964
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 2: common sense. I'm sometimes the man who plays the fool,

965
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 2: and I talk about a guy who's a fool. This

966
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 2: guy Tim Soorn is to play by play guy for

967
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Flyers. He had a hot mic. Do you

968
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 2: not know that the microphone is on? But the point

969
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 2: is he's lucky he's got a job. You know, he

970
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 2: got a two game suspension. I remember there was a

971
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 2: hot mic when Marty Breneman's son Tom Brenneman, who at

972
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 2: one point in time worked for Fox.

973
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 3: He was doing a Cincinnati Reds baseball game.

974
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 2: The hot mic said something, and they got rid of

975
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 2: him at the Reds, and they got rid of him

976
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 2: at Fox Football. I mean, so this guy gets away

977
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 2: easily when only a two game suspension.

978
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 3: But how stupid can you be?

979
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 5: Really?

980
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 2: I mean really, you're supposedly a pro and the things

981
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,399
Speaker 2: that he was saying, so he had that hot mic

982
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. I mean, you know, you see things like

983
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: that happen all the time. I guess it never fails.

984
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 2: There's always some clown that will do something like that

985
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 2: and doesn't realize the name of the game is if

986
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 2: there's a microphone, assume that it's on.

987
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 3: At old times, right, that's what you got to do.

988
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think in today's age, you get

989
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 4: assumed that everything is going to be recorded, either professionally

990
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 4: or even casually, meaning as long as you're around people

991
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 4: who have phones, that conversation that you're having with them

992
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 4: and with others can be recorded.

993
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 5: So you have to always be on your guard.

994
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 4: And at a time when there used to be a code,

995
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 4: particularly when it came to like media and players and

996
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 4: coaches and those things like now, it used to be

997
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 4: andy if you and I if I played for the

998
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 4: sin Standy Bingles and you saw me out at an establishment,

999
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 4: a watering hole or whatever whatever you saw me participating in,

1000
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 4: you didn't report that to the public. Like there was

1001
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 4: a level of respect where you're like, Okay, he's on

1002
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 4: his off time, Like I'll let him do whatever he does.

1003
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 4: But now we no longer have those boundaries because everybody

1004
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 4: with a phone is a quote unquote journalist, and so

1005
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 4: it has changed the way that we have to operate

1006
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 4: and move Like we laugh, but it's become that because

1007
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 4: think about it. Anybody who has a few dollars to

1008
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 4: buy MIC can plug it in and pop on their computer.

1009
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 4: They can host a podcast, they can levy their opinions,

1010
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 4: they can go to x and put their opinions out there.

1011
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 4: You have guys who can do all these things that

1012
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 4: make film breakdowns or whatever. So right now in our world,

1013
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 4: everybody's a journalist, and so you have to move differently

1014
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 4: knowing that the rules of engagement are so different.

1015
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I heard rules over the year years that

1016
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 2: if you work for Coca Cola and you're caught buying

1017
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 2: a pepsi, you get fired. And right now, I would

1018
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 2: think that They've been people right now following Coca Cola

1019
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 2: trucks and the drivers to see if, in fact they

1020
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 2: both bought a pepsi from a machine of any machine,

1021
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 2: and I have their phone out there to take a

1022
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 2: picture of them. I mean, that's that's what people do.

1023
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 2: It's the world that we know of now is called

1024
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 2: the got you world. I got you, and I'll tell

1025
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 2: you one step further. You got to be a fool,

1026
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 2: not only to talk with an open mic, you got

1027
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 2: to be a bigger fool to be a crook. Because

1028
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 2: everybody's got cameras all over the place. I mean they

1029
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: talk about these porch pirates now for the Christmas season,

1030
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 2: stealing gifts of people's porches right now from Amazon Amazon Delivery.

1031
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 2: You've gotta be a fool.

1032
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 3: Cameras.

1033
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been victimized on that. In fact, it happened Friday.

1034
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 4: Somebody took some stuff right out my mailbox. I just

1035
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 4: happened to have it on camera. I haven't got them yet,

1036
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,399
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna get them. Yeah, but those things happen.

1037
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 3: I love it.

1038
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, like with cameras and all.

1039
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 4: That other stuff, like you have to you have to

1040
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 4: do those things or whatever. But it's yeah, it's a

1041
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 4: crazy time right now. Yeah, but Porche Pyrus and all

1042
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 4: this other stuff.

1043
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,439
Speaker 3: It's been stupid and I hate to be it down

1044
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 3: in here.

1045
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 2: But that terrible story that we heard the other day

1046
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 2: from Brown University. The students were killed and they caught

1047
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 2: the guy. I mean, I saw a video again. I mean,

1048
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 2: everything you do is being monitored.

1049
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 7: Really.

1050
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 2: You know, if you go on on social media or

1051
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 2: maybe Facebook, if you will, and you look at various

1052
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,479
Speaker 2: items to purchase, two minutes later, you're going to get

1053
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 2: stuff on your Facebook social account from that product. They're

1054
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 2: monitoring you everything you do, everything you say. So really,

1055
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 2: I mean think twice, you know, a word to the wise.

1056
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 3: Really?

1057
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,439
Speaker 2: And Tim Saunders, You're lucky you still got a job

1058
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 2: play by play with the Philadelphia Flyers.

1059
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 3: I'm going to move on.

1060
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 2: I was a little upset, well actually very upset that

1061
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 2: schools I JMU and Tulane were participating in the college

1062
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 2: football playoffs. All right, I asked you, Bucky Brooks, because

1063
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 2: you have the if of football, You played the game,

1064
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 2: you know the talent level. And I'm going back now

1065
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 2: to September seventh, nineteen ninety one when Penn State came

1066
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,439
Speaker 2: to Cincinnati and played the University of Cincinnati and beat

1067
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 2: them eighty one.

1068
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 3: Nothing all right.

1069
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 2: I went to the game and I talked to coach

1070
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: Joe Paturno after the game.

1071
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 3: I said, Coach, why did you run it up?

1072
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 2: He said, I had my third team in there early on,

1073
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 2: he said, And the problem is a when you're on

1074
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 2: a roll, you keep on rolling a number two. These

1075
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 2: guys that are on the second and thirteen don't play often,

1076
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 2: and they want to show what they could do and

1077
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 2: what they could give us. So it's very difficult to

1078
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 2: put the brakes on and tell them not to play hard.

1079
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: So I'm asking you the difference between the Oregans of

1080
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 2: the world, the Texas a and M's and Miami's and

1081
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 2: Alabama's and the jmus in Tulanes. Is it talent or

1082
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 2: is it perhaps, like the second and third team guys,

1083
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 2: the death factor that makes them not as strong as

1084
00:46:58,280 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 2: the other schools.

1085
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the depth Factor's a major part of it.

1086
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 4: You just don't have the depth of some of these people.

1087
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: Have.

1088
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 4: It makes it, It makes it challenging. That's the main thing.

1089
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 4: You just don't have the level of talent from top

1090
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 4: to bottom. That some of these schools have, and that

1091
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 4: just prevents you from building a team that can be

1092
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 4: competitive against the big boys after year after year after year,

1093
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 4: or week after.

1094
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 5: Week after week.

1095
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 2: Okay, and we talk about the lack of talent, Now

1096
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 2: will they ever be able to get that talent because

1097
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 2: of nil?

1098
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 3: Like I say, can't pay it? Right?

1099
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 4: No?

1100
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 5: I mean no, you just you just can't. You don't

1101
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:36,959
Speaker 5: have enough.

1102
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 4: You don't have enough money in the coffers to be

1103
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 4: able to pay everybody like you would if you're those teams.

1104
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 4: So you have to kind of figure out how to

1105
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 4: pick and choose. Yeah, but it puts you at a disadvantage.

1106
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 3: I guess.

1107
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 2: I mean, and that's why they should be playing. You know,

1108
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 2: you should be playing in that league. That's just the

1109
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 2: way it is. I mean, it's like apples and oranges,

1110
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 2: you know, stay in your own league, Stay in your lane.

1111
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 3: That's basically what you need to do.

1112
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 2: All right now, I'm moving to the NFL, which is

1113
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 2: your specialty. Okay, one team and the National Football League

1114
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,919
Speaker 2: is closing in on history. You have any guesses which

1115
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 2: team that's closing in on history right now?

1116
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 3: And they could do it.

1117
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 4: Today, Let's see, because you're in Cincinnati. Let's say the Browns.

1118
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 4: There's something from a futility standpoint that the Browns are

1119
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 4: closing in on. What.

1120
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 3: No, this is a good record. Actually I'm not that name.

1121
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 5: Oh okay, good right, okay, okay.

1122
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 2: This is the Pittsburgh Steelers. They're one win away from

1123
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 2: breaking a record the most consecutive non losing seasons in

1124
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 2: league history. They share the record with the Dallas Cowboys,

1125
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 2: and today the Steelers eight and six play the eight

1126
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 2: and six Detroit Lions, and the Steelers and Cowboys twenty

1127
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:46,760
Speaker 2: one seasons without a losing record. People want Mike Tomlin fired,

1128
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 2: they want him gone. He's a win away from his

1129
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 2: nineteenth consecutive non losing season and now with tying with

1130
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick's second old time behind Tom Landry. I don't

1131
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 2: understand why you have a guy like Mike Tomlin one

1132
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 2: went away from recording his nineteenth consecutive i'm losing season,

1133
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 2: and the people right there, I know fans are crazy.

1134
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 2: They want playoffs, they want super Bowls, but this guy,

1135
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 2: all he does is win. He is a first ballot

1136
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,280
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame when he retires. Period.

1137
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 3: And the story, yeah.

1138
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 4: I mean, they are all those things that you talk

1139
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 4: about are knife, the accolades and those things. But fans

1140
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 4: fan assure for fanatics, fans will point to the fact

1141
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 4: that he hasn't won a playoff game since twenty sixteen.

1142
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 4: And in Pittsburgh where they talk about the standard being

1143
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 4: the standard, the standard, are those Lombardi trophies. You remember,

1144
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 4: this is a team that in the seventies won for

1145
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 4: Super Bowl titles and you talk about that setting the

1146
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 4: stage for the dominance and the expectation in those things.

1147
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 4: So despite all of the participation trophies and certificates you

1148
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 4: got for perfect attendance or whatever, did you make the

1149
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 4: honor roll? If you didn't make the honor roll is pointless.

1150
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 4: And I mean so your perfect attendant trophies, you're a

1151
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 4: good conduct and behavior and sportsmanship certificates matters less. If

1152
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 4: you don't have honor roll on your accolades or accomplishment

1153
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 4: at the end of the year.

1154
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 2: You know, you make a great point because it's kind

1155
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,240
Speaker 2: of like no one knows who finishes second in Kentucky Derby.

1156
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,760
Speaker 2: And let's go back to academics for a second. Everybody

1157
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 2: knows the valedatorian of the class. They don't know the

1158
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 2: guy with a saladatorian whatever it's called it. And no

1159
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 2: guy than them who run a up deal they don't

1160
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 2: know that guy. They know the Valatorian. That's basically, you're right.

1161
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 2: If you don't win, forget it, you might you might

1162
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 2: as well be a loser if you don't win.

1163
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 3: That's what it is.

1164
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I mean pretty much, that's that's how they

1165
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 4: treat everything. And so you have to win. You have

1166
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 4: to win at a high level and right now because

1167
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 4: all the voices or whatever like is loud, and you

1168
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 4: have to beat people think that you can compete for a.

1169
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 5: Title year after year after year after.

1170
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 4: Year, regardless of how realistic those expectations are.

1171
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:55,760
Speaker 5: Those are the expectations of the fan base.

1172
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:58,919
Speaker 4: And you know what, you're gonna have to hear about

1173
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 4: it until you're able to pull some those things are.

1174
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 2: Well, if they're winning right now, the Seals eight and six,

1175
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,320
Speaker 2: they got a one game lead over the Ravens AFC

1176
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 2: North and it could be it could very well be

1177
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 2: the first division title since twenty twenty. All right, However, however,

1178
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 2: the Lions need a win to keep their playoff hopes alive,

1179
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 2: and honestly, Aaron Rodgers looked pretty good last week, he

1180
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,280
Speaker 2: really did. And the Lions right now have a pretty

1181
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,720
Speaker 2: banged up secondary, so I'm looking to see DK Metcalf

1182
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 2: have a pretty decent game today.

1183
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 3: I think they'll be passing the ball.

1184
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 2: They'll be flinging it around a little bit because the

1185
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 2: win won't be af fector they're playing indoors. They're playing

1186
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 2: in Detroit, so I think they'll be passing it and

1187
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 2: flinging it around.

1188
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 3: DK Metcalf have a big game today.

1189
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,479
Speaker 4: I think there's some signs of promise, Like a big

1190
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,879
Speaker 4: win on Monday n against Miami, you started passing the game,

1191
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 4: all the central figures getting involved. If they're able to

1192
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 4: put it off against Detroit, now only did you get

1193
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 4: the winning, you have an opportunity to get the ten

1194
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 4: wins against the Baltimore Ravens. And you know, if you

1195
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 4: think about the tournament and the hot teams in the tournament,

1196
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 4: you could begin to build a case for this team

1197
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 4: being the hottest team heading into the tournament if they're

1198
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 4: able to kind of complete it right.

1199
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 2: All right, the Lions right now a little bit of

1200
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 2: a disappointment, how much, And we kind of touched on

1201
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 2: this early on in the first segment, first our Ben Johnson.

1202
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: His loss that big of a deal, really, I don't know,

1203
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 2: you think.

1204
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean I think it has a big

1205
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 4: part of it. Yeah, it certainly contributes to it. You

1206
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 4: just can't keep losing good people and things that you

1207
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 4: can maintain it. Yeah, that's a big part of it.

1208
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 2: Well, I mean they talk about losing coaches they use

1209
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 2: as an excuse. I'll going back to the college level.

1210
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 2: Oregon lost their both coordinators and they rolled yesterday. So

1211
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 2: does it make that much of a difference.

1212
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 4: I don't know, but they still were there. Ben Johnson

1213
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 4: isn't there for them. So it's a thing like when

1214
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 4: you lose enough coaches, and they lost not only did coordinates,

1215
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 4: but they lost a lot of assistant coaches.

1216
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 5: The messaging changes. No matter what.

1217
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 4: You and I can take the same recipe. Let's just

1218
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 4: make Grandma's cookies, right, Grandma's given us the same recipe

1219
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 4: and we're both in our respective kitchens. My cookies are

1220
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 4: gonna taste different than yours. No matter what the recipe is.

1221
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 4: We all just put our own little flavor and spin

1222
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 4: to it. So it's gonna be a different thing. So

1223
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 4: when they brought new coaches in. Everyone adds their own

1224
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 4: little flair. That's why those teams can't remain the same,

1225
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 4: because you don't have the same people in those leadership positions.

1226
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,760
Speaker 2: I hear what you're saying. I agree with you there, okay,

1227
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 2: And we talked about one team that you.

1228
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 4: Agree with me, but that my cookies will taste better

1229
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 4: than yours or what about that?

1230
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 3: Probably?

1231
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 2: Okay, because I want cookies, I go to the store

1232
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 2: and buy cookies. I'm not wasting my time.

1233
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 5: You don't know how to you know, you don't know

1234
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 5: how to make cookies. What I don't make?

1235
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 4: Life skills like, come on, we gotta have you gotta

1236
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 4: be able to find for your own.

1237
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,879
Speaker 2: I get in the car and go to McDonald's. That's

1238
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 2: till I do I sent on my own. I mean, look,

1239
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,280
Speaker 2: I don't need any dish. If I went to live alone,

1240
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 2: maybe a couple of paper plates, that's all I would need. Really,

1241
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 2: you know, I could live in the YMCA. M McDonald's

1242
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 2: is my You know, if Ocho Cinco is the number

1243
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 2: one McDonald's guy, I'm the second guy.

1244
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 3: I'm right behind them.

1245
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 4: Okay, really, all right, okay, all right to Cho Cinco

1246
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 4: it's my guy.

1247
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 5: There we go.

1248
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 2: All right, Now we talked about this team in the

1249
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 2: driver's seat, I'm talking about the San Francisco forty nine ers.

1250
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 3: What do I mean by that?

1251
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 2: The battle to the NFC West two horse race really

1252
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 2: between the Rams and Seahawks, and that was like really

1253
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 2: for most of the season. Now, all of a sudden,

1254
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 2: the San Francisco Finals are alive. And well why because

1255
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 2: the Thursday night's game and they win in Seattle. All right,

1256
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:45,959
Speaker 2: that's what happened. The forty nine has got a big

1257
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 2: time help from the Seahawks. Seahawks beat the Rams, as

1258
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,760
Speaker 2: we mentioned, thirty eight thirty seven and that wild overtime

1259
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 2: shoot up. By the way, what do you think of

1260
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 2: that call? I thought it was a perfect call, right.

1261
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 2: It was a pass that went for the two point

1262
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 2: conversion and it was not over scrimmage whose sideways?

1263
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 5: Really?

1264
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I think the call was correct. I think

1265
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 4: they got it correct. I think the procedures were a

1266
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 4: little odd because no one knew that it was under

1267
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 4: review like that, But I mean.

1268
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 5: Give them credit. The rules are the rules, and if

1269
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 5: it was a.

1270
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 4: Backward pass and it bounced around and ricochet like that,

1271
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 4: it should be recoverable and give Zack Charmonaute credit for

1272
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 4: touching the rock and picking it up.

1273
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:29,800
Speaker 3: It was great.

1274
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 5: There we go.

1275
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 2: Now, thanks to that win sin Seattle's win on Thursday night,

1276
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:36,399
Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers now have full control over their

1277
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 2: road to winning the NFC West and maybe clinching the

1278
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 2: number one overall seed in the NFC. Okay, the Seahawks

1279
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 2: win kicked the door wide open for the forty nine

1280
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 2: ers to come in and get the top spot, which

1281
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 2: is unbelievable really. So the forty nine ers, if they

1282
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 2: win their final three games, that will let them clinch

1283
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 2: the NFC West and the top seed in the NFC.

1284
00:55:58,200 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 3: But it's not going to be easy.

1285
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 2: Okay, Today at the Colts, Next week Bears at home

1286
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 2: following week Seahawks. It's going to be tough, it really is.

1287
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 2: So now let's see what they got going on today.

1288
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 2: They got forty nine is ten and four at the

1289
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 2: Colts and that's well Monday night, I'm sorry, eight and six.

1290
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 2: So let's talk about that game a little bit right now,

1291
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 2: because the Colts all of a sudden have kind of

1292
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 2: hit the skids. I understand, you know, they got some

1293
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 2: injuries and whatever, it might be, but what happened to

1294
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 2: the Colts was it, you know, fool's gold over there

1295
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis. I mean we thought they were good. I

1296
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 2: didn't think they four like this eight and six. I

1297
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 2: mean now they're clinging.

1298
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 5: A little bit.

1299
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're clinging because you have losing streaks and you

1300
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 4: have injuries to your quarterback Daniel Jones. That changes some

1301
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 4: of the rhythm of the offense. Philip Rivers can do

1302
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:52,760
Speaker 4: a good job of getting him in the right calls,

1303
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 4: but he's still not Daniel Jones in terms of having

1304
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 4: the full set of skills and those things. And when

1305
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 4: you're losing, you lose a little bit of your confidence.

1306
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 4: And as you talk about them, really they're reeling as

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00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 4: they're playing the toughest part of their schedule because now

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00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 4: they're playing the really, really good teams. It's still not

1309
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:13,800
Speaker 4: over for them yet, but it's bleak is bleak. The

1310
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 4: light is flickering because they go from playing the Niners

1311
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 4: to the Jaguars to I forgive you they finish up

1312
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 4: with maybe they finish up with the Texans, but yeah, yeah,

1313
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 4: it's a tough, tough slate of games for them.

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00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they talk about MVPs, and I haven't heard

1315
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 2: this fella's name mentioned as a potential MVP guy. And

1316
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 2: I'll talk about the running back of the forty nine ers,

1317
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey. This guy's got more than eight hundred yards

1318
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 2: rushing and receiving, and he's got fourteen total touchdowns this year. Really,

1319
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't. I mean, he's really carried that

1320
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 2: team to some extent on his back. And we don't

1321
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 2: hear much about Christian McCaffrey, maybe because we always hear

1322
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 2: about Christian McCaffrey, if you know what I mean. But

1323
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 2: you know they talk about Jonathan Taylor. He'll probably win it.

1324
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 2: But Christian McCaffrey's got to get some votes. I don't

1325
00:57:58,200 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 2: think he's going to win it. We got to get

1326
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 2: some votes. Ten and four to forty nine ers.

1327
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 4: He may get a handful of votes, but as we know,

1328
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 4: like the Heisman Trophy, this is a quarterback award, this

1329
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 4: goes to the quarterback, so the high quarterback will get it.

1330
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 3: So you don't think there's a.

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00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 4: Chance, not at all. And I love what he's doing.

1332
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 4: I love the fact that Roger Craig is tearful on

1333
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 4: the sideline looking at what he's been able to do.

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00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 4: A guy that can do it. He's done this before though, Andy,

1335
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 4: He's done the one thousand and one thousand things. He's

1336
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 4: done one thousand rushing yards, one hundred receiver receptions. He

1337
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 4: has all that in his bag. He's one of the

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00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 4: best multipurpose backs that we've ever seen. Legendary. But I

1339
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 4: don't think this will move the needle enough in terms

1340
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 4: of his accomplishment unless the nine is just real office series.

1341
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 5: You win and they kind of get to the number

1342
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 5: one seat.

1343
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 2: Okay, before I step aside here, I gotta ask you

1344
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 2: a bit quote. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna

1345
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 2: hold it. I'm gonna tease that there's a big question

1346
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 2: that must be asked to Bucky Brooks. I'm putting you

1347
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 2: on the spot. Don't be nervous. I don't want you

1348
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 2: to start switzing right now, don't. It's an easy question.

1349
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 2: It's a yes or no. But I want to know

1350
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 2: if the thought process has gone through your brain from

1351
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 2: ear to ear. It's a big ease. So we'll do

1352
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 2: that when we come up and we can get Bucky

1353
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 2: Brooks on X at Bucket, Brooks at Andy Furman FSR

1354
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 2: eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven,

1355
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 2: nine nine.

1356
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 3: Six sixty three sixty nine. And of course we've got the.

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00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 2: Playing game at the end of this hour, and these

1358
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 2: two quarterbacks may be switching jerseys sooner than later.

1359
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 3: That's next.

1360
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1361
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:42,080
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1362
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:46,320
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1363
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 6: listen live. All right, Desperate is the word for these

1364
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 6: two teams. That's right around the corner. He's Bucky Brooks.

1365
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 6: He's not desperate.

1366
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,240
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1367
00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:00,240
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1368
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,680
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1369
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,960
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1370
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,040
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01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,840
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Speaker 2: three hours right up until kickoff. For all of the

1374
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,120
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1375
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,200
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01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:24,479
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01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, and of course there wonderful iHeart app Now,

1378
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 2: I promise to ask you a big question. Are you nervous?

1379
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 2: Are you nervous, Bucky Brooks?

1380
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 5: Yes, very very nervous. I bet you chattering knees, knocking

1381
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 5: it very nervous.

1382
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 3: I bet you.

1383
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 2: All all right, So last week we talk about the

1384
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts. They lost the Seattle eighteen sixteen. They or

1385
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 2: up sixteen fifteen with forty seven seconds.

1386
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 3: Left in the ball game. All right, I watched the.

1387
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 2: Game simply because Philip Rivers is a grandpa and he's

1388
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 2: forty four years of age. He finished eighteenth for twenty

1389
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 2: seven for one hundred and twenty yards with one touchdown

1390
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 2: and an I int Now, he wasn't spittaged, but he

1391
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 2: was not terrible.

1392
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Speaker 3: That's for sure.

1393
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 2: He played, I mean, not playing in five years of

1394
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 2: coming out pretty damn good. Really, So I asked you,

1395
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks, at forty four years of age, Philip Rivers

1396
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 2: came back.

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01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 3: Was there any of the thought process in your mind?

1398
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 2: Maybe I could have played another year, Maybe I could

1399
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 2: come back. Maybe after sitting out a year or two,

1400
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 2: I could do what Philip Rivers did. Have you ever

1401
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 2: thought about anything like that?

1402
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 5: Ooh man, not in a long time. And I feel

1403
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 5: the way I feel.

1404
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 4: But I'm envious that Philip Rivers for being able to

1405
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 4: chase that dream, because everyone should play until the wheels

1406
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 4: completely fall off.

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Speaker 5: Now this week, the wills may fall off for Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 4: But if you're one who believes in chasing dreams, man,

1409
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,919
Speaker 4: you chase it all the way to fulfillment. And even

1410
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 4: though I can't do it, Philip Rivers represents all the

1411
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 4: old people, all the ones who want to go out

1412
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 4: and try and do it one more time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I want to know, what was it like that

1414
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 2: first year when you retired and you watch the games

1415
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 2: on TV and you were looking and said, maybe maybe

1416
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 2: I could could have still done it. I mean, well,

1417
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 2: how is that first year sitting out?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's hard then, because like I legitimately felt like

1419
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 4: I still could play. It was the end of my

1420
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 4: like my six training camp. I was six years in.

1421
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 4: That means they had to be close twenty eight twenty nine,

1422
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 4: so physically I still felt like I was up to snuff.

1423
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 4: It wasn't like being thirty five trying to come back

1424
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 4: and oh I can do this. I'd been away from

1425
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 4: five or six years. It's a different thing, and it

1426
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 4: takes a while for that to leave you. It never

1427
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Speaker 4: really leaves. You just kind of learn how to compartmentalize

1428
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 4: it and try and find other pursuits that bring you

1429
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Speaker 4: close to that joy.

1430
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Speaker 5: But now it's hard.

1431
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Speaker 3: I bet, I bet it is.

1432
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Speaker 2: All right, you wrote again, and I always mention this

1433
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 2: because you do such a great job at the NFL

1434
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Speaker 2: dot Com.

1435
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 3: You're right there. You're writ for Fox Sports as well.

1436
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 2: But this week, and I'm not going to go through

1437
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 2: all of them, but I want to know just about

1438
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 2: one player in particular, early winners. You say, twenty twenty

1439
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 2: six NFL free agency, all right, and George Pickens right there.

1440
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 2: He is the guy a little bit. I think I

1441
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 2: call him a clown. I mean, I think he's a

1442
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 2: great talent, but I think he's difficult to corral, he's

1443
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 2: difficult to coach. He's his own guy, and he does

1444
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 2: what he wants to do. He does what he pleases.

1445
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 2: Now he's with the Dallas Cowboys. He was dealt to

1446
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 2: the Cowboys before his final year of his rookie contract expired.

1447
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 2: So now you're saying hebe be one of the top

1448
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 2: three agents. Is he that wanted? I mean because of

1449
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 2: what he is, what he does I mean is cookiness

1450
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 2: off the field and maybe not being able to fall

1451
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 2: in line as you will with the rest of the

1452
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 2: players or coaching staff. He'll still be wanted on that

1453
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 2: free agent block.

1454
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like you fall in line. Because here's

1455
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 4: what's undeniable. His talent. Talent begets tolerance. For most players

1456
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 4: in the league, the more talented you are, the more

1457
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 4: you tolerate some of the other stuff. His talent is

1458
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 4: through the roof, and he's shown it this year, having

1459
01:03:56,880 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 4: an opportunity to be a legitimate number one receiver, to

1460
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 4: play with a high end quarterback, to be able to

1461
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:07,439
Speaker 4: show his full arsenal of skills. Yeah, he's in line

1462
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 4: for a payday. And I know, people to talk about

1463
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 4: what's going on off the field. Can he manage it?

1464
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 4: Can he handle it? He handled it this year, So

1465
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 4: you have to bank on him handling it going forward

1466
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 4: while still trying to protect yourself if he does go

1467
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 4: off the rails.

1468
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 2: And these players that do go off the rail a

1469
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 2: little bit, I'm talking like the Pookahs of the world

1470
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Speaker 2: and George Pickens. Don't they have agents that would sit

1471
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 2: down down and say, hey, you know, can you just

1472
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 2: calm down, reel it in a little bit. Do the

1473
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 2: agents have any say so at all and how the

1474
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,680
Speaker 2: guy should act, what they should say?

1475
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 4: I mean, they're professionals, but ultimately the agent works for

1476
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 4: the player. The player doesn't work for the agent. So

1477
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 4: if the agent wants to continue to get paid, they

1478
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 4: also fall in line too.

1479
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 3: Just do the contract, keep your mouth shut.

1480
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 5: Stay out the way what you would like.

1481
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 4: You like strong mentors around Pickens to be able to

1482
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 4: advise him and counsel him and give him the right

1483
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 4: words of wisdom so he moves correctly in his position.

1484
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 4: Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. And I'll say this,

1485
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 4: and I am not one to be the old man

1486
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 4: on the lawn to talk about this generation being different.

1487
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 4: But when I ask players and people around the league

1488
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:21,919
Speaker 4: about the young guys coming up, they say they're hard

1489
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 4: because they are maybe more talented than they've ever been,

1490
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 4: but they're more sensitive and they don't handle criticism or feedback.

1491
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 4: Will any criticism or feedback must be delivered the right

1492
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 4: way or they believe, man, you're quote unquote hating, and

1493
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 4: it's not that the person is hating on you, he's

1494
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 4: trying to help you get better. But this generation has

1495
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 4: a hard time being able to separate what hate is

1496
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 4: and what constructive criticism is.

1497
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up because I think a

1498
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 2: lot of that problem comes from coaches.

1499
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 3: Coaches.

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01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 2: I remember when coaches at postgame news conferences will call

1501
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 2: out players. Happens anymore because the coaches are afraid. They're

1502
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 2: afraid and they're fred buggers. Media is going to say

1503
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 2: they quote lost the team in the locker room. But

1504
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 2: back in the day, there were coaches that could care.

1505
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 2: They couldn't go after anybody. They would go at a

1506
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 2: news conference after a game and say, well, Bucket Brooks

1507
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 2: dropped that pass. That's why we lost. If he would

1508
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 2: have held out there, we would have to win it.

1509
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 2: Today they don't do that anymore. I mean, coaches go

1510
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 2: in there. I saw sack Taylor. I take full responsibility.

1511
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 2: It's my fault.

1512
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 3: Let me come on, really, I mean, you don't play

1513
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 3: the game.

1514
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 2: You call it play. If it doesn't work, you're playing

1515
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 2: on a player. They don't do that. Why is that?

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Speaker 2: Why has coaches become soft.

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01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, as they become softer, you have to

1518
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 4: be willing to deal with confrontation. And depending on the

1519
01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 4: league that you're talking about, the sport that you're talking

1520
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 4: do you have enough weight behind your title to be

1521
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 4: able to hold people accountable to the degree.

1522
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 5: That you need to. If you don't, and you know,

1523
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 5: ownership is always going to side with the.

1524
01:06:56,720 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 4: Player, your commentary, your complaints, criticism can be viewed in

1525
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 4: a different light. Everyone has to be on the same page.

1526
01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 4: My experience, when players know that the coach cares about them,

1527
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 4: coach can go at them as hard as he wants

1528
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 4: because there's a belief there, there's a trust there. The

1529
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 4: same level of respect and trust doesn't exist in every

1530
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 4: locker room, which is why you can't. You can't call

1531
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 4: players out like that because they won't react favorably to it.

1532
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 2: And you know what, in my mind, there's only a

1533
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 2: handful of coaches that can call players out and get

1534
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 2: away with it. Ben Johnson's one of them. During twenty

1535
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 2: camp this past July, he threw them off the field

1536
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 2: of bears. He's a come on, get out, get off.

1537
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, you don't see that anymore. That's

1538
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 2: what a high school coach does got Ben Johnson, Dan Campbell.

1539
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,600
Speaker 3: He's from the same school I say, Sean McVay, perhaps,

1540
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 3: right McDermott Buffos.

1541
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 5: He does the best.

1542
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 4: The best coaches do that because that's the only way

1543
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 4: to be able to get it done. You have to

1544
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 4: be able to tell them the truth, good, bad, or

1545
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 4: you have to be able to shoot a straight tell

1546
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 4: them exactly what you expect, what you demand, what you

1547
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:08,880
Speaker 4: want from them. And when it's good, you praise them.

1548
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 4: When it's bad, you tell them.

1549
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 3: And you don't have to do with cussing and screaming

1550
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 3: and yelling.

1551
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 2: Because I'll go back and look at Marv Levy, who's

1552
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,720
Speaker 2: had a lot of success when he coached Buffalo, right,

1553
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 2: I know he was a gentleman.

1554
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:23,040
Speaker 4: No, you don't have to curse that the players though

1555
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 4: I'm accountable, you know, that's not necessary. But you can

1556
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,559
Speaker 4: you can coach them hard, you know. And what we

1557
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:31,519
Speaker 4: mean by coach them hard, that means we can have

1558
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 4: high standards, high demands, but you have to be able

1559
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 4: to love on them, you know, and so it needs

1560
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 4: to be even the way you kind of balance that out,

1561
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 4: you know, if they're doing great things, man praise the

1562
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 4: behaviors and the efforts that you want to see.

1563
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 5: If they're not doing those things, then you got to

1564
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 5: call them out do something.

1565
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 2: And you know what, Though I love Jamar Chase, I

1566
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 2: think he's great. He may be the best receiver in

1567
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:57,879
Speaker 2: the National Football League. When he spit on that Pittsburgh

1568
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:02,759
Speaker 2: Steeler player, I mean, is the most disgusting thing in life?

1569
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:06,720
Speaker 2: Really to do that. Zach Taylor almost defended him. I

1570
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 2: mean in the news conference, I mean any other I mean,

1571
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,439
Speaker 2: what would Dan Campbell say? He would have said, It's

1572
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 2: the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. I won't tolerate that.

1573
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,760
Speaker 2: That's what Zach should have done. I think maybe I'm wrong,

1574
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 2: and you can't change a coach's personality. The way he's

1575
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:23,639
Speaker 2: made up his DNA, that's the way he is. Zack's

1576
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 2: a good guy and he's not going to do that.

1577
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 2: But to me, a coach normally who has a backburn,

1578
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:32,640
Speaker 2: who has a pair of handing downs, would say that

1579
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 2: will not be tolerated on my staff.

1580
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:36,280
Speaker 3: And it didn't happen.

1581
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:39,120
Speaker 2: I was shocked and I was shot that DeMar Chase

1582
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 2: even did it. I have I didn't think he would

1583
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:42,599
Speaker 2: do something like that.

1584
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 4: I am surprised too that he did it, because it's

1585
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 4: not something that I would say is becoming of a

1586
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 4: player to conduct yourself like that, and to be like that,

1587
01:09:56,479 --> 01:10:03,280
Speaker 4: it's actually gross, you know. But he did, and they

1588
01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 4: tried to come to grips with it and figured out

1589
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 4: in those things now to chase his credit. While he

1590
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 4: was away, someone I obviously counseled him and talked about

1591
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:16,639
Speaker 4: how bad of a look it was. Yeah, but Zach Taylor,

1592
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:19,360
Speaker 4: those guys coaches, and you gotta hold your players accountable,

1593
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 4: and it's going to be uncomfortable and whatever, but you

1594
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:22,680
Speaker 4: have to.

1595
01:10:23,040 --> 01:10:24,639
Speaker 5: That's the only way your team is going to maximize

1596
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 5: who they are.

1597
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 2: Right And today, two teams that are out of the

1598
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 2: playoffs playing in Miami. One of was the Bengals out

1599
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:33,040
Speaker 2: of the Dolphins. Bengals four and ten, Dolphins six and eight.

1600
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 2: They meet this afternoon. Both teams out of the playoffs

1601
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,839
Speaker 2: has mansioned, but there's some storylines over here. Bengals quarterback

1602
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow addresses a possible breakup with the Bengals, maybe

1603
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:43,120
Speaker 2: maybe retirement.

1604
01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 3: I don't know. His contract is through twenty twenty nine.

1605
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:46,599
Speaker 3: He'll be thirty four.

1606
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 2: Let's hear what Joe Burrow had to say earlier this

1607
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 2: week about his feelings of playing football.

1608
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:53,679
Speaker 1: In your mind when you're.

1609
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:55,679
Speaker 3: Not the quarterback with the Bengals next year.

1610
01:10:56,040 --> 01:10:57,600
Speaker 5: I couldn't. I can't see that.

1611
01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:01,320
Speaker 6: No, it didn't get thought about the possibility of not

1612
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:04,120
Speaker 6: being the quarterback here during your career, or.

1613
01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:07,640
Speaker 12: You think about a lot of things. A lot of

1614
01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 12: crazy things happen every year. Michael Parsons got traded right

1615
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:16,200
Speaker 12: before right before the season. I think this year something

1616
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:18,280
Speaker 12: I hadn't seen in a long time.

1617
01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 5: In the NFL.

1618
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 12: So crazy things gonna happen, all right.

1619
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 2: What happened to Joe Burrow, It's a very simple thing.

1620
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 2: He is what we call in Cincinnati bengalized. He's become bengalized. Really,

1621
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 2: it's like someone who's paralyzed. No, he's bengalized. Carson Palmer

1622
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 2: was bengalized. It's like you go out week after week,

1623
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:40,839
Speaker 2: get your head bashed in and you can't handle it anymore.

1624
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford he had that. He was lionized, right, and

1625
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:46,240
Speaker 2: he left because the Lions were losing. And he's got

1626
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:48,160
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl ringing. We got another one this year.

1627
01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:51,760
Speaker 2: Now with his injury and his season of history of

1628
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:53,480
Speaker 2: injuries and all that stuff.

1629
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 3: Should he be resting these last three games?

1630
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:57,680
Speaker 2: I don't think. So that's a question. What do you

1631
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,880
Speaker 2: think about, you know, the future for Joe Burrow. I mean,

1632
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:03,560
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna play, will playing Cincinnati.

1633
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 4: I think the future is right there. There's no way.

1634
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 4: It's too hard to get a quarterback. To allow a

1635
01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 4: franchise quarterback to bounce. They did it once for Carson Palmer,

1636
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:14,679
Speaker 4: which was foolish. It took them a minute to bounce

1637
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 4: back from that. They stumbled into Andy Dalton. He became

1638
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 4: more than what I think they thought he would be

1639
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:24,920
Speaker 4: as a second round pick. But even then, Andy Dalton

1640
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 4: on his best day wasn't what Carson Palmer was as

1641
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 4: a franchise quarterback.

1642
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:30,679
Speaker 5: There's different I would.

1643
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 3: Take Philip Rivers now all over Andy Dalton.

1644
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 4: Right, So it's just different differently, And that's not being disrespectful.

1645
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 4: Andy Dalton had a nice career in Cincinnati. I'm just

1646
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:42,400
Speaker 4: saying the level of talent, the pedigree, all that is different.

1647
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:47,040
Speaker 4: If you're Cincinnati, man, you make sure that you keep

1648
01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow in the fold as QB one and you

1649
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 4: find a way to get everything right around him without

1650
01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:58,240
Speaker 4: making him different than everybody else on the team.

1651
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 2: Right now, Miami two is out and the rookie Quinn

1652
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:04,280
Speaker 2: you is just going to play. What's happening is is

1653
01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 2: Tua finished? Is his deal finished in Miami?

1654
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:06,599
Speaker 3: Now?

1655
01:13:08,439 --> 01:13:10,120
Speaker 4: You know he could be, but there'd be a lot

1656
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 4: of money they would have to eat. I think it

1657
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 4: would be ninety nine million dollars in dead cap space.

1658
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 4: But what you have to do is, and I've heard

1659
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 4: coaches talk about this, and I do believe it's right.

1660
01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 5: Whatever the money is, the money is.

1661
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 4: But you can't make your decisions based on the money.

1662
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 4: Whatever the contract was is the cost of doing business.

1663
01:13:27,360 --> 01:13:29,679
Speaker 4: But if you keep good players around because you don't

1664
01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:32,599
Speaker 4: want I mean you keep soso players around because you

1665
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 4: don't want to pay them to buy out or whatever.

1666
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,839
Speaker 5: The team looks at you differently. If they don't.

1667
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:40,080
Speaker 4: Believe in the locker room the two can get it done,

1668
01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:41,479
Speaker 4: there's no coming back from it.

1669
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 2: There you go, and last, but not least, I'll talk

1670
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:48,160
Speaker 2: about you, Jacksonville Jaguars Trevor Lawrence. Last week, did he

1671
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:50,640
Speaker 2: have five tds in passed for three thirty and that

1672
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 2: forty eight twenty went over the Jets. Maybe he's coming

1673
01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 2: of age. Is that possible, Trevor Lawrence?

1674
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 5: Right now, Yeah, it's very possible.

1675
01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:00,759
Speaker 4: Last three games he's had a passer ray over one hundred.

1676
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:03,520
Speaker 5: He has ten touchdowns, no giveaways.

1677
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:05,600
Speaker 4: He's playing really good ball. And I would say that

1678
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 4: people look at the numbers, The numbers don't really validate

1679
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:10,920
Speaker 4: what he's doing, but I'll say the field is there.

1680
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:14,600
Speaker 4: He's more confident and more decisive. He has some of

1681
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 4: that swag that he entered the league with and right

1682
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 4: now it's paying off.

1683
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:20,839
Speaker 5: Look, he's being rewarded for his efforts.

1684
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 2: That's great, and of course he's got to do it

1685
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:25,040
Speaker 2: against that great defensive Denver. But right now we're live

1686
01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:27,320
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1687
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1688
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1689
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1691
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1692
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1693
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1695
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Speaker 2: right after we get off the end. Now point your finger,

1696
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:49,679
Speaker 2: it's that time.

1697
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:50,400
Speaker 3: What is it?

1698
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 2: The blame game is freaking next?

1699
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:57,160
Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1700
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 2: All right, the blame game coming right up. This is

1701
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 2: Fox Football Sunday in Fox Sports Radio. He's Bucky Brooks

1702
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 2: and Andy Furman and we're protesting live from the Fox

1703
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,439
Speaker 2: Sports Radio studios. And before I throw it to our

1704
01:15:08,479 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 2: executive producer, Lead de Lap, I want to thank him

1705
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:13,280
Speaker 2: for a great yeoman's job he did today. And by

1706
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 2: the way, at the top of the hour, eight am

1707
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:18,599
Speaker 2: Eastern time, Mike Harmon will join gret Co Sell right

1708
01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: But right now it's time for the blame game. You

1710
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:24,120
Speaker 3: ruin me.

1711
01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 1: It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.

1712
01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:28,679
Speaker 3: What it is all your fault?

1713
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 1: Maybe it's everyone's faults.

1714
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 6: The liar.

1715
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 1: That's why there's the blame game, the blame game. Let's

1716
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 1: figure out who to blame. He's a liar.

1717
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:43,439
Speaker 3: Lead de Lap, are you ready? Let's roll big ball?

1718
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 7: Already guys.

1719
01:15:44,439 --> 01:15:47,240
Speaker 10: Well, as we all know, Sharon Moore did recently get

1720
01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 10: the acts as the U of Michigan football coach. Yet

1721
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:53,840
Speaker 10: we have seen many problems in that athletic department a

1722
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,760
Speaker 10: basketball coach, smack, an omposing assistant coach, and even one

1723
01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 10: of his own.

1724
01:15:58,120 --> 01:16:01,599
Speaker 7: The department is a mess. Who is to blame for that?

1725
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 3: Bucky, go ahead, Buck lead it off.

1726
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:08,800
Speaker 4: Ultimately, leadership bears the responsibility of that. So from the

1727
01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:11,600
Speaker 4: ad all the way up, you're responsible for it. Like

1728
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:14,719
Speaker 4: there's a thing that is see in business, what you permit,

1729
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 4: you promote, and so if you have those things going on,

1730
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:20,519
Speaker 4: ultimately you're permitting it and promoting it.

1731
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 5: So you're responsible for it.

1732
01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 2: The failure to monitor and I'm gonna name names, athletic threat,

1733
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:27,639
Speaker 2: the Ward Manual.

1734
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 3: You need to get fired.

1735
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 2: You created this mess at the University of Michigan, and

1736
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 2: I cannot believe the alumps have not stood up and

1737
01:16:35,479 --> 01:16:38,760
Speaker 2: said we want them gone. I'm not condoning what the

1738
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:42,600
Speaker 2: coach did football coach more, but the point is that

1739
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 2: a lot of garbage has been going on in that

1740
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 2: department anyway, and it comes from the top.

1741
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:47,120
Speaker 3: Ward.

1742
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:54,840
Speaker 2: Pack your bags, get out, okay, next very horsh All.

1743
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:58,799
Speaker 10: Right, guys, check out these college basketball scores. Men's Colorado

1744
01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 10: State one O four, Northern New Mexico fifty four, Youngstown

1745
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:06,360
Speaker 10: State one O three, fel fifty two, Florida one O two,

1746
01:17:06,400 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 10: Saint Francis PA. Sixty one and Women's Furman one ten,

1747
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 10: Mars Hill thirty six, West Virginia one sixteen, Westland College

1748
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 10: twenty one.

1749
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 7: For these outlandish scores, who do you blame?

1750
01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:24,719
Speaker 2: I blame the coaches because they're so weak that they

1751
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 2: need this confidence builder, so they play these schools.

1752
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 3: They just roll over them. I don't understand why they

1753
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:30,800
Speaker 3: do that.

1754
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 2: You know what, if I'm a coach of a school

1755
01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:38,160
Speaker 2: like Mars Hill or maybe Saint Francis PA, I would

1756
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,799
Speaker 2: refuse to pay to play these schools. But I assume

1757
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 2: there's a big paycheck there. When Florida's playing Saint Francis PA.

1758
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:47,720
Speaker 2: I'm sure Saint Francis PA and Little Loretto Pennsylvania is

1759
01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 2: getting a paycheck.

1760
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 3: It's sad.

1761
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:53,040
Speaker 2: It doesn't build any character, any sportsmanship whatsoever.

1762
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:55,600
Speaker 3: It stinks. There's no winner whatsoever in that.

1763
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, you gotta learn how to lose in life.

1764
01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:01,599
Speaker 4: So this is just an early advanced lesson to learn

1765
01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 4: how to lose, how to handle it with grace, and

1766
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 4: how to bounce back. If you own little Johnny and

1767
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:09,639
Speaker 4: little back and you go through life without experiencing any

1768
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:12,400
Speaker 4: hardships than sports are not for them. But sometimes you

1769
01:18:12,439 --> 01:18:14,040
Speaker 4: get you get your nose rubbed in and you got

1770
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:17,000
Speaker 4: to feel the band pappering you. You need to get

1771
01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 4: picked on a little bit by the opposing fans. Yeah,

1772
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:21,800
Speaker 4: this is part of it. It's going to help you

1773
01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 4: down the line.

1774
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:29,160
Speaker 10: Guysio, Ohio University cites extramarital affairs and firing their football

1775
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 10: coach Brian Smith. Since when is that a fireable offense?

1776
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:35,760
Speaker 10: Other faculty members have probably done the same. Who do

1777
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 10: you blame, Bucky?

1778
01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:41,400
Speaker 4: Uh? This was layered though, because it wasn't just that,

1779
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:45,480
Speaker 4: like in reading the reports in Ohio, he was separated

1780
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 4: and divorcing his wife, and some parents called him coming

1781
01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 4: in or out of the hotel with the lady. So

1782
01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 4: one of the ladies was a forty one year old,

1783
01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:58,800
Speaker 4: but they said he also has some consensual relations with

1784
01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 4: an undergrad. When you're in that position, it just doesn't

1785
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 4: look favorably on the university if your coach is engaging

1786
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:09,920
Speaker 4: in those kinds of things, and they're also with some

1787
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 4: alcohol allegations to go with it.

1788
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 5: So a lot, it's a lot to process. I don't

1789
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 5: know if it's viable, but it certainly didn't look good

1790
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 5: for them.

1791
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:22,400
Speaker 3: It didn't look good. And I'll tell you what I

1792
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 3: blame this.

1793
01:19:23,439 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 2: I blame contracts because obviously, if you fire the guy,

1794
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:29,560
Speaker 2: you know for cause, and they're going to do it

1795
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:31,639
Speaker 2: for cause over here, they don't have to pay him anything.

1796
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 2: So they weren't happy with him. They weren't happy with

1797
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:37,040
Speaker 2: his look. Maybe whatever it was. The team wasn't as

1798
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 2: strong as it was in the past, so they want

1799
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:41,120
Speaker 2: to get rid of the guy. So you built up

1800
01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:43,599
Speaker 2: a case. I would promise you, Bucky Brooks and lead

1801
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 2: the lab and mark that you could go down the

1802
01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 2: entire faculty list and see faculty members in history, philosophy, mathematics,

1803
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:54,920
Speaker 2: whatever it may be, having extra mari little fairs and

1804
01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 2: they're not getting fired.

1805
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:56,640
Speaker 6: How do you like that?

1806
01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:58,639
Speaker 2: They want to get rid of him because they didn't

1807
01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:01,720
Speaker 2: want to pay his contract. That's why they could be

1808
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 2: a bump too.

1809
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,120
Speaker 10: I don't know, alright, And last one, chiefsmissed the playoffs.

1810
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 10: Who do you blame you, guys?

1811
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:12,240
Speaker 5: I think old age, Yeah, yeah, everybody, Andy Reid, Redfeach.

1812
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 4: They didn't build a good enough team like pad Mahomes

1813
01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 4: has been good. But they can't continue to do it

1814
01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:16,360
Speaker 4: with him.

1815
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 3: All right, Merry Christmas.

1816
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:21,400
Speaker 2: Everybody will see you next Sunday, right here on Fox

1817
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:22,599
Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

1818
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 6: Hanging there,