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Speaker 1: Welcome to Between the Horns, presented by your Southern California

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Speaker 1: toilet dealers. Kimerner went alongside JV. Long and DeMarco far

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams picking up the big win over

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions as they get set for a massive

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football showdown with the Seattle Seahawks Division on

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Speaker 1: the line, potentially the conference on the line. Guys, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't get much bigger and much better than this. Are

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Speaker 1: we just gonna revel in this moment for.

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Speaker 2: A little bit. Yeah, I mean, I hope it gets

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Speaker 2: a little bit bigger and better. But I mean this is, like,

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Speaker 2: like you said, the most important two weeks of this

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Speaker 2: football season. You got through one versus Detroit that just

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Speaker 2: refused to go away, and you got another one in

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Speaker 2: Seattle with a team that feels the same way. They

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Speaker 2: think that this is their year. So this is tough.

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Speaker 2: But I like what the Rams keep saying about themselves.

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Speaker 2: They are built for this and they are playing some

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Speaker 2: of their best ball on both sides right now, so

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Speaker 2: this might be the best time for the matchup. It's

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Speaker 2: a short week, but it is what it is. Gotta

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Speaker 2: come hard down the hard road.

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Speaker 3: My two favorite things in sports have become the NFL playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Just the win or go home dynamic is irreplaceable, but

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Speaker 3: very very close. One B is this time of year

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Speaker 3: where you have a couple games left on your runway

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Speaker 3: and you can game out not only your own team's path,

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Speaker 3: but you can scoreboard, watch and feel you know, those

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Speaker 3: playoff simulators in real time. This is unbelievable and DeMarco

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Speaker 3: has I have not ever been a part of really

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Speaker 3: a chase for a one seed or the opportunity to

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Speaker 3: be a one seed, and especially since we revamp this

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Speaker 3: playoff format, I can't I still can't wrap my mind

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Speaker 3: around how valuable it is to be the one seed,

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Speaker 3: Like this is a prize worth straining for. Forget the

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Speaker 3: Seahawks and what that all matters. That's just a rivalry

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Speaker 3: game onto itself that we'll talk about.

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Speaker 4: But is it real?

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Speaker 3: Is it true that if you are the one seed

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Speaker 3: you only have to win one home game to then

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Speaker 3: host the NFC Championship game? Like, even as I say

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Speaker 3: that it doesn't feel real.

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Speaker 2: It's true. First hand knowledge had of.

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Speaker 3: My follow up is you guys were both on the

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Speaker 3: field this Sunday. I'm up in the booth and I

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Speaker 3: got these noisecam Yeah, how raucous was that? And is

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Speaker 3: that not an environment and a home field advantage worth replicating?

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Speaker 2: In January, that was one of the loudest like home environments,

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Speaker 2: just football environments, that I've been in a long time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was right at the proper moments, at moments,

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Speaker 2: and it was deafening. I thought it was awesome by

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Speaker 2: you guys to lay out and let the crowd kind

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Speaker 2: of bleed in because they were doing their part. It

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Speaker 2: was great. They were up for big plays, they were

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Speaker 2: up for third downs. When the game kind of got

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Speaker 2: away from the rams, they willed them back into it.

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Speaker 2: So that environment was absolutely outstanding. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: It's only going to get louder and bigger from here

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Speaker 2: if you keep winning.

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Speaker 3: How about when Dan Campbell in a trailing position has

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Speaker 3: to burn a time out on offense.

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Speaker 5: Oh, it's amazing, and.

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Speaker 3: I emphasized in a trailing position, because if he has

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Speaker 3: that third time out, the end of that game plays

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Speaker 3: out differently. So game ball to the home crowd at

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Speaker 3: SOFI Stadium to rip away one of those timeouts before

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Speaker 3: crunch time from the opposing head.

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Speaker 2: Coach, we go absolutely game.

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Speaker 5: Ball without question.

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Speaker 1: And I will say too, I have double in ears

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Speaker 1: on game days. I legitimately heading into the third quarter

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Speaker 1: and even more so into the fourth quarter, I took

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Speaker 1: immerse myself and just soak it all in. It was

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Speaker 1: one of the best game day environments my fifth season

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Speaker 1: with the Rams, and it was top tier, maybe top

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Speaker 1: three that I've experienced. The noise level was superb, Your

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Speaker 1: call was amazing. I love that you got a chance.

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Speaker 1: Even as a fan not sitting in the stands, you

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Speaker 1: It was just a thing of beauty. And I will

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Speaker 1: also say I had some insider insight. Some of my

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Speaker 1: stage managers were actually in the tunnel just leading up

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Speaker 1: and one of the things they said is, we've never

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Speaker 1: seen this team this hyped before they were ready to go,

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Speaker 1: and we can, of course, we can dig into the performance.

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Speaker 5: In the first half.

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Speaker 1: However, that tells me a lot as we are heading

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Speaker 1: the playoff run.

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Speaker 5: But that one definitely means.

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Speaker 1: It meant a little bit more, especially just considering the context.

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Speaker 2: I love that when they always felt like a pent

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Speaker 2: up bowl just opened the door so we can get out.

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Speaker 2: And that's the way it felt. When Stafford came out

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Speaker 2: when he's feeling like that, everybody else is going with him. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's the environment you want to be in.

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Speaker 3: I'm still stuck on this. If the Rams are the

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Speaker 3: one seed, all they have to do is beat the

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Speaker 3: lowest remaining seed at Sofi Stadium to host the NFC

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Speaker 3: Championship games. That's true for the right to go play

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl in Santa Clara.

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Speaker 4: Yes, man, this is special.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot at stake here.

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Speaker 2: This in You got a lot at stake. This is

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Speaker 2: the thing you got to keep your mind when all

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Speaker 2: about your are losing theirs. It's on Seattle. But you're right,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you man, it's a luxury to go into

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Speaker 2: the post season with that week off. Now, I told

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Speaker 2: you the other side of that is when you do

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Speaker 2: match up with someone, they're guaranteed to be good, maybe

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Speaker 2: even as good as you are. That's the downside. But

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Speaker 2: you get the benefit of rest when you know and

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Speaker 2: you've got it locked up. It's not that you hit

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Speaker 2: cruise control, but you can hit cruise control and watch

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Speaker 2: everybody out go play the Hunger Games. It helps. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it really does. It's the one seed in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, it's everything if you have designs on

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Speaker 2: becoming champion.

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Speaker 3: You talked to Quintin Lake after that win Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Funny saw him right in the locker

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Speaker 2: room and first thing, hou's the arms? Great? How are

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Speaker 2: you feeling about this? Everybody's you fork right or getting

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Speaker 2: ready for Seattle? He goes, I'll see you in January. Perfect.

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Speaker 3: I mean that playoff ticket means more to him than

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Speaker 3: I think anyone else. He knows he gets to play

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Speaker 3: again this season. Now he does nowhere he doesn't know

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Speaker 3: the opponent, but like just punching that ticket, which no

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Speaker 3: one's taking for granted, but what we all thought it

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Speaker 4: Yeah, now that it's official, he has something to aim for. Man,

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Speaker 4: that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: God, that's so important.

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Speaker 3: Yes, DeVante Adams has a bad wheel, like Tyler Higbee,

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Speaker 3: not back yet, and so get this roster in its

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Speaker 3: best form to January. Maybe with an extra week off.

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Speaker 5: That's even more critical.

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Speaker 3: I mean, and you're indoors at home, that's true, Like

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Speaker 3: this could be the last bad weather game you play.

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Speaker 4: You got to go in the red at least one

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Speaker 4: more time, and it could.

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Speaker 5: Be raining in Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Let me knock on Seattle, Seattle, Seattle, Thursday, Thursday.

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Speaker 3: You've got a team that can go from down ten

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Speaker 3: to up ten like that? Can you do that at

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Speaker 3: Soldier Field in Chicago? Can you do that at lambeau

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Speaker 4: Maybe? Maybe not? You can do that in your own.

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Speaker 2: Part, definitely. You can do that here in a.

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Speaker 3: Near climate controlled environment. That can happen because of what

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Speaker 3: you're capable of offering.

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Speaker 2: Can you take us to Seattle? He's getting me.

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Speaker 3: See, it's about doubling down on the magnitude because the

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Speaker 3: loser of this game, the loser of this game in

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Speaker 3: all likelihood, is going to be a road wildcards.

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Speaker 5: Yep, without question.

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Speaker 2: You know I love that you put that out there.

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Speaker 2: I really do. And I'm sure that's being conveyed or

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Speaker 2: you probably don't even need to tell the guys, but

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Speaker 2: all you know from here, and I just remember, if

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Speaker 2: you just keep winning, great things are gonna happen, you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean. If you keep searching for your

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Speaker 2: best football game, good things will happen. This team is

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Speaker 2: very very good, possibly great. The one thing I think

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Speaker 2: outside end. So that's what I mean. I'm joking, but

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Speaker 2: I'm not. It's you got to go focus on Seattle.

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Speaker 2: That is going to be a fight to the finish.

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Speaker 2: And you know they feel the same way we do.

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Speaker 2: You know up there they feel like they've got a

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Speaker 2: shout at it too. That's the problem when you get

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Speaker 2: to this part of the season, when there's, like you said,

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Speaker 2: four or five vultures out there, all gunning for the

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Speaker 4: Did their head coach have a baby this week?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.

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Speaker 4: That's not that I'm aware of.

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Speaker 5: That's a pretty big transaction too. I loved it. The

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Speaker 5: Rams put it out this morning.

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Speaker 1: So congratulations to Sean and Ronica Christian Alexander McVay as

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Speaker 1: actually been delivered what.

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Speaker 2: It's a great nickname, sure or Aaron one or the

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Speaker 2: other Colby Colby.

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Speaker 1: Guys, Let's look a little bit to Detroit because what

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Speaker 1: we can garner from this last week and also prepare

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Speaker 1: us for Seattle. So one of the things that stood

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Speaker 1: out to me was just the amount of balance. And

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Speaker 1: we've seen it throughout the season. But we talk about

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and even the MVP campaign that he.

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Speaker 5: Has been on.

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Speaker 1: But I think what's really impressed me the most throughout

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Speaker 1: this season is he's found different evolutions and different ways

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Speaker 1: to win. And I think this last week was a

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Speaker 1: great example, and he might have to find a different

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Speaker 1: evolution even now against Seattle on this Thursday night football.

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Speaker 1: Of course, considering whether Davante's out there or not.

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Speaker 2: That's that's a good point, it really is. And uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, I just I think of how he went

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Speaker 2: because I know a hamstrings can be but there are

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Speaker 2: guys that can step up in his stead, and you

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Speaker 2: can split that up into three guys. He's got speed

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Speaker 2: to burn that sounds like two too. He's very physical

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Speaker 2: in the run game. Well that could be Jaywitz and

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Speaker 2: if you need somebody to rout you up. I'm ready

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Speaker 2: to see more of Mumfield. There's just no place to

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Speaker 2: put him in the offense because you've got two great

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Speaker 2: receivers out there. But you saw that incompletion, how athletic

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Speaker 2: he is, you see him in practice, you know there's

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Speaker 2: there's more there. So there are guys that can step up.

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Speaker 2: And like you said, with innovation and growing the offense,

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Speaker 2: I look at it more as people and and who's

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Speaker 2: doing it. Kobe Parkinson is on a whole new level,

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Speaker 2: completely different guy from last year. He's an absolute weapon

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Speaker 2: in this in this offense, it's it's a weapon that

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Speaker 2: you have to game plan for. It's not something that oh,

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Speaker 2: But I'm just saying Detroit in.

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Speaker 4: The opening level with a cheat code.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to earn it. Yeah, you're gonna have to.

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Speaker 2: They're good, period, and they go to a different level

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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to match that energy. I don't think

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Speaker 2: That's just how it looked, and that's just the complexion

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Speaker 3: You know that Colby can set a single season Rams

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Speaker 5: He's six right now. Yeah, six since Week ten.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely love watching. I would hate to play against

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Speaker 2: like it's not just a passing game. As a defense,

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Speaker 2: If not, the Rams are really good at running at

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Speaker 3: Except McDonald and the Seahawks don't play by those rules.

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Speaker 2: This is true. When you can get after people with

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Speaker 3: It's a much more difficult matchup When you talk about

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Speaker 3: Like they really trust the apprentice, like Canate Momfield, I'm

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Speaker 3: telling you, is one to watch. Everyone in this building

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Speaker 3: know how that plays. Because you've been the most improved

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Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, it's not just been Davonte here.

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Speaker 3: We've seen Pooka in the mix now, and Colby Parkinson

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Speaker 3: Seattle's not going to give you that. But I do

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Speaker 3: think as a one week replacement value for a Davonte

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Speaker 4: This time of year.

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Speaker 2: I totally agree, totally, one percent agree. I think running

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Speaker 2: game by Lander Barci. Puka's gonna get it at some point,

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Speaker 2: But these running backs and the way they're doing it,

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Speaker 2: There's no labels anymore, there's no starter, They're the same.

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Speaker 3: Even if I'm seeing him from like two hundred yards away, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's like if it's bright yellow cleats, okay, that's Kiren,

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Speaker 3: same thing. What happened to that? I can't even tell

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Speaker 2: I'm so mad. I did not know this that Sonic

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Speaker 2: and Knuckles were somebody you guys were talking about Detroit's

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Speaker 2: what I mean, They're the same. They're little rolling balls

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Speaker 2: of books. But either way, just moving the ball up

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Speaker 2: As a defense, you have no choice but to commit

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Speaker 2: what Stafford is waiting on. As soon as he see

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Speaker 3: The explosives are definitely worth highlighting and celebrating because it

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Speaker 3: fact that both Kyen and Blake are doing that is

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Speaker 4: You get six.

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Speaker 3: Because if you give this quarterback and this staff offensively

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Speaker 4: Four, you're dead.

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Speaker 2: It's over.

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Speaker 3: It's over. But Seattle didn't give that up. Go look

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Speaker 3: That wasn't happening.

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Speaker 2: That's respect.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it is one other area. You guys talked about explosives,

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Speaker 1: I went back and looked at some of Puka's numbers,

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Speaker 5: A career high one eighty one.

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Speaker 1: And I know we can gush over Puka Dikua time

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Speaker 4: Let's spend five to ten minutes talking about poo. He

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Speaker 3: Why is why is he not the consensus offensive player

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Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigba, Well.

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Speaker 4: Let's change that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say we can do that Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: That's the only problem that when you when you look

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Speaker 2: And this is funny. We talked about or you and

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Speaker 3: On a short week to a ground twelve or fourteen times.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Yes, I would take that.

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Speaker 4: Pounds bigger than the one last week for Detroit.

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Speaker 2: This is true.

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Speaker 4: So it's a different animal.

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Speaker 2: This is true. Yeah, even more is a big, big fella.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, like I said, with guys like him

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Speaker 3: Are you old enough to remember three trips ago to

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Speaker 3: Come on, I saw have backspasms just watching them.

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Speaker 4: How did he do that? How did he go down

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Speaker 2: No idea what I'm glad he did. Yes.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if the conditions are going to allow

441
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Speaker 3: for this to be a two two out well game.

442
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Speaker 3: But what I love about the twenty twenty five Rams

443
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Speaker 3: is the two.

444
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Speaker 4: Two outwell story.

445
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

446
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Speaker 3: Like I get people who are upset because you wrote

447
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Speaker 3: them a nice check, but like when you wrote them

448
00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,840
Speaker 3: a nice check, you didn't have DeVante Adams yet, you

449
00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,480
Speaker 3: didn't have Kanate Momfield yet, Like those steps came later.

450
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Speaker 3: If anyone saw three tight end packages coming when they

451
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Speaker 3: signed two too out, well, let me know.

452
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Speaker 4: So that's a letter.

453
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Speaker 3: Like the fact that they've been one of, if not

454
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Speaker 3: the best offenses in the league and too Too only

455
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Speaker 3: has a handful of catches. Maybe that's you know, you

456
00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,440
Speaker 3: don't love the cap management or whatever, but who cares

457
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Speaker 3: about that in December? Like that is a healthy sign.

458
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Speaker 3: And if Davante misses a snap or a game or

459
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Speaker 3: a month whatever, it is thank goodness to tow out

460
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Speaker 3: well is fresh and ready to go.

461
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, maybe that's this week is the

462
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Speaker 1: reason we have two two in a sense, and I want.

463
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Speaker 3: That for two two, But I also want it to

464
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Speaker 3: be raining so hard that two two is just parked

465
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Speaker 3: in the garage. Yeah, and this is a you know,

466
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Speaker 3: three yards and a splashy cloud of dust type of game.

467
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Speaker 1: You know, we've given out a lot of flowers already

468
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Speaker 1: on this show, But I feel like we need to

469
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Speaker 1: also look to the defensive side of the ball. Because

470
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Speaker 1: the second half adjustments was superb. I will also question

471
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Speaker 1: the fact that we stopped the run in the first half.

472
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Speaker 1: It felt as if it was mission accomplished. And maybe

473
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Speaker 1: my question is did it actually set up the perfect

474
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Speaker 1: adjustment coming out of the second half. Some might look

475
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Speaker 1: at it and go, oh man, our defense little wavering

476
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Speaker 1: in the first, but I'm not sure that was necessarily

477
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Speaker 1: the case.

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Speaker 2: Uh okay, maybe not you. Maybe you remember the old

479
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Speaker 2: days with the TVs and the antennas and when you

480
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Speaker 2: got the blurry screen.

481
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Speaker 5: Bunny ears, come on now.

482
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Speaker 2: Bunny ears. Sometimes all it took was a little and

483
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Speaker 2: everything starts to work again. That's your adjustment. The calls

484
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Speaker 2: didn't change, You just played them better. You played them

485
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Speaker 2: more discipline. If they ask you to do X, Y

486
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 2: and Z, don't gamble, you know what I mean? Because

487
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,399
Speaker 2: every receiver, especially from here on out, is lethal everybody.

488
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,960
Speaker 2: So if you're gambling, if you're trying to be a star,

489
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Speaker 2: or if you're not getting enough pressure, which is another thing,

490
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Speaker 2: you've got to turn that up. And I'm so glad,

491
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Speaker 2: and I don't want to say proud, but the effort

492
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Speaker 2: that Kobe Turner put in towards the end of that

493
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Speaker 2: game to take it up a notch. When you know,

494
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Speaker 2: we said this on the air, that was vintage Jared Goff.

495
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Speaker 3: That was an interior pressure game and there was none

496
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Speaker 3: of it for one half.

497
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Speaker 2: If you didn't start to knock him around, he was

498
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Speaker 2: gonna fullay you and not stop. So those two guys

499
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Speaker 2: are Kobe Turner Braden Fisk bringing it up the gut

500
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Speaker 2: and then the edge starting to come around. That changed

501
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Speaker 2: the game in the passing game. But you have to

502
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Speaker 2: generate more pressure. I think we know what this defense

503
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Speaker 2: is and how it's gonna tru Did we talk a

504
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Speaker 2: lot about the front. The front has got to lead

505
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Speaker 2: this football team. Stopping the rum is great. You have

506
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Speaker 2: to earn the right to rush a passer, and when

507
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Speaker 2: you do, you've got to take advantage of it.

508
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember being in the family living room

509
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Speaker 3: and turning the dial from channel two to like channel

510
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Speaker 3: thirty six. Ye, how long you had to wait for

511
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 3: the antenna up on the roof to make that? I

512
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 3: need the Rams adjustments to be faster than the intent

513
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Speaker 3: on the roof.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough?

515
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Speaker 4: Does that make sense?

516
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Speaker 2: Fair enough?

517
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Speaker 3: I know our listeners and our watchers have been on us,

518
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Speaker 3: and I think rightly so for many, many weeks about this.

519
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Speaker 3: Something's changed, something's different. It's not the way it used

520
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:39,879
Speaker 3: to be at the end of last year. On the

521
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Speaker 3: front end of this season, just the organic four man

522
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Speaker 3: win now pressures, they've not been there. And I know

523
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Speaker 3: that everyone's been rightly concerned about do the Rams have

524
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Speaker 3: enough in the secondary to be a championship defense? And

525
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Speaker 3: for a half against Detroit it it'd be a hard

526
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Speaker 3: time to make the case that the answer to.

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Speaker 2: That was yes.

528
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Speaker 3: But if you want to protect your corners, Jared Goff

529
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Speaker 3: needs to be uncomfortable. And if you want to protect

530
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Speaker 3: your corners, Sam Darnald needs to feel what he felt

531
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Speaker 3: the last time three times he played the Rams Thursday

532
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Speaker 3: Night Football with the Vikings wild Card with the Vikings.

533
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Speaker 3: At so far with the Seahawks, it's been a minute.

534
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Speaker 3: It's been a minute since he or any other quarterback

535
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Speaker 3: has felt that way. And I Detroit's got a great

536
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Speaker 3: offensive line, especially tackles.

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Speaker 4: Right that pair of tackles, they're good. That's as good

538
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Speaker 4: as you'll see tim of the cap.

539
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Speaker 2: They're very good. Lot of them.

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Speaker 3: Seattle and healthy, pretty good at tackle too. If you

541
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Speaker 3: got to do extra things to generate that pressure, you

542
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Speaker 3: could be in trouble.

543
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Speaker 2: You can, especially against Jared Goff and even against Donald,

544
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Speaker 2: against anybody. And I'm right there with you. The way

545
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Speaker 2: Jared Verst ended the football game, I have to point

546
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Speaker 2: this out. This was on the fourth and five the PI,

547
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Speaker 2: the Emmanuel Forbes call, which is still driving me crazy. Rough,

548
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 2: still driving me crazy. But just go back and watch

549
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 2: what Jared Verse does to Decker on that play. Absolutely

550
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 2: bull rush picks him up, drops him on Jared Goff.

551
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 2: Jared Goff bounced off a helmet his hand on that play.

552
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Speaker 2: That is vintage Verse. Now start the game that way,

553
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 2: you know what I mean that that right there up

554
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Speaker 2: in Seattle against Sam Donald will bring out the bad

555
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Speaker 2: Sam Donald early.

556
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Speaker 1: Well, And that's what I was just about to transition

557
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Speaker 1: and pivot to because with Sam Donald, we know it's

558
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Speaker 1: been round well, we'll call this round three. We'll think

559
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Speaker 1: back to Minnesota, because fine, not it's a little more fun.

560
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Speaker 1: How much of a different competition could this be in

561
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Speaker 1: round three? Just considering Sam Donald, they've been off to

562
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Speaker 1: some slow starts. How can we take advantage of what

563
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Speaker 1: we've seen from them in even recent weeks.

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Speaker 2: I'm arguing with him about the do theory. I'm a

565
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Speaker 2: big fan of the do theory, Like if you're playing

566
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Speaker 2: bad against certain opponents, at some point, you're due for

567
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Speaker 2: a good one. So that's three in a row against

568
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Speaker 2: Sam Donald. There was a time when he came through

569
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Speaker 2: here when he played for the Jets, that he looked

570
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Speaker 2: like a Pro Bowl quarterback, even better and all pro.

571
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Speaker 2: I still think that guy exists, and human nature says,

572
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Speaker 2: you're gonna get tired of getting your butt kicked by

573
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Speaker 2: the same guy, or maybe you're not. We'll see. So

574
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Speaker 2: I'm expecting the great guy until you can take it

575
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Speaker 2: out of him. If you do and he starts throwing

576
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Speaker 2: it to you. Then, albeit, but I'm expecting him to

577
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 2: take this down to the wire just like we saw

578
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Speaker 2: in Detroit or versus Detroit.

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Speaker 3: First of all, I think Sam Donald is one of

580
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Speaker 3: the most likable, like easiest to root for opponents in

581
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Speaker 3: the sport. So like, I don't I don't want to

582
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Speaker 3: be sitting here bad mouthing Sam Donald. Like, go ask

583
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Speaker 3: a Seahawks fan, how are you feeling about your quarterback

584
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Speaker 3: right now? How does it feel to have a championship

585
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 3: team and the most turnover prone quarterback in the league

586
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 3: getting set to host the team that's given him the

587
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 3: most fits since since he last played the Rams five touchdowns,

588
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 3: five picks, eight sax, three fumbles. Now they've won four

589
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 3: of those games. They've beaten all four opponents not named

590
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Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Rams. But if you think it's comfortable

591
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Speaker 3: right now at Lumenfield in Seattle, having just defeated the

592
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Speaker 3: Colts without scoring a touchdown, you make.

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Speaker 1: A great point because there are some differences right with Seattle.

594
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Speaker 1: They have had those lower offenses. They've won four straight

595
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Speaker 1: Rams three and one in that time period. There was

596
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Speaker 1: no two to the last time we played them, Like

597
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Speaker 1: you mentioned, potentially no Adams or Lake. You also think

598
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: about the difference for them they returned their starting center

599
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: as of last week, as well as a different look

600
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Speaker 1: for our special teams. You think back to the last

601
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Speaker 1: time we faced Seattle and that could be one of

602
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Speaker 1: the biggest difference makers for Los Angeles Rams facing them

603
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Speaker 1: for the second time this year.

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Speaker 2: That guy scares me. What was that field goal here

605
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Speaker 2: that he missed?

606
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Speaker 4: Sixty one?

607
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Speaker 1: Sixty one and he made a fifty yarder to win

608
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Speaker 1: over the Colts.

609
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Speaker 2: Sixty one yards used to be like a miracle. No way,

610
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Speaker 2: he had done it. Start the celebrate, had done it

611
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Speaker 2: at so far that's that's wow. He's such a well,

612
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Speaker 2: yes he is currently the league.

613
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he just had six field goals. I think he's

614
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Speaker 1: got one hundred and fifty three points leading.

615
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Speaker 5: The league right now.

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Speaker 2: I would never let go of a strong leg kicker

617
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Speaker 2: because of that right there, especially if he's accurate and

618
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Speaker 2: he's like you said, he's a guy that no matter

619
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Speaker 2: where you line up from, he's scary. So don't let

620
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: it come down to that. But the other side, the

621
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Speaker 2: kicking game from the Rams, when's the last time we

622
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 2: spent five minutes on it. Maybe since the three techniques

623
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Speaker 2: showed up, Jake mcquaide showed up, that whole battery has

624
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 2: gotten better, and now you're focused on what you should

625
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 2: be focused on, offense, defense win in football games.

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Speaker 1: See, I would argue, I'm like, go ahead, Jason Myers,

627
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 1: score as many field goals as you want, as long

628
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Speaker 1: as you're not kicking pats.

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Speaker 3: I think that's right. I think the team kicking threes

630
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 3: on Thursday is probably going to lose. And I mean

631
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 3: to go back to the defensive conversation for a second.

632
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 3: They rose the occasion, they made plays, and I think

633
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 3: at times we've seen be it Forbes, be it d Will,

634
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 3: be it Akella Witherspoon, like we've seen flashes of what

635
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 3: it's going to take to get to the super Bowl.

636
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 3: But when Akell is a healthy scratch pregame and you're

637
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Speaker 3: pulling your punting team off the field on fourth and

638
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 3: eight to go for it early in that game like that,

639
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 3: that kind of tells you the state of affairs.

640
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 2: Now.

641
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 3: That may have been unique to that matchup and the

642
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 3: firepower of Detroit, but that's the dynamic we're living in

643
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 3: right now.

644
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Speaker 2: But didn't you like that because it was obvious what

645
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 2: was necessary and there was no doubt. On the other side,

646
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Speaker 2: some other coaches might have punted it back to Jared

647
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 2: Goff and been down two scores, three scorers before you realize, oh,

648
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 2: now I have to turn it up. He realized early

649
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 2: what type of game this was totally, I mean immediately

650
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Speaker 2: that was awesome at least.

651
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Speaker 3: Yes, And because you know we're playing Cooper Cup this week,

652
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 3: we used to, you know, have fun on air. When

653
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 3: it's third down for the Rams, it's third down and

654
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 3: Cup now it's puka. And when it's fourth down for

655
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 3: the Rams, it's fourth down in Puka because you get

656
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 3: the ball to that dude, I don't care if it's

657
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 3: fourth and two, fourth and five, fourth and eight.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna find a way, no doubt, yes, sir.

659
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 3: And so again, I don't know what the conditions are

660
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 3: going to be, the weather in this defense, completely different animal.

661
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 3: I don't think you need to go out planning for

662
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: this to be a shootout like we were against the

663
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 3: Detroit Lions. But to Cameron's question about you know, is

664
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 3: three going to be enough? Like I think it all

665
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 3: stitches together. No, you need sevens.

666
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: See, and I think in regards to the rain too.

667
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: As much as that Carolina loss was painful, maybe that

668
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: was the best preparation in terms of whether and getting

669
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: accustomed to it that you could have heading into Seattle.

670
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 3: So to go back to that Carolina game, But as

671
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 3: frustrating as it was to have Goff fallane you, as

672
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 3: I think you described earlier the show, at least it

673
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 3: happened quickly.

674
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 2: True.

675
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 3: Where the Rams historically get into deep waters is when

676
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 3: they're getting squeezed, when the other team is sitting on

677
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: the football, the game's getting short, they're not getting.

678
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 2: Their play opportunities.

679
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 3: And that's what Carolina did to them. That's what the

680
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 3: forty nine ers, when they've had success against the Rams,

681
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 3: have done to them. Do I love the amen ros

682
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 3: Saint Brown like weaving through your defense for fifty plus?

683
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 2: No?

684
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 3: Do I love Aiden Hutchinson, you know, picking off Stafford,

685
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 3: and well I did love him getting hawked down by.

686
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: Man.

687
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 3: But if you're going to make those mistakes, at least

688
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 3: it wasn't death by a thousand paper cuts. It was

689
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 3: one play touchdown, get it back in the hands of

690
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 3: Stafford and go do damage and go keep up right,

691
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 3: like just just play the tennis match as it is,

692
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 3: and I think this matters Thursday because right now Seattle

693
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 3: is not running the ball well enough to play the

694
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 3: Carolina style. Maybe they will on Thursday. I know it's

695
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 3: a focal point for them. But I jotted down their

696
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 3: first nine runs against Indy three yards first, so they're

697
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 3: coming out of the gate. Here's your design run game.

698
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 3: They net three yards, Like, that's just one example of

699
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 3: where they are relative where the rams are right now.

700
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 3: And so if this becomes an imposure, will battle the

701
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 3: elements a gritty type of game.

702
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 5: Who do you like.

703
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 2: Sonic and Knuckles are version of Sonic and Knuckles. Yeah,

704
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 2: I'm stealing that. I'm taking that back.

705
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, guys, Before we get to the our keys to Victor,

706
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: I feel like we just need to give a brief

707
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: overview of the playoff picture. And I actually Jory hirsh Our,

708
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: lovely producer, joked with me this week saying, JB, you

709
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: have probably been looking at the playoff picture since week.

710
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 5: Three and designing it.

711
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: So I've been scratching it out on cards for the

712
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: last two straight weeks, figuring out exactly where we're going

713
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: to be. But just in terms of some of the

714
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: schedules and who we might face off remaining schedules. What

715
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: are you looking to in terms of the playoff picture.

716
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 3: Well, you know what's great about being the one is

717
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 3: you don't have to play the playoff simulator game.

718
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 5: That is also true.

719
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 4: It's a fun exercise, makes the math easy.

720
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 3: Yes, But when you know that your three wins away

721
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 3: from being the one, you don't need a plug in

722
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 3: any other results.

723
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 5: That's fair.

724
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: But when you look around too, you think about Seattle's

725
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: remaining path. They have us, they have Carolina, who, by

726
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: the way, is in a must win position. They face

727
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: the box this week it or excuse me, next week? Yeah,

728
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: this week and then week eighteen. They have San Francisco,

729
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: San Francisco to close out. You look at a few

730
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: of the others too, one of the hardest pass the Bears.

731
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: They've got Green Bay, San Francisco, Detroit. There's a few

732
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: that need all three to really get to that twelve

733
00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: wins spot.

734
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 5: It's kind of a tough path, no doubt.

735
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 4: Man, How does that Micah injury huge?

736
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he made that defense special, He really did.

737
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 2: He's a math changer. That's a big injury for them.

738
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 3: You know, I kind of changed my tune on that

739
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 3: whole Chicago thing. I thought for a while their previous matchup,

740
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I know the Bears have the

741
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: better record, but Green Bay's probably the opponent that you

742
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 3: fear more. So you know, root for Caleb and the

743
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 3: Bears now because they are ten and four, and because

744
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 3: of the Mica thing, I think I'm back on the Okay,

745
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 3: let green Bay give you a little.

746
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 4: Bit of margin.

747
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 3: Here's the other dimension that I haven't mentioned yet, which

748
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 3: is Green Bay or sorry, Chicago.

749
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 4: Still has San Francisco.

750
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 3: Yes, so not that anyone could be more motivated in

751
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 3: professional football. I want to respect what Sundays are in

752
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 3: the league, but I want the most desperate, motivated Chicago

753
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 3: Bears team possible. Yeah, to be going to Santa Clara

754
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 3: in week seventeen. So if they're coming off, you know,

755
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 3: a loss against Green Bay, I think that'll be the reality.

756
00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 5: Yep.

757
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: And for San Francisco, they've got Indy, they've got Grandfather

758
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: Rivers and then the Bears in Seattle.

759
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: Wow, he's a grandfather, Dang.

760
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 5: I know. That's so cool though, what a story that is.

761
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: Schil is a beautiful story and a great press conference

762
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: by him.

763
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 5: Wow, keys to victory, Fellas DeMarco. I'll start with you, Oh.

764
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: My god, defense, I guess start start the game the

765
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 2: way you finished it versus Detroit, and just keep doing

766
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 2: what you're doing stopping the run. I just love the

767
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: interior depth. We've been saying that all year, the way

768
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 2: you're playing box getting off blocks. Nate Lanman has played terrific,

769
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 2: and not just in the passing game, in the run game.

770
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned Omar Space earlier. He's been an

771
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 2: absolute hammer. Now it doesn't show up in accountable stats,

772
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 2: but you've got to take on blocks with the proper

773
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 2: shoulder to send the ball where you need it to

774
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 2: go into your help. And he hasn't really missed a

775
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 2: beat there. Uh So start there. The one thing that

776
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 2: you could rev up is pass rush. When you do

777
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 2: earn the right to rush the pastor and get after him,

778
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 2: don't waste your reps. The worst thing in the world

779
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: is when you waste reps and give them data. When

780
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 2: you come off with something clean and it's there, but

781
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 2: the ball gets out or they pick up a first down.

782
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 2: Now they've seen it. Now they've talked about it, and

783
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 2: it kind of negates your advantage. So when you do

784
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 2: have ops to get off the field, you gotta get off,

785
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 2: especially against Sam Donald. If you do and you keep

786
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 2: turning this back over to the Matthew Stafford in this run game,

787
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: you have a chance to control it up there and

788
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 2: take the crowd out. Take the crowd out of the game,

789
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: and I think that's most important.

790
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 3: All Right, you didn't take yourself there, So I'm going

791
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 3: to take you to them because I know you well enough.

792
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 3: Anyone remember who was the most vocal in their support

793
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,959
Speaker 3: of Sam Darnald after his four giveaway game.

794
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 2: That's so fun. Oh yeah, they're a middle linebacker.

795
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 4: Ernest Jones.

796
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 2: Ernest Jones, Yes, So.

797
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 3: I mean we talked about Colby going back to the

798
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 3: Pacific Northwest Puna Ford. I mean, my goodness, Warmer Seahawk,

799
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 3: this is a huge matchup for him to kind of

800
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 3: bend this game back on Sam Donald. But the green

801
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 3: dot linebacker battle, not just in terms of this game,

802
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 3: but who's getting postseason accolades DeMarco.

803
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 2: Far down to the wire. Like you said, there's an

804
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 2: inside backer battle, there's a receiver battle, and there's a

805
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 2: lot at stake for both teams. But that in particular,

806
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 2: is going to be fun. That is going to be

807
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 2: a play made on every single drive by those two guys.

808
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 2: May the best man win.

809
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 3: And we talk about two guys maybe most likely to

810
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 3: generate an extra possession.

811
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, he has five picks. Nate Landman has done

812
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: the Landman punch. You know, it's about time for another one.

813
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 2: That would be a game changer. Like you said, diet

814
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 2: touchdowns aren't gonna work. That's field goals. Getting the ball

815
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 2: out certainly will. That will change everything. Diet touchdowns.

816
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so good.

817
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 5: And to your point too, JB. That that type of competition.

818
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: I always think back I was a volleyball player and

819
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: you do outside versus outside like best on best and

820
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: for whoever got the starting role, and it was.

821
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 5: Like practice week of competition.

822
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: Like as an athlete, those are the type of competitions

823
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: that you live and die for.

824
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 5: Like that gives me goosebumps.

825
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: It's gonna be incredible to watch some of these supreme

826
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: athletes go ahead to head.

827
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: Okay, one more thing before we go. I believe I

828
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 2: one hundred percent believe this. I think some guys are

829
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: happier not playing in games like this and still being

830
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 2: great play. I really do. Some guys are just they're

831
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 2: happier being great on teams that aren't going anywhere because

832
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 2: all they have to do is play well and say

833
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 2: look at me. It takes special group of people, a

834
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 2: really good team, a great team, or a potential great

835
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 2: one that wants to be in environments like this because

836
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 2: everybody's watching and there's a lot at stake, you know

837
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like there's think about it. If you

838
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,479
Speaker 2: come up on the losing end of this.

839
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 5: Bad there's more to lose when there's more at.

840
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 2: Stake, Exactly. Some people don't.

841
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 5: Rise to the challenge. And I think we got them all.

842
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 2: I think we do. I think, And it starts with

843
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: the starts from the top, the coaching staff down. We

844
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 2: mentioned that earlier. I think they they're ready for this

845
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 2: because they've planned for it, if that makes any sense.

846
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: They're not shot by going up to Seattle and having

847
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 2: this on the line. This ain't a fun story like

848
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 2: the Bears. Oh wow, look at Caleb Williams. He's actually

849
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 2: don't know. They planned for this. They planned to be

850
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 2: in environments like this. So I think you've got enough

851
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 2: of those guys on this football team that you can

852
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 2: take it up and do battle with anybody, so they're

853
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 2: not going to blink. Now, you just have to go

854
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 2: up there and play well. I think that's the most

855
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 2: important thing.

856
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 3: I think this is the second of second of three

857
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 3: meetings between the Seahawks and the Rams this year.

858
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 2: I I agree.

859
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 3: I think this one de terms where that third game

860
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 3: is going to be played.

861
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

862
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 3: But I think we're going to see this again in January.

863
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 2: Don't you got a feeling?

864
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 4: Yeah?

865
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 3: I want to circle back to something we kind of

866
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 3: left on the shelf recapping the win over Seattle earlier

867
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 3: this season, which was the Rams didn't get to a

868
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 3: lot of their stuff, Like it wasn't a productive day offensively,

869
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 3: and credit the Seahawks for everything they did because they're

870
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 3: beautifully built to thwart what the Rams love to do.

871
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 3: But because of those four takeaways, it was a lot

872
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 3: of like short field specialty situation stuff. And I would

873
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 3: like to think that what was a month ago, some

874
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 3: of the preferred plays, some of the preferred answers to

875
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 3: the looks that the Rams have are still dry powder

876
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 3: for this game. Is there any truth to that potential

877
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 3: dynamic that like there's a corner or multiple corners of

878
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 3: the play sheet that Lafleur and they.

879
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 4: Had that they just didn't get to.

880
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 2: I would bet that you're right. I do know. When

881
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 2: you turn the ball over and the fields are shorter

882
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 2: than you think and you're playing scramble ball, there's only

883
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 2: so many things you can call. But if you're able

884
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 2: to start your game plan, yeah, everything's gonna look different

885
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 2: and you have answers.

886
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 3: Offensively, only twelve first downs, not even two hundred and

887
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,720
Speaker 3: fifty yards, only twenty two minutes of possession.

888
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 4: In a game that you won.

889
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, right, So that's kind of the exception that

890
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 3: proves the rule. But I would like to think that

891
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 3: there's still a good corner of the game plan that

892
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 3: plays well.

893
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 4: This week.

894
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 3: I think you got to call out Rashida shaheat and

895
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 3: the difference he makes both in terms of the offense

896
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 3: and if you've watched what he's done on special teams.

897
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 3: He is an X factor that matters, I think in

898
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 3: this game, in addition to all their star personnel on defense.

899
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 2: So yeah, I put a body on him, yes, sir, put.

900
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 4: A body on them.

901
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 2: Yes.

902
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: I will give you my key to victory, which is

903
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 1: I would love to see the Rams score a touchdown

904
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: on the first drive. And I say this because Seattle

905
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: has not allowed a touchdown on the first drive in

906
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: thirteen consecutive games. So I would love to see the

907
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: Rams just punch him in the mouth to get things started,

908
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: and then I'll go back. I want to see Jason

909
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: Myers kicking some field goals. Kick six, I don't care,

910
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 1: go for it. Get those numbers past one fifty three.

911
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: That's fine by me, as long as he's not kicking pats.

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00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: Any final thoughts before we get out of here.

913
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 2: Let's get it. It's gonna be fun, Yes, sir, the

914
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 2: first down here you go win, first down, win, first down, win,

915
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: first down.

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Speaker 1: I will let you guys know it's been wonderful to

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Speaker 1: have you here with between the horns presented by your

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00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: Southern California Dealers for JV.

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00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 5: Long DeMarco far I'm Cameron.

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00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 1: Irwin, and I cannot wait to see the new member

921
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: on special teams, Christian Alexander. I think maybe a little

922
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: extra roster appearance we can away for Thursday night football.

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Speaker 5: Be sure to be loud and cheering from wherever you are.

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Speaker 1: M hm.