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Speaker 4: It's a bucking fits takeover Merry Christmas Eve. We've officially

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Speaker 4: crossed over in multiple time zones into Christmas Eve, including

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Speaker 4: where Buck is in Nashville, where I am in Connecticut.

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Speaker 4: get a look from Buck as he just he sees

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Speaker 4: me walking.

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Speaker 5: The tight rope.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate your support. I feel like you were with

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Speaker 4: the safety net I needed right there.

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Speaker 5: That look is that look is fear.

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Speaker 6: That look as and it's and it's not it's not

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Speaker 6: fear for you, it's fear for me.

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Speaker 5: It's it's self interested.

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Speaker 6: Fear because if you, if you run me into the ground,

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Speaker 6: I have to deal with the consequences.

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Speaker 4: Do you do you when's the last time Buck Rising

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Speaker 4: ever really dealt with content? Like if there's ever been

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Speaker 4: a guy that in a zombie apocalypse would just put

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Speaker 4: a like fedor on with his little briefcase and just

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Speaker 4: leave the scene of the zombie apocalypse and not even acknowledged,

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Speaker 4: like Buck wouldn't acknowledge the zombies or the people, Like

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Speaker 4: that's that's he is the rare gift of just like

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Speaker 4: the gift of ghost.

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Speaker 3: I feel like.

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Speaker 6: I'm just gonna go about my day. Yeah, good luck,

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Speaker 6: have fun. Oh man, I hope you find a cure.

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Speaker 6: Like it's like I am legend, like I would, I

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Speaker 6: would I would so much rather be eaten alive by

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Speaker 6: zombies then turn out like Will Smith and I am legend,

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Speaker 6: Like I don't want to have to get that whole

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Speaker 5: It's just it's too much, it's too much pressure now.

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Speaker 3: Like again, except inevitabilities.

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Speaker 4: If I see a zombie apocalypse when everybody's breaking in everything,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna break into the drug store and I'm just

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Speaker 4: gonna have the best last twelve hours of my life

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Speaker 4: I possibly can.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not really gonna worry about it. I'm not

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Speaker 3: gonna try and fight that.

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Speaker 4: Even if we make it through, how are we then

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Speaker 4: getting to the other side? And then what jerky are

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Speaker 4: you gonna have to deal with on that process? Somebody's

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Speaker 4: gonna be the guy that defeated all the zombies and

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Speaker 4: they're gonna be the new king of the land. I'm out,

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Speaker 4: Like zombie apocalypse happens, I'm out, y'all. Fight, y'all, y'all

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Speaker 4: go for it. I'm just going to I'm just gonna

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Speaker 4: enjoy the end of my my trek. By the way,

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Speaker 4: speaking of enjoyment, it is Christmas eve. Do we have

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Speaker 4: a do we have?

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Speaker 3: Does Buck Rising have big Christmas plans?

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Speaker 6: Buddy, I've got to go to Titans practice here in

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Speaker 6: a couple hours a gat way for that.

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Speaker 3: That's that's do do you fight?

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Speaker 5: Ask you?

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Speaker 4: The real question is do you find the team to

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Speaker 4: at the end of the year. But that's all you

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Speaker 3: I have no room to talk. I'm a Raiders fan.

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Speaker 3: But it's kind of be like, genuinely, it's gotta be

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Speaker 6: Be easy to skate sure, which is why honestly I'm interested.

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Speaker 5: And again I don't want to do.

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Speaker 6: I do three hours a day of Titans talk locally

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Speaker 6: think it's an interesting dynamic because I just witnessed the

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Speaker 6: And it was interesting to watch because the Titans put

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Speaker 6: for me, FITZI, in the coverage of a single team

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Speaker 6: Tanking doesn't happen in the NFL from a coaching and

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Speaker 5: How they're going to approach a year.

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Speaker 6: Understand that, Listen, your tape still matters here, your opportunities

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Speaker 5: Still matter here.

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Speaker 6: But right now we're in a situation where we just

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Speaker 6: how real momentum is into an offseason, right but if

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Speaker 4: Immedia change I don't think exists in the NFL, but

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Speaker 4: two substantial move forward. Look at Carolina, a team that

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Speaker 4: starting to view Bryce Young differently. I think there is

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Speaker 4: the time, but I want to stress A former head

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Speaker 3: So now, this is what I always tell fans to do.

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Speaker 4: So that means if I want to have a truly

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Speaker 4: When you do the math that way, you understand that

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Speaker 4: immediate turnaround is almost impossible. Some years you get lucky.

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Speaker 4: Certainly last year, Washington was winning games that analytics told

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Speaker 4: And that's where Bill Barnwell did a great job of explaining, Hey,

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Speaker 4: the numbers shit is say that Washington's gonna regress.

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Speaker 5: What do you know?

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Speaker 3: This year?

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Speaker 4: They took a step back in part Jayden Daniels has

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Speaker 4: when you look at this week's games, yeah, there are

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Speaker 3: Of bad football teams this year.

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Speaker 4: And maybe you know, as you were talking about rebuild,

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Speaker 4: I think rebuild is just it's a terrible word now

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Speaker 4: part of the reason we see the same teams picking

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Speaker 4: Draft is because none of them just figure out, Okay,

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Speaker 4: we need to rip this thing all the way down

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Speaker 4: to the studs. We need to start a five or

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Speaker 4: six year process to just becoming a normal organization, to

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Speaker 4: see if we can turn this thing around. Like everybody

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Speaker 5: I go back and forth with it.

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Speaker 6: I mean not you know, not like microwaving the results

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Speaker 6: don't know how I feel about Trevor Lawrence other than

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Speaker 6: he's playing really good football. This is probably the best

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Speaker 6: this point in time, like the production versus what they're

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Speaker 6: accomplishing on a team that's winning at a meaningful rate. Right,

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Speaker 6: they're leading their division. They still have theoretically a path

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Speaker 6: to the one seed, for God's sakes, and they were

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Speaker 6: last year picking what the trade up for Travis Hunter

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Speaker 6: Was it four or five?

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Speaker 3: Four or five?

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Speaker 6: Ye? No, I'm sorry the Patriots picked forth. I want

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Speaker 6: Looking at a situation that's almost almost too perfect to recreate.

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Speaker 6: That the Titans, they had they're playing a fourth place schedule.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if it is the hardest schedule in

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Speaker 6: It's the hardest strength of schedule by record of opposition

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Speaker 4: And that's the hardest part. Like again, we'll spend all

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Speaker 4: Because I don't know, speaking of things, I don't know

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Speaker 4: sure the answer is that simple. We'll talk about it next.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he wasn't talking about you. You took clips totally

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Speaker 2: Let me put this into context.

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm I'm perplexed by this Christmas song. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: Okay, we've got Santa Claus to creep. That's how you

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Speaker 6: He's been nefariously slow building up the weird Christmas music

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Speaker 4: No team in the NFL since Schador was named the

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Speaker 6: made point by you, obviously brought about by a random

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Speaker 6: tweeter in the middle of the night.

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Speaker 5: So I'm happy that you were able to work for that.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. No, no, no, I got I got some.

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Speaker 3: I said it the next day on Yahoo too.

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Speaker 4: I got some blowback on it, so I'm very rehearsed

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Speaker 4: on my response to the blowback.

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Speaker 5: Very good. My only.

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Speaker 6: Devil's advocate argument would be Okay, So it's the thing

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Speaker 6: that you've done basically all season long, and certainly in

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Speaker 6: the last month of football leading up to that point.

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Speaker 6: If when presented with the new information that Chador is

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Speaker 6: playing the best game that a Browns quarterback has played

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Speaker 6: this season, I'll beat against the Tennessee Titans, whatever bad defense.

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Speaker 5: Are you allowed to.

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Speaker 6: Recognize that in game and make an adjustment? Now, what

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Speaker 6: you're saying about the limitations of how much they've actually

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Speaker 6: practiced and how much time are they devoting to Shador

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Speaker 6: Sanders as a you know, in a conventional in a

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Speaker 6: conventional sense, operating a two point conversion play, if that's

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Speaker 6: been their mo with a quin Shawn Judkins, and how

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Speaker 6: they approach their two point conversions and what their packages

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Speaker 6: are versus what they're actually able to rep what he's see.

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Speaker 6: I'll hear you on that being too sudden of an

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Speaker 6: adjustment for the risk to be worth the reward. But

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Speaker 6: I struggle with watching Kevin Stefanski watching that level of

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Speaker 6: quarterback play that he got on that particular day, understanding

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Speaker 6: that Shador fumbled the snap on the previous two point

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Speaker 6: try and saying, Okay, but I don't think that should

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Speaker 6: completely remove you from trying this again, because he's had

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Speaker 6: a really big day here, and he's clearly been the

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Speaker 6: best version or the best the biggest reason why.

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Speaker 5: Your offense is having success.

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Speaker 6: I know they found advantageous matchups with linebackers and coverage

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Speaker 6: on Judkins and uh and Dylan Sampkins or Dylan Sampson,

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Speaker 6: who were just killing the Titans out of the backfield

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Speaker 6: in a variety of different ways. Right, So there's not

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Speaker 6: that much heavy lifting necessarily on Shudur. Chador also had

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Speaker 6: a couple of big time throws in that game that

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Speaker 6: made me feel like, all right, let him play a

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Speaker 6: little bit, let's let's let's work this thing out.

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Speaker 5: Maybe that's antithetical.

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Speaker 6: To how some coaches like Kevin Stefanski or Wired, where

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Speaker 6: it's not just what your average NFL fan would do

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Speaker 6: from the stands and their vantage point of the press

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Speaker 6: box or whatever, where they're just like, all right, let's

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Speaker 6: let him air it out a little bit. I don't

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Speaker 6: think that's how any NFL coach, any coach of any consequence, works,

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Speaker 6: because they're all control freaks in that situation, all very regimented,

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Speaker 6: militaristic in some elements. So maybe it's just it would

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Speaker 6: be a complete change, unabout face for Kevin Stefanski to

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Speaker 6: just completely diverge what they've been working on all that

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Speaker 6: week and say, all right, Shador work it out. That

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Speaker 6: would be my only Devil's Advocate argument. It's just why

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Speaker 6: not be willing to make the adjustment.

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Speaker 3: I think you're right about that, and I think, honestly,

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Speaker 3: if you look at the overall vibe, let's say this

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Speaker 3: way of the way the offense has been called since

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Speaker 3: Shador became.

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Speaker 4: The starter, I think it's pretty apparent you're right. Shador

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Speaker 4: has some nice throws. In almost every game, Shador has

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Speaker 4: one or two especially deep throws, like he's got some

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Speaker 4: of that timing down and it's really fun to watch.

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Speaker 4: It's also pretty clear that Kevin Stefanski doesn't totally trust Shador.

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Speaker 4: He's not opening the offense to him that level. And

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Speaker 4: you know, in fairness, before that becomes some indictment, I

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Speaker 4: will remind everybody that about six weeks into Jade and

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Speaker 4: Daniel's rookie season five, six weeks in, there were shows

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Speaker 4: literally saying Jayden can't throw past the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 4: because Cliff Kingsbury.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't allowing that to happen.

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Speaker 4: And the way that they got him into that offense

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Speaker 4: was they kept everything short out of his hands right

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Speaker 4: away until he got more comfortable. And then he's got

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Speaker 4: more comfortable, he got more of the offense delivered to him,

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Speaker 4: so that that could all be part of it, but

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Speaker 4: it is. It is abundantly clear Stefanski doesn't fully trust

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Speaker 4: his quarterback right now, all right, Steve Disager, get us

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Speaker 4: caught up on the scoreboard, and then we'll figure out

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Speaker 4: who he actually trust.

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Speaker 8: In the NFC, everything's final. In the NBA, the Lake

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Speaker 8: Game in LA went to the Clippers over Houston one

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Speaker 8: twenty eight to oneh eight. Kawhi Leonard with forty one points.

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Speaker 8: Victories for Memphis and Orlando on the road and for

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Speaker 8: Detroit as well the Pistons twenty four and six, winning

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Speaker 8: at Sacramento one thirty six to one twenty seven. Lakers

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Speaker 8: did not have Luka Donci shout with a Bruce calf.

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Speaker 8: Austin Reeves did return from injury off the bench had

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Speaker 8: seventeen points, but at Phoenix it was all Suns, one

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Speaker 8: thirty two to one oh eight. San Antonio won its

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Speaker 8: seventh straight game, beating Oklahoma City again one thirty to one.

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Speaker 8: Ten Spurs out scored him by fifteen in about the

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Speaker 8: last ten minutes. Shay Gilgos Alexander thirty three points in defeat.

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Speaker 8: OKC was twenty six and three coming in. They've now

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Speaker 8: lost three of their last five games, including twice two

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Speaker 8: the Spurs at Dallas, the MAVs edge Denver one thirty

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Speaker 8: one to one thirty Cooper Flag thirty three points, nine rebounds,

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Speaker 8: nine assists. Teammate Anthony Davis thirty one points. At Minnesota,

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Speaker 8: Anthony Edwards thirty eight points in a win over New

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Speaker 8: York one fifteen to one oh four, this despite forty

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Speaker 8: from Carl Anthony Towns. The next Jalen Brunson did not play.

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Speaker 8: Chicago and Toronto each one victories for Cleveland and Milwaukee,

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Speaker 8: and wins for Charlotte and Brooklyn, which won at Philadelphia

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Speaker 8: one fourteen one oh six. Despite Joel Embiad's twenty seven

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Speaker 8: points in college hoops, Villanova a winner at Seton Hall

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Speaker 8: sixty four fifty six, Saint John's beat up Harvard among

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Speaker 8: the thirteen NHL games. Overtime wins for Detroit and Nashville

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Speaker 8: Florida won five two at Carolina, Colorado posted a one

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Speaker 8: nothing shutout against Utah. Brooks Koepka is leaving liv Golf

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Speaker 8: to stay closer to home. He had one year left

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Speaker 8: on his contract. He would have to formally reapply for

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Speaker 8: PGA Tour membership if he wanted to return there. Bryce

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Speaker 8: Harper says he will play for Team USA in the

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Speaker 8: World Baseball Classic in March. In college football, we had

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Speaker 8: three bowl games. Ohio U over UNLV seventeen to ten

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Speaker 8: at the Frisco Bowl in Texas, attendant six thousand, five hundred. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 8: a robust seventeen thousand at the New Orleans Bowl, Western

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Speaker 8: Kentucky beats Southern Miss twenty seven sixteen with two touchdowns

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Speaker 8: in the last eight minutes. And at the Boca Raton

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Speaker 8: Bowl in Florida today attendance fifteen thousand. Louisville beat Toledo

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Speaker 8: in a battle of a four teams twenty seven to

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Speaker 8: twenty two to the final it was twenty seven to

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Speaker 8: fourteen with about five minutes left, Toledo with fourteen penalties.

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Speaker 8: The Pro Bowl teams were announced. There are nineteen first timers.

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Speaker 8: Four teams have six Pro bowlers each Denver and Baltimore,

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Speaker 8: San Francisco and Seattle. Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy will miss

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Speaker 8: the Christmas game against the Lions. He has a hairline

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Speaker 8: fracture in his right hand, fourth injury for him in

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Speaker 8: his two years there. Rookie quarterback Max Brosmer will start,

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Speaker 8: and quarterback Brett Rippon was claimed off waivers from the Colts.

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Speaker 8: Lions running back David Montgomery did not practice today due

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Speaker 8: to illness. Washington quarterback Marcus Mariota missed another walk through

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Speaker 8: due to hand and quad injuries. The Commanders on Christmas

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Speaker 8: host Dallas. Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love was limited at practice.

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Speaker 8: He's still in concussion protocol, and his backup Malik Willis

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Speaker 8: was limited with a sore shoulder. Patriots running back Trevion

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Speaker 8: Henderson is in concussion protocol, as his wide receiver Kashawn Booty.

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Speaker 8: The Jets placed quarterback Justin Fields on ir The Colts

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Speaker 8: will start quarterback Philip Rivers again. The Ravens listed quarterback

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Speaker 8: Lamar Jackson with his bruise back as a non participant

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Speaker 8: on today's practice report, and the two game suspension of

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Speaker 8: Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf was upheld he had appealed

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Speaker 8: back to you.

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Speaker 4: are we feeling in the NFC?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 4: Where what am I supposed to do with Seattle? I mean, genuinely,

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Speaker 4: you're talking about a Seahawks team that has played like

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Speaker 4: hot garbage against the Rams in two games they truly

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Speaker 4: have and one game they could have won with the

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Speaker 4: field goal at the end. The next game they did

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Speaker 4: win in improbable fashion. Like I'm sitting here trying to

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Speaker 4: figure out, does that mean the Seahawks are really good

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Speaker 4: but maybe don't play well enough against the Rams?

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Speaker 3: Does that mean the Rams are actually really good? I

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Speaker 3: don't know. Is this a two horse race? Where are

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Speaker 3: you on the NFC?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 6: No, I mean I certainly don't think it's a two

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Speaker 6: horse race. I wouldn't discount Chicago that way. I mean Seattle.

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Speaker 6: Seattle is interesting from the standpoint, and you and I

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Speaker 6: talked about this a little bit on Saturday, coming off

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Speaker 6: that insane I mean game of the year Thursday Night

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Speaker 6: football between the Seahawks. And for all the different elements

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Speaker 6: that we had, we had some officiating controversy, we had

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Speaker 6: bad quarterback play, we had excellent quarterback play, we had

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Speaker 6: a you know, just a tough as nails performance down

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Speaker 6: the stretch by the quarterback that had the bad quarterback.

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Speaker 5: Play early on to help them win the game. Seattle's

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Speaker 5: good enough.

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Speaker 6: I just think it's a I think it's a coin

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Speaker 6: flip between La and Seattle. I don't think you have

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Speaker 6: to definitively claim that one is so much or even

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Speaker 6: even by a margin significantly better than the other.

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Speaker 5: One has the MVP.

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Speaker 6: At court, the likely MVP at quarterback, the odds on

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Speaker 6: favorite at quarterback to be the MVP. The other one

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Speaker 6: has a running game that's as good as any in football,

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Speaker 6: and a defense that is ferocious on a variety of

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Speaker 6: the fronts. Seattle, or rather the Rams, have a good

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Speaker 6: defensive front. They have a secondary that maybe can be

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Speaker 6: taken advantage of from time to time. They're they're really

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Speaker 6: they're not the same team, but they are so good

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Speaker 6: at so many other things that it basically makes it

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Speaker 6: a push between the two of them, so much so

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Speaker 6: so that they split the seeds, split the series this season,

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Speaker 6: and go on to leave you questioning, Okay, how big

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Speaker 6: a difference is there between the number one seed and

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Speaker 6: the NFC and the sixth seed, which is currently Seattle

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Speaker 6: at one and the Rams at six. Is there a

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Speaker 6: great difference between the two of them? No, of course not.

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Speaker 6: San Francisco is a fascinating character in all of this,

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Speaker 6: right because San Francisco is technically now ahead of the

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Speaker 6: Rams in the seeding, and no one would look at

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Speaker 6: the Niners and say, I mean, I don't know, maybe

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't look at the Niners and say, definitively they

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Speaker 6: are a Super Bowl contender because their defense is suspect

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Speaker 6: at best, but that offense is just drilling people.

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Speaker 5: At this point in time.

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Speaker 6: Kittle popped up on the injury report today for what

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Speaker 6: it's worth, a situation, a monitor, but they just have

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Speaker 6: so many answers on offense. Brock Perdy is playing the

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Speaker 6: best football of the season so far after dealing with

659
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Speaker 6: so many injuries on the end and coming back with

660
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Speaker 6: a bit of questions, and should he be benched for

661
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Speaker 6: mac Jones. Definitively, now we have our answer for anybody

662
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Speaker 6: who is even pondering that question. So no, it's it's

663
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Speaker 6: anything but a two horse race in the NFC. It's

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Speaker 6: Seattle at San Francisco, It's the Rams three from the

665
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 6: same division, and then I'd probably put Chicago in that mix.

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Speaker 4: It's the wild part is again I keep dying on

667
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 4: the who of you played hill when you look at

668
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Speaker 4: the forty nine ers schedule, because they're on this massive

669
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 4: wind streak right now. I believe the Panthers deserve some credit,

670
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 4: so I'm sorry they're in this. They are maybe the

671
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 4: exception here, but this wind streak is against the Colts,

672
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 4: the Titans, the Browns, the Panthers, the Cardinals. In fact,

673
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Speaker 4: if you go back further, if you look at this,

674
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Speaker 4: then they have a loss to the Rams, a win

675
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 4: over the Giants who suck, and a loss to the Texans,

676
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 4: who are good. If you look back over the course

677
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 4: of the last two months, they've lost to the two

678
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 4: good teams that they've played, that being the forty nine ers.

679
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Speaker 4: So I don't know what to make a San Francisco

680
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Speaker 4: because you're right, I mean, that was surgical. The way

681
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 4: that they looked on offense, particularly against the cold was

682
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 4: so damn impressive. But I'm also looking at it and saying

683
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 4: that that is not really a good football team they're

684
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 4: taking on. And the crazy part to your point about

685
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 4: the standings right now, look at the difference between you

686
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 4: mentioned verses one and six, well two and seven in the.

687
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Speaker 3: First round of the playoffs.

688
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Speaker 4: If the playoffs were today, the Green Bay Packers would

689
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Speaker 4: go to Chicago Electric. The Green Bay Packers would played

690
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 4: two games that came down to the wire against the Bears.

691
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Speaker 4: The Bears would be the two seed, and I have

692
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 4: no idea who would win that football game. Like, so

693
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 4: I'm looking around saying, Okay, that game. It's such a

694
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 4: toss up with where we are with Chicago and Green Bay,

695
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 4: it's almost unfair that that would be a first round matchup.

696
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Speaker 5: Oh I love it though.

697
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 6: I love the idea of seeing those two teams play

698
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Speaker 6: a third time this.

699
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 5: Year, because there were we were a Melik.

700
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Speaker 6: Willis botched snap away from seeing the Packers do something

701
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,239
Speaker 6: I mean awesome, and he was. I hate that it

702
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 6: was marred by that, and they had other turnovers, They

703
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 6: had other fumbles in that game that ended up costing

704
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Speaker 6: them position in Chicago.

705
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Speaker 5: I mean, Chicago had a.

706
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Speaker 6: Hard time moving the ball basically until that final that

707
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 6: final drive from the way that they started that game,

708
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 6: and Caleb Williams just making God.

709
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 5: Tear throws at the end of it to just.

710
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Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, not the same kind of a

711
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 6: game as Thursday Night Football between the Rams and the Seahawks,

712
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 6: but just as entertaining as a game that was. I mean,

713
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 6: what was the score at halftime? Even was it six

714
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 6: to three? Was something like that? Just a very a

715
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 6: very a different kind of a ballgame, but still esthetically

716
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 6: pleasing for a couple of different reasons. I love the

717
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Speaker 6: idea of that being so such a close race between

718
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Speaker 6: these NFC teams, and Philadelphia and Carolina just kind of

719
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 6: looking around to top their divisions.

720
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 5: Being like, do we belong here? Are we? Are we

721
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 5: the same as the rest of these other teams.

722
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Speaker 6: I really don't know what to do with Carolina, to

723
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 6: be honest with you, I'm going to question them.

724
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 5: I think Carolina is just the happy to be here team.

725
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 6: And Philadelphia, I mean, I don't know if anything's happy

726
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 6: about Philadelphia right now. They've won back to back games,

727
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 6: but who have they beaten. They've beaten the Commanders, they've

728
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 6: beaten the Raiders since they lost three in a row.

729
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 5: Does that I'm certain.

730
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 6: That that does not have Philadelphia fans convinced that they're

731
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 6: going to be able to pull this thing out as

732
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Speaker 6: the defending Super Bowl champions. And I understand the degree

733
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 6: of difficulty. I don't think Eagles fans care about the

734
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 6: degree of difficulty of repeating as a champion, because if

735
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 6: Mahomes can do it, why can't they?

736
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, if the playoffs started today, the Eagles would

737
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 4: draw the Rams in the first round. So that'll put

738
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Speaker 4: a fok in that season. The Rams are not advantageous yeah,

739
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 4: and the Panthers w draw the forty nine ers. So

740
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Speaker 4: one thing seems to be clear. The NFC West is

741
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Speaker 4: on a path. We'll see how it plays out. Coming

742
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Speaker 4: up next, the single greatest game show in the history

743
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Speaker 4: of sports talk radio.

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Speaker 3: Would you rather? Coming up next?

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Speaker 4: Bucking Fits taking over on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

747
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Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 4: No, that was great. I don't even know where the

750
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 4: hell we find these things.

751
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 3: These bug rising up.

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Speaker 4: Jason fitz Bucket Fits hanging out with you taking over

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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio, hanging in on the Jason Smith Show.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate everybody letting us come in be idiots have

755
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Speaker 4: a good time over the course of this. We appreciate

756
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Speaker 4: all you guys that have taken the time to listen.

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00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas Eve to everybody. If you're new to the show,

758
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,240
Speaker 4: you should know this. By the way, we're on every Saturday.

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00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 4: You can hang out with us six to eight pm Saturdays,

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Speaker 4: Eastern time. We'll also be back what Friday morning, Friday.

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Speaker 5: Morning, Yes we are.

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Speaker 6: We are the Friday Morning Crew This Friday and next

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Speaker 6: Friday and I believe we're back here the week tonight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, tonight, Yeah we got this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're back a week from tonight here and then

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Speaker 4: we're about Yeah, two pros and a cup of Joe.

767
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 3: Come hang out with us Friday morning. Tell us what

768
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 3: you got for Christmas. In the meantime, we end we

769
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Speaker 3: show the same way.

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00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 4: It is time for the single greatest game show in

771
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 4: the history of sports talk radio book.

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00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 3: Are you ready? Are you ready? Okay, let's do this.

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00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 4: It's time for would you rather?

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00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 2: I don't think too hard on would you rather bucket?

775
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 2: Touch no good or fix it?

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00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 6: It's okay when we do it in front of Ian

777
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 6: and Mary, but when we embarrass ourselves in.

778
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 5: Front of new people, it's always it's always tough.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, I mean, it wasn't our best effort, but we'll

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Speaker 4: get it this time. Greada's question, we'll figure out what

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00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 4: we'd rather.

782
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 3: Let's go.

783
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, we got some uh, we got some Christmas movies

784
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 9: on in the studio here.

785
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 3: Uh.

786
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 9: Yes, So this one's off the top of my head.

787
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 9: Would you guys rather try to get the Grinch off

788
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 9: of Mount Crumpet or be Harry and Marvin home alone?

789
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 3: Two?

790
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 9: And I say two, because Kevin McAllister straight up kills

791
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 9: those guys like forty seven different times, and two it's electric.

792
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 6: I think two is superior to one. But that's a

793
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 6: conversation for another day. I would rather I feel like

794
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 6: me and the Grinch would get along. I feel like

795
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 6: we are kindred spirits. I feel like I would enjoy

796
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 6: the conversation. I feel like I would have the audacity

797
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,720
Speaker 6: to go up and bother the Grinch on Mount Crumpet,

798
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 6: and then I would be completely comfortable participating in all

799
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 6: of the Grinch's illicit activities. Maybe skip the heart grows

800
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 6: three sizes at the end. That's not really my vibe.

801
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 4: And look, I would rather go up to the Grinch.

802
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 4: But here's the thing. We're very opposite in what happens

803
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 4: once we get up there. I'm going full like circus clown,

804
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 4: acting like an idiot, trying to get the Grinch to smile.

805
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 4: That's going to be my goal, Like I'm going to

806
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 4: basically be a grown up idiot version of Zindi lu Who.

807
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm in on this. I'm I'm in on

808
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 3: going up to Grinch.

809
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 4: The Grinch but also acknowledging that he'd be a big,

810
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 4: scary green monster, and I might chicken.

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00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 5: Out in size. You do resemble a who.

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00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 9: Geez, the spirit of the Nice and Naughty List. Would

813
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 9: you guys rather have to explain your entire Google search

814
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 9: history to your mother or have your Spotify wrapped narrated

815
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 9: by your ex?

816
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 5: I love that.

817
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 9: What's the cutoff for the Google history? By the way,

818
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 9: is it like your entire life?

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00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 3: Oh?

820
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 4: I'm doing that, you know, because oh yeah, no, no,

821
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 4: see this is like this is as somebody that's not

822
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Speaker 4: particularly close.

823
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Speaker 3: With my mom.

824
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 4: I want her to have to read it out loud,

825
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 4: because like, it's the best part about playing cards against humanity.

826
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Speaker 4: There are certain cards that you know, Unsheath, you know

827
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 4: that when you get certain cards in the deck that

828
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 4: it's just watching watching a mom.

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Speaker 3: Try and read that card with a straight face. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm in on that. I'm in. It's gonna make my

831
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Speaker 3: mom feel more awkward than I am.

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Speaker 4: I'm kicking my grinch shoes up, putting them on the

833
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 4: table and being like, yeah, I'm read me the next one.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, give me my ex reading my Spotify wrapped.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's just.

836
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Speaker 3: And a very nice person.

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00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 5: Yes, she she was just down here.

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00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 6: This evening she came down for She drove down two

839
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 6: hours to take me to see some Christmas lights, and

840
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 6: then drove two hours home.

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00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 3: She see, that's it, she doesn't.

842
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 5: She doesn't deserve to have to read my Internet search history.

843
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 5: We won't.

844
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 3: That's fair, That is fair. What do we got next?

845
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 9: No shot? Would you rather accidentally like a five year

846
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 9: old Instagram post from a situationship once a month or

847
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 9: send a U up text to your boss once a year?

848
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 6: I think I do both of those things currently. Oh okay, okay,

849
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 6: probably the situationship, though.

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Speaker 5: You know, I mean, it's so you're doing some opposition research.

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00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 6: Maybe not opposition, you're trying to get out of the opposition,

852
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 6: as you know, FITZI.

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Speaker 5: Are you Are you familiar with the term situationship?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm not that old, my god, like, I'm not

855
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 3: in my eighties.

856
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 4: Okay, I am that old, But yes, I'm very familiar

857
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 4: with the situations I like the like it. You're liking

858
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 4: the picture on the situationship. You're learning a couple of things.

859
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 4: If they respond to it, you're figuring out, like how

860
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 4: much attention they're still paying to you. And if they

861
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 4: respond to it, you might also be putting a line

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Speaker 4: in the water, depending on what your status is at

863
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 4: that point. Like you know, I'm in, I'm in for

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Speaker 4: the Subtle Monthly. Uh yeah, the Subtle Monthly. Little heart

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Speaker 4: there little like a little like that.

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Speaker 5: It goes down, it goes down in the DMS. A

867
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Speaker 5: wise man once.

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Speaker 2: Said, wouldn't you guys, Uh?

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Speaker 3: Would you guys?

870
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 9: Rather be incredible at one party trick that absolutely never

871
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 9: impresses nobody, or a mediocre at everything, but people insist

872
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Speaker 9: that you should do it again.

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00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 4: I'd rather be incredible at something that impresses nobody. I like,

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Speaker 4: But that's what happens when you go up a fact

875
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 4: kid that plays the violin, that's no doubt.

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00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 3: What about you, Buck? MM?

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Speaker 6: I would like to be thoroughly mediocre across the board,

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Speaker 6: and I would like people to encourage me to be

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Speaker 6: more than mediocre.

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Speaker 5: But I'd like to just stay baseline, keep it cruising.

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Speaker 4: That's called managing expectations, and that's basically what Buck does

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Speaker 4: every single time we're.

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Speaker 3: On radio together.

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Speaker 4: He's just thoroughly mediocre, and then they ask us to

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Speaker 4: come back and be mediocre all over again. Merry Christmas, everybody,

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Thanks for listening. We appreciate it. We'll

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Speaker 4: talk to you again on Friday, Merry Christmas.