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Speaker 2: Well, we all love this time of year, and I'd

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Speaker 2: love to start off this show talking about love. One

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Speaker 2: of the cool things about getting older in life is

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Speaker 2: that you know how to define it. Right when you're

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Speaker 2: in your twenties, you always think you're in love, and

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Speaker 2: then later in life you're like, oh, actually maybe not.

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Speaker 2: You know the difference between like and love. And that's

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Speaker 2: what I'm looking at tonight, mister Rudolph with regard to

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Speaker 2: this Cowboys Eagles game, which I will further explain in

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Speaker 2: a moment, But first and foremost Week fourteen National Football League.

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Speaker 3: So glad to be with you here tonight. How are you,

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Speaker 3: my friend?

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Speaker 4: I'm doing well.

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Speaker 5: You know, it seems like each and every week we

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Speaker 5: have exciting things to talk about here after the Sunday

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Speaker 5: games wrap up, And certainly we got a great one

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Speaker 5: as we chat for the next three hours with the

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Speaker 5: Cowboys and the Eagles.

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Speaker 2: Well, and you wore that vissey for a long time.

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Speaker 2: And when you talk exciting, Kyle, I mean that game

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Speaker 2: in Vegas, right, I mean there was no other city

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Speaker 2: in America that could host a show like that today.

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Speaker 3: Three to nothing.

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Speaker 2: How'd that one make? You feel.

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Speaker 5: Certainly, I'm sure every Vikings fan that seemed to make

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Speaker 5: their way to Las Vegas, and there was certainly a

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Speaker 5: lot of purple in that stadium. We're going to have

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Speaker 5: to find their entertainment elsewhere because that game was not entertaining.

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Speaker 5: But hey, it's they don't ask cal they ask how many?

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Speaker 5: And they got another one today and they remain in

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Speaker 5: the playoff picture, which, again, as we've talked about throughout

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Speaker 5: the course of the season, I don't know if that's

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Speaker 5: a good thing or a bad thing. They're just working

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Speaker 5: their way further down the draft order at a time

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Speaker 5: when the organization is kind of in limbo, like are we,

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Speaker 5: you know, rebuilding or now we've benched the past or

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Speaker 5: not and we brought in Nick Mullins and you know,

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Speaker 5: like what are we doing? But as of right now,

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Speaker 5: they remain in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Good thing, bad thing? Maybe just a thing, that's what

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Speaker 3: it is.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, plenty to discuss there, and we will with

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Speaker 2: a bench quarterback and yet another injury for Justin Jefferson,

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Speaker 2: but let's focus in on Cowboys and Eagles.

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Speaker 2: me ever since the Cowboys acquired Trey Lance. I don't

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Speaker 2: know why they did. It's not like they're going to

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Speaker 2: use him. He's inactive tonight, but it did feel like

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Speaker 2: somewhere in there on their list of reasons, there was

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Speaker 2: some sort of a hedge that had taken place, and

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Speaker 2: this game tonight is one of the games that fits

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Speaker 2: into the box of Dak Prescott's future. And here's what

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Speaker 2: I mean by that. The guy may well go out

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Speaker 2: there and perform at such a level tonight that people

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Speaker 2: place him on top of the MVP balloting by tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 2: That's possible. Guess what's also possible the fan base would

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Speaker 2: like him to no longer be the quarterback anymore. Because

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Speaker 2: if there's one thing that defines Dak Prescott's time with

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys, it's that when everything gets big and the

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Speaker 2: zero wins right now against teams that currently have.

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Speaker 3: A winning record, none, they have none.

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Speaker 2: And so I'm really fascinating Kyle to see what he

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Speaker 2: kind of game that that fan base has been waiting

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Speaker 2: for him to win, and usually he not.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you look at Dak Prescott and his

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Speaker 5: head to head against the Eagles. That's a team that

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Speaker 5: he has had some success with. I believe they've won

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Speaker 5: five straight against the Eagles in Dallas. And I think

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Speaker 5: with Dak Prescott, Dak Prescott's playing some of the best

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Speaker 5: And you know, I had talked about that game, you know,

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Speaker 4: Well, now here we are. We're in December.

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Speaker 5: This is a game that has huge implications on the

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Speaker 5: it does is it gives them the chance most likely

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Speaker 5: host two playoff games. You know, they would host the

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Speaker 4: The divisional round.

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Speaker 5: And as we've talked about the NFC playoff picture, you know,

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Speaker 5: the two seed, Yeah, you might have to play three

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Speaker 5: the other power teams in the NFC. So I think

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Speaker 5: when you look at Dak and you look at this

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Speaker 5: They're currently both at the top of the MVP race

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Speaker 5: right now. You know, this is certainly an opportunity for

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Speaker 5: of the fans in the media. I certainly believe in

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Speaker 5: in the facility in Dallas, they know they have their guy.

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Speaker 5: It's you know, Dak's in line for another massive extension

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Speaker 5: And you know, I just I feel like the Trey

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Speaker 5: loves kind of the shiny objects, and Trey Lance certainly

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Speaker 5: was that, you know, a shiny object that had all

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Speaker 5: this potential in the world. Maybe not a great quarterback

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Speaker 5: I don't think it has any implications on how they

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Speaker 2: Interesting, you have more confidence in Dallas's confidence in Dak

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Speaker 2: you said, next to brock Party in the MVP race,

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Speaker 2: highly paid quarterback with a nine and three record. No

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Speaker 2: one's coming down his road. But Kyle, there is a

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Speaker 2: path to that changing. There's no doubt. You lose this

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Speaker 2: You know, another sort of sleepy effort from the Lions

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Speaker 2: and I just feel like Dallas really needs to announce

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Speaker 2: a it's a base. And I know you don't make

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Speaker 2: decisions based on the fans, Kyle, but it's a fan

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Speaker 2: base that will turn quickly because it'll feel very much

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Speaker 2: like Derek Carr to the Raiders did, where it was like, sure,

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you can take us to the playoffs, but what

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Speaker 3: That's not what Dallas is after.

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Speaker 2: Dallas is after competing for the ultimate prize, and I

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Speaker 2: think if he does not announce his presence tonight and

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Speaker 2: at some point this year, the feeling is going to

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Speaker 5: I see where you're coming from with that mark, But ultimately,

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Speaker 5: for me, the way I look at is what's the alternative?

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Speaker 5: UH look at quarterback play across the league, it's atrocious.

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Speaker 5: You know, you look at if you if you don't,

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Speaker 5: know how many guys could you say you can go

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Speaker 5: you mentioned Derek Carr in the Raiders, Well, how's that

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Speaker 5: you know, you're the grass isn't always greener on the

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Speaker 5: other side. And certainly I am a big believer in Dak.

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Speaker 5: I think Dak's playing great football. I think Dak is,

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Speaker 5: much better option than moving on and trying to find

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Speaker 5: so you're not gonna draft one. You know you're not

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Speaker 5: the alternative is too risky, and Dak's the guy in Dallas.

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Speaker 2: I don't disagree for now, and again, we're talking about

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Speaker 2: Dak will be quarterback next year. But I do wonder

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Speaker 2: it has been served up to the Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: On a platter.

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Speaker 2: America thinks that they're the better football team tonight, They're

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Speaker 2: with a bunch of close wins. I know you didn't

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Speaker 2: like my statement last week about them being a much much,

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Speaker 2: to say that their record feels a little inflated. To me,

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Speaker 2: that's not an accurate portrayal of how good they are.

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Speaker 2: But we're going to find that out tonight. You know,

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Speaker 2: this is the game that I think the Dallas fan

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I agree with you. I think this is

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Speaker 5: Dallas's game they have to win. This is a must

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Speaker 5: win for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 4: You don't.

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Speaker 5: You don't look at your season and see games on

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Speaker 5: the schedule and ultimately go it's not a playoff game

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Speaker 5: or win and we're in. It's a must win. But

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Speaker 5: when you look at Dallas, and in my opinion, when

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Speaker 5: I look at Philly, we've talked a lot about Philly

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Speaker 2: By numbers sitting solid at three and a half right now,

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Speaker 2: I do want to take a moment to also capture

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Speaker 2: the angst of the nation right now. I don't even

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Speaker 2: know if I've asked you this, and I can't believe

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Speaker 2: I haven't. Fourteen weeks in but now that you're retired,

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Speaker 5: I have not gotten into it yet. It's funny though.

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Speaker 5: So my dad started playing football with his high school

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they've played score only so you know, obviously back

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Speaker 5: So it's funny whenever people ask you off fantasy football,

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's incredible. Yeah, a lot of people

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Speaker 2: that's all. You just need a co owner. Like I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I need a GM to handle my rash.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you need an assistant GM.

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Speaker 3: That's all you need.

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Speaker 2: Because and the reason I ask right now, and I'm

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Speaker 2: sure you're keenly aware of this, we're down to three

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Speaker 2: So today is make the Playoffs day around the nation

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Speaker 2: and I don't know if it's by design. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if that's why there are two games on Monday Night.

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Speaker 2: I know that the NFL super serves it's fantasy community

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Speaker 3: Very very high level.

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Speaker 2: So to have offensive juggernauts like the Cowboys and the

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Speaker 5: Well, and I feel like as a player, you know,

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Speaker 5: So it's it's always funny when when you get to

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Speaker 5: fantasy football rules the world. It's changed the way that

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Speaker 5: I believe this generation of fans watches football. I believe

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Speaker 5: it changes the way that fans root for football. You know,

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Speaker 5: And now your team is whoever's on your fantasy team,

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Speaker 5: like you root for those players. So it's definitely transformed

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Speaker 3: No doubt you can do both.

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Speaker 2: It takes discipline, because I was one of those people

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Speaker 2: I root for the forty nine ers, and the last

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Speaker 5: Again, that has Christian McCaffrey and you're like, no, don't

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Speaker 2: Or the ultimate which ends up happening with nerds like me,

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Speaker 2: It's become such popular culture and obviously for me doing

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm all in on this. I do love

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Speaker 2: Did you ever have to deal with that? Not the hey,

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Fortunately for me, most of my injuries were not at

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Speaker 4: In the Fantasy season.

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Speaker 5: So mine was more just going out and playing on

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Speaker 5: It wasn't the last five years. I know that right, exactly.

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Speaker 3: The experience.

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Speaker 2: But did it ever get to you? Because I know,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, But it's also you know, again I just mentioned it,

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Speaker 2: That's really good perspective. Yeah, absolutely well, said Mark Willard.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if this is going to count. Looks

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Speaker 2: They're picking it up, so doc to CD poof there

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Speaker 5: Well, and I think a good front seven defensive line

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Speaker 4: And I think when when you have a front.

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Speaker 5: Of the side effects of playing against these tough teams

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Speaker 5: week in and week out, and some of the injuries

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Speaker 5: that they've had up front, and just you know, quite

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Speaker 5: honestly being worn down when you're not able to get

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Speaker 5: after the quarterback and pin your ears back and do

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Speaker 5: what this Philly team and this Philly Front has done

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Speaker 5: the last couple of years. It just adds that much

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Speaker 5: more pressure to the secondary, you know, when they know

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Speaker 5: the ball's got to come out or you're going to

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Speaker 5: have you know, these edge guys and the interior pushing

447
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Speaker 5: the pocket and things just crumbling on the quarterback. You

448
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Speaker 5: can take chances, you know the ball's got to come out,

449
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Speaker 5: you can jump routes, you get turnovers when the quarterback's

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Speaker 5: back there, pat and the football and playing seven on seven.

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Speaker 5: You got to cover and cover and cover and cover

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Speaker 5: some more. And it's still that that's not enough. So

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Speaker 5: I think it's a combination of both. And certainly the

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Speaker 5: secondary is taking the brunt of it.

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Speaker 2: Good opening, all right for Tony Pollard who had three

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Speaker 2: catches and also ran one for eleven yards, Doc Prescott

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Speaker 2: four or five for thirty yards. Cowboys are on the board.

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Speaker 2: And if there's anything more to say about that game,

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Speaker 2: Nick Cope, well as he joins us right now with

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Speaker 2: what's trending?

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Nick? How are we doing doing great? Guys?

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Speaker 7: Glad we got this game to keep tabs on as

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Speaker 7: we go through the night. Yeah, you pretty much said

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Speaker 7: it there, Mark a five minute drive going seventy five

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Speaker 7: yards right down the field. Cavante Turpin had a twenty

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Speaker 7: two yard rush as well that helped Dallas get across

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Speaker 7: midfield early. So seven nothing Cowboys ten minutes even ago

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Speaker 7: in the first quarter. Let's cap some of the late games.

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Speaker 7: In that late window, we saw the Bills they hang

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Speaker 7: on to knock off the Chiefs twenty to seventeen, and

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Speaker 7: a lot of talk about the flag that was called

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Speaker 7: on case receiver Canarius Tony. He lined up off signes

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Speaker 7: and negated to go ahead touchdown there in the final minutes.

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Speaker 7: Bills are now seven and six Chiefs. They're lead a tout.

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Speaker 7: The AFC West down to just one game. In regards

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Speaker 7: to that flag thrown against Tony, Andy Reid said after

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Speaker 7: the game that he's always been given a warning before

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Speaker 7: a penalty like Tony's his call to quote, it's a

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Speaker 7: bit embarrassing for the National Football League for that to

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Speaker 7: take place end quote. Did have Gene Sterretor, the former

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Speaker 7: referee who is now the CBS rules analyst way in

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Speaker 7: on Twitter. You know, he said that Cadarius Tony is

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Speaker 7: blatantly lined up offside and in the neutral zone. You

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Speaker 7: rarely see an offside's penalty on the offense. But that

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Speaker 7: is not because this play in the game isn't a fall.

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Speaker 7: It's because the receiver rarely lines up off sides. Patrick

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Speaker 7: Mahomes we saw his frustration after the game. He voiced

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Speaker 7: his displeasure with the officiating afterwards as well. Also had

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Speaker 7: the Niners beating the Seahawks twenty eight to sixteen, fifth

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Speaker 7: straight win for San Francisco. Cowboys win tonight vault San

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Speaker 7: Francisco to the number one seed in the NFC. Broncos

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Speaker 7: handled the Chargers twenty four to seven. Justin Herbert left

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Speaker 7: the game in the second quarter with a fractured right

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Speaker 7: index finger. Denver very much in the playoff mix at

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Speaker 7: seven and six, will get to the AFC playoff picture

497
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Speaker 7: in a moment. Vikings getting that laid field goal to

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Speaker 7: edge Raiders three to nothing in the lowest scoring NFL

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Speaker 7: game since two thousand and seven. Justin Jefferson left with

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Speaker 7: a chest injury. He was taken to a local hospital

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Speaker 7: for further evaluation. Earlier, Ravens walked off the Rams thirty

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Speaker 7: seven to thirty one in overtime on a Tyland Wallace

503
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Speaker 7: seventy six yard punt return. For touchdown. It was Wallace's

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Speaker 7: first game returning punts as a pro. Baltimore the top

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Speaker 7: seed in the AFC at ten to three, pending the

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Speaker 7: Dolphins game against the Titans tomorrow night. Browns hang on

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Speaker 7: against Jaguars thirty one to twenty seven. Joe Flacco three

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Speaker 7: hundred eleven yards, three touchdowns. Coach Kevin Stefanski said Flacco

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Speaker 7: will start the rest of this season. Jets Thronald the

510
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Speaker 7: Texans thirty to six. Zach Wilson three hundred one yards,

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Speaker 7: couple of touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: C J.

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Speaker 7: Stroud left the game late with a concussion. Bears beat

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Speaker 7: the Lions twenty eight to thirteen. Jared Goff two interceptions,

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Speaker 7: He was sacked four times. Bucks over the Falcons twenty

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Speaker 7: nine to twenty five. Baker Mayfield hooking up with Kate

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Speaker 7: Otton for the go ahead touchdown the final minute, and

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Speaker 7: for Atlanta kicker Young Ho Ku. He missed two field

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Speaker 7: goals in the first half. He had missed just one

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Speaker 7: all season. Also had the Saints. They started slow, but

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Speaker 7: blew out the Panthers twenty eight to six, three way

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Speaker 7: tie for first in the NFC South currently with the Saints,

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Speaker 7: Bucks and Falcons all at six and seven and mentioned

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Speaker 7: the AFC playoff picture. There's a logjam, guys. You have

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Speaker 7: just one game separating the third seed Kansas City at

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Speaker 7: eight and frot five from the eleven seed the Bills

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Speaker 7: down at seven and six, three teams at eight and five,

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Speaker 7: six teams at seven and six. Going to be a

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Speaker 7: furious finish. Back to you guys.

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Speaker 3: Thanks okay, Nick, great stuff.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate all of that here in the tire rack dot

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Speaker 2: com studios. By the way, shortly after the show, our

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Speaker 2: Kyle Rudolph with you here on a Sunday night, and

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Speaker 2: thank you so much wherever you are bringing us in

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Speaker 2: this evening. Can we talk about that for a second,

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Speaker 2: that Kadarius Tony thing. That's a weird sort of unwritten

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Speaker 2: rule to me the idea that on offense you're supposed

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Speaker 2: to get the warning from the ref. I've seen it

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Speaker 2: a thousand times. I'm sure it's been done to you, Kyle,

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Speaker 2: many many times. But the defense doesn't get that. How

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Speaker 2: did that ever even come to be that if you

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Speaker 2: line up in the wrong spot on offense.

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Speaker 3: You get a warning, but on defense you get a flag.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's more so you get a warning because as

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Speaker 5: a wide receiver, when you go line up, you always

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Speaker 5: look out at the official to tell him that you're

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Speaker 5: on the ball. Because in the NFL, unlike college, you

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Speaker 5: watch a college game, wide receivers that aren't on the

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Speaker 5: ball could be three yards off the ball, like they're

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Speaker 5: blatantly off the ball. In the NFL, it's we always

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Speaker 5: called it a blade of grass, like you're literally a

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Speaker 5: blade of grass off the ball, because we want to

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Speaker 5: hug the line of scrimmage as much as we possibly can.

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Speaker 5: So when you're the wide receiver that's on the ball,

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Speaker 5: you always look out to the wide to the official,

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Speaker 5: the down judge right there on the side and let

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Speaker 5: him know you're on the ball. The warning then comes

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Speaker 5: if you're in the neutral zone or off sides, he's

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Speaker 5: going to tell you to move back, or he's going

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Speaker 5: to tell you to move up if you're not on

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Speaker 5: the ball. So that's that's where the warning comes. Like

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Speaker 5: if if you just go out there and line up

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Speaker 5: and you don't look at that that official and you

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Speaker 5: just look in at the ball, he's not going to

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Speaker 5: yell to you and you know, be like, hey nineteen,

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Speaker 5: back up, you're off sides.

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Speaker 4: It's you have to look out at.

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Speaker 5: The official to check and make sure, like hey, I'm

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Speaker 5: on the ball, and he'll you know, give you the

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Speaker 5: thumbs up, let you know you're good. And you know,

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Speaker 5: the defensive guys could do the same thing if they

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Speaker 5: wanted to.

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Speaker 4: If you you're an edge rusher.

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Speaker 5: And you want to look out the official make sure

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Speaker 5: you're not in the neutral zone, you can, but they

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Speaker 5: just don't. Those guys, you know, they just line up

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Speaker 5: and get after the quarterback. So that's where the warning comes.

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Speaker 5: Typically it's you look out the official and he'll tell

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Speaker 5: you either move back, move up, or you're good and

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Speaker 5: we roll.

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Speaker 2: And important to point out that Tony never did that.

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Speaker 2: Tony just went and lined up and he definitely was

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Speaker 2: in an illegal spot with regard to where his body

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Speaker 2: was lined up, and so you start to think and look,

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Speaker 2: football games come down the way they do be for

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Speaker 2: hundreds of reasons. I understand that, but the high profile

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Speaker 2: nature of this receiving corps and what's happening with the

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Speaker 2: reigning Super Bowl champs. From Marquez Valdez Scantling dropping the

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Speaker 2: ball against the Eagles, I know, a tough catch, but

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Speaker 2: right there in his basket at the end of the game,

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Speaker 2: Kadarius Tony's now had two of these. You got this,

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Speaker 2: and don't forget opening night against the Detroit Lions, all

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Speaker 2: of the drop balls, including one that bounced off of

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Speaker 2: his hands and turned into a pick six in a

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Speaker 2: very very close loss, I think, by one point to

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Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions. So you start to look at the

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Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs situation. You realize that they are now

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Speaker 2: eight and five and only one game clear of the

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Speaker 2: Denver Broncos. For crying out loud, who saw this getting

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Speaker 2: tight in the AFC West. It's really hard not to

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Speaker 2: look at their situation and the way Mahomes is playing

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Speaker 2: where his numbers sit and not scratch your head with

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Speaker 2: the receiving corps, particularly when one of his former receivers

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Speaker 2: is about to go over fifteen hundred yards tomorrow night.

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Speaker 5: No, definitely, And I think today was the first time,

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Speaker 5: you know, we really saw Patrick Mahomes get frustrated. I

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Speaker 5: think in all the years I've watched Pat play, you know,

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Speaker 5: I know he's frustrated at the officials at the end

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Speaker 5: of the game. But you know, he's a guy that

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Speaker 5: really doesn't doesn't show that type of emotion. He's always

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Speaker 5: been super positive and gets the most out of his teammates.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I still believe in that Kansas City offense.

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Speaker 5: One of the things I liked that I saw today

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Speaker 5: out of the Kansas City offense was, you know, and

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Speaker 5: it's December, so it's time. It's Jack McKinnon time. As

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Speaker 5: it is every year, he kind of just hangs out

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Speaker 5: all year and then all of a sudden, in you know,

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Speaker 5: the the late late month of the or the last

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Speaker 5: part of the regular season, Jack McKinnon starts to find

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Speaker 5: his way into this offense and he becomes that counterpart

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Speaker 5: to Travis kelcey in the past game if the receivers

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Speaker 5: can figure.

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Speaker 4: It out or not.

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Speaker 5: So that was one of the things that I did, like,

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Speaker 5: you know, ultimately seventeen points against the Buffalo Bills. That's

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Speaker 5: just not going to it's not going to cut it.

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Speaker 5: It's not a good enough offensive performance. You know, certainly

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Speaker 5: you gotta tip your cap to the Bills as they

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Speaker 5: remain alive in this wild AFC playoff picture with I

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Speaker 5: think seven teams sitting at seven and six.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about this.

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Speaker 5: I if I'm looking at the back of the AFC

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Speaker 5: playoff picture, it's like you just I'm rooting for Buffalo

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Speaker 5: because I think Buffalo would be a team that you

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Speaker 5: don't want to see in the first round of the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: You know, you look at who's between Buffalo and the

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Speaker 5: seven seed, and you have the Bengals, the Broncos, the Texans,

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Speaker 5: and then at seven you have Indie. Six's Pittsburgh. Five

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Speaker 5: is Cleveland. It's like, Buffalo scares me more than any

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Speaker 5: of those other teams if I'm an AFC playoff team,

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Speaker 5: And you know, you have to imagine for Kansas City,

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Speaker 5: if they beat Buffalo today, they don't have to worry

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Speaker 5: about seeing them in the playoffs anymore. And it's like

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Speaker 5: it was just such an opportunity for them to kind

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Speaker 5: of put this Although inconsistent, very scary Bills team away

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Speaker 5: and they weren't able to do it because of the

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Speaker 5: offensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 2: No question about it. There's a ton to talk about

657
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Speaker 2: in the AFC, and we will. And there's also a

658
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Speaker 2: ton to talk about with regard to the Eagles offense.

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Speaker 2: Some of the forty nine ers insinuated last week that

660
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Speaker 2: they had found a little bit of a cheat code.

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Speaker 2: Some of the Eagles are pushing back on that.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: We're starting to see it play out in front of

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Speaker 2: our eyes tonight. I want to ask you about that.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next, Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph. This is Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio. All right, it's Fox Sports Radio Week fourteen,

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Speaker 2: National Football League. We're all over it along with Kyle Rudolph,

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Speaker 2: Mark Willard, We're in the tyraq dot Com studios.

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Speaker 3: Hey, what'd you make of Nick Bosa.

670
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Speaker 2: Pointing to the game against the Eagles last week and

671
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Speaker 2: essentially saying, Hey, we built the blueprint and hopefully the

672
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Speaker 2: Cowboys will follow it. If you watch the game between

673
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Speaker 2: the Eagles and Niners, you saw Jalen Hurts at times

674
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Speaker 2: just sitting back there. I mean, and it just looked

675
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Speaker 2: like he was sitting there forever, and he still couldn't

676
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Speaker 2: find people largely, and the secondary got a lot of

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Speaker 2: compliments for the forty nine ers because they covered for

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Speaker 2: long periods of time, and then the Niners did end

679
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Speaker 2: up getting a lot of pressures on Hurts, but it

680
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 2: seemed to take a while to develop, and so a

681
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 2: conversation sort of came out of that where some formal

682
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Speaker 2: Egle players led by Seth Joyner said that you all

683
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Speaker 2: got stonewalled, and the Niners were like, no, that was

684
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Speaker 2: the game plan because this way we would contain Jalen Hurts.

685
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Speaker 2: When we're over aggressive, you get a mobile quarterback that

686
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Speaker 2: takes advantage of that and takes off, and Jalen was

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Speaker 2: not able to do that in this game because the

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Speaker 2: forty nine Ers kept containment at a high level. What

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Speaker 2: did you make of Nick both saying it publicly and

690
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Speaker 2: also what he was saying as far as building a

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Speaker 2: blueprint that can kind of keep Jalen Hurts in the

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Speaker 2: Eagles in check.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think, first and foremost, building the blueprint and

694
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Speaker 5: executing the plan are two completely different things. I can

695
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Speaker 5: promise you that every Wednesday, the other team that's playing

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Speaker 5: against the Philadelphia Eagles that's sitting in their offense and

697
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Speaker 5: defensive meetings. After the first team meeting Wednesday morning, the

698
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Speaker 5: defensive line coach throws up the rush lanes and goes, look,

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Speaker 5: we have to put pressure on the quarterback this week.

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Speaker 5: But more important than putting pressure on the quarterback the

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Speaker 5: quarterback this week is you have to rush soundly. You

702
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Speaker 5: have to stay in your lanes. You have to keep

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Speaker 5: this quarterback contained. We don't want him taking off with

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Speaker 5: his legs. We want to make him stand in the

705
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Speaker 5: pocket and throw the football. We don't want him to

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Speaker 5: run around and create plays. Now, I guarantee you that's

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Speaker 5: every defensive lines blueprint that goes against the Eagles, But

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Speaker 5: then executing it as well as San Francisco did last

709
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Speaker 5: week is a whole different animal. And I think that's

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Speaker 5: where Nick is saying, like, hey, Dallas, like, look, you

711
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Speaker 5: know we showed you what to do. Now let's see

712
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Speaker 5: if you guys can do it. And again, that's that's

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Speaker 5: the biggest challenge, more so than coming up with the blueprint.

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Speaker 2: Well, it made me laugh just watching the very start

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Speaker 2: of this game, not that it's taken shape yet at all,

716
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Speaker 2: but the second play of the game hurts kind of

717
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 2: gets the shot gun, takes one step backwards, and Mayers

718
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 2: goes Micah Parsons and everybody on the defensive line just

719
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Speaker 2: completely pinning their ears back and rushing like crazy. And

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Speaker 2: he's like, oh, fine, I'll just run for twelve yards

721
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Speaker 2: right up the middle and get it first down. And

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Speaker 2: it made me laugh because I'm like that, that's exactly

723
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Speaker 2: what the Eagles seemed to be asking you to do.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

725
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Speaker 2: Jalen did end up getting some movement on the Eagles

726
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Speaker 2: first drive, but it ended with him running and fumbling

727
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Speaker 2: the football. There's a lot of meat on this bone,

728
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Speaker 2: because hey, I don't want to make it sound like

729
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Speaker 2: the Eagles have been figured out. That's not what I'm

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Speaker 2: saying at all. But I do think they're in a

731
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Speaker 2: little bit of a pickle. If you've got to beat

732
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Speaker 2: a couple of really good pass rushing teams that sort

733
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Speaker 2: of now are putting together an idea of how to play.

734
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Speaker 2: You combine that with the fact that, in my opinion,

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts can't run as much as he did last

736
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Speaker 2: year or else his sustainability is going to be in

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Speaker 2: question in this league. So where does that all push

738
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Speaker 2: the Eagles offense going forward.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think the biggest thing that's hurting the Eagles

740
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Speaker 5: offense is Jalen turning the football over. You know, you

741
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Speaker 5: talked about the fumble there at the end of the

742
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Speaker 5: drive after he takes off for the second time and

743
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Speaker 5: you know, picks up positive yards and doesn't secure the

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Speaker 5: football on the tackle. And you know, when you have

745
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Speaker 5: a quarterback like Jalen, you can't take away the reason

746
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Speaker 5: why you're paying him fifty something million dollars a year,

747
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Speaker 5: you know, his ability to use his legs extend plays,

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Speaker 5: design quarterback runs occasionally.

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Speaker 4: You know, as the games get.

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Speaker 5: Bigger and the stakes get higher, you'll see more of those.

751
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Speaker 5: It's not something that you can do for seventeen regular

752
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Speaker 5: season games and expect your quarterback to be healthy going

753
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Speaker 5: into the playoffs. But as we work our way here

754
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 5: to the end of the season and into the playoffs,

755
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Speaker 5: you do start to see more of those design runs

756
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Speaker 5: as the games get bigger and the stakes get higher.

757
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Speaker 5: So I think, you know, Philly will continue to rely

758
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Speaker 5: on things offensively, that's their bread and butter. But to me,

759
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 5: Jalen has to take better care of the football because

760
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Speaker 5: you can't turn the ball over and expect to win

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Speaker 5: games with you.

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Speaker 2: We're not done with the end of that Chiefs Bills

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Speaker 2: game yet either, especially with the discussion about officiating. You're

764
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Speaker 2: gonna want to hear what Patrick Mahomes had to say

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Speaker 2: after the game. It's pretty interesting and we got that

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Speaker 2: for you. That's around the corner on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: Embarrassing for the National Football League, you say, Andy Reid,

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Speaker 2: I think we would like to discuss that a little bit.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 2: Let you hear what Patrick Mahomes had to say after

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Speaker 2: things that I didn't love about that clip that we

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Speaker 2: just heard from Andy Reid, and I understand I don't

782
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Speaker 2: want to like make it all about exact words, and

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Speaker 2: I understand that he's in the middle of a frustrating moment,

784
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Speaker 2: but to say that it was embarrassing for the league

785
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Speaker 2: because normally I get a warning in a big game. Okay,

786
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Speaker 2: hold on a second. What do you mean you get

787
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Speaker 2: a warning in a big game as opposed to a

788
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Speaker 2: small game like what happens If you're playing the Raiders,

789
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Speaker 2: then you don't want the warning. It's only because you

790
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Speaker 2: were playing the team in second or the team that's

791
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Speaker 2: in second place behind you simultaneously is winning.

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Speaker 3: Their game within the division.

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Speaker 2: Is it because you're playing the Bills and there's history there?

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Speaker 3: What exactly do you.

795
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Speaker 2: Mean I normally get a warning in a big game,

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Speaker 2: and is the referee supposed to have an idea that

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Speaker 2: it's a big game, so give him a warning. I

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Speaker 2: loved your breakdown of this, Kyle. If you look to

799
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Speaker 2: the ref and ask for guidance, they'll give it. He didn't, period,

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Speaker 2: Let's move on. I mean that's the way I see it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's how I see it too. And you know,

802
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Speaker 5: at the same point, if Kadarius Tony does not look

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Speaker 5: out at the line, judge, the dumb judge, the official

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Speaker 5: that's standing right there on the line, of scrimmage, looking

805
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Speaker 5: straight down the football and ask hey, am I good

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Speaker 5: or not? Then again, is that official supposed to turn

807
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Speaker 5: and yell to Andy Reid who's standing on the sideline, like, hey,

808
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Speaker 5: number nineteen's off side? So do you want to take

809
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Speaker 5: a time out here? Or you know you want to

810
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Speaker 5: tell him to move? That doesn't happen Like so again,

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Speaker 5: the warning is given when when you ask for it,

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Speaker 5: when when you look down the sideline and see the

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Speaker 5: official and he either gives you the thumbs up or

814
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Speaker 5: waves you back or waves you forward. So again, when

815
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Speaker 5: you just line up and look in at the football

816
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Speaker 5: and don't look at the official, you're not going to

817
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Speaker 5: get the warning that you typically would get.

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Speaker 2: We would get really interesting finished there and the Bills

819
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Speaker 2: end up winning the game. If you missed it, the

820
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Speaker 2: play in question, Kadarius Tony lines up in the neutral

821
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Speaker 2: zone and it negates what would have likely been a

822
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Speaker 2: game winning certainly was a go ahead touchdown with just

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Speaker 2: about a minute to goo. Mahomes not happy either. Here's

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Speaker 2: what he had to say afterward.

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Speaker 8: To happen on the flag chained outcome of a game

826
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Speaker 8: in that moment. I mean, I've played seven years never

827
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Speaker 8: had that never had offensive side, it's called.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the that's elementary.

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Speaker 8: School we talk about. I mean, you point to the ref,

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Speaker 8: do all that different type of stuff and it doesn't

831
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Speaker 8: get called, and if it does, they warn you. And

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Speaker 8: there was no warning throughout the entire game. And then

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Speaker 8: you wait, there's a minute left in the game to

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Speaker 8: make a call like that. It's just tough, man, I

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Speaker 8: mean lost for wordsmen, It's just tough because regardless off,

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Speaker 8: we want to lose, just just for that ended up

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Speaker 8: with another game and we're talking about the ress man.

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Speaker 8: It's just not what we want for the NFL and

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Speaker 8: for football. I mean not only for me, but just

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Speaker 8: for football in general. I mean, just to take away

841
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Speaker 8: greatness like that, I mean for a guy like Travis

842
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Speaker 8: to make a play like that and who knows, we win.

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Speaker 8: As I know, as fans, you want to see the

844
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Speaker 8: guys on the field decide the game. And that's why

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Speaker 8: last week I didn't say anything about the flag. They

846
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Speaker 8: didn't get called on the Marquez and so I mean,

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Speaker 8: I mean they're human, man, they made mistakes. But I

848
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Speaker 8: mean it's every week we're talking about something and all

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Speaker 8: I can do is go out there and give everything

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Speaker 8: I have and I'm proud of the guys. That's what

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Speaker 8: we did. And it was a great football game that ended.

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Speaker 8: Another great football game that just ended like that. It's

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Speaker 8: just tough. Tough as well.

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Speaker 9: Hmm.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we got all kinds of problems because now he's

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Speaker 2: bringing back the conversation from a week ago against the

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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers. Was it a non call and a

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Speaker 2: clear PI, no doubt. But Kyle, you remember what Patrick

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Speaker 2: said at the time. They asked him after the game,

860
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Speaker 2: what about the non call on pass interference? And Mahomes said,

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Speaker 2: look at the end of a close game, they're letting

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Speaker 2: them play. And I like that. He goes, I want

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Speaker 2: that from the reps. Oh, but now a week later,

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Speaker 2: now we're mad at it. Last week we were happy

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Speaker 2: with it. Now we're mad at it because something else

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Speaker 2: happened this week that you didn't particularly like. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of ma Homes and a huge

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Speaker 2: fan of Andy Reid, but these guys right now are

869
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 2: talking out of both sides of their mouths and they're

870
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 2: pointing the finger. There's plenty of opportunity and we will,

871
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 2: Kyle to point the finger at the referees in twenty

872
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 2: twenty three. But the finger tonight, unfortunately for them, needs

873
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 2: to be pointed at Kadarius Tony.

874
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know Pat mentioned it in his comments

875
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 5: that it's elementary. You know, you look down on the

876
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage, you check and make sure that you're okay.

877
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 5: You know, typically throughout the game you may get warnings.

878
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 5: You know, I guarantee you to that point, nobody had

879
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 5: lined up on the other side of the football on

880
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 5: offense because it just doesn't happen, like you don't do that.

881
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 5: You look down the football, you look at the referee,

882
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 5: you get lined up, and you know, I think what

883
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,479
Speaker 5: Patrick is saying. He is like, look, if if we're

884
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 5: just going to keep the flags in our pocket and

885
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 5: you're not going to decide the game one week and

886
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 5: you miss a blatant DPI call because you know you're

887
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 5: just gonna let the guys decide the game, Well, Kadarius

888
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,720
Speaker 5: Tony lining up in the neutral zone had absolutely nothing

889
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 5: to do with the impact of that play. So again,

890
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 5: just let let the guys decide the game and don't throw.

891
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 5: Don't throw the flag. So I get where he's coming from.

892
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 5: At the same point, it's like, look, it is elementary.

893
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 5: You need to look at the official, make sure that

894
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 5: you're lined up on the correct side of the football,

895
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 5: on the ball when you're supposed to be on the ball,

896
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 5: off the ball when you're supposed to be off the ball,

897
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 5: and it would never happen. And you know, again, Travis

898
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,760
Speaker 5: did make an unbelievable play.

899
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 4: Something that quite honest.

900
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 5: See, he's probably the only person in football who would

901
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 5: attempt to make that play and could make that play.

902
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 5: He does it all the time when he's running downfield.

903
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 5: He's just he's got incredible vision when he has the

904
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 5: ball in his hands and you know, for him to

905
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 5: see Kadarius Tony on the other side of the field

906
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 5: and throw the ball right on the money, hit Kadarius

907
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 5: Tony on the lateral and score would have been the

908
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 5: go ahead touchdown.

909
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 4: You know, you do. You hate to see that get erased.

910
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 5: It's one thing if he gets erased on on an

911
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 5: offensive holding penalty or something where you know it's in

912
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 5: the in the heat of the play and you know

913
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 5: a guy's getting beat or it's something out of their control.

914
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 5: But when it's one pre snap in your control, just

915
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 5: lining up on the right side of the football. As

916
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 5: Patrick said, that's really tough to swallow.

917
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet it is.

918
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 2: But but this is this is so funny because there

919
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 2: are a thousand things that we could talk about with

920
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 2: regard to officiating in the NFL. This isn't one of them.

921
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 2: Don't pick today, don't pick tonight to come down the

922
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 2: road of the refs because one of the players on

923
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 2: your team did something that was wrong in an elementary

924
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 2: way like this is just the wrong time to do it.

925
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 2: And I think it kind of robs your ability of

926
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 2: doing it down the road because there is a conversation

927
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 2: to be had here. There's a national article on the

928
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 2: athletic by Diana Russini that came out just late yesterday

929
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 2: early this morning, and I'd love to talk about it

930
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 2: with you, but it's all about some of the things

931
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 2: that the league is concerned about right now with regard

932
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 2: to officiating. But this does not further the story when

933
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 2: you make the officials a big national story when one

934
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 2: of your players clearly did something wrong. In other words,

935
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 2: there's so much that the refs call that's not reviewable.

936
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 2: If you were allowed to review this, they would have

937
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 2: come out and said the play stands is they did

938
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 2: it right just because you don't like the rule or

939
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 2: the way that you perceive it to have been handled

940
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 2: in the past. I don't know, man, I just think

941
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 2: that they really picked the wrong time to make the

942
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 2: officials a story.

943
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 4: No, you're exactly right.

944
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 5: And you know we've talked about the officials a couple

945
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 5: times throughout our weeks having this show on Sunday night,

946
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 5: and you know they're you honestly would have rather had

947
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 5: them talk about last week's officiating performance and then being

948
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 5: like this week, you know that was on us, like,

949
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 5: you know, we need to make sure that we line

950
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 5: up on the correct side of the football check with

951
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 5: the official because again, like when you think about it,

952
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 5: last week was bad officiating.

953
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 4: Last week was a.

954
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:49,240
Speaker 5: Completely blown call on a blatant DPI and then yes,

955
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,760
Speaker 5: probably another blown call on the Hail Mary when Travis

956
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 5: Kelcey just gets blatantly pushed out of the way, which

957
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 5: I know they don't call that often, but I've been

958
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 5: in games that it's been called. We are playing the

959
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 5: Bucks in twenty twenty and they called DPI on Gronk

960
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 5: and they got the ball. The Bucks got the ball

961
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 5: first and goal in the one yard line with no

962
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 5: time left in the first half because Gronk got pushed

963
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 5: on a hail Mary. And you know when you see

964
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 5: Travis go up to catch that hill Mary, he's blatantly

965
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 5: pushed and doesn't even get a chance to jump. So

966
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 5: it's again like, if we want to put the officiating

967
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:31,240
Speaker 5: into question, let's do it when they are in question

968
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 5: and are messing up calls, not when someone on our

969
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 5: team just doesn't line up correctly, and oh, well we

970
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 5: should get warned. You can't get warned if the guy's

971
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,240
Speaker 5: staring at the football and doesn't look at the official.

972
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, everybody listening to us, you ever been

973
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 2: in a long term relationship, whether married or not, long

974
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 2: term relationship, you know exactly what the Chiefs just did,

975
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:58,760
Speaker 2: because every relationship goes through this too. Somebody's mad about something,

976
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 2: but they hold it in. They hold it in because

977
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 2: they think they're supposed to hold it in. They want

978
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,240
Speaker 2: to be the nice person, they want to overlook okay,

979
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 2: choose calmness, all of that, and then a week later

980
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 2: you do something so innocuous and it turns into an

981
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 2: explosion because they're actually mad about what happened a week ago.

982
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,840
Speaker 2: That's what happened today to me, if you ask me

983
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 2: with regard to the Chiefs, because they're picking on this

984
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 2: and this was not a thing they're still mad about

985
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 2: last week. Last week they chose to be nice about it,

986
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 2: but they were still harboring anger.

987
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 5: Right, And you know, when we talk about officiating, the

988
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:45,399
Speaker 5: personal foul, unnecessary roughness hit on Patrick Mahomes that set

989
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 5: them up in the great field position to take the

990
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 5: shots at the end zone was an awful as well.

991
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 5: So just you know, overall, it's like, you know, I

992
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 5: certainly agree with and something that again we've talked about

993
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:02,919
Speaker 5: that the league has a big issue when it comes

994
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 5: to its officiating. We have the greatest product in the

995
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 5: world and the greatest game in the world, and you know,

996
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 5: it seems like week after week we're talking about officiating.

997
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 2: The article that came out late yesterday from Diana, Russinia

998
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 2: the athletic NFL viewership stock is up, but NFL officiating

999
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 2: stock is low. Not a new issue, but the criticism

1000
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,720
Speaker 2: seems to be the loudest it's ever been. The league

1001
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,240
Speaker 2: wants to see more consistency week to week from Crewe

1002
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 2: to Crewe. Many head coaches believe there is two big

1003
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 2: of a discrepancy between how different crews call the game.

1004
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 2: Would love to get into that with you coming up next,

1005
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 2: let's do it.

1006
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 3: That's Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard and this is Fox

1007
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 3: Sports Radio.

1008
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:51,360
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1009
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,360
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Speaker 2: at Progressive dot com. All right. Speaking of officiating, we've

1014
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 2: got a challenge right now in Dallas. They're up ten

1015
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 2: to three, third and goal from the one. They run

1016
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 2: this one up the middle. They call them short. Ooh.

1017
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 2: I mean he probably got in, but I don't even

1018
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 2: know if it's conclusive. But anyway, as we look at

1019
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 2: the officiating situation, this matchup in particular is kind of

1020
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 2: center stage. John Hussey is the lead ref for this crew,

1021
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 2: and he is for example, and maybe this is just

1022
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 2: the social media age. I grew up watching football. I

1023
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 2: had no idea who the refs were. I knew who

1024
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 2: ed hockey lely was because he worked out. Other than that,

1025
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 2: I had no idea who the referees were. But John

1026
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 2: Hussey has built a little name for himself when his

1027
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 2: crew officiates Eagles games. Now, the Egels are seven to

1028
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 2: zero when his crew works their games. Now, if your

1029
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 2: eyebrows are up, you can stop. Because the Eagles are

1030
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 2: like really good, so they win. They win most of

1031
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:20,799
Speaker 2: the games no matter who they're playing. But the analytics,

1032
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 2: if you will, Kyle, are pretty interesting. The number of

1033
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 2: flags being thrown on the opponents versus the Eagles themselves

1034
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 2: is really really out of whack. And here he is

1035
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 2: in this game. You certainly can't see anything with regard

1036
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 2: to it so far, and the Cowboys are out in

1037
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 2: the lead in this game. But I'd love to start

1038
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 2: by understanding from you how much players and coaches even

1039
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 2: look at that stuff? Is it different week to week

1040
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 2: based on who the crew is. When you're getting ready for.

1041
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 5: A game, I can actually tell you I was talking

1042
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 5: before about, you know, Wednesday morning, and you break the

1043
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:06,320
Speaker 5: team meeting and you go offense and defense, and how

1044
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 5: I guarantee you when you're playing the Philadelphia Eagles, a

1045
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 5: defensive line coach. The first thing he talks about is

1046
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 5: the discipline when rushing the quarterback. Well, in that Wednesday

1047
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 5: team meeting before you break up, one of the things

1048
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 5: that you do every single week is go through an

1049
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 5: officials report. Who is the official for the game this week?

1050
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:32,919
Speaker 5: What calls does this crew make? Are their outliers? Hey,

1051
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 5: this crew is number three in the NFL and offensive

1052
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 5: holding penalties or DPI penalties or oh this crew, this

1053
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 5: crew is really high on offensive pass interference, So you know,

1054
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 5: offensive guys, you know, make sure you be extra careful

1055
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 5: this week or offensive holding. So we this in every

1056
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 5: team I was on did this. So you know, you

1057
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 5: Wednesday morning you go through and you know you write down,

1058
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 5: all right, we have John Hussey this week and his

1059
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 5: crew likes to call unnecessary roughness penalties a lot more

1060
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 5: than maybe other crews may. So you were aware going

1061
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 5: into the game who the officials were and what were

1062
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 5: things that they've called that were kind of outliers to

1063
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 5: the rest of the crews in NFL, And know what

1064
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 5: are things that you have to really emphasize that week

1065
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,919
Speaker 5: and make sure that hey, if this is a crew

1066
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 5: that I know calls a ton of offensive holding penalties. Well,

1067
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 5: for me, as a tight end, when I'm blocking on

1068
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:36,800
Speaker 5: the perimeter, I better not even think about grabbing cloth

1069
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 5: outside of the framework of the body because you know

1070
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 5: that holding penalty is going to come right away. This crew,

1071
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 5: we talked about it on Wednesday. This crew is going

1072
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 5: to call it as soon as they see it. So

1073
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 5: as a player, it was kind of your responsibility to

1074
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 5: understand the crew that had the game and what they

1075
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 5: were normally calling.

1076
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 2: No, what's interesting to me about Diana Russini's report, which

1077
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 2: we were referencing earlier, is that, and I don't know

1078
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 2: that I've ever seen this before. I don't know if

1079
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 2: I've ever seen the league make some sort of an

1080
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 2: admission that they want to see something different from officials.

1081
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 2: I've always assumed that there's all kinds of conversations going

1082
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Speaker 2: on behind closed doors, but from a public standpoint, you

1083
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 2: never see the league not fully back the refs. In fact,

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00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 2: I've long been frustrated by the idea that you're not

1085
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:29,479
Speaker 2: even allowed to go to a press conference and say

1086
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 2: anything about the refs, like, I mean, what we just

1087
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 2: listened to. Are Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes going to

1088
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 2: get fined?

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00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 4: Kyle probably not okay of the NBA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if that was the NBA, they'd get fined.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.

1092
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Speaker 5: But I feel like Andy Reid and Patrick both did

1093
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 5: a great job where they didn't blatantly go after the referees.

1094
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 5: You know, it was kind of more the subtle line

1095
00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 5: of you know, this is embarrassing for the NFL, like

1096
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 5: a call like that, or you know, to what Pat

1097
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 5: was saying, where you know, just let the guys play.

1098
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 5: I feel like when when we see guys get fined

1099
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 5: and they get the twenty five or fifty thousand dollars

1100
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 5: fine for going after the ref they do it in

1101
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 5: a in a little bit different way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting. Andy Reid saying it's embarrassing for

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00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 2: the league. I wonder, I wonder if there's going to

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00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 2: be some sort of a disciplinary action there. But even

1105
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 2: just this one line from this report in the Athletic,

1106
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 2: the league wants to see more consistency week to week

1107
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 2: from crew to crew. I always get the sense that

1108
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 2: publicly the league is like, you know, it's just a

1109
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 2: brick wall. Nope, Nope, our guys, our guys, our guys,

1110
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 2: and and and that's kind of it for them to

1111
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:55,439
Speaker 2: speak to a reporter, even if it's sort of under

1112
00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 2: a little bit of secrecy in terms of who's saying.

1113
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 3: What I think is very very opening.

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00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 2: That the league feels like something different is going on here,

1115
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 2: and I'm curious to know what exactly that is. And

1116
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:10,680
Speaker 2: then the initial reaction to me is, we know so

1117
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 2: much more about who officials are, what the calls are.

1118
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 2: We've got all the data, We've got every replay we

1119
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 2: can see like there's a report card. Social media has

1120
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 2: all of this data on refs in football and umpires

1121
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 2: in baseball, and each individual is now sort of under

1122
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,479
Speaker 2: the microscope and it never used to be that way.

1123
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Speaker 2: And so I'm sure that's a part of it. But

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00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 2: this all this feels different to me, as if to say, no,

1125
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 2: something's actually different because the league, the league is showing

1126
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 2: concern as opposed to the fans. The fans are always

1127
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 2: showing concern.

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, and I think the league understands that we

1129
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 5: have the best product in sports, and you know what

1130
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 5: is going to ruin that, And you know, I talked

1131
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 5: about it before. It's you know, we've elevated to a

1132
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 5: point where one it's not even a network. You know,

1133
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 5: Amazon is paying a billion dollars a year to stream

1134
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 5: a game one night a week, because football has grown

1135
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 5: that much across the country and there's that many people

1136
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 5: watching day in and day out. The thing that's going

1137
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 5: to cause problems are when you know the product is

1138
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 5: at such a high level across all fields except for

1139
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 5: the one that, like you said before, can never be

1140
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 5: talked about, can't be mentioned in press conferences. There's no accountability.

1141
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 5: Seems like the same officials get the same jobs every year.

1142
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 5: If you're a player and you perform poorly, you're not

1143
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 5: going to have your same job the next year. If

1144
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 5: you're a coach and you perform poorly, you're not going

1145
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 5: to have your same job the next year.

1146
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 4: You lose your job.

1147
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Speaker 5: And you know, I think ultimately the league understands that

1148
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 5: and are at a point now where they realize, hey, look,

1149
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 5: we've got to kind of nip this in the button

1150
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 5: now and make sure we get these things squared away.

1151
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 2: You remember that old conversation that always used to come up,

1152
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 2: They need to make the officials full time. They needed

1153
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 2: like that always used to be people's thing. It was like, well,

1154
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 2: they're just they're part time employees. Therefore they're not like

1155
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 2: I guess the implication was they don't know the rules

1156
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 2: well enough, they don't have enough time to study it

1157
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 2: because they're off doing business jobs or whatever it is

1158
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Speaker 2: they did in their free time. I still people say

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Speaker 2: I still see people say that to this day. Is

1160
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 2: there anything there in your mind?

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I certainly. Again I talked about our

1162
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 5: officials report, and our officials report it was typically, you know,

1163
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 5: it included what their full time profession was. So it

1164
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 5: was always fun for me to see what else other job,

1165
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 5: whether it was lawyer or you know, accountant, and you

1166
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 5: know whatever the different professions were that the officials were,

1167
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Speaker 5: And it was always fun for me to see in

1168
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 5: the official report what they were doing Monday through Friday.

1169
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 5: But you know, I think the big thing is, you know, ultimately,

1170
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 5: preparation for these guys is going to be the only

1171
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 5: thing that slows the game down enough for them to

1172
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 5: have a better chance at making the right call. You know,

1173
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 5: we as viewers get to see every slow motion replay

1174
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 5: from three or four different angles. We're not going to

1175
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 5: miss a call. As a viewer and as an official

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01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 5: on the field at real time, the only way that

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01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 5: you're going to be prepared to make that call. Is

1178
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Speaker 5: if you studied just like the inside linebacker who sees

1179
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 5: a formation and has studied it on film that week

1180
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 5: week in ten different hours of meetings, and as soon

1181
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 5: as he sees that formation, he knows the play that's coming.

1182
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 5: If an official is a full time employee of the league,

1183
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,919
Speaker 5: maybe at that point they'll have more time because they're

1184
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 5: not worried about their law practice or their accounting firm

1185
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 5: that they work for. They're able to do much more

1186
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 5: preparation Monday through Friday. That then allows them to process

1187
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 5: information quicker that they're seeing on the field on Sundays.

1188
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 2: Interesting stuff. You know who misses nothing is Nick Cope,

1189
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 2: and here he comes with what's trending?

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Speaker 9: Hey?

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Speaker 3: Nick?

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Speaker 7: All right, guys, we're at the two minute warning for

1193
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 7: the Eagles and the Cowboys. By the way, they did

1194
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 7: overturn that Rico Dowdell rush at the goal line. They

1195
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 7: said he was across, So a touchdown for Dowdell seventeen

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01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 7: to three Cowboys. But Philly has taken the ball down

1197
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 7: the field. They're in the red zone. A nice back

1198
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 7: shoulder throw to hook up with a J. Brown courtesy

1199
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Speaker 7: of Jalen Hurts a nice catch there for Brown. It

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01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 7: kind of makes up for earlier on the drive Philly

1201
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 7: got their field goal. Brown dropped a pass that would

1202
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:13,080
Speaker 7: have given the Eagles goal to go, so helping them

1203
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 7: make up for it here. Seedee Lamb with the touchdown

1204
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,959
Speaker 7: pass for Dallas. Also, Brandon Aubrey hit a sixty yard

1205
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 7: field goal for the Cowboys and Jalen Hurts on their

1206
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 7: first offensive possession, he was stripsacked. That's his fifteenth turnover

1207
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 7: of the season. So a two touchdown lead for Dallas.

1208
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 7: But Philly's got the ball in the red zone coming

1209
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 7: out of the two minute warning. They will also get

1210
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,000
Speaker 7: the ball to start the second half, So Philly with

1211
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:38,040
Speaker 7: the chance to get right back in this game earlier

1212
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Speaker 7: you guys been talking about it.

1213
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Speaker 1: Bills.

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01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 7: They hung on to knock off the Chiefs twenty eight

1215
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 7: to seventeen. The key play Kadarius Tony lining up off sides,

1216
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 7: negating to go ahead touchdown with about a minute to play.

1217
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 7: Bill's now seven and six Kansas City. They only lead

1218
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 7: Denver by a game now for the division. Niners won

1219
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 7: their fifth straight, beating the Seahawks twenty eight to sixteen.

1220
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 7: Christian McCaffrey at buck forty five on the ground. Speaking

1221
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 7: of Denver Broncos, they handled the Chargers twenty four to seven.

1222
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 7: Justin Herbert left the game the second quarter with a

1223
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 7: fractured right index finger. That's his throwing hand. He's said

1224
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 7: to have an MRI. Tomorrow, Vikings with a three to

1225
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 7: nothing win over the Raiders, getting that field goal late.

1226
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 7: Lowest scoring NFL games since two thousand and seven. Minnesota

1227
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 7: bench Josh Dobbs for Nick Bullins, who led them on

1228
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 7: that field goal drive. Justin Jefferson left with a chest injury.

1229
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 7: He was taken to a local hospital for further evaluation.

1230
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 7: He was released and is traveling back with the team.

1231
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:35,440
Speaker 7: Ravens git a punt return for touchdown in overtime to

1232
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 7: beat the Rams Baltimore. It's out the AFC at ten

1233
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 7: to three, penning the Dolphins game against the Titans tomorrow night.

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01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 7: Browns hang on against the Jaguars thirty one to twenty seven.

1235
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 7: Cleveland becomes a seventh team since nineteen fifty to have

1236
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Speaker 7: four different quarterbacks win a game in the same season.

1237
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 7: Jets throttled the Texans thirty to six.

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01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 4: CJ.

1239
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 7: Stroud left the game with a concussion, Bears over the

1240
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,640
Speaker 7: lines twenty eight thirteen, Justin fields two hundred and eighty

1241
01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 7: one yards and two scores, Bucks over the Falcons twenty

1242
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 7: nine to twenty five, as Baker Mayfield hooked up with

1243
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 7: Kate Atten for the go ahead touchdown in the final minute.

1244
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 7: Saints started so but ultimately Cruz pass the Panthers twenty

1245
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 7: eight to six. Got a three way tie in the

1246
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 7: NFC South Saints, Bucks and Falcons all at six and seven.

1247
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Speaker 2: Guys, Back to you, okay, Nick, great stuff. Appreciate that

1248
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 2: as always, Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph Tyraq dot com Studios

1249
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 2: watching Sunday Night football, getting through all of what has

1250
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 2: already transpired this week and keeping in mind that there

1251
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:41,160
Speaker 2: are still two more games tomorrow night. One of them

1252
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 2: includes the Miami Dolphins, who with a win along with

1253
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens. Just suddenly like we were talking about

1254
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 2: how bunched up everything is, and it is, but maybe

1255
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:56,640
Speaker 2: not as much as we thought up at the top

1256
01:06:57,120 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 2: of the conference to get to this point to sit here,

1257
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 2: if you had pitched this to someone preseason, Kyle, if

1258
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 2: you had pitched the idea that at the end of

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01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 2: week fourteen, there would be two teams that are two

1260
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 2: games clear of the rest of the conference, and neither

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Speaker 2: of them are the Chiefs, Bills or Bengals. That would

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01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 2: have got you a straight jacket if you had tried

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01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 2: to pitch that before the season started.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it certainly would have. And I think you look

1265
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 5: at both of these teams, and you know, we've known

1266
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 5: the narrative with Miami, you know, talent speed across the board,

1267
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 5: but struggled.

1268
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 4: To beat good teams.

1269
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 5: And then you look at Baltimore and you know, with Baltimore,

1270
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 5: it was all offseason we didn't even know if Lamar

1271
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:49,120
Speaker 5: Jackson was going to be the quarterback in Baltimore or not.

1272
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 5: And then you know, ultimately they get his long term

1273
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 5: deal done, they signed Odell Beckham junior. You kind of

1274
01:07:56,080 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 5: see this revamped, more traditional offense, and you know, you

1275
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 5: have these two teams in the AFC that, like you said,

1276
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 5: two games clear of the rest of the field, assuming

1277
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 5: Miami takes care of another team with a losing record

1278
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 5: tomorrow like they have all year. You know, it's like

1279
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 5: I said last week, I'm really excited for the last

1280
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 5: four weeks of the season, and all these teams playing

1281
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:19,759
Speaker 5: each other in big games.

1282
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 2: Well, and now it starts to takes shape in this way,

1283
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 2: like the Jags have now lost a couple in a row.

1284
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 2: Houston and the CJ. Stroud situation gonna be absolute center stage.

1285
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 2: But that Division one game is separating three teams. The

1286
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:42,479
Speaker 2: Chiefs now have action against the Broncos. We're back into

1287
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 2: another spot where in the AFC North all four teams

1288
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:48,799
Speaker 2: have a winning record. Look at the way Jake Browning

1289
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 2: is keeping the Bengals relevant in this whole thing, and

1290
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 2: then the Bills getting the must win today combined with

1291
01:08:55,120 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 2: everything the Dolphins are doing. I don't even know necessarily

1292
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 2: how to handicap this thing. I do think right now,

1293
01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 2: and I've actually thought this. This will sound silly, but

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Speaker 2: I've thought this for maybe about a week or two,

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01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:15,839
Speaker 2: that we're tracking right now toward if we can assume health.

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Speaker 2: And this is not just based on their records. For me,

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Speaker 2: it's based on the matchups that will play. I think

1298
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:26,840
Speaker 2: we're tracking toward what could be a forty nine Ers

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Speaker 2: Ravens Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: That's what it feels like right now.

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01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 2: But we got so much football left to play and

1302
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 2: so many turns that can still come out. But the

1303
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 2: way the Ravens play at home, the balance that they have,

1304
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 2: I don't think that this is just a record. I

1305
01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 2: think that they might have what's needed to navigate these

1306
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 2: playoffs when they get there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean New Year's Eve one o'clock in Baltimore.

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01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 5: We're going to get the Dolphins in the Ravens and

1309
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:01,880
Speaker 5: you know that's uh, that's gonna be a big one.

1310
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Speaker 5: Like I said, I think that's what I'm most excited

1311
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 5: for over the last four weeks of the season. You know,

1312
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:10,960
Speaker 5: all these teams play each other throughout this last month,

1313
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 5: and when you're when you're talking about the the a

1314
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Speaker 5: f C and and who's going to represent the a

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01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 5: f C in the in the in the super Bowl.

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Speaker 5: You know, we've talked about Miami, and I said this,

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01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 5: if Miami can find a way to make everyone come

1318
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:31,200
Speaker 5: to Miami, that's their best chance. You know, if if

1319
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,920
Speaker 5: Miami has to go to Baltimore the last week of

1320
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 5: January for an a f C championship game, or you know,

1321
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 5: if they're going to Kansas City, going to some of

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01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 5: these other cold weather cities in the a f C.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't think they.

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01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 5: Have as good of a shot as if those teams

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01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 5: have to come down and play in Miami and Miami

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01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 5: so you know, we'll see the Ravens they've got, they'll

1327
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:58,479
Speaker 5: have to go to your Niners on Christmas Day and

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01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 5: then they come back and buy yeah, come back and

1329
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 5: host the Dolphins. So you know, two big ones there.

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Speaker 5: And you know you mentioned the Jaguars after losing two straight.

1331
01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 5: Baltimore goes to Jacksonville next week on Sunday Night football,

1332
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 5: so you know, really a huge game for the Jaguars

1333
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:20,040
Speaker 5: to try to get back on track and you know,

1334
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:23,839
Speaker 5: for Baltimore to remain the pace center in the AFC.

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01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and then don't forget the Green Bay Packers would

1336
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 2: would move at least for the moment, into the last

1337
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:35,760
Speaker 2: playoff spot in the NFC if they can get a win,

1338
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,360
Speaker 2: And if they can't get a win tomorrow night, then

1339
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:41,400
Speaker 2: somebody with a losing record check that two teams with

1340
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 2: losing records would be in line for playoff spots in

1341
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:49,639
Speaker 2: the NFC, which is very different than what we're talking

1342
01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 2: about in the AFC. All right, lots still on the

1343
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:55,679
Speaker 2: bone for us tonight, but coming up next, our favorite

1344
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 2: team has gone and done it again. We'll get to

1345
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 2: that next. Roudolph on Mark Willard on Fox Sports Radio. Well,

1346
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 2: it's the Festival of Lights. Yeah, we're live from the

1347
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:13,200
Speaker 2: tyrack dot Com studios. I'm not gonna lie to you, Kyle.

1348
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 2: I grew up in a celebrated in both house. Mom's Jewish,

1349
01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 2: dad's not. And so during our most recent commercial break,

1350
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 2: we went out and lit the minora. It is night

1351
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 2: number four. Happy Honkkah to all of those of you

1352
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 2: who celebrate.

1353
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 5: Yes, Happy Honkah, Happy holidays. Such an incredible time of year,

1354
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:48,520
Speaker 5: the holidays, December.

1355
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:51,840
Speaker 4: Football. This is what it's all about.

1356
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:54,799
Speaker 3: This is what it's all about.

1357
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:59,639
Speaker 2: And clicking the big box that says place order. That's

1358
01:12:59,680 --> 01:13:01,559
Speaker 2: the other thing this is about. I don't know how

1359
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:04,280
Speaker 2: many times you've done that in the last two weeks,

1360
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:05,080
Speaker 2: but good guy.

1361
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:12,560
Speaker 5: How that's changed over the years. Want to go shopping exactly?

1362
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:15,639
Speaker 2: No wonder Amazon's paying a billion dollars for football games.

1363
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:18,640
Speaker 3: They want you to stay home. They just keep hitting.

1364
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 2: Place order over and over and over again. When's the

1365
01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:24,759
Speaker 2: last time you came home. Here's a fun exercise. When's

1366
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:28,200
Speaker 2: the last time you came home Kyle and there wasn't

1367
01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:29,759
Speaker 2: a box at your doorstep.

1368
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:31,400
Speaker 3: When's the last time I think mine?

1369
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 2: For me? It was like twenty fifteen.

1370
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:38,440
Speaker 3: But it's unbelievable.

1371
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, who ordered that?

1372
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:41,880
Speaker 3: And oh it was me?

1373
01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 2: When did I order that?

1374
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 3: Okay?

1375
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 4: They think that gets me.

1376
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 5: Mark is like, it's not like what day did you

1377
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:52,320
Speaker 5: come home and not have a box? It's like, you

1378
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:54,599
Speaker 5: know there. I've had times where I leave the house,

1379
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 5: like early in the morning, and all of a sudden,

1380
01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 5: I'm like running into the Yeah, the Amazon guy, I'm

1381
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 5: running into him at four o'clock in the morning. I'm like, wait,

1382
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:06,599
Speaker 5: there are no more like delivery days or delivery hours,

1383
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 5: like they come whenever you order it.

1384
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 2: Oh. No, Like it's getting to be almost like the

1385
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 2: fire department. You hang up the phone after calling them

1386
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:18,719
Speaker 2: and they're there there. You can't walk the dog without

1387
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:22,799
Speaker 2: coming back to a big brown box at your doorstep.

1388
01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 3: It's it's hilarious.

1389
01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:28,759
Speaker 2: But anyway, yes, Happy holidays to absolutely everybody out there.

1390
01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 2: Twenty three seconds to go in the first half, and

1391
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:35,280
Speaker 2: the Cowboys are threatened to really take control of this one,

1392
01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 2: and actually indeed they will. Dak Prescott to Michael Gallup

1393
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:44,080
Speaker 2: and the Cowboys are now up twenty three to six

1394
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 2: extra point pending. Is there a flag down on this one? No,

1395
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 2: I don't think so. This one's gonna stand, Kyle, Look

1396
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 2: this is interesting. No, there is a flag down, all right,

1397
01:14:56,840 --> 01:15:00,840
Speaker 2: so hold that anyway. No, the touchdown, it's going to count.

1398
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 2: And I don't know where this is going to go

1399
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 2: in the second half. And I'm not trying to pile

1400
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:12,360
Speaker 2: on or overstate, but what we said before the game

1401
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 2: is exactly what's playing out. And I think there is

1402
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 2: a lot to say about the Philadelphia Eagles that's impressive.

1403
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 2: But my read on them right now is that Jalen

1404
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 2: Hurts and AJ Brown are so special that the two

1405
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:32,679
Speaker 2: of them have basically kept them afloat and kept them

1406
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,799
Speaker 2: as the number one seed for the majority of this season.

1407
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:41,000
Speaker 2: But you're getting a look right now at where the

1408
01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 2: Eagles stand in the NFC.

1409
01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:44,679
Speaker 3: I don't think they're the best team.

1410
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 2: I don't even think they're the second best team.

1411
01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 1: No.

1412
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 5: And I think we saw it all week, the Eagles

1413
01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 5: fans outside of the facility with the sign that's telling

1414
01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 5: them to run the football, you know, just run the ball.

1415
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:03,120
Speaker 5: More we think about this, this Eagles offense, and quite honestly,

1416
01:16:03,160 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 5: this Eagles team and their identity over the last couple

1417
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:11,679
Speaker 5: of years to carry them to such a high level

1418
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 5: of success. And what this team that we're seeing right now,

1419
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:19,960
Speaker 5: it's just it's night and day. You know, you're not

1420
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 5: seeing that pressure that you're accustomed to seeing on defense.

1421
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:25,640
Speaker 4: You're not seeing.

1422
01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 5: The physicality and the run game that you're accustomed to

1423
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 5: seeing from the offense. And you mentioned aj Brown and

1424
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:38,280
Speaker 5: Jalen just being so special and talented that they've covered

1425
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,120
Speaker 5: up for a lot of things that this team hasn't

1426
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:42,840
Speaker 5: done well well.

1427
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:48,320
Speaker 2: This defense is not going to stop offenses that are

1428
01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:52,599
Speaker 2: prolific in the passing game, you know, like you're seeing

1429
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:56,559
Speaker 2: it tonight when they're on the road. That emotion you

1430
01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 2: and I talked about it, the emotion of the first

1431
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:03,400
Speaker 2: quarter matchup, the fans, everything that took place in the

1432
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:07,479
Speaker 2: first quarter last week against San Francisco and the Eagles

1433
01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 2: were only able to be up six to nothing and

1434
01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:12,680
Speaker 2: allowed the forty nine ers to settle in. And then

1435
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 2: when the other team goes on six consecutive touchdown drives,

1436
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 2: that's the look. There are blowouts, Things go sideways. There

1437
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:28,759
Speaker 2: were no turnovers in this game. Six consecutive long field

1438
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:32,120
Speaker 2: drives for touchdowns by the forty nine Ers told me

1439
01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 2: everything that I need to know with regard to this

1440
01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 2: Eagles defense, and they're just not equipped in the defensive

1441
01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 2: backfield to handle offenses like the forty nine Ers and

1442
01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:48,640
Speaker 2: Cowboys can present. They're still gonna do some things in

1443
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:51,799
Speaker 2: the NFC, because I don't know how many other prolific

1444
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:52,759
Speaker 2: offenses there.

1445
01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:53,719
Speaker 3: Are in the NFC.

1446
01:17:54,320 --> 01:17:58,679
Speaker 2: But I look at this right now and absolutely believe

1447
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 2: it's a harbinger of things to come for Philadelphia.

1448
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 5: Well, I mean since that first quarter in Philly, you

1449
01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:11,760
Speaker 5: mentioned six straight touchdown drives, and I think as of

1450
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:17,919
Speaker 5: right now, Dallas has scored on three out of four drives.

1451
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 5: Field goal on the other. Yeah, yeah, field goal on

1452
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 5: the other. So it's you know, you're you're looking at

1453
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 5: ten drives. You got nine touchdowns in a field goal

1454
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 5: the last ten times this defense has been on the field.

1455
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 2: Sixty six points in five quarters is what the Eagles

1456
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:38,760
Speaker 2: have now given up.

1457
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:41,240
Speaker 5: And this is a defense, like I said, that has

1458
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 5: been as good as anybody over the last couple of years.

1459
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 5: You know, it's you know, the defense that I remember

1460
01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 5: watching them play through the playoffs last year. I'm like

1461
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:55,080
Speaker 5: I mean, they just have guys everywhere, Like you look

1462
01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:57,599
Speaker 5: at the front seven, it's like first round pick, all pro,

1463
01:18:57,680 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 5: first round pick, first round pick, and you just you

1464
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 5: don't see that out of this team right now. And

1465
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 5: you know, like I said, it's a team that they

1466
01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:10,479
Speaker 5: you know, they need to get healthy to regroup that

1467
01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 5: they've had. They've had the Gauntlet, and we talked about

1468
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 5: it before they went into it and what they would

1469
01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 5: be happy if they got out of it. They got

1470
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 5: out of it, and it looks like as the game

1471
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:22,000
Speaker 5: is going tonight, it's going to be that four and

1472
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 5: two number that we talked about through those six games.

1473
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 2: No doubt. So ten seconds to go to all halftime

1474
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 2: and Dallas is up by eighteen, uh threatening to pour

1475
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:35,679
Speaker 2: it on. We will continue with the NFC playoff picture

1476
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 2: coming up next, because it's tight, even though it might

1477
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:42,519
Speaker 2: be uninspiring in spots, and we'll also get into the

1478
01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 2: vikings you mentioned. Might have been a good thing to win,

1479
01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:47,880
Speaker 2: might have been a bad thing. Jefferson goes out again.

1480
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 2: Lots to get to. That's next on Fox Sports Radio.

1481
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: All right off into the night we go Week fourteen

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Speaker 2: National Football League halftime in Dallas, All Cowboys twenty four

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Speaker 2: I do want to get to the NFC picture, but

1494
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Speaker 2: we also mentioned about ten minutes ago that our favorite

1495
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 2: team had gone and done it again, and then we

1496
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:41,519
Speaker 2: got all onto the Honukah thing and Amazon and etc.

1497
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:45,639
Speaker 2: I did want to make mention of the don't call

1498
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:48,720
Speaker 2: them San Diego Chargers who fall to five and eight

1499
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Speaker 2: and now are dealing with an injured Justin Herbert only

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Speaker 2: able to muster seven points today. And I want to

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01:20:56,520 --> 01:20:59,320
Speaker 2: mention it from two perspectives. You're looking at what feels

1502
01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:01,240
Speaker 2: like and I haven't done the math. I can, but

1503
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 2: I'm pretty confident in saying that more than half the

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01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 2: league right now is starting quarterbacks who were not their

1505
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 2: starter on Week one, and you have to be able

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Speaker 2: to function when that happens.

1507
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:16,839
Speaker 3: Most of the teams are going to have to use.

1508
01:21:17,040 --> 01:21:21,400
Speaker 2: Multiple quarterbacks throughout a season, and so this isn't to

1509
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:25,759
Speaker 2: put Easton Stick on blast, But the Chargers offense wasn't

1510
01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:30,639
Speaker 2: really moving well before Eastern Stick came in. I still

1511
01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:34,200
Speaker 2: scratch my head with regard to what's happening with this

1512
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 2: football team. But I also had to throw my hands

1513
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 2: up in the air opening drive. And this is after

1514
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:42,840
Speaker 2: I think they either got a turnover or had pretty

1515
01:21:42,840 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 2: good field position for their opening drive. They drive it

1516
01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 2: all the way down in the red zone, they get

1517
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:52,200
Speaker 2: inside the ten, it stalls. There's an incomplete pass. Fourth

1518
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 2: and three from the six zero zero game, halfway through

1519
01:21:57,120 --> 01:22:00,559
Speaker 2: the first quarter. Kyle, I'm sorry, that's a new brainer.

1520
01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:04,599
Speaker 2: That's a no brainer. Fourth and three from the six

1521
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:07,839
Speaker 2: opening drive, Give.

1522
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 3: Me the three.

1523
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:12,599
Speaker 2: But Brandon Staley is so allergic to the three points

1524
01:22:13,080 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 2: that there he goes again, and he goes forward on

1525
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 2: fourth down. And I sat back and I folded my

1526
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:21,840
Speaker 2: legs cow before the play even happened, because I knew

1527
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 2: what was gonna happen. I knew they weren't gonna get it.

1528
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 2: I knew it was going to be an incompletion to

1529
01:22:27,160 --> 01:22:31,000
Speaker 2: keenan Allen. Guess who else knew the Broncos defense, They

1530
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 2: all knew. Everybody knows total broken record, and I just

1531
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:38,799
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know where that team turns next

1532
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:39,599
Speaker 2: after all of this.

1533
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:46,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, unfortunately it was a fracture of a finger on

1534
01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 5: the throwing hand for Justin Herbert, So you know, who knows,

1535
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 5: his season there may very well maybe maybe over with.

1536
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 5: You know, certainly this team was was really not headed

1537
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:03,720
Speaker 5: in any direct prior to that injury, and you know it,

1538
01:23:04,479 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 5: certainly we all believe that it's time for.

1539
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 4: Them to move on.

1540
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:16,760
Speaker 5: You know, you're only allotted a prime franchise quarterback so

1541
01:23:17,040 --> 01:23:20,599
Speaker 5: often in this league, and they have one and they're

1542
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:24,719
Speaker 5: wasting it right now. So you know, ultimately you would

1543
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:28,320
Speaker 5: assume that that changes will be coming for the Los

1544
01:23:28,360 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 5: Angeles Chargers. And you know, again you mentioned at the

1545
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 5: top of the segment, just you know, weeke in and

1546
01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:38,280
Speaker 5: week out making decisions that.

1547
01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:40,680
Speaker 4: Just it's reckless.

1548
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 5: You know, you go out there and you go right

1549
01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 5: down the field and it's fourth and three on the sixth,

1550
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 5: it's a field goal ten times out of ten, you

1551
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 5: take your three points. You know, you did exactly what

1552
01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:55,679
Speaker 5: you wanted to do the night before the game, when

1553
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 5: you were going over the opening calls and you wanted

1554
01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:00,679
Speaker 5: to start fast, and you go right on the field

1555
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 5: and you give yourself a chance to get three points

1556
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:06,599
Speaker 5: and then you don't take them. It's just it's it's

1557
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:09,960
Speaker 5: hard to comprehend. It has been throughout his entire time

1558
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 5: as a head coach, and you know, I ultimately feel

1559
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 5: like that's that's coming to an end.

1560
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a frustrating watch, even if it's not

1561
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:22,240
Speaker 2: your team. It's just it's just such it's such a

1562
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:25,439
Speaker 2: head scratcher, which is a term that we could use

1563
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:29,320
Speaker 2: also for the NFC, and I mean that sort of

1564
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:31,760
Speaker 2: on the bottom half of this playoff bracket. This is

1565
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 2: the second year in a row that the NFC South

1566
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 2: seems to be trending toward featuring a team with a

1567
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:41,760
Speaker 2: losing record to win the division. The Bucks, Falcons and

1568
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:44,880
Speaker 2: Saints are all six and seven. Can I just start

1569
01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:47,479
Speaker 2: with this from you, which of those three teams do

1570
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 2: you think is the best?

1571
01:24:51,280 --> 01:24:52,200
Speaker 4: I think.

1572
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 5: I think when healthy, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are are

1573
01:24:58,280 --> 01:25:02,320
Speaker 5: the best team in that division. I think you got

1574
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:05,160
Speaker 5: to give Baker credit. And you know, we talked about

1575
01:25:05,280 --> 01:25:09,439
Speaker 5: Mike Evans last week and just his under the radar

1576
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:12,559
Speaker 5: neess to go have a first ballot Hall of Fame

1577
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:16,920
Speaker 5: career over the first ten years of his career, and he's.

1578
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 4: Continued to do it again this year.

1579
01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 5: You know, you got Chris Godwin, Rashad White, they have

1580
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:28,439
Speaker 5: so much talent on that offense. Defensively, they just I mean,

1581
01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:32,240
Speaker 5: they're they're as injured as injured comes. And you know,

1582
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 5: ultimately they they've found a way when the last to

1583
01:25:37,280 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 5: get back to six and seven and jump into first

1584
01:25:41,400 --> 01:25:45,360
Speaker 5: place in the NFC South New Orleans just they haven't

1585
01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:48,040
Speaker 5: shown me enough throughout the course of the year to

1586
01:25:48,200 --> 01:25:50,280
Speaker 5: make me think that down the stretch they're going to

1587
01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:53,519
Speaker 5: be you know, they they played the Bucks, I believe

1588
01:25:53,640 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 5: on New Year's Eve, you know, in Tampa. I don't

1589
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 5: see that making any changes. And quite honestly, if if

1590
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:04,960
Speaker 5: the Bucks didn't blow their their first game against the

1591
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,639
Speaker 5: Atlanta Falcons, they would have swept them this year.

1592
01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:10,759
Speaker 4: On the on the two game series.

1593
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:15,479
Speaker 5: So you know, I think it's the Bucks division to lose, certainly,

1594
01:26:15,520 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 5: they control their own destiny at now at this point.

1595
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:21,559
Speaker 5: But you know, I get, like we've said all year,

1596
01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:24,320
Speaker 5: ultimately someone's going to have to win the NFC South,

1597
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:27,640
Speaker 5: and whoever that's someone is is most likely going to

1598
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 5: face the Cowboys or the Eagles if if things don't

1599
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:34,640
Speaker 5: change here down the stretch in the first round, and

1600
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 5: probably have a quick exit out of the playoffs year

1601
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 5: we did last year.

1602
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:42,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, you like you.

1603
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 2: I mean, even if even if somebody's kicker shows up

1604
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:48,920
Speaker 2: and just decides to miss all the extra points, it

1605
01:26:48,920 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter because that division is just kind of

1606
01:26:52,320 --> 01:26:52,720
Speaker 2: in a lull.

1607
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 3: It is wild to look at it right now.

1608
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:57,719
Speaker 2: I thought preseason the Saints were going to be the squad,

1609
01:26:58,200 --> 01:27:02,200
Speaker 2: but we know in football, the quarterback play has to

1610
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 2: be solid, and I look at this division and I

1611
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:08,840
Speaker 2: can't believe that I'm about to say the sentence that

1612
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:12,120
Speaker 2: I'm about to say, Kyle, I cannot believe this, but

1613
01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:15,599
Speaker 2: I agree with you on Tampa Bay because right now,

1614
01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:20,760
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield is the best quarterback in the division. I

1615
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:22,920
Speaker 2: can't believe that I just said that, but it's true.

1616
01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 2: It's true, and he is, and he's been the most

1617
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:30,679
Speaker 2: consistent and That's why it feels like they're in games

1618
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:34,120
Speaker 2: because he's at least playing passable football right now.

1619
01:27:34,920 --> 01:27:36,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you look at a lot of the games

1620
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:39,080
Speaker 5: that they're winning, you know, and he's taking care of

1621
01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:42,240
Speaker 5: the football, you know, you look at the games where

1622
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:47,080
Speaker 5: they don't win, and it's simply because of that. When

1623
01:27:47,120 --> 01:27:49,760
Speaker 5: Baker takes care of the football, they have so many

1624
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:52,360
Speaker 5: playmakers on offense that he can get the ball.

1625
01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:54,160
Speaker 4: To that they do a really good job.

1626
01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:56,479
Speaker 5: They still don't run the football as well as I'm

1627
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 5: sure they would like to take some of the pressure

1628
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:01,800
Speaker 5: off of Baker in that pass game, but they they

1629
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 5: find creative ways.

1630
01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 4: You know.

1631
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:06,240
Speaker 5: Chris Godwin is essentially an extension of the run game

1632
01:28:06,280 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 5: out there, getting him the ball and quick game, and

1633
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:10,599
Speaker 5: you know, he's a guy that can work the middle

1634
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 5: of the field almost as well as anyone that I've

1635
01:28:14,240 --> 01:28:17,240
Speaker 5: ever been around. And so they do. They have the

1636
01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 5: playmakers on offense to take some of the pressure off Baker.

1637
01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:24,880
Speaker 5: And I think Baker's had, you know, a very good year.

1638
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:28,760
Speaker 2: It's been solid, there's no doubt about it. Now as

1639
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:31,479
Speaker 2: far as the playoff picture is concerned. Right now, the

1640
01:28:31,560 --> 01:28:34,959
Speaker 2: Vikings sit in the sixth seed because of their stunning

1641
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:39,839
Speaker 2: three to nothing battle at Allegiance Stadium today in Vegas,

1642
01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:44,200
Speaker 2: defeating the Raiders again three to nothing. That's not in progress,

1643
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 2: that's a final. Josh Dobbs got benched. Nick Mullins came

1644
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 2: in justin Jefferson went to the hospital. I don't know

1645
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:54,760
Speaker 2: what could happen to this team that hasn't happened this

1646
01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 2: year yet somehow they've emerged from all of it at

1647
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 2: this moment with a winning rec that in and of

1648
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:02,040
Speaker 2: itself is impressive.

1649
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:03,639
Speaker 3: But there's a lot to talk about here.

1650
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:07,519
Speaker 2: You said earlier tonight, you said, I'm not even sure

1651
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 2: it's a good thing that they won this football game.

1652
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:10,680
Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?

1653
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's just an organization that's ultimately in

1654
01:29:15,120 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 5: no man's land. You're not competing to win a super

1655
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:24,880
Speaker 5: Bowl right now. Your roster is not talented enough to

1656
01:29:24,920 --> 01:29:28,400
Speaker 5: win a super Bowl. And then you know, ultimately you're

1657
01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:33,800
Speaker 5: working your way to an early twenties draft pick, and

1658
01:29:35,240 --> 01:29:37,920
Speaker 5: you know it's like you're not high enough in the

1659
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:42,599
Speaker 5: first round to get that franchise quarterback difference maker that

1660
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 5: you ultimately need to get if you decide to move

1661
01:29:45,960 --> 01:29:51,880
Speaker 5: on from kirk Cousins and reset the organization. And you know,

1662
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:55,280
Speaker 5: it kind of goes back to Week two when we

1663
01:29:55,320 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 5: talked about the Minnesota Vikings and I said, you know,

1664
01:29:59,120 --> 01:30:01,719
Speaker 5: where is this oranization? You know, like, at what point

1665
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:05,200
Speaker 5: do they finally hit reset? You thought it was two

1666
01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:07,799
Speaker 5: years ago when they fired the head coach and fired

1667
01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:11,800
Speaker 5: the gm completely, bring in a new staff. And then

1668
01:30:11,880 --> 01:30:14,080
Speaker 5: they go out last year and win eleven to one

1669
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 5: score games, and it's like, oh, maybe we're not as

1670
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:19,880
Speaker 5: far off as we thought we were the previous year,

1671
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 5: so we won't hit the reset button. And then you

1672
01:30:23,320 --> 01:30:24,880
Speaker 5: come out this year they get off to the one

1673
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:28,920
Speaker 5: and four start, and you know, ultimately it was all right,

1674
01:30:28,960 --> 01:30:31,720
Speaker 5: now we have to hit the reset button justin Jefferson's

1675
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 5: going on ir the season is lost. Well, they go

1676
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:38,840
Speaker 5: win five straight and then they're sitting at you know,

1677
01:30:39,439 --> 01:30:43,280
Speaker 5: six and four, right in the middle of the playoff hunt,

1678
01:30:43,479 --> 01:30:45,920
Speaker 5: and you know, you have a quarterback that had been

1679
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:48,439
Speaker 5: there for less than two weeks that goes out and

1680
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:52,000
Speaker 5: gets you back to back wins. So you know, again

1681
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:57,040
Speaker 5: it's it's this back and forth teeter totter, Are are

1682
01:30:57,080 --> 01:31:01,160
Speaker 5: we going all in or are we resetting? And right now,

1683
01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 5: they're just kind of living in no man's land. And

1684
01:31:04,360 --> 01:31:06,519
Speaker 5: as of right now, after a big three to nothing

1685
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:09,720
Speaker 5: win in Vegas today, they are the sixth seed in

1686
01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:10,440
Speaker 5: the playoffs.

1687
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:15,680
Speaker 2: Yes they are, and the Justin Jefferson situation continues to

1688
01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:20,519
Speaker 2: frustrate him the team. I'm sure certainly people who drafted

1689
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:22,960
Speaker 2: in number one overall in their fantasy leagues who are

1690
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:25,720
Speaker 2: gripping tonight. We're all excited to put him back in

1691
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:29,320
Speaker 2: the lineup and he ends it in the hospital. Good

1692
01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:31,080
Speaker 2: to hear that he's been released. He is going to

1693
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:34,280
Speaker 2: travel back home with the team. That's first and foremost,

1694
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:37,000
Speaker 2: but a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff going

1695
01:31:37,040 --> 01:31:38,880
Speaker 2: on there, and it just feels like a lost season

1696
01:31:38,920 --> 01:31:42,000
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1701
01:31:56,600 --> 01:31:59,320
Speaker 2: last week, Kyle, I asked you a question about the

1702
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:02,360
Speaker 2: one seed in the NFC. For you at the time,

1703
01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:05,880
Speaker 2: it was an easy answer. My sense is it still

1704
01:32:05,960 --> 01:32:10,080
Speaker 2: will be, But knowing what we know now, I want

1705
01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:16,320
Speaker 2: to ask it again because h the two seed might

1706
01:32:16,360 --> 01:32:18,920
Speaker 2: not be such a bad thing. I'll ask the question

1707
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:21,840
Speaker 2: again next with Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio.

1708
01:32:23,880 --> 01:32:28,520
Speaker 2: All right, we're lovingthetie rank dot Com Studios with Kyle Rudolph.

1709
01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:29,559
Speaker 3: I'm Mark Willard.

1710
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:34,120
Speaker 2: The pool report in the Chiefs Bills game is interesting.

1711
01:32:34,200 --> 01:32:36,040
Speaker 2: More on that in a few I want to get

1712
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:40,519
Speaker 2: to the MVP of the league and that race and

1713
01:32:40,760 --> 01:32:43,080
Speaker 2: the concept of it as well. You said something last

1714
01:32:43,080 --> 01:32:45,160
Speaker 2: week that resonated with me all week. I want to

1715
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:47,280
Speaker 2: run it by you again. But speaking of things that

1716
01:32:47,360 --> 01:32:49,479
Speaker 2: came up last week that I want to run by

1717
01:32:49,479 --> 01:32:54,360
Speaker 2: you again. So let's let's imagine it. Let's let's do

1718
01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:56,320
Speaker 2: what we're allowed to do in the media. Let's get

1719
01:32:56,320 --> 01:33:01,479
Speaker 2: ahead of ourselves. Let's look at what feels in this

1720
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 2: moment predictable in the NFC. You just started the conversation.

1721
01:33:06,960 --> 01:33:09,960
Speaker 2: The winner of the NFC South is going to host

1722
01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:13,439
Speaker 2: either the Cowboys or the Eagles, and they're probably going

1723
01:33:13,520 --> 01:33:17,479
Speaker 2: to get their doors blown off. Okay, so let's pretend

1724
01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:22,720
Speaker 2: that's the four or five matchup, the three to six matchup,

1725
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:28,439
Speaker 2: tracking toward being the Detroit Lions hosting someone in the

1726
01:33:28,479 --> 01:33:33,760
Speaker 2: realm of the Vikings, Packers, Rams, or Seahawks could go

1727
01:33:33,840 --> 01:33:34,400
Speaker 2: either way.

1728
01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:36,880
Speaker 3: You favor the Lions a little bit, but who knows.

1729
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:41,760
Speaker 2: And then there's the one in the two The forty

1730
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:44,120
Speaker 2: nine Ers will be one of those two teams, it

1731
01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 2: would appear, and the other one will be either the

1732
01:33:48,920 --> 01:33:51,840
Speaker 2: Eagles or the Cowboys, whoever wins the NFC East again,

1733
01:33:52,040 --> 01:33:53,640
Speaker 2: it would appear. I don't want to act like the

1734
01:33:53,680 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 2: Lions are out of this, but they're a game back

1735
01:33:56,960 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 2: and they just don't look all that great right now.

1736
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:02,760
Speaker 2: So okay, we'll see where that all goes if it

1737
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:03,880
Speaker 2: plays out that way.

1738
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:05,360
Speaker 3: I asked you last.

1739
01:34:05,040 --> 01:34:09,840
Speaker 2: Week, any hesitation in being the one seed. Yes, you

1740
01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:13,800
Speaker 2: get the week off, but then your playoff route is

1741
01:34:14,200 --> 01:34:20,960
Speaker 2: likely two games within that group of three teams. If

1742
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:24,840
Speaker 2: you're the Eagles, for instance, you'd probably play the Cowboys

1743
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:27,680
Speaker 2: and the Niners, or if you're the Niners, you might

1744
01:34:27,720 --> 01:34:33,439
Speaker 2: play the Eagles and the Cowboys, two very high leverage,

1745
01:34:33,520 --> 01:34:38,040
Speaker 2: difficult games as opposed to playing three games as the

1746
01:34:38,080 --> 01:34:42,320
Speaker 2: two seed, two of them at home, potentially all three

1747
01:34:42,360 --> 01:34:44,880
Speaker 2: of them at home, but two of them at home,

1748
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:49,000
Speaker 2: and you're talking about the likes of like I mean,

1749
01:34:49,800 --> 01:34:53,719
Speaker 2: I mean, who's coming to town? Is it Josh Dobbs

1750
01:34:53,800 --> 01:34:59,040
Speaker 2: and the Vikings, followed by maybe Jared Goff in Detroit,

1751
01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:04,120
Speaker 2: or maybe they get upset by Geno Smith and the Seahawks.

1752
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:08,000
Speaker 2: I mean, quite frankly for a high level playoff team

1753
01:35:08,040 --> 01:35:15,679
Speaker 2: at home, two bunnies, two bunnies, followed by either playing

1754
01:35:15,680 --> 01:35:18,519
Speaker 2: the Cowboys or Eagles at home, or worst case scenario,

1755
01:35:19,400 --> 01:35:22,600
Speaker 2: going on the road one time to play in a building.

1756
01:35:23,960 --> 01:35:24,960
Speaker 3: That I like.

1757
01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:28,800
Speaker 2: I don't even know how scary of a building it is,

1758
01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:32,760
Speaker 2: right Like, if you're the Niners, for instance, and you're

1759
01:35:32,800 --> 01:35:35,680
Speaker 2: the two seed, you want it Dallas a couple of

1760
01:35:35,720 --> 01:35:38,719
Speaker 2: years ago, you want it Philly seven days ago.

1761
01:35:39,720 --> 01:35:40,280
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1762
01:35:41,200 --> 01:35:44,679
Speaker 2: Am I crazy to think that this is a little

1763
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:45,839
Speaker 2: closer than it feels.

1764
01:35:47,479 --> 01:35:50,080
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a little closer than it feels.

1765
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:55,519
Speaker 5: But it's also crazy to not ultimately get the number

1766
01:35:55,560 --> 01:36:00,960
Speaker 5: one seed, have a week off to rest recover your

1767
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:03,719
Speaker 5: mindset on two wins. You need to get two wins.

1768
01:36:03,760 --> 01:36:06,800
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter who the teams are. You're coming out

1769
01:36:06,880 --> 01:36:09,599
Speaker 5: of that buy knowing you have two games at home

1770
01:36:09,800 --> 01:36:14,559
Speaker 5: to get to the super Bowl, and just so much

1771
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:17,360
Speaker 5: can happen, you know, I think back to last year,

1772
01:36:18,640 --> 01:36:21,880
Speaker 5: the San Francisco forty nine ers are playing their third

1773
01:36:21,960 --> 01:36:26,719
Speaker 5: playoff game and they lose their starting quarterback. So there's

1774
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:29,559
Speaker 5: just there's so many things that can happen when you

1775
01:36:29,640 --> 01:36:34,799
Speaker 5: have to play an extra game that you know you

1776
01:36:34,800 --> 01:36:37,599
Speaker 5: you you laid it out perfectly. When you're the one seed,

1777
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:40,559
Speaker 5: you've got to play the next two best teams in

1778
01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:42,960
Speaker 5: the nfceed to get to the super Bowl. And if

1779
01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:45,880
Speaker 5: if you're the two seed, you might not have to

1780
01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:51,720
Speaker 5: play both of the one and the five, but you

1781
01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:54,760
Speaker 5: have to play three games. And it's like, you know,

1782
01:36:55,200 --> 01:36:57,640
Speaker 5: ultimately you want to be the one. You want to

1783
01:36:57,640 --> 01:36:59,720
Speaker 5: get the week off. You want everybody to have to

1784
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:03,360
Speaker 5: come to your city, your stadium, play in front of

1785
01:37:03,439 --> 01:37:06,840
Speaker 5: your fans, and control your own destiny, knowing that all

1786
01:37:06,880 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 5: you got to do is win two games at home

1787
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:11,480
Speaker 5: and you get you're in the super Bowl.

1788
01:37:11,880 --> 01:37:14,800
Speaker 2: Now here's the other side to it, and you're right,

1789
01:37:15,439 --> 01:37:17,760
Speaker 2: we have to seems like we have to learn this

1790
01:37:17,880 --> 01:37:20,000
Speaker 2: lesson again over and over every year. There are four

1791
01:37:20,080 --> 01:37:22,400
Speaker 2: games left in the regular season. This could look so

1792
01:37:22,600 --> 01:37:26,000
Speaker 2: different a month from now than it does right now,

1793
01:37:26,160 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 2: through injuries, through poor play, through all kinds of things

1794
01:37:29,360 --> 01:37:33,840
Speaker 2: that can change between now and in twenty twenty four.

1795
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:37,240
Speaker 2: So I fully get that. But I made the statement

1796
01:37:37,240 --> 01:37:40,720
Speaker 2: this week on my show in San Francisco, and I

1797
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:44,479
Speaker 2: believe it in this moment because there's a qualifier. A

1798
01:37:44,520 --> 01:37:48,080
Speaker 2: handful of years ago in this city, Kevin Durant came

1799
01:37:48,120 --> 01:37:50,599
Speaker 2: to play for the Golden State Warriors, and you'd watch

1800
01:37:50,680 --> 01:37:55,160
Speaker 2: basketball in a different way. You would just there wasn't

1801
01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:58,439
Speaker 2: any question about whether or not they were going to

1802
01:37:58,880 --> 01:38:01,559
Speaker 2: win a playoff series. There was simply a question of

1803
01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:03,720
Speaker 2: whether or not they were going to stay healthy. And

1804
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:07,200
Speaker 2: in his three years here, one of the years they

1805
01:38:07,280 --> 01:38:10,200
Speaker 2: didn't stay healthy, and they still went to Game six

1806
01:38:10,240 --> 01:38:13,320
Speaker 2: of the NBA Finals. The other two years they won

1807
01:38:13,360 --> 01:38:17,400
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals, and it was not relatively close. I

1808
01:38:17,439 --> 01:38:20,840
Speaker 2: don't think we're quite there yet with this football team,

1809
01:38:21,120 --> 01:38:23,920
Speaker 2: but it feels that way to a degree. In other words,

1810
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:26,840
Speaker 2: the expectation level of the forty nine ers is such

1811
01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:32,120
Speaker 2: that if they stay healthy. I don't know, Kyle, I

1812
01:38:32,160 --> 01:38:35,080
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know about the Super Bowl, but

1813
01:38:35,160 --> 01:38:38,400
Speaker 2: as far as the NFC is concerned, knowing that in

1814
01:38:38,439 --> 01:38:41,800
Speaker 2: their hip pocket, there's a three touchdown and a four

1815
01:38:41,880 --> 01:38:44,960
Speaker 2: and a half touchdown win over both of the teams

1816
01:38:44,960 --> 01:38:48,840
Speaker 2: that we're watching playing right now. If this team is

1817
01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:52,559
Speaker 2: blessed with health, I'm sorry, man, that's the team. That's

1818
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:54,880
Speaker 2: the team, and I don't see it ending up in

1819
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:57,320
Speaker 2: some February football.

1820
01:38:58,320 --> 01:38:58,519
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1821
01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:01,120
Speaker 5: I mean, we know the formula for the forty nine

1822
01:39:01,240 --> 01:39:04,639
Speaker 5: ers health and playing with the lead. So the other

1823
01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:08,679
Speaker 5: alternative would be that if they're healthy, but come out

1824
01:39:08,720 --> 01:39:11,840
Speaker 5: and have a first quarter, first half where they turn

1825
01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:15,360
Speaker 5: the football over and get down and they're ultimately playing

1826
01:39:15,400 --> 01:39:18,960
Speaker 5: from behind in the second half. In my opinion, that

1827
01:39:19,120 --> 01:39:23,599
Speaker 5: is the only fall in the San Francisco forty nine Ers,

1828
01:39:23,640 --> 01:39:27,000
Speaker 5: on both sides of the ball and special teams, is

1829
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:32,320
Speaker 5: that if they were to start slow, shoot themselves in

1830
01:39:32,360 --> 01:39:38,639
Speaker 5: the foot a couple times, and ultimately get behind, they

1831
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:41,800
Speaker 5: aren't built for that, and that's not what makes them

1832
01:39:41,840 --> 01:39:44,559
Speaker 5: probably the best team in football, like they've shown to

1833
01:39:44,600 --> 01:39:45,400
Speaker 5: be so far.

1834
01:39:46,439 --> 01:39:50,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll agree with that. I mean, that's the kryptonite

1835
01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:56,040
Speaker 2: for this football team. But very very it's very difficult

1836
01:39:56,080 --> 01:39:59,120
Speaker 2: to do when they're healthy. The idea of getting them

1837
01:39:59,160 --> 01:40:02,280
Speaker 2: down not just like oh, you're down three, or you're

1838
01:40:02,280 --> 01:40:05,040
Speaker 2: you're down seven. I think you're you're kind of talking

1839
01:40:05,120 --> 01:40:09,360
Speaker 2: down down fourteen, right, that's to me, that's when that's

1840
01:40:09,439 --> 01:40:11,600
Speaker 2: when the drum beat starts for the forty nine ers

1841
01:40:11,640 --> 01:40:12,800
Speaker 2: when they're down fourteen.

1842
01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:16,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, even two scores, I would go ten. You know,

1843
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:18,320
Speaker 5: when it's a two score game and you're down two

1844
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:21,559
Speaker 5: scores and you can't just sit back there and run

1845
01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:24,240
Speaker 5: the football and do the things that they want to

1846
01:40:24,280 --> 01:40:27,120
Speaker 5: do and be methodical about it.

1847
01:40:28,479 --> 01:40:29,519
Speaker 4: You know you can't.

1848
01:40:30,120 --> 01:40:33,280
Speaker 5: If you're a defense and you're up ten points, you

1849
01:40:33,360 --> 01:40:37,400
Speaker 5: give brock Purty all of those throws underneath, and you

1850
01:40:37,520 --> 01:40:40,080
Speaker 5: let them throw all the screen passes. You just know

1851
01:40:40,120 --> 01:40:42,360
Speaker 5: you have to come make a tackle and you make

1852
01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:45,880
Speaker 5: them drive the football down the field twelve fourteen, sixteen

1853
01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:49,280
Speaker 5: plays because ultimately you're going to run out of time.

1854
01:40:50,160 --> 01:40:53,840
Speaker 5: You can't score ten points quick enough if that's the

1855
01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:56,600
Speaker 5: way you're moving the ball down the field. So I

1856
01:40:56,640 --> 01:41:01,920
Speaker 5: think it's it's ultimately two scores, making it two possessions.

1857
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:07,160
Speaker 5: But again, it's not easy to do against a healthy

1858
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:10,720
Speaker 5: forty nine ers football team. But it's one of those

1859
01:41:10,760 --> 01:41:13,000
Speaker 5: things where you catch them on that one week where

1860
01:41:13,080 --> 01:41:15,000
Speaker 5: all of a sudden they turn the football over and

1861
01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:18,560
Speaker 5: it's like they hadn't done it in months, but you

1862
01:41:18,680 --> 01:41:22,599
Speaker 5: catch them that one time, and that's the Achilles Heel.

1863
01:41:23,439 --> 01:41:26,560
Speaker 2: Another double digit win for them today over the Seahawks,

1864
01:41:26,600 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 2: and they are now four games clear in the division

1865
01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:33,759
Speaker 2: with four games to play. Okay, fumble rumble in Sunday

1866
01:41:33,840 --> 01:41:37,360
Speaker 2: Night Football, Fletcher Cox with the sack, Jalen Carter with

1867
01:41:37,439 --> 01:41:40,880
Speaker 2: the fumble rumble, and suddenly maybe we do have a game.

1868
01:41:40,920 --> 01:41:43,320
Speaker 3: It's still an eleven point lead for the Cowboys.

1869
01:41:44,040 --> 01:41:46,960
Speaker 2: And speaking of Brock Party and Dak Prescott, let's have

1870
01:41:47,000 --> 01:41:51,360
Speaker 2: an MVP conversation. Something you said last week is still

1871
01:41:51,400 --> 01:41:53,599
Speaker 2: bouncing around in my head and I want to run

1872
01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:56,639
Speaker 2: it by you again. But let's also get Nick Coping

1873
01:41:56,720 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 2: here and find out what is trending all that Week

1874
01:42:00,840 --> 01:42:02,320
Speaker 2: fourteen in the NFL.

1875
01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:03,639
Speaker 1: Hey Nick, Hey, guys.

1876
01:42:03,680 --> 01:42:05,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was just a huge play there for the

1877
01:42:05,760 --> 01:42:08,920
Speaker 7: Eagles defense. So it's twenty four to thirteen Cowboys and

1878
01:42:08,960 --> 01:42:10,720
Speaker 7: they still got more than ten minutes to play in

1879
01:42:10,760 --> 01:42:13,479
Speaker 7: the third quarter of this one. Philly has turned it

1880
01:42:13,520 --> 01:42:17,040
Speaker 7: over twice. They've been hampered by those giveaways. Jalen Hurts

1881
01:42:17,120 --> 01:42:20,720
Speaker 7: was stripsacked by Donovan Wilson and A. J. Brown just

1882
01:42:20,760 --> 01:42:24,880
Speaker 7: moments ago before that fumble returned for touchdown. He got

1883
01:42:24,880 --> 01:42:28,360
Speaker 7: stripped by Stefan Gilmour earlier as well, but Philly able

1884
01:42:28,439 --> 01:42:31,160
Speaker 7: to get one back with that takeaway eleven point game

1885
01:42:31,439 --> 01:42:33,320
Speaker 7: more than ten minutes to go in the third quarter.

1886
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:35,960
Speaker 7: If Dallas wins, the Niners will be the number one

1887
01:42:36,000 --> 01:42:39,400
Speaker 7: seed in Dallas will overtake Philly for the two seed. However,

1888
01:42:39,800 --> 01:42:42,280
Speaker 7: if the Eagles win out after tonight, even if they

1889
01:42:42,320 --> 01:42:45,240
Speaker 7: lose tonight, they will win the division if they win

1890
01:42:45,280 --> 01:42:48,679
Speaker 7: their final four games Earlier, Bill's hang on to nankoff

1891
01:42:48,720 --> 01:42:51,800
Speaker 7: the Chiefs twenty to seventeen. The big play coming at

1892
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:55,080
Speaker 7: the end, Kansas City receiver Cadarius Tony lined up off sides,

1893
01:42:55,280 --> 01:42:58,280
Speaker 7: negating a go ahead touchdown in the final minutes. Have

1894
01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 7: some audio we played back at the top of last

1895
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:03,519
Speaker 7: hour from Patrick Mahomes. Let's go back to it here

1896
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:05,200
Speaker 7: in case some of those listening missed it.

1897
01:43:05,400 --> 01:43:07,960
Speaker 8: I mean, not only for me, but just for football

1898
01:43:07,960 --> 01:43:10,960
Speaker 8: in general. I mean, just to take away greatness like that.

1899
01:43:11,080 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 8: I mean for a guy like Travis to make a

1900
01:43:13,240 --> 01:43:16,640
Speaker 8: play like that, and who knows, we win, As I

1901
01:43:16,680 --> 01:43:18,479
Speaker 8: know as fans, you want to see the guys on

1902
01:43:18,520 --> 01:43:21,320
Speaker 8: the field decide the game. And that's why last week

1903
01:43:21,600 --> 01:43:23,680
Speaker 8: I didn't say anything about the flag. They didn't get

1904
01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:26,880
Speaker 8: called on the Marquez and so I mean, I mean,

1905
01:43:26,880 --> 01:43:27,479
Speaker 8: they're human, man.

1906
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:28,240
Speaker 1: They made mistakes.

1907
01:43:28,360 --> 01:43:30,799
Speaker 8: But I mean, I'm every week we're talking about something

1908
01:43:30,840 --> 01:43:33,040
Speaker 8: and all I can do is go out there and

1909
01:43:33,080 --> 01:43:34,880
Speaker 8: give everything I have and I'm proud of the guys.

1910
01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:36,360
Speaker 8: That's what we did. And it was a great football

1911
01:43:36,400 --> 01:43:39,040
Speaker 8: game that ended. Another great football game that just ended

1912
01:43:39,080 --> 01:43:39,760
Speaker 8: like that. It's just tough.

1913
01:43:39,800 --> 01:43:40,400
Speaker 1: Tough to swall.

1914
01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 7: Hey, you frustrated Patrick Mahomes After the Chiefs go down

1915
01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:46,040
Speaker 7: to the Bills. Kansas City's lead atop the AFC west

1916
01:43:46,040 --> 01:43:49,479
Speaker 7: down to just one game, and the press conference for

1917
01:43:49,720 --> 01:43:52,439
Speaker 7: Chris Jones, his teammate that on the defensive side, had

1918
01:43:52,439 --> 01:43:56,559
Speaker 7: to end abruptly because in the media room, ceiling tiles

1919
01:43:56,600 --> 01:43:59,439
Speaker 7: fell on members of the media and so they had

1920
01:43:59,479 --> 01:44:03,360
Speaker 7: to abruptly end things there. In the battles of Arawhead Stadium,

1921
01:44:03,439 --> 01:44:06,240
Speaker 7: Niners beat the Seahawks twenty eight to sixteen, Deebo Samuel

1922
01:44:06,280 --> 01:44:09,880
Speaker 7: with two touchdowns. Broncos handled the Chargers twenty four to seven,

1923
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:12,920
Speaker 7: Denver in the playoff mix at seven and six. Justin

1924
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:15,920
Speaker 7: Herbert left with a fractured right index finger. He'll have

1925
01:44:15,960 --> 01:44:19,599
Speaker 7: an MRI tomorrow. Vikings won the lowest scoring NFL game

1926
01:44:19,680 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 7: in sixteen years, edging the Raiders three to nothing. Justin

1927
01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:25,960
Speaker 7: Jefferson left with a chest injury. He was taken to

1928
01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:29,519
Speaker 7: a local hospital for further evaluation and was released in

1929
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:32,320
Speaker 7: his traveling home with the team. Ravens walked off the

1930
01:44:32,400 --> 01:44:35,320
Speaker 7: Rams thirty one seventeen in overtime on a Tyland Wallace

1931
01:44:35,360 --> 01:44:38,680
Speaker 7: seventy six yard punt return for touchdown. Brown's hang on

1932
01:44:38,720 --> 01:44:42,080
Speaker 7: against Jaguars thirty one to twenty seven. Coach Kevin Stefanski

1933
01:44:42,080 --> 01:44:44,320
Speaker 7: said Joe Flacco will start the rest of the season

1934
01:44:44,400 --> 01:44:45,120
Speaker 7: for Cleveland.

1935
01:44:45,720 --> 01:44:46,040
Speaker 2: Jets.

1936
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 7: Ronald the Texans thirty to six. Zach Wilson three hundred

1937
01:44:49,080 --> 01:44:51,639
Speaker 7: one yards couple of touchdowns. Bears beat the Lines twenty

1938
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:54,360
Speaker 7: eight to thirteen. Jared Goff picked twice, he was sacked

1939
01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:58,479
Speaker 7: four times. Bucks beat the Falcons twenty nine to twenty five. Saints.

1940
01:44:58,520 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 7: They end up cruising past the Panthers twenty eight to

1941
01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:03,799
Speaker 7: six after a slow start, three way time for first

1942
01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:06,840
Speaker 7: in the NFC. Sound the Saints, Bucks and Falcons all

1943
01:45:06,960 --> 01:45:09,280
Speaker 7: six and seven. Now let's send it back to Mark

1944
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Speaker 7: Willard and Kyl Rudolph.

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Speaker 4: Guys.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Nick, great stuff, Thank you so much. We're live

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Speaker 2: in thee Tirack dot Com studios and shortly after the show,

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1957
01:45:47,040 --> 01:45:50,559
Speaker 2: the air. Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph with you. Speaking of

1958
01:45:50,600 --> 01:45:55,519
Speaker 2: these guys. The MVP thing, So last week you brought

1959
01:45:55,560 --> 01:45:58,880
Speaker 2: up Tyreek Hill, and I know it's easy to sort

1960
01:45:58,880 --> 01:46:02,759
Speaker 2: of like brush him aside right now because we watched

1961
01:46:02,800 --> 01:46:04,479
Speaker 2: the ball all day and he didn't play.

1962
01:46:04,800 --> 01:46:05,920
Speaker 3: So he'll play tomorrow night.

1963
01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:07,960
Speaker 2: Who knows, maybe I'll have two hundred more yards and

1964
01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:12,439
Speaker 2: and and you know, the legend will grow. But you

1965
01:46:12,479 --> 01:46:15,120
Speaker 2: brought him up last week. I'm a big fan of

1966
01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:19,120
Speaker 2: him being involved in the conversation. However, I think it

1967
01:46:19,160 --> 01:46:22,600
Speaker 2: goes deeper than that. Are you still high on the

1968
01:46:22,680 --> 01:46:28,040
Speaker 2: idea of Tyreek potentially winning the MVP, particularly if he

1969
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:29,760
Speaker 2: gets to two thousand yards?

1970
01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:35,559
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just it's I don't understand why this has

1971
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:41,599
Speaker 5: to be a quarterback only award. You know, why can't

1972
01:46:41,600 --> 01:46:46,040
Speaker 5: this be the most valuable player? And Tyreek Kill has

1973
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:49,200
Speaker 5: shown through thirteen weeks, you know, like you said he'll

1974
01:46:49,240 --> 01:46:53,160
Speaker 5: play tomorrow in week fourteen, that he is the most

1975
01:46:53,400 --> 01:46:56,840
Speaker 5: valuable player. I mean, he's doing things that no one

1976
01:46:56,960 --> 01:47:01,000
Speaker 5: has ever done in this league before. He's putting up

1977
01:47:01,120 --> 01:47:04,439
Speaker 5: numbers that no one's ever put up. He's he's putting

1978
01:47:04,479 --> 01:47:06,320
Speaker 5: things on tape that no one has.

1979
01:47:06,200 --> 01:47:07,320
Speaker 4: Ever seen before.

1980
01:47:07,360 --> 01:47:09,960
Speaker 5: Like I said, you watch him on tape and he

1981
01:47:10,080 --> 01:47:13,720
Speaker 5: does things that it's what I used to see on

1982
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:17,679
Speaker 5: the old Rivals dot Com, like highlights back in high

1983
01:47:17,720 --> 01:47:21,400
Speaker 5: school before like they turned to twenty four to seven sports,

1984
01:47:21,479 --> 01:47:26,759
Speaker 5: like it was things that you see Tyreek Kill doing

1985
01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:29,519
Speaker 5: on tape or what you see a five star wide

1986
01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:34,439
Speaker 5: receiver who's just better than everyone else in high school doing.

1987
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:37,240
Speaker 5: And then you know, you go, well, let's see how

1988
01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:41,439
Speaker 5: he stacks up against the college dbs, and then it's

1989
01:47:41,439 --> 01:47:45,400
Speaker 5: the same thing. Like you have some guys who are explosive,

1990
01:47:45,680 --> 01:47:48,719
Speaker 5: dynamic players in college. Well, the speed of the NFL

1991
01:47:48,840 --> 01:47:53,200
Speaker 5: is different, and yet here's this guy who's making NFL

1992
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:59,599
Speaker 5: secondaries look like just mediocre high school football players on

1993
01:47:59,680 --> 01:48:04,040
Speaker 5: tape been. I just I wish that even if he

1994
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:07,080
Speaker 5: didn't win it, Like as of right now, I think

1995
01:48:07,160 --> 01:48:10,000
Speaker 5: he's six or seventh in terms of odds to win it,

1996
01:48:10,040 --> 01:48:12,719
Speaker 5: and it's yep. So you cannot tell me that there's

1997
01:48:13,080 --> 01:48:16,519
Speaker 5: five or six people more deserving than Tyreek Hill to

1998
01:48:16,720 --> 01:48:17,439
Speaker 5: win the MVP.

1999
01:48:18,200 --> 01:48:19,920
Speaker 3: No that I agree with.

2000
01:48:20,200 --> 01:48:22,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, there are names up there like

2001
01:48:22,520 --> 01:48:26,360
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes, who, with all due respect by his standards,

2002
01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:29,160
Speaker 2: is not having a very good year by their standards.

2003
01:48:29,160 --> 01:48:31,080
Speaker 2: The team is not having a very good year. They've

2004
01:48:31,120 --> 01:48:33,439
Speaker 2: lost too in a row that will actually knock him

2005
01:48:33,479 --> 01:48:35,960
Speaker 2: down the rankings, I have no doubt. But let me

2006
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:38,880
Speaker 2: play devil's advocate for a second as well. Peter King

2007
01:48:39,560 --> 01:48:41,400
Speaker 2: got a chance to catch up with him about this

2008
01:48:41,400 --> 01:48:44,320
Speaker 2: this week, and I thought he was going to say

2009
01:48:44,360 --> 01:48:47,439
Speaker 2: something similar to what you just said, but he was

2010
01:48:47,439 --> 01:48:49,760
Speaker 2: actually building an argument for the opposite.

2011
01:48:49,920 --> 01:48:51,960
Speaker 3: He says, Hey, if I asked.

2012
01:48:51,720 --> 01:48:54,680
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel to go into this game tomorrow night, and

2013
01:48:54,720 --> 01:48:57,479
Speaker 2: I said, you can only have one, you got to

2014
01:48:57,520 --> 01:49:00,559
Speaker 2: either not have Tua or you got to not have Tyrek.

2015
01:49:01,520 --> 01:49:02,840
Speaker 3: Which one are you leaving at home?

2016
01:49:03,600 --> 01:49:06,639
Speaker 2: And he goes, there's no question what he would say,

2017
01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:11,200
Speaker 2: he would leave Tyreek at home. And so while that

2018
01:49:11,240 --> 01:49:14,759
Speaker 2: builds a situation that I will freely admit is not fair,

2019
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:20,200
Speaker 2: I also might argue that it's just kind of reality.

2020
01:49:20,800 --> 01:49:24,440
Speaker 2: The reality of the situation is is that the quarterback

2021
01:49:24,520 --> 01:49:26,240
Speaker 2: is more important than the other players.

2022
01:49:27,120 --> 01:49:27,680
Speaker 3: It just is.

2023
01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:33,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I mean unless that player is someone who's

2024
01:49:33,240 --> 01:49:36,200
Speaker 5: so special that it's Tyreek kill and he completely changes

2025
01:49:36,280 --> 01:49:40,720
Speaker 5: the dynamic of your offense. And I would love to

2026
01:49:40,800 --> 01:49:43,920
Speaker 5: get that answer from Mike McDaniel because I don't know

2027
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:45,040
Speaker 5: that it's certain.

2028
01:49:45,080 --> 01:49:48,360
Speaker 4: That it would necessarily be Tyreek or Toua.

2029
01:49:48,720 --> 01:49:52,840
Speaker 5: And you know, you certainly never hope that you see

2030
01:49:52,880 --> 01:49:55,960
Speaker 5: one or the other out there without the other one.

2031
01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:58,160
Speaker 5: And we hope we see these guys healthy through the

2032
01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:03,120
Speaker 5: entire year. And you know, again, is it when both

2033
01:50:03,160 --> 01:50:05,519
Speaker 5: of these guys go play well? I think I saw

2034
01:50:05,960 --> 01:50:09,760
Speaker 5: you know, Tua was the number one getter and fan

2035
01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:12,200
Speaker 5: votes to this point for the Pro Bowl. And it's like,

2036
01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:17,040
Speaker 5: you know, is is Tua having success because of Tyreek?

2037
01:50:17,200 --> 01:50:19,639
Speaker 5: Or is Tyreek having success for Tua? And I think

2038
01:50:19,760 --> 01:50:23,240
Speaker 5: that's that's what makes it so difficult when we're talking

2039
01:50:23,280 --> 01:50:27,759
Speaker 5: about a wide receiver as opposed to like in twenty twelve,

2040
01:50:27,760 --> 01:50:31,120
Speaker 5: where Adrian Peterson won the MVP as the last non

2041
01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:34,599
Speaker 5: quarterback to win. It like he didn't have someone throwing

2042
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:39,519
Speaker 5: him the football. You know, we made the playoffs and

2043
01:50:39,720 --> 01:50:43,840
Speaker 5: we're an offense that you know, from week five through

2044
01:50:43,920 --> 01:50:48,320
Speaker 5: week seventeen, I believe Adrian had more rushing yards than

2045
01:50:48,360 --> 01:50:51,599
Speaker 5: we had passing yards as a team. Our entire offense

2046
01:50:51,880 --> 01:50:55,920
Speaker 5: was Adrian Peterson, so therefore he won the MVP. And

2047
01:50:55,960 --> 01:51:00,920
Speaker 5: it's like, you know, I just this this team and

2048
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:07,960
Speaker 5: this offense looks so different without Tyreek Hill. Would they

2049
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:10,400
Speaker 5: be as good without Tua? You know, if Mike White's

2050
01:51:10,439 --> 01:51:14,240
Speaker 5: in there as the backup quarterback, I think the offense

2051
01:51:14,280 --> 01:51:18,320
Speaker 5: still looks the same. It may not run as efficiently,

2052
01:51:18,479 --> 01:51:20,840
Speaker 5: you know, because you don't have your starting quarterback out there,

2053
01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:24,040
Speaker 5: but you're still gonna do all the same things that

2054
01:51:24,080 --> 01:51:26,120
Speaker 5: you do to, whereas if Tyreek Hill is not on

2055
01:51:26,160 --> 01:51:30,840
Speaker 5: the field as a dB, you're no longer scared, So

2056
01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:33,519
Speaker 5: you played differently. Things don't look the same.

2057
01:51:34,840 --> 01:51:35,040
Speaker 4: You know.

2058
01:51:35,080 --> 01:51:37,120
Speaker 5: I talked about that a lot with the forty nine

2059
01:51:37,200 --> 01:51:39,800
Speaker 5: ers when Deebo went down, and you know, it's like

2060
01:51:40,840 --> 01:51:43,320
Speaker 5: we talked so much about the run game, and like, well,

2061
01:51:43,320 --> 01:51:45,599
Speaker 5: Trent Williams isn't out there, and you know how important

2062
01:51:45,600 --> 01:51:47,280
Speaker 5: Trent Williams is the run game. I'm like, yeah, Trent

2063
01:51:47,320 --> 01:51:51,640
Speaker 5: Williams is important. But here's the deal. Like, as a linebacker,

2064
01:51:52,080 --> 01:51:55,240
Speaker 5: when you have more than just Trent Williams and the

2065
01:51:55,280 --> 01:51:58,160
Speaker 5: offensive line to worry about, because Deebo's flying across the

2066
01:51:58,200 --> 01:52:00,680
Speaker 5: field and jet motions or Debo's in the backfield, and

2067
01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:04,320
Speaker 5: Christian's flying across the field, there's just so many things

2068
01:52:04,320 --> 01:52:06,799
Speaker 5: that you have to worry about. That's Tyreek Kill on offense,

2069
01:52:06,920 --> 01:52:09,599
Speaker 5: like he just yep, you always have someone that has

2070
01:52:09,640 --> 01:52:12,400
Speaker 5: to be accounting for him, or he does what he

2071
01:52:12,400 --> 01:52:16,200
Speaker 5: did last week in Washington and just catches two touchdowns.

2072
01:52:16,240 --> 01:52:17,880
Speaker 4: The ghost for over one hundred and fifty yards just.

2073
01:52:17,800 --> 01:52:20,240
Speaker 2: Goes right over everyone's head. Yeah, I don't disagree with

2074
01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:23,320
Speaker 2: you at all that said there were three quarterbacks who

2075
01:52:23,360 --> 01:52:27,200
Speaker 2: bolstered their chances. Today. We'll get to those names coming

2076
01:52:27,320 --> 01:52:30,040
Speaker 2: up next with Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard on Fox Sports Radio.

2077
01:52:31,479 --> 01:52:35,439
Speaker 9: Ethan Evans finding the tyland Wallace. Evans hangs a wobbler,

2078
01:52:35,680 --> 01:52:38,320
Speaker 9: Wallace settles under it. To twenty five, gets a block,

2079
01:52:38,360 --> 01:52:41,240
Speaker 9: comes to an airside, thirty spins out of one tackle,

2080
01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:43,919
Speaker 9: thirty five along the air sideline, forty piece of midfield?

2081
01:52:44,040 --> 01:52:46,040
Speaker 9: Want us for the forty telling us eight.

2082
01:52:45,920 --> 01:52:49,479
Speaker 2: Thirty twenty ten celebration time?

2083
01:52:49,960 --> 01:52:50,679
Speaker 1: No flive?

2084
01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:52,439
Speaker 2: Who want us in the end zone?

2085
01:52:52,800 --> 01:52:56,679
Speaker 9: Hey's the bard had the Ravens winning in over time.

2086
01:52:57,960 --> 01:53:01,479
Speaker 2: No flags, he says, think there should have been, but

2087
01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:04,840
Speaker 2: I don't want to write on anyone's parade.

2088
01:53:05,479 --> 01:53:07,320
Speaker 3: The Ravens beat.

2089
01:53:07,080 --> 01:53:12,320
Speaker 2: The Rams and here in the tay Raq dot com studios.

2090
01:53:13,479 --> 01:53:17,160
Speaker 2: That one right there comes from ninety eight Rock Ravens

2091
01:53:17,280 --> 01:53:19,960
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2096
01:53:37,200 --> 01:53:42,720
Speaker 2: what about Lamar Jackson's chances at MVP. They've got the

2097
01:53:42,760 --> 01:53:48,920
Speaker 2: best record in their conference, They've got good wins against

2098
01:53:48,400 --> 01:53:53,880
Speaker 2: some high level opponents, and Lamar, while he only has

2099
01:53:53,960 --> 01:53:57,479
Speaker 2: thirteen touchdown passes, has been Lamar.

2100
01:53:58,080 --> 01:53:59,200
Speaker 3: What about his chances?

2101
01:54:01,439 --> 01:54:02,880
Speaker 5: I think he'd have to do a lot in the

2102
01:54:02,960 --> 01:54:06,880
Speaker 5: last month of the season. I think there was a point,

2103
01:54:06,960 --> 01:54:10,400
Speaker 5: you know, maybe halfway through the year when again, because

2104
01:54:10,400 --> 01:54:12,720
Speaker 5: we're really only looking at quarterbacks, you're trying to find

2105
01:54:12,760 --> 01:54:15,120
Speaker 5: a quarterback to give the award to, You say, oh,

2106
01:54:15,280 --> 01:54:17,559
Speaker 5: you know, the Ravens, they're they're a good team, and

2107
01:54:17,600 --> 01:54:20,480
Speaker 5: they're a good team because Lamar is a good quarterback,

2108
01:54:20,520 --> 01:54:22,880
Speaker 5: and you know he's doing things to give them a

2109
01:54:22,960 --> 01:54:26,880
Speaker 5: chance to win games. But quite honestly, I feel like

2110
01:54:26,960 --> 01:54:30,800
Speaker 5: at this point, Dac and Brock have done enough to

2111
01:54:31,360 --> 01:54:38,440
Speaker 5: solidify themselves as better options from the quarterback position. Thus,

2112
01:54:38,520 --> 01:54:40,880
Speaker 5: you see those two names at the top of the

2113
01:54:40,920 --> 01:54:43,000
Speaker 5: list in terms of favorites right now.

2114
01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:48,320
Speaker 2: Top two rated quarterbacks in the league, stunning touchdown to

2115
01:54:48,720 --> 01:54:53,880
Speaker 2: interception ratios. Doc I think with today's play is now

2116
01:54:53,920 --> 01:54:57,720
Speaker 2: at twenty eight touchdowns six picks. Brock is at twenty

2117
01:54:57,760 --> 01:55:03,600
Speaker 2: five touchdowns, seven in interceptions. Completion percentages for both of

2118
01:55:03,640 --> 01:55:09,240
Speaker 2: them north of seventy percent, both of them, well, let's see,

2119
01:55:09,920 --> 01:55:14,440
Speaker 2: gosh close to if not over thirty five hundred yards

2120
01:55:14,520 --> 01:55:19,320
Speaker 2: passing already. And that's the thing I mean, wouldn't you

2121
01:55:19,440 --> 01:55:22,320
Speaker 2: agree at this point now? Because I was watching the

2122
01:55:22,320 --> 01:55:27,240
Speaker 2: forty nine er game today Kyle and Greg Olsen and

2123
01:55:27,440 --> 01:55:32,080
Speaker 2: Kevin Burkharter sitting there having a conversation that you and

2124
01:55:32,120 --> 01:55:34,280
Speaker 2: I and I think a lot of people have had

2125
01:55:34,360 --> 01:55:38,520
Speaker 2: for a while. And at a certain point, there's just

2126
01:55:38,600 --> 01:55:42,760
Speaker 2: a girth to this conversation that's going to take a

2127
01:55:42,800 --> 01:55:48,480
Speaker 2: lot of people's opinions away. It's like, how many times

2128
01:55:48,480 --> 01:55:52,880
Speaker 2: in a row do you need to have a win

2129
01:55:53,600 --> 01:55:57,879
Speaker 2: and a quarterback rating that's north of one twenty before

2130
01:55:58,320 --> 01:56:05,640
Speaker 2: you just relent and say, okay, really good quarterback. You know,

2131
01:56:06,200 --> 01:56:10,080
Speaker 2: like there's still something about the guy. And we've talked

2132
01:56:10,080 --> 01:56:13,320
Speaker 2: about all the reasons, his stature, his draft spot, all

2133
01:56:13,360 --> 01:56:18,560
Speaker 2: of that, but there's something about the guy that intensely

2134
01:56:19,640 --> 01:56:25,560
Speaker 2: makes people look at his teammates. All the great quarterbacks

2135
01:56:26,760 --> 01:56:30,880
Speaker 2: have good offensive lines and really good receivers and great

2136
01:56:30,920 --> 01:56:35,080
Speaker 2: play callers. Like we've never held it against a player

2137
01:56:35,160 --> 01:56:36,920
Speaker 2: the way it gets held against Brock.

2138
01:56:38,360 --> 01:56:41,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I mean they didn't hold it against

2139
01:56:41,200 --> 01:56:43,480
Speaker 5: Kurt Warner in nineteen ninety nine when he came into

2140
01:56:43,520 --> 01:56:47,400
Speaker 5: the league as a guy who was, you know, fresh

2141
01:56:47,400 --> 01:56:51,280
Speaker 5: off the grocery store, you know, certainly didn't have the

2142
01:56:51,360 --> 01:56:55,280
Speaker 5: mister irrelevant entry into the league like brockab But you

2143
01:56:55,320 --> 01:56:57,920
Speaker 5: look at the offense he played on in nineteen ninety nine,

2144
01:56:58,000 --> 01:57:02,040
Speaker 5: with Marshall Fock and Isaac Bruce and Tory Holt and

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Speaker 5: all the receivers that they had on that team. It

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Speaker 5: wasn't oh well, look at this guy, that guy, that guy.

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Speaker 5: It was look at the quarterback and wait, who is

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Speaker 5: this guy? Where did he come from? What's his story?

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Speaker 5: You know, I remember being, you know, a kid at

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Speaker 5: that time, and just I was that ten year old

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Speaker 5: who was obsessed with football and stats and watched Sports

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Speaker 5: Center four times in the morning. Even though it was

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Speaker 5: the same four episodes every hour, they were just reruns,

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Speaker 5: I still watched them all. And it's like, I think

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Speaker 5: back to that as a perfect comparison to what Brock's

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Speaker 5: doing right now, just because you have really good players

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Speaker 5: around you. And I've said this all along and I

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Speaker 5: always reflect on Kevin Stefanski's comment when he played him,

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Speaker 5: because I know the way Kevin approaches the game and

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Speaker 5: the way he studies the players, just you know, his

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Speaker 5: ability and his decision making. You know, that's what separates

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Speaker 5: him from you know, some of the other quarterbacks that

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Speaker 5: have played with those players, but also a lot of

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Speaker 5: the other quarterbacks in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Right now, right now, well, you're looking at what is

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Speaker 2: an historic season with regards to yards per attempt. It

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Speaker 2: happened again today. Twenty seven pass attempts. He ends up

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Speaker 2: with three hundred and sixty eight yards, a couple of touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: one pick. He has two receivers go over one hundred yards,

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Speaker 2: and unlike last week when they really featured a short

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Speaker 2: passing game, there were a few of those, a few

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Speaker 2: of those today, as always, some catch and run situations

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Speaker 2: with Deebo Samuel, but there were also some ad lib

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Speaker 2: over the top vertical game plays from brock Party to

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Speaker 2: both Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk. I don't know, man, if

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Speaker 2: he doesn't trip the rest of the way, I don't

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Speaker 2: really see who's going to take it from him at

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Speaker 2: this point.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I think we've talked about the next

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Speaker 5: three weeks starting this week and then the next three

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Speaker 5: for Dallas, and just the stage that the Cowboys are

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Speaker 5: on on on I think if Dak plays really well

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Speaker 5: down the stretch, it doesn't Brock doesn't have to trip

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Speaker 5: for him to take it because of the presence of

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Speaker 5: the Cowboys in the big games that they'll be playing

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Speaker 5: down the stretch.

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Speaker 2: No doubt, although a Christmas night game against the Ravens

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Speaker 2: rings as an opportunity for Perty as well, we shall see.

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Speaker 2: I have no doubt we're going to talk about it

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Speaker 2: again next week. Kyle, great stuff as always, my ma'am.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, Mark, always enjoy it, always enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely all right for Kyle Rudolph, I'm Mark Willard

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Speaker 2: playing in Spain.

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Speaker 3: You're coming up next, so keep it

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Speaker 2: Locking right here on Fox Sports Radio.