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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's already on the twenty twenty four Cowboys bandwagon.

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Speaker 1: From the Chris Westling podcast studio. It's Around the NFL.

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Speaker 3: My name is Dan hansis joined by heroes Greg Rosenthal

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Speaker 3: and Mark Sessler, and it is here the best football

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Speaker 3: weekend of the year Divisional Round layoffs. Eight teams remain.

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Speaker 3: That means only eight teams. One of them is going

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Speaker 3: to hoist that lombo.

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Speaker 4: I keep hearing that it's the best football weekend, and

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Speaker 4: I don't disagree in terms of the staging. But there

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Speaker 4: are also twenty four fan bases whose teams have been

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Speaker 4: like turned into dust. So it's not always you have

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Speaker 4: to become just agnostic and be like, I'm just enjoying

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Speaker 4: the sport at this point, and that's that.

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Speaker 1: I shift into that moment and I think, I think

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Speaker 1: you could probably relate to this.

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Speaker 3: But like I, I root for a bad team historically always,

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Speaker 3: so I'm used to, you know, checking out emotionally on

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Speaker 3: the team like my team aspect. So as a football

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Speaker 3: fan by this time, even if it was a good

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Speaker 3: season and he got picked off at the end of

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Speaker 3: the regular season or earlier in the playoffs, I can

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Speaker 3: look at these games and be like, we're not gonna

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Speaker 3: get pound for pound a better week of games. Now

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Speaker 3: that the Championship Sunday, which is next week is great too, Gregy,

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Speaker 3: but this one you get more variety, more spice, You

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Speaker 3: get an underdog or two, which we certainly have here,

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Speaker 3: and it's just gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: To Mark's point, I think week one is a close second.

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Speaker 5: If I had to choose, I do love me, So

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Speaker 5: that's great to just like, it's been so long of

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Speaker 5: a build up, but there is something where everyone's just

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Speaker 5: watching the same game. It doesn't it feel weird for

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Speaker 5: us too. We're home on Saturdays just watching one game.

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Speaker 5: I was like, man, there's a lot of commercial breaks,

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Speaker 5: like and I'm enjoying it because, like every play just

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Speaker 5: you're rethinking it and it in a different way than

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Speaker 5: you would in the in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: But I hope this one delivers.

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Speaker 5: It's a lot of pressure, you know, seasons sometimes they're

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Speaker 5: like the Packers season is so nice because there was

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Speaker 5: no expectations.

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Speaker 1: You know, we weren't expecting much.

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Speaker 5: I hope we don't put too much expectations on this

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Speaker 5: weekend after all those blowouts last week. Yeah, here's here's

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Speaker 5: a These spreads are big. Yeah, here's a big spread weekend.

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Speaker 1: They are large.

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Speaker 6: Good data point here. Reached out to the research team and.

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Speaker 3: What a team A person by the name of cold Noble,

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Speaker 3: which is a hell of a name.

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Speaker 1: Let's start there quickly. It could be a pen name,

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Speaker 1: but that's fine.

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Speaker 3: I had asked since division realignment for the research team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like that. He adopted his new name for the researcher.

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Speaker 1: Since division realignment in two thousand and two?

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Speaker 3: How often this is my exact email, Okay, sent by

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Speaker 3: verbal text on phone as I was driving in. Hey, there, period?

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Speaker 3: Could you tell me Kama? Since division realignment in two

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Speaker 3: thousand and two? Hama? How often both number one seeds

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Speaker 3: made it out of the divisional round? And then I

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Speaker 3: had to do an edis originally had a period and

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Speaker 3: I was like, no on, let me give the question

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Speaker 3: work on the other side, Kama. How many years did

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Speaker 3: both get picked off in their first playoff game?

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Speaker 1: Question mark?

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Speaker 3: Thanks slammer, need it chose a playful Hey, we're all

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Speaker 3: in this together. To put that exclamation point at.

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Speaker 1: The A team, you're a larger team. Yeah, Oh, we're

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Speaker 1: talking football. Yeah, hey Dan.

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Speaker 3: Since the division realignment in twenty two, number one seeds

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Speaker 3: are twenty nine and thirteen in the divisional round of

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Speaker 3: the playoffs. Of those twenty one seasons, there have only

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Speaker 3: been eleven seasons in which both number one seeds won

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Speaker 3: their divisional round matchup twenty two.

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Speaker 6: Which is last year. Interesting, which means two years in

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Speaker 3: Come on twenty eighteen, seventeen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, nine, four,

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Speaker 3: three and two. Of those twenty one seasons, there have

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Speaker 3: lost in the divisional round.

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Speaker 1: Does anybody know when that happened? Recently? So the Ravens lost.

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Speaker 3: Recently, the Titans got picked up by the Bengals, and

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Speaker 3: the Packers lost to the Niners in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: In twenty ten, the Falcons lost to the Packers.

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Speaker 1: That was the Rogers was going to say, and wins

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Speaker 5: I was trying to think, who is the one seed

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Speaker 3: The best football moment of my life up in Foxborough

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Speaker 3: that was twenty ten and two thousand and eight. The

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Speaker 3: Titans again, come on, Titoons, come on, even when you

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Speaker 3: have a power house team.

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Speaker 1: This happens to.

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Speaker 5: You about Kerry Collins was they're back of the most

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Speaker 5: random one seed until the time the Titans had the one.

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Speaker 1: They're like thirteen and oh or ten and oh yeah.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, the Titans lost to the Ravens and the Giants

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Speaker 3: lost to the Eagles. So great job by Cole Noble.

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Speaker 3: Did you we're all in this together.

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Speaker 1: Did you verbalize an email that said, thank you Cole

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Speaker 1: for your just soughtam to do it right now? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You got to write them back and say.

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Speaker 5: Cole, Yeah, it's kind of crazy. The Packers were the

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Speaker 5: one seed two years ago. Just gave that team that lost.

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Speaker 5: It's not a great.

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Speaker 1: You're Aaron Rodgers has never beaten. I don't know, Cole

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Speaker 1: Nobles probably a man. We are still recording back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would think Cole would be a would I

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Speaker 4: would think I don't know who knows, but.

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Speaker 1: I'm just go I was gonna put your the man.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you're the best. That's better, all right? Done?

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Speaker 3: All right, So we're gonna get to the games right now,

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Speaker 3: and we got a little football.

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Speaker 1: News to get to.

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Speaker 3: We'll do that as part of halftime but let's get

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Speaker 6: Oh, Marky Mark Mark Mark.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, the Houston Texans are a underdog this week. They're

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Speaker 3: one of the heavy underdogs. There are two teams man,

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Speaker 3: and they're one of them against the Ravens in Baltimore.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like the Ravens haven't played in about

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Speaker 3: They have a young quarterback in CJ. Stroud that hasn't

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Speaker 5: I think this Ravens team is unquestionably better because they're

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Speaker 5: I believe against CJ. Strouden and this Texans defense, and

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Speaker 5: they do it with man coverage, but they mix it up.

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Speaker 1: Stroud has struggled sometimes.

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Speaker 5: So Stroud's been very good mentally all season reading the coverage,

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Speaker 5: getting through his reads. This will be a new test

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Speaker 5: for him. He faced it in Week one. He struggled.

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Speaker 5: He's a much different quarterback now. But to me that

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Speaker 5: this is a much bigger step up in class for

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Speaker 4: I think, like that Week one game is you know,

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Speaker 4: the Texans were a completely different team. The Ravens were

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Speaker 4: Like it was a week ago we were saying Ken

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Speaker 4: Stroud solve this Browns offense or Browns defense. Let that

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Speaker 4: you know, we we were touting for good reason, and

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Speaker 4: now it comes again. It's the Ravens and the Ravens

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Speaker 1: In the playoffs because well, we'll find out.

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say this though, just coming in at

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Speaker 4: They are fourth in average points per game. Okay, they

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Speaker 4: All of those metrics basically have not been achieved by

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Speaker 3: And I think that I think a lot of it

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Speaker 4: It is Lamar Jackson, and it's the offense, and their

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Speaker 1: But this defense against CJ.

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Speaker 4: Stroud, who last week created the highest passer rating in

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Speaker 4: and it's just like, you know, you've taken away two

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Speaker 4: Like Nico Collins is heated up, and I really want

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Speaker 4: to see what this Ravens defense second and EPA against

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Speaker 4: if you get last week's version, this to me is

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Speaker 4: a dangerous The way I felt when the Browns were

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Speaker 4: have nothing to lose, and it's like, I think there

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Speaker 4: is this mounting pressure no matter what anyone says on

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Speaker 4: the Ravens, on Lamar Jackson, because even if you're an

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Speaker 4: there really is no true MVP in the sense that

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Speaker 4: we would normally look at that award like there is

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Speaker 4: mounting pressure on Lamar Jackson to win this playoff game

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Speaker 4: if you lose this, Like the narrative on you is

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Speaker 4: pretty cemented.

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Speaker 3: Yes, seven, well it's submitted. It's well for Dak Prescott,

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Speaker 3: right right right. It doesn't mean it can't be changed,

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Speaker 6: Sure he and he eventually changed that as well.

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Speaker 3: So, but you can't change any reputation or bad history

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Speaker 3: around your game in the.

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Speaker 3: He has not been a good historically, not not only

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Speaker 6: The numbers have not been good.

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Speaker 3: So Jackson, Yeah, they're just like there are some there

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Speaker 3: there's a house of ghosts around Dallas. I don't think

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Speaker 3: it's that way around Lamar. If it happened this weekend

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Speaker 3: in the first round, this is gonna be something really fallow.

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Speaker 1: Harbaugh.

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Speaker 5: For that matter, they have not been back to a

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's got the pelt on the.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and as far as you know, I have a

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Speaker 3: it's just like, did the Browns even prepare for this game?

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Speaker 3: just don't see the Baltimore Ravens offering up that type

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Speaker 1: Stroud.

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Speaker 3: Then then you get to the big question Greg Stroud,

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Speaker 3: But on this stage, if you start to cook him

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Speaker 5: He's been so careful with the ball all year. He's

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Speaker 1: Asking so much for a rookie. It's twenty two year old.

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Speaker 5: The reason why I'm not as worried about as the

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Speaker 5: they've been ahead, They've blown leads and then had to

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Speaker 1: They've blown they've blown leads completely though.

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Speaker 5: But there's so many different ways that they can win,

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Speaker 5: whether it's offense or defense, and I think they'll have

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Speaker 5: to keep up the Texans in this game. They haven't

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Speaker 5: had a run game really all year. There's no reason

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Speaker 5: designation is. But obviously that's a big one that their

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Speaker 5: and likely they have a way of getting Flowers matched

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Speaker 5: great run defense, whether it's who is it, Top, you know, Perriman,

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Speaker 5: they're in pass coverage and they're just bad. They're bad,

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Speaker 5: And I just feel like that that's a spot where

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Speaker 5: and I could see this being it's like a three

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Speaker 5: of Ravens games are like that. But I think the

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Speaker 1: I think you.

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Speaker 4: Need like the wideouts for Baltimore to be at their best.

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Speaker 4: It's like it's it is on Zay Flowers to not

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Speaker 4: Stroud five interceptions all year. And the one thing about

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Speaker 4: a little bit, is that they've only allowed over one

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Speaker 1: And it was to the Cults, like they're a pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Rush defense, and so if you can put Lamar into

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Speaker 4: rely on his pass catchers, like that's where maybe mistakes come.

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Speaker 4: But he's he has got seven touchdowns and zero picks

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Speaker 4: over the last two routes that Baltimore has enacted on

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Speaker 4: the Dolphins and the Niners. And so it's like this

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Speaker 4: is the best version of the Ravens and they're very dangerous.

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Speaker 6: Like I said at the top of the show.

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Speaker 3: So it looks like eleven out of twenty two years,

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Speaker 3: one of the number one.

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Speaker 1: Seeds gets picked off. Crazy.

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Speaker 3: So for everyone that's making their game picks going into

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Speaker 5: Historically, I suspect two nine and a half point spreads

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Speaker 5: is higher than average, just putting that out there too,

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Speaker 5: that these like by the numbers shit hit up Cole

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Speaker 5: Noble on Yeah, that would be a lot, but like

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Speaker 5: you know that these numbers are made by essentially just algorithms,

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Speaker 5: and the forty nine Ers are two of these strongest

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Speaker 5: even though the records aren't crazy, but but the numbers

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Although I would say if you

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Speaker 3: But I would a lot of times it's probably around

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Speaker 3: six points at least. Yeah, once you have the number

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Speaker 3: one seed involve Now, with that said, I do believe

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Speaker 3: And it's it's not a shot against the Texans or

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Speaker 3: Mark Sessler directly, but the Ravens. I believe Mark are

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Speaker 3: going to handle their business in a way they didn't

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Speaker 6: So I'm going to lock up the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 1: You set us up there. I thought you were kind.

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Speaker 3: Of as the zuzzer digs out of his own hole.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm seven in on one in the last

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Speaker 3: eight weeks in the pick.

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Speaker 4: So I saw the figure from from our lock it

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Speaker 4: Up account on Twitter that like no one has ever

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Speaker 4: recorded less than ten wins in the law competition. Shoot,

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Speaker 4: where are we at right now? I sit at nine

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Speaker 4: and so you'd think I'm gonna you're good. I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: don't care because I think that's an exciting record to

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Speaker 4: Nobody in America cares about my lock score. I'm going

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Speaker 4: at you in a law competent. It's gonna be very

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Speaker 3: After this weekend. Mark's record is nine to eleven. Can

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Speaker 3: I just I know what you're doing?

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Speaker 1: Now you're eleven and eight? He is, what nine and ten?

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Speaker 4: I'll get to ten wins so that I don't have

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Speaker 4: that thing. Maybe, but I'm gonna get it. This be

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Speaker 4: harder the next two weeks to pick ite wrong. This

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Speaker 4: week there's some big spreads you're more likely to pick.

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Speaker 1: You know what Kaiser is doing over here? By the way,

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Speaker 1: I got you all figured out what I think the

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Speaker 1: same thing.

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Speaker 3: Greggy with it with the sandwich props where he doesn't

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Speaker 3: like where he is in the standings, so he shifts

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Speaker 3: into now, I'm just going to be fully unpredictable guy,

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Speaker 3: I always go with crazy picks. And then it kind

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Speaker 3: of mitigates that you've struggled in the standings because I'm

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Speaker 3: just wild pigs guy.

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Speaker 1: I'm wild Mark. He's only doing this after he's clinched

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Speaker 1: last place. Anyway, walk walk up.

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Speaker 5: We've already accepted it that he's going to be last told.

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Speaker 4: I have said for months now that the Texans, Well, no,

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Speaker 4: I'm actually I've said the Texans would win two playoff

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Speaker 4: games for a long time now, so I'm standing behind that.

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Speaker 3: I respect that shifting. Respect the hell. I thought you

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Speaker 3: said they were going to get to the second round, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I said they didn't. I said they could. I didn't,

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Speaker 1: But I'm now saying they will.

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Speaker 5: This is the second straight week where, like the lock

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Speaker 5: I think I was going to go with them, now

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Speaker 5: not going to because you guys had a lockoff. It

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Speaker 5: just seems fun.

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Speaker 3: To be I'm quietly by the way, looking to because

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Speaker 3: the standings mean a lot to me.

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Speaker 1: Hashtag beat Greg in the second half.

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Speaker 3: Now, that's what I'm going So if you if that

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Speaker 1: No, I could care. I'm gonna say it doesn't. He's

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Speaker 3: Don't care about anything now that he knows I want

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Speaker 3: to beat him.

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Speaker 5: You are five games back. This competition is so boring

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Speaker 5: that it's already locked over last week.

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Speaker 1: I've already picked up since it doesn't make it.

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Speaker 4: No one is looking at first second half. It's in

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Speaker 4: the law competition. Literally, I am here is because I

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Speaker 4: know you too. Greg's mania now that he knows I'm

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Speaker 4: tracking it, no needs it.

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Speaker 1: Very in this case, you couldn't be more wrong. Nope,

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Speaker 1: I'm right.

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Speaker 5: This is as if the Ravens have already won their

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Speaker 5: then they have to go on a barn storming tour

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Speaker 5: that means absolutely nothing, Like can you imagine how anti

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Speaker 1: To give me that second half title?

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Speaker 5: You've clinched it with five weeks to go, you were

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Speaker 5: eliminated in week sixty.

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Speaker 1: That's a disgrace. Give me that second half.

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Speaker 4: I think you need to go to one of these

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Speaker 4: I don't know if they still these stories, will they

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Speaker 4: make the trophies?

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Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, kids and stuff.

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Speaker 4: You get a second half of the season trophy that

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Speaker 4: you can have someone out there make it for Dan

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Speaker 4: please send me.

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Speaker 1: Well, I gotta win it first. I gotta win it.

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Speaker 1: You will win it.

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Speaker 3: I've won it, but you're not going to I've given Actually,

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Speaker 3: I'm up a game on Greg right now for you when.

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Speaker 4: I've just gone like, I hope people care about like

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Speaker 4: Jimmy Johnson versus Michael Strahan's like game picks as much

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Speaker 4: as they see.

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Speaker 1: No one I assuming that.

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Speaker 5: I have never once cared about those things when we

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Speaker 5: watch them. So we're always the assumption that always makes worries.

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Speaker 1: It always worries me. I don't worry.

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Speaker 3: It keeps you up at night. I'm sure it's the

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Speaker 3: passion in which the conversation happens. That's what it's about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you could have a big wooden tro you could.

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Speaker 4: You should also make it like a six foot tall

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Speaker 4: trophy that you put.

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Speaker 3: In your Well, I'm not going to make it. If

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Speaker 3: someone makes me. I won the second half twenty There.

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Speaker 5: Is a pathway to you making it. You've won it already,

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Speaker 5: you're ordering it what do you mean, I wonder already

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying you've won. I need to make it.

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Speaker 1: Speaks sixth or whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: That then it's that's I see what you're doing. I

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Speaker 3: see what you're I'm trying to minimize my effort here,

455
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Speaker 3: and what I'm trying to do is beat you in

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Speaker 3: the second half of the season. You've got it, see,

457
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Speaker 3: and you're trying to belittle me. And it's not successful

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Speaker 3: because I will defeat you the way I must, which

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Speaker 3: is from week nine on.

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Speaker 4: So behind the glass like they'd made a grave era

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Speaker 4: before the show, they told us that the Fast Channel

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Speaker 4: can only hold an hour and fifteen minutes of content

463
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Speaker 4: like keep the Fat, you know, kept the Fat, And

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Speaker 4: we've gone on about twenty five little beef.

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Speaker 6: This all right, let's get back on track.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, this is the Joe Buck, Troy Aikman,

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Speaker 3: Lisa Salters, Laura Rutland, Rutledge team. So we got a

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Speaker 3: foursome here, and it is I was looking forward to because,

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Speaker 3: by the way, the Ravens have now activated Dalvin Cook

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Speaker 3: to the active roster and they and they waved Melvin

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Speaker 3: Gordon and I thought I was hoping because I've been

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Speaker 3: predicting that Dalma Cook will have a big playoff game

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Speaker 3: to make Jets fans feel bad, and I was hoping

474
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Speaker 3: it was gonna be it was gonna be Romo going

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Speaker 3: ah Jim. It looks like he's got some gas in

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Speaker 3: the tank. But it's Buck and Ekman. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if we're gonna get the same enthusiasm about a big

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Speaker 3: Cook game, not in the not in the fun way.

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Speaker 1: Greg's mad about that.

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Speaker 5: No, No, I don't foresee Dalvin Cook having much of

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Speaker 5: a role.

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Speaker 3: Why would he, Well, he's active, he's on the what

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Speaker 3: if thet You're also perceiving him to suddenly be right

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Speaker 3: that rash young great running back just because he left

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Speaker 3: the Jets, Like I mean, the evidence that we've seen physically,

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 5: I would take my chances in this who the knows

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Speaker 5: with this group, but uh that he does not finish

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Speaker 5: in the top two or even three in rushing yards

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Speaker 5: on the Baltimore Ravens, I think I would take Justice Sell,

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Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson and Gus Edwards over.

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Speaker 3: And I guess we'll have to say, we'll have to

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Speaker 3: see anything else on this game.

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Speaker 5: I just think it's Ryan's Domico Ryans's last chance to

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Speaker 5: show how specially he is because Derek, Derek, Barnett, Desmond King,

496
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Speaker 5: these guys were on other teams like very recently, and

497
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Speaker 5: then he brings them into the Texans and they're really productive.

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Speaker 5: To me, that's like the number one thing you can

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Speaker 5: shows as a coach that you take other guys who

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Speaker 5: weren't productive for their teams and you immediately put them

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Speaker 5: into your system and they're productive. And I do think

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Speaker 5: defensively with will and Anderson and Grenard, if Grenard is

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Speaker 5: healthy and Barnett's been playing well, like that's maybe one

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Speaker 5: spot that tackles for the Baltimore Ravens haven't been great.

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Speaker 5: I'm with you, Dan, this is the game I'm most confident,

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Speaker 5: and I'm not feel that way. That seems boring.

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Speaker 1: I want to lock against both of you, but but I've.

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Speaker 5: Been doing it all year with the Ravens. I do

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Speaker 5: think I think it could be close and then they

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Speaker 5: just pull away. By the way, the Ravens are minus

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Speaker 5: for twenty five in this game.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking the points too. I think this is a

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Speaker 1: double digital win for me. I would too if I

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Speaker 1: had to choose.

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Speaker 4: But really, the Texans are allowing about twenty points a

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Speaker 4: game all year long.

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Speaker 1: That would mean they don't they.

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Speaker 3: We're playing in the AFC South and know I like

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Speaker 3: the Browns but didn't love them. This is this is now,

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Speaker 3: They're in the big leagues. That's all now. Who knows,

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Speaker 3: maybe they're one of those magic carpet ride teams. And

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Speaker 3: in that case, Mark, you will be a happy man

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Speaker 3: come Sunday night. Let's get to the second game on Saturday,

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Speaker 3: the other big underdog affairs. So it's the Green Bay

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Speaker 3: Packers who just horrified everyone in North Texas by slaughtering

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Speaker 3: the Cowboys at Jarrow World. So their reward now is

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Speaker 3: to go from Jarro World up to the bowel bottom

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Speaker 3: to face the Niners, also nine and a half points.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy?

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Speaker 7: The symmetry between the Texans and Packers absolutely like even

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Speaker 7: to a yard and to a point on the passer

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Speaker 7: rating and just the counting stats of what Stroud did

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Speaker 7: and what Love did last week to where the teams

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Speaker 7: are record wise to even the spread against the number

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Speaker 7: one seed the following point exactly nine and a half.

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Speaker 6: So it is the spider Man two spider Man meme

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Speaker 6: thing going on.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 3: Will this be another game mark that, like you say,

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Speaker 3: you think the Texans win outright and shock the world

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Speaker 3: in Baltimore, you give the Packers the same shot in

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Speaker 3: Santa Clauda.

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Speaker 4: This to me is a concerning matchup because I think

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Speaker 4: the focus, if you look at it, is the Joe

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Speaker 4: Berry defense. I mean, good defenses have not been able

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Speaker 4: to stop the multi layered weaponry of the Niners. And

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Speaker 4: it's guys like Devondre Campbell kway Walker trying to stop

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Speaker 4: Christian McCaffrey. This feels to me like a Christian McCaffrey

549
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Speaker 4: like outburst, and you kind of base it around that

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Speaker 4: and then you go to town from there. I don't love

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Speaker 4: the spread because I do think that if you just

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Speaker 4: look at Jordan Love over the over the.

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Speaker 1: Back half of the season has been incredible.

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Speaker 4: He's led the NFL with nineteen offensive touchdowns on third

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Speaker 4: and fourth down this season down the stretch, and like

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Speaker 4: he's really only thrown like picks on downfield throws. He's

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Speaker 4: been really efficient on shorter throws. He's got the second

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Speaker 4: most touchdowns in the league. I just see an offense

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Speaker 4: in Green Bay that has grown up, Like you know,

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Speaker 4: even when you have like Matthew Stafford on the Super

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Speaker 4: Bowl Rams, it took them half a season to really

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Speaker 4: find out who they were and for everyone else to

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Speaker 4: kind of warm up around Matthew Stafford. This is an

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Speaker 4: more incredible story to me because it's like incredibly young,

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Speaker 4: untested players who are becoming you know, they've got a

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Speaker 4: star quarterback and really incredible weapons. Like Aaron Rodgers has

567
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Speaker 4: to be watching this from Afar and saying where was

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Speaker 4: this when I was here? Aaron Rodgers zero to three

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Speaker 4: against the Niners in the playoffs as a Green Bay quarterback.

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Speaker 4: Jordan Love I think has a better shot to inflict

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Speaker 4: problems to the Niners defense than Aaron Rodgers did in

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Speaker 4: the past, even when they were at home and freezing

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Speaker 4: temperatures in that Green Bay offense couldn't do.

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Speaker 1: A single thing.

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Speaker 4: This is a completely different team, so I see a

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Speaker 4: shootout potentially. I don't like this nine and a half

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Speaker 4: points thing. But to your question, Dan, like the Niners

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Speaker 4: just they're not going to crumble here. I think this

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Speaker 4: team knows its own playoff history and they seem completely

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Speaker 4: unified and ready to go to battle.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think no matter how well you think, Jordan

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Speaker 5: Love is playing, he's probably playing better. Like right now,

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Speaker 5: he's arguably the best quarterback in the league. Like it

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Speaker 5: just that's the that's the level he is playing at

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Speaker 5: because some of the those touchdown passes. Usually I think

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Speaker 5: touchdown passes are a little overrated because it's a function

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Speaker 5: of a team and you get down there, are you

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Speaker 5: a team that runs on the goal line or team

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Speaker 5: that passes. But these touchdown passes, including two of them

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Speaker 5: last week, are like they're incredible dimes. Like the level

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Speaker 5: of difficulty on these throws is just okay. And I

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to go as far as you said,

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Speaker 5: Mark that he's more dangerous than like peak Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 5: although those teams for the Packers obviously didn't play well

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Speaker 5: in the playoffs and we didn't see that coming next January, right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: that's totally fair. But I would say, like this is

597
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Speaker 5: a different Niners defense. I don't think it's as good

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Speaker 5: as twenty nineteen. I know the numbers are overall pretty good.

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Speaker 5: You can run against them. The way that Aaron Jones

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Speaker 5: has been playing lately and the way this offensive line

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Speaker 5: has been protecting Jordan Love is a huge part of

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Speaker 5: why Jordan Love has been so good. He's been in

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Speaker 5: favorable situations, the play actions obviously working really well. His

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Speaker 5: numbers are just crazy, and even though the players are good,

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Speaker 5: I think it's a tough matchup for the forty nine

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Speaker 5: ers defense in a way that yes, maybe it can

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Speaker 5: be a shootout. Hopefully you get the ball first like

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Speaker 5: they did a year a week ago. And I really

609
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Speaker 5: believe in the whole short in the game thing. Usually

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Speaker 5: I'm not into the short in the game thing, but

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Speaker 5: when you got a defense this bad and you're a

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Speaker 5: team that goes on a long a lot of long drives,

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Speaker 5: if it can be a tighter game where you have

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Speaker 5: a couple of those seven minute drives and suddenly you're

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Speaker 5: ahead on the road, that's the route I think for

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Speaker 5: green Bay to win is a lot of long drives,

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Speaker 5: running the ball, and I think they could do it.

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Speaker 5: I think they could do it in terms of scoring

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Speaker 5: enough points to keep it interesting.

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Speaker 3: I think it's interesting if you're the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 3: and you're watching that Cowboys game and you saw just

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Speaker 3: the aggressive manner in which they just approached even the

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Speaker 3: coin toss where Packers win the toss, they say we

624
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Speaker 3: want the ball a lot of teams defer and to

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Speaker 3: go right down the field.

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Speaker 6: That set the tone for that entire game.

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Speaker 3: And like I said on Sunday, just seeing the way

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Speaker 3: Jordan Love is carrying himself on that first drive and

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Speaker 3: the throws he was making in the comfort he had

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Speaker 3: in the pocket, escaping the pockets, setting his feet, keeping

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Speaker 3: his eyes up, putting it right on the money, It's

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Speaker 3: like he's gonna do that. He's gonna come into San

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Speaker 3: Francisco and be the same, like outstandingly confident quarterback. And

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering if the Niner is, like even with the

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Speaker 3: coin toss, like who wins the coin, would the Niners

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Speaker 3: change their game plan to not put Love in that

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Speaker 3: same situation? If do they want to get on the

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Speaker 3: field first and try to like set the tone, because

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00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 3: I think such a especially in the playoffs the very

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Speaker 3: beginning of these games, if if you could get if

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Speaker 3: you punch an underdog in the face, that can set

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00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 3: the tone and you could take control early. But if

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00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 3: you get the Green Bay Packers with another big score

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Speaker 3: early to get rolling, it's gonna be the same thing

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Speaker 3: in San Francisco that it was in Dallas, where the

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Speaker 3: whole building gets quiet, and the nerves start to act up,

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Speaker 3: and then maybe you make a mistake. Brock Purty, as

648
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Speaker 3: much as we like Brock Party is not above making

649
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Speaker 3: mistakes and forcing the ball. And I don't need to

650
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 3: when you look at number one seeds and we could

651
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Speaker 3: talk about how these are the best number one seeds.

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Speaker 3: We're not that far removed from Christmas Night and and

653
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Speaker 3: the Niners in a similarly huge spot at home getting

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Speaker 3: absolutely torched by the Ravens and looking like a bad

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Speaker 3: football team.

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Speaker 6: They're not impervious.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm with you on that, though, that's true.

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Speaker 4: I say this though, like the if you look at

659
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 4: green Bay's offense, like I think a lot of times

660
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 4: with young teams that are like unplayoff tested, you go

661
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 4: on the road and you get torch, you learn a lesson,

662
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 4: you come back the next season. Like eight of green

663
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 4: Bay's top offensive games in terms of EPA eight out

664
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Speaker 4: of eleven have been on the road. Like their five

665
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 4: highest point totals have been on the road, including last

666
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 4: week when they destroyed Dallas. And it's like, I think

667
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 4: this is a team that kind of liked the Texans.

668
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 4: That's why there's such a mirror of each other. They

669
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 4: don't even know what they don't know on some level,

670
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 4: and it is it is this interesting matchup because it's

671
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 4: like Shanahan offense versus Shanahan disciple offense. There's a lot

672
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 4: it's like I always wonder what that kind of thing

673
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 4: like Shanahan and Lafleur are teaching each other's defense is

674
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 4: like how to handle each other's offenses.

675
00:29:58,800 --> 00:29:59,959
Speaker 1: They practice against a lot of this.

676
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 4: They're not identical, but it's like they come from the

677
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 4: same you know, plant or tree or whatever you want

678
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 4: to call it, whatever, shrubbery and and they're.

679
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 5: Both like I thought it was funny a theme, and.

680
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 4: I know, but it's just like it's like it's like

681
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 4: like hedges. It's all like a long hedge, the same

682
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 4: Earth's Earth they were covered. There was like a kind

683
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 4: of a theme between sources and people the earth this

684
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 4: week with these two teams that like both coaches are

685
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 4: just so happy that they have quarterbacks who kind of

686
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 4: just run the system, like Jordan.

687
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: Love just first, like Aaron Rodgers.

688
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 5: Versus Aaron Rodgers and even Jimmy g to an extent,

689
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,959
Speaker 5: it was maybe not totally embracing like doing everything they

690
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 5: were trying to meet in the middle where it's here,

691
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 5: it's like these two guys are very similar in a

692
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 5: way that they're great against pressure. Like their numbers when

693
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 5: they're pressured has been excellent this year. Heavy play action. Uh,

694
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 5: I would take Jordan Love long term over Brock Party.

695
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 5: I don't even think that's controversial, though I'm sure some

696
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 5: people would take Party. I don't think that'd be crazy either,

697
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 5: but but Love is just that special. But man, I

698
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 5: think I would still. I guess I would take the

699
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 5: points here. But man, I don't think there's any chance

700
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 5: that the forty nine Ers offense doesn't put up thirty

701
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 5: five points in this game. And that's where I sort

702
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 5: of disagree. Like if they're down fourteen three, yes, it'll

703
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 5: be the playoffs and it'll be tense in there. I

704
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 5: actually still have faith that this forty nine Ers team

705
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 5: will get going unless the Packers can really shorten the

706
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 5: game offensively. They are going to torture DeAndre Campbell and

707
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 5: Quay Walker in this game, Kyle Shanahan will there's just

708
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 5: too many weapons, I think, starting with CMC, I don't

709
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 5: see a great scenario where the Packers run defense is

710
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 5: like overly competitive in this game. It was nice for

711
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 5: the Packers what they did last week. I still think

712
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 5: the last six drives of the game count like a

713
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 5: little bit, and more importantly, the rest of the game.

714
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: The run as much as the first six.

715
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 5: The first four they played four good drives and then

716
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 5: they basically gave up touchdowns after that, they gave up

717
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 5: a scoring drive.

718
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 3: Base right, But they're in a totally different defense, just

719
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 3: trying to lead at that point.

720
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: People say that, but like they were just play.

721
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 3: For four hundred yards in that game, and it's like

722
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 3: we knew what was going on in that the last

723
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 3: quarter and a.

724
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Speaker 5: Half, I guess I put a ton more weight into

725
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 5: the season as a whole than those four drives.

726
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 4: They did generate turnovers, though they did against Jared Golf.

727
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying, Like, why can't And I know

728
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: it's a Joe Barry defense and it's been suspect throughout

729
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 3: the year, but they the Dallas offense, which is not

730
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 3: quite the San Francisco.

731
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: It's not even close. I don't think.

732
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 3: Okay, the goal post here, I mean we were singing

733
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 3: Dax praises as if not the MVP right behind whoever

734
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 3: wins it Ceedee Lamb who was playing at a level

735
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 3: that was an all time wide receiver level. Jake Ferguson,

736
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 3: Tony Pollard had a big game going into the playoffs,

737
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 3: and there were a lot of people you know, Brandon

738
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 3: Cooks was on the rise like that was a excellent

739
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 3: Cowboys offense and all the data backs it up, and

740
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 3: the Packers got them flustered early on, and because the

741
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 3: offense played so well, it put the quarterback on the

742
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 3: other side in a position where he was frazzled made mistakes.

743
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that I could see Rock pretty suffering

744
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 3: the same fate if the Green Bay Packers would get

745
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 3: off to a hot start. I think this is a

746
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 3: game that I don't feel comfortable about the home team covering.

747
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 3: I think Jordan Love and the Packers are playing at

748
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 3: such a high level that I'm going to give them

749
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 3: the benefit of doubt that their defense will find ways

750
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 3: to slow down San Francisco and put pressure on the quarterback.

751
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 3: And I think this is a close game. You know what,

752
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pick the Packers gonna do it. I'm not

753
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 3: gonna lock it up, but I'm gonna say this is win.

754
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say this will be a year where both

755
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 3: number one seeds don't survive and I'm gonna go something

756
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 3: crazy thirty twenty seven.

757
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 5: I think when you when you think about like how

758
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 5: they could do it. Tarvarius Ward, I think was overlooked

759
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 5: for the All Pro team. Ultimately he might be the

760
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 5: dude him and Snead like he should have made first

761
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 5: team maybe oversaws even on this year.

762
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: And it's like, but Ward can only do so much.

763
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 5: That's the thing about this Packers' offense is like you

764
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 5: never know who's gonna pop up. Jane Reid didn't have

765
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 5: a catch last week. He could be their leading receiver.

766
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 5: Wicks like Ward can only cover one of those guys,

767
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 5: Dobbs the tight ends. I'm with you, but man, I

768
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 5: just disagree because I think this is the best forty

769
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 5: nine Ers offense we've seen by far. And like, yeah,

770
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 5: it was a good Cowboys offense, but they were like

771
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 5: seventh in DVOA going into last week. The forty nine

772
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 5: Ers have the best offense, you know, by the numbers

773
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 5: of the last like five years, including their own forty

774
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 5: nine Er things like Ayuk deebo everything. Everything I've been

775
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 5: led to believe about this team is that they are special. Yes,

776
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 5: Rashaan Gary could get around the end maybe on mckivitz,

777
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,919
Speaker 5: and like you could have a crazy turnover game.

778
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: Anything can happen.

779
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 5: The Packers are a worthy opponent being there, but nothing

780
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 5: shows me that their defense is you can hold up

781
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 5: for six sixty minutes. Now, this one doesn't seem as

782
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 5: funny either. I think they'll cover. If I had to guess,

783
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 5: I think it might be a little bit of a

784
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 5: letdown of a Saturday.

785
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 3: I think what it comes down to, Mark is I'm

786
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 3: deep in my heart and I know it was the Ravens,

787
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 3: But I guess I don't trust Brock either that I

788
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 3: feel like he could make mistakes this game and that

789
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 3: could potentially turn it. Like not just minor mistakes like

790
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 3: Dak mistakes from last week that can swing a game,

791
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 3: the one field position touchdown, whatever.

792
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 4: To like to your like the prediction that you came

793
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 4: up with there, Like there is one thing about these

794
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 4: Shanahan teams and it's not good dates back years, but

795
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 4: this year, like in close games, you know, they're one

796
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 4: in four in close games and they in Brock Purdy

797
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 4: and friends have been zero and four in like game

798
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 4: winning drive opportunities and so if the Packers can hang around,

799
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 4: they suddenly become more dangerous by the minute. But I

800
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 4: think this will be a operation that allows the Niners

801
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,439
Speaker 4: to go two and four in close games.

802
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win twenty seven four.

803
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 3: And let's not forget Kyle Shannon has his share of

804
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 3: ghosts as well, this time.

805
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 5: But not you know, next but not this time of year,

806
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 5: not this weekend. He actually, I believe leads all head

807
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 5: coaches in playoff winning person but I'm.

808
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: Saying he's blown title games, blown Super bowls.

809
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 3: Okay, he hasn't blown a divisional round game yet, but

810
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 3: his ability to close games in which they're winning in

811
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 3: the second half, that's that's haunted in multiple So does

812
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:04,919
Speaker 3: Matt Lafleur.

813
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 5: Sure, I mean, since week nineties are the best two

814
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 5: offenses in the league by basically well, I.

815
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 4: Mean, especially against the Niners. Actually, like so does Matt leff.

816
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,760
Speaker 5: Wright Like Shanahan's kind of own this match. I guess

817
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 5: I hear what you're saying on Brock, and I think

818
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 5: I'm out like slightly lower than consensus on Brock, And

819
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 5: I hear what you're saying, but I just feel like, yeah,

820
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 5: that's gonna happen if they ever run into a good defense,

821
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 5: that's not gonna happen. They're not going to play a

822
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 5: good defense this year until the Super Bowl. If they

823
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 5: make it like there are no good defenses left in

824
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 5: the NFC other than the forty one.

825
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 3: I don't even know what a good defense is anymore

826
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 3: in this league, to be honest with you, that we

827
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 3: keep on seeing them get embarrassed and picked off.

828
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: So one just got wax.

829
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 5: I guess I would say ones that are capable of

830
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 5: stepping up and having a like a difference making game,

831
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 5: and I would say that last week, right, I would

832
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,439
Speaker 5: say that are capable. The Bills are capable, The forty

833
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 5: nine Ers are capable. The Ravens are certainly capable of

834
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 5: having those sort of games. These other games, these other teams,

835
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 5: they're pretty mediocre.

836
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: ARC, gotcha, I hear you.

837
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 5: Ark Armstead is back by the way, and he has

838
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 5: been the jengle piece in terms of their run defense,

839
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 5: which is gonna be important for San Francisco.

840
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: They're they're quite healthy.

841
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 5: But same thing he said with the Ravens are true

842
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 5: that forty nine Ers haven't played a game in forever,

843
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 5: not only like have they not played in three weeks,

844
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 5: but like think of the games they played after the

845
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 5: raven that Ravens game. I guess it was just the

846
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 5: Commanders and then they were rested. It started a long

847
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 5: time ago, forever.

848
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 3: Ah Jim any given Saturday night, all right, let's take

849
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 3: a break.

850
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: Did you pick the game?

851
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take the forty nine ers forty one to

852
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 5: thirty one. Let's hell way over all right, let's have

853
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 5: some fun. And by the way, the money line here

854
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,240
Speaker 5: forty nine ers minus for forty.

855
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a break, and when we get back,

856
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 3: we'll hit a little bit of NFL news and then

857
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 3: we'll hit the Sunday games.

858
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:58,959
Speaker 1: Welcome back.

859
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 3: Yes, we'll take a little break now from the divisional

860
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: round preview to what's going on in the news.

861
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 6: And let's start with the new news out of Dallas.

862
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 6: We just talked about it on the Wednesday show.

863
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 3: What is the decision that will come out of Jarah

864
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 3: world around Mike McCarthy in the future of that organization.

865
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: After another disappointing playoff loss, this time in the wild

866
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 3: Card round against the Packers, and the news broke late

867
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 3: on Wednesday that Mike McCarthy will return to the Cowboys.

868
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones released a statement as well, detailing the team's

869
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 3: unprecedented regular season success three straight years of twelve wins,

870
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 3: but also putting it out there and letting it again,

871
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 3: this is the ghost. We have struggled in the playoffs,

872
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 3: but we believe what we have in place is good

873
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 3: enough to eventually get over the hump. So Mike McCarthy

874
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 3: will get a fifth year with the Cowboys, just like

875
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 3: in his fifth year with the Packers, they won the

876
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,439
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. So that is what jarr is my track

877
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 3: is on. If that makes any sense to you. Here

878
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 3: is Zaddy himself, Zaddy who Yeah, he probably thought he

879
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 3: was done just like everybody else on Sunday.

880
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: Now he's back on the podium with the star.

881
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 3: Behind him, ready to announce his plans for the future.

882
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 8: I believe that the direction, you know, the leadership, everything

883
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 8: is in place. And I'm not very comfortable talking about myself,

884
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 8: but I came here to win a championship. I didn't

885
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 8: come here to get another contract or no anything other

886
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 8: than now. I came to Dallas that money championship and

887
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 8: that's why I'm standing here and.

888
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: Buy into us.

889
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 3: Bye, Oh, Zaddy you're unkillable. We need to do a

890
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 3: better job. By the way, on the headshot we're using

891
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 3: for Zaddy, I mean.

892
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: I think it's accurate. I don't have gregs.

893
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 5: We had a long conversation about this because it was

894
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 5: the same one Sunday Night Football was using.

895
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: But he should take another.

896
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 4: Dan wants like, like John Ham's picture to me, but

897
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 4: it's like, that's not where we're going.

898
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: He means, what are you John to shame McCarthy. I

899
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: think it.

900
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 4: I think McCarthy is a manly figure and that is

901
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 4: an accurate headshot.

902
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: I will leave it at that.

903
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 4: And I would say one thing about this whole thing

904
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 4: is you you kind of laid this out almost exactly

905
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 4: that you kind of thought this would be a good

906
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 4: idea for the Cowboys dance before these triple twelve win seasons,

907
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 4: they had three out of four seasons where they won

908
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 4: less than ten games and they were a non factor.

909
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 4: I guess the one thing you could go on and

910
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 4: I know that there's the like the non momentum Greg

911
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 4: and Claybahn worlds, and I get that, but like not

912
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 4: like I don't like you know, but.

913
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: There is like this has nothing to do with the momentum, Well,

914
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: let him cook. Let him cook. Greg, where's different.

915
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 3: Than that, Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy, to your point, probably

916
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 3: thought he was gone. Dak Prescott. People were questioning his future.

917
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 3: He's coming off like a disaster.

918
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 4: And like I think, if anything, this Cowboys team has

919
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 4: so much to prove because this story is so embedded

920
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 4: that no one's given pay attention during the regular season.

921
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 4: Maybe not a momentum thing, but maybe like psychologically they

922
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 4: are the team with the chip on their shoulder that said,

923
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 4: I struggle to go down any of these paths ever

924
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 4: again until they're literally being announced out of the tunnel

925
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 4: at the Super Bowl.

926
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: Good luck with that. Where we're gonna talk about it.

927
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 4: A lot, I know, but you know I'm saying it

928
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 4: just I wonder if it's like it went so far

929
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 4: they all thought it was so cooked and done.

930
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 3: So perhaps back perhaps Greg, I oversimplified it a little

931
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 3: bit yesterday when I said, all right, so McCarthy's in

932
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 3: his contract year, Dak's in his contract year. Just let

933
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 3: them play it out and let's see where the chips fall.

934
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 3: The one catch here now is okay, so you brought

935
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 3: back the head coach and I had thrown out this

936
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 3: idea of, you know, make the team better, make some adjustments,

937
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 3: have a nice draft, and maybe go at it one

938
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 3: more year. It's a little more complicated in the sense

939
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 3: that if you want to free up some dollars to

940
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,240
Speaker 3: help make the team better, that is in large part,

941
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 3: you have to restructure Dax deal, which means getting in

942
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 3: deeper with him, whether it's funny money or not.

943
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: It goes from one year to.

944
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 3: Potentially a big contract where he's the highest paid player

945
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 3: in the world.

946
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: So there is a there.

947
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 3: There is still is this challenge to me where Okay,

948
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 3: you're gonna let the coach play out his contract, but

949
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 3: are you gonna now go all in on the quarterback?

950
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 3: So that will be the next step. What did the

951
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 3: Cowboys do with Dak's contract? That's gonna be a storyline

952
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 3: like r or not as well this winter.

953
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 5: I think they will adjust his contract, give him more money.

954
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 5: We'll see you're keeping Mike McCarthy because you think he

955
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 5: works with Dak Prescott. I don't think you keep Mike

956
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 5: McCarthy to like bring in some new quarterback. It just

957
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 5: it doesn't that doesn't make sense. I think there could

958
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 5: be changes dan Quinn could get a job and be interesting.

959
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 5: If he doesn't get a job, is he definitely back.

960
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 5: There's some thought in Dallas that might be a change,

961
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 5: which which is kind of wild. But I think this

962
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 5: is both a reasonable decision, like it kind it makes

963
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 5: sense and it probably won't work. But I don't know

964
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 5: what else would by work. I mean, you make the

965
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 5: super like the bar is so high. It's it's a

966
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 5: veteran team, and they have some young players, certainly, but

967
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 5: they have a lot of really good players. So unless

968
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 5: you had a better option, to me that the number

969
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 5: one problem is.

970
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: There's something in the water.

971
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 5: There's something there with Jerry Jones that they're built up

972
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 5: to be these huge superstars in Dallas, and it's like,

973
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know what it is. They're

974
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 5: bad at self scouting, whatever it is, like they can't

975
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 5: get over the hump. But I think this is probably

976
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 5: their best chance to have another crack at it. I

977
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 5: don't hate it. I'm with you, Dan Christ and I'm

978
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 5: not even a big McCarthy fan. I just don't have

979
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 5: any I think whatever's going on there is bigger than

980
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy, and I trust actually Mike McCarthy and this

981
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 5: staff to at least get another crack at it, more

982
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 5: than Jerry Jones starting anew with some.

983
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: New guy like that seems even like a worse.

984
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's enough evidence that that is probably the likely

985
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 4: scenario that they get back to the playoffs.

986
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 3: And the statement that I was referring to that Jarah

987
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 3: put out, he includes in it while we're all dissip

988
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 3: pointed with the result on Sunday and with our playoff record,

989
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 3: I am one hundred percent supportive of him as our

990
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 3: head coach and ability to reach our goals. It's like,

991
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 3: even in the statement you're talking about the failures in

992
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 3: the playoffs, which just they're like they're I mean, they're

993
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 3: America's team, and they're the narratives and the storylines around

994
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 3: them are so ingrained that even in the statement where

995
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 3: you're just announcing you're staying with the coach, you have

996
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 3: to mention that, oh, yeah, we suck in the playoffs,

997
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 3: and that will carry him into next January and the

998
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 3: weight will get that much more and we shall see

999
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 3: if they hell you got to get to the playoffs.

1000
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:35,240
Speaker 1: For us, nothing is assumed.

1001
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 3: It's just such a long climb and That's why I

1002
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 3: think that was in part so devastating for them to

1003
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 3: just just bottom out the way they did it.

1004
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 5: I don't need like the over I know it's Zaddy's thing,

1005
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 5: but like the whole, like, hey, trust me, like all that.

1006
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 5: Now they're gonna like overcome and say by talking to confident.

1007
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 5: There is a report, by the way from ed Ward

1008
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 5: or that dan Quinn will be back if he doesn't

1009
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 5: get a head coaching job.

1010
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 3: So and that makes sense to even though they did

1011
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 3: struggle down the street. That is the new rallying cry

1012
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 3: mark buy into US, buy into US.

1013
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: Preswee, wasn't that it last?

1014
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 4: I have to participate, but I don't like emotionally it

1015
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 4: worked on me.

1016
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 6: No, you can do buy into us, buy into US.

1017
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 4: I will in terms of like having to speak about them,

1018
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 4: to Greg's point, we will have to speak about them

1019
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:19,879
Speaker 4: all right.

1020
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 3: In other news, Hey, listen this Bill Belichick coaching the

1021
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 3: Atlanta Falcons thing.

1022
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna happen.

1023
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 3: Rap Sheet reported on Thursday, citing sources colon former Patriots

1024
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 3: coach Bill Belichick. We'll have a second interview with the

1025
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 3: Falcons Bress this weekend after meeting with owner Arthur Blank

1026
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 3: one on one this past week. Things are ramping up

1027
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 3: with the greatest coach of all time. Josina Anderson also

1028
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 3: reported about the dynamics between Belichick and Rich McKay, the

1029
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:56,280
Speaker 3: CEO there, and the idea that they that's the best

1030
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 3: fit for Belichick when compared to any other potential land

1031
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 3: spot in terms of their ability to work together, whatever

1032
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 3: that means.

1033
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 5: So it's like the CFO. So, but what about the GM.

1034
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 5: There are they going to get rid of? Get rid

1035
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 5: of him?

1036
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: Who knows GM's done a pretty good job. I think yeah,

1037
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: from the Saints.

1038
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,280
Speaker 5: What if you're like Brian Johnson, it's the Eagles offensive

1039
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 5: coordinator who interviewed for the Falcons head coaching job today,

1040
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 5: It's like you must be feeling like you are just

1041
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 5: wasting your time. Brian Callahan interviewed at Giro Everro and

1042
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 5: Anthony Weaver, all these other guys. Antonio appears they've interviewed

1043
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 5: a lot of people, and yet it just feels like,

1044
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 5: if they can make it work with Belichick, it's gonna

1045
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 5: be Belichick. I'm this is gonna be wild. I'm gonna

1046
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,720
Speaker 5: wait for it to happen to Yeah, McKay is the CEO.

1047
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 5: There by the way, Yes, the GM dynamic, This is

1048
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 5: Justina's reporting. The GM dynamic in Atlanta is presumably more

1049
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 5: palatable for Bill in Flowery.

1050
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 6: Branch, that's where Falcon's headquarters is.

1051
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 3: Then it would be in Philly, And as mentioned, both

1052
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 3: sides have been talking about it through this for a while.

1053
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: That's my previous reports. I expect Bill Belichick.

1054
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 3: To reunite with some members of his former staffs whenever

1055
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 3: he makes it official. That's the other big part of

1056
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 3: this is what does Arthur Blank. Because Arthur Blank is

1057
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 3: not a dumb man. Arthur Blank saw what happened in

1058
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 3: New England in those final years and is gonna probably

1059
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 3: be saying to Bill like Bill, w're we're gonna let

1060
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 3: you shop for some groceries here. You're gonna have a

1061
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 3: voice and how the team gets built. But your STAB's

1062
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 3: gonna work.

1063
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 1: But less time. I don't think he is even gonna tiptoe.

1064
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 1: I think Arthur Blake will say that herds of saying

1065
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: anything like that, I don't what really I mean. I

1066
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: guess then this isn't gonna work. Greg.

1067
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 3: If the owner and these owners are very confident men,

1068
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 3: successful people, He's not gonna be afraid of Bill Belichick

1069
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 3: to say.

1070
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: I think he is. I think it's very clear.

1071
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 5: I think he's gonna be like, he's not gonna be

1072
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 5: telling him what to do with his coaching staff.

1073
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,800
Speaker 1: First of all, owners shouldn't be doing that to any coach.

1074
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 5: He's gonna let the coach decide his coaching staff or else,

1075
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 5: what's the point of being ahead.

1076
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 6: It's not telling Bill what to do.

1077
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 3: It's conversations about what went wrong near the end, and

1078
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,879
Speaker 3: obviously some issues with the coaching staff played a part

1079
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 3: in the demise of that Tina.

1080
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,959
Speaker 4: I think that's a fair I get that it's because

1081
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 4: it's Bill Belichick. The dynamic is different than if you

1082
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,399
Speaker 4: were hiring like a coordinator to a head coach.

1083
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 5: I'm the guy isn't flying out to Carolina to interview

1084
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 5: Chris Tabor. He's flying on his jet to interview Belichick

1085
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 5: because Belichick's interviewing him.

1086
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: But flip it around, though, Greg, you're emotional because it's

1087
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,359
Speaker 1: stilland it's not so much forget what the owner is doing.

1088
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 4: I think it's a fair concern for like the Falcons fans,

1089
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 4: like you're getting a latter era Bill Belichick, who wants

1090
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 4: to hire like four assistant coaches and three of them

1091
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 4: are from his family. It's like what I would like

1092
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 4: to think that Bell, Like can he change the way

1093
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 4: he finished in New England?

1094
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: Or is it gonna just be You're gonna have like a.

1095
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 5: Year old owner who wants a title before he dies.

1096
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 5: And it's a sort of not a confident move. It's

1097
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 5: more like, man, I'm out of ideas of how to

1098
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 5: do this normal way, so you just want this to fail.

1099
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 5: That's what's going on here? What are you talking about?

1100
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 3: You don't want Bill to have a successful second act out.

1101
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 5: If you don't think I'd becoming a Falcons fan when

1102
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 5: Bill Belichick is theread coach you're missing.

1103
00:48:58,400 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: But you're calling it desperate.

1104
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 3: You're calling desperate and like this is a move that

1105
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 3: an owner that's getting older is making it.

1106
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 5: Yes, because that's I don't know about thinking clearly, but

1107
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 5: I think it's sort of just like we've tried it

1108
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 5: all the normal ways here, take my franchise.

1109
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: That's basically and that's you know, do.

1110
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 4: You also think that Bill Belichick is a fraction of

1111
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 4: his former self? Or is or is Arthur blank Hyrine

1112
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 4: the best coach of all time.

1113
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 5: I don't think he's the same as he was. I

1114
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,720
Speaker 5: think there's a scenario where it could work out pretty well.

1115
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 3: I mean, you better get him a quarterback. That's that's

1116
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:32,320
Speaker 3: goes without saying.

1117
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 5: Right away, I mean you could go win that division,

1118
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 5: Kirk Cousin, you could have some fun. It's gonna be

1119
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 5: a good game day coach. I think he might be

1120
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 5: reinvigorated a little bit.

1121
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 3: I think it's well and yes, we're going to get

1122
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 3: to when it becomes official, but well worth the gamble,

1123
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 3: unless like Charlie Weiss is the offensive coordinator, Like well,

1124
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 3: someone talked to Bill about getting some fresh young minds

1125
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 3: in the bill.

1126
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 4: Does a team that pumped in fake crowd noise into

1127
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 4: their stadium want to sell more tickets or sell out

1128
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 4: every game?

1129
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: You would with Bill Belichick, Absolutely, and not they weren't already.

1130
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 5: If you don't think Josh McDaniels is his offensive coordinator,

1131
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 5: I guess.

1132
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

1133
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 3: This is crazy, it's happened, but they did have success together.

1134
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: Yeah with Tom Brady.

1135
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 4: We'll look at Josh McDaniels anywhere else minus Tom Brady

1136
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 4: like the Rams, like last look, well.

1137
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 6: Check anywhere else without Tom Brady.

1138
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 5: Well, we're gonna go that round, you know, if we're

1139
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 5: gonna go down that road. Mac Jones almost one Rookie

1140
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 5: of the Year with Josh McDaniels over Jamar Chase. He

1141
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 5: went to the Pro Bowl. So that's I don't hate McDaniels.

1142
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 5: Under the most recent I don't.

1143
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: Want Josh mctamos's head coach. OC is a little different.

1144
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you want to hit on what's going on

1145
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 3: in here in Los Angeles with the Chargers too?

1146
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:39,240
Speaker 5: Well, just quickly. They interviewed Mike Rabel today, which was interesting.

1147
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 5: They've interviewed a lot of people for their GM and

1148
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 5: HA as well. Head coach Jim Harbaugh was one, Dan

1149
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 5: Quinn was one, Leslie Fraser, our coworker was one. Hey,

1150
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 5: I think they gave Kellen Moore. Remember Kellen Moore? He

1151
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 5: was the hot guy last year at this time, bert

1152
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 5: uh not happening now.

1153
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1154
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 5: So they've had a variety of interviews, but it's been interesting.

1155
00:50:57,719 --> 00:50:59,720
Speaker 5: Quiet a round, variable go defensive coach.

1156
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 3: Interesting man her, I feel like that's Harbor's job to lose,

1157
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 3: but maybe the listen, you also got to pay him

1158
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 3: or the Charger is going to pay.

1159
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,720
Speaker 5: He also keep interviewing guys who have connections to Harbor

1160
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 5: there for the GM job, so I think you would

1161
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 5: be right. And then yeah, Cliff Kingsbury got an interview

1162
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 5: as the OC with Chicago, which is interesting because he

1163
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 5: was the quarterbacks coach of Caleb Williams last year and

1164
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 5: as the USC fans will note, the year where Caleb

1165
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 5: Williams looked much worse than the year before when Cliff

1166
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 5: Kingsbury wasn't there, you know, for what it's worth.

1167
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 6: I'm looking at what like c J.

1168
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 3: Shroud's doing this year, and I'm like, if I'm the

1169
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 3: owner of the Chargers, and like, I don't have to

1170
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 3: deal with Arba being a pain in the asthma, just

1171
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 3: go get the OC Slowick pair of him with Justin.

1172
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a.

1173
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 3: I don't have to deal with all the other stuff,

1174
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 3: and maybe I get a guy that's on the come

1175
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 3: up that's much cheaper that feels like a potential Chargers

1176
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 3: move too.

1177
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 4: I mean I would say this when they went and

1178
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 4: got Brandon Staley, there was a similar DNA of like

1179
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,240
Speaker 4: a really young hot coach. I mean, Slowick has had

1180
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,359
Speaker 4: I think eight years in the league, and I think

1181
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 4: the first seven he was a defensive coach, an assistant

1182
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 4: and three offensive then an offensive coordinator.

1183
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: So he's young.

1184
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 3: He's got to work sell that too, and he worked

1185
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 3: in an interview. I work on both sides of the ball.

1186
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 3: We wrote work for a pro football focus. I mean

1187
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 3: that's there's a lot of Brandon Staley like elements going

1188
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:17,879
Speaker 3: on there. I don't know if it's it's a little

1189
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 3: bit of a risk, but he's certainly like shown we

1190
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 3: can do this year.

1191
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: Spicy. All right, let's get back to the games.

1192
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 3: Let's head to Sunday, the early game, the Tampa Bay

1193
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 3: Buccaneers head to Ford Field to face the Lines. Now

1194
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 3: this is also a size he spread six and a

1195
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 3: half points. The Bucks are a four seed NFC South champion.

1196
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 3: Who you know, put the woeful. I'm gonna say it.

1197
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm going to say this. Never thought

1198
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 3: I would. The moribund Eagles were put to put to

1199
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 3: sleep on Monday night. So the Bucks advance and get

1200
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 3: the Lions coming off that one point win over the

1201
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 3: Rams in one of the most emotional and fun moments

1202
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 3: in modern history for the Lions. So Tariko back on

1203
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 3: the call back in Detroit with Collinsworth and Stark on

1204
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:10,240
Speaker 3: the sideline like it, Greg, I really love this game

1205
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,800
Speaker 3: because I think you got all the fun as a

1206
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 3: football fan. You're gonna get to enjoy that again, about

1207
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,479
Speaker 3: the vibe in Detroit and all the history around the team,

1208
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 3: And then you got this Tampa Bay team that is

1209
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 3: in full on nobody believes in US mode and no

1210
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 3: one's rooting for us.

1211
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: We have nothing to lose. And who's the one.

1212
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 3: If you had to pick one middle of the road

1213
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 3: quarterback to be the guy that's walking out on the

1214
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 3: field there, it's Baker.

1215
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: It's Baker.

1216
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 5: Right when you said earlier this week, you know, usually

1217
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:35,879
Speaker 5: when you get to this point in the season, there's

1218
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 5: like six or seven teams that have a real shot

1219
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 5: or exciting there's one surprise team, and there's one that you

1220
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 5: don't think should shouldn't really be there. And you thought

1221
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 5: this these matchups were great because we didn't have one

1222
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 5: of those teams. And as you were saying that, I

1223
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 5: thought you were setting up that the Bucks are that team. Now,

1224
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 5: they're fun and they they've earned their way here, but

1225
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 5: over the course the season, they've been mediocre, They're pretty

1226
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 5: average on offense, their average on defense. They have players

1227
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 5: we recognize and they have moments, but they haven't really

1228
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 5: shown any thing over the course of the season until

1229
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 5: that wildcard game where they could have like a big

1230
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:21,359
Speaker 5: time statement victory, like barely convincing when that was their

1231
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,280
Speaker 5: best game of the season. It was against a team

1232
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 5: that looked like they were ready to go home. It's

1233
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 5: just what Baker we get, and it's usually whether you

1234
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 5: get pressure on him or not. It's not a secret

1235
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:35,760
Speaker 5: these two quarterbacks. Their numbers are outstanding when they're not pressured,

1236
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 5: and they're not great when they are pressured. It's just

1237
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 5: Goff is even more extreme than Baker, But can you

1238
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 5: get pressure on him. Maybe it's Aiden Hutchinson versus Goodeki

1239
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 5: on the right side, but they've played well for the

1240
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 5: most part. In that first matchup, Tristan Wurf's handled the

1241
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 5: hell out of Aiden Hudginson. He had his worst game

1242
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 5: of the entire season. They move Hutchinson around, so sometimes

1243
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 5: he's in the middle and on the right tackle. But

1244
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 5: if you cann TechEd Baker, you're gonna have a little

1245
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 5: bit of a chance. I think the Rams made the

1246
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 5: Lions linebackers especially look lost, look bad in coverage last week,

1247
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 5: and that's where you can get Chris Godwin or you

1248
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 5: can get Kate out and over the middle of the

1249
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 5: field and Baker can do work there.

1250
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 4: It was a while ago, but when they played the

1251
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 4: Detroit Lions won twenty to six in guard game.

1252
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: It was a weird game that.

1253
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,959
Speaker 4: I mean, the Lions had almost nothing on the ground,

1254
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 4: but they're the running backs were banged up.

1255
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:31,919
Speaker 1: That was the lowest points the Bucks have scored all year.

1256
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 4: But goff when he's played Tampa's defense with he's got

1257
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 4: a two to one record. He's got at least three

1258
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty three passing yards in every one of

1259
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 4: those games he's thrived. So I think it's it's kind

1260
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 4: of interesting because like the history of these two quarterbacks

1261
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 4: obviously both discarded by their first teams, like it was

1262
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 4: golf that last week brought to Troit, like the decades

1263
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 4: weighted playoff game. I mean, Baker Mayfield did the same

1264
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 4: for Cleveland, and so I find it interesting on that front,

1265
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 4: Like they're both in playing style, You're wondering which quarter

1266
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 4: back makes the most mistakes because that probably leads to

1267
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 4: DNA of where the game goes. But I don't know

1268
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 4: if you were the Niners and they did the playoffs

1269
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 4: differently and the number one seed could pick which team

1270
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,800
Speaker 4: they wanted to play, of course you're picking the Bucks

1271
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,280
Speaker 4: of all these teams that are left, Like you wouldn't

1272
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 4: want to play the Packers.

1273
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,280
Speaker 1: I feel like that's sort of a ridiculous situation.

1274
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 4: And I Detroit, like this is one team where like

1275
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 4: the home stadium, the journey matters a lot. I think

1276
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 4: crowd noise last week, the energy in that place galvanized

1277
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,399
Speaker 4: the team, and it's I guess it's simplistic to say

1278
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 4: all that, but it's like you are human beings in

1279
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 4: an environment where like you're in a Roman colisseum, and

1280
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 4: the crowd is going to pays.

1281
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 6: Absolutely. They talked after the game.

1282
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,399
Speaker 4: I think I think if you're the Lions, you've got

1283
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 4: to be thrilled that you got a really hot and

1284
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 4: cold Bucks team that last week. And I think, look

1285
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 4: at I couldn't have been happier for Mayfield. And the

1286
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 4: Bucks have better players than people realize. They've got a

1287
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 4: good group of wide receivers. Their running game has been

1288
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 4: a little bit better. I don't think they'll happen this week.

1289
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 4: But it's like when the Bucks falter, they really do.

1290
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 4: And we saw that they almost lost to the Panthers

1291
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 4: two weeks ago. So I think if you're Detroit, you've

1292
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 4: got to be like pretty thrilled with this matchup.

1293
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: H Yes, I agree with that.

1294
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:08,919
Speaker 3: I mean, they they it's set up very well for them,

1295
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 3: because even if we and we all knew that even

1296
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 3: before that game was played, because it was like the

1297
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 3: winner of this Rams Lions game gets the corpse. That

1298
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 3: was the Eagles or the Bucks, who were not a

1299
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 3: highly respected team coming out of a weak division. But

1300
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 3: I just I also just in fairness to the Bucks,

1301
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 3: just you don't think about it this way, but they've

1302
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 3: lost one game since the calendar turned over to December,

1303
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 3: like they have been playing winning football, building confidence. And

1304
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 3: Baker was banged up obviously throughout the end of that season,

1305
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 3: but he didn't look that way this past Monday night.

1306
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: So and they said he's full, he's almost fully healthy. Yeah,

1307
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I don't remember him taking any

1308
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: huge legs in that game. I was feeling pretty dangerous.

1309
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 3: And I really like and now the question to me

1310
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 3: is can the Bucks defense which is filled with veterans

1311
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 3: and dudes that have been through the wars before.

1312
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 6: Can they put the pressure on golf?

1313
00:57:55,880 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 3: Golf was outrageous in the wildcard round one for twenty

1314
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 3: one for two sixty six in a touch when he

1315
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 3: wasn't pressured in that game.

1316
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: So he will, as we've seen.

1317
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 5: All sprazzled a few times in the big spots and

1318
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 5: almost lost them game with that.

1319
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 1: With that latter row with the saker, he ended up tripping.

1320
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 3: He was pressured on thirty percent of his dropbacks per

1321
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 3: next Gen Stats, and was one of six for eleven yards.

1322
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 3: And that's kind of isn't that the story forever? Greg

1323
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 3: that It's like it can change real quick with Goff

1324
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 3: and it all depends on making him move his feet

1325
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 3: and speed him up a little bit.

1326
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,439
Speaker 6: Can the Bucks defense do that right?

1327
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 5: He's been great against the Blitz, which is against what

1328
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 5: you have thought of over the course of the season.

1329
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 5: And I think it's more because they're great as an

1330
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 5: offense against the Blitz. You thought about it, I thought

1331
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 5: about on Monday night. It's not about just Jalen Hurts.

1332
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 5: It's about the offensive line. It's mostly about the coaching.

1333
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 5: Ben Johnson has had answers. He had answers in that

1334
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 5: first game. Even though they couldn't finish drives, they moved

1335
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 5: the ball really well against the Bucks throughout, So it's

1336
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 5: good that they've already seen him. This line's offensive line

1337
00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 5: has a reputation of being great. There's been times this

1338
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 5: year where I don't think they've played great, but they

1339
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 5: should win the matchups on the outside here the Bucks

1340
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 5: pass rushers aren't great on the outside. On the inside,

1341
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 5: it's Vea and it's Canty and Claijah Canty was awesome

1342
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 5: last week. I think that's a good on good matchup.

1343
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 5: But that's maybe where the Lions are a little weakner

1344
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 5: weaker up front with it with Glasgow or whoever, it's

1345
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 5: gonna be even ragnow I think struggled last week. If

1346
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 5: you can get some interior pressure on Jared Goff like

1347
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 5: you have a chance in this game. Obviously, I think it.

1348
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:33,919
Speaker 4: Matters that, you know, they talked about Sam Laporta being

1349
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 4: like another healthier week, like he's getting better, played well

1350
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 4: last week.

1351
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of didn't even look hurt to me.

1352
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 4: Aman Ross Saint Brown almost never gets talked about and

1353
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 4: like he couldn't have been more dangerous a week ago.

1354
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 4: It's like, if you're the Bucks, you've got to shut

1355
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 4: down a lot more weapons than you did last week

1356
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 4: when you played an AJ Brown free Eagles team was

1357
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 4: falling apart at the seams they give.

1358
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 5: They give up a ton of big plays all year.

1359
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 5: The Bucks are a solid run defense and they've given

1360
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 5: up a as many explosive plays as any team in

1361
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 5: the NFL. And so it could be like a Jamison

1362
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 5: Williams type of game. Get getting vertical because they they

1363
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 5: take their chances and they leave Jamel Dean and Carlton

1364
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 5: Davis on an island sometimes and it just it doesn't

1365
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 5: work out. The Bucks, on the other hand, they're always

1366
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 5: trying to go deep and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

1367
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 5: Baker is such a like a high variable quarterback. I

1368
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 5: don't think he's had like an incredible year, but I

1369
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 5: think he has been the best version of Baker where

1370
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 5: he's about the average starting quarterback. That the way he

1371
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 5: gets to average, though, is like he's had six or

1372
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 5: seven really impressive games and he's quietly had about six

1373
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 5: like awful games, and he so he's his average is

1374
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 5: not like just staying right in the middle.

1375
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: It's either it's gonna be great or it's not gonna

1376
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: be great.

1377
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 5: And I don't know. The Lions give up a lot

1378
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 5: of big plays. They're not a great defense. They're much

1379
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:54,919
Speaker 5: better stopping the run than they are stopping the past.

1380
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 5: Maybe I think relatively they are a good batchup.

1381
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 3: I think I don't you know. I'll pick the lines here,

1382
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:05,439
Speaker 3: but I love this game. I just think it really

1383
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:09,439
Speaker 3: sets up well. And for Baker, who has always been

1384
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 3: like him or not, has always been good theater, I

1385
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 3: really do, it would not stun me if, like a

1386
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 3: major conversation Sunday night is holy Baker went off and

1387
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 3: is playing in the NFC title game, because I just

1388
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 3: think he's all about getting into these pockets, right, these

1389
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 3: pockets of confidence, and where the moment meets him as

1390
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 3: unlikely as it may be, and then he seizes it. Now,

1391
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 3: could it go the other way? And he has four picks? Yes,

1392
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 3: but I think he balls out in this game. And

1393
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 3: then it becomes does the Detroit offense have the ability

1394
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 3: to put up thirty points? And I think they will,

1395
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 3: but I think I'm gonna do a Sessler special here.

1396
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Lions thirty one, Bucks thirty and like

1397
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 3: a classic, a divisional round classic, and that's my pick.

1398
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 4: The Bucks are one and six when they've allowed more

1399
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 4: than twenty points, and I think that says a lot

1400
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 4: about some of their offensive games, like where they've not performed.

1401
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: I think the Lions take care of business.

1402
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 4: It's a more intriguing matchup than I would have thought

1403
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 4: it was a couple months ago. I'm gonna go Detroit

1404
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 4: twenty seven, Bucks sixteen.

1405
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 5: I hear you guys on the crowd being a factor,

1406
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 5: but Baker Mayfield actually said he talked to some of

1407
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 5: the Rams players, you know, two Rams legends here going

1408
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 5: at it, Goff and Baker Mayfield, and the Rams said

1409
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 5: they've never been in a building like that. They just

1410
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 5: thought and they handled it well. Ultimately that maybe that

1411
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 5: affected those early timeouts, but you know, they were moving

1412
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 5: the ball on the Lions. I think the Lions defense

1413
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 5: has more answers than people realize. That the Lions are

1414
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,479
Speaker 5: minus two seventy eight in this game, and I think

1415
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:45,439
Speaker 5: Brian branch On Godwin, he can slow him down enough.

1416
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 5: You're getting some health back here. I think James Houston

1417
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,920
Speaker 5: is gonna be active for this game, so Alie McNeil's

1418
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 5: been added to the mix here. They're a little better,

1419
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 5: and I think people have kind of missed how incredibly

1420
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 5: good Aiden Hutchinson had been the last three weeks. Twenty

1421
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 5: three pressures and it's not like twenty three pressures in

1422
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 5: three weeks, where it's like twenty one hurries. No, it's

1423
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 5: seven sacks, eight quarterback hits and uh, I think six

1424
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 5: more hurry. So I like their defense, I like their offense.

1425
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 5: I like all the Lions. Well that's a lock it up.

1426
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 1: Heyo, that's a solid lot. But you might be sweating it.

1427
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. I kinda. I wouldn't be surprised

1428
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 1: if I am sweating it.

1429
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 5: But uh, this is what you can do when you

1430
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 5: when you finished the competition, just pick pick the teams

1431
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 5: you like, maybe.

1432
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 1: In your mind. That's what I'm doing about the saddle.

1433
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 4: The same note, I'm also I've finished the competition and just.

1434
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 6: Going you're looking to shock the world.

1435
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 1: Everybody's got competitions going on right now.

1436
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:47,439
Speaker 5: Lions minus six and a half in the money line

1437
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 5: is negative to seventy eight for Detroit.

1438
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 3: By the way, the weather in Detroit, ooh boy, it

1439
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 3: is going to be cold, sub zero, who knows, maybe

1440
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 3: some snow and Todd Bowles was asked about this.

1441
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:03,720
Speaker 1: The Lions, by the way, played in the Dome for fifty.

1442
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 9: Years, looking forward towards Detroit, the weather it has been

1443
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 9: a factor in some of the playoff games, even for

1444
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 9: the most prepared teams. Today it's thirteen in Detroit, which

1445
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 9: doesn't compare to some of those any special plans to

1446
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 9: acclimate the team to only endure, but perform in those.

1447
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:29,160
Speaker 1: It's a long question. Do you know we play indoors,

1448
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: right and the other a dome. I don't.

1449
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 3: No nothing playing We're indoors and we have to be

1450
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 3: outside for twenty seconds getting off the bus going under

1451
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 3: the thing.

1452
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,200
Speaker 1: So what was he going to say he handled? I mean,

1453
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 1: I think a lot of I could he could have

1454
01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: buried that poor one.

1455
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people have, you know, suspected

1456
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 4: that was not a sports reporter.

1457
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 1: But now this local news, this is.

1458
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 5: A playoffs thing where you see the local news kind

1459
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 5: of flies in for the first time.

1460
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 3: But I mean, I'm sure she wanted to fifty years though.

1461
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 3: You know, from the Silver Dome to Ford Field, this

1462
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 3: isn't new. It's not like they It reminds me of

1463
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 3: the first big time when I was twenty three years

1464
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,479
Speaker 3: old at the Journal News. They sent me to cover

1465
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 3: a Mets game, a Mets Rockies game, and I was

1466
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 3: over the moon. It was a dream come true to

1467
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 3: cover a major League baseball game. And they sent me,

1468
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:21,680
Speaker 3: me and this other guy, Jeff, and we were filling

1469
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:24,439
Speaker 3: in for Pete Abraham, who now covers the Red Sox

1470
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 3: with the Globe, but back then covered the Mets. So

1471
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 3: it was September, it was they were playing out the string,

1472
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 3: and so they sent the two young kids there just to.

1473
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:36,520
Speaker 1: Get some reps and give them an experience.

1474
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 3: Damn it, it's the eighth inning and the Mets were

1475
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 3: thrown a perfect game and we are and the Mets

1476
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 3: had never thrown a no hitter to that point. So

1477
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 3: me and Jeff are like looking at each other like, luckily,

1478
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 3: I don't know, luckily, but the perfect game gets broken

1479
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 3: up and so there's no historic game. And we're not

1480
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 3: freaking out because the newsroom was calling up to the

1481
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 3: press box like all right, we're gonna send somebody to

1482
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 3: help you guys, and we're like, you're gonna have to

1483
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 3: get down here. You're gonna have to go there if

1484
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 3: this happens. I was like, Oh my god, So go

1485
01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 3: down in locker room. Crisis averted, and I go down

1486
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:11,560
Speaker 3: and talk to Clint Hurdle, who was like a grizzled

1487
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:13,440
Speaker 3: old baseball man who's the manager of the Rockies. And

1488
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 3: Preston Wilson was a star for the Mets, or a

1489
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 3: prospect for the Mets that didn't quite work out and

1490
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 3: then became a star with the Rockies. He didn't play.

1491
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 3: It was a getaway day, it was an afternoon game.

1492
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 3: But I was twenty two to twenty three. So I

1493
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 3: asked the question to Clint Hurdle. I go, Clint, any

1494
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 3: reason why you didn't play Preston Wilson in this meaningless

1495
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 3: game in the middle of September. And he turns to me,

1496
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 3: and he like looks at me and sees that I'm

1497
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 3: not cut out for this moment. Is it okay if

1498
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 3: I give my players a day off? Is that okay

1499
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 3: with you? Is that okay?

1500
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: And literally I melted into a puddle.

1501
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,439
Speaker 3: And I just thought of Clint Hurdle burying a young

1502
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 3: journalist and seeing Todd Bowles being a class act.

1503
01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:56,360
Speaker 1: With that woman who was way out of her depth

1504
01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: in a big spot. That was story time.

1505
01:06:58,440 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 3: He did a good d that was a good story.

1506
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 3: I hadn't heard that one. All right, anything else with

1507
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:04,880
Speaker 3: this game? Do we all make a pick?

1508
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: I believe we did.

1509
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 6: We did, all right, so then let's move.

1510
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that game. Just the vibe. You

1511
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:19,040
Speaker 1: will have to wait. I cannot though.

1512
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 5: It's Tariko and Collinsworth on a noon Pacific game, which

1513
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 5: it just feels nice and counterintuitive, and we're going to

1514
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 5: be aggressive.

1515
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: For the Yes, it is transgressive.

1516
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 3: For those of you overseas that have access to the

1517
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 3: Sky Sports and their NFL coverage, We'll be on at

1518
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 3: halftime of that game, chopping it up.

1519
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 1: I'm right, right, that's right, that's's right.

1520
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, So don't let you do the halftime thing where

1521
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 4: you go do other human things.

1522
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:47,000
Speaker 3: Do not do not be a human, be a football

1523
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 3: fan twenty four to seven every second, all right? The

1524
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 3: last game, and it's a one mark. You were saying

1525
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 3: you're not overly excited for, but I did not. That

1526
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:56,919
Speaker 3: is not what I said.

1527
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:57,600
Speaker 1: I get it.

1528
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 3: You always want new things, but I like classic matchups

1529
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 3: and they're only going to get so many ten years

1530
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:03,840
Speaker 3: from now.

1531
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:05,360
Speaker 1: We're not gonna have him anymore. You know what I mean.

1532
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 3: It's like, well on Patrick Mahomes versus Josh all you

1533
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 3: know what I treasured. I didn't care Greg how many

1534
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:13,480
Speaker 3: there were. If you gave me Tom Brady and Peyton

1535
01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 3: Manning in January, I was I was clicking my heels,

1536
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:21,679
Speaker 3: run into the television set, and I know you don't

1537
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:22,320
Speaker 3: even want to watch it.

1538
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 4: First of all, Okay, go ahead, No, ten years from

1539
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 4: now you still will be getting Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.

1540
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 5: I promise you. Mark likes new stuff. Though he was like,

1541
01:08:31,360 --> 01:08:33,679
Speaker 5: give me the Trent Green matt Shop showed.

1542
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: No, no, no.

1543
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 4: I was saying, this is new to me, this is interesting.

1544
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 4: I was saying that the Texans and Packers are very

1545
01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 4: intriguing to me. I was not discounting Chiefs at Bills.

1546
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:45,879
Speaker 4: They have played each other a lot. I guess everyone's

1547
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 4: I keep hearing people are so fascinated that Mahomes is

1548
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:50,599
Speaker 4: playing his first road playoffs.

1549
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:52,680
Speaker 1: You know how fascinated they are. It's the game of

1550
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 1: the week.

1551
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:55,640
Speaker 4: I don't draft, but of course it's the game of

1552
01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 4: the week, so I'm not I'm not slighting it, but

1553
01:08:57,680 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 4: it's kings.

1554
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: Mark the game of it.

1555
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 4: I guess it's just a human thing, even with me,

1556
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 4: Like like like when it was Manning versus Brady, like

1557
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 4: part nineteen and there was like these articles coming out,

1558
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 4: like let's rank the nineteen times they played. It was like,

1559
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:12,840
Speaker 4: come on, people, like I like to see new things.

1560
01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 4: I like fresh new experiences.

1561
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 5: I I love I'm with Dan that because you got

1562
01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:21,480
Speaker 5: to get the others.

1563
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: This is a more rare thing.

1564
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 5: Ironically, It's like it feels like it's happened a lot,

1565
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 5: but you only get these so much. But you know,

1566
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 5: it's a great rivalry. And this is where i'd push

1567
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 5: back because this is new. You're getting different versions like

1568
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 5: sometimes you got the Patriots version where he was throwing

1569
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 5: to uh Aaron Dobson and they had no defense and

1570
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 5: they had to score thirty uh and then Peyton Manning

1571
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:46,679
Speaker 5: comes back in this case, like, these are totally different

1572
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 5: teams than they were two years ago. And it's interesting

1573
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:53,600
Speaker 5: to me that the Bills, you feel like they're the

1574
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:56,719
Speaker 5: minor player in this right, but they've won three straight

1575
01:09:56,960 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 5: in Kansas City in the regular season, but they haven't

1576
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 5: won them in the playoffs. They've lost the two that

1577
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 5: have been in the playoffs. Now it's here at Buffalo

1578
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:07,800
Speaker 5: where we haven't seen it, and so to me it

1579
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:10,160
Speaker 5: is different because this is a totally different Chiefs team

1580
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:10,879
Speaker 5: with like a great.

1581
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:13,240
Speaker 1: Defense on the road. I know, but it's.

1582
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 4: Knows that I'm being set up as some sort of

1583
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 4: straw man person. It's like, I actually think if it

1584
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 4: weren't Tony Romo on the call.

1585
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 1: Oh, Mark, he's right, we are sick of it. It's like,

1586
01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: all right, great, I did not say that at all.

1587
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:28,640
Speaker 1: Everyone's also.

1588
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 4: I'll let you, I'll let you play your little parlor game.

1589
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:34,800
Speaker 4: But it's like, literally, that's not what I'm saying.

1590
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 5: I'm also sick of everyone saying like, oh, like, oh,

1591
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 5: it's Tony Romo on Patrick Mahomes and Josh you know what,

1592
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:42,000
Speaker 5: I like Tony Roe.

1593
01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:43,679
Speaker 1: You know what you do the same thing to Mark

1594
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 1: put a name on it. That's that's Mark, that says.

1595
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,760
Speaker 4: That that is that I saw tweet that I do,

1596
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 4: but that I do back. I think you just I

1597
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 4: think part of us. You run out of things to

1598
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 4: say about Hetch Mahomes. But this is a completely different

1599
01:10:57,160 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 4: Chiefs team.

1600
01:10:57,640 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 1: I think that you're right.

1601
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 4: There are elements to this team that there's a challenges

1602
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 4: that were not pressing before. It was like a video game,

1603
01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:05,080
Speaker 4: or like when Hulk Cogan would like go down to

1604
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 4: the end and just body slam someone and you win

1605
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 4: every every Sunday Night name event, and it's like this

1606
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 4: Chiefs Team Saturday Night, Saturday mayn like this Chiefs Team

1607
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:12,879
Speaker 4: is vulnerable.

1608
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:14,000
Speaker 1: This is a Sunday Night main event.

1609
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 3: But yeah, but hul Cogan, it would be Saturday Night, right,

1610
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 3: it replaced it be the body slam that would have

1611
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:21,679
Speaker 3: been the kick to the face followed by the atomic

1612
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 3: leg drop.

1613
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:27,840
Speaker 4: You're right, you want to just fund you in the

1614
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 4: didnty body slam like thre the Giant.

1615
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 1: And then he gave them the biggest slam drop.

1616
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 4: But that was the biggest body slam in the history

1617
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:35,799
Speaker 4: of wrest wrestling.

1618
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:38,320
Speaker 1: Three right in the Pontiac Silver Dome. There you go.

1619
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 3: See how it all connects. Mattison behind the glass thought

1620
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:42,439
Speaker 3: this was wasteful conversation.

1621
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 4: Ultiple Cities that next wrestling, big old football game up there.

1622
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 5: Remember that conversation before the show. We keep it a

1623
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:50,799
Speaker 5: little tighter today or something.

1624
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know what you're talking. What else

1625
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:56,360
Speaker 3: I mean we can end the show right now.

1626
01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 5: I really haven't even talked about this game. I'm I'm

1627
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:03,640
Speaker 5: excited for the Snead like lagarious Snead last week that

1628
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 5: my favorite clip of the week was him driving Tae

1629
01:12:06,479 --> 01:12:09,759
Speaker 5: Hill into like as Mark would say, mother.

1630
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 1: Earth, he like below the Earth.

1631
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 3: I mean it was crazy and I given game a

1632
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 3: little pop on socialist to Agam.

1633
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 6: I've never been bodied like that or whatever the term

1634
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:18,600
Speaker 6: would be.

1635
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 5: And so Sneid faced off against Stefan Diggs in this

1636
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 5: first matchup, which really wasn't that long ago as Week fourteen,

1637
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 5: they matched up for twenty three routes. In those twenty

1638
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 5: three routes, Josh Allen tried Stefan Diggs five times. The

1639
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 5: Bills had a total of three yards in that game.

1640
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 5: Sneed absolutely destroyed Stefan Diggs, which that's an interesting matchup.

1641
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,680
Speaker 5: If that could happen again, they have a shot. But

1642
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,639
Speaker 5: I do think they're better prepared here with Shakir, with

1643
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:48,680
Speaker 5: Kinkaid who's getting most of the snaps. And I thought

1644
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:50,759
Speaker 5: it was interesting last week they didn't really play Knox

1645
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:51,559
Speaker 5: and kin Kid together.

1646
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 1: It was mostly just Kinkaid.

1647
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:55,479
Speaker 5: So they like having three receivers on the field, even

1648
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:58,599
Speaker 5: if it's not Gabe Davis, just I think they if

1649
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:00,719
Speaker 5: they were like a basketball team and almost like keeping

1650
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 5: people out of the paint to let a little more

1651
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 5: a little more space over the middle of the field.

1652
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 5: In general, and since Joe Brady's taken over, the offense

1653
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 5: isn't better, but it has been different.

1654
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 1: They've been more willing to run the ball.

1655
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 5: And I think this matchup, as much as it's about

1656
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:20,719
Speaker 5: m Mahomes and Allen, also might be about like which

1657
01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:23,799
Speaker 5: team will actually stick with the running game and be successful,

1658
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 5: because I think both coordinators have shown they will dare

1659
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:30,520
Speaker 5: the other team two run. Spagnola did it quite effectively

1660
01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:32,960
Speaker 5: against Buffalo in that first matchup, but even though Buffalo

1661
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 5: started that game well, their offense was kind of in

1662
01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 5: quicksand for most of it.

1663
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: I think one thing.

1664
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 4: That's different about McDermott running this defense, and you know,

1665
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 4: maybe one of the changes that happened was some of

1666
01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 4: the playoff stuff that happened against the Chiefs was that

1667
01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 4: when they dueled in week fourteen, they blitzed at the

1668
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,599
Speaker 4: highest rate they have against Mahomes and they were more

1669
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:56,439
Speaker 4: successful doing it. That said, like this all this business

1670
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 4: about Mahomes being on the road, like his completion percentage

1671
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:03,280
Speaker 4: is higher on the road, his yards per attempt higher

1672
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 4: on the road, higher on the road, sack rate lower,

1673
01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:09,200
Speaker 4: and passing success rate higher.

1674
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,719
Speaker 3: Yes, and if they finish off a couple of drives

1675
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 3: last week, people are over the moon saying that they're

1676
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 3: fixed and we'll see. I just I think they got

1677
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 3: the season. Like you were saying Greg earlier, you're looking

1678
01:14:22,120 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 3: at the whole season. You can't just look at a game,

1679
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 3: and the whole season tells me they're going to struggle

1680
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:29,799
Speaker 3: again here to put points on the board and finish

1681
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:32,600
Speaker 3: off drives. And that's why I kind of like the

1682
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 3: Bills in this game, because I think that's what's going

1683
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:36,240
Speaker 3: to end the chief season. The Bills will finish off

1684
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 3: the drives that the Buffalo that the Chiefs won't be

1685
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:42,320
Speaker 3: able to but not to swerve left.

1686
01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 6: But I want to touch on it, just because I'm.

1687
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 3: Looking at him, staring at it, and I knew it,

1688
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 3: I felt it, and then I looked at the numbers

1689
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:49,639
Speaker 3: and my goodness.

1690
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:54,720
Speaker 1: So Stefan Diggs weird year. Yeah.

1691
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 3: So he starts the season with five one hundred yard

1692
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 3: games in his first six weeks. Thing is going to

1693
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:06,840
Speaker 3: plan since October twenty second, Okay, I lost to the Pats.

1694
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:11,280
Speaker 3: This is These are his numbers, six for fifty eight,

1695
01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 3: nine for seventy six for eighty six, three for thirty four,

1696
01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 3: four for twenty seven, six for seventy four, four for

1697
01:15:18,439 --> 01:15:21,599
Speaker 3: twenty four, four for forty eight, five for twenty nine,

1698
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 3: four for twenty six, seven for eighty seven, seven for

1699
01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 3: fifty two, and then in the playoff game more of

1700
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 3: the same where he was.

1701
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: Seven for fifty seven for fifty seven for fifty two. Yeah.

1702
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 1: Like it's been an odd season. They have not been

1703
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:36,400
Speaker 1: on the same page.

1704
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:39,920
Speaker 3: You've seen that frustration, and it is It's a good

1705
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 3: thing Khalis Shakiraz stepped up this year, and it's a

1706
01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:44,800
Speaker 3: good thing that they now have a pro BOWLTIP player

1707
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 3: in James Cook, because that connection has been off all year.

1708
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 5: It makes me believe that this is Stefan Diggs's last

1709
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 5: run with the Bills. Now, I think he would be

1710
01:15:56,360 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 5: an interesting trade candidate. That's he's but he's thirty. I

1711
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 5: can't imagine he's just suddenly turned old. But they're the

1712
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:05,200
Speaker 5: big plays, just having big in there, and I just

1713
01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 5: have a feeling Gabe Davis's status is really important. I

1714
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:11,760
Speaker 5: think the injuries are so important for this game for

1715
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:13,320
Speaker 5: the Bills because I hear what you're saying, and I'm

1716
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:16,759
Speaker 5: I'm leaning Bills, Like I guess I want the Bills

1717
01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 5: because like Mark, I guess I want something different. I

1718
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:21,160
Speaker 5: like the idea that they were six and six and

1719
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:23,680
Speaker 5: the way they've rallied, and I like the idea of

1720
01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 5: a Bills Ravens AFC championship game that that's really exciting

1721
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 5: to me. But the practice reports are just massive, especially

1722
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 5: in the secondary. I'm gonna focus it there because there's linebackers,

1723
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 5: there's other stuff, but Christian Befford been their best outside

1724
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 5: corner Toron Johnson in All Pro slot cornerback both on

1725
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:45,439
Speaker 5: the injury report and both seem legitimately like I don't

1726
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:46,400
Speaker 5: know if they're gonna.

1727
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 1: Play or not, like they could fully play.

1728
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 5: They could not like these guys last week, have had

1729
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:53,519
Speaker 5: to count on players we hadn't seen much all season.

1730
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 1: Tomorrow.

1731
01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:56,120
Speaker 5: Hamlin was on the field throughout the end of that

1732
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:59,240
Speaker 5: game because of injuries. Von Miller played throughout the end

1733
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:00,879
Speaker 5: of that game and actually had a couple pressures.

1734
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 1: Made me think hmm.

1735
01:17:02,120 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 5: I wonder if they go back to Von this week

1736
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 5: because he showed something, but that was all because of injuries.

1737
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:09,639
Speaker 5: Their linebackers were gone, and they might get them both back.

1738
01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 5: They might get Bernard and Dotson back, they might get

1739
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:15,280
Speaker 5: neither back. So Cabe Davis is another question mark. These

1740
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 5: are like seven or eight starters where it's like they

1741
01:17:18,040 --> 01:17:20,120
Speaker 5: might play, they might not, And that's a pretty big deal.

1742
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:24,160
Speaker 4: And at that said, like, I'm not scared and I

1743
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 4: don't think anyone is scared of like the Chiefs weapons

1744
01:17:26,520 --> 01:17:28,040
Speaker 4: for the most part. I mean, you want to have

1745
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:29,440
Speaker 4: those guys in the field's.

1746
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 1: Cleared of too. Kelsey and Rashi Rice.

1747
01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:33,639
Speaker 3: We just talked about stuff on Diggan Park, like Travis

1748
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 3: Kelcey is coming off a game with three drops and

1749
01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 3: he has not been himself this year.

1750
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:38,080
Speaker 6: Right, He's gonna need to make the plays that he

1751
01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:38,679
Speaker 6: hasn't been making.

1752
01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 1: Right.

1753
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 4: They lead the league in drops, And I guess I'm

1754
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 4: just wondering if the you know, we're everyone waiting for

1755
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 4: the Chiefs to become last year as Chiefs. It's like, actually,

1756
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 4: isn't it more likely that their season ends with another

1757
01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:54,719
Speaker 4: duplicate performance where we're wide receiver x Y or Z lets.

1758
01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: Them down in a key spot. But that's more likely.

1759
01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:57,439
Speaker 1: I'm just saying.

1760
01:17:57,439 --> 01:18:00,639
Speaker 3: I think that's like that's been the pretty consistent narrative.

1761
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:03,519
Speaker 3: But defense is better, Greg right, way better.

1762
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:06,320
Speaker 5: It's the best, And I think the route is more

1763
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:08,360
Speaker 5: that like, yeah, some of that stuff happens and they

1764
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 5: win a game twenty to sixteen, or they win a game,

1765
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 5: you know, because Okay, if.

1766
01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 4: This was the Kadarius Tony off sides game where like

1767
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 4: little mistakes cost.

1768
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:21,800
Speaker 5: Them, I hear what you're saying, though, but like to

1769
01:18:21,840 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 5: that point, they held the Bills down in that game,

1770
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 5: and even though they weren't great offensively, if not for

1771
01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:31,879
Speaker 5: that call, if not for Tony lining up six inches

1772
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 5: you know in the neutral zone, the Bills aren't in

1773
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 5: this game, you know. And the Chiefs win a game

1774
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 5: like that against a good opponent because of their defense

1775
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:44,599
Speaker 5: primarily and because Mahomes made big plays when it mattered.

1776
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:46,920
Speaker 5: He ran the ball pretty well last week. I mean,

1777
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:49,280
Speaker 5: that's that's a thing. Both of these quarterbacks are going

1778
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:50,720
Speaker 5: to run the ball well, but you're just going to

1779
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:53,640
Speaker 5: be more surprised when Mahomes does it.

1780
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: I just can't fair.

1781
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 5: I kind of think they're gonna win, and yet I

1782
01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 5: don't want it to happen, so I'm not gonna pick it.

1783
01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 1: Sorry, Chiefs rooting against you.

1784
01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 3: If that, if Tony stayed on size, Josh gets the

1785
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:05,800
Speaker 3: ball back with him.

1786
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 1: Nitor said, ye, good, point that out.

1787
01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 3: I just got a weird feeling about the Bills and

1788
01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:12,719
Speaker 3: Eric the producer.

1789
01:19:13,479 --> 01:19:14,320
Speaker 1: I like it, dude.

1790
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:16,040
Speaker 6: I like the energy.

1791
01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 3: I like that they went through hell and then they

1792
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 3: came out and survived it. And now Josh Allen at

1793
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:29,720
Speaker 3: home running downhill, impervious to anything pain and feeling like

1794
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,280
Speaker 3: like what he said at the end of last week's

1795
01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:33,960
Speaker 3: game was interesting to me that we were like everybody else.

1796
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 3: Now we're out of that wilderness where we were fighting

1797
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:39,720
Speaker 3: for our lives. And I think they're playing with a

1798
01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:42,479
Speaker 3: level of confidence that is going to be the difference

1799
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 3: against the KC team that's just simply even though better

1800
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 3: on defense, not as explosive and not even close. And

1801
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:50,439
Speaker 3: I think that's why they're gonna win. I think they're

1802
01:19:50,439 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 3: gonna win this game twenty seven to twenty.

1803
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 10: It feels almost fitting that the season everything kind of

1804
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,559
Speaker 10: went wrong. It kind of feels like it should go right.

1805
01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:02,040
Speaker 10: Eventually like they were heavy favorites for you know, the

1806
01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:04,160
Speaker 10: last couple of seasons and things just kind of fell

1807
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 10: apart abruptly, horrifically big moments, and this year like there

1808
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,800
Speaker 10: was lolls, big lolls and finger on the panic button,

1809
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:14,720
Speaker 10: moments you fire an o C, you have the John

1810
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:16,720
Speaker 10: McDermott hit piece, and then all of a sudden, they're

1811
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:19,920
Speaker 10: right back here and it seems like they're the trajectory

1812
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 10: is hitting their peak right, and.

1813
01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 1: They're undefeated since that article came out.

1814
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:26,719
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean you have there, you have the players

1815
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 10: in the the coach got a game ball, and you

1816
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:30,800
Speaker 10: have players yelling in the locker.

1817
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 1: M you got your back, coach.

1818
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:34,240
Speaker 10: I mean, there's so many weird moments for this season

1819
01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:36,720
Speaker 10: that you know they didn't they weren't maybe considered a

1820
01:20:36,720 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 10: Super Bowl favorite. You know, this is the year where

1821
01:20:39,439 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 10: everything seemed like, well, this is the falling, this is

1822
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 10: where it breaks, the damn breaks and it all falls apart.

1823
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:47,600
Speaker 10: And here we are again against the Chiefs, against Patrick Mahomes.

1824
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 10: This time we're in Western New York. Bill's Mafia home game.

1825
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 10: It's it's theater, dude, It's crazy.

1826
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 1: There you go.

1827
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:58,040
Speaker 5: I like that and yet that I don't know why

1828
01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 5: in my gut like all that. It just the Chiefs

1829
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:02,479
Speaker 5: remind me so much of the Patriots. I mean, they're

1830
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 5: so see different. But just like all this makes logical sense.

1831
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 5: And I've been saying all year, like maybe this is

1832
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:09,040
Speaker 5: the year for the Bills. They get they get as

1833
01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 5: close as possible, and I'm want to pick them because

1834
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:13,479
Speaker 5: I want it to happen. And yet like that's the

1835
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:16,320
Speaker 5: moment where the champs and the Chiefs are the champs.

1836
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:19,719
Speaker 5: They're the defending champs. They've done it twice with Patrick Mahomes.

1837
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 5: They've literally never not won a Divisional round game. With

1838
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes, They've won every single one. It's like they

1839
01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:28,960
Speaker 5: are going to be tough to knockout. But I think

1840
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:31,400
Speaker 5: the Bills can do it. I think Greg Russau can

1841
01:21:31,439 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 5: have a big time game. The Chiefs tackles are where

1842
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 5: they're a little vulnerable. He had a really nice game

1843
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:39,000
Speaker 5: the first time I notice against the Chiefs too. So

1844
01:21:39,360 --> 01:21:43,520
Speaker 5: get some pressure on Mahomes, get it done, Bills.

1845
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 1: Be fun. I feel like every almost, oh here we go. Sorry, Mark,

1846
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:49,639
Speaker 1: did me to cut you off?

1847
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 10: There is no video this week, but I did want

1848
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:54,719
Speaker 10: to get on record the Westling the Cincinnati Zoo will

1849
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,040
Speaker 10: be taking the Chiefs in this game, so saying this

1850
01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 10: in a Bill's sweater, so I almost forgot to just

1851
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:00,800
Speaker 10: even mentioned the refalling.

1852
01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 3: It's almost like Nick Sirianni is in Cincinnati right now

1853
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 3: because they have lost I believe five of six the Zoo,

1854
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:07,960
Speaker 3: so they need it was.

1855
01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 5: Bald here though with a road underdog, even though it's

1856
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:14,120
Speaker 5: the Chiefs, it's still there were other options out there,

1857
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:14,559
Speaker 5: a lot.

1858
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 4: Of infighting over there, and it's and it's shown to

1859
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:21,759
Speaker 4: be a concern. I I love what Eric said because

1860
01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 4: I think that's exactly what the Bills have been. And

1861
01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:26,200
Speaker 4: whenever you go back and watch these like documentaries of

1862
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 4: you know, three quarters of Super Bowl winning teams, there

1863
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 4: were these like low points in the season where everything

1864
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 4: felt like a catech mccleus, like just a mess, just

1865
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:37,559
Speaker 4: a disaster. And it's like the Bills looked shot and

1866
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,160
Speaker 4: gone to the point where the Zoo Nick said they

1867
01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:42,639
Speaker 4: weren't going to make the playoffs, and I thought, I thought,

1868
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 4: I think he's right at some point in the season.

1869
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 4: And I think now you're getting a version of Josh

1870
01:22:47,240 --> 01:22:49,600
Speaker 4: Allen and the entire team that is driven and is

1871
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 4: kind of them against the world, and that's kind of sport.

1872
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:52,880
Speaker 1: You know, who did it?

1873
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:55,920
Speaker 3: I think it came up earlier in the show that

1874
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 3: early Aaron Rodgers Packers team.

1875
01:22:57,640 --> 01:22:59,880
Speaker 1: I think they were six and six. They were super banged.

1876
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:02,879
Speaker 3: They ran ran off a streak to make the playoffs

1877
01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:03,759
Speaker 3: and just kept winning.

1878
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,439
Speaker 5: But look at Boith Giants team Patriots they were they

1879
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:10,519
Speaker 5: were a six seed. The Bills weirdly have all this

1880
01:23:10,640 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 5: going on, and yet they were the two seeds.

1881
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 1: And well, here's the thing.

1882
01:23:14,320 --> 01:23:16,560
Speaker 5: If the Chiefs win the if the Chiefs win this

1883
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 5: game and then win the Super Bowl. They had those

1884
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 5: moments too where everyone gave up on them and they

1885
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:21,000
Speaker 5: hit their darkest moment.

1886
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 1: It all is there.

1887
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 3: It was ever quite as dark though now it's the

1888
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 3: chief always had that buffer in that povision.

1889
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:29,160
Speaker 5: The money line here, by the way, is minus one

1890
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 5: forty two for the Bills. The Bills are two and

1891
01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:33,200
Speaker 5: a half point favorites. When you're a home to and

1892
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 5: a half point favorite, and I'm always a little anxious,

1893
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 5: but it's definitely Vegas being.

1894
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 1: Like, I don't know, we don't know.

1895
01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:41,479
Speaker 3: That's almost like the built in they built that in

1896
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:44,200
Speaker 3: as exactly so Vegas says it's a coin flip.

1897
01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:46,360
Speaker 5: It's basically a coin flip the numbers that loved the

1898
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:51,759
Speaker 5: Bills all season. There's something about the chiefs that define numbers.

1899
01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:01,080
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1906
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