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Speaker 1: Don't listen to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: If you're not convinced by now, I'm not sure how

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Speaker 3: We are going to dive into so so many things

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Speaker 3: right away on yet another fascinating day. But the lead

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Speaker 3: story is all the San Francisco forty nine ers. There's

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Speaker 3: no question, however, something a little deeper to start, if

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Speaker 3: you will, mister Kyle Rudolph in first and foremost, good evening,

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Speaker 3: and how are you, my friend?

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Speaker 1: Good evening going well?

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Speaker 4: Really excited to dive into all this NFL action and

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Speaker 4: the little college football playoff action.

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Speaker 3: Oh maybe more than a little because I'm mad, But

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Speaker 3: I'm not anymore mad. I'm not any more mad than

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Speaker 3: I ever am on the first week of December when

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Speaker 3: college football does what it does at the end of

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Speaker 3: every year.

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Speaker 2: So we'll get to.

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Speaker 3: That, But allow me to use James Harden for a

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Speaker 3: moment to make a point about the NFL. Allow me

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Speaker 3: to use James Harden to make a point about the NFL.

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Speaker 2: And here's what I want to say.

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Speaker 3: So, James is no different than I bet somebody that

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Speaker 3: each and everybody listening to us right.

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Speaker 2: Now has in their life.

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Speaker 3: And it's that person who will bounce from situation to

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Speaker 3: they've got a different reason as to why it's not working.

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Speaker 3: It's the man, and it's the this, and it's the that,

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Speaker 3: and there's an excuse, and it's always a reason why

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Speaker 2: And it never seems to dawn on that person. You know,

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Speaker 3: Maybe you're the common denominator as to why each and

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Speaker 3: let's look at this from the other side. What about

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Speaker 3: the positive version of the negative. In other words, if

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Speaker 3: something keeps going right, it keeps going right everywhere you go,

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Speaker 3: and everywhere you go people want to point to other

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Speaker 3: reasons around you as to why it's working out. Maybe

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Speaker 3: it's just your coach, or maybe it's your receivers or

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Speaker 3: going to be comfortable with brock Parties in the MVP

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Speaker 3: race deal with it because everything keeps working out. And

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Speaker 3: I think I've reached the point where I think he's

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Speaker 2: Kyle.

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Speaker 4: I certainly would agree that he is a big part

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Speaker 4: throughout the course of the season, and you know, the

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Speaker 4: also the fact that there were two other quarterbacks within

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Speaker 4: the last two years that played with the same exact

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Speaker 4: weapons that didn't have this offense firing on all cylinders

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Speaker 4: like they're firing now. It's it's an offense that you know,

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Speaker 4: they have Brock Purty, when they have Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel,

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Speaker 4: And the orchestrator of that is Brock Purtty. I mean,

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Speaker 4: like there's it's almost like people will use it against

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Speaker 4: the orchestrator of it all, when you're the point guard

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Speaker 4: But it doesn't work without you. So I think that's

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Speaker 3: Well, the funny thing is is I'm keenly aware of

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Speaker 3: The touchdown passes. He had four of them. Quite frankly,

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Speaker 3: The other ones were as you said, you had a

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Speaker 3: So I'm well aware that the receivers might have even

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Speaker 3: same thing. Mahomes does the exact same thing. The stats

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Speaker 4: Tell you there are throws where it's exactly that he

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Speaker 1: That's an example.

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Speaker 4: But it goes back to the little things that brock

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Speaker 4: But you know, nineteen of twenty seven, you know, only

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Speaker 4: That's not the offense they run. That's not how they

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Speaker 3: Which is the Niners playing with the lead, And can

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Speaker 3: don't know if we'll see these two teams play in

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Speaker 4: No doubt, I think everybody on both sides of the field,

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Speaker 4: I mean you think back to last year and really

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this. I don't sound like an

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: By the way, your team scores over thirty.

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Speaker 4: Say, at the end of the day, that's almost three

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Speaker 1: That's that's a pretty solid day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody got removed from the Heisman Race for doing that.

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Speaker 3: The favorite got removed from the Heisman Race for doing that.

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Speaker 3: And that's sort of the reason I bring that up

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Speaker 3: kind of a like about Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 2: Jalen wasn't great.

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Speaker 3: Jalen left the game for a little while and the

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Speaker 2: But I just I wonder about this idea.

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Speaker 4: I think in college football, bad games, losses, they're certainly

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm sure we'll get into the college football

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Speaker 4: Ultimately you pick four. You know, back in day when

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you had a vote right now, where

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm still team position player, Like, can we

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Speaker 4: just give Tyreek Hill the MVP please? Like all these

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Speaker 4: It's a if he breaks Calvin Johnson's record and goes

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Speaker 1: You got to give it to him.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't even hear him.

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Speaker 3: If people want to bring up a non quarterback, I

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Speaker 1: It's crazy.

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Speaker 4: And like I said, when we've talked about the position

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Speaker 4: in twenty twelve when Adrian Peterson won it, the last

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Speaker 4: So I just I wish there's the Offensive Player of

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Speaker 4: But like, why can't position players be considered, you know,

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Speaker 2: No, I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if we like this is a forgotten deal

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Speaker 2: And eighty one with five games to go. It's absolutely insane.

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Speaker 3: And let's go here because I think I know why

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think back to that twenty twelve season.

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Speaker 1: That does nothing. You know, maybe that could.

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Speaker 4: with you for the number one seed in home field

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Speaker 4: advantage in a first round by and then you have

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Speaker 4: the Bills at home, and as we look at the

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Speaker 4: AFC playoff picture, that could be the Bills playing for

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Speaker 4: their lives in the playoffs as things are kind of

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Speaker 4: shaken out. I joked around before, I wish, you know,

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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh and Cleveland would just quit messing around and let

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Speaker 4: everybody else down there in the bottom of the AFC.

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Speaker 4: That's like charging in to like just take those spots over.

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Speaker 4: But I look at those last three games and I

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Speaker 4: think to myself, if Tyreek Hill is the most dynamic

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Speaker 4: player in the last month of the season, and the

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Speaker 4: Dolphins are the one seed with home field advantage, how

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Speaker 4: do you not give it to them? Like it's gotta

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Speaker 4: be the guy? And I know it won't happen, but

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Speaker 4: one can hope.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I feel you completely when you talk

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Speaker 3: about MVPs. If you leave out the name Steve de Seger,

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Speaker 3: I don't even know what we're doing. By the way,

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Speaker 3: there's another non quarterback who is a very, very key

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Speaker 3: piece to the team. Hi, Steve, Hello.

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Speaker 7: I think my vote's gonna go to committee like twenty

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Speaker 7: five years later when people get into the hole. More

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Speaker 7: on that in a moment. But we do have the

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Speaker 7: Sunday night NFL game underway at green Bay. The Packers,

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Speaker 7: with a good opening drive, were nearly mid first quarter

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Speaker 7: and scoreless against Kansas City. Linebacker Drew Trankwell has left

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Speaker 7: for the Chiefs, taking a knee to the helmet. This

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Speaker 7: is a ten play drive, nearly seven minutes worth. It's

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Speaker 7: going for green Bay in what is again for the moment,

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Speaker 7: a scoreless contest. San Francisco won its game at Philadelphia

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Speaker 7: forty two to nineteen. Brock Party with four touchdown passes.

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Speaker 7: In fact, this season he has four different games with

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Speaker 7: at least three touchdown passes and a quarterback rating of

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Speaker 7: at least one point forty. That is tied for the

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Speaker 7: most in a season in NFL history. Tom Brady and

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Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers each had seasons like that, and they were

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Speaker 7: each MVP in those seasons. San Francisco up to nine

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Speaker 7: and three, they averaged eight yards per play in this game,

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Speaker 7: Philadelphia was ten and what yes, interback?

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Speaker 2: What are they thinking?

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Speaker 7: By the way, there was the Pro Football Writer's Pool

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Speaker 7: reporter who talked to Walt Anderson, former NFL REF who's

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Speaker 7: now the league's senior vice president of officiating about the

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Speaker 7: sideline interaction. He said, the rule allows us to get assistants.

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Speaker 7: Looking at video, we saw video that showed there was

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Speaker 7: a Philadelphia staff person that made contact with the forty

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Speaker 7: nine Ers player. That player involved made contact with the

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Speaker 7: staff member, which warranted the disqualification. The non player was

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Speaker 7: contributing to the escalation. He says. The rule does not

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Speaker 7: afford us the ability to help the refs throw a

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Speaker 7: flag that they don't throw on a non player. That's

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Speaker 7: only afforded for a player action. But he says the

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Speaker 7: refs on the field did a good job of preventing

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Speaker 7: the situation from escalating further, and we commend their efforts.

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Speaker 2: End quote.

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Speaker 7: As for other games today, in the late afternoon window,

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Speaker 7: the Rams in LA got sixteen points in the last

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Speaker 7: four minutes to beat Cleveland thirty six to nineteen. Tampa

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Speaker 7: Bay a twenty one eighteen winner over Carolina, which falls

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Speaker 7: to one and eleven for Tampa Bay. Mike Evans with

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Speaker 7: g another good game seven receptions, one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 7: two yards in a score. He is the first player

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Speaker 7: in NFL history with one thousand receiving yards in each

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Speaker 7: of his first ten seasons. Jerry Rice did that in

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Speaker 7: his well, not his first eleven, but in eleven straight seasons,

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Speaker 7: thousand yards in each of those campaigns. Nineteen eighty six

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Speaker 7: to ninety six, Detroit nine and three after winning at

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Speaker 7: New Orleans thirty three to twenty eight, Miami nine and three,

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Speaker 7: after an easy win at Washington forty five fifteen, Houston

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Speaker 7: beat Denver twenty two to seventeen. The wide receiver news

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Speaker 7: from the Houston Texans today, Nicocollins had nine catches one

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Speaker 7: hundred ninety one yards in a score. Wide receiver Tank

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Speaker 7: Dell reportedly suffered a broken leg injury for Pittsburgh today,

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Speaker 7: as quarterback Kenny Pickett limped off in the first half

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Speaker 7: with an ankle injury. Could reported missed a couple of games.

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Speaker 7: There were a couple of weather delays in this game. Eventually,

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Speaker 7: Arizona won at Pittsburgh twenty four to ten. It was

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Speaker 7: Indianapolis coming back for an overtime victory at Tennessee thirty

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Speaker 7: one to twenty eight. Wins on the road for the

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Speaker 7: Chargers and Atlanta. Number one ranked Michigan will face Alabama

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Speaker 7: in the Rose Bowl semifinal. Then number two Washington plays

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Speaker 7: Texas in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Night. Number

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Speaker 7: five Florida State thirteen and zero will play number six

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Speaker 7: ranked Georgia twelve and one in the Orange Bowl. December

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Speaker 7: the thirtieth no NBA games Today college basketball Southern University

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Speaker 7: one at number twenty one Mississippi State sixty to fifty

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Speaker 7: nine with a twelve oh run at the end. And

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Speaker 7: at apple Atchian State, the home team beat Auburn sixty

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Speaker 7: nine to sixty four.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 7: The NFL game is at Green Bay tonight. It is

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Speaker 7: mid first quarter and scoreless. They're in a timeout back

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Speaker 7: to you.

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Speaker 3: All right, Sorry for laughing, Steve, but that's all I

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Speaker 3: can do at the end of a college football season.

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Speaker 3: It's the same thing every year. It's just like I

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Speaker 3: love it when he just get stupider and stupider and

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Speaker 3: here we are. But of course I know it's gonna

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Speaker 3: get all fixed air quotes next year.

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Speaker 2: But I heard the word all in that sense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what air quotes, right, because it always is

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Speaker 3: going to get fixed until.

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Speaker 2: The new problems come up. But anyway, I'll hold.

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Speaker 3: That for the top of the hour because I really

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Speaker 3: want to get everyone's thoughts on that. Thank you very much, Steve,

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Speaker 3: appreciate it. We're live tirack dot com.

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Speaker 2: Studios.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, shortly after the show, the podcast

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Speaker 3: is going up.

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Speaker 3: Any of today's show, be sure to check out the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 3: Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast.

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Speaker 3: You'll see the show posted right after we get off

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Speaker 3: the air, along with the great Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard.

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Speaker 2: So we'll get to that.

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Speaker 3: The college stuff maybe coming up at six pacific, nine eastern.

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Speaker 2: I wonder about this.

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Speaker 3: You know, the Packers right now are looking at first

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Speaker 3: or second of goal. They're down to the one yard

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Speaker 3: line and it's just an opening drive. But it's funny

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Speaker 3: the way things are starting to shape up playoff rays

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Speaker 3: both sides, and you start to wonder if there's some

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Speaker 3: teams that have been forgotten that shouldn't be forgotten. I

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Speaker 3: don't mean teams that are going to contend to win

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Speaker 3: a Super Bowl, but all of the sudden, like oh,

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Speaker 3: hi Colts, Hey they're Texans, what are you doing here?

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Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, Los Angeles Rams, nice to

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Speaker 3: meet you, and touchdown Green Bay Packers. Have we forgotten

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Speaker 3: some of these teams too early.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 4: Initially, just touching on the AFC, I mentioned Pittsburgh in Cleveland,

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Speaker 4: and then we say this all the time about Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: It's just you look up every week and it's like,

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Speaker 4: how are they continuing to win games? How are they

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Speaker 4: doing it? How are they able to score enough points?

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Speaker 4: I think ultimately with Kenny Pickett getting hurt, who knows

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Speaker 4: how much time he will miss, certainly, they just looked

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Speaker 4: extremely poor on offense, more so than normal today. And

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Speaker 4: you know, Cleveland, same thing. Health at the quarterback position.

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Speaker 4: I know they brought the veteran quarterback Joe Flacco over,

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Speaker 4: got him a week of practice on the practice squad,

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Speaker 4: then elevated him this week to be the starting quarterback.

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Speaker 4: And I thought Joe played well for him. I thought

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Speaker 4: he gave him a chance to win the game and

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Speaker 4: ultimately just made the big mistake at the end chucking

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Speaker 4: up a fifty to fifty ball that got intercepted, ultimately

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Speaker 4: costing them, you know, costing them the game there at

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Speaker 4: the end. And it's like you see the teams that

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Speaker 4: are there in the rear view mirror. You mentioned the Colts,

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Speaker 4: the Texans, the Broncos, and probably the most interesting, slash

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Speaker 4: dangerous one of them all in the AFC is the

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Speaker 4: six and six Bills that are sitting at the ten seed.

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Speaker 4: And it's like, you ultimately just no one's scared of

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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh and Cleveland. So it's like, okay, can you guys

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Speaker 4: please just get out of the way for these other

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Speaker 4: teams that are actually exciting, like the Houston Texans, And

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Speaker 4: you know, we keep talking about the Buffalo Bills, and

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Speaker 4: we know what Josh Allen's capabilities are. We see glimpses

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Speaker 4: of it. We saw it against Philly last week, and

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Speaker 4: you're like, Okay, those are the teams that we want

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Speaker 4: to see battling Baltimore, Kansas City, Jacksonville in the first round.

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Speaker 4: And then you go to the NFC and something that

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Speaker 4: I've said multiple times, we all know seven teams have

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Speaker 4: to make the playoffs. I don't know that there's seven

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Speaker 4: good teams in the NFC, but there will be seven

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Speaker 4: teams that make the playoffs. And here look at the

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles Rams that have now snuck into that seven seed.

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Speaker 4: You know, just behind the Vikings and the Cowboys. They're

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Speaker 4: in a tie with Seattle, and if Green Bay can

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Speaker 4: get one tonight, they'll join them at six and six.

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Speaker 4: And you know, Green Bay's a team that's played well.

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Speaker 4: You know, they've they've won you know, I think two

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Speaker 4: or three, two out of three or three out of

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Speaker 4: four of their last you know, month or so. And

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Speaker 4: and the Seahawks, the Seahawks are a team that are

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Speaker 4: just kind of going through that that murderers row that

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Speaker 4: ultimately it seems like every team faces throughout the course

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Speaker 4: of the year. There's is San Francisco, Dallas, San Francisco, Philly.

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Speaker 1: Boom boom boom, boom boom.

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Speaker 4: So you know, we'll we'll see where they're at. But

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Speaker 4: we've talked about all these teams, and I think, you know,

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Speaker 4: with Matthew Stafford being hurt in the middle of the year,

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Speaker 4: it was just the Rams were a team at at

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Speaker 4: three and six we just kind of quit talking about

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Speaker 4: as they were sitting down in the bottom third of

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Speaker 4: the NFC. And you know, you get Matthew back. Matthew's

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Speaker 4: an incredible quarterback. They've got both receivers playing I don't

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Speaker 4: want to say healthy, they're kind of both they're both

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Speaker 4: banged up out there.

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Speaker 1: You know, just toughen it out.

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Speaker 4: But I think this, this Los Angeles Rams offense is

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Speaker 4: different than the Los Angeles, the Sean McVay Los Angeles

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Speaker 4: Rams offenses that we were used to seeing in the

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Speaker 4: fact that you know, they they're relying on Kyen Williams.

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Speaker 4: They want to run the football, they want to play

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Speaker 4: physical ball. You know, they've had some injuries in the

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Speaker 4: tight end room, so they can't get the bigger personnel

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Speaker 4: groups that they want to, but they still play a

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Speaker 4: physical brand of football. And you know, now now we're

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Speaker 4: we're seeing it, and they're starting to get these wins.

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Speaker 4: And certainly, if you look at the wild card teams

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Speaker 4: in the NFC, with the exception of whoever comes out

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Speaker 4: of the NFC East, the Rams would be the most

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Speaker 4: dangerous in my opinion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that.

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Speaker 3: They've suddenly become a real interesting team with him back

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Speaker 3: into the fold. All Right, With all of that said,

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Speaker 3: all of these teams staying alive in the wildcard derby,

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Speaker 3: there's one team we didn't mention who should be.

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Speaker 2: They should be.

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Speaker 3: The beneficiary of all of this, but they're not because

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Speaker 3: they're the most frustrating team in the NFL and I'll

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Speaker 3: tell you who we're talking about coming up in a

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Speaker 3: moment with Kyle Rudolph mark Well at.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're live in the Tyrek dot Com studios. The

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Speaker 3: opening drive for the Packers leads to a touchdown. The

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Speaker 3: opening drive for the Chiefs goes the other way and

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Speaker 3: looks like it'll be setting up for a Harrison Bunker

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Speaker 3: field goal. Try keep you up to date on Sunday

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Speaker 3: Night Football. One of the division mates one today, and

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Speaker 3: I still found it to be among the most frustrating

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Speaker 3: things that we watch in the NFL. What are we

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Speaker 3: supposed to do with the Los Angeles Chargers, Kyle, I

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Speaker 3: you know, to me, it's too easy of take to

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Speaker 3: just be like fire the coach. I don't I'd never

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Speaker 3: like to use this this microphone to fire people anyway

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Speaker 3: who I'm not inside the organization.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what all the reasons are.

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Speaker 3: I just know as we say each week, as we

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Speaker 3: say each week that this football team has a ton

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Speaker 3: of good players and very little productive output because of it.

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Speaker 3: And and you won today air quotes six to nothing

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Speaker 3: against the New England Patriots. I don't know what do

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Speaker 3: you see when you watch them? Because I just don't

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Speaker 3: get it.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's inconsistency. It's not a team that the

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Speaker 4: head football coach has all three sides of the ball

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Speaker 4: playing good football. Clearly, after the last few weeks, all

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Speaker 4: of the pressure and all of the blame has and

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Speaker 4: put on Brandon Staley as the defensive play caller in

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Speaker 4: his defense's inability to cover anyone. But you know, to

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Speaker 4: live up to the potential of all the good players

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Speaker 4: they have on that side of the ball. And you

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Speaker 4: have this game here, you look at it and say, okay, well,

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Speaker 4: you you pitched a shutout. You know, well, let's tap

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Speaker 4: the defense on the b let's pack the defense on

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Speaker 4: the back. Congratulations, Brandon Staley, great job. You shut out

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Speaker 4: probably the worst offense in NFL history.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 4: But then the other side is you scored six points, like,

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Speaker 4: so great you got the defense to I guess yeah,

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Speaker 4: to shut anybody out in the.

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Speaker 1: NFL is difficult.

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Speaker 4: So you shut out a team the defense played well,

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Speaker 4: but we score six points. Justin Herbert throws for two

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Speaker 4: hundred yards, you run the ball for thirty yards like

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Speaker 4: it's just just bad football. And it's like it seems

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Speaker 4: like every time we talk about the Chargers. There's a

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Speaker 4: glaring section of the football team side of the ball

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Speaker 4: that we're like, like, they just can't put it together.

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Speaker 4: And you know it's hard because, like you said, this

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Speaker 4: is such a talented roster.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing.

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Speaker 3: And maybe we're just speaking for Austin Eckler fantasy owners

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Speaker 3: more than anything else. I mean, this guy fourteen carries

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Speaker 3: for eighteen yards and ended up with two catches for

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Speaker 3: nine yards.

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Speaker 2: It's such a weapon.

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Speaker 3: And Justin Herbert didn't turn the ball over as you said,

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Speaker 3: three for over two hundred yards. I get that it's

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Speaker 3: December now and you're going back east, and it's not

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Speaker 3: a team built for cold weather, and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: I just think that the Chargers are a golf game.

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Speaker 3: And if you play golf, you know darn well that

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Speaker 3: it's never that everything's working at once. If your irons

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Speaker 3: are playing your woods art, if they're both playing your

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Speaker 3: potter's not or you can't chip or whatever, like, it's

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Speaker 3: the rarest of rare that everything works together at once,

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Speaker 3: And for me, that's the Chargers. If it's not one thing,

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Speaker 3: it's another. And they're never a great football team.

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Speaker 4: No, you hit it right, and that's my golf game

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Speaker 4: to a t. So completely understand that analogy. And it's

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Speaker 4: like you don't see a stat line where it's clean football,

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Speaker 4: like there's no turnovers and yet to to not score

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Speaker 4: a touchdown, only score six points.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's it's tough to watch.

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Speaker 2: Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph and we are just getting started.

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Speaker 3: We have plenty more in the NFL, but let's get

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Speaker 3: to this college situation coming up.

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Speaker 2: On Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Are we on upset alert?

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Speaker 3: It's a little early, but man, the Packers look like

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Speaker 3: I don't know, they look like the Packers that we've

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Speaker 3: watched through the years.

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Speaker 2: Jordan Love moving the ball up and down.

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Speaker 3: The field and knocking on the door again, already leading

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Speaker 3: seven to three.

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Speaker 2: We'll keep you up to date.

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Speaker 3: should be. There's NFL coming out the wazoo today, so

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Speaker 3: we know that. But we got to spend some time

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Speaker 3: on this, Kyle. We have to, and it's the same

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Speaker 3: complaint that many of us have every year. I just

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Speaker 3: want to be up front on this. I went to

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Speaker 3: Colpoly San Luis Abisbo. I got no dog in this fight.

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Speaker 3: I live in the Bay Area, California, where or in

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Speaker 3: radio we get.

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Speaker 2: Fired if we talk about college football.

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Speaker 3: So there is absolutely nothing here that is slanted toward

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Speaker 3: any university. Quite frankly, it's slanted toward all of them.

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Speaker 3: The idea that there's a right answer here is what

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Speaker 3: gets me.

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Speaker 2: It's absurd.

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Speaker 3: Everyone goes to their corners and fights for their team,

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Speaker 3: and in my mind, there's no argument for any of you,

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Speaker 3: or there's an argument for all of you. You can't

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Speaker 3: tell me that Florida State doesn't deserve to be in

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Speaker 3: the same way you can't tell me that Alabama or

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Speaker 3: Georgia or whatever deserve to be in. There's an argument

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Speaker 3: to be made for all of them. Therefore there's an

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Speaker 3: argument to be made for none of them. Here's what

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Speaker 3: I don't stand and what will forever get me. No

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Speaker 3: matter what format they come up with, the idea of

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Speaker 3: sports being decided in a conference room kills me, and

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Speaker 3: quite frankly kills the sport.

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Speaker 2: Because therefore, in my mind, it's not a sport.

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Speaker 3: Everything about the basics of competition and what we're doing

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Speaker 3: flat out has to be decided on the field, or

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure what the point is. So anything that

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Speaker 3: calls for you to go into a room, wear a suit,

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Speaker 3: sit down, wait for white smoke to come out, and

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Speaker 3: then tell everybody who gets to play is ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: It's completely anti sport.

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Speaker 3: So you tell me this new format next year that

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Speaker 3: gonna take that out of play.

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Speaker 2: Or are we still deciding these things in a boardroom?

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Speaker 4: I mean, from my understanding that the twelve teams will

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Speaker 4: still be decided in a boardroom somewhere, but at least

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Speaker 4: at that point, you know, think about college basketball. You know,

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Speaker 4: what are we up to sixty eight teams? Sixty eight

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Speaker 4: get in and ultimately they're kind of decided. You know,

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Speaker 4: you have your conference champions that get the automatic bids,

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Speaker 4: and then the rest of the field is filled by

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Speaker 4: a committee of people that are in a boardroom. Somewhere deciding,

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Speaker 4: so they do that. Certainly college football could never get

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Speaker 4: to that scale. So you think about, like, okay, is

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Speaker 4: twelve the right number? You know, do you get the

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Speaker 4: first four get buys? You have to win three games?

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Speaker 4: Is there a way to kind of combine the both

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Speaker 4: where Look, if you're a conference champion, you know, certainly

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Speaker 4: next year this will all go away because we won't have,

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Speaker 4: you know, to say that there's five power conferences next

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Speaker 4: year there's not. So you know, maybe it's the top

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Speaker 4: four conferences. You know, you get, you get your at

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Speaker 4: large bid, you win the conference championship game year in

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Speaker 4: and then now we go find eight, you know, team

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Speaker 4: at large teams that that get in. But this year

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Speaker 4: it's just it's hard because you know, I again I

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Speaker 4: Notre Dame never sniffed it. You know, we were never

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Speaker 4: even close. So my allegiance to to Notre Dame and

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Speaker 4: my alma mater is has nothing to do with my

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Speaker 4: opinion looking at the top four to six teams in.

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Speaker 1: College football this year.

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Speaker 4: And but it's just again it goes back to everything

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Speaker 4: that I always say about the NC double A. Just

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Speaker 4: let them screw it up. They always will, I said,

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Speaker 4: this when we talked about Harball a while back. I

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Speaker 4: think every time we've talked about the NC double A,

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Speaker 4: that's been my stance, and it seems to always reign

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Speaker 4: true that to do.

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Speaker 1: This to Florida State.

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Speaker 4: I get it, their star quarterback, that is the main

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Speaker 4: reason why they're kind of back and have a resurgence

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Speaker 4: and are were even in the top four to begin with,

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Speaker 4: was in large part to him to penalize the rest

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Speaker 4: of the guys on that roster, the coaches, the players.

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Speaker 4: But then, you know, moving forward, when you when you

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Speaker 4: think about the landscape of college football and you know

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Speaker 4: the power conferences of the SEC and the Big Ten,

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Speaker 4: and you kind of have the ACC. That's this little

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Speaker 4: brother on the side. How is this going to affect

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Speaker 4: Florida State recruiting? You know, if I'm a five star

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Speaker 4: player in the state of Florida, Wait, you mean to

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Speaker 4: tell me, if I go there, we go undefeated and

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Speaker 4: we win the ACC, I still might not get a

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Speaker 4: chance at a national championship like that. That's just crazy.

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Speaker 4: So I understand. You know, the College Football Committee, everything

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Speaker 4: that I read, everything that I saw was hey, look,

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Speaker 4: it's unfortunate, but we want the four best teams, not

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Speaker 4: just the teams with the.

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Speaker 1: Four best records.

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Speaker 4: You know, certainly we believe that if Jordan Travis was healthy,

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Speaker 4: they would be one of these top four teams. But

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Speaker 4: he's not, so therefore they're not one of the four

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Speaker 4: best teams. And so you know, we ultimately got the

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Speaker 4: four teams that are going to get the most eyeballs

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Speaker 4: on these games, therefore creating the most money for the NCAA.

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Speaker 4: And that's what these decisions are made on. They're not

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Speaker 4: made on wins and losses in college football programs that

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Speaker 4: deserve or do not deserve.

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Speaker 1: To be in.

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Speaker 4: It's simply when you look at this and you have

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Speaker 4: Michigan in Alabama and Washington in Texas, Like, are you

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Speaker 4: kidding me? Of course, we're going to make sure that

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Speaker 4: those three are all in Michigan, Texas, Alabama. We're gonna

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Speaker 4: get those fan bases. We want the two best games

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Speaker 4: we could possibly have, and like you said, for that

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Speaker 4: to be decided by a group of individuals in really

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Speaker 4: nice clothes in a conference room just doesn't seem right.

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Speaker 4: If that was the case, we know, why would they

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Speaker 4: play the game tonight? Clearly Kansas City is is I

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Speaker 4: mean if we're doing the eyeball test, they're way better

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Speaker 4: than Green Bay. Every analyst on NBC pregame picked the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: You and I both picked the Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: Here they are down fourteen to three to what may

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Speaker 4: be deemed an inferior opponent.

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Speaker 1: That's the beauty of sports.

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Speaker 4: We have no idea if Florida State, with their backup

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Speaker 4: quarterback could go win. I think back to I think

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Speaker 4: it was twenty fifteen, the first year that the College

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Speaker 4: Football play Off was in existence. Ohio State wins the

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Speaker 4: national championship with their third string quarterback. They went undefeated,

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Speaker 4: they won the Big Ten, but along the way, they

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Speaker 4: lost their starter. They lost their backup. Some guy named

876
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 4: Cardale Jones comes in. You know, it's like, so, if

877
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 4: the committee's going to decide if your starting quarterback is

878
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 4: what makes you good, you're not allowed to be in.

879
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 4: They could have kept a national champion from you know,

880
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 4: never even having the opportunity to get it.

881
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: To be at the dance.

882
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,879
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I can remember a national championship game

883
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 3: where the quarterback was benched and it led to this

884
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 3: guy named Tua.

885
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 2: So I mean, you know, like it's.

886
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 3: Honestly too easy of an argument that the two of

887
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 3: us are making right now. It's so anti sport, it's

888
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 3: so anti everything that to argue anything other than this

889
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 3: being complete, unfair, financially driven, like, it's the underrated for me,

890
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:10,919
Speaker 3: it's the underrated part of what makes the NFL so successful.

891
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 3: Look what we're looking at right now, Kyle. We're watching

892
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 3: Kansas City, Missouri, take on a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

893
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 2: And it's big time. It's on.

894
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 3: It's on the number one television show in America, and

895
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 3: both teams are allowed to spend as much money as Philadelphia,

896
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 3: San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.

897
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 2: And that's why this works.

898
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 3: It works because it is one of the few things

899
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 3: maybe still out there that's an even playing field. Like

900
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 3: we can't even really say that about the NBA or

901
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. It's for reasons that are out of

902
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 3: their control. But free agents in the NBA aren't going

903
00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 3: to Sacramento. They're not gonna do that. So is that

904
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 3: team out of deficit? You better believe it.

905
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

906
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 3: I just watched the Oakland A's get ready to leave

907
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 3: town fair playing field.

908
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:09,240
Speaker 2: I mean, that's their owner's fault.

909
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:14,879
Speaker 3: But still like the NFL is beautiful because Green Bay,

910
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 3: Wisconsin can compete with New York New York. It's it

911
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 3: is the best thing out there. And college football pushes

912
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:28,919
Speaker 3: in every single possible way against that idea, and I've

913
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 3: never been able to wrap my head around it and

914
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 3: enjoy it the same way I enjoy the NFL because

915
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 3: of it.

916
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I've said this a few times when we've

917
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 4: talked about the NCUBLEA. Ultimately the deciding factor on every

918
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 4: decision that's made around the NCUBA is money. They can

919
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 4: argue that they want the four best teams instead of

920
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,720
Speaker 4: the four best records, but you want the two most

921
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 4: anticipated games. And you know, I was kind of hoping

922
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 4: for just absolute chaos where there was an opportunity that

923
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 4: you might not get any SEC teams in and see

924
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 4: if the NCAA had the balls to do that, and

925
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 4: I just I just don't think there there's a way

926
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 4: for them to be able to do it. But it

927
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 4: certainly was as chaotic as it could possibly be, and

928
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 4: ultimately they picked the four that they picked. You know,

929
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 4: as a fan, we'll get two hopefully good games to

930
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 4: watch and then ultimately a great National championship game. But

931
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 4: certainly when you look at these these four schools, you know,

932
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 4: the regions of the country, we've got it all covered.

933
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 4: You know, you got Washington and then the Pac twelve.

934
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 4: You have Texas and it's massive network and alumni. You

935
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 4: have Alabama and the hype that's been Alabama and the

936
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 4: dynasty that they had, and then Michigan and the storylines

937
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 4: that follow Michigan and everything that they've gone through this year.

938
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 4: So you know, ultimately, I think they picked the four

939
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 4: teams everybody thought they were gonna pick. I just felt

940
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 4: like and other people that I talked to as well,

941
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 4: you look at this Florida State team and you know,

942
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 4: just really wonder like how you could possibly do that

943
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 4: to a undefeated conference championship winning Power five team just

944
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 4: because of an injury.

945
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: You know, there's yeah, yeah, eighty five scholarship guys.

946
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 4: There's other quarterbacks there that are on scholarship that you know,

947
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 4: like I said, you just you might not know that

948
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 4: you may have kept the next star in college football

949
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 4: out of the College Football Playoff because that team doesn't

950
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 4: meet the eye test now because they're starting quarterback got hurt.

951
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 3: Remember when the forty nine ers lost two quarterbacks in

952
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 3: one season. I do, I do, and now the guys

953
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 3: in the MVP race. So yeah, I think what you're

954
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Speaker 3: including the team in the NFC.

961
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: That is a full blown yo. Yo.

962
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 3: We'll tell you who we're talking about here in just

963
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 3: a moment. That's Kyle Rudolph on Mark Willard, and this

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Speaker 3: credit card limitations apply, Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph, how are

972
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 3: we feeling about the Lions now?

973
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 2: This is such a yo yo thought. Look, they're nine

974
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 2: and three.

975
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 3: We've spent a large portion of this year, you and

976
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 3: I complimenting them, pointing out that when you add in

977
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 3: the end of last year to this year, that this

978
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 3: is like this low key dominant football team that I think,

979
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 3: if my math is correct, now maybe they've won fifteen

980
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 3: of their last twenty football games, like this is a

981
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 3: good squad. But after needing a late rally against the

982
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 3: Bears and their Thanksgiving dud, it felt like a lot

983
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 3: of people just kind of moved on and went, that's nice. Eagles, Niners,

984
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 3: Cowboys call me later. And today was interesting as far

985
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 3: as a road game being up twenty one to nothing

986
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 3: before the first quarter was even over.

987
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:54,800
Speaker 2: What's your take now?

988
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 4: No, and I felt like they came out exactly the

989
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 4: way that you wouldn't anticipate this Detroit Lions team to

990
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 4: come out after ten days off after the dud they

991
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 4: laid on Thanksgiving. But then you know, you kind of

992
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,479
Speaker 4: you jump out twenty one nothing, you let your foot

993
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 4: off the gas a little bit, you ultimately win, you know,

994
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 4: a close game on the road, which again, winning close

995
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 4: games on the road in the NFL is not easy,

996
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 4: and they've done it very regularly over the course of

997
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 4: the last two years.

998
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 1: They're five and one again this year on the road.

999
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 4: And it's not necessarily easy, but it's like it's like,

1000
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 4: you know, ultimately we're comparing them against the cream of

1001
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 4: the crop in the NFC, and that's San Francisco, Philly, Dallas.

1002
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 1: It's like, look that.

1003
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,879
Speaker 4: First quarter Detroit team, that's that's a contender, that that's

1004
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 4: the they're going to cause some problems in the NFC playoffs.

1005
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 4: And then you see the way they play the next

1006
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 4: two and a half quarters and you're like, oh, that's

1007
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 4: a team it's gonna have an early exit in the playoffs.

1008
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 4: And it's kind of just been Today's game in itself

1009
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 4: was almost a microcosm of when they're good, they're really

1010
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 4: tough and they're a physical football team that plays solid

1011
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 4: defense and runs the football and they have playmakers. Jared

1012
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 4: Goff is one of the more underrated quarterbacks in the NFL.

1013
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: And then when they're.

1014
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 4: Not good, you see they just they can't stop a nosebleed.

1015
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's up and down the field on

1016
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 4: them giving up points left and right, and you just

1017
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 4: it's like, okay, you know what, it's the Detroit Lions here.

1018
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 4: So we'll quote the great eminem, you know, like, will

1019
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,919
Speaker 4: the real Detroit Lions please stand up?

1020
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: Like we need to see who you.

1021
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 4: Are and who you will be come late January.

1022
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 2: So here's a question I have, and I'd love your perspective.

1023
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 3: And I mean, I think the answer quickly might be obvious,

1024
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 3: but I bet it's closer than most people think at

1025
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 3: first glance. And here's what I'm getting at the one

1026
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 3: seed in the NFC. So I thought I've been having

1027
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 3: a lot, as you know, lots of discussion around the

1028
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 3: forty nine Ers that if they could win this game,

1029
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 3: it puts the one seed up for grabs in the NFC.

1030
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 3: The Eagles have already been established as a three point

1031
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 3: dog on the road at Dallas next week. If Dallas

1032
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 3: wins that game, everybody's got the same record. Everybody's got it,

1033
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 3: And obviously the forty nine Ers would hold the inside

1034
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 3: track with wins over Dallas and Philly. Don't forget Detroit,

1035
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 3: but Niners have of the current tiebreaker on them too.

1036
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 3: But all kinds of games to be played, and the

1037
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 3: standout being on Christmas Night where the Niners have to

1038
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 3: host Baltimore. Like, there's so much left on the bone

1039
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 3: as far as figuring out the one seed. But if

1040
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 3: we do agree that Detroit is less than and the

1041
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 3: other three are really krem de la creme, it brings

1042
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 3: this into play. If you end up this the two seed,

1043
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 3: yes you've got to play an extra game, but you

1044
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 3: likely avoid the possibility of having to do both of

1045
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 3: the other two elite teams back to back. The likelihood

1046
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 3: is because Dallas and Philly could end up dead tide.

1047
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to win the division, but

1048
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 3: the loser of the division is going to be your

1049
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 3: top wild card team and will be favored to win

1050
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 3: their first playoff game at the road over the winner

1051
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 3: of the NFC South. So in theory, what's likely to

1052
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 3: happen there is, if you're the two seed, your second

1053
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 3: game is going to be the Detroit Lions at home,

1054
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 3: and then you go play whoever comes out of that

1055
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 3: other three. But if you're the one seed, you may

1056
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 3: only play two games in the playoffs, but they're both

1057
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 3: going to be against elite competition. Can you beat the

1058
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 3: other two back to back? In seven days, which is preferable.

1059
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you know, you know that that whoever doesn't

1060
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 4: win the NFC East will play the NFC South winner.

1061
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 4: I was a part of it last year. You know,

1062
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 4: last year eight and nine we won the AFC South.

1063
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 4: We hosted the Cowboys. It was not a great game

1064
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 4: for us in Tampa, and then ultimately they had to

1065
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 4: go on and that was San Francisco. Last year, San

1066
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 4: Francisco was the two seed. I believe they had to

1067
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 4: play Dallas and Philly back to back weeks. So you know,

1068
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 4: you look at that scenario playing out this year this year,

1069
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 4: you're right, like, would you rather play three games with

1070
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 4: one of those three games be go to Detroit in

1071
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 4: the divisional round? Or you get the buy and you

1072
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 4: have to play I have to play Dallas Philly or

1073
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 4: say Francisco boom boom, boom boom twice in a row.

1074
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean as a player, what would

1075
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 3: you rather? Would you rather have the week rest and

1076
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 3: just take your chances or or are you like you

1077
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 3: would Okay?

1078
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 2: Then is that easy?

1079
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: Yes?

1080
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 4: And so I only had to buy one time in

1081
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 4: my career twenty seventeen. It was back when two teams

1082
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 4: still got it. We were the two, and you do

1083
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 4: everything at the end of the season knowing that, hey,

1084
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 4: we get a week off, and actually the other time,

1085
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 4: you know, we made a good run in the playoffs.

1086
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 4: Twenty nineteen, we didn't have a bye week, but we

1087
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 4: treated week seventeen. We were locked into the five seed.

1088
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 4: We knew we couldn't drop to the six, and Green

1089
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 4: Bay had already clinched the division. We were the five.

1090
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Speaker 4: We played there was a couple of scenarios. Maybe we

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Speaker 4: were going to Carolina New Orleans, so we weren't sure

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Speaker 4: who we were playing, but we knew we were locked

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Speaker 4: into the five. And Coach Zimmer basically he said, look,

1094
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 4: I know there's different thoughts here and some people like

1095
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 4: to play and have momentum going into the playoffs. We

1096
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:10,919
Speaker 4: know we have to win four games or three games

1097
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 4: on the road and then you know, a neutral site

1098
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 4: game if we want to get to where we ultimately are,

1099
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 4: we are going to take this entire week off like

1100
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 4: it's a bye week. And then we got to go

1101
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 4: win three games, and you know, we went to New

1102
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 4: Orleans and one at New Orleans. That ye're coming off

1103
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 4: of an essential by ultimately going out to San Francisco

1104
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 4: and losing to the Niners on their way to the

1105
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 4: super Bowl, and that that buye at that time of

1106
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 4: year for your body to physically recover, kind.

1107
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Speaker 1: Of like get your mind right.

1108
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 4: That look, whether it's you're the one seede now and

1109
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 4: you got to go win two games or you know,

1110
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 4: for us, like I said in nineteen, it was three

1111
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 4: because it was a regular season week. But to be

1112
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:54,959
Speaker 4: able to get that week off and be one game

1113
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 4: closer to the super Bowl without actually playing football is huge.

1114
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I tell you, I get it. I get it.

1115
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 3: But it also seems like a very difficult task, no

1116
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 3: matter which of the three teams you are, to beat

1117
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 3: the other two in a period of seven days. You know,

1118
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 3: I look back on the forty nine ers trying to

1119
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 3: do it last year. You beat Dallas in a real

1120
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,440
Speaker 3: slug fest, you go to Philly the next week. Granted,

1121
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:27,080
Speaker 3: the quarterbacks get knocked out, so I don't know how

1122
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 3: you assess it, but physically, the physicality of it all

1123
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 3: was too much. And so trying to do that again

1124
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 3: this year, no matter which one of the three you are,

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Speaker 3: I think is one hell of a.

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Speaker 2: Challenge, There's no question.

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Speaker 3: So more on all of this coming up, because the Eagles,

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01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 3: for the second week in a row, are about to

1129
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 3: be a field goal underdog while they still have the

1130
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 3: best record in the NFL, and knowing that they just

1131
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 3: lost today by twenty three points, I think there's something to.

1132
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 2: Be said about it. I made this statement.

1133
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 3: This week before the game, and everyone listening told me

1134
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 3: I was being disrespectful to the Eagles. I want to

1135
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 3: run it by you coming up next we will, but

1136
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,440
Speaker 3: we'll show all our respect to Steve de Sager and

1137
01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 3: get him in here and find out what's trending.

1138
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 2: Hello, good sir, Hello gentlemen. We'll update the Sunday night game.

1139
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Speaker 2: In a moment.

1140
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Speaker 7: You were mentioning the Detroit Lions, who won on the

1141
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 7: road again today. They held on thirty three twenty eight

1142
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:25,160
Speaker 7: at New Orleans, Detroit five and one on the road,

1143
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 7: nine and three overall, and the rookie tight end Sam

1144
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 7: Laporta did something that's only happened with one other tight

1145
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 7: end in the league in the last sixty years to

1146
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 7: have a game with at least nine catches, one hundred

1147
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:40,440
Speaker 7: and forty yards and a TD. Another Detroit win and

1148
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 7: the Dolphins are nine and three after winning an easy

1149
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:46,320
Speaker 7: one at Washington forty five to fifteen. Commanders home record

1150
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 7: one and five.

1151
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 2: We're in the.

1152
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 7: Final seconds of the first half at Green Bay and

1153
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 7: the Sunday night football game. It's the Packers fourteen to

1154
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 7: six over the Kansas City Chiefs. There were some long

1155
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:00,040
Speaker 7: drives in this first half. In fact, of the the

1156
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 7: first two drives for each team, Kansas City settled for

1157
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 7: a field goals each time. Green Bay got touchdowns each time.

1158
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 7: And that's why it's going to be fourteen to six

1159
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 7: at the half as Casey is taking a knee as

1160
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 7: we speak. And the two field goal drives for the

1161
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 7: Chiefs over seven minutes on one of them, over eight

1162
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 7: minutes on the other. But Casey trails on the road

1163
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 7: fourteen to six at the break. The Rams got sixteen

1164
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:26,280
Speaker 7: points in the last four minutes and beat Cleveland thirty

1165
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:30,440
Speaker 7: six to nineteen. Matthew Stafford three touchdown passes, San Francisco

1166
01:05:30,560 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 7: a winner at Philadelphia forty two to nineteen. Brock Purty

1167
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:37,640
Speaker 7: four touchdown passes. Couple notes I saw from Associated Press

1168
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:40,919
Speaker 7: in the Bay Area. One that the current Super Bowl

1169
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 7: odds they saw have the forty nine Ers and Chiefs

1170
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 7: as the two favorites right now to reach the Super Bowl.

1171
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:51,680
Speaker 7: Second sentence was the Raiders fan nightmare of a Niners

1172
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 7: chief Super Bowl at the place where the Raiders play

1173
01:05:55,040 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 7: in Vegas is very much alive. And the quote Tampa

1174
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:03,439
Speaker 7: Bay by Carolina twenty one to eighteen. Panthers record one

1175
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 7: and eleven victories for Houston and the Chargers victories for

1176
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 7: Atlanta and Arizona, which won at Pittsburgh twenty four to ten.

1177
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 7: But quarterback Kenny Pickett limped off in the first half

1178
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 7: with an ankle injury. He'll be out for an extended

1179
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 7: period of time, was the report by NFL network. Indianapolis

1180
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 7: came back for an overtime win at Tennessee thirty one

1181
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:24,600
Speaker 7: to twenty eight. To college football Now this Saturday, it's

1182
01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 7: Army against Navy and Foxboro, Massachusetts, but essentially the regular

1183
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 7: season is over. Number one rank Michigan will face Alabama

1184
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 7: in the Rose Bowl semifinal. Then number two Washington plays

1185
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 7: Texas in the Sugar Bowl. On New Year's Night December

1186
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:41,320
Speaker 7: twenty ninth, it's a top ten matchup in the Cotton Bowl,

1187
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 7: Ohio State against Missouri. December thirtieth. The Orange Bowl will

1188
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 7: have number five Florida State against number six Georgia National

1189
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 7: Semifinals for on New Year's and then it's a week

1190
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Speaker 7: later the National Title game in Houston. This year January

1191
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 7: the eighth no NBA games Today college basketball, Southern University

1192
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 7: won at number twenty one Mississippi State sixty to fifty

1193
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Speaker 7: nine with a late twelve oh run. Ohio State has

1194
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Speaker 7: beaten Minnesota eighty four to seventy four. Clemson won at

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Speaker 7: Pitt's seventy nine seventy and at Appalachian State, the home

1196
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Speaker 7: team topped Auburn sixty nine sixty four. NHL New York

1197
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Speaker 7: Rangers sixty five over San Jose Scotti. Scheffler was the

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Speaker 7: golf winner in the Bahamas by three strokes. And the

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Speaker 7: annual MLB Winter Meetings are beginning in Nashville and Jim

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Speaker 7: Leland has been elected to the Hall of Fame. Leland,

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Speaker 7: the former manager, in a vote not by the Baseball

1202
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Speaker 7: writers that's in January.

1203
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Speaker 2: This was by a.

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Speaker 7: Contemporary era committee for non players, so they had eight

1205
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Speaker 7: people on the ballot. You had to get twelve of

1206
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Speaker 7: the sixteen votes from the committee members. Leland was the

1207
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Speaker 7: only one on the list. He advances into the baseball

1208
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Speaker 7: Haul in Cooperstown with fifteen of the possible sixteen votes.

1209
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 7: Former manager Lou Panella just missed, getting eleven of the

1210
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 7: sixteen votes, and former executive Bill White got ten of

1211
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Speaker 7: the sixteen. Did not Maske get back to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you all right, great stuff, Steve, appreciate that live

1213
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Speaker 3: in thetairaq.

1214
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Speaker 2: Dot com studios.

1215
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Speaker 3: I wonder though, you know, Steve jokes about the nightmare

1216
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:16,519
Speaker 3: super Bowl of forty nine Ers Chiefs inside Allegiant. Sure

1217
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 3: that would bother Raider fans.

1218
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 2: I get it.

1219
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:21,760
Speaker 3: Although if things keep going the way they are in

1220
01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 3: this Sunday night football game, we might have this scenario

1221
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:29,599
Speaker 3: go where like we come out of today, Kyle, where

1222
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:35,800
Speaker 3: there's like an overwhelming one super Bowl favorite. I'm not

1223
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 3: saying it's gonna stay that way. I don't know where

1224
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:40,640
Speaker 3: it's gonna go. But there's been this sort of like

1225
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 3: jumbled up feel all year long, even preseason. Cincinnati was

1226
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:49,439
Speaker 3: a part of it at that time, along with the

1227
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 3: Bills and the Chiefs and the Eagles and the forty

1228
01:08:53,960 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 3: nine Ers.

1229
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Speaker 2: Right yeah, sure, Jets, we're in there now.

1230
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:02,200
Speaker 3: Now you get to this week where the Niners and

1231
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 3: Eagles and Chiefs were all kind of sitting in a

1232
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 3: little bit of a pretty close spot with some other

1233
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 3: teams kind of flanking them, Dallas on the move. But

1234
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:14,679
Speaker 3: with the developments of today, if the Chiefs don't rally

1235
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:18,680
Speaker 3: here against Green Bay, and how firm of a statement

1236
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:22,240
Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers made in Philly, couldn't we walk

1237
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 3: out of here today? Where people are like Niners Niners

1238
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:26,679
Speaker 3: by far?

1239
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, ultimately it comes down to health. I

1240
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 4: think when you get to this time of year, get

1241
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 4: into January playoff time, the most healthy team usually ends

1242
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 4: up being the one that goes on the run and

1243
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 4: gets on a roll. And it's who we see. Hois

1244
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:50,320
Speaker 4: Lombardi And I've said it throughout the course of the year.

1245
01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:54,759
Speaker 4: When the San Francisco forty nine Ers are healthy and

1246
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 4: operating on all cylinders, they are the best team in

1247
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:04,600
Speaker 4: the NFL. Being said, this Kansas City Chiefs team, you know,

1248
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 4: I think we all know they probably have the Green

1249
01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:08,479
Speaker 4: Bay Packers right where they want them. I think they

1250
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 4: play their best football when they're down, when they're down

1251
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:15,000
Speaker 4: eleven points at halftime. But it's just a team that's

1252
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 4: ultimately played from behind a lot and doesn't seem to

1253
01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 4: have a problem with a ten to eleven point lead

1254
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 4: at halftime and ultimately end up coming back and getting

1255
01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 4: the job done. But I think the next five weeks

1256
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:30,879
Speaker 4: and you look at kind of where we're headed, assuming

1257
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 4: Jacksonville handles their business tomorrow night against Cincinnati, you've got

1258
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:39,680
Speaker 4: four at nine and three at the top of the AFC,

1259
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:43,839
Speaker 4: and then you've got we could have a big jumble

1260
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 4: of ten and three coming out of next week, assuming

1261
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 4: Philly Dallas goes the way that currently the odds say

1262
01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 4: it will go. So you know, next week, could we

1263
01:10:55,240 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 4: be looking at a huge jumble of seventeen in the NFL?

1264
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 4: Ultimately being ten and three certainly would be cool, and

1265
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 4: you see all this would play out during the stretch totally, totally, I.

1266
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 2: Mean an absolute ton of fun.

1267
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 3: But to that point that the Eagles were three point

1268
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,960
Speaker 3: honed dogs and it got covered by.

1269
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:19,640
Speaker 2: Twenty and now they're road dogs.

1270
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:21,719
Speaker 3: At the home of the team that A they've already

1271
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 3: beaten and B is behind them in the standings. To me,

1272
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:30,200
Speaker 3: there's messaging there because, as you and I know, odds

1273
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:32,679
Speaker 3: makers are not sitting down in Vegas and just hucking

1274
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 3: stuff against the wall because they like it. I think

1275
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 3: there's a perception out there that people go, oh, well,

1276
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 3: odds makers are solely playing what public perception is to

1277
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 3: get money on both sides. It ends up that way,

1278
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 3: it doesn't start that way. And I said this on

1279
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:53,400
Speaker 3: the air in San Francisco all week at the beginning

1280
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 3: of the week when the Niners were established a favorite.

1281
01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 3: You remember it happened while you and I were on

1282
01:11:57,360 --> 01:12:00,280
Speaker 3: the air last week, and we were both surprised, and

1283
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 3: so I reached out to my buddy and I said,

1284
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 3: what's going on here? Give me the key reasons why

1285
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers would be favorites on the road.

1286
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 3: And the number went up from there, and his answer

1287
01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 3: shocked me. His answer was, it all comes down to

1288
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:21,479
Speaker 3: power ratings positioned by position, with matchups, the forty nine

1289
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:25,559
Speaker 3: ers are flat out better on both sides of the ball.

1290
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:29,760
Speaker 3: And at the moment when someone says that, you're like,

1291
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 3: are you sure, and then you watch today and you're like, yep,

1292
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 3: I'm sure. Now it's just one football game. But the

1293
01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 3: statement I made that got a lot of people going,

1294
01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 3: and I'd love your response to this was this year's

1295
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 3: Eagles are a much much better version of last year's Vikings,

1296
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:56,880
Speaker 3: And the point I'm trying to make is not that

1297
01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:59,640
Speaker 3: they're last year's Vikings. They're much much better than that.

1298
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 3: But the point I'm making is their record sparkles in

1299
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:07,880
Speaker 3: a way that their production does not. I don't think

1300
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 3: that they were markedly better than the other teams around

1301
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:13,920
Speaker 3: the league that they're two or three games ahead of

1302
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:17,600
Speaker 3: in the standings. I thought that bared out today, and

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Speaker 3: I think the spread next week shows it as well.

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Speaker 4: I would disagree with that just simply because of the

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Speaker 4: talent that this Eagles team does have. That Minnesota team

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Speaker 4: last year was a team that was the ball was

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01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:35,280
Speaker 4: bouncing their way, and it was. They won eleven one

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Speaker 4: score games over the course of the year. Minnesota could

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01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 4: have easily been four and thirteen as opposed to thirteen

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Speaker 4: and four last year. I don't think you can look

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Speaker 4: at this Philly team and yeah, could they be eight

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Speaker 4: and four, nine and three instead of ten and two, maybe,

1313
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Speaker 4: but they're still going to be right there at the top,

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Speaker 4: at the very worst eight and four if they don't

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Speaker 4: come back and win a couple of those games throughout

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Speaker 4: the course of the season. And I just look at

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Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts, DeAndre Swift, AJ Brown, Avante Smith, Dallas Goddard

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01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 4: is a guy that they'll be.

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Speaker 1: Getting back soon.

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Speaker 4: I think it's worth noting we've talked about the gauntlet

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Speaker 4: of games that they've had to play over the last

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01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,759
Speaker 4: month and a half. Most of those have been without

1323
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:24,320
Speaker 4: one of the better tight ends in the NFL. So Tom,

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01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:27,639
Speaker 4: they should get him back here soon. And we said

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01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 4: this when when the line came last week as we

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Speaker 4: were on the air, the thing that stood out to

1327
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 4: me the most was just thinking about not these teams

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01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:41,720
Speaker 4: and their rosters and because they're both extremely talented on

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01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 4: both sides of the football, but simply and and we're

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01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 4: going into it again, it's the exact same scenario. San

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01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 4: Francisco played on Thursday. They got ten days off Philly.

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Speaker 4: Philly was in, you know, a battle and it was

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Speaker 4: their fourth battle in a row, three out of four

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Speaker 4: count Miami, you know, and then the three.

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Speaker 1: Previous to that.

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Speaker 4: Look at next week, next week, Dallas has been sitting

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01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 4: there for three days just watching, resting, recovering. They get

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01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 4: ten days off and now Philly's going to Dallas after

1339
01:15:21,240 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 4: they just played a big, physical forty nine ers team.

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Speaker 1: So I think again.

1341
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 4: I go back to we we get down the stretch,

1342
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 4: Philly's gonna kind of come up for air after they

1343
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 4: go through their gauntlet. You know, the forty nine Ers, Miners,

1344
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:48,600
Speaker 4: look at the remaining schedule for them, Cardinals, Yeah, Commanders, Man, Rams, like,

1345
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 4: we'll see Ravens, but you have you have Seahawks and Ravens,

1346
01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 4: So you have two out of the last four there

1347
01:15:55,479 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 4: that are tough. And then you know the Rams always

1348
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,559
Speaker 4: play them tough, and the Rams can be fighting for

1349
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 4: a playoff spot that last week of the year, So

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01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 4: you know, it's interesting. I just feel like we're getting

1351
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:11,320
Speaker 4: to this time of year where where ah, man, you're

1352
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 4: pushing into December. It's guys are beat up. You're trying

1353
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:17,880
Speaker 4: to just do everything you can to recover for the

1354
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:20,919
Speaker 4: next week. And like I said, the most healthy team

1355
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 4: typically is the team that gets on that run late

1356
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:26,240
Speaker 4: December early January carried you.

1357
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:27,000
Speaker 1: Through the playoffs.

1358
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Speaker 4: So I don't necessarily think it's a discrepancy in the roster,

1359
01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:33,960
Speaker 4: because I do think Philly has one of the most

1360
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 4: talented rosters. If I was going to stack any roster

1361
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:38,320
Speaker 4: against San Francisco, it would probably be Philly.

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01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 3: Again, I want to remind you I said, a much

1363
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:44,320
Speaker 3: much better version of last year's vikings. But more to

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Speaker 3: discuss there for sure at the top of the NFC

1365
01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 3: and we'll do that next on Fox Sports Radio. Are

1366
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Speaker 3: we live at the tyrech dot Com Studios.

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Speaker 2: That's Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard.

1368
01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:01,719
Speaker 3: Injury time out in Sunday Night Football, Isaiah Pacheco limps off,

1369
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 3: although it didn't seem terribly serious, But that's a nerve

1370
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 3: wracking moment for a Chief squad that remains the afc'

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01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,479
Speaker 3: Super Bowl favorite but trails by eight in the third

1372
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Speaker 3: quarter as we get underway at lambeau Field.

1373
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 2: Glad you're with us. So just to sort of circle.

1374
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:21,599
Speaker 3: Back on the point that I'm making, and I know,

1375
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:23,880
Speaker 3: I know when you first hear the statement, you're like,

1376
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,479
Speaker 3: come on, Mark, like, don't go there. When I say that,

1377
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 3: the Eagles and I set up before today. So to me,

1378
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 3: that makes it a little bit I'm not.

1379
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:36,679
Speaker 2: Grand standing here, but that the Eagles are a much much,

1380
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 2: much higher quality version of last year's vikings.

1381
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is simply that they

1382
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 3: are the team that's actual output is sort of overhyped

1383
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 3: based on what we're actually seeing because their record is

1384
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 3: higher than it should be. Their point differential is forty one.

1385
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:02,439
Speaker 3: Dallas's is one sixty eight. Now, you could argue that

1386
01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 3: Dallas is a result of getting to play the New

1387
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,679
Speaker 3: York Giants a couple of times. That's where they've built

1388
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 3: most of it. Fine, let's go to the Niners.

1389
01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:13,719
Speaker 2: There is one sixty three. This is a team that's.

1390
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:16,559
Speaker 3: Blown out Philly on the road, blown out Jacksonville on

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01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:19,280
Speaker 3: the road, blown out Seattle on the road, blown out

1392
01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 3: Dallas on Sunday Night football.

1393
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 2: Like, when I.

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Speaker 3: Look at these two football teams when today being exhibit A,

1395
01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:30,600
Speaker 3: it's like, I get that the rosters are great, but

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01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 3: I kind of push back when people go, oh, today

1397
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 3: was a rematch.

1398
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 2: Not really.

1399
01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:39,960
Speaker 3: Javon Hargrave plays on the other team. Look at the

1400
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:44,839
Speaker 3: metrics of Philly's defense. They're not great, they just aren't.

1401
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 3: Washington scored over thirty.

1402
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 2: Twice on these guys. That's all I'm getting at.

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01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, and my thought on Philly would be, it's not

1404
01:18:57,120 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 4: a team that I want to see in January after

1405
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:05,560
Speaker 4: their last three games are Giants, Cardinals, Giants. While everybody

1406
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:09,439
Speaker 4: else in the NFC is battling it out, trying to

1407
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 4: again for Philly, maybe that's what secures them the one

1408
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:16,439
Speaker 4: seed in the bye. So then they play Giants Cardinals, Giants,

1409
01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:17,760
Speaker 4: they get a buye and then they got to go

1410
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,400
Speaker 4: win two games to get in the Super Bowl. Or

1411
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:24,680
Speaker 4: they played Giants Cardinals, Giants, and then they're the two

1412
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:28,040
Speaker 4: or three seed and you know, possibly the five and

1413
01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 4: they have to go play on the road. I don't

1414
01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:33,840
Speaker 4: think any of that matters when you know that that

1415
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:37,120
Speaker 4: defense we talked about last week, this team is built

1416
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 4: on the offensive line and the defensive line. That's the

1417
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:42,559
Speaker 4: way they've had the success that they've had over the

1418
01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:47,840
Speaker 4: last few years. You get those boys fresh and healthy again,

1419
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Speaker 4: It's not a team that I would want to see

1420
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 4: touares last year, seeing Minnesota in January, I think everybody

1421
01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:57,400
Speaker 4: assumed the Giants were going to win in that wild

1422
01:19:57,479 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 4: card round. So it'll be interesting. I'm certainly looking forward

1423
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:05,479
Speaker 4: to seeing this NFC play out with everybody hopefully at

1424
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 4: full strength.

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01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:09,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, pray for health on all of them.

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01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:12,200
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying it's a team that's just going

1427
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:14,920
Speaker 3: to be one and done in the playoffs. I just

1428
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:18,240
Speaker 3: don't think that when you saw that ten on record

1429
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 3: last week, it was like, Oh, it's the Eagles, and

1430
01:20:21,160 --> 01:20:24,560
Speaker 3: then let's start talking about some other teams and I'm like, yeah,

1431
01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 3: I again, Vegas told us a story and it's a

1432
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 3: matter of whether you want to sort of listen to

1433
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 3: it or not. The Eagles Dogs two weeks in a row.

1434
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Speaker 3: So speaking of that football game, how it affected the

1435
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Speaker 3: MVP race and much more coming up next on Fox

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01:20:57,680 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 3: All Sunday night football is just like the NFL standings,

1442
01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 3: getting tighter as we get later. The Chiefs score touchdown,

1443
01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:07,280
Speaker 3: go for two to tie it, don't get it. Packers

1444
01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 3: still lead, but only by two their ball third quarter.

1445
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Speaker 3: The way tire buying should be there's lots to go

1453
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Speaker 3: through both AFC and NFC college football as well, but

1454
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 3: would love to further have a conversation we had off

1455
01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:43,559
Speaker 3: of the top of the show which is about not

1456
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:46,200
Speaker 3: only the top of the NFC the big game of

1457
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 3: the day, but how it affects the MVP race Jalen Hurts,

1458
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 3: the favorite on the way in, Christian McCaffrey and Brock

1459
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 3: Perdy both in the conversation you mentioned Tyreek Hill. I

1460
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 3: thought in a really interesting way a couple of hours ago,

1461
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:06,519
Speaker 3: but specific specific to this game, how do you think

1462
01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 3: it affected the race?

1463
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:14,160
Speaker 4: I mean, I think rock Perty just continues to do

1464
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:18,360
Speaker 4: exactly what he has to do and what will be

1465
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:22,320
Speaker 4: required of him to ultimately get the odds that he

1466
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:26,000
Speaker 4: deserves and to be mentioned at the top of the

1467
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Speaker 4: MVP race with guys like Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes

1468
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:35,280
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott. So I think when when you look at

1469
01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:38,040
Speaker 4: this game, you know I mentioned this earlier when we're

1470
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 4: talking about the MVP race. You know, unlike college football

1471
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:47,160
Speaker 4: in the Heisman Trophy, where you know you have twelve opportunities,

1472
01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 4: each one is really magnified because of those twelve opportunities.

1473
01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:55,559
Speaker 4: How many good teams are you really playing against. Most

1474
01:22:55,600 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 4: of those twelve games, you're playing against teams that are

1475
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:04,240
Speaker 4: statstuff and you get your four hundred yards and five

1476
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:07,120
Speaker 4: touchdowns as a quarterback and you carry on to the

1477
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 4: next week. So on the college football landscape, you only

1478
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:15,839
Speaker 4: have a couple, you know, Ohio State, Michigan type games

1479
01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:19,760
Speaker 4: where if you're you know, the Heisman Trophy candidate. You know,

1480
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Speaker 4: I think in the PAC twelve Washington, Oregon, you know,

1481
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:27,559
Speaker 4: you Pennix and Knicks going back and forth. Like, there

1482
01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 4: aren't as many of those as we get in the

1483
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:35,280
Speaker 4: NFL because we have seventeen games. You know, certainly not

1484
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 4: every team in the NFL is in the playoff picture

1485
01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:42,360
Speaker 4: and contending. But it's just good football across the board.

1486
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 4: You don't have any layups. If you don't go out

1487
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:47,240
Speaker 4: and play well every week, you will have a performance

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01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:51,719
Speaker 4: that will ultimately drop you significantly in the MVP race.

1489
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:55,599
Speaker 4: So it's funny. I was looking at some stats prior

1490
01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:59,720
Speaker 4: to the game today and I don't have them in

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01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 4: front of me now, but it was just comparing brock

1492
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 4: in Jalen and they were all passing stats, which again

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01:24:08,880 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 4: I don't think that paints a complete picture because of

1494
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:17,799
Speaker 4: what Jalen does with his legs and the ability that

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01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 4: that that gives him the dynamic that it brings for

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Speaker 4: that offense. But what I ultimately noticed was it's like

1497
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Speaker 4: you look at brock Purty and it's like one, three, one,

1498
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 4: you know, completion percentage rating, all these passing statistics, and

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Speaker 4: he's in the top three, maybe top five, and Jalen

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Speaker 4: is nine fourteen, you know, kind of not necessarily middle

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01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 4: of the pack, but back third of the the top

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01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:52,080
Speaker 4: third of the NFL, if that makes any sense, you know,

1503
01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 4: the around ten if you would. So you look at

1504
01:24:57,120 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 4: all those statistics, and again, if you were to kind

1505
01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 4: of do the graphic where they just put that up

1506
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:05,880
Speaker 4: there and don't show you who they are and what

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01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:06,639
Speaker 4: team they.

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Speaker 1: Play for, you'd say, oh, that guy there.

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Speaker 4: That's one, one, three, you know, ranked in the top

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Speaker 4: five and everything. That's got to be the MVP front runner.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:20,360
Speaker 4: So again, I know that doesn't paint the whole picture,

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Speaker 4: but it certainly got my attention when I when I

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Speaker 4: saw it earlier today. But you know, I do, I

1515
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:32,519
Speaker 4: do believe that Jalen's legs and as much as much

1516
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:37,160
Speaker 4: as the world and and NFL fans that aren't Philly

1517
01:25:37,200 --> 01:25:41,639
Speaker 4: fans may hate the tush push or the brotherly shove.

1518
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:47,840
Speaker 4: It's crazy because that play and their ability to.

1519
01:25:47,920 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 1: Execute it, execute it.

1520
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 4: It's it's a difference maker, you know, for that offense,

1521
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 4: it's really first and eight every time they get the ball.

1522
01:25:56,960 --> 01:26:01,320
Speaker 4: Nobody else in the NFL has that advantage when when

1523
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 4: they get the ball, they only need to get to

1524
01:26:03,720 --> 01:26:06,639
Speaker 4: fourth and two maybe fourth and one, and they're going

1525
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:09,679
Speaker 4: for it every time and they're almost one hundred percent.

1526
01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 4: So I think when you when you talk about an MVP, like,

1527
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:17,640
Speaker 4: is it easy for me to get to that that

1528
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:24,160
Speaker 4: micro of a level. No, But it's like it's that's

1529
01:26:24,240 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts, Like, that's what Jalen Hurts gives you. That's

1530
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:32,080
Speaker 4: what he provides, and when you're on a ten and

1531
01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:34,280
Speaker 4: two team, that's what puts you at the top of

1532
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:38,559
Speaker 4: the MVP front running odds.

1533
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:39,840
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1534
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I'm not one that would say a

1535
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:46,639
Speaker 3: daylight today should eliminate Jalen Hurts from this conversation at all.

1536
01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:48,800
Speaker 3: And I think what he does with his legs and

1537
01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:51,280
Speaker 3: also there's just like a feel to this. I think

1538
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:54,559
Speaker 3: when you watch these teams play football, and I think

1539
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 3: this is.

1540
01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:55,759
Speaker 2: What dings Brock.

1541
01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:58,880
Speaker 3: It's kind of like, Okay, while I'm watching, what does

1542
01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:04,120
Speaker 3: it feel like is happening? What's happening to the opponent,

1543
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:09,040
Speaker 3: and how much does this player have to do with

1544
01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:11,320
Speaker 3: what's being done to the opponent. And when you watch

1545
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:15,920
Speaker 3: the Eagles, it feels like Jalen Hurtz has this humongous

1546
01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:19,200
Speaker 3: impact on every play. I don't even know how much

1547
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 3: reality it is, but it feels that way. And it

1548
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 3: doesn't feel that way to the same level with Brock

1549
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:26,040
Speaker 3: Purdy I get.

1550
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 2: But here's something else.

1551
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 3: Maybe look at it from the other side of the

1552
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 3: lens because of something you just said when you're talking

1553
01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:33,439
Speaker 3: about stats.

1554
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 2: So imagine a world in the NFL where.

1555
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:41,560
Speaker 3: You've got a clear cut Super Bowl favorite.

1556
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:43,559
Speaker 2: They are going to win their division.

1557
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:47,800
Speaker 3: They have a nine to three record, and they have

1558
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 3: absolutely pounded with forty two points in each game the

1559
01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:58,400
Speaker 3: other two top contenders in their conference. Meanwhile, their quarterback

1560
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:03,799
Speaker 3: is easily the highest rated quarterback in the league, leads

1561
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:07,800
Speaker 3: the league in completion percentage thirty two hundred yards, and

1562
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:12,280
Speaker 3: is now popping a touchdown to interception ratio of twenty

1563
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:19,320
Speaker 3: three to six in what world historically in the NFL

1564
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 3: is that person not the runaway MVP, I would argue

1565
01:28:25,360 --> 01:28:26,360
Speaker 3: that's unprecedented.

1566
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:31,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I certainly can't think of another example where

1567
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:33,800
Speaker 4: you have a guy playing to that level on a

1568
01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 4: team that's this dominant. So certainly unprecedented for sure.

1569
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a fascinating situation to follow from the MVP race,

1570
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:48,679
Speaker 3: and then of course at the top of the NFC race,

1571
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:53,120
Speaker 3: it jumbles everything up with regard to the Cowboys and

1572
01:28:53,240 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 3: Lions being in this conversation as well, and I know

1573
01:28:56,720 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 3: that you really wanted to talk tonight out the remaining

1574
01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:07,679
Speaker 3: schedule for the Dallas Cowboys because they are They are

1575
01:29:07,720 --> 01:29:13,679
Speaker 3: now favored to essentially lead their division by this time

1576
01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 3: next week.

1577
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:16,519
Speaker 2: They're a three.

1578
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:20,160
Speaker 3: Point favorite to beat the Eagles, and that would put

1579
01:29:20,200 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 3: those two teams even steven at ten and.

1580
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 2: Three with a win over each other.

1581
01:29:24,760 --> 01:29:28,719
Speaker 3: However, the difference being, and you've mentioned it, the Eagles

1582
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 3: are sitting there with a bunch of games against the

1583
01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:36,280
Speaker 3: New York Giants still ahead. The Cowboys will go Eagles

1584
01:29:36,840 --> 01:29:41,639
Speaker 3: at Buffalo, at Miami, home to Detroit, and.

1585
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:44,440
Speaker 2: Then at rival Washington.

1586
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 3: This gauntlet that the Eagles have faced here it comes

1587
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 3: for the Cowboys.

1588
01:29:50,760 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is a lot like the Dolphins too.

1589
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 4: Everybody wants to know, is this Dallas team for real

1590
01:29:58,479 --> 01:30:01,599
Speaker 4: when it comes to play playing against other teams who

1591
01:30:01,640 --> 01:30:03,639
Speaker 4: will be playing on the.

1592
01:30:03,600 --> 01:30:04,920
Speaker 1: Back half of January.

1593
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:10,720
Speaker 4: And when you look at the season so far, you know,

1594
01:30:10,800 --> 01:30:11,519
Speaker 4: they they.

1595
01:30:11,439 --> 01:30:13,400
Speaker 1: Beat Seattle this past week.

1596
01:30:13,560 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 4: Seattle's now six and six, so at the time when

1597
01:30:17,240 --> 01:30:21,400
Speaker 4: they beat him, it was I believe the first time

1598
01:30:21,479 --> 01:30:23,439
Speaker 4: this year they beat a team with a winning record

1599
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:26,680
Speaker 4: by one game. Correct, So they beat the six and

1600
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:31,240
Speaker 4: five Seattle Seahawks. Miami's the same way. You know, we

1601
01:30:31,280 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 4: talk about Miami. We talked about they they beat and

1602
01:30:34,200 --> 01:30:38,320
Speaker 4: and beat down all of these bad teams. You know,

1603
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:42,040
Speaker 4: I'm sure their point differentials outrageous too, because when they

1604
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:46,280
Speaker 4: beat bad teams, they beat them big time. So when

1605
01:30:46,280 --> 01:30:49,759
Speaker 4: we think about Dallas and well I thought about Dallas

1606
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:53,920
Speaker 4: back that that San Francisco game, I was like, yeah,

1607
01:30:53,920 --> 01:30:57,160
Speaker 4: if they dropped this one, honestly, who cares? Because all

1608
01:30:57,360 --> 01:30:59,880
Speaker 4: people want to know is what's this Dallas team going

1609
01:30:59,920 --> 01:31:02,560
Speaker 4: to do December and January?

1610
01:31:02,960 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 1: Well, they have a.

1611
01:31:05,360 --> 01:31:11,639
Speaker 4: Three four so the next month from now till New

1612
01:31:11,720 --> 01:31:14,639
Speaker 4: Year almost New Year's Eve, We're gonna find a lot

1613
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:19,280
Speaker 4: about the Dallas Cowboys. You mentioned it, Philly at home,

1614
01:31:19,439 --> 01:31:21,880
Speaker 4: at Buffalo, at Miami, Detroit at home.

1615
01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:23,160
Speaker 1: So over the.

1616
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 4: Next four weeks, and that's where it's like, I think

1617
01:31:26,360 --> 01:31:29,720
Speaker 4: this MVP race, as it usually does most of the time,

1618
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:33,760
Speaker 4: it takes care of itself. It's I can't think of

1619
01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:38,519
Speaker 4: many years where you come out of Week eighteen and

1620
01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:41,400
Speaker 4: you're like, I don't know, I don't know who the

1621
01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 4: MVP is going to be. Ultimately, it seems to work

1622
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:47,439
Speaker 4: itself out from the ball and when you look at

1623
01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:50,960
Speaker 4: the stretch of these teams and you know what they

1624
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:53,719
Speaker 4: can do, what the quarterbacks can do for those teams,

1625
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:57,240
Speaker 4: I think it would be hard to argue if we're

1626
01:31:57,280 --> 01:31:59,720
Speaker 4: looking at the Dallas Cowboys sitting at the top of

1627
01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:03,360
Speaker 4: the NFC and they go on a run similar to

1628
01:32:03,439 --> 01:32:06,320
Speaker 4: what Philly went on through their gauntlet of games over

1629
01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:10,000
Speaker 4: the last month, you know, how how is Dak Prescott

1630
01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:14,840
Speaker 4: not a runaway MVP candidate. So I think that's the

1631
01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:17,720
Speaker 4: best part about football and what I'm most excited for

1632
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:21,360
Speaker 4: over over the next four to five weeks is there's

1633
01:32:21,760 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 4: so many good matchups and it's like almost as if

1634
01:32:25,680 --> 01:32:29,559
Speaker 4: all of the AFC and NFC teams are playing each

1635
01:32:29,600 --> 01:32:32,720
Speaker 4: other down the stretch as opposed to, oh, well they

1636
01:32:32,760 --> 01:32:36,280
Speaker 4: played back in September, and you know, well in that

1637
01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:39,519
Speaker 4: game back in September or early October, this happened. No,

1638
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 4: we're gonna find out in December, in early January, who

1639
01:32:44,200 --> 01:32:48,080
Speaker 4: are the legitimate cream of the crop contenders out of

1640
01:32:48,120 --> 01:32:50,679
Speaker 4: both conferences because they're all going to play each other.

1641
01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:56,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's almost like playoff preview before playoffs. And don't

1642
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:59,599
Speaker 3: forget that cross potential Super Bowl matchup of the forty

1643
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:03,360
Speaker 3: nine or and Ravens on Christmas Night. That's coming up

1644
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:05,839
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01:33:20,479 --> 01:33:22,400
Speaker 3: coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

1650
01:33:23,920 --> 01:33:25,639
Speaker 2: All right, we're living the Ti rack.

1651
01:33:27,080 --> 01:33:33,479
Speaker 3: Dot Com studios, Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph, thankful for your

1652
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:39,920
Speaker 3: presence tonight wherever you are bringing us in on Foxsports Radio.

1653
01:33:40,360 --> 01:33:42,640
Speaker 3: I loved your statement earlier. There are a few of

1654
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:47,479
Speaker 3: these teams every year in the NFL. It's like, all right,

1655
01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 3: what are you doing here? No one invited you to

1656
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:54,280
Speaker 3: this party. Maybe this is where we need the NCAA

1657
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:57,479
Speaker 3: to step in. They would eliminate the Cleveland Browns right now.

1658
01:33:58,520 --> 01:34:02,200
Speaker 3: Oh and the Steelers too because their quarterbacks are gone,

1659
01:34:02,240 --> 01:34:04,559
Speaker 3: so that means they're not allowed to go win games.

1660
01:34:05,240 --> 01:34:08,760
Speaker 3: So bye bye Cleveland and bye bye Pittsburgh. Although I

1661
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:13,360
Speaker 3: think both of us are fairly confident that the football

1662
01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 3: world will take care of itself when it comes to that.

1663
01:34:16,640 --> 01:34:17,880
Speaker 2: You know, we look at it right now.

1664
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:21,960
Speaker 3: The Texans seven and five, the Colts seven and five,

1665
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,479
Speaker 3: same record for the Steelers and Browns. And then don't

1666
01:34:24,520 --> 01:34:29,439
Speaker 3: forget about the Buffalo Bills and the Denver Broncos who

1667
01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 3: fell to six and six today. But with everything the

1668
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:37,439
Speaker 3: Bills have been through, you sit here still and we

1669
01:34:37,560 --> 01:34:41,759
Speaker 3: talk about the schedules that are out there. They've got

1670
01:34:42,160 --> 01:34:45,960
Speaker 3: to go to City next week. That's very, very difficult.

1671
01:34:46,040 --> 01:34:49,360
Speaker 3: They've got Dallas on the schedule as well. They're at

1672
01:34:49,400 --> 01:34:52,480
Speaker 3: the Chargers, they get a home game with the Patriots

1673
01:34:52,479 --> 01:34:52,720
Speaker 3: in there.

1674
01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:55,040
Speaker 2: They've got to go to Miami it's a hard.

1675
01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:59,360
Speaker 3: Schedule, but if they can grind their way to I

1676
01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:04,000
Speaker 3: don't know, nine wins, maybe even ten, who knows.

1677
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:06,560
Speaker 2: I'm not giving up on them yet.

1678
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:10,720
Speaker 4: No, And you know, I talked about this before, and

1679
01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:15,200
Speaker 4: I'm ultimately guilty of the same thing that the college

1680
01:35:15,240 --> 01:35:20,200
Speaker 4: Football Playoff Committee is guilty of. I want to see

1681
01:35:20,240 --> 01:35:29,760
Speaker 4: the Buffalo Bills in January playing against Jacksonville, Kansas City, Baltimore, Miami, whoever,

1682
01:35:29,920 --> 01:35:33,760
Speaker 4: however that shakes out from two to four. I want

1683
01:35:33,760 --> 01:35:38,440
Speaker 4: to see Buffalo going to Baltimore, or you know, Buffalo

1684
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:43,559
Speaker 4: going to Jacksonville has the two seed playing the seventh

1685
01:35:43,560 --> 01:35:48,760
Speaker 4: seed in the wild card. I don't see Pittsburgh or

1686
01:35:48,880 --> 01:35:53,320
Speaker 4: Cleveland going on the road in the playoffs and ultimately

1687
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:57,559
Speaker 4: winning a game. But again, that's why they play the games.

1688
01:35:57,600 --> 01:36:01,679
Speaker 4: And again I mentioned earlier that we continue to say

1689
01:36:01,720 --> 01:36:05,400
Speaker 4: that about Pittsburgh, and they find ways to regroup after

1690
01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:09,400
Speaker 4: awful performances like they had today and and find ways

1691
01:36:09,439 --> 01:36:12,560
Speaker 4: to win games. So, you know, certainly, I feel like

1692
01:36:12,560 --> 01:36:14,400
Speaker 4: we have a couple of party crashers that have been

1693
01:36:14,439 --> 01:36:18,479
Speaker 4: hanging around from very strong starts, and it's can they

1694
01:36:18,520 --> 01:36:22,600
Speaker 4: hang on long enough to make it and remain in

1695
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:25,879
Speaker 4: the top seven in the AFC with you have teams

1696
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 4: like Indy and Houston. You know, certainly they're playing in

1697
01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:32,960
Speaker 4: the same division. They also have to play the Jaguars.

1698
01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:35,360
Speaker 4: So you know, can you get three teams out of

1699
01:36:35,400 --> 01:36:38,799
Speaker 4: the AFC South in the playoffs, I'm not sure.

1700
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:40,800
Speaker 1: You know, you look, look look at Indy.

1701
01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:47,759
Speaker 4: They've got Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Vegas, Texans on the seventh.

1702
01:36:47,880 --> 01:36:49,320
Speaker 1: So you know, look at the Colts.

1703
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:55,080
Speaker 4: Certainly they have a very favorable stretch run here over

1704
01:36:55,120 --> 01:36:58,559
Speaker 4: the last five games. And then you know, we talk

1705
01:36:58,640 --> 01:37:02,240
Speaker 4: about the Texans and you know that exciting young team,

1706
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:07,000
Speaker 4: certainly tough news today with you know, injury to one

1707
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:14,080
Speaker 4: of their best receivers. But you look at Theirs, it's Jets, Titans, Browns, Titans,

1708
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:16,800
Speaker 4: and then you know, I mentioned Colts obviously on the

1709
01:37:16,840 --> 01:37:19,320
Speaker 4: other side of that. So I think you look at

1710
01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:22,400
Speaker 4: those two teams and their schedules down the stretch as

1711
01:37:22,400 --> 01:37:29,160
Speaker 4: opposed to you know, Pittsburgh and Cleveland playing with the

1712
01:37:29,160 --> 01:37:33,479
Speaker 4: injuries that they have, I could see them both sliding up.

1713
01:37:33,560 --> 01:37:37,559
Speaker 4: And you know, you mentioned the Buffalo Bills. You would

1714
01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 4: think that they have to win four out of the

1715
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:42,800
Speaker 4: last five.

1716
01:37:44,160 --> 01:37:46,559
Speaker 3: I don't know, does nine and seven get you there?

1717
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:49,479
Speaker 3: I mean you're looking at three wild card teams, and

1718
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:51,760
Speaker 3: right now the teams that are six and six and

1719
01:37:51,880 --> 01:37:57,680
Speaker 3: better Bill Steelers, Brown's, Colts, Texans, Broncos.

1720
01:37:57,720 --> 01:37:59,920
Speaker 2: So that's that's us.

1721
01:38:00,040 --> 01:38:03,120
Speaker 3: See is that six teams that I mentioned essentially for

1722
01:38:03,280 --> 01:38:06,640
Speaker 3: three spots. But if we all sort of agree that

1723
01:38:06,680 --> 01:38:10,840
Speaker 3: the Steelers and Browns might kind of go backwards, then.

1724
01:38:10,920 --> 01:38:13,280
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean nine and seven might do it.

1725
01:38:14,160 --> 01:38:17,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm looking at losses. So you got Pittsburgh

1726
01:38:17,439 --> 01:38:21,759
Speaker 4: with five, Cleveland with five, Indie with five, Houston with five,

1727
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:27,360
Speaker 4: so you ultimately they're on the other side. They've they've

1728
01:38:27,400 --> 01:38:31,080
Speaker 4: got to win three out of their their last five,

1729
01:38:31,320 --> 01:38:34,559
Speaker 4: you know, to to to be you know, to not

1730
01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:36,439
Speaker 4: be nine and seven and and.

1731
01:38:36,560 --> 01:38:38,880
Speaker 1: Get out there. So seven, yeah, to get to.

1732
01:38:38,920 --> 01:38:44,280
Speaker 4: Ten, so they get to ten wins and and ultimately

1733
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:48,320
Speaker 4: they Buffalo can't catch them if they don't win all

1734
01:38:48,520 --> 01:38:52,680
Speaker 4: five of their remaining games. So I think there's a

1735
01:38:52,840 --> 01:38:58,360
Speaker 4: chance at I don't know. I don't think nine and

1736
01:38:58,360 --> 01:39:02,120
Speaker 4: eight gets in. I think ten and seven does, but

1737
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:03,960
Speaker 4: we'll see, we'll see.

1738
01:39:04,960 --> 01:39:05,800
Speaker 2: It's wild man.

1739
01:39:05,920 --> 01:39:08,720
Speaker 3: The Buffalo Bills and I know maybe I'm making too

1740
01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:12,240
Speaker 3: much of point differential. Tonight, the Bills have outscored their

1741
01:39:12,280 --> 01:39:17,639
Speaker 3: opponents by one hundred one points. In the AFC, only

1742
01:39:17,680 --> 01:39:20,559
Speaker 3: the Dolphins and Ravens are better, and in the NFC

1743
01:39:20,800 --> 01:39:23,920
Speaker 3: only the forty nine Ers and Cowboys are better. Fifth

1744
01:39:24,040 --> 01:39:27,360
Speaker 3: best point differential in all of football, and they don't

1745
01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:32,400
Speaker 3: even have more wins than losses. That's a crazy You

1746
01:39:32,439 --> 01:39:35,000
Speaker 3: want to talk about the opposite of last year's vikings,

1747
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:36,960
Speaker 3: I'll give you the Buffalo Bills.

1748
01:39:39,479 --> 01:39:44,200
Speaker 4: It's in Honestly, we know Buffalo's problem. You see it

1749
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:48,679
Speaker 4: all year when Josh does not turn the football over

1750
01:39:49,320 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 4: and they get the most out of a defense. That's

1751
01:39:52,120 --> 01:39:55,320
Speaker 4: just it's had key free agents leaving the offseason and

1752
01:39:55,360 --> 01:40:01,120
Speaker 4: then countless injuries to guys that have been stays for that.

1753
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:05,600
Speaker 1: And I also think one thing that doesn't get talked enough.

1754
01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:07,640
Speaker 4: About Buffalo when we talk about just kind of the

1755
01:40:08,120 --> 01:40:12,120
Speaker 4: general direction that their season has gone. And it's a

1756
01:40:12,160 --> 01:40:14,759
Speaker 4: guy that I played for in Minnesota and Leslie Fraser

1757
01:40:15,200 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 4: who's no longer there calling the defense, which has the

1758
01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:23,040
Speaker 4: ripple effect that now Sean has to call defense and

1759
01:40:23,200 --> 01:40:26,120
Speaker 4: be the head coach to win prior to the last

1760
01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:29,000
Speaker 4: few years when Buffalo had the success that they had,

1761
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:32,559
Speaker 4: Sean was just the head coach. He knew that he

1762
01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:35,639
Speaker 4: had one of the best defensive coaches in football running

1763
01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:38,360
Speaker 4: his defense and calling his defense. Certainly, he could be

1764
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 4: in meetings when he wanted to and make sure that

1765
01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:43,639
Speaker 4: he got points across throughout the course of the week

1766
01:40:43,680 --> 01:40:46,120
Speaker 4: that he wanted. But he had all the faith in

1767
01:40:46,160 --> 01:40:48,640
Speaker 4: the world in Leslie Fraser, who's I said, one of

1768
01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:52,799
Speaker 4: the best defensive coaches in football. Ultimately he's not there anymore.

1769
01:40:53,960 --> 01:40:57,720
Speaker 4: You're now given the entire responsibility of the defensive coordinator

1770
01:40:57,800 --> 01:41:00,800
Speaker 4: as well as the head coach, and I think that

1771
01:41:01,280 --> 01:41:03,519
Speaker 4: plays a toll on a guy who's supposed to be

1772
01:41:03,640 --> 01:41:07,920
Speaker 4: leading an entire team, And ultimately you find yourself like, oh,

1773
01:41:08,000 --> 01:41:10,040
Speaker 4: wait a minute, I'm only dealing with one side of

1774
01:41:10,040 --> 01:41:13,320
Speaker 4: the ball now, way more often than I used to.

1775
01:41:13,439 --> 01:41:16,200
Speaker 4: Like before, when I could just let Leslie deal with

1776
01:41:16,200 --> 01:41:19,280
Speaker 4: the defense, I could spend more time with Josh and

1777
01:41:19,320 --> 01:41:21,360
Speaker 4: the offense and kind of get a feel for what

1778
01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:28,160
Speaker 4: they're going And the other thing. It's typical like bad business.

1779
01:41:28,240 --> 01:41:31,679
Speaker 4: You look at the Buffalo Bills, and the Buffalo Bills

1780
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:36,320
Speaker 4: lose to the Denver Broncos on a special teams play

1781
01:41:36,439 --> 01:41:39,519
Speaker 4: where they have too many men on the field and

1782
01:41:40,400 --> 01:41:43,920
Speaker 4: the Broncos miss the field goal. Ultimately get another chance,

1783
01:41:44,360 --> 01:41:47,639
Speaker 4: they make it. So what do the Bills do? They

1784
01:41:47,680 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 4: fire their offensive coordinator. The offensive coordinator wasn't the one

1785
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:53,679
Speaker 4: who had twelve men on the field when the game

1786
01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:57,679
Speaker 4: should have been over and they won the game. So again,

1787
01:41:57,760 --> 01:42:00,920
Speaker 4: I think oftentimes there's so many things going on throughout

1788
01:42:00,960 --> 01:42:02,840
Speaker 4: the course of an organization. When you look back at

1789
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:06,360
Speaker 4: their first twelve games, it's like, you know, ultimately this

1790
01:42:06,400 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 4: is still a really good football team that if they

1791
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:13,760
Speaker 4: get hot over their last five, I wouldn't want to

1792
01:42:13,800 --> 01:42:17,040
Speaker 4: see them as the team that I'm facing in wildcard

1793
01:42:17,120 --> 01:42:18,559
Speaker 4: round as a division one.

1794
01:42:18,640 --> 01:42:20,439
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, no joke.

1795
01:42:20,520 --> 01:42:22,760
Speaker 3: If you're the two seed in the AFC, and I

1796
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:25,120
Speaker 3: don't even necessarily know off the top of my head

1797
01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:28,920
Speaker 3: who that's tracking to be right now, but you know

1798
01:42:29,080 --> 01:42:30,280
Speaker 3: everybody's on the table.

1799
01:42:30,320 --> 01:42:30,639
Speaker 2: They are.

1800
01:42:30,720 --> 01:42:34,160
Speaker 3: All four of the division leaders essentially have the exact

1801
01:42:34,160 --> 01:42:36,800
Speaker 3: same record. Some of them have a game in hand,

1802
01:42:36,800 --> 01:42:39,719
Speaker 3: the Ravens and Dolphins Jags. Tomorrow night, Chiefs just scored

1803
01:42:39,760 --> 01:42:42,120
Speaker 3: a touchdown to get to within two. We'll see what

1804
01:42:42,160 --> 01:42:44,840
Speaker 3: they can do tonight. But everybody's sitting there could end

1805
01:42:44,880 --> 01:42:46,240
Speaker 3: up as the two seed. You end up as a

1806
01:42:46,240 --> 01:42:51,080
Speaker 3: two seed, and here comes Buffalo first week. Oh crap,

1807
01:42:51,560 --> 01:42:51,840
Speaker 3: you know.

1808
01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 4: Like that, especially a Buffalo, Yeah, a Buffalo team that

1809
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:58,840
Speaker 4: just won four out of five or five in a

1810
01:42:58,920 --> 01:42:59,920
Speaker 4: row to get into.

1811
01:42:59,760 --> 01:43:05,840
Speaker 3: The exactly right, exactly right now, the wild card inside track.

1812
01:43:06,240 --> 01:43:08,240
Speaker 3: I won't even I bet you'll know, but I don't even.

1813
01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:10,760
Speaker 3: I won't tell you which team, but you listen to

1814
01:43:10,760 --> 01:43:14,200
Speaker 3: this one of the teams that we mentioned that's sitting

1815
01:43:14,240 --> 01:43:17,760
Speaker 3: there with those five losses. Listen to the schedule the

1816
01:43:17,800 --> 01:43:22,559
Speaker 3: rest of the way at Jets, at Titans, home to Cleveland,

1817
01:43:23,120 --> 01:43:25,240
Speaker 3: home to the Titans, at Indy.

1818
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:28,439
Speaker 2: The quarterbacks this team will play the rest of.

1819
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:34,360
Speaker 3: The way are I don't know between you know, Trevor

1820
01:43:34,400 --> 01:43:36,599
Speaker 3: Simeon or Doyle.

1821
01:43:36,720 --> 01:43:38,360
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to go on there.

1822
01:43:39,240 --> 01:43:42,760
Speaker 3: A couple of Will Levis's, a Joe Flacco and a

1823
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:43,679
Speaker 3: Gardner minshew.

1824
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:46,040
Speaker 2: That's what they're playing the rest.

1825
01:43:45,840 --> 01:43:49,000
Speaker 3: Of the way. And they're already seven and five. And

1826
01:43:49,320 --> 01:43:52,280
Speaker 3: that's your favorite, that's the Houston Texans.

1827
01:43:53,360 --> 01:43:55,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I am saying when you look at

1828
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:58,240
Speaker 4: them and what they can do over the last month,

1829
01:43:59,160 --> 01:44:01,439
Speaker 4: today was a big win for them. You know, certainly

1830
01:44:01,680 --> 01:44:05,720
Speaker 4: a Denver team that's been as hot as anyone kind

1831
01:44:05,720 --> 01:44:07,759
Speaker 4: of came out of nowhere, a lot like the Rams,

1832
01:44:07,800 --> 01:44:09,800
Speaker 4: a team that we just kind of figured was done

1833
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:12,840
Speaker 4: for and would go away, and here they come, you know,

1834
01:44:12,880 --> 01:44:16,920
Speaker 4: winning winning five games in a row. You know, a

1835
01:44:17,040 --> 01:44:20,720
Speaker 4: close game down the stretch, getting a big stop at

1836
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:23,000
Speaker 4: the end to win. You know, a one score game

1837
01:44:23,560 --> 01:44:26,519
Speaker 4: that's big going into this last month of the season.

1838
01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:30,760
Speaker 4: And you mentioned the the opponents that are between them

1839
01:44:30,800 --> 01:44:36,839
Speaker 4: and a playoff appearance. I mean, does Demiko Ryans deserve

1840
01:44:36,960 --> 01:44:39,120
Speaker 4: to be mentioned in the if he takes the Houston

1841
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:43,439
Speaker 4: Tecans to the playoffs and in his first season. I mean,

1842
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:47,600
Speaker 4: I know there's been a few other incredible coaching performances

1843
01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:49,759
Speaker 4: this year, but that's gotta be at the top.

1844
01:44:50,880 --> 01:44:53,360
Speaker 3: I agree with you. I mean, he's all set up.

1845
01:44:53,400 --> 01:44:56,599
Speaker 3: They were supposed to be terrible this year, terrible. He's

1846
01:44:56,640 --> 01:44:59,240
Speaker 3: now set up. Yeah, he's set up to have a

1847
01:44:59,280 --> 01:45:02,000
Speaker 3: great start to his coaching career, not just because of

1848
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:03,800
Speaker 3: the way this year is going, but he's got CJ.

1849
01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:07,200
Speaker 3: Stroud I mean, we all know finding the quarterback that's

1850
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:08,880
Speaker 3: the thing. When you can't do it, that's how you

1851
01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:12,240
Speaker 3: lose your job. And he's got it upon arrival. So

1852
01:45:13,320 --> 01:45:17,719
Speaker 3: he's off to a fantastic star. Okay, Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph,

1853
01:45:18,040 --> 01:45:20,439
Speaker 3: much more to say on all of this, but our

1854
01:45:20,479 --> 01:45:22,880
Speaker 3: man Steve de Seger gets to say something now his

1855
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:25,120
Speaker 3: turn tonight on Fox Sports Radio.

1856
01:45:25,200 --> 01:45:27,120
Speaker 2: Hello, my friend, Hello the guys.

1857
01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:31,000
Speaker 7: You got to point this out, but they might be

1858
01:45:31,040 --> 01:45:33,559
Speaker 7: coming back from double digits again. You kind of referenced

1859
01:45:33,560 --> 01:45:36,320
Speaker 7: this earlier in the show. But Patrick Mahomes is on

1860
01:45:36,360 --> 01:45:39,360
Speaker 7: the field. I have the exact stat. Green Bay was

1861
01:45:39,439 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 7: leading Kansas City fourteen to three in the second Quarternight

1862
01:45:42,880 --> 01:45:45,800
Speaker 7: tonight it's now green Bay twenty one to nineteen over

1863
01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:49,800
Speaker 7: the Chiefs early in the fourth. Patrick mahomes record as

1864
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:53,559
Speaker 7: a pro quarterback when falling behind by double digits regular

1865
01:45:53,560 --> 01:45:58,000
Speaker 7: season or playoffs, he has a winning record fifteen and eleven,

1866
01:45:58,200 --> 01:46:02,280
Speaker 7: the only quarterback win a winning record in that scenario.

1867
01:46:02,680 --> 01:46:05,599
Speaker 7: In fact, the only other qbs in history with even

1868
01:46:05,640 --> 01:46:09,400
Speaker 7: a four hundred winning percentage after being down double digits

1869
01:46:09,400 --> 01:46:12,240
Speaker 7: in the game, Jalen Hurts is nine and twelve in

1870
01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:15,719
Speaker 7: those games. Tim Tebow was five and six in those games.

1871
01:46:16,479 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 7: Mahomes winning record fifteen and eleven in those games. Crazy

1872
01:46:21,439 --> 01:46:24,200
Speaker 7: Jordan Love with three touchdown passes though tonight two to

1873
01:46:24,320 --> 01:46:28,000
Speaker 7: Christian Watson thirteen and a half minutes to go fourth quarter,

1874
01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:32,200
Speaker 7: Packers twenty one nineteen in the lead. Two injuries to

1875
01:46:32,360 --> 01:46:35,519
Speaker 7: update Ryan Cook's safety. The leading tackler for the Chiefs

1876
01:46:35,560 --> 01:46:38,559
Speaker 7: tonight was seven left with an ankle injury was carted off.

1877
01:46:38,600 --> 01:46:41,800
Speaker 7: They would not show the replay, and Chiefs linebacker Drew

1878
01:46:41,880 --> 01:46:44,080
Speaker 7: Trankwell left on the first drive when he took a

1879
01:46:44,120 --> 01:46:47,360
Speaker 7: helm knee to the helmet. As for the running game

1880
01:46:47,400 --> 01:46:51,519
Speaker 7: for Casey, Isaiah Pacheco seventeen carries, one hundred eight yards

1881
01:46:51,560 --> 01:46:55,520
Speaker 7: and one TD. San Francisco won forty two to nineteen

1882
01:46:55,960 --> 01:47:00,400
Speaker 7: at Philadelphia brock Perty with four touchdown passes in This

1883
01:47:00,439 --> 01:47:03,519
Speaker 7: is now six straight games where Perdy's completed at least

1884
01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:06,960
Speaker 7: seventy percent of his passes. The only guy since the merger,

1885
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:09,200
Speaker 7: and this goes back over fifty years that have a

1886
01:47:09,240 --> 01:47:12,920
Speaker 7: longer set streak Sam Bradford in twenty sixteen and Drew

1887
01:47:12,960 --> 01:47:17,120
Speaker 7: Brees in both twenty sixteen and seventeen to be specific today.

1888
01:47:17,240 --> 01:47:20,000
Speaker 7: Purdy was nineteen of twenty seven through the air for

1889
01:47:20,120 --> 01:47:23,280
Speaker 7: three hundred and fourteen yards. San Francisco trailed six to

1890
01:47:23,360 --> 01:47:25,799
Speaker 7: nothing in the second quarter at Philly and then scored

1891
01:47:25,840 --> 01:47:30,400
Speaker 7: touchdowns on six straight drives in La. Rams quarterback Matthew

1892
01:47:30,439 --> 01:47:34,160
Speaker 7: Stafford three touchdown passes and win over Cleveland thirty six nineteen.

1893
01:47:34,280 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 7: Rams got sixteen points in the last four minutes. Tampa

1894
01:47:37,400 --> 01:47:41,000
Speaker 7: Bay edged Carolina twenty one to eighteen. Bryce Young won

1895
01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:45,360
Speaker 7: interception sacked four times. Panthers one and eleven. Road wins

1896
01:47:45,360 --> 01:47:48,560
Speaker 7: for Detroit and Miami there each nine and three. Indianapolis

1897
01:47:48,600 --> 01:47:51,960
Speaker 7: won in overtime at Tennessee. Houston beat Denver twenty two

1898
01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:55,479
Speaker 7: to seventeen, but Texans wide receiver Tank Dell reportedly suffered

1899
01:47:55,520 --> 01:47:59,000
Speaker 7: a broken leg at Pittsburgh. Quarterback Kenny Pickett left with

1900
01:47:59,000 --> 01:48:01,599
Speaker 7: an ankle injury could miss two to four weeks. He's

1901
01:48:01,640 --> 01:48:04,960
Speaker 7: reportedly due for surgery on it tomorrow. Arizona one at

1902
01:48:04,960 --> 01:48:08,680
Speaker 7: Pittsburgh twenty four to ten. Chargers won six nothing at

1903
01:48:08,720 --> 01:48:11,080
Speaker 7: New England. The Patriots have lost five in a row.

1904
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:15,000
Speaker 7: They're two to ten. Thursday night, New England at Pittsburgh

1905
01:48:15,160 --> 01:48:17,160
Speaker 7: I would say set the DVR, but it's not on

1906
01:48:17,200 --> 01:48:22,439
Speaker 7: a channel. Atlanta beat the Jets thirteen to eight. Jets

1907
01:48:22,439 --> 01:48:25,640
Speaker 7: have lost five in a row, three turnovers, eleven penalties

1908
01:48:25,720 --> 01:48:28,960
Speaker 7: in that game. Number one rank Michigan will face Alabama

1909
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:32,160
Speaker 7: in the Rose Bowl Semifinals. Then number two Washington plays

1910
01:48:32,200 --> 01:48:34,559
Speaker 7: Texas in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Night. No

1911
01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:38,519
Speaker 7: NBA games today. College hoops Southern University with a late

1912
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:41,760
Speaker 7: twelve oh run one at number twenty one Mississippi State

1913
01:48:41,880 --> 01:48:45,200
Speaker 7: sixty to fifty nine. Ex manager Jim Leland was voted

1914
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:48,000
Speaker 7: into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Scottie Scheffler was the

1915
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:51,000
Speaker 7: golf winner in the Bahamas by three strokes. Tiger Woods

1916
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:54,640
Speaker 7: finished eighteenth out of twenty at his Hero World Challenge.

1917
01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:58,080
Speaker 7: Updating from Green Bay where it's about thirty degrees Packers

1918
01:48:58,080 --> 01:49:00,920
Speaker 7: holding on twenty one nineteen over Kare, Kansas City under

1919
01:49:00,920 --> 01:49:01,759
Speaker 7: twelve minutes.

1920
01:49:01,840 --> 01:49:04,920
Speaker 3: Left back to you, all right, great stuff. Steve has

1921
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:07,760
Speaker 3: always appreciate you. Tonight that game that he was just

1922
01:49:07,840 --> 01:49:13,200
Speaker 3: referencing Kyle Patriots Steelers Thursday night, I just looked it up.

1923
01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:15,680
Speaker 2: Come on, let's play the game. What do you think

1924
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:16,640
Speaker 2: the over under is?

1925
01:49:16,640 --> 01:49:23,439
Speaker 1: For that game, thirty two.

1926
01:49:26,160 --> 01:49:31,120
Speaker 3: Great job, thirty one and a half.

1927
01:49:31,800 --> 01:49:35,200
Speaker 2: So close, No, no, no, within a half point counts. That's

1928
01:49:35,240 --> 01:49:37,160
Speaker 2: a win. This isn't The price is right?

1929
01:49:37,439 --> 01:49:42,719
Speaker 3: You didn't overbid that is that's a great, great guess

1930
01:49:42,760 --> 01:49:43,439
Speaker 3: on your part.

1931
01:49:43,520 --> 01:49:46,080
Speaker 2: Thirty one and a half. And then the other part of.

1932
01:49:45,960 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 3: That is the over under is thirty one and a half. Well,

1933
01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 3: what are we doing?

1934
01:49:51,720 --> 01:49:51,840
Speaker 2: So?

1935
01:49:52,120 --> 01:49:54,360
Speaker 1: I had a lot of big TENNFL game is this?

1936
01:49:54,840 --> 01:49:56,720
Speaker 4: I had a lot of big ten West games this

1937
01:49:56,800 --> 01:50:01,080
Speaker 4: year for my TV coverage, and I had a few

1938
01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:05,840
Speaker 4: like twenty eight, twenty nine over unders, so I completely

1939
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:06,320
Speaker 4: base it.

1940
01:50:06,280 --> 01:50:06,640
Speaker 1: Off of that.

1941
01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:08,519
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, it's an NFL game, it's

1942
01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:10,679
Speaker 4: got to be a little higher than that. But yeah,

1943
01:50:10,720 --> 01:50:16,880
Speaker 4: we're talking Patriots, Steelers here, a couple backup quarterbacks. So

1944
01:50:17,080 --> 01:50:21,160
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give it the touchdown or sorry, the field goal,

1945
01:50:21,640 --> 01:50:24,080
Speaker 4: give them the courtesy three points off of the twenty

1946
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Speaker 4: nine and go thirty two?

1947
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Speaker 2: Man?

1948
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Speaker 3: Can I use that to actually take one more shot

1949
01:50:31,840 --> 01:50:34,200
Speaker 3: at the NCAA before we're done tonight?

1950
01:50:34,240 --> 01:50:35,479
Speaker 2: Can I take one more shot?

1951
01:50:35,600 --> 01:50:39,800
Speaker 3: Can somebody please call the seven and five Steelers, the

1952
01:50:39,840 --> 01:50:44,840
Speaker 3: seven and five Browns, the seven and five Indianapolis Colts.

1953
01:50:45,840 --> 01:50:47,720
Speaker 3: Let's see, hang on, let me see if I need

1954
01:50:47,760 --> 01:50:50,480
Speaker 3: to add anybody else to this conversation.

1955
01:50:50,600 --> 01:50:50,800
Speaker 2: I do.

1956
01:50:51,439 --> 01:50:54,400
Speaker 3: The six and six Minnesota Vikings, Let me put them

1957
01:50:54,439 --> 01:50:59,120
Speaker 3: into this conversation, and I guess to a degree, the

1958
01:50:59,200 --> 01:51:01,240
Speaker 3: six and six Los Angeles Rams.

1959
01:51:01,520 --> 01:51:04,880
Speaker 2: Let me gather all those teams, make sure someone.

1960
01:51:04,640 --> 01:51:07,400
Speaker 3: Calls them to let them know that they have been

1961
01:51:07,479 --> 01:51:14,080
Speaker 3: eliminated from playoff contention because they've played or are playing

1962
01:51:14,160 --> 01:51:16,920
Speaker 3: games this year without their quarterback.

1963
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Speaker 2: So they're out.

1964
01:51:19,479 --> 01:51:21,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't pass the eye test anymore.

1965
01:51:22,520 --> 01:51:24,880
Speaker 2: Too bad, so sad, so sorry.

1966
01:51:27,200 --> 01:51:28,280
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate.

1967
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Speaker 4: And I think one of the things, you know, we

1968
01:51:30,240 --> 01:51:32,680
Speaker 4: were talking about it earlier that I really never had

1969
01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:36,080
Speaker 4: thought of until a little bit earlier today, and just

1970
01:51:37,960 --> 01:51:40,519
Speaker 4: that's like one of the most special things about college

1971
01:51:40,520 --> 01:51:44,880
Speaker 4: football is there we know NFL rosters are so much smaller.

1972
01:51:45,160 --> 01:51:48,040
Speaker 4: You pretty much know the backup quarterbacks and the quarterback

1973
01:51:48,080 --> 01:51:52,840
Speaker 4: play across all of the NFL. You have the good

1974
01:51:52,920 --> 01:51:57,000
Speaker 4: quarterback play, the elite quarterback play. Is there aren't thirty

1975
01:51:57,080 --> 01:51:59,880
Speaker 4: two good quarterbacks in the NFL to begin with, so

1976
01:52:00,560 --> 01:52:05,479
Speaker 4: it's already skewed so highly towards the really talented the

1977
01:52:05,520 --> 01:52:10,559
Speaker 4: elite quarterbacks on down. So then when you're replacing a

1978
01:52:10,640 --> 01:52:13,439
Speaker 4: quarterback and a backup quarterback is coming in the NFL,

1979
01:52:13,800 --> 01:52:18,960
Speaker 4: it's ultimately in even greater drop off. In college football,

1980
01:52:19,560 --> 01:52:22,040
Speaker 4: some of the best stories are guys that get their

1981
01:52:22,160 --> 01:52:26,200
Speaker 4: chance in these huge moments like a national semi final

1982
01:52:26,360 --> 01:52:30,519
Speaker 4: game or a national championship game. Where again I go

1983
01:52:30,600 --> 01:52:33,920
Speaker 4: back to Ohio State team that had one loss but

1984
01:52:34,000 --> 01:52:37,920
Speaker 4: won the Big Ten championship against Wisconsin. We're down to

1985
01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:42,160
Speaker 4: their third string quarterback going into the National Championship. They

1986
01:52:42,200 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 4: beat Alabama, they beat Oregon and the Heisman Trophy winner

1987
01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:53,120
Speaker 4: Marcus Mariota. That was today's college Football Playoff committee. Yeah, congratulations,

1988
01:52:53,120 --> 01:52:54,720
Speaker 4: you won the Big Ten, but you don't have your

1989
01:52:54,760 --> 01:52:57,240
Speaker 4: starting quarterback, you don't pass the eye test. We don't

1990
01:52:57,320 --> 01:53:00,360
Speaker 4: know who Cardalle Jones is. So you guys just home

1991
01:53:00,360 --> 01:53:01,599
Speaker 4: and we'll find somebody else.

1992
01:53:03,040 --> 01:53:06,639
Speaker 3: I love the words of Florida State athletic director Michael Alford,

1993
01:53:06,680 --> 01:53:09,360
Speaker 3: who today wrote, the argument of whether a team is

1994
01:53:09,400 --> 01:53:13,599
Speaker 3: the most deserving or best is a false equivalence. It

1995
01:53:13,640 --> 01:53:17,920
Speaker 3: renders the season up to yesterday irrelevant and significantly damages

1996
01:53:18,120 --> 01:53:21,360
Speaker 3: the legitimacy of the college Football Playoff.

1997
01:53:22,360 --> 01:53:23,599
Speaker 2: Amen, my man.

1998
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Speaker 3: Absolutely Amen With Kyle Rudolph, I'm Mark Willard and plenty

1999
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Speaker 3: still to get to today Live Tirack dot Com studios.

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Speaker 2: By the way, don't forget shortly when we're done here.

2001
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Speaker 3: After the show, podcast is going to go up, and

2002
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2003
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2007
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2008
01:53:51,600 --> 01:53:53,439
Speaker 3: are not done yet, and coming up next, Kyle, I

2009
01:53:53,439 --> 01:53:56,679
Speaker 3: want to ask you about something that Kyle Shanahan referenced

2010
01:53:56,960 --> 01:54:00,920
Speaker 3: after the win in Philadelphia. Today is next, along with

2011
01:54:00,960 --> 01:54:02,800
Speaker 3: the play of the day on Fox Sports Radio.

2012
01:54:03,840 --> 01:54:06,960
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield shotgun look God went in motion to the right.

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01:54:08,520 --> 01:54:09,240
Speaker 1: Splitz Threaten.

2014
01:54:09,400 --> 01:54:11,479
Speaker 3: Mayfield gets rid of the ball in a hurry, caught

2015
01:54:11,479 --> 01:54:14,480
Speaker 3: ball of the thirty one yard breaking your tackle, Hike Evans,

2016
01:54:14,520 --> 01:54:15,639
Speaker 3: still breaking your tackle.

2017
01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:18,080
Speaker 2: Dig Just wait to the thirty six yard line. Let's

2018
01:54:18,080 --> 01:54:20,719
Speaker 2: an eleven yard pickup and he is over one thousand yards.

2019
01:54:20,920 --> 01:54:24,120
Speaker 5: Well, the chance could second season only Jerry Rice has

2020
01:54:24,160 --> 01:54:24,719
Speaker 5: done it more.

2021
01:54:25,120 --> 01:54:25,640
Speaker 2: Wow.

2022
01:54:26,280 --> 01:54:33,160
Speaker 3: That's from ninety eight Rock Buccaneers Radio Network. We're live

2023
01:54:33,200 --> 01:54:37,360
Speaker 3: Inthtireck dot Com Studios and that right there, Kyle, that's

2024
01:54:37,440 --> 01:54:42,120
Speaker 3: your your former teammate, Mike Evans passing one thousand yards

2025
01:54:42,120 --> 01:54:44,120
Speaker 3: for the tenth straight year.

2026
01:54:44,920 --> 01:54:45,360
Speaker 1: What a.

2027
01:54:46,880 --> 01:54:48,800
Speaker 2: Gosh, what an underrated accomplishment.

2028
01:54:48,920 --> 01:54:52,200
Speaker 3: He does not get named when we go through the

2029
01:54:52,240 --> 01:54:54,920
Speaker 3: top three, four, five, six guys around the league, and

2030
01:54:55,680 --> 01:54:57,800
Speaker 3: that's probably an oversight on our part.

2031
01:54:58,760 --> 01:54:59,880
Speaker 1: No, pretty incredible.

2032
01:55:00,400 --> 01:55:03,560
Speaker 4: And you know, we've had a lot of conversations over

2033
01:55:04,120 --> 01:55:06,120
Speaker 4: the course of the year, over the course of the

2034
01:55:06,200 --> 01:55:10,240
Speaker 4: last three hours on you know, overlooking guys like Brock

2035
01:55:10,320 --> 01:55:14,280
Speaker 4: Purty and his opportunity to be mentioned in terms of

2036
01:55:14,920 --> 01:55:19,080
Speaker 4: MVP front runners. And I think Mike is a guy

2037
01:55:19,160 --> 01:55:23,920
Speaker 4: who when we talk about future Hall of famers, we

2038
01:55:23,960 --> 01:55:27,480
Speaker 4: talk about future Hall of Fame wide receivers, his name

2039
01:55:27,520 --> 01:55:30,120
Speaker 4: doesn't get brought up much. And you know, spending a

2040
01:55:30,200 --> 01:55:33,640
Speaker 4: year with Mike last year here in Tampa, seeing the

2041
01:55:33,680 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 4: way that he works, the way that he goes about

2042
01:55:35,520 --> 01:55:40,720
Speaker 4: his business, his consistency, you see exactly why he's not

2043
01:55:40,880 --> 01:55:46,480
Speaker 4: only had ten straight ten thousand yard seasons, but started

2044
01:55:46,520 --> 01:55:50,760
Speaker 4: his career with ten straight thousand yard seasons as the

2045
01:55:50,800 --> 01:55:54,360
Speaker 4: first and only to ever do that. And yet you know, yeah,

2046
01:55:54,440 --> 01:55:57,120
Speaker 4: we see him tied with Randy Moss and in four

2047
01:55:57,280 --> 01:56:01,440
Speaker 4: behind Jerry Rice for all time thousand yard seasons and

2048
01:56:01,840 --> 01:56:06,080
Speaker 4: any time you're mentioned in categories, just behind Jerry Rice

2049
01:56:06,120 --> 01:56:08,840
Speaker 4: and tied with Rainy Moss. And I believe he just

2050
01:56:08,960 --> 01:56:13,800
Speaker 4: passed Larry Fitzgerald. Larry had nine thousand yard seasons. You

2051
01:56:14,080 --> 01:56:17,960
Speaker 4: have to assume like that's just automatically it's first ballot

2052
01:56:17,960 --> 01:56:21,120
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame, right like that, that is what everyone

2053
01:56:21,120 --> 01:56:24,080
Speaker 4: else in that category has done.

2054
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. It's a hell of accomplishment.

2055
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2061
01:56:46,000 --> 01:56:48,120
Speaker 3: think about this or what you can share about this.

2062
01:56:48,920 --> 01:56:51,360
Speaker 3: Such an impressive performance, as we know by the forty

2063
01:56:51,440 --> 01:56:54,760
Speaker 3: nine ers. Kyle Shanahan when he first pointed out when

2064
01:56:54,920 --> 01:56:57,560
Speaker 3: he got to the postgame news conference, was.

2065
01:56:57,560 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 2: Quote weathering the storm.

2066
01:57:00,080 --> 01:57:02,760
Speaker 3: Those of you who simply saw the score and think

2067
01:57:02,800 --> 01:57:05,120
Speaker 3: that it was just the Diners running rough shot over

2068
01:57:05,160 --> 01:57:08,120
Speaker 3: the Eagles for four quarters, it wasn't. It was them

2069
01:57:08,200 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 3: running rough shot over the Eagles for three quarters, but

2070
01:57:11,080 --> 01:57:14,720
Speaker 3: not for four That first quarter was simply a six

2071
01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:17,640
Speaker 3: to nothing lead for the Eagles, but it was total dominance.

2072
01:57:17,680 --> 01:57:21,520
Speaker 3: The Niners couldn't complete a pass, They had negative yards

2073
01:57:21,520 --> 01:57:23,320
Speaker 3: at the end of the first quarter. The Eagles went

2074
01:57:23,360 --> 01:57:26,000
Speaker 3: on two long scoring drives, they were unable to get

2075
01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:27,560
Speaker 3: it into the end zone, and that's why it was

2076
01:57:27,600 --> 01:57:31,280
Speaker 3: only six nothing. But I look back on the game

2077
01:57:31,320 --> 01:57:36,360
Speaker 3: and go that that had to be solely about just

2078
01:57:37,040 --> 01:57:40,280
Speaker 3: the energy of the building, the emotion of the moment.

2079
01:57:41,120 --> 01:57:42,000
Speaker 2: What's that like.

2080
01:57:42,760 --> 01:57:45,240
Speaker 3: What's it like when you're going on the road for

2081
01:57:45,320 --> 01:57:50,760
Speaker 3: that emotional game and just those first few drives when

2082
01:57:50,800 --> 01:57:54,440
Speaker 3: you can't even hear yourself think and you're trying to

2083
01:57:54,560 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 3: keep the emotions in check.

2084
01:57:56,000 --> 01:58:01,680
Speaker 4: Also, I've played in that stadium. I lost an NFC

2085
01:58:01,760 --> 01:58:05,920
Speaker 4: Championship game in that stadium, so I know exactly what

2086
01:58:06,040 --> 01:58:09,560
Speaker 4: big games are like in that stadium, in that environment.

2087
01:58:10,880 --> 01:58:14,200
Speaker 4: You know, talk about weathering the storm. When we played

2088
01:58:14,240 --> 01:58:17,960
Speaker 4: the NFC Championship game. There, we went down the field

2089
01:58:18,040 --> 01:58:22,240
Speaker 4: first drive of the game. You know, the night before

2090
01:58:22,240 --> 01:58:24,360
Speaker 4: when we were going through the first fifteen plays, you

2091
01:58:24,360 --> 01:58:26,720
Speaker 4: couldn't have you couldn't have drawn it up any better.

2092
01:58:27,600 --> 01:58:29,600
Speaker 4: We go right down the field, score touchdown on the

2093
01:58:29,600 --> 01:58:34,160
Speaker 4: opening drive. Philly goes three and out, We get the

2094
01:58:34,200 --> 01:58:39,600
Speaker 4: ball back, We're marching cross midfield. Were in Eagles territory

2095
01:58:39,920 --> 01:58:43,360
Speaker 4: and I remember standing in that huddle. We had a

2096
01:58:43,440 --> 01:58:47,200
Speaker 4: third and six ish and I was like, Oh, we're

2097
01:58:47,240 --> 01:58:49,880
Speaker 4: gonna convert this, We're gonna score again, We're gonna go

2098
01:58:49,880 --> 01:58:53,720
Speaker 4: out fourteen nothing like the Eagles fans were starting to

2099
01:58:53,760 --> 01:58:56,960
Speaker 4: boo Nick Foles, and you know after their first three

2100
01:58:57,000 --> 01:59:00,320
Speaker 4: and out they weren't really thrilled. We threw a pick

2101
01:59:00,400 --> 01:59:02,800
Speaker 4: six on that third down and it was seven to

2102
01:59:02,840 --> 01:59:06,400
Speaker 4: seven and ended up next thing, you know, it was

2103
01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:09,440
Speaker 4: twenty eight seven at half, they got the ball coming out,

2104
01:59:09,480 --> 01:59:11,960
Speaker 4: they scored again. It was thirty five to seven, and

2105
01:59:12,040 --> 01:59:13,760
Speaker 4: it was like, in the blink of an eye, it

2106
01:59:13,840 --> 01:59:18,360
Speaker 4: was thirty five to seven and that place was going nuts.

2107
01:59:18,600 --> 01:59:21,480
Speaker 4: So I know the energy in that place, and I

2108
01:59:21,520 --> 01:59:24,240
Speaker 4: can only imagine how hyped up everybody was for the

2109
01:59:24,320 --> 01:59:28,400
Speaker 4: highly anticipated game today. So for the Niners to be

2110
01:59:28,440 --> 01:59:31,760
Speaker 4: able to go in there, kind of take their lumps early,

2111
01:59:32,360 --> 01:59:36,920
Speaker 4: fill things out, and then rattle off six straight touchdown

2112
01:59:37,040 --> 01:59:39,320
Speaker 4: drives is just absolutely incredible.

2113
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Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I don't want to be overconfident and overreact

2114
01:59:46,520 --> 01:59:50,720
Speaker 3: to one week. We've learned this lesson throughout. But my

2115
01:59:50,840 --> 01:59:54,600
Speaker 3: takeaway is something that you said too, and I know

2116
01:59:54,640 --> 01:59:57,040
Speaker 3: you meanted for more teams than just the Niners, but

2117
01:59:57,760 --> 02:00:00,680
Speaker 3: their new slogan should be prayed for health because if

2118
02:00:00,680 --> 02:00:04,040
Speaker 3: they get it, I think it's gonna be them, Kyle,

2119
02:00:04,120 --> 02:00:04,680
Speaker 3: I really do.

2120
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Speaker 2: I would favor.

2121
02:00:05,400 --> 02:00:09,920
Speaker 4: Them, no, And again that echoes my point all year

2122
02:00:10,080 --> 02:00:12,920
Speaker 4: that when that team is healthy, the Niners are the

2123
02:00:12,960 --> 02:00:17,240
Speaker 4: cream of the crop in both conferences. They're they're they're

2124
02:00:16,960 --> 02:00:18,680
Speaker 4: the team to beat when healthy.

2125
02:00:20,440 --> 02:00:23,160
Speaker 3: All Right, Eagles Cowboys next week. That's what we'll be

2126
02:00:23,240 --> 02:00:26,120
Speaker 3: chewing on next time we talk. Always fun to talk

2127
02:00:26,200 --> 02:00:27,680
Speaker 3: to you and my friend. We'll do it again next

2128
02:00:27,720 --> 02:00:28,320
Speaker 3: Sunday night.

2129
02:00:28,880 --> 02:00:30,680
Speaker 1: Looking forward to it. Looking forward to it.

2130
02:00:30,800 --> 02:00:32,160
Speaker 2: Yep, me too. All Right.

2131
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Speaker 3: For Kyle Rudolph, I'm Mark Willard Plank in Spain. You're

2132
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Speaker 3: coming up, stay right here, coming up,