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Speaker 1: is up straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntire, Straight Fire

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Speaker 1: for Monday, January fifteenth. That's a holiday Monday. You never

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Speaker 1: Just a wild, crazy weekend. Obviously, youth sports are in

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Speaker 1: those wins. Obviously, the NFL playoffs happened. Obviously, also a

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Speaker 1: shout out to myself. My birthday was last week. I'm

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Speaker 1: And obviously the herd had a nice little thing on

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Speaker 1: It was. It was a good, great birthday weekend. We

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Speaker 1: saw I saw Mean Girls with the family. I had

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Speaker 1: Now the kids laughed. I thought it was pretty funny.

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Speaker 1: There's some funny comments in there. Overall, a great weekend, unless,

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Speaker 1: of course, you're a a Dallas Cowboys fan. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how much we'll do on Texans Browns. Congrats to

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Speaker 1: fans want to run two out of town. Obviously, some

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Speaker 1: That's asinine, not happening. Obviously, we will do Jared Goff

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Speaker 1: getting redemption. Jared gofft it. You gotta be happy for

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Speaker 1: that guy. You know, he engaged to a Sports Illustrated

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Speaker 1: swimsuit model. He moves into my neighborhood, and now he

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Speaker 1: But obviously we have to start the podcast with the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. They are America's team. They have an owner

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Speaker 1: start with the Cowboys because they got drop kicked into

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Speaker 1: the offseason by the Green Bay Packers in one of

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Speaker 1: the most shocking beatdowns in NFL recent playoff history. I

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Speaker 1: think that's undeniable, folks. This is a veteran Cowboy team,

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Speaker 1: this is a veteran Dallas coaching staff, and basically from

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Speaker 1: the jump, they got their butts kicked. They were not

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Speaker 1: prepared this game, this loss, this humiliation, was an indictment

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Speaker 1: of McCarthy. It was a massive indictment of dan quinn.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how Seattle's gonna want to hire him.

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Speaker 1: And listen, Dak Prescott, he admitted afterward he sucked the

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Speaker 1: counting numbers at the end, four hundred yards on sixty attempts.

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Speaker 1: They're not terrible, but he was not good when it mattered, Folks.

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Speaker 1: When I watched the Detroit Lions on Sunday night, get

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Speaker 1: They got the ball for the second time, they go

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Speaker 1: know what happened, right down the field for a touchdown?

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Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys, who've been to the playoffs before, with

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Speaker 1: behind the eight ball? Where's that great dan Quinn defense?

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Speaker 1: And it only got worse from there, folks. Dallas couldn't

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Speaker 1: But Dak was looking for a big pay day all season.

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Speaker 1: He had an MVP caliber season. He'll finish in the

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Speaker 1: then the pick six late in the first half sealed it. Folks.

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Speaker 1: This is a brutal, brutal time to be a Cowboys fan.

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Speaker 1: Dallas has some major soul searching to do, and all

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Speaker 1: I think rob for the Dallas Cowboys, they don't have

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Speaker 1: No no, what, We're gonna ride the defense and Michael Parsons.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how many times Jordan Love was sacked?

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Speaker 1: Parsons essentially on a Milk Carton had one quarterback hit.

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Speaker 1: They only had three quarterback hits in total. Listen, Lafleur

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Speaker 1: Seattle game at home was like the line of demarcation rob.

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Speaker 1: It felt like in that game when Gino Smith was

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Speaker 1: This job was hand picked for Quinn, you know. And

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, in my opinion, the most disappointing performance

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Speaker 2: And the thing is, it's not just Dak Prescott. Because

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Speaker 2: I didn't see any perspiration whatsoever from that guy. On

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Speaker 2: Saturday night Dak Prescott sweating, but he was bad. But again,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't just him. The receivers were running poor routes.

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Speaker 2: And YadA YadA YadA had one pressure on nineteen pass rushes,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I found this, you'll appreciate it. There was

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Speaker 1: At this point, we don't even know how good of

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Speaker 1: three and zero after the Rams covered against Detroit in

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Speaker 1: what was a weirdly low scoring second half. Obviously, I

425
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Speaker 1: think the storyline is incredible with Jared Goff getting shipped

426
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Speaker 1: out of La to Detroit and then gets his revenge

427
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Speaker 1: on McVeigh. I don't know that it was revenge because

428
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Speaker 1: it wasn't like a acrimonious ending. Detroit was close to

429
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Speaker 1: losing that game, and I'll say this, I don't know, man,

430
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Speaker 1: I thought the Rams. It felt to me in the

431
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Speaker 1: fourth like the Rams were gonna take it. They just

432
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Speaker 1: took such a beating, and if the Rams had won,

433
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Speaker 1: I think you'd probably do a max bet on whoever

434
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Speaker 1: they played, because holy hell, that second half, I mean

435
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Speaker 1: they physically got beat to hell. Up, you had Kyrien

436
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: Williams taking that head shot, left the game, come back in,

437
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:05,360
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I don't know, and then he hand

438
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 1: lands on his hand, it's all taped up. Stafford got pulverized.

439
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: It looked pretty clear that Matt Stafford suffered some sort

440
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: of concussion on that one disgusting hit that was not flagged.

441
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 1: It was like Aiden Hutchison. Then the big guy McNeil

442
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 1: hits him, his head hits the ground. The people, the

443
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: slow mo guys looked and his head's like didn't roll back,

444
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 1: but it looked like, holy hell, is this guy half

445
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: knocked out? And they gets stepped on. Stafford comes back

446
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 1: in and is it just a warrior? Then a high

447
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: beee the tight end in what I thought, how do

448
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 1: you not throw a flag on that? Like the guy

449
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 1: goes low right at the guy's knee as his foot

450
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Speaker 1: is planted going up to catch, and it's like, oh

451
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Speaker 1: my gosh, it looked like a hyper extension. Maybe he

452
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Speaker 1: broken kneecap. I don't know. It looked gruesome. He left

453
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Speaker 1: the game instantly, but there was no way if they won,

454
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Speaker 1: they were winning next week. Puka Nikua, by the way,

455
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Speaker 1: left the game briefly. They tried to keep him out.

456
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Speaker 1: Did you see that? They were like, ohait he got concussed?

457
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Speaker 1: Did he get checked? He went back on The're like,

458
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 1: wait a minute, do we have to pull him out?

459
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: Did he get checked? And then I think somebody radio

460
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: down yet this is the playoffs. Shut the f up.

461
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: We need the superstars on the field. Like, you can't

462
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: have Stafford pulled, you can't have Puka out there. Pooka, folks,

463
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to go. I know Lions

464
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 1: fans are like, dude, you're not talking about us in

465
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: a nice way. Rob Puka Nikoua is like unstoppable. I

466
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Speaker 1: mean it's not just the rookie season, all the records

467
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Speaker 1: he said, but in this game, I mean he cooked

468
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Speaker 1: Sutton off the line badly on that deep touchdown. His

469
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Speaker 1: hands are incredible, He's tough as hell. You can't bring

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Speaker 1: him down. He's got great vision, He's total package. It's

471
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Speaker 1: to the point where like you probably got to ask

472
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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup to restructure his deal and if he says no,

473
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Speaker 1: maybe you trade him. I know he's like Stafford's best friend,

474
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Speaker 1: so that's sack sacrilegious. But it's like we could find

475
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Speaker 1: Pooka Nuku in the fifth round. Guys unstoppable. He's like

476
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Speaker 1: the sole reason him and Stafford that they were in

477
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Speaker 1: this game. But ultimately this comes down to and I

478
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Speaker 1: gotta give the Lions fans a shout out. They were

479
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: so loud in the that McVeigh had to burn two

480
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: early timeouts in the second half, so there's only left

481
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Speaker 1: with one for that final drive, which is why I'm

482
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Speaker 1: surprised they didn't go on like a fourth and eight

483
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Speaker 1: with like eight minutes left, and then they had like

484
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Speaker 1: a fourth and fourteen they had to pun I mean,

485
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Speaker 1: I don't know. It looked like pooh. On third down

486
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Speaker 1: in fourteen, Puka was held. You could see the jersey

487
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: grab very blatant, and then I thought they hit him

488
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 1: after like defenseless receiver. They didn't call that. The refs

489
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Speaker 1: really felt to me, Robin, I'm not referee guy. Detroit

490
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Speaker 1: was excellent. Their offense was tremendous. It looked like Dan

491
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Speaker 1: Campbell kind of coach scared. Their late, like, hey, let's

492
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Speaker 1: not screw this up. Let's just be safe. It looked

493
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Speaker 1: like the refs swallowed their whistles a lot. I thought

494
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Speaker 1: the Rams got job, but ultimately the Lions won, and

495
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Speaker 1: you know, they were very good, and I think they're

496
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Speaker 1: probably gonna be in the NFC Championship game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with you. You know, we're all

498
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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions fans today because anytime you have a team

499
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Speaker 2: that gets their first playoff win in over three decades,

500
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Speaker 2: you know you got to be excited about it. I mean,

501
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,919
Speaker 2: the last time the Lineians wanted to playoff game. And

502
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 2: look this up. NFL leader in passing yards, Warren Moon,

503
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 2: NFL leader in rushing yards, Emmitt Smith, NFL leader in

504
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 2: receiving yards, Michael Irvin. NFL leader in touchdowns was Barry Sanders.

505
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Speaker 2: All of those guys now have gray beards. Okay, they're

506
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 2: all probably collecting ARP checks at this point. Like that,

507
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,199
Speaker 2: that's how long it's been since the Lions won a

508
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Speaker 2: playoff game. So shout out to Detroit. Full disclosure, though

509
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Speaker 2: I thought the Rams outplayed Detroit for most of that game.

510
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: They out gained by almost one hundred yards. They had

511
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Speaker 2: less penalties. You know, they had more yards per play

512
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Speaker 2: they were they wanted on time psation with like ten seconds,

513
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Speaker 2: but it felt like they were in control most of

514
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Speaker 2: the game when they wanted to. The biggest difference though,

515
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Speaker 2: and this comes to the place with a lot of

516
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Speaker 2: NFL games go throughout the season, is the red zone.

517
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Speaker 2: The Rams were unable to cash in. They settled for

518
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Speaker 2: field goals. To your point earlier on right the off

519
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Speaker 2: the game, when Detroit got in the ren zone, bang

520
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 2: bang bang, three touchdowns. That's the difference. If the Rams

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Speaker 2: convert one of those field goals into a touchdown, this

522
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 2: is a totally different game. I'm not saying that the

523
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Speaker 2: Rams would it definitely won, but it's a different game.

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Speaker 2: And credit to the Detroit Lions, who I talked about

525
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Speaker 2: when the season first started. One of the reasons I

526
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Speaker 2: didn't pick them to even make the playoffs this year

527
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 2: was because I wasn't sure how they'd be able to

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Speaker 2: handle success. And I pointed out Week two, right off

529
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Speaker 2: the bat, they beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Arrowhead.

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Speaker 2: They come back and inexplicably drop a home game to

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Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks. Like I'm like, you're just you're not

532
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Speaker 2: ready to handle what good teams are supposed to do.

533
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Speaker 2: And credit to them, they started stacking these wins, stacking

534
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 2: little moments on top of each other. So when they

535
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Speaker 2: got to this point and they I didn't think they

536
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Speaker 2: had their best stuff outside of that first quarter, they

537
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 2: were able to maintain their composure. Jared Goff was nails

538
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 2: there on that final drive, completed two passes that he

539
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 2: needed to have to be able to run the clock out,

540
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 2: and Dan Campbell, to his credit, instill the belief in

541
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Speaker 2: this team that what happened the previous thirty years doesn't matter,

542
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 2: What even happened the previous thirty days doesn't matter. Hell,

543
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,719
Speaker 2: what happened the previous thirty seconds doesn't matter, because this

544
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 2: team right now is good enough to beat that team

545
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 2: on this play. And it's why they're so aggressive, and

546
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Speaker 2: it's why I, like you believe they're gonna be playing

547
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 2: in the NFC Championship Game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just we'll see what happens with the schedule,

549
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: but it looks to me like it will be Packers

550
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: Niners Saturday Night Texans. Obviously the early Saturday game they'll

551
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: face the Ravens or the Chiefs, but it looks like

552
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Eagles or Bucks at the Lions. Boy,

553
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: if it's Tampa Bay, that's a rough game for NBC

554
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Eagles Lions is a decent game. Packers Niners

555
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: is really good. Texans and Cjstrid We're not gonna get

556
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: into it. I don't know. Cjstrid look great. I do

557
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: think the matchup of the weekend is probably Chief set Bills,

558
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: assuming that happens, I guess rob any any final thoughts

559
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: on you know, Ben Johnson, he was so good. Does

560
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: what you saw in the first you know, three or

561
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: four three drives where they go touchdown, touchdown, touchdown to

562
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Speaker 1: start the game. Is that the kind of thing like

563
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Speaker 1: I want that guy calling my freaking place. I mean,

564
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Speaker 1: I don't think they had an incompletion on like the

565
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: first two or three drives, like that's how Nails got.

566
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: Golf wasn't and you and I don't think Golf is

567
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: a top ten quarterback in that league. He's really good.

568
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: But I think this is a little more like you know,

569
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Speaker 1: we would do. Who is it, Brady or Belichick? I

570
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: think it's probably sixty forty Ben Johnson? Is that fair?

571
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Speaker 2: Don't yeah, like fifty eight forty. I think it's give

572
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 2: golf a little more credit. But yes, I would definitely

573
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 2: think Johnson is the guy will give the most credit

574
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 2: to between the two of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Ben Joss is gonna be real good.

576
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: I hope that the Chargers don't. I don't want to

577
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: get stuck with him because it's not like a stuck

578
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: but they need like a culture builder that which is Hardwood,

579
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: Harbaugh and Belichick are. I don't know that. I don't

580
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Speaker 1: I don't know that the Ben Johnson is that guy.

581
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Speaker 1: All right, let's quickly, we'll just do a quick thing

582
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Speaker 1: on Tua and the Chiefs. Rob Tua was not good.

583
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Speaker 1: The weather was inexplicably bad, the football was ugly. It

584
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Speaker 1: was not a great game on Saturday night. For me,

585
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: I put zero stock in this. I just basically tossed

586
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Speaker 1: it out the window. You're not gonna see the elements

587
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: like this normally, So I just yeah, obviously Miami's a

588
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: soft team, Like that's everybody knows that they're Look what

589
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: their location is. You spend most of the year in

590
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: Florida and then you got to go to negative thirty

591
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: degree weather for the biggest game of the season, Like, yeah,

592
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: that's sucks, but like what do you can't move the franchise.

593
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: You've got an awesome team that puts up numbers in

594
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: the regular season. Listen, not everybody's winning the Super Bowl. Guys,

595
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: obviously gonna build a team that can contend for it.

596
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: But here's the reality, Like you go, you there's nothing

597
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: wrong with and I know it's not apples to apples

598
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: because they play like a seven game series, but there's

599
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with being the Portland Trailblazers. When you had

600
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: Damon CJ. You knew every year we're going to the playoffs.

601
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: Now we don't know our ceiling. Well, we made it

602
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: to the conference finals once, Like I think that's an oak.

603
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that. Obviously, you want to aim

604
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl. You catch a couple of breaks,

605
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: who knows, but you knew what Damon CJ. You're going

606
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: to the playoffs every freaking year, assuming they're healthy. Like,

607
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: this is a Miami team that's gonna go to the

608
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: playoffs every single year. They've got the talent. The problem

609
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL is the salary cap, Like what do

610
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: you pay TOOA? I don't think you can go over forty,

611
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Speaker 1: But he's gonna look at you and say, Daniel Jones

612
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: got forty. If you're not paying me Daniel Jones money,

613
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: get the f out of my face. I'm out of here.

614
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: You could go ahead and franchise tag me twice and

615
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: then I'll hate you and leave. And maybe they're fine

616
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: with that. But if you give him forty five, then

617
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: something's gotta give with Tyreek or Jayalen Moaddel. Something's gotta

618
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: give with Bradley Chubb or Van Grinkle or Jayalen Ramsey,

619
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: Like you can't. You just simply can't afford all those guys.

620
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: So Rob Mike take last week was I would draft Pennix.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, if you listen closely to Daniel Jeremiah,

622
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: it sounds like Pennix ain't gonna be a top ten pick. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's again a lot of people reached out to me

624
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: via DM man that doesn't sound great for Pennick. Well, yeah,

625
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: that's gonna be great for somebody. Now, can can McDaniel

626
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: teach this layered throat? Can he get Pennix to like

627
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: take the next step? I don't know. I mean McDaniel

628
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: sure tua went from what he was with Brian Floor

629
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: as his coach to this like pretty damn quick. So

630
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Speaker 1: I like to think McDaniel is excellent. Robert, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't take much from the Dolphins loss.

632
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Speaker 2: No, nor do I. And I'll tell you what, I'm

633
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 2: not bothered that they lost to Kansas City and negative

634
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 2: thirty degree weather on the road against the greatest quarterback,

635
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,959
Speaker 2: possibly the greatest quarterback of all time. Like, when it's

636
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 2: all said and done, Patrick Mahomes is gonna have the

637
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 2: stats and the hardware to suggest that he could be

638
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 2: the greatest quarterback ever. Andy Reid is one of the

639
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 2: better coaches of all time in NFL HIT. So I'm

640
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 2: not worried about that. The thing that bothered me was

641
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: that they lost to the Buffalo Bills in week was

642
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 2: a Week eighteen, right, Like that's the one that sticks

643
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 2: with me because you're at home, and that's a game

644
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 2: that you got to have specifically so you can avoid

645
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 2: having to go into that stadium with that weather against

646
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 2: that team. Even though I know the Chiefs, I'm in

647
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,959
Speaker 2: the All Caps Chiefs in the playoffs, you know, they

648
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 2: have a baseline that these other teams probably just don't,

649
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 2: like they may not be getting to the peak that

650
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 2: they've had in the past, but they're not gonna lay

651
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 2: an egg the same way the Dallas Cowboys did on Sunday.

652
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 2: As far as Tua goes, there was a really fascinating

653
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 2: conversation on Sunday morning on ESPN or in their pregame

654
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 2: show with Rex Ryan, Alex Smith, Randy Moss, and Teddy Bruski,

655
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 2: and they brought up to it and to your point,

656
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: they're like, hey, can you really afford to pay this

657
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: guy top of the market money considering you know, his

658
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: number one is injury history. Number two is inconsistencies so

659
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 2: far this season where he really lights up the bad

660
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 2: teams and then he hasn't been good against the good teams.

661
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 2: And they mentioned something that's missing in today's NFL is

662
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 2: like the middle of the road quarterback number, Like, not

663
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 2: every guy has to reset the market. Now, I'm always

664
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 2: gonna be pro player, so I'm gonna prefer that they

665
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 2: reset the market. But if I'm a front office exec,

666
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 2: unless you are Joe Burrow or Patrick Mahomes, maybe Josh Allen,

667
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 2: and then even then you know you're kind of splitting hairs.

668
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson in the rights because of what he means

669
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: to that team, I understand, and hey, we gotta pay

670
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 2: for this guy no matter what, because that's how much

671
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 2: he means to our team. Everything we do revolves around

672
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 2: this guy. I don't think Tua is that kind of

673
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 2: a player. I think that the McDaniel system is such

674
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 2: that I'm not saying anybody can do it, but it

675
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 2: fits to a skill set specifically. And I think that

676
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 2: there are other guys who have similar skill sets that

677
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 2: could be very successful in that system. So if I'm

678
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 2: running an NFL franchise, there's nothing wrong with saying, you

679
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 2: know what, instead of us giving you forty five to

680
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 2: fifty million, which is what the going rate is for

681
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 2: the next quarterback to get paid, can we get them

682
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 2: for thirty five forty or can we get a shorter

683
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 2: deal or a longer deal with more guaranteed money? But

684
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 2: the average annual value is and so I there's got

685
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 2: to be some kind of middle ground that is going

686
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 2: to allow you to understand that I don't need to

687
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 2: pay the seventh, eighth, ninth, best quarterback, top two or

688
00:35:58,560 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 2: three money.

689
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Speaker 1: There is no really middle class for quarterbacks, right It's

690
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: I mean the middle class essentially in the last couple

691
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: of years. I guess you would have to say Jared

692
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: Goff is essentially middle class, and now he's gonna be

693
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: up for a deal, and he's gonna probably want north

694
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: of He's definitely gonna want more than Daniel Jones. Like, sorry,

695
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: that's just gonna be how it is. Who's the middle class?

696
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: Rob Geno Smith, who got like not even a three

697
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 1: year deal. I think it was basically a one plus

698
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: one plus one. Baker Mayfield. I guess like Derrek Carr

699
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: maybe middle class, but what do you get? Like Carr

700
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: didn't win anything. He couldn't even get his team to

701
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He didn't elevate anyone. Like I don't really

702
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: know what the middle class is for quarterbacks, but like

703
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, you got Jalen Hurts. You gotta pay him,

704
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: You got to you gotta, you gotta py him. You

705
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: got to the playoffs twice although he only played one

706
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: of the games. Jordan Love, Now his price just went up.

707
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: What's what's the line from uh from that that awesome show?

708
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 2: Yesterday's price is not today's price.

709
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: Yesterday's price is not today's But yeah, like Jordan Love,

710
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: his price just went up Ja Stroud. I mean he's

711
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,439
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Speaker 1: Monday games. We get two games because Pittsburgh Buffalo is canceled. Now,

731
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and say this, and I know

732
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs fans are ticked off. Rob Buffalo got done so dirty. Now,

733
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: I was super busy over the weekend and I was

734
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: not there when the news broke about this. Buffalo Bills

735
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: canceled game pushed from Sunday to was it Saturday to

736
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: Monday or Monday Sunday to Monday, Sunday to Monday. Yeah,

737
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: so they push it back a day and you're like, oh,

738
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: that's not the end of the world. Well really really,

739
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: I know it was the governor who apparently called it in,

740
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 1: but I'm wondering why Buffalo would agree to this. Think

741
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 1: about this, folks. So Buffalo will play their game today

742
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: at one pm. Okay, their next game probably is going

743
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: to be on Sunday, So their days rest will be

744
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: Tuesday's ar rest day, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday five days

745
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: of rest. The Kansas City Chiefs played on Saturday. Here

746
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: are their rest days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

747
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 1: Saturday seven days, two extra days. And before you guys

748
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: scoff at this, Okay, we are late in the we're

749
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. It's a long season. Yes, everybody's hurt.

750
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: Are you injured or are you hurt? Everybody says that.

751
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: I would almost guarantee you that the Buffalo Bills would

752
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: rather have the extra two days than play this game

753
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: at home. Okay, they've gone into k C in the

754
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: postseason and lost. They've won at CAC in the regular season,

755
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: I think three straight times. But those two days of rest,

756
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: I believe will be massively pivotal to this game. I

757
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: would want to take Buffalo in the game, but I

758
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: really do think these extra days of rest matter. And now,

759
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh fans, why aren't you giving us a chance? You

760
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: don't have a chance. I don't think Pittsburgh has any

761
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: chance to win this game. I would be. I would

762
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: be more shocked if Mason Rudolph took down Buffalo than

763
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: I was at Jordan Love and the Packers scoring forty

764
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: eight points in Dallas and blowing out the Cowboys. This

765
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: to me would be a bigger upset. And obviously Pittsburgh's

766
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: a ten point favorite. There was it was down to nine.

767
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: Now it's back to ten. I'm sorry, nine and a half.

768
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: Now back to ten. My guess is it'll be ten

769
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: and a half come kickoff this afternoon. It'll be one

770
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: thirty kickoff on the West Coast. Rob anything for you

771
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: on this game.

772
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. The weather is still not gonna

773
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 2: be great. I know that the beast of the blizzard

774
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 2: has kind of passed now, but I believe the over

775
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 2: under as recently as Friday was like thirty four, I

776
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 2: would still take the under. I would still take the

777
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,720
Speaker 2: under because this is gonna be one of those games

778
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 2: that is gonna be so ugly you're gonna wonder how

779
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 2: the NFL was able to get twenty five million people

780
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 2: to watch it. Like as if I'm betting a side.

781
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: I love Pittsburgh cover because I think it's gonna be

782
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 2: such an ugly game that you know, a nine point

783
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 2: lead is gonna feel like four touchdowns. So that that's

784
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 2: one thing. But to your point, it's very I'm not

785
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: gonna say it's unfair because you don't what do you

786
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 2: do with the weather and that kind of stuff, But

787
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 2: to your point, they're gonna be playing on Monday and

788
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 2: then playing again on Sunday against the team that has

789
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 2: an extra day's rest, either with the Chiefs because they

790
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 2: played on Saturday, or a Ravens team that's coming off

791
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 2: of bye week, Like that's gotta be in terms of

792
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 2: the least fair proposition for an NFL playoff situation, that's

793
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 2: got to be right up there with, you know, right

794
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 2: next to, if not ahead of the Rams making the

795
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 2: Super Bowl off of a blatant pass interference in New Orleans.

796
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 2: Like that just wasn't fair that that happened. And I

797
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 2: know this is you know, apples oranges, but this sucks

798
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 2: if you're a Buffalo or even a Pittsburgh man, this

799
00:41:59,040 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 2: is terrible tough.

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Speaker 1: I took the under thirty eight and a half. I

801
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,720
Speaker 1: have Buffalo if you heard ta last week. He actually

802
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: likes Pittsburgh getting double digits. A lot of people like

803
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. That was never competitive. That under was a

804
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: minor sweat, but it ended up fine. I had liked

805
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: the Browns. I took the bounds and it didn't go well.

806
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: The over in that game cash so over. Now, stunningly,

807
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: I had to just look at this Lions Rams, which

808
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: was at one point twenty one point seventeen late second quarter,

809
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, the Ram's gonna get any points here,

810
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: and they took their foot off the gas zero touchdowns

811
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: the second half that game stayed under So totals are

812
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: two and two underdogs, three and one against the spread,

813
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs the only cover. I think both favorites do.

814
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: I think, I guess I'll well, yes, I'm gonna stick

815
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: with the Eagles. I'm sure you guys saw the news.

816
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: AJ Brown, who last week scrubbed his instagram of all

817
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,280
Speaker 1: Eagles references, has been out for this game with ane

818
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: that was that came on Saturday. He didn't practice all week,

819
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: got hurt in the regular season finale. They get got

820
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: the finger issue for Jalen Hurts. It's weird. The spread

821
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: still is three. It's kind of teetering on like a

822
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 1: Juice three. I'm sorry, a Juice two and a half

823
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: or three. I just I'm gonna ride the Eagles here.

824
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 1: So I'm going with the two favorites holding serve. And

825
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: I think that sets up an interesting Eagles Lions matchup

826
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: because rob we know that defensively the Eagles have been horrible.

827
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:39,959
Speaker 1: That being said, their power run game can just roll.

828
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: You gotta get the ball first against the Lions and

829
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: then you just got to go go down the field.

830
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: Like remember in the Natty Washington Michigan. Washington was like,

831
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: h We'll take the ball second half, Like why get

832
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: the lead on Michigan force them out of their comfort zone,

833
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: which is running, and they didn't do that. Michigan got

834
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: the ball right down the field touchdown, Like stop touch.

835
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's like if and I'm looking ahead because

836
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: maybe the Bucks win. But a buddy of mine, you know,

837
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about him. He does some marketing

838
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield. So he's going down to the game,

839
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:13,280
Speaker 1: he's all fired up. I just I would be surprised

840
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 1: if the Bucks won. I guess I shouldn't be given

841
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: out bad. The Eagles have been leaking oil. But I

842
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: believe in Jalen Hurts here and I think Sirianni they

843
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: write the ship. I'm just I don't think that highly

844
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 1: of the Bucks. I saw stat that their division this season,

845
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's against the spread outside the division was something

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Speaker 1: like sixteen and twenty eight. Again, that's how we like

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Speaker 1: a lot of their wins. They got fat against bad

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Speaker 1: teams in their division. So I will go Bills win

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Speaker 1: and cover and it stays under Eagles win. I'm not

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Speaker 1: messing with the total there. I have no idea what

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Speaker 1: to make on that one. So super wildcard weekend. Not bad,

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun, and we are back tomorrow. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: have a fun holiday Monday. We'll talk to you then