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Speaker 2: Welcome to Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper.

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Speaker 3: Well, Merry Christmas to you, and how about we start

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Speaker 3: week seventeen with a present from Santa Claus. Yes, hopefully

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Speaker 3: you got some wonderful gifts under your tree and in

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Speaker 3: your stockings. But we also have three games on the slate, Sherry, Isaac,

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Speaker 3: Mike G.

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Speaker 4: Kyle Brant here with you. It's going to be an

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Speaker 4: incredible day.

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Speaker 3: I hope everyone gets to spend some time with family,

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Speaker 3: friends and loved ones, and of course getting to watch

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Speaker 3: some football. Kyle, It's just we We couldn't have picked

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Speaker 3: or had a better day to just start Christmas.

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Speaker 5: Hell know, it's wonderful time. Mike, garyl follow We had

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Speaker 5: a little cameo by one of your daughters today. How

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Speaker 5: we do on How's Light? How's Christmas? Talk to us?

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Speaker 6: The egg nug hit a little hard last night, so

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Speaker 6: just don't expect.

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Speaker 2: Don't expect any witty banner.

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Speaker 6: I do appreciate the world's easiest game of Where's Waldo?

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Speaker 2: Ever, though again there is I.

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Speaker 5: Got them, Isaac, How's life, buddy?

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Speaker 7: My Christmas It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 8: I even broke out this Notre Dame jersey had to

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Speaker 8: take off the plastic wrap off. This has not been

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Speaker 8: opened since my senior year. Got to rep the Notre

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Speaker 8: the great Christmas background.

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Speaker 7: Shout out to my in laws for that.

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Speaker 3: It looks beautiful, It's perfect those points set as we

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Speaker 3: have gifts. Where's Waldo slash Candy Canes, Mike Chie. We're

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Speaker 3: going to make this easy for you. You can just sit

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Speaker 3: on the couch and watch football because we have three

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Speaker 3: games coming your way today. First too on Netflix, that's

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Speaker 3: Commanders at Cowboys. Then you have Lines at Vikings and

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Speaker 4: Thinking, where's Jamie, where's Mantai? Where's Seth freaking Rollins.

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Speaker 3: They are there in Minnesota hanging out.

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Speaker 4: Then you have the final game on Amazon Prime and.

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Speaker 3: That's where the Chiefs host the Broncos. But there is

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Speaker 3: some injury news we need to get to. It's not

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Speaker 3: just all you know, tinsel and Christmas presence. There might

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Speaker 3: And the news that RNFL network insider Ian Rappaport is

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Speaker 3: bringing to us. Good morning and Merry Christmas to you.

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Speaker 3: Is it gifts you're delivering or lumps of coal?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 9: You know that time of the year, mostly lumps of coal.

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Speaker 9: Mery Christmas to you guys as well. I want to

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Speaker 9: get to some of the injuries for today's games, not

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Speaker 9: all bad news. We'll start with Amanroz Saint Brown, the

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Speaker 9: now he's been on the injury report limited this week

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Speaker 9: else by coach Dan Campbell. And when Amen Roz talked

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Speaker 9: So a little bit of a mass unit for the

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Speaker 4: Ian. We appreciate you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Now, the Chief's defense, they have entered last week's game

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Speaker 10: Coming up with dimmer Broco's division opponent, it's gonna be tough.

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Speaker 6: Is this one of those situations where you're happy to

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Speaker 11: I think that's a good, good way of putting it,

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Speaker 3: And they have that short week too, and just not

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Speaker 3: the Broncos still have all that they want right in

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Speaker 3: Isaac, I want to start with you, what is catching

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Speaker 8: Well, first off, I think the question that was asked

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Speaker 8: going to be, we know who Sean Payton's going to be.

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Speaker 8: We know this is the best D line ever. I

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Speaker 8: to have is misstackles. They had nine miss tackles last game.

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Speaker 8: Over one hundred yards worth of offense off of those

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Speaker 7: So you just don't want to have that.

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Speaker 8: You don't want turnovers, you don't want a bunch of penalties,

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Speaker 8: you don't want miss tackles. You want to be able

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Speaker 7: And that's exactly what they're going to need to do.

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Speaker 7: It needs to be.

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Speaker 8: Complimentary football all around, clean, do what you need to do,

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Speaker 7: I mean, best team in the NFL right now.

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Speaker 6: The Broncos right now, Isaac are tenth in the NFL

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Speaker 6: in offense, they are starting to move up the rankings there.

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Speaker 6: They were lower ranked before the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 6: And I remember looking at this Broncos team and I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: And I went back and looked at the rankings.

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Speaker 6: When Sean Payton was the head coach of the Saints,

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Speaker 6: last two years when it was like all of a sudden, yeah,

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Speaker 6: maybe the things have run its course in New Orleans

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Speaker 6: Evan Ingram, a guy who was released by the Jaguars

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Speaker 6: this offseason. And then there was a bitding war between

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Speaker 6: I watch the game some of that stuff just some

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Speaker 6: that's still the Evan Ingram. I remember being drafted by

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Speaker 2: I think that's the missing piece.

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Speaker 6: If they can unlock him and get him going and

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Speaker 6: add a little bit more explosiveness to this offense, then

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Speaker 6: I'll say, Okay, now they're starting to pass the eye

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Speaker 6: test a little bit more and make them that much dangerous.

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Speaker 6: Evan Ingram, that's the guy I want to see go

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Speaker 5: Go. I hear that, and I believe me, Isaac. There

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Speaker 5: were some some people down in Duval County, Florida who

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Speaker 5: just screamed about you, saying the Broncos are the best

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Speaker 5: team in the NFL because the Jaguars just smacked the

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Speaker 5: Broncos in Denver. But that's what we do with Jacksonville.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, guys, like we should be better, but do

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Speaker 5: it again and probably have to do it another time

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Speaker 5: because Denver does look very good that last week aside,

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Speaker 5: and I'm just going to see Sean Payton today. It's

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Speaker 5: kind of a fun atmosphere to have a Sean Payton

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Speaker 5: day where last week he comes out small market, a

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Speaker 5: small market that. As I've said, it's about the two

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Speaker 5: thousandth time that Sean Payton has said something that people

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Speaker 5: don't like. He could not care less, but he does

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Speaker 5: go out and lose. I'll tell you what though, Sean Payton,

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Speaker 5: the mission which I've been showing up in Denver, it's done.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we're here, guys. This is what Sean Payton

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Speaker 5: was brought in to do. He's if he's wins the

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Speaker 5: chigast the Zombie Chiefs today, it'll be a sweep of

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Speaker 5: the Chiefs. It'll be a division title, it may be

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Speaker 5: a conference title. It's all working. And who does he

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Speaker 5: do it against? His old buddy Andy Reid, Andy Read

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Speaker 7: You just gave every single Chiefs fan a bag of cold.

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Speaker 8: You know, we got to keep it into Christmas references.

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Speaker 8: That was that was awful and great, But real quick,

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Speaker 7: It's not like these huge Sure, everybody needs.

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Speaker 8: Honestly, at this point in the year, is a good

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to get back out there, just like

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Speaker 6: are we nitpicking? But it's nick picking time of the year.

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Speaker 6: It is almost the playoff time of the year. It's

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Speaker 6: time to go, Broncos. It's time to take that next step.

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Speaker 4: All right, we're going to go.

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Speaker 3: Let's see what other matchups that are keeping our attention.

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Speaker 3: We have the two other games today, Dallas at Washington,

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Speaker 6: All right, I'm looking for this Lions team to rush

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, the Lions are in trouble. And then they

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Speaker 6: It scored fifty two against the Chicago Bears, and then

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Speaker 6: This is not the Lions. I don't care who you're

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Speaker 6: supposed to be a lot better. Look at that number

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Speaker 6: supposed to be a Dan tumble. I understand that, I

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Speaker 6: I mean, give me fifty one, don't give me fifteen.

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Speaker 7: Mike Gee.

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Speaker 8: I think if you we're running the ball behind the

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Speaker 8: Everybody was planning for the offseason. The culture was not there.

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Speaker 8: My question for this Lions team, because I agree with you,

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Speaker 7: Is this culture real? Was this culture just.

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Speaker 7: To the playoffs.

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Speaker 8: But right now, my biggest question that I'm excited to

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Speaker 5: It's a fair question. And if Theans lose or if

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Speaker 5: mortem on their season will be the coordinators and fair unfair.

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Speaker 5: It's you can ask that if they finish eight to

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Speaker 5: just fair. That's how it works, and I know Dan

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Speaker 5: Campbell knows that's coming. I'm looking forward to watching George

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Speaker 5: if they're on time, let's be locked in because he

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what though, if the Lions

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Speaker 2: Do I get put?

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Speaker 6: I mean, I gotta go back to Isaacs. This is

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Speaker 2: Yards, that's the kind of stuff that we would argue, like,

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Speaker 2: if I get good, which offensive line? And am I

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Speaker 6: Could I get fifteen yards in an NFL game?

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Speaker 2: Isaac?

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Speaker 6: For you, a former NFL player, to say that I

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Speaker 5: Let's go.

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Speaker 4: You got the what you need.

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Speaker 5: Listen, these things always come down to this, Mike. If

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Speaker 6: And only get one hands fifteen big right off the bed.

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Speaker 5: You're not going outside, Mike, So I assume you're going

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he also said that Eggnog was hitting a little

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Speaker 3: He has a tall task ahead of him taking on

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Speaker 13: I'm sure we'll be getting up early in my house

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Speaker 5: So I don't think I don't.

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Speaker 13: I don't think my wife thought I was a good

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Speaker 13: I was on the naughty list.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, naughty list. I mean maybe because he usually wins

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Speaker 3: We're going to really dig into this race. Mike Gee,

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Speaker 3: why does that make you laugh?

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Speaker 2: Well? Can I?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Right off the bat here, Because NFL coaching wives are

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Speaker 2: It's because of Mom.

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Speaker 6: It's because of what she was able to do and

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Speaker 6: Matt Lafloor, So I heard that, I'm thinking, what are

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Speaker 4: What do we feel like you need to see?

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Speaker 3: Mike g When it comes to just the football part

434
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Speaker 3: of this, we're going to leave that home part for

435
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Speaker 3: a different day.

436
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Speaker 6: I want to see Jordan Love on the nicest I

437
00:19:17,908 --> 00:19:19,948
Speaker 6: want to see him get through concussion protocol. I want

438
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Speaker 6: to see him play and I have enjoyed watching him

439
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Speaker 6: play this year. I think he does a great job

440
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Speaker 6: of playing the quarterback position. And Pro Bowl snubs, You've

441
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Speaker 6: got them every single year.

442
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Speaker 2: Does Jordan Love have a case? I think he does.

443
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Speaker 6: You know you look at his numbers this year, He's

444
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Speaker 6: thrown half the interceptions. I believe that Sam Darnold has

445
00:19:36,748 --> 00:19:40,708
Speaker 6: had his numbers this year thirty three eighty one, eight

446
00:19:40,828 --> 00:19:43,428
Speaker 6: fewer yards that he had in fifteen games last year,

447
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Speaker 6: and the interceptions cut from eleven to six, twenty three

448
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Speaker 6: touchdowns to the same twenty five that he had last year.

449
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Speaker 2: And I just think he's played phenomenal football.

450
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Speaker 6: That fifteen games also includes him leaving early the other game,

451
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Speaker 6: so he potentially could have put up even better numbers.

452
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Speaker 6: So I want Jordan Love to get through the protocol.

453
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Speaker 6: I want to see him out there on the field.

454
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Speaker 6: I don't think we're going to see Lamar Jackson. You

455
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Speaker 6: heard what Ian said. So let's get Jordan Love out there.

456
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Speaker 6: Let's see the Packers at full strength.

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Speaker 7: Mike g real quick, because you brought up moms.

458
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Speaker 8: I have to get my mom a shout out because

459
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Speaker 8: I know she's watching the show Gina in Minnesota.

460
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Speaker 7: My mom, who I love? I miss him?

461
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know it's all that matters, right, moms and

462
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Speaker 8: the wives of the NFL.

463
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about moms more and how important they

464
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Speaker 3: are to their families.

465
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Speaker 4: I'm here for this.

466
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Speaker 7: Literally, but people that I want to see in this game.

467
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Speaker 8: Not to quickly change the subject, mom, but people that

468
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Speaker 8: I want to see. I'm obviously going to talk about

469
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Speaker 8: all the Notre Dame guys that are playing on this

470
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Speaker 8: Baltimore Ravens team. There are big difference makers. This isn't

471
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Speaker 8: like a hoorah. I've got Notre Dame stuff in the background,

472
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Speaker 8: so I'm going to talk about it. Ronnie Stanley, Alohi Gilman,

473
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Speaker 8: and the great number fourteen best safety in football right now.

474
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Speaker 8: In my opinion, these guys are big difference makers in

475
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Speaker 8: this game. Of course, the safeties. With a quarterback that's

476
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Speaker 8: not going to be Jordan Love potentially, it's gonna matter

477
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Speaker 8: what type of looks they have defensively what they can do.

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Speaker 7: And then Ronnie.

479
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Speaker 8: Stanley's huge for this too because we may not see

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Speaker 8: Lamar Jackson. They're running games got to be huge. With

481
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Speaker 8: Derrick Henry, we've had a lot of issues with that

482
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Speaker 8: and the pull wasn't all. We want Dereck Henry to

483
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Speaker 8: have wide open lanes to run the ball. So Notre

484
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Speaker 8: Dame guys are no doubt gonna be the biggest piece

485
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Speaker 8: of this game.

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Speaker 5: Okay, you can talk Notre Dame. I'll talk to Alabama

487
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Speaker 5: because they actually made the college football Playoff. Derek, we're

488
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Speaker 5: doing that. I mean, that's true, they did make it.

489
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Speaker 5: And Derrick Henry. I think today is an important day

490
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Speaker 5: of Derrick Henry. Why the end of the season, the

491
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Speaker 5: team's not very good, they're seven and eight. There is

492
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Speaker 5: the script that's already written for them where Lamar his

493
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Speaker 5: body or whatever is going on with Lamar let them

494
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Speaker 5: down and the Ravens just kind of lose out and

495
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Speaker 5: go quietly into this into the sunset. Or what if

496
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Speaker 5: Derek Henry just goes ballistic? What if he just goes

497
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Speaker 5: absolutely not cin Lambo Field today and as a special day, Guys,

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you've noticed, is Derek Henry's thirty

499
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Speaker 5: one is casually dropping one hundred yards this season, a

500
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Speaker 5: dozen touchdowns, five yards of carry. He is doing everything

501
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Speaker 5: he has always done, albeit on a team that has

502
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Speaker 5: just really continued to underwhelm. I just wonder if there's

503
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Speaker 5: any way he could carry this team. I think Derek

504
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Speaker 5: Henry is a Hall of Famer. I do. I think

505
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Speaker 5: when this is all done, I think he's going to

506
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Speaker 5: get in. This is the kind of days where if

507
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Speaker 5: you go absolutely nuts on Christmas Day and you win

508
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Speaker 5: in lambeau Field and you keep that Ravens heartbeat alive,

509
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Speaker 5: that's how you go and become a first ballot guy someday.

510
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Speaker 5: I mean it's this is a chance to be legendaries.

511
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Speaker 5: He's out there with his usual backup quarterback like he

512
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Speaker 5: has all year against the Packers who are really playing

513
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Speaker 5: for a lot. Derek Henry, have a day, give us

514
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Speaker 5: one of those specials. Give us another ninety nine yard run,

515
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Speaker 5: give us another two hundred yard day. Just give us

516
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Speaker 5: an absolute show, because it's going to have to come

517
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Speaker 5: from you. And this guy's never afraid of the work.

518
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Speaker 5: I'm looking for a huge day number twenty two today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe Mike Gen you can speak to this.

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Speaker 3: That's why the Ravens got a guy like Dereck Henry

521
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Speaker 3: to put games away late.

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Speaker 4: Just run the ball. Kyle Well, we had him on

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Speaker 4: was It literarlier this week. He said he's after.

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Speaker 3: Another angry receptor, so something we need to be certainly

525
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Speaker 3: on the lookout for as he takes on this Green

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Speaker 3: Bay team Christmas edition of Throwdown Thursday. So as we

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Speaker 3: tell the baby gentle hands in this throwdown. We're going

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Speaker 3: to start question number one. Who has been the greatest

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Speaker 3: gift to Sean Payton this season? Is it bon Nicks

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Speaker 3: wrapped up in beautiful wrapping paper or is it the

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Speaker 3: Denver defense that is the gift to head coach Sean Payton?

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Speaker 4: Isaac, what do you think?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: I think this is a definite defense thing. And I

535
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Speaker 8: played defensive end in the NFL, so it checks out

536
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Speaker 8: that I would say this. But I remember playing with

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Speaker 8: Melvin Ingram, and Melvin Ingram was a guy who would

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Speaker 8: come in the locker room when we were at the

539
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Speaker 8: Chargers at halftime and.

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Speaker 7: Be like, if they don't score, they don't win. It's

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Speaker 7: the simplest.

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Speaker 8: Concept in football, and this defense is giving them opportunities

543
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Speaker 8: to win. It's complementary football. The better the defense plays,

544
00:23:55,068 --> 00:23:58,188
Speaker 8: the better Bonnicks can play. If you're seeing highlights right now,

545
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Speaker 8: this d line absolutely dominating and it dominated all year.

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Speaker 8: I mean they're coming out of games with six Evan,

547
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Speaker 8: I'll throw in the six seven reference six to seven sacks.

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Speaker 7: That's not normal.

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Speaker 8: Also, when you look at them categorically, they're top five

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Speaker 8: in pretty much every defensive category. So again, these are

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Speaker 8: difference makers. When it comes to playoff teams. Every great

552
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Speaker 8: coach says, when it comes to playoffs, pack your defense

553
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Speaker 8: and pack your special teams. And that's what they're gonna

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Speaker 8: It's what they're gonna continue to do. Their defense has

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Speaker 8: been top tier all year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the defense for me.

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Speaker 6: And you could sit here and say, oh, Patrick's air ten,

558
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Speaker 6: Nick Benito, these guys up front, Zach Allen, I'm gonna

559
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Speaker 6: go Riley Moss and Riley Moss is abstract art. Basically,

560
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Speaker 6: you look at it and everybody sees something different. Mark

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Speaker 6: Riley Moss is the cornerback opposite Patrick Sir Tan, which

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Speaker 6: means he is going to see the football come towards

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Speaker 6: the guys that he is covering more often than a

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Speaker 6: lot of other cornerbacks.

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Speaker 2: In the league. Is nobody wants to throw too often

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Speaker 2: the ten side.

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Speaker 6: And uh, there's been a lot of this, well I

568
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Speaker 6: was looking for break up. Well there's an interception off

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Speaker 6: with deflection. There's also been a lot of penalties as well.

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Speaker 6: You got to take the good with the bad, and

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Speaker 6: you gotta love the fact that despite that and despite

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Speaker 6: what some people say when they go, hey, this guy's

573
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Speaker 6: the most penalized guy, and you know he's struggling because

574
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Speaker 6: look at how many times they're throwing his way or whatever.

575
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Speaker 6: Riley Moss is in there competing and he hasn't budged,

576
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Speaker 6: and he hasn't back down, and he continues to do it.

577
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Speaker 6: I love Riley Moss's competitiveness. I think in the future

578
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Speaker 6: he's gonna get his own big contract Kyle, and I

579
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Speaker 6: love the fact that he hasn't back down.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't waivered at all.

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Speaker 5: I like Moss a lot too, obviously, I like the defense.

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Speaker 5: But Nicks is everything they could have wanted him to be.

583
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Speaker 5: He's far from perfect. He still has a lot of

584
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Speaker 5: growing to do, but bon Nicks is working and it

585
00:25:45,268 --> 00:25:47,828
Speaker 5: maybe shouldn't have happened like this. Let's just remember the

586
00:25:47,828 --> 00:25:50,988
Speaker 5: origin story of bon Nicks. Sean Payton shows up and

587
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Speaker 5: there is a messy, awkward, really unsavory relationship with Russell

588
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Speaker 5: Wilson in which he is benched and sat down and

589
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Speaker 5: just it's one of the worst stories going on in

590
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Speaker 5: football that year. So they go and they're going to

591
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Speaker 5: draft a quarterback. Sean Payton's like, yeah, we'll take the

592
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Speaker 5: sixth quarterback in the first round. The sixth We'll take

593
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Speaker 5: our sixth choice, and that's how I'm going to launch

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Speaker 5: this next era of my career with QB six in

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Speaker 5: the draft. And he said, no, this is the guy

596
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Speaker 5: we wanted, and we're like, yeah, sure it was. You

597
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Speaker 5: just liked them all and you were six in line. No,

598
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Speaker 5: this is the one we wanted. And it's worked, and

599
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Speaker 5: it's really worked, and it's worked better than some of

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Speaker 5: those quarterbacks that were drafted in front of him. I

601
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Speaker 5: don't need to mention their names. You know who they are.

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Speaker 5: Sean Payton knew his guy, got his guy has his

603
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Speaker 5: defense and boon Nicks. That's fun about bon Nicks and

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Speaker 5: the Broncos is there's a feeling that the best could

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Speaker 5: be yet to come, just like there kind of is

606
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Speaker 5: with Caleb and some of these other younger guys. Some

607
00:26:42,028 --> 00:26:43,948
Speaker 5: of these guys in the playoffs this year, we already

608
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Speaker 5: know what they got, but Nicks maybe can uncorcent but

609
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Speaker 5: we haven't seen yet. It's exciting, it's intoxicating, and he

610
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Speaker 5: really has them exactly where he always thought they would

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Speaker 5: take him.

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Speaker 3: And that's Peyton plus Knicks plus defense. Really the gift

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Speaker 3: for all the above for Broncos fans as they look

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Speaker 3: to clinch the AFC West for the first time since

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Speaker 3: twenty fifteen. We don't need to remind Broncos fans how

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Speaker 3: that ended up for them super Bowl Parade. May I

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00:27:05,748 --> 00:27:08,188
Speaker 3: remind you now, Ben Johnson, Kyle you kind of mentioned

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Speaker 3: they're Chicago Bears, but they are taking on Kyle Shanahan

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Speaker 3: and the forty nine ers in this big NFC matchup.

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Speaker 3: We want to listen to Coach Johnson first talking about

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Speaker 3: his coaching peers listen to this.

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Speaker 14: Each year, you know this, the Shanahan offense looks a

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Speaker 14: little bit different. It's got some different wrinkles. As defenses change,

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Speaker 14: He's been changing as well, and I think that's enabled

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Speaker 14: him to stay on the forefront of some of these concepts.

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Speaker 14: And so I think he does a great job, as

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Speaker 14: good of a job as anybody in the NFL of

628
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Speaker 14: putting his guys in a great spot to be successful.

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Speaker 14: And you know it certainly shows up there on third

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Speaker 14: down and in the red zone.

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Speaker 3: Coach, they're talking about success, I think we could use

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Speaker 3: that word for both of those. But for topic two,

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Speaker 3: who do you think whose season isn't a better resume?

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Speaker 4: A better resume for coach of the year.

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Speaker 3: Is it Ben Johnson what he's doing in Chicago, or

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Speaker 3: is it Kyle Shanahan Isaac what he's doing there in

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Speaker 3: San Francisco.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 8: Look, Kyle, I'm gonna make you happy here because I'm

640
00:28:07,668 --> 00:28:10,748
Speaker 8: fully converted into a Bears guy. Like, any time I

641
00:28:10,748 --> 00:28:13,228
Speaker 8: can talk positively about Ben Johnson, I'm going to so

642
00:28:13,508 --> 00:28:14,068
Speaker 8: no doubt.

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Speaker 7: My answer here is Ben Johnson. And this was fun

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Speaker 7: for me.

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00:28:17,308 --> 00:28:19,108
Speaker 8: I went back and I wanted to watch the first

646
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Speaker 8: press conference he had for the Bears, just to really

647
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Speaker 8: evaluate where they are now and what his thought process

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Speaker 8: was going in. I watched his press conference for like

649
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Speaker 8: fifteen minutes, and the guy who was just sitting there

650
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Speaker 8: giving things right, I want to thank my family, I

651
00:28:31,508 --> 00:28:33,348
Speaker 8: want to thank the Lions organization. I want to thank

652
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Speaker 8: the Bears organization. What that showed me is that's who

653
00:28:37,028 --> 00:28:39,828
Speaker 8: he is, right. He is a genuinely good guy, and

654
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Speaker 8: that's the type of energy that he brings. It causes

655
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Speaker 8: an environment where his team buys into him. You can't

656
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Speaker 8: instill a culture, a winning culture as fast as he

657
00:28:47,908 --> 00:28:51,508
Speaker 8: has unless teams or unless your team is brought into you. Now,

658
00:28:51,868 --> 00:28:54,628
Speaker 8: the other stuff, the stats that's obvious, right. We know

659
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Speaker 8: that they were much better football team, a much better

660
00:28:57,068 --> 00:28:58,788
Speaker 8: offense than they've been in the past. But what I

661
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Speaker 8: like about him is how quickly he's been able to

662
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Speaker 8: change the culture. The Bears have not had a winning

663
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Speaker 8: culture years, in fact, very much a losing culture for years,

664
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Speaker 8: and then he came in and completely switched everything. Mike,

665
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Speaker 8: I want to know what you think about this, hopefully,

666
00:29:13,868 --> 00:29:15,948
Speaker 8: say Ben Johnson, No, because we should always talking about man.

667
00:29:17,548 --> 00:29:19,188
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you don't. You don't want to know, and

668
00:29:19,188 --> 00:29:19,868
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why.

669
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Speaker 6: Because when you're on this program, you got to speak

670
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Speaker 6: passionately about a lot of things, and sometimes you kind

671
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Speaker 6: of sort of manufacture it. There's no man, I have

672
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Speaker 6: got Coach of the Year takes. I feel extremely passionate

673
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Speaker 6: about this one. Oh some of the Okay, so a

674
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Speaker 6: lot of times we lean toward the guys that are

675
00:29:37,308 --> 00:29:40,868
Speaker 6: working with nothing or working with a team that hasn't

676
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Speaker 6: been successful, and the problem is guys that do a

677
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Speaker 6: great job for teams that have been get penalized. Do

678
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Speaker 6: you know how many times Andy Reid arguably one of

679
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Speaker 6: the greatest coaches of our generation, not arguably one of,

680
00:29:52,868 --> 00:29:56,148
Speaker 6: but arguably the best one time. Two thousand and two

681
00:29:56,188 --> 00:29:58,348
Speaker 6: is the last time that Andy Reid won the AP

682
00:29:58,548 --> 00:30:01,068
Speaker 6: Coach of the Year. Something's off here, right, So I'm

683
00:30:01,148 --> 00:30:03,668
Speaker 6: leaning towards Kyle Shanahan here, and I understand that Ben

684
00:30:03,788 --> 00:30:06,628
Speaker 6: Johnson is building something there and he's creating.

685
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Speaker 2: A culture and all this stuff.

686
00:30:07,668 --> 00:30:10,068
Speaker 6: Kyle Shanahan did not have a starting quarterback for an

687
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Speaker 6: extended period a couple of extended periods this year. His

688
00:30:13,948 --> 00:30:18,388
Speaker 6: two best defensive players, we're talking all Pro caliber players

689
00:30:18,788 --> 00:30:20,908
Speaker 6: unavailable to him for most of the season. Here we'll

690
00:30:20,908 --> 00:30:22,908
Speaker 6: say about Fred Waner if he can make his way back.

691
00:30:23,268 --> 00:30:26,828
Speaker 6: His alleged number one wide receiver hadn't been in the

692
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Speaker 6: building for a month.

693
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Speaker 2: Before they put him on the left squad list. I

694
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Speaker 2: just like, how do you not look at the.

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Speaker 6: Job that Kyle Shanahan has done in a division that

696
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Speaker 6: is incredibly competitive, and he's got a path.

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Speaker 2: To the number one seed Right now? To me, I've

698
00:30:43,908 --> 00:30:44,788
Speaker 2: got to vote.

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Speaker 6: And right now it's going to Kyle Shanahan, and really

700
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Speaker 6: like he should give a piece to Robert Sala as

701
00:30:49,828 --> 00:30:51,988
Speaker 6: well for what he has done with an incredibly young.

702
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Speaker 5: Defense, solid against some sort of assistant of the year too.

703
00:30:56,388 --> 00:30:58,028
Speaker 5: I don't know if Philip Rivers just shredded that the

704
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Speaker 5: other night, who was a forty four year old guy

705
00:30:59,388 --> 00:31:05,068
Speaker 5: who's never played from phil guys. I'm like you, I

706
00:31:05,108 --> 00:31:08,068
Speaker 5: am uncharacteristically excited for Coach of the Year because it's

707
00:31:08,068 --> 00:31:10,988
Speaker 5: the best year I can remember. Here's why. Any other

708
00:31:11,068 --> 00:31:13,388
Speaker 5: year it's Mike Frables and we don't even have a

709
00:31:13,388 --> 00:31:16,428
Speaker 5: segment about it. It's set, it's done. Any other year

710
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Speaker 5: it's Ben Johnson's. We don't need to discuss it. Any

711
00:31:19,068 --> 00:31:22,868
Speaker 5: other year it's Liam Cohen's. Obviously, it's Liam Cohen who's

712
00:31:22,908 --> 00:31:26,108
Speaker 5: doing all of this and winning and beating the Chiefs

713
00:31:26,228 --> 00:31:29,108
Speaker 5: and beating the Broncos without their entire plan. For this year,

714
00:31:29,108 --> 00:31:31,228
Speaker 5: who was Travis Hunter who got hurt? Any other year

715
00:31:31,268 --> 00:31:34,468
Speaker 5: it's Dave Canalis. Any other year it's Mike McDonald. There's

716
00:31:34,548 --> 00:31:37,668
Speaker 5: so many candidates, and yet Mike Gerfolo. I agree with you.

717
00:31:37,708 --> 00:31:39,628
Speaker 5: I think it's so cool Kyle Shanahan has done. If

718
00:31:39,628 --> 00:31:43,468
Speaker 5: we can just break the archetype of taking over a

719
00:31:43,508 --> 00:31:46,068
Speaker 5: really terrible team and taking them from two wins to

720
00:31:46,148 --> 00:31:48,508
Speaker 5: eleven or something, which is awesome. I haven't don't have

721
00:31:48,548 --> 00:31:50,628
Speaker 5: any problem with that. Most Coach of the Years follow

722
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Speaker 5: that this Coach of the Year this year probably will.

723
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Speaker 5: Mike and I both have votes for this award. I

724
00:31:56,028 --> 00:31:58,788
Speaker 5: don't know who I'm voting for, but there's a huge

725
00:31:58,908 --> 00:32:01,548
Speaker 5: part of me that wants to vote for Kyle because

726
00:32:01,588 --> 00:32:03,748
Speaker 5: it's different, and this is a guy who has been

727
00:32:03,748 --> 00:32:05,748
Speaker 5: to two Super as head coach, and I think this

728
00:32:05,788 --> 00:32:08,588
Speaker 5: is his best coaching of his career. So I got

729
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Speaker 5: my vote. I'm not telling you who I'm going to

730
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Speaker 5: give it to because I don't know yet, but I

731
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Speaker 5: wouldice to give it to Kyle Shanahan.

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Speaker 6: Kyle, it's a tough one. And I say this all

733
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Speaker 6: the time. Uh, the thirty second best, Uh, the worst

734
00:32:19,668 --> 00:32:22,028
Speaker 6: coach in the NFL is still the thirty second best

735
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Speaker 6: in the world at what he does. I mean college

736
00:32:24,188 --> 00:32:26,308
Speaker 6: and guys that are you get what I'm saying. It's

737
00:32:26,308 --> 00:32:28,588
Speaker 6: a really hard job and there are a lot of

738
00:32:28,588 --> 00:32:30,508
Speaker 6: guys every year that are deserving of it, and you

739
00:32:30,548 --> 00:32:34,148
Speaker 6: should never vote with the future in mind. But I

740
00:32:34,188 --> 00:32:37,388
Speaker 6: feel like we get some award winners here in this

741
00:32:37,468 --> 00:32:39,948
Speaker 6: category that wind up getting fired or maybe aren't as

742
00:32:39,948 --> 00:32:42,708
Speaker 6: successful because we wind up leaning towards the oh the

743
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Speaker 6: two to ten instead of, Hey, Kyle Shanahan's a guy

744
00:32:45,788 --> 00:32:47,508
Speaker 6: that's done it for a long time, and it's gonna

745
00:32:47,508 --> 00:32:48,868
Speaker 6: do it for a long time as well.

746
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Speaker 3: Yes, a couple of weeks ago, right, Kyle, maybe two

747
00:32:52,188 --> 00:32:54,708
Speaker 3: wish months ago, you thought Kyle Shanahan was screaming into

748
00:32:54,748 --> 00:32:58,148
Speaker 3: his pillow because he had so many injuries. It's almost

749
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Speaker 3: like San Francisco is quietly eleven and four, if that

750
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Speaker 3: makes any sense. Can't wait to see how well, if

751
00:33:04,108 --> 00:33:06,308
Speaker 3: you guys can let us know maybe someday, how you

752
00:33:06,388 --> 00:33:08,908
Speaker 3: vote for that one. Now for our third topic for

753
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Speaker 3: Throwdown Festive, the most important question we're going to ask

754
00:33:12,748 --> 00:33:14,188
Speaker 3: to you all day.

755
00:33:14,388 --> 00:33:17,348
Speaker 4: Are you ready? Who is a better Christmas performer?

756
00:33:18,068 --> 00:33:23,228
Speaker 3: Is it Kelly Clarkson or is it Mariah Carey? Again,

757
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Speaker 3: the most important question we will ask here today.

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Speaker 8: I don't know why Bruce Springsteen's out on here. I'm

759
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Speaker 8: not going to make it a huge deal. I had

760
00:33:29,228 --> 00:33:30,628
Speaker 8: one of the best intros to.

761
00:33:30,628 --> 00:33:32,668
Speaker 7: His song of Literal all time.

762
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Speaker 8: But because I'm given the options that I have, I'm

763
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Speaker 8: gonna go with Mariah Carey. I mean, it's just it's

764
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Speaker 8: simply what you were raised with, what you heard for

765
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Speaker 8: Mariah has one of the best Christmas albums of all time.

766
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Speaker 8: I have no regrets in that answer. Mike G I mean,

767
00:33:47,068 --> 00:33:48,828
Speaker 8: what are you going to say? Are you a Kelly guy?

768
00:33:49,068 --> 00:33:51,948
Speaker 6: I respect Kelly, I appreciate what she's doing, and I

769
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Speaker 6: say what she's doing because it almost feels like Kelly

770
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Speaker 6: Clarkson is Patrick Mahomes.

771
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Speaker 2: He's starting to stack some rings.

772
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Speaker 6: But Mariah Carey is Tom Brady And will Kelly ever

773
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Speaker 6: catch Mariah like the Hey is in the barn and

774
00:34:04,508 --> 00:34:07,348
Speaker 6: from Mariah, Kelly's got to continue to make it happen here.

775
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Speaker 2: I'm going Mariah here, She's our Tom Brady.

776
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Speaker 5: Well, listen, you try to answer this question with full

777
00:34:12,868 --> 00:34:16,948
Speaker 5: respect for both women who are both legends. I feel like, really,

778
00:34:17,668 --> 00:34:20,668
Speaker 5: Whitney Houston was kind of the MJ, and then I

779
00:34:20,748 --> 00:34:25,428
Speaker 5: feel like maybe Mariah Carey is Kobe. I'm not sure

780
00:34:25,428 --> 00:34:27,428
Speaker 5: who Kelly Clarkson would be, but I can tell you this,

781
00:34:27,548 --> 00:34:29,748
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna say with my chest, I'll tell you

782
00:34:29,828 --> 00:34:32,788
Speaker 5: Key Clarkson is. She's my girl. That is always my

783
00:34:32,908 --> 00:34:37,068
Speaker 5: best season, non Christmas season. I'll tell you why. Super

784
00:34:37,188 --> 00:34:39,708
Speaker 5: up tempo, a little bit of a rock and roll edge.

785
00:34:39,788 --> 00:34:42,468
Speaker 5: Listen to her Run Run, Rudolph. It's awesome from start

786
00:34:42,508 --> 00:34:45,708
Speaker 5: to finish. Listen to her Underneath the Tree. In my opinion,

787
00:34:45,788 --> 00:34:48,668
Speaker 5: Underneath the Tree has taken over. All I Want for

788
00:34:48,748 --> 00:34:51,388
Speaker 5: Christmas is you as the number one Christmas jam. All

789
00:34:51,428 --> 00:34:54,068
Speaker 5: I Want for Christmas legendary song, Hang the Banner and

790
00:34:54,108 --> 00:34:56,988
Speaker 5: the Rafters, first ballot, Hall of Famer. I think a

791
00:34:56,988 --> 00:34:58,388
Speaker 5: little of us got to a point where it was

792
00:34:58,388 --> 00:35:00,268
Speaker 5: almost kind of like a joke. It's like, it's farce

793
00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:03,148
Speaker 5: this song. We've heard it too much. Kelly can sing,

794
00:35:03,268 --> 00:35:05,788
Speaker 5: she can rock, she can host. She's amazing. I've says

795
00:35:05,788 --> 00:35:08,708
Speaker 5: a thousand times. I got to meet Kelly clarkson NFL Honors.

796
00:35:08,948 --> 00:35:10,468
Speaker 5: She was like, Hey, you're the one was talking about

797
00:35:10,468 --> 00:35:11,988
Speaker 5: me on the morning show. I was like, and Dann right,

798
00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:18,428
Speaker 5: I was Kelly. I again, of course we all love Mariah.

799
00:35:18,508 --> 00:35:21,588
Speaker 5: Mariah is going on to God's gifts to singing. I

800
00:35:21,668 --> 00:35:24,348
Speaker 5: go Kelly, always Kelly, It's always wow.

801
00:35:24,508 --> 00:35:26,588
Speaker 3: I was almost waiting for the butt that you were

802
00:35:26,588 --> 00:35:28,428
Speaker 3: going to say, Mariah. I mean, All I Want for

803
00:35:28,508 --> 00:35:31,468
Speaker 3: Christmas came out in ninety four, which I know is

804
00:35:31,468 --> 00:35:31,988
Speaker 3: is your year.

805
00:35:32,068 --> 00:35:32,308
Speaker 2: Kyle.

806
00:35:32,388 --> 00:35:33,668
Speaker 4: I was uncertain.

807
00:35:34,508 --> 00:35:35,828
Speaker 5: I love All I Want for Christmas.

808
00:35:35,908 --> 00:35:36,068
Speaker 7: Is you.

809
00:35:36,748 --> 00:35:42,148
Speaker 5: It's I think we've got enough reps on that one. Guys. Yeah, yeah,

810
00:35:43,308 --> 00:35:44,348
Speaker 5: we're good for a while.

811
00:35:45,148 --> 00:35:47,108
Speaker 3: Oh man, all right, we need to get one more

812
00:35:47,108 --> 00:35:51,548
Speaker 3: opinion on this. NFL networker network insider Ian rapaport Ian.

813
00:35:52,148 --> 00:35:54,108
Speaker 3: I know we need to talk about quarterbacks, but these

814
00:35:54,148 --> 00:35:56,628
Speaker 3: are like quarterbacks of Christmas the Christmas songs.

815
00:35:56,948 --> 00:35:59,068
Speaker 4: Are you a Kelly guy or you Mariah?

816
00:35:59,108 --> 00:35:59,308
Speaker 2: Yeah?

817
00:35:59,428 --> 00:36:02,588
Speaker 9: First, I'm all Mariah all the time. Kelly Carson is

818
00:36:02,628 --> 00:36:03,108
Speaker 9: a great job.

819
00:36:03,148 --> 00:36:03,788
Speaker 2: I'm all Mariah.

820
00:36:03,788 --> 00:36:05,508
Speaker 9: I'll tell you the crazy thing about Mariah, and it

821
00:36:05,548 --> 00:36:07,828
Speaker 9: really doesn't have anything to do with Christmas, although I

822
00:36:07,868 --> 00:36:11,308
Speaker 9: know that was the question. She is famous and amazing

823
00:36:11,748 --> 00:36:15,228
Speaker 9: for two things which are sort of ancillary and also

824
00:36:15,468 --> 00:36:17,588
Speaker 9: sort of related to what you're talking about. Like obviously

825
00:36:17,628 --> 00:36:19,628
Speaker 9: she had plenty of hits in her real life. The

826
00:36:19,668 --> 00:36:22,908
Speaker 9: Christmas stuff is great, Yeah, greatest cover of all time

827
00:36:23,268 --> 00:36:26,268
Speaker 9: with I'll Be There, Absolutely, the greatest cover of all

828
00:36:26,268 --> 00:36:28,948
Speaker 9: time Killed, and then greatest remix of all time of

829
00:36:29,028 --> 00:36:30,188
Speaker 9: Fantasy with ODB.

830
00:36:30,508 --> 00:36:31,308
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my.

831
00:36:31,308 --> 00:36:34,348
Speaker 9: Owner the video was shot. I mean it's it's like

832
00:36:34,468 --> 00:36:37,228
Speaker 9: her main stuff is great, and then all the stuff

833
00:36:37,228 --> 00:36:39,428
Speaker 9: she kind of does on the side to add to

834
00:36:39,468 --> 00:36:41,868
Speaker 9: it are just the greatest of all time. I am

835
00:36:41,988 --> 00:36:46,228
Speaker 9: tea Mariah maybe the greatest singing voice in the history

836
00:36:46,268 --> 00:36:49,628
Speaker 9: of the world. I'm sure Kelly Clarkson is great, probably

837
00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:51,228
Speaker 9: more like I could run into her on a red

838
00:36:51,228 --> 00:36:54,708
Speaker 9: carpet than Mariah. But I am full tea Mariah for

839
00:36:54,908 --> 00:36:55,748
Speaker 9: her entire.

840
00:36:55,588 --> 00:36:57,308
Speaker 3: Kind of don't tell yourself, sir, you never know you

841
00:36:57,388 --> 00:36:58,308
Speaker 3: might meet Mariah too.

842
00:36:58,948 --> 00:37:02,668
Speaker 5: Yes, well he did. Ian. I am so relieved because

843
00:37:02,708 --> 00:37:04,748
Speaker 5: I thought that the share is gonna t you up.

844
00:37:04,988 --> 00:37:06,508
Speaker 5: Is it Mariah or is it Kelly?

845
00:37:06,668 --> 00:37:06,788
Speaker 7: Right?

846
00:37:06,828 --> 00:37:08,308
Speaker 5: And I think they're gonna come and be like all

847
00:37:08,348 --> 00:37:10,908
Speaker 5: I listened to is Christmas in Hollis, So I thought

848
00:37:10,908 --> 00:37:14,388
Speaker 5: you were gonna go for that, which I I do

849
00:37:14,548 --> 00:37:18,188
Speaker 5: like that song. What's in the news?

850
00:37:18,268 --> 00:37:19,788
Speaker 4: Yeah, get us some actual quarterbacks?

851
00:37:20,148 --> 00:37:22,108
Speaker 9: All right, all right, alright, we'll get to the news

852
00:37:22,108 --> 00:37:24,908
Speaker 9: a little bit. We'll start with Lamar Jackson. Time will

853
00:37:24,908 --> 00:37:27,428
Speaker 9: tell if he ends up having a good Christmas on

854
00:37:27,588 --> 00:37:30,948
Speaker 9: the football field on Saturday, that is, when the Baltimore

855
00:37:31,028 --> 00:37:33,308
Speaker 9: Ravens played the Green Bay Packers, and I think it's

856
00:37:33,348 --> 00:37:36,348
Speaker 9: fair to say Lamar status is in doubt for that game.

857
00:37:36,388 --> 00:37:38,708
Speaker 9: He has not yet practiced this week dealing with a

858
00:37:38,788 --> 00:37:42,348
Speaker 9: serious back contusion, the kind of thing where you sort

859
00:37:42,388 --> 00:37:44,188
Speaker 9: of thought, maybe, all right, well, he was knocked out

860
00:37:44,228 --> 00:37:46,348
Speaker 9: of the last game against the New England Patriots, but

861
00:37:46,548 --> 00:37:48,428
Speaker 9: probably able to get on the practice field this week.

862
00:37:48,468 --> 00:37:51,548
Speaker 9: It has not happened yet, and if it hasn't happened yet,

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Speaker 9: hard to imagine it happens later today. But we will

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Speaker 9: hold out and see whether or not the former MVP

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Speaker 9: is on the field. If he cannot go, Tyler Snoop

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Speaker 9: Unley will be the starting quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 9: Pittsburgh Steelers got some good news yesterday. Their star EDG TJ.

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Speaker 9: Watt was back on the practice field for the first

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Speaker 9: time in two weeks. He is dealing with the after

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Speaker 9: effects of having surgery on a partially collapse young long

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Speaker 9: following a dry kneedling session in the Steelers facility. If

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Speaker 9: he can bounce back today, then I would say he

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Speaker 9: should be good to go for the game. And this

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Speaker 9: really isn't a football thing. It's really more of a

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Speaker 9: he hasn't done anything for two weeks, how does his

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Speaker 9: body bounce back kind of thing? But the fact that

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Speaker 9: he is practicing is at least a good sign not

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Speaker 9: practicing for the Las Vegas Raiders, as Brock Bowers, their

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Speaker 9: star tight end not going to practice for the rest

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Speaker 9: of the season because he was placed on injured reserve

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Speaker 9: with a knee injury. That you know, he's battled all season,

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Speaker 9: and I think it's safe to say for the Las

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Speaker 9: Vegas Raiders, there are several things that go into this

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Speaker 9: decision to make sure that their star player is fully

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Speaker 9: healthy for twenty twenty six. Totally unrelated, totally unrelated. They're

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Speaker 9: in a battle for the number one overall pick this

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Speaker 9: Sunday against the New York Giants. If they lose, they

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Speaker 9: almost certainly get it. Again, these things are unrelated, but

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Speaker 9: they're not going to have their best player on the

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Speaker 9: field Sunday.

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Speaker 3: As we always look to the playoffs, there are further

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Speaker 3: things down in the calendar to look at, like draft

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Speaker 3: position and go back to Mariah.

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Speaker 4: You know, Mariah, you're on fire and that's you. You're

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Speaker 4: on fire today. We appreciate it. Merry Christmas to you,

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Speaker 4: my friend.