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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Between the Horns. Happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: It is January second, twenty nineteen. Happy new year, Tomarco,

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Speaker 1: Happy new Year. Are you reading that? Why are you

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Speaker 1: reading that? Are you reading the intro? Listen? We cannot

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Speaker 1: be reading intro. I will tell you why. Too far

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Speaker 1: along to be reading plays off a risk band. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you're right. I wanted to make sure I said the

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Speaker 1: right day in the right year. Okay, fair enough, because

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Speaker 1: it's a new year, and like I know me, like

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Speaker 1: I would have said, like twenty seventeen, and it's twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen now. It is about ten thirty am Pacific time.

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Speaker 1: Here here in Ogory Hills, California. The La Rams have

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Speaker 1: finished their season thirteen and three after defeating the San

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Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers forty eight to thirty two last Sunday.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think that game was as close as

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Speaker 1: the final score might indicate, especially because you were up

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Speaker 1: forty eight to seventeen and then you started putting in reserves.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean, what do they do in basketball

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Speaker 1: when you when you you call time out to get

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Speaker 1: the last guy out and everybody stands up in applause. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's all that was missing in that football game. But

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Speaker 1: when you removed everyone so yeah, I mean I thought

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Speaker 1: the Rams defense really carried the day. Oh absolutely, yeah,

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Speaker 1: with the takeaways and how they played and then the

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Speaker 1: offense got going. Yeah, it was a It was a

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Speaker 1: great victory by the team that should win on game day.

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Speaker 1: That's the way a championship team should look against a

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Speaker 1: team like the forty nine ers at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year. Absolutely, And it was interesting to me hearing

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Speaker 1: from Sean mcvagh after the game, and he was talking

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Speaker 1: about how the attitude of that week was we need

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Speaker 1: to treat this like the Atlanta game last year where

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Speaker 1: they were in the playoffs, because at this point it

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Speaker 1: basically was their wild card round game. If you win

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Speaker 1: that game, you automatically advanced to the division round. And

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Speaker 1: I think that created a sense of urgency within the players.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, as you said, the defense carried

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Speaker 1: the day because you got two takeaways and started in

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Speaker 1: the red zone and about being about a boom. You're

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Speaker 1: up fourteen nothing right within the first five minutes of

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Speaker 1: the game, and it really kind of set the tone

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Speaker 1: for everything and it kind of removed out within five

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Speaker 1: minutes of Okay, this is what's going to happen today.

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Speaker 1: To me, it removed the Niners motivation, Like I mean

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Speaker 1: you could start to see on film like why are

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Speaker 1: we out here? Like looking at the clock, like it's

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Speaker 1: almost over. You're two and a half quarters, you're one

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Speaker 1: and a half quarter, You're a half a quarter away

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Speaker 1: from the season being done. You could see that from

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Speaker 1: the first takeaway. I mean they had motivation to beat you.

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Speaker 1: Every forty nine er that's living with that has breath

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Speaker 1: in their body wants to beat the Rams, especially you know,

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Speaker 1: away from home, yes, on the road. So they came

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Speaker 1: out and tried to do their best, but those takeaways

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Speaker 1: just took all the air out of them, you know,

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Speaker 1: and gave the Rams the momentum they refused to give back.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean I hope the division round goes that. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I really do that. I mean, that's that's a great

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Speaker 1: way to win a football game. Take the ball away,

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Speaker 1: set your offense up and scoring territory, and let them

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Speaker 1: do the job. Well, what was interesting about basically this

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Speaker 1: whole season with the Rams, but especially post bye week,

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Speaker 1: the takeaway has really really really started piling up. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you really had fifteen takeaways basically since the bye weekend.

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Speaker 1: I believe I'm getting funny set right. Yeah, look, look

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Speaker 1: who was turning the ball over versus who wasn't. You're

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Speaker 1: facing the elite quarterbacks who don't turn the ball over,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you face the other

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Speaker 1: end of the spectrum and you get a bunch of takeaways.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, how that works? Yeah, funny, funny how that works.

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Speaker 1: But b I mean, you know, I think you've got

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Speaker 1: to give the defense credit if you're doing what it

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Speaker 1: needed to do. As you always say, good teams keep losing,

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Speaker 1: teams losing, right, no doubt. I mean, but like this,

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Speaker 1: there's tight coverage and then there's tight coverage versus the elites. Okay,

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Speaker 1: tight coverage usually works against eighty percent of the league,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't work against the greatest guys out there.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, most of those guys, or some of those

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Speaker 1: guys you're going to see coming up in the postseason,

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Speaker 1: or at least one of them you're gonna see, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: at least at least one. If you advance on this side, right,

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Speaker 1: if you're advanced, if you advance, so, I mean, it

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Speaker 1: just proves like when we start to say things are

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Speaker 1: bad during a bad stretch. You have to consider who

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Speaker 1: you're playing against before you say the defense is ailing

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Speaker 1: or can't do certain things right. You know what I mean? Yes, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So when you get against the mere Mortals or something

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Speaker 1: to see what his defense can be right. And that's

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Speaker 1: definitely happened. I think having a key to leite back

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Speaker 1: the thing started with that big fumble recovery. But I

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Speaker 1: want Mark Barron too, because I thought Mark Barron was

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Speaker 1: all over the place yeah on Sunday, and he obviously

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Speaker 1: was the one who got that forced fumble there too

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Speaker 1: between the Horns X factor for the postseason. I want

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Speaker 1: to say it first before you steal it. It's Mark Barron. Really,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, his stat line it looks completely different

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Speaker 1: than everything else all year long. I'm serious. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the Mark Baron that we know and love. That's

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Speaker 1: the guy that we want to see more of sacks, quarterback,

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Speaker 1: hits for his fumbles. He's all over the place. When

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Speaker 1: you talk about Littleton less and more Barren, I think

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Speaker 1: the defense is better for it. Interesting. Yeah, so that's

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Speaker 1: the guy if he shows up in the postseason. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say all your ailes are fixed on defense, but

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Speaker 1: a lot of them aren't. Yeah. Probably. I mean Mark

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Speaker 1: Barron finished that game. He's talked about his stat line

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Speaker 1: with six total tackles, one sack, one tackle for loss,

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Speaker 1: one quarterback hit, one force fumble. So, as you're saying,

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Speaker 1: when he's in all of those different categories, that's a

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Speaker 1: really good sign for the Rams. Absolutely. I mean that

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Speaker 1: used to be the norm or what we used to

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Speaker 1: expect out of Mark Baron. That's why I got the contract. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's when you made the change to linebacker. That's

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Speaker 1: what you expected. So if that guy starts to show up,

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Speaker 1: and if he can perform like that moving on in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, yeah, a lot of the problems we were

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Speaker 1: talking about all season long on defense go away. When

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Speaker 1: he plays like that, well, I think it part of

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Speaker 1: it is just the fact it's part of it is

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Speaker 1: who you're playing, you know, and I you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: the Niners and the Cardinals are not the same caliber

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Speaker 1: of an opponent as even the Eagles, the Bears, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, whoever you want to talk about it's it's

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Speaker 1: not the same caliber of opponent, but you still have

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Speaker 1: And I think when Baron is flying around like he

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Speaker 1: That's something where you're saying, all right, you're you're building something,

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Speaker 1: You're building momentum, I guess in the lead up to

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Speaker 1: the play. I mean, look, it gives people or opponents

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Speaker 1: hitter and he can just roam and hit, I mean

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Speaker 1: he's explosive. You see that. Yeah, I mean he tackles guys,

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Speaker 1: they go down, but sometimes he actually jars the ball

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Speaker 1: loose he gets the play started. I mean, that's the

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Speaker 1: stuff that's been missing from the defense. In my perspective.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that because it's something that we've seen

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Speaker 1: him specifically do in the past. Yeah, and it just

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Speaker 1: hadn't necessarily shown up this year for whatever reason. When

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Speaker 1: the ball has come out, for the most part, it's

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Speaker 1: been on sacks and it's been a right Aaron Donald

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Speaker 1: ripping the ball out, But I mean getting the ball

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Speaker 1: out versus the run. I mean that changes everything. Yes,

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Speaker 1: usually those things turn into big plays less than quarterback

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Speaker 1: fumbles because it's a scrum. The ball comes out you

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Speaker 1: you fall on it right there. But I mean when

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Speaker 1: like that can happen. Yeah. Did you see the play

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Speaker 1: Kittle made on to Lead. Yes, you'd have to be impressed. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm really impressed with that. That dude outran everybody to

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Speaker 1: catch to Lead. Talk about effort though, like Kittle, Kittle

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Speaker 1: can't tell for sure because I'm not in his helmet,

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Speaker 1: but I think to Leabe got up surprised, like, who

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Speaker 1: the hell was that? Yeah, well, if you watch the

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Speaker 1: broadcast back like you got up smiling like I thought

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Speaker 1: I had that, I didn't. Not as bad as getting

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Speaker 1: caught by a punter. No, no, no no no, but you

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Speaker 1: did get caught by it. You did get run down

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Speaker 1: by a tight end on an angle. But it's a

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Speaker 1: tight end. It's a record setting tight end. Corners aren't

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Speaker 1: that was one guy that definitely wanted his On Sunday,

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Speaker 1: George Kittle, did I read that that record got broken

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Speaker 1: like twenty four hours later by Kelsey? No? No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: So he broke Kelsey's record that hours wrong? Hours later,

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Speaker 1: hours later, Okay, maybe not even hours, not even probably

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Speaker 1: that wrong, because I'm like, wow, that that would be

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Speaker 1: a shame if that season got like overshadowed in hours,

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Speaker 1: because he's been great all year long. Yeah, yes, And

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Speaker 1: you know what, what's funny, And I was reading some

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Speaker 1: stuff out of San Francisco about this. You know, he

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Speaker 1: has been kind of getting to be this dominant guy

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Speaker 1: without the benefit of real good quarterbacking. True. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's almost I look at like the like old school

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Speaker 1: Walter Payton back when the Bears weren't very good, back

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Speaker 1: before the Super Bowl shelful Bears. You know, he'd have

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Speaker 1: sixteen hundred yards. Well yeah, that's all they have. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: well Kettle had a great season. Yeah, that's pretty much

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Speaker 1: all they have, you know what I mean? And they

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Speaker 1: tried every way popsible to get him open. That's why

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Speaker 1: I told you. I said, look, I bet Littleton has

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Speaker 1: a fantastic game. Yes, it's a two back offense. They're

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Speaker 1: going to try to do everything in their power too

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Speaker 1: full linebackers. Well, he's not easily fooled. He's going to

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Speaker 1: step into a few throws, Bam, touchdown. You know, that

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Speaker 1: pretty big day out of the linebackers. If you can

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Speaker 1: get that same sort of production or anywhere close to

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Speaker 1: it moving into the postseason. Like I said, forget about

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Speaker 1: all your worries on defense. Yeah, yeah, that stuff can

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Speaker 1: be corrected. Well, I'm glad you brought up Corey Littleton

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Speaker 1: because he may or may not have been robbed of

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Speaker 1: defensive player of the week. He went to Fletcher Cox.

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Speaker 1: Three sax is good. Three sax is quite good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Fletcher Cox. I mean absolutely no disrespect to Fletcher

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Speaker 1: Cox because he is definitely one of the best defensive

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Speaker 1: tackles in the league. And degree of difficulty may have

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Speaker 1: been higher for because of who you were playing, who

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Speaker 1: they were playing, and who the Rams are playing. Washington

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Speaker 1: is you know, I mean they were on there what

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter back there? Okay, all right, I'm just okay, degree,

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Speaker 1: I mean you can you can do what you want

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Speaker 1: about degree of difficulty. I think you're just defending the

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Speaker 1: if there is a problem out to your left side.

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Speaker 1: If there is a problem. But Sean mcvayas said that

424
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Speaker 1: he doesn't believe that there will be a problem. So

425
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,560
Speaker 1: the issue with Whitworth is that knock knees with another player.

426
00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,600
Speaker 1: Oh that sucks. Yeah, Oh it hurts so bad exactly. Yeah,

427
00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,879
Speaker 1: And so you know, basically, my understanding is that they

428
00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,359
Speaker 1: kept him out for precautionary reasons, but it doesn't seem

429
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Speaker 1: to be anything more than just the knocking of knees.

430
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,919
Speaker 1: And McVay said on Monday that we should have our

431
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Speaker 1: guy back for the good rest. Yeah, another guy that

432
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 1: needs a lot of rest. Absolutely, you know. I I

433
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,000
Speaker 1: loved when they pulled everybody in the game. I wish

434
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,680
Speaker 1: it could have been sooner. Yeah, Yeah, just to get

435
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,720
Speaker 1: them more rest going into the postseason. It's going to

436
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 1: be invaluable. You know. I saw a good tweet and

437
00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,120
Speaker 1: I wish I could remember who put it out there,

438
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,439
Speaker 1: but it was the idea that you know, in baseball September,

439
00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,160
Speaker 1: you get these call ups, right, so your roster expands,

440
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 1: and so you get younger players a chance to play

441
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,119
Speaker 1: that were in the minor leagues. You know, you can

442
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,239
Speaker 1: rest some guys for the postseason, see what you have

443
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 1: and some other guys whatnot. I And the idea was

444
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,639
Speaker 1: for the NFL Week sixteen and seventeen, you expand it

445
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Speaker 1: to maybe fifty all fifty three players on your roster

446
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,359
Speaker 1: conlay practice squad, yeah, or exactly. You activate the practice

447
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 1: squad and it gets to a sixty three man roster,

448
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,399
Speaker 1: and that way you can kind of rest guys. You

449
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 1: can see what you have in different guys, because there's

450
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Speaker 1: a problem with the forty six at least, you know,

451
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Speaker 1: when you're in Week sixteen seventeen, and I think what

452
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 1: the NFL would probably say is, well, how is this

453
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 1: keeping competitive? But just go with me here, Like you

454
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 1: weren't able to take out some of those guys on

455
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Speaker 1: the OL because you don't have that many guys up

456
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 1: on the OL true, right, you only usually the rams

457
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 1: will we activate seven players on the offensive one. So

458
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Speaker 1: even though Jamie dim his back, he and he is

459
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 1: on the active roster, you can't. You don't have him

460
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 1: available to play to replace somebody like a Roger Saffold

461
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 1: that probably could have used a blow, another veteran guy.

462
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,399
Speaker 1: But you were able to replace Whitworth due to injury,

463
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 1: but then just because you wanted to, and then um

464
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Speaker 1: John Sullivan with Brian Allen. So it's just an interesting

465
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Speaker 1: theory that I saw. I like it, um, as long

466
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Speaker 1: as it doesn't change the pay scale. See yeah, exactly

467
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Speaker 1: that that's no, but that's exactly what it is. Those

468
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: are the different concerns. I know, I know, how are

469
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Speaker 1: these people getting paid? What does that mean for an

470
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 1: active is? What does it mean for X y Z.

471
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Speaker 1: There's a lot that goes into it. It is, but

472
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Speaker 1: it does make sense. I see your point. But at

473
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Speaker 1: least it sucks for everybody, right, yeah, yes it does.

474
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Speaker 1: But um yeah, so that again just a little theory.

475
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Speaker 1: I mean, I wish you could have wholesale changes. I

476
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Speaker 1: don't know how you would actually sell that. I'm towards

477
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Speaker 1: the end of the year. You know. That's That's what

478
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's like the whole the NFL, those whole

479
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: thing is, oh my gosh, look at all these teams

480
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: that are still competing for playoff spots. You know, so

481
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: they don't want players to not play, even though you know,

482
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like right right, like the

483
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Speaker 1: Drew Brees Teddy Bridgewater thing in New Orleans that happened,

484
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: you know, they I think in general the league would

485
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 1: like to have competitive things going on in Week seventeen.

486
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: So oh true, so your starters are still playing. I

487
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: just always look for how someone can you know, circumvent

488
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: or pervert that rule, because it would suck if there

489
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Speaker 1: was a team that was, say, on the verge of

490
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:35,920
Speaker 1: eight and eight, nine and seven, and they needed one

491
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 1: more win to make the postseason. Yeah, and then you

492
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 1: had all these September call ups sure towards the end

493
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Speaker 1: of the year, and they're a completely different team for

494
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Speaker 1: one week and make the postseason. Oh yeah, you know

495
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yes, they can get healthy all of

496
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Speaker 1: a sudden just to win one game. That would stink, yes, yeah, anyway,

497
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Speaker 1: So but let's have the Aaron Donald conversation because he

498
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 1: did not get the sack record, but yeah, he did. Still,

499
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Speaker 1: if you're the if you're even that close to that record,

500
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 1: you've got it from an interior guy, come on to

501
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: be in that conversation. You've won, Oh, no doubt. I

502
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 1: mean he has now the most sacks from any interior

503
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Speaker 1: alignment since the sack became official in nineteen eighty two.

504
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 1: Twenty and a half sacks is unbelievable from the spot

505
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: at which he's doing it. There's there's nothing else to

506
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Speaker 1: say about that. And he really ought to be the

507
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: unanimous defensive player of the year easily. If there's anyone

508
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: out there that comes close, please let me know anyone.

509
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 1: I saw an argument last week that Khalil Mack should

510
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Speaker 1: be the defensive player of the year. And with absolute

511
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 1: respect to Khalil Mack, who is clearly a generational player

512
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Speaker 1: and he is very, very good, he did not have

513
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: the season that Aaron Donald had. Fair and the justification

514
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 1: that I saw on that tweet was basically something like,

515
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack is more valuable to the Bears than Aaron

516
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Speaker 1: Donald is to the Rams because Khalil Mack has gotten

517
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Speaker 1: his sacks more of his sacks in games that the

518
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Speaker 1: Bears have scored fewer than thirty points exactly, and Aaron

519
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: Donald's score has gotten more sacks in games where the

520
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: Rams have scored more than thirty points, which is like,

521
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 1: who wrote that Kalomax's brother. It was a reporter out

522
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Speaker 1: of Chicago, and I can't remember the guy's name. Was

523
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: his name Naggy? No, I don't think so. But yeah, again,

524
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Speaker 1: like I just, I feel very fortunate to have witnessed

525
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 1: such a historic season by a generational player. Oh yeah,

526
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: this is well right, yeah, but just the regular season though,

527
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 1: this is going to be you know, if things continue

528
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Speaker 1: progressing as as they are, this is going to be

529
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Speaker 1: one of his signature seasons on his Hall of Fame resident. Well,

530
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: let me let me throw a feather in your cap.

531
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Speaker 1: If that even works anymore. You need to look up

532
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: postseason sacks and the postseason sack record. This isn't over. Yeah, yeah,

533
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: that's just the regular season. And from what I can

534
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Speaker 1: tell now, you know, I think his name is Mike Person,

535
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: the guard for the Niners. He used to be in

536
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Speaker 1: Saint Louis. Yeah, we called him Missing Person. Um, he's

537
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 1: a professional offensive guard. You know. Now, I don't know

538
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: where you rank him in terms of current guys, but

539
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: he's starting in the National Football League, which means he's

540
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Speaker 1: one of the best in the world. It does. Aaron

541
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: threw him around. It looked like he was overmatched. It

542
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: looked like you had a college player out there against Aaron.

543
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: So from my eyes, it looks like Aaron is actually

544
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: getting better, right, that's what I mean. So, okay, so

545
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 1: the regular season is over, I would start looking into

546
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: postseason records because I think those might fall. Did you

547
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 1: see what he said about receiving the contract extension last week? Yeah,

548
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: about earning it, you have to go show it. That's

549
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 1: his way of saying thank you. Yeah. Yeah, he said

550
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: the words thank you aren't enough. I have to go

551
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: you have to go show it. Yeah, this is the

552
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: right guy. I'm so happy for him that he's so humble,

553
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: he's so good and they the Rams did the right

554
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: thing by paying them, because now teams won't fear signing

555
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: the next one that's close to being dominant or half

556
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 1: is dominant, like DeForrest Buckner when he's up the kid

557
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: ranking in New Orleans. That's having a good year. I

558
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: mean all these three techniques or guys that rush from

559
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: the interior, how much they disrupt, how important they are,

560
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: how valuable they are to win in on game day.

561
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: I'm glad that Aaron got the big deal and he

562
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 1: is actually playing better. You know, it changes a lot,

563
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 1: I think, because I think paying a tackle one hundred

564
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: million bucks used to have the face of Albert Haynesworth. Absolutely,

565
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: you don't want to do it. You pay them, they

566
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: go the other way. I think, what's the other guy

567
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: that was in New York, Mohammad Wilkerson got paid and

568
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: his production went south. So it will scare off teams

569
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: from paying guys in the interior or guys that make

570
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: a living with their hair and down. Now that might change.

571
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: You'd like it well, because now everybody's gonna try to

572
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: find the so called and I do this with air

573
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: quotes next Aaron Donald. Yeah. Right, it's like teams that

574
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: are well, you're not going to find that, That's what

575
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But it's the same kind of deal with

576
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: like teams who are looking for ed coaches right now,

577
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: trying to find the quote unquote next Sean McVay, right, exactly, exactly.

578
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: All everything this league is very reactionary and it is

579
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: a copycat league. But when you have a guy who

580
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: is as unique as Aaron Donald, there are a lot

581
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: of things that just can't be replicated because people, I

582
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: mean not only from the physical gifts and the skill

583
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 1: set there, but his work ethic. It's so hard to

584
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: do what he does and maintain the schedule that he does,

585
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: and it's just something in his brain. Man. I don't

586
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how it got to be that way,

587
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: but he just he's obsessed with it, you know, like

588
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: the best outside of quarterbacks, Jerry Rice comes to mind. Yeah,

589
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson as a spectator watching him, and then Aaron Donald,

590
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: guys like him, even going back to Walter Payton. You know,

591
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: people will try to define what made them great, and

592
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: if you ask me, I would say, it just looks

593
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: like it means more to them than everyone else on

594
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, on every single play. Ye, Now, how

595
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: you want to define that? So be it? Maybe he's bigger, strong,

596
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: or faster, but he just seems to want it more

597
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: than anyone else out there. His uniform and the other

598
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: team's uniform included. Yeah, that's the difference to me. Well,

599
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: I just think it's so interesting because he finds this

600
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: so meaningful, you know. And I don't know if you

601
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: saw this too, but when he was talking to us

602
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: in his media session last week, I asked him, you know,

603
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: do you take do you have time even to take

604
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: stock of what this is what you're doing right now?

605
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: He said, And when we were on the bus coming

606
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: back from Arizona, had a kind of toughen up and

607
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: hold back tears a little bit, because that's how meaningful

608
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: it is to him. He knows like you're a part

609
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: of history, and so you set out to do things

610
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: like this, but you don't necessarily imagine that, Okay, this

611
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: is what's going to happen, and this is how it's

612
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: going to happen, and this is how these things come.

613
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: And like you know, I can as a person and

614
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: a fan of football, I can understand Dan why that

615
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: would get done. A little bit of no one's been there. Yeah,

616
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: the first footsteps on the moon exactly, that has crossed

617
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: these barriers. I mean, I'm sure they've had some wave

618
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: of emotion. You did it and why me at the

619
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: same time, right, you know what I mean? But yeah,

620
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: I mean, no one's been where he's been no interior

621
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: guy has been there, so I'm glad he held back

622
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: the emotion. I mean, I don't want to see you

623
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: out there crying. He was on the bus, you'd ruin

624
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: the image. Man on the bus, you can know you're

625
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: you're a heartless assassin. You don't cry. You don't even

626
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: know how to cry. Come on, I don't think he's

627
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: that much. He's a heartless assassin on the field. But

628
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: I mean you see him with his kids off the fields.

629
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: It's great, right, I mean that's with his kids, but

630
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: everyone else, yeah, gets the same treatment. Absolutely. Yeah. When

631
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: you so, I mean you were talking about this a

632
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: little bit earlier, but when you see what he's doing,

633
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: like live on the field, and it was it like, Okay,

634
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: he's determined that he wants to get this record. Um yeah,

635
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: I mean just look, San Francisco was determined not to

636
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: let him get it. Yeah. I mean, especially in a

637
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: two back offense, it's going to be hard for an

638
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: interior guy to get pressure to be dominance just by

639
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: virtue of their offense. It's going to be rough for you,

640
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: and he would not allow it. I mean, he almost

641
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: I don't know how to say it outside of describing

642
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: a movie, but he became neo. It was outside the

643
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: rules of football. You're not supposed to be able to

644
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: get pressure that fast on a three step. It's impossible.

645
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: You can't knock the quarterback down, not with pressure, not

646
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: with heat from here on that play, and he did it.

647
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: The sack he got, like I said, I mean, that

648
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: is designed to wash him down to the other sideline,

649
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: and he corrected himself, got up field and nabbed the

650
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: quarterback before the quarterback knew he was there. Yeah, you

651
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: know how hard that is. That's not coach, that's not

652
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: something you work on on the field, on the practice field.

653
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: That's impossible to make. And he made the play, So yeah,

654
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: it's not that. And he's not pressing. He's just playing

655
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: harder and faster than everyone else out there. That's the difference.

656
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: That's the thing I noticed. Yeah, And that's I think

657
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: it's just the craziest thing that we all have to notice.

658
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying, Like, it's so cool to

659
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: watch this and to cover this and to notice just

660
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: exactly what he is doing in the moment of when

661
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: he is doing it. And you know, as media types,

662
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: we get to take stock of it. I think a

663
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: little bit more than Yeah, guys who are focused and

664
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: in the moment and they have to go think about, Okay,

665
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: how am I preparing for the next opponent and what

666
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: right even if you don't know who it is, And

667
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: how am I looking at myself critically and trying to

668
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: get better. And that's the other thing that he always says.

669
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: It's like, I have a lot of room for improvement.

670
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: And it's not like where you know, like, bro, you

671
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: just got twenty and a half sacks from the interior

672
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: spot all these tackles for loss, Okay, in reality it

673
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: could be thirty. That's where the improvement comes in. That's

674
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, I mean, one wrong step here,

675
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: or he got tired there, you know, or you know

676
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: he was out of gas for this play here, Yeah,

677
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: when he had the perfect opportunity to beat the guy.

678
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: So that's where his improvement lies. Yes, And don't be

679
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: shocked if you know, in a perfect world, if he

680
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: can jump to the end, if you wind up in

681
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: Atlanta and you are hoisting the Lombardi, don't be surprised

682
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: if that's your MVP. I would from this point on,

683
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: don't be surprised if that's your MVP. Well, that's the

684
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: one thing that the other teams can't take away by

685
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: scheme or by by by person. What do you mean

686
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: you can't take him away. Yeah, you don't have anything

687
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: to block him, and schemes don't work. So if you

688
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: have to single block him, he's going to win. If

689
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: you double him, he's probably going to win. That's the

690
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: one thing. If you triple him, somebody else should win. Right,

691
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: That's the one thing you can account for league wide.

692
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: You got the best player on defense on your football team,

693
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: and that is really really fortunate, and especially when you

694
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: look at what the RAMS offense is doing, because I

695
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: think now we've seen two get right games for the

696
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: Rams offense, and part of that, and we were talking

697
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: about this earlier, is that they had those takeaways. You

698
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: get really short fields, but you also were able to

699
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: score touchdowns on both of those early possessions, and I

700
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: think that was really important. Especially you know, when Golf

701
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: rolls to his right, has the sort of two options

702
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: that are first out there, and then he goes one,

703
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: two and three in Brandon Cooks is wide open, delivers

704
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: a strike. You get that first touchdown that to me,

705
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: was you already got the fumble to help set the tone.

706
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: Once you got the touchdown, then you really set the tone.

707
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: I think it was a get right game or get

708
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: through it without Todd, you know what I mean for

709
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 1: the last two years, and I mean the offense started

710
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: to function, Jared Goss started to look a little bit different.

711
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:44,280
Speaker 1: But versus San Francisco and some versus Arizona, but definitely

712
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: versus San Francisco was the first time in a while

713
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:51,919
Speaker 1: I've seen real confusion and panic on defense facing this offense. Okay,

714
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,919
Speaker 1: to where guys are absolutely blowing coverages because it looks

715
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: like there's thirteen guys on the field. Really, and I'm

716
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: thinking of myself as I'm watching this. Sean McVay is

717
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: calling a hell of a game. Forget the production and

718
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: what the guys are doing after the catch, but he's

719
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: calling a hell of a game. They're dancing to his

720
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: tune and they don't know it. He's constricting the defense

721
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,720
Speaker 1: when he wants, he's expanding the defense when he wants,

722
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: and he's getting the plays where he wants to get

723
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: him right. I haven't seen that in a long time.

724
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: In a while. Well, that's good. I mean going into

725
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 1: the postseason, where again you're not going to necessarily face

726
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: the type of caliber of team like a San Francisco.

727
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: But if you're doing that, it probably means you're doing

728
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: things that are maybe a little bit tendency breakers. You're

729
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: showing things that you have not necessarily shown on film,

730
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: So that means that there's probably more up as sleeve

731
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: when it comes to whoever the Rams are going to

732
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 1: face in that divisional round too. Absolutely, some of the

733
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: run calls, I mean it's there, they're feelers. I mean,

734
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: you're getting a feel for the coverage called versus the

735
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: run you just called whatever happens on the run. Everybody's

736
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 1: happy when C. J. Anderson or whoever breaks a plus ten, right,

737
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: You're all happy. But that probably wasn't the goal of

738
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: the play. The goal of the play was to get

739
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: them to tell their hands so he can come back

740
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: and hit you with them on play action. That's what

741
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: I mean. He was calling a gem of the game. Yeah,

742
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: the runs were great, they were working. That's the lead punch,

743
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: but anything like CounterPunch or play action wise to get

744
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: guys open, he was getting pretty much at will. That's

745
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: that's September October football. Yeah, well, and it was I

746
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: think very noticeable on that first drive of the second

747
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: half where Golf hit Higby on the left side. Yeah,

748
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: Higby like kind of tumbled a little bit then got back.

749
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: Did you see the linebacker to that side, Yeah, yeah,

750
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: spinning around like what just happened? Exactly exactly. And then

751
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: on the very next play hits Reynolds on the right

752
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: side for the twenty nine yard touchdown. And that was

753
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: really I mean, nail coffin whatever you want to say

754
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: about it. Wow, that was I think, just all right,

755
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna come out, we're gonna be efficient,

756
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna get this done, and they did. I'm starting

757
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: to really like Josh Reynolds out there. Yeah yeah, yeah,

758
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,479
Speaker 1: And I'm starting to get the feeling that he really

759
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: likes to be out there, you know what I mean, Yes, like, yeah,

760
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 1: he could make plays in this league. He can, and

761
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: it's it's all starting to come together for him. And

762
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about how long he is and

763
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: how accurate Jared Goff can be, so you expand that

764
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 1: catch radius, right with an accurate quarterback like Jared Goff,

765
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: with a with a coach, that's that in tune. You're

766
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: gonna have some open looks, So look for more big

767
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: plays out of him coming soon. Absolutely. You know it's

768
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 1: interesting to me too because Josh Reynolds actually had five

769
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: touchdown receptions this year, huh, which you know got two

770
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 1: on Sunday, right, Yes, yeah, exactly. But when you're looking

771
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: at the rams sort of top guys in that receiving category,

772
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: I mean, Robert Woods and Cooper Cup actually led the

773
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: team in touchdowns with six receiving. Then you have Brandon

774
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: Cooks and then Josh Reynolds both at five. Crazy, So

775
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 1: you your touchdown distribution when it comes to the receiving

776
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: and everything that it's pretty spread even, oh, no doubt.

777
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: And because of those other two guys, I would expect

778
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,919
Speaker 1: more multiple touchdown games out of Reynolds. He's gonna see

779
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: single coverage and he's got to win. Yeah. Absolutely, Now

780
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: things are going to change when thirty comes back, because

781
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,280
Speaker 1: that's the other reason those guys don't have double digit

782
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: touchdown receptions because Todd keeps stealing the touchdowns. You have

783
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: twenty one, yes, right, no one's complaining. I mean, yes,

784
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: twenty one, but you still have all these We still

785
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: have four receivers with at least five yeah, yeah, yeah,

786
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: that says something about the offense. If you're in scoring territories,

787
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: say first and goal situation, and it's four down territory,

788
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: Let's just say to me, Todd Gurley gets two of

789
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: those at least, yes, yeah, and then I'll figure out

790
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: where where the ball goes after that. But for the

791
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: from the from the outset, thirty is getting two of

792
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: those carries on touches at least. I agree with you.

793
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up Todd Gurley. Uh excuse me,

794
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 1: because Sean McVay did say on Monday, I would be

795
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: very very surprised if Todd is not ready for the

796
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: playoff game. So it seems like the rest that he

797
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 1: got in the last two weeks has been good. Obviously,

798
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: going to get that rest as well this week with

799
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: the bye, and then he should be ready to go

800
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: for whoever the Rams play on that Saturday. Well, thy twelve,

801
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: that's funny, it's I hope it's not really rest. I

802
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: hope it just was. He's not playing in the game, right, Yeah.

803
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: I mean when people hear rest, they think he's not

804
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: doing anything, right. I hope that's not the case. I

805
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 1: know that's not the case exactly. Yeah, I mean he's

806
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: been doing work to make sure the knee is healthy,

807
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 1: in doing everything like that. And now what exactly he's

808
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: been doing, I couldn't tell you, but I don't. Yeah,

809
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: I think it's good to clarify that that it's not

810
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: just he's sitting there, you know, like a lump of potatoes,

811
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,240
Speaker 1: right right, He's not going to the ground in practice,

812
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: but he is practicing. He's getting ready to play. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

813
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: So we'll see what he does this week. So in

814
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: terms of the Rams practice schedule, they will be on

815
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: the field Wednesday and Thursday. Then coaches players have off

816
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: Friday Saturday, and then they'll get back to work on Sunday,

817
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: which will base. We'd be like their regular Monday. He's

818
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: got the biggest house on the team because that's where

819
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:09,720
Speaker 1: the party would be. Absolutely on Saturday, definitely on Friday,

820
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 1: Friday night, Saturday, we're gonna watch football the next day, right, Yeah.

821
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is be there to open the door.

822
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: You don't have to do anything else. We'll back the

823
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: beer truck in, we'll call the pizza just to get

824
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: us started. Then we get the barbecue started to come

825
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: on all day, we'd be watching football as a team. Glorious. Absolutely, Yeah,

826
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: this probably and I'm taking keys on the way in.

827
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: Everybody's sleeping over. Yep. Yeah, this is probably the one

828
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: of the best weekends to be a team in the

829
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: NFL if you're one of these top four that was

830
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: able to win your division and secure a buy. Yeah, Like,

831
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: there's probably no greater feeling than Man, we don't have

832
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: a game this week, but we know we have one

833
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: next day. It's cool. You're hanging. You have earned the

834
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: right to have vacation. You're still working, you're still drawn checks.

835
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: It's really cool, but you've earned the right to have

836
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: this two or three day vacation. Yeah, so you feel

837
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: special as it is, you feel elite. The first time

838
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: you've ever felt elite is when you get the buy.

839
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: So you're having fun, you're watching football, You're watching the

840
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: rest toil and beat each other up for the right

841
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: to face you. Yeah, and it's fun to watch. But

842
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 1: the minute that clock goes zero, your whole mindset changes

843
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: because now you know who your opponent is. Yeah, it

844
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: goes from ha ha to let's get to work. Yes, yeah,

845
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: because the other team that you just saw lose is

846
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: going home yep, and everybody knows it. Yeah, and that

847
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: is it's a huge difference just with the postseason. And

848
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: I think the Ram's got enough of a taste of

849
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: it last year so that you, I don't want to say,

850
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: appreciate it more. But Jared Golf brought this up and

851
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: when he was talking when he was talking his press

852
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: conference after the game on Sunday, and earl buddy Nick

853
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: Wagner is in there and he asked, you know, Jared, like,

854
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: what did you learn from going through the postseason last year?

855
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: And he said something that I thought was really interesting,

856
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 1: and it is, you realize what the opportunity is in

857
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: front of you, no doubt. And I that's something that

858
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,439
Speaker 1: you know, not having played in the NFL, I don't

859
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: know that I necessarily understand that, but can you can

860
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: explain it absolutely? Um gosh, did you go clubbing? Were

861
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: you a club guy? Did you like to go to parties?

862
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: I still am a club guy? Okay, club guy? Okay?

863
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: I mean just imagine, like you have access to the

864
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: most exclusive club in Southern California on Sunset Strip. I

865
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: mean it's it's filled with a list stars. It's the party,

866
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: and you have a VIP table, you are set up

867
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: for the evening. You know what I'm saying, sounds great,

868
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: It's right, it sounds great. Um, and you have a

869
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,240
Speaker 1: rented Ferrari for the night. Oh lord, yeah, for free.

870
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: I'm more excited about that. Can I just drive the

871
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: Ferrari around and not go to a little bit? But

872
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: you gotta go to the club. Part of it's going

873
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: to the club, right, Okay, So you park your Ferrari valet,

874
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: you get out, you walk in, and you know, in

875
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: your fantasy what have you you're walking in solo or

876
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: with whatever on your arm. Right, So you get into

877
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: the club for five minutes, you're handed the drink and

878
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: before you even sip it, you get a phone call

879
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 1: that says your water heater broke. You must come home now,

880
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: and you have to drop everything and go home and

881
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: you can't come back out that night. That's what it's

882
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: like to lose in the first round. It is you

883
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: have a taste of what it is, this whole life

884
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: football immortality. I am in the tournament to live forever,

885
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: and I'm out in the first ten minutes. It sucks. Yeah,

886
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: So now to continue the analogy. Yeah, yeah, you make

887
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: sure that you've done the heat, the water heater maintenance

888
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: so that that water here ain't going to break right

889
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: once you walk into the club. Is that like am

890
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,439
Speaker 1: I on the You make sure you turn everything off,

891
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 1: you take precautions, you learn, you understand what it takes

892
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: to win in that environment and how magnified mistakes are,

893
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: how important it is. So you got that taste of

894
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: what it would be like to be a champion. Now

895
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: you want to continue that. Does it help that in

896
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: some way maybe that the Rams did lose in the

897
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: first round last year going into this year say that again?

898
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: I don't know if help is the right word, but

899
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: it must have something to do with like your mentality,

900
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: because it's not like you want a playoff game and

901
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: then you're out. The next time it was I would

902
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 1: we're here, but then the door just got slammed in

903
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: our face. I would answer this way, I hope so,

904
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: because you know, if you look at some of the

905
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: coaches that got fired, even the most successful ones are

906
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 1: the ones they just lost their job. Some of these

907
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: coaches were one and done for years. What do you

908
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: mean in the playoffs? Oh? Yes, for years, like Marvin Lewis. Yeah,

909
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: so I mean, so to answer your question, I hope

910
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: so with this football team, I just I hope it burns.

911
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: I hope it sucked. I hope you spent every waking

912
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: moment in the off season thinking about it and not

913
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 1: wanting to do it again. So I hope they did learn.

914
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: I hope they took the positives out of losing in

915
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: the first round, and I hope they carry I hope,

916
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: I hope they carried it through this year, and I

917
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 1: hope they carried it into the postseason, into the second round.

918
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: I think they did at least through this year. You know,

919
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: I remember talking to Jared Goff at his camp up

920
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: in Nevado or excuse me, it was in Berkeley this year,

921
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,280
Speaker 1: but this is during the summer, so like mid June,

922
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: right after OTAs and everything. Mini camp had already finished up,

923
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: and he made mention of the fact that, you know,

924
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: we want our division, and that was good, but how

925
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: much did we really accomplish. We really haven't necessarily accomplished

926
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: that much yet. And you know, obviously when in the

927
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: division is an important thing, and making it to the

928
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: postseason for franchise that had not made it to the

929
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: postseason for so long. Yeah, it was significant, and I

930
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: don't think the division diminish that it guarantees everybody on

931
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: the team is coming back next season for the most part, right, Yeah,

932
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: and that's about it. Yeah, that's what the point of

933
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: what you're saying here, right. But I think also that

934
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: mentality of we have to make sure that we capitalize

935
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,280
Speaker 1: on the opportunity that we have. We saw that throughout

936
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 1: the first what eight weeks of the season, yeah, I

937
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: mean even even more, but all the way to the buy,

938
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: I would say the Rams had that sense of urgency

939
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: each in every week. And it's not like they played

940
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: bad games until Chicago, right, you know what I'm saying, Yeah,

941
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. I'm just I'm thinking of the lessons we

942
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: learned and they're all starting to make sense. Back then,

943
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: and we did study Ali versus Frasier their first fight

944
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: and how grueling it was for both of them. Joe

945
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: Frasier won the fight, beat Ali and had to spend

946
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: a month in the hospital afterwards. I'm serious. He won

947
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: the fight and had to spend a month in the

948
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: hospital recovering. So I think the lesson for that was

949
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: to be great to be a champion. You're gonna have

950
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: to go beyond yourself. You're gonna have to go beyond

951
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: what you already know about yourself to get there. I

952
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: know what that feels like firsthand. When everybody gives me

953
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,240
Speaker 1: crap about coming out of that game in the Super Bowl. Okay,

954
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: be as tired as I was, and see how you react.

955
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: It was beyond And so we were talking about this.

956
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: With thirteen wins, I bet everyone on the roster outside

957
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: of a handful of guys who have never been to

958
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: win thirteen at any point in their life. You don't

959
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: get the thirteen in college that often. You don't get

960
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: the thirteen in the pros. Definitely not around here, you know.

961
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: I said that to Roger Staffeld. Hey man, you got

962
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,879
Speaker 1: thirteen wins. He goes, Yeah, it's a big deal, man,

963
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: that's huge. You're part of the elites now. So, but

964
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,919
Speaker 1: it's only gonna get tougher for hit from here. You've

965
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: got to win fourteen, fifteen, sixteen if you want to

966
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: become legend. It's beyond anything you've ever prepared for in

967
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: your life. You've never been there. It's gonna be hard. Definitely, yeah, definitely,

968
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be hard. All right, let's talk about a

969
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,720
Speaker 1: couple of these games over the course of the weekend.

970
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: Which one are you may be looking for to the most.

971
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: We've got Indy Houston, Seattle, Dallas, LA Chargers and Ravens,

972
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 1: and then Philly at Chicago. All of them. Man, the

973
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: Houston is Wow, it's a sneaky good game, right, Andrew

974
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: Luck has been sneaky great. Oh year. Yeah. I think

975
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: the Rams punted forty three times. I think that might

976
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: be a league low. Yeah, because they punted less than

977
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs um but I think there were some returns

978
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: or some passes that Johnny Hacker had, so it was

979
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 1: like forty seven would be punts. But that's still low

980
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck, I think, and the Colts only punted like

981
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: fifty three times. That's sneaky good, right. So I mean,

982
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 1: if if you think that Houston is just gonna walk

983
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,959
Speaker 1: away with that, I'd say look at Indy again. Yeah, yeah,

984
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 1: don't sleep on that. I'll sleep on that one. I

985
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: think LA Chargers in Baltimore is also going to be

986
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: a good game. Yeah. The Chargers kind of got you know,

987
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 1: yoinked a little bit playing at ten am body clock

988
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,479
Speaker 1: time in Baltimore. But this is the way the schedule works,

989
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah. Yeah. But you know that game that

990
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: they had a couple weeks ago when we were sitting

991
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: in what a Pizza shop kind of watching it, and

992
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: they when they were playing on Saturday night. Baltimore's defense

993
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: is very, very good, and they've got athleticism everywhere, and

994
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: they just kind of grind you away. You know, they're

995
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: kind of that old school We're going to run the

996
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: football and you're just gonna have to try to stop us.

997
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,439
Speaker 1: And teams have been very successful in the past doing that.

998
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: You know, the Ravens have been very successful in the

999
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: past doing that, and the Chargers do it. I don't know,

1000
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to yeah, if you don't want the

1001
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: same thing that happened. I mean they really bumped around

1002
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. Yeah in that game. If memory serves yes, Yes,

1003
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: it really racked him around. If you can't go ball

1004
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: control against Baltimore, you're gonna set yourself up for more

1005
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: of that. Remember they got crowd noise. Yeah, yeah, it's

1006
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: only gonna get worse exactly exactly. And they played out

1007
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: in Carson the last time, and then Philly in Chicago.

1008
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: I'm interested in that game because I really did not

1009
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: think that Philadelphia would make the playoffs this year. Yeah,

1010
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: but I also didn't really anticipate Nick Foles coming in

1011
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 1: and being Nick Foles that we saw throughout that postseason

1012
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: run Nick Philly had yeah last year. So hey, I

1013
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: think because of that experience, that game in some ways

1014
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: reminds me of Atlanta Rams in the wild card round

1015
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: last year. Fair. Do you have the upstart team that's

1016
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: doing really well with a young quarterback and a younger

1017
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: innovative head coach on offense. Yeah? Yeah, and then you've

1018
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 1: got this other team with a lot of playoff experience

1019
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: coming in. True, who knows what can happen. I'd rather

1020
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 1: face the Bears. And I know you're saying, what about

1021
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: that defense? Yeah, but what about Traubitsky. I'd rather face

1022
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: him than the defending champs with the good Nick Foles, Right,

1023
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Right? Yeah, I'd rather it

1024
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: was Chicago. Yes, I'd like that game to be a

1025
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: duover anyway. Yeah, I think so too. So it's in

1026
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: terms of the Rams next opponent. So Sattle Dallas play

1027
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: five fifteen on Saturday, and so we will see who

1028
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: wins that game. But really that means that the opponent

1029
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: that the Rams have taken Seattle on the road. Yeah,

1030
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: us because of the playoff experience in the quarterback Yeah yeah, yeah.

1031
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: I don't think it matters where they play because of

1032
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: how they play. Yes, yeah, I kind of agree with

1033
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: that too. So then Philly a Chicago will then determine

1034
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: who the Rams play. So if Philly wins that game,

1035
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:30,240
Speaker 1: then Philly, because they're the lowest remaining seed in the NFC,

1036
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 1: would go and face New Orleans. If Chicago wins, the

1037
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: Rams will face Chicago. But if Philly wins, that means

1038
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: the Rams would face the winner of Seattle. Dallas got

1039
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: all that, Yeah yeah, out of that draw, I still

1040
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: if I could, I would pick Chicago. Well, if Chicago wins,

1041
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: that's what's gonna happen. Yeah, and then we will see

1042
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: what happens in the division. Yeah yeah, yeah, I think

1043
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 1: I think it would be a good rematch for sure. True.

1044
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 1: I mean, either way, it's gonna be fun. Either way,

1045
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun, and it's gonna be nice watching

1046
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 1: all these teams have to play for the right to play.

1047
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,479
Speaker 1: You was gonna say, it's gonna be the most fune

1048
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: them all up. It's just sitting on the couch and

1049
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: enjoying cracking open up cold one and just watching the playoffs.

1050
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: No on, we got a game to cover the next week,

1051
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: a world star video. Absolutely, those two guys are fighting

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Speaker 1: into this edition of Between the Horns. From reading so far,

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Speaker 1: I am Miles Simmons. I'm not actually reading this. A

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year everyone. We'll see you next week. Rabbit