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Speaker 1: really want to achieve this week, he's are we going

429
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Speaker 1: to do it? They trusted to do assistant coaches would

430
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: get it done. But then they always made sure that

431
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 1: the team was in line with the vision in which

432
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: they wanted the team to play. John Guten and Mike

433
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 1: o who are running the offense um look, they trusted

434
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator to handle death out of the ball,

435
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: and then they were basically offensive coordinator pluck. They were

436
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 1: hold of the offense. The guys in the front of

437
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 1: the room, but it was kind of two factions. It

438
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: was the offense and then the head coach of the defense,

439
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: and then they would come together on game there got you,

440
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 1: got you? So all right? Now, well, you do have

441
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: experience with all these these different coaches back back in

442
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: the day, I didn't want to talk Bucky about some

443
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks. Now on the story to me that

444
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: is most interesting since the season the regular season ended

445
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: is in Indianapolis where Carson Wentz is. I feel like

446
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: he's hanging on by a threat. I thought, well, there's

447
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: no way he's not back based on the contract. But

448
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: some of the comments this week Chris Ballard, the GM

449
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 1: of the Colts, uh, you know, he would not comment

450
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 1: on Carson Wentz and his future. Frank Reich, the guy

451
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,439
Speaker 1: that was like the big cheerleader for Carson Wentz and

452
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:13,719
Speaker 1: had him in Philadelphia, he distanced himself from Carson Wentz.

453
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: Is is this something or nothing? Bucky? Are we reading?

454
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: Am I reading too much into this? Or is there

455
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 1: is there something going on in Indianapolis? I think there's

456
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 1: something going on because the way they finished in disappointing fashion.

457
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: I think whenever you fail to live up to expect Tason,

458
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: you take a major step back because you gotta remember

459
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: the team not only went to the playoffs, which team

460
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: was one that was expected to be almost a Super

461
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: Bowl contended. Um, they bring back a roster that was

462
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,640
Speaker 1: pretty solid and the quarterback didn't perform well. They also

463
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: had some other issues, but the thing that you saw

464
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 1: was Carson Wentz in big moments when they weren't able

465
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Speaker 1: to run the ball and lean on Jonathan Taylor. He

466
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: was not able to consistently get the job done. And

467
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: so what I think they wanted to do with give

468
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 1: themselves a little liberal room where they could reevalue the

469
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: program after all the emotions aside, and when they make

470
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: a solid decision on how to go forward with the quarterbacks.

471
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 1: But I do believe looking at the other quarterback bringing

472
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 1: competition in that stuff certainly has to be in play well.

473
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Speaker 1: And I've been I've been hearing for for years. I'm

474
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: sure you've heard the same thing. That Jim Rsey is

475
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: holding out hope that Andrew luck is going to walk

476
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 1: back through that door. We saw him the other day

477
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 1: at the College Football Championship. He did not look like

478
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 1: he's in any shape to come back and play football

479
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I imagine they'll at least reach out

480
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: to him right Bucky to see, Hey, do you wanna

481
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 1: do you want to come back and play? Is that

482
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: door completely closed? Do you think? Because Andrew Luck is

483
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: still young enough where you know, I think he's gonna

484
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Speaker 1: be thirty three or he is thirty three, so he's

485
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: still still young enough, and he's still I believe lives

486
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis at least part of the year, so he's

487
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: in the area. How do you think that's gonna go? Look,

488
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: I think based on the way he looked, it looked

489
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: like Andrew Luck has done we're playing football. It looked

490
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: like he's completely let uh the body go in terms

491
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: of light, the physicality, and the way that he physically

492
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 1: looked when he was a football player. And if he's

493
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: to be very very happy. So but man, you can

494
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: always kick the tires and see if he has any enter.

495
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: But didn't appear based on the integet view that we

496
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: saw with him in r G three, that he has

497
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 1: any inkling to return to the game that so many

498
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: of us thought he's gonna be a dominant player ahead

499
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: he does. He looks more like he's ready for the

500
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: Tour de France or something. Right. I mean, he lost

501
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: a lot of weight, he just kind of looks like

502
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 1: he's ready to get on a bicycle or something. To me,

503
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with that, but uh yeah, yeah,

504
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: he definite doesn't look like a football player anymore for sure. Yeah,

505
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: and then I know the usual names will pop up out.

506
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 1: I'm getting out in front, Bucky's what I'm doing here.

507
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: But the quarterback roulette. Now, last offseason I wasted a

508
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 1: lot of valuable airtime ranting about Russell, Wilson and Aaron Rodgers,

509
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's a de ja vous situation

510
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: that once the playoffs end, these guys are going to

511
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: be in play again. And who is most like between

512
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: those two, Bucky, who is most likely to be playing

513
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: for a different NFL team next season? Is it Russell

514
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: leaving Seattle or Aaron Rodgers leaving Green Bay? You know,

515
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't think either

516
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: guy leaves the situation. I think we're Russell. Russell doesn't

517
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: really have the leverage to force his way out, and

518
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: I don't think after last season, the Seahawks who want

519
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: to move on without welcome because the quarterback is the

520
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: hardest position to find. I think with Green Bay when

521
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers surveys the landscape and let us he just

522
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: wants to leave and get out of Green Bay. There's

523
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: not another team to provise him with a better opportunity

524
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: to win the championship than the Packers. And so that's

525
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: what where we have to figure out what in with

526
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers real motivation behind all of the soap opera

527
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: drama that we had to endure over the last I

528
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: don't know year and some change. I think it's best

529
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: bead is the end up in Green Bay. But if

530
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: one were gon move, I think Aaron Rods would be

531
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: the one to move, even though I don't expect it

532
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: that all right, well we but you we know the

533
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: rumors are gonna be there, right These guys have I mean,

534
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: we have things that we have to talk about, so

535
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: they'll of course both be prominently mentioned. And I'm I'm

536
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: looking forward to see who else pops up now as

537
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: far as the playoffs, but I got a couple of

538
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: minutes left with you, So as far as the playoffs here,

539
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: I know you've made all your predictions on NFL Network

540
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: and NFL dot Com and all that, but if you

541
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: could only pick one team and and and only one

542
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: team to win the Super Bowl out of all you know,

543
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: the teams in the playoffs. Who who would it be?

544
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: Would it be the Packers? Who would Who would be

545
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: your team that you would take in front of everyone

546
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: else in the postseason. I'll do it kan City Chiefs.

547
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: I would go to kan City Chiefs because, um, They're

548
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: going to three straight NFC title games, back to back

549
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. They have a young quarterback who pay, They're

550
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: getting hot at any time. The defense is still a

551
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: sore spot and a problem. But they played better, Melvin

552
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: Engl moving Chris Jones inside. They just played good enough

553
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: to be able to get it done. And when I

554
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: look at their path in the a f C, I

555
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: think they absolutely gonna beat in. I think they're gonna

556
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: have a chance to go to the SC Championshire Game

557
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: and all they have to do is winn it uh

558
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: to get in. I'll take my chance to g the

559
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: Chiefs in mescenario. I got you, all right. And as

560
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: far as Matthew staff I I happen to have a

561
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: thing for the Rams and Stafford has been He's been good.

562
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: He's been better than Jared Goff was with the Rams.

563
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: He's made a lot of um awkward mistakes, shall we

564
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: as the season's gone on here, but we do I

565
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: don't know which quarterbacks gonna show up from from series

566
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: the series with him, he's he's been really good at times.

567
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: I think he set the Rams record for passing yards.

568
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: Which guy do you think shows up in the playoff

569
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: game on on Monday night on wild card weekend? Which

570
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford? Do we get well? But there's a lot

571
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: of pressure on Matthew Staffords to perform, and he hasn't

572
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: performed well of late. He's been bidden by the turn

573
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: of the books. I think we end up saying a

574
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: good version of Matthew Stafford because I believe Sean McVeigh

575
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: is going to run the football, and as long as

576
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: they run the football with Cam Makers and Tony Michelle,

577
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: this team would be good. Odebec and Jr. And Cooper

578
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: cup Vanta Jefferson are good enough to win on the outside.

579
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: If they're able to just to play a control game,

580
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: I think Matthew Stafford will have success. I think he

581
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: advanced is and I think you'll see him have a

582
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: chance to play go in the postseason. Now looking around

583
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: some of the other matchups, the one that intrigues me

584
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in the forty Niners. Now, maybe it's just

585
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: because the forty Niners have punched the Rams a couple

586
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: of times and played very physical, But if they can

587
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: play like that against the Cowboys, to me, Dallas, they

588
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: have to prove they're not a bunch of show ponies.

589
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: The Cowboys like. I just my my my impression of

590
00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: the Cowboys is they're they're not the toughest team, and

591
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: in forty Niners strike me the way they played the

592
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: second half of the season as a physical team. Is

593
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: that a dangerous spot for the Cowboys against a team

594
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: their favored to beat in the forty Niners. There at home,

595
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: They've gotten everything seemingly in their favor here. But I

596
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: look at that game, I think the forty Niners are

597
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: are dangerous. Am I wrong in looking at it like that? No,

598
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: they're a dangerous They're dangers because they are a physical

599
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: team and they can't run the ball, and when you

600
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: can run the ball, you can even frold the game.

601
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: I think I would normally say, like, hey, take the sheet,

602
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: pick take the Niners. But because everyone has talked about

603
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: the Niners has pumped them up and build them up

604
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: to be. I think the Cowboys are going to come

605
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: out and play probably one of the best games. I

606
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: think they would Matt and exceed the physicality. And if

607
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: this game becomes a Jimmy Garoppolo game, all of the

608
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: advantages go towards the Dallas Cowboys because Jimmy Garoppolo has

609
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: proven to be a turner with machine when you have

610
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: to put too much on him. I think this is

611
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: a tough game in the first half, but I think

612
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: the Cowboys eventually pull away from got You, got You?

613
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: And just to wrap up here, Bucky is uh and

614
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: I do thank you for spending some some time with

615
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: this year. What what happens in Tennessee? Does Derrick Henry

616
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: walked back through that door as like Superman and the

617
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: Titans are back to where they were when they were

618
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: winning all those games and they were the top team.

619
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: I know they're the number one seed in the a

620
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: f c Uh. How does that play out in Tennessee? Well,

621
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: I think they're even more dangerous now with Derrick Henry

622
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: coming back because the Titans discovered that they could see

623
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: it around the wall without Derrick Henry. The foreman gave

624
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: him a good Booth and when you look at the

625
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: number uh rushing yards while they were averaging about the

626
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: same as they were with Derrick Henry. So now you

627
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: have two big backs Derrick Henry Deanta Foreman, they can

628
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: just line up and hit you with a bunch of

629
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: body blows over the course of the game. I think

630
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: the Titans might be more danger is now than ever

631
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: because they found a backup that is a capable backup

632
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: to really make it a rotation situation in Tennessee as

633
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: the post and just a one man show that Gary

634
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: Kenny doing everything well. And of course is this all

635
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: for not all of this playoff talk? Is it just

636
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: gonna be another Tom Brady run to the playoffs? Is

637
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: is there any he's got the pixie dust this time

638
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: of the year, right, Bucky? I mean, there's no stopping

639
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: this guy. This Tom Brad's out of controls. He's in

640
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: his mid forties. Now, Buckey, you're not supposed to be

641
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: playing like that, your mid forties crazy now, You're not

642
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: supposed to play at the level that he's playing. Get

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Speaker 1: of falling off the rails hurt their offense and defensively,

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Speaker 1: they haven't played at the same level that they played

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Speaker 1: their last year when they got hot in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if it picks up the Lavante, Dave and

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Speaker 1: lot tougher for John Brady to pull it off this

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Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate you doing this and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see it somewhere down the line. Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 1: and continued domination at the NFL Network. Thank you, Bucky.

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