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Speaker 1: This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up, Straight fire Fire, It's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 2: Straight Bowyer for Tuesday, January the thirteenth, Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: I am so fired up. Just finished watching the Texans

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Speaker 2: beat down Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers. There's a bit

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Speaker 2: of a sweat for three quarters Houston c J. Stroudd,

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Speaker 2: But finally the fourth quarter of the avalanche hap and

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Speaker 2: then the Texans win thirty to six. Finally I got

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Speaker 2: a side right in the NFL playoffs. Guys, I'm not

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Speaker 2: even kidding. This was one of my this is my

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Speaker 2: worst weekend of the year, and it was cap with

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Speaker 2: a no sweat winner in the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 3: Thank goodness they won.

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Speaker 2: I can't I mean, I can't watch anymore Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: and that Steelers offense. Oh my gosh, just disgusting. So

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Speaker 2: now the Texans will advance. They will play at New

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Speaker 2: England this coming weekend. The Patriots are three point favorites.

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Speaker 2: That is an interesting line to me. We'll have plenty

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Speaker 2: of time to get into that game. Early lean is

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Speaker 2: to the Texans again. Yeah, I'm a glutton for punishment.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to CJ. Stroud and the disaster that he was.

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Speaker 2: But the only place to start is with the Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: Steelers and the big Aaron Rodgers. Mike Tomlin question, do

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Speaker 2: either of them come back? Does one return?

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Speaker 3: Is that it? For Rodgers? Was the final pass of.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers' career of pick six in the fourth quarter?

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Speaker 3: Is that what happened?

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Speaker 2: I might have just seen that, just to recap. Aaron

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Speaker 2: Rodgers just turned forty two years old. The Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 2: absolutely lucked their way into the playoffs. And anybody who

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Speaker 2: wants to deny that, you're just not a realist. Okay,

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Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing the Ravens of Week eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Baltimore's got a forty four yard chip shot, no wind

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Speaker 2: chip shots for forty four that should be automatic in

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Speaker 2: the NFL, the current NFL, and the kid pushes it

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Speaker 2: wide right the rookie loop. And so the Steelers get

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Speaker 2: into the playoffs, and I think the line was three

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Speaker 2: and a half four and then it came down to three.

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Speaker 2: A lot of Steelers' money from the public believing the hype. Oh,

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Speaker 2: there's a charmed life. Pittsburgh's at home. Mike Tomlin some

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Speaker 2: nonsense stat about how the Steelers have won like twenty

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Speaker 2: three straight at home on Monday Night, as if that

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Speaker 2: matters at all. Now, Yeah, Mike Tomlin has some voodoo

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Speaker 2: thing going on with the Steelers. They always seem to

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Speaker 2: get lucky in these primetime games. They always seem to

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Speaker 2: get lucky at home. There's no such luck to night, folks.

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Speaker 3: I mean CJ. Stroud tried his best to give that.

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Speaker 2: Game to the Steelers, but it could. It didn't take

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Speaker 2: and the floodgates open in the fourth quarter. Two defensive

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Speaker 2: touchdowns are Rogers fumble in the pocket at Rogers pick six.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he handed the Texans fourteen points and Houston advanced.

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Speaker 2: Here's what's interesting about Rogers. So I started to dig

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Speaker 2: into some of the numbers. His last playoff win was

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty with the Packers. Remember you guys might

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Speaker 2: remember this. They were thirteen and three. He threw forty

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Speaker 2: eight touchdowns. He was amazing, and then they had to

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Speaker 2: face Tom Brady in the second round. It was a

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Speaker 2: very cold game at Lambeau. I remember vividly and Tom

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Speaker 2: Brady and company were cooking. But Brady did also throw

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Speaker 2: three interceptions the defense kind of sort of carried. I

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Speaker 2: think they had like five sacks. Me I think that

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Speaker 2: Rogers won the MVP that year. Let me let's see here, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Rogers won the MVP in twenty twenty. Yes, they were

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Speaker 2: thirteen and three and they end up losing to Brady.

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Speaker 2: That would be his last playoff victory. The next year,

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Speaker 2: they were thirteen and four and they lost in the

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Speaker 2: Divisional round to the Niners. Another cold game, another game

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Speaker 2: at Lambeau And if memory service was a special teams play,

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Speaker 2: let me open up the old box score here. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Hufunga with the blocked punt return in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: San Francisco could do absolutely nothing, and then Robbie Gould

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Speaker 2: did a forty five yarder at the horn. I don't

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Speaker 2: That's right, Jimmy Garoppolo. And Rogers again took five sacks.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like an ongoing theme in the postseason. He

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Speaker 2: can't really deliver because he's getting pressured like a mug,

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Speaker 2: going eight to nine. Then he went into a darkness retreat,

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Speaker 2: Doodoo with the Jets, and I mean Dodo. Guys, he

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Speaker 2: was not good. Do not try to fake the funk. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the Jets organization stinks, but Rogers was not good. He

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Speaker 2: failed badly down the stretch of a bunch of early

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Speaker 2: some face did late in the season. Remember he was

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Speaker 2: connecting with DeVante Adams on a bunch of hollow stats.

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Speaker 2: Finishes five and twelve. Aaron Glenn comes in says, we

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Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing.

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Speaker 2: Rogers goes to the Steelers, they go ten and six. Literally,

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Speaker 2: everything had to go right for Pittsburgh to win that division.

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Speaker 2: Like Joe Burrow had to miss a ton of time. Right,

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Speaker 2: Burrow comes back, they make a push, It was just

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Speaker 2: too late. Baltimore loses Lamar Jackson to injury for a bunch.

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Speaker 2: They come back, and then the Steelers get to win.

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Speaker 2: Swept the Ravens, which was nice, and I think we've

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Speaker 2: seen the last of Rodgers. It just doesn't make sense

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Speaker 2: for him to come back. He's not the quarterback he

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Speaker 2: once was. He has no mobility unless there's a scenario

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Speaker 2: where you get an unbelievable offensive line, right, you get

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Speaker 2: great weapons, and Rodgers has taking like a kind of

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Speaker 2: a hometown discount. I don't see how this makes sense

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Speaker 2: for Aaron Rodgers. And I'm talking he needs any elite

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Speaker 2: offensive line because that guy is immobile. He can't run

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Speaker 2: at all. And it's understandable. He's forty two, a lot

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Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame career, first ballot, Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 2: no doubt, lock it up. He's going to the Hall,

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Speaker 2: and unfortunately it just ends ugly. Didn't win a playoff

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Speaker 2: five seasons of his career. Yeah, so he won one

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, nothing in twenty one, two, three, four, five. Now,

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Speaker 2: didn't make the playoffs. So technically, it's not the worst

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Speaker 2: would say, now, he did get he had to sit

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Speaker 2: was really let's see, he didn't get to start until

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Speaker 2: he was like twenty five years old, right, a little

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Speaker 2: bit late. And then he turned it around at twenty

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Speaker 2: six in two thousand and nine, and then the year

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Speaker 2: after that they win the Super Bowl and he's the

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Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, Aaron.

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Speaker 3: Rodgers is amazing.

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Speaker 3: And I'll never forget.

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Speaker 2: So I got to FS one in June of twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 2: and one of my takes at the time was, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers doesn't have the Super Bowl victories of Tom Brady,

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Speaker 2: but in terms of a pure passer, I would go Rogers.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, it's kind of a not to toot

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Speaker 2: my own horn. It's kind of a great argument because

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Speaker 2: guess what, you can't prove me wrong. How do you

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Speaker 2: determine who the better passer is. Yes, Tom Brady great

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Speaker 2: thrower of the football, but Aaron Rodgers nobody dows up stuff.

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Speaker 2: I'll remember there's a playoff game in Dallas where there

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Speaker 2: was like no time left and he literally drew up

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Speaker 2: a play in the huddle. Hey, do this throws the

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Speaker 2: perfect pass the guy it's out of bounds, that kicked

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Speaker 3: Go beat the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: I mean when I was arguing this was like, you know,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty, so he had at that point three MVPs. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean, and the Packers were really good every year.

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Speaker 2: He did have a couple of injuries there in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 2: only played seven games twenty eighteen, missed a game and

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Speaker 2: wasn't great, but then he came back, remember, and they

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Speaker 3: There was the McCarthy ending was ugly.

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Speaker 2: But bottom line is like Aaron Rodgers is an unbelievable

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Speaker 2: the goofiness of his He a top five quarterback. I

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Speaker 2: I don't know what matters. You know, if it's just

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Speaker 2: super Bowls, fine, just say that. If you want to

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Speaker 2: do that stupid Michael Jordan Bill Russell thing, go for it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all that matters is super Bowls. Fine, that's your argument,

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Speaker 2: But that's silly as we know. I mean, Rodgers has

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Speaker 2: i think the most MVPs among NFL.

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Speaker 3: Quarterbacks in the history.

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Speaker 2: Let's see, let's see most quarter Oh no, but I'm

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Speaker 2: sorry Peyton Manning. So let's see Mahomes has two, Lamar

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Speaker 2: has two, Peyton Manning five. Okay, Peyton has five, Rogers

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Speaker 2: what does MVP mean? You were the best player in

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Speaker 2: voters are very likely going to say at Stafford, Is

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Speaker 2: that because Stafford deserves like a lifetime achievement award?

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Speaker 3: Is that why he's getting the MVP? So you know,

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Speaker 3: I don't really know how to judge.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, get into Super Bowl as a team accomplishment,

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Speaker 2: and Rogers simply didn't do that enough. Unfortunately, he just

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Speaker 2: that's the fact of the matter. He couldn't get there enough.

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Speaker 2: Green Bay had some colossal letdowns. They flamed out early,

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Speaker 2: they were upset a ton, and that's why he's eleven

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Speaker 2: eleven in the playoffs. And I don't think there's any

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Speaker 2: I mean, I laid out a scenari already could come back,

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Speaker 2: but it's just always drama and nonsense, like in all honesty, guys.

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Speaker 2: One of my hot takes I think it was last

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Speaker 3: Watt and they didn't do it.

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Speaker 2: Obviously by the way, TJ Watt zho and five in

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Speaker 2: his career in the playoffs. If we're giving defensive players records,

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Speaker 2: and it's a scenario where damn, they should have listened

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Speaker 2: to Jmac, they should have traded TJ.

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Speaker 3: Then they would have at least had something.

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Speaker 2: So now you're like, oh, instead of trading, what what

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Speaker 2: you're looking at is, oh, we are we went ten

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Speaker 2: and six, we made the playoffs, but guess what, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter because.

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Speaker 3: We got smoked by Houston. We're not getting back. We

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Speaker 3: might lose our coach, we might lose our quarterback.

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Speaker 2: And you instantly are just like, was that worth it?

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Speaker 3: The thrill ride?

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Speaker 2: Whereas, and this is gonna sound selfish, my Jets were

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Speaker 2: a dumpster fire, were irrelevant for October, November, December. But

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Speaker 2: we're sitting pretty with the number two pick. Not that

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Speaker 2: pretty because there is no quarterback to go too. Since

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Speaker 2: it sounds like Dante Moore may not come out. He

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Speaker 2: didn't do anything against Indiana or Texas Tech to make

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Speaker 2: me think he's ready.

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Speaker 3: And you look at like the other picks.

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Speaker 2: The Jets have and you're like, oh, they have like

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Speaker 3: What do we got?

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Speaker 2: I will admit I was one of these guys who

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Speaker 2: say the most interesting name I heard, and I didn't

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be me, Dan Campbell. Okay.

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Speaker 2: I'm seeing three everywhere. Huh interesting This divisional weekend hopefully

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Speaker 3: It's again really early.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to fire anything. I don't see a

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Speaker 2: I saw this from Josina Anderson. So the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 3: You got to figure out what to do, no kiddle.

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Speaker 2: And you basically have Tuesday, Wednesday, you know, to start

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to argue, okay, first quarter.

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Speaker 2: I would like to bet Buffalo, but like Denver, it's

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Speaker 3: It's so funny.

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Speaker 2: So like ten minutes ago, I said I'm seeing three,

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Speaker 3: Three and a half's.

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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams and company. Unbelievable unbelievable luck. I would lean

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Speaker 2: The College Football Natty is next Monday.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm not worried about that now.

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Speaker 2: For Hey, wait a minute, he played Texas Tech awful.

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Speaker 2: He was terrible against Indiana. You get dged for that.

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Speaker 2: That's what will happen. I'm starting to get warm on

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Speaker 2: It looks like he has decided it's LSU for him.

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Speaker 2: then again, people see something in Julian saying I don't

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Speaker 2: see it the quarterback position. Obviously, it's so fascinating. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: So those are the four playoff games we got one

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Speaker 2: college football only, Well, let's see one to four. If

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Speaker 2: I say seven eight football games left in the season

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Speaker 2: NFL in college eight, that's it. Start making summer plans.

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Speaker 3: People see you tomorrow.