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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight fire? Bam, It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Monday, December thirtieth. Your boy is back

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Speaker 2: back in the saddle. After a couple of days off

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Speaker 2: for Christmas. Rob g called an audible at the line

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Speaker 2: of scrimmage. He was like, you know what, we don't

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Speaker 2: need to record a pod. The earlier pod that that

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Speaker 2: last week was strong, so we were able to take

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Speaker 2: a few days off very nights. Hope everybody had a

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Speaker 2: splendid Christmas. Ours was spectacular. I will say we are

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Speaker 2: recording this late Sunday night and Atlanta and Washington is

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Speaker 2: deep in the fourth quarter. Atlanta had a first in

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Speaker 2: goal and they just they just like snapped it over

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Speaker 2: Bjon Robinson's head for minus twenty yards. Listen. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You guys don't care about fantasy football that much, but

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Speaker 2: I am in the championship. It's the big money league.

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Speaker 2: Five hundred dollars by in, twenty five hundred other winner,

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Speaker 2: thousand of the loser, and I I'm facing Jayden Daniels

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Speaker 2: have Gibbs from on Monday and the Detroit Kicker. So

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Speaker 2: if Atlanta ties it up, then Jade Daniels is going

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Speaker 2: to come down the field maybe touchdown Robbie McLaurin, like,

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Speaker 2: I don't want that to happen. So I'm kind of

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Speaker 2: hoping for futility on the Falcons here, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: We'll chime in if it gets interesting. It was kind

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Speaker 2: of a blase Sunday in the NFL. I thought Saturday

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Speaker 2: from a bowling alley. Don't do that often. Bowling is fun.

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Speaker 2: And then you had the Christmas Day NBA games were

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Speaker 2: fire way better than the NFL games. I took a

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Speaker 2: couple shots at the Chiefs. Happy Holidays, Chiefs fans, you

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Speaker 2: guys hate me. I've robbed you. I think I've blocked

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Speaker 2: more Chiefs fans on social media than any other fan base.

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Speaker 2: It used to be like the Toronto Raptors if you

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Speaker 2: remember that rant back in the day, and now it's

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Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs fans. Listen, I'm pot committed. I'm not

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Speaker 2: a fan of the Chiefs like an idiot. I had

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Speaker 2: squashed him like a bug on my windshield. Kansas City's rolling.

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Speaker 2: I actually thought the biggest storyline Sunday in the NFL

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Speaker 2: They appear to have fallen to four, tied with Cleveland,

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Speaker 2: which is starting dtr in a race to the bottom. Gosh,

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Speaker 2: he's the worst quarterback in the league. But I think

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Speaker 2: it's the Minnesota Vikings. And you know, we haven't given

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Speaker 2: this guy too many props. He was drafted by my

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Speaker 2: Jets back in the day. Sam Darnold slinging, Sammy d

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Speaker 2: I mean, the guy keeps having game after game. He

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Speaker 2: Packers en route to a really nice twenty seven twenty

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Speaker 2: five victory, the Vikings, ho hum are fourteen and two?

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Speaker 2: Who who saw that coming? Sam Donald passed for three

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy seven yards against the Packers, And it

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Speaker 2: wasn't just like the Justin Jefferson Show. Nobody had one

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Speaker 2: hundred yards receiving. It was justin Jefferson, Jalen Naylor, Jordan Addison, Hockinson,

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Speaker 2: Aaron Jones. Out of the backfield. There was a little

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Speaker 2: dose of cam Akers. This Vikings team, man, is pretty

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Speaker 2: damn stacked. And as I look at the Vikings, the

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Speaker 2: one comparison I have for Donald and it's not apples

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Speaker 2: to apples, because the Vikings didn't draft and this is Donald's.

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Speaker 2: I guess fourteen it was like Jets, Panthers, Niners now Vikings.

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Speaker 2: To me, at least, I look at Donald's production, not

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Speaker 2: a guy with a loaded deck just carving up, and

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Speaker 2: I mean just shredding the same way Brock Purdy did

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Speaker 2: I just look at like Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison is

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Speaker 2: you know, Jordan Addison is the key to having success

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Speaker 2: wait a minute, we've got breaking news. Michael Pennix delivers

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Speaker 2: on fourth and goal to Kyle Pitts. All Kyle Pitts

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Speaker 2: let's see fore Morris is going for one or two?

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Speaker 2: Please go for two, Raheen, please go for two. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to see overtime. We need this decided. If

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Speaker 2: you go for the tie, Jayden Daniels will beat you

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Speaker 2: know that Kyle Pitts. By the way, Rob, do we

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Speaker 2: need to remove the bus tag on Kyle Pitts just

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Speaker 2: because he gets kind of frustrating?

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Speaker 3: Because literally before we started recording, Man, Kyle pitt sucks.

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Speaker 4: He's such a bust No, and then you know he

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Speaker 2: What a coward that's not gonna come back to bite.

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Speaker 3: I'm here in about two minutes.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, definitely, Jaydon Daniels has ninety seconds or eighty seconds, sorry,

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Speaker 2: fantasy matchup. But anyway, So Jordan Addison, Rob, how do

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Speaker 2: give pause on the Brock party comparison. I love brock

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Speaker 2: talking fifty sixty million dollars a year like Dak Prescott

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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins before the Achilles Cousins were putting up big numbers. Basically,

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Speaker 2: before giving up some I don't know if we can

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Speaker 2: But I don't know. This is a Vikings team. I mean,

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Speaker 2: And is it not. Is it unpopular to say, Hey,

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think it's unpopular at all.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I think that's probably the consensus because as great

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Speaker 4: been legitimately great, he's top five and passing yards, passing

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Speaker 4: thought was perfect. However, it is hard to erase. Was

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Speaker 4: it six years of terrible football with one great season?

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Speaker 4: No matter who it is? Like even now as people

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Speaker 4: And so the thing about sam Donold is I believe

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Speaker 4: Almost irresponsible for the coaching staff and the front office

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Speaker 4: So if Minnesota decides going into next season that we're

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Speaker 4: Darnold be the guy. You cannot tell that locker room.

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Speaker 4: would be a legitimate MVP candidate this year, and you

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Speaker 3: Three years, one hundred and twenty million dollar contract minimum.

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Speaker 2: I think they need to wait and see because you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't love, but I like him. I like Donald

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Speaker 2: don't see him going to a cold weather city where

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Speaker 2: It just doesn't strike me. And that's not a knock

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Speaker 4: I believe that they should give him a good contract.

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Speaker 4: But I think even if they don't, I believe that

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Speaker 4: I'll take two year sixty, So you know, I'll take

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Speaker 2: Do you would he win the job over JJ McCarthy

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Speaker 2: So I don't I'll be honest, I don't think Sam

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.

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Speaker 4: Even though I have always contended that just physically Sam

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Speaker 3: What it is at this point.

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Speaker 4: If you haven't fantasy like I do, he basically torpedoed

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Speaker 4: the kind of game breaker that you think he's gonna

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Speaker 4: single handedly, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, beat you.

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Speaker 2: He did that to the Bills, but right I mean,

434
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Speaker 2: I mean Cooper cups. Since the Bills, he had eight

435
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Speaker 2: for ninety two in a touchdown the game since then,

436
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, he had five for ninety two on eight targets.

437
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Speaker 2: Since in the three games after that, he has four

438
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Speaker 2: catches for fifty three yards.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 2: You're right. He's not doing now, Kyrin Williams, I do

441
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,360
Speaker 2: wonder have they run him into the ground. Twenty nine

442
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 2: carries against Buffalo, twenty nine against Samford, twenty three against

443
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Speaker 2: the Jets. I know people don't want to hear this.

444
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 2: You rarely see running backs now with that kind of

445
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 2: usage because they get injured so often. Now, I know

446
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 2: people will say, oh, Evan Smith would carry the ball

447
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,439
Speaker 2: for the totally different game. Guy, Sorry, it's just totally different.

448
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Speaker 2: But Kyle Williams and.

449
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Speaker 4: I think Kyra Rilliams, I think God is a goo

450
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Speaker 4: running back. I think Putnakhu's a goodide receiver. Kyra Williams.

451
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Speaker 4: Of the difference is if you give him thirty carries

452
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Speaker 4: or thirty touches, you never have the feeling like Kyra

453
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Speaker 4: Williams is going to be the guy who wears it.

454
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Speaker 4: He's not sakwon where he might break win any money.

455
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Speaker 4: He's not Derek Henry where he's gonna physically wear you dot.

456
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Speaker 4: He's a smaller running back. He's a very good running back,

457
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Speaker 4: but his carries and his volume is not gonna feel

458
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Speaker 4: the same as some of the other upper echelon type guys.

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Speaker 3: Same thing with Poukinnakua.

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Speaker 4: You give him seventeen targets, Yeah, he might come down

461
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Speaker 4: with twelve catches for one hundred and fifteen and a touchdown. Great,

462
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Speaker 4: But if you give Jamar Chase seventeen targets, if you

463
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Speaker 4: get Justin Jefferson seventeen targets, if you can lignit like,

464
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Speaker 4: it's a different equation with guys of that caliber. And unless,

465
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Speaker 4: to me, unless the Rams can get something from Cooper Cup,

466
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Speaker 4: whether it's in week eighteen and into the playoffs or whatever,

467
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Speaker 4: I just think they're one and done and a quick

468
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Speaker 4: one and done at that interesting.

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Speaker 2: Uh, they could host the Packers or Washington. We'll see

470
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Speaker 2: what happens with this Washington Atlanta game overtime. I don't

471
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Speaker 2: know if we stick around this, it's gonna be a

472
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Speaker 2: lot podcast. Let me go to the other game Saturday,

473
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Speaker 2: and this game was so I took the fam bowling,

474
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Speaker 2: you know, just to get out of the house do something.

475
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Speaker 2: I didn't want to act, like, oh, I'm just gonna

476
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Speaker 2: just gonna watch sports all weekend, which I kind of

477
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Speaker 2: did anyway. So we go, we go to bowling, and

478
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm a good bowler. I was bragging to

479
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Speaker 2: my kids. Listen, guys. Fifth year of college. Yeah, I

480
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Speaker 2: milked a fifth year out of I transferred from Virginia

481
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Speaker 2: Tech to James Madison. I think I lost like six credits.

482
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Speaker 2: I don't know why, but I did. And so I decided, hey, guys,

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Speaker 2: I got to do a fifth year. I didn't want

484
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Speaker 2: to do like summer classes. I convinced my parents, so, oh,

485
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Speaker 2: I got an internship, I got a job. Let me

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Speaker 2: get the fifth year. So they were like, okay, fine,

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Speaker 2: And I take a bowling class in my fifth year.

488
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Speaker 2: And it was obviously off campus to drive to the

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Speaker 2: bowling alley. And this is a JMU like not in

490
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Speaker 2: the Sticks, but Harrisonburg is let's just say, there's farms

491
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Speaker 2: on the drive to the bowling alley. And you get

492
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Speaker 2: there and it's like a bunch of football players, you know,

493
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Speaker 2: and whatever. A couple of them knew me from being

494
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Speaker 2: on the school newspaper, and I thought it was like

495
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Speaker 2: one of the coolest classes ever. You literally show up

496
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Speaker 2: and bowl and sure they give you a couple tips

497
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Speaker 2: or whatever, but it was awesome. And I like to

498
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Speaker 2: think I'm really good at bowling. You know, I've toyed

499
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Speaker 2: with the idea of like getting some dudes and like

500
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Speaker 2: being on a bowling team, but that yeah, basketball is

501
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 2: more fun than bowling. Let's just say it. Maybe when

502
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Speaker 2: I get older and I can't hoop anymore, so I

503
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Speaker 2: go bowling. I'm tearing it up, and the Bengals are

504
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Speaker 2: in good shape, and then Zach Taylor starts doing his dumb,

505
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Speaker 2: dumb shit, and I start losing my mind in the

506
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Speaker 2: bowling alley. And you know, I listen. I know Bengals

507
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Speaker 2: fans are like, well, yeah, but he got us to

508
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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl. I'm just telling you, he's holding the

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Speaker 2: Bengals back. These decisions that he makes. I'm not gonna

510
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Speaker 2: go through all of them, it'll take me an hour.

511
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Speaker 2: But consistently he is doing the wrong thing. He is

512
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Speaker 2: settling when he should not, he is calling really stupid plays.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I still haven't. It's not clear to

514
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Speaker 2: me did he tell Chase Brown to go down at

515
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Speaker 2: the one yard line. A play on with Chase Brown

516
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Speaker 2: got injured. It looks like maybe he can play this week.

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Speaker 2: We'll see and I'll play later. Let's have Joe Burrow

518
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Speaker 2: do do the touch push and just go in the

519
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 2: end like what what and you're running back got hurt,

520
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Speaker 2: then settling for the field goal in overtime, the guy

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Speaker 2: on a chip shot hits the upright. Of course, yes,

522
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 2: I had Bengals minus three, so some of that was salty,

523
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Speaker 2: but I also had T Higgins in fantasy, and he

524
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Speaker 2: goes off and finally he kind of got he understood

525
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Speaker 2: the assignment and decided, oh, let me just keep throwing

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Speaker 2: the ball to T Higgins And ultimately the Bengals got

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Speaker 2: the win. But I'm telling you, I don't think they're

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Speaker 2: going to make the playoffs. The Bengals basically need the

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Speaker 2: Broncos to lose to the Chiefs in Denver, and you're thinking, well,

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Speaker 2: it's the Chiefs. Eh. This is a tough one because

531
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Speaker 2: a Kansas City has nothing to play for. They have

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Speaker 2: the number one seeds shown up. But at the same time,

533
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Speaker 2: does Kansas City really want to rest their guys week eighteen,

534
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Speaker 2: then they get to buy a three week layoff before

535
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Speaker 2: facing who in the playoffs. That that's not ideal at all.

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Speaker 2: And I just I wonder if the Chiefs play for

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Speaker 2: a quarter a half. I think I don't think they're

538
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Speaker 2: going to roll over and not play any of their guys.

539
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Speaker 2: We will see some Patrick Mahomes. So the Bengals need

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Speaker 2: the Broncos to lose at home to the Chiefs. They

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Speaker 2: also need Miami, which lost Tua and still was able

542
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Speaker 2: to beat the Browns because the Browns are terrible. Miami

543
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Speaker 2: would need to lose to the Jets, which is possible, unlikely,

544
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Speaker 2: but possible. And then the Bengals need to win against Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's Pittsburgh. Yeah, and I think that

546
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Speaker 2: game is in Pittsburgh, Yes it is, because they already

547
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Speaker 2: lost to Pittsburgh at home. And so Rob you're looking

548
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 2: at these things, and I don't have the exact numbers,

549
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 2: but I would guess the Bengals have like a ten

550
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Speaker 2: percent chance, one in ten of getting of all those

551
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Speaker 2: things happening, them winning on the road, and those other

552
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Speaker 2: two teams were gonna be favored, I would guess they're

553
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 2: both gonna lose. I just I don't know. I don't

554
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 2: totally see it. And I think if the Bengals bring

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Speaker 2: back Zach Taylor, you know, Joe Burrows should without question

556
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 2: start wondering, like is this even the franchise for me?

557
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 2: Do I need to move on to make a new decision?

558
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 2: Like what can I do? Should I start demanding stuff?

559
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Speaker 1: It?

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Speaker 2: Just you know, Zach Taylor is a bad football coach,

561
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Speaker 2: and correct me if I'm wrong. Rob, since they went

562
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Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl, they haven't been back to the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Ooh, that sounds right.

564
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 2: I think it was two years ago.

565
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Speaker 3: I think Burrow has been hurt each time.

566
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Speaker 2: Burrow was hurt last year and then he.

567
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Speaker 4: Was banged up the year before, wasn't he So it's

568
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 4: three straight years because I think that they faced or

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Speaker 4: maybe no, I think they maybe they faced Baltimore and

570
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 4: and Lamar Jackson didn't play, remember that, I mean they

571
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Speaker 4: will won that game and then they lost.

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Speaker 2: To No, No, No, to twenty twenty two. They oh,

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Speaker 2: you're right, they lost the AFC Championship, so they have

574
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Speaker 2: one of they have one playoff games, right, but they

575
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 2: went Super Bowl loss, AFC Title Game loss nine to eight,

576
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 2: and now probably gonna miss the miss the playoffs. I

577
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 2: think it's fireable. I know everybody's gonna say, well, the

578
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 2: bagels are cheap, They're not gonna do it. I don't know, Rob.

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Speaker 2: If if Mike Brown hits you up and is like Rob, g,

580
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Speaker 2: I love the cut of your jib, let me know

581
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Speaker 2: your thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he would have already been fired.

583
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Speaker 4: Like there's no reason why your team should start out

584
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 4: that slow every single season, Like you shouldn't need Joe

585
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Speaker 4: Burrow to turn into God for eight weeks, eight straight

586
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 4: week for you to even you know, have a chance

587
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 4: at the playoffs, which is what he had to do,

588
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 4: He's had to do basically his entire career. Because they

589
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Speaker 4: I think their their record in the first month of

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Speaker 4: the season, like they win like twenty five percent of

591
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Speaker 4: the game something like that. Over the during the Zach

592
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Speaker 4: Taylor era, like that they are unbelievably bad to start

593
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Speaker 4: off the season, and they get going, and they get going,

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Speaker 4: they're going. But you could argue that has more to

595
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Speaker 4: do with Joe Burrow and his prodigious talent than anything

596
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Speaker 4: Zach Taylor is doing, and and what Joe Burrow has

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Speaker 4: done this season with a bottom five defense and to

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Speaker 4: your point, a situationally just bad head coach and Zach

599
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Speaker 4: Taylor like it's it's it's incredible. And I will say,

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Speaker 4: you know, if you've got the tinfoil had on, you

601
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Speaker 4: believe in the scriptwriters of the NFL, one thing they

602
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 4: needed to have happen on Sunday was for either Indy

603
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Speaker 4: or Miami to lose, and Indy inexplicably loss of the Giants.

604
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Speaker 4: So I'm not saying the fix is in and we're

605
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Speaker 4: gonna end up with Joe Burrow in the wild card

606
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Speaker 4: round against I believe would be Josh Allen around one.

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Speaker 4: Oh god, I'm almost positive it'd be two to seven,

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Speaker 4: rightbe those.

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Speaker 3: Two, you know.

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Speaker 4: But I'm not saying that the fix is not in either,

611
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Speaker 4: you know, just I think we all deserve a postseason

612
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Speaker 4: where all of the best quarterbacks are in and which

613
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Speaker 4: let the best man win.

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, no disrespect to bon Nicks, but I'll tell

615
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Speaker 2: you this, if they make the playoffs, they have to

616
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Speaker 2: go to Buffalo. I don't the number is going to

617
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Speaker 2: be ten or eleven. I'm going bon Nicks there, Fading

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Speaker 2: Bonick there.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, me too.

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Speaker 4: All I don't know if there's a number high enough

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Speaker 4: that I would bet bon Nicks.

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Speaker 2: I would probably go up to up to thirteen and

623
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Speaker 2: a half. And it's not going to get there, obviously,

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Speaker 2: But this to memells.

625
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Speaker 3: Like realistically realistic.

626
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Speaker 2: Mels, like Matt Jones when he went to Buffalo and

627
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Speaker 2: it was like forty seven to ten. The history of

628
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Speaker 2: rookie quarterbacks playoffs, and we'll talk about it when we

629
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Speaker 2: get there, is basically you gotta fade him now. I

630
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 2: know CJ. Stroud came through last year in the spot

631
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 2: it was against Joe Flacco, but historically rookie quarterbacks have

632
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 2: been absolutely rotten in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Jenn Daniels will probably have to go to Philadelphia in

638
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Speaker 2: the playoffs, Awsome. You know that's a tough matchup. But

639
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Speaker 2: I will just say this, Jaden Daniels, guys freaking electric.

640
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Speaker 2: He is something special. Their first in goal in overtime,

641
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Speaker 2: looking to send the Falcons home a loser and kill

642
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Speaker 2: my fantasy football champion.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we may have just been about twenty five minutes

644
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Speaker 4: late because we thought he was gonna do it at

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Speaker 4: the end of regulation, and then he went three and

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Speaker 4: out and then it turns out, hey, first drive of overtime.

647
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, you know we needed that. Why don't

648
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: we wrap up with this, Rob, Let's go off the

649
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 2: board to the NBA. First of all, a lot of

650
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 2: constant over NBA ratings. We touched on it last week.

651
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 2: Actually we touched on it two weeks ago. We were

652
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 2: early on the inside the NBA take if you heard

653
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 2: it here first right, Rob G said, oh you know this, Yeah,

654
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,239
Speaker 2: that's good. I'm stealing that, and we laughed about it,

655
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: and I did what I said I was going to do,

656
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 2: and people freaked out. And as Jane Daniel scrambles, please

657
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: tackle him, please tackle him, Thank you goodness. If he

658
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 2: scores the rushing touchdown, I'm cooked already down twenty one.

659
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 2: You don't care about fantasy football anyways. So NBA a

660
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 2: lot of consternation about the ratings, and then what happens

661
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 2: on Christmas Day, Rob is The NBA game for tremendous

662
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: Nicks Spurs was phenomenal. Lakers beat the Warriors on a

663
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 2: layup by Austin Reeze with his second left. I think

664
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 2: there was one other good game. It was just the

665
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 2: football was mid the basketball was tremendous, and the NBA's

666
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 2: kind of been on a heater. The day after Christmas,

667
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 2: I think they had four games decided in the final

668
00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 2: ten seconds. It was awesome. And then on in the

669
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 2: midst of the uh the NBA. You got a big

670
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 2: trade and the Lakers have shipped d Angelo Russell aka

671
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 2: me Angelo Russell to the Brooklyn Nets, back to the

672
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets, and in return they got Dorian Finney Smith

673
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: shake Milton not a bad houl.

674
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 4: Oh.

675
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 2: Lakers had to give up three second round picks. Apparently

676
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: Memphis was in and they wanted to offer a protected

677
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: first round pick, and the Nets said three second round

678
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 2: picks is better. Rob. This is a crazy stat. The

679
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets have sixteen second round picks over the next

680
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: seven drafts. And I will say this, I don't know

681
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 2: if you guys saw the lottery Mega Millions was like

682
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 2: one point two billion dollars. I actually played the lottery,

683
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 2: did not win, not that you would know if I won,

684
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: but you having sixteen second round picks over the next

685
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 2: seven drafts is like having a bunch of lottery tickets.

686
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 2: You could probably take Nick Zeros eight euros and hope

687
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: one hits you could take. I don't mean you could

688
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 2: find the next Austin Reeves. I like second round picks

689
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 2: in the NBA. They're so undervalued, or if they're so

690
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 2: overvalued that they're undervalued at this point. And wait, did

691
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels just do it? Or did they're calling Jadon

692
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 2: Daniels touchdown to Zach Ertz. But it's going to be reviewed.

693
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: I believe it hit the turf. We shall see. We'll

694
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 2: let you know shortly. The refs have to review it.

695
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 2: But I like this straight for both teams. The nets

696
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 2: have a ton of second round picks. Danzel Russell can

697
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 2: hoist up all the shots he can. He can battle.

698
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 2: What's his face? Uh? Oh, that's a great catch by Ertz.

699
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 2: That's a catch, right, rob Did you see looked like

700
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 2: it was going down and then he tucked his hand.

701
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 2: Oh that's a catch. Wait ooh, I think it's good.

702
00:34:58,840 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 3: It's confirmed.

703
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 2: Firm touchdown, Jade Daniels.

704
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 4: Getting We wait to go overhie, Morris, we did not

705
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 4: go for two. We all saw that coming.

706
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 2: Morris will Bosom. I like to trade for the Nets,

707
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 2: getting getting D'Angel Russell. He can fight Cam Cam Thomas,

708
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 2: my guy from LSU for shots. They probably will literally

709
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 2: fight overshots and uh for the Lakers. Dorian Phinney Smith,

710
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. People are so into Reddick. They looked

711
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: up Dorian Finney Smith and Reddick on Twitter. Wouldn't you

712
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 2: know it? May eight, twenty twenty two. How do you not?

713
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 2: How can you not love DFS? So Rob I went

714
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 2: and looked did you I don't know if you did this?

715
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 2: I went and look what happened on May eight, twenty

716
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 2: twenty two. So that was the postseason that the Suns

717
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 2: went to the finals. The Sons played the Mavericks I

718
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 2: guess in the Western Conference finals or it was in

719
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 2: some one round. They played Dorian Finney Smith on May eighth,

720
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Hit eight three pointers, eight threes, eight

721
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 2: of twelve from the twenty four points and he is

722
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 2: the prototypical three and D. This feels I don't want

723
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 2: to call it a heist drop, but like this is

724
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 2: as good as it gets. I think he probably by

725
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 2: the All Star break, maybe a little later, is starting.

726
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 2: Once they work him in, you start a d alongside DFS.

727
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 2: I don't know if this means shots are gonna come

728
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 2: away from Dalton connect, but Joan Finney Smith, I know

729
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 2: people he's a perfect role player for the Lakers. I

730
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 2: think this is a great get and my guy Austin Reeves.

731
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bring up my Austin Reeves or Mark

732
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 2: Price tweet. Robbie can chime in if you want. I

733
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 2: stand by it that I think Mark Austin Reeves is

734
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 2: a better player than Mark Price. Mark Price was a

735
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 2: first team All NBA guy, multiple time All Star. Austin

736
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 2: Reeves won't stiff the All Star Game, and he's better

737
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 2: than Mark Price. Anyways, I think is a great trade Listen,

738
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,439
Speaker 2: the West is a little chaotic. I know people love

739
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 2: the free throw merchant SGA, and people love Luca and

740
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 2: and they love Jokic. I think it's kind of sort

741
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 2: of wide open in the West. And uh, I think

742
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 2: the Lakers are gonna be in play assuming healthholds.

743
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh well, quickly. A couple of things.

744
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 4: Number One, I don't like that you gotta go white

745
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 4: guy for white guy with a comparison, I think that's

746
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 4: the low hanging fruit you could have went somewhere else

747
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 4: with it. That's number one with the price. Austin reeves

748
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 4: number two quick housekeeping. By winning this game, Washington clinches

749
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 4: a playoffs, Rams clinch the NFC West, So Rams sy

750
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 4: Yaks no longer matters in week eighteen.

751
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 2: Oh, this got the Rams the NFL.

752
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 4: It's got the Rams in clinched and last but not

753
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 4: least as far as this trade goes, I mean home

754
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 4: run for the Lakers because they didn't have to give

755
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 4: up pull of a lot like DeAngelo Russell was on

756
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 4: their outs anyway. Maxwell Lewis is a non factor, and

757
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 4: three second rounders is you know, peanuts in today's NBA.

758
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 4: They kept their their first round picks, which means, and

759
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 4: this I think they're gonna have to do if they

760
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 4: decide before the deadline that we got to make some

761
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 4: kind of consolidation trade because we have too many guys

762
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 4: who are all kind of around the same talent level

763
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 4: and we got to turn two of them into one,

764
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 4: or three of them into two, or whatever it is.

765
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 4: That they still have the ammunition to do it during

766
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 4: Phinneysmith is an ideal three and D role player. He's

767
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 4: gonna fit in beautifully alongside Lebron and ad. The only

768
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 4: problem is he's a three and D guy who guards

769
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 4: three four five, not two three four and so you

770
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 4: I don't think you can play Dfs.

771
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,439
Speaker 2: And Ruie, Hotchimore and Lebron all at the same time.

772
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 4: So you're don't have to figure something out where you know,

773
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 4: whether that's I mean, for now, Dfs probably off the bench,

774
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 4: but eventually maybe that means Hatchimore off the bench, or

775
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,479
Speaker 4: maybe that makes Hatchamra a you know, trade candidate because

776
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 4: he's got a pretty nice contract seventeen million dollars. He's sure,

777
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 4: he's a solid player, but I just don't think you

778
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 4: can have them both at the same time. You need

779
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 4: somebody who can defend the small, quick guards, especially in

780
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 4: the Western Conference, but again at the cost that you

781
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 4: bade to get it. D'Angelo Russell and three seconds. I

782
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 4: mean you do that every day. That's not even counting

783
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 4: the shake Milton Jake Milton the last time he played

784
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 4: earlier last week, I think he had sixteen and twelve, Like,

785
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 4: how many backup guards are gonna give you.

786
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 2: He's a bucket.

787
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, just the idea that you can get something like that.

788
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 4: So I think the Lakers home run deal. I don't

789
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 4: know if that makes him a championship team, but it

790
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 4: definitely gets them closer. If they can flip something here

791
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 4: before the trade deadline in about six weeks, they could

792
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 4: really be cooking with gas in the Western Conference.

793
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 2: It's interesting. I wonder, so you watched the Lakers. I

794
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 2: went to that Lakers Pistons game last week with the

795
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 2: Lakers lost, Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it was basically a

796
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 2: layup line in the second half for Detroit. They were like, oh,

797
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 2: nobody could stay with Jade and Ivy and there's no

798
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 2: room protection. We'll take layups. Came Cunningham, same deal. And

799
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 2: I just wonder how much Reddick was just sick of

800
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 2: his team's defense. Like you know, I love Lebron, obviously

801
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 2: he's the goat. His defense at this point on the

802
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 2: perimeter is not great. I like Austin Reeves, he has

803
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 2: some issues defensively. He's a good defender, but he has

804
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 2: issues against the top, the best of the best, the

805
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 2: Tyreese Max's, those high level guys. I just I don't know, Rob,

806
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 2: This defense just got demonstrably better with dfs over especially

807
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 2: over ruy Haachi Moro, who's not a good defender. He

808
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,240
Speaker 2: can occasionally block a shot, but he's not a good defender.

809
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 2: And I just this Lakers team is a little spicy

810
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 2: a little bit. Who's there? You know, Do I think

811
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 2: Gabe Vincent a plus defender. D'Angel Russell doesn't defend. I

812
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 2: don't know. I like almost everything about this team, dude.

813
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 2: There's a good, good Lakers team.

814
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 3: Yeah.

815
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 4: I mean, if they can find a way to get

816
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 4: one more like two way player on the wing or

817
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 4: just you know, an explosive kind of guard off the

818
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 4: bench that can score in bunches, that'd be a different conversation.

819
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 4: Like right now, it's still you know, Lebron, Ad and

820
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 4: Austin Reeves are the only creators they have on their

821
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,919
Speaker 4: team right now. And Ad doesn't do that that well,

822
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 4: he's more a finisher. It's basically Lebron and Austin Reeves.

823
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 4: And it's yeah, I don't think you can go into

824
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 4: a seven game series against Dallas, against OKC, against you know, say,

825
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 4: say what you want about Phoenix, but where you can

826
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 4: only count on two guys who can create offense for

827
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 4: the rest of your team, It's it's really tricky. You

828
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 4: need a third one somehow, some way, to fill out

829
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 4: the rest of that roster.

830
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a challenge, all right. Now we

831
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 2: can wrap up now that we have the final schedule

832
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: for Week eighteen after Washington's overtime victory, Washington covered by

833
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 2: the way, Oh thanks for nothing, Falcons. We have the

834
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 2: week eighteen lineup. It looks like Dolphins Jets will be

835
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 2: in the afternoon since gat that game has some meaning.

836
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 2: It seems like Brown's Ravens Ravens win that they win

837
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 2: the division. Bengals Steelers, why are they putting that a

838
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 2: data as the nikeing. Oh these are on Saturdays, Saturdays

839
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 2: Ravens right, ooh, that's good. And then Bengal Day Night

840
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 2: is a Lions Vikings. Ah, yes, that's a huge one.

841
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 2: So next Sunday night will be key. So Saturday you

842
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 2: get Browns Ravens at as the early game, and then

843
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 2: Bengals Steelers is the night game, which you know those

844
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 2: are both good, and then Vikings Lions is Sunday Night,

845
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 2: and then there's a couple other games that matter. Let

846
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 2: me leave you with the thought provoking question Rob Mike

847
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 2: McCarthy and the Cowboys they got destroyed Sunday and Jerry

848
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 2: Jones is openly talking about wanting Mike McCarthy back. What

849
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: if you're Mike McCarthy, do you want to go back?

850
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 2: Because I don't know, roster look pretty weak outside of Dak.

851
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,959
Speaker 2: Is he gonna be able to elevate everybody again coming

852
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 2: off the injury? And I don't know if there's a

853
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 2: more attractive job out there that either could be open.

854
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 2: I don't know if is Chicago better quarterback on a

855
00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 2: rookie deal over the Cowboys? And I that's just because

856
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 2: of one reason, and that's the Jerry Jones factor. Rob.

857
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:08,760
Speaker 2: He does so many radio interviews every week that you

858
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 2: you gotta wonder, like, what's he doing this for? All?

859
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 2: It is giving is headaches to his head coach. He's

860
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 2: answering questions he doesn't need to, Rob. I just wonder

861
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 2: if Mike McCarthy would say, Jerry, thanks, but I'm gonna

862
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: move on. I'm gonna look elsewhere. I don't need the spotlight.

863
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 2: I don't need I don't care about what time my

864
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 2: games are. I'm wanna win football games and I don't

865
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 2: think you want to do that.

866
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 3: Ooh, I'll tell you what.

867
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 4: It all comes down to his options if it is

868
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 4: legitimately out there that he has a shot at the

869
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 4: Bear's job. If it's out there that he has a

870
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 4: legit shot at the Raiders job, sure, but I don't

871
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,919
Speaker 4: see if Mike McCarthy hypothetically was available, I don't see

872
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 4: him jumping to the top of the list ahead of

873
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 4: guys like Rabel, ahead of Ben Johnson, ahead of hell

874
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 4: Liam Cohen, and Tampa Bay all of a sudden. It's

875
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 4: a hot topic, like, I don't see him becoming the

876
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 4: bell of the ball if he were to say, you

877
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 4: know what, I don't really want to extend in Dallas.

878
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 4: I want to shoot houses out there. So with that

879
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 4: in mind, I think that McCarthy and Dallas almost have

880
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 4: no choice but to run it back, at least for

881
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 4: another year or two, because I don't know where else

882
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 4: is available.

883
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 3: It's gonna be available, it's.

884
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 2: Gonna want Mike the Saints job any good?

885
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 3: Hell no, not their cap situation.

886
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think if there's another job, I cannot

887
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 2: endorse the Jets job in any way shape or for him.

888
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 4: Obviously, yeah, Jets, Giants. I would probably cross both of

889
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 4: those out.

890
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 2: The wild card, and I don't think McCarthy would be

891
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 2: up for it is if Nick Sirianni just keeps getting

892
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 2: into stuff. I didn't see it until late in the week,

893
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 2: but he got into it with zach Ertz last week

894
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 2: after the I don't if you saw that, Like he

895
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 2: made some dumb ass comment about zach Ertz not doing

896
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 2: anything in the game, Like what is that about? I

897
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 2: guess because Ertz is a former Eagle and Ertz was like,

898
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 2: what are you talking about? And they like had to

899
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 2: be separated. It's like every week there's some nonsense with

900
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,959
Speaker 2: Sirianni and I. If they lose in the first round,

901
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 2: even the second round, I would not be shocked if

902
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 2: they were like, we don't need this guy's headache anymore,

903
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 2: you know, let's move on now. The question becomes who

904
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,479
Speaker 2: do you get? Who's who's the guy for the job?

905
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 2: Again this I'm not buying this Ben Johnson stuff. It's

906
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 2: it's out there. I saw Schefter had some stuff. I

907
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 2: just I just refuse. I gotta believe it. I gotta

908
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 2: see it.

909
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 3: Keep an eye on the Colts.

910
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 2: Do you think because of that loss?

911
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 3: To think.

912
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 4: It's just you know, they've been an embarrassment for years now,

913
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 4: Like they they keep having these hiccups.

914
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 3: That's me at the end of the season.

915
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 4: Remember they had I think it was Carson Wentz blue

916
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 4: one in Week seventeen. A lot of my Raiders to

917
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 4: sneak into the play like they they have these hic

918
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 4: ups all the time. And Ersta is one of those

919
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 4: guys who does have rabbit ears. And that's not even

920
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 4: factoring the Pat McAfee went scorched thirst on them on

921
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 4: Sunday night after their loss to the Giants. Now he

922
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 4: say what you want about Pat McAfee. You know, he's

923
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 4: a person guy. He is a wily guy. He is

924
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 4: like a cult through and through. And when he's that

925
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 4: vocal about their culture there and their locker room, I

926
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 4: just you know, I wouldn't be surprised if, even though

927
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 4: we all like Shane Stike and I think he'd be

928
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 4: one of the top candidate if he was available, I

929
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 4: wouldn't be surprised at first day makes a pant move and.

930
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 2: Lets him go hmmm, I don't see that. But anything's

931
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 2: possible and looming. As somebody told me, there's a carve

932
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 2: out in the Belichick contract that he can leave before June.

933
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 3: That's right.

934
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 2: There's no job that I think he would leave for

935
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,280
Speaker 2: but Philadelphia I think would be interesting, right Oh yeah,

936
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 2: oh yeah, that's so anyway, So all right, long Monday Podcast.

937
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 2: Congrats to Jayden Daniels. Congrats to the Rams for getting

938
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Ignore all that Rams panic, I Rob,

939
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 2: we got to adjust it and get to a Rams playoff.

940
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 2: Came in, We're gonna be hosting MS Rams win the

941
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 2: division and we're back tomorrow. See then,