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Speaker 2: Kevin Figures you can find me on x at kfig one.

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Speaker 2: Adam a It's really been FSR presented by Adam Allstlin

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Speaker 2: these last couple of days. I mean, come on, my gosh,

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Speaker 3: enough on airtime and then turned down opportunities. So you

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Speaker 3: know me, I just I just gotta work sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you gotta eat you like Jamis Winston. He's the

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Speaker 2: Ow's you're eating up that airtime. Man, I'm mad at you, brother.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I've had a few big Khunenbergers this week.

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Speaker 3: It is good to be back though. Once again it

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Speaker 3: is the f and A takeover of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Coming up on tonight's show, we got a really good

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Speaker 3: twenty six, we're starting off strong. We got our old

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Speaker 3: friend Lincoln Kennedy back on the show, who was part

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Speaker 3: of the rotation of interviewers. We had our interviewees we

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Speaker 3: you heard him here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: I man, I had a pleasure to work with for

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Speaker 2: what three four years, I think the Fellas with myself,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Gargano, and Lincoln Kennedy Big Link. So two thirds

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Speaker 2: of the Fellas, the original Fellas, will be back together

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Speaker 2: again coming up an hour or two of the shows.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to reconnect with my guy Big Lincoln

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Speaker 2: talking about what the hell is going on with the

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas Raiders, among other things.

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Speaker 3: In the NFL, we also have the final edition of

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Speaker 3: the twenty five twenty six NFL six Pack. I guess

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Speaker 3: it's just the twenty twenty five regular season, Like I know,

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Speaker 3: it finishes Week eighteen in twenty twenty six, but those

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Speaker 3: weird crossover years. I still get confused when the Madden

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Speaker 3: cover comes out and it says like twenty six, Like,

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Speaker 3: what do you mean it's twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all confusing to me. It's always a year

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Speaker 2: ahead of the previous season. I'm not really sure, but

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Speaker 2: you guys know what it is. It's a twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five season. Let's put it at that.

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Speaker 3: NFL six pack college football forecast. Of course, we have

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Speaker 3: geek news coming up at the end of this hour.

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Speaker 2: One of our.

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Speaker 3: Favorite cartoons, Turn Movie Now is turning into a restaurant.

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Speaker 3: I think you're gonna like this, Kevin, because it's happening

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Speaker 3: in Los Angeles, where we are currently located. It might

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Speaker 3: spread out from there. But we love talking food. We

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Speaker 3: love talking about being fat asses.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes. See I feel like I can do that, but

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Speaker 2: you can't.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean I can't?

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Speaker 2: Well, I saw this as someone who was pushing four

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Speaker 2: bills at one point in time and then drop some

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Speaker 2: and then put a few little bit back on, and

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Speaker 2: then I got your skinny ass over there. Talk about

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Speaker 2: being a fat ass? Are you talking about?

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Speaker 3: Look, I'm not even at ten percent body fat. I'm disgusting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'll allow you to sit over there and

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Speaker 2: suffer at twelve percent or whatever you're sitting at right now.

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Speaker 3: I need weight gainer right now actually at GNC. All right,

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Speaker 3: let's talk about it. Yesterday kind of a big deal

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Speaker 2: First off, that's roll So we talked about preserving you know,

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Speaker 2: and making it special and keeping it special because some

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Speaker 2: people have been argument against the ball system and the

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Speaker 2: way that it's currently set up. I don't necessarily mind

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Speaker 2: find a way to wedge it in and keeping the

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Speaker 2: tradition of having it on January first, I don't necessarily

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Speaker 2: mind it. Now, Alabama being in the Rolls Bawl is

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Speaker 2: certainly a deviation of what we've had the previous one

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Speaker 2: of college football. I'm curious as to your thought about that.

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Speaker 3: I'm good with it. It's kind of a melding of

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Speaker 3: a taste of what it was like too, with the

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Speaker 3: traditional bowl games, Orange Bowls, Sugar Bowl, all these things

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Speaker 3: we've been accustomed to over the years. I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 3: I just I still would rather have these teams. Like

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Speaker 3: because of this, he argued for Texas Tech getting that

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Speaker 2: Maybe. I mean, I will say, if you go back

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Speaker 2: a month off between the end of the regular season

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Speaker 2: all of time before the playoff even started. So there's

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Speaker 2: really nothing new when it comes to that. You're right,

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Speaker 2: Having a buy or even a double bye after the

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Speaker 2: is not something new and novel that that these teams

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Speaker 3: But the difference now is one team didn't have that

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Speaker 3: a half to two weeks, and it looks like I

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Speaker 3: don't know how else to put it. Teams are one

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Speaker 3: that game after a bye. So far in this new format,

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Speaker 3: there has to be something to that. It's still relatively

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the rest versus rust and having some momentum

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Speaker 2: seven is certainly glaring certain And look book at the

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Speaker 2: fourteen playoffs and the state beat by Ducks. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: for the first I don't know what you say, five

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Speaker 2: six years, every game, championship game or core or semi

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Speaker 2: Maybe the schools themselves have to kind of get used

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Speaker 2: to the format a little bit. I don't necessarily mind it.

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Speaker 2: I do agree with Dan Lanning and what he said

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Speaker 2: I think that will be a great That will be

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Speaker 2: great for college football to have playoff games in these

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Speaker 3: But what you brought up actually reminded me of something

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Speaker 3: like the reason I think we do get so many

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Speaker 3: blowouts in college football in these games in bowl games

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Speaker 3: over the years, going back to the last twenty seasons, there

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Speaker 3: is a trend here. It's like one team ends up

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Speaker 3: to be a recurring effect here, and I don't love that.

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Speaker 3: And now, especially when you have one team maybe with

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Speaker 3: just had a month off, that seems to be a disadvantage.

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Speaker 3: And that's not what we want from our format. We

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll also say that in certain it's not always

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Speaker 2: the situation, but in these particular situations in the game

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Speaker 2: that happened on Thursday. Styles make fights to a certain degree,

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Speaker 2: and I think outside of the ole Miss Georgia game,

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Speaker 2: they kind of went maybe as we kind of expected

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Speaker 2: them to. I mean, you and I filled in for

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Speaker 2: and talked about all these games, and outside of ole

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Speaker 2: running Alabama off the field to a certain degree, and

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Speaker 2: we thought Oregon would be Texas Tech. So it's not

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Speaker 2: like it was unexpected.

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Speaker 3: Could we start with Oregon then and just go in

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Speaker 3: order here, because I thought you brought up a great

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Speaker 3: point then before anybody else was talking about it, Oregon's

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Speaker 3: defense was being overlooked. Yeah, Texas Tech's defense they brought it,

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Speaker 3: they did their thing. It was their offense that failed them.

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Speaker 3: But part of that goes into the equation because Oregon's

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Speaker 3: defense has been flying under the radar for some time now.

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Speaker 3: People focus on Oregon. They think it's an offensive thing.

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Speaker 3: They think it's still gimmicky Chip Kelly stuff out there,

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Speaker 3: aren't five star recruits, but just pretty good players that

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Speaker 3: fit that system. No, no, no, no, Oregon has it on

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Speaker 3: both sides of the ball, and they have premium players

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Speaker 3: now at this point because of what Chip Kelly did

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Speaker 3: we should say, oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike Bolotti, I started that wave. You know, it

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Speaker 2: really changed course, like in the late nineties, early two

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Speaker 2: and then it went from Beladi to chim Kelly and

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Speaker 2: the problem that I have with people looking at Oregon

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Speaker 2: and this is it's the old West Coast bias or

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Speaker 2: East Coast bias, whatever you want to call it. Even

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Speaker 2: though they're in the Big Ten, they've shown themselves well

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Speaker 2: your point, a lot of people still assume, ah, they're

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Speaker 2: their high flying team that scores a lot of points,

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Speaker 2: but they can't stop anybody. This is still the old

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Speaker 2: gar out of the Pac twelve. You brought up a

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Speaker 2: great point on Wednesday night when we were previewing this

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Speaker 2: that game against Iowa, on the road towards the end

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Speaker 2: anything that there. It's a different wave. This is a

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Speaker 2: different type of Oregon team. This is not the Pac

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Speaker 2: twelve where they're winning games forty five to forty three.

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Speaker 2: This team comes to play and they've been built by

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Speaker 2: the way upfront since Mario Christobal in his short tenure

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Speaker 2: as the head coach, he had them dominating in the trenches,

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Speaker 2: and Dan Lanning has just kind of have them continue

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Speaker 2: that trend on and on, and that's why they find

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Speaker 3: They're so well balanced, they're so talented on both sides

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Speaker 3: of the ball, but it's just not as flashy as

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Speaker 3: it used to be, maybe offensively. Dante Moore, my buddy

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Speaker 3: who's from Oregon, big Ducks fan, he was like Tyler

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Speaker 3: Schuck was a better runner than Dante more for us,

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Speaker 3: Like he's not that guy. He can get yards here

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Speaker 2: Well, if we move on to the team that they're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's over, my god, isn't it. It feels like

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Speaker 2: They're the best, almost like are you seriously gonna run

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Speaker 3: You Google them, Kevin, That's exactly You're right.

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Speaker 2: I mean Alabama. Look, they lost that national championship game

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Speaker 3: Of all teams, it was surgical, it was it was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think heledged, we acknowledged that, Adam, that

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Speaker 3: Well, there was a reason they were favored by eight,

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Speaker 2: Or just timely plays with his legs. You know that

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Speaker 2: And you look at Indiana like there probably wasn't a

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Speaker 3: I think Oregon has a chance. I'm not saying I

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Speaker 3: This guy's a super villain. He wants to be in

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Speaker 3: The turnover. What has happened the last two years in Indiana?

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Speaker 3: And that's the truth. This feels like this feels like

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Speaker 5: You're fullhearts, let's go play.

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Speaker 3: It's magical what they're doing out there. But they're also

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Speaker 3: I don't want to downplay their talent either and just

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Speaker 3: What are we talking about? That has never happened? That

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Speaker 3: that's the position you're in because Kurt Signetti and what

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Speaker 2: It really is, and I mean it's I really had

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Speaker 2: Indiana football we're talking about. I hadn't won a bowl

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Speaker 2: This is the stuff of movie. You're a film and

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Speaker 2: I kind of look a lot like him, but you know,

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Speaker 2: Trindadad Champlins looked like he was a first round pick

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Speaker 2: That's what all Miss was able to do. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: And that's probably because of the circumstance of Lane Kiffin leaving.

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Speaker 3: that really only loses Tobama. They knocked the aura off

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Speaker 3: of Georgia and Kirby Smart a little bit and game

436
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Speaker 3: and they overcame penalties against them, the face mask on

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Speaker 3: Lacy that wasn't called, and they just came through when

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Speaker 3: it still felt like even when Georgia tied it up

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Speaker 3: with that field goal, I felt good about it. Well,

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Speaker 3: George is still gonna win this game. Because I picked

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Speaker 3: them to beat him. I thought they were gonna win still,

442
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Speaker 3: So yeah, we all doubted Ole Miss and they came

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Speaker 3: through in the end. And oh, there was this other

444
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Speaker 3: storyline that maybe the College Football Playoff Committee, and I

445
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Speaker 3: know there's no true commissioner, but if there.

446
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Speaker 6: Was evening commissioner, like.

447
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Speaker 3: A David Stern type, they had to hand in this

448
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Speaker 3: because they wanted Georgia to end up going up against

449
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Speaker 3: Carson Beck, their former quarterback. That storyline for the next

450
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Speaker 3: round would have done big numbers in the game. Nope,

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Speaker 3: Ole Miss crashed the party. They don't care, No, they don't.

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Speaker 2: And the irony of all ironies that laye Kiff and

453
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Speaker 2: one of the big stigmas that he had at ole

454
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Speaker 2: Miss is that he couldn't win the big one, the

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Speaker 2: biggest one, they won. Is when he's not even there

456
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Speaker 2: now someone and by the way, of course, he continues

457
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Speaker 2: to cash in on it because it's part of his contract.

458
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Speaker 2: So he gets five hundred K because Ole Miss won

459
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Speaker 2: despite the bat he's not even there. That's kind of annoying.

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Speaker 3: And he did sweet something out last night when he

461
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Speaker 3: put up the Old Miss flag or something.

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Speaker 2: Of course he did.

463
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess if you're trying to save face like he's,

464
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Speaker 3: he's definitely trying to laugh through the cheers right now.

465
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Speaker 3: I'm sure he feels some sort of way about not

466
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Speaker 3: being there for that moment with his former team.

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Speaker 2: It ain't gonna happen, but I hope, I kind of

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Speaker 2: hope and pray. I think for just for the narrative

469
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Speaker 2: of it, Old Miss finds a way even if they

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Speaker 2: don't win the national Championship, finds a way to get

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Speaker 2: there in LSU wins like eight games or something. Next year. Yea,

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Speaker 2: what is the talk in the SEC SEC country going

473
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Speaker 2: to be about? Then?

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked at all if they beat Miami. Honestly, no,

475
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Speaker 3: not at all. I would pick him, you know what,

476
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Speaker 3: I'm picking him.

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Speaker 2: There you go, that's go I thought We might get

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Speaker 2: to this coming up with the college football forecast in

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Speaker 2: the final hour, but Adam's jumping it right now. I'm not.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it coming up next.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 3: You know what, we didn't get to the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, all this talk about the MVP in the NFL,

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Speaker 3: and apparently there's been a changing of the guard because

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Speaker 3: of one game in one week that all the eyes

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Speaker 3: were on and now the narrow tivis flips. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: about it next and tell you if it was fair

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Speaker 3: or not. He's Kevin figures. I'm out of Maslin. This

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Speaker 3: is FNA on FSR.

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Speaker 3: Well, with all that, it sounds like you've got a

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Speaker 3: pretty big night planned. Huh Fna Cottonna, Welcome back in

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Speaker 3: f and A on FSR. I'm Adam Moslin. He's Kevin Figures.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be with you guys. Coming up in the

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Speaker 3: very next segment. We got geek news for you. There

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Speaker 3: is a new restaurant that is cartoon themed or toy

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Speaker 3: themed or movie themed. It's just it's a lot. We'll

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Speaker 3: explain coming out. But Kevin, you asked me this earlier

512
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Speaker 3: and it caught me a little bit off guard. And

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Speaker 3: then I looked at some pictures of Kurt Signetti to

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Speaker 3: see who should play him in the movie, and I

515
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Speaker 3: actually came up with the perfect guy. Okay, nobody told

516
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Speaker 3: me this. I didn't try to Google search it or

517
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Speaker 3: use AI or anything like that. Now, it would be

518
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Speaker 3: the perfect guy if this actor, unfortunately was not dead.

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Speaker 2: It was a little bit of a hurdle there, But

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 3: Bill Paxton, Bill Paxton would be perfect.

522
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Speaker 2: Came over.

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Speaker 7: Man came over.

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Speaker 3: Oh, and sadly he passed away a few years ago,

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Speaker 3: I think from patriotic cancer.

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Speaker 2: Just awful.

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Speaker 3: But he was such a great actor. Ah, he'd be

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Speaker 3: perfect for Kurt Signetty.

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Speaker 2: That's the guy. I think.

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Speaker 3: This is where my mind always goes. It's like, who

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Speaker 3: would be perfect Philip Seymour Hofton would be perfect? Well, unfortunately, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's how it goes, you know.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear right now is the lead singer.

534
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Speaker 3: Chris Cornell he's past. Sorry, all my heroes are gone, Jason,

535
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Speaker 3: David Frank tragically gone.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can find there has to be somebody

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Speaker 2: or redeeming quality from somebody in the land of the

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Speaker 2: living that you can respect and honor. There, Adam, is

539
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Speaker 2: there not only the good? Die young?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's all right? Well, talking about the NFL MVP

542
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Speaker 2: conversation as we come down here to the final weekend

543
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Speaker 2: of the regular season, and it seemed to be a

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Speaker 2: two person race really over the past, what would you say,

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Speaker 2: Adam A couple of months I mean I remember talking

546
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Speaker 2: about in our in our NFL six pack a couple

547
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Speaker 2: of months ago. How a lot of for a lot

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Speaker 2: of the season, people were talking about Drake May and

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Speaker 2: how great of a year he's having, and I talked about, Hey,

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Speaker 2: how all Matthew Stafford. Let's not forget about the guy

551
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Speaker 2: in LA who's, you know, an old man but still

552
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Speaker 2: balling his ass off. And then all of a sudden,

553
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Speaker 2: as the weeks continued to accumulate, Matthew Stafford started to

554
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Speaker 2: pass Drake May and the MVP conversation. But then Monday

555
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Speaker 2: night happened. Yeah what occurred Ken three turnovers and a

556
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Speaker 2: loss to the Atlanta Falcons, which you can say is

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Speaker 2: pretty inexcusable considering what the Rams still had to play

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Speaker 2: for at that point in time in Atlanta, just playing

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Speaker 2: out the string. That was bad juxtaposed to what Drake

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Speaker 2: May did on Sunday, granted against a bad Jets team,

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Speaker 2: which we'll talk about more in depth here in a

562
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Speaker 2: couple of minutes, throwing a career high five touchdown passes.

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Speaker 2: So you have that performance by Drake May next to

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Speaker 2: the performance of Matthew Stafford, and now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: you look up, I bet HMGM and Drake May is

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Speaker 2: the favorites, the odds on favorites to win the NFL

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Speaker 2: MVP award over Matthew Stafford, who was in second place,

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Speaker 2: was the fix in.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I had anything to do with that.

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Speaker 3: You you might think differently, Kevin. I certainly think there's

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Speaker 3: a conversation to be had. It's not as simple as

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Speaker 3: there's an obvious runaway MVP this season. Now, I felt

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Speaker 3: like we had somebody on this week that put it

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Speaker 3: best with us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had Jeff Schwartz. Of course, one of our

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Speaker 2: colleagues here at Fox Sports Radio, played eight years in

577
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Speaker 2: the NFL, played at Oregon, one of your Oregon Ducks

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Speaker 2: there at him even though you didn't go there, he did.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, does he have this sound? Has he watched

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Speaker 3: every episode of Duftails? Did he see the movie in theaters?

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Speaker 3: Does he know that the name of the mascot is Puddles? Okay,

582
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Speaker 3: he probably knows that. Do you know why his name Puddles?

583
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Speaker 3: Because every year Puddles drowns in his own tears after

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Speaker 3: they eventually get eliminated.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, we asked Jeff Schwartz. We filled in for big

586
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Speaker 2: Ben Mallor on December thirty first, earlier this week, And yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: about the MVP race and Matthew Stafford and whether or

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Speaker 2: not he should have been knocked off of the perch

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Speaker 2: as a favor for MVP over Drake May because of

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Speaker 2: his bad performance on Monday Night against the Falcons. And

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Speaker 2: here's what Jeff told us, I.

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Speaker 8: Think this discussion is so silly. To me, a guy

593
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Speaker 8: is a heavy thing into an MVP. He has one

594
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Speaker 8: bad half after he's see for four hundred and fifty

595
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Speaker 8: yards on the road in Seattle, and now Drake made

596
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Speaker 8: the MVP a gut. So the award is essentially best

597
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Speaker 8: player in the final game of the season. Like that,

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Speaker 8: that's what the award has become. Drake Mays had a

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Speaker 8: good season. It's the easiest schedule in the NFL. They've

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Speaker 8: beaten one team in the NFL ian to me, not

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Speaker 8: one team to get at thirteen. But Stafford's done it

602
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Speaker 8: better job with injuries to Devonte Adams with a much

603
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Speaker 8: tougher schedule. I think it's not Stafford. I don't think

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Speaker 8: it's Drake May. Now the Oddswood said otherwise.

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Speaker 2: Now, Jeff is right, because if you talk about in

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Speaker 2: context does matter in these debates, and a lot of

607
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Speaker 2: times it gets lost when people just kind of look

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Speaker 2: at raw numbers. But if a race is going to

609
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Speaker 2: be this tight, and I think, and you mentioned in

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Speaker 2: the second ago, it's justified in saying that this is

611
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Speaker 2: a tight race and it should be a tight race.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that either guy should run away with

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Speaker 2: the award. We have to add some context to it.

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Speaker 2: And Jeff brought up the point that the Patriots have

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Speaker 2: the easiest schedule in the NFA, fell they have the

616
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Speaker 2: worst strength of schedule. Their only win over a team

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Speaker 2: with a record above five hundred it was against Buffalo

618
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 2: when they beat him in early October, who.

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Speaker 3: They also have lost to, correct season, correct every other

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of New York Jets and Titans and

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Speaker 3: a lot of and one of their losses was to

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Speaker 3: the Raiders, who are terrible, by the way.

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Speaker 2: Some got back to that part in two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that happened. What week one?

625
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Speaker 2: That was Week one? That was England?

626
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 3: Now that was a while ago. That does feel ages,

627
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Speaker 3: doesn't Carrie Collins the quarterback for that Raiders team at

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Speaker 3: that time, did they beat the Patriots on a Monday

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Speaker 3: night game in Randy Moss's first game as an Oakland

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Speaker 3: Raider or something like that?

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Speaker 2: No, am I going crazy I just got off to

632
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Speaker 2: a good start in that first half, but then they

633
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Speaker 2: ended up losing in the second half. They typically do, so.

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Speaker 3: You know what, We'll take a good start from the Raiders.

635
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Speaker 3: Though the Raiders shuck, that's not the worst thing.

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Speaker 2: Juxtaposed New England with the Rams, who have the second

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Speaker 2: best strength of schedule in the entire league. Look at

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Speaker 2: the teams they Houston, the Eagles, the Colts, the forty

639
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Speaker 2: nine ers in Seattle twice, Jacksonville. All these are division winners,

640
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Speaker 2: double digit team wins up and down their schedule. That

641
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Speaker 2: has to count for something when Matthew Stafford leaves the

642
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Speaker 2: league in touchdown passes against that schedule.

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Speaker 3: If who you play didn't matter, then James Madison should

644
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 3: have been able to hang with Orgon, then Tulane should

645
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 3: have been able to hang with Old miss. It turns

646
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Speaker 3: out that there can be levels to this, even in

647
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Speaker 3: the same league, where you have teams in the NFC

648
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Speaker 3: South to be left nameless that are going to end

649
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Speaker 3: up maybe winning the division going eight to nine. And

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Speaker 3: meanwhile the NFC West could have three teams that have

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Speaker 3: twelve wins or more. Let's contextualize this. The Rams only

652
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Speaker 3: have two less wins than the Patriots, who again get

653
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 3: to play the Jets twice. Like this should not be

654
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 3: seen as oh, well, Drake May had the better game

655
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 3: against the Ravens and now matt Stafford fell apart against

656
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 3: the Falcons. Therefore, what have you done for me lately?

657
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 3: Recency bias? We have to give it to Drake May. No,

658
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 3: it's a cumulative score.

659
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: To me body of work.

660
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 3: Like if you flip things around, and some of the

661
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 3: big wins the Rams had earlier in the season, if

662
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 3: they happen at the end of the season and instead

663
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 3: you had them losing to the Rams at the beginning

664
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 3: of the season, there would be no doubt that Matthew Stafford,

665
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 3: even with the same record, if you just rearrange the

666
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 3: wins and losses to having the big wins at the

667
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 3: end of the year, Matthew Stafford would be the guy

668
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 3: like that. It's just people being lazy and forgetting about

669
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: other games that happened month, you know, two weeks ago,

670
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 3: a month ago.

671
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Speaker 2: I know it's a different sport to a certain degree,

672
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 2: it's the same sport, but it's different when it comes

673
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 2: to college football in the NFL. And this is why

674
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: I talk about yes, when you win and when you

675
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: lose matters to a certain degree. But I have to

676
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: take your full on resume into effect. I can't just

677
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 2: discount what happened in week one and overweg what happened

678
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 2: in the final week of the season, because otherwise, why

679
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: are we playing the entire year if that's the case.

680
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 2: So that's kind of the exact same argument you're making

681
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 2: right there. You have to look at the totitally totality

682
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 2: of the resume and just not compartmentalize. Well, they play,

683
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 2: they're playing better now, therefore he should be the doesn't

684
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 2: work that way.

685
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 3: Well, even if you take recency bias out of it,

686
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 3: just go off of the level of competition both teams

687
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 3: have had to go up against and Matthew Stafford for

688
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 3: the most part, has risen to the occasion he outplayed

689
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 3: Sam Darnold in both games. Yet there's still one and

690
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 3: one against Seattle. Because Seattle's great, the forty nine ers

691
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 3: are great. Put Drake Man in the NFC West. You

692
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 3: think he's got thirteen wins. I don't think so.

693
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 2: And even if you want to say Matthew Stafford played

694
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 2: terribly on Monday Night against the Falcons, he shouldn't have

695
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 2: lost that if you want to conflate that with the

696
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 2: Carolina loss, which was a bad loss too fine, So

697
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 2: he had two terrible games and the rest were great,

698
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 2: and that knocks them all out of the MVP race.

699
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,719
Speaker 3: And oh the Carolina game had Bryce Young And I

700
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 3: know this, and I can say this because they're my team,

701
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 3: getting extremely lucky on two fourth down long touchdowns they

702
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 3: had in that ball game to end up beating the Rams.

703
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,959
Speaker 3: That was pretty fluky, you know how? I know that?

704
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 3: Because the Rams get the five seed and Carolina wins

705
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 3: the division, who is going to be favored in that

706
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 3: four or five matchup?

707
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 2: It will be the La Rams? How dare you?

708
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:05,719
Speaker 1: Oh?

709
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 2: Sorry? Can I throw a wild card into this too?

710
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 2: By the way, I just talked about the Rams, They're

711
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: gonna be a wild one. Well, from a literal sense,

712
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 2: yes they will be. But when it comes to the

713
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 2: MVP race, how about this? How about Christian McCaffrey.

714
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 3: Are you running back?

715
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 2: Do you realize what year? Is it? Kevin understanding? And

716
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 2: I'm gonna acknowledge it. I'm gonna say this off the

717
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 2: top that I know he's not gonna win. He has

718
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: no chance to win. He has the third best odds

719
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Speaker 2: to win, and he is well beyond well behind Matthew

720
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 2: Stafford at the third place. I think Matthew Stafford is

721
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 2: like plus five fifty. Christ McCaffrey is like plus ten

722
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,719
Speaker 2: thousand or something. There's no way he's winning it.

723
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 3: So the odds have changed to Christian McCaffrey being third

724
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 3: because last time I checked, it was Trevor Lawrence, which

725
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 3: also floored me.

726
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Trevor Lawrence, I believe is right behind him. I'm

727
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 2: the last I checked Beddom GM just to be updated

728
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 2: on this about an hour ago, and that's the last

729
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 2: thing I saw was that Christian McCaffrey was third, but

730
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 2: still a way way back in the race. But you

731
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: realize he's one hundred and ten receiving yards away from

732
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 2: having over one thousand yards rushing and a thousand yards

733
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Speaker 2: receiving this year.

734
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Speaker 3: Well, and the cruel irony with the forty nine ers

735
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 3: this season is you go into the year thinking, can

736
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 3: we keep Christian McCaffrey healthy. Well, he's actually had for

737
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 3: the most part, a healthy season. It's everybody else who

738
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 3: has gotten injured. Now they've still been great, but that's

739
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 3: the one guy you wouldn't think would be this durable,

740
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 3: and he has had a great year.

741
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 2: And why do you think they've been great despite having

742
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 2: Mac Jones at quarterback for a handful of games or

743
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: you know black Party, you know, fighting through injuries early on,

744
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 2: in inconsistency before heating up here late. It's because Christian

745
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 2: McCaffrey has over two thousand yards with scrimmage, seventeen touchdowns,

746
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 2: and they've been tore up from the floor up with

747
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 2: injuries on both sides of the ball, offensive line, their defense,

748
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 2: their defense is unrecognizable for all of the big names

749
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 2: they don't have out there.

750
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 3: I thought tore up from the floor up was something

751
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 3: you'd use on an unfortunate looking woman or something.

752
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 6: I meant lucky.

753
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 2: I don't know if I ever actually say that out

754
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 2: loud explicitly on I.

755
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 3: Thinking Christian McCaffrey. By the way, yes, he might be

756
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 3: a little tore up from the floor up when you

757
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 3: look at him as an athlete compared to where he

758
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 3: was coming out of Stanford. In the first few years

759
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 3: with Carolina, he's clearly lost a step and he's still great.

760
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 3: His vision's still there, he picks his spots, he has

761
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 3: enough burst out there like, I'm still upset the Carolina

762
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 3: Panthers let him go. That's one of, you know, two

763
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 3: hundred reasons that I'm still upset with this.

764
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 2: Well, we talked about, you know, getting out, getting done

765
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 2: with the running back a year early before a year late.

766
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 2: Tennessee is still finding that out about Derrick Henry, by

767
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 2: the way, the last couple of years he's had in Baltimore,

768
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 2: especially that last week. And I'll throw one more wild

769
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 2: card into the mix too. I don't think he even

770
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 2: tracks when it comes to being in the MVP race.

771
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 2: Is he how large from the Earth's core up exactly?

772
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigba from Seattle. He's obviously not gonna

773
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 2: win it. They're probably not gonna get any votes. But

774
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 2: he has over seventeen hundred receiving yards, one hundred and

775
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 2: thirteen receptions, ten touchdowns, and everybody and their mother and

776
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 2: their grandmother knows he's getting the ball. They know that

777
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold was throwing to him and only him. And

778
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 2: it's not like he's some athletic freak. This is not

779
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 2: Calvin Johnson, where Matt Stafford's throwing the ball into quadruple

780
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 2: coverage and Calvin Johnson is just coming down with balls

781
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,760
Speaker 2: left and right. Nowhere close to that. Jayson is listed

782
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 2: at six feet even, which means he's probably five eleven

783
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 2: or five ten, and he's still putting up historic numbers.

784
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 2: He's in Bryce Young territory, I mean yeah, and he's

785
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 2: still he's in. He's mashing fools left and right. If

786
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 2: he surpasses one hundred receiving yards tonight, he would tie

787
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson for six plays for most receiving yards in

788
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 2: a single season. I'm just ridiculous.

789
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 3: A great route runner, just supreme skill out there and

790
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 3: doing it with Sam Darnold and helping elevate a known

791
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 3: choker like that. That also speaks to his greatness.

792
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 2: It absolutely does. Christian McCaffrey. By the way, whoever does

793
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 2: and win the MVP, I hope to see Christan McCaffrey

794
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 2: at least gets Offensive Player of the Year because he

795
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 2: deserves it for a San Francisco team that's kind of

796
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 2: flown under the radar, yet they're knocking on the door

797
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 2: of being the one seed in the NFC. How insane

798
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 2: is that?

799
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 3: And by the way, if anybody wants to use tore

800
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 3: up from the floor up on me. It's not just

801
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 3: exclusively for women. That's fine.

802
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 2: I'll walk that one away at him, all right.

803
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 3: Coming up next geek News, we gotta talk about a

804
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 3: restaurant that Kevin and I will be frequenting here in

805
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. But I think it's gonna go global. This

806
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 3: is a huge deal. It's coming soon. This is FNA

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Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: FNA Cottonna back live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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818
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 2: A and Jason Bromberger checked in a few minutes ago.

819
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 2: And he loves you, Adam. He says, you're amazing. You

820
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 2: are great. Me not so much.

821
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 3: Wait a second, he says, I never have him before.

822
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 2: I sound canned. Total nerd never been a bigger geek

823
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 2: from eighty six and Vermont. Oh, come on, make the

824
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 2: hate through you. Come on. You know what, I've been

825
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 2: called worse than a nerd. You know, I'll take it

826
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 2: as a term of endearment. That's fine.

827
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 3: It works for me, especially because you know what we're

828
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 3: doing right now, geek newsman.

829
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 2: You're playing D and D tonight. Wanna come case, let's up, guys,

830
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 2: won't be challeged that I've been chining online with Babs

831
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 2: all day.

832
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 6: Just keep your power clubs off our right, Ken?

833
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 3: And that was pretty slick of you, responding with the

834
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 3: Steve Erkle gift. By the way, Kevin, just like you know,

835
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 3: break up my pocket protector right quick? Did I do that?

836
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 2: All right?

837
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 3: That show was a big part of our childhood, it was,

838
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 3: but maybe a bigger part revolves around cartoons and toys.

839
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 3: There were a lot of contenders for my young pupils

840
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 3: my eyeballs, including Inspector, Gadget, Heathcliff, Transformers, Garfield and Friends, Ductails,

841
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 3: Power Rangers. But the cartoon and toy combo that really

842
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 3: consumed my life like nothing else was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

843
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 2: Let's Go all.

844
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 3: Right, hold on, hold on, Am I the only one

845
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 3: that hears this being a little bit off from the original.

846
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 2: That's not the original, that's not the real show. That

847
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 2: this is definitely a re recording.

848
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:36,959
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift Redd Taylor's version. Something wrong here. It's my fault. Mark,

849
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 3: I told you this was the right one. It was

850
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 3: the wrong one.

851
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 2: I'm a dumb ass. I'm still a great show. By

852
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 2: the way.

853
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 3: Just sabotage the entire segment with.

854
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 2: That, right, you know what we can recover.

855
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 3: One of my earliest memories in being in kindergarten is

856
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 3: knowing that Matthew Struble, my best friend at the time German,

857
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 3: his mom had bought us Ninja turtle figurines and we

858
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 3: were getting them after class and it's like all I

859
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: could think about and my first ever ninja turtle that

860
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 3: would come and I had thirty six eventually in my

861
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 3: entire collection from the playmates was Raphael D. Kevin. What

862
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 3: turtle did you have?

863
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 2: First? Oh? Donald Tello? Easily, Don Tello and I had

864
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 2: the turtle van.

865
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 3: See you, son of a bitch? What I could have

866
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 3: had the turtle blimp?

867
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 2: And I blew it.

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Speaker 3: One day my mom said if you wait a week,

869
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 3: we'll get the turtle blimp. But we're at the store.

870
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 3: You like this little cowboy figuring if you get this now,

871
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 3: you don't get the turtle blimp later. And it taught

872
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: me a life lesson of patience because I blew it

873
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 3: being impulsive.

874
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 8: There.

875
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 2: It was negotiation between my cousin and I. One of

876
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 2: us was getting the blimp and one of us was

877
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 2: getting the van. So I decided to get the van.

878
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: He got the blimp. And when we played together, we

879
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 2: our powers combined. We were all set, all right.

880
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 3: There's another element though, to the ninja turtles for why

881
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 3: we love them so much and they became such a

882
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 3: worldwide phenomenon. We associate them with a certain food that

883
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 3: is a very popular food item. Ninja turtles and pizza

884
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 3: go together, like ninja turtles and pisa. You know, I'm

885
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 3: late to this, but apparently there is a project being

886
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 3: done in our own backyard in southern California, and there's

887
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 3: billboards up right now for it. It's already been pushed

888
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,479
Speaker 3: back multiple times. First it was coming in twenty twenty five,

889
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 3: now it's twenty twenty six. It's being done officially. You

890
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 3: know that because Nickelodeon's name is on it and they

891
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 3: own the Turtles. Now there's gonna be an official Ninja

892
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 3: Turtles pizzeria in Los Angeles coming soon. Wow, Why before

893
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 3: New York when the Turtles are from New York and

894
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 3: the sewer's there, I don't know, less competition with pizza

895
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 3: here like now, I don't know if they're gonna have

896
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 3: the type of pizza they had in the cartoon, with

897
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 3: like jellybellies and hot fudge and ice cream on the

898
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 3: pizza or anything like that.

899
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 2: I can only hope not.

900
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 3: No Anchoby's.

901
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 2: I don't know.

902
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 3: Michelangelo didn't want those. But it's also I think they're

903
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 3: missing it here, like they're missing an opportunity because in

904
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 3: the cartoon, Kevin, remember what it was called the restaurant

905
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 3: that they went to, and they were in incognito in

906
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 3: disguise with their trench coats on, and nobody could see

907
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 3: there were green turtles. Somehow in the daytime, it was

908
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 3: called Ninja Pisa. They should call the place Ninja Pizza.

909
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 3: And they also should at least have the movies and

910
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 3: the cartoon, you know, running on the TVs, and also

911
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 3: have the old school arcade game going but we have

912
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 3: to go there sometime soon. All right, It's FNA on FSR.

913
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 3: NFL six Pack is next.

914
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

915
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 2: That's right hour two of FNA on FSR, Fox Football

916
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 2: Saturday with me, Kevin Figures and he Adam Auslin at

917
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 2: k fig one is where you can find me on X.

918
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 2: Follow Adam A is where you can find Adam on

919
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 2: X as well.

920
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 3: Adam Ashley coming up. We got our friend, Big Lincoln

921
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 3: Kennedy Fox Sports Radio. Legend, Raiders legend long before they sucked,

922
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 3: the Raiders suck last golden age of Raiders football.

923
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 2: He was was a big part of He was. They

924
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 2: won three straight AFC West championships with Kennedy holding down

925
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 2: the right side of the offensive line.

926
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 3: So when they got screwed.

927
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 2: Yes, he was. He was right in the thick of it.

928
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:11,439
Speaker 3: So was Rodney Pete was hang around us. Good things

929
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 3: will happen.

930
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 2: For you, I guess.

931
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 3: So, all right, good thing. Uh, it's been a good

932
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 3: thing all season long. Really, we've had a lot of

933
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 3: fun with this. It's been fun doing it on Fox

934
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 3: Sports Radio. It's one of our staples here on FNA.

935
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 3: It is the NFL six.

936
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 6: Pack time for the NFL six.

937
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 3: Pack, six different categories involving the NFL, starting with.

938
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 6: This hot seat heat check.

939
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 2: All right, Kevin, let we get started. Yeah, the coach

940
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 2: are player under the most pressure this weekend. And Adam,

941
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 2: you kind of brought this up in passing last week

942
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 2: during the show when talking about the Raiders and Giants game,

943
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 2: the fact that it should not be assumed that New

944
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 2: York won't take a quarterback in next year's draft. How

945
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 2: about that? So I was for as much as Jackson

946
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 2: dark Well, I thought about it a little bit like

947
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,720
Speaker 2: as much like life. As he injected into their offense

948
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 2: and really their entire team when he jumped in there.

949
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 2: It hasn't resulted in wins. He's been in and out

950
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 2: of the lineup with concussion issues because he doesn't protect himself,

951
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 2: and he's been really inconsistent as a player. Now. The

952
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 2: inconsistency comes along with the fact that he's just a

953
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 2: rookie playing for a bad football team whose best skill

954
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 2: position player in Elik Neighbors, is out for the season.

955
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 2: So that's to be expected. By the way, I'm on

956
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 2: record and saying that I'm not a huge fan of

957
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 2: this quarterback class. I brought it up a couple of

958
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 2: weeks ago. I brought it up earlier and the show

959
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 2: we talked about Fernando Mendoza. I like him and Dante

960
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 2: Moore both. I think both those guys at best are

961
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 2: probably late first rounders.

962
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 3: What about Trinidad with what he did, Trinidad.

963
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 2: Chamblis is great that it sounds like he might be

964
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 2: trying to get another year of college eligibility. So I

965
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: don't know exactly what you know his that his number

966
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 2: might be or what you know.

967
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 3: You're living it up without laying kiff and everybody's like, yeah,

968
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 3: let's stay here, this is awesome.

969
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 2: Now he plays this out, who the hell knows how

970
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 2: it shapes up. But the league is littered with guys

971
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 2: who didn't have high expectations or Wert and Hyde draft

972
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 2: picks who are not taken in the top ten, who

973
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 2: are good starting quarterbacks. So me saying that I don't

974
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 2: think those guys are top five picks does not an

975
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 2: indictment on them as potential pros. But usually when you

976
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,240
Speaker 2: have a guy that's taking that high, they're the highwaight speed,

977
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 2: they have a cannon for an arm, they can dominate.

978
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 2: None of those guys really have all the measurables. Now

979
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 2: there's been a deviation from that recently. You look at

980
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 2: a guy like a Baker Mayfield, you look at a

981
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 2: guy like a like a Bryce Young who not to

982
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 2: bring that? Not a sore spot for either, Adham Oh,

983
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 2: I got something for that coming up. So the trend

984
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 2: has been bucked a little bit when it comes to that.

985
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 2: But we know how teams get enamored with the new

986
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 2: shiny thing when it presents itself. And it would not

987
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 2: surprise me at all if the Giants look at Dart

988
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 2: and say, yeah, he's shown some flashes, but he's injury prone,

989
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 2: and look at the potential this guy has, whether it's

990
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 2: more Mendoza, Chambliss, whoever the hell else it might be.

991
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 2: Not to mention that Dart's dad has been making more

992
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 2: noise than I'm sure the team would like. Did you

993
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 2: see this back and forth with Danny Canell?

994
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 6: No?

995
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 3: I didn't, but I like it. Danny knell swor an

996
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:49,720
Speaker 3: enemy of mine?

997
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 2: That's right, Well, because he ghosted your phone calls.

998
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. And guess what upen to Florida State

999
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 3: this season? After that? That's what you get.

1000
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 2: That's karma is karma going straight to Danny, who wins.

1001
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 6: I win.

1002
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 2: I met Donning Ones. He's a nice guy, so I

1003
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 2: got nothing to that.

1004
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 3: Maybe it's me.

1005
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 2: He said that he's not sure that Dark can be

1006
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: a franchise quarterback to lead the Giants, you know for

1007
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 2: the next ten to twelve years, which I think is

1008
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 2: is fair. Like that's fine, that's a fair assessment to make.

1009
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:18,959
Speaker 2: He's been good, but not spectacular. Jackson Jackson Dart's father

1010
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 2: responded with this, bro eat a fat one.

1011
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 3: He sounds like the new kid from Stranger Things. That's

1012
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 3: always saying that in season five the fat kid.

1013
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 2: Now funny as it might be probably a little unbecoming

1014
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 2: of the father of the starting quarterback for the New

1015
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 2: York Giants who has designs of being the face of

1016
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 2: the franchise, because we talk all the time about how

1017
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 2: level of talent is directly correlated to how long of

1018
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 2: a leased teams will have for any type of distraction

1019
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:47,760
Speaker 2: you might present.

1020
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 3: I mean, so LeVar Ball didn't even go there.

1021
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 2: No, he didn't eat a fat one.

1022
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 3: Now he did say to Jason Whitlock, the only thing

1023
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 3: you could be an expert of is snacks.

1024
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 2: Right, and he told Christie Lay and jo Lane. Yeah, well,

1025
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 2: I know this is just one incident with Jackson's father.

1026
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 2: But if you're the giant, that could give pause to

1027
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 2: you deciding that he's the guy you want to hit

1028
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 2: your wagon to. And it's not Jackson's fault, obviously, but

1029
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 2: if your camp is, if your camp is being a

1030
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 2: giant pr headache for us and you're not pulling your

1031
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 2: weight as a player, this relationship just might not work.

1032
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,439
Speaker 2: So look, I know Dart was a first round pick,

1033
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 2: and but you look at the salary slotting rules nowadays

1034
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,720
Speaker 2: and the way these contracts are set up, it would

1035
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 2: not cost them much to get rid of them if

1036
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 2: they wanted to and get value. You're telling me a

1037
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 2: team like the Cardinals or the Raiders or the Jets,

1038
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 2: who are starred for a quarterback wouldn't be interested in

1039
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 2: trading away like a second and a seventh or something

1040
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 2: to bring Jackson Dart in. They do it in a heartbeat,

1041
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 2: of course. So the Cardinals did this. Remember they drafted

1042
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,720
Speaker 2: Josh Rosen I think tenth overall that very next season

1043
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 2: they knew he didn't have it, cut him loose and

1044
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 2: drafted Kyler Murray the very next seas.

1045
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had before in college that if I could

1046
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 3: take one guy, it would be Kyler Murray over everyone.

1047
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 3: And then it was awkward. It's like, well, now you're

1048
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 3: going to the Cardinals and you have the potential to

1049
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 3: do that, but you already have Josh Allen.

1050
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 2: He still did it. Yeah. Well, it also made it

1051
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 2: a lot easier because he didn't sign like a Sam

1052
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 2: Bradford poison pill type of contract as a rookie. There's

1053
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 2: no way, you know, fifteen years ago you could have

1054
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 2: come in and cut a guy loose because you're just

1055
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 2: the salary wise, it just to makes sense for you. Yeah.

1056
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 2: But I'm actually placing Jackson Dart on the hot seat

1057
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 2: in this game against the Dallas Cowboys, almost as if

1058
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 2: this is his final audition for the Giants front office,

1059
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 2: final game of the season against one of the worst

1060
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 2: defenses in the NFL, with a chance to potentially solidify

1061
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 2: yourself as the future face of the franchise. If he

1062
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 2: doesn't play well, I think the rumors of New York

1063
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 2: looking for a quarterback at the top of the draft

1064
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 2: will only get louder.

1065
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 3: All Right, I like it.

1066
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 2: Now.

1067
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 3: You wouldn't think a quarterback who could be in the playoffs.

1068
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 3: Would be on the hot seat for me.

1069
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 6: But here we are, seat right over here for me.

1070
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 3: He should be on the hot seat with the organization.

1071
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 3: I would trade this guy for Jackson Dard. I'm not kidding.

1072
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 3: I'm talking about Bryce Yeng.

1073
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 2: Now.

1074
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 3: The Panthers win later tonight, later today, they win the division.

1075
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:18,919
Speaker 3: If the Panthers lose and Atlanta beats the Saints, they

1076
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 3: still win the division because all three teams the Panthers,

1077
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 3: the Bucks in Atlanta would be eight to nine, and

1078
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 3: for some reason, the Panthers have all the tiebreakers, they

1079
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 3: have the edge there. I'm not sure how it goes.

1080
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 3: Here's what's been freaking everybody out. It's not head to

1081
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 3: head to division to then conference record. You know what.

1082
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 3: The third tiebreaker is common opponent. I didn't know that.

1083
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 3: That's what's effing up with the Rams and the forty

1084
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 3: nine ers. The Rams lost to a bunch of teams

1085
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 3: that the Niners beat, like Jacksonville, I think the Texans,

1086
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 3: like I had to figure that out on my own.

1087
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,280
Speaker 2: And I did it. I am bleeping brilliant.

1088
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 3: I'm a big kidney now, but Bryce Young is not.

1089
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 3: And all three teams in this NFC South Common gutter trash.

1090
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 3: No one deserves a playoff spot out of this division.

1091
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 6: Your garbage.

1092
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 3: There are more deserving teams who play in real divisions

1093
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 3: with real football. The NFC South Kevin is basically like

1094
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 3: a group of five in college football, the Panthers and

1095
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 3: Bucks or James Madison in Tulane, except they actually get

1096
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 3: home field somehow.

1097
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 2: You're right, which is, by the way, when I was

1098
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 2: talking about this early in the year in Atlanta, playing

1099
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 2: so poorly, I was like, I thought they'd be in

1100
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 2: the division race. I guess technically they would be. They

1101
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 2: end up all having the three the exact same record Atlanta,

1102
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 2: I guess at the end of the day did end

1103
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 2: up being in the quote unquote the division race, even

1104
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 2: though they have no chance of making the postseason.

1105
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 3: Here in Week eighteen, these are not NFL teams in

1106
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 3: the NFC South, They're FCS teams. And Bryce Young is

1107
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 3: an FCS quarterback.

1108
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 2: You went beyond group of five and went down to

1109
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 2: the FCS. He better went to South Dakota State the

1110
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 2: jack Rabbits.

1111
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 3: He better play well this week against his fellow short

1112
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:05,439
Speaker 3: king quarterback in Baker Mayfield. They're both fighting each other

1113
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 3: and the Napoleon syndrome. At the same time. I keep

1114
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 3: hearing how the Panthers are due because they've alternated wins

1115
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 3: in losses the last seven weeks. They've alternated wins and losses.

1116
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 2: That's what Jeff Schwartz told us on Wednesday.

1117
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 3: Well, let's see Bryce Young has performed in wins and

1118
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:27,439
Speaker 3: losses very differently. There might be a connection here. Over

1119
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 3: their four losses, Bryce Young has two touchdowns to four

1120
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 3: interceptions and is averaging one hundred and twenty seven yards

1121
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 3: per game with a QB rating of sixty six in

1122
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 3: their three wins over that time. Over the last seven

1123
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 3: games when they alternate wins and losses, he has eight touchdowns,

1124
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 3: two zero interceptions, is throwing for two hundred and eighty

1125
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 3: two yards per game with a QB rating of one

1126
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty four point two.

1127
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 2: So you're saying, when the starting quarterback plays well, the

1128
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 2: team wins. What a novel concept.

1129
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 3: It's not like this is some map little thing where

1130
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:02,959
Speaker 3: the Panthers are just good every other week.

1131
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:03,919
Speaker 2: What a Quincy think.

1132
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 3: No, it's Bryce Young. It comes down to Bryce Young

1133
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 3: in his play And to be honest, you said it

1134
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 3: before too. He's average at best at quarterback yep, and

1135
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 3: that's an well below average division he's in now. I

1136
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 3: don't think he's necessarily their franchise guy or should be,

1137
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 3: regardless of the outcome if they make the playoffs this weekend.

1138
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 3: Like just last season, he got benched for a ginger

1139
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 3: it cash Andy Dalton, remember that.

1140
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 2: Well, at least Andy Dalton has a great run of

1141
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 2: postseason success himself, So it's better than Bryce Young's right now.

1142
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 3: We'll see how it goes, but I need much more

1143
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 3: consistency from Bryce Young to have him solidified as QB

1144
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 3: one going into the offseason. The last time he was

1145
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 3: in a primetime game was also the first time he

1146
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 3: was in a primetime game, and they failed spectacularly on

1147
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 3: Monday Night Football against the forty nine ers. This year,

1148
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 3: this is it. It's his moment of truth. Sack up or

1149
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 3: shut up.

1150
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 2: That's so you're saying the Panthers make the postseason with

1151
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 2: the Bryce Young, they kind of be selling high considering

1152
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 2: this is the best that he's played in his first

1153
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 2: few years of the season, So sell high because this

1154
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 2: is as good as it's gonna get, is what Adam

1155
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 2: Alston says.

1156
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 3: I still don't know how much they would get for

1157
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 3: him if they lose the first game. Big So the

1158
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 3: Rams are the forty nine ers, which is very likely.

1159
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 2: Well, again, you're selling high. But this ceiling is very

1160
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 2: very short, so not to not to make any light

1161
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 2: of his sight.

1162
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 3: The only ceiling he could fit in that he could

1163
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 3: not hit his head on. Like, yeah, it's it's all,

1164
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:39,720
Speaker 3: or he would hit his head. I guess it's that short.

1165
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 3: Like it's pathetic.

1166
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 6: I am not.

1167
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 3: I am not moved by this Panther season at all.

1168
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 3: I'm sticking to my guns. I'm not jumping in the

1169
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 3: only way they could convince me that things are different

1170
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 3: now is if not only they beat the Bucks later

1171
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 3: today and handle them. Since the Bucks have lost what

1172
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 3: seven of eighty six of how have they lost that much?

1173
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 3: Everybody's talking about how good the Panthers are playing, and

1174
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 3: like the Bucks are right there to win the division anyways,

1175
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 3: How good could the division be?

1176
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 2: How good could the Panthers really be if the Bucks

1177
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 2: are still in it? It tells you the different standard

1178
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 2: that the fan bases have. The Buccaneers are talking about,

1179
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 2: My god, this is awful. Look at where we are.

1180
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,720
Speaker 2: The Pether's like, this is phenomenal. You win the division.

1181
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it. Baker Mayfield at the start of

1182
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,879
Speaker 3: the season, he was in MVP conversations rightfully, so, yeah,

1183
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 3: he had all those miraculous fourth quarters, like where he

1184
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,439
Speaker 3: just showed up in big moments looking like t Bow

1185
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 3: with the Denver Broncos that one season. Wouldn't play that

1186
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 3: good in the first three quarters, turned it up.

1187
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 2: In the fourth.

1188
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 3: But I am. I am resolute in my decision about

1189
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 3: this Panthers team and where things are headed. And it's

1190
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 3: gonna take a lot. It's gonna take them beating the

1191
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 3: Bucks and then winning in that playoff game with Bryce

1192
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:59,320
Speaker 3: Young playing good football against the Niners or the Rams

1193
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 3: for me to say I was wrong one of us.

1194
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 3: You think I'm keeping it too high or too high

1195
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 3: of a standard or too high of a bar for

1196
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 3: them to leap over.

1197
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a little bit.

1198
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 3: You think Bryce Chef will walk under it instead?

1199
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 2: Uh, quickly us let's do the trap tank trap game

1200
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 2: tap because while we're on the subject matter, Yeah, favorite

1201
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 2: or trouble of facing a trap game. It's hard to

1202
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 2: have a trap game in the final game of the

1203
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 2: regular season. But it's kind of a trap situation for

1204
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 2: Buccaneer fans, because we talked about this a few weeks back.

1205
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 2: They're disenfranchisement with Top Bowles. Before I go any further,

1206
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 2: I need to point out that I've i never called

1207
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 2: for coaches to be fired, or almost never be calling

1208
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 2: for coaches to be fired. Everybody's fighting their ass off

1209
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,320
Speaker 2: to make it out here, plus is just really bad karma.

1210
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 2: So I'm not saying that Top Bowls should be let

1211
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,919
Speaker 2: go based on what happens you're out, But Bucks fans

1212
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 2: have a lament of the performance of this team ever

1213
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 2: since Bruce arians retired. For whatever reason, this team just

1214
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 2: cannot put a full season together. They either start slowly

1215
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,399
Speaker 2: and then pick up momentum at the end of the year,

1216
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:00,800
Speaker 2: or like this year, they start out and they fade

1217
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 2: down the stretch. To the best of my knowledge, Bowls

1218
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 2: has never really been on the hot seat, but he

1219
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 2: profiles as one of those coaches at him who does

1220
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 2: just enough to save his job at the end of

1221
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 2: the season, which has frustrated many a Buccaneer fan over

1222
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 2: the past two years.

1223
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,959
Speaker 3: For sure, it's like kicking the can down the road.

1224
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 3: You know what, next year, it's gonna be different if

1225
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 3: he just if he starts the way he finished this

1226
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 3: last season, will be in good shape.

1227
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,879
Speaker 2: Yep. It's like you never totally bottomed out. You started out,

1228
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 2: you know whatever, with a terrible record, and you find

1229
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 2: a way to salvage a good winning record at the

1230
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 2: end of the season. It's like, I will hold on

1231
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 2: to him.

1232
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1233
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 2: Time, it's kind of gone to reverse. Though. It has

1234
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 2: gone to reverse because usually they get off the slow

1235
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 2: starts and they heat up towards the end. This has

1236
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 2: been the inverse of that this year. But I'm just saying,

1237
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 2: and again I'm not calling for the guy's job, but

1238
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 2: I just know again, I have a couple of my

1239
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 2: best friends are Tampa Bay Buccaneer fans, and they said

1240
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 2: this happens every single year of Top Bowles. He finds

1241
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 2: a way to save his job, and they don't think

1242
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 2: that he's the guy to get it done.

1243
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 3: So I'm just saying, did they want a mercy kill?

1244
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 3: Do they want the Panthers to take him out?

1245
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 2: They do, be honest with at least one of them does.

1246
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 2: I don't know the opinion of the other. But the

1247
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 2: other ones, like I really wish we don't make the

1248
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 2: playoff playoffs this year because I kind of want a

1249
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 2: different head coach.

1250
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 3: Well, can you let them know that I'm rooting against

1251
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 3: my Panthers because I want a different quarterback a spot.

1252
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 2: That's a fan of their team in this game, that

1253
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 2: actually wants their favorite team to win the game. That's

1254
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 2: the question I need to ask.

1255
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,959
Speaker 3: There's this guy Gunner on Twitter and sometimes he calls

1256
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 3: in here on Fox Sports Radio. He's a big Panthers

1257
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:27,720
Speaker 3: fan from Minnesota for some reason.

1258
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, heaven forbid if you're a Tampa Bay fan, they

1259
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 2: actually find a way to win this game, and then

1260
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 2: the Saints lose to the Falcons, and all of a sudden,

1261
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,240
Speaker 2: you find yourself in the postseason and lamenting the exact

1262
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 2: same thing over again with Tod Bowles being your head

1263
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 2: coach next season. Again. I got nothing against Todd Bowles,

1264
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 2: but Buccaneer fans, I think a lot of them are

1265
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 2: fed up. All right, I'm not fed up with our

1266
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 2: next guest.

1267
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 3: In fact, you know, absence makes the heart grow fonder,

1268
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,320
Speaker 3: And we haven't had this man on in a long time.

1269
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 3: It's the return of Lincoln Kennedy on with FNA now

1270
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:58,320
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio.

1271
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Speaker 4: Coming up next, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports

1272
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,520
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1275
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1276
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1277
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:25,200
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1278
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:27,120
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1279
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:28,840
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1280
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,600
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1281
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1289
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Speaker 2: Coming up on the very next seven, we will continue

1290
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 2: the NFL six pack for Week eighteen, but with it

1291
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 2: being week eighteen here towards the end of the regular season,

1292
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 2: lot still to be decided. We will talk about what's

1293
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 2: going on in these playoff races, the MVP race, and

1294
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 2: of course what's happening in Las Vegas with a Fox

1295
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 2: Sports Radio alumni and a good friend of ours, Adam.

1296
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:15,360
Speaker 2: Let's get to it, Alan Dragan did thank you? Gutty

1297
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 2: all right?

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Speaker 3: Join the show right now. Is a mountain of a

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Speaker 3: man bigger than the mountain Game of Thrones, who is

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Speaker 3: also a purple people eater at the offensive line position

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Speaker 3: when he was an All American at the University of

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Speaker 3: Washington before being selected ninth overall in the nineteen ninety

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Speaker 3: three NFL Draft, which eventually had him making annual trips

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Speaker 3: to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl back when that was

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Speaker 3: a thing in the Silver and Black in the early

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Speaker 3: two thousands, back when they were a competitive football team.

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Speaker 3: It is big Lincoln Kennedy, the president of the O line.

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Speaker 3: You hear him now on the radio side with the

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Speaker 3: Las Vegas Raiders. You can follow him at l Kennedy

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Speaker 3: seventy two. Lincoln, what's up? Thanks for coming back on FNA.

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Speaker 9: What's good man? It's been a long time bringing coming

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00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 9: back on the like a reunion. So glad to be

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Speaker 9: with you.

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Speaker 3: Going home, I'm going home. Let's talk about a guy

1315
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 3: who may be leaving his home. Do you feel if

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00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow wanted to get out of Cincinnati. He would

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Speaker 3: be justified in that decision.

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Speaker 9: Well, from what I've heard and from history, it has it.

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Speaker 9: I think anybody wants to get out of Cincinnati would

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Speaker 9: be justified for what it's worth. Look, today's athlete is

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00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 9: really different. I mean it's it's not there's no Obviously,

1322
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 9: there's no loyalty in business. We know that. But the

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00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 9: way it goes is that sometimes you got to step

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00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 9: away from a situation to put yourself in a better situation.

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Speaker 9: Joe Burrow, you first round and first pick in the draft,

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Speaker 9: has had some success, but has also had some injury issues.

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Speaker 9: So there's a lot of times where you think, as

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00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 9: a player, the team might not support you as much

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Speaker 9: as you might want to support the team. So I

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Speaker 9: can't really blame anybody for wanting to make a choice

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Speaker 9: for him or his family.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to a team that you follow closely and

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00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 2: that being the Las Vegas Raiders. There are some issues

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Speaker 2: last week with Max Crosby being told by the front

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Speaker 2: office about the coaching after he was going to be

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Speaker 2: shut down for the rest of the season. He obviously

1337
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 2: was not happy with that, and he says he's a player,

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Speaker 2: he's paid to play, he wants to play. The injury

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Speaker 2: he feels, he owes it to his teammates. And I

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Speaker 2: don't know if you've been in this situation before link

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Speaker 2: where you're on a team, you're kind of playing out

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Speaker 2: the string, and a lot of times the front office

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00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 2: and their goals are battling the same goals against the

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Speaker 2: players and what they're trying to do, which is win

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Speaker 2: football games. I guess have you ever been in that

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Speaker 2: sort of situation before? And if not, I guess how

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Speaker 2: from a player's standpoint do you handle that when you

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00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 2: know the front office is trying to battle for the

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Speaker 2: best draft pick while you, as the players, are trying

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Speaker 2: to go out there and win football games.

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Speaker 9: Well, draft choice aside. I will say this as a

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00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 9: former athlete, I wanted to be on the field at

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Speaker 9: any gaven time. And the way my theory was back

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00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 9: in the day figure is that if my quarterback is playing,

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00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 9: I need to play. But also as a professional, I

1356
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 9: have to understand and I accept the fact I'm either

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00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 9: injured or I'm hurt. If I can't give one hundred percent,

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Speaker 9: I really don't want to be out there. I think

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Speaker 9: I'll do more bad than good. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 9: that Max was there, but I do understand both sides

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Speaker 9: of the coin. Now, being on the outside looking at

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Speaker 9: I don if you're an organization and a franchise such

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Speaker 9: as the Raiders, your biggest investment is Max Crosby, and

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Speaker 9: if you have to put him aside to protect him,

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01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,479
Speaker 9: the season was over. Season has been over for the Raiders,

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Speaker 9: there's quite some time, but to protect him in the future. Interesting,

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Speaker 9: you saw how many people if you watch football games

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Speaker 9: with the Raiders and Max Crosby, you saw how many

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Speaker 9: times people are trying to take out his legs, were

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Speaker 9: going after those legs, and you know he's been playing

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Speaker 9: with an injured knee all season. There's really no use

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Speaker 9: for putting him out there. I know he wants to play,

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01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 9: but there's really no use to them to put him

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Speaker 9: out there. And look, figure, this is the difference between

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Speaker 9: back when I played and what I see now. And

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Speaker 9: not necessarily in football, but all sports there's those words

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Speaker 9: called load management. How many times have we seen a

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01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 9: lot of superstars, especially in basketball, take nights off. I

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Speaker 9: get the audience wants to see a player. I understand that,

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Speaker 9: but sometimes the athlete has to do what's better for himself,

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01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 9: and more times than not, the organization has to do

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Speaker 9: what's better for them. They've invested a whole lot of

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01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 9: money into Max Crosby, and for Max Rosby to go

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01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 9: out for the final two games via the Giants and

1385
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 9: this week against the Chiefs, it's absolutely senseless. It makes

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01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 9: no point at all. And it's one of those things

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Speaker 9: where I didn't mind the administration or coaching staff stepping

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01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:09,919
Speaker 9: into saying, you know what, we're gonna sit you down.

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Speaker 9: I know you might be mad, I understand you might

1390
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Speaker 9: want to play, but we're gonna sit you down for

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Speaker 9: the betterment of your future as well as this organization's future.

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Speaker 2: Linked Kennedy, Fox Sports Radio alumni and a former Pro

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Speaker 2: Bowl offensive lineman with the Oakland Raiders back in the day,

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Speaker 2: joining us here on FNA on FSR. Let's stay in

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas there and just talk about the offensive struggles.

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Speaker 2: They finished last the Raiders did in rushing last season.

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Speaker 2: They're likely going to end up finishing last in the

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Speaker 2: NFL in rushing this season, despite using a top pick

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Speaker 2: on Ashton Gentz. Why do you think the offense continued

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Speaker 2: to struggle this year and why do you think the

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Speaker 2: chip Kelly experiment didn't work.

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Speaker 9: Offensive line. Offensive line, offensive line. They came in with

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Speaker 9: an idea of philosophy that what they had last year

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Speaker 9: and as far as the offensive line was good enough

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Speaker 9: to get them by. I didn't agree with it at

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Speaker 9: the time, but hey, I don't make the calls. But

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Speaker 9: they came into this season and that's why they struggled.

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Speaker 9: The offensive line has being incomplete and inconsider and I knew,

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Speaker 9: you know, going into the season that they were. They

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Speaker 9: looked pretty decent on paper to begin with, but injuries

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Speaker 9: were going to play an issue the senior offensive line

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Speaker 9: and Colton Miller, the left tackle, was the first one

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Speaker 9: to go down. Then JPJ went down and JPJ on

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Speaker 9: Jackson Powers Johnson is all really the reason why they

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Speaker 9: had a sort of identity. He was the one that

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Speaker 9: the Steve w was Newski back in my day, that

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Speaker 9: guy that's not Blower, that was going to go out

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Speaker 9: there and mall you. But they don't have that, and

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Speaker 9: they don't really have an identity. They didn't have an

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Speaker 9: identity well into the season. I think that was one

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Speaker 9: of the reasons why chip Kelly was let go. There

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Speaker 9: was inconsistencies across the board, and Chip Kelly was painted as,

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Speaker 9: you know, a savior that he was going to bring

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Speaker 9: in his offense philosophy and with those playmakers and be creative.

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Speaker 9: But I've often said, and I've always said this, if

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Speaker 9: you don't have it upfront, it doesn't matter who you

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01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 9: have back there, who's throwing the ball, who's catching the ball,

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01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 9: you don't have an offensive line, You're not going anywhere.

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Speaker 3: Having said that, link in assuming they get the number

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Speaker 3: one pick in the draft, how do you feel about

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Speaker 3: Fernando Mendoza.

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Speaker 9: I don't mind him, but again, you can't put the

1433
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 9: parags in front of the horse. The fact is that

1434
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 9: you could put as many playmakers you want, or draft

1435
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 9: as many playmakers as you want, but if you don't

1436
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Speaker 9: address this offensive line, it no matter who you have

1437
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 9: back there, they're not going to succeed. With that being said,

1438
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Speaker 9: I expect and if it look if I was drawing

1439
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Speaker 9: the shots, I know the Raiders need a franchise quarterback,

1440
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 9: and I know how much of the Raider nations is

1441
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:22,440
Speaker 9: enamored by the possibility of number one, But you know,

1442
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 9: be it the way I look at it and the

1443
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 9: way I've always thought about it, as far as management goes,

1444
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 9: if you're if you're not totally sold on that quarterback

1445
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 9: as being the top pick, there's not an Andrew Luck,

1446
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 9: There's not you know, one of those Joe Burrows as

1447
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 9: you just mentioned. If that's not the guy for you,

1448
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 9: I would trade the pick back and get multiple pick.

1449
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 9: It's because it's not one player the Raiders are missing.

1450
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 9: There are multiple players. They need a franchise lineman, they

1451
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 9: need a franchise quarterback, they need they need pretty much

1452
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 9: pieces all along the board. So it's not just one player.

1453
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 9: I just want you waste the one pick on a

1454
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 9: guy you're not totally sure about.

1455
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:58,920
Speaker 3: You mentioned if you were calling the shots. What do

1456
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 3: you think of the decision from Miami Dolphins to add

1457
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 3: Troy Aikman as this consultant for the GM search anybody

1458
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 3: asked your recommendation with the Raiders before because we like,

1459
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 3: we think you've got a great football mind and that

1460
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 3: would be a great move for them.

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Speaker 9: Lincoln, Well, I mean, look, I've never been asked, ab

1462
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:18,479
Speaker 9: I've often often offered my services. Right now, I think

1463
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 9: when my issue with the Raiders, or my struggles with

1464
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 9: the Raiders is trying to figure out who's actually in

1465
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 9: charge and who's calling the shots. And you know, the

1466
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,240
Speaker 9: fact is that there were rumors circulating, and I don't

1467
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 9: know if it's true, there were rumors circulating that it

1468
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 9: was you know, Tom Brady and others that hired Chip Kelly,

1469
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 9: but it was Mark Davis to hire Pete Carroll and

1470
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 9: the two you know, two coaches didn't link up in

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Speaker 9: the way that I thought the synergy should have been

1472
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 9: connected between head coach and offensive coordinator. To me, that

1473
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 9: can't happen. So first and foremost, we need to designate

1474
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,959
Speaker 9: the true hierarchy of what's going on with the Raiders,

1475
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 9: the team I worked for, and I did have a

1476
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 9: ton of respect for who's truly calling the shots, and

1477
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 9: if that's the case, to let them do their job

1478
01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:00,200
Speaker 9: and decipher you know who should be aware. But it

1479
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 9: it's embarrassing to go through the Kurch coaching carousel that

1480
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 9: has happened over the last couple of years and still

1481
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 9: not be good enough to qualify for a playoff game

1482
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:12,920
Speaker 9: in this season is a season that regressed from last year.

1483
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 9: I thought they were going to be better and they weren't.

1484
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 9: Now they're facing the number one pick and they've got

1485
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 9: plenty of money to spend. This draft class is going

1486
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 9: to be important, But so far, the last draft class

1487
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 9: that we had this past year wasn't really involved in

1488
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 9: on the field, didn't play a lot. So that goes

1489
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 9: a question as far as just making the decision making

1490
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 9: for the future of this team.

1491
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 2: Licki Kennedy joining us here on FNA on FSR, here

1492
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 2: on Fox Football Saturday. So what do you believe will

1493
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 2: be Just if you put your prognostication hat on the

1494
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:40,920
Speaker 2: future of Pete Carroll, do you think he's potentially going

1495
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 2: to be one and done. I know Michael Silver from

1496
01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 2: the Athletic Report on Friday morning that Tom Brady, based

1497
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 2: on his sources, not only already had a heavy influence,

1498
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,200
Speaker 2: was going to have even more influence into what happens

1499
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:53,080
Speaker 2: on the field. And that could mean that he has

1500
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:54,720
Speaker 2: control over who the head coach is. And if what

1501
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:56,680
Speaker 2: you're saying is true that he didn't really have a

1502
01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 2: hand in hiring Pete Carroll, maybe he will be looking

1503
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 2: to go into a differ. Do you think that pe

1504
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 2: can steal coach or do you think if he can

1505
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 2: still coach, maybe a rebuilt like this might not be

1506
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 2: the best fit for him.

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Speaker 9: What do you think I think he can coach. But

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01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 9: you know, I'm not I'm not in a position to

1509
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:12,440
Speaker 9: talking about who's going to get hired who's going to

1510
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 9: get fired. But I will say this, the coaching change,

1511
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 9: the coaching carousel that has happened over the last couple

1512
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 9: of years has just erupted the identity of the Raiders

1513
01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 9: just collectively. One of the most infamous sports franchises in

1514
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 9: all of sports history has been has had a clutter

1515
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:30,440
Speaker 9: of coaches since John Gruden and and everything else, and

1516
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 9: there has not been any consistency and figuring. You guys

1517
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 9: know this as well as I do. When you bring

1518
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 9: in new faces, they're going to have new ideas and

1519
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:39,720
Speaker 9: new ideology. They might not joel what you have on

1520
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 9: your on your roster. With that being said, when you

1521
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 9: look at the signature players that you can hang your

1522
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 9: hat on for for the Raiders, who are they? Max Crosby,

1523
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 9: Colton Miller, you know, AJ Carlson, I mean, that's it,

1524
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 9: you know as oh, I mean, that's that's it that

1525
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 9: you can go with. So there's been no foundation that's

1526
01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 9: been built. All of it has been let go. And

1527
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 9: what I am as an alumni. What I'm, you know,

1528
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 9: most unimpressed with is the fact that we don't have

1529
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 9: an identity. And then the players, the good players that

1530
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 9: we drafted are all doing well elsewhere, most notably Josh

1531
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:12,480
Speaker 9: Jacobs in.

1532
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 3: Greenback Lincoln and going outside of the Raiders here. Kevin

1533
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 3: and I were talking about this a little bit earlier.

1534
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 3: Are you convinced that Drake May is the MVP now?

1535
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 3: It seemed like Matthew Stafford was leading the entire time

1536
01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 3: until that game against the Falcons. How do you see

1537
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 3: it shaken out?

1538
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 9: It's kind of looking that way. I mean, I still

1539
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 9: believe in Matthew Stafford, but again, you know, you're You're

1540
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 9: only good as your last performance in many people's eyes,

1541
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 9: and especially with that being so close to the playoffs.

1542
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 9: What the Rams that Matthew Stafford is able to do

1543
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 9: is very impressive, but also equally impressive with what they're

1544
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 9: able to do in New England by winning the division.

1545
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:45,440
Speaker 9: Drake May is definitely up here, and I think but

1546
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 9: Matthew Stafford would be my pick if I had one.

1547
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,760
Speaker 2: If you're handicapping the AFC playoffs, you see the AFC

1548
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:54,320
Speaker 2: West up closing personal obviously, dever Bronco is likely going

1549
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 2: to be the one seed. Do you think that they

1550
01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 2: should be the favorites come out of the AFC or

1551
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 2: do you think that there's another candidate who can pushed

1552
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 2: them and compete out to make it to the Super

1553
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:02,920
Speaker 2: Bowl out of that comp.

1554
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 9: Well, to be honest with you, the only thing I'm

1555
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,520
Speaker 9: impressed with is that it's not the Chiefs. After there's

1556
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 9: a decade of dominance to someone else. That's what I'm

1557
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 9: most looking forward to. The biggest question going at the

1558
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 9: playoffs is bow Nick's that quarterback that you can rely

1559
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 9: on a crunch time. I know that defense has been

1560
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 9: able to get it done, and I know they've been

1561
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 9: able to do something, but they've also gotten into some shootouts.

1562
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 9: I mean, most notably, I remember watching that Giants game

1563
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 9: with the Broncos, and so it took the Broncos over

1564
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 9: thirty points into beating them to beat the Giants, and

1565
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 9: I don't think that much of the Giants. So I

1566
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 9: questioned a lot of things about bow Nicks's maturity and

1567
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:39,559
Speaker 9: the more infortance, his influence over that Champagne offense and

1568
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 9: how they can carry in the playoffs when he gets

1569
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 9: crunch time. But I really think that the AFC is

1570
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 9: up for grabs. There are a number of notable teams

1571
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 9: that can challenge. I just wish that Buffalo had had

1572
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:51,639
Speaker 9: a better, you know, sort of tail end of this season,

1573
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:53,799
Speaker 9: because I think their windows closing quickly.

1574
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 3: Lincoln is sick with the AFC. Is this a legacy

1575
01:08:57,280 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 3: type of game between the Ravens and Steelers and the

1576
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:02,719
Speaker 3: winner take all division matchup? We got how intrigued are.

1577
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:03,280
Speaker 2: You with this game?

1578
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:06,880
Speaker 9: You know the way that division has always broken down?

1579
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 9: To me, the Ravens can't beat the Bills, the Steelers

1580
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 9: can't beat the Ravens, and obviously the Steelers can't beat

1581
01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 9: the Browns, Cleveland Browns over the last couple of years.

1582
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 9: So it's really up for grabs. It's going to get

1583
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:20,600
Speaker 9: who's going to get hot that night, who's going to

1584
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 9: have the most And I don't know if the Steelers

1585
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:24,600
Speaker 9: can have the wherewithal to have the same power to

1586
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 9: stand and the playoffs. That's why I think it really

1587
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 9: is up for grabs.

1588
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 2: Nick, and I asked you earlier in the interview about

1589
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 2: you know, playing out the string and whether or not

1590
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 2: players should suit up and competing thought processes between the

1591
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 2: front offices and players. But what about the reverse of that,

1592
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 2: When you know you've locked in a playoff spot, maybe

1593
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 2: your seating is still up for grabs. But look at

1594
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:44,439
Speaker 2: a situation where the Rams are playing against Arizona and

1595
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 2: Sean McVay very defiantly says, our starters are going to play.

1596
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:49,639
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter that our seating is pretty much locked

1597
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 2: in at five or six from a player standpoint, at

1598
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 2: that point in time where you can get yourself a

1599
01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:56,839
Speaker 2: pretty much built in by week by sitting your starters

1600
01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:00,200
Speaker 2: versus playing and what is essentially a meaningless game. How

1601
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 2: does that sit with you?

1602
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 9: If I was a coach Figuie, I would not sit

1603
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 9: my starters. I treated like a preseason game. But I

1604
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,160
Speaker 9: would not sit my starters. My starters need to be

1605
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:10,960
Speaker 9: out there. They need to get a ladder, they need

1606
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 9: to get a rhythm. I understand the risks that I'm taking,

1607
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:15,839
Speaker 9: but you know, I look back on as most notably,

1608
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 9: I remember told me Tony Dungeye when he was with

1609
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 9: Tampa Bay and he sat his guys for that first

1610
01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 9: weekend they lost that first round the playoff game. That's

1611
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:25,479
Speaker 9: the risk that you run if you don't have your

1612
01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 9: starters out there, use the guys that got you there,

1613
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 9: and then you can use them wisely. Hey, maybe play

1614
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:32,840
Speaker 9: a half, maybe play a couple series. Like I said,

1615
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 9: you can treat it like a playoff, I mean a

1616
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 9: preseason game. But I believe the players should play, starters

1617
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:38,240
Speaker 9: should play well.

1618
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 3: At the top of the NFC West, we got a

1619
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 3: lot on the line between the forty nine ers and

1620
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:46,120
Speaker 3: the Seahawks Lincoln. How bad does Sam Darnold need to

1621
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 3: prove he can win these big games in your mind?

1622
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 3: Or is that a little bit of an overblown narrative.

1623
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:51,040
Speaker 3: How do you see it?

1624
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 9: I think it's always been an overblown narrative because I

1625
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 9: don't I've never agreed with the point that, you know,

1626
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:58,720
Speaker 9: quarterbacks need to get all the glory when everything great,

1627
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 9: they get all the blame and everything goes wrong. This

1628
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 9: is a team game, so if the defense, if the

1629
01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:05,200
Speaker 9: other parts of the team aren't holding up there into

1630
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:07,600
Speaker 9: the bargain, it shouldn't be put on one man. But

1631
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 9: to your point, as far as Sam Darnold's history, I

1632
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 9: think he's shown he's capable of playing what he did

1633
01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 9: last year in Minnesota, obviously, and I know they fell

1634
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:17,679
Speaker 9: short because in the playoffs because he had a bad game.

1635
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:20,719
Speaker 9: What he did, if anything, you learn from your lessons

1636
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:22,559
Speaker 9: as a player, as a pro, you want to go

1637
01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 9: out there and do the best you can. So with Seattle,

1638
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 9: don't put all the blame on him unless he goes

1639
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 9: out there and throw four picks. But even then, if

1640
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 9: it gets to that point, he should have been pulled

1641
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,040
Speaker 9: a long time ago, after the second one of the

1642
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 9: second picks or something like that, if you don't think

1643
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:37,599
Speaker 9: that he has it or he's not showing it during

1644
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 9: that game. Coaches have to coach, players have to play.

1645
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 2: So based on what you said there a second ago, Lincoln,

1646
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 2: all of the credit and all the blame goes to

1647
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 2: the quarterback whether or not they win or lose. So

1648
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 2: do you believe that there's any pressure on Josh Allen

1649
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 2: and the Bills to win the championship or make it

1650
01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:51,839
Speaker 2: at least to the Super Bowl out of the AFC

1651
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,799
Speaker 2: this year, considering that they're big nemesis, the big roadblock

1652
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 2: in their way to Kansas City. Chiefs are basically are

1653
01:11:57,600 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 2: so sure eliminated, so there is pressure on them.

1654
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:02,200
Speaker 9: Absolutely, Yeah, absolutely. I came into this season thinking that

1655
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:05,559
Speaker 9: this was Buffalo's best chance of winning, especially when Patrick

1656
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 9: Holmes went went down. The fact is they weren't able

1657
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 9: to get over that Kansas City humpt but they were

1658
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,000
Speaker 9: able to answer all the calls for every other team

1659
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 9: in the AFC. Now that Kansas City is down, there

1660
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:17,559
Speaker 9: is there should be no excuse why you don't have

1661
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:19,839
Speaker 9: a road to the playoffs. Now it won't be easy

1662
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 9: coming in as a wildcard, not winning the division, and

1663
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 9: they dropped the ball that way, but they also have

1664
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:27,200
Speaker 9: to learn from their mistakes. Josh Allen isn't the all

1665
01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 9: in all the you know, the player that's going to

1666
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 9: do it all the time, but he is a capable quarterback.

1667
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:34,640
Speaker 9: And I always also believe the way everything goes with

1668
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 9: free agency and how hard it is to manage the teams,

1669
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 9: your window is extensively short. You either get in and

1670
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 9: find a way to win it or you're going to

1671
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 9: be on the outside looking in saying man, I wish

1672
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 9: we could we could have done it. So I think

1673
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 9: this is the year the Buffalo Bill's best year, best chance,

1674
01:12:49,479 --> 01:12:51,160
Speaker 9: and even though they got New England right in front

1675
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 9: of them, they still think it's their best chance to

1676
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 9: try to win it.

1677
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 3: The great Lincoln Kennedy, Raiders legend, Fox Sports Radio legend.

1678
01:12:57,960 --> 01:12:59,680
Speaker 3: Here he's been on with us for years on the

1679
01:12:59,680 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 3: f and podcast side. Lincoln, good to have you back

1680
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 3: on now that's fn A on FSR. Thanks so much

1681
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 3: for doing this.

1682
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,800
Speaker 9: Thanks for having me, guys, you and your family there.

1683
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:12,639
Speaker 3: It goes Big Lincoln Kennedy, the president of the Old Line.

1684
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:16,200
Speaker 3: Because it was Big Lincoln Kennedy, you know president names.

1685
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 2: Uh.

1686
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 3: It was a long time coming to have him back

1687
01:13:18,920 --> 01:13:20,959
Speaker 3: on the show, but it was the right time considering

1688
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 3: what's at stake this weekend.

1689
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 2: I want to get his take on just the giant

1690
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 2: mess that's been in Las Vegas. He's been knee deep

1691
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 2: into doing a pre impost game for them, and that's

1692
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 2: pretty bleak, to be honest.

1693
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 6: The Raiders shuck.

1694
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 3: Until they get the first pick.

1695
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:38,759
Speaker 2: And then they had the first pick with JaMarcus Russell.

1696
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 2: They had the second pick with Robert Gallery. How much longer?

1697
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 2: How much longer you want to go?

1698
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:47,479
Speaker 3: Bas was a pretty good first round pick. I felt like,

1699
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:50,000
Speaker 3: I don't know that idiot kicker. He was pretty good

1700
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 3: for a while.

1701
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 2: No, they took a kicker in the first round of

1702
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:54,320
Speaker 2: the draft.

1703
01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:58,160
Speaker 3: They got many points kickers score over their career, though, Kevin,

1704
01:13:58,240 --> 01:13:59,720
Speaker 3: that's meaningful, all right?

1705
01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:02,880
Speaker 2: Coming up, Mast's made a lot of meaningful kicks in

1706
01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 2: his career.

1707
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 3: Well, then Lane Kiff and have him tried that seventy

1708
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 3: yarder that one time?

1709
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:08,880
Speaker 2: Because Lane knew he was Lane was trying to get

1710
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 2: fired at that point of course he did.

1711
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:12,719
Speaker 3: I think he was a pioneer because now guys actually

1712
01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:15,400
Speaker 3: can kick seventy yarders. Who's the guy from Jacksonville that

1713
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 3: has done it?

1714
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:16,080
Speaker 4: Now?

1715
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 2: Like it's crazy?

1716
01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:19,800
Speaker 3: Speaking of I think I got them somewhere in the

1717
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:21,960
Speaker 3: six pack. Coming up, I got to get to my

1718
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:25,800
Speaker 3: trap game tap. Next, it is FNA here on Fox

1719
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:26,719
Speaker 3: Sports Radio.

1720
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 8: I'm going to go in there, flying man and read

1721
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:31,479
Speaker 8: this like it's supposed to be read, because I've had it.

1722
01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 3: FNA Cotton, FNA, welcome back in It's FNA on Fox

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio. I'm Adam Moslin.

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Speaker 2: He's Kevin Figures.

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Speaker 3: Thanks again to Lincoln Kennedy, the president of the O Line,

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Speaker 3: for joining us in the very last segment. Coming up

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Speaker 3: next hour, more NFL six Pack plus two on two

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01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 3: off our college football forecast and more. But we got

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01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:57,000
Speaker 3: to get back to the NFL six Pack because I

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01:14:57,000 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 3: haven't given my trap game tap yet. Mark all right,

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01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 3: Sador Sanders, be careful in Cincy. It's a time to

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01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:09,320
Speaker 3: put your big boy thong on.

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01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:14,599
Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: You are also not the solidified starter going into next season,

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01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 3: and that Bengals defense puts more pressure on you to perform.

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01:15:25,080 --> 01:15:28,680
Speaker 3: Not because they get pressure on the quarterback, but it

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01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 3: means you have to have a good game against them.

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01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:32,680
Speaker 3: If you don't, we're wondering what the hell happened you

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01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:37,280
Speaker 3: slipped up against that defense. Quarterbacks who have an average

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01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 3: QB rating against their defense of one two. This Bengals

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01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:45,920
Speaker 3: defense has given up thirty touchdowns to just thirteen picks

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Speaker 3: so far this season. Joe Flacco for the Browns back

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01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 3: in Week one when he was a Brown he did

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01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:55,400
Speaker 3: only throw for two ninety and only one touchdown and

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01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:58,719
Speaker 3: two picks, and the Browns lost that game seventeen to sixteen.

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01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:01,759
Speaker 3: Of course, but Shadoor is coming off that big victory

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01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:04,679
Speaker 3: over the Steelers, I guess he was good enough even

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01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:07,599
Speaker 3: with a stat line of a meager seventeen of twenty

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01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,160
Speaker 3: three for one hundred and eighty six yards and one

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Speaker 3: touchdown to two picks, including a pick that looked like

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01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:16,640
Speaker 3: he was playing a game of three flies up.

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01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 2: Kevin.

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Speaker 3: That was one of the worst picks anyone has thrown

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01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 3: all season long, honestly, and I like Shador, but Kyle

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01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 3: Duggar had the pick and someone said, shaduor Sanders, let

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01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 3: Kyle Duggar call fair catch on this interception. That's how

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01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:33,360
Speaker 3: long it was up in the air.

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01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 2: That puzzling.

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01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:37,320
Speaker 3: He threw it across his body. That's a big no no.

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Speaker 3: And of course he was backpedaling as he was under pressure,

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01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:45,160
Speaker 3: which is one of his bad habits. Backing that ass.

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01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:49,680
Speaker 2: Up reminds me of the glory days back in Colorado.

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01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got sacked a lot there, might have solidified

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01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 3: some of those bad habits. We'll see you can get

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01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:57,759
Speaker 3: rid of them. But I would say it is time

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01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 3: to tuck in your thong and tuck in the football

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01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 3: and take some sacks in those situations instead. Should do

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01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 3: her instead of throwing a Nathan Peterman like ball to

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Speaker 3: the defense. This is his playoff game, this is his

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01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 3: super Bowl, because the Browns are about to have an

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Speaker 3: entire offseason to evaluate your tape from this very game.

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01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 3: So you got to put together some good film that

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01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:20,759
Speaker 3: shows you have the tools to be a consistent starting

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01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,880
Speaker 3: quarterback in this league, something the Browns haven't had since

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01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 3: Bernie kozar Otto Graham. It's been a long time. I'm

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01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 3: rooting for him though, But that's a traff game tap

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01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 3: because the defense is sorry with the Bengals, but so

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01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 3: much as given, much as expected, and they're giving you

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01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 3: a lot of easy throws, so you better make them

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01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:42,680
Speaker 3: they really have.

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01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:46,000
Speaker 2: Let's quickly get to my beer goggles game here there are.

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Speaker 6: Mark beer goggles, Kate.

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01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, the ugly matchup that might be entertaining because I'm

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01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:52,760
Speaker 2: sticking with the same matchup there at them. Oh, you know,

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01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 2: it's Week eighteen. Most of the league has nothing to

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01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 2: play for at this point in time, so it's kind

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01:17:56,960 --> 01:17:59,559
Speaker 2: of take your pick of ugly games. Chief among them

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01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 2: that are intriguing coming out of this one is something

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01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 2: I said three weeks ago about Joe Burrow and the Bengals,

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01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 2: the fact that they're eliminated from the postseason. But the

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01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 2: big redeeming value is watching Joe Burrow play and be healthy,

1792
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 2: and he's bawling his ass off. He's completing over seventy

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01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:15,000
Speaker 2: percent of his passes and has thrown ten touchdowns and

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01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 2: just four interceptions since he returned on Thanksgiving. And I

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01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 2: love the fact that he challenged publicly the front office

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01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 2: of the Bengals earlier this week, you know, basically saying,

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01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,639
Speaker 2: we have to be able to put a better product

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01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 2: on the field and be a winning organization and bring

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01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:30,880
Speaker 2: in more players. Now, for all the people who want

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01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:32,519
Speaker 2: to say, you know, well, you're making a crap ton

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01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 2: of money, why don't you give up and you know,

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01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 2: a lot less and take a lot less to that,

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01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 2: I would say, that's fine, But if I take less,

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01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 2: tell me what you plan to do with that money.

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01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 2: This is the old Lebron James with the Lakers a

1806
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, where he says, that's fine, I'll

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01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 2: take less, but I'm not just gonna take less and

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01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 2: just blindly trust you to use those resources to improve

1809
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 2: the basketball team, because, with all due respect, way of

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01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:57,719
Speaker 2: your way of being able to put a roster together

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01:18:57,760 --> 01:18:59,720
Speaker 2: has been severely lacking, to say the least, these last

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01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 2: couple years. You can say that about them. You can

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01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 2: say that about the Cincinnati Bengals. So good on Joe

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01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 2: Burrow for holding their feet to the fire. We'll see

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01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 2: if they decide to be aggressive and improve the team

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01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 2: around him, or if he decides to ask for a trade,

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01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 2: which I don't think is unlikely to be honest with you,

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01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:15,760
Speaker 2: to Andy Capper right now, while probably has more likely

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01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 2: than not that Joe Burrow as for a trade in

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01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:18,760
Speaker 2: the off season.

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Speaker 3: It almost feels like Giannis is in a koopal with

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Speaker 3: the Bucks. We're heading that way. Eventually. It is inevitable,

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01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 3: I guarantee it, because as you mentioned, they're cheap there

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01:19:29,479 --> 01:19:30,640
Speaker 3: with the Bengals.

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01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 2: Cos they always do. That's how that's how they They've

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01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:37,240
Speaker 2: operated for years. So we know what Joe Burrow in

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Speaker 2: the Bengals offense is gonna bring. But for the Browns,

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Speaker 2: this is really a lot of what you just said

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01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:43,240
Speaker 2: a second ago. It's similar to what I said about

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01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:45,760
Speaker 2: Jackson Dart. This is kind of like a final dress

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01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:48,640
Speaker 2: rehearsal for Shador Sanders to see if he's gonna be

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01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:51,639
Speaker 2: a really big part of the equation in their quarterback room.

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01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 2: Coming up next year, Deshaun Watson's gonna come back. He's

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01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 2: making so much money, he's not going anywhere. If he's

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01:19:56,320 --> 01:19:58,479
Speaker 2: back healthy, he's probably gonna be part of some sort

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01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 2: of competition. And if Shadres Sanders is going to be

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01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:04,200
Speaker 2: a real legit threat in that competition. He's gonna have

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01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 2: to show himself well this weekend against as you mentioned,

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01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 2: a pretty atrocious Cincinnati Bengals defense. So that's why I'm

1840
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 2: intrigued by this game.

1841
01:20:11,160 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 3: And we don't know if their head coach is going

1842
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 3: to be back, and if you bring in a new guy, Schedure,

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01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:20,160
Speaker 3: it's not like they loved him already. This coaching staff

1844
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 3: or showed him a lot of love. But the next

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01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:24,559
Speaker 3: guy may say I want my own quarterback.

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01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 2: It's very true.

1847
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 3: I want to pick out the ingredients here if I'm

1848
01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:28,160
Speaker 3: making this meal.

1849
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:29,960
Speaker 2: And by the way, I think it'd be a mistake

1850
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 2: if they fired Kevin Stefanski. He strikes me as one

1851
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 2: of those guys if he gets let go, he'll have

1852
01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 2: a job in five seconds. And also say this, if

1853
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 2: he let's get gets let go, and so to speak, Carol,

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01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind having Stefanski in Las Vegas. It's FNA

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01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:40,799
Speaker 2: on FSR.

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Speaker 2: finish off the show.

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Speaker 2: That's right, let's dive back into the NFL six pack, Adam,

1873
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:31,280
Speaker 2: I believe you have your beer goggles game on tap.

1874
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got one for you. I got my beer

1875
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:40,200
Speaker 3: goggles on and through them, I see a classic NFC

1876
01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 3: East matchup of the highest order between the Dallas Cowboys

1877
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 3: and the New York Giants in the Big Apple. As

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01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:50,840
Speaker 3: Jackson Dart is gonna have to let his Apple dumplings

1879
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 3: hang because, as we mentioned, the reports, well they're a

1880
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 3: little suspect on him. Seems like the Giants are open

1881
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 3: to taking be in the draft. Still, they should be

1882
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 3: if the right guy falls to them, because Jackson Dart

1883
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 3: refuses to fall to the turf and instead prefers taking

1884
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:13,639
Speaker 3: those Terry Tait office linebacker like hits. Every single week.

1885
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 3: He is spending half of his season in the blue tent,

1886
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:20,320
Speaker 3: getting evaluated for a concussion all the time, like he's

1887
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 3: never gonna stay healthy playing like this. So draft a

1888
01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:27,679
Speaker 3: quarterback for an insurance policy at least, or get Joe Flacco,

1889
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:30,360
Speaker 3: or convince Philip Rivers to say f them kids and

1890
01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:31,679
Speaker 3: stay in the league another year.

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01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 2: I like dar Jackson Dart.

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01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:39,160
Speaker 3: He's been okay, he does have potential, but there's a

1893
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:42,240
Speaker 3: much greater chance, based upon his style of play, that

1894
01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 3: he ends up being hurt that he ends up being

1895
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 3: a top ten quarterback in this league, which is what

1896
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:49,240
Speaker 3: you want to win at the highest level in order

1897
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:51,760
Speaker 3: to justify not having an alternate plan or bringing in

1898
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 3: a guy to compete with him, at least to push

1899
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 3: him during training camp. Dart has been fine, but this

1900
01:22:57,320 --> 01:23:00,840
Speaker 3: isn't Jaden Daniels in his rookie season. This isn't Dak

1901
01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 3: Prescott where you know this guy is your future, and

1902
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 3: there's no need to look elsewhere. But I am intrigued

1903
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 3: as you are to see how he plays. And they're

1904
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:11,600
Speaker 3: going up against a bad defense. It's kind of the

1905
01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:14,680
Speaker 3: same thing with Shduur Sanders. You better light up the

1906
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys defense. It's given up twenty nine points per game.

1907
01:23:18,320 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 3: Dart was okay last week, I thought, against a Raiders

1908
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 3: team that was trying to lose.

1909
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 6: The Raiders suck.

1910
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:27,639
Speaker 3: The Cowboys offense, though, could demand Dart to get into

1911
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:30,120
Speaker 3: a shootout. Can he win a game like that? He

1912
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:33,639
Speaker 3: hasn't thrown for three hundred yards yet. Dallas's defense could

1913
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:36,280
Speaker 3: help there. But my beer goggles are showing me there's

1914
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 3: plenty to watch in this game, even without any playoff

1915
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:43,760
Speaker 3: implications on the line. All mark our Oh Troy epic

1916
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 3: failed potential game.

1917
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:58,600
Speaker 7: Oh my god, he missed it.

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01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

1919
01:24:02,040 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 7: Oh right, I'm so sorry, Oh my god.

1920
01:24:07,320 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 2: So who has the potential to fail this weekend? I'm

1921
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:13,840
Speaker 2: going with the Rams, who are deciding to play their

1922
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:18,040
Speaker 2: starters against the Cardinals in look not necessarily a meaningless game.

1923
01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 2: They could be the fifth seed, they could be the

1924
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 2: sixth seed in the NFC, and the ajo question always

1925
01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:26,000
Speaker 2: comes up every season for a select number of teams

1926
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 2: who are fortunate enough to qualify for the playoffs. You know,

1927
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 2: you say, do I rest my starters or do I

1928
01:24:30,080 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 2: let them play? It's not as like they have nothing

1929
01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:35,040
Speaker 2: to play for, like I mentioned a second ago, and

1930
01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 2: I look, I realize they haven't played well lately, and

1931
01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 2: I realize they've lost three of their last five to

1932
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 2: two of those losses. So the Panthers and Falcons, like

1933
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 2: we talked about earlier in the show when talking about

1934
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Speaker 2: the MVP conversation with Matthew Stafford, their other loss was

1935
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Speaker 2: that crazy Thursday night game when they blew that thirty

1936
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:52,080
Speaker 2: to fourteen lead against Seattle in the fourth quarter. So

1937
01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:55,640
Speaker 2: I do understand why Sean McVay is exasperated with the

1938
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:58,040
Speaker 2: team and he wants them to regain their edge before

1939
01:24:58,080 --> 01:25:00,760
Speaker 2: going into a playoff matchup and freezing tip And look,

1940
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:02,840
Speaker 2: thinking Kennedy even brought this up to us when we

1941
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:05,920
Speaker 2: spoke to him last hour. It's like, look, even if

1942
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:07,920
Speaker 2: you qualify for the playoffs, treated like a preseason game,

1943
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:09,599
Speaker 2: get guys in there, Get them to get their feet

1944
01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:12,720
Speaker 2: wet so they don't lose their rhythm. I understand that outlook.

1945
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 2: But when you're a team like the Rams, you have

1946
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 2: a little bit of an older roster, you have a

1947
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:18,519
Speaker 2: bunch of guys who have been banged up already this year.

1948
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 2: I just don't want to risk it. It's not worth

1949
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 2: risking it against Arizona. Like, yeah, you'd rather have a

1950
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,680
Speaker 2: convincing win to finish the season than the alternative. But

1951
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 2: the risk isn't worth a potential reward to me, because

1952
01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:32,760
Speaker 2: you blowing out Arizona on Sunday is going to prove

1953
01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:35,360
Speaker 2: exactly one thing. We know the Rams are good and

1954
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:37,920
Speaker 2: the reinforces of the Cardinals suck. We already knew that,

1955
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 2: So it doesn't make any difference whether your starters play

1956
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:42,479
Speaker 2: or not. I can remember back a couple of years

1957
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:44,799
Speaker 2: when the Chargers were playing the Broncos in a meaningless

1958
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:47,400
Speaker 2: game in Week eighteen and Mike Williams got hurt and

1959
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:50,679
Speaker 2: that's a mister wild card game against Jacksonville, and Brandon

1960
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 2: Staley doubled down on his decision to play all of

1961
01:25:52,760 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 2: his starters in that game. And by the way, they

1962
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 2: lost that game to Jacksonville. Brand that they were up

1963
01:25:57,400 --> 01:26:00,599
Speaker 2: like twenty eight to three or something and lost. But still, yeah,

1964
01:26:00,800 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 2: it was.

1965
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 3: It was very unlucky.

1966
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 2: Unlucky. Yeah, in a game that they didn't have to

1967
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:07,800
Speaker 2: play them in. What was the point? What were you

1968
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:09,840
Speaker 2: looking to game? What do you stand the game by

1969
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 2: playing them in the first in a meaningless game at

1970
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 2: the end of the regular season. I just don't to

1971
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:16,000
Speaker 2: understand that the Kansas City Chiefs pulled all their starters

1972
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:18,000
Speaker 2: at the end of last season and didn't hurt them

1973
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:20,520
Speaker 2: losing their edge going to the Super Bowl against Philadelphia.

1974
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:23,320
Speaker 2: So look, even with the Rams' recent struggles, there's still

1975
01:26:23,320 --> 01:26:25,599
Speaker 2: a very legit threat in the NFC. But those odds

1976
01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:28,600
Speaker 2: dwindle mightily if they lose an important player in a

1977
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 2: game that means absolutely nothing. I'm sorry, I'm not risking it.

1978
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 2: I'm not shooting those guys up.

1979
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 3: I slightly disagree, but I'll get to it in a

1980
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:38,919
Speaker 3: little bit. My old Troy epic fail. Dear Mike Tomlin,

1981
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 3: do not blow this three to one type of lead

1982
01:26:42,439 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 3: like you had at the beginning of the season back

1983
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:46,760
Speaker 3: when you were four and one and the Ravens were

1984
01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 3: one in five to start things out in the AFC North.

1985
01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:53,639
Speaker 3: Do not let me be right in predicting the Ravens

1986
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:56,759
Speaker 3: would win the division by beating you in week eighteen.

1987
01:26:57,360 --> 01:26:59,479
Speaker 3: You did not want me to get more full of

1988
01:26:59,479 --> 01:27:00,160
Speaker 3: myself right.

1989
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:02,040
Speaker 2: Now, great kid, don't get cocky.

1990
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:04,640
Speaker 3: I'm like the Hulk. But instead of you wouldn't like

1991
01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:07,920
Speaker 3: me when I'm angry, it's you wouldn't like me when

1992
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:10,400
Speaker 3: I'm right, because I won't let you forget.

1993
01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 6: About it for ever.

1994
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:15,679
Speaker 3: Me being right is enough to push Steelers fans over

1995
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 3: the edge and have them calling for Mike Tomlin's head

1996
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:21,600
Speaker 3: more than usual. After all, well, you've never had a

1997
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:24,639
Speaker 3: losing record. They also haven't won a playoff game since

1998
01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:28,439
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen, and this is in essence, at least a

1999
01:27:28,479 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 3: play in game, a winner take all in the AFC North,

2000
01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:34,280
Speaker 3: and it gets you to host a playoff game, by

2001
01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:37,759
Speaker 3: the way, if you win it. After that Futred loss

2002
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 3: to the Browns last week with a chance to lock

2003
01:27:40,080 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 3: up the division, which some are calling the worst loss

2004
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:46,280
Speaker 3: of the Mike Tomlin era, well he can't follow that

2005
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 3: up with an even worse loss, because that's what it

2006
01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:51,839
Speaker 3: would be if you choke away the division to the Ravens.

2007
01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:54,840
Speaker 3: As you know, this would be one of the most

2008
01:27:54,880 --> 01:27:58,879
Speaker 3: disappointing seasons ever. We were thinking initially with the Ravens

2009
01:27:58,920 --> 01:28:01,800
Speaker 3: because half the people that where prognosticators had them winning

2010
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl or Lamar Jackson winning an MVP. You're

2011
01:28:04,960 --> 01:28:05,680
Speaker 3: gonna lose to that.

2012
01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:06,160
Speaker 2: Ravens.

2013
01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 3: Team insider Albert Breer said this week Tomlin might move

2014
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:15,720
Speaker 3: into TV in a couple of years or this year,

2015
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 3: I'm on TV. He may step away from coaching. He's

2016
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:22,719
Speaker 3: only fifty three. He could come back. But the report

2017
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 3: is that Chris Shula, the defensive coordinator for the Rams,

2018
01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 3: might be connected to the Steelers job. According to Albert Breer,

2019
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 3: so the buzzards or the vultures are circling. Some are

2020
01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 3: praying for his downfall.

2021
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:35,800
Speaker 2: I'm not.

2022
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:37,800
Speaker 3: I think he's one of those guys where the game

2023
01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:40,639
Speaker 3: is better with him. We've grown up with Mike Tomlin

2024
01:28:40,720 --> 01:28:42,560
Speaker 3: for so long it would be strange not to have

2025
01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 3: him coaching.

2026
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:44,760
Speaker 2: This is another one of those guys I met just

2027
01:28:44,760 --> 01:28:46,880
Speaker 2: the fancy at the end of last hour. If and

2028
01:28:46,920 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 2: when he is a free agent, whether he loses his job,

2029
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 2: whether he walks away on his own or gets fired,

2030
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,559
Speaker 2: he'll have a job within five minutes if he wants it.

2031
01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 2: You know who I think would pick him up pretty quickly.

2032
01:28:58,120 --> 01:28:59,400
Speaker 6: The Raiders suck.

2033
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:00,479
Speaker 3: If they fire Carroll.

2034
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 2: I can see that.

2035
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 3: You get a guy that's twenty years younger, he's only

2036
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:04,840
Speaker 3: fifty three.

2037
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:06,400
Speaker 2: I can most definitely see that.

2038
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:08,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just want to throw that one out there.

2039
01:29:08,840 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 3: But obviously this is one of the best games of

2040
01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 3: the weekend, and it's on Big Sunday Night Football. There's

2041
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:17,240
Speaker 3: my old Troy epic fail. Don't do it, Mike, don't

2042
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:20,320
Speaker 3: blow this. I won't let you forget about it. What's

2043
01:29:20,360 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 3: up next?

2044
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 6: Mark under the microscope?

2045
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:24,799
Speaker 2: Got all right? So what should we be watching closely

2046
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 2: this weekend? I am going with the Seattle Seahawks and

2047
01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 2: specifically Sam Darnold. Funny how players often find themselves in

2048
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:33,679
Speaker 2: the exact same situation on a year in and year

2049
01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 2: out basis. How many years the Peyton Mannings Colts hit

2050
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 2: a brick wall in the Patriots when they played him

2051
01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:40,680
Speaker 2: in the postseason? How many times did the Lakers not

2052
01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 2: break through against the Celtics back in the day? Not enough,

2053
01:29:43,600 --> 01:29:47,720
Speaker 2: all of them, not enough? Josh Allen can't shake the

2054
01:29:47,800 --> 01:29:49,760
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs, and on and on and on. If

2055
01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:52,519
Speaker 2: you look out last season ended for Sam Donald, you

2056
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:54,479
Speaker 2: start getting a bit of dayjav U effect to a

2057
01:29:54,479 --> 01:29:56,880
Speaker 2: certain degree. Remember at the end of last year, the

2058
01:29:56,960 --> 01:29:59,680
Speaker 2: Vikings had that big game again Detroit, essentially in this

2059
01:29:59,720 --> 01:30:03,880
Speaker 2: same situation when in Week eighteen you get the one seed, lose,

2060
01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:06,160
Speaker 2: you get the five seed in a row playoff game,

2061
01:30:06,439 --> 01:30:09,560
Speaker 2: and Sam Donald folded. Now we didn't have any turnovers,

2062
01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:11,599
Speaker 2: but he threw for under two hundred yards and did

2063
01:30:11,600 --> 01:30:15,760
Speaker 2: not produce a single touchdown drive in that matchup. Now,

2064
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:18,000
Speaker 2: Donald has had an excellent season this year. I talked

2065
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 2: about Jackson Smith and jagbabing his only target, and those

2066
01:30:20,320 --> 01:30:23,679
Speaker 2: guys connecting and breaking records and having a phenomenal season. Sure,

2067
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:26,920
Speaker 2: I think twenty twenty five is even more impressive because,

2068
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:28,960
Speaker 2: unlike last year when he had Jordan Jefferson in a

2069
01:30:28,960 --> 01:30:31,880
Speaker 2: host of weapons, JSN has really been his only go

2070
01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:34,040
Speaker 2: to threat. So I'll give him some credit for that.

2071
01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:36,840
Speaker 2: Everybody knows exactly who you're going to and you're still

2072
01:30:36,880 --> 01:30:40,200
Speaker 2: able to be effective more often than you're not. But

2073
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 2: if you look at the most recent trend for Donald

2074
01:30:42,360 --> 01:30:45,639
Speaker 2: down the stretch, he has not played all that well recently.

2075
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,400
Speaker 2: Despite the fact that Seattle has won six games in

2076
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:52,520
Speaker 2: a row since Week eleven, Donald eight touchdowns, ten turnovers.

2077
01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:56,400
Speaker 2: His completion percentage is down eight percentage points. His passer

2078
01:30:56,479 --> 01:31:00,200
Speaker 2: rating has dropped from one sixteen to eighty one over

2079
01:31:00,240 --> 01:31:05,800
Speaker 2: the past six weeks. Far from it, not to mention

2080
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:08,759
Speaker 2: just in totality Adam. For the total totality of the season,

2081
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:10,760
Speaker 2: he has twenty turnovers, which leads the league.

2082
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 3: I did not know that he's.

2083
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:13,640
Speaker 2: Turned the ball over more than anybody else in the

2084
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:15,040
Speaker 2: NF that includes Geno Smith.

2085
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 3: Well, you know what he's trying to do, keep these

2086
01:31:16,840 --> 01:31:19,360
Speaker 3: expectations low so it doesn't look like as much of

2087
01:31:19,439 --> 01:31:21,640
Speaker 3: a choke job because he just hasn't actually been that

2088
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:22,639
Speaker 3: good along the way.

2089
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:25,920
Speaker 2: That's what it is. I see, I'm placing him under

2090
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 2: the microscope. And what is essentially you know, he talked

2091
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:30,680
Speaker 2: about that Pittsburgh Baltimore game essentially being a playoff game.

2092
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:33,639
Speaker 2: It's a play in game. This is essentially a playoff game.

2093
01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:36,000
Speaker 2: Now they're already in. But you win this game, it's

2094
01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:38,479
Speaker 2: the equivalent of winning a wildcard game with the added

2095
01:31:38,520 --> 01:31:40,639
Speaker 2: advantage that you get a week off in the divisional rounds.

2096
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:42,599
Speaker 2: So you're playing for a buy right now. But for

2097
01:31:42,640 --> 01:31:44,400
Speaker 2: Seattle to beat the forty nine ers who have been

2098
01:31:44,439 --> 01:31:47,439
Speaker 2: white hot, white hot recently. They're gonna need Sam Donald

2099
01:31:47,479 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 2: to play the way he played in the first two

2100
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:51,839
Speaker 2: months of the season as opposed to the last six weeks. Otherwise,

2101
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:54,320
Speaker 2: the same narrative that followed Peyton Manning against the Patriots,

2102
01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:57,360
Speaker 2: Lakers against the Celtics, Andy Dalton against everybody in the

2103
01:31:57,400 --> 01:32:00,720
Speaker 2: postseason is gonna follow Sam Donald in this situation too.

2104
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:03,400
Speaker 2: Play well on the Niners tonight.

2105
01:32:03,520 --> 01:32:06,559
Speaker 3: The Niners white hot because Christian McCaffrey and brock Perty

2106
01:32:06,560 --> 01:32:11,439
Speaker 3: are white hot power, so to speak. My under the

2107
01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:16,640
Speaker 3: microscope game, I actually think the Rams Arizona game is

2108
01:32:16,640 --> 01:32:19,759
Speaker 3: a big one because the difference between being the fifth

2109
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:23,479
Speaker 3: seed or the sixth seed in the NFC, I think

2110
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:27,120
Speaker 3: it's massive. If you're fifth, you go to Carolina or

2111
01:32:27,200 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay in Round one. If you're sixth, you either

2112
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:34,040
Speaker 3: go to Chicago or Philadelphia. The Rams lost in the

2113
01:32:34,120 --> 01:32:37,800
Speaker 3: NFC Championship game in Philly this past season. I mean,

2114
01:32:37,840 --> 01:32:40,400
Speaker 3: it was cold, they lost late. It was a great game.

2115
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:44,599
Speaker 3: But if they lose the sixth seed. If the Rams

2116
01:32:44,640 --> 01:32:48,799
Speaker 3: win and Seattle beats the Niners, they're in the five spot.

2117
01:32:49,040 --> 01:32:51,519
Speaker 3: If the Rams win and the forty nine Ers beat Seattle.

2118
01:32:51,920 --> 01:32:57,479
Speaker 3: The Rams are the sixth seed. Rams fans aside, you know,

2119
01:32:57,840 --> 01:33:00,280
Speaker 3: aside from rooting for you guys to win, you probably

2120
01:33:00,320 --> 01:33:02,519
Speaker 3: should be rooting for Seattle to beat the forty nine

2121
01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:03,640
Speaker 3: ers in Sanaerica.

2122
01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:05,840
Speaker 2: You need that to help you soon.

2123
01:33:05,920 --> 01:33:08,679
Speaker 3: So remember the Seahawks lost to them in Week one

2124
01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:11,880
Speaker 3: at home, seventeen to thirteen. Sam Darnold was not great

2125
01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 3: in that game as well. He wasn't good to end

2126
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:16,840
Speaker 3: last season. As you mentioned, he wasn't good against the

2127
01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:20,479
Speaker 3: Rams in the playoff game last year. He's not to

2128
01:33:20,520 --> 01:33:24,960
Speaker 3: be fully trusted. He's got those Kirk Cousins like big

2129
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:28,400
Speaker 3: game demons, and if he does win this game, he

2130
01:33:28,520 --> 01:33:31,360
Speaker 3: might go full Kirk Cousins and start talking to the media.

2131
01:33:31,479 --> 01:33:33,000
Speaker 2: You like that, Yeah, you like that.

2132
01:33:33,720 --> 01:33:35,719
Speaker 3: But the Rams, first of all, they got to handle

2133
01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 3: their own business at home against the Cardinals, which shouldn't

2134
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 3: be hard because the Cardinals are one in fourteen their

2135
01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:47,280
Speaker 3: last fifteen games. I think they're playing guys not just

2136
01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:50,160
Speaker 3: to stay in rhythm, but because they want that NFC

2137
01:33:50,200 --> 01:33:53,920
Speaker 3: South champ even though they lost in Carolina before. Come on,

2138
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:58,120
Speaker 3: I saw that game that was way too fluky with

2139
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:02,640
Speaker 3: those two fourth down touchdowns bombs from Bryce Young, I

2140
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:07,080
Speaker 3: would feel pretty good. I'm a Rams fan and they're

2141
01:34:07,120 --> 01:34:12,040
Speaker 3: going back to Carolina. They may also want Matt Stafford

2142
01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:15,360
Speaker 3: to go stat Padford to increase his chances of winning

2143
01:34:15,439 --> 01:34:18,640
Speaker 3: the MVP. Those for five or six touchdowns.

2144
01:34:18,640 --> 01:34:21,040
Speaker 2: Is back cross my mind a bit at him, because

2145
01:34:21,080 --> 01:34:22,840
Speaker 2: by the way they control their own destiny to a

2146
01:34:22,840 --> 01:34:25,200
Speaker 2: certain degree, they will know by the time Sunday rolls

2147
01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:27,360
Speaker 2: around if they even have a chance to do that

2148
01:34:27,479 --> 01:34:30,040
Speaker 2: or not. And Sean McVay said, regardless of whatever happens

2149
01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:33,120
Speaker 2: on Saturday, he's playing his starters, even if they're a

2150
01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 2: locked into the sixth seed, He's still playing all of

2151
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:35,679
Speaker 2: his starters.

2152
01:34:35,720 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 3: What is that Seattle forty nine Ers game Saturday night

2153
01:34:38,280 --> 01:34:38,639
Speaker 3: or something?

2154
01:34:39,280 --> 01:34:41,040
Speaker 2: Just trying to you know that just that's the thing

2155
01:34:41,080 --> 01:34:42,120
Speaker 2: that's that's important.

2156
01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:43,560
Speaker 6: I'm a dumbass.

2157
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:47,000
Speaker 3: Yeah I forgot about that part, all right, Yeah, yeah,

2158
01:34:47,040 --> 01:34:48,760
Speaker 3: but but still.

2159
01:34:48,560 --> 01:34:50,479
Speaker 2: Now, I will say this now to your point, if

2160
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:52,880
Speaker 2: Seattle wins, then it does give the Rams something to

2161
01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:54,800
Speaker 2: play for it to a certain degree. I guess you

2162
01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:56,519
Speaker 2: just kind of you back yourself into your into a

2163
01:34:56,560 --> 01:34:58,280
Speaker 2: corner and lock yourself in and say I'm play Am

2164
01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:01,320
Speaker 2: start as regardless, and it's like, well, it's not necessary.

2165
01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:03,040
Speaker 2: Why am I putting those guys in harm's way?

2166
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:04,599
Speaker 3: Maybe he just plays them a quarter?

2167
01:35:05,320 --> 01:35:07,640
Speaker 2: Well, what wills is a preseason game type thing, and

2168
01:35:07,680 --> 01:35:09,599
Speaker 2: maybe it is, like looking Kennedy told us, maybe that's

2169
01:35:09,640 --> 01:35:11,160
Speaker 2: what the maybe that's what the situation is.

2170
01:35:11,400 --> 01:35:14,480
Speaker 3: All right, Finally, here Mark, what do we got?

2171
01:35:14,960 --> 01:35:16,120
Speaker 6: Redemption round?

2172
01:35:16,439 --> 01:35:19,680
Speaker 2: Kevin? I'm going back to the Steelers and Ravens for

2173
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 2: the AFC North title, and I put in the Steelers

2174
01:35:22,080 --> 01:35:24,200
Speaker 2: here in the redemption around. I'm typically not and I

2175
01:35:24,240 --> 01:35:26,000
Speaker 2: told you so guy. Just like you said Adam that

2176
01:35:26,040 --> 01:35:28,599
Speaker 2: you will, I guess I'm not. You just basically said

2177
01:35:28,600 --> 01:35:32,000
Speaker 2: that you are great. Don't get cocky. The entire world

2178
01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:33,839
Speaker 2: that I told you two plus two was four. Everybody

2179
01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:36,639
Speaker 2: listened to me. But when I came to the Steelers

2180
01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:39,200
Speaker 2: Browns game last weekend, what did I tell you?

2181
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:40,720
Speaker 3: What did you tell me?

2182
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:43,880
Speaker 2: I said, do not sleep on Cleveland, and more importantly,

2183
01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:47,080
Speaker 2: I said, do not trust Pittsburgh. It will not surprise

2184
01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:49,439
Speaker 2: me at all if the Cleveland Browns win this game.

2185
01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:51,439
Speaker 3: So I shouldn't have taken the Steelers to cover.

2186
01:35:53,439 --> 01:35:55,080
Speaker 2: I did find that to be an interesting two on

2187
01:35:55,120 --> 01:35:56,720
Speaker 2: two off that you had last weekend. But you know what,

2188
01:35:56,800 --> 01:35:58,479
Speaker 2: I didn't have the greatest two on two off myself

2189
01:35:58,479 --> 01:36:01,200
Speaker 2: this past week. You didn't. Well, we'll get to listen to.

2190
01:36:01,160 --> 01:36:05,200
Speaker 1: You, right, great, kid, don't get cocky.

2191
01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:08,760
Speaker 2: After the season you've had. I'm not mathematically eliminated yet,

2192
01:36:08,800 --> 01:36:12,000
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much. Great. Sure enough, the disaster

2193
01:36:12,040 --> 01:36:15,160
Speaker 2: scenario presented itself for Pittsburgh last week. Now they find

2194
01:36:15,160 --> 01:36:17,360
Speaker 2: themselves in a de facto playoff game, like you mentioned,

2195
01:36:17,360 --> 01:36:20,960
Speaker 2: plate taking on Baltimore for the ASC North championship. But

2196
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:22,840
Speaker 2: you're a team that wins on the margins, that needs

2197
01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:24,840
Speaker 2: every single edge you can find in games to try

2198
01:36:24,880 --> 01:36:27,760
Speaker 2: to win. You can't afford self inflicted wounds. And that's

2199
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:30,479
Speaker 2: exactly what happened with DK metcalf a couple of weeks ago,

2200
01:36:30,800 --> 01:36:32,720
Speaker 2: because he's really put them behind the a ball by

2201
01:36:32,720 --> 01:36:35,200
Speaker 2: not being available in this game. I don't know what

2202
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:37,600
Speaker 2: the fan did or didn't say, Detroit, but I do

2203
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:39,720
Speaker 2: know that the league and the Lions both investigated it

2204
01:36:39,760 --> 01:36:42,639
Speaker 2: and found no evidence of fam misconduct. So whether they're

2205
01:36:42,640 --> 01:36:44,960
Speaker 2: calling him by his government name or whatever it was,

2206
01:36:45,320 --> 01:36:49,959
Speaker 2: their investigation determined that there was nothing that was racial

2207
01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:53,360
Speaker 2: or discriminatory or anything like that that would cause DK

2208
01:36:53,439 --> 01:36:54,960
Speaker 2: Metcalf to react the way that he reacted.

2209
01:36:55,040 --> 01:36:56,960
Speaker 3: You think if I run up to Snoop Dogg and

2210
01:36:57,000 --> 01:36:59,200
Speaker 3: call him Calvin over and over again, he'll try to

2211
01:36:59,200 --> 01:37:03,880
Speaker 3: punch me. Well he might, Hey, Calvin, Calvin Bronis.

2212
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 2: And he might be justified.

2213
01:37:06,520 --> 01:37:07,639
Speaker 3: Come on, that's his name.

2214
01:37:09,880 --> 01:37:13,040
Speaker 2: You everybody knows Snoop a snoop? Is he snoop Dogg?

2215
01:37:13,200 --> 01:37:16,240
Speaker 2: Is he Snoop lying? I don't know? Does he snoop

2216
01:37:16,320 --> 01:37:19,120
Speaker 2: doggie dog? Yeah? Or as the late Great Chick hern

2217
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:21,760
Speaker 2: once called him, snoopy dog dog who knows you know, well,

2218
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 2: he can say whatever, Yes, the chick can say whatever

2219
01:37:23,840 --> 01:37:25,920
Speaker 2: the hell he wants. But he is the most he

2220
01:37:25,960 --> 01:37:28,559
Speaker 2: being DK Metcalf the most impactful weapon that the Steeler

2221
01:37:28,640 --> 01:37:31,240
Speaker 2: offense has, and the fact that he wasn't there last

2222
01:37:31,240 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 2: week against Cleveland is glaring that their offense is next

2223
01:37:35,240 --> 01:37:37,000
Speaker 2: to nothing without him in the line. Look, their offense

2224
01:37:37,080 --> 01:37:39,040
Speaker 2: in that great with him, to be honest with you,

2225
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 2: so when he's in there as a legit deep threat. Look,

2226
01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:44,479
Speaker 2: he torched the Baltimore Ravens when they played each other

2227
01:37:44,520 --> 01:37:46,719
Speaker 2: three weeks ago. He was a big reason why Pittsburgh

2228
01:37:46,760 --> 01:37:49,160
Speaker 2: won that game. Had a couple of big game a

2229
01:37:49,200 --> 01:37:51,479
Speaker 2: bigger catches in a big touchdown catch against Miami the

2230
01:37:51,520 --> 01:37:54,760
Speaker 2: following week. So look, it's positive for the Steelers that

2231
01:37:54,760 --> 01:37:57,040
Speaker 2: they're getting TJ. Watt back. That's huge for them. Their

2232
01:37:57,040 --> 01:37:59,160
Speaker 2: defense has played well in spurts and they're gonna get

2233
01:37:59,360 --> 01:38:01,799
Speaker 2: their best end of a defensive player back in the lineup.

2234
01:38:01,840 --> 01:38:05,040
Speaker 2: That's great. Most importantly, I said that the Ravens were

2235
01:38:05,040 --> 01:38:07,439
Speaker 2: done and we're not gonna make the playoffs way back

2236
01:38:07,439 --> 01:38:09,200
Speaker 2: when they were one and five, Adam, and we had

2237
01:38:09,240 --> 01:38:12,320
Speaker 2: this debate back then. So I'm not going to backtrack now.

2238
01:38:14,360 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 2: Savior's not as if the Ravens are the bastions of

2239
01:38:16,840 --> 01:38:19,559
Speaker 2: consistency themselves. They've lost three of their last five games

2240
01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:21,920
Speaker 2: and probably only ran Derek Henry into the ground against

2241
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:24,160
Speaker 2: the Packers because Snoop Unley was the quarterback.

2242
01:38:24,200 --> 01:38:27,280
Speaker 3: Hey, Lamar's playing, all right, Lamar's playing Sunday night.

2243
01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a good thing. If the

2244
01:38:29,360 --> 01:38:31,559
Speaker 2: Ravens were smart, because they were If they were smart,

2245
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:33,800
Speaker 2: they would go back to the well on Sunday night,

2246
01:38:34,160 --> 01:38:36,360
Speaker 2: give the ball to King Henry and get the bleep

2247
01:38:36,400 --> 01:38:38,680
Speaker 2: out of the way. The problem is, I don't know

2248
01:38:38,720 --> 01:38:41,320
Speaker 2: if they will allow themselves to do that. Lamar Jackson

2249
01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:44,360
Speaker 2: is the franchise quarterback face to the team. I don't

2250
01:38:44,439 --> 01:38:46,720
Speaker 2: know if Baltimore will not try to find a way

2251
01:38:46,720 --> 01:38:49,160
Speaker 2: to put him in and make a put an imprint

2252
01:38:49,200 --> 01:38:49,800
Speaker 2: on this game.

2253
01:38:50,120 --> 01:38:51,640
Speaker 3: You can tell me it's going to be like at

2254
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:53,720
Speaker 3: the goal line with Pete Carroll and trying to get

2255
01:38:53,800 --> 01:38:56,439
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson his big moment in the Super Bowl instead

2256
01:38:56,439 --> 01:38:57,639
Speaker 3: of just handing the ball off.

2257
01:38:58,040 --> 01:39:01,439
Speaker 2: Maybe not explicitly that play, but yes, I don't know

2258
01:39:01,479 --> 01:39:04,439
Speaker 2: if I trust their offensive staff to literally just give

2259
01:39:04,439 --> 01:39:06,040
Speaker 2: it to Derrick Henry and get out of the way

2260
01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:08,080
Speaker 2: and not have Lamar Jackson put a stamp on the game.

2261
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:11,479
Speaker 2: I don't see it. What big I mean gal So,

2262
01:39:11,760 --> 01:39:14,000
Speaker 2: considering how he's played this year, the game plan should

2263
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:18,160
Speaker 2: be the same on Sunday Night as it was Snoop Huntley.

2264
01:39:18,439 --> 01:39:20,840
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if Lamar Jackson Snoop Huntley or as

2265
01:39:20,840 --> 01:39:22,800
Speaker 2: we talked about a second ago, Snoop Dogg is behind

2266
01:39:22,840 --> 01:39:26,160
Speaker 2: center hand the ball to Derrick Henry. I do not

2267
01:39:26,240 --> 01:39:28,479
Speaker 2: know if Baltimore will do that, and because of that,

2268
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:31,000
Speaker 2: I can easily see the Pittsburgh Steelers winning an ugly

2269
01:39:31,479 --> 01:39:34,599
Speaker 2: sixteen to thirteen. Hell, even a thirteen to ten, ten

2270
01:39:34,640 --> 01:39:36,519
Speaker 2: to six type of game against Baltimore. I can see

2271
01:39:36,560 --> 01:39:36,960
Speaker 2: it happening.

2272
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:41,040
Speaker 3: It's a coin flip, all right, my redemption round. I

2273
01:39:41,080 --> 01:39:43,679
Speaker 3: hate to say it, but the Saints have a chance

2274
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:47,519
Speaker 3: to redeem themselves this season. They started off zhe to four.

2275
01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:50,360
Speaker 3: Now they've won four in a row, and they might

2276
01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:53,920
Speaker 3: have found their future quarterback and Tyler shuck. That's progress

2277
01:39:53,960 --> 01:39:58,000
Speaker 3: for them, finding out that you have a real quarterback

2278
01:39:58,760 --> 01:39:59,920
Speaker 3: that you're gathering intel.

2279
01:40:00,439 --> 01:40:02,160
Speaker 2: You got my favorite team beat on that one.

2280
01:40:02,439 --> 01:40:04,360
Speaker 3: This is meaningful for Saints fans.

2281
01:40:05,760 --> 01:40:07,960
Speaker 2: Tyler might be. He's probably better than a Bruce Show.

2282
01:40:08,360 --> 01:40:09,120
Speaker 2: You're right, you're right.

2283
01:40:09,479 --> 01:40:14,440
Speaker 3: I'm not no argument for me, but just having stability

2284
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:18,879
Speaker 3: there and a direction can make it a successful season

2285
01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 3: ultimately for them. Now, maybe I'm buttering them up a

2286
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:25,719
Speaker 3: little bit because in case my Panthers lose to Tampa Bay,

2287
01:40:26,360 --> 01:40:29,840
Speaker 3: which is likely on Saturday, they can still backdoor their

2288
01:40:29,880 --> 01:40:32,240
Speaker 3: way into the playoffs if the Falcons beat the Saints

2289
01:40:32,240 --> 01:40:35,839
Speaker 3: in Atlanta on Sunday. So I would say, relax, Saints,

2290
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:39,439
Speaker 3: you don't need to win this your season. Your season

2291
01:40:39,520 --> 01:40:42,760
Speaker 3: is already a success. You found your quarterback for the

2292
01:40:42,760 --> 01:40:44,880
Speaker 3: next five years at least, since you know he's already

2293
01:40:44,920 --> 01:40:47,479
Speaker 3: twenty six years of age as a rookie. You don't

2294
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:50,439
Speaker 3: need to do anything crazy like end the season winning

2295
01:40:50,479 --> 01:40:54,320
Speaker 3: five straight games. Take a load off. The job is done.

2296
01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:57,680
Speaker 3: Tyler Shuck is him? Maybe sit him out just to

2297
01:40:57,720 --> 01:41:00,360
Speaker 3: make sure he's healthy going into the off season. Put

2298
01:41:00,360 --> 01:41:02,920
Speaker 3: that old rattler back in, see if he can shed

2299
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:05,599
Speaker 3: his skin and become a more reliable backup for the future.

2300
01:41:05,680 --> 01:41:08,840
Speaker 3: Surefire Hall of Famer and Tyler Shuck, who definitely isn't

2301
01:41:08,880 --> 01:41:10,720
Speaker 3: being over hyped at all by the media in a

2302
01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:14,120
Speaker 3: very small sample size. We are all shucking in our

2303
01:41:14,120 --> 01:41:18,479
Speaker 3: boots that Tyler Shuck running the league. According to But

2304
01:41:18,800 --> 01:41:20,920
Speaker 3: there's a lot of delusional Saints fans out there, trust me,

2305
01:41:20,960 --> 01:41:21,679
Speaker 3: and that's what they're saying.

2306
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:24,360
Speaker 2: The guy's played well and looks good and looks all right.

2307
01:41:24,439 --> 01:41:26,679
Speaker 3: Well, if he's that good, save him for next season.

2308
01:41:26,800 --> 01:41:30,679
Speaker 3: I say sit him in a meaningless game against the Falcons, please.

2309
01:41:31,439 --> 01:41:33,400
Speaker 3: I need the Falcons to win just in case we lose.

2310
01:41:33,439 --> 01:41:36,599
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's what it is. Out straight out of fear.

2311
01:41:38,160 --> 01:41:39,040
Speaker 3: That's my Compton.

2312
01:41:39,800 --> 01:41:42,120
Speaker 2: To start the show, we talked about the fallout from

2313
01:41:42,120 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 2: the quarterfinals of the college football playoffs. Let's take a

2314
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:47,080
Speaker 2: look ahead to the semi finals and maybe one coach

2315
01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:48,720
Speaker 2: who could be on the hot seat based on what

2316
01:41:48,760 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 2: happened on New Year's Day coming up in our college

2317
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:53,599
Speaker 2: football forecast. That is coming up next here on fn

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Speaker 2: A on FSR, Fox Football Saturday.

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01:42:33,840 --> 01:42:36,519
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01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:39,240
Speaker 2: Austin here on Fox Football Saturday. Kevin Up.

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01:42:39,280 --> 01:42:41,880
Speaker 3: We got too on, too off, But let's get back

2333
01:42:41,920 --> 01:42:43,559
Speaker 3: to some College Football Here mark.

2334
01:42:44,720 --> 01:42:47,800
Speaker 6: College Football Forecast with F and A.

2335
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:51,679
Speaker 2: Now before we look ahead to the College Football Semi

2336
01:42:51,680 --> 01:42:54,040
Speaker 2: Finals and the CFP coming up Thursday and Friday of

2337
01:42:54,080 --> 01:42:54,639
Speaker 2: next week.

2338
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:58,040
Speaker 3: So soon, I need to marinate a little bit. I

2339
01:42:58,280 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 3: need my ducks to recover before they take on Signetty.

2340
01:43:01,640 --> 01:43:03,080
Speaker 2: Oh, they'll be fine where they thought they might be.

2341
01:43:03,120 --> 01:43:05,400
Speaker 2: They might be marinating their own juices against Indiana?

2342
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:06,680
Speaker 3: Wasn't that supposed to mean?

2343
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 2: Signetioll carved him up pretty good? Hey, somebody told me

2344
01:43:11,520 --> 01:43:13,080
Speaker 2: it was duck huting season. I'm not sure if that's

2345
01:43:13,080 --> 01:43:16,720
Speaker 2: accurate or not, so just say, but if we go

2346
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:18,760
Speaker 2: back to the rose Ball and we talked earlier in

2347
01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:21,200
Speaker 2: the show about Alabama getting the wood laid to him

2348
01:43:21,640 --> 01:43:23,639
Speaker 2: by the Indiana Hoosiers, there was a lot of noise

2349
01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:25,880
Speaker 2: after that game about the future of Kaitlin de Boor

2350
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:28,439
Speaker 2: and whether or not he will continue as the head

2351
01:43:28,439 --> 01:43:31,080
Speaker 2: coach of Alabama. First of all, he will, He's not

2352
01:43:31,120 --> 01:43:33,559
Speaker 2: going to be the lead I mean, well, I'm just saying,

2353
01:43:33,640 --> 01:43:37,280
Speaker 2: you know, it's like can anticlimactic? Are you sure? Mister

2354
01:43:37,360 --> 01:43:40,040
Speaker 2: old school voice of the SEC Paul Finebaum, who's the

2355
01:43:40,040 --> 01:43:42,280
Speaker 2: biggest SEC Honk you'll ever find well, and he's always

2356
01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:44,960
Speaker 2: wrong too. So well, he's always wrong because he just

2357
01:43:45,040 --> 01:43:47,120
Speaker 2: keeps up for the SEC in every single situation. Well,

2358
01:43:47,160 --> 01:43:49,160
Speaker 2: what are we supposed to believe here? Well, exactly, Well,

2359
01:43:49,200 --> 01:43:51,320
Speaker 2: I do believe he has his ears to the Alabama

2360
01:43:51,360 --> 01:43:53,400
Speaker 2: program and to all the SEC programs.

2361
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:56,800
Speaker 3: The ears when he says that Will Smith ears de

2362
01:43:56,920 --> 01:43:57,880
Speaker 3: bor is safe.

2363
01:43:57,640 --> 01:43:59,760
Speaker 2: And not going to be fired. He did say something

2364
01:43:59,760 --> 01:44:02,639
Speaker 2: inch though, is that if Dubor had lost two weeks

2365
01:44:02,640 --> 01:44:04,760
Speaker 2: ago or ten day whenever they played Oklahoma, all these

2366
01:44:04,760 --> 01:44:07,120
Speaker 2: things were so scattered across. If they had lost to Oklahoma,

2367
01:44:07,400 --> 01:44:09,719
Speaker 2: there would have been a real noise that that Alabama

2368
01:44:09,720 --> 01:44:11,400
Speaker 2: would have moved on from Kivin de Bora. But since

2369
01:44:11,400 --> 01:44:14,280
Speaker 2: he won that first that first round matchup, got to

2370
01:44:14,320 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 2: the quarter final, he's safe for at least another year.

2371
01:44:18,120 --> 01:44:21,040
Speaker 3: I guess that makes sense. They redeemed themselves. They lost

2372
01:44:21,080 --> 01:44:24,560
Speaker 3: to Oklahoma during the regular season at home, they advanced

2373
01:44:24,640 --> 01:44:27,360
Speaker 3: and may have lost to a team where if Indiana

2374
01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:30,479
Speaker 3: goes on as a buzzsaw like Ohio State did last

2375
01:44:30,520 --> 01:44:33,599
Speaker 3: year winning this whole thing, is there really any shame

2376
01:44:33,920 --> 01:44:37,679
Speaker 3: into losing to the goat? Kurt Signetti and Fernando Mendoza.

2377
01:44:37,880 --> 01:44:40,559
Speaker 2: No, no, Well, also just look at this. Consider the

2378
01:44:40,560 --> 01:44:42,240
Speaker 2: fact that the guy's been there for a couple of years.

2379
01:44:42,240 --> 01:44:43,640
Speaker 2: They went nine to three last year, they got to

2380
01:44:43,680 --> 01:44:45,479
Speaker 2: the playoff this year and won a playoff game this year.

2381
01:44:45,479 --> 01:44:46,720
Speaker 2: How are you going to fire a guy for that?

2382
01:44:47,200 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 2: If you're not gonna hold somebody to the standard of

2383
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:53,600
Speaker 2: Nick Saban, that's just so unrealistic. Here's the thing I

2384
01:44:53,600 --> 01:44:55,280
Speaker 2: can say, what more do you want? You want to

2385
01:44:55,280 --> 01:44:58,240
Speaker 2: win the national championship? Sure, but I mean, what do

2386
01:44:58,320 --> 01:44:59,880
Speaker 2: we do? It's like this guy didn't come in to

2387
01:44:59,880 --> 01:45:00,760
Speaker 2: go six and five.

2388
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:04,000
Speaker 3: These fans are irrational. Though, after they lost to Florida

2389
01:45:04,040 --> 01:45:06,640
Speaker 3: State to start the season, I thought he might be

2390
01:45:06,680 --> 01:45:10,080
Speaker 3: gone within the first month. Now they gather themselves. They

2391
01:45:10,120 --> 01:45:13,040
Speaker 3: had one of actually the best months in college football

2392
01:45:13,080 --> 01:45:15,439
Speaker 3: before then losing late in the year and losing again

2393
01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:19,799
Speaker 3: to Georgia in the SEC championship game. But I agree

2394
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:23,040
Speaker 3: he should be safe. I have one question though, for

2395
01:45:23,080 --> 01:45:26,800
Speaker 3: you about Kalin de Boor and how much responsibility is

2396
01:45:26,840 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 3: at being laid at his feet when it comes to

2397
01:45:29,479 --> 01:45:32,960
Speaker 3: them never being able to run the football. Is it

2398
01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:35,920
Speaker 3: a personnel thing, is it a scheme thing? Is the

2399
01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:38,680
Speaker 3: offensive line? Is it the running backs? How come they

2400
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:40,879
Speaker 3: can never rectify that all season long.

2401
01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:42,679
Speaker 2: When it's been one of the strengths of that Alabama

2402
01:45:42,680 --> 01:45:45,519
Speaker 2: football program over the past twenty years or whatever. It's

2403
01:45:45,560 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 2: been an identity of theirs. That's a question that needs

2404
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:49,880
Speaker 2: to be answered. Look, if you're gonna get away from

2405
01:45:49,920 --> 01:45:52,000
Speaker 2: your identity, you better be dominant at the other way,

2406
01:45:52,040 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 2: and they're not. First of all, they're not dominant defensively.

2407
01:45:54,960 --> 01:45:57,320
Speaker 2: They've taken they've had some major slippage. Now, Graham, if

2408
01:45:57,360 --> 01:45:58,760
Speaker 2: you want to say in the final years or two

2409
01:45:58,760 --> 01:46:01,160
Speaker 2: of Mick Saban they were too, that's fine, but they

2410
01:46:01,200 --> 01:46:02,920
Speaker 2: hang their hat on being able to play defense and

2411
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:05,439
Speaker 2: being able to run the ball, and they've had major

2412
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:08,639
Speaker 2: slippage of both of those situations, in particular being able

2413
01:46:08,640 --> 01:46:10,759
Speaker 2: to run the ball. So they brought in Ryan Grubb

2414
01:46:10,800 --> 01:46:12,800
Speaker 2: to be the offensive coordinator. They thought that was part

2415
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:15,400
Speaker 2: of the issue last season, and they were better this year,

2416
01:46:15,479 --> 01:46:18,800
Speaker 2: but certainly nowhere near the standard that Alabama hosed themselves to.

2417
01:46:19,120 --> 01:46:21,559
Speaker 2: So that is an excellent question, getting back to being

2418
01:46:21,560 --> 01:46:24,120
Speaker 2: able to run the football in the SEC because unless

2419
01:46:24,120 --> 01:46:27,200
Speaker 2: you're getting next level, elite type talent, which Alabama can get.

2420
01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:29,920
Speaker 2: But unless you're getting that their vir receiver position, you

2421
01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:31,880
Speaker 2: have an all time stud at the quarterback position like

2422
01:46:31,880 --> 01:46:34,240
Speaker 2: Atua or somebody like that, You're gonna have to be

2423
01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:35,439
Speaker 2: able to run the ball to be able to win

2424
01:46:35,520 --> 01:46:37,799
Speaker 2: games in the SEC consistently and be able to compete

2425
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:38,520
Speaker 2: for championships.

2426
01:46:38,600 --> 01:46:41,080
Speaker 3: That was just confounding that they never were able to

2427
01:46:41,080 --> 01:46:43,719
Speaker 3: correct that or fix that, and it was their undoing.

2428
01:46:43,960 --> 01:46:46,679
Speaker 3: Where did they gab twenty three yards or something against Indiana?

2429
01:46:46,760 --> 01:46:49,280
Speaker 2: They had nothing like that. Yeah, it was basically non existent.

2430
01:46:49,360 --> 01:46:51,759
Speaker 3: It was predictable. You knew that was going to happen.

2431
01:46:52,080 --> 01:46:55,160
Speaker 3: And if you couldn't get a running game against them,

2432
01:46:55,280 --> 01:46:59,000
Speaker 3: I'm kicking my own ass thinking about Indiana minus eight.

2433
01:47:00,320 --> 01:47:04,439
Speaker 2: Money. There. Come on a team that can run the ball.

2434
01:47:04,960 --> 01:47:08,320
Speaker 2: That's the University of Miami and they will take on

2435
01:47:08,439 --> 01:47:11,000
Speaker 2: Ole Miss on Thursday. That one is going to be

2436
01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:14,360
Speaker 2: at the Fiesta Bowl in one semi final matchup Old

2437
01:47:14,360 --> 01:47:16,920
Speaker 2: Miss still trying to keep the magical season going. Really,

2438
01:47:17,320 --> 01:47:19,799
Speaker 2: I mean two teams that a lot of people probably

2439
01:47:19,800 --> 01:47:22,559
Speaker 2: didn't expect to be here. Look, five weeks ago, people

2440
01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:24,679
Speaker 2: didn't even think expect Miami to be in the playoff

2441
01:47:24,680 --> 01:47:26,760
Speaker 2: in any capacity whatsoever. Ole Miss has kind of been

2442
01:47:26,760 --> 01:47:29,920
Speaker 2: locked in for the past month or so. Uh. Just

2443
01:47:30,160 --> 01:47:32,200
Speaker 2: a really intriguing matchup with ole Miss being able to

2444
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:34,120
Speaker 2: score the amount of points that they're able to score

2445
01:47:34,120 --> 01:47:36,920
Speaker 2: against that Georgia defense going up against the Miami defense

2446
01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:39,839
Speaker 2: that has been extremely stout in their first two playoff

2447
01:47:39,880 --> 01:47:41,000
Speaker 2: games so far.

2448
01:47:41,240 --> 01:47:44,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it's recency biased. I lean Ole Miss right now,

2449
01:47:44,600 --> 01:47:46,960
Speaker 3: but then I think back of how good Miami looked

2450
01:47:46,960 --> 01:47:51,200
Speaker 3: in the trenches against Ohio State, who they lose that

2451
01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:54,320
Speaker 3: game close because of a miskicked again a miskick at

2452
01:47:54,360 --> 01:47:58,360
Speaker 3: the end of the Big Ten championship game against Indiana.

2453
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:00,679
Speaker 3: I thought they were gonna get to the Championmpionship game.

2454
01:48:00,720 --> 01:48:03,120
Speaker 3: I picked them to get there against my Ducks, and

2455
01:48:03,160 --> 01:48:07,120
Speaker 3: the Ducks to beat them in our Fox Football Championship

2456
01:48:07,160 --> 01:48:11,880
Speaker 3: Tournament bracket thing we got going on. So both teams

2457
01:48:11,960 --> 01:48:16,280
Speaker 3: have great victories, but I think I got Old Miss

2458
01:48:16,400 --> 01:48:18,519
Speaker 3: just because they're more explosive and they can beat you

2459
01:48:18,560 --> 01:48:21,719
Speaker 3: in different ways with that offense. It could be really close,

2460
01:48:22,240 --> 01:48:26,240
Speaker 3: but I just like how dynamic they are offensively and

2461
01:48:26,320 --> 01:48:30,360
Speaker 3: slaying a dragon like that. With Georgia, a team they

2462
01:48:30,400 --> 01:48:33,200
Speaker 3: know very well, and they lost to in the regular season,

2463
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:35,679
Speaker 3: and the way they lost to them is how everybody

2464
01:48:35,720 --> 01:48:39,000
Speaker 3: loses to Georgia. So to overcome that on a bigger

2465
01:48:39,120 --> 01:48:41,479
Speaker 3: stage that was incredible to see.

2466
01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:45,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a hard one for me because when

2467
01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 2: I see a dominant defense like Miami has been. I've

2468
01:48:48,160 --> 01:48:51,200
Speaker 2: We've seen multiple times. You've seen the Super Bowl Championship games.

2469
01:48:51,800 --> 01:48:54,160
Speaker 2: Usually if there's a great offense versus a great defense

2470
01:48:54,200 --> 01:48:56,680
Speaker 2: in football, the defense usually is the one that ends

2471
01:48:56,720 --> 01:48:58,479
Speaker 2: up dictating the temple of the game. They do might

2472
01:48:58,479 --> 01:49:00,960
Speaker 2: not always win the game, but they end up dictating

2473
01:49:00,960 --> 01:49:03,000
Speaker 2: the tempo of that game. I go back to that

2474
01:49:03,040 --> 01:49:05,320
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Buccaneer versus the Greatest Show on Turf, and

2475
01:49:05,320 --> 01:49:06,880
Speaker 2: that was that final score in that game, eleven to

2476
01:49:06,960 --> 01:49:09,320
Speaker 2: six or something like that. But the l touchdown, Yeah,

2477
01:49:09,320 --> 01:49:11,519
Speaker 2: the Ricky pol touchdown when the Rams are averaging thirty

2478
01:49:11,560 --> 01:49:12,599
Speaker 2: five points game or whatever.

2479
01:49:12,600 --> 01:49:17,000
Speaker 3: It was controversy the bird em manual catch. They changed

2480
01:49:17,040 --> 01:49:18,559
Speaker 3: the rule out because of that.

2481
01:49:18,560 --> 01:49:19,080
Speaker 2: That is true.

2482
01:49:19,160 --> 01:49:22,280
Speaker 3: That was a catch. The ball didn't move. It touched

2483
01:49:22,280 --> 01:49:23,360
Speaker 3: the ground, but it didn't move.

2484
01:49:23,880 --> 01:49:25,280
Speaker 2: It was it was well, look, I can go back

2485
01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:26,920
Speaker 2: to the immacular reception all the way back in the

2486
01:49:26,920 --> 01:49:28,800
Speaker 2: seventies with the Raiders and the Steelers. We can play

2487
01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:31,080
Speaker 2: this game all day long if you want, the Raiders welcome.

2488
01:49:31,160 --> 01:49:32,760
Speaker 2: We replay reviewed and what.

2489
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:34,320
Speaker 3: Couldn't hey, those Raiders didn't suck.

2490
01:49:34,760 --> 01:49:36,120
Speaker 2: No, they did not. They were amazing. And if you

2491
01:49:36,120 --> 01:49:38,599
Speaker 2: told them they they knock your freaking head off as

2492
01:49:38,800 --> 01:49:40,760
Speaker 2: and John Madden would smoke a lung dard and fling

2493
01:49:40,800 --> 01:49:41,679
Speaker 2: the ashes in your face.

2494
01:49:42,439 --> 01:49:43,240
Speaker 3: I'd be honored.

2495
01:49:44,320 --> 01:49:46,880
Speaker 2: I just love the story of ole Miss, I really do.

2496
01:49:47,000 --> 01:49:48,479
Speaker 2: I can see my I can see a path to

2497
01:49:48,479 --> 01:49:50,720
Speaker 2: where Miami can grind him out, run the ball, play

2498
01:49:51,000 --> 01:49:53,320
Speaker 2: dominant defense. But to your point, I think ole Miss

2499
01:49:53,360 --> 01:49:55,639
Speaker 2: can score just enough points to be able to outpace

2500
01:49:55,680 --> 01:49:58,040
Speaker 2: Miami in of the game. This is similar to what

2501
01:49:58,040 --> 01:50:00,320
Speaker 2: I said about Oregon and Texas Tech. Well, I said,

2502
01:50:00,320 --> 01:50:01,800
Speaker 2: if it's a high scoring game, if it gets into

2503
01:50:01,840 --> 01:50:03,920
Speaker 2: the thirties, there's no way Texas Tech can keep up.

2504
01:50:04,240 --> 01:50:06,439
Speaker 2: Ole Miss, I know has the ability to score points.

2505
01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:09,320
Speaker 2: I don't know if Miami, if I trust them putting

2506
01:50:09,320 --> 01:50:11,439
Speaker 2: Carson Beck in a situation where he has to throw,

2507
01:50:11,640 --> 01:50:12,280
Speaker 2: he was that's.

2508
01:50:12,120 --> 01:50:15,320
Speaker 3: The problem perfect in that game. Those third down throws

2509
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:17,200
Speaker 3: he made, not just the last one on the wide

2510
01:50:17,200 --> 01:50:20,080
Speaker 3: receiver screen where he said he blacked out postgame, he

2511
01:50:20,120 --> 01:50:23,920
Speaker 3: can't even remember making that throw. I just don't trust

2512
01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:26,519
Speaker 3: him to have that good of a game again to

2513
01:50:26,720 --> 01:50:28,160
Speaker 3: repeat that performance.

2514
01:50:28,560 --> 01:50:29,400
Speaker 2: And maybe I'm being.

2515
01:50:29,280 --> 01:50:32,080
Speaker 1: A hater picked the hate flow through you.

2516
01:50:32,520 --> 01:50:34,720
Speaker 3: If he pulls it off, more power to him, But

2517
01:50:35,560 --> 01:50:37,720
Speaker 3: I think Ole Miss just has a better chance of

2518
01:50:37,760 --> 01:50:39,360
Speaker 3: getting their offense unlocked.

2519
01:50:39,560 --> 01:50:42,880
Speaker 2: I agree. Let's go to Friday at the Peach Bowl.

2520
01:50:42,920 --> 01:50:44,519
Speaker 2: We talked about this when we filled them for Big

2521
01:50:44,560 --> 01:50:46,559
Speaker 2: Ben on Wednesday, whether or not the Big Ten would

2522
01:50:46,600 --> 01:50:49,280
Speaker 2: have a representative in the National Championship Game. They are

2523
01:50:49,320 --> 01:50:52,000
Speaker 2: guaranteed to have a representative in the National Championship Game

2524
01:50:52,240 --> 01:50:54,720
Speaker 2: with Oregon taking on Indiana.

2525
01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:56,120
Speaker 6: I renuarantee it.

2526
01:50:56,120 --> 01:50:59,360
Speaker 2: From earlier this year where Adam you said Fernanda Mendoza

2527
01:50:59,439 --> 01:51:02,080
Speaker 2: had his first Heisman moment. You know he has last

2528
01:51:02,080 --> 01:51:04,599
Speaker 2: Heisman moment against Penn State with a touchdown pass to

2529
01:51:04,600 --> 01:51:06,880
Speaker 2: get that victory, his first one after throwing the pick

2530
01:51:06,960 --> 01:51:09,639
Speaker 2: six coming back to lead Indiana to a victory against

2531
01:51:09,680 --> 01:51:10,880
Speaker 2: the Ducks in Austin.

2532
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:13,240
Speaker 3: That was the most impressive thing I had seen all

2533
01:51:13,360 --> 01:51:16,240
Speaker 3: year long, Definitely to that point. It was the best

2534
01:51:16,280 --> 01:51:18,200
Speaker 3: win of the season. It still might have been the

2535
01:51:18,240 --> 01:51:19,800
Speaker 3: best win. I don't know if you want to say

2536
01:51:19,800 --> 01:51:22,920
Speaker 3: it was them being Ohio State whatever, yep. But to

2537
01:51:23,000 --> 01:51:25,200
Speaker 3: win in Austin like that, nobody does that.

2538
01:51:25,360 --> 01:51:27,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, on the road, even Ohio State was a neutral site,

2539
01:51:27,960 --> 01:51:30,040
Speaker 2: you know, that's fine. But to win in Oregon where

2540
01:51:30,040 --> 01:51:31,840
Speaker 2: nobody wins, that was impressive to me.

2541
01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:34,880
Speaker 3: I think they had the longest home winning streak and

2542
01:51:34,920 --> 01:51:37,559
Speaker 3: then it went to Georgia, and then Georgia gave it up,

2543
01:51:37,600 --> 01:51:40,400
Speaker 3: losing at home in Athens to Alabama. Who that's what

2544
01:51:40,479 --> 01:51:43,960
Speaker 3: Kirby smart does you know? I got the Ducks in

2545
01:51:44,000 --> 01:51:46,920
Speaker 3: this one reluctantly, but I have to I already picked

2546
01:51:47,000 --> 01:51:51,519
Speaker 3: him anyways. I think they have maybe a higher ceiling

2547
01:51:51,600 --> 01:51:56,160
Speaker 3: but a lower floor. Indiana more reliable, but a slightly

2548
01:51:56,280 --> 01:51:59,759
Speaker 3: lower ceiling, but a much higher floor where you probably

2549
01:52:00,120 --> 01:52:02,080
Speaker 3: know what you're going to get and there's more consistency

2550
01:52:02,200 --> 01:52:05,519
Speaker 3: built up. But in the same way I talked about

2551
01:52:05,520 --> 01:52:08,880
Speaker 3: Ole Miss and how dynamic they could be offensively, I

2552
01:52:08,920 --> 01:52:12,679
Speaker 3: do think Oregon has some of that, especially it's gonna

2553
01:52:12,680 --> 01:52:15,400
Speaker 3: be won in the trenches of course, their offensive line,

2554
01:52:15,479 --> 01:52:17,759
Speaker 3: their running game that they couldn't get going the first

2555
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:21,479
Speaker 3: time around against Indiana, that has to be there this time.

2556
01:52:21,760 --> 01:52:23,920
Speaker 3: But I think because they have more weapons on the

2557
01:52:23,920 --> 01:52:26,599
Speaker 3: outside that could help get their run game going. If

2558
01:52:26,640 --> 01:52:28,559
Speaker 3: they can loosen up the defense with a couple of

2559
01:52:28,560 --> 01:52:31,519
Speaker 3: throws with Dante More, that's probably what it has to be.

2560
01:52:31,600 --> 01:52:34,400
Speaker 3: That's their path to winning this game. I'm not saying

2561
01:52:34,400 --> 01:52:36,879
Speaker 3: I bet my life on or anything like that. Indiana

2562
01:52:36,920 --> 01:52:38,920
Speaker 3: has a great chance to win, but I'm a Ducks fans.

2563
01:52:38,960 --> 01:52:41,559
Speaker 2: I'm going with them. They're right and ionist. I can

2564
01:52:41,560 --> 01:52:43,400
Speaker 2: see a path to Oregon being able to win this game.

2565
01:52:43,400 --> 01:52:45,400
Speaker 2: I'll say this. If they win the game, it's not

2566
01:52:45,439 --> 01:52:46,880
Speaker 2: going to be on the backs of their rushing game.

2567
01:52:47,200 --> 01:52:49,200
Speaker 2: Dante More is gonna have to have a big performance,

2568
01:52:49,200 --> 01:52:51,200
Speaker 2: which he did not when they were at home against

2569
01:52:51,200 --> 01:52:53,760
Speaker 2: Indiana through a couple of interceptions in that game. Did

2570
01:52:53,800 --> 01:52:56,320
Speaker 2: not look good at all, which is why I'm going

2571
01:52:56,320 --> 01:52:59,879
Speaker 2: with Indiana. I love the Ducks, my old Pac twelve team,

2572
01:53:00,080 --> 01:53:02,800
Speaker 2: you know, I love it, you know, obviously, But the

2573
01:53:02,800 --> 01:53:05,760
Speaker 2: way Indiana's playing right now, the way they I know

2574
01:53:05,800 --> 01:53:07,640
Speaker 2: they didn't blow out Ohio State, but the way they

2575
01:53:07,640 --> 01:53:10,360
Speaker 2: performed in that game, the way they ran Alabama out

2576
01:53:10,400 --> 01:53:13,000
Speaker 2: of the Rolls Bowl. They you saw about them somebody

2577
01:53:13,080 --> 01:53:16,800
Speaker 2: being a buzzsaw. They're they're they're unstoppable. I'm sorry, I

2578
01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:21,559
Speaker 2: can't see it happening. Part of me wants to be wrong,

2579
01:53:21,600 --> 01:53:23,240
Speaker 2: because I will love nothing more than Oregon to be

2580
01:53:23,280 --> 01:53:25,240
Speaker 2: able to win a national championship. I think that'd be

2581
01:53:25,280 --> 01:53:28,600
Speaker 2: great after me, Jeff Schwartz, for both, for both of

2582
01:53:28,600 --> 01:53:29,599
Speaker 2: you guys, if you.

2583
01:53:29,560 --> 01:53:32,400
Speaker 3: Could only pick one, we're both drowning and quicksand who

2584
01:53:32,439 --> 01:53:33,040
Speaker 3: are you saving?

2585
01:53:33,120 --> 01:53:36,160
Speaker 2: Kevin? Make a choice?

2586
01:53:36,680 --> 01:53:37,120
Speaker 3: All right?

2587
01:53:37,280 --> 01:53:38,920
Speaker 2: Pop quiz, hot shot?

2588
01:53:39,200 --> 01:53:42,400
Speaker 3: Why is it taking this law? I'm your radio Pardners.

2589
01:53:42,439 --> 01:53:47,200
Speaker 2: Obviously it's you. But I can see it after Oregon

2590
01:53:47,240 --> 01:53:48,559
Speaker 2: winning this game. I hope they win this game, but

2591
01:53:48,600 --> 01:53:50,880
Speaker 2: I honestly don't see it happening. I think Indian and

2592
01:53:50,960 --> 01:53:53,479
Speaker 2: Indiana's is making a statement. They're talking about making a movie.

2593
01:53:53,880 --> 01:53:55,640
Speaker 2: The movie is gonna be about them going worse the

2594
01:53:55,720 --> 01:53:58,200
Speaker 2: first and a two year span of winning a national championship,

2595
01:53:58,400 --> 01:54:01,200
Speaker 2: something that nobody ever saw coming. Even the most ardent

2596
01:54:01,240 --> 01:54:04,280
Speaker 2: Indiana football fan, if that even existed two years ago,

2597
01:54:04,520 --> 01:54:06,200
Speaker 2: wouldn't have would not have seen that coming.

2598
01:54:06,360 --> 01:54:08,519
Speaker 3: I just wish Bobby Knight was around to see this

2599
01:54:10,920 --> 01:54:14,960
Speaker 3: all right, that's the only thing we're missing here, the

2600
01:54:15,000 --> 01:54:17,040
Speaker 3: only guy scarier than Kurt Signetti.

2601
01:54:17,760 --> 01:54:20,880
Speaker 2: What would Bob Knight's reaction be that Indiana football got

2602
01:54:20,880 --> 01:54:23,639
Speaker 2: back to a national championship and won a championship before

2603
01:54:23,680 --> 01:54:25,600
Speaker 2: Indiana over the past twenty years.

2604
01:54:26,120 --> 01:54:28,280
Speaker 3: You're right, that'd be an abomination for him.

2605
01:54:28,520 --> 01:54:31,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'd have a word or two with the Indiana

2606
01:54:31,280 --> 01:54:32,280
Speaker 2: basketball program.

2607
01:54:32,400 --> 01:54:38,280
Speaker 3: I know that, all right, Kevin up next, two on

2608
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:42,520
Speaker 3: two off? Am I still in the hunt? Or is

2609
01:54:42,600 --> 01:54:45,880
Speaker 3: Kevin already won this stupid game? That's not even that.

2610
01:54:45,880 --> 01:54:46,520
Speaker 2: Big of a deal.

2611
01:54:46,600 --> 01:54:49,240
Speaker 3: I don't know why everybody cares about it, like total

2612
01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:52,200
Speaker 3: luck factor. We'll talk about it next in our gambling

2613
01:54:52,240 --> 01:54:56,520
Speaker 3: segment here on FNA, I'm Fox Sports Radio. You bet

2614
01:54:56,560 --> 01:54:58,360
Speaker 3: on the fight in Rocky three, and then you bet

2615
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Speaker 3: against Rocky Cotton.

2616
01:55:02,880 --> 01:55:04,800
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01:55:10,160 --> 01:55:12,240
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2623
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2624
01:55:22,880 --> 01:55:25,400
Speaker 2: iHeart App. It is Kevin Figures Adam Auslin fn A

2625
01:55:25,480 --> 01:55:28,680
Speaker 2: on FSR here on Fox Football Saturday Saturday. I should say,

2626
01:55:28,680 --> 01:55:30,920
Speaker 2: for our final segment, mark what have we got?

2627
01:55:31,840 --> 01:55:33,880
Speaker 6: Two on two on?

2628
01:55:35,360 --> 01:55:36,200
Speaker 2: All right? Kevin?

2629
01:55:36,880 --> 01:55:40,880
Speaker 3: So here's where things stand. Don't worry. I'm not gonna

2630
01:55:40,880 --> 01:55:43,240
Speaker 3: bring up Joe Klatt. I don't know what is You're

2631
01:55:43,720 --> 01:55:46,400
Speaker 3: twelve team playoff record is. I know he finished thirty

2632
01:55:46,400 --> 01:55:49,800
Speaker 3: six and forty in a college football regular season.

2633
01:55:49,880 --> 01:55:51,800
Speaker 2: So you did bring him up despite saying you weren't

2634
01:55:51,800 --> 01:55:53,080
Speaker 2: going to bring him up. Oh sorry about that.

2635
01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:57,000
Speaker 3: Uh So I went too and two again last week

2636
01:55:58,120 --> 01:56:03,280
Speaker 3: and Kevin, oh zho to three. You had another push now.

2637
01:56:04,320 --> 01:56:07,440
Speaker 3: So right now I'm thirty three and thirty five. Kevin's

2638
01:56:07,480 --> 01:56:11,080
Speaker 3: thirty five and thirty one on the season. The door

2639
01:56:11,160 --> 01:56:15,800
Speaker 3: is open if I choose wisely this week that I

2640
01:56:15,800 --> 01:56:18,600
Speaker 3: could somehow pull this off. But it's gonna take a

2641
01:56:18,600 --> 01:56:20,800
Speaker 3: lot it will. Now, let me ask you something.

2642
01:56:21,040 --> 01:56:22,760
Speaker 2: It's like a monumental collapse on my part.

2643
01:56:22,800 --> 01:56:25,240
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, do you think you want

2644
01:56:25,240 --> 01:56:30,200
Speaker 3: to Steelers. This do you think? Uh yeah, Like I

2645
01:56:30,280 --> 01:56:34,320
Speaker 3: have four picks right now, you have four picks right now.

2646
01:56:34,560 --> 01:56:34,960
Speaker 2: Correct?

2647
01:56:35,760 --> 01:56:39,120
Speaker 3: How about we do some scouts honor, and I don't

2648
01:56:39,200 --> 01:56:42,200
Speaker 3: change my picks and you don't change your picks. So

2649
01:56:42,280 --> 01:56:44,600
Speaker 3: therefore you could block me but by just taking the

2650
01:56:44,640 --> 01:56:48,160
Speaker 3: same pick as me, And therefore I can't just take

2651
01:56:48,200 --> 01:56:50,600
Speaker 3: the opposite of you to have a chance either. We

2652
01:56:50,640 --> 01:56:55,960
Speaker 3: go with exactly what we wrote down here. Okay, Scouts honor, Scouts,

2653
01:56:56,160 --> 01:56:57,280
Speaker 3: I can sholl scouts Honor.

2654
01:56:57,320 --> 01:56:59,400
Speaker 2: I can actually show you mus screen if you want.

2655
01:56:59,520 --> 01:57:00,960
Speaker 3: I'm nothing but honorable here.

2656
01:57:01,200 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got you. I got that. I literally got

2657
01:57:03,360 --> 01:57:05,080
Speaker 2: the receipts right in front of me. I'm not gonna

2658
01:57:05,080 --> 01:57:05,840
Speaker 2: show you my screen.

2659
01:57:08,000 --> 01:57:10,680
Speaker 3: I believe you. I believe you. So two on, two

2660
01:57:10,720 --> 01:57:15,880
Speaker 3: off goes like this, kids, two on, two picks on favorites,

2661
01:57:16,960 --> 01:57:21,000
Speaker 3: two off, two picks off of favorites and on underdogs.

2662
01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:24,200
Speaker 3: So we have to pick two for each. It's not

2663
01:57:24,320 --> 01:57:27,680
Speaker 3: just pick whatever you want, Kevin, give me your first on.

2664
01:57:28,160 --> 01:57:30,680
Speaker 2: My first on, I'm going with the Dallas Cowboys favored

2665
01:57:30,680 --> 01:57:32,560
Speaker 2: by three and a half over those giants, and always

2666
01:57:32,560 --> 01:57:34,680
Speaker 2: said it was gonna be a big game for Jackson

2667
01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:36,480
Speaker 2: dark a litmus test for him to show that he

2668
01:57:36,520 --> 01:57:39,640
Speaker 2: can really compete and compete for that champion or for

2669
01:57:39,680 --> 01:57:41,920
Speaker 2: the starting quarterback position in New York and make sure

2670
01:57:41,960 --> 01:57:43,960
Speaker 2: they don't draft a quarterback in the first round. He

2671
01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:46,680
Speaker 2: might still do that, but I think the Cowboys covered

2672
01:57:46,680 --> 01:57:47,280
Speaker 2: three and a half.

2673
01:57:47,640 --> 01:57:53,000
Speaker 3: All right, so far, so good. Eagles minus four and

2674
01:57:53,040 --> 01:57:55,800
Speaker 3: a half at home against the Commanders for me, I

2675
01:57:55,840 --> 01:58:00,000
Speaker 3: guarantee it. That's my first on stool that works.

2676
01:58:00,400 --> 01:58:03,520
Speaker 2: It's the Commanders. What are you talking about here? All right?

2677
01:58:04,040 --> 01:58:08,360
Speaker 3: Don't don't criticize me. I went two and two last week.

2678
01:58:08,360 --> 01:58:09,520
Speaker 3: All right, I'll have you know.

2679
01:58:09,720 --> 01:58:12,360
Speaker 2: You guys were one and two off last week. Apparently

2680
01:58:12,720 --> 01:58:15,360
Speaker 2: my other on, I'm going with the Chicago Bears, who

2681
01:58:15,360 --> 01:58:17,880
Speaker 2: are playing all of their starters. They're trying to lock

2682
01:58:17,960 --> 01:58:19,840
Speaker 2: up the two seat. They will take on the Detroit Lions.

2683
01:58:19,880 --> 01:58:22,000
Speaker 2: The Bears are minus three. I like them to cover

2684
01:58:22,080 --> 01:58:23,840
Speaker 2: the three. Ben Johnson putting his foot on the throat

2685
01:58:23,840 --> 01:58:26,200
Speaker 2: of the Detroit Lions trying to lock up that two seat.

2686
01:58:26,640 --> 01:58:28,600
Speaker 3: Huh, guarantee you.

2687
01:58:29,080 --> 01:58:29,600
Speaker 2: All right?

2688
01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:32,680
Speaker 3: I got the Bills minus seven and a half at

2689
01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:36,000
Speaker 3: home against the Jets. For my other on, I like

2690
01:58:36,040 --> 01:58:37,360
Speaker 3: where this is going so far.

2691
01:58:37,520 --> 01:58:39,960
Speaker 2: It's a pretty strong one. To be honest with you, You

2692
01:58:39,640 --> 01:58:42,600
Speaker 2: think so, yeah, I will think so. The Jets are

2693
01:58:42,800 --> 01:58:44,400
Speaker 2: The Jets were dead to rights in week one.

2694
01:58:45,240 --> 01:58:47,800
Speaker 3: I feel bad for Aaron Glenn. Yeah, if you don't

2695
01:58:47,840 --> 01:58:50,800
Speaker 3: have a quarterback, you ain't got s. No, it's like

2696
01:58:50,840 --> 01:58:54,720
Speaker 3: what uh Martin Lawrence said? And now what was the

2697
01:58:54,760 --> 01:58:58,200
Speaker 3: movie that I love? Nothing to lose with Tim Robbins.

2698
01:58:58,840 --> 01:59:01,080
Speaker 2: If you ain't got digital, you ain't got s.

2699
01:59:01,400 --> 01:59:05,800
Speaker 3: That's true, all right. Our two offs picks on underdogs.

2700
01:59:06,800 --> 01:59:10,880
Speaker 2: My off, I am going to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Goddamn it,

2701
01:59:11,200 --> 01:59:14,120
Speaker 2: that's right. This line moved, by the way. It has

2702
01:59:14,160 --> 01:59:16,800
Speaker 2: been sitting at three all week long, and last check

2703
01:59:16,840 --> 01:59:19,560
Speaker 2: a few minutes ago, it's four. The Steelers are plus

2704
01:59:19,720 --> 01:59:23,000
Speaker 2: four against the Baltimore Ravens. I like the Pittsburgh Steelers

2705
01:59:23,000 --> 01:59:26,000
Speaker 2: to cover that number. And that is my first off. Adam,

2706
01:59:26,200 --> 01:59:27,720
Speaker 2: tell me the odds.

2707
01:59:29,240 --> 01:59:34,720
Speaker 3: So about what I did earlier? Uh huh, where I said, Uh,

2708
01:59:34,800 --> 01:59:36,840
Speaker 3: we have to stick with the picks that we wrote down.

2709
01:59:36,960 --> 01:59:41,080
Speaker 3: I also had Pittsburgh plus four. I should have known

2710
01:59:41,120 --> 01:59:41,920
Speaker 3: you were going there.

2711
01:59:42,200 --> 01:59:44,800
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, all right.

2712
01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:50,760
Speaker 3: My other off Saint plus three and a half in Atlanta.

2713
01:59:51,640 --> 01:59:54,560
Speaker 3: That's right, Brie, that's my other off.

2714
01:59:54,720 --> 02:00:04,120
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, okay, you know what, Adam this,

2715
02:00:04,920 --> 02:00:06,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna end up regretting this, but I'll do it.

2716
02:00:07,280 --> 02:00:09,640
Speaker 2: I'll do it for you. I will change my other off.

2717
02:00:09,760 --> 02:00:12,960
Speaker 2: What a guy. I'm going with your Panthers plus three

2718
02:00:13,000 --> 02:00:15,400
Speaker 2: against the Buccaneers. How about that? They don't need to

2719
02:00:15,440 --> 02:00:17,760
Speaker 2: wait for anything on Sunday between the Falcons and the

2720
02:00:17,800 --> 02:00:19,480
Speaker 2: Saints because they're gonna lock it up tonight.

2721
02:00:20,520 --> 02:00:24,000
Speaker 3: So you're really you're really gonna try to stick it

2722
02:00:24,040 --> 02:00:29,320
Speaker 3: to me by winning this game and using my Carolina

2723
02:00:29,360 --> 02:00:31,440
Speaker 3: Panthers to do so, and two on two off that

2724
02:00:31,520 --> 02:00:32,240
Speaker 3: did no such thing.

2725
02:00:32,280 --> 02:00:34,200
Speaker 2: That's just how I see this thing breaking never breaking down.

2726
02:00:34,200 --> 02:00:34,680
Speaker 2: What do you mean?

2727
02:00:34,920 --> 02:00:37,520
Speaker 3: All right? So we only have one game that's similar.

2728
02:00:37,680 --> 02:00:39,880
Speaker 3: I basically I think I would need to go three

2729
02:00:39,920 --> 02:00:41,480
Speaker 3: and one and Kevin would have to go one in

2730
02:00:41,600 --> 02:00:43,560
Speaker 3: three for me to win this thing.

2731
02:00:44,560 --> 02:00:46,480
Speaker 2: So you're saying there's a chance, Well, I, like the

2732
02:00:46,480 --> 02:00:49,040
Speaker 2: great Hall of Famer Chemergartet said, anything is possible. Right,

2733
02:00:51,880 --> 02:00:54,200
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mark, thank you, Breed, thank you listening projecting

2734
02:00:54,280 --> 02:00:56,080
Speaker 2: io next here on Fox Sports radio