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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with

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Speaker 2: Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with

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Speaker 2: Carmie Me. Happy Christmas weekend. This really feels I think

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Speaker 2: like the first holiday week for me, maybe because I

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Speaker 2: just got back from a tropical island in Fiji. But

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Speaker 2: shout out to Namo too, because that was the most

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Speaker 2: insane vacation I've ever been on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in my life, I can use I can tell

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Speaker 1: you that I've ever.

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Speaker 2: Done anything like that, like an all inclusive private island

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Speaker 2: where you just wake up, you go down to the water,

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Speaker 2: you go to a boat and you're like, I want

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Speaker 2: to go surfing here and they take you. I want

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Speaker 2: to go fishing here and they take you. I want

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Speaker 2: to go startling here and they take it. It was

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Speaker 2: a dream like, it didn't feel like reality.

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Speaker 1: I did feel.

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Speaker 2: I like, I my cup is so full. I am

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Speaker 2: now ready to get back to work. I am ready

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Speaker 2: for the holidays. And we just hit the ground running.

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Speaker 2: And what a day to be back. Because sports fans,

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Speaker 2: this is like a dream day. Like there's two NFL games.

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Speaker 1: I have such a hot take on, let's continue that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, three college football playoff games, but that's not all.

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Speaker 2: You got women's college basketball powerhouses USC and UKON playing today,

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Speaker 2: twelve NBA games, fifteen of top twenty five men's college

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Speaker 2: hoop games, Tyson Fury Fight Tonight Tiger and Charlie Woods

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Speaker 2: teeing off, and eleven NHL games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my hot take is I hate this.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's too much, overwhelmingly specifically with college football, the

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Speaker 2: college football Playoff.

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Speaker 3: This is I mean, this is the first of the

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Speaker 3: expanded playoffs going against two NFL games, Like they are

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Speaker 3: really good games, and I as someone who wants to

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Speaker 3: pay attention to college but needs to pay attention to

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Speaker 3: the NFL, My my my, I'm pulled in too many directions.

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Speaker 1: But by the way, nothing to say the NFL, like

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Speaker 1: the college football games are like T and T, which

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Speaker 1: are extremely major.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, NFL relax back off. I am so mad

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Speaker 3: at the NFL for doing this, Like this is your

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Speaker 3: like for free feeder league and you are actively trying it,

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Speaker 3: but this is make it worse.

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Speaker 4: And this is what they do.

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Speaker 2: The moment like the regular college football season is over,

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Speaker 2: they're like, Okay, we own the weekend.

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Speaker 4: Now we don't care like when you have other bowl

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Speaker 4: games or things nice.

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Speaker 1: This year we're on the weekend. That's not the case

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Speaker 1: this year. Like make adjustments.

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Speaker 3: I just like the NFL just completely takes for granted

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Speaker 3: that they don't have to pay anything for their feeder league.

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Speaker 1: They do not need to invest in it.

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Speaker 3: It's not their money, and they benefit so heavily from

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Speaker 3: college football. Why are you actively trying to make it

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Speaker 3: worse by poaching their audience.

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Speaker 1: It was tough, It's stinks.

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Speaker 2: What else was tough was like I wake up and

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Speaker 2: I put on like sport mix, right, and that's how

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Speaker 2: I see what channel everything's on in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Like I still love DirecTV, like I have cable and.

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Speaker 2: College football game Penn State SME wasn't even on the

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Speaker 2: mix this morning because it's all like a TNT, Like

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Speaker 2: how is that?

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Speaker 1: How is that not?

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Speaker 2: Like it's on top three things on my score as

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Speaker 2: a sports fan that I want.

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Speaker 1: To see too.

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Speaker 3: Think YouTube TV did have like the multiple like multiview

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Speaker 3: boxes where you could do college and NFL.

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Speaker 1: But like if you don't have YouTube TV, like what

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Speaker 1: are you supposed to do?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what my sports mix is I wake up,

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Speaker 2: I go two of six Sport Mix, and I was like,

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Speaker 2: why isn't it popping up?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I like, there's a whole other conversation we

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Speaker 3: had too about cable versus YouTube TV and all that

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Speaker 3: other stuff like YouTube TV prices just went up, all

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Speaker 3: this other I like, I could go on and on

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Speaker 3: and about.

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Speaker 1: That, but that's not the point.

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Speaker 3: The point is but the end of the NFL is

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Speaker 3: cannibalizing the audience of the league.

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Speaker 4: Can that's so aggressive. I can feel that, Like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Doing and can do.

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Speaker 3: Don't have to invest in your feeder league at all.

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Speaker 3: It is a self sufficient league, and you are actively

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Speaker 3: trying to take it over with like trying to take

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Speaker 3: away the audience, trying to take away so much about

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Speaker 3: it that we love about college football.

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Speaker 1: I hate it. That's my hot take. Okay, I hate

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Speaker 1: that these games are on.

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Speaker 3: At the same time, I hate that the NFL didn't adjust,

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Speaker 3: like nobody needed these games.

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Speaker 1: On side, especially these teams.

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Speaker 3: I gu city is about to play at two games

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Speaker 3: and four days, by the way, because we also have

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Speaker 3: games on a Wednesday because it's Christmas. I have never

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Speaker 3: been My fiance has never seen me more livid than

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Speaker 3: when the NFL announced that they were still going to

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Speaker 3: do Christmas games.

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Speaker 4: If I was on a Wednesday, Yes so mad yep, okay.

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Speaker 2: putting him on the spot.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Well, guys, since we're getting down to the last few

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Speaker 2: weeks of the regular season, and with Christmas right around

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Speaker 2: the corner, we're gonna be putting players and teams on

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Speaker 2: the naughty and nice list. We're having a holiday themed show,

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Speaker 2: so buckle up and get into it. CARMEI and I

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Speaker 2: are dressed for the occasion. I have my elf Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, Sanna he's real shirt on, and Carme has

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Speaker 2: got her Santa hat and her son devils like getting ready.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, it's not Oh, it's Bucks Buccaneers.

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Speaker 2: Buccaneers like my same dollars, don't play until New Year's

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Speaker 2: do your day, So like I I've got time. I

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Speaker 2: think out the corner of my eye, similar colors kind yeah,

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Speaker 2: the red, yeah, yeah, but.

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Speaker 1: You know I have to throw back Tampa Bay Bucaneers.

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Speaker 3: I just got to see all my guys on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: I went to the game and I got to see

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Speaker 3: all of them in the locker room. I got to

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Speaker 3: see them all before. Yeah, it was just a really

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Speaker 3: nice nice thing to be surrounded by those guys.

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Speaker 6: Again.

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Speaker 3: What a game too, Oh my god, I mean an

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Speaker 3: absolutely hung forty on that on that Chargers defense last Sunday.

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Speaker 1: It was so much fun. It was so good to see.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy for you. That's great. It was, Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was so nice. Any get to go home and

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Speaker 1: see family, I know, except they came to me.

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Speaker 4: Ye're like yay, thanks. Okay, Well, let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to start with.

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Speaker 2: A positive on the nice list, and my first player

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Speaker 2: on the nice list is Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Like he is having a career season and also an

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Speaker 2: incredible personal year. Just got engaged to Hailey Steinfeld. And

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Speaker 2: we heard one of his teammates say this week that

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Speaker 2: which I love strong partnerships.

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Speaker 1: Like let's go.

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Speaker 2: But there has been such a good amount of hype

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Speaker 2: where he exceeded all of those expectations. Like coming into

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Speaker 1: Instead, he came out so hot.

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Speaker 2: Started the season three to zero, handed the Chiefs their

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Speaker 2: straight season with at least four thousand passing yards. Fewest

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Speaker 2: just that was a snow game in Buffalo. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is the Josh Allen season. He's the MVP Favorite

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Speaker 2: fifty and the Bills should kind of have a cake

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Speaker 2: lining up very well for this to be Josh Allen's year.

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Speaker 3: Well, it depends, I think too on what happens in

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Speaker 3: the postseason, but I agree he's That's the thing is,

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Speaker 3: But they beat him in the regular season. I think

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen two is such is such the MVP favorite,

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Speaker 3: given the fact like Lamar's numbers are better. Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: it again goes back to how you kind of view

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Speaker 3: the award because Josh Allen has done.

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Speaker 1: More with less. Yeah, but the team, Bills in general,

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Speaker 3: And I think that's a testament not only to Josh,

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Speaker 3: but it's a testament to Sean McDermott. Having that defense

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Speaker 3: multiple injuries in that secondary all Like, all throughout the season,

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Speaker 3: gotten a lot better. They are they're doing just enough,

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Speaker 3: like Josh Allen and the Bills offense is like, are

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Speaker 3: the Kings of doing just enough? Like if the defense

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Speaker 3: thirty one, And like Josh is so acutely aware of

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Speaker 3: all of that, and I think it's so I mean,

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Speaker 3: it gets you through the regular season.

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Speaker 1: Now we'll see what happens in the postseason.

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Speaker 3: The owners, the Bear's owners are arguably too nice. Whati

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Speaker 2: We're going, okay, we're gonna get I have a feeling

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Speaker 2: it might be done. I like the weeks leading up

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Speaker 2: to everything leading up.

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Speaker 3: I really appreciate this is these are the times I

446
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Speaker 3: appreciate growing up like heavily Catholic, because it's not over

447
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Speaker 3: on Christmas, like you if you know, you know, January

448
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Speaker 3: sixth is the actual end of the Christmas season, so yeah,

449
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Speaker 3: it is. That's that's that's Lepithanya, which is like the

450
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Speaker 3: Epiphany and you get like little presents in your shoes on.

451
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Speaker 3: That's what we got. So like I got to like

452
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Speaker 3: enjoy Christmas. That's like I haven't tred this amount of

453
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Speaker 3: shame and guilt built in because of my upbringing.

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Speaker 1: Well, but I also have to celebrate Christmas.

455
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Speaker 2: Until January Catholic and Jewish, so imagine I got Catholic

456
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Speaker 2: and Jewish mom guilt, so sure I Haven'tnica is super late.

457
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Speaker 2: It's starting off for Christmas. Yeah, I know, that's wild.

458
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Speaker 2: Kind of pumped about it, like the latest it's ever,

459
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Speaker 2: like it can ever be.

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Speaker 1: I was like, is it sure, We sure, yeah, day

461
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Speaker 1: after Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so now you get Christmas and then we get

463
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Speaker 3: like you get eight and everything.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we love Okay.

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Speaker 3: There was one girl in my in my grammar school,

466
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Speaker 3: I had that and we were all so jealous of her.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you get both. Everyone's like, what did you do?

468
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Speaker 2: I was like, I went to church and I went

469
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Speaker 2: to temple. I do all the holidays. It was a lot,

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Speaker 2: very interesting.

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Speaker 3: We were we were always jealous my friend, my friend

472
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Speaker 3: Molly and in uh in grammar school. Like she'd be like, yeah,

473
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Speaker 3: I got presents for eight days and then I got

474
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Speaker 3: Christmas and we were like, see we.

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Speaker 1: Chose to get them all on Christmas. Oh yeah. And

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Speaker 1: I was like she would get one. President at night

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Speaker 1: with honkkah, that's great.

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Speaker 2: Uh okay, I want to get this college football in.

479
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Speaker 2: Maybe we'll just get one and then we'll save the

480
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Speaker 2: rest for uh next hour. But you guys, twelve team

481
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Speaker 2: college football playoffs are in full swing. You heard Carmie

482
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Speaker 2: go off at the top of the show, ye that

483
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Speaker 2: it's kind of tough that they're competing with NFL today.

484
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Speaker 2: But Indiana at Notre Dame last night I mean it

485
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Speaker 2: was a dominant beffemance by Notre Dame. Weird game for

486
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Speaker 2: Indiana just felt like they just didn't show up. They

487
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Speaker 2: entered the playoffs with the number one rush defense in

488
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Speaker 2: the country and then they allowed the most rush yards

489
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Speaker 2: they had all season one ninety three.

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Speaker 1: Like it was just I was gonna say it was off,

491
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Speaker 1: but like, well this is okay.

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Speaker 3: There's this whole thing now if you're if you're paying

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Speaker 3: attention online, it's like, should Indiana have even been in it?

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Speaker 1: Should Bamash been in it instead?

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Speaker 3: And to that, I say, does like this format a

496
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Speaker 3: is going to change? Like the format's gonna change so quickly.

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Speaker 2: Those two games have been like very one sided, right,

498
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Speaker 2: But I'm also like, we're.

499
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Speaker 1: Not owed good playoff games.

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Speaker 3: We don't we don't make any sort of like there's

501
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Speaker 3: no outcry. And when the NFL, when a seven seed

502
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Speaker 3: plays plays the one.

503
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Speaker 1: Seed, like yeah, that's not a thing.

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Speaker 3: Like people like you're not guaranteed really competitive playoff games.

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Speaker 3: And then if you're gonna want to put a guy

506
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Speaker 3: a team like Alabama three lost team in the playoffs

507
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Speaker 3: just because they come out of the SEC and they

508
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Speaker 3: have the pedigree and all that.

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Speaker 1: Like, because to that, I say, but does the regular.

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Speaker 3: Season matter or does it not? Because if it doesn't,

511
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Speaker 3: then yeah, all right, put a three, put a three.

512
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Speaker 2: Lassus in Indiana deserve to be here. They it was

513
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Speaker 2: just weird. They just didn't show up.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they were the far inferior team to Notre

515
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Speaker 3: Dame and that was But again I'm saying, like that's

516
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Speaker 3: just that kind of the way it goes. I don't

517
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Speaker 3: know how you change that with the way that the

518
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Speaker 3: conferences are aligned, especially now that the conferences are so big,

519
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Speaker 3: Like you're not necessarily going to play a fair schedule,

520
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Speaker 3: Like it's just gonna rotate every year where it's the

521
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Speaker 3: luck of the draw. If you have to play like

522
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Speaker 3: if you're Indiana, if you have to play Oregon, Ohio State, Michigan,

523
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Speaker 3: Washington like a whole provided they get back to being good,

524
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Speaker 3: Like that's just kind of like or you don't have

525
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Speaker 3: to play them at all, and you get to play

526
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Speaker 3: Illinois and you get to play a really bad Iowa

527
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Speaker 3: team and you get to play like the Minnesota was

528
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Speaker 3: good this year.

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Speaker 1: There's just a lot of options.

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Speaker 2: It's the first it's the first year of a new format,

531
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Speaker 2: like there were going to be learning curves, are going

532
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Speaker 2: to be bumps in the road, and they're going to

533
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Speaker 2: figure it out. I mean SMU at Penn State. Penn

534
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Speaker 2: State got out to do an early lead and never

535
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Speaker 2: looked back. They shut out SMU in the first half.

536
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Speaker 3: Yeah again again like with the current playoff format where

537
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Speaker 3: like the automatic bids go to the big time conference champions.

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Speaker 3: Like as much as Arizona State has benefited from this,

539
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Speaker 3: I am fully expecting them to not advances. Like the

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Speaker 3: only reason they're advancing past the first round is because

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Speaker 3: they got the first round.

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Speaker 2: By I mean, this is gonna like they're playing Clemson

543
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Speaker 2: or Texas. Who's playing right now? Clemson's up seven to nothing.

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Speaker 2: Who do you want your Sun Devils to play?

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Speaker 3: I don't get, Like, I don't think it's going to

546
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Speaker 3: be close either way. And like I love them and

547
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Speaker 3: they've surpassed all expectations.

548
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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 3: I am enjoying my football superiority while it lasts. Yeah,

550
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Speaker 3: but like again, on any given year in college football especially,

551
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Speaker 3: there's maybe three or four teams that are actually capable

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Speaker 3: of winning a championship.

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Speaker 2: Which may I think will come out of this like

554
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Speaker 2: next tier at the end of the Tennessee Ohio State

555
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Speaker 2: and then the winner that plays organ Yeah, at the

556
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Speaker 2: end of the day is going to be like, at

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Speaker 2: the end of.

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Speaker 1: The day, you're going to get a deserving champion.

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Speaker 3: Yes, at the end of this Yes, you're not guaranteed

560
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Speaker 3: really competitive playoff games on the way there. Like, that's

561
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Speaker 3: just the way that the conferences are aligned, how many

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Speaker 3: teams are in each conference, the fact that college football

563
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Speaker 3: has the most parody, Like the haves and the have nots.

564
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Speaker 1: Have never been more stark between.

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Speaker 3: You got like the SEC and like I mean, like

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Speaker 3: I said, Arizona State won a major conference. Like that's

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Speaker 3: insane to me. The Big twelve is just not as competitive, right, No, exactly.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna enjoy it while being very self aware that, yeah,

570
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Speaker 3: this is probably gonna end up being lopsided and did

571
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Speaker 3: in Arizona State deserve the first round by probably not.

572
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Speaker 1: But I'm going to enjoy the hell out of it.

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Speaker 1: I love that. All right.

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Speaker 4: Now, let's second with Manti Bolanos and see what's trending.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Gil's welcome back. Thanks you were missed last week.

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Speaker 8: But you know, Steve and I held the fort down. Yeah,

577
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Speaker 8: we got you, we got you, but glad to have

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Speaker 8: you back.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you just mentioned Alex.

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Speaker 8: The Tigers are currently eating the Longhorns seven zero in

581
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Speaker 8: this College Football Playoff first round game. But the Texas

582
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Speaker 8: Longhorns literally at Clemson seven yard line. It is fourth

583
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Speaker 8: and one. It looks like they're gonna maybe go for.

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Speaker 8: They're figuring it out what they're gonna do. I think

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Speaker 8: they're gonna go for instead of kick here, so I'll

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Speaker 8: keep you guys posted on that one.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, earlier today, Penn.

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Speaker 8: State crushed, as some of you in the first round

589
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Speaker 8: of the College Football Playoff thirty eight to ten. Penn

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Speaker 8: State will now face Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl

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Speaker 8: on December thirty.

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Speaker 1: First, Yeah, I know what. Arizona State doesn' play till

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Speaker 1: New Year's Day? What are we doing?

594
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Speaker 2: Also like why did you get why did I get better?

595
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Speaker 3: Why didn't we let the shot gets? Why don't we

596
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Speaker 3: win the top seeds? Like pick where they got to play?

597
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Speaker 3: Like Arizona State doesn't get to play a home game now,

598
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Speaker 3: like well you could have at least given them the

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Speaker 3: Fiesta Bowl or the choice.

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Speaker 8: Right, And then you're talking about how today NFL is

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Speaker 8: competing with college football, so.

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Speaker 4: Like, we really could have done this a little bit better.

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Speaker 8: It's like, really, yeah, I don't understanding pains.

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Speaker 1: Sure we'll we'll start multi billion dollar industries, but that's fine.

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Speaker 1: You're right, you're right.

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Speaker 8: The Chiefs are now fourteen and one after defeating the

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Speaker 8: Texans twenty seven to nineteen. Patrick mahomes two hundred and

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Speaker 8: sixty yards in the air and a touchdown. He also

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Speaker 8: had a rushing touchdown.

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Speaker 1: What ankle sprain? I don't know.

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Speaker 9: CJ.

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Speaker 8: Stroud threw for two hundred and forty four yards, two

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Speaker 8: touchdowns and two interceptions. Unfortunately for Houston, wide receiver Tank

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Speaker 8: Dell caught a thirty yard touchdown pass from Stroud in

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Speaker 8: the third quarter, caught it off the field with the

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Speaker 8: left leg injury. He was transported to University of Kansas

617
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Speaker 8: Medical Center. There's no further update. Something else to keep

618
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Speaker 8: on eye on. Chiefs star defensive lineman Chris Jones got hurt.

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Speaker 8: He actually didn't end the game. Could it have been

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Speaker 8: a precautionary thing?

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Speaker 1: Maybe so.

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Speaker 8: With a win in either of their final two games

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Speaker 8: or a Bill's loss in any of their final three games,

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Speaker 8: the Chiefs will clinch the number one.

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Speaker 1: Seed in the AFC. Just starting right now, Ravens and Steelers.

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Speaker 8: With a win today, the Steelers would clinch the AFC

627
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Speaker 8: North title, or the Ravens with the win today would

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Speaker 8: clinch a playoff spot. And last, for you gals here

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Speaker 8: in baseball world, Paul Goldschmid will be wearing pins stripes now. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: he and the Yankees are in a on a one year,

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Speaker 8: twelve point five million dollar deal.

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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, Thank you Monsi. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitali.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the tire dot Com studios

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon

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Speaker 2: with us. It is time for our first guest. You've

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Speaker 2: seen her on NFL Network Raiders, Rams, Tennis Channel. Her

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Speaker 2: infectious personality will make you smile the moment you see her.

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Speaker 2: Eric Coscarelli, thank you for joining the show.

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Speaker 7: What's up, ladies, how we do today?

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having me here.

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Speaker 2: We're doing to you Holiday Spirit. It's a holiday theme show.

643
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Speaker 2: But since we got you, we got to talk about

644
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Speaker 2: the Rams. Because the Rams got hot at the right time.

645
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 2: After the starting the season one and four, what would

646
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Speaker 2: you attribute their turnaround to this year?

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Speaker 7: I mean, isn't that crazy, Guys, Like they started so slow,

648
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 7: it was almost kind of like last season, right, and

649
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Speaker 7: then to buy everything seemed to change.

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Speaker 9: And I think a couple of reasons.

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Speaker 7: First of all, healthwise, right, the Rams are in a

652
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Speaker 7: gift in place than they were at the beginning of

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Speaker 7: the season, whereas most teams dealing with a few more

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Speaker 7: injuries later in the season. And I also think here's

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Speaker 7: a big thing. Okay, remember heading into the season. First

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Speaker 7: of all, the Rams have the second youngest roster, but

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Speaker 7: Aaron Donald retired, they have a new defensive coordinator. I

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Speaker 7: think part of why we've seen this sort of resurgence

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Speaker 7: down the stretch is because the reinforcements have come in

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Speaker 7: at the right time. You've got, of course, Puka and

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Speaker 7: Cooper Wealthier. They had a banged up a line, and

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Speaker 7: like I mentioned, with that buye. Right after that buye,

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Speaker 7: they say the Vikings Thursday Night football. That was back

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Speaker 7: when Pucka and Cooper both were on the field at

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Speaker 7: the same time. And I really feel like that was

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Speaker 7: the game changer of the season, when like the whole

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Speaker 7: team was like, Okay, we're dialed.

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Speaker 9: In, let's do this.

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Speaker 7: And I really believe it was after the bye when

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Speaker 7: all things started to sort of split to the rayp.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a good time too, because this NFC West

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Speaker 3: has been I mean, the Seahawks have pulled away just

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Speaker 3: a little bit, but I mean it's pretty much been

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Speaker 3: every team for themselves all season long. I mean, nobody

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Speaker 3: has any sort of comfort in like that they're going

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Speaker 3: to win this division, that they're going to end up

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Speaker 3: and then you talk about the NFC at large with

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Speaker 3: the wild card spots. I mean, this is these are

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Speaker 3: huge games that these the Rams are playing down the stretch.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, And you know it's interesting too. No one's

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Speaker 7: run away with it with the NFC West. I've been

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Speaker 7: saying it all along. I'm like, hey, guys, keep hope alive.

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Speaker 9: Like I think.

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Speaker 7: Every single team in the NFC West is actually claimed

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Speaker 7: first place at one point. But yet at the moment,

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Speaker 7: the Rams are first. They're just ahead of the Seahawks.

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Speaker 7: They've got an interesting few more games down the stretch.

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Speaker 7: But one thing I will say, if we're looking at

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Speaker 7: the postseason, possibly do not count out Sean mcsay, You guys,

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Speaker 7: y mom ming May is insane. So that's my one

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Speaker 7: thing of why I think for the NC West, you

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Speaker 7: got to keep your hope alive because Sean McVay dangerous

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Speaker 7: in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they're sitting at the top of the

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Speaker 2: NFC West right now and in control of their playoff destiny.

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Speaker 2: You went out and they should they should be in

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Speaker 2: and host a game in the divisional round. But they

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Speaker 2: have three games left Jets, Cardinals, Seahawks. Which of these

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Speaker 2: matchups do you think is going to be the most

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Speaker 2: difficult for the Rams?

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's so interesting, right because they play the Jets. Please,

702
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Speaker 7: we're all like fingers crossed. Do not let this be

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Speaker 7: a trap game. But how do you know a ten

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Speaker 7: am start for a West Coast team never easy. They

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Speaker 7: have lost to the Cardinals. They got like man handled

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Speaker 7: forty one to ten. I want to say it was

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Speaker 7: Week two, so they've already have dropped the game to

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Speaker 7: the Cardinals. But they're behind, right, The Cards are a

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Speaker 7: little bit behind in terms of the standings. And then

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Speaker 7: you've got the Seahawks the season finale. The Rams have

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Speaker 7: already beat the Seahawks once, but I feel like you

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Speaker 7: can't you discredit what they can do and sort of

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Speaker 7: the danger that they impose. That final game, in my opinion,

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Speaker 7: I think is going to be the most important game

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Speaker 7: of the season for the Rams. So I'm going to

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Speaker 7: go with the with the Seahawks, but I will say

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Speaker 7: I'm nervous about this game in New York Singers crossed.

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Speaker 7: It's also going to be twenty four degrees, you know,

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Speaker 7: Alex Curry, and I.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, give me it. Yeah, I love it's for.

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Speaker 3: Well talk speaking about, you know, not counting out Sean

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Speaker 3: McVay and just this Rams team in general. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think that they're another team that has absolutely surpassed expectations,

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Speaker 3: especially when you talk about the defensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 3: losing a guy like Aaron Donald to retirement, but then

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Speaker 3: immediately making up for that absence along the defensive line

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Speaker 3: with some really young players, first and second year players.

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Speaker 3: As someone who's been around the team, like, tell me

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Speaker 3: more about our Jared Verse and Brayden Fisk and these

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Speaker 3: really fun young guys that are so that that are

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Speaker 3: really really good. And I mean Jared Vers has a

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Speaker 3: wonderful case for defensive rookie of the year.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, he does.

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Speaker 7: Jared versus Braden fifth, you know, they both came from

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Speaker 7: the same college. I think I had Marshall walk on

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Speaker 7: my show. I love that too, and he said one

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Speaker 7: of the hardest things when you're a rookie trying to

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Speaker 7: you know, acclimate to a new place and a new

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Speaker 7: team and all that, it's nice to have a buddy. Obvious,

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Speaker 7: you guys are more than just talented teamweight teammates from college.

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Speaker 7: They're really showing up in time and like you mentioned

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Speaker 7: Carmen No Aaron Donald, They've got a new defensive coordinator

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Speaker 7: and Chris.

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Speaker 9: Shula, and it's young.

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Speaker 7: It's a young team. It's a really interesting mix of

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Speaker 7: teammates because you've got veterans right like Stafford and super Cup,

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Speaker 7: but then you've got this influx of young guys. I

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Speaker 7: think figuring out what the identity of this defense as

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Speaker 7: we've seen it's been a roller coaster, has been interesting

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Speaker 7: to identify. But they're showing up and they're making big

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Speaker 7: plays and it's impactful, and they're they're you know, they're

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Speaker 7: we're seeing this team win, whether it's through the defense,

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Speaker 7: whether it's through the kicker, or whether it's with their

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Speaker 7: two crazy, you know, lethal wide receivers on both ends.

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Speaker 7: This team is showing up in my opinion. They're getting

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Speaker 7: healthy at the right time and they're dialed in at

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Speaker 7: the perfect time of the season as they try to

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Speaker 7: close out and win these last three games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we love a full team effort.

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Speaker 2: But let's look at tomorrow because Matthew Stafford is going

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Speaker 2: head to head with a very familiar opponent in Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 2: Stafford has gone four and three against Rogers thanks to

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Speaker 2: their many matchups in the NFC North. But do you

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Speaker 2: think Stafford looks at this as kind of a revenge

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Speaker 2: game with Rogers?

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Speaker 7: So it's so funny, don't guys like always say, I'm

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Speaker 7: you know, every game's the same game and they're not listen,

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Speaker 7: they're secret recircling some of those games.

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Speaker 1: They are this question.

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Speaker 9: These guys have.

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Speaker 7: More history than like a real Housewives reunion.

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Speaker 9: They they see each other.

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Speaker 7: I think it's what eighteen times now, and I want

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Speaker 7: to say that's fits most in the Super Bowl era,

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Speaker 7: but starting quarterback eighteen times. I'm telling you they know

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Speaker 7: each other very well. And you said it, Rogers has

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Speaker 7: Stafford's number. I think, look, it could be a possibility

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Speaker 7: where these two guys will.

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Speaker 9: Face off for the last time.

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Speaker 7: You know, no doubt Stafford is going to want to

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Speaker 7: end this on a high note and you know, pull

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Speaker 7: away with a win for Shore.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Aaron, thank you so much for joining us. Loved

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Speaker 2: having you on the show. Loved all the rams insight

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Speaker 2: and it's crazy to think they have a chance now.

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Speaker 1: This is this is so fun, this is so cute.

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Speaker 7: Yes, thank you guys so much for having me on.

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Speaker 9: You guys are one of my favorite shows. Listen to

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Speaker 9: and fingers from Love you guys.

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Speaker 2: Love you all right, guys, and we come back the

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday. It is the most

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Speaker 2: wonderful time. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitali. We're

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Speaker 2: broadcasting live from Attire dot com studios in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with.

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Speaker 1: Carme and me.

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Speaker 2: It is time for the Dues and the don'ts in

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Speaker 2: sports highlighting.

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Speaker 1: Duh.

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Speaker 6: I love that putting a spotlight on the don't.

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Speaker 1: The subject brings me no joy. That's insane.

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Speaker 6: It's time for the dues and the dots in sports.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: I'm starting with the do And if you're a quarterback,

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Speaker 2: do give lavish gifts to your offensive line.

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Speaker 1: It's wild, It's so beautiful.

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Speaker 2: I mean, quarterbacks typically give Christmas gifts to their offensive

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Speaker 2: lineman to thank them for blocking them all year. This year,

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes gave a gift Fox that included a Rolex Watch,

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Speaker 2: the Nomadic Air compression pans, Yeddi Cooler's Oakley sunglasses, Cowboy boots.

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Speaker 3: With CAZy Cowboy boots a big deal. Oh my god,

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Speaker 3: I who Cazys are incredible boots. I have a well

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Speaker 3: full disclosure. I have a very very good friend who

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Speaker 3: works for them.

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Speaker 1: But they are. There are thousands of dollars. There are thousand.

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Speaker 3: Dollars Cowboy boots at the I think the ones that

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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes gave his linemen were like ten grand yes,

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Speaker 3: because they're like a special type of croc skin or.

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Speaker 1: Something like that.

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Speaker 4: He went all out and the Rolex watches alone could

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Speaker 4: have been like, oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm rock Party. Gave his offensive line Toyota.

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Speaker 2: So, which is funny because he like must have a

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Speaker 2: deal with Toyota because Perty makes under a million dollars.

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Speaker 3: That's the dirty little secret, Alex is that all of

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Speaker 3: these guys have deals.

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Speaker 2: Well, Joe Burrow gave his O line authentic Samurai st

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Speaker 2: you don't have you don't have.

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Speaker 1: A deal with Samurai story.

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Speaker 4: That was just But he also bought himself a batmobile,

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Speaker 4: so like kind of.

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Speaker 1: Very Brian that Joe Burrow thinks he's a superhero. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to.

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Speaker 2: Disagree a superhero love it, but like live in your

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Speaker 2: fantasy world.

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Speaker 3: It's beautiful with a lot of these guys, like Patrick

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Speaker 3: Mahomes has a.

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Speaker 1: Deal with Yettie, like all of that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 4: Like you're not the compression pants. Do you think you

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Speaker 4: would deal with Rolex?

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Speaker 3: He could, honestly, because like Rolex has deals with like Golf,

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Speaker 3: I don't know how much, like they have deals with

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Speaker 3: the NFL guys, but like especially because and you know

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Speaker 3: how you know how you know is that the Chief's

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Speaker 3: official account like staged it all and like posted it

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Speaker 3: out there, so you know that there was like a.

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Speaker 1: Push for publicity.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's like it's any less generous or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Worth of deal, because I'm like, right party exactly.

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Speaker 3: Like, Also, how do you decide who gets the trucks

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Speaker 3: and who gets this coil with?

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Speaker 1: Well, they get to choose. It was like, there you go.

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Speaker 1: Some people are truck.

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Speaker 3: People, I know, but I feel like one of those

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Speaker 3: guys would be truck people, and like what if all

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Speaker 3: the trucks are gone and then like you're stuck with this?

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Speaker 1: I mean they're really nice cars.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I yeah, they're still like sixty cars beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It's kind Yeah, they're great. Okay, I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 6: With it.

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Speaker 1: Don't okay, don't give up, don't ever give up. Okay.

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Speaker 3: David Montgomery sought a third opinion on his injury and

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Speaker 3: now looks as he's going to avoid season ending surgery

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Speaker 3: and it's going to try to come.

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Speaker 1: Back wash why.

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Speaker 3: I know Christophett has something to say about this given

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Speaker 3: his Lion's fandom, But like Sonic.

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Speaker 1: And Numgos may not be done for the year, whoa

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Speaker 1: come back? Sonic threes on the Way and thee come Wow.

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Speaker 3: I'm like the movie's coming out the two characters are

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Speaker 3: coming back like you can't, you can't never say die.

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Speaker 3: This Lions team is so incredibly like resilient doesn't even

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Speaker 3: cover it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if only they could get a little bit of

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Speaker 1: that luck on the defense side.

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Speaker 3: Know into that. We're going to get into that in

881
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 3: my Christmas list.

882
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 7: Yep.

883
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, don't don't, don't give up.

884
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 3: David Montgomery trying to stay on the on the field

885
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 3: for his teammates and forge near Gibbs.

886
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: They like they.

887
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 3: Posted like these really cute things to each other when

888
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 3: he originally had the intory, Like on Instagram, they had

889
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 3: like a little heartbreaking up of these.

890
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: It was so cute.

891
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 2: Okay, I've got another d If you're a billionaire, do

892
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 2: lower your prices. The Phoenix Suns owner changed the food

893
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: prices at the stadium. Hot for hot dogs, sixteen ounce

894
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 2: water bottles, soda, bag of chips, and bag of popcorn

895
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 2: are all now two dollars.

896
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: So they're doing the Atlanta Falcons thing.

897
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 2: Making it the most affordable fan friendly menu in the NBA.

898
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: So a family of four used to have to spend ninety

899
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 2: eight dollars on like hot dogs, water and popcorn.

900
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 4: Now they'll get that same meal for twenty four bucks.

901
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 3: That's the Atlanta Falcons did that when they opened their stadium.

902
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: They opened Mercedes Benz and it is so expensive, so expensive,

903
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: so expensive.

904
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah. Also, yeah, billionaires be nicer. Yeah, which is great.

905
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: That's good. Good job, Phoenix Suns.

906
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 3: I've got to do Okay, and it's due show up

907
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 3: for your team no matter what.

908
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: Okay, Notre Dame fans. Yes, dude, that was insane. Our

909
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: friend Michael Junior, he went viral for them VideA. He

910
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: took a.

911
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 3: Video at like five am and all of these cars

912
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 3: are lined up to don to campus at Yeah, it

913
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 3: was still dark out knowing, and these guys were tailgating

914
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 3: their little hearts out despite the fact that it was cold.

915
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 1: I love it. That's football weather to me. I grew.

916
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 3: That's this is what I love. This is this is

917
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 3: football to me. December football, snow, cold, get through.

918
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: It anyway, I love it.

919
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 2: Okay, quick, dude, do have fun with food at your wedding.

920
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 2: Bobby Wood Junior got married and had a wit A

921
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,240
Speaker 2: Burger restaurant at his wedding. Wit a Burger, Bobby whit Junior.

922
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,720
Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we're giving out gifts.

923
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome to hour two

924
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 2: of Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitali.

925
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with Carme and me.

926
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 2: Happy Christmas weekend. We've had a full holiday theme show

927
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 2: if you were with us in the first hour, and

928
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 2: we're going to continue it in the second hour. Real quick,

929
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 2: before we get into everything, all time favorite Christmas movie,

930
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 2: I'll go first.

931
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,240
Speaker 1: I'm wearing it elf. Gee, I could have ever guess,

932
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 1: I like, it's.

933
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 4: One of my comfort movies.

934
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 2: We've talked about this before, so I've seen it probably

935
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 2: over two hundred times.

936
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your favorite? My favorite Christmas movie is a

937
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: Santa Claus. Oh, it's the g Yeah, the one where

938
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: he gets knocked off the roof.

939
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 3: Yeah to Mellan, Okay, it's like also, yeah, I like

940
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 3: to claim a little bit of Christmas periority too, because

941
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 3: all of the major Christmas movies Chicago take what in Chicago, Chicago,

942
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 3: The pranks of Santa Claus Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, all

943
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 3: of these take place in Chicago, in the suburbs.

944
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 2: Of Channel I tell you the first time I went

945
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 2: to Chicago, the first thing we did on our way

946
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 2: to the city was go see the Home Alone House.

947
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 3: Oh my god, those real people, those books than I expected.

948
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 3: I mean, it's still it's a really nice neighborhood. I

949
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 3: used to I went to Northwestern for grad school and

950
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 3: so that's it's right near there, so like I would

951
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 3: pass it on my way to school sometimes.

952
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: But like, I feel so bad for the people that

953
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: live there.

954
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 4: I mean, you know what you're getting into your buying

955
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 4: home alone house.

956
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 1: Actually you just went up for sale again. That you're

957
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: going to be an a fish.

958
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 3: It just went up for sale again because the previous

959
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 3: owners that had just bought it, they were only there

960
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 3: for like two years and they couldn't handle it.

961
00:41:59,080 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 6: Yeah.

962
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 2: No, it was gnarly, like everyone's looking inside your house

963
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 2: taking photo, especially on the market four.

964
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: I think it's like three three million something like that.

965
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: Three million.

966
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chicago is like and it's a it's a gorgeous

967
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 3: yeah house like Chicago is pretty affordable.

968
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: Home Alone's got to be up there.

969
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,919
Speaker 2: I think the home Alone memes are probably number one

970
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: around Christmas.

971
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: Home Alone and home Alone two for that matter. The

972
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: Limo the Pizza.

973
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 4: That's number two's Those were iconic.

974
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 3: But no, A lot of the major A lot of

975
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 3: the major Christmas movies take place in the suburbs of Chicago,

976
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 3: which is where I grew up. So like that is

977
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Speaker 3: Quinck essentially my Christmas experience.

978
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: I get that.

979
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 3: But the Santa Claus, I just think it's so funny.

980
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,919
Speaker 3: My dad and I like, we watch it every year.

981
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know we're not gonna get you that

982
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: this year because we're not gonna be together, but.

983
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 2: Because games on Christmas, just like we lose it every

984
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 2: single time at certain parts.

985
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: So I love my favorite.

986
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,640
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Speaker 1: Gifts with the holidays. Yeah yeah, do we not have one?

992
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you got to read and I was like,

993
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, gives her the holidays. I got.

994
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 6: You go.

995
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,240
Speaker 2: Okay, So, like we said, we are going to keeping

996
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 2: the holiday theme alive and now we are going to

997
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,760
Speaker 2: give gifts to players or teams.

998
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 4: So my first gift is to the Jets, and I

999
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 4: would give.

1000
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,919
Speaker 1: Them a new owner. Yeah, that's on my list.

1001
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 2: There was a lot of drama that came out this week,

1002
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 2: like Wow, basically talking about how dysfunctional this franchise is.

1003
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 2: And it all starts at the top with Woody Johnson

1004
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 2: in the Athletic article that came out on Thursday. Apparently

1005
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 2: these are a couple a couple like key points that

1006
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 2: came out of the article.

1007
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: There's quite a few anecdotes. There's a lot.

1008
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 2: Wood jon blocked a Jerry Judy trade because his reading

1009
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 2: was too low.

1010
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 4: Excuse me, what what out?

1011
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 10: Like?

1012
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 3: You employ an entire department, Yeah, to evaluate job.

1013
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 2: The article also claims that he takes advice from his

1014
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 2: teenage sons.

1015
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: One of which is named Brick.

1016
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 2: Yep, he will like they will have influence, like real influence.

1017
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 4: This comes from a Jets executive.

1018
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 2: When we're discussing things, you'll hear would he cite something

1019
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 2: that Brick or Jack read online that is being weighed

1020
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 2: equally against whatever opinion someone else in the department has.

1021
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 2: Meaning people that you pay.

1022
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: Well right to do their job.

1023
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, to look into these players, you are letting your

1024
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 2: teenage sons google searches.

1025
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:45,240
Speaker 3: J Douglas has reportedly said before I report to a teenager.

1026
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I mean there was a player with this

1027
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 2: team in twenty twenty three who called the just the

1028
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 2: most dysfunctional place, imaginal, imaginal, Like there is a reason

1029
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 2: this team has been so bad for so long.

1030
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: When you have owners like this that won't.

1031
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 2: Let the people you hire football people that you hire

1032
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 2: do their job, and they think they are smarter than them,

1033
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 2: this is where things go bad. I mean Woody Johnson,

1034
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 2: his brother, bought the team in two thousand. They've only

1035
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 2: been to six the playoffs six times in twenty four years,

1036
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 2: haven't been since twenty twelve, the longest active playoff dra

1037
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 2: among the four major pro teams. I mean, I don't

1038
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 2: forget all the other drama that went down this year,

1039
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 2: firing their head coach Robert Sala, firing their GM Joe Douglas.

1040
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 1: I mean they need a full reset. We've already heard,

1041
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: which is weird.

1042
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers say this week that he's willing to mentor

1043
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback in twenty five but like, you're not

1044
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 2: the mentoring type, you don't have a mentoring history. You

1045
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 2: got mad he just wants to hear bay When they

1046
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 2: drafted Jordan Love, I just wanted.

1047
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:58,439
Speaker 3: To hear himself talk like him. All reports have said

1048
00:45:58,440 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 3: like him and are in love. Actually did have a

1049
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 3: good grid relationship, which is interesting, but like it's because

1050
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 3: it was a good relationship as long as Aaron Rodgers

1051
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 3: was going out.

1052
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 2: And being act so again, which she was. If he

1053
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 2: hit the fire choosing, he's choosing I want to be here.

1054
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 2: I want to mentor with whoever you bring in. I

1055
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 2: don't also like, why would you bring him back?

1056
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1057
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 3: I just jets see the money situation that is your gift.

1058
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 3: The money situation with Aaron Rodgers, it's it's a lot.

1059
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: I've talked, I've written about it. I've talked about it

1060
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:32,399
Speaker 1: quite a bit.

1061
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 3: If you got rid of him now, you could at

1062
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 3: least spread out the dead money over the next two

1063
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 3: years if you were to wait, wait win, like if

1064
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 3: you were to let him play out this next year

1065
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 3: with the Jets, because then he's under contract one more year.

1066
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: But that backloads so.

1067
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 3: Much as far as like how much he's going to

1068
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 3: hit the cap for it's it's there's there's a feasible

1069
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:58,399
Speaker 3: way to get out of it if you don't mind

1070
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 3: kind of being the Denver Brown goes with the Rala

1071
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson stuff right now after this season.

1072
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: But the Jets, I think people would be.

1073
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 3: So shocked to really understand how many of their favorite

1074
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 3: teams are run like mom and pop joints literally, Like

1075
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 3: these are multi billion dollar franchises that are literally run

1076
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 3: by families.

1077
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: The owners. Teenagers have a say.

1078
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 3: That's and like, the thing is the wild part about

1079
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 3: it is that's not uncommon. That's the worst part is

1080
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 3: that people not maybe not necessarily like teenagers, but people

1081
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 3: that are not qualified to make these decisions get to

1082
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 3: make these decisions across the league.

1083
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: That is just that's true.

1084
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 3: I mean, you look at it with the Chicago Bears,

1085
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 3: who aren't to that level of dysfunction as the New

1086
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 3: York Jets.

1087
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: Because again, I go back, the most.

1088
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 3: Shocking part to me about that whole thing was what

1089
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 3: Woody Johnson said to Mike White, their backup quarterback, and

1090
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 3: told him to his face expletives about how much he sucks.

1091
00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you can't do that. He's a backup courquarterback.

1092
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 3: What do you want from him? Like that is just

1093
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 3: to walk up to players and and do that and

1094
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 3: be that involved, and be in the locker room and

1095
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 3: be such a cancer that you are telling players to

1096
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 3: their face that they suck and that, Like I just it's.

1097
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 4: The most dysfunctional place imaginable and like.

1098
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 3: The vibes are terrible. So I would give the Jets

1099
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 3: a new owner as well. Okay, uh, the other the

1100
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 3: other team I just mentioned, I would give Caleb Williams

1101
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 3: yep quarterback for the Chicago Bears, yep, a stable organization

1102
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 3: because across the board there is dysfunction, but it's in

1103
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 3: the form of instability. Yeah, so you look at for instance,

1104
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 3: I don't think it's all the offensive line's fault, but

1105
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:53,359
Speaker 3: the Bears have used one of the most amounts of

1106
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 3: offensive line combinations this year.

1107
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1108
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 3: They have played eleven different offenses linemen at fifty steps.

1109
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 3: Eleven different offensive lineman have played at least fifty snaps,

1110
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 3: which is tied for the most in the league. You

1111
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 3: started a rookie left tackle who came out of the

1112
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 3: third round from Yale last week against Brian Flores's defense.

1113
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: It didn't It went about like you would expect exact.

1114
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams, I think has the mentality to come out

1115
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 3: the other side of this. I trust him more than

1116
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 3: his predecessors. But this has been a pattern that I've

1117
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 3: talked about throughout this The tenure of this organization, which

1118
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 3: has been run by the same family for all one

1119
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:37,720
Speaker 3: hundred and.

1120
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: Five years of its history.

1121
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 3: Crazy And there's a common denominator here as to why

1122
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 3: this is dysfunctional. And then you look at the fixes

1123
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 3: that the Bears have tried to do, and it starts

1124
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 3: the top, right. You have the ownership, which is more

1125
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 3: involved than they say they are. But then below that

1126
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 3: you now have a team president that's over football on

1127
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 3: top of being over the business side. So he is

1128
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 3: now Kevin Warren trying to build a new stadium for

1129
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 3: the Chicago Bears, on top of now having to hire

1130
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 3: help hire a new head coach and figure out all

1131
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 3: the football aspects of everything. And then you have the

1132
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 3: general manager, and then you have the head coach that

1133
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 3: reports to the general manager. That amount of levels, those

1134
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 3: amount of levels of red tape just it makes it

1135
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 3: so it's not efficient, it's not an easy place to

1136
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 3: get something done. Also, you have people that are in

1137
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,919
Speaker 3: ultimate control of these situations that are either spread too thin,

1138
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 3: or the only qualification they have is they were born

1139
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 3: into it. That's the issue across a lot of teams.

1140
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 3: That's not unique to the Chicago Bears. And I do

1141
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 3: believe that the mccaskeys mean well. But just because you

1142
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 3: were born into football's first family does not mean that

1143
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 3: you know how to run a franchise, especially when all

1144
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 3: of your money and I wish I could go back

1145
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 3: to school and do a thesis on this, all.

1146
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 2: Of your money, do an arcle on it, All of

1147
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 2: your money is tied up in the team.

1148
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 3: Like you notice different differences between own that make their

1149
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,760
Speaker 3: money off of the team that they own versus owners

1150
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 3: that make their money elsewhere and treat the team like

1151
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 3: a glorified hobby.

1152
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,879
Speaker 2: Well, the team is a write off, like the team

1153
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 2: is a loss. Most but teams or loss until you

1154
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:12,439
Speaker 2: sell them.

1155
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 3: But when you are a team like the Chicago Bears,

1156
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 3: where all of your family money going back generations, because

1157
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 3: you were the first NFL franchise going back generations, is

1158
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,720
Speaker 3: from the team. George Tallis bought this team for sixty

1159
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 3: seven dollars or whatever it was back in nineteen twenty.

1160
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 3: Yeah that is, and then this family is wealthy because

1161
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 3: of the Chicago Bears. You cannot make money off of

1162
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 3: a team and expect to win because even winners barely

1163
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:46,240
Speaker 3: break even. To your point, there is a they're mostly seen.

1164
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:47,320
Speaker 1: As tax ride offs.

1165
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:50,959
Speaker 3: Yes, but you're not making a profit if you're doing

1166
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 3: your job. You're giving your team the resources they need

1167
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 3: to win and all of that kind of stuff. You're

1168
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 3: barely breaking even even the good teams. Yeah, and so

1169
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 3: if you're a team that you're to make a profit

1170
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 3: off of, of course you're not going to be putting

1171
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 3: in the correct amount of resources here. So I would

1172
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 3: get I think Caleb Williams could really be different.

1173
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 1: I do.

1174
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 3: I see it with him. Yeah, but you got to

1175
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 3: get this head coaching higher.

1176
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 2: Right, So that's I would gift Caleb an offensive coach,

1177
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 2: someone who can tap into his potential develop him into

1178
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 2: a top NFL quarterback, maybe like a Cliff Kingsbury if

1179
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 2: he wants to be a head coach again.

1180
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: He worked with Caleb at s.

1181
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 9: See.

1182
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 4: We've seen what he's done with Jaden Daniels the.

1183
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: Season idea, but I just it hasn't gone.

1184
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 2: If we want to see greatness from Caleb, they need

1185
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 2: to get the coach right, and this is going to

1186
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 2: be a franchise defining higher the franchise wants, franchise defining

1187
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 2: higher the fans want Ben Johnson.

1188
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1189
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, he turned down jobs last season.

1190
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 2: He's in such a great situation and with such a

1191
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 2: great franchise right now.

1192
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,760
Speaker 3: The biggest thing though, is, like we were just talking about,

1193
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 3: are the Bears going to.

1194
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 1: Pay for that? Yeah, he's got He's going to need

1195
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: to get like take care of money right his own.

1196
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: He can, You can give him. You're gonna have to.

1197
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 3: Give him a blank check because every team that needs

1198
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 3: a head coach is going to want him.

1199
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 4: Yes, So you are number one, like number one.

1200
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 3: Everything I heard behind the scenes asking about it, all

1201
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 3: the other stuff, the eight big year number that was

1202
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 3: being floated last year for Ben Johnson, fifteen to seventeen

1203
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 3: million a.

1204
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: Year was true. Yeah.

1205
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 3: Everything I've talked, everybody I've talked to has corroborated that.

1206
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1207
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 3: And it's because he can. And he also doesn't care

1208
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 3: if he leaves or not because he loves his situation

1209
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:32,760
Speaker 3: in district.

1210
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:33,320
Speaker 1: Great situation.

1211
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 3: And if Detroit doesn't win the Super Bowl this year,

1212
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 3: I am so not convinced Ben Johnson leaves.

1213
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 4: No, they still have all the pieces.

1214
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,760
Speaker 1: They just paid all their guys. They got time.

1215
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 3: They have time, but they also, like you feel, at

1216
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 3: this point, with all the injuries they sustained, Yeah, things

1217
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 3: have kind of been ripped away from them where you

1218
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 3: try to make another run at it next year because

1219
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 3: you do have young guys under contract, you have guys

1220
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 3: signed to extensions, like Brad Holmes has done a beautiful

1221
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 3: job in Detroit of building this team the right way

1222
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 3: and for sustainable success. So you figure you can do

1223
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 3: this again next year before you have to end up

1224
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 3: paying guys like Aiden Hutchinson and Brian Branch and all

1225
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 3: those guys. But to that end, the other thing I

1226
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 3: would give oh oh to the Detroit Lions.

1227
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 2: Oh wait, I was going on to my next one.

1228
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 2: I was just adding on tears, but I got I

1229
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 2: got one more. Here onto the Rams. Cooper Cup and

1230
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 2: Poka Nakua, I'm gifting them bunk beds now hear me out,

1231
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 2: don't get weird.

1232
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 4: Pookah shared earlier.

1233
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 2: This season that Cup's been like a big brother to him,

1234
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 2: like did we become best friends?

1235
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: Yep?

1236
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 2: So hearing him say that Cooper Cup has been a

1237
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 2: mentor and it's a blessing to be by him and

1238
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 2: spend time with.

1239
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: Him outside of football.

1240
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:53,320
Speaker 2: They're actually close on the field and off the field.

1241
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 2: Is what helps create an incredible young player. And we

1242
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 2: saw Cooper Cup kind of do this with Matthew Stafford

1243
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 2: their first year together. There were reports that they were

1244
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 2: together all day every single day, like they would eat

1245
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 2: meals together, they were doing walkthroughs together, and that's when

1246
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 2: they went on to win the Super Bowl. It's so

1247
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 2: rare and important to have a mentorship with a teammate.

1248
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 2: And because of that, Puka had an incredible sophomore season

1249
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 2: after setting records his rookie season, most receptions in a

1250
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 2: rookie season, most receiving yards in a rookie season, and

1251
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 2: the rams like when they were both back turn their

1252
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 2: season around and have a chance to win the NFC

1253
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 2: West team. Chemistry has a lot to do with that,

1254
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 2: these two guys being on the same page and cut

1255
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 2: to be so supportive to have Puka be there and

1256
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 2: just like both get those number one reps.

1257
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: Bunk beds. Huh bunk beds. Yeah.

1258
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,760
Speaker 3: More intangibly, I would, I would give Aid and Hutchinson

1259
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 3: my leg if I thought it would help for the

1260
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 3: Detroit Lions. They've just been bitten so badly by the

1261
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 3: injury bug. And I do feel like we were robbed

1262
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 3: of of a season, a crazy season by Aden Hutchinson

1263
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,720
Speaker 3: because there are still metrics that he leads in despite

1264
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 3: the fact that he has not played for sweak six.

1265
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 3: I would David Montgomery, we talked about it might not

1266
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 3: be done for the year, but then you look at

1267
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 3: the defensive side of the ball. With Alee McNeil out,

1268
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest one. You have Carlton Davis out,

1269
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 3: your linebacking corps completely decimated. You're on like your third

1270
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 3: and fourth backers at the inside backers. At this point,

1271
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 3: I trust Aaron Glenn more than I trust anybody to

1272
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 3: figure it out. Ye, but at some point there's a

1273
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 3: breaking point for everybody. Yeah, And I do hope that,

1274
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 3: you know with I hope the Lions can lock up

1275
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 3: the first seed, the one seed for the sheer fact

1276
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,479
Speaker 3: that they need the rest they need the bye week,

1277
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 3: and then they could maybe still make a legitimate run.

1278
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 3: I have them in the Super Bowl. I think that

1279
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 3: they can still get there. I'm not out on the Lions, yeah,

1280
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,720
Speaker 3: but I do think that the road got a lot harder,

1281
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 3: and so I would I would gift them health.

1282
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,360
Speaker 2: Okay, another team that's like right there with them, the Eagles.

1283
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 2: I would give this whole team and staff friendship bracelets

1284
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 2: because they've been playing great, but they are creating their

1285
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 2: own drama blaming it on everybody else. Two weeks ago,

1286
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 2: after the game, in case you missed all this, A J.

1287
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 2: Brown called out the passing game, said it need to

1288
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 2: be worked on. Then a couple days later, Brandon Graham

1289
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 2: said that AJ Brown and Jalen.

1290
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 4: Hurts aren't really friends anymore.

1291
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 2: So last week you could tell they really focused on

1292
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 2: that in their last game, Like A J. Brown and

1293
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 2: DeVante Smith had really strong games, and Jalen Hurts at

1294
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 2: the podium right after the game said, so is this

1295
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 2: what you want to see?

1296
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: Huh?

1297
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 2: It's like, why aren't we celebrating the fact that you

1298
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 2: picked up one of the best offensive players in Saquon Barkley,

1299
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 2: who's been carrying this team and has a chance to

1300
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 2: break the single season rushing record.

1301
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: But instead of the game, he's okay, we still don't

1302
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 1: really know what's wrong.

1303
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 4: With true, but like instead of getting sassy, like.

1304
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,959
Speaker 1: Well again, it was it was your own teammates, Yeah,

1305
00:57:58,000 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: it was Brandon Gham.

1306
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 2: Goal is to win, right, Like, that's that's your goal,

1307
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 2: and you guys are winning, like keep that, keep that

1308
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 2: in house.

1309
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 4: That was ridiculous. You all need to get along, you

1310
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 4: This was all you guys.

1311
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:09,919
Speaker 1: This was not.

1312
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 3: Then projecting right, the projecting out of the media being

1313
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 3: like this week like we didn't want to see we.

1314
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: Want you guys. You just need to like friendship.

1315
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 2: Bracelet's get along, all right, We're gonna take a quick

1316
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Speaker 2: break here when we come back.

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Speaker 4: Chief Texans Raven Steelers breakdown. That's next. You're listening to

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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 2: I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitalite, coming to you

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Speaker 2: live from the tire dot Com studios in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with Carmi and me.

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Speaker 2: This makes me smile. All the holiday music this.

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Speaker 3: Is just like, I mean, this is what the season

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00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 3: is all nostalgia.

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Speaker 2: We were just talking about it like off air before

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Speaker 2: we came back on air. Carmen's from Chicago, I did.

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00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 2: I'm from here Los Angeles, so I'm not used to

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Speaker 2: like cold Christmases.

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00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 3: I was built in it, I was molded by it.

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Speaker 3: I'm the bane of Chicago, Like are the bane of

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Speaker 3: cold wather I should like I was born in I

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00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 3: was born in the cold molded bias. It's so true

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Speaker 3: we take such pride because like otherwise we would just cry.

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Speaker 1: That's that's the thing. Chicago cold, that California cold. Like

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Speaker 1: right now, like this is nice.

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Speaker 3: I love like honestly though, Like there's something so magical

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Speaker 3: about walking through the city with your big park on

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00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 3: and your snow boots and it's snowing, with.

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Speaker 4: Your hairs freezing and you can't beat your hands on your.

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00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 3: Tongue, Like that's why all the parkers that I have.

1342
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 3: My hood goes further than my face and so it

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00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 3: blocks the wind and it's just you get to look

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Speaker 3: around and it's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It's magical, like.

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Speaker 3: Especially when it's the fluffy snow that's just like falling

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Speaker 3: so prettily. I don't know, it's so it's so cool

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Speaker 3: and it's such a it's such a good.

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Speaker 2: Chicago in her mind. Yeah, I'm always holiday state of

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Speaker 2: all those all of.

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Speaker 3: Those memes of like I'm mentally I'm here right now, mentally,

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty much always in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense, all right, we had two well

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Speaker 2: we have two NFL games that along with the three

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Speaker 2: college football playoff games. This morning, Chiefs win again now

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Speaker 2: thirteen and one over the Texans.

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Speaker 4: Can anybody, like, can anybody really stop them?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: Like me Bills did? But like, are they destined for

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Speaker 2: a three peat? Because we know Mahomes gets better in

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Speaker 2: the postseason, like he gets.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, well but he gets better because the like

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Speaker 3: uh Andy Reid has a completely diferent playbook for the postseason.

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, like at fourteen and one, they've got

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Speaker 3: who do they get? They have the Steelers next, so

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Speaker 3: that's gonna be an interesting game, and then they have

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Speaker 3: the Broncos after that.

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Speaker 1: The Broncos are playing good football right now. They're in

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Speaker 1: the division. They are.

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Speaker 3: They always play the Chiefs tough too, So like I

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Speaker 3: you're not you're not totally out of Like you're not

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Speaker 3: out of this thing yet. As far as like locking

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Speaker 3: up the ones, we'll see.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, thirteen and one, I.

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Speaker 1: Also think they lock up. Yeah, though what.

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Speaker 3: I'm never going to bet against the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: I have learned my lesson that last year. I love

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Speaker 3: how everybody thought, like, oh.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Patrick Mahomes is an ankle injury.

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Speaker 2: Nope, he has an ankle injury all every year, this time, always,

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Speaker 2: this time, every single year, Patrick.

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Speaker 1: Mahomes has an ankle injury. Does it ever matter? No? No,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not.

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Speaker 3: And then when you get to the postseason, Yeah, like

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Speaker 3: I mentioned, there's an entirely separate playbook that Andre Reid

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Speaker 3: has for the postseason, and they played completely different football

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Speaker 3: in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Also last year with a receiver corps.

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Speaker 2: That had the most drops of any team insane in

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Speaker 2: the league.

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Speaker 3: And then you win the ball Super Bowl. I am

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Speaker 3: not going to pretend like that didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying I don't know if anyone can stop there.

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Speaker 3: So on a game by game basis, we can talk about,

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Speaker 3: Like I said, they're fourteen and one. Next week you

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Speaker 3: go to the Steelers. That's going to be interesting. I

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Speaker 3: think that's going to be an interesting game. Ending the

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Speaker 3: season against the Broncos, who always play you top, that's

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Speaker 3: going to be interesting. I'm not I'm not making any

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Speaker 3: projections on those games individually, but when it comes through

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Speaker 3: the postseason and the Kansas Chiefs, I know it's kind

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Speaker 3: of a cop out to just be like, yeah, well

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Speaker 3: I trust them to the.

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Speaker 1: Chiefs, but like I trust them, they're the Chiefs. No,

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Speaker 1: you have to like you have to. It's all it is. Now.

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Speaker 2: The afternoon game going on right now is tied at

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Speaker 2: seven seven Steelers and Ravens. If Steelers win this game,

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Speaker 2: like they win the AFC North, So this is this

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Speaker 2: is a good game for them. Lamar Jackson obviously, Steelers

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Speaker 2: have his number. He's one and four against the Steelers

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Speaker 2: lost earlier this season. They get into the game, yeah,

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Speaker 2: currently the five seed probably will end up there too.

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Speaker 1: I don't what are they could.

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Speaker 3: The AFC playoff picture is not as mysterious, actually not.

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Speaker 3: The playoff pictures is really not mysterious at all this year.

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Speaker 3: Like it's very much there are.

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Speaker 2: A little more up in the air and terms of

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Speaker 2: like the see divisions right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you kind of know already who's going to

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Speaker 1: be in it.

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Speaker 3: You kind of know already who's gonna be in It's

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Speaker 3: very interesting this season in particular because you look at

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Speaker 3: there are coming into this week, there were six teams

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Speaker 3: already in double digit wins. Yeah, and then there are

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Speaker 3: nine teams with four or less wins coming into this week.

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Speaker 3: So it's like there's no middle class of the NFL

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Speaker 3: this year, which is what makes all of these wild

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Speaker 3: card just in general, like, yeah, it makes all these

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Speaker 3: wild card you know, scenarios very interesting when the middle

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Speaker 3: class is very bolstered.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's not the case this year. It's either

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Speaker 1: you're really really good or you're really really bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's honestly, these games now are coming down

1434
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Speaker 3: to especially for the teams that are bad, the draft

1435
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Speaker 3: positioning can vary so greatly.

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Speaker 1: Like you can vary like.

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Speaker 3: Five to seven spots based on if you win or

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Speaker 3: lose a game down the stretch here, Like that is

1439
01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 3: the scenario for multiple teams right now, where if they

1440
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 3: win a game, they're now picking eighth, ninth, tenth in

1441
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Speaker 3: the draft. If they lose, they have the first or

1442
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Speaker 3: the second pick. So like not that you want to

1443
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 3: like tank, yeah, but you want to turn if you're

1444
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 3: if you're one of these teams like Vegas, New York,

1445
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Speaker 3: the Giants, the Patriots, the Jets, the Panthers, the.

1446
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Speaker 1: Titans, the Browns, the Jets, the Bears. Yeah, numbers, those

1447
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Speaker 1: are all the teams that have four or less wins.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know. So that's why, like, that's why.

1449
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Speaker 3: We're seeing it's just like this playoff. There's not been

1450
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Speaker 3: a whole lot of mystery with this playoffs and the

1451
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 3: playoff scenarios this year at all. But that being said,

1452
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Speaker 3: these games that are on today, like has meet something matters. Yes,

1453
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:42,919
Speaker 3: this game right now is Steelers Ravens, Like you said,

1454
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Speaker 3: matters the division. Ravens can punch their postseason ticket, whether

1455
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 3: or not that's in the division or just a postseason birth.

1456
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Speaker 1: We'll see Steelers playing.

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Speaker 3: Good football though, I mean, are if you're ever going

1458
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Speaker 3: to be in on a Steelers team, it's this.

1459
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Speaker 2: Wow, they're gonna have to make a decision too, Like

1460
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Speaker 2: it's are you going to keep Russ or are you

1461
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 2: going to keep Justin?

1462
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Speaker 4: What are you gonna do? Like that has to have

1463
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Speaker 4: big dicision.

1464
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 3: Have some fun numbers between what they're like with what

1465
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 3: they were like in the first six weeks with Justin

1466
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Speaker 3: Fields at.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback, Okay, real quick, then we gotta get yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Real Quick scored an average of twenty point seven points

1469
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 3: per game under Dustin Fields okay thirteenth and average depth

1470
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Speaker 3: target eight point three thirteenth in NFL Passer Rating Week

1471
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Speaker 3: seven onward with Russell Wilson.

1472
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Speaker 1: Yeah, scored an average.

1473
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Speaker 3: Of twenty six point five points seventh and averaged up

1474
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Speaker 3: the target at nine point three yards fifth in NFL

1475
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Speaker 3: Passer Rating.

1476
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Speaker 4: Okay, I mean Russ is having a comeback prove yourself season.

1477
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Speaker 3: Like he's a couple coverting with that defense, you are

1478
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 3: now getting actual offensive production out of Russell Wilson because

1479
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 3: he looks like the Russell Wilson from.

1480
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Speaker 1: Three years ago.

1481
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Speaker 4: He said he loves it there and wants to stay.

1482
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 2: And I don't believe are they going to pay him honestly,

1483
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 2: something like a Baker deal.

1484
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, would love to see that.

1485
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1486
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Speaker 4: All right, now let's check in with Bonzie Bilanios to

1487
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Speaker 4: see what's trending.

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Speaker 8: You mentioned it, Alex that the Ravens scored again Lamar

1489
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 8: Jackson connecting with Sean Bateman on his second touchdown pass

1490
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Speaker 8: of the game. But right before they scored, Justice Hill

1491
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 8: took a hard hit on the sideline.

1492
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: He is out with a concussion.

1493
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 4: He was out knocked out.

1494
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Speaker 8: But before that drive, yeah, yeah, before that drive, Russell

1495
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 8: Wilson took a hard hit at Baltimore's three yard line.

1496
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 8: He was about to score, took a hard hit, fumbled

1497
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Speaker 8: the ball, lost it.

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Speaker 1: That's what led to this Ravens drive.

1499
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what led to this.

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Speaker 8: It was a hard hit though, to this Ravens drive

1501
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:28,360
Speaker 8: where they are now on top of the Steelers fourteen

1502
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,080
Speaker 8: seven halfway through the second quarter. Lamar Jackson is five

1503
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 8: of ten for seventy yards in those two touchdowns. Russell

1504
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,400
Speaker 8: Wilson seven of eight for seventy five yards and not

1505
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 8: one touchdown. And yes, the Chiefs are now fourteen and

1506
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 8: one after taking down the Texans twenty seven to nineteen.

1507
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 8: Patrick Mahomes a touchdown in the air and one on

1508
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Speaker 8: the ground. Houston wide receiver Tank Dell was hurt in

1509
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 8: the third quarter, cart it off the field with the

1510
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 8: left leg injury. The latest is that he is going

1511
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 8: to spend the night at University of Kansas Medical Center.

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Speaker 4: That is the latest update.

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01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 8: I know, not what you want to hear. In college

1514
01:06:56,160 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 8: football playoffs, Clemson scored first against Texas this and they

1515
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:03,919
Speaker 8: did that night night, Sally Well, Texas has twenty one

1516
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 8: unanswered points.

1517
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 11: Do that.

1518
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 9: Yes, so.

1519
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,400
Speaker 8: They did hit up field goal the Tigers right now,

1520
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 8: but Texas is up twenty one to ten with ninety

1521
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:20,520
Speaker 8: seconds to go in the first half. Earlier today, Penn

1522
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 8: State crushed SMU thirty eight ten. So Penn State is

1523
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 8: not going to face Boise State in the festival on

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Speaker 8: December thirty. First, and I'll give you just quick NFL

1525
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,760
Speaker 8: updates for the games for tomorrow. Bucks have downgraded tight

1526
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 8: end Kate Auton. He is not playing in Dallas due

1527
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 8: to his knee injury. Yes, and the Saints, we kind

1528
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:38,919
Speaker 8: of knew this. No Alvin Kamara and no Derek Carr

1529
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 8: from Monday's.

1530
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:40,439
Speaker 4: Game at Green Bay.

1531
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 1: All right, back to you.

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01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 4: Girls, Thank you, Monsi Jaz you give me every time.

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Speaker 2: Whatday it is just Yes, you're listening to Fox Football

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Speaker 2: Saturday at Alex Curry here at Carmen Vitally. We are

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Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the tartalk Com studios in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: It is time for our next guest, Green Bay host

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Speaker 2: and reporter Lauren Hembreckt.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining the show.

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Speaker 9: Hey, thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Lauren, how are you.

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Speaker 9: I'm doing well. I'm surviving this Green Bay winter. On

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Speaker 9: the ground it's in the teens. It's the very Wisconsin We.

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Speaker 3: Were just talking about like, I know you went, you

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Speaker 3: went to USC you know what the climate is like

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Speaker 3: out here. The But like I was, like, I love

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Speaker 3: this weather in December, and I think that there's no

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Speaker 3: more magical place than Green Bay. Lambeau Field in the snow,

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Speaker 3: with snow on the ground. I mean, the Saints are

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Speaker 3: in for a rewakening.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 9: The frozen tundra which snow is incomparable. It looks so beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Bucket list hackers.

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Speaker 9: Players love it. Oh, they love it.

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Speaker 1: It's on the bucket list.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're making snowballs. They're like they're doing the Lambeau

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Speaker 3: Leave and people like they're throwing snow up in the air.

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Speaker 1: It's the best, all right, Lauren.

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Speaker 2: Green Bay has been looking good, and we heard Matt

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Speaker 2: Leafloor say that Jordan Love is playing the best ball

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Speaker 2: he's played. So what's impressed you most about what Jordan

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Speaker 2: Love has been able to do this season?

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Speaker 9: Honestly, it's the fact that for a second year in

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Speaker 9: a row, right after around Week ten, Jordan can just

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Speaker 9: turn it on. At the beginning of the season, his

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Speaker 9: touchdown to interception ratio was not looking good. He was

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01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 9: throwing up pick a game, and then he started keeping

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Speaker 9: control of the ball. And now I assume you both

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Speaker 9: have heard of the Toyota.

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Speaker 3: Toyota are Toyota, Yes.

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Speaker 9: Yes, the Toyota don Jordan Love, meaning that during the

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Speaker 9: promotion by Toyota, the car company called Toyotas on Jordan's

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Speaker 9: Love happens to play really well.

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Speaker 4: Listening at the stats right now, does he have like

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Speaker 4: does he have a deal?

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Speaker 9: Have a sponsorship's figure it out?

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Speaker 1: Coota figure it out?

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01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 9: But so not during toyotas on Aka before week nine.

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Speaker 9: During the last two seasons, thirty eight hundred yards twenty

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Speaker 9: nine TV twenty five interceptions, during Toyogathon which is week

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Speaker 9: ten and after thirty two hundred yards twenty six t

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Speaker 9: d's two interceptions. I mean huge different when it comes

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Speaker 9: to later in the season, and obviously a big difference

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Speaker 9: this year is a guy named Josh Jacobs is on

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Speaker 9: the packs.

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Speaker 1: That might help a little bit, help me.

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Speaker 9: So Jordan's played super well for the second year in

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Speaker 9: a row. Right when football matters. The factors are in

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Speaker 9: their fourth of four straight primetime games, and people are watching,

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Speaker 9: they're seeing Jordan Love play like this and this isn't

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Speaker 9: a flute pizza It now twice. He's really good in

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Speaker 9: the end of the season.

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Speaker 3: And I mean the other kind of explanation for all

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Speaker 3: of this, too, is you have the bye week that

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Speaker 3: happened and the adjustments that Matt lafoor was able to make.

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Speaker 3: I've been on record now Lauren multiple times saying that

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Speaker 3: while I don't think that Matt lafor had a shot

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Speaker 3: to win Coach of the Year, he should absolutely be

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Speaker 3: in the conversation for the adjustments he's been able to

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Speaker 3: make when Jordan Love wasn't in the lineup with Malik Willis,

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Speaker 3: and then what this team has looked like prior to

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Speaker 3: bye week and then after, and that's something that we've

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Speaker 3: seen throughout Matt Laflora's tenure. But then defensively, even Jeff Hafley,

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Speaker 3: new defensive coordinator. Since week twelve, the Packers are tied

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Speaker 3: for the most sacks their top ten and pressure percentage.

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Speaker 3: That is something that they were trying so hard to

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Speaker 3: do earlier in the season. What have you seen has

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Speaker 3: been the difference since the bye week of how this

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Speaker 3: defense is behaving and now finally getting pressure.

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Speaker 9: No, because it feels like it was so obvious right

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Speaker 9: start attacking, But I do really think the growth of

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Speaker 9: the linebackers has really helped that attack. So Edrin Cooper

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Speaker 9: just won NFC Defensive Player of the Week for the

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Speaker 9: second time this season. Team is three straight games, comes

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Speaker 9: back and immediately makes an impact in the Seahawks team.

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Speaker 9: Having a linebacker core that you can really trust, I

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01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 9: think has you see it divvied up across the defense,

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Speaker 9: because that makes it so that your front seven can

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Speaker 9: get some more attacks while also knowing that I mean

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Speaker 9: sure Davi or McKinney is back there. I also think

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Speaker 9: teams are playing the hackers differently because of Xavier McKinney.

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Speaker 9: So at the beginning of the season he was getting

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Speaker 9: a pick a game and he currently still is tied

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Speaker 9: to the lead in the NFL total interceptions. But teams

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Speaker 9: aren't going to challenge him. They know what he can do,

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Speaker 9: so therefore they might be doing some jump offs closer

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Speaker 9: to the line of scrimmage, or the quarterback might be

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Speaker 9: keeping the ball a little bit longer. And that's why

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Speaker 9: I think the pass attack is working. So it starts

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Speaker 9: up front. But I do think Xavier McKinney is making

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Speaker 9: his impact felt, even if you don't see it in

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Speaker 9: the statcheet teams are playing differently because he's back there.

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Speaker 1: Gropoint.

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Speaker 2: Now, if the Packers going to win against the Saints

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Speaker 2: on Monday Night, they secure a spot in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: How dangerous can this team be in the playoffs now

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Speaker 2: that Jordan Love has some of that experience, it.

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Speaker 9: Be really dangerous. You don't want to play Jordan Love

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Speaker 9: at the end of the season. Yeah, Josh Jacobs is

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01:12:56,640 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 9: as healthy as he's been all year. It's his right.

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Speaker 9: This week called him the Wolverine because so healthy and

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Speaker 9: he can regenerate pretty much. He's not getting worse. I

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Speaker 9: don't think Jaie or Alexander should be returning coming up soon.

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Speaker 9: We don't know if that's going to be this weekend

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Speaker 9: or next week. But the Packers are pretty healthy for

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Speaker 9: how late in the season they are. Right now, they

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Speaker 9: are still one of the youngest teams, if not the

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Speaker 9: youngest team in the NFL, and so they're young, they're hungry.

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Speaker 9: They know that they made it into the second round

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Speaker 9: of the playoffs last season. They only want to approve

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Speaker 9: upon that. They're playing some of their best football right now. Also,

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Speaker 9: they kind of have a chip on the back of

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Speaker 9: the shoulder because they have this record and yet they're

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Speaker 9: still third in the NFC North, right, so proving themselves.

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Speaker 9: I mean that's tough for the rest of the NFC.

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Speaker 9: If the third best team in the NFC North is

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Speaker 9: ten and four and they're six seeds, I mean they're

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Speaker 9: better than the two the best team in the NFC

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Speaker 9: South and the NFC West. So I think the Packers

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Speaker 9: are really dangerous.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the biggest thing to me where looking at

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Speaker 3: this season going into it, I was like, it's gonna

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Speaker 3: take twelve, thirteen, fourteen wins to win this division and

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Speaker 3: there are going to be three playoff teams that come

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Speaker 3: out of this division, and like that's it's not the

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Speaker 3: Packer's fault that they're just in the toughest division in football.

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Speaker 3: But you know, even if they get a ticket to

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Speaker 3: the dance, I just think that there is so much

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Speaker 3: Again when you talk about the adjustments that Matt Lafloor

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Speaker 3: is able to make, like seeing them behaving a little

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Speaker 3: bit differently and doing different things that maybe haven't been

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Speaker 3: on tape up, and like once they get into the

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Speaker 3: postseason and that can make them so dangerous.

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Speaker 1: What do you see at practice.

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Speaker 3: From Matt Lafleur as far as kind of just the motivation,

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Speaker 3: you know, by like that he brings to the team

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Speaker 3: and the vibe, the overall vibe.

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Speaker 1: Just of them you taught you mentioned they had a

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Speaker 1: tip on their shoulder.

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Speaker 6: I'd say the.

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Speaker 9: Vibe is very loose. So I was at practice yesterday

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01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 9: and carried to Valentine who was just awarded G of

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Speaker 9: the Week, which is given out to a Packers player

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Speaker 9: who just emulates the G on their jam. He was

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Speaker 9: dancing up a storm. You could have told me their

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Speaker 9: aunts and his pants. He was dancing at any moment

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Speaker 9: he had. And yes, this team knows that there's very

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Speaker 9: high percentage that they're making the playoffs, and they know

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Speaker 9: that these are all must with games. But they're still

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Speaker 9: young and they're still fun, and they're still dancing around

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Speaker 9: of practice. We don't get the opportunity to watch a

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Speaker 9: lot of practice, so you know, when it really matters,

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Speaker 9: they're probably not dancing and grooven as much as I

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01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 9: see them, but they're still having that fun even in

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01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 9: the cold weather. Exactly, even when they have three games

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01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 9: left in the regular season, they're having fun and they

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01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 9: know that. Hey, especially after this Lions game, we are

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Speaker 9: planning to see them again. That was the mentality after

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Speaker 9: the loss, the second loss of the season to the Flies.

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Speaker 9: We're planning on seeing them again. They could be focused,

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01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:51,200
Speaker 9: they can have that chip, but at the end of

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01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 9: the day, they're a really young team. They like to

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01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:55,800
Speaker 9: have fun, they're happy to play football, and they're happy

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01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:57,120
Speaker 9: to keep winning the way that they are.

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Speaker 4: Love that, Lauren, Thank you so much. Have such a

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01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:00,080
Speaker 4: fun game on.

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Speaker 9: Thank you so much. Carmen Hallick Bye.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take one more break here, but

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Speaker 2: when we come back, we're making our week's Week sixteen

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Speaker 2: NFL picks.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to.

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Speaker 2: Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitale.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the tart dot Com studios

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Is this a Christmas? This is a hardcore Christmas song?

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01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:23,719
Speaker 1: Who's it? Bye? Give it a second? Ted Nugent?

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01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:27,680
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, how long do you go?

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Speaker 1: There?

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Speaker 10: It is?

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Speaker 9: There?

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Speaker 4: It is okay, love it?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it is time for our Week sixteen NFL Picks.

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Speaker 2: I've been out for two weeks, but gave my picks

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Speaker 2: in two weeks ago.

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Speaker 4: So producer Patrick set us up.

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Speaker 1: How we doing lead us through well, Alex and Carmen.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'll go.

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Speaker 11: I'll go with last week the score was forty two

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01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 11: twenty seven Alex, thirty six thirty three Carmen. And that

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01:16:55,960 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 11: was when we last when you have mailed it in

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01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 11: all that good stuff. Now you you have a you

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01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 11: have a still our fearless leader and still big lead.

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Speaker 1: Now after this past one. We didn't do this past one.

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Speaker 10: This past yeah, wait a second, actually, wait a minute,

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Speaker 10: let me reiterate, let me let me hold on scratch that.

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Speaker 10: That's the news score now, forty two twenty seven for Alex,

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Speaker 10: in thirty six thirty three for Carmen. That's that's a

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Speaker 10: lot of numbers there.

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Speaker 1: That's where we are. Okay, where we are. We have

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Speaker 1: a dawn of a new week, and we are both

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01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 1: in the booth.

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Speaker 11: We're going to start with the first when we got

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01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 11: the Philly Eagles three and a half point favorites on

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01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:38,560
Speaker 11: the road taking on the commanders of Washington.

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Speaker 1: Alex, go ahead, our fearless leader.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take the Eagles here. Eagles can clinch

1747
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 2: the division with a win.

1748
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: Hopefully.

1749
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 2: We've been talking about this earlier. Saquon Barkley is okay.

1750
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 3: They've been a little Yeah, he doesn't have an injury designation,

1751
01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 3: but they like rested him.

1752
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:53,439
Speaker 2: All.

1753
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a weird thing. You didn't finish the

1754
01:17:56,760 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, who knows. But it should be fine.

1755
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: Should be fine.

1756
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 2: They've already beat the Commanders this season, Jay Browns in,

1757
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:04,400
Speaker 2: I think they come in.

1758
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:05,599
Speaker 1: I think Eagles take this one.

1759
01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:09,839
Speaker 3: I'm actually gonna take the Washington command I think they're feisty.

1760
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:13,519
Speaker 3: They've been a little bit inconsistent down the stretch, but

1761
01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:15,479
Speaker 3: I just feel like they've got a lot.

1762
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:17,560
Speaker 1: To prove still and they can. They're still gunning for

1763
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:18,360
Speaker 1: a wild card spot.

1764
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I just I have a lot of

1765
01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 3: trust in Jadon Daniels. He scrambles the most of any quarterback,

1766
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:29,479
Speaker 3: and I that's going to stress the Eagles linebackers a lot,

1767
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:31,559
Speaker 3: and that that's been a strength of their team.

1768
01:18:31,720 --> 01:18:33,760
Speaker 1: But I'm interested to see what Jadan Danel's can do.

1769
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 11: Let's see, Well, you're interested in what Jayden Daniels can do, Garmon,

1770
01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:39,519
Speaker 11: I'm interested to see what the Lions do.

1771
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 1: You at six and a half one point, it's it's

1772
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:44,600
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Lions like a.

1773
01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 3: Hurt but like this this is not the Bears team

1774
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 3: that they played on Thanksgiving. The Bears seems so defeated

1775
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:55,760
Speaker 3: right now and like they don't really have much to

1776
01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 3: play for. Their interim guy is not going to be

1777
01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:01,439
Speaker 3: the guy. It's just it's a whole mess. Plus the

1778
01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 3: Bears are dealing with some injuries themselves, so I just like,

1779
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 3: I know that there's a ton of defensive injuries with

1780
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,599
Speaker 3: the Lions, but I trust Aaron Glenn to figure it out,

1781
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 3: and I trust the Lions offense, even without David Montgomery,

1782
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 3: to score points, which is something the Chicago Bears cannot do.

1783
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:17,080
Speaker 1: So I'm taking the Lions.

1784
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 2: I'm also taking the Lions. They're gonna have a big

1785
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 2: bounce back game. Plus they need to keep pace with

1786
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:24,840
Speaker 2: the Eagles and Vikings. They need to win out, So

1787
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:27,080
Speaker 2: I'm taking the Lions. Kay, let's all right. Next through these,

1788
01:19:27,200 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 2: we got the Rams on the road taking on the Jets.

1789
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:31,599
Speaker 2: Oux are we feeling? I'm taking the Rams. They're getting

1790
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:33,240
Speaker 2: hot at the right time. They have all the pieces.

1791
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:36,559
Speaker 2: Great coach, great quarterback, great weapons. Jets are hot mess so.

1792
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:38,760
Speaker 3: Far, yeah, and say talk about bad vibes Jets. So

1793
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:39,679
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the Rams.

1794
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:42,360
Speaker 11: Oh okay, all right, all right, we got my Vikings

1795
01:19:42,439 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 11: versus my Seahawks.

1796
01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:45,639
Speaker 3: Here, who we go in garment? Where are you going?

1797
01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 3: Is ways more of the question. Oh oh yeah, I'm

1798
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 3: gonna take the Vikings. I kind of went back and

1799
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 3: forth on this, but again, the Vikings are capable of

1800
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:55,640
Speaker 3: scoring so many points and with as good as the

1801
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 3: Seattle secondary is. Jordan Addison, Justin Jefferson, T J. Howkinson,

1802
01:19:59,479 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 3: all those guys.

1803
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:00,760
Speaker 1: Credible. Yep.

1804
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:02,800
Speaker 2: I'm always this is huge for both teams. Both need

1805
01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 2: to win to win their division, but Vikings are so

1806
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:07,920
Speaker 2: hot right now. They're on a seven game win streak

1807
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 2: and have flown under the radar. I'm taking the Vikings,

1808
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 2: all right. Final one Bocks Cowboys?

1809
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:12,800
Speaker 1: Who we going?

1810
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:13,400
Speaker 11: Bocks?

1811
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 1: Baby Bucks?

1812
01:20:14,720 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 6: Yucks?

1813
01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:17,640
Speaker 1: My good get closer to the thousand yard mark. He's

1814
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 1: gonna go to this season. I'm calling it.

1815
01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 2: Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us.

1816
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 1: Have a great holiday.

1817
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 4: We'll see you next week's same time, same place,