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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Where you go Radio Welcome

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Speaker 1: in second half of the show here on a holiday

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Speaker 1: holiday holiday Monday night. Thanks for being with us, being

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Speaker 1: part of the extended family. We appreciate each and every

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Speaker 1: to the pds that keep us floating to entertain and

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Speaker 1: inform you. Maybe in rage and engage and enrage along

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Speaker 1: the way at Swallendome at Jared Smith Bets as Jared

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Speaker 1: Smith is in for Jason Smith tonight. Always take us

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Speaker 1: no matter where you are in the world, all the

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Speaker 1: you need to do, Jared, get yourself a couple of crans.

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Speaker 2: Just say to the kids, hey, I'm gonna borrow these,

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Speaker 2: or go get.

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Speaker 1: Yourself a nice little box of eight eight krans, maybe

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Speaker 1: a couple of just different colored dry erace markers, whatever

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Speaker 1: it is. Make a little card and here's the link,

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Speaker 1: or here let me borrow your phone for two minutes

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Speaker 1: and put the iHeartRadio app down. It's like what else

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Speaker 1: did you get me from holidays? I can't get you

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Speaker 1: anything better. Twenty four to seven, Fox Sports Radio, all

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Speaker 1: the podcasts, all the different live stations and curated stations.

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Speaker 1: I listen to the Broadway Channel myself, so you know

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Speaker 1: you've got all of that.

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Speaker 2: It's the gift that keeps on giving. It's like a

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Speaker 2: Jelly of the Month club.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 4: I mean listen, I'm on and all the time. I'm

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Speaker 4: always sharing with my friends and they ask me how

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Speaker 4: can I live? Because it when people say what do

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Speaker 4: you do for work? I have to I struggle with

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Speaker 4: that sometimes, like I'm like, I'm a high investment or

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Speaker 4: high volatility, short term risk, high volatility investor. I say

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Speaker 4: that sometimes as a joke. And then when I say

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Speaker 4: I'm a I'm a radio host or I'm like a broadcaster,

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Speaker 4: They're like, where can we listen to you? I heart app.

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Speaker 4: I show them to send them right the link.

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Speaker 1: That's it, get in there and sell, sell, sell. The

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Speaker 1: other one I think would blow people's minds. It's like,

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Speaker 1: so you're a commodities trader, like in trading places.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a funny one too.

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Speaker 4: The short term high risk volatility trader is a fun

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Speaker 4: one because it's like, you know, three hours in the

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Speaker 4: games and game's over, removing the next game.

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Speaker 2: I work three hours, three hours at a time.

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Speaker 3: Had I mean, listen, I'm a single guy living in Vegas.

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Speaker 4: And when women ask me what I do for work

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, yeah, I sit around all day watch

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Speaker 4: sports and then talk about it through a microphone, they

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Speaker 4: think I'm like a child.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, but then you asked them, a lot of

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Speaker 1: them might be telling you a tall tale as well.

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Speaker 3: That's true most in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 4: Yes, most women that I've met in town have very

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Speaker 4: unique It's a unique city to meet people in. Although

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Speaker 4: to be fair, I think it's a bad rap because

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Speaker 4: people think that it's all about you know, sin city

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Speaker 4: and already seen I've really become invested in like the

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Speaker 4: off strip nature and kind of relaxing. It's a very

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Speaker 4: The weather's fantastic in town too, Like, honestly, I love

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Speaker 4: the weather seventy degrees today.

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Speaker 1: Still, regular folks that have to operate those casinos and

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Speaker 1: go back to their homes which are miles from the

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Speaker 1: strip in a whole other space, and they eat at

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Speaker 1: different places or whatever. Go figure, it's a whole other

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Speaker 1: get out of fantasy land. Yes, when you come to.

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Speaker 4: Vegas for all those national people or for those people

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Speaker 4: listening around the country right now, when you come to Vegas,

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Speaker 4: you've been here a couple of times, you've done the strip,

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Speaker 4: rent a car, drive and see other things outside of

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Speaker 4: the strip. I promise you the strip is kind of

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Speaker 4: It's like Times Square right now. It's kind of tough,

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Speaker 4: it's overprised, it's crowded. But there's a lot more to

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Speaker 4: see in Vegas than just that.

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Speaker 1: See right there, you were like who got the vig

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Speaker 1: on that one? Because you were like fifty to fifty

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Speaker 1: in terms of positivity and downplaying the city.

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Speaker 2: So there you go.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I love the strip too.

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Speaker 4: It has its own, you know, qualities to it, but

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Speaker 4: I've become so enamored with the rest of the city.

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Speaker 4: It's really become home. And I'm an East Coast guy,

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Speaker 4: you know me, I'm an East Coast New Yorker. Like

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Speaker 4: I come out to Vegas. I've been here three years.

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Speaker 4: It feels like home. See there you go.

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Speaker 1: Now there's your tourism postcard from Jared Smith at Jared Smith.

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Speaker 1: That's where you find it. It's hey, let's revisit Monday

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Speaker 1: night football. Let's do it by way of the tire

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Speaker 1: rack play of the day.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear from the victors.

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Speaker 4: Shannan used his challenge earlier, so they snapped the ball

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Speaker 4: on third down.

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Speaker 3: Now he throws to the near pielin and it's cut

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Speaker 3: by McCaffrey. Touchdown, forty nine ers. Touchdown.

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Speaker 1: There you go, forty eight twenty seven is your final?

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Speaker 1: That touchdown put the forty nine ers up forty one

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Speaker 1: twenty seven. Eventually you get the pick six to cap

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Speaker 1: the scoring. But on display there again. Rock Purdy was

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Speaker 1: absolutely brilliant over the course of the night, twenty five

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Speaker 1: Right now the San Francisco forty nine ers, two games left,

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Speaker 1: eleven and four, and suddenly it's the old objects in

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Speaker 1: the rear view mirror are closer than they appear, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of like the Trannosaurus Rex running you down in

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Speaker 4: Crazy. Honestly, I think San Francisco is I'm curious what

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Speaker 4: that spread will be the last week of the year.

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Speaker 4: That's what I was thinking about during that last commercial

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Speaker 4: break right the games in Santa Clara.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if San.

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Speaker 4: Francisco will be a dog in that game, which I

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Speaker 4: think would be very telling. That game will be very telling. Now,

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Speaker 4: to be fair, we have to get through the Chicago

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Speaker 4: game first, and I think if the Niners beat the Bears,

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Speaker 4: I think their rating will increase enough to where they'll

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Speaker 4: probably be favored in that game against Seattle, which to

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Speaker 4: me likelihood trigger a lot of people wanting to bet

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Speaker 4: Seattle because I do think the defense for Seattle is

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Speaker 4: going to be really tough, and that's gonna be what

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Speaker 4: game where Sam Donald kind of reverts back to what

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Speaker 4: I mean, this dude's turned into a pumpkin over the

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Speaker 4: last few weeks, but they're still winning games and I

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Speaker 4: think that's the difference. Right, they lost the game to

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Speaker 4: the Rams. They won five straight three Fair Tennessee, Minnesota, Atlanta, Indy. Like,

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, you know, throw a

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Speaker 4: parade for Sam Donald for winning those five games. But

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Speaker 4: you gotta give him a lot of credit because they

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Speaker 4: showed a lot of resiliency last Thursday night. I think

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Speaker 4: they're gonna beat Carolina this week and then it'll set

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Speaker 4: up what will be and let's let's let's hope. I

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Speaker 4: hope the Niners. Also when I know you don't want

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Speaker 4: the Niners to win, but I just want the drama

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Speaker 4: of that last game because that'll be the game they flex,

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Speaker 4: right if it all comes push, there's no question about

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Speaker 4: that'll be the game they flex.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Forty established as a two and a half to three

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Speaker 1: point favorite off the Sunday night game on December twenty eighth.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's where we're at. As we said, the

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Speaker 1: over under sitting at it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's the game this week.

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Speaker 2: That's this week. No, No, we're not.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about the Niners.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, after they lose to the Bears, it all goes

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Speaker 2: to hell. What are you talking about?

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Speaker 3: Is that your official production?

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Speaker 1: After they they blow a game in the fourth quarter, Uh,

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Speaker 1: and the Bears come and snatch it from him. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's that's the way this has to work.

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Speaker 4: When do you guys usually do your pit You do

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Speaker 4: them on Friday, usually Fridays. Yeah, I'll be here on

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Speaker 4: I'll be listening. I'll have an ear up. You better

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Speaker 4: be picking the Bears. And now you put your money

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Speaker 4: where you mount those up?

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Speaker 2: I will yeah, I know, And there's no question about it.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: No, Look, the Bears give up points, they give up yardage.

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Speaker 1: This week was an interesting game. We talked about it

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Speaker 1: from the Bear's side a little bit. Uh, And we'll

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Speaker 1: traverse down that highway a little bit more here right,

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Speaker 1: the win over the Packers. Malik will Is a decidedly

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Speaker 1: different quarterback than what you had for Jordan Love. So

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Speaker 1: change of game and and certainly for the Bears was uneven.

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Speaker 1: Malik Willis early on did whatever he wanted to do,

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Speaker 1: the year, this team's lived and died with Al Harris

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Speaker 1: his defense, you know, defensive backs taking the ball away

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Speaker 1: because you know, we we get an amber with Ben

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Speaker 1: Johnson and he's the guy pulling the strings, no question

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Speaker 1: about it. But their assistant coaches have done a fantastic

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Speaker 1: of what Caleb Williams become. But you got thirty one

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Speaker 1: turnovers that you generated on the year. That's an inordinate number,

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Speaker 1: I mean against ten ten giveaways. So Caleb Williams and

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Speaker 1: I heard it was Ryan Leaf was on the national

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Speaker 1: radio call for the game against the pay Interesting.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know he was doing that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, he's very good, very very good. Yeah that's great.

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Speaker 4: I'm happy that he's found a second life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, he's.

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Speaker 1: Doing great on that And listening to a bit of

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Speaker 1: it while I was in the car in between, you know,

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Speaker 1: viewing experiences, and I thought Tom Brady brought tremendous energy

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Speaker 1: and excitement on Saturday Night for ass be.

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Speaker 4: A really good broadcaster.

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Speaker 1: He was jacked up for that game from pillar to post.

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Speaker 1: So the fact that you ended up getting an overtime

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Speaker 1: thriller for him, he got to be you know the

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Speaker 1: king of the world. But Leaf on the broadcast brought

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Speaker 1: up a point I've been trying to bring up all

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Speaker 1: year long, so I like to hear it echoed by

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Speaker 1: folks that have played this game at a high level.

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Speaker 1: So I could put that feather in my cap. Is

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Speaker 1: that for Caleb Williams, he's not turning the ball over.

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Speaker 1: We could talk about accuracy, but he's also not throwing

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Speaker 1: one and a half yard screenplasses like he was a

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Speaker 1: year ago. Right, they're pushing the ball down the field

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Speaker 1: a lot, which means you're gonna put the ball in

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Speaker 1: the harm's way at times. Well, he's been fortunate that

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen many of those. You did in the

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Speaker 1: first game against Green Bay and at a couple of

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Speaker 1: back to before Drew Brees and some of this evolution

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Speaker 1: Myers shows up. He's a blocker, he's a receiver. He's

439
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Speaker 1: there three weeks and they broke the bang for him.

440
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Speaker 1: So all of a sudden twenty five or more points

441
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Speaker 1: every game since their bye week, absolutely getting it done.

442
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of handwringing when it comes to

443
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars ever since Liam Cohen said Duval,

444
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Speaker 1: I don't think people are buying in.

445
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Speaker 4: I think Jacksonville's a very well coached team. I don't

446
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Speaker 4: know how good they are. When push comes to shove,

447
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,080
Speaker 4: we'll see. I think they kind of smacked around a

448
00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 4: Denver team that was a little bit fraudulent and they

449
00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 4: kind of you know, Denver's been right, Denver's been doing

450
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Speaker 4: this thing where they're losing the box score every week

451
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Speaker 4: but winning the game, and in this particular case it

452
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Speaker 4: was the opposite. They got a solid win in the

453
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Speaker 4: box score, like plus one point seven net yards were played,

454
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Speaker 4: plus six percent net success rate. The difference in this

455
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Speaker 4: game was they didn't do the little things well right.

456
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Speaker 4: They turned it over, they weren't great on third downs,

457
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Speaker 4: they only reached the red zone twice, and Jacksonville just

458
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Speaker 4: kind of bullied them a little bit. They kind of

459
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Speaker 4: pushed them around, kind of woke them up. We'll see

460
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Speaker 4: how Denver bounce is back. Right. We get that Chargers

461
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Speaker 4: game in a couple weeks. That's gonna be I think

462
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Speaker 4: to me, the game. You know that you get two

463
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Speaker 4: games in the West Week eight team Denver LA and

464
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Speaker 4: San Francisco Seattle. That might be division clinching games, which

465
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Speaker 4: is awesome that we'll get two of those. Perhaps we'll

466
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Speaker 4: see how things go this week. But the Jaguars kind

467
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,640
Speaker 4: of have that swag right now, and I'm interested. I'll

468
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Speaker 4: be honest, I'm interested. I think you see the way

469
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Speaker 4: the standing shakeout, and we'll see who they play in

470
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Speaker 4: that first playoff game. I think it'll matter where the

471
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Speaker 4: game is, it'll matter if they're going to get home field,

472
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Speaker 4: you know, in the in the second round. I know

473
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Speaker 4: they'll get it for their first game. But if it

474
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Speaker 4: stands to be the same, like if the standing stayed

475
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Speaker 4: the same right now, and the Patriots do what they're

476
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Speaker 4: supposed to do, which is win the East, take care

477
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Speaker 4: of business against the Jets, and the Dolphins win the East,

478
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Speaker 4: and the Bills are that sixth seed and it's Jags

479
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Speaker 4: Bills in the first round. Oh man, that's a tough

480
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Speaker 4: that's a tough first game for Trevor Lawrence. I would

481
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Speaker 4: probably take the Bills in that spot. But if they

482
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Speaker 4: get the Chargers, We've seen that before, right.

483
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Speaker 3: That was the epic that.

484
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Speaker 2: Yeah they ran over them.

485
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Speaker 4: Yeah so I and then the collapse in the playoffs

486
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Speaker 4: from a couple of years ago.

487
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've go back a couple of years and this

488
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Speaker 1: was revenge, or was supposed to be.

489
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Speaker 4: I can see Jacksonville. I could see Jacksonville being very

490
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Speaker 4: formidable if that's the game. But against Buffalo, I think

491
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Speaker 4: I would lean Buffalo.

492
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I remember all of the talk leading up to week

494
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Speaker 1: eleven was all right, it's time for revenge, even though

495
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Speaker 1: it's you know, a couple of years removed, a lot

496
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Speaker 1: of players removed.

497
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Speaker 2: That's fine. H Thirty five to six.

498
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Speaker 1: And I was in the car going to one of

499
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Speaker 1: my daughter's soccer games and just listening to our friends

500
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah and Matt money Smith die a little bit

501
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: inside with each run because that one was that was

502
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: just a bludgeoning. I mean, Lawrence goes for a buck

503
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Speaker 1: fifty three, they put thirty five points up on the board.

504
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Speaker 1: He's been magnificent these last several weeks, during this win streak,

505
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Speaker 1: and you look at their win total overall, Jared and

506
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Speaker 1: I know, look, it's not a murderers row when you

507
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: look at Arizona, Tennessee these Colts. That was the beginning

508
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Speaker 1: of their slide, right, thirty six nineteen, that win the

509
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Speaker 1: Jets or the Jets, and then a win against Denver, which,

510
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Speaker 1: depending on what color your glasses are, you either love

511
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: the Broncos or you don't, but you go back to

512
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Speaker 1: early in the season, taking care of business against division

513
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Speaker 1: rival Houston. They beat this forty nine Ers squad back

514
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Speaker 1: in the day, twenty six twenty one Kansas City, back

515
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Speaker 1: when Kansas City still mattered thirty one to twenty eight win.

516
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Speaker 1: There So and Carolina back in the season, Oprah, who

517
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Speaker 1: would have thought Carolina all these weeks later would be

518
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Speaker 1: one of these teams we're going, Wow, all right, Let's

519
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,120
Speaker 1: look at Rice Young again. Look look at what Dave

520
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: Canalis has been able to do. Let's look at McMillan

521
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: and Dowbell and Chewba Hubbard and just raise an eyebrow

522
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Speaker 1: towards what they've been able to do. But for Jacksonville,

523
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Speaker 1: it's just been an exciting run just to look. We

524
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Speaker 1: need quarterbacks, man, We need we need quarterbacks to be

525
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Speaker 1: good and to be sustainable. Whether Trevor Lawrence gets to

526
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Speaker 1: that point, I don't know. But we're up to thirty

527
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Speaker 1: five hundred passing yards, twenty six and eleven in terms

528
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Speaker 1: of those numbers. Rushing, he's got another seven touchdowns, not

529
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Speaker 1: turning the ball over at a high clip right at

530
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Speaker 1: eleven eleven interceptions. He has not lost a fumble yet

531
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Speaker 1: this year. So all of those things where he's just like,

532
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Speaker 1: all right, it's trending positively, and in an age where

533
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is hurt, Lamar Jackson's hurt. I mean, we

534
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Speaker 1: keep hearing the word contusion. Contusion. It sounds better than

535
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Speaker 1: Bruce right. It sounds far more serious as a medical

536
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 1: condition when you say contusion. But for some of our greats,

537
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: we forget that these guys are already eight to ten

538
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,239
Speaker 1: years in all right, once upon a time, that's when

539
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: quarterbacks were finishing here. It's when they're first, you know,

540
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: hitting their primes in a lot of cases. But recognizing

541
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Speaker 1: that we're on a short list of guys that come

542
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Speaker 1: the start of a new year that we get excited

543
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Speaker 1: about and so at least for a couple of weeks,

544
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Speaker 1: maybe Jacksonville with the contract that's out there, Trevor Lawrence

545
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Speaker 1: often cited as one of those guys that demonstrated truly

546
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Speaker 1: a broken system that maybe he's pushing back a little

547
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Speaker 1: bit about their narrative. Again, the schedule is your friend,

548
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: but you can only beat who's on it.

549
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Speaker 4: Well, I said this to Jason locking four in our

550
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Speaker 4: first hour Quarterbacks, and I'll expand on the point.

551
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Speaker 3: Now.

552
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Speaker 4: Quarterbacks have two windows. It's the first window when they

553
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Speaker 4: first get drafted and no one knows, they have no

554
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 4: tape on them, no one knows anything about their style

555
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 4: or anything, and they're on a rookie contract and you

556
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Speaker 4: get put into a good situation and a good system,

557
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Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, you flourish. We have seen

558
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Speaker 4: that multiple times, right. C. J. Strout's a good example

559
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 4: where it just you hit the ground running right away,

560
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Speaker 4: and then typically what happens is eventually that window closes,

561
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Speaker 4: and it usually happens around year three or four, when

562
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 4: the league's kind of caught up to your style and

563
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 4: the contract is coming. Well, we're past that point with

564
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 4: Trevor right, we're in year five now.

565
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Speaker 3: So we've already breathed.

566
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Speaker 4: Past that point. And now it's the second window. It's

567
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Speaker 4: the big contract window. This window is more about good

568
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 4: roster building and really good coaching because you don't have

569
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 4: the money to spend in all the other areas. However,

570
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 4: you're a smarter quarterback.

571
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Speaker 3: You are.

572
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 4: You've had multiple years in the league. You understand the system,

573
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Speaker 4: you understand how to play the position, you understand the

574
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Speaker 4: prep that goes along with it. You have to diet,

575
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Speaker 4: you have to make all of the things, all of

576
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Speaker 4: the sacrifices you have to make to get to the

577
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Speaker 4: next level. And if you are good enough and mentally

578
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Speaker 4: strong enough and you know discipline enough to reach that

579
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Speaker 4: second level, that second window, well, now the window reopens,

580
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Speaker 4: and especially if you're in a good situation with a

581
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Speaker 4: good coach, and I think Liam Cohen is certainly that

582
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Speaker 4: you've got a defense that's formidable. They bring Jakobe Meyers over,

583
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Speaker 4: I'd love that trade. He's been one of the best

584
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 4: receivers in the NFL since that trade. And now it's okay,

585
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 4: let's go play ball. And I don't know what the

586
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 4: ceiling just is yet. I think I need to see

587
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Speaker 4: a little bit more with Cohen, and I think i'd

588
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 4: love to see Travis Hunter become part of the mix too,

589
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 4: but unfortunately that didn't work out well this year with

590
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 4: the injury situation. But I'm not ready to give up

591
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 4: on Trevor Lawrence. I think we have a big problem

592
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 4: in our society where it is now now now, Now,

593
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 4: if someone has one bad year, you're done. It's over.

594
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 4: And maybe the NFL does stand for not for long,

595
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 4: But when you're getting paid this much money, you typically

596
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 4: get another chance. And maybe not if you're too a

597
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 4: but you typically get another chance. And Trevor's second chance.

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00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 2: Right.

599
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 4: You had to go through the over meyerstaff and just

600
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 4: like a lot of just good, like gross toxic situations

601
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 4: in Jacksonville. And now you've made it through that, You've

602
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 4: gained some wisdom from those situations, and now you've got

603
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 4: the right coach in place to actually tap into your

604
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 4: true potential. And I think, now this it's probably not

605
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 4: this year, right Mike, Like, I don't think anyone thinks

606
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 4: the Jaguars going to Super Bowl this year, but next year.

607
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 4: Now that you've set this foundation the year after that. Like,

608
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 4: now that you've put these bricks and you've laid this

609
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 4: foundation for building this house, I could see someone living

610
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Speaker 4: in the house eventually, but I think it's still in

611
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Speaker 4: the in the modeling phase, Like I just I don't

612
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 4: think it's ready to be moved into just yet. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean we've certainly seen former first round picks get

614
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 1: second tertiary shots in other spots. Famously, a lot of

615
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: former Jets that have gone on to prominence. Baker mate, Well,

616
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Speaker 1: you know what ex Jet now good is one of

617
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Speaker 1: the mantras.

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Speaker 4: Zav d Arnold, that's the best one, right, Yeah, I

619
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Speaker 4: mean in geno, there's also the guys that have had

620
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Speaker 4: second chances with Jets. How about Vini testa Verdi throwback

621
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Speaker 4: there to my nine to my late nineties teams.

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Speaker 2: You'll have to explain to our listeners who Vinny Testaverdi was.

623
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that old enough.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I mean that's a Jet generation ago at this

625
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Speaker 1: like literally a generation that's like about the release date

626
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Speaker 1: of any given Sunday.

627
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Speaker 3: Yeah, RCT it actually might be the same. But that

628
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 3: was the guy that didn't have a ton of success, right.

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Speaker 4: He was a good quarterback statistically with Cleveland, but didn't

630
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Speaker 4: have a lot of win law success when he came

631
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Speaker 4: to the Jets, and then all of a sudden he's

632
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Speaker 4: in the AC Championship game.

633
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 2: There you go.

634
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: As we look at the board right now, Rams at

635
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: plus four sixty Seahawks plus six point fifty Bills at

636
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Speaker 1: eight point fifty Eagles, nine hundred, Patriots one thousand, you

637
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: got to go down a ways before you find those Jaguars.

638
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: In terms of the current odds towards the Super Bowl,

639
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: they're still a twelve to one a little bit further down.

640
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: So they're behind Denver so in New England and Denver

641
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: are the team's closest to them, and.

642
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Speaker 4: You would think they'd be in front of Denver, considering

643
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Speaker 4: they just went into Denver and beat them.

644
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what, this is how we get our

645
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: Miami and Notre Dame debate into No, the odds market

646
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: is a funny game right into say.

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Speaker 4: I've got a hot take on that debate.

648
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Speaker 2: Oh, I have no doubt you know what that was

649
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Speaker 2: two weeks.

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Speaker 4: Ago though, Yeah, I know it was a little bit

651
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 4: too far.

652
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit too far removed.

653
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Speaker 1: But I'm sure you did a podcast on it at

654
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Speaker 1: Jared Smith Betts where you can find that, and you

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Speaker 1: can also find the podcast of the Countdown to Kickoff

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Speaker 1: show that he does with Brian no Notre Dame, South

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Speaker 1: Bend Guy and Rich Ornberger Penn State. So plenty on

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Speaker 1: the college world there, but we can have a little

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Speaker 1: bit more on the college football playoffs. Why because we're

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Speaker 1: down to the Elite eight. We've got the bracket challenge up.

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Speaker 1: We'll tell you about that as we continue, but first

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Speaker 1: let's kick it over to the news desk and our guy,

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Speaker 1: Steve de Seger. Who's gonna tell you all about the greatness.

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Speaker 2: Of Rock Perty.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there is a lot to talk about and guys

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Speaker 5: in the NFL. This is the twentieth straight season where

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Speaker 5: at least one team with a new coach makes the

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Speaker 5: playoffs his first year. Because this Colts lost tonight puts

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Speaker 5: the Jaguars in the playoffs. Patriots won last night to

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Speaker 5: get into the postseason. The Bears this weekend clinched a

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Speaker 5: playoff spot. The Niners have won five in a row.

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Speaker 5: They wanted Indianapolis Tonight forty eight twenty seven. Brock Party

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Speaker 5: with five touchdown passes two hundred and ninety five yards

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Speaker 5: through the air. This is the most points scored by

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Speaker 5: San Francisco in any game in the last six years,

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Speaker 5: and Perty is the first Niners quarterback to throw for

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Speaker 5: five touchdowns in a game, regular season or playoffs since

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Speaker 5: Steve Young Super Bowl against the Chargers. He's the first

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Speaker 5: to do so in a regular season game since Joe

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Speaker 5: Montana nineteen ninety set the franchise record with six passing

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Speaker 5: tds at the Falcons. In fact, Party in his young career,

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Speaker 5: has already won twenty nine games as a starter, twenty

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Speaker 5: three of those twenty nine wins have been by double digits.

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Speaker 5: No other NFL quarterback has that many wins, and three

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Speaker 5: quarters of them or more by double digits. Philip Rivers

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Speaker 5: had two touchdown passes in the first half a late

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Speaker 5: pick six, as well two hundred and seventy seven yards.

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Speaker 5: Indy has lost six of its last seven games. Colts

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Speaker 5: have gone from eight to two to eight and seven.

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Speaker 5: They are in danger of missing the playoffs. Certainly, no

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Speaker 5: team since nineteen ninety five has missed the postseason after

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Speaker 5: starting eight and two or better. The NFL suspended Steelers

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Speaker 5: wide receiver dk Metcalf for the final two games of

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Speaker 5: the regular season. He will appeal after that confrontation with

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Speaker 5: a fan. Yesterday, Seahawks linebacker Derek Hall lost his appeal

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Speaker 5: of a one game suspension. Chargers linebacker Denzel Parriman was

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Speaker 5: suspended two games after another helmet to helmet hit. He

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Speaker 5: will appeal. The Colts lost not only clinched a playoff

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Speaker 5: spot for Jacksonville, it clinched one for the Chargers and

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Speaker 5: for the Buffalo Bills. The Bills expect quarterback Josh Allen

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Speaker 5: to play Sunday despite a foot injury. Ravens QB. Lamar

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Speaker 5: Jackson his day to day with a severely bruised back,

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Speaker 5: and the Kansas City Chiefs will have a new stadium

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Speaker 5: in twenty thirty one, just across the state line in Kansas.

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Speaker 5: In a bowl game in Boise today, Washington State defeated

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Speaker 5: Utah State thirty four to twenty one. Notre Dame will

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Speaker 5: play against BYU for the next two years instead of

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Speaker 5: playing USC in the NBA's late game, it's a final.

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Speaker 5: Detroit wins again one ten, one oh two at Portland.

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Speaker 5: The Pistons are twenty three and six, Oklahoma City twenty

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Speaker 5: six and three after beating Memphis one nineteen, one oh three.

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Speaker 5: Jay gilgis Alexander with thirty one points. It's his one

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Speaker 5: hundredth straight game with at least twenty Jaron Jackson of

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Speaker 5: the Grizzlies had eleven points today. He was named Western

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Speaker 5: Conference Player of the Week. The East Winter is Jalen

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Speaker 5: Brunson of the Knicks, wins earlier for Cleveland and Boston.

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Speaker 5: The Lakers Luka Donsich is out tomorrow with a Bruce

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Speaker 5: calf in the NHL victories for Tampa Bay and Philadelphia,

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Speaker 5: and in progress Blue Jackets lead with about a minute

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Speaker 5: to go in La three to one. Seattle ahead in

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Speaker 5: the final minute at Anaheim two to one. In college

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Speaker 5: basketball on FS one in Saint Louis, number twenty ranked

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Speaker 5: Illinois dominated Missouri ninety one to forty eight. And today

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Speaker 5: at San Diego State, the Aztec shot sixty percent from

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Speaker 5: the floor and whipped the Whittier Poets one twenty one,

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Speaker 5: two fifty nine. Whittier from Southern California, the alma mater

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Speaker 5: of Richard Nixon and Roger Lodge from the Angel Station

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Speaker 5: as well.

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Speaker 1: Hey Roger Lodge, I used to watch him on what

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Speaker 1: was that the dating show?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: There you go, crazy, We're in the lodge. Thanks Steve.

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Speaker 1: That's Steve to say that, baby smile.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you being with us Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: at the college football bracket as we get ready for

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Speaker 1: playoff action and Jared's foaming at the mouth over Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame and Miami.

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Speaker 2: Two cents from that coming up next here on Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 7: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 7: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 7: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Me,

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Speaker 1: Mike Carman, Jared Smith in for Jason at Jared Smith

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Speaker 1: Betts is where you find him. You hear him Saturday

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Speaker 1: mornings as part of Countdown to Kickoff, resented by bet

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Speaker 1: NGM alongside Brian No and Rich Ornberger here on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. We appreciate you being with us, Appreciate you

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Speaker 1: hanging out with us tonight, Jared. So much going on

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Speaker 1: in the sporting universe. We'll circle back to the Monday

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Speaker 1: night football game in about ten minutes, but talk about

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Speaker 1: the bracket challenge that we've got up. Winner against the

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Speaker 1: hosts and other listeners can win one thousand dollars for

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Speaker 1: picking the best bracket. That's right, it's Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 1: Dot iHeart dot com if you want to go and

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Speaker 1: get yourself entered and go make your picks. But it's

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Speaker 1: the curious time as we had the twelve team field

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Speaker 1: and there's still a lot of outrage and consternation, and

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Speaker 1: certainly Smith and I were watching it Friday night when

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma jumped out to a seventeen to nothing lead on Alabama.

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Speaker 1: I think Cold Takes could have funded themselves for a

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Speaker 1: year with the number of my tweets.

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Speaker 4: And things that were going on games in the first half,

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Speaker 4: people stop.

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Speaker 1: But that's exactly what was going on as we're watching it,

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Speaker 1: and I walked in and going I'm hoping it changes,

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Speaker 1: because at that point it was seventeen to nothing. We're

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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes from getting on air, Smith and I

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Speaker 1: and we're texting back and forth like, all right, that's

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Speaker 1: the lead.

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Speaker 2: I hope we have something.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously we get what was a thriller and

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Speaker 1: a thrilling comeback and Alabama takes care of business. Ty

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Speaker 1: Simpson in Company. It's convergence of events, that pick six,

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Speaker 1: that dropped punt, all of those things that play into it.

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Speaker 1: Before they get home Saturday, a little home home, the

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Speaker 1: Miami game that you could hear the crickets because not

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Speaker 1: a lot going on in that one, and certainly if

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Speaker 1: you were hoping for an offensive onslaught and that never came.

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Speaker 1: A and M was a team that you also had

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Speaker 1: some questions about if we're gonna do the NFL strength

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Speaker 1: of schedule thing, and certainly in the bracketology, it was

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Speaker 1: the same thing of what's the greatness of this squad?

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Speaker 1: And I know you can go into some advanced metrics,

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Speaker 1: but the eye test of who you played and when

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Speaker 1: and how and all those things. And then we get

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Speaker 1: that barn burner on Saturday and then two odd non

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Speaker 1: competitive games except when it came to the point spread.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'll start with Alabama. People were very upset

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Speaker 4: that they got in, and I understand that they should

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Speaker 4: have probably dropped the spot. Like that's the part that

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Speaker 4: people are upset about. And they're like, how come Bama's

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Speaker 4: the only team in next year is that has hasn't

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Speaker 4: dropped the spot after losing in the conference temap okay, fair,

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Speaker 4: they should have dropped a spot, but then they're tenth

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Speaker 4: and they're still in the field. So I don't understand

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Speaker 4: why that argument is. So Actually, I do understand because

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Speaker 4: it's Bama. But it's Bama' derangement syndrome is what it is.

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Speaker 4: And no one can look me in the eyes and

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Speaker 4: say they're not a top twelve team.

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Speaker 3: They absolutely are.

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Speaker 4: They were the number one seed in the toughest conference

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Speaker 4: in America. They are absolutely worthy of being in the playoff,

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Speaker 4: regardless of what the final score was against Georgia. And

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Speaker 4: that is the starting point. And then the BYU and

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Speaker 4: the Notre Dame people were upset, and I understand more so.

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Speaker 3: Than Notre Dame people.

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Speaker 4: I think the BYU people were just kind of happy

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Speaker 4: to be in the conversation, but the Notre Dame people

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Speaker 4: were obviously very upset. And then they opted out of

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Speaker 4: the Pop Darts Bowl, the Pop Darts Bowl of all things,

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Speaker 4: which is like the jewel of Bowl season.

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Speaker 2: Nothing else. You get some pop darts and they got

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Speaker 2: a cool mascot.

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Speaker 4: It's the jew It's like the best Bowl game outside

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Speaker 4: of the playoff, and like all of both seasons. But

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Speaker 4: they opted out of the Pop Darts Bowl. People are upset,

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Speaker 4: and I understand they're great. They got hoodwinked in, bamboozled

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Speaker 4: at the last moment. But the real problem is not

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Speaker 4: the committee chose Alabama instead of Notre Dame. The problem

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Speaker 4: is we have to take the twentieth and twenty fourth

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Speaker 4: We're forced to take those teams instead of taking the

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Speaker 4: top twelve teams in the rankings BYU and Notre Dame.

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Speaker 4: It should have been BYU at Oregon, Notre Dame at

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Speaker 4: Ole Miss or flip it. I don't know how it

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Speaker 4: would have worked out, but it should have been BYU

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Speaker 4: and Notre Dame playing Oregon and Ole Miss on Saturday night.

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Speaker 4: That's what we should have gotten. And I know the

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Speaker 4: people are gonna push back.

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Speaker 3: Well, it works for march madness.

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Speaker 4: I know it's a different sport and there's sixty eight

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Speaker 4: teams in that field. It is a completely different set

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Speaker 4: of variables. Football and basketball is not the same. You

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Speaker 4: need like one hundred kids on a football program to win,

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Speaker 4: you need all this equipment and all this stuff. Basketball

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Speaker 4: it's five players. It's like a completely different argument. And

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Speaker 4: I think the real issue with the playoff, Mike, is

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Speaker 4: we're forced to take these G five auto bids and

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Speaker 4: it's throwing the math off for a team like BYU

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Speaker 4: and Notre Dame that really deserve to be in the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how the changes are effected.

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Speaker 1: We already know about the Notre Dame clause, kind of

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Speaker 1: like the Santa clause. As we go through, let's get

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Speaker 1: back into Monday night football. He's Jared Olbike and this

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Speaker 1: is Fox Sports Radio.