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Speaker 2: jaymar We just had a final in the NFL. How

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Speaker 2: you doing, man, Happy holidays? Everything going good with you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, can't complain. Hope you and the family are

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Speaker 1: doing well. It's Christmas weekend. Hopefully everybody is safe and

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Speaker 1: sound and excited for tomorrow and obviously for Monday. It's

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Speaker 1: been a day. It's been a day. Some sports have

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Speaker 1: taken place, and there's a lot to talk about, like

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Speaker 1: there always is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I say it all the time. You know,

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Speaker 2: we are blessed to do this show.

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Speaker 1: You say too.

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Speaker 2: It's not like it's an original thought for me, but

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Speaker 2: you know, this is such a fun time to be

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Speaker 2: on air because it feels like there is always something

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Speaker 2: of significance kind of going on as we come live

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Speaker 2: on air here at eleven pm Eastern Time, and tonight

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Speaker 2: is no different. The Buffalo Bills, as Kevin Wyertt just

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Speaker 2: told you, they do hold on to beat the Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers. Obviously, the first game without Brandon Staley for

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Chargers following that Thursday night debacle, the

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Speaker 2: Bills coming in on a two game winning streak. Twenty

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Speaker 2: four to twenty two is the final score. I really

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Speaker 2: think there's two schools a thought here, Jason. One. The

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Chargers looked surprise, surprise, significantly better coached. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about them in a minute, but gotta give credit

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Speaker 2: to Buffalo third straight win. You know, obviously, two weeks

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Speaker 2: ago you beat Casey in kind of a weird one.

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Speaker 2: Last week you dominate Dallas. And I'll be honest, Jason,

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Speaker 2: this was the one that I was a little worried

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Speaker 2: about from the Buffalo Bills perspective because it's a short week,

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Speaker 2: emotion win, you fly across country. Chargers have the interim

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Speaker 2: head coach and a lot of the momentum that they've

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Speaker 2: built up over the last two weeks could have been

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Speaker 2: lost tonight, but obviously a field goal with about a

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Speaker 2: minute to go seals a twenty four to twenty two

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Speaker 2: victory for the Buffalo Bills, a much needed win that

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Speaker 2: very much keeps them in the playoff picture.

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Speaker 1: Jason, Yeah, and I think that the way that I

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Speaker 1: look at it is it's a weird game. You play

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Speaker 1: it on a Saturday night, you have to go all

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Speaker 1: the way across the country. It's against the team with

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Speaker 1: a backup quarterback that just fired their coach, coming off

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Speaker 1: a huge, you know, Fox Game of the Week performance

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Speaker 1: against Dallas where you really kind of reminded people what

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Speaker 1: you're capable of. So it was just kind of odd.

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Speaker 1: It might have been hard to get up for this game,

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Speaker 1: and of course you had whatever the Chargers were going

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Speaker 1: to look like under new leadership, and you got out

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Speaker 1: of there with the win, and that's all that matters,

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Speaker 1: especially in an AFC where it's just hard to determine

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Speaker 1: from week to week who's going to do what where

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Speaker 1: and win. Even if you just kick a field goal

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Speaker 1: to beat an Easton stick led Chargers squad, you still

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Speaker 1: went on the road and won a game. In the NFL,

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Speaker 1: it keeps your streak alive and it puts you where

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Speaker 1: you need to be going towards the playoffs. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: you could see this negatively. I choose to see it

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Speaker 1: the other way and say, hey, you got out of

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Speaker 1: little bit inspired. I take that as a plus. That

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Speaker 1: would have been a really bad loss for the Bills.

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Speaker 2: See, I agree with you one hundred percent. Is that

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, because of the rhetoric around Sean

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Speaker 2: McDermott and everything three four weeks ago, and then you

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Speaker 2: have two really good wins, right, you know, you obviously

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Speaker 2: think it's easy to sit back and say, oh, you know,

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Speaker 2: same old Buffalo Bills, a little bit sloppy playing a

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Speaker 2: team that obviously, you know, all the things that you

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Speaker 2: Like you know the way that I see it, and

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Speaker 2: college basketball game where you're twenty five point favorite and

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Speaker 2: go final is there's two things that that that that

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Speaker 2: didn't avoid a catastrophic loss at the worst possible time.

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Speaker 2: And I think the other thing, too, is is you know,

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Speaker 2: or were you out gained where you not out gained,

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Speaker 2: all that stuff. All that matters is that you win

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Speaker 2: the game. And now you get on a flight, You

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Speaker 2: get to go home, you get to spend Christmas with

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Speaker 2: your family, you get to come back. You have two

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Speaker 2: games left, and obviously a playoff spot is still very

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Speaker 2: a playoff spot for you depending on how things go tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's there's the potential that you could be

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Speaker 2: so I just bring it up because I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: the fan gets so caught up in the moment, and

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Speaker 2: I think people tuning in maybe want us to sit

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Speaker 2: here and well the Bills didn't look good, and same

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Speaker 2: old Bills. It's like, in two weeks if they win

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Speaker 2: win the division. If not, they have clinched a playoff spot,

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Speaker 2: and they are suddenly the team that nobody wants to face.

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Speaker 2: Nobody is going to remember how it happened in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: how ugly it was. They're just gonna look at the

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Speaker 2: win loss record and say, oh, yep, that's right that

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Speaker 2: Saturday night they got the win against the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not college football. There's no style points here.

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Speaker 1: It's just w's and if your record is where it

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Speaker 1: it's not, you don't. It's that simple. It's also really

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Speaker 1: hard to win in the NFL. And after beating Dallas

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Speaker 1: the way that you beat Dallas, it's not the worst

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Speaker 1: having your best stuff, and then you get back on

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Speaker 1: the flight and you say, yep, which we're still gonna

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Speaker 1: have to bring it every week. This is still the

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Speaker 1: NFL is not gonna be east here. I like to

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Speaker 1: see a team win close. That's very talented, especially after

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Speaker 1: different ways.

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Speaker 2: I do need to.

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Speaker 1: See and I want to see a little bit of

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Speaker 1: adversity in a team that's going into the playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: so they faced a little bit. They easily could have

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Speaker 1: found a way to lose that game tonight, and they didn't.

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Speaker 1: They made some key defensive plays, sacks stick repeatedly, it

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Speaker 1: seemed like in the fourth quarter, held the Chargers to

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Speaker 1: out of there with the W and again without style

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Speaker 1: points being a part of the equation, all the Bills

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Speaker 1: have to do is keep winning football games. And look,

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Speaker 1: if they went about five or six more of them,

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Speaker 1: they're in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Real quick, What do you make of them? Because I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, obviously a lot can change. We're on air

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Speaker 2: every Saturday, so a lot can change from one week

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Speaker 2: to the next. And I think you and I both

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Speaker 2: going into the Dallas game not because we thought any

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a cold weather game in Buffalo,

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Speaker 2: and then they very much take care of business. And

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Speaker 2: then on top of that, they have now played a

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Speaker 2: means a three game win streak, and as I said,

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Speaker 2: very comfortably, in the playoff picture right now and again,

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Speaker 2: if Miami were to lose this week or next and

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Speaker 2: you won't be potentially at that point, you would be

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Speaker 2: playing for the division title, which sounds crazy just putting

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Speaker 2: aside where they end up. Let's assume that they want

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Speaker 2: for the sake of the argument, we'll say playoffs, but

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Speaker 2: just big picture, like, what do you think of this team?

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Speaker 2: Is it still the show me phase? Is it the

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Speaker 2: I still don't believe in them phase? Or is it hey,

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Speaker 2: this team is slowly starting to figure it out phase.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean I think that it's more the latter,

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Speaker 1: but the show me phase. I could make that argument

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Speaker 1: for everybody in the conference. That's why I feel okay

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Speaker 1: super Bowl, I wouldn't be surprised because Josh Allen always

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Speaker 1: gives you a chance. I want to see him find

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs more often than he is. He found him

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Speaker 1: late in the game tonight, but it seemed like it's

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Speaker 1: more there. But I think, like I look at Miami

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Speaker 1: I don't think they can beat good teams because I

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Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet. I've seen the Bills beat the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: I've seen them beat the Cowboys. I've seen those things happen. Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: That was a bad loss today that might have knocked

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks seemingly everywhere else that matters, excepting Kansas City. But

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Speaker 1: something doesn't seem quite right in Kansas City right now. Either.

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Speaker 1: There's nobody outside of Buffalo and Baltimore right now that

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Speaker 1: us a good indicator of what Baltimore looks like against

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Speaker 1: a real alpha dog kind of team, which we haven't

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Speaker 1: seen much this year. I want to see how Lamar

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Speaker 1: But right now I'm feeling pretty good about the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills quite frankly, like they just seem to be more

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Speaker 1: cohesive and healthier at key spots because they already suffered

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Speaker 1: their injuries. They've gotten used to them, and now they

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Speaker 1: find they find themselves in this spot anyway. It's not

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Speaker 1: like they just lost a bunch of people last week.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals lose Jamar Chase, don't have him today, lose

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Speaker 1: on for dear life. That's not happening with Buffalo right now.

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Speaker 1: So I feel pretty good about him, honestly, because what

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Speaker 1: else are you going to feel about anybody in the AFC?

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Speaker 1: Because they are holes everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think the other thing too is, you

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Speaker 2: know it's not only just that you know everybody has questions.

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Speaker 2: You are one of the teams that is playing well.

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Speaker 2: To your point, case is obviously struggling. Struggling as a

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Speaker 2: relative term, but they don't look like the case that

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Speaker 2: we know, the AFC South is a mess. You know,

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Speaker 2: you and I were coming on air off the Colts

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Speaker 2: people don't realize that we're a Jags lost away from

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Speaker 2: Jason was not as competitive as you know, Mason Rudolph.

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Speaker 2: You know that undertaker gift back from the grave. The

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Speaker 2: this first, Dad, Jason. George Pickens four catches one hundred

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Speaker 1: they have some players that you like to watch, they

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Speaker 1: don't have the quarterback of the future on their roster.

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Speaker 1: I love Mike Tomlin, absolutely love them. May need to

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Speaker 1: change the scenery. We've discussed that now for two or

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Speaker 1: three shows in a row. But somebody will hire him

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Speaker 1: if he does indeed leave. And he has and I

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Speaker 1: read this from a couple of different Steelers writers over

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Speaker 1: the past few days. Boy does he but he in

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Speaker 1: that city in terms of how much the city loves him,

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Speaker 1: what he's done for that community, that's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: hard one if indeed that were to come to an end,

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Speaker 1: both him and Belichick potentially both leave in the same season.

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Speaker 2: Is there a real buzz that like he would leave

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Speaker 2: or is that just like a sports radio conversation of hey,

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Speaker 2: you know, maybe it would be good for like, like

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Speaker 2: the Belichick stuff. It isn't just dudes in front of

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Speaker 2: a microphone speculating it feels like something has to change,

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Speaker 2: the crafts are ready to move on. I don't. Maybe

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Speaker 2: I'm reading the wrong stuff and listening to the wrong people.

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Speaker 2: I don't get the sense that, like it just seems

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Speaker 2: like it makes sense, But I don't get the sense

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Speaker 2: that it's nearly as imminent as as some much you know,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Does that make sense?

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Speaker 1: No? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying, And

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Speaker 1: I agree. I don't. I don't think he would leave,

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Speaker 1: and I'm skeptical that they would move on from him.

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Speaker 1: I just kind of you know, you just read the

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Speaker 1: tea leaves and you you hear a lot of stuff

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Speaker 1: and you start to Okay, well we'll talk about this.

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Speaker 1: I'd still be rather shocked if he left. I'd be

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Speaker 1: much more surprised certainly about him than Belichick. But I

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Speaker 1: think you better be real careful if you're the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: because I don't think that Mike Tomlin is the source

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Speaker 1: of your problems. Yep, I don't. Now. He may have

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Speaker 1: run out of runway there and maybe it's time to

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Speaker 1: move on, and maybe that would be better for all involved,

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Speaker 1: just a new fresh start for the Steelers, but also

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Speaker 1: a fresh start for Tomlin. I don't know. Sometimes that's true,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's not. But if you're going to fire a

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Speaker 1: head k fire a head coach, especially one with ten

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Speaker 1: year in equity, you better have somebody better lined up.

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Speaker 1: And what we have seen is a lot of the

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Speaker 1: new hires that have come through in the past handfull

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Speaker 1: of years, maybe more so than I can remember, just

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Speaker 1: haven't panned out. A lot of these coordinators, a lot

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Speaker 1: of these decisions haven't worked out. And if you get

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Speaker 1: rid of Mike Tomlin and bring in the wrong guy,

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Speaker 1: that'll be something that you can't wipe off. You better

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Speaker 1: be real careful if you let a guy with that

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Speaker 1: kind of stature and that kind of dignity walk out

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Speaker 1: the door, because if you don't know exactly what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: at that standpoint, it could be disastrous. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It reminds me almost of like a college situation, where

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Speaker 2: you know, you get these college fan bases that it's like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you know, we need a fresh start and get rid

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Speaker 2: of them. And I don't I don't even necessarily think

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Speaker 2: Steelers fans really feel that way. Like I said, I

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Speaker 2: I get why the conversation is happening, but I don't

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Speaker 2: get the sense that the organization wants it, that Steelers

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Speaker 2: fans really want it. As you said, he has equity

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Speaker 2: in that city. And I also think it is the

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Speaker 2: interesting thing, and this is maybe where the college parallel

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Speaker 2: is that it feels like, you know, if you let

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Speaker 2: him walk or if you say, hey, maybe we all

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Speaker 2: start over. As you said, he is not the problem

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Speaker 2: with that team. It's it's it's it's not having a

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Speaker 2: franchise quarterback. And the other thing I heard too, and

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Speaker 2: I forget who said it is, and this is this

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Speaker 2: is pretty obvious, right, is that because they drafted Kenny Pickett,

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Speaker 2: because he is the former pit quarterback, he almost has

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Speaker 2: equity in the city as well, from the perspective of

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Speaker 2: I think like people want to see him succeed, right,

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Speaker 2: I think he's a Western PA guy. I could be mistaken,

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Speaker 2: but he did play it Pitt, and so I just

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Speaker 2: bring it up because it's it's a weird deal. And

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Speaker 2: and again I don't get the sense that any real

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Speaker 2: sweeping changes coming either at the head coach or quarterback position.

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Speaker 2: But I do think, as you said, Jason, I think

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Speaker 2: it's one if Mike Tom moves on, I totally get it.

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Speaker 2: And I think the Steelers could be in a lot

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Speaker 2: worse position because of it than better, which I think

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Speaker 2: a lot of people might think.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with all that. And in terms of Picket,

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Speaker 1: like I know you want, I know that the locals

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Speaker 1: there and the equity you mentioned that he's built up,

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Speaker 1: they want to see him succeed. Maybe he is, but

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Speaker 1: I think his ceilings are rather low. And at this stage,

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Speaker 1: I just think I think we kind of know what

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Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett is. I think Kenny Pickett's half decent. I

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Speaker 1: think he's I would almost say he's almost borderline starting

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Speaker 1: quarterback material.

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Speaker 2: I agree, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I just don't feel I don't think he's like middle

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Speaker 1: of the road. I think he's a little below that.

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Speaker 1: I think he is. I think he's a lot closer

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Speaker 1: to Baker Mayfield than than even like somebody like a

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill a couple of years ago that you would

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Speaker 1: have maybe had somewhere in like the twelve to fifteen

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Speaker 1: range or something. I don't think Pickett's anywhere close to that.

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Speaker 1: I think Picktt. I think Kenny Pickett is just kind

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Speaker 1: of He's a guy. He's certainly not irreplaceable. And I

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Speaker 1: don't see some I don't see him rockets. I don't

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Speaker 1: see a rocket ship coming taking Kenny Pickett to the moon.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Kenny Pickett your quarterback of the future.

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Speaker 2: I don't either. He almost feels a little bit like

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Speaker 2: a like a career backup, like you.

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Speaker 1: Know, yes, like you know, a good one, like a

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Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick type. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But no, That's what I'm thinking. I'm trying to think

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Speaker 2: of if there's a parallel right now, you know, I

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Speaker 2: sort of like what Joe Flacco's doing where he could

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Speaker 2: give you a little burst. But I think even Joe

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Speaker 2: Flacco even right now might have a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a higher ceiling.

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Speaker 1: But I mean maybe even Baker Mayfield, right, somebody like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably the right one, Probably the right one. A

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Speaker 2: little bit probably even more mature than Baker. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: like he's not gonna embarrass you. But for seventeen games,

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Speaker 2: and by the way, in a division with Lamar, in

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Speaker 2: a division with Joe Burrow, just think it's a lot

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Speaker 2: to ask for. Fox Sports Radio eron Torres, Jason Martin.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the tyreck dot Com studios.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, do want to stay in the

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Speaker 2: NFL and very quickly touch on an intriguing result from

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Speaker 2: Thursday night that's next. Before we do, let's toss it

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Speaker 2: over the news desk to quote Arnie Spaniard, I gave

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Speaker 2: Disager the night off, kidding he works for the Chargers,

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Speaker 2: but Kevin Wired is in for us. Kevin what he

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Speaker 2: got for us?

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, today's NFL action really shook up the playoff standings.

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Speaker 5: The game that we just saw the Chargers and the Bills,

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Speaker 5: the Bills coming from behind to win it against Los Angels.

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Speaker 6: This is going to be a twenty nine yard attempt

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Speaker 6: for bass from the right hatch, snap by Ferguson, hold

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Speaker 6: by Martin, kick by passes.

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Speaker 2: Up and it is good. Twenty eight seconds left and

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Speaker 2: the Bills are back in front.

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Speaker 5: That was the Bills Radio network there with the call.

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Speaker 5: Buffalo did lead for much of that second half, but

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Speaker 5: the Chargers then came back took a one point lead

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Speaker 5: on a field goal of their own before the Bills

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Speaker 5: would come and kick that eventual game winner with around

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Speaker 5: thirty or so seconds to go. The Chargers did a

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Speaker 5: bunch of later les but ended up not going anywhere.

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Speaker 5: So the win for Buffalo vaults them into the number

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Speaker 5: six spot in the AFC playoffs standings. They're nine to

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Speaker 5: six on the season. Now, the game we had earlier

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Speaker 5: was the Steelers and the Bengals, Pittsburgh dominating this one

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Speaker 5: thirty four to eleven. Mason Rudolph two touchdown passes, both

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Speaker 5: of them to George Pickins, and the win for Pittsburgh

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Speaker 5: gets them now up to number nine in The Bengals,

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Speaker 5: who were in the number six spot, that loss drops

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Speaker 5: them all the way to number ten, so the Cleveland

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Speaker 5: Browns have that number five, the first wildcard spot. They're

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Speaker 5: nine and five, a half game ahead of Buffalo. Buffalo

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Speaker 5: for their parts, a half game ahead of Indianapolis and Houston.

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Speaker 5: Those are the final two wildcard spots, and then the

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Speaker 5: Pittsburgh Steelers, Cincinnati Bengals a half game behind there, so

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Speaker 5: this playoff race very tight. In the AFC college football,

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Speaker 5: we have one bowl game in action right now, the

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Speaker 5: Hawaii Bowl over in Honolulu and the Coastal Carolina Schantaclayers

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Speaker 5: in front of San Jose State seven to nothing. They've

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Speaker 5: got five minutes to go in the second quarter. NBA

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Speaker 5: action today, we do have a couple of actually one

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Speaker 5: game in action right now. Timberwolves blowing out the Kings.

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Speaker 5: Right now, it's sixty seven forty nine. They've got nine

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Speaker 5: minutes ago in the third quarter. Everything else in the

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Speaker 5: association has gone final. Bucks blow out the Knicks one

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Speaker 5: thirty one eleven, Celtics over the Clippers, won forty five,

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Speaker 5: one oh eight, Nuggets top the Hornets one oh two,

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Speaker 5: ninety five, Magic over the Pacers one seventeen one ten.

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Speaker 5: Rockets edge the Pelicans one o six one oh four.

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Speaker 5: Grizzlies over the Hawks one twenty five, one to nineteen.

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Speaker 5: The Pistons have now lost twenty six games in a row.

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Speaker 5: They're two and twenty seven. The Nets beat On one

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Speaker 5: twenty six one fifteen. Jazz top the Raptors one twenty

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Speaker 5: six to one nineteen. Cavaliers over the Bulls one oh

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Speaker 5: nine ninety five. Lakers pull away and hold on. They

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Speaker 5: hold on. It gets the thunder after pulling away for

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Speaker 5: a while, and the thunder made it close, but it

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Speaker 5: is still a Lakers victory. One twenty nine, one twenty

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Speaker 5: Mavericks beat the Spurs one forty four, won nineteen, and

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Speaker 5: the Warriors over the Trailblazers one twenty six to one

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Speaker 5: oh six.

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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, Thank you very much, Kevin Wire.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday Era Tours,

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Speaker 2: Jason Martin broadcasting live from the tyreck dot Com studios

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Speaker 2: wherever you're listening, and hope you have a happy holiday season.

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Speaker 2: Hope you're traveling to family from family and you're gonna

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Speaker 2: get to spend some time with them. Jason, really quick,

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Speaker 2: don't want to spend a ton of time on this

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Speaker 2: because it's forty eight hours old at this point. Do

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Speaker 2: you want to give a little shout out to the

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Speaker 2: one other game that had gone final in Week sixteen

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Speaker 2: of the NFL season prior to tonight. That was the

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Rams taking care of the Saints on Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: I actually attended the game. It was a fun atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: But I just bring it up because I'll give credit

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Speaker 2: where it's due. Man. You know, I remember us talking

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Speaker 2: about the Rams in the preseason, and I remember thinking

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Speaker 2: this was going to be a disaster. You know, Sean McVay,

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Speaker 2: is he gonna I don't think he's sticking through a rebuild.

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Speaker 2: I think this is his last year. I think Sean

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Speaker 2: McVay is doing as good of a coaching job as

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Speaker 2: anybody in the NFL right now. Rams currently in the

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Speaker 2: sixth spot in the playoff picture. Obviously, they've played a

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Speaker 2: game more than virtually all the other teams that they're

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Speaker 2: competing with for a wildcard spot. But he's doing a

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Speaker 2: heck of a job. As the Rams beat the Saints

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Speaker 2: the other night, and they're another team we talked about

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Speaker 2: the Bills getting in and the danger that they could

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Speaker 2: provide magesty and you know, Matthew Stafford, Puka Nakua, Cooper

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Speaker 2: cup uh in this Rams defense or this Rams team

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Speaker 2: in Round one, uh in these playoffs chefs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that it's a team that I want

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Speaker 1: to see in the playoffs. Same point I made about

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Speaker 1: the Bills earlier. Pokinakua is must see kind of incredible, honestly, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm just stunned watching him play him with Cup. Cup

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Speaker 1: can be a secondary option. It seems like as often

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Speaker 1: as Pooka seems open and goes up for those contested balls.

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Speaker 1: Kyron Williams has been a real fine for them. He's

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Speaker 1: been great for them on the ground. Stafford's playing excellent

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Speaker 1: football right now. McVeigh is dialed in. He and Shanahan

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Speaker 1: are just pitching shutouts right now when it comes to

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Speaker 1: their play calling on the offensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: It's just been special. And this Rams team is fun

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Speaker 1: to watch, really fun to watch. And there have been some,

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Speaker 1: i would say in the NFC particularly, there have been

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Speaker 1: some teams that have been a little less fun to

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Speaker 1: watch than we thought. And then we've seen Loke Dallas

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Speaker 1: in most weeks has been has been a blast. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco is a juggernaut. They're the best team in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. The Eagles have kind of been up and down,

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Speaker 1: but they're gonna be heard from. And then there's the Rams,

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Speaker 1: Like that's the other team that I am curious to

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Speaker 1: see what they can do in the postseason. They can

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Speaker 1: make some noise because they can score and as long

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Speaker 1: as Stafford's not turning over the ball and he's healthy,

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Speaker 1: we're seeing again why they wagered the future for the present.

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Speaker 1: Won the Super Bowl already, and they're playing about as

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Speaker 1: solid right now as anybody outside of San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: Zero doubt they get to win on Thursday night, and again,

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Speaker 2: very much in the playoff picture. And I'm with you,

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Speaker 2: Jason Is. I think the playoffs would be more fun

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Speaker 2: with them. And again, you have a super Bowl winning quarterback,

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Speaker 2: you have a great head coach, and that's just a

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Speaker 2: team that I would not want to see if I

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Speaker 2: was in the playoffs. Fox Sports Radio eron towards Jason Martin,

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Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the Tireck dot Com studios. Coming up,

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Speaker 2: the Rams win was not the only big story on

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Speaker 2: Thursday in Los Angeles. The Dodgers. They did it again.

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Speaker 2: We've got to discuss it next. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Aer Torris, Jason Martin.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the Tyreck dot Com Studios, Jason,

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Speaker 2: I believe it was two Saturdays ago. We came on

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Speaker 2: air just a few hours after a little ho home

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Speaker 2: ten year, seven hundred million dollar contract signed by Show

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Speaker 2: hey Otani. I bring it up because this actually happened

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Speaker 2: while I was at the Rams game, so I didn't

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Speaker 2: see it until the next day. But the Dodgers, uh

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Speaker 2: winter of spending was not done with just that little

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Speaker 2: ho hum seven hundred million dollar contract that they handed out.

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Speaker 2: Obviously the big news of the week, Yoshinobu Yama Yoto

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Speaker 2: signs his own deal, massive contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: We know the numbers. It's a lot of money for

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Speaker 2: a lot of years. Are you okay with the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: some of the winter of spending in Los Angeles? They're

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Speaker 2: spending like it's going out of style, as the latest

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Speaker 2: three hundred plus million dollar transaction, this of course, off

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Speaker 2: of the seven hundred million dollar deal for Show hey Otani.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I have to be okay with

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Speaker 1: it because it happened. It's a thing that is permitted

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Speaker 1: in baseball, so it is what it is. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's good for baseball or not. I guess

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to watch and find out. Because the

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Speaker 1: amount of money that the Dodgers are willing to spend

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Speaker 1: here in a sport where you can just spend what

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Speaker 1: you want, seems so like, especially with the way deferred

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Speaker 1: salaries are set up and all. And I do look

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Speaker 1: at that and wonder if that should be I look

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Speaker 1: at a little bit differently, but we'll see. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: seems like this seems like kind of the tipping point there,

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Speaker 1: even if the numbers are a little different than almost

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Speaker 1: all of it being deferred because of luxury tax and

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Speaker 1: all these other things that might come involved. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Braves fan, so certainly I'm not thrilled with

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Speaker 1: that idea. But I think it does give you somebody

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Speaker 1: to root against, because unless you're a Dodgers fan, I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine you're pulling for the Dodgers or just like

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Speaker 1: an Otani fan or a Yamamoto fan. If you're a

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Speaker 1: fan of one of those two guys, okay, if you're

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Speaker 1: a Dodgers fan, okay, But if you're anybody else, that

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00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: gives you something to shoot for. It gives you somebody

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Speaker 1: to root against, somebody to laugh at. Every time they lose.

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Speaker 1: It's just like the Lakers with Lebron. If you don't

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Speaker 1: like the Lebron James or any any other great dynastic

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Speaker 1: you know, grouping in sports, it gives you some It

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Speaker 1: gives you an enemy, it gives you a villain, it

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Speaker 1: gives you something to kind of stick your teeth into.

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Speaker 1: You'll care about the regular season. With the Dodgers, every

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Speaker 1: time they lose, You'll care, especially on a night when

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Speaker 1: you've got one kind and you've got Otani a DH.

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Speaker 2: Here's my thing, because we talked about this, I don't

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Speaker 2: know what you will with. Yeah, that's what I was

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Speaker 2: gonna say. We talked about this with the Otani signing.

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Speaker 2: Is this doesn't feel like the Jeter and Mariano Rivera

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Speaker 2: Posada Yankees, who very much you know, spent spent in

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Speaker 2: the same manner. And it's because they they I don't

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Speaker 2: want to say they haven't won anything. They've won a

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Speaker 2: million division titles. They obviously won a World Series during

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Speaker 2: the COVID year. But like I think what I would say,

745
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 2: and maybe I live in Los Angeles on the wrong person.

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Speaker 2: I do think people are annoyed by it. I think

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Speaker 2: they are annoyed by this system that allows the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: to spend so much more than everybody else. And I

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Speaker 2: think they're certainly in and I agree with you that

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Speaker 2: the deferred money thing, like I mean that that I

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Speaker 2: don't really care. It's not my you know, life, but

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Speaker 2: I think it's got to be revisited because I think

753
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Speaker 2: there's gonna be a lot of people that cook the books,

754
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Speaker 2: you know, to their advantage going forward. But I I

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00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 2: don't know that there's hatred yet. And I think if

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Speaker 2: they start winning and it's like, well, yeah, because they

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00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 2: just bought the best team in in in baseball, right,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know what, you know what, it's almost

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Speaker 2: like and it's not a total apples to apples thing.

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Speaker 2: It almost is like when when Texas A and M

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Speaker 2: signed that top recruiting class. It's like, if Texas A

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Speaker 2: and M actually won, it would have been like, well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's obviously because you know, and we don't actually know

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Speaker 2: that for sure, but we kind of think it was.

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Speaker 2: Is like, if they won, it was almost a no

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00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 2: win situation. If they lose, it's embarrassing. If they win, well,

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Speaker 2: I mean they just you know, I mean, we know

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Speaker 2: how they put that recruiting class together, and I kind

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Speaker 2: of feel like that's where we are with the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: is I don't think they've won enough for people to

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Speaker 2: actually hate them. But the counter to that is, uh,

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Speaker 2: if they do win, then boy oh boy o boy,

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Speaker 2: is it going to be a conversation. Would you agree

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Speaker 2: with that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, I think there's there's definite truth to

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Speaker 1: the idea that it's weird to say this because if

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Speaker 1: they win the World Series, they're not gonna Carrey anyway

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Speaker 1: because of the money they're gonna make and all that

779
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But they're in a no win situation

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the fans. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: much they care, but if they don't win, it's a

782
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Speaker 1: disaster and they're a laughing stock. If they do win,

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Speaker 1: there's an excuse to explain why they did. So there's

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Speaker 1: a reason to hate him whether they win or lose,

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Speaker 1: and Dave Roberts has a ton of pressure on him. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: nice question, but it just generally, it just puts a target.

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Speaker 1: It puts a giant spotlight on the Dodgers team as

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Speaker 1: an organization. How many World Series do you win with

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Speaker 1: this group? Remember we talked about this before, and we

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Speaker 1: actually were talking about the Rams in the last segment

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Speaker 1: and I mentioned that, you know, I've talked about this

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Speaker 1: in the past and so of you that had they

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Speaker 1: done what they did and the Bengals beat them in

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Speaker 1: that Super Bowl, which was close to happening. That game

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Speaker 1: was close going into the fourth quarter, Aaron Donald and

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Speaker 1: the crew shut it down. Plus that great drive with

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and Cooper Cup that we'll never forget. So

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Speaker 1: they end up winning it, and so that kind of

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Speaker 1: verifies and gives the old check mark the blue check

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Speaker 1: mark to the Rams on X Basically, Okay, we got

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Speaker 1: this done. Had it gone the other way, they would

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Speaker 1: have been a laughing stock. That's kind of where the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers find themselves right now. And your A and M

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Speaker 1: example is dead on right like if they had one,

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Speaker 1: there would have been an excuse for it. They didn't win,

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Speaker 1: and Jimbo's out on his keyser.

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Speaker 2: That was gonna be my only last thing and we

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Speaker 2: got to get some other stuff. But it's like, if

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Speaker 2: they don't win the World Series next year, and assuming

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Speaker 2: there's not crazy injuries, whatever, I don't know how Dave

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Speaker 2: Rights can can retain this job beyond next season if

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Speaker 2: they do not win World Series. Now we know show

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Speaker 2: Hey won't be pitching. We get all that Walker Bule's

814
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Speaker 2: coming off major surgery. But like my goodness, dude, I mean,

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Speaker 2: how many bites at the Apple do you need to

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Speaker 2: prove that you're not the guy. So the pressure certainly

817
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Speaker 2: ratcheted up. This is an interesting story. Maybe we revisit

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Speaker 2: it later in the show, Jason, because there's so much

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Speaker 2: meat on this bone. Fox Sports Radio ertors Jason Martin

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Speaker 2: coming up, switch gears to college football busy week plus

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Speaker 2: a week away from the playoff that's next, Fox Sports forty.

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Speaker 2: So Jason, before the break, we were talking college football playoff,

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Speaker 2: all the different scenarios that could go down on New

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Speaker 2: Year's Day. One thing that I do think is picking

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Speaker 2: up steam. And there was a new twist to the

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Speaker 2: story this week Jim Harbard of the NFL, And I

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Speaker 2: know this is like a pseudo annual conversation, and he

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Speaker 2: has certainly, you know, you know, looked at all his options,

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Speaker 2: you know, previously. But I bring it up because a

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Speaker 2: few things have happened. One, obviously, the Chargers job open

838
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Speaker 2: last Thursday, that's not the new piece of news. But Two,

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Speaker 2: the NCAA, on National Signing Day about two or three

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Speaker 2: days ago, did give Michigan their notice of allegations. For

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Speaker 2: people wh don't know college sports, that's that's kind of

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Speaker 2: the NCAA's report about what the wrongdoing is in your department.

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Speaker 2: When you're investigated, it's basically, you know, your written report,

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Speaker 2: if you will. And they gave them their notice of

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Speaker 2: allegations on signing day. This was about the first scandal,

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Speaker 2: or you know, the first investigation, which was of course

847
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 2: what has been dubbed Hamburger Gate based giving recruits extra

848
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Speaker 2: benefits during the COVID era. This that the other thing, obviously,

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00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 2: this has nothing to do with the latest scandal. You know,

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Speaker 2: involving the alleged sign stealing and all that. I just

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Speaker 2: bring it up, Jason, because I think a lot of people,

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Speaker 2: including by the way, like it's not just like fans

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00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 2: on social media, like Bruce Felman reported that these things

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00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 2: could all be a tipping point towards Jim Harbaugh going

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Speaker 2: back to the NFL. I hope he stays at Michigan forever, Jason,

856
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 2: but it just feels like there is a lot of noise,

857
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: maybe more so than even the last two off seasons,

858
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 2: that this could be kind of the last dance for

859
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh Michigan.

860
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: It does just feel like things are stacking up kind

861
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: of or on top of his desk, and he has

862
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: two options. One he has to start dealing with all

863
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: these things and hoping more don't kind of replace them

864
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: on the stack. Or he has to get up from

865
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: the desk and walk out of the room and walk

866
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: out of that office. One of those two things has

867
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: to happen. We're getting to kind of a point and

868
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: note return to some degree. It's like I look at

869
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: it and I think, who needs him worse? I think

870
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: he's better for college football right now because I think

871
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: he's a personality that fits the college game, because the

872
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 1: coaches are so much more dynamic in college football than

873
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: they are in pro Even the guys that we have

874
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: the most respect for, we know a lot less about

875
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: them and about and about and certainly they say a

876
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: lot less than the blowhards and the loudmouse in college football,

877
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: the big time personalities, even like an Eli Drinkwitz or

878
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: a Shane Beemer or guys like that, Like, there's just

879
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: more personality to them than there is even like a

880
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: Sean McVay type or somebody like that. And you don't

881
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: really know all that much about a Kyle Shanahan despite

882
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,760
Speaker 1: how good they actually are. So I think that Harbaugh

883
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: kind of has a college personality. But I also think

884
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: he still wants to get back in the NFL. He

885
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: still wants to have another final moment there. He doesn't

886
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: like how that ended, and he still doesn't like to

887
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: the loss of his brother. And I look at the

888
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: Michigan stuff and I just say, is he just gonna

889
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: want to wash his hands of this? Because before this

890
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: stuff was happening, Aaron, he tried to get that Minnesota

891
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: gig and it didn't work out. He's toyed with this

892
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: before and it's not just to get more money from Michigan.

893
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: I still feel like there's a gnawing sensation in him

894
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: that is not going to be fulfilled until he gets

895
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 1: back to the NFL. So I've just kind of looked

896
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: at it and said, it's when not if.

897
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 2: I tend to agree. I don't really have a ton

898
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: else to add, but the two things that saying nowt One,

899
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 2: he's got the contract on his desk, and two, I

900
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 2: think he just said it is like, you know, if

901
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 2: you believe the reports. And I even remember talking to

902
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 2: Bernie Fratto about this at the time. I mean, it

903
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 2: felt like he went to Minnesota expecting that he was

904
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 2: going to be offered the Vikings job. Yeah, and he

905
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 2: was going to accept it that day. The last Harball

906
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 2: thought is I want to get some other college football

907
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 2: stuff here in just a minute. The other thing too, Jason,

908
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 2: I haven't heard anybody really mention that. I do think

909
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 2: is important. I think there's a lot of guys that

910
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 2: when they have a good thing going in college, it's like, Okay, well,

911
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 2: if the perfect situation came about, yeah, like I would

912
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 2: consider it. I bring it up because last year, if

913
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 2: you remember Jim Harbad at least had conversations with the

914
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers, had conversations with the Denver Broncos when I

915
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 2: think we all thought the Denver Broncos was kind of

916
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 2: a lost cause. And obviously Sean Payton has done a

917
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 2: lot of good to kind of write that ship. But

918
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 2: I just bring it up because I don't know what

919
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 2: the job would be. But it's not like, well, if

920
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 2: I can't get the Chargers with Justin Herbert, I'm just

921
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 2: not going to the NFL. Like it just feels like

922
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 2: I get the sense from him that he believes that

923
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 2: he can win at any of those thirty two gigs.

924
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 2: And so that's just the last variable Jason is. I

925
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 2: don't think it's like, hey, if I don't get the

926
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 2: one job that is con elite, I'm gone. It feels

927
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 2: like he's at least talking to every last year, he

928
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 2: talked to everybody, And again, I don't think that if

929
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 2: I don't think that if it wasn't in a what

930
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 2: was deemed an elite job, that he would be afraid

931
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 2: to step in. So Fox Sports Radio error towards Jason Martin, Yeah,

932
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the Tireck dot Com studios Jason a

933
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 2: very other interesting story out of the Big ten this

934
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 2: week that I do want to get to before we do.

935
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 2: Let's toss it over the news desk Kevin Wired. What

936
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 2: is trending?

937
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a double header of NFL Action today

938
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 5: and the results of those games really shook up the

939
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 5: AFC playoff race going fin a little over an hour

940
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 5: ago in Los Angeles, the Bills, on a Tyler Bass

941
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 5: Field go with under a minute to go, beat the

942
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 5: Chargers twenty four to twenty two to vault themselves into

943
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 5: the number six spot in the AFC playoff standings. And

944
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 5: that was largely enabled by the fact that the Steelers

945
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 5: pounded the Bengals earlier today thirty four to eleven, and

946
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 5: the Bengals, who we're number six, now fall to number

947
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 5: ten and the Steelers leapfrog them into the number nine spots.

948
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 5: So as sing Stan's things stand right now, the Cleveland

949
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 5: Browns have the top wildcard spot at nine to five.

950
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 5: They're a half game ahead of Buffalo, who's nine and

951
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 5: six at the number six spot. The Colts and the

952
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 5: Texans are at seven and eight, tied at eight and six,

953
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 5: and then the Steelers right behind them by a half game,

954
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,839
Speaker 5: same with the Bengals also a half game behind there.

955
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 5: So this playoff race really tightening up. In the AFC

956
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,479
Speaker 5: Wild Card College Football, we do have one ball game

957
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 5: going on right now in Honolulu, a little under eleven

958
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 5: minutes to go, and this is another low scoring bowl game,

959
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 5: and we've seen a few of those, as the Coastal

960
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 5: Carolina Shauna Clairs leading San Jose State seven to nothing

961
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 5: and under eleven minutes ago in the third quarter. Just

962
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 5: about every actually every other bull game has gone final

963
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 5: on the day, Duke over Troit seventeen to ten in

964
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 5: the Birmingham Bowl. In the Camellia Bull It's Northern Illinois

965
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 5: holding off of Arkansas State twenty one to nineteen. The

966
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 5: Armed Forces Bullsaw Air Force beat James Madison thirty one

967
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 5: to twenty one. Georgia State runs away with it against

968
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 5: Utah State and the famous Iahoa Potato Bull forty five

969
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 5: to twenty two. The final there South Alabama with an

970
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 5: absolute dismantling of Eastern Michigan on their home field fifty

971
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 5: nine ten in the sixty eight Ventures Bowl, and in

972
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 5: Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Bullsaw Northwestern hold off Utah

973
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 5: fourteen to seven, and in the NBA got one game

974
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 5: still going on right now, otherwise everything else has gone final.

975
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 5: Mavericks beat the Spurs one forty four to one to nineteen.

976
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 5: Victor Webbin Yama hurt himself in pregame warmups. He stepped

977
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,720
Speaker 5: on a ball, so that caused him to sprain his ankle,

978
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 5: and the Spurs looked like they needed him as they

979
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 5: lost by twenty five points, and that game actually has

980
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 5: gone final. In Sacramento, Timberwolves do beat the Kings one

981
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 5: ten ninety eight. Everything has on final. In the Association,

982
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 5: Warriors over the Trailblazers one twenty six to one oh six. Mavericks,

983
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 5: as I said, beat the Spurs one forty four one nineteen.

984
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 5: Lakers pound the Thunder one twenty nine one twenty. Although

985
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 5: that game was a much bigger lead for the Lakers,

986
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 5: who have much of that the Thunder did make it

987
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 5: close at the end. Cavaliers over the Bulls one oh

988
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 5: nine ninety five, Jazz top the Raptors one twenty six

989
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,240
Speaker 5: one nineteen, nets and the Pistons are twenty sixth loss

990
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 5: in a row one twenty six one fifteen. Grizzlies over

991
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 5: the Hawks one twenty five one to nineteen. Rockets top

992
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 5: the Pelicans one oh six, one oh four, Magic over

993
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 5: the Pacers one seventeen one ten, Nuggets top the Hornets

994
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 5: one o two ninety five.

995
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 2: Couple of blowout.

996
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 5: Celtics beat the Clippers one forty five, one oh eight

997
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 5: Bucks on top of the Knicks one thirty one eleven.

998
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,720
Speaker 2: Back to you guys, Thank you very much, Kevin Wired.

999
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday, Eric Torres,

1000
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 2: Jason Martin broadcasting live from the Tireck dot com studios.

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1005
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Speaker 2: Before before the break, you and I were talking college football.

1006
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 2: But I mentioned fun week in college football as National

1007
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,240
Speaker 2: Signing Day was this week. And why I bring it up, Jason?

1008
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 2: There was there was a few interesting stories, most of

1009
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 2: which probably aren't worth discussing here on National Sports Talk Radio,

1010
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 2: but there was one that I do think was worth

1011
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 2: talking about, and it was the fact that the number

1012
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 2: one high school quarterback in America kid by the name

1013
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 2: of Dylan Ryola. If that name sounds familiar, his father

1014
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 2: is Dominic Ryola, who played in the NFL for years

1015
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:40,280
Speaker 2: and played for the Nebraska Cornhuskers well his youngest. His son,

1016
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 2: as a number one quarterback in America, had been committed

1017
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 2: to Georgia for about a year, and just a few

1018
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 2: days before National Signing Day, he flipped to his father's

1019
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 2: alma mater, meaning that the number one quarterback in America

1020
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 2: is going to Nebraska. Jason, I got a lot of thoughts.

1021
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 2: I don't want to get ahead of ourselves first reaction.

1022
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 2: First of all, I want to talk bigger picture Nebraska momentarily,

1023
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 2: but just your thought on that specific news nugget of

1024
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,800
Speaker 2: the number one quarterback in America going to Nebraska.

1025
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: Daddy has a lot of pull. I mean, that's first though.

1026
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: It's just like daddy's opinion matters, and Daddy carries a

1027
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: lot of weight, and I can't help I can't separate

1028
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,800
Speaker 1: it from this thought. This would be almost the immediate

1029
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: feeling about especially Okay, it's going to be Georgia and

1030
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: then it's Nebraska. How do you make that move? I

1031
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: like it for one reason, which is, and this is

1032
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: what I would have said if I was Dominic Ryola

1033
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,439
Speaker 1: in this case and I wanted him to go to Nebraska. Son,

1034
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: if you go to Nebraska and you're you know, you're

1035
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,919
Speaker 1: the guy, and I assume his dad thinks he's the guy.

1036
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: If you go there and win, they'll they may rename

1037
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: the entire state after you. If you go to Georgia

1038
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: and you win, you're just the next guy that won

1039
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 1: at Georgia. Like, how many people are really gonna remember

1040
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: the name Carson Beck in five years? Almost nobody. We're

1041
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: gonna remember Stetson Bennett because there was a story there

1042
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: the whole he was doubted, he was too small, he

1043
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: worked for the post office, you know, all of those

1044
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 1: kinds of things. We know all of that because there.

1045
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 2: Was a story in the National Championship too.

1046
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, but

1047
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I mean, I'll know, but most people

1048
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: aren't gonna know who Carson Beck is in five years.

1049
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: They're just gonna know what the program Georgia was. But

1050
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,800
Speaker 1: if you got to Nebraska and you bring them back,

1051
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: that story's gonna be an ESPN thirty for thirty. That

1052
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 1: story's gonna be a big ten network documentary. That's that

1053
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 1: one's gonna be all over the place, and you're gonna

1054
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: be an icon forever. Now, can you win? There's a

1055
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: completely different discussion. But if you go there and you

1056
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: carve your own path, especially considering the legend that your

1057
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: father was there, I can see I can see why

1058
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 1: it would seem appealing if you're really confident in yourself

1059
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: and your abilities. Yeah.

1060
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 2: So, and that's what stands out is, you know, you said,

1061
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 2: you know dad has sway. It feels to me like

1062
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 2: like Dad was mostly hands off because obviously the kid

1063
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 2: wasn't committed to And the crazy thing is just just

1064
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 2: reading stuff and hearing stuff, is that you know, this

1065
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 2: was a kid that listen, he's been a campus a

1066
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 2: ton of times, and and you know, there's been two

1067
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Speaker 2: or three times where Nebraska fans were hoping this was

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Speaker 2: the moment where he ended up, you know, signing with

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Speaker 2: Nebraska or committed to Nebraska or whatever, and it just

1070
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 2: wasn't right. It was the Scott Frost ear, it was

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00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 2: the early Matt Rule era. But I think it was

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00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 2: a combination of a bunch of different things. One of

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00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 2: which being the program is sort of going in the

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Speaker 2: right direction with Matt Ruhle. I think the fact that

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Speaker 2: the guy that you mentioned, Carson Beck, is coming back

1076
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 2: for another year and there really is no pathway to

1077
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 2: any playing time at all, you know, I think it

1078
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 2: makes Nebraska more appealing because he'll be able to get

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Speaker 2: on the field next season. Just bigger picture, you know,

1080
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 2: we're going to a twelve team playoff era. This is

1081
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Speaker 2: the NIO portal world, and I think we're seeing what

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00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,240
Speaker 2: I do think we're seeing, and it feels pretty obvious,

1083
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 2: but I think we're seeing a little bit of a

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00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 2: flattening of the talent in college football from the perspective

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00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 2: of you know, Alabama and Georgia and whoever, they just

1086
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 2: don't They still have insane talent. But I think george

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00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 2: has lost eighteen players to the portal or something, and

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00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,280
Speaker 2: those are all guys that weren't gonna play next year anyway.

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Speaker 2: But it does impact depth, and those are five stars

1090
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 2: that are going somewhere else. And so I just bring

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Speaker 2: it up Jason to say, I think this is the

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Speaker 2: first step. I certainly think Nebraska is on the right trajectory.

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00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if it can happen fast enough where

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Speaker 2: if this guy is a three, and if he is

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00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 2: that good and he's a three and done, can they

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Speaker 2: get into the twelve team playoff picture in the three

1097
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 2: years that he's there. I think it's gonna be tough

1098
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 2: just because to build an entire roster. But I just

1099
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 2: bring it up right because I do believe that I

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Speaker 2: think Nebraska's a program. In Nebraska fans, if you're listening,

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00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but it's the truth. I

1102
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 2: think there's a lot of people that have said it ain't.

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00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 2: That's the one that they're really gonna have trouble ever

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Speaker 2: getting back to where they were. And I don't think

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Speaker 2: they'll ever get back to three national championships in four years,

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00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 2: because I'll be honest. And by the way, for people

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00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 2: don't know, they won three national championships in four years

1108
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Speaker 2: in the nineties. I don't think they're gonna get back

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00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 2: to that level because I don't know that anybody is

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Speaker 2: gonna be able to win three championships in four years

1111
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 2: in a twelve team playoff era. But I do wonder

1112
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 2: in this portal world, this Nio world, as you said,

1113
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 2: that is a state that loves their corn Huskers. I

1114
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 2: do wonder if this is the first step towards maybe

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Speaker 2: they get back to something resembling what they once were

1116
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Speaker 2: because it's been a while.

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Speaker 1: Jason, Yeah, I also think there is. I think the

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Speaker 1: other thing that it signals is again, it's gonna be

1119
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 1: harder for a lot of these bigger schools to generate

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Speaker 1: the level of depth that they're used to. Like, if

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00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: I'm a five star quarterback and I'm a number one player,

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00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to play next year, why would

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Speaker 1: I go to your school? Not when? Not, when there's

1124
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Speaker 1: nil money elsewhere and where I can make a name

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Speaker 1: for myself elsewhere. I think the waiting for your turn

1126
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,760
Speaker 1: stuff that's gonna be the stuff we see to cintegrate

1127
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: in this new era because there's too much money and

1128
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: there's too much space, and there's too much opportunity elsewhere

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Speaker 1: for you to sit at Alabama for three years and

1130
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: then start as a senior Like that's just I don't

1131
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: think we're going to see as much of that, If

1132
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: No, I agree hundred percent. I agree hundred percent. And again,

1134
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 2: I think that's part of it, is there was a

1135
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 2: pathway to get on the field next year, right, And

1136
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Speaker 2: I'll just tell you I'm excited, Jason. You know, we'll

1137
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 2: wrap on this because I want to get to some

1138
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 2: other stuff here to close out the hour. But man, like,

1139
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 2: if I'm excited to see what what what Nebraska could

1140
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 2: potentially be it with this kid to build around, right,

1141
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 2: with this kid, to sell portal players this winter, the

1142
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 2: next recruiting class. Because you know, I know the cliche

1143
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:07,959
Speaker 2: of like college football is better when X program is good,

1144
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,280
Speaker 2: but I do think there's something to that big Red

1145
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 2: that fan base is so loyal. We know about the

1146
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 2: sellout streat dating back to the sixties, Jason, if they

1147
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 2: could ever get good again, I do think that would

1148
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 2: be great for college football.

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00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I definitely think that's I mean, there

1150
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: are some schools where it's just like man in college football.

1151
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: If it could be relevant there again, it would be

1152
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: really really good for the sport, just from the tradition

1153
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 1: standpoint that you and I are old enough to remember

1154
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: what it was like when Nebraska was one of those schools,

1155
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 1: and we've seen a few of those schools kind of

1156
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: re emerge just in the last handful of years, and

1157
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: they would be it would be good to see that happen.

1158
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: I think the challenge is great considering where they are

1159
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: in the country and what they have to offer. But

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00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: you get a five star quarterback, maybe some other players

1161
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: want to go play around him, and that's how you

1162
00:57:58,280 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: can build.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox or Radio Eron Torris Jason Martin broadcasting

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00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 2: live from the tyrec dot com studios. Coming up another

1165
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Speaker 2: very interesting story out of college football that could mean

1166
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 2: major change for the entire sport. That's next Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: couple of tweets I want to get to really quick

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Speaker 2: Matt Vassi or Vasy, however you say your name, Matt,

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Speaker 2: I apologize, but he said listening from Nebraska. Appreciate the

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Speaker 2: conversation about the corn Huskers. Well, we appreciate you listening, Matt.

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Speaker 2: Jason me who does listen to us regularly, did tweet

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Speaker 2: in as well. He said, thank you Aaron Torres and

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Speaker 2: Jason Martin for being part of my life every Saturday

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Speaker 2: night with the Super Saturday Sweet Show. That's a lot

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Speaker 2: of s's. And then John Molina says, third week in

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Speaker 2: a row, I've listened to you guys in this time slot.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for what you do. Thank you everybody listening

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00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 2: to us. You know, Jason, one thing I will say

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Speaker 2: is that, you know, uh, like it's a weird thing

1186
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 2: to say, right, we're national sports talk radio. We have

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Speaker 2: a lot of great people that work here. But I

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00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 2: do think sometimes we all take for granted how many

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Speaker 2: people are listening, and you know, the opportunity that we

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Speaker 2: have to keep people entertained, whether they're in a car,

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Speaker 2: whether they're at work. You know, it's it's past midnight

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Speaker 2: Eastern on Christmas eve Day. But again, I know a

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Speaker 2: lot of people are at work, Jason. I know a

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00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 2: lot of people are traveling. And so it is our

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Speaker 2: great honor, honestly, to on a night like tonight, when

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Speaker 2: when when so many people are either going to see family,

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Speaker 2: coming to see family, or or you know, working to

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Speaker 2: pay the bills, whatever it may be, it's such a

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Speaker 2: privilege to be on air tonight.

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Speaker 1: No doubt, and it also puts that responsibility on us

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Speaker 1: that we want to make sure that what we're saying

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Speaker 1: is entertaining, keeping you awake, keeping you informed, giving you

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Speaker 1: something to think about, maybe giving you something to yell about,

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Speaker 1: but hopefully for a legit reason, not just to create content.

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Speaker 1: And I think that one thing I do appreciate about

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Speaker 1: about our show is that we do kind of just

1207
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Speaker 1: try to think things through and we're just gonna talk

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Speaker 1: to you, like I don't really have any interest in

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Speaker 1: trying to raise your emotions if there's not a legit

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Speaker 1: reason to do so. Now, luckily, Jimbo Fisher exists, and

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Speaker 1: luckily there are people that give us plenty of that

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Speaker 1: as we get towards the end of the year and

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Speaker 1: we can look back at another crazy year in sports.

1214
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Speaker 1: But man, we're almost to the postseason in the NFL

1215
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Speaker 1: and we're there were seven bowl games I think played

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. I saw you, I know you commented that

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Speaker 1: there's not too many bowl games. There may not be,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't have any interest in any of the

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Speaker 1: ones that were played on Saturday. With no disrespect intended

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Speaker 1: to any alumni of those. I know you didn't care

1221
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Speaker 1: about the famous Toastery Bowl that my Western Kentucky University

1222
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Speaker 1: Hilltoppers came back and won, even though that was a

1223
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Speaker 1: great finish. I know, but those games did not have

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Speaker 1: my interest. How much of those games did you actually watch?

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Speaker 2: Well? I mean, today's kind of an unfair day because

1226
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Speaker 2: I was out doing shit, shopping and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: But I think two things can be true. So I

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Speaker 2: equate bowl games Jason the non playoff ones. I equate

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Speaker 2: it to regular season baseball. Is I like having it

1230
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Speaker 2: on in the background, especially next week? Like this is

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Speaker 2: the part and people say there's too many Bowl games.

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Speaker 2: It's like a lot of people are fortunate enough to

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Speaker 2: have the week off between Christmas and New Year's and

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Speaker 2: it's something to watch. It's a Tuesday afternoon, you got

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Speaker 2: the week off, why not watch? You know Rutgers? You

1236
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 2: know Miami? I don't. And actually that is a real

1237
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Speaker 2: Bowl game this year.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I just to me, that's what I equate Bowl season two?

1240
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 2: Is is it?

1241
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Speaker 1: The meaning?

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Speaker 2: Uh not everything has to be everything is basically what

1243
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Not everything has to be for a championship

1244
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 2: for whatever. And I enjoy it. But I do see

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01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:14,200
Speaker 2: your point. I'd be lying if I said I rushed

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Speaker 2: home to watch Duke and Troy today when I was

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Speaker 2: in the middle of our Christmas shopping.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, they just weren't very juicy matchups in terms,

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Speaker 1: and you don't know that much about most of the

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01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 1: schools that were playing. But I mean, it wasn't that

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Speaker 1: there were a couple of close games. It was still

1252
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: something that you could turn on. I don't disagree with

1253
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Speaker 1: your overarching point about yeah, why not throw it on,

1254
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: but it was hard to justify making time for those

1255
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Speaker 1: games today.

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Speaker 2: It is a good thing is that we will get

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Speaker 2: many more big bowl games next week, the Cotton Bowl,

1258
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Speaker 2: which we discussed earlier, of course, the Orange Bowl with

1259
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Speaker 2: Florida State and Georgia and many others leading into the

1260
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Speaker 2: college football playoff. Fox Sports Radio Air Torus, Jason Martin,

1261
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Speaker 2: coming back, a lot of NFL, Fox Sports Trato, Welcome

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Speaker 2: in everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Football Live, Eric Torres,

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Speaker 2: Bernie Frado Show is following us. We know Bernie's got

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Speaker 2: a jam pack show that is at two am Eastern. Again,

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Speaker 2: we were taking you up till the top of the hour.

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Speaker 2: By the way, one correction from those tweets that I

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Speaker 2: read last hour, John Malina corrected me. He said this,

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Speaker 2: I said, this is the third week in a row

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Speaker 2: he's been listening. He said, it's the third Christmas season

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Speaker 2: in a row that he's been listening to us. Jason, So, John,

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Speaker 2: appreciate your support.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and again no, there's a lot of people just

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Speaker 2: traveling in cars, you know, maybe at work at a

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Speaker 2: time of year where you don't want to be at

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Speaker 2: work when you want to be with friends and families.

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Speaker 2: So we appreciate everybody's support. We appreciate everything that you

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Speaker 2: guys do for us to allow us to do what

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Speaker 2: we love. And as Jason said last hour, we will

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Speaker 2: keep you entertained until the top of the hour when

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fratto takes over. Jason, let's get back to the

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Speaker 2: lead story of the evening. That is, of course, the

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Speaker 2: big NFL result, and it was a big one. The

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Chargers hosting the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo, of course,

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Speaker 2: was coming in off on a two game winning streak

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Speaker 2: and two really impressive wins. You beat the Kansas City

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Speaker 2: Chiefs and then you dominate, dominate, dominate, dominate the Dallas

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Speaker 2: Cowboys last week. Then you gotta fly cross country. You

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Speaker 2: got one day's less rest. When the Chargers, it's worth noting,

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Speaker 2: had the extra long week because of course they played

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Speaker 2: last Thursday, so they had really three extra days rest.

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Speaker 2: To you. You played Sunday, meet the Cowboys at home. Domination,

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01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 2: emotional win. You gotta fly all the way across country.

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Speaker 2: Play a day early on Saturday. It wasn't pretty, but

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Speaker 2: they get the not quite walk off field goal, final

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01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 2: field goal with about a minute to go. The Buffalo

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01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 2: Bills take care of the Los Angeles Chargers improved to

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01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 2: nine and six and not only are very much in

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Speaker 2: the playoff picture, they do have one of those wildcard

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01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 2: spots as of right now. It is worth noting if

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Speaker 2: they were to win out, they would need Miami to

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Speaker 2: lose tomorrow to Dallas or next week. But if Buffalo

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Speaker 2: wins out, they would be potentially playing the Dolphins to

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Speaker 2: win the division. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The

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Speaker 2: point I'm trying to make the playoffs start today. They

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Speaker 2: are in they close at New England, Miami at home,

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Speaker 2: and they're playing some good football.

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Speaker 1: Jayson, Yeah, they are. And twenty four to twenty two.

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Speaker 1: You can look at in a number of different ways.

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01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 1: Two really key ways are they won or they won.

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01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the first one. They dominated Dallas

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01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 1: last week, they beat Kansas City the week before that.

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01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: They've been in win now mode and they've been in

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Speaker 1: must win mode for the last month. It feels like

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Speaker 1: and they are peaking. And Josh Allen has been good

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Speaker 1: all year, but he's been great as of late. They

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Speaker 1: have discovered a little bit of something with Cook. Even

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Speaker 1: though he fumbled last night, they were able to overcome

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Speaker 1: it and beat the Chargers. That would have been a

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Speaker 1: horrible loss, but it's a good win just because they won.

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Speaker 1: Because you're not in college. If you have the record

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Speaker 1: that gets you into the playoffs, you have the record

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Speaker 1: that gets you into the playoffs. So right now they do.

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Speaker 1: They control their destiny when it comes to that, it's

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Speaker 1: all as they keep winning, they're gonna make it into

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Speaker 1: the postseason. I think the playoffs are better for having

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Speaker 1: the Bills in it. I want to see Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I want to see what that team

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Speaker 1: is capable of doing a year removed from what happened

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Speaker 1: against Cincinnati, and just kind of I want to see

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Speaker 1: what Sean McDermott's got maybe for maybe going into what

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01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: might be the last time he's gonna be coaching this

1339
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:58,439
Speaker 1: team in the postseason. We'll see. But in a wide

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01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 1: open AFC where there are flaws to be found everywhere,

1341
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,920
Speaker 1: there's no reason why the Bills can't find their way

1342
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. There's just not. Even with the

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01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 1: injuries they've sustained, they find themselves playing the best football

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01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: they've played all year, and they have everything in front

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Speaker 1: of them. So I think this was all gravy because

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01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: they went west coast on a Saturday night, holiday weekend

1347
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 1: weird game, didn't have their a game, but the defense

1348
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:26,479
Speaker 1: stepped up late, sacked easton Stick, repeatedly, forced field goals

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Speaker 1: all night long, and they found a way to kick

1350
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Speaker 1: a field goal win the game, going away on the

1351
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Speaker 1: road in the NFL in conference when they had to

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Speaker 1: I don't see a negative here. I look at it

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Speaker 1: and say, the Bills are the Bills are doing what

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Speaker 1: they have to do. I mean, look, the Bengals could

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Speaker 1: have won too, and they didn't, and their playoff number

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01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: drump from forty percent before the game started to like

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01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 1: twelve or something now. So we aren't talking about the

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Speaker 1: Bills that way because they came out with the W.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. And I tend to see the game the

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Speaker 2: same way that you did. I think they're you know, listen,

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Speaker 2: there is this is football, right. We get that there's

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01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:04,720
Speaker 2: only seventeen games as a sample size in the regular season,

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01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 2: and so we overreact to all of them. And I

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01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:10,480
Speaker 2: totally get it, I really do. But I also think

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Speaker 2: context does matter here, and I think everything that we've

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Speaker 2: just said, as far as the setup to this game,

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Speaker 2: having one day less, less time to prepare all that stuff,

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01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 2: having a fly cross country, it's a total net positive.

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Speaker 2: And then I think the other thing is what you

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Speaker 2: just mentioned, Jason, is and we talked about this last week,

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Speaker 2: but it's so crazy because we come into the year

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Speaker 2: and we just oh, I mean the AFC is just

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Speaker 2: so stacked, and I mean, who's gonna possibly come out

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Speaker 2: on top. I mean, you have the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: They've made won two of the last three Super Bowls

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Speaker 2: or whatever it is, two of the last four. I

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Speaker 2: guess it would have been. They're unbelievable, three of the

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01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:52,280
Speaker 2: last four super Bowls they've been in. And Jacksonville they're

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01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 2: on the rise. They could get the number one seed

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Speaker 2: with that schedule. And how about those Cincinnati Bengals. Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 2: you don't want anything to do with them now. Joe

1382
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:05,400
Speaker 2: burrowshert Kansas City, I just haven't figured it out. We

1383
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 2: keep waiting for them to turn a corner. They don't.

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01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,559
Speaker 2: Jacksonville is struggling. Obviously, we have to give credit where

1385
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 2: it's due with Baltimore, but we know Baltimore's playoff history

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Speaker 2: with Lamar Jackson. Doesn't mean Lamar's supporters that just because

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Speaker 2: he hasn't done it yet doesn't mean that this isn't

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Speaker 2: the year he will do it.

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Speaker 1: This should be the year. This should be the year.

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Speaker 1: You've got a defensive coordinator that may end up being

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Speaker 1: a head coach in this cycle who's done an awesome

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Speaker 1: job at McDonald. You've got weapons for Lamar Jackson, it's

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Speaker 1: more of his offense. You've gotten rid of what you

1394
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: had that had to go when it came to Greg

1395
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: Roman and that offense. You've won some games and looked

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01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:42,680
Speaker 1: impressive doing it. Even the games you've lost, for the

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01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:45,000
Speaker 1: most part, have been very very close, hard fought games.

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Speaker 1: I think the game he lost against the Coles probably

1399
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,839
Speaker 1: you might have been screwed in that game, for example.

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01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:51,679
Speaker 1: Maybe you've got it back a couple of weeks later.

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01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 1: This should be the year, and I'm not willing to

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01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:56,720
Speaker 1: say they can't do it, but if they don't, that

1403
01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:59,759
Speaker 1: criticism that comes after it is going to be warranted.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question. We're gonna do our

1405
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:06,679
Speaker 2: official previews next week, obviously if you win this week.

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01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 2: The Baltimore Ravens are of course playing the San Francisco

1407
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:12,439
Speaker 2: forty nine Ers, uh the late game on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 2: So it was funny last week we were talking about

1409
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Speaker 2: how you know, the NFL schedules, they put so much

1410
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 2: time into it and then you get a game like

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Speaker 2: Chargers Bills tonight, which certainly didn't have the impact that

1412
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Speaker 2: we thought it was. No justin Herbert whatever. I bring

1413
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 2: it up because I think even the most optimistic of

1414
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,520
Speaker 2: NFL schedule makers did not think that Baltimore San Francisco

1415
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 2: would be quite as big as it ended up being.

1416
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Speaker 2: That is, again, the Monday night game in San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: I know we're gonna do our official preview in just

1418
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 2: a minute. I don't want to steal any spotlight away

1419
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:43,680
Speaker 2: from it. But since you bring up the Ravens, you're

1420
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 2: going to San Francisco. Obviously a win there, you know,

1421
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 2: you know, I listen. I think you could be talking

1422
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 2: about them. Are they the Super I think you can

1423
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:53,640
Speaker 2: talk Are they Super Bowl favorites? If you win in

1424
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 2: San Francisco. I just bring it up. What a loss there?

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01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 2: And assuming it's not like, you know, forty one to

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Speaker 2: three and Lamar Jackson gets held to you know, eleven

1427
01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 2: of twenty eight passing in thirty five yards rushing. I mean,

1428
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:14,440
Speaker 2: if they win, if they don't win, but it's respectable,

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01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 2: does that change your opinion at all? Because I mean,

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01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 2: you just laid out why this should be the year.

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01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 2: The one part you didn't mention, by the way, your

1432
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 2: position to get home field advantage, the extra buy all

1433
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 2: of that matters. Is there anything that you would see

1434
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 2: on Monday, assuming that it's just not an outright debacle,

1435
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:36,559
Speaker 2: that would have you concerned about the Ravens if they

1436
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Speaker 2: do not win.

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Speaker 1: You're talking not you mean against the forty nine forty

1438
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:44,719
Speaker 1: nine Ers this weekend? Yeah, no, no, not at all.

1439
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:47,760
Speaker 1: It's only it's only going to matter until it doesn't. Now,

1440
01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 1: if you lose that game and you fall apart and

1441
01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:53,160
Speaker 1: the postseason goes poorly, maybe we have a discussion and

1442
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 1: we can kind of point back and say, this is

1443
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:58,679
Speaker 1: kind of when when it all went wrong. Interestingly enough,

1444
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 1: this is a little off topic, but not entirely. I

1445
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 1: was reading the article on ESPN from I guess the

1446
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: Chargers beat writer about the end of the Brandon Stalely era,

1447
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: and you know when he lost the team? Take a

1448
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:11,679
Speaker 1: wild guess when he lost the team.

1449
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 2: When he lost the team. My guess would be that

1450
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:18,439
Speaker 2: that game against the Ravens where it's.

1451
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: The Jaguars game the last year we were on the

1452
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:21,559
Speaker 1: air Force.

1453
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:23,439
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, okay, that's.

1454
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 1: When he started to lose the team. Was with with

1455
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:28,840
Speaker 1: his comments to the team in the locker room.

1456
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 2: What did he say?

1457
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: And he came in the locker room and he said, guys,

1458
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:36,839
Speaker 1: games like this happened in the NFL. Oh No, players

1459
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: were like get out of here, and he lost the team. Okay,

1460
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 1: So I don't mean to make my point being you

1461
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: can point we can point back and say that was

1462
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 1: when it was really over. Like you can start to say, yeah, well,

1463
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, he's making a couple of bad decisions. Prior

1464
01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 1: to that, lating games. We were talking about game management

1465
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: and all these things and analytics. But it was there

1466
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:58,640
Speaker 1: where we were on air and said I would not

1467
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:01,040
Speaker 1: bring him back, and you can point back to that

1468
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:03,680
Speaker 1: and say that. I think same thing here, like if

1469
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:08,320
Speaker 1: the Ravens, if the Ravens get get demolished, right, then

1470
01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: they're just another team that got demolished until they go

1471
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 1: to the posts. If they go to the playoffs and

1472
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,600
Speaker 1: they're exposed and they get beat early again, then we

1473
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: can have that conversation and maybe we point back to

1474
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 1: this game. Otherwise, Look, the forty nine ers, even though

1475
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:23,800
Speaker 1: I think they are by far the best and most

1476
01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 1: dangerous team in the league this season. I mean, they've

1477
01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: got three losses. There are games that they have lost,

1478
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 1: and so I don't think there's anything in the regular season.

1479
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:37,479
Speaker 1: Am I out on Dallas because they got dominated at Buffalo? No,

1480
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:41,400
Speaker 1: I mean not particularly. I think that's I think that's

1481
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:43,640
Speaker 1: something we're gonna have to look at right now. The

1482
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:46,360
Speaker 1: forty nine ers just look like they're better than everybody else.

1483
01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:49,519
Speaker 1: I think that it's all good for Baltimore. If Baltimore

1484
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:52,640
Speaker 1: can beat San Francisco, then we have a talk. But

1485
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: I think if they lose, they're just another team that

1486
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: lost to the forty nine ers, and that's a pretty

1487
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 1: impressive list this season that they've already beaten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll get back to that game here in

1489
01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:03,800
Speaker 2: just a few minutes. We do our previews every week

1490
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 2: at one twenty Eastern time, so about ten minutes from now,

1491
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:11,080
Speaker 2: we'll dive into that one from the Buffalo perspective. I

1492
01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:12,800
Speaker 2: know we talked about it earlier, but for those who

1493
01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:16,640
Speaker 2: weren't around, you know, we did just talk about how

1494
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 2: wide open the AFC is and how many question marks

1495
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 2: there are, and even Baltimore, I still think even if

1496
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 2: they they're trending as a number one seed, this is

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01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 2: a team that again that you know, they have not

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01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 2: yet had that postseason success that I think you want

1499
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:33,639
Speaker 2: to see. I bring it up to say if Buffalo

1500
01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:37,719
Speaker 2: gets in, I mean, are they're as dangerous as anybody?

1501
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:41,439
Speaker 2: Right because they're just it feels like they're gonna get in. Obviously,

1502
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 2: they've won three in a row. They have New England

1503
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:45,040
Speaker 2: next week, so you think it's gonna be four in

1504
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:47,960
Speaker 2: a row going into a season finale against Miami. I mean,

1505
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:52,160
Speaker 2: you beat Miami, then he actually win the division maybe possibly,

1506
01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 2: and if not, you're still on a five game winning streak.

1507
01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 2: But even if you don't beat Miami, that's four or

1508
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 2: five going into the playoffs. So it just feels like,

1509
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 2: I mean, that's not a team that I would want

1510
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:03,920
Speaker 2: to play. And it sounds like you feel much the same.

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01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:07,720
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean they're they're the one team that's sort

1512
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: of we're not sure they're gonna make the playoffs that

1513
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: I could see actually win the whole thing for sure,

1514
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:15,200
Speaker 1: Like that's and and or certainly you talk about the

1515
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: proverbial team you don't want to see. They're the team

1516
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: I could see getting out of the AFC if they

1517
01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: were to make the playoffs. And right now, that's that's

1518
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: what we would see, is them make the playoffs. They

1519
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 1: are good enough and Allen especial enough that they can

1520
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:32,519
Speaker 1: put it together and that we're starting to see what

1521
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:34,559
Speaker 1: that looks like. If you can do that to Dallas,

1522
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 1: I know it is a home game, but if you

1523
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:38,520
Speaker 1: can do that to Dallas, you can beat anybody.

1524
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 7: Uh.

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01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 1: And it wasn't because they beat Dallas. It's because they

1526
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:45,920
Speaker 1: beat Dallas down. That is why it stands out to me.

1527
01:15:46,040 --> 01:15:47,720
Speaker 1: There's a lot of these other teams that we're not

1528
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: sure they're gonna get in. If they do, are they

1529
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 1: gonna make noise? The noise is gonna be minimal. This

1530
01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: could be a thunderous megaphone, you know, yell, It could

1531
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 1: be a vuvuzela at the World Cup years ago kind

1532
01:15:59,880 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 1: of noise, like they can make massive noise. Cand of

1533
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:03,800
Speaker 1: Bills if they get in.

1534
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 2: Bills take care of the Chargers today and again the

1535
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 2: Steelers take care of the Cincinnati Bengals. Tell you what,

1536
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,800
Speaker 2: Jason will come back when we do. It is time

1537
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 2: to dive into a very intriguing week sixteen slate. Three

1538
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 2: games are in the books, three finals are in the books,

1539
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:25,639
Speaker 2: But we got some big ones tomorrow and Monday, Christmas Day.

1540
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 2: We're gonna do that next. Before we do, though, should

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1547
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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Traty. Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio,

1548
01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 2: Eric Torris, Jaysonmartin. We are broadcasting live from tyreck dot

1549
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:02,040
Speaker 2: com studios wherever you are list thing to us. Happy Holidays.

1550
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 2: We appreciate you making us a part of your Saturday

1551
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 2: every week, but especially this time of year. We know

1552
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 2: again so many people are traveling, friends and family, et cetera.

1553
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 2: We appreciate your support. It is one twenty Eastern and

1554
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 2: run around this time every single week. Jason, we do

1555
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 2: previous NFL games, so we got a busy week sixteen.

1556
01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 2: I don't think it's hyperbolic, Jason to say two potential

1557
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:32,639
Speaker 2: Super Bowl previews now. I think what we just talked

1558
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 2: about is the more likely one. I don't think this

1559
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 2: first game is the most insane possibility. Though, even if

1560
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:41,680
Speaker 2: I don't think it's like, go ahead, Jeff, pat what

1561
01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:42,640
Speaker 2: game were we started with?

1562
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 7: Al Right, boys, we're gonna go Like Jason said, I mean,

1563
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 7: I'm sorry what Aaron said. Maybe not the favorite, but

1564
01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 7: it's still a up there possibility. We got the Dallas

1565
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:57,559
Speaker 7: Cowboys taking on the Miami Dolphins, and Miami is home.

1566
01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 7: By the way, guys, it's a battle to ten and

1567
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 7: four record holders right now, and funny enough, Miami is

1568
01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 7: home and hold it. They are the favorite two and

1569
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 7: a half points. Aaron, start us off right, who we

1570
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 7: feeling right now? I want to ask you a question, Jayson.

1571
01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 2: This was the cliche talking point on probably pretty much

1572
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:19,640
Speaker 2: every TV show I saw, and and of course you

1573
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:24,280
Speaker 2: know a lot of the shows here on our airwaves. Dallas,

1574
01:18:24,280 --> 01:18:27,320
Speaker 2: of course, is coming off a loss. Miami really has

1575
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 2: beaten no enough consequence in your opinion. Is there one

1576
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:33,960
Speaker 2: team that quote unquote needs this win more?

1577
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: In your opinion, they'll both have the opportunity to overcome it.

1578
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:41,920
Speaker 1: But all right, so if the Cowboys lose here, that

1579
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:43,799
Speaker 1: means they will have lost to the Bills and Dolphins

1580
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:45,280
Speaker 1: in back to back weeks, and we're going to be

1581
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 1: back to the this is the same old Cowboys talk

1582
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,639
Speaker 1: right exactly, Like, I think that's that's that's very fair.

1583
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:53,839
Speaker 1: Dolphins haven't beat anybody. If they don't beat the Cowboys,

1584
01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 1: that's just going to continue the way we have already

1585
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 1: felt about them. So actually, I think the Cowboys have

1586
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 1: more to lose because the perspective on them right now

1587
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:05,440
Speaker 1: is higher, I think than that with the Dolphins.

1588
01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:08,599
Speaker 2: I actually tend to agree with you. I think that

1589
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:12,760
Speaker 2: listen the Dolphins. The Dolphins like it's still kind of

1590
01:19:12,760 --> 01:19:15,840
Speaker 2: fresh and new and exciting now. And the other thing

1591
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:18,800
Speaker 2: too is Tyreek Hill. I think it's trending to play

1592
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:21,160
Speaker 2: in this game, but we don't really know just yet.

1593
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 2: But I just bring it up for this reason is

1594
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:28,160
Speaker 2: that I do think, for whatever reason, it feels to

1595
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 2: me like if the Dolphins lose this game one, they

1596
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 2: still have a game with Buffalo where they have a

1597
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 2: chance to prove, hey, you know, we could beat teams

1598
01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:37,599
Speaker 2: when it matters the most. I think if Dallas were

1599
01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 2: also to have Baltimore, that's right, that's right, good call, goo,

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01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:41,320
Speaker 2: Cause so really the.

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01:19:41,280 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 1: Lesser games are Cowboys, Ravens, Bills.

1602
01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 2: That is insane. So I think it probably I think

1603
01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:52,120
Speaker 2: a loss would be more damaging from the perspective of

1604
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys in terms of the game. Jason, I

1605
01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 2: have no real rhyme or reason. I just I do think.

1606
01:20:02,680 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 2: I like the Dolphins. I know that they have not

1607
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:08,920
Speaker 2: played great against great teams, and I know Dallas is

1608
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 2: coming off, you know, the loss to Buffalo, which we've

1609
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 2: talked about plenty on today's show. But I think it's

1610
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 2: a lot of travel late in the year for the Cowboys.

1611
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:20,559
Speaker 2: And the thing about the Dolphins is, you know, you

1612
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 2: let them get hot, like you know they could be

1613
01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:26,760
Speaker 2: up seventeen to three before you even blink. I don't

1614
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:30,360
Speaker 2: necessarily think that's gonna happen. There is no real reason,

1615
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 2: like I have no well, I think that this you know,

1616
01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 2: this matchup favors the Dolphins, and I think the Cowboys

1617
01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 2: are screwed here. My gut just tells me that Miami

1618
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 2: at home will get this win.

1619
01:20:44,120 --> 01:20:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't I'm taking the Cowboys, but I can understand

1620
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 1: your thought process. And one of the big reasons why

1621
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 1: it's not the obvious reason. The offense. We know they

1622
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:58,879
Speaker 1: can be dynamic, but this defense has quietly been really

1623
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:01,639
Speaker 1: strong outside of the game where they gave up twenty seven.

1624
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:04,480
Speaker 1: They haven't given up twenty since they played the Panthers

1625
01:21:04,520 --> 01:21:09,599
Speaker 1: two months ago. Wow, this has been seventeen, seventeen, fourteen, thirteen, thirteen, fifteen.

1626
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:12,559
Speaker 1: That outlier with the Titans twenty seven, the comeback game

1627
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: and then or the twenty eight. I guess as they

1628
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 1: lost and then a blank last week against the Jets,

1629
01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:22,840
Speaker 1: they stopped everybody defensively. So that's what they're going to need,

1630
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 1: is they're gonna need to find a way to corral

1631
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:28,160
Speaker 1: Dak and keep that offense under control. I just think

1632
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:31,240
Speaker 1: I don't see that. I believe in the Cowboys more

1633
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:33,559
Speaker 1: than I believe in the Dolphins. Right now. I'm still

1634
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:36,800
Speaker 1: kind of on the fraud line with the Dolphins when

1635
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 1: it comes to top line opposition. And it's not because

1636
01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: I don't believe in their components. It's just that team

1637
01:21:43,080 --> 01:21:44,919
Speaker 1: right now, I just don't feel as complete.

1638
01:21:45,360 --> 01:21:47,599
Speaker 2: They have a chance to get things, you know, to prove.

1639
01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:49,880
Speaker 2: But I think both teams have a chance to kind

1640
01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 2: of prove the doubters, if you will wrong, Pat, what's

1641
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:55,719
Speaker 2: our next game? All right? Now? Boys?

1642
01:21:55,760 --> 01:22:00,000
Speaker 7: We have a probable and probably the favorite Super Bowl matchup.

1643
01:22:00,520 --> 01:22:04,639
Speaker 7: It is the Baltimore Ravens sitting at eleven and three.

1644
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:10,160
Speaker 7: They are going up against another big bad team, the

1645
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 7: San Francisco forty nine Ers, also at eleven and three.

1646
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:17,320
Speaker 7: Niners are home, by the way, and we're gonna go

1647
01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 7: with a trend here. The home team is also the favorite,

1648
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 7: but the favorite is a little bit outweighed here. San

1649
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 7: Francisco favored by six points. Jason, how are we feeling

1650
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 7: with that? You like the six points or no?

1651
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:35,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I think the Niners are the best

1652
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:37,320
Speaker 1: team at football. I think they're at home. That's a

1653
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: tough place to go play all the way across across

1654
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:44,639
Speaker 1: the country on holiday on Christmas Day. For my money,

1655
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:48,559
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey has been the most important player on the field,

1656
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:51,639
Speaker 1: and I think he's got a chance to be the MVP.

1657
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 1: I know we're having the Brock Party discussion. He's been awesome.

1658
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: McCaffrey is the difference maker. I think Lamar probably goes

1659
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:01,320
Speaker 1: out there and plays pretty well, but Kyle Shanahan, the

1660
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: way that he has set up that offense, I don't

1661
01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: know if anybody can stop them right now. I think

1662
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:08,240
Speaker 1: that they are the juggernaut of juggernauts in the NFL,

1663
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:11,800
Speaker 1: and I just don't see this Baltimore team ready for

1664
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 1: that challenge right now.

1665
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:15,680
Speaker 2: The only thing that gives me a little bit of trepidation,

1666
01:23:16,080 --> 01:23:18,680
Speaker 2: and we talked about this a few weeks ago, Baltimore's

1667
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:23,400
Speaker 2: track record against the NFC teams is unbelievable because you

1668
01:23:23,479 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 2: just don't see Lamar Jackson that often. They beat the

1669
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 2: Lions thirty eight to six, they beat the Seahawks thirty

1670
01:23:30,479 --> 01:23:32,799
Speaker 2: seven to three, and the Rams.

1671
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:33,960
Speaker 1: That's a really good point.

1672
01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:37,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my concern. That's where the six feels a

1673
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:39,840
Speaker 2: lot to me. They did win by six against the

1674
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:42,240
Speaker 2: Rams in LA a few weeks or in Baltimore a

1675
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 2: few weeks ago. Excuse me with that said. The talent,

1676
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 2: the front end talent on the forty nine ers defense.

1677
01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 2: I think San Francisco wins because I think they're gonna

1678
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:58,040
Speaker 2: shut them down in a way that none of those

1679
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 2: other teams did. The six points from a betting perspective

1680
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 2: feels like too many to me. I'll say something like,

1681
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 2: you know, twenty eight, twenty four, the forty nine Ers

1682
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:14,920
Speaker 2: win on Monday night, tell you what, Jason will come back.

1683
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:17,760
Speaker 2: We'll preview a couple other games. I just put a

1684
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 2: bow on a really fun Week seventeen or Week sixteen

1685
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:23,280
Speaker 2: in the NFL. We'll do that momentarily. Before we do, though,

1686
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 2: let's toss it over the news desk Kevin Wyre, What

1687
01:24:26,479 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 2: is trending, my friend?

1688
01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1689
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 5: The AFC playoff race saw a lot of change today

1690
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:34,559
Speaker 5: because we had an NFL double header in which the

1691
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 5: Bills held off the Chargers twenty four to twenty two.

1692
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 5: So Buffalo is now nine to six on the season,

1693
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 5: and they get themselves into that number six spot in

1694
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:46,680
Speaker 5: the AFC playoff race, and their ability to climb was

1695
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 5: largely made because the Steelers really beat the Bengals hard

1696
01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 5: today thirty four to two eleven, and that drops Cincinnati

1697
01:24:54,479 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 5: down to the number ten spot. They were previously number six,

1698
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 5: and the Steelers leapfrogged them into number nine. So the

1699
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 5: way the playoff standings look in the wildcard race in

1700
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 5: the AFC, Cleveland is at number five. They're nine to

1701
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:09,879
Speaker 5: five on the season. They're half game ahead of Buffalo,

1702
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:13,560
Speaker 5: who's nine and six. Buffalo is ahead of both Indianapolis

1703
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 5: and Houston. They're both eight and six in the seven

1704
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:18,240
Speaker 5: and eight spots, and those two teams a half game

1705
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 5: ahead of both the Steelers and Bengals. They are nine

1706
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 5: and ten, respectively. So this playoff race really tightening up

1707
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:27,439
Speaker 5: as we have two plus weeks I guess left in

1708
01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:31,840
Speaker 5: the in the regular season. As for some injury news

1709
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 5: for tomorrow's games, Adam Schefter with some late night updates.

1710
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:37,760
Speaker 5: Players trying to make it back from injury who are

1711
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 5: expected to play include Gino Smith, Trevor Lawrence, Jonathan Taylor,

1712
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:45,200
Speaker 5: and Devon a Chan. Texans wide receiver Nico Collins is

1713
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:48,040
Speaker 5: listening to it's questionable for Sunday with his calf injury.

1714
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:51,840
Speaker 5: He is expected to play against the Browns. Adam Schefter

1715
01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:55,120
Speaker 5: also saying the Dolphins optimistic that wide receiver Tyreek Hill,

1716
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 5: he's listened as questionable with ankle injury, he will play

1717
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 5: against the Cowboys. They are said to just one to

1718
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:02,800
Speaker 5: make sure how he is feeling Sunday before making a

1719
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:06,720
Speaker 5: final decision on his status. And last update he gave

1720
01:26:06,920 --> 01:26:10,439
Speaker 5: was that Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker is questionable with

1721
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:14,160
Speaker 5: a shoulder enjy. He is expected to play against the

1722
01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 5: Tennessee Titans. College Football Bowl action, we do have one

1723
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 5: game in progress still, the Hawaii bull Out in Honolulu

1724
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 5: and the Coastal Carolina at Chantaclaires in front of San

1725
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 5: Jose State, seventeen to seven. They got about nine minutes ago.

1726
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:31,599
Speaker 5: Everything else in college football has gone final today. Duke

1727
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:34,719
Speaker 5: over Troy in the Birmingham Bulls seventeen to ten. Northern

1728
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 5: Illinois edges Arkansas State twenty one, nineteen to the Chamellion

1729
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:40,800
Speaker 5: Bull Air Force over James Madison thirty one to twenty

1730
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:43,639
Speaker 5: one in the Armed Forces Bowl. Georgia State runs away

1731
01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 5: with it against Utah State forty five to twenty two.

1732
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:49,920
Speaker 5: In the famous Idaho Potato Bowl, South Alabama dismantles Eastern

1733
01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 5: Michigan fifty nine to ten in the sixty eight Ventures

1734
01:26:53,080 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 5: Bull And in a low scoring affair in Las Vegas,

1735
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:59,120
Speaker 5: Northwestern holds off Utah fourteen to seven.

1736
01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:02,320
Speaker 2: Back to you guys, Thank you very much, Kevin Wired Kevin,

1737
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:05,240
Speaker 2: have a great evening. This is Fox Sports Radio, Fox

1738
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:08,040
Speaker 2: Sports Saturday Inner Tours, Jason Martin broadcasting live from the

1739
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:11,799
Speaker 2: tyreck dot Com studios. Lurita just gave us the music, Pat,

1740
01:27:11,840 --> 01:27:13,840
Speaker 2: what game do we have next?

1741
01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:17,599
Speaker 7: All right, We're gonna go just a pure AFC matchup

1742
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:20,599
Speaker 7: here for two teams. Actually looking to get into the playoffs.

1743
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 7: We got the Cleveland Browns taken on the Houston Texans.

1744
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 7: Houston's are home. Both teams kind of beating up on

1745
01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:30,759
Speaker 7: both of their quarterback options right now at this point,

1746
01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:34,320
Speaker 7: so it might be a little bit underwhelming. However, the

1747
01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:38,000
Speaker 7: we're gonna break the trend here. The Cleveland Browns on

1748
01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 7: the road are favorites, and it's three point favorites for

1749
01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:45,439
Speaker 7: the Cleveland Browns. Aaron, take it away, what do we

1750
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:46,720
Speaker 7: like or don't like about this?

1751
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 3: Well?

1752
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:49,559
Speaker 2: What I like is this Jason You probably you might

1753
01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:52,720
Speaker 2: have missed it, but Mark Sanchez called the Browns game

1754
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:56,559
Speaker 2: last week. He was on Colin Cowhard and he said,

1755
01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco is like Elf on a shelf. He just

1756
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:05,160
Speaker 2: showed up after Thanksgiving for the holidays, and all the

1757
01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:07,080
Speaker 2: kids in the locker room all fell in line. And

1758
01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:10,160
Speaker 2: basically the analogy was, you know, he's a veteran, he's

1759
01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:12,200
Speaker 2: a professional, he's done what they want to do, so

1760
01:28:12,240 --> 01:28:14,000
Speaker 2: they all fall in line. I thought it was like

1761
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 2: the funniest analogy ever. And it took me a second

1762
01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:19,320
Speaker 2: to totally post together what he was saying. And I

1763
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 2: love everything about this story and part of The reason

1764
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:25,439
Speaker 2: I put this on the agenda is because I kind

1765
01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:27,400
Speaker 2: of wanted to include I just want to include that story.

1766
01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:30,000
Speaker 2: But I'll also say this, Jason, I think it was

1767
01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 2: one of the coolest, randomest stories that we have seen

1768
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:37,439
Speaker 2: in a long time in this league, because we've had

1769
01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:39,920
Speaker 2: guys kind of come in off the the you know,

1770
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 2: the proverbial couch or whatever, the scrap heap, but Joe

1771
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:48,679
Speaker 2: freaking Flacco at his age to be playing the way

1772
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:51,000
Speaker 2: that he is. One credit to him, Two credits to

1773
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:54,800
Speaker 2: Kevin Stefanski for whatever they've done behind the scenes. And

1774
01:28:54,840 --> 01:28:57,040
Speaker 2: obviously you're going up against the Texans team that won't

1775
01:28:57,040 --> 01:29:00,639
Speaker 2: have CJ. Stroud tomorrow or today, depending on where you're listening.

1776
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:03,759
Speaker 2: I do like the Cleveland Browns to win and continue

1777
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:08,040
Speaker 2: their play. They're pushed towards the playoffs. Excuse me, I agree.

1778
01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:10,639
Speaker 1: With basically all of that. No CJ. Stroud, no Tank Dell.

1779
01:29:11,280 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 1: They're just banged up in Houston. Like you see a

1780
01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 1: bright future there, but the present's kind of been snuffed out,

1781
01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:20,920
Speaker 1: like it just seems like, okay, well, the injuries just

1782
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:23,599
Speaker 1: finally bit them and the one guy they really couldn't

1783
01:29:23,640 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 1: lose after losing Dell was the quarterback, and to lose Stroud,

1784
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:29,559
Speaker 1: to not have him back until potentially next week, even

1785
01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 1: though he's progressing looks like he may play next week.

1786
01:29:32,560 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 1: I'm afraid that's gonna be too late for them. And

1787
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:37,080
Speaker 1: you're right, Flaco has just kind of righted the ship.

1788
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:40,080
Speaker 1: He's just keeping things moving right along. It just looks

1789
01:29:40,120 --> 01:29:43,080
Speaker 1: like an adult football team doing adult football team things,

1790
01:29:43,120 --> 01:29:46,639
Speaker 1: including winning against Houston today, real quick.

1791
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 2: Jason, just a couple other games of note. First of all,

1792
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:55,800
Speaker 2: just curious your perspective on your Denver Broncos, who, of

1793
01:29:55,840 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 2: course are coming off that loss on Saturday Night that

1794
01:29:59,320 --> 01:30:02,599
Speaker 2: you and I covered last week. I didn't see this

1795
01:30:03,040 --> 01:30:05,599
Speaker 2: in real time, but I guess there was a dust

1796
01:30:05,680 --> 01:30:08,680
Speaker 2: up between Russell Wilson and Sean Payton on the sidelines.

1797
01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:11,679
Speaker 2: Any concerns at all for you as they of course

1798
01:30:11,800 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 2: on Christmas Night host the uh Christmas Eve Night excuse

1799
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:19,200
Speaker 2: me tomorrow or today depending on where you're listening, host

1800
01:30:19,200 --> 01:30:20,160
Speaker 2: the New England Patriots.

1801
01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:23,360
Speaker 1: Not really, because I just I don't know how close

1802
01:30:23,439 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 1: they were to begin with, and I don't since that's

1803
01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:30,400
Speaker 1: a long term marriage between the two of them. So

1804
01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:32,800
Speaker 1: the fact that there was a shouting match. I mean

1805
01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:35,080
Speaker 1: that stuff happens a lot when camus don't catch it

1806
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:37,599
Speaker 1: is because it was that coach and that quarterback in

1807
01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:40,479
Speaker 1: that moment. The way it was sort of brushed off

1808
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:43,439
Speaker 1: after the fact, those two guys are probably not ever

1809
01:30:43,479 --> 01:30:46,000
Speaker 1: going to be best friends. But I think Sean Payton

1810
01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:48,760
Speaker 1: I don't see him being there for a couple of years.

1811
01:30:48,840 --> 01:30:51,040
Speaker 1: And I mean Russell Wilson, I think Sean Payton's gonna

1812
01:30:51,080 --> 01:30:52,840
Speaker 1: be moving on. I don't look at it and say

1813
01:30:52,880 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 1: it's a bad sign, because I think the signs have

1814
01:30:55,240 --> 01:30:56,679
Speaker 1: already been on the wall for a while.

1815
01:30:57,479 --> 01:30:59,519
Speaker 2: I think I know the answer to this question. Eagles

1816
01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:02,679
Speaker 2: obviously coming off an embarrassing loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

1817
01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:05,840
Speaker 2: We know Jalen Hurts was, you know, not feeling well,

1818
01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:10,000
Speaker 2: but obviously the huh yeah, yeah, third straight loss for

1819
01:31:10,040 --> 01:31:14,000
Speaker 2: the Eagles. They obviously face Tommy DeVito and the New

1820
01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:17,759
Speaker 2: York Football Giants. They get back on track this weekend, right.

1821
01:31:18,920 --> 01:31:20,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think they lose. I mean they was

1822
01:31:20,640 --> 01:31:23,840
Speaker 1: a thirteen half point favorite. I mean they this one

1823
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:27,560
Speaker 1: is one where he could show up with the flu

1824
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:31,360
Speaker 1: vomit between drives, and I think they'd still probably have

1825
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:33,880
Speaker 1: enough to beat the Giants at home. So no, I

1826
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 1: don't I think this is the right the ship game.

1827
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:38,360
Speaker 1: They'll be eleven and four come Tuesday.

1828
01:31:38,479 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 2: By the way, it is crazy how many big games

1829
01:31:41,360 --> 01:31:46,920
Speaker 2: they played essentially in a row. Yeah, they played Cowboys, Chiefs, Bills,

1830
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:50,720
Speaker 2: forty nine Ers, Cowboys over a five game stretch, so

1831
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:52,320
Speaker 2: you could see where they'd be a little beat up

1832
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:56,400
Speaker 2: flying across country to face the Seahawks. Final three are

1833
01:31:57,080 --> 01:32:00,559
Speaker 2: Giants Cardinals at home, and then Giants on the road.

1834
01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:03,600
Speaker 2: But of course that's significant because obviously you want to

1835
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 2: win those three, uh as, you're very much in the

1836
01:32:07,120 --> 01:32:11,879
Speaker 2: the you know, conversation for you know, for the division,

1837
01:32:11,920 --> 01:32:15,479
Speaker 2: obviously with the Dallas Cowboys, who still have again in

1838
01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:17,480
Speaker 2: that game against Miami tomorrow.

1839
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:19,560
Speaker 1: Trying to just look at it and ask you a

1840
01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:21,920
Speaker 1: sports radio it's kind of question, Yeah, let's do it.

1841
01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:24,120
Speaker 1: This is a very This is unlike us because we

1842
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 1: don't usually ask this question.

1843
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:30,160
Speaker 2: Jay, I take m jal over Lebron right right right right, Yeah,

1844
01:32:30,200 --> 01:32:31,680
Speaker 2: in a play in tournament.

1845
01:32:31,520 --> 01:32:34,280
Speaker 1: Or in the tournament where they're raising bad.

1846
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:36,280
Speaker 2: Hang the better, baby, hang the better.

1847
01:32:36,320 --> 01:32:38,800
Speaker 1: What do you he did? Good? Good for good for you,

1848
01:32:38,880 --> 01:32:43,040
Speaker 1: lebron nine and five Chiefs? Right, do you think it

1849
01:32:43,160 --> 01:32:47,599
Speaker 1: is fair at all to suggest that some of this

1850
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:52,120
Speaker 1: is Taylor Swift related? Because so much has been not

1851
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:55,800
Speaker 1: football related for the Chiefs this year, maybe more so

1852
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:59,479
Speaker 1: has Is it fair at all to throw that throw

1853
01:32:59,520 --> 01:33:02,960
Speaker 1: the throw the word distraction out there, because it does

1854
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:05,800
Speaker 1: just seem like it's been an off year, But it

1855
01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:09,040
Speaker 1: also seems like it's just kind of been. Every time

1856
01:33:09,040 --> 01:33:10,840
Speaker 1: I hear about the Chiefs, it's generally not about the

1857
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:13,479
Speaker 1: football team. Outside of the weird outburst from Mahomes and

1858
01:33:13,479 --> 01:33:17,280
Speaker 1: Andy Reid towards the officials, It's about Taylor Swift and

1859
01:33:17,320 --> 01:33:18,000
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey.

1860
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:21,040
Speaker 2: So what I would say is two things in life

1861
01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:24,040
Speaker 2: can be true. I'm sure Taylor Swift is a lovely woman.

1862
01:33:24,680 --> 01:33:28,600
Speaker 2: I'm sure she's a great girlfriend. This does not reflect

1863
01:33:28,680 --> 01:33:32,120
Speaker 2: on her as a woman, as a partner, as whatever.

1864
01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:35,679
Speaker 2: But I absolutely think she's a distraction. Let mean, there's

1865
01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 2: two reasons why. One, I mean, forget about what we

1866
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:42,720
Speaker 2: see as consumers. The guys are all getting asked about it.

1867
01:33:42,760 --> 01:33:47,360
Speaker 2: That's one. And then two, I mean, we can't argue

1868
01:33:47,400 --> 01:33:49,800
Speaker 2: that it's a distraction to Travis Kelsey I mean, did

1869
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 2: he not go to Argentina during the bye week, Jason?

1870
01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:55,000
Speaker 2: And did I make that up? Or Brazil or one

1871
01:33:55,040 --> 01:33:55,799
Speaker 2: of those countries.

1872
01:33:56,520 --> 01:33:59,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, he went somewhere, like he went in South America.

1873
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:02,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, like guys go on you know, guys get away

1874
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 2: during the bye week. That is a long travel itinerary.

1875
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:14,040
Speaker 2: And so it's clear that you know whether he's in love,

1876
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:20,720
Speaker 2: whether he's just in his third you know, back end.

1877
01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:22,200
Speaker 2: You know he said, I think he's like thirty five,

1878
01:34:22,280 --> 01:34:24,000
Speaker 2: thirty six, he's in the back end of his career.

1879
01:34:24,000 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 2: It's like it's clear that for the first time, I

1880
01:34:26,479 --> 01:34:29,240
Speaker 2: think that he's starting to think about life after football.

1881
01:34:29,280 --> 01:34:32,160
Speaker 2: He's obviously his podcast is wildly successful, and I don't

1882
01:34:32,160 --> 01:34:37,519
Speaker 2: blame anybody for having interests outside of their sport, especially

1883
01:34:37,560 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 2: when they're as accomplished as he is. So this isn't

1884
01:34:40,120 --> 01:34:42,799
Speaker 2: a knock on him, either as a boyfriend or whatever.

1885
01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:45,880
Speaker 2: But to answer your question, yes, I absolutely think it's

1886
01:34:45,880 --> 01:34:48,400
Speaker 2: a distraction. I don't think it's the primary reason why

1887
01:34:48,479 --> 01:34:50,479
Speaker 2: they're sitting at nine and five and not as good

1888
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:52,719
Speaker 2: as they've been. But do I think it's a distraction.

1889
01:34:52,760 --> 01:34:53,360
Speaker 2: I absolutely do.

1890
01:34:53,439 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 1: Jason from my fans would like to see that. Yeah, yeah,

1891
01:34:57,560 --> 01:34:59,080
Speaker 1: do you think that the fans would like to see

1892
01:34:59,120 --> 01:35:01,240
Speaker 1: that relationship come to an end if they get beat

1893
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:03,200
Speaker 1: in the wildcard round of the playoffs? So get beat

1894
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:05,679
Speaker 1: in the first round of the playoffs, for example, great question.

1895
01:35:07,600 --> 01:35:10,479
Speaker 1: I I don't do you care about Travis Kelsey's long

1896
01:35:10,560 --> 01:35:13,200
Speaker 1: term happiness, assuming that it's gonna be long term, we

1897
01:35:13,240 --> 01:35:15,760
Speaker 1: hope it will be more than you care about your

1898
01:35:15,760 --> 01:35:17,600
Speaker 1: team potentially winning another.

1899
01:35:17,400 --> 01:35:20,720
Speaker 2: Chiev That is a great question. Like and what I

1900
01:35:20,760 --> 01:35:24,559
Speaker 2: will say, uh, I listen. I don't have enough insight

1901
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 2: into the psyche of Chiefs fans. I mean, but fan

1902
01:35:28,439 --> 01:35:31,600
Speaker 2: is short for fanatic. I mean that will be like,

1903
01:35:32,280 --> 01:35:34,040
Speaker 2: you know, we might have to we might have to

1904
01:35:34,080 --> 01:35:37,559
Speaker 2: get the the editors in the back rolling on Kansas

1905
01:35:37,600 --> 01:35:40,479
Speaker 2: City Sports talk radio the Monday after the playoffs if

1906
01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 2: they losing that opening round, because I would be curious

1907
01:35:44,240 --> 01:35:50,880
Speaker 2: if if what Kansas City fans dm my total outside perspective,

1908
01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:54,400
Speaker 2: and I don't know, is I think they enjoy right now,

1909
01:35:54,400 --> 01:35:57,240
Speaker 2: they're enjoying the story. I think they're they're I don't

1910
01:35:57,240 --> 01:36:00,200
Speaker 2: think that they're bothered by it. And I could be

1911
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:02,360
Speaker 2: totally wrong. If you're listening in Kansas City tweet us

1912
01:36:02,400 --> 01:36:06,200
Speaker 2: at Aaron Underscore tours at jmart Radio. I don't get

1913
01:36:06,240 --> 01:36:08,920
Speaker 2: the sense that it is like burning up the phone

1914
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:11,880
Speaker 2: lines and she's the problem. No offense, Taylor, if you're listening.

1915
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Speaker 1: So not a lot of bad blood.

1916
01:36:14,200 --> 01:36:18,960
Speaker 2: Yes, not a lot of bad blood. But if they're

1917
01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:22,599
Speaker 2: to lose early in the playoffs, I do think there

1918
01:36:22,600 --> 01:36:25,800
Speaker 2: would be some bad blood. I think it'd be a

1919
01:36:26,320 --> 01:36:29,519
Speaker 2: cruel winter. I guess not not a cruel summer cruel winter.

1920
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio air tors Jason Martin will come back

1921
01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:36,559
Speaker 2: and wrap the show. One segment left, Fox Sports Radio.

1922
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Speaker 6: This is gonna be a twenty nine yard attempt per

1923
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:52,479
Speaker 6: bass from the right hash snap by Ferguson, hold by Martin,

1924
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:56,479
Speaker 6: kick by passes up and it is good. Twenty eight

1925
01:36:56,560 --> 01:36:59,400
Speaker 6: seconds left and the Bills are back in front.

1926
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Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills take care of the Los Angeles Chargers twenty

1927
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1932
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Speaker 2: lear Field Sports. By the way, Jason, have my little

1933
01:37:34,680 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 2: Mariah to end out the show. Huh, got the whole studio.

1934
01:37:39,360 --> 01:37:40,400
Speaker 1: This is what we were listening to.

1935
01:37:40,600 --> 01:37:44,040
Speaker 2: Yes, come on, all she wants for Christmas is you, Jason.

1936
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:47,960
Speaker 1: No, it's fine, it's fine. It's it's you. Hear it

1937
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:49,960
Speaker 1: a lot, but it always puts a smile on your face.

1938
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Speaker 1: It's not a bad one.

1939
01:37:51,479 --> 01:37:53,080
Speaker 2: Okay. What was the one you said you would walk

1940
01:37:53,120 --> 01:37:53,639
Speaker 2: off set?

1941
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:56,479
Speaker 1: If Ah, that's wonderful Christmas time.

1942
01:37:56,640 --> 01:37:59,679
Speaker 2: Oh, Paul McCartney, Oh darn, we put this on hoping

1943
01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:03,639
Speaker 2: you now, I'm kidding. What do you got going on?

1944
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:06,799
Speaker 2: Happy holidays, Jason, Happy holidays, by the way, Happy holidays

1945
01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:09,280
Speaker 2: to Loraina, to Pat, to Mark in the back, who's

1946
01:38:09,320 --> 01:38:12,200
Speaker 2: coming in? Kevin Wyer de Sager who wasn't with us,

1947
01:38:12,200 --> 01:38:14,040
Speaker 2: Happy holidays to everybody. What do you got going on

1948
01:38:14,040 --> 01:38:15,040
Speaker 2: on the holiday? Anything fun?

1949
01:38:16,240 --> 01:38:19,080
Speaker 1: Well? I mean, my daughter is too, and so this

1950
01:38:19,160 --> 01:38:22,000
Speaker 1: is the first Christmas she'll sort of remember. And she's

1951
01:38:22,040 --> 01:38:24,400
Speaker 1: asking about Santa every day. And she told Santa she

1952
01:38:24,479 --> 01:38:26,840
Speaker 1: wanted a brown Teddy Bear. And I've been in touch

1953
01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:29,920
Speaker 1: with Santa and I feel hopeful for her, feel good

1954
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:35,080
Speaker 1: about it. But you know, mommy and Daddy's gift to her.

1955
01:38:35,200 --> 01:38:38,000
Speaker 1: I had to build this week, so I got that

1956
01:38:38,120 --> 01:38:40,920
Speaker 1: experience of having to build something that may have been

1957
01:38:40,920 --> 01:38:43,600
Speaker 1: above my pay grade treehouse, but I actually knocked it

1958
01:38:43,640 --> 01:38:46,120
Speaker 1: out of the park handled it. So I'm looking forward

1959
01:38:46,120 --> 01:38:49,040
Speaker 1: to seeing how she responds to some of that. But

1960
01:38:49,640 --> 01:38:51,559
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be fun to watch her. We've gotten

1961
01:38:51,600 --> 01:38:54,280
Speaker 1: to that point now where especially as a father, and

1962
01:38:54,360 --> 01:38:56,120
Speaker 1: this being the first time I'll really be able to

1963
01:38:56,120 --> 01:39:01,479
Speaker 1: see this. Just watching her be excited about the Christmas

1964
01:39:01,520 --> 01:39:05,639
Speaker 1: experience and getting to you know, teacher the gospel message

1965
01:39:05,680 --> 01:39:07,600
Speaker 1: as well, has been It's been a real joy and

1966
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:10,360
Speaker 1: a real blessing, to say the least. What about you,

1967
01:39:10,400 --> 01:39:11,040
Speaker 1: what are you up to?

1968
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:13,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't We don't do much.

1969
01:39:13,160 --> 01:39:13,360
Speaker 7: You know.

1970
01:39:13,439 --> 01:39:16,400
Speaker 2: I will be in Monday night with Arnie Spanner. That's

1971
01:39:16,479 --> 01:39:18,640
Speaker 2: Christmas Day, but Christmas Eve. You know, my wife and

1972
01:39:18,680 --> 01:39:21,879
Speaker 2: her family just come over and they do the midnight

1973
01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:26,240
Speaker 2: midnight Christmas Eve thing, and so we'll be up late

1974
01:39:26,280 --> 01:39:32,400
Speaker 2: tomorrow opening presents, drinking drinks, eating good food. My wife'

1975
01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:36,320
Speaker 2: from Guatemala originally, so we'll have Tomalway's and and all

1976
01:39:36,360 --> 01:39:39,559
Speaker 2: sorts of good stuff. And then we get to sleep

1977
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:41,559
Speaker 2: in on Christmas Day and probably watch some movies, watch

1978
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:44,920
Speaker 2: some NFL, and then I'll be working at nighttime. So

1979
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Speaker 2: it's it's fun. Man, It's a fun time of year.

1980
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Speaker 2: Nice to relax, nice to minus Arnie, minus arnieye minus

1981
01:39:51,600 --> 01:39:54,040
Speaker 2: Arnie on Christmas Day, it will be fun.

1982
01:39:54,080 --> 01:39:55,960
Speaker 1: I got Arnie two, I got Arnie one day. I've

1983
01:39:55,960 --> 01:39:59,280
Speaker 1: got you twice and Arnie once on like a three

1984
01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:01,360
Speaker 1: three days. Man, I think it is, or I think

1985
01:40:01,400 --> 01:40:03,040
Speaker 1: I have maybe I have you three times. Just so

1986
01:40:03,120 --> 01:40:04,760
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever it is. I'm wearing like three

1987
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:08,000
Speaker 1: or four extra times, and one of them is with Arnie.

1988
01:40:08,600 --> 01:40:10,240
Speaker 1: I've got to look at the date on that so

1989
01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:15,240
Speaker 1: that I can prepare adequately, take whatever medication is necessary,

1990
01:40:17,720 --> 01:40:22,000
Speaker 1: prepare my sleep habits, and prepare my best debating yes points,

1991
01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:25,160
Speaker 1: because whatever I say is going to be disagreed with.

1992
01:40:25,600 --> 01:40:29,120
Speaker 2: Yes, you did, you did mention earlier. We don't, you know,

1993
01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:31,720
Speaker 2: tug at the emotional heartstrings, go over the top just

1994
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:35,320
Speaker 2: to cause chaos, but Arnie certainly does. By the way,

1995
01:40:35,360 --> 01:40:38,080
Speaker 2: we did get two tweets about Taylor Swift from Chiefs

1996
01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:42,120
Speaker 2: fans Devin Old says, I don't speak for all Chiefs fans,

1997
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:44,639
Speaker 2: but Taylor is a distraction in my opinion. I also

1998
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:47,880
Speaker 2: think they're missing Eric b Enemy. Crazy Tanker on the

1999
01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:50,920
Speaker 2: other hand, does not really care about the relationship. He

2000
01:40:51,040 --> 01:40:55,680
Speaker 2: just basically said as far as Travis's off, you know,

2001
01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:59,200
Speaker 2: bye week travels, he says, Taylor has her own jet

2002
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:02,639
Speaker 2: dis since ain't no thing smiley face.

2003
01:41:02,960 --> 01:41:06,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a look. I don't necessarily disagree with that.

2004
01:41:06,479 --> 01:41:09,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a long way to travel out

2005
01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:12,840
Speaker 2: of bye week, That's all I'm saying. I mean, I

2006
01:41:12,840 --> 01:41:15,080
Speaker 2: remember Tony Romo. I mean that was in the playoffs,

2007
01:41:15,080 --> 01:41:16,160
Speaker 2: but he took heat for going to.

2008
01:41:16,120 --> 01:41:19,760
Speaker 1: Remember O'Dell remember the Giants? Yeah that was my Yeah,

2009
01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:21,960
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, Tony went with Jessica Simpson.

2010
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

2011
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Speaker 1: I think he didn't think that's when that happened. I

2012
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:30,720
Speaker 1: would just say, this is this Travis Kelce's best season, right,

2013
01:41:30,840 --> 01:41:34,400
Speaker 1: Like it just definitely not his best year. What changed

2014
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:34,840
Speaker 1: this year?

2015
01:41:35,479 --> 01:41:38,160
Speaker 2: You're right? And he was obviously. And the other thing too,

2016
01:41:38,240 --> 01:41:40,760
Speaker 2: was like he was playing at a very very high

2017
01:41:40,880 --> 01:41:41,920
Speaker 2: level last year.

2018
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Speaker 1: So it's not as though he's a Hall of Famer

2019
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:45,880
Speaker 1: he's a walking he's a walking Hall of Famer.

2020
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not as though like it's been a five,

2021
01:41:50,360 --> 01:41:54,280
Speaker 2: you know, three year downward trend and whatever. And by

2022
01:41:54,320 --> 01:41:57,280
Speaker 2: the way, like you know, he's at that age where

2023
01:41:57,320 --> 01:41:59,479
Speaker 2: he's thirty four years old, he'll you know, he just

2024
01:41:59,479 --> 01:42:03,559
Speaker 2: turned thirty four. You know, he's it's coming to an end.

2025
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:06,880
Speaker 2: But I mean, you go from last year one hundred

2026
01:42:06,920 --> 01:42:09,240
Speaker 2: and ten catches, thirteen hundred yards, I guess he's still

2027
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:11,519
Speaker 2: sort of trending like that. He's got eighty five catches

2028
01:42:11,560 --> 01:42:14,479
Speaker 2: this year, just five touchdowns, had twelve a year ago.

2029
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:17,439
Speaker 2: By the way, one very random thing, let me just

2030
01:42:17,439 --> 01:42:20,080
Speaker 2: say this. We got one college football game on Jason

2031
01:42:21,080 --> 01:42:23,639
Speaker 2: Hawaii Bull should always be New Year's Christmas Eve should

2032
01:42:23,680 --> 01:42:25,519
Speaker 2: always be Christmas Eve. Is on the twenty third. There's

2033
01:42:25,560 --> 01:42:28,960
Speaker 2: a minute left in that game. Coastal Carolina, San Jose State.

2034
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Speaker 2: Tell you what, Jason, we gotta get out of here

2035
01:42:30,200 --> 01:42:33,439
Speaker 2: with I think the crew Lorena producer Pat Kevin Wyatt

2036
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Speaker 2: for Jason Martin, I'm Ara Torres. Thank you all so

2037
01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:41,280
Speaker 2: much to Jason, Lorena, Pat Wiredt. Hope everybody has a

2038
01:42:41,360 --> 01:42:44,759
Speaker 2: merry Christmas, and same to all of the Listeners, Bernie

2039
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Speaker 2: Fridos Next, Fox Sports Radio,