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Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I'm Dale Lally. He is Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt we now know who the championship. Who's

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Speaker 1: gonna be in the Super Bowl? Yeah, yeah, I was right.

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Speaker 1: You were wrong, that's right. And I got lucky that

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think brock Party makes a

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Speaker 1: does He's certainly it's not the It's not at one

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Speaker 1: seven blowout, right, Okay, but I still think they're Like,

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Speaker 1: I still think the Eagles win the game. I do too.

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Speaker 1: I picked them. I was confident that they played much

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Speaker 1: better than the Niners. Have some issues. You and I

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Speaker 1: both the Niners gave up a hundred fifty rushing yards

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Speaker 1: Both did nothing. And yeah, they got beat. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the fact that the quarterback situation happened isn't the only

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Speaker 1: reason that they're not in the Super Bowl, right, I

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Speaker 1: think you agree on that. But it did get to

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Speaker 1: the point where they didn't have anyone in the roster

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Speaker 1: and that's when the game kind of got away from

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Speaker 1: him a little bit. Um. But I still think Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: is the better team. I a great man. I think

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Speaker 1: in Gannest I mean from that game. I have a

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Speaker 1: And when was it? It was like twenty years ago,

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Speaker 1: you know post slash okay, largely because you know, if

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Speaker 1: as I tweeted last night, if the NFL is going

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Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking to were from taking any

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Speaker 1: a third quarterback again, right, because nobody wants to watch that. No, No,

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Speaker 1: maybe teams wise up or take a different approach to

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Speaker 1: team building and everyone has a Taysom Hill, you know,

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Speaker 1: quite frankly, I mean, there's nothing stopping you right now

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're putting yourself at a disadvantage in

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Speaker 1: most games, right, right, right, right? I mean the Steelers

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Speaker 1: you could have fifty three quarterbacks on your roster if

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Speaker 1: and you've got Christian McCaffrey lining up a quarterback. You

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Speaker 1: they never practiced it. They didn't. Sounds sounds all well

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Speaker 1: They just said, hey, let's not make the big mistake

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Speaker 1: know it was we got robbed as viewers, as fans.

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Speaker 1: I thought of what could have been a really good game.

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Speaker 1: But oh yeah, it happens. As for the night game,

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Speaker 1: And we'll talk about that, but certainly in a glaring

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Speaker 1: really accomplishment, you know. I mean, you're playing a really

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Speaker 1: bound to be dealing with lesser players. Niners played four quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: The one team that hasn't been exposed with an injury

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Speaker 1: minor complaint was I thought they played play things harsher.

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Speaker 1: But you know he's the best headlinesman in the league?

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Speaker 1: got nothing. There's nothing on the fastball. I never there

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