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Speaker 1: Please you're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio, Welcome in

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Speaker 1: everybody our two tours and Blangios Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: We're taking it till seven pm Eastern. Yes, we are

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Speaker 2: filling in for Cavino and Rich as well. We do

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Speaker 2: hope everybody.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I.

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Speaker 2: Should mention it every time coming out of break, but

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Speaker 2: hope everybody's having a very merry Christmas Christmas. I said

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Speaker 2: it earlier, but we know if you're listening to us,

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Speaker 2: you're at work, you're in the car. Always feel free

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Speaker 2: to tweeted us at Aaron Underscore Tours, at Manzy Blanio's,

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Speaker 2: let us know where you are, how you're listening.

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Speaker 4: And Manzi do we have.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we have some people that have tweeted at us.

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Speaker 5: Everybody who has commented on our video that was a

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Speaker 5: big hit featuring Lee de lap Here. Thank you to

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Speaker 5: everybody who's commented. We wish you all up merry Christmas.

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Speaker 5: But whack Wombat's that's that's the Twitter says, since Moncy

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Speaker 5: and Torres are cheating on their respective co hosts, well

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Speaker 5: we get a Dan Buyers and Jamar show to show

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Speaker 5: them how it feels.

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Speaker 3: I know. So guess what.

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Speaker 6: Though, we do. Dan is kind of gonna make an

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Speaker 6: appearance later on. That's true, He's kind of He's gonna

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Speaker 6: make an appearance later on.

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Speaker 4: What you don't know is, so, so tell how is

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Speaker 4: Dan going to make an appearance?

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Speaker 5: Well, we you and I are going to have a

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Speaker 5: little competition, okay, cool?

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Speaker 6: Who knows Buyer best?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 2: What you don't know is we're also doing who knows

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Speaker 2: Jmart Best later that hour, So that'll be really fun.

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Speaker 2: Stop that, kawhi laugh?

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Speaker 4: All right? So we will be doing that?

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Speaker 6: Was that.

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Speaker 7: Was?

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Speaker 6: That does not sound like Dan at all?

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Speaker 3: That is not.

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Speaker 6: No, it does not That's not Dan. You're tripping. Somebody

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Speaker 6: labeled it wrong.

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Speaker 4: That's not it's Dan.

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Speaker 3: I promise you.

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Speaker 6: It was labeled wrong. Somebody messed up.

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Speaker 4: It's just Dan his most uncontrolled moment.

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Speaker 6: What made him laugh so much?

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Speaker 7: I don't know, but it's in the system, so I'm

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Speaker 7: using it. Hello everyone, I haven't even said hi, do

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Speaker 7: you guys?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Samson, Hello, Lee to lap is in Chris Profet and

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Speaker 2: guess what. This is the perfect time to bring all

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Speaker 2: of you in because it is Christmas. I alwa, Sam,

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Speaker 2: give us a little music and I'll tell you what

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Speaker 2: they say during Christmas time, Manzi, it is better to

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Speaker 2: give than to receive.

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Speaker 6: It really is.

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Speaker 2: And so we are in the festive spirit, and this

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Speaker 2: is what we're gonna do. We're gonna hand out some

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Speaker 2: gifts to our favorite players, athletes and teams. I will

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Speaker 2: give an example, and by the way, people should tweet.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, what would your gift be to your favorite

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Speaker 2: team or athletes. I'll give an example. Hopefully I'm not

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Speaker 2: stealing anybody's. But the great example that Monzi gave. If

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Speaker 2: we were giving a Christmas gift to Joe Burrow, it

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Speaker 2: to all of us because I think all of us

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Speaker 2: Christmas gifts to our favorite athletes, our favorite teams. You

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Speaker 2: could tweet us at air and underscore Torres at Monty Blanio's.

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Speaker 2: But Manzi, since this was your brain child, I want

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Speaker 2: you to go ahead and the gift.

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Speaker 5: And you know what, I do have gifts for even

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Speaker 5: gifts for everybody because it tis the season.

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Speaker 6: Right, So my first gift is gonna go to Jackson Dart.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I have a gift for Jackson Dart, and it's

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Speaker 5: gonna be a book called Concussions for Dummies. Okay, because

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Speaker 5: this guy thinks they're not a big deal, and it's like, no, no, no,

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Speaker 5: you have to protect yourself. You are no longer in college.

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Speaker 5: Jackson Dart is in concussion protocol. Jackson Dart has left

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Speaker 5: I understand that you want to make the play, But

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Speaker 6: That is my gift to Jackson Dart.

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Speaker 2: When you said Jackson Dart, I thought it was gonna

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Speaker 2: be some play on a blue tent for real. I

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Speaker 2: hate to say, that's kind of what he's known for

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Speaker 2: right now. Can't stop putting his head down and trying

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Speaker 2: to run over people, which results into a lot of injuries.

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Speaker 2: All right, I got a couple, but I'm gonna save them.

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Speaker 2: I want to bring in Iowa Sam. You are up.

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Speaker 2: What are you giving your favorite athlete team whatever?

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Speaker 7: This is not my favorite athlete or favorite team, but

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna give a shiny AFC Championship trophy.

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Speaker 4: Right to Josh on the great call.

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Speaker 7: He can skip the line, just get right to the

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Speaker 7: big game and go win it so that we don't

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Speaker 7: have any more of this, Like Josh Allen, the Bills

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Speaker 7: and then they just can't get to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 7: Obviously the Bills what have never won a Super Bowl?

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Speaker 7: I don't believe. No, they haven't. And so get right

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Speaker 7: to the games, skip the line and just go play.

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Speaker 7: And I mean I picked the Rams, so maybe the

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Speaker 7: Rams Bills go go get there and get your get

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Speaker 7: your super for the city of Buffalo.

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Speaker 6: That's a really generous gift.

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Speaker 2: As someone who was on air in this studio with

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Speaker 2: last year, I think that's a great gift.

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Speaker 6: That is a great gift.

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Speaker 2: So thank you, thank you, Iowa Sam uh lead to Lap.

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Speaker 2: We know you're a Packers fan, but doesn't have to

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Speaker 2: be the Packers. Well, I do have a gift.

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Speaker 9: For the package, and luckily I have two of these,

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Speaker 9: but I'm only going to give it one away.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to give them an a.

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Speaker 9: Cl I'm going to give them one of my a

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Speaker 9: cls because they could use two. They could use one

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Speaker 9: for Tucker Craft and for Michael Parsons. But uh, I'll

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Speaker 9: let them decide who they want. I would prefer, you know,

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Speaker 9: I guess it's a tough decision, but I don't know

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Speaker 9: that's a tough one because to make that decision, I

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Speaker 9: I would say give it to Micah. He's just such

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Speaker 9: far that they've been the Packers that are now you

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Speaker 9: know vine for that seventh seed. I think it would

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Speaker 9: just give them that boost, that uh, that Christmas spirit.

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Speaker 3: They need right now.

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Speaker 2: So what you're telling us is you love your team

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Speaker 2: enough to walk with a limp, but not be in

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Speaker 9: Well, you know what I would if I would, I

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Speaker 9: would be in a wheelchair for a year if I

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Speaker 9: could have both of these guys back. Absolutely, that's a

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Speaker 9: good one. Packers man.

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Speaker 2: It's a bummer as someone who has no skin in

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Speaker 2: the game, Like really good story, and you just want

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Speaker 2: A theme of today's NFL games, which, by the way,

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Speaker 2: Cowboys up thirty to twenty three with fifty four seconds

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Speaker 2: left against the Washington Commanders. On the news desk with

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Speaker 2: the updates is Chris Prefet. Now, Chris, you're a Lions fan,

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Speaker 2: so I know you want Lee a Lap to keep

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Speaker 2: his ACLS intact. Over there doesn't have to be the Lions, no,

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Speaker 2: but you know what, I'll.

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Speaker 10: Save the Lions for another time because I do want

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Speaker 10: to go to another one of my favorites. And it's

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Speaker 10: a little off the branch, but bear with me. United

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Speaker 10: States men's soccer team, you have a very big World

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Speaker 10: Cup coming up here. You're already in a ready allowed

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Speaker 10: in because you are hosting one of three teams hosting

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Speaker 10: so three automatic bids, which is like, feels wrong, feels

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Speaker 10: absolutely wrong. But the college football playoffs, you would never

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Speaker 10: give the United States some hitherto unknown superstar to add

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Speaker 10: to their roster because I or either that or like

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Speaker 10: if anyone's seen Dragon ball Z like a good time,

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Speaker 10: a good time in like the hyperbaric training chamber that

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Speaker 10: and everyone kind of casually tunes in and there's always

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Speaker 10: a few games that they play well. But this is

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Speaker 10: not As someone who does a weekly report for Bernie

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Speaker 10: Fratto on soccer, this is not a team. I have

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Speaker 10: a lot of faith in that just the they will

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Speaker 10: beat up on some small teams throughout the year, they'll

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Speaker 10: look good against countries that have no business in the

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Speaker 10: World Cup, and they'll get to the World Cup and

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Speaker 10: get completely outclassed and like you know, it wasn't that long.

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Speaker 10: It was back in September. They're losing two goals to

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Speaker 10: nil to like South Korea. Bowligan's been a cool addition

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Speaker 10: Maybe we can go give Mohammed Sala like a US

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Speaker 4: I don't know. By the way, we do quickly have

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Speaker 4: a final.

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Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys got a Christmas gift, a thirty to twenty

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Speaker 2: three win over the Washington Commanders Game one. In the books,

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Speaker 2: Chris prefets Detroit Lions and the Minnesota Vikings are up next. Yay,

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Speaker 2: all right, I guess it's up to me. By the way,

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Speaker 2: that's good. By the way, have you seen World Cup

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Speaker 2: ticket prices at so far?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: There, they are insane.

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Speaker 10: But yeah, it caused a backlash with a bunch of

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Speaker 10: they are not used to paying triple digits or higher

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Speaker 10: for sporting events, so the.

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Speaker 4: Same Yeah, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 10: I was hoping to take my father to a couple

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Speaker 10: of games out here, but uh, likewise, you have to

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Speaker 7: You look at like, yeah, like the a lot of

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Speaker 7: people in the United Kingdom are really upset because they're

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Speaker 7: paying a lot to get over here at hotels, and

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Speaker 7: then if you ticket on top of.

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Speaker 4: That and they want to follow.

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Speaker 10: They want to follow their country around, which means in

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Speaker 10: the United States plane trips between multiple cities. If for

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Speaker 10: for the UK, for England.

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Speaker 7: It looks like if you're going to be coming from

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Speaker 7: abroad to these World Cup games, like you're in the

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Speaker 7: elite economic strata, if you're gonna be able to go

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Speaker 2: Very good, Well, Christmas gift to soccer fans, so extra

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Speaker 2: cash in the serious all right, I'll do mine really quick.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Monty, I know you have a lot

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Speaker 2: specifically the Chiefs. It's like you have basically asked them

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Speaker 2: to headline every signature day that you have. They were

442
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Speaker 2: in Brazil on a Friday, they obviously played Thanksgiving Day.

443
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Speaker 2: Maybe them, maybe they're the outlier. But is that just

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Speaker 2: they're old aware and terri thing because I do feel

445
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Speaker 2: like I don't even know if I'm explaining this properly,

446
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Speaker 2: but some of these teams have been asked to play

447
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Speaker 2: so many games.

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Speaker 4: Short weeks, long weeks.

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Speaker 2: Is there a body blow theory to any of this

450
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Speaker 2: being possibly the case with these ns?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 3: I know I know that the Eagles who won the

453
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl, I know that they felt that this long

454
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Speaker 3: offseason for them, well sure an off season, but long

455
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Speaker 3: season for them was a factor. No question of why

456
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Speaker 3: they've worn down. Now there they're starting to get themselves

457
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Speaker 3: together here. They have a big game on Sunday afternoon

458
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Speaker 3: in Buffalo. But yeah, it usually the War of attrition.

459
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Speaker 3: It gets you. It certainly gets you to this point. Now,

460
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Speaker 3: the chief situation, it's really not injury related, folks. They

461
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Speaker 3: just did not have a good offseason. They've Mahomes is

462
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Speaker 3: really the last two seasons not played at particularly high level,

463
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Speaker 3: and when you don't get a lot of free agents right,

464
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Speaker 3: and they didn't, and they didn't have the drafts that

465
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Speaker 3: they thought they had. This is why they're six to nine,

466
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Speaker 3: going to have the first losing season that Andy Reid

467
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Speaker 3: has had since he left Philly after twenty twelve. That's

468
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Speaker 3: part of it. I mean, each situation you have to

469
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Speaker 3: look at differently, but certainly, on your point, injuries are factor.

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Speaker 3: The length of the season is a factor. And we

471
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Speaker 3: only have one bye week, which when we get and

472
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Speaker 3: we're going to get to it at some point, we're

473
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Speaker 3: gonna have the eighteenth game in a nineteen week season.

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Speaker 3: That's when we're gonna have two buys.

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Speaker 6: That's just crazy because I know that's gonna happen. Adam

476
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Speaker 6: married Christmas. See, yes, so let's switch gears here.

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Speaker 5: I've already apologized to Trevor Lawrence because I thought he

478
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Speaker 5: only could do it well against the Georgias.

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Speaker 6: After winning six.

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Speaker 5: In a row.

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Speaker 6: Are they in your circle of trust?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they have to be. It's the team I mean

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Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence for the first half the season and really

484
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Speaker 3: heading into their bye week they were four to three,

485
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Speaker 3: but they were so bad over the final two games

486
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Speaker 3: a week six and seven home loss to Seattle Line

487
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Speaker 3: score twelve points, so they got absolutely smacked. The Rams

488
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Speaker 3: came in and blew them out in Jacksonville, so there's

489
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Speaker 3: no reason to think and they have. They had the

490
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Speaker 3: tough loss at Houston where they blew the huge lead.

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Speaker 3: So through ten weeks there were a team like you

492
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Speaker 3: wouldn't think would make the playoffs. But you just mentioned

493
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Speaker 3: the six game winning streak, and Trevor Lawrence is not

494
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Speaker 3: making the mental ayers. And what's happened is the monte

495
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Speaker 3: they're wanning a Liam Cohen, the head coaches. Also the

496
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Speaker 3: play caller one a old school West Coast offense. It's

497
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Speaker 3: his version of the Rams offense, and it's forcing Trevor

498
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Speaker 3: Lawrence to make quick decisions and he sure is in

499
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Speaker 3: their offense. So this is another thing you couldn't see

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Speaker 3: this stuff. Like Aaron asked a question about sort of

501
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Speaker 3: the totality the season, but it's some of these teams

502
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Speaker 3: have come kind of out of nowhere. There's no reason

503
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Speaker 3: to think at four and three that they would win

504
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Speaker 3: the division. And obviously this is before Daniel Jones tours

505
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Speaker 3: Achilles with the Colts and how they've gone to the tank.

506
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Speaker 3: There have been a lot of crazy stories the second

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Speaker 3: half of the season. This is one of them.

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Speaker 2: Adam kaplan Ar Fox Sports Radio NFL Insider is joining us.

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Speaker 2: You can also hear him on the Inside the Birds podcast.

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Speaker 2: You know, speaking of apologies, let me ask you this, Adam.

511
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Speaker 2: I don't know that we're in the apologize to JJ

512
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Speaker 2: McCarthy camp yet, but I don't even play great against

513
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Speaker 2: the Giants. But obviously the Vikings are playing later today.

514
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Speaker 3: Got hurt too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I always felt like it was a little

516
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Speaker 2: unfair to like like one. It just feels like, you know,

517
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Speaker 2: it feels like there was some preconceived bias against him

518
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Speaker 2: going into that draft, you know, the Michigan stuff he did,

519
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Speaker 2: you know, he didn't have to do too much whatever.

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Speaker 2: But also I kind of saw him almost as like

521
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Speaker 2: a rookie this year. He did not play at all

522
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Speaker 2: last year, and so I guess I'm just asking you know,

523
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Speaker 2: five six weeks ago, we were all saying, this is

524
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Speaker 2: an abject failure, and we understand what Sam Darnold's doing

525
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Speaker 2: in Seattle, et cetera. But like, sure, what what do

526
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Speaker 2: people inside that building or maybe even just inside the

527
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Speaker 2: league feel about what he can maybe be after showing

528
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Speaker 2: flashes he's less compl.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's more of a game manager type when he

530
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Speaker 3: got healthy air. And you know, he's had numerous injuries.

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Speaker 3: He's had two right hand injuries. The last one is

532
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Speaker 3: got is the fracture, and then he had the meniscus

533
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Speaker 3: which costs him the entire regular season. He only played

534
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Speaker 3: in one preseason game against the Raiders and that was it.

535
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Speaker 3: So he's missed more games as a professional that he's

536
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Speaker 3: been available for. But he did start to come on

537
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Speaker 3: on your point. And my sense is when they're done

538
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Speaker 3: this season and they're gonna they're gonna, when they're honest

539
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Speaker 3: with themselves, they're gonna look at and say, okay, look

540
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Speaker 3: he's just not been available. Now the the free agent

541
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Speaker 3: class is really not very good. Now, the guy's gonna

542
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,120
Speaker 3: get a lot of plays. Max Jones know he's under

543
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Speaker 3: contract for next season, and Mac Jones is gonna make

544
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Speaker 3: less than five million. The Niners will get a good

545
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Speaker 3: draft pick for him. They could get his sig as

546
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Speaker 3: a second round pick for him. But the Vikings to me,

547
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Speaker 3: because their defense more often not plays pretty well, it

548
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Speaker 3: will not surprise me if they add another quarterback. That's

549
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Speaker 3: kind of from what I've heard is they thought McCarthy's

550
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Speaker 3: come on a little bit, but there are the point

551
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Speaker 3: here where they think they have to take the next step.

552
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Speaker 3: Whereas you know, Kevin O'Connell's done a really good job here.

553
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Speaker 3: He's done a really good job, but you can only

554
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Speaker 3: control so much. But he had that four game losing

555
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Speaker 3: streak and now they've won three in a row, and

556
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Speaker 3: we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 5: Obviously today, Adam, the NFC South is still up for grabs.

558
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Speaker 5: And when I look at the Panthers and the Buccaneers,

559
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Speaker 5: I just have like such different feelings. I don't know,

560
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Speaker 5: the Buccaneers got healthier and yet they can't.

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Speaker 6: Figure it out on offense exactly.

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Speaker 5: Even though I think Carolina will win this division, I

563
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Speaker 5: feel like I trust Tampa Bay Moore in the postseason.

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Speaker 3: Well, if they can make it of Tampa, then yeah,

565
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Speaker 3: it's really odd like the Kladjiah can't see their undersized

566
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Speaker 3: defensive tackle first round from a couple of years ago.

567
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Speaker 3: He's started to practice this week coming back from the

568
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Speaker 3: touring biceps. But when you look at their situation, they've

569
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Speaker 3: unachieved this season. They look like earlier they're going to

570
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 3: run away from everybody, and then their defense is kind

571
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 3: of collapsed. You know, their secondaries played poorly. Baker Mayfield

572
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 3: got off to a great start with yet another offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 3: They are another team. It's really interesting when you look

574
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Speaker 3: at this yet another team. They headed to their bye

575
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Speaker 3: week and kind of writing their own story where they

576
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Speaker 3: were six and two, really in control of the NFC South,

577
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Speaker 3: and then they've now lost six out of seven. Their

578
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 3: defense is collapsed, their patrush stinks, they don't cover very well,

579
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Speaker 3: and Todd Bowles is a defensive head coach. It's his

580
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Speaker 3: defense that he calls the place. It's not good. And

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Speaker 3: they're also they have a losing record at home. That's

582
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Speaker 3: hard to believe they should. There's no question of Montso

583
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Speaker 3: when you look at the talent and this is the

584
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Speaker 3: way the people are in the league see it with

585
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 3: way more talent in the Carolina CAROLINEA is probably overachieved,

586
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Speaker 3: but yeah, they're a team to me. If they don't

587
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Speaker 3: make the playoffs here right, Not that I'm suggesting top

588
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 3: balls will be let go, but this is a situation

589
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 3: to watch because trust me when I tell you this,

590
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 3: their expectations within that building were very high and they

591
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 3: haven't met it and that's never good for a head coach.

592
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 3: But we'll see what happens really quick.

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Speaker 2: Adam, you know, yesterday there was a report, by the way,

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Speaker 2: Adam Kaplan, our Fox Sports Radio NFL insider and host

595
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Speaker 2: of the Inside the Birds podcast, is joining us.

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Speaker 4: So yesterday report from the Baltimore Sun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, I'll just frame it for the people

599
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Speaker 2: that maybe didn't see it because they were traveling whatever

600
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 2: friction with the Ravens and Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 4: John Harbaugh immediately shot Now, yeah, he shut that down

602
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Speaker 4: big time. So is there nothing to that? Is that?

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Speaker 2: I mean, everyone's allowed to report what they want, but like,

604
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Speaker 2: what did you make of that when you saw it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So I just I read a paragraph and I

606
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 3: saw the headline and I'm like, okay, well, I know

607
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 3: my reporting on John harrible. Every time I check with

608
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Speaker 3: a team source over the we're going back several years

609
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 3: when things were not good. They always say, hey man,

610
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 3: outside our building, we're all good. You know you're making

611
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 3: too much of this. We're frustrated, but we're gonna get

612
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 3: this thing turned around. We love Harbs and he would

613
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,120
Speaker 3: always get us the deal that it would always turn

614
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 3: it around. They get a contract extension or two or three.

615
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 3: So but listen, Lamar a lot of injury in his career.

616
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Speaker 3: He's a losing record in the playoffs at three and

617
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 3: five now, but you look at three MVP awards, so

618
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Speaker 3: that that counts. It's a really good quarterback. We know

619
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Speaker 3: it's just not good in the playoffs. But he also

620
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Speaker 3: and I always tell fans, is if you want the

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Speaker 3: quarterback gone, where you're getting another one? Right, That's the

622
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 3: problem with it. I'd be shocked if they even considered

623
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Speaker 3: it now. I know in my information gathering when they

624
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 3: had a contract squabble with him before you sawn the

625
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 3: latest deal, there were teams around the league that said, listen,

626
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 3: they will listen if you They just want to know

627
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Speaker 3: what his value is. But they never got anything. They

628
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 3: never got any because no one really believed that the

629
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Speaker 3: Ravens were going to trade, in which I believe was

630
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Speaker 3: the case. But from what I heard from clubs is

631
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Speaker 3: that like they're waiting to see what its value is

632
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Speaker 3: and nobody's stepping up to the plate. So yeah, I

633
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 3: just now what would happen. They would get at least two,

634
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 3: if not three, first round picks for him. That's that's

635
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Speaker 3: my sense, if they were, if they were ever really,

636
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Speaker 3: really really willing to treat them.

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Speaker 5: Adam, before we let you go, MVP, is it Matthew

638
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Speaker 5: Stafford's Yeah, I.

639
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Speaker 3: Vote for two poules. I'm going to go with Stafford

640
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 3: one for sure. Drake May's got to be up there.

641
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor kind of sort of like Offensive Player of

642
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 3: the Year. There's a distinction of two. Those that award

643
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 3: typically goes to a running back. The MVP rarely goes

644
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Speaker 3: to a running back. I know Adrian Peterson won at

645
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Speaker 3: one year, but yeah, I miss Stafford's just so many

646
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Speaker 3: of that streak of twenty eight straight touchdowns without a pick,

647
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Speaker 3: which is hard to do in this day and age.

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Speaker 3: I just and it's funny how much they were. You know,

649
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Speaker 3: they had a contract issue, they were looking to move

650
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Speaker 3: them at one point the off season last year. It's

651
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Speaker 3: funny how things work out. But they're another team when

652
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Speaker 3: you look at it, where were they going to go

653
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Speaker 3: a quarterback? Yeah, Jimmy, Jimmy Garoppolo is not the answer.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I would say right now, I'd have to

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Speaker 3: go to Stafford. I remember, it's a regular season warders,

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Speaker 3: nothing to do with the playoffs. Josh Allen is certainly

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Speaker 3: making a run here, But you got to look at it.

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Speaker 3: I always tell people you can't have recency bias. You

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Speaker 3: got to look at the entire season for sure.

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Speaker 5: But as a Chargers fan, how is Justin Herbert not

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Speaker 5: being looked at more seriously after losing his starting tackles

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Speaker 5: and still.

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Speaker 6: Managing to stay alive and having success with a broken hand, the.

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Speaker 5: Whole the whole ordeal, And I feel like, how is

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Speaker 5: he not being considered more in that?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's because of the numbers. I mean, it's unfortunately

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Speaker 3: numbers award. We have to look at that. But I

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Speaker 3: would put give me the all courageous team. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he's the game he had against Philly. It's funny where

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Speaker 3: he ran a lot. Most most rushers in a game

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Speaker 3: he's had in two seasons. He had ten in that game.

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Speaker 3: He actually led them in a rushing which is not

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Speaker 3: what you want. Yeah, but it's really just a remarkable story.

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Speaker 3: And Jim Harbaugh, the Harball brothers pretty good coaching family.

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Speaker 3: Their dad Jack pretty good as well.

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Speaker 4: Else is good. Adam Kaplin, you're the man.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: No, no, we appreciate you joining us on a holiday.

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Speaker 2: You can of course listen to Adam on the Inside

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Speaker 2: the Birds podcast, and of course he is our Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio NFL insider.

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Speaker 4: We hope you enjoy the rest of the afternoon.

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Speaker 2: We hope you gets a family time in addition to

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Speaker 2: these NFL games. But thank you, Happy holidays and we'll

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Speaker 2: be talking to you so and yao. That was Adam Kaplan,

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Speaker 2: host of the Inside the Birds podcast, just the best

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Speaker 2: of the best on all things NFL. We're so grateful

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Speaker 2: that Adam joined us. Come back, react to some of

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Speaker 2: Adam said before we do, though, Let's get it over

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Speaker 2: the news desk. Chris Purfet, Happy holidays. What is trending, sir?

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Speaker 2: Happy holidays? We have kid off in Minnesota between the

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Speaker 2: Lions and Vikings. Couple in actives to keep in mind,

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Speaker 2: Taylor Decker rolled out before the game with illness. Late

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Speaker 2: addition to that report no TJ. Hawkinson, no Jordan Mason

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Speaker 2: for the Vikings and Max Brosmer under center in place

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Speaker 2: of JJ McCarthy. Vikings with the ball to start this game.

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Speaker 2: Earlier NFL Action, the Cowboys did outlast the Commanders thirty

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Speaker 2: to twenty three. Your final score from d C Dak

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Speaker 2: Prescott two touchdowns in this game and a seventy two

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Speaker 2: yard running touchdown for Washington running back Jacorey krossky Merritt

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Speaker 2: in NBA Action. Spurs and Thunder on the court right now,

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Speaker 2: nine minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Spurs with

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Speaker 2: a ninety seven to eighty five lead. But Shay gilges

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Speaker 2: Alexander twenty points so far in this game and creeping

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Speaker 2: up even more if he's going to put Oklahoma City

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Speaker 2: back out in front and earlier in the NBA, Jalen

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Speaker 2: Brunson had thirty four points. Nicks put a forty two

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Speaker 2: point fourth quarter to power past the Cavaliers one twenty six,

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 6: I struggled to Chris some more about it when I

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Speaker 4: He's sitting here in my hand in front of me,

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Speaker 4: I need to.

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Speaker 6: Like tape it to my forehead like I won't remember.

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Speaker 4: I need like thirty reminders from Syria.

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Speaker 2: You got Lions fever. We know you are our Lions insider.

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Speaker 2: They're about to kick off. You got a lot on

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Speaker 2: your plate right now. Thank you, Chris perfet Uh Fox

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Speaker 2: Eastern, so much more to come back to discuss some

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Speaker 2: of what Adam Kaplan said by the way, Spurs up

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Speaker 2: by nine. Everybody was just giving Okay c the Larry

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Speaker 2: O'Brian Trophy.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I still am. I think in a seven

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Speaker 5: game series it's a different question. But it's crazy that

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Speaker 5: the Spurs did beat them going to the NBA Cup

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Speaker 5: and that victor Ie Banyama is coming off the bench

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Speaker 5: and they're having this success.

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Speaker 4: We'll discuss that next. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: NFL is underway. Nothing nothing in Minnesota as the Vikings

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Speaker 2: take on the Detroit Lions. Dallas wins game one thirty

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Speaker 2: to twenty three. And in the NBA, the team that

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Speaker 2: Manti Blanio's does not believe in. I did say that

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Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs up one oh six ninety one.

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Speaker 4: I just threw it out there.

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Speaker 6: Maybe that's not at all, don't you know, Maybe.

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Speaker 4: They're Okayseys kryptonite. And Matti was like, no, I hate

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Speaker 4: the Spurs. We'b be sucks that.

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Speaker 5: I didn't say any of those things, listeners, I just said,

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Speaker 5: I still think it's Okc's championship to lose. I think

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Speaker 5: they they're young, they got depth, they're long, and the

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Speaker 5: Spurs can counter that.

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Speaker 6: But I'm still.

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Speaker 5: Saying, if I'm putting money right now, thunder are gonna

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Speaker 5: win the championship, and they're probably gonna win more than

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Speaker 5: one in the next couple of years.

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Speaker 4: So two quick things.

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Speaker 2: One, I thought it was a little like, first of all,

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Speaker 2: the last like four champions that we've had in the NBA,

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Speaker 2: you could have conceivably been like, oh, they're gonna go

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Speaker 2: on a run, right, Remember when the Nuggets went, oh

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Speaker 2: my god, yo, Kitchen Murray forever, and it was like, eh,

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Speaker 2: you know, whatever hasn't happened for them since, although that's

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Speaker 2: more of an OKAC thing than anything, but the Celtics

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Speaker 2: when they won THEIRS, it was like, Oh, my goodness,

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Speaker 2: Brown and Tatum just entering their prime. So I thought

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Speaker 2: it was just like a little too on the nose

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Speaker 2: for everybody to be like, oh, you know, they're so young.

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Speaker 2: And I will say, obviously they got out to a

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Speaker 2: great start to this regular season, but my whole thing

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Speaker 2: with OKC was Denver took them seven, Indy took them seven,

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Speaker 2: in which Tyrese haliburt and we know what happened.

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Speaker 4: Unfortunately, I just thought it was a little.

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Speaker 2: Too like like people were like, I don't think we

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Speaker 2: really ever got to the point where, like, you know,

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Speaker 2: are they gonna be one of the greatest teak because

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Speaker 2: you know, they were trending to have this insane regular

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Speaker 2: season record, which they still are to a degree. I

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Speaker 2: guess the only point I'm trying to make is it

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Speaker 2: felt a little too easy to me to.

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Speaker 4: Be like, everybody's playing for second place.

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Speaker 2: Look at the thunder and so I think they're gonna

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Speaker 2: be pushed, whether it's by the Spurs or somebody else

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Speaker 2: once we get to the postseason.

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Speaker 6: I think part of it, You're not wrong.

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Speaker 5: I think part of it is also they just have

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Speaker 5: so many draft picks for the next several years, like

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00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 5: they can make more moves if they want. They can

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Speaker 5: acquire literally whoever they want, because they act they have

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Speaker 5: whatever other teams want, which is draft picks.

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Speaker 6: And you're right, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, they went to seven games with the Nuggets. Clippers

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Speaker 5: went to seven games with the Nuggets.

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Speaker 6: So it's like.

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Speaker 4: Always comes back to the Clippers with blond.

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Speaker 5: Hey, they won Tuntero Baby Lakers.

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Speaker 4: James Harden hadn't been two of ninety six from the floor.

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Speaker 6: James Harden. You can hate on QUI a little bit.

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Speaker 6: James Harden.

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Speaker 4: Love James Harden.

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Speaker 5: He has kept us afloat in ways I didn't think

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Speaker 5: like he is making an argument.

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Speaker 6: To be one of the best Clippers of all time.

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Speaker 6: He's making an argument.

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Speaker 4: You know, ar don't look at me like that.

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Speaker 2: You had one of the best clippers of all time

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Speaker 2: on your roster and he didn't show up to his

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Speaker 2: Halloween party.

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, don't get me started. Don't I hate

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Speaker 5: I hate that whole thing. I'm a team Chris Paul

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Speaker 5: on that. You know, No, I told you why James

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Speaker 5: Harden didn't show up. We talked about it off here.

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Speaker 4: Does he have a girlfriend?

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Speaker 2: By the way, because I saw a clip from that,

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Speaker 2: like from the show, and there was some girl that

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Speaker 2: was being interviewed very much like it was his girlfriend,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, does James Harden he is he

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Speaker 2: a one woman man?

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Speaker 5: Then I don't know if he's the one woman man,

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Speaker 5: but definitely that's what they thought. I know, he's never

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Speaker 5: been very still till yeah, he's never even after that show.

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Speaker 5: It's not like we've seen more on social media.

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Speaker 2: By the way, James Harden, I will give him credit

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Speaker 2: for this. I've always said this the only man that

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Speaker 2: the Kardashian family did not break because he did.

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Speaker 6: It's all right for a minute, he did, You're right,

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Speaker 6: and look at him.

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Speaker 4: Didn't work out well for Kanye.

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Speaker 2: No, Pete Davidson, Well, Pete Davidson's bouncing back, okay, but

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Speaker 2: he's fine.

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Speaker 4: Chris hump. Chris, Kanye got children out of this.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I just saw Kim post a picture of

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Speaker 2: her and her children that Kanye was very absent for but.

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Speaker 6: Anyway, play survived, didn't play day Kendall.

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Speaker 2: Devin Booker, Devin Booker, she's a Jenner, though she doesn't

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Speaker 2: have full cart.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I see what you're saying.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah she's a Jenner.

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Speaker 6: She's a Jenner.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, James Harden just rolled right off. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: even a big deal. But I've thought about that many times.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know if that's an appropriate Christmas National

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Speaker 2: conversation topic, but it always is. So you so you

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Speaker 2: still think even if San Antonio wins this game, it

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Speaker 2: has no bearing on like they're officially the favorite or

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Speaker 2: anything like that.

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Speaker 6: I really don't And I know again, they look really good.

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Speaker 5: I think the Darren Fox and Stefan Castle like duo

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Speaker 5: is better than I think people expected. And Victor won

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Speaker 5: Bonyama again coming off the bench, and they're having success.

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Speaker 6: I just I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I think Okac has a lot of talent, and it's

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Speaker 5: like you've seen different players come up big in different

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Speaker 5: moments for okay, see, and we can't see that for

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Speaker 5: the Spurs, But for me right now, there's no reason

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Speaker 5: to change that, I think, And I don't want the

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Speaker 5: Thunder to win. I don't want them to win because

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Speaker 5: it'll always be connected to the Clippers and.

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Speaker 4: What the Clippers do.

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Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like, I don't want them

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Speaker 6: to win.

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Speaker 5: I just think based on the eye test, based on

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Speaker 5: what I've seen this last year, I just don't know

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Speaker 5: if anyone can really beat them in a seven game series.

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Speaker 6: That's all.

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Speaker 4: It's an interesting thought.

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Speaker 2: And I'll say this, the NBA is setting up very nicely,

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Speaker 2: those top four in the West, Okce, San Antonio, Denver Lakers.

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Speaker 2: I can be a critic of the NBA sometimes, but

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Speaker 2: those would be a pretty sweet semi finals if.

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Speaker 6: We absolutely absolutely.

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