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Speaker 1: and I love putting this content out for you every

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Speaker 1: single night. Well, coming up in twenty minutes, you'll hear

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Speaker 1: from Aaron Rodgers coming off of what could be his

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Speaker 1: last game in the NFL. But uh, Rogers and Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin really have become the stories of the night. Are

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Speaker 1: we seeing the end of both them? And Pittsburgh Rogers

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Speaker 1: after one year, Tomlin after thirty. And the thing is like,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this a lot for over the course

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Speaker 1: of the year, for Tomlin and his future and has

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Speaker 1: he run the course and what kind of team is

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Speaker 1: he running? But I can tell you how I am

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Speaker 1: absolutely sure the off season is gonna go and Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin's future. Sure, sure I will. I would say, I

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Speaker 1: have all this whatever money I have, have kind of

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Speaker 1: money I have. I got a bunch of singles. But

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Speaker 1: carrying a bunch of singles Jason, Well, because what are

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Speaker 1: you doing? Because my wife will come out to me

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Speaker 1: a rooked Yeah no, I did, well, this is you know,

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Speaker 1: think about how that adds up. It's not it's Hey,

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Speaker 1: I but you got two more bills? Yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: long way. So I can tell you exactly what this offseason,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have now lost five playoff games in a

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Speaker 1: row by double digits. It's the longest streak in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: The first few years of Mike Tomlin went really well.

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Speaker 1: They have always been a five hundred team, they have

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Speaker 1: Really, they they've allowed three points because the other three

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Speaker 1: all time. So yeah, one hundred percent. The Steelers are

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Speaker 1: as far as the future for Mike Tomlin, and this

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Speaker 1: Has Mike Tomlin gone past his expiration? Dayton Pittsburgh, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right. If Pittsburgh is a different level of achievement,

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Speaker 1: play one game with those I'd love that. But Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: is different. He has a very antiquated way of approaching

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Speaker 1: If you want to replace Mike Tomlin, I'm sure there's

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Speaker 1: been conversations about it every day. Is to is Tomlin

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Speaker 1: the box for. But you say, hey, we want to

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Speaker 1: Who is out there that you're gonna upgrade for Mike Tomlin?

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Speaker 1: On If there is somebody you could hire that would

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Speaker 1: the Steelers would do it, right, The Steelers would do it.

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Speaker 1: If they thought John Harball was an upgrade over over

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Speaker 1: Stefanski is an upgrade over Mike Tomlin. They would do it,

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Speaker 1: But you're also looking at two teams in your division

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Speaker 1: And they're gonna say, Okay, we need to build this

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Speaker 1: a and a necessary evil. I know that when during

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Speaker 1: our big run with Roethlisberg, you guys didn't always get along.

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Speaker 1: really get along well with Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown.

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Speaker 1: Not that it was easy to get along with these guys, anyway,

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Speaker 1: Now it's like, hey, I have quarterbacks. I have less

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Speaker 1: getting a franchise quarterback in the offseason, making a bold

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Speaker 1: But we need to be modern. And the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: The last three years, very early on, we've gotten it right.

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Speaker 1: Away Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My

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Speaker 1: best Friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, if your best friend Harry

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Speaker 1: story coming off tonight's game. The Lakers just got pasted

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Speaker 1: alone for a little while if I say this. They

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Speaker 1: also are expecting ree Hotch to come back. He's missed time.

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Speaker 1: He's one of your only three point shooting threats and

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Speaker 1: as a team, tonight, eight of thirty six from beyond

429
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Speaker 1: the ark, Luca was two for nine. La Raviazero for five. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Lebron was ozhver five shocker, So we got more basketball

431
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Speaker 1: on the way. But coming off tonight's game, and I'm glad, Look,

432
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Speaker 1: the fraudulent Pittsburgh Steelers were eliminated from the playoffs. The

433
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Speaker 1: only thing I was looking forward to if the Steelers

434
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Speaker 1: had won is that, well, the Steelers played the Patriots.

435
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Speaker 1: Both of them are frauds. One fraud is getting knocked

436
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Speaker 1: out next week. But we lost one fraudulent team this week,

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Speaker 1: so it's okay. You know, it's really interesting you're using

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Speaker 1: the term fraud frauds, frauds. Well, we were just talking

439
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Speaker 1: about Lebron air fraud, frauds, air frauds, the forty nine ers. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: uh So next week, now we get the Texans and

441
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Speaker 1: the Patriots. And look, Patriots defense was good last night,

442
00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:59,160
Speaker 1: the offense not so much. The Chargers defense is really good.

443
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Speaker 1: The Texans defense is the best defense in the NFL.

444
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Speaker 1: I'm not feeling great if I'm Mike Rabel that this

445
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Speaker 1: is the team coming. I'd love to have the Steelers

446
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Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers coming in somehow, if they could have

447
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Speaker 1: found a way, I'd love to have them coming into

448
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Speaker 1: Gillette to play that game. But they're not. You're getting

449
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Speaker 1: the Texans. And here's the thing about the Texans, something

450
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Speaker 1: that's not said about them. Every year there is a

451
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Speaker 1: we talk about coach of the year in the NFL,

452
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Speaker 1: and every year we get it right. We get it

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Speaker 1: right pretty early about who the coach of the year

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Speaker 1: is in the NFL. Here's your coach of the year.

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Speaker 1: It's not even close, right, We told you earlier this year,

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Speaker 1: Mike Rabel coach of the Year in the NFL. Not

457
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Speaker 1: even close, right, This is the beginning of the year.

458
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Speaker 1: You're getting into it. The impact he's having on this team.

459
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Speaker 1: Not that there's not other great coaches. Oh, Sean Payton said, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton's got a really good team. He built it

461
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Speaker 1: last year. You're talking about the guy that's coming in

462
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Speaker 1: one year has flipped the Patriots into being a big

463
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Speaker 1: time Super Bowl threat. But you want to go back

464
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Speaker 1: and say, who's the best head coach in the NFL

465
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Speaker 1: the last three years? And the answer, and again it's

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Speaker 1: not close, is Demiko run Okay, this is a Texans

467
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Speaker 1: team that the three years before he came in won

468
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Speaker 1: eleven games. Eleven games and a tie okay and a tie,

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Speaker 1: eleven games at a tie, eleven and a tie. In

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Speaker 1: the last three years, thirty five wins, three divisional playoff

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Speaker 1: appearances for a team that had zero history. You had

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Speaker 1: a couple of nice years with Bill O'Brien, right in

473
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen twenty ninety he blew a couple of playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Long long, that was a long time ago. Right, Your

475
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Speaker 1: point differential was terrible. Uh, when David Cully was coaching

476
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Speaker 1: the team and Romeo Crennell was coaching the team. But

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Speaker 1: he has coming in Smith, Did you do that well?

478
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Speaker 1: Because I feel like Lovey gets sideswiped enough. I didn't

479
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Speaker 1: want to say blame Lovey. We said all the time,

480
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Speaker 1: that's only me. Oh Lovey. Then did get that win

481
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Speaker 1: at the end of the season, which helped the Bear sit.

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Speaker 1: He came in his first year with c J. Stroud,

483
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Speaker 1: and c J Stroud is terrific and it's a great

484
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Speaker 1: offense and it looks like, hey, the Texans are going

485
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Speaker 1: to be offensively built. Now look where they are right now.

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Speaker 3: C J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud absolutely terrible tonight. But the defense has become the

488
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Speaker 1: best defense in the NFL. Like what he's done the

489
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Speaker 1: last three years has not been well, I got lucky

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Speaker 1: with a quarterback and I'm rolling with them or a

491
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Speaker 1: big three. This team has gone from we are offensively

492
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Speaker 1: driven with CJ. Stroud and and Tank Dell is gonna

493
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Speaker 1: be a big superstar and all. But now they've comeing in.

494
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Speaker 1: Now Nico Collins is the best wide receiver in there.

495
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Speaker 1: They don't really run the football that great. Maybe Woody

496
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Speaker 1: Marks Is gonna be a good one, but he's a

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Speaker 1: guy they got in the middle round of the draft

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Speaker 1: this past year. But now the defense is the best

499
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Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. This is an all time great

500
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Speaker 1: playoff performance defensively by the Texas night overcoming how bad CJ.

501
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Speaker 1: Stroud was the fact that from year to year he's

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Speaker 1: been able to overcome adversity and this is still where

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Speaker 1: they are. Right You're talking about a team that was

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Speaker 1: division champions two of the first three years overcoming an

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Speaker 1: OH to three start this year with a really tough

506
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Speaker 1: start to the schedule where they able at OH and three.

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Speaker 1: Usually that's it, teams packing up after oh and three.

508
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Speaker 1: Yeah we're done, but it's still September, NA now we're finished. Hey,

509
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Speaker 1: clearly not the case, and now here there are going

510
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Speaker 1: in and right now the Pagers are a three point favorite,

511
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Speaker 1: so so basically neutral field, this is a this is

512
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Speaker 1: a toss up game. As great as we thought the

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Speaker 1: Patriots are all year, but the fact that Demiko Ryans

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Speaker 1: has been able to do this and morph his team

515
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Speaker 1: and the strengths and what they do well from CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud driven as a rookie to last year kind of

517
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Speaker 1: a mix because Stroud wasn't quite as good as his

518
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Speaker 1: first year. Defensively, they were better at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year. Now this year it's it's gone. It's completely

520
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Speaker 1: flipped and they're defensive driven and you're hoping CJ. Stroud

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Speaker 1: can make enough plays. But it doesn't matter because ten wins,

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Speaker 1: ten wins, twelve and five, three playoff appearances, three playoff wins.

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Speaker 1: Like nobody's done this job that Demiko Ryans has done,

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Speaker 1: coming in from nothing right like individual years. Yeah, Mike

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Speaker 1: rabl had a better year this year, back back last year,

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton had a better year last year, But the

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Speaker 1: last three years. We don't talk about Demiko Ryans enough

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Speaker 1: and the head coach that he is. Sometimes I think

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Speaker 1: he's the most underrated head coach in the NFL. But

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Speaker 1: but but the last three years, you say, who's the bet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid's got a Super Bowl and Nick Sirianni's got

532
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Speaker 1: a super Bowl. Yeah, I understand, But the coaching job

533
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Speaker 1: at the talent level they have that hasn't been great.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that's Demiko Ryans. I'm also looking at the

535
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Speaker 1: fact that he's one of the few guys that's made

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Speaker 1: it through unscanned and didn't get fired after three years.

537
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Speaker 1: We got eight openings so far this year. Yeah, and

538
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: you go each cycle, we're looking six to nine, six

539
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: to ten, right, so very few of these guys like, Nope,

540
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Speaker 1: he won there, he was there, he wasn't there. So

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Speaker 1: the fact that you've survived, I mean the McDermott winning

542
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Speaker 1: six straight years right of playoff game, I mean, that's

543
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Speaker 1: that's surpressive, right. I think I'd be okay with Josh.

544
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: I think I'd be okay with Josh Allen for six

545
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Speaker 1: years just saying that that he gets you to the

546
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Speaker 1: Promised Land once a year. So that's the only other guy,

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Speaker 1: as much as we talk about him potentially getting itself

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Speaker 1: fired on a year to year basis, Okay, Tamiko Ryans

549
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Speaker 1: and CJ. Stroud or Sean McDermott and Josh Allen. What's

550
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Speaker 1: the advantage your quarterback is twenty times better? I mean

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Speaker 1: that's how you went, dude, Josh Allen's twenty times better

552
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Speaker 1: than see I don't have that defense. No good, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's is good. Buffle situationally, yeah, not great because even

554
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Speaker 1: this year the lesser, but they still finished as a

555
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Speaker 1: top ten units. Curious to see this next week with

556
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Speaker 1: the defensive attrition that they had a couple of. But

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Speaker 1: I could say, hey, Josh, go win the game and

558
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Speaker 1: I look like a great head coach. Hey, Josh, go

559
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Speaker 1: do whatever it is you did. Just run the ball

560
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Speaker 1: a couple of times, throwing a couple of whatever you do.

561
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Speaker 1: They go, do you think you went full Simpsons when

562
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Speaker 1: he was working with those guys. Guys, Hey, cand you

563
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Speaker 1: guys be working any harder? Yes, mister Simpson and they

564
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: start clacking out the keyboards that much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I like that management style, but yeah, the consistency there.

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Speaker 1: He also did something for you that I know was

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Speaker 1: near and dear to your heart. As they were returning

569
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Speaker 1: that touchdown, that interception for a touchdown and running up

570
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Speaker 1: the sideline, he channeled Aaron Glenn and ran along with him. Yeah,

571
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Speaker 1: high knees. Yeah, see that's his team won. See Aaron

572
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: Glenn's gotta know. You dance when you score a touchdown

573
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Speaker 1: that clinches a win for you, not that gives you

574
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Speaker 1: a lead with a minute forty five left to go

575
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Speaker 1: by a point and you have to kick the pole.

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Speaker 1: That's when you dance. You know when to dance. You

577
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Speaker 1: gotta know, gotta know when to dance. Gotta know when

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Speaker 1: to dance. Wilson Demico. Ryan's knew when to dance. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Glenn did not know when to dance. How it goes

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Speaker 1: time now to find out what's trending in the wide

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Speaker 1: world of sports. Guy has been called the Aaron Glenn

582
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Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio. He dances up and down the

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Speaker 1: hallway whether or not he's close to doing an update.

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Speaker 1: It's Steve di Seger.

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Speaker 5: I think the bumper sticker for the franchise should be

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Speaker 5: New York Jets keeping receipts for fifty eight years.

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Speaker 1: I think you might actually be able to sell it.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good, Steve. One of those CVS receipts that's

589
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Speaker 1: like for you know, it's like like long all the.

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Speaker 5: Way back in the car Houston Texans won their tenth

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Speaker 5: straight game. Keep in mind they started zero and three

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Speaker 5: this year, thirty to six. Tonight's final at Pittsburgh Steelers

593
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,479
Speaker 5: season is over. This ended the Wildcard playoff round. It

594
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Speaker 5: was a seven to sixth lead to start the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers won fumble in the fourth it was returned

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Speaker 5: for a score. One interception in the fourth it was

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Speaker 5: returned for a score. AP found a great stat that

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Speaker 5: only one other NFL team had done in a playoff

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Speaker 5: game what Houston did tonight. That is, score multiple touchdowns

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Speaker 5: on defense while not allowing a single touchdown. Only other

601
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Speaker 5: team that had done that before tonight in the playoffs

602
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Speaker 5: the nineteen to forty Chicago Bears in that seventy three

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Speaker 5: to zering championship game against Washington Bears.

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Speaker 1: Which was which was legitimate game, a legitimate game like

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Speaker 1: there were no report life, there were no reports of

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Speaker 1: teams throwing the game because they were upset. You know,

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Speaker 1: it was a legitimate seventy three nothing win.

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Speaker 5: Nineteen forty gentlemen, there is actual film on that. This

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Speaker 5: was one of the more had the over on that game.

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Speaker 1: He was very excited.

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Speaker 5: This was one of the did you really this was

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Speaker 5: one of the I'm sorry, interested, this is gonna.

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Speaker 1: Be a big bob. I'm thinking like seventy or nothing.

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Speaker 5: This was one of the most lopsided losses in the

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Speaker 5: history of the Steelers postseason. Still nineteen eighty three loss

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Speaker 5: to the Raiders at thirty eight ten was the worst.

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Speaker 5: But this was thirty to six. Not a single touchdown

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Speaker 5: scored Steelers offense with eleven drives, thirteen first downs, only

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Speaker 5: one hundred and seventy five total yards, and by the way,

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Speaker 5: in a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Ten Rodgers did throw a touchdown. You saw that pick six?

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Speaker 1: You saw that there.

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Speaker 5: That's right all right to your own guys. We met

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Speaker 5: seven to six to start the fourth and boom, thirty

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Speaker 5: to six is the final John Madden there. Houston had

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00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 5: started the season winless, and now they look like with

627
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Speaker 5: that defense, like a team that could participate in the

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Speaker 5: Super Bowl this year. Yet again, the quarterback wins a

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Speaker 5: playoff game. Yet again, the head coach wins a playoff game.

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Speaker 5: Steelers wide receiver dk metcalf is back from his two

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Speaker 5: games suspension or was and had two whole receptions in

632
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Speaker 5: this game. So now Houston goes to New England Sunday

633
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Speaker 5: for the divisional playoff three pm Eastern time. However, Star

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00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 5: wide receiver Nico Collins left Tonight's game with a concussion.

635
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 5: New England defensive back Christian Gonzales is in concussion protocol.

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Speaker 5: Steelers the first team in NFL history to lose five

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Speaker 5: straight playoff games by double digits each. Mike Tomlin personally

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Speaker 5: has lost seven straight playoff games. By the way, the

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Speaker 5: The Saturday schedule Bill's at Denver four to thirty Eastern

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Speaker 5: and then Saturday night on Fox TV forty nine Ers

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Speaker 5: at Seattle eight pm Eastern time. Bill's wide receiver Gabe

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Speaker 5: Davis suffered a torn acl yesterday. He just came back

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Speaker 5: in November from a knee injury. Wide receiver Joshua Palmer

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Speaker 5: just went on I Our Buffalo wide receiver Curtis Samuel

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Speaker 5: is due to return to practice this week, as is

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Speaker 5: defensive tackle at Oliver. Bill safety Jordan Poyer is out

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Speaker 5: after a hamstring injury. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford will play

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Speaker 5: this Sunday at Chicago despite a sprained index finger suffered

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Speaker 5: last Saturday. The high temp in Chicago for this Sunday

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Speaker 5: currently listed at twenty degrees. Former Ravens coach John Harbaugh

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Speaker 5: interviewed with the Falcons today virtually after chatting with the

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Speaker 5: Giants in person yesterday. NHL Tampa Bay won its tenth

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Speaker 5: straight game, five to one at Philadelphia College Hoops. Michigan

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Speaker 5: dropped to number four in the new AP Pole, Arizona

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Speaker 5: number one. The late NBA games in LA and the

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Speaker 5: Clippers are leading Charlotte one twelve one poh one with

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Speaker 5: four minutes to go. Kawhi Leonard, after sprained ankle, did

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Speaker 5: play yes thirty two points. As you mentioned, the Lakers

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Speaker 5: Luka Donschutz scored forty two points, but they lost at

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Speaker 5: Sacramento one twenty four to one twelve. The King shot

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Speaker 5: fifty nine percent from the floor three point range were

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Speaker 5: seven teen of twenty six. A reminder, college Football's national

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Speaker 5: title game is a week from tonight's Indiana Miami Back

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Speaker 5: to you, Thank.

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Speaker 1: You, Steve. But now just to let you know the

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Speaker 1: difference in that seventy three nothing game, both teams had

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Speaker 1: seventeen first downs in that game. Okay, both teams seventeen

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Speaker 1: first Bear seventeen first downs, Redskins seventeen first downs. What

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Speaker 1: tipped the game in favor of the Bears if it

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Speaker 1: was on the level the Bears eight interceptions for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen return yards Bears interception. If you started

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Speaker 1: the Bears defense in fantasy, let's see, you had a

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Speaker 1: fifteen yard interception return, thirty five yard interception return for

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Speaker 1: touchdown twenty three. You had three pick sixes in that game.

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Speaker 1: So that's what won it for you.

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Speaker 5: You know, in the old days, and I mean back

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Speaker 5: even like Terry Bradshaw Ken Stabler days, they would just

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Speaker 5: let you keep throwing hard. Four and five interception games,

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Speaker 5: no pro. There was a sub on Monday Night Football

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Speaker 5: for Dan Fouts. Once he threw six interceptions, the game,

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Speaker 5: just keep throwing it. By all, we didn't see the

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Speaker 5: first five.

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Speaker 1: You're Steve mentioned college Football National Champion game coming up

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Speaker 1: coming up next, the biggest play that flipped tonight's game

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Speaker 1: between the Texans and the Steelers should not have counted.

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Speaker 1: Wait what that's next? Right here Fox Sports Radio.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike harr. So, the Texans are on. After wiping

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Speaker 1: up the floor with the Steelers in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: they win at thirty to six. They get the Patriots

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Speaker 1: next week, and the big play that tilted this game

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Speaker 1: in their favor. Fourth quarter, they have a four point lead,

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Speaker 1: it's ten to six and Aaron Rodgers is sacked. He

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Speaker 1: fumbles the Texans running back in for a touchdown. It

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Speaker 1: may wind up being the swan song play of his career.

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Speaker 1: Like the last big play member for Aaron Rodgers. This

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Speaker 1: is with the biggest play of the game, without a doubt.

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Speaker 4: Rogers tapping his gut, takes the snap, Rogers pocket collapsick Rogers, it's.

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Speaker 2: Gonna go down and the ball is out. Who's got it?

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Speaker 2: Rakeets picks it up? Who's on the move?

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Speaker 1: Thirty twenty five, twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 5: Tesch five touchdown Sheldon Raggons rocking rolls.

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Speaker 1: So there was right there. Rankins picks up the fumble,

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Speaker 1: runs it in for a touchdown. Will Anderson comes in

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Speaker 1: and knocks the ball out of his hands. It's a fumble.

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Speaker 1: Rankins picks it up, runs it and it's seventeen to

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Speaker 1: six at that point. The game is over. Now when

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Speaker 1: we saw this, you see the replay of it, and

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Speaker 1: it's one of another one of those replays where Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers helmet gets moved around his head where it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be another meme of Rogers with his face mask up

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Speaker 1: all over. You've seen all those Aaron Rodgers memes, right

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Speaker 1: the sideways memes, and here's the mass so you see

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Speaker 1: it and his face mask gets rearranged on his face,

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Speaker 1: he fumbles, they run it in for a touchdown. However,

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Speaker 1: the thing is, this should have been a fifteen yard

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Speaker 1: penalty on the Texans, and it should have been a

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Speaker 1: first down for the Steelers, and instead it was a

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Speaker 1: play that clinched the game. Now, I the one thing

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Speaker 1: that because I never like it when I think a

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Speaker 1: play flips the game one way or another. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it would have mattered in the end. The Texans

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Speaker 1: would have won the game. It would have been a

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Speaker 1: different score because the Steelers offense do nothing. But honestly,

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Speaker 1: that's a fifteen yard penalty because Anderson, you see him,

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Speaker 1: comes in and the first contact he makes with his

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Speaker 1: hand is he clubs Aaron Rodgers helmet and that's a penalty, right,

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Speaker 1: can't it? Quarterback in the helm? Can't anybody in the

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Speaker 1: helmet with the first thing, and that's that's a penalty.

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Speaker 1: And I can't believe it wasn't looked at. I can't

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Speaker 1: believe it wasn't. You know, it wasn't something that they

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Speaker 1: look back and said, hey, that's a penalty. The flag

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Speaker 1: wasn't thrown right away, like he gets hit in the

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Speaker 1: helmet right away, which is a penalty and it's Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: so you think he's gonna get the benefit of the

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Speaker 1: doubt the Steelers are playing home instead. Nope, it's a

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Speaker 1: fumble and they go in for a touchdown. And it

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Speaker 1: was it was really just seeing the replay because it's

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Speaker 1: pretty clear. You don't need a bunch of different angles. Oh,

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Speaker 1: here's the one angle where you can see it like

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Speaker 1: you know, we saw it and you saw it right

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Speaker 1: away from the first replan goes No, he hits his

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Speaker 1: his head, hits his hand, arm hits Aaron Rodgers clubs

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Speaker 1: him in the head first, and that's clearly where it

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Speaker 1: was because you didn't know if maybe okay, he makes

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Speaker 1: contact with his arm to knock the football out and

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Speaker 1: then as a result it's he hits him in the helmet. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is right away. You are hitting the helmet first. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm still confused that this didn't get more fewer. Now

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Speaker 1: would it have led to a different result, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But they're first down in Houston territory. Right. That takes

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Speaker 1: them past the fifty into another ten yards or at

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Speaker 1: least thinking about a Boswell field goal, right, It changes

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Speaker 1: the complexion of the game again once that play happens

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Speaker 1: and the big guy, right, big guy touchdown, we always

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Speaker 1: celebrate those. It was a runaway train and it was done.

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Speaker 1: But in the moment, it's like, that's fifteen yards. This

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Speaker 1: is a Hall of Fame quarterback where normally you have

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Speaker 1: the bubble of protection around them. So that's a whole

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Speaker 1: other thing in terms of how Aaron Rodgers has thought

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Speaker 1: of or not in terms of his play and whether

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Speaker 1: he should get treatment. But we saw so many times

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Speaker 1: in this wildcard round, Jason the did we really see this?

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Speaker 1: Let's all confer and talk about this right, balls out?

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Speaker 1: All right? Was it fumbled? What did this guy get

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Speaker 1: the yard the game? Like so many of those conferences here,

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Speaker 1: it was like not touchdown? See you like really yeah?

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Speaker 1: And not even club he didn't see anything about a

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Speaker 1: review there right, kicking the fair barns out there kicking

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Speaker 1: that point right away. I'm like, wow, that's a big

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Speaker 1: play and not go back and it's a scoring play, right,

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Speaker 1: So okay, and that's that's that's you didn't see that now? Okay? Man? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: clubbed in the head, no call. If that was Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: they would have they would have thrown Every defender who

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Speaker 1: was within three yards they would have thrown out. It'd

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Speaker 1: be getting the needle. Rankins. You're out of the game too,

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Speaker 1: But I didn't do anything. Doesn't matter. You picked up

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Speaker 1: that football and ran it in. You're getting thrown out

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Speaker 1: of the man too. It's the fruit of the poisonous tree.

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Speaker 1: That would I got some law and order it out.

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Speaker 1: They would have made Demko Ryans apologized to Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: at midfield with a microphone. I'm sorry were to stop

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Speaker 1: the game. Demico needs apologized to Andy Reid.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: Here's here's the microphone, the slimmer, please apologize. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's what happened, hanging out with chiefs of haul like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, really that's oh hey, too soon man, Too

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Speaker 1: soon for.

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Speaker 2: That, is it?

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Speaker 1: Yh Well, yeah, just get to sell next to him

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Speaker 1: and then you can laugh it up like you're the

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Speaker 1: you know, Barry Kogan. Yeah, you're going to the Batman. No,

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Speaker 1: the batman man. Again. I really am surprised about this,

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Speaker 1: and I'm really, like I said, I go back to

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Speaker 1: the fact that I don't know that would have changed

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Speaker 1: the outcome of the game, would have been closer, would

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Speaker 1: have been a different fourth quarter. But I still think

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the Texans winning. But that's the funny thing,

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Speaker 1: right is it? Just the presumption is why there's no

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Speaker 1: outrage because we can't we get outrage. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that big player that turned it all. It's like, here's like,

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Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? You had one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy five yards offense. You guys are losing anyway. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next, Aaron Rodgers talks about his future