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Speaker 1: Welcome in. It's four hours of chaos. Happy Christmas week

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Speaker 1: here on the roads. Be careful, look out for each other,

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Speaker 1: be smart, Just turn the volume up and we'll catch

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Speaker 1: you where you need to go. Smith is off to night,

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Speaker 1: so Jared Smith in his stead at Jared Smith Mets

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Speaker 1: is where you find him. I'm Mike Carmen, you falster

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Speaker 1: here Jared's weekends on Saturday. It's a part of countdown

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Speaker 1: to kickoff. Lots going on, who says you can't go

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Speaker 1: home again, traditions being shuttered, all of those things and

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Speaker 1: so much more. Welcome in to another week of the

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with Mike Garmin. Jared, Welcome to the chaos.

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Speaker 1: I guess the song says it all. And Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: and Rock Purty certainly treating us to some disaster on

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Speaker 1: Monday night.

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Speaker 2: I'm loving it. Merry Christmas to everyone out there. Obviously

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Speaker 2: I'll be talking to you again on Saturday, but I'm enjoying,

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Speaker 2: you know, getting a chance to dive into this, this

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Speaker 2: extravaganza for the night. We're honestly blessed because what we're

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Speaker 2: watching tonight, Mike, this is a masterclass in quarterbacking and

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Speaker 2: it really shows me that quarterbacking, to me, is more

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Speaker 2: mental than physical. Rivers can do this, I mean, I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is truly remarkable what he's done now, back to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the beauty of the San Francisco forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: That's kind of what we're getting. Because Phillips getting rid

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Speaker 1: Tyler Warren would be I know, fantasy owners, I have

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Speaker 1: him too. We're all salty that you didn't get that

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Speaker 1: Rivers because you know, he's not cursing at his guys.

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Speaker 1: He may be yelling at him, but he's not cursing

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Speaker 1: fallse start and all of that. But fourteen of twenty one,

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Speaker 1: one seventy five and two. If you bet the over

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Speaker 1: on rivers in his passing yards, Jared, you already cashed

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Speaker 2: And I bet the under on his longest pass. So

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Speaker 2: that was my angle in this game, Mike was you're

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Speaker 2: I just don't think he has the arm strength to push. No.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've certainly seen success through the years, and

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Speaker 2: I called it a greasy season. Today. I do a

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Speaker 1: Well, it's fortunate for me, you ended with Philadelphia because

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Speaker 1: Betts forty nine ers back in the end zone to

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Speaker 1: I think is the old term. As brock Purty Thursay's

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Speaker 1: Jennings he's had all right to pass too. And that's

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Speaker 2: This point, Yeah, I would imagine that the Niners are

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Speaker 2: There's really no denying San Francisco's candidacy right now. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Well, and that's the beauty of it. Right as you

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Speaker 3: of weeks around here. They've got another Lamar Jackson contract.

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Speaker 3: They've got to get done. The roster that everybody kept

433
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Speaker 3: telling me was the best to the NFL as a joke.

434
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,159
Speaker 3: The offensive line sucks, The defensive line sucks. They have

435
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Speaker 3: a whole bunch of corners that they can't. You know

436
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,399
Speaker 3: that they accumulate way they can't. They love drafting corners

437
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Speaker 3: in safety and they love signing them. Go watch any

438
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Speaker 3: of them make plays on the ball. None of them

439
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,199
Speaker 3: are balls kills, none of them. None of them. They

440
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Speaker 3: don't undert up. If you call it right in their

441
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,000
Speaker 3: gut enough times, they'll catch one eventually. But they do

442
00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,199
Speaker 3: not make plays on the ball in flight. So if

443
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Speaker 3: you're not gonna have any fast questions, and all the dbs

444
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Speaker 3: you collect don't actually kick the ball off might be.

445
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Speaker 1: In trouble chaos, and sus I would have been standing

446
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Speaker 1: in the stands with my quickly put together poster board

447
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,679
Speaker 1: that says twelve to fifty three on it. Dereck Henry

448
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,440
Speaker 1: running downhill and then doesn't see the ball. But let's

449
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Speaker 1: stay in Yeah, it's kind of carriesy. Let's stay in

450
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Speaker 1: division though, Let's go to Pittsburgh. DK Metcalf looks like

451
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Speaker 1: he's gonna lose like forty million dollars in guaranteed money

452
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Speaker 1: by getting himself suspended for a couple of games altercation

453
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Speaker 1: with a fan, But Pittsburgh goes and wins their third

454
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Speaker 1: and Tomlin walking off the field like he's a WWE

455
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Speaker 1: manager like by Hayward and Aaron Rodgers. So what's yeah?

456
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Speaker 1: Is this another Are we still on the one and

457
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Speaker 1: done or are we still seeing anything signs of life

458
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Speaker 1: as the Steelers are finishing things.

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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna end up being a one and done.

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Speaker 3: I I it's a long off season. It's a long season.

461
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Speaker 3: This guy's got so many different, you know, pursuits and

462
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 3: loves the sound of his own voice, and I don't

463
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Speaker 3: also like the way he wants to run his off seasons.

464
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Speaker 3: I don't know how many teams right last year, there

465
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Speaker 3: were not many who were willing to put everything on

466
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Speaker 3: hold forever, right to just like to just let this happen,

467
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Speaker 3: like to just come back on on his terms when

468
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Speaker 3: he wants it. I don't know, man, even for the

469
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Speaker 3: Steelers to do that again, they've got to find it,

470
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Speaker 3: like this is late Staves Roethlisberger all over again. Like

471
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Speaker 3: they gotta find like somebody who's going to be there

472
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Speaker 3: for more than year to year. But it looks, you know,

473
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Speaker 3: who knows, if Tomlin does take the grass might be

474
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Speaker 3: green or somewhere else. Even if they go on this

475
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Speaker 3: run that it certainly seems like it's gonna end up

476
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Speaker 3: in at least one home playoff game. Things can still

477
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 3: come to a head there as well. And once you

478
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 3: got one year left on the deal, so it could

479
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Speaker 3: get interesting there.

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Speaker 2: Jason, you've been doing this a while. Is this the

481
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Speaker 2: strangest NFL season you've experienced in your career in quite

482
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Speaker 2: some time? I mean, I use the word greasy to

483
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Speaker 2: describe it, because it just seems like these teams you

484
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Speaker 2: just don't know, they slip through your fingers every week

485
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Speaker 2: and anyone really can win. Like I'm having trouble narrowing

486
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Speaker 2: my Super Bowl contender list to fewer than five or

487
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Speaker 2: six teams, and at this stage of the year usually

488
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Speaker 2: it's like a core five. At least there's the ten

489
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Speaker 2: or fifteen teams maybe that still have a chance. So

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Speaker 2: ten at least, that would say, And.

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Speaker 3: How many of them are really you know, and you're

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Speaker 3: in your normal year, would you be looking out of

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Speaker 3: a team that you'd think could have beat my host

494
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Speaker 3: a deeper right, or or Lamar at his Peeter Burrow

495
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 3: at his peak. Now you're not going to have to

496
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Speaker 3: go through that gunment in the AFC. It's going to

497
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Speaker 3: be different, you know, I do you know? We live

498
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 3: in such a what have you done for me lately? Society?

499
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Speaker 3: It's like there's part of me that when you start

500
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,400
Speaker 3: thinking about this stuff, I feel like you lose historical

501
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 3: try to touch it does feel different than me. It

502
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 3: feels it feels more wide open. It feels like what

503
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 3: Caroline is doing and what Jacksonville's doing, And like, I

504
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 3: don't know that that happens every year, does it? I

505
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Speaker 3: don't think that happens every year. Like there's three legitimately

506
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Speaker 3: decent teams in the ANFC South, like I don't you know,

507
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Speaker 3: I don't, I don't recall that. And for New England

508
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Speaker 3: to have sprinted before they ran, like you'd have told

509
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Speaker 3: me New England makes the playoffs this year even with

510
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Speaker 3: you know, and look the schedule. We knew coming in

511
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Speaker 3: you might be conducive, and they were, you know, summer preseason,

512
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Speaker 3: they're like if you went week to week on the

513
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Speaker 3: money line, they were gonna be you could tell wild

514
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Speaker 3: it was gonna be favored in a lot of these games.

515
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Speaker 3: And we don't even know how good they are. So

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Speaker 3: I would have believed you that Vrabel could turn him around.

517
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't have believed that the you know, they're probably

518
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 3: gonna put Buffalo the bed and win the division. So

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Speaker 3: it does feel like a lot like what's happened in

520
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 3: the NFC Central. That's kind of that's kind of crazy

521
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Speaker 3: the way Green Bay has lost some of these games,

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Speaker 3: Like you know, even LA, Like I think LA is

523
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Speaker 3: the best team in the league, but boy, lay every

524
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Speaker 3: game they've lost, you think of five things they did

525
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Speaker 3: to that's to blow it, you know, like special teams

526
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Speaker 3: and turnovers. So it feels more wide open to me

527
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Speaker 3: than other years.

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Speaker 1: Half it does the fall guy, the special teams coordinator

529
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Speaker 1: fell on the sort of damnagees the other day, so

530
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Speaker 1: or I dropped on him, I should say, I if

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Speaker 1: we didn't do the quick look at Monday night football,

532
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Speaker 1: Philip River hit is over for his passing yards in

533
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Speaker 1: the first half. He's moved the ball up and down

534
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Speaker 1: the field, and we have fifty four points here late

535
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Speaker 1: in the third quarter. I mean, this is this is

536
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Speaker 1: it for me? A guy that comes off the street

537
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Speaker 1: and five years and high school coach and now he's

538
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: yelling at his linemen and slamming the ball off of

539
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: fall start. It's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: It's nuts. He obviously can't really go and look late

541
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Speaker 3: stage in his career. I mean, part of the reason

542
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 3: he started coaching and not playing was he could not

543
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 3: and he always had that weird javelin release to begin with.

544
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 3: They couldn't push the ball downfield anymore, and that's that's

545
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 3: been an issue when he's tried to throw it, you know,

546
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Speaker 3: thirty five, forty five. I don't know if he's flirting

547
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Speaker 3: really with fifty, but I guess fifty yards downfield that's

548
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 3: not really there. But he's he's managed the game, he's

549
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 3: made plays, he hits guys and stride him and the

550
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 3: ball placement accuracy is ridiculously good for a guy that's old,

551
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Speaker 3: who's been out of it that long. We just step in,

552
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 3: like in October or something. He's putting right in the

553
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 3: middle of, you know, the playoff chase, playing teams in

554
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Speaker 3: Seattle and San Francisco that have everything on the line,

555
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 3: that are fighting full one seed. So I'm I'm I'm

556
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 3: super impressed. But yeah, it comes with some limitations, and

557
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 3: they really, I think needed to get volume in the

558
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 3: run game here to keep this thing as close as

559
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 3: possible as long as possible, and the defense has had

560
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 3: no answers and Party's not getting touched and so we'll

561
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Speaker 3: see how much they still lean into tailor here down

562
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Speaker 3: the stretch. But good all, Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 2: Party looks fantastic, I'll be honest, and that that's the

564
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Speaker 2: next part of this conversation, Jason is the Niners have

565
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 2: kind of been sleeping under the radar all year because

566
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Speaker 2: of the injuries. They've had a relatively easy schedule, But

567
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 2: when push comes to shove, I think the ceiling for

568
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 2: this offense maybe is as high as the ceiling for

569
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Speaker 2: the Rams offense perhaps, and the defense though, is where

570
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 2: I struggle. Are we sleeping on? And I know we'll

571
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Speaker 2: get two games over the next two weeks Chicago and Seattle,

572
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Speaker 2: we're sleeping on. San Francisco is actually the best team

573
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Speaker 2: in the NFC.

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Speaker 3: I can't get there because they're not running the ball

575
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Speaker 3: like they're customed to running it. I don't think they're

576
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 3: certainly not running as well as the Rams to run it,

577
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Speaker 3: and they have no pass for us to speak up.

578
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Speaker 3: And I just don't think you can win in January

579
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 3: that way. I mean, it's really tough, and they finally

580
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 3: got a sack tonight, but like, they don't pick the

581
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 3: ball off. It's kind of like the Ravens. They don't

582
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 3: pick the ball off, and they don't have anybody who

583
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 3: gets home on their own. And even when they're schemeing up,

584
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 3: we're all stimulating pressures and pre snap nonsense. It's the

585
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 3: pressure rates pathetic, the sack rates pathetic. And I just

586
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 3: don't think that's gonna fly in the postseason, especially if

587
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 3: they don't win the division and they're a wild card

588
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 3: and everything's on the road. I don't I don't buy them.

589
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 3: I'd probably buy them more if they were in the

590
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 3: AFC honestly than the NFC. Like I don't know, don't

591
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Speaker 3: I don't think they have close enough even in this

592
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 3: water downfield to a Super Bowl calimber defense. But maybe

593
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 3: they're starting to peak.

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Speaker 1: in Baltimore. Merry Christmas to you brother, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: everything this year. We'll catch up with you as the

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Speaker 1: new year gets started we look at the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, guys. Always appreciate you having me on a

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Speaker 3: happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: Be blast mar appreciate you. Thank you. A lot of

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Speaker 1: anks coming out of Baltimore. We've got a barn burner

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Speaker 1: here late third quarter, an injury in someone needing to

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Speaker 1: stretch on the sidelines. Here with all the details and

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Speaker 1: the big night across the sporting universe, the legend himself Stark, Guys,

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Speaker 1: Steve Desager, what's going on? Stave? Good evening to you.

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Speaker 5: It's a Niners lead in this high scoring Monday Night

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Speaker 5: game at Indy thirty four to twenty, which just over

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Speaker 5: a minute to go in the third quarter. This was

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Speaker 5: the highest scoring first half in a Monday Night game

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Speaker 5: since twenty eighteen, the high scoring Lastic when the Chiefs

615
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 5: played at the Rams. But in this one, the forty

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Speaker 5: nine Ers scored a touchdown on each of their first

617
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Speaker 5: three drives. For the first time this season, there has

618
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Speaker 5: been scoring combined on almost every drive tonight, although the

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Speaker 5: Niners at the end of the first half attempted a

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Speaker 5: sixty four yard field goal from Eddie Pinero and missed

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Speaker 5: it as it hit the crossbar, his first miss of

622
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Speaker 5: the season. He had been twenty six for twenty six,

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Speaker 5: and that ended the forty nine Ers franchise record of

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Speaker 5: thirteen straight games without a field goal missed. Right now,

625
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Speaker 5: late third, it's a two touchdown lead. Is brock Purty

626
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Speaker 5: is thrown for four touchdowns twenty of twenty six two

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Speaker 5: hundred forty eight yards, one of those tds to George Kittle,

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Speaker 5: who with an ankle injury, is limping a bit on

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Speaker 5: the sidelines. He does have seven receptions one hundred and

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Speaker 5: fifteen yards and a score. Four different receivers for those

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Speaker 5: four touchdowns, one of those Christian McCaffrey. On the ground,

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Speaker 5: McCaffrey fifteen carries eighty five yards. Meanwhile, Philip rivers two

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Speaker 5: hundred yards, passing most of that in the first half,

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Speaker 5: two touchdowns, both to Alec Pearce Jonathan Taylor. What's with

635
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Speaker 5: the running game? Last month with the Colts, Taylor fourteen

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Speaker 5: carries just thirty nine yards. They've just ended the third quarter. Niners,

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Speaker 5: who've won four in a row, lead thirty four to

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Speaker 5: twenty at Indianapolis. The Colts have lost five of six,

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Speaker 5: and the Colts lost tonight, would clinch playoff spots in

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Speaker 5: the AFC for Buffalo, for Jacksonville, and for the Chargers.

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Speaker 5: Chargers linebacker Denzel Perriman was suspended two games after another

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Speaker 5: helmet to helmet hit. He will appeal. The NFL suspended

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Speaker 5: Steelers wide receiver dk metcalf for the final two games

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Speaker 5: of the season. He will appeal after a confrontation with

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Speaker 5: a fan yesterday. The Steelers will clinch the AFC North

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Speaker 5: title if they win one of their final two games,

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Speaker 5: or if the Ravens lose Saturday Night against the Packers.

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Speaker 5: Seahawks linebacker Derek Hall lost his appeal of a one

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Speaker 5: game suspension. The Kansas City Chiefs will have a new

650
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Speaker 5: stadium in twenty thirty one in Kansas. The other side

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Speaker 5: of the border'll be less than twenty five miles west

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Speaker 5: of their current stadium, Arrowhead, and the new place will

653
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Speaker 5: have a roof. Quarterback Gardner Minshew injured for the Chiefs yesterday.

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Speaker 5: The knee injury is not a torn acl but he

655
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Speaker 5: was placed on IR. Kansas City signed quarterback Shane Bouchell.

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Speaker 5: The Bills expect quarterback Josh Allen to play Sunday despite

657
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Speaker 5: a foot injury. Ravens QB Lamar Jackson is called day

658
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Speaker 5: to day with a severely bruised back. He was hurt

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Speaker 5: last night.

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame.

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Speaker 5: We'll play against BYU for the next two years instead

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Speaker 5: of playing USC. NBA wins for New Orleans and Boston

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Speaker 5: and for Cleveland, which beats Charlotte one thirty nine to

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Speaker 5: one thirty two. Donovan Mitchell, with thirty points in progress

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Speaker 5: at Denver, now gets ninety four to seventy one over

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Speaker 5: Utah late in the third. Among the NHL games, Tampa

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Speaker 5: Bay and Philadelphia already with wins. College basketball was on

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Speaker 5: FS one tonight in Saint Louis twentieth, ranked to Illinois

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Speaker 5: rit Missouri ninety one to forty eight. Arizona is still

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Speaker 5: ranking one, number one, and Michigan is a close second.

671
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Speaker 5: In the a People, Duke fell to number six, the

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Speaker 5: Mets traded Jeff McNeil in cash to the A's, and

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Speaker 5: the Mets signed reliever Luke Weaver.

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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. Final forty eight to twenty seven. San

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Speaker 1: Francisco battled. They got a good fight from Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: and the Colts, but it still goes down as a

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Speaker 1: twenty one point beat down as San Francisco has that

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Speaker 1: whole control your own destiny thing. Eleven and four now

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Speaker 1: still two games remaining on their slates as we are

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Speaker 1: in those final throws of the NFL season. So it's

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Speaker 1: it's exciting times and a team that is getting right,

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Speaker 1: getting healthy at the right time.

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Speaker 2: You know what's weird, Mike about the playoffs standings right now?

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Speaker 2: I think it's a done deal. I think I know

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Speaker 2: who the seven teams are in each in each conference,

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Speaker 2: and it's just a matter of where they're seated. I

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00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 2: don't think Green Bay is gonna lose both these games.

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Speaker 2: I think they're gonna you know, obviously Baltimore's situation with

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Speaker 2: with Lamars in question, and then they play the Vikings

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Speaker 2: the final week and all they have to do is

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Speaker 2: win one of those games in order to make the

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Speaker 2: playoffs and get the seven seed. And obviously Carolina's win

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Speaker 2: kind of puts them in the driver's seat.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: To be fair, we could see, you know, Carolina get

741
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,879
Speaker 2: their butt kicked by Seattle this week and then that'll

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Speaker 2: set up a winner take all next week. But I'll

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Speaker 2: be honest, like Carolina and that spot, especially if they're

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Speaker 2: a dog. So I feel pretty comfortable that the top

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00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 2: seven teams in the AFC or excuse me, the NFC,

746
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 2: are going to be there again, that the South is

747
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 2: the one maybe coin flip in the AFC, like it

748
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 2: is a done, done deal, Like Indy's not catching Houston.

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Speaker 2: So the top seven is set and it's just a

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00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 2: matter of where they're seated right now. So it's a

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00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 2: weird year, right, there's two weeks left in the year,

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Speaker 2: and I really don't see a dark horse sleeper team

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Speaker 2: to come from somewhere, you know, sub five hundred to

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Speaker 2: make a run and make a playoff berth just because

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00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 2: of how it's very disjointed, right, Like we don't know

756
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 2: who the best team are, but there's this group of

757
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 2: good teams and then there's a gigantic gap and then

758
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 2: there's the rest. But I can't recall again, I've been

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Speaker 2: doing this now publicly handicapping the NFL for five years

760
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 2: and been watching it for twenty plus. In the last

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00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 2: five years that I've been doing this at this level,

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Speaker 2: I have not seen something where it's been so balanced,

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Speaker 2: where it's like we have these seven good teams that

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Speaker 2: are playoff teams, and then the rest of the conference

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Speaker 2: takes and the same thing in the other conference. Like

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Speaker 2: it really is unique.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if it's better or worse if

768
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 1: you get Roger Goodell in the honest moments, right, it's

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Speaker 1: like that you have that level of separation just in

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Speaker 1: that seven to say, hey, these are the best teams

771
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: while everybody's chasing, or if you'd like, you'd like more drama,

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Speaker 1: certainly in week seventeen and eighteen, which is why they

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Speaker 1: draw up and put a bunch of division games down

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Speaker 1: the stretch. Some of these sandwich things you mentioned Carolina Tampa.

775
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Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan of that at the back

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Speaker 1: end of a season, based on where we're at in

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Speaker 1: terms of injuries and player availability. If the division is

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Speaker 1: supposed to be that exciting and that heavy weighted in

779
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Speaker 1: terms of playoffs and getting a home playoff game and

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Speaker 1: all of that, that we play two of those three

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Speaker 1: games or those two games against each other in the

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Speaker 1: final three games, I should say. But the schedule is

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Speaker 1: what it is. I can gripe about it all I want,

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Speaker 1: and I certainly have many times here on Box Sports Radio,

785
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: just the EBB and flow of things. You know, hey,

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Speaker 1: here's three games to start your season the Bears last year.

787
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Speaker 1: Here's three games against the AFC South out of the gate.

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Speaker 1: It leads next into our next topic, which is talking

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Speaker 1: about scheduling and trying to get yourself best suited to

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Speaker 1: get yourself into the college football playoff. And that was

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Speaker 1: the news that broke earlier today, Jared of the fact

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Speaker 1: that USC and Notre Dame have failed to reach an

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Speaker 1: agreement on playing what would have been the ninety seventh

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Speaker 1: game in a series next year, and now we start

795
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Speaker 1: looking at replacements. Now Notre Dame announcing a two year

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Speaker 1: deal with BYU A home and home. Let's all have

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00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: a laugh. Here's what we did. We were both really

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00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: sad about being left off the playoffs. We'll show them.

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Speaker 1: We'll play each other. Lincoln Riley tried to talk about

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Speaker 1: it over the course of the year, roundly met with

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Speaker 1: a lot of If we were in the old vaudeville

802
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: in other days, you'd have a bunch of rotten eggs

803
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: and other things thrown his way. But what he did have,

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Speaker 1: because we have social media, is former number one pick

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Speaker 1: New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He's a legend. He

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Speaker 1: tormented my Northwestern Wildcats all those years ago into Rosebell Key,

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Speaker 1: Shawn Johnson, check this.

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Speaker 7: I don't know what the f is going on with

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Speaker 7: our athletic department. Okay, we got people in there that

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00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 7: are not trojans, that don't know anything about being a

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Speaker 7: trojan running our athletic department. We got a head coach

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Speaker 7: that knows nothing about being a trojan.

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Speaker 6: Why don't we just.

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Speaker 7: Not play football? How about that we not gonna play

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Speaker 7: Notre Dame again, possibly till twenty thirty, is what I'm understanding.

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Speaker 7: That doesn't make any sense. I grew up on the

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Speaker 7: Notre Dame USC rivalry, and I'm not willing to go

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Speaker 7: in on my athletic department, nor am I one to

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Speaker 7: go in on the USC football coach. But if I

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Speaker 7: can remember correctly, I had Lincoln Riley talking about, well,

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Speaker 7: I don't know if I want.

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Speaker 2: To play them in the future.

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Speaker 8: You ain't gonna be here in the future, especially if

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Speaker 8: you keep missing the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna be here in the future. I promise

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Speaker 2: you that. So I don't.

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Speaker 8: Understand what our athletic department, our administration, okay, our border trustees,

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Speaker 8: to Regis whatever you want to call him, What the

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Speaker 8: hell are they doing there?

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Speaker 1: You go Keishawn Johnson and he says it in the

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Speaker 1: middle of that. Jared is he's not one that goes

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Speaker 1: against the school and the athletic department. Not that he

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00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: definitely stands for everything they've done, but generally not a

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Speaker 1: guy that's gonna be out there wagging his finger and

835
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Speaker 1: going after the decision making we've talked about college football

836
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Speaker 1: is like the whole landscape being like Midwest weather. At

837
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Speaker 1: this point, five minutes stand there long enough, something else

838
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: is blowing through. Right, it's absolute chaos, topsy turvy. We

839
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Speaker 1: haven't been able to rely on on much in the

840
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: way of tradition anymore. And I'm not the most ardent

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Speaker 1: and strident support that all of those things have to remain,

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00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: but I'd like for some of them to remain. And

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Speaker 1: when we're talking at nearly one hundred years and we

844
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Speaker 1: talk this rivalry, these games, these classic fixtures of the

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Speaker 1: college football landscape that goes aside because we're talking about

846
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 1: competitive advantages. When you schedule it, how you schedule it,

847
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: everybody gets a beast of the blame plot high. I mean,

848
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: he Sean saying with Lincoln Riley going to well, you

849
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Speaker 1: won't be here. It's like, that's right, because he'll move

850
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: on to another school, whether he leaves of his own

851
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: volition or he gets fired. This is not a situation

852
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: like Bowden and Paterno and all those guys from years ago.

853
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: You don't have guys standing on the same sideline for

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00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,720
Speaker 1: thirty five years. That that is absolutely true. So kicking

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Speaker 1: that down the curb because you don't like it, I

856
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: get it. It's it's an impediment because it's a good team.

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00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: Now there's some argument of whether it was a all right, well,

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Speaker 1: we won't do it in September. You know, we want

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Speaker 1: it where it's been played traditionally, towards the back end

860
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: of the schedule. And I can understand, or maybe you

861
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,919
Speaker 1: raise your hand to a degree, but the fact that

862
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: you know you have two monster entities and commer heads

863
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: can't can't come to a rational decision on this to

864
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: keep this alive is just beyond me.

865
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand why you want to keep it all

866
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 2: lot and I'm all for these types of games, but

867
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 2: getting mad about change in college football is like getting

868
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 2: mad at the wind for blowing. Like it's just I think,

869
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 2: like that's a harsh take from Kishon, like blaming USC

870
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 2: for this, Like there was two parties involved and the

871
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 2: game unfortunately isn't going to be played like US season

872
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 2: the Big Ten. Now it's a totally different element, and

873
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 2: I like, I okay, outside of the rivalry, outside of

874
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 2: the Jeweled Chilely whatever they play for. Did I get

875
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 2: that right? Is it the jewel Chile? That's what it's called.

876
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 1: I think that is right.

877
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 2: That is correct. Outside of that, like why notreed ame,

878
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 2: Like besides just the tradition of it, Like, there are

879
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 2: other really powerful schools out there that you could start

880
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 2: new traditions with, And I would argue be why he

881
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 2: was actually kind of becoming one of them. Really impressive

882
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 2: season from them, and I it was that was a

883
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 2: really harsh take from Kishon, It really was. But I

884
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 2: understand his at his like anger, but why directed it

885
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 2: at at Lincoln Riley?

886
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: Well, because he's tried. He's been talking this up over

887
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: the course of the year, right, so.

888
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 2: This is so this is just him just continuing to

889
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 2: put the pressure on Lincoln Riley. It's not It's almost

890
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 2: like when you're in a fight, you know, you know

891
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 2: when when you're at odds with your with your wife

892
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 2: or your spouse and the littlest thing sets them over

893
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 2: the edge. But it was really all the other stuff

894
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 2: earlier in the day that really got the compounds.

895
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: But it all plays in all right. It's always the

896
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: idea of how do you assess what percentage of the

897
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: blame pie. You want to put on each of the variables, right,

898
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: how much does Notre Dame get, how much does USC

899
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: get as an entity? How much is Lincoln Riley and

900
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: what he's trying to force right, because he's trying to

901
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: not only keep his job. Certainly, plenty of folks have

902
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: been talking about what's the buyout? Let's figure it out

903
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: that the number of jokes we had it for Kalin Debor,

904
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: certainly we had it for Lincoln Riley. Whoever wins the

905
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: Mega Millions, the power Ball, whatever the hell was over

906
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 1: a billion dollars this last week. If I win, I'm

907
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: gonna pay his buyout. Like that's the right.

908
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 2: Here's my pushback to Kishon. I have once wrong. Pushback

909
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 2: to Kishon. If your complaint is that they're not making

910
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 2: the playoff, and what have we seen from the committee?

911
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 2: They don't care who you play, just win the games.

912
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 2: So if the goal is to make the playoff, how

913
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 2: about we make a non conference schedule that isn't murderers

914
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 2: row because we're in the Big Ten now and we've

915
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 2: got to face and we got to go east to

916
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 2: play Rutgers at noon on a freaking Saturday at nine

917
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 2: am body clock, we got to go to Penn State

918
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: and Ohio State. Like, if the goal is to make

919
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 2: the playoff, why aren't we scheduling Cupcake you in those

920
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 2: first three games and avoiding all of the non conference

921
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 2: and screw tradition. We got to make the playoffs so

922
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 2: we can make money. Like, to me, that is how

923
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 2: you evolve as a college football coach, someone who's on

924
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 2: the board, someone who's a president of a school and

925
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 2: athletic director. The goal is to make the playoff. If

926
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 2: that's the goal, screw tradition, we got to make the

927
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 2: playoff for us. We're not going to be around long

928
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 2: enough to figure out any of this stuff. So I

929
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 2: think Keishan's coming out from the wrong angle. Like I

930
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 2: understand why he's mad at at USC they're not making

931
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 2: the playoff. But if I would argue that not scheduling

932
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 2: Notre Dame is actually going to help them make the playoff, right.

933
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it comes down to a couple of things.

934
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: When the games that are shouldn't be giveaways, right, but

935
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: dumbing down your schedule, I understand both sides of it. Right, Traditional,

936
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: when you're in there, if you take care of business

937
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,919
Speaker 1: against your other conference foes, and you have years where

938
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: you're not going to face the heavyweights. You're not going

939
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: to have Ohio State and Oregon and insert what Michigan,

940
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: Michigan State if Fitzgerald gets them going or whatever the

941
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: case is. Shameless plug for my old college college friend

942
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: from way back in the day. But all of that

943
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: to say, you know you've got the Big Ten schedule.

944
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: You chose to go to the conference for one, right,

945
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: So whenever Lincoln Riley's complained about timing and scheduling and

946
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: time of games whatever, like you knew what you were

947
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: signed up for, you blew up a conference as an

948
00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: institution whatever he had in terms of weight as the code.

949
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: Oh you you blew up a conference and you joined

950
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. You join one of the two behemoths,

951
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: and with that comes playing some really oddly scheduled games.

952
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: You know, flying across the country. Now you are in

953
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: a metal tube for five hours. I think you'll be okay.

954
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: I think you'll be okay. Whenever anybody in our business

955
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: complains about their flights, I laugh and say get in

956
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: the car then and then they pause and I say okay,

957
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: then shut up. Same thing here. I'm sorry because we're

958
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: long past the pretense of, Hey, that kid's gonna miss,

959
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: you know, an important class on that Friday morning. It's

960
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,720
Speaker 1: like we're long past that. That part of this equation

961
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: as well, Jared. So you know, for Lincoln Riley, I

962
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: think for keishaan part of it is unanimous with with

963
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley himself and what they haven't been able to

964
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: accomplish game to game with the level of consistency, the

965
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: fact that they have ignored the defensive side of the

966
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: ball for years, which is funny from a guy who

967
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: wrote Throw Me the Damn Ball as his autobiography. But

968
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: it's it's just the you know, there's a tipping point

969
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: and sometimes you got to have a fall guy. And

970
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: who's face. Do you know who's the face of a

971
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: team and a structure? It's not the president, it's not

972
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: a board of directors. It's the head coach. Cause you

973
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: can't tell me he doesn't have a loud voice in

974
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: that room in terms of Okay, what do we need

975
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: to get over and not scheduling Notre Dame is an

976
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: advantageous part of that.

977
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, But again, if the goal is to make the playoff,

978
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 2: if his gripe with Lincoln Riley in USC is you

979
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 2: are not successful enough, you are not making the playoff,

980
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 2: then I would argue not scheduling Notre Dame is a

981
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 2: good way to fix that.

982
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 3: Now.

983
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's not to say BYU isn't it isn't

984
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 2: gonna beat you either, but I think BYU isn't as

985
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 2: tough as Notre Dame right now. I think Notre Dame

986
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 2: is a tough team, and I think keeping them off

987
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 2: your schedule for as long as possible, especially when you

988
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,280
Speaker 2: have to deal with the Big Ten and that schedule

989
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 2: with nine game schedule, I think it just makes sense

990
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 2: to schedule a little bit lighter in your non conference.

991
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you already had what Missouri State, Georgia Southern.

992
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 1: You went on the road and lost to Illinois. Now

993
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 1: Illinois was ranked at the time.

994
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 2: But Big ten game though, so you've got to play

995
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:12,240
Speaker 2: that game.

996
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 1: Ten on the road.

997
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:13,399
Speaker 3: Yeah.

998
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, But but just the point that that's one that

999
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: they lost is really the point I was making there, Right, that's.

1000
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 2: They did lose a non conference game this year. Right, No,

1001
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 2: they're very clean in the non conference and now despite that,

1002
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 2: the playoffs except for Notre Dame. Yes, right, Illinois, what's

1003
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 2: USC season look like if it's if it's a cupcake

1004
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 2: city instead of Notre Dame and what they go nine

1005
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 2: and three?

1006
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: Right, Well, do they get the same assurances that Notre

1007
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: Dame does that they get to go into the playoffs?

1008
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,800
Speaker 2: Oh, don't even get me started on the stupid what

1009
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 2: is it? The mo OU and the memorandum of understanding. Wow,

1010
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 2: Notre Dame's got this system by the balls man, that's

1011
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 2: just it right, it's wild.

1012
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: And in the end, you know, as I said on

1013
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: the show, and you weren't part of the show, so

1014
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: it's new to you. It's kind of like the reruns

1015
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: on NBC all those years ago when when you missed

1016
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: it in the fall, in the game summer months, like, hey,

1017
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: it's new to you. Is the fact that Notre Dame

1018
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: and Miami that flip. That was great TV because it

1019
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: kept everybody with rapt attention and gave everybody something to

1020
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: complain about. And then when the time was right and

1021
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: they needed it, they broke the glass and said tadah,

1022
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: head to head matters and there you go, and you

1023
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: move on. But Notre Dame, yeah, we know what the

1024
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: behemoth it is. So I have no doubt that behind

1025
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: the scenes, it becomes a very loud discussion of you

1026
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: recognize what numbers mean when we're involved. It's like watching

1027
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: the NFL. It's like when certain teams play, no matter

1028
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: how bad they are, Dallas, people watch. So yeah, it'll

1029
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 1: be curious to watch this unfold, but certainly not back

1030
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: on the table until twenty thirty at the earliest. He's

1031
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: Jared Smith on Mike Carmen. Here it's Fox Sports Rader,

1032
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with me Mike Carman. Coming up next,

1033
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: we'll get back into the NFL, a little bit of

1034
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: Bear's Talk, a celebration of Philip Rivers. But first it's

1035
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 1: Steve Dizager with everything going on in our sporting universe tonight.

1036
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: He is the wizard. He's got the information, gentlemen.

1037
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 5: With the Colts loss to San Francisco tonight forty eight

1038
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 5: twenty seven, three AFC teams have now clinch playoff berths. Buffalo,

1039
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:23,280
Speaker 5: Jacksonville Chargers are all in. That means this NFL weekend

1040
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 5: eight teams clinching playoff spots, the most in one week

1041
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 5: for a non strike season in the history of the NFL.

1042
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 5: Five straight wins for the Niners. They're up to eleven

1043
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 5: and four. They're seven and two on the road. San

1044
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 5: Francisco's final two games, they'll host Chicago and Seattle. Brock

1045
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,359
Speaker 5: Purty at five touchdown passes two hundred and ninety five

1046
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 5: yards Christian McCaffrey one hundred and seventeen yards rushing and

1047
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 5: two TV catches. Philip Rivers in defeat two touchdown passes

1048
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 5: in the first half, one late pick six two hundred

1049
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,760
Speaker 5: and seventy seven yards. The NFL suspended Steelers wide receiver

1050
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 5: dk Metcalf for the final two games of the season.

1051
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 5: The Chiefs will have a new stadium across the border

1052
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 5: in Kansas in twenty thirty one. The Bills expect quarterback

1053
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,919
Speaker 5: Josh Allen to play Sunday despite a foot injury. Notre

1054
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,720
Speaker 5: Dame will play against BYU for the next two years

1055
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 5: instead of playing USC. North Carolina's Bill Belichick is reportedly

1056
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 5: working to hire Bobby Petrino as his offensive coordinator Freddy

1057
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 5: Kitchens was fired there. Ohio State head coach Ryan Day

1058
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,280
Speaker 5: will call the offensive plays in their playoff opener against Miami.

1059
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 5: Brian Hartline will leave later for USF Miami, playing the

1060
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 5: number two ranked Buck Guys on New Year's Eve at

1061
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 5: the Cotton Bowl quarterfinal. Oregon faces Texas Tech in the

1062
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 5: Orange Bowl quarter Final. New Year's Day, Alabama will be

1063
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 5: in the Rose Bowl quarterfinal against number one Indiana, and

1064
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 5: Old miss will play Georgia in the Sugar Bowl quarter

1065
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 5: final New Year's Night, Mississippi lost at Georgia in October

1066
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 5: forty three to thirty five, as Georgia scored seventeen straight

1067
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,399
Speaker 5: points in the fourth quarter to win.

1068
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: There was a bowl game in Boise today.

1069
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 5: Washington State at out to a twenty to zing lead

1070
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 5: third quarter and beat Utah State thirty four to twenty one.

1071
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 5: Cougar's with over six hundred yards of offense. Each team

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Speaker 5: had been six and six. Attendance was seventeen thousand.

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Speaker 1: Three.

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Speaker 5: Other bowl games on Tuesday and then Hawaii hosts the

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Speaker 5: Hawaii Bowl on Christmas Eve against Cal Wednesday night, in

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Speaker 5: the NBA home wins for New Orleans, which has won

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Speaker 5: five straight and Denver home wins for Cleveland and Boston,

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Speaker 5: Celtics came back to beat Indiana one oh three ninety

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Speaker 5: five thirty one points for Jalen Brown. Indiana six and

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Speaker 5: twenty three on the season. Oklahoma City is leading one

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Speaker 5: oh one ninety one against Memphis with under seven minutes

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Speaker 5: to go. Shay gilgis Alexander twenty four points. That's his

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Speaker 5: one hundredth straight twenty point game in college basketball. On

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Speaker 5: FS one tonight from Saint Louis, Number twenty, Illinois took

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Speaker 5: care of Missouri ninety one to forty eight. Arizona, by

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Speaker 5: the way, still ranked number one. Michigan is a close

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Speaker 5: second in the AP poll. NHL wins for Philadelphia and

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Speaker 5: Tampa Bay in progress. We've got the Blue Jackets ahead

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Speaker 5: two to nothing in la late second period. The Mets

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Speaker 5: traded Jeff McNeil in cash to the A's and the

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Speaker 5: Mets signed reliever Luke Weaver two years, twenty two million

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Speaker 5: dollars back to you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Steve. As we continue, we'll have a

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Speaker 1: little bit on the Chicago bears thrilling victory on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if Jared can calculate probabilities on the fly

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Speaker 1: as we roll through. If you missed any of today's show,

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