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Speaker 1: week fourteen and it feels to me like December is

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Speaker 3: Tracy, I think I'm back you.

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Speaker 2: Are back there, you are there.

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Speaker 1: I already told everybody why I'm stressed about the Vikings

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Speaker 1: Commander's game tomorrow, so that's good news, and everybody knows, well.

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Speaker 4: Hey, listen, I'm stressed. I've just I felt I felt

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Speaker 4: older and older this entire week because I need to talk.

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Speaker 4: I need to talk about something with you, Tracy.

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Speaker 2: Please.

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Speaker 3: I was at a club last night.

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Speaker 2: I did see that, and I had a lot of questions.

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Speaker 4: For the first time and I don't know how long,

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Speaker 4: and listen, in my twenties, was I a stranger to

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Speaker 4: a club to a fun time to at two am?

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Speaker 4: I was not, but it has been a very long

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Speaker 4: time sinside step Foot. But a very dear friend of

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Speaker 4: mine and actually of the show's Adam Amine, was djaying

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Speaker 4: last night. So being the good friend that I was,

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Speaker 4: I was like, well, let me let me go see

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Speaker 4: you know, let me go see my friend. Let me

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Speaker 4: go support my friend in some of his endeavors, and

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Speaker 4: you know, Terrace.

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Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun. But things are different now.

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Speaker 4: Things are so different from when you and I were

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Speaker 4: frequenting these establishments. One thing, the girls were wearing jeans,

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Speaker 4: not just jeans, but like baggy jeans.

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Speaker 2: I feel like we wouldn't have been allowed in in

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Speaker 2: baggy jeans.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was saying.

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Speaker 4: I was like looking around and like, to be fair,

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Speaker 4: the dress spanned the gamut.

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Speaker 5: Okay, but I mean there were guys in quarter zips

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Speaker 5: and jeans, and listen, I get their quarter zips are

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Speaker 5: all the rage at this point with gen z, which

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Speaker 4: I'm like, they never went out. Everybody's been wearing quarter zips.

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Speaker 4: They've just been in the financial districts of major cities

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Speaker 4: or a Manning or Eli Manning combined with like a

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Speaker 4: Like the guys were even wearing that, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: Like the shoes are comfortable and practical. I mean, there

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Speaker 4: But I'm also like, I did not traverse snow in

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Speaker 4: six inch six inch stilettos with a skirt that I

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Speaker 4: had no business wearing and a sock bun and looking

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Speaker 4: to like pay. I guess we've paved the way for

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Speaker 3: You're you are.

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Speaker 2: Very much your two things right now.

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Speaker 1: You're like in my day we went to the club

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Speaker 1: you're also that TikTok that in your twenties you will

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Speaker 1: go to a club in stilettos.

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Speaker 2: It's important you go to that club.

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Speaker 4: You go to that club, and you pave the way

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Speaker 4: for these kids to now just get to waltz in

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Speaker 4: It was actually a great time and we were home

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Speaker 4: just I don't know. I don't know whether to be

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Speaker 1: And I'm proud. I think I'm going to say I'm proud.

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Speaker 1: But I watched your stories and I was like, where

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Speaker 1: And then I did see your story you mentioned the jeans,

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad you brought it up because I was

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Speaker 1: thinking it was like we weren't allowed to wear jeans.

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Speaker 3: There weren't allowed war jeans. I mean it was like

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Speaker 4: We were at a table, we get the sparklers come

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Speaker 4: camera caught me going like, oh my gosh, thank you

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Speaker 4: girls like the elder millennial.

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Speaker 3: I am.

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Speaker 4: It's so embarrassing. It was all so embarrassing. But the

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Speaker 4: music was great. And you know what hasn't changed trace

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Speaker 4: is the music. It is the same music that we

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Speaker 2: It is better.

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Speaker 1: And you know what's funny, I've noticed that I've been

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Speaker 4: It's our club music, or it's like sampled from our

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Speaker 3: And then like with a current.

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Speaker 4: Artist, but even like I went to an Arizona State

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Speaker 4: you would be catering to the current student body, right,

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Speaker 4: and they were playing all the same stuff that they

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Speaker 4: Wow, And so I'm like, okay, no, this is like objectively,

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Speaker 4: I'm forced to deduce that our music from like twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty sixteen was like that's the ultimate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and even before because when I was I was

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Speaker 1: mister Bright's Side the end of the third third quarter,

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Speaker 1: going to get mister Brightside, but we did. I was like,

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Speaker 1: this is wig old, and I looked up how it started.

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Speaker 2: There's no real clear answer.

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Speaker 3: It's just that that was like the biggest song at

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Speaker 1: Well, I know it didn't start till like twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: so it just kind of started. Because you're right, our

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Speaker 1: one hundred and six, but I'm just gonna go ahead

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Speaker 4: It gives me an appreciation for like these coaches that

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Speaker 4: have to go into these like NFL locker rooms with

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Speaker 4: I have to connect with them and get them all

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Speaker 4: motivated and this, that the other and pretend to understand

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Speaker 4: the quarter zip trend with the macho latte and the

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Speaker 4: wired headphones. Because you know who's the poster child for

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Speaker 3: And that's how I'm going to bring this all full circle.

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Speaker 2: Love love how you did that.

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Speaker 4: The epitome of the gen z man is currently Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 4: and it's clearly working. And you know what's a really

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Speaker 4: good way to get everybody on like riled up in

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Speaker 4: the locker room. Take a listen to what Ben Johnson

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Speaker 4: never mind, I don't know that we have the sound,

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Speaker 4: but essentially what happened was they the local hawk dog

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Speaker 4: given away free hot dogs. Okay, so that they do

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Speaker 4: it again. If Ben Johnson did this one thing and

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Speaker 4: it was taking off his shirt, and it went away

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Speaker 4: for a couple of weeks, and we like, we all right,

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Speaker 4: We're like, all right, Ben's not gonna do it, Ben's

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Speaker 4: not gonna do it.

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Speaker 3: Whatever.

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Speaker 4: Well, then this Friday after the game, I think we

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Speaker 4: have it now this is what happened in the locker room.

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Speaker 7: I know you guys are hungry for more, right, let

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Speaker 7: me tell you something.

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Speaker 8: The city of Chicago is hungry too.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to run through a brick walk like they're down.

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Speaker 4: That's how That's how you connect with your kids, man,

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Speaker 4: That's how you connect with your players, and that's how

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Speaker 4: you connect with the entire city of Chicago. Vibes are

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Speaker 4: so high in this city of Tracy. I mean you

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Speaker 4: could hear it in that like just how incredibly these

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Speaker 4: guys have responded to Ben Johnson's coaching and it's now

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Speaker 4: resulted in the Bears being the number one seed in

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Speaker 4: start today, the Chicago Bears would get the buy.

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Speaker 1: It's it's actually pretty amazing, especially when you think of

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Speaker 1: how the season started as like, wow, it's a big

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Speaker 1: difference between the offensive coordinator and the head coach, which

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Speaker 1: it is, but Ben Johnson has risen to the occasion.

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Speaker 1: He's got these guys on fleeue. They don't have to

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Speaker 1: have a vibes bunny in their locker room like these

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Speaker 1: We're gonna.

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Speaker 3: Get to that.

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Speaker 4: So we're gonna get to that, because you want to

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Speaker 4: know how I know things.

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Speaker 3: Are going really.

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Speaker 4: You bring in a vibes bunny no, and and that,

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Speaker 4: Like there's the word culture is is thrown around so

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Speaker 4: incredibly much, and it certainly was to when Ben Johnson

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Speaker 3: The locker room was just it was not a.

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Speaker 4: Fun place to be as someone who went in and

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Speaker 4: out of that locker room in the Eberflus era, players

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Speaker 4: and and no one was on the same page. And

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Speaker 4: I cannot stress to you the stark differences, not only

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Speaker 4: obviously you're seeing it on the field now, but this

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Speaker 4: it started in training camp, and it started before like

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Speaker 4: all while the season, and I was preaching like patience, man,

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Speaker 4: I was like, listen, Rome wasn't built in today. Like

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Speaker 4: you gotta give him time. You got to give Ben

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Speaker 4: Johnson some grace, you know, when he took over his

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Speaker 4: offensive coordinator Detroit, for instance, they went one in six

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Speaker 4: to start the season. I was fully envisioning something like

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Speaker 4: that because making the jump from offensive coordinator to head

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Speaker 4: needing to be essentially overhauled.

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is going to take a while.

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Speaker 3: It hasn't. It hasn't. The Bears are nine and three.

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Speaker 4: They've only lost three times, and two of those losses

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Speaker 4: were the first two weeks of the season.

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Speaker 2: That is true.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and now thinking Rome wasn't built in a day,

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Speaker 4: And the crazy part is that Ben Jonson said at

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Speaker 3: Think they're going to beat the forty nine ers because I.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the one. I think they lose that game.

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Speaker 3: That would be I mean, that would solidify them. That

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Speaker 4: Keyword there, keywords be nice. It's the holiday season.

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Speaker 2: It is the holiday season.

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Speaker 4: But the Lions did win in convincing fashion that game,

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Speaker 3: And you traded your best.

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Speaker 4: Defensive player in Michael Parsons, and I realize that that

445
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Speaker 4: has now turned into guys like Quinn Williams and like

446
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Speaker 4: the defense seem to have been able to figure some

447
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Speaker 4: stuff out. But I can't think you would have been

448
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Speaker 4: this behind the eight ball if you'd have just held

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Speaker 4: on to Micah Parsons and paid him.

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Speaker 1: And it's almost like a it's kind of a microcosm

451
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Speaker 1: of the Cowboys generally, right, So yes, Michaeh Parsons would

452
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Speaker 1: have made a huge difference, But that is how the

453
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Speaker 1: organization is being run and the move's being made. That

454
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Speaker 1: is a direct you see what I'm saying. It's like

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Speaker 1: a micro cosmo the whole thing. And so I agree

456
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Speaker 1: with you, and I don't know that that's going to

457
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Speaker 1: change because he's going to be the owner, so that

458
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Speaker 1: it's just unfortunate because it feels like I agree with you.

459
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Speaker 1: I've always been a DAK defender and it does feel

460
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Speaker 1: like it's being wasted.

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Speaker 2: But it's like the Cowboys every year. It's interesting.

462
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys are a team that I feel like every

463
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Speaker 1: year you expect to be good, and every year see

464
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Speaker 1: them on a schedule, it's like, oh, that's going to

465
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Speaker 1: be such a good game with the Cowboys. Why they

466
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Speaker 1: haven't been good in years and it's just been a

467
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Speaker 1: hot mess and it's just not going to change.

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Speaker 4: I'm so torn, specifically with Dak because I've been a

469
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Speaker 4: Dak defender for a long time at this point, but

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Speaker 4: also this last contract he willingly signed back up for this, Yes, well,

471
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Speaker 4: at what point do I need to kind of you

472
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Speaker 4: need to share in some of this blame. You need

473
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Speaker 4: to be held accountable because you could have gone anywhere

474
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Speaker 4: the previous contract that had expired, Like, you could have

475
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Speaker 4: gone anywhere and gotten that many had Dak had all

476
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Speaker 4: the leverage, he could have gone anywhere, and he chose

477
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Speaker 4: to go back into this circus and continue to be.

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Speaker 3: In the mix with all of that.

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Speaker 4: So I'm it's not that I'm cooling on my defensive

480
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Speaker 4: Dak because again, he's been playing out of his mind

481
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Speaker 4: this season, and I do feel badly for him, But

482
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Speaker 4: at the same time, I'm like, this is what you

483
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Speaker 4: signed up for. You signed up to be the quarterback

484
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Speaker 4: of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones' Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Specifically, Sometimes toxic relationships are the most comfortable. There you go,

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Speaker 1: there's my deep thought of the day. Nikes, Sorry, Dak.

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Speaker 4: All right, well and on that noe Le's gonna see

488
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Speaker 4: what's happened in the world.

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Speaker 3: Of college football. Speaking of toxic is speaking of toxic

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Speaker 3: with mart Wise.

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Speaker 9: All right, let's see hear s SEC Championship scoreless right now,

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Speaker 9: nine minutes, fifteen seconds left in the first quarter, third

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Speaker 9: ranked at Georgia and ninth ranked Alabama going out of

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Speaker 9: Georgia's eleven and one Alabama ten and two.

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Speaker 7: College Football Playoff seating on the line. That was the

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Speaker 7: case this morning as well as.

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Speaker 9: The Big Ten Championship game was underway or early afternoon

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Speaker 9: for most of the country. Eleventh Ranks BYU started seven nothing,

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Speaker 9: all Red Raiders. After that Texas Tech thirty four to seven,

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Speaker 9: the winner, Texas Tech likely securying a buy in the

501
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Speaker 9: upcoming college football playoff. The win also likely making sure

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Speaker 9: that the Big twelve is a one. Big Leagues BYU

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Speaker 9: will fall out of the Top twelve and Kylee's basketball.

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Speaker 9: Tenth ranked Iowa State beat Purdue eighty one to fifty eight.

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Speaker 9: Is the worst home loss ever for a number one seed,

506
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Speaker 9: number one ranked team. I should say fourth rank Duke

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Speaker 9: beat six ranked I'm sorry beat Michigan State sixty six

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Speaker 9: to sixty six rank Louisville with a eighty five to

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Speaker 9: seventy eight meat over twenty seconds rank Indiana with twenty

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Speaker 9: two seconds left, twenty twenty seven seconds left. And in

511
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Speaker 9: the NFL, the Chargers running back on Marion Hampton's expected

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Speaker 9: to return on Monday Night football.

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Speaker 7: He's been out since.

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Speaker 9: Earliest season with ankle injuries and Chargers French courts the

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Speaker 9: running combining the doll out of the backfield.

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Speaker 7: He was a practice squad calla ladies back to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Martin. I know that you know.

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Speaker 4: Michigan not really factoring in today is a bummer, Tracy.

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Speaker 3: It's rubber for you.

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Speaker 1: Kind of weird getting dressed today and not having not

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Speaker 1: having Michigan to wear. I mean I have stuff to wear,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't wear it, so it was just a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Feels a little empty today. I'll get over it,

524
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Speaker 1: but it does feel little empty.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm bringing on someone to commiserate with you because

526
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Speaker 4: we have from HSN covers the Chicago Bears.

527
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Speaker 3: She does all Chicago sports. In fact, she does the Bulls.

528
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Speaker 4: You can catch her on the Big Pro Football Show

529
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Speaker 4: on CHSN with David Haw and Clay Harbor. This is

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Speaker 4: Michigan grad one of my best friends, Ruthie Polenski.

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Speaker 6: Hi, ruth Hi, guys go blue, Tracy, right, I mean

532
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Speaker 6: not our year. Things are tough out here for us

533
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Speaker 6: Michigan grads today. But the future.

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Speaker 1: If the future the basketball team and the hockey team.

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Speaker 1: We are we are now a basketball and hockey school

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Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future.

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Speaker 2: Yes, very much, let's go, and don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't wonder why I always end up annoyed with

539
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Speaker 4: yell Michiganians. But we're all spoiled, you know, always been up.

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm personally, I'm actually very I want. I want

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Speaker 4: Indiana to take care of business.

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Speaker 10: To night.

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Speaker 2: We are all who's We're.

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Speaker 3: All who's today?

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Speaker 4: Well, Ruthie, there's another part of your job and your

546
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Speaker 4: life that's going really really well right now. Because the

547
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Speaker 4: vibes in Chicago could not really be higher heading into

548
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Speaker 4: what is their biggest game. So far, the Chicago Bear

549
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Speaker 4: is playing the Green Bay Packers for the first time

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Speaker 4: this season, the first time of two times in the

551
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Speaker 4: next fourteen days. What have you like, like, what's the vibe?

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Speaker 4: Just that you're seeing Ruthie as someone who you know

553
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Speaker 4: covers this team, is very entrenched with this team, but

554
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Speaker 4: also like, are you on board with the entire rivalry,

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Speaker 4: Like how much are you immersed in that after not

556
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Speaker 4: really growing up in it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's so fascinating. First of all, I think the

558
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Speaker 6: city is on fire right now. And I remember when

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Speaker 6: I moved here a couple of years ago, and everyone said,

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Speaker 6: you know, just wait till the Bears are good, Just

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Speaker 6: wait till the Bears are good, Like the city is

562
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Speaker 6: going to explode, And so I think that's sort of

563
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Speaker 6: definitely the vibe. But there's sort of this cautious optimism.

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Speaker 6: I get the sense from Bears fans, like just from

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Speaker 6: being around the city and I have a ton of

566
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Speaker 6: family here, and I just think that people are still

567
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Speaker 6: a little nervous, which I find fascinating because you're coming

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Speaker 6: off of a win over the defending Super Bowl champs,

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Speaker 6: and I know these aren't the Eagles of last year,

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Speaker 6: but They're a good football team, and they have really

571
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Speaker 6: good players, and the Bears held their own shorthanded and

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Speaker 6: they're going to be even stronger going up to Green

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Speaker 6: Bay tomorrow. So I think that's where I'm the most surprised,

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Speaker 6: is just that people are excited. You can feel the

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Speaker 6: excitement in the city while also people being like, Okay,

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Speaker 6: let's just wait and see, like there's still a lot

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Speaker 6: of football left, like they could still miss the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: And I just sort of that's been the surprising thing.

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Speaker 6: With that being said, Carmen, you asked about the rivalry,

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Speaker 6: I think what's been so fought about this year in particular.

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Speaker 6: Of course, the Bears being good makes the rivalry so special.

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Speaker 6: But this Matt Lafleur Ben Johnson beef that has been

583
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Speaker 6: brewing over the last what is it now, you know,

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Speaker 6: eight months or so since Ben Johnson said that in

585
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Speaker 6: his introductory press conference, that is so delicious to me.

586
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Speaker 6: I am just eating it up and I love that.

587
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Speaker 6: I think Bears fans should find some comfort in the

588
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Speaker 6: fact that it was a topic of conversation for the

589
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Speaker 6: Green Bay Packers this week. And I think the Bears

590
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Speaker 6: have moved on because they can you know it was

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Speaker 6: their coach that said it, and they're locked in and

592
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Speaker 6: they're just trying to go one to know this week,

593
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Speaker 6: whereas it feels like in Green Bay the drama is

594
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Speaker 6: at an all time high. So I think that's a

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Speaker 6: good thing for the Bears going into tomorrow, who just

596
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Speaker 6: feel like they have a job to do. Obviously this

597
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Speaker 6: is their biggest rival, but for them it's every week.

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Speaker 6: It's such a big week, whereas Green Bay this made

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Speaker 6: feel a little bit more emotional to them.

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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson's obviously made a huge difference for the Bears.

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Speaker 1: Do you think there's any one player who's benefited from

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Speaker 1: it more than Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, this has been sort of a match made in heaven.

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Speaker 6: I think there were a lot of questions coming out

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Speaker 6: of last year about what Caleb Williams, what his feeling

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Speaker 6: could be with a coaching staff, would he be able

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Speaker 6: to take coaching in a certain way, what it had

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Speaker 6: his work ethic looked like. Those were all things that

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Speaker 6: got brought up last year coming out of a really

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Speaker 6: horrific season for a rookie quarterback. And I think what

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Speaker 6: we've seen this year is that these two are surviving

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Speaker 6: off of each other and guys, it's interesting because I

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Speaker 6: covered the Miami Dolphins when Brian Flores was there with

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Speaker 6: his rookie season and Mike McDaniel came in and sort

615
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Speaker 6: of revitalized a quarterback and made him, you know, the

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Speaker 6: quarterback that we saw that led the league in passing

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Speaker 6: last year, and so I think there was Obviously we

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Speaker 6: won't talk about the Miami Dolphins this year, but I

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Speaker 6: will say that I think there are a lot of

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Speaker 6: similarities where I just feel like there was a connection

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Speaker 6: between the two of them very early on. I think

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Speaker 6: Ben Johnson has is so brilliant, and I think he's

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Speaker 6: able to sort of create his offense to fit the

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Speaker 6: skill sets of his players in a way that people

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Speaker 6: in Chicago haven't really seen before. And I think that's

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Speaker 6: really what's been so exciting is that the two of

627
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Speaker 6: them are working very well on the field. And what

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Speaker 6: I'll say about them off the field is that the

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Speaker 6: messaging from the head coach to the quarterback has been

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Speaker 6: so consistent. And that's really I think when you see

631
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Speaker 6: really turning itself over on its head. And I know

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Speaker 6: the word culture can be a little you know, cheesy

633
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Speaker 6: or corny, whatever it may mean, but there is a

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Speaker 6: very strong sense of like consistency and just really everyone

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Speaker 6: speaking the same language in that building, and I think

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Speaker 6: that's the first signe of a team building towards more success.

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Speaker 4: Ruthie, It's so interesting because I think we're seeing now

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Speaker 4: more than ever, whether it is Caleb Williams, whether it's

639
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Speaker 4: Drake May in New England, or like, the culture and

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Speaker 4: the environment that these young quarterbacks come into matters just

641
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Speaker 4: a tremendous amount.

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Speaker 3: And you really have to.

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Speaker 4: Carefully pair everything about this the coach and who he's

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Speaker 4: bringing in his staff. And where I'm going with this

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Speaker 4: is because it's not only Ben Johnson that is shifting

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Speaker 4: things on his own. He's got a staff that just

647
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 4: compliments each other within itself. You look at the levels

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Speaker 4: of experience where you have Dennis Allen, former head coach,

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Speaker 4: as a defensive coordinator, you have an up and coming

650
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Speaker 4: young offensive mind in Declan Doyle like learning under Ben Johnson.

651
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Speaker 4: But then at the position level you have Eric the

652
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Speaker 4: Enemy at running backs, you have Al Harris with defensive

653
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Speaker 4: backs like you have so much leadership at every single level.

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Speaker 4: How intentional has that been for like this organization to

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Speaker 4: really put these players in a good environment by the staff.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, and Kram and I do I want to say

657
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Speaker 6: before I answer that question, like we talk about the

658
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Speaker 6: Ben Johnson Caleb Williams connection, which I think is deserves

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Speaker 6: a ton of praise, but obviously it hasn't been perfect

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Speaker 6: for Caleb Williams on the field. We know the completion

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Speaker 6: percentage is not where it.

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Speaker 12: Needs to be.

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Speaker 6: But the fact that this team is able to win

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Speaker 6: while Caleb Williams is learning, I think it's really best

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Speaker 6: case scenario, and that I think you give Ben Jonson

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Speaker 6: a ton of credit for finding ways to win, overhauling

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Speaker 6: that offensive line, getting a dominant run game put together,

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Speaker 6: and just being able to score points move the football.

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Speaker 6: And then to tie this into your question, Carmen, hire

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Speaker 6: someone like a Dennis Allen who can literally Ben Johnson

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Speaker 6: can lock him in the defense in a room and say,

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Speaker 6: you guys handle the defense so that I can be

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Speaker 6: my genius self when it comes to the offense and

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Speaker 6: we'll be on the same page when it comes to

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Speaker 6: what we want the message to be and how we

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Speaker 6: want to convey. You know, this opponent each and every week.

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Speaker 6: But Dennis Allen to hire someone of his caliber and

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Speaker 6: with his level of experien and someone who has been

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Speaker 6: a head coach before knows what it takes to be

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Speaker 6: a head coach. That I think has been probably Ben

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Speaker 6: Jonson's biggest asset this year to be able to have

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Speaker 6: someone like Dennis Allen who you can trust to just

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Speaker 6: go figure it out each and every week. Not to

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Speaker 6: mention all of the injuries that the Bears have had

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Speaker 6: to deal with on the defensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 6: Dennis Allen has just I mean, I don't know if

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Speaker 6: this guy has gotten enough credit, and we talk about

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Speaker 6: him all the time. It's it's just been absolutely spectacular

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Speaker 6: what he's been able to do with a lot of

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Speaker 6: the guys that have been called up to fill a

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Speaker 6: lot of roles. Obviously, I'm the Nashon Wright story is incredible.

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Speaker 6: Who is just named defensive player of the Month led

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Speaker 6: the league in takeaway is for the month of November.

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Speaker 6: He is absolutely lights out and I think he's making

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Speaker 6: one point one million dollars this year. Like, you have

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Speaker 6: two cornerbacks who are two of the highest paid at

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Speaker 6: their position on this defense who haven't been out there,

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Speaker 6: and these guys just keep stepping up and making plays

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Speaker 6: for each other on my nineties. Excuse my car for

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Speaker 6: speaking out there, but I will say I will say, yeah,

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Speaker 6: this coaching stuff, I think has been another reason why

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Speaker 6: I think Ben Johnson should be the leader in the

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Speaker 6: clubhouse when you talk about coach of the year. And

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Speaker 6: obviously I know Mike Rabel's in that conversation, but Mike

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Speaker 6: Vrabel is winning a lot of games because he has

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Speaker 6: an MVP candidate on his team, like Ben Johnson's finding

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Speaker 6: ways to do this without a superstar quarterback just yet right,

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Speaker 6: Like we can see where Caleb's trajectory may be. But

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Speaker 6: I think with Ben Johnson and the staff he's put together,

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Speaker 6: the way he's finding ways to win, it's just been

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Speaker 6: the best story in the NFL if you ask me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's going to call it's going to culminate.

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Speaker 4: A lot of this is going to culminate, I think

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Speaker 4: on this stage against the Packers and especially down the Strites.

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Speaker 3: Ruthie, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 4: I really appreciate you taking time out of your Saturday,

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Speaker 4: and we'll talk to you very very soon.

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Speaker 6: Thanks again, thanks for having me, ladies, appreciate you all.

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Speaker 4: Right, coming up, we're going to do the dues and

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Speaker 4: the don'ts of the week. You're listening to Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 4: I don't care if it's corporate mandata. I'm really happy

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Speaker 4: that there's Christmas music happening in my years right now.

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Speaker 4: What about you, Tracy Sandler?

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Speaker 1: I love it so you can't see me, but I

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Speaker 1: am dancing, and I think Bo and Chris could confirm that.

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Speaker 2: But I am fully dancing.

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Speaker 4: I watched off last night. This is Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 4: I'm carbon batally. I just told that was Tracy Sandler.

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Speaker 4: We are having a holly jolly Christmas season, December holiday season,

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Speaker 4: and we're having a holly jolly NFL season.

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Speaker 1: Some some hollier I was gonna say some hollier and

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Speaker 1: jollier than others.

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Speaker 4: And that's going to tie perfectly into the dues and

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Speaker 4: the don'ts of the week.

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Speaker 8: Spotlight on the don't.

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Speaker 2: The subject brings me no joy.

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Speaker 3: That's insane.

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Speaker 8: It's time for the dues and the don'ts in sports, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, Terray, I'm gonna start, and it's not necessarily a

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Speaker 4: do or don't, it's a knot, so you're not fooling me.

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles, because our good friend Ashton Sullivan covers the

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Speaker 4: Eagles for local Philadelphia News. She tweeted out a picture

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Speaker 4: of a gigantic And when I mean gigantic, I mean

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Speaker 4: like this thing. There's a guy standing next to him

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Speaker 4: and he comes up to his shoulder. So what like

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Speaker 4: if that guy's like five eight, that bunny is like

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Speaker 4: twice as big as him. So like a gigantic is

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Speaker 4: inflatable easter bunny.

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Speaker 3: It's not just like a bunny.

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Speaker 4: It says happy Easter on it, which, like I said,

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Speaker 4: you know, we're having a holly, jolly, festive holiday season,

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Speaker 4: but like that's not the holiday.

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Speaker 2: No, that's not the holiday.

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Speaker 4: And I can't help but think that, like, Okay, you

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Speaker 4: know what you like in this too. Tracy is like

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00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 4: when couples that you know are like not stable and

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Speaker 4: they are on social media posting each other and like

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Speaker 4: how much they love each other, and they're going into

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Speaker 4: like way too much detail and they're like showing all

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Speaker 4: of these things that they're doing together and they're talking

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Speaker 4: about what everything they love about each other, and it's like,

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Speaker 4: you know what, the more you tell me how much

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Speaker 4: you love this person, the more I think you.

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Speaker 2: Hate them a whole hundred.

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Speaker 4: And that's like what I feel like this positivity rabbit.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, it's not a ViBe's bunny, it's a positivity rabbit.

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Speaker 4: It showed up in the Eagles locker room today and

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Speaker 4: Ashland says the offensive line stressed to her that they

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Speaker 4: are not sad, they just wanted a good ViBe's bunny.

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Speaker 3: So again, I'm.

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Speaker 4: Back to my relationship analogy. The more you tell me

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Speaker 4: you're not sad, the more I think you're actually really,

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Speaker 4: really sad.

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Speaker 2: You know what the.

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Speaker 1: First sign is that you're sad is when you have

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Speaker 1: to bring in a positivity bunny. What you have to

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Speaker 1: say you're not sad exactly. This is my positivity bunny.

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Speaker 1: But just so you know, I'm not sad. I just

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Speaker 1: need a positivity.

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Speaker 2: Bunny VI bunny. I wanted to, but he goes who

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Speaker 2: among us does not want to vibe?

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Speaker 3: I like it.

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Speaker 4: And the more I'm looking at this and the more

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Speaker 4: I think about it, I'm just like, if you didn't

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Speaker 4: want to like tip.

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Speaker 3: People off or like be weird about it, Like why

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Speaker 3: didn't you just decorate the locker room.

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Speaker 4: For Christmas or something, or Hanukkah or any of the

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Speaker 4: major holidays around this time of year, like just decorate

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Speaker 4: the like no one would have even they were like,

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Speaker 4: oh yeah, people are like getting into the holiday sperience.

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00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,280
Speaker 4: But instead you like, there's like this twenty foot bunny,

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Speaker 4: easter bunny in the middle of the Eagles locker room.

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Speaker 1: And for those of you who have never been in

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Speaker 1: an NFL locker room, they're not that big. They're not

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Speaker 1: that big, So that bunny is taking up a lot

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Speaker 1: of real estate.

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Speaker 4: On top of the offensive line that Ashlton talked to,

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Speaker 4: I mean, like, just picture a room that's really not

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Speaker 4: that incredibly big with a bunch of lockers, a bunch

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Speaker 4: of stuff, and a bunch of three hundred pound men,

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Speaker 4: and then you're gonna put a twenty foot bunnies.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I have to do a quick doome because I promised

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Speaker 1: somebody on social that I was because they mentioned that

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Speaker 1: we talked about the cowboys and didn't bring this up,

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Speaker 1: and it is one of my does George Pickens, why.

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Speaker 2: Don't they not we ran out after Richard Sherman.

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Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna do that, Like, let's I mean,

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Speaker 1: why don't you be an adult?

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Speaker 2: Why don't you acknowledge that maybe it.

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Speaker 1: Was your best game or I'm sure you tried your hardest,

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Speaker 1: But going after Richard Sherman and saying he's nothing without

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Speaker 1: the legion of doom a boom, Sorry.

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Speaker 2: I have to do war boom.

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Speaker 4: I am that who they were playing doom to them?

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so like, let's not do that, because you're just

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Speaker 1: adding gasoline to the fire.

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Speaker 4: I listen, I know, receivers are receivers. And I'm happy

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Speaker 4: that the Cowboys added George Pickens because they needed something

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Speaker 4: on the other side of ceedee lamb to take some

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Speaker 4: of that attention away. But like, not this much attention,

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Speaker 4: and this is not the attention we were talking about.

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Speaker 3: George.

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Speaker 2: No e.

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Speaker 3: Everybody has bad games.

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Speaker 4: We don't need to go after a potential Hall of

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Speaker 4: Famer in Richard Sherman too, you know whatever for things

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Speaker 4: that he said as a commentator. Anyway, got much more

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Speaker 4: show to go, so stick with us. You're listening to

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Speaker 4: Fox Football Saturday. Welcome into Fox Football Saturday, Championship Saturday,

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Speaker 4: and the college football world. We have Georgia's up seven

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Speaker 4: to nothing Overbama right now. I mean, yeah, I go Hoosiers.

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Speaker 4: We're all Hoosiers today for Ohio State, Ohio State, Indiana,

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Speaker 4: Indiana hoping to cap off. You know, they're another incredible season,

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Speaker 4: but like this was this really punctuate at this time.

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Speaker 4: You know, they weren't able to do it last year,

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Speaker 4: so really hoping that that's the case. And Texas Tech

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00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 4: earlier today b b YU, which opens the door for

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Speaker 4: Notre Dame, but it also opens the door for more

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Speaker 4: Notre Dame.

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Speaker 3: Miami discourse. It's a whole it's a whole mess.

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Speaker 4: The college football playoff and no shortage of drama there either.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you wouldn't want it any other way.

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Speaker 3: No, No, I love the drum. I love I'm Marie Kondo.

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Speaker 3: I love mess.

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Speaker 4: And I mean the NFL has been particularly messy this

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Speaker 4: season too. I mean we've been talking about it all year,

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Speaker 4: all season long, about how parody is at an all

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Speaker 4: time high. I mean, no one has a clinched playoff

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Speaker 4: spot at this point in the season, and like the

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Speaker 4: way that there's so much like volatility right now with

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Speaker 4: how the last five weeks.

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Speaker 3: Of the season are going to go.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, like I think the Bears are a

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Speaker 4: really good example of that, where like they are nine

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Speaker 4: and three they have the one seed in the NFC

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Speaker 4: this late in the season, there's snow on the there's

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Speaker 4: snow on the ground, and they're still relevant. And yet

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Speaker 4: there is still a world where they missed the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: which is but Nanas and I think one of the

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Speaker 4: things that really showcases how incredibly parody rich I guess

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Speaker 4: this season has been is the fact that the Chiefs,

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Speaker 4: of all people, are on the outside looking in right now.

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Speaker 3: Like if the.

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Speaker 4: Playoffs were to start today, the Chiefs would not make it,

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Speaker 4: and their current playoff chances sit at thirty four.

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Speaker 2: Percent, better than the Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: It is better than the Cowboys, but this is the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs we're talking about, like that the Cowboys are not

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: No, there if the Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: The Chiefs have Houston this weekend, if they win, they

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Speaker 4: their chances go up to fifty percent, which still isn't

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Speaker 4: a shoe in. If the Chiefs lose, their playoff probability

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Speaker 4: according to the NFL standings playoff picture those Dow's eleven percent.

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Speaker 4: So are we having to now potentially prepare for a

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Speaker 4: world where the Chiefs don't even get into the dance?

880
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 3: You know?

881
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 1: I go back and forth in this because on the

882
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: one hand, I feel like it's a true possibility, and

883
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: looking at their schedule, it's the Texans, the Chargers at

884
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: the Titans, Broncos at home at the Raiders. So of

885
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: those five games, only two of them feel like slam dunctions,

886
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: which there's really no such thing in the NFL, but

887
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: let's pretend for a second there is.

888
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 2: So I I don't know.

889
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: I go back and forth on this because I still

890
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: can't write them off until it's really done, because of

891
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: Mahomes and because they are the Chiefs. But they got

892
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: a tough road ahead of them. I think tomorrow, not

893
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: to put extra pressure on it, not that they care,

894
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: but not to put pressure on it. They beat the

895
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: Texans tomorrow, I think they're gonna go to the playoffs.

896
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: They lose the Texans tomorrow, They're not. That's what I'm

897
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: saying Tomorrow to me, is like they're that's.

898
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 4: A I mean, statistically, it's kind of their make or break,

899
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 4: yeah game, and not even kind of like it is.

900
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,919
Speaker 4: It's a make or break game. I mean, you don't

901
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 4: really come back from eleven percent.

902
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 8: No.

903
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 3: The only thing is, like the.

904
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 4: Playoff picture is so like again, it's just volatile because

905
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 4: you look at the Texans, who have like the best

906
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 4: playoff chances of anyone right now, that's not like one

907
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 4: of the seven seeds already like the bubble teams. Of

908
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 4: the bubble teams, the Texans have the best chances of

909
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 4: making the playoffs. They currently sit at sixty percent. If

910
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 4: they lose, it goes down to forty five percent, if

911
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 4: they win goes up to eighty two percent. But then

912
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 4: you have teams like the Steelers where their current chances

913
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 4: are thirty four percent, and if they win, it goes

914
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 4: like the variance is sixty six percent down to sixteen

915
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 4: percent or eighteen percent. So you're like, the variance is wild,

916
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 4: and it all hinges on one game, like it all

917
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 4: hinges essentially on this weekend for so many teams.

918
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 2: It really does. That's a good way to put it.

919
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: It's almost like this is the first weekend of the

920
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: playoffs in a weird way.

921
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 4: Yes, like honestly, yeah, like the stakes are that high

922
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 4: like from here on out, because there's again like it

923
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 4: can just things can change so quickly. But back to

924
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 4: like the Chiefs in particular, I've been very disinterested in

925
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 4: having this conversation about the Chiefs because I'm like, either

926
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 4: you believe in them or you don't. And if you

927
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 4: don't believe in them, then we can have the conversation.

928
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 4: But like the sentiment, the overarching sentiment that I got

929
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 4: from most people was like, now they're going to figure

930
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 4: it out. They're going to figure it out. So like,

931
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 4: if you think they're going to figure out, I'm not

932
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 4: interested in debating this. Like they're the Chiefs, they've done

933
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 4: it before, Like they haven't come back necessarily from all

934
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 4: of this. They're sitting at six and six, which is

935
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 4: like perfectly neutral, perfectly five hundred. They're third in the

936
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 4: AFC West. But you know, you can't really ever count

937
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 4: them out just because of the body of work that

938
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 4: we've seen from them over the last few years. But

939
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 4: this week in particular, leading up to this game against

940
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,760
Speaker 4: the Texans is the first time that I've been willing

941
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 4: to entertain that conversation because I'm like, I don't think

942
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 4: that I trust that they're going to figure it out anymore.

943
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 4: And now that's a really interesting thing to say. And

944
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 4: if you're not ready to say that, I think what

945
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 4: I am definitively ready to say, though, is that this

946
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 4: Super Bowl is not going to be another Chiefs Eagle

947
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 4: Super Bowl.

948
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 3: No, I think the sport's better off for it.

949
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: I agree with that, and I am of the opinion

950
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: it's actually to me less about the Chiefs figuring it

951
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: out and the fact that there just is more competition now,

952
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: especially obviously in their division, but generally, and we talked

953
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: about parody a lot, but that to me is kind

954
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: of the bigger thing. Let's assume the Chiefs aren't gonna

955
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: win out, Okay, let's just pretend that they have a

956
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: very uphill battle here, and so to me, it's kind

957
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: of less about them in some ways and more about

958
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: the fact that the Broncos are really, really really good.

959
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: The Chargers are good TBD how good still, But that

960
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: to me is the bigger issue. So that's what is

961
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: for me. It's less about them and more about the

962
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: fact that they're just they have true competition now that

963
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: they haven't had in the last several years. And I

964
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: agree with you, it is not going to be a

965
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: Chief's Eagles Super Bowl. I don't think either of those

966
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:43,879
Speaker 1: teams are going to be in the Super Bowl.

967
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, with Paroity came like the new kids

968
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 4: on the block and or like an old kid that

969
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 4: left the block for a hot second but just moved

970
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 4: back in. The New England Patriots, who while NOAK teams

971
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 4: have clinched a playoff birth, they basically have. I mean

972
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 4: their part layoff probability is over nine. So it's essentially

973
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 4: the Patriots are going to win the as East.

974
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: As I said before, the Bills have got to be

975
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: like you are kidding me, but their own fault.

976
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 2: They're not capitaliz well.

977
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 3: But I think that.

978
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 4: Speaks to like the window that the Chiefs and Bills had. Yeah,

979
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 4: and sure, I mean the Chiefs took advantage of it.

980
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 4: Let's be honest, Like they have multiple Super Bowls at

981
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 4: this time frame. They've gone to the Super Bowl. It

982
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 4: seems like every year for like my lifetime at this point.

983
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 4: But you know, I think for the Bills especially, this

984
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 4: is incredibly like frustrating in the sense that like you

985
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 4: had a window where your major competition was there. It

986
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 4: was the Chiefs, potentially the Ravens, but like the door

987
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 4: was open, and now the door is getting like the

988
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 4: doorway is getting more and more crowded because the Patriots

989
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 4: are really good, Like you mentioned, the Broncos are there,

990
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 4: the Colts have faltered a little bit, but they're still

991
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 4: in the mix. I mean, the Ravens are still in

992
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 4: the mix. And now the Bills have to pay the

993
00:47:55,480 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 4: Bengals this week, and the Bengals, like listen, their current

994
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 4: playoff chances sit at three percent.

995
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 3: But if they ran the table and they won out, there.

996
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 4: Is a significant possibility that they could in fact still

997
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 4: make the playoffs, which is wild. And I mean, like

998
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 4: the end of we didn't even get really to the NFC,

999
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 4: but like it's the same all over the league, where

1000
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 4: there is just so much can change between now and

1001
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 4: the end of the season, even though it feels like

1002
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 4: we're at the kind of the tail end of the

1003
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 4: regular season, and but like this picture is really not

1004
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 4: clear at all, and it's just it's just interesting that

1005
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 4: we're going to have to prepare for potentially a Chief

1006
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 4: Sliss postseason. But I'm very I'm happy that we are.

1007
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 4: I mean, the chances of an Eagles Chief Super Bowl

1008
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 4: again are so minuscule.

1009
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 3: Like we're going to get some new blood in there.

1010
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: You bring up the Bangals, and though there they have obviously,

1011
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: it's it's a long shot. They're a team that if

1012
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: I were a team on the bubble. I wouldn't want

1013
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: to play right now right which.

1014
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 4: Is Buffalo essentially like Buffalo technically is the seventh seed.

1015
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 3: But that's that's the last thing you can be. And

1016
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 3: you've got guys like the Texans like right on your

1017
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 3: tail there. So I just I and you're not going

1018
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 3: to win your division.

1019
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 4: The Bills aren't, like unless the Patriots lose out and

1020
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 4: you went out, in which case I still don't know

1021
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 4: if you would, But I just it's it's one of

1022
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 4: those things where I'm just like, I I think the window.

1023
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 3: Might be closed for a couple of these teams in

1024
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 3: the AFC.

1025
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 2: I think so for sure.

1026
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: The Bills, especially to me, if I were Bill saying

1027
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: it's just so, it would be so frustrating because they've

1028
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: been so close and really kind of had had no

1029
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: one to blame but themselves, and it's just it's too bad.

1030
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: It's too bad for them. But these Patriots are fun.

1031
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: I mean, to me, these are the we'll say the

1032
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: new kids on the block Patriots to.

1033
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 2: Borrow a term that you use.

1034
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: They're they're a different team obviously and in so many ways,

1035
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: and they're a fun team to root for. And I'm

1036
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: very into Drake may I think he is great. They're awesome,

1037
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: and so good for them, Drake May Rake May MVP

1038
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: potentially that's really pretty incredible.

1039
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 4: It is, especially when you consider too and I think

1040
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 4: a lot of this is and not to get too

1041
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 4: philosophical about.

1042
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 2: It, but like, please get philosophical.

1043
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 4: Well, you know, you have Mike Rabel who takes over

1044
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 4: for the new England head coaching job, a role that

1045
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 4: he's just seemingly born to play after playing for the

1046
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 4: Patriots during his playing career. But like I think a

1047
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 4: lot of you know, people think about these defensive coaches,

1048
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 4: these defensive head coaches, and they and they don't really necessarily.

1049
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 3: Trust them.

1050
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 4: I feel like with these young developing quarterbacks, and I

1051
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 4: think what Mike Rabel's doing here is saying, like, hey,

1052
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 4: I'm getting the right guys in the building to develop

1053
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 4: my quarterback. Am I developing him?

1054
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 10: No?

1055
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 3: Because I'm a defensive guy.

1056
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 4: But that doesn't mean that I don't know how to

1057
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 4: develop and create an environment with which everybody can succeed.

1058
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 4: And I think that a good, a great defense is

1059
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 4: something that helps a quarterback situation so incredibly much by

1060
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 4: giving him a large margin of error essentially because you

1061
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 4: know that if you do throw a pick, or you

1062
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 4: do lose the ball in some way, or you can't

1063
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 4: move the ball quite down the field, you have a

1064
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 4: defense that you can lean on to back you up,

1065
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 4: to get you the ball back, to mitigate the damage

1066
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 4: that you would have otherwise caused. And that's all part

1067
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 4: of creating a stable and successful environment where these these

1068
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 4: young quarterbacks can thrive. So I just I think it's

1069
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 4: a it's a huge win for defensive head coaches and

1070
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 4: and just like kind of environment in general, and speaks

1071
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 4: to Rabel's you know, chances for the Coach of the

1072
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 4: Year consideration. I think there's a couple of guys Ben Johnson, uh,

1073
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 4: Mike Frabel. Those guys I think are you know, kind

1074
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 4: of leading the pack as far as who really just

1075
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 4: has has overhauled that organ the organization between what they

1076
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 4: took over and what they have now.

1077
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: Well, we were talking about it with Ruthie in the

1078
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: last hour with Ruthie Polinsky. Ben Johnson also as put

1079
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: together a staff that he has full confidence in that

1080
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,879
Speaker 1: is developing all aspects of the team. And generally in life,

1081
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: your most successful people know what they're good at, know

1082
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: what they're not good at and surround themselves with people

1083
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,240
Speaker 1: that make up for their deficiencies. And so I think

1084
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 1: that is nowhere is that more true then with an

1085
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: NFL head coach, wouldn't it be something Well, I'll wait

1086
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: till our next segment, but I just thought of something.

1087
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: Well that very fun. Well, I think it's very fun.

1088
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:28,479
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys will think.

1089
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 7: It's fun too.

1090
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 3: But I love the tees.

1091
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little tease for you. But I don't

1092
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 2: know what the Chiefs.

1093
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 3: I mean.

1094
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: I I'm prepared for a Chiefs list postseason. I'm not

1095
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Speaker 1: saying it's for sure going to happen, but I'm prepared

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Speaker 1: for it. And I think this is the first year.

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Speaker 4: Where it's a rind Listen, the spicier, the better, the

1098
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 4: MESSI are, the better, And if it doesn't include the

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00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs, I think it makes it all the

1100
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 4: more messy.

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00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:19,680
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Speaker 4: with us. You're listening to Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Who You're gonna make me cut off? Trans Siberian Orchestra? Like,

1114
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 3: what are we doing?

1115
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 11: Sarah Havo has to end at some point. This is like, gosh,

1116
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 11: I remember downloading this on Napster labeled as labeled as

1117
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 11: Metallica Carol of the Bells, when it was neither of

1118
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:42,439
Speaker 11: those things.

1119
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 8: Are that enough to get it?

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Speaker 3: No?

1121
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 4: It was, but it's but hey, the sentiment remains the same.

1122
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 4: It is metal af yes it is, and it happens

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00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 4: to be an orchestra. I remember this like when I

1124
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 4: was a kid, just being like what is this and

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00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 4: what is this? This is Fox Football Saturday. I'm Carmen Battali.

1126
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 4: That's Tracy Sandler, our technical producer, Christoph fet providing the music. Gosh,

1127
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 4: love the holiday season. Just just adore it.

1128
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 3: I love all. I love the music. And for anybody.

1129
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 3: So I start listening to Christmas music in November. I

1130
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 3: don't care.

1131
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 4: And if you want to come for me, then start

1132
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 4: making Thanksgiving bangers because there are so many Christmas bangers.

1133
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 4: There are so many Christmas movies, Like, there's nothing about Thanksgiving.

1134
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, like I will, I will give Thanksgiving it's

1135
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 4: day and a half whatever, but I it's Christmas, It's

1136
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 4: Christmas for me.

1137
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 2: Of what a Thanksgiving banger would be.

1138
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 3: I mean, there's plenty of stuff to talk about.

1139
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 2: They're really great.

1140
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,359
Speaker 3: Food's great, family football, Like I mean, I don't know.

1141
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's the first hit. Foods Great family and football.

1142
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 3: Food's great.

1143
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 4: Uh I I want to talk about the season. We

1144
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 4: spent the whole show basically talking about the season up

1145
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 4: until this point and how much this weekend in particular

1146
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 4: means for so many different.

1147
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 3: Teams in the NFL. Mm hmm.

1148
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 4: But the ultimate goal is to make it, obviously to

1149
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 4: the super Bowl. And what this parody I think has

1150
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 4: done is just like I have, Like my my pre

1151
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 4: season pick of Bill's Packers is still in play technically,

1152
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 4: but I'll.

1153
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 3: Feel good about it.

1154
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's fair. I had picked the Rams to

1155
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 2: win it all.

1156
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 1: Like in April, I hadn't picked my AFC team, but

1157
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 1: I have had, but the.

1158
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 2: Look really good.

1159
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 1: I mean, I think both of those picks are still

1160
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: in play. I'm going to tell you what I was

1161
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,839
Speaker 1: teasing in the last segment because it seems unfair because

1162
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: we were just talking so much about you know, Mike

1163
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:58,479
Speaker 1: Rabel and Ben Johnson, and I mean, this probably isn't

1164
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 1: going to happen, but wouldn't it be something if it

1165
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: was the Patriots and the Bears.

1166
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 3: I mean, but it could happen. The poetics so crazy,

1167
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 3: no listen, happens as someone Okay, I grew up in Chicago.

1168
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 3: I live in Chicago.

1169
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 4: The way that the nineteen eighty five eighty five Bears

1170
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 4: still loom so large over this city is absolutely insane.

1171
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 4: It's borderline embarrassing considering that this was a for this

1172
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 4: is a forty year old Super Bowl, And do you

1173
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 4: know who they played.

1174
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 3: In that Super Bowl? Tracy?

1175
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 2: The New England Patriots.

1176
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 3: The New England Patriots.

1177
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean forty years later.

1178
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 4: So like it would be incredibly poetic, literally forty, Like

1179
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 4: this is the fortieth season since then, like that was

1180
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 4: the eighty five Bears. They won in nineteen They won

1181
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl that was played in nineteen eighty six.

1182
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 4: Maybe you were nineteen eighty six, so like this would

1183
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,799
Speaker 4: be the like exactly forty years later. My god, if

1184
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 4: it was to be Bears Patriot.

1185
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: I think that would be kind of amazing. I'm I'm

1186
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: very here for it.

1187
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 2: I'm alkalla to you. I'm I'm very here for it.

1188
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to happen, but as we're

1189
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: talking about it's happening, it's done.

1190
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 2: As we were talking about the parody in the league.

1191
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: That's the thing that I think is crazy right now.

1192
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: It definitely could happen. It's not a completely ridiculous thing

1193
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: to say, because I do think there are currently like

1194
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: ten to twelve teams that I think at this moment

1195
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: in time could win the Super Bowl.

1196
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 4: And like there's all these like really fun little nuggets

1197
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 4: and narratives. So like going back to my original pick

1198
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 4: of Bill's Packers, something kind of like cosmically for that

1199
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 4: match up, or at least the Packers to be there

1200
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 4: and then eventually win. Jordan Love is twenty seven, and

1201
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 4: if both of his predecessors in Green Bay won Super Bowls,

1202
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 4: in their age twenty seven season.

1203
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 2: Oh interesting, So.

1204
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers won his Super Bowl he was twenty seven,

1205
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 4: but far it did too. So there's all these like

1206
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 4: weird little parallels. Like I'm sure, like you know, Green

1207
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 4: Bay fans can probably speak to more of those parallels

1208
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 4: than I can. But like there's so many like little

1209
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 4: things where it just kind of points to like this

1210
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 4: being the.

1211
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: Season well and for them to win it at Levi's

1212
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: where they can't beat the forty nine ers in a

1213
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: playoff game.

1214
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 5: But we can't be here, but we can beat somebody

1215
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 5: else exactly, So that would also be something.

1216
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: I I think it's fun. I think it's be really

1217
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: fun playoffs. I just think it's great.

1218
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 4: Well, going back to what we were talking about too earlier,

1219
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 4: I mean, like it's it's got to be two different

1220
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 4: teams than we've been seeing lately, Like it's not going

1221
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 4: to be the Chiefs and Eagles, Like I just I

1222
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 4: want to call that shot right now, because like the

1223
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 4: the odds are not for that matchup, you know, right

1224
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 4: now as it is, the vibes aren't for that matchup.

1225
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 2: Bunny or no Bunny or no Bunny.

1226
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 3: It's not there for that. I wouldn't know.

1227
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: I bought questions about this bunny because I mean, I

1228
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: need to reach out to Ashland to get a little

1229
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: more precient.

1230
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 2: Is the bunny going to travel?

1231
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 10: Like?

1232
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 2: Is it coming to La? Do they need the bunny?

1233
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 3: How long? Yeah? How long is the bunny going to

1234
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 3: be up?

1235
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 8: Yeah?

1236
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 2: How long is it be up? I mean they might

1237
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 2: have to like does it.

1238
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 3: Get to on overnight or does it just sit there?

1239
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it has to come to

1240
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 2: La though.

1241
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: If they need the positive vibes, their positivity bunny, you

1242
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 1: can't just have the positivity bunny at home. Positivetivity bunny's

1243
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 1: got to go with you everywhere.

1244
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 3: I know. I don't like any of this so.

1245
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: Aware, but I do have questions and I will be

1246
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: reaching out to our friend Ashland to find out.

1247
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 3: So you think Rams and who is going to be

1248
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl?

1249
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 1: So I had just picked Rams, but I would say

1250
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 1: right now as it stands, I going Rams Broncos, which

1251
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: I think is also Broncos.

1252
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 2: By the way, there's another one, the Broncos.

1253
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: The last Super Bowl they won was at Levi Stadium,

1254
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: Levi Stadium, So I just think I think Rams Broncos.

1255
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: Uh is looking likely fun super Bowl too, really fun,

1256
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: So that.

1257
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 3: I trust bon Nicks enough to get them to the

1258
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 3: super Bowl right.

1259
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 2: Now, But I trust that defense.

1260
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 4: I mean I would also defense with literally anything my

1261
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 4: first Like.

1262
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 2: The last Broncos Super Bowl, who really got them there?

1263
00:59:59,120 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 2: The defense?

1264
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 4: M I mean they listen. Defense wins championships, is saying

1265
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 4: for a reason.

1266
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: I mean, Peyton Manning obviously was a big part of it,

1267
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: but it was that defense is the big reason.

1268
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 4: So yeah, I just I think that this might be

1269
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 4: a hot take. I think that the scheme is holding

1270
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 4: Bonex back a little bit.

1271
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: Oh that is a hot take that I like it.

1272
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 1: Say more, I just.

1273
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 4: I think that he's capable of slinging it a lot

1274
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 4: more than they have him doing. And I get that

1275
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 4: that's Sean Payton's system, but I just I wish they

1276
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 4: would play a little looser with him because.

1277
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 3: Of the defense that they have, you know what I mean, Like,

1278
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 3: you can afford to play a little fast and loose.

1279
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, if you're if you're the Broncos offense, because

1280
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 4: you have a defense that can make up for it

1281
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 4: should things go awry.

1282
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 3: But I so I don't know.

1283
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 4: I just I think I think that it's becoming, you know,

1284
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 4: like it before, I feel like, you know, as Bonex

1285
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 4: was developing a little bit, like putting him on the

1286
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 4: Drew Brees path was a good idea, and now I

1287
01:00:57,280 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 4: feel like the unwillingness of Sean Payton like break free

1288
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 4: from that, is holding Bonex back because I think that

1289
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 4: he's more talented than what the scheme is.

1290
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: That's how I feel about under frankly, but that's neither

1291
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: here nor there because he will not be playing in

1292
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: the super Bowl this year. But that is how I

1293
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: feel about Under It. It's it's gonna be fun, but

1294
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I trust that defense so

1295
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 1: much that we'll see. But that's an interesting take. I

1296
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 1: think that's a good I actually don't think that's a

1297
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that hot. I think it's a

1298
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:26,439
Speaker 1: lukewarm take. I think it's a correct take.

1299
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 2: So there you go. I might call in and feel differently,

1300
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 2: but I.

1301
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 4: Don't feel good about, like, am mending my take at

1302
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 4: this point of Bill's Packers, because they made that like

1303
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 4: it's it's still possible at least, you know, until the

1304
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 4: Bills don't think.

1305
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: They playoffs and feel that that be I Bill Sackers.

1306
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the thing that's so funny about

1307
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 2: the NFL.

1308
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 1: We overreact so much in September and October, and rightly

1309
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 1: so because those are the games we're seeing. But this

1310
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: is the month that matters. Next month matters. All you

1311
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: got to do is get in. That's really the key.

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Speaker 1: Once you're in, anything can happen.

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01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 3: Anything can happen.

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Speaker 4: I was part of a Bucks team that got in

1315
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 4: on a wildcard or as a wildcard Tom Brady's first

1316
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 4: time remember being a wildcard in the playoffs in fact,

1317
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 4: and they won it all.

1318
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 3: So we won it all.

1319
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 4: Got to be on a boat baride because of it,

1320
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 4: or on a boat with the defensive players during a

1321
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 4: boat braide.

1322
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan says, in the playoffs always it's not the

1323
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: better team, it's the team that plays better for three

1324
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 1: and a half hours.

1325
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Speaker 2: And that there you go.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, like the season up util that point does

1327
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 3: not matter, No, it does not. What does matter. That's

1328
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 3: what's happening in college football right now. Let's go to

1329
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Speaker 3: see what's what's up.

1330
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Speaker 9: Martin Wise, there's been all Georgia so far in the

1331
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 9: first half of the SEC Championship Game fourteen nothing Bulldogs

1332
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 9: fourth and one, Bulldogs knocking on the door right now again,

1333
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 9: but again I got said fourth and one, one minute

1334
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 9: left in the first half. They're talking about a Gunnerstock

1335
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 9: team is twelve for fifteen, two touchdowns. One of those

1336
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 9: is to I receiver Dylan bell Ty Simpsons five for

1337
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 9: twelve with an interception. It looks like George is going

1338
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 9: to punt here with one minute left in the first half.

1339
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 9: The Big Big Twelve Championship game was oh wep sug

1340
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 9: me out Georgia's offense coming back out onto the field.

1341
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 7: Keep you updated there then about midfield. The Big Twelve Championship.

1342
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Speaker 9: Game was a blow out Texas Tech one thirty four

1343
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 9: to seven eleventh thrnks BYU, likely falling out of the upcoming.

1344
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 7: College Football Playoff.

1345
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 9: Texas Tech, like LU, securing a bye in the College

1346
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 9: Football Playoff. Penn State one of the first teams to

1347
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 9: fire their coach this season. I hired in their coach recently,

1348
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 9: Matt Campbell, eight year deal for Iowa State's winningest head coach.

1349
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Speaker 7: Ever he moves, I want to be that coach.

1350
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Speaker 9: In Thedellons in college basketball men's college basketball tenth rank

1351
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 9: i Aowa State beat per Due.

1352
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,479
Speaker 7: Eighty one to fifty eight. It's the worst home loss

1353
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:42,959
Speaker 7: ever for a number one ranked team.

1354
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 9: Fourth ranked Duke beat seventh thrank to Bisco State sixty

1355
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 9: six to sixty sixth rank Louisill beats his twenty second

1356
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 9: drank Indiana eighty seven to seventy eight. And in the NFL,

1357
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 9: Chargers running back on Maryon Hampton expected to return for

1358
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 9: Monday Night football.

1359
01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 7: He has been hurt. It's about week five this season, ladies,

1360
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 7: back to you.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Martin. Did you know with the iHeart Radio app

1362
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 4: you can stream us wherever you happen to be. Catch

1363
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:07,800
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1364
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,040
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1365
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,560
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1367
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1368
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 4: the iHeart app so we'll always pop up at the

1369
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 4: top of your screen.

1370
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Speaker 3: With that, let's get to.

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01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 4: Talking a little bit more about this playoff picture, specifically

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01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 4: the AFC Playoff Picture, because we have a very special

1373
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 4: guest joining us. She is the reporter for the Los

1374
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 4: Angeles Chargers. She does a ton with the NFL and

1375
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 4: in pro spectrum la or okay, t LA, It's Hailey Ellwood.

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, how are you the great Hailey Ellwood?

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Speaker 12: Hi?

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01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 4: You like I was getting confused as to all the

1379
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 4: things that you do, Hailey, because you are absolutely everywhere.

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Speaker 3: We'll let me see it. I know.

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01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 12: I made a joke earlier we were I grabbed lunch

1382
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 12: with my parents and I was saying, I'm kind of

1383
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 12: like the movie everything everywhere, all at once, but like

1384
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 12: in the sports world. I had a one of my

1385
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 12: friends at the Rams. I also do stuff with the Lakers,

1386
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 12: as you guys know, and he texted me the other

1387
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 12: day he was at the game and he goes, is

1388
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 12: there anything you don't do in this city? And I

1389
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 12: was like, oh, surprise, Hi, I'm also here. So anyway,

1390
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 12: I'm happy to know you though.

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01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 4: Well, thanks for taking some time out on your Saturday.

1392
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 4: Incredible that we were able to catch you between everything.

1393
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 4: But we are so thankful because listen, we've been talking

1394
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 4: all show just about how insane this season has been,

1395
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 4: how dramatic it's been, how messy it's been, how we

1396
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 4: really still can't make heads or tails of teams that

1397
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 4: we trust to enter into the postseason and potentially make

1398
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. But you are Los Angeles Chargers sitting

1399
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 4: at eight and four second in the NFC West playoff

1400
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 4: probability currently it's sixty two percent and in the five

1401
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 4: seed as it stands.

1402
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 3: One are the vibes like there in El Segundo.

1403
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:51,720
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, I think it's one of those things

1404
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 12: right where this is one of those years. Yeah, messy, dramatic.

1405
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 12: It sounds like an episode of the Bachelor, but it's

1406
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 12: really not. It's literally the NFL.

1407
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 3: The greatest reality show on television.

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01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 6: That is.

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01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 12: You know, I think with the Chargers there's a lot

1410
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 12: of things going into that's going on with them, right

1411
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 12: and especially going on and happen with them in this season.

1412
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 12: And I think when you look at the AFC specifically,

1413
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 12: and I'm sure you guys talked about this, but when

1414
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 12: you look at the normal heavy hitters of the Chiefs,

1415
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:22,200
Speaker 12: the Bills, the Ravens, and how those teams have kind

1416
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 12: of faltered this year, you go, oh, shoot, this maybe

1417
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 12: is the year for some of those other teams, especially

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01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 12: in the Chief's own division, like the Broncos, like the Chargers,

1419
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 12: to make a push. And then you have the Chargers,

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01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 12: who have lost their two starting tackles, have had to

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01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 12: make up for that in other ways, have dealt with

1422
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 12: a myriad of other injuries, including we've all been on

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01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 12: hand watch the week that I'm sure we'll talk about

1424
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 12: with their quarterback. But I think you know, at this point, yeah,

1425
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 12: like you mentioned the sixty percent, I'd say they probably

1426
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:49,480
Speaker 12: have to win, you know, at least two of their

1427
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 12: last five games to get in. At eight and four,

1428
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 12: I think you might need three. You might need eleven

1429
01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:56,840
Speaker 12: wins to get in because the AFC, as you guys mentioned,

1430
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 12: is messy, and all of these teams are going to

1431
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 12: now start playing each other towards the end. But you know,

1432
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:05,040
Speaker 12: I think at this point it's it's full steam ahead, right,

1433
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 12: And that's kind of the Jim Harbaugh way, is just hey,

1434
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 12: we're blinder's on, We're focused. It's the next opponent and

1435
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 12: we'll get there. But that's not to say that this

1436
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 12: game is in coming without drama and is in coming

1437
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 12: with its own sort of set of storylines as the

1438
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Speaker 12: Chargers embark on it on Monday against the Eagles.

1439
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:24,479
Speaker 1: You said the magic words, Jim Harbaugh. But first I'm

1440
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 1: going to ask you about handwatch you brought it up

1441
01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 1: justin Herbert's fractured hand, the surgery. I mean, honestly, it

1442
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:33,840
Speaker 1: does feel like a reality to you show or even

1443
01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: scripted the will he play Monday night football against the

1444
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champs the playoffs on the line?

1445
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:42,080
Speaker 2: So, Haley, what are you hearing?

1446
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 12: Yeah? So I think in every single aspect of the

1447
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 12: situation here, you're going to see him on Monday. And

1448
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 12: it's pretty remarkable because and I did this on KTLA

1449
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 12: the other day. It's like, if someone said that you

1450
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 12: had the hand surgery on Monday, would your first thot

1451
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 12: be like, oh, let's go play a football game? Probably not,

1452
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,280
Speaker 12: But I don't get paid that kind of money, neither

1453
01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 12: of many of us do, but he does. And so

1454
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 12: I think ever the competitor, you know, I think the

1455
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 12: conversation around Herbert this week too has been you know,

1456
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 12: is he hurt or injured? Because that kind of comes

1457
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 12: into play, right, and so he has dealt with a

1458
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:18,760
Speaker 12: lot of injuries almost every season that he's been in

1459
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 12: the NFL, but he doesn't miss.

1460
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:20,679
Speaker 2: A lot of time.

1461
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:24,240
Speaker 12: That really only happened back in twenty twenty three, where

1462
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 12: he broke something on his right throwing hand had to

1463
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 12: miss some time, but it was toward the end of

1464
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,600
Speaker 12: the season. He's played through a bunch of things, and

1465
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:33,679
Speaker 12: so it's really not surprising that he would play through

1466
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 12: this as well. It looks like they have some sort

1467
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:41,360
Speaker 12: of configuration of like a cast glove almost mitten with

1468
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 12: like the kind of fingers like tips kind of taken off.

1469
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 12: At least that's what he was working on or working

1470
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:49,120
Speaker 12: with in practice this week. I saw some things when

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Speaker 12: I will say this, I was on the field on

1472
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 12: Sunday when he got hurt. When he came out of

1473
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:55,639
Speaker 12: the locker room, he had this like fanos looking bus.

1474
01:08:56,479 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 3: Did he have the club?

1475
01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 12: Because it wasn't the club, but it was. It's so

1476
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 12: big and it looks like the infinity stone that situation.

1477
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:06,320
Speaker 12: Someone online put like the Hamburger helper glove on it

1478
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 12: because it also like that too.

1479
01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 10: Because that's the.

1480
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 12: Thing, right, you think about that if you're a defensive player,

1481
01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 12: these guys clubs their hands all the time, but when

1482
01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 12: you're a quarterback, you need the dexterity, you need to

1483
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:18,800
Speaker 12: be able to grip the football. And so that's a

1484
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 12: huge conversation point going into this game. Greg Rohman said

1485
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,679
Speaker 12: yesterday he still hadn't taken snaps under center. I doubt

1486
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:27,960
Speaker 12: he will on Monday. I think everything's probably going to

1487
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:29,719
Speaker 12: be out of shotgun or out of the pistol formation.

1488
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:33,639
Speaker 12: He was limited officially every day in practice this week,

1489
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 12: and he is questionable. That is the official designation going

1490
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 12: into Monday. But I absolutely believe we will see him.

1491
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 12: Could there be some packages with Trey Lance? You know

1492
01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:44,599
Speaker 12: who knows? I mean, he's obviously a quarterback who has

1493
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 12: a lot of experience in this league. But I think

1494
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 12: Herbert's kind of the ultimate competitor, right and in every

1495
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:52,640
Speaker 12: which way he is going to be out there with

1496
01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:56,080
Speaker 12: his teammates, especially on a national stage like you mentioned

1497
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 12: on Monday Night Football, where you are the only game on.

1498
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 12: You obviously want to give your team a shot, and

1499
01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 12: we talked about it. You need these games as they

1500
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:04,639
Speaker 12: head into this final stretch.

1501
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 2: Here too, the Harbaugh isms.

1502
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 1: If he comes out of If Justin Herbert comes out

1503
01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: on Monday Night and just balls out the Harbaugh isms

1504
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 1: that we will all be treated to, They're going to

1505
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: be incredible.

1506
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 3: It's worth of pres ionition.

1507
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,080
Speaker 12: Also, I mean, what did he say over the summer

1508
01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 12: that he has the strength of ten men.

1509
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 1: Yes, and yes, he sure did. I mean it's gonna be,

1510
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:30,479
Speaker 1: It'll be. I'm rooting for it just for.

1511
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:33,400
Speaker 4: That, I mean, justin Herbert's not dispelling any of this

1512
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 4: by getting out there right after having no no.

1513
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 12: I mean, he not at all. And I think that's

1514
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 12: kind of the funny thing. I mean, literally, he ran

1515
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 12: into that locker room on Sunday, he came out with

1516
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 12: the you know, we joke the fan of Hamburger helper glove,

1517
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 12: and he was immediately, you know, taking some snaps from

1518
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 12: their backup center Andre James on the sideline and then

1519
01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:52,840
Speaker 12: I was like, all right, let's get on the horse

1520
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:55,680
Speaker 12: and go and lay the rest of the game. And

1521
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,200
Speaker 12: so that's just kind of who he is. And I

1522
01:10:58,240 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 12: think unless it is an injury that is just so severe,

1523
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:03,320
Speaker 12: like to his right hand where he couldn't you know,

1524
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 12: obviously do much with that a couple of years ago,

1525
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:07,599
Speaker 12: he's going to be out there and like to Tracy,

1526
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 12: your point with with Harbor, it's going to be yet nuts.

1527
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 12: I'm sure whatever will come out post game will be pause.

1528
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:16,280
Speaker 12: It's like late, you know, It's kind of like everyone's

1529
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:18,280
Speaker 12: kind of a little loopy at that time. You know,

1530
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 12: at that point after a game, you're sort of like

1531
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:23,040
Speaker 12: you've been through it all day. You're playing late and

1532
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:24,720
Speaker 12: I can't even imagine what's going to come out, but

1533
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:26,280
Speaker 12: I bet it would be hilarious.

1534
01:11:26,400 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 2: It'll be iconic.

1535
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,679
Speaker 4: It's also just like you have you have the quarterback

1536
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:32,800
Speaker 4: that has the audacity to go out there after just

1537
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:34,640
Speaker 4: having surgery, but you have a coach that has the

1538
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 4: audacity to play him regardless of anything. Like Jim Harbaugh

1539
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 4: is not saving quote unquote saving Justin Herbert from himself,

1540
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:44,599
Speaker 4: especially Like one of the things I found very interesting

1541
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 4: about the Chargers this year is, I mean, Harbor has

1542
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:49,760
Speaker 4: been known for his run game, the offensive line, all

1543
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff, But you guys have had a

1544
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 4: lot of injury along those that unit and what fourteen

1545
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 4: different offensive line combinations, which is like the second most

1546
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:01,720
Speaker 4: of the NFL so this season, Like it's it's kind

1547
01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 4: of a revolving door. But that doesn't seem to affect

1548
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 4: the trust that Harbaugh has in this unit, in this

1549
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,200
Speaker 4: in this offense, and certainly not the trust that he

1550
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,440
Speaker 4: has in Justin Herbert to still be able to execute.

1551
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 12: No, I think that's a great point, and I think

1552
01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 12: ultimately that also speaks to just a growth fit justin

1553
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 12: Herbert's had obviously throughout his NFL career too, that you

1554
01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 12: can get a guy back there, and you know that

1555
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 12: as long as he is back there, whether it's hunder

1556
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 12: center or out of shotgun, as long as he's back there,

1557
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 12: your chances of doing something good are going to go up.

1558
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 12: But to your point, I mean, he has been pressured

1559
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 12: a ton. I believe he is the most pressure quarterback

1560
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 12: in the NFL this year.

1561
01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 6: I believe he's the fourth.

1562
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 12: He's been sacked the fourth most times, and even last

1563
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:45,080
Speaker 12: week against the Raiders, I believe they still had three

1564
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 12: sacks on him. So even though that score was pretty lopsided,

1565
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 12: the Raiders, as we know, are not a great team

1566
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,799
Speaker 12: by any means, they still were able to get that pressure.

1567
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 12: So up against Philadelphia and all, we obviously know what's

1568
01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:58,720
Speaker 12: happened this week with Jalen Carter and him being out,

1569
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:01,720
Speaker 12: but they still got so many do and so much

1570
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 12: debt on that D line that you know, you do

1571
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 12: sort of go okay, you know this is a little

1572
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 12: sort of there's a little trepidation there, I think because

1573
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 12: also the pressure is what's interesting to me, because if

1574
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 12: you're a quarterback that's dealing with that type of injury,

1575
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 12: when you have to brace yourself on a fall or

1576
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,600
Speaker 12: something like that, could that reaggravate it. Who knows, But

1577
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:22,599
Speaker 12: you know, I think this is one of those things.

1578
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 12: I think someone said Josh Allen played through a similar

1579
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:28,680
Speaker 12: injury last year, so it's nothing that's necessarily new. But

1580
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:31,599
Speaker 12: I do also believe that if there was the threat

1581
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:33,760
Speaker 12: of him not being able to protect himself or not

1582
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 12: being able to truly have a go at it, this

1583
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:40,919
Speaker 12: wouldn't be a topic of conversation. But I think everyone's

1584
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 12: got the faith in the trust, Carmen to your point,

1585
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:46,360
Speaker 12: that they can go out and execute.

1586
01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:50,280
Speaker 1: It's just it's just amazing. It's just so I'm just

1587
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 1: still thinking about the harbordisms. But Haley, when you look

1588
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:57,280
Speaker 1: at the rest of the season, you look towards the playoffs,

1589
01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:01,719
Speaker 1: obviously they had a disappointing playoff on short run last year.

1590
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:05,680
Speaker 1: Kind of what is a successful season for this Chargers team?

1591
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:08,639
Speaker 12: You know, I think it's honestly winning a shelf game,

1592
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 12: and I think it's getting in it's getting into the

1593
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:16,040
Speaker 12: dance and winning and it's it's hard to say that,

1594
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 12: but now that you've seen it twice, right, because we

1595
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 12: all know what happened in Jacksonville a couple of years ago,

1596
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 12: and then we all saw what happened in Houston just

1597
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:28,719
Speaker 12: this past January, and you kind of you don't want

1598
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 12: that to be the narrative, right, You want to turn

1599
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 12: it around you and you don't want to be defined

1600
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 12: by the fact that you can get in. But then

1601
01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:38,000
Speaker 12: if every other team sort of knows that, well, hey,

1602
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 12: this seems so susceptible in the wildcard round, we can

1603
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:41,599
Speaker 12: boot him out.

1604
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 6: You'd love to boot.

1605
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 12: Out a quarterback like Justin Herbert to not have to

1606
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:47,599
Speaker 12: even worry about him. So I think, honestly, it's getting

1607
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 12: into the dance, which obviously the AFC West winning the

1608
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 12: division is still an acouse. It's still on the table,

1609
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:57,519
Speaker 12: and they will play the Broncos in week eighteen, which

1610
01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 12: everyone's going, oh gosh, you know, could that the Sunday

1611
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:05,600
Speaker 12: Nights Flex douts about which it could. But you know,

1612
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 12: in my personal opinion, I believe it's it's not just

1613
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:12,440
Speaker 12: getting in, but it's it's actually winning and actually jumping.

1614
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:12,599
Speaker 6: On the chance.

1615
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:14,640
Speaker 12: And granted they have had a lot that's happened to

1616
01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 12: them this year, and losing Reshon Slater and losing Joe

1617
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 12: Alton and not being able to have those two guys.

1618
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 12: I think if those two guys were playing, this would

1619
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 12: be a much stronger Chargers team. But they are still

1620
01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:27,320
Speaker 12: at eating four and they are still getting it done.

1621
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:29,880
Speaker 12: But in my opinion, I believe it would be getting

1622
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:32,240
Speaker 12: in and then just winning at least in that first

1623
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 12: round to kind of prove get the monkey off their

1624
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 12: back and just kind of prove, hey, we can do this,

1625
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 12: we can hang and let's see what happens from here.

1626
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1627
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:42,320
Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much for taking time out of

1628
01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 4: your very very busy schedule, Haley to come talk to us.

1629
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 4: We love getting the insight on you know, justin Herbert

1630
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:50,519
Speaker 4: Jim Harbaugh, especially in Tracy's game.

1631
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 12: You love it.

1632
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 4: And the Chargers in general don't overlook the Chargers, So

1633
01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:58,639
Speaker 4: we really appreciate the time.

1634
01:15:59,360 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 12: Yeah, no, Filly, thanks for having me. I did I

1635
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:03,640
Speaker 12: did see this one thing, and I don't know if

1636
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 12: you guys talked about it, but at least there weren't

1637
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 12: any positivity Rabbits that we're hanging out.

1638
01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:08,800
Speaker 3: Oh oh, we've talked about it, Hayley, don't worry.

1639
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 4: We've covered it extensively, and you want to know how

1640
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 4: I know vibes are bad there. Yeah, I would feel

1641
01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:14,599
Speaker 4: pretty good about playing the Eagles this week.

1642
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 12: I find yeah, between sweets of Antae Smiths juicing and

1643
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:21,559
Speaker 12: the positivity Rabbit, I'm not sure what's going on over

1644
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 12: there in Silly, but we'll find out on Monday night.

1645
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 6: We'll see what happened.

1646
01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 4: We'll see thanks again, Haley. All right, after this, we've

1647
01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:31,559
Speaker 4: got one more segment, the LOL Moment of the week.

1648
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 3: We'll see you.

1649
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 4: You're listening to Fox Football Saturday. Is this the Charlie

1650
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 4: Brown Christmas tree?

1651
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:38,519
Speaker 3: Like that's from the album?

1652
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:42,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, Christmas Tree from tannam Bomb, right from the Tarlier

1653
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 4: Brown Christmas album. Very fitting to lead into our last

1654
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:49,640
Speaker 4: segment here on Fox Football Saturday. I'm Carmen Batally. I

1655
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 4: have Tracy Standler with me. I've had a great show.

1656
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 4: We just got off the phone with with Haley Elwood.

1657
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 4: Who does I shouldn't have even really tried to like

1658
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 4: describe all the things that she does. She works with

1659
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:04,559
Speaker 4: the NFL, she does stuff with the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl,

1660
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 4: she works with the Chargers during the season. She works

1661
01:17:07,520 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 4: at the Lakers during the season. She does stuff on KTLA.

1662
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 4: I mean, talk about the busiest woman in Los Angeles.

1663
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, she really is, and she's amazing. And the thing

1664
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:17,680
Speaker 1: she's so good at every single one of them.

1665
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 3: She really is.

1666
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 4: I don't know where she finds the time of the

1667
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:21,799
Speaker 4: day to keep all of it straight because she's incredibly

1668
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:24,240
Speaker 4: well informed on all of it. Yeah, we had Ruthy

1669
01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:28,200
Speaker 4: Polinski on your fellow Blue alumni.

1670
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:31,519
Speaker 2: Yes, I sure do. We sure did go blue.

1671
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 4: That was grat I like, I've somehow found myself surrounded

1672
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:37,879
Speaker 4: by Michigan alum which is just hysterical.

1673
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 2: How lucky for you.

1674
01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 4: You're right, You're right. My life is better, truly, my

1675
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:43,400
Speaker 4: life is better for it.

1676
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 1: You're doing something right. That's what I'm excited at all.

1677
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 4: Right, I want to get to our LOL moment of

1678
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:53,560
Speaker 4: the week because I this is one of those memes

1679
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 4: or what's become a meme that like there's memes based

1680
01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 4: off the meme that's like how far this is gone?

1681
01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 4: And essentially one of the memes I've seen about this

1682
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 4: meme and you'll see how this all ties in a second.

1683
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,640
Speaker 4: Is that your girlfriend needs to care more about the

1684
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:08,479
Speaker 4: Cam Newton Keon Coleman clip. And so this is me

1685
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 4: caring more about the Cam Newton and Keon Coleman clip. Guys,

1686
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 4: could you just I can't even describe it. We just

1687
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:16,599
Speaker 4: got to listen, listen in to what Cam Newton had

1688
01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 4: to say, A.

1689
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:22,679
Speaker 10: Patient with you, that playful person that the Buffalo City

1690
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,160
Speaker 10: by storm in his first interview and he.

1691
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 8: Sat down and was like, yeah, I love cookies and

1692
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 8: he had to.

1693
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 7: That was all cool, but we get that. Chris to young.

1694
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:36,560
Speaker 10: Players, big dog, you're supposed to be our number.

1695
01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 3: One coon and you're playing like a bum.

1696
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 12: I bet you better start doing your job.

1697
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 3: Okay.

1698
01:18:44,479 --> 01:18:47,240
Speaker 4: So that was an edit from x y Z Sports

1699
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:51,599
Speaker 4: s z uh So I know.

1700
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 3: So many letters.

1701
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:54,680
Speaker 4: I want to give credit though, because it wasn't mine obviously,

1702
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:57,160
Speaker 4: and it was it was from Cam Newton show talking

1703
01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:59,960
Speaker 4: about Keyon Coleman and the way that this is just

1704
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 4: taken the Internet by a storm, and it's so I mean,

1705
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:05,280
Speaker 4: just like the way that he says and you're playing

1706
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:09,599
Speaker 4: like a bum like it's just it's seered into my brain,

1707
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 4: not only because like of watching it and thinking it's hysterical,

1708
01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 4: but because my fiance just decides to go around the

1709
01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:17,600
Speaker 4: house and keep quoting it to me.

1710
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:19,760
Speaker 3: So that's my OL moment of the week.

1711
01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:21,960
Speaker 2: I love it. That's a good LOL moment of the week.

1712
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:23,799
Speaker 1: My loll momber of the week comes from the Eagles

1713
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,880
Speaker 1: and it's not the Bunny. It's DeVante Smith talking about

1714
01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 1: his juicer. It was so I mean, he made me

1715
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: want to get a juicer. He made me want to

1716
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:35,440
Speaker 1: go to his house for some sort of juicing extravaganza.

1717
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 2: So that was my LOL bument of the week.

1718
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 4: Well, thank you to DeVante Smith and his juicer. Thank

1719
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:42,799
Speaker 4: you all for listening. Thank you Tracy, thank you guys.

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Speaker 4: We'll see you next week. You're listening to Fox Football Saturday.