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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with

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Speaker 2: Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your football Saturday with us.

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Speaker 3: Carme Happy wild Card weekend.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: It's a busy Saturday, I know, dude. I'm gonna be

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Speaker 5: honest with you, Alex. I really thought that Bears Packers

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Speaker 5: was going to get the Sunday night slot, and I

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Speaker 5: was like, great, this will be cool. I got I

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Speaker 5: got the show on Saturday. Head over to the stadium.

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Speaker 4: No, no, double, dude, I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to condense everything into one essentially afternoon night.

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Speaker 5: So as soon as we get off the air here,

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Speaker 5: I'm trecking over to Soldier Field.

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Speaker 3: So much is it? It was snowing this morning.

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Speaker 5: It was sleeping this morning. Nothing stuck. So actually the

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Speaker 5: sun is out. It's absolutely gorgeous. It's not even that cold,

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Speaker 5: you know by Chicago standards in January.

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Speaker 2: There's something like that with like the Bulls Arena, like

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Speaker 2: it was so hot that like the floor was wet.

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Speaker 5: Or so there was there was what is going on?

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Speaker 5: It was too warm outside from my understanding or like

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Speaker 5: versus like how the building was being like the climate

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Speaker 5: parent hold so like they were, but it was like, yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's been a weird winter already in Chicago. We got

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Speaker 5: more snow than we got last year all of last

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Speaker 5: year in November and then now like we haven't had

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Speaker 5: snow since and it's been like like yesterday it was

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Speaker 5: sixty degrees here, so whoa, I know, but now it's

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Speaker 5: I mean it's in the thirties now, but it's still

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Speaker 5: there's suns out.

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Speaker 2: It's more beautiful day for football. Like I'm actually excited for.

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Speaker 4: You actually, especially nor football right now.

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Speaker 5: You know, you can't ask for a better although honestly,

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Speaker 5: I think a snow game between the.

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Speaker 2: Bears Packers would for everybody, like that would have been

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Speaker 2: It's like cinema when you get a snow game, like

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Speaker 2: it looks like art the photos.

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Speaker 4: Like I know the guys don't like playing in it,

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Speaker 4: but we do. It's fun.

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Speaker 2: It's fun to watch all It's like the most beautiful

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Speaker 2: thing to watch if you're at home, Chili when you're there.

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Speaker 3: But like, we got two games today.

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Speaker 2: We got rams at Panthers coming up here in a

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Speaker 2: about thirty minutes, which is I we'll get into that

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Speaker 2: in a second. But I still think it's wild that

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Speaker 2: you know, Panthers are the home team here.

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Speaker 3: But that's just how uh, this.

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Speaker 2: Whole situation works. And we got Packers at Bears tonight.

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Speaker 2: As we mentioned, Karli's gonna be running straight to that

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Speaker 2: game right after our show. We also watched an absolute

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Speaker 2: beat down last night, Sure and Diana handed it to

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Speaker 2: Organ literally right out of the gates with a pick

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Speaker 2: six and never looked back. The NATTI is set Miami

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Speaker 2: against Indiana home game for Miami at the hard Rock,

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Speaker 2: But like, is that going to be enough to out

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Speaker 2: take Innanna. We're gonna break that down a little later

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Speaker 2: in the show. We've got a lot to get to today.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about all the different wildcard games. We

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Speaker 2: got a lot of first time playoff quarterbacks this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Because some great guest today too. Bill's team reporter Matty

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Speaker 2: Glab will join us in about thirty minutes, and we

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Speaker 2: have NBC Phillies Ashland Sullivan in our two to break

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Speaker 2: down the defending champion Eagles. We have producer Bree with

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Speaker 2: us today, technical producer Chris and Martin Wise at the

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's get to these NFC wild Card games and

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Speaker 2: start with the game that's kicking off here. In about

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Speaker 2: thirty minutes. Rams are ten and a half point favorites.

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Speaker 2: You guys on the road in Carolina, pump up speeches

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Speaker 2: are happening right now. On the field, they are getting ready.

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Speaker 4: It is packed.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you have a veteran Super Bowl champion quarterback

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Speaker 2: in Matthew Stafford going up against Bryce Young in his

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Speaker 2: a little uneasy, Carmen, because the Panthers feed him back

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Speaker 2: in Week thirteen and they were double digit underdogs.

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Speaker 3: Then Rams were in a six game winning streak.

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Speaker 2: They were looking good, they were feeling hot, and then

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Speaker 2: Stafford had three turnovers, two picks in a fumble, and

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Speaker 2: the Rams have been kind.

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Speaker 3: Of shaky these last I'll give it these last three weeks.

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Speaker 2: They kind of had a made up game against the

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Speaker 2: Cardinals last weekend, but losing two straight, a tough one

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Speaker 2: in Seattle, they blew that huge lead in the fourth

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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Stafford had a really bad game. I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to focus on the positives here that DeVante Adams is

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Speaker 2: going to be back after missing the last three games.

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Speaker 2: He is their top guy, leading the league and receiving touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: And that's also going to help Pooka because having Adams

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Speaker 3: But also Puca's had.

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Speaker 2: To take some weird off the field things going down

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Speaker 2: these last few weeks, So I don't I think that's

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Speaker 2: going to help the Rams today. I think what will

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Speaker 2: help them the most is that playoff experience. But I

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Speaker 2: think it's going to come down to if Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 2: has a good game. If Matthew Stafford has a good game,

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Speaker 2: I think they're going to be able to pull this off.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's the recipe for the Rams, always right,

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Speaker 5: and that's been He's been a little bit less stable,

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Speaker 5: I feel like in the last few weeks, because I mean,

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Speaker 5: during the season. It's sad to say at this point,

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Speaker 5: I think that Matthew Stafford kind of lost his MVP.

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Speaker 3: Candidacy in over the last few weeks in those two games.

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Speaker 5: Because of how inconsistent he's been and the fact that

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Speaker 5: Drake May, who was his biggest challenger for that award,

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Speaker 5: seemed to ramp it up even more. And I mean

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Speaker 5: I had thought I had talked about Drake May kind

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Speaker 5: of being MVP of this season because I know that

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Speaker 5: he played games that were like his strength of schedule

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Speaker 5: wasn't as good as Matthew Stafford's and this, that and

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Speaker 5: the other. But if you look at their stats, which

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Speaker 5: are eerily similar, by the way, Drake May faced so

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Speaker 5: much more pressure because he did not have the offensive

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Speaker 4: Numbers to Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 5: And you know, any any guy that can do that,

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Speaker 5: I think is MVP in my book. But that being said,

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Speaker 5: Matthew Stafford then kind of furthered that narrative when it

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Speaker 5: doesn't mean that Matthew Stafford has.

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Speaker 4: Lost it or is it bad quarterback?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, is He's.

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Speaker 5: Got the most experienced him and Sean McVay McVeigh. What

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Speaker 5: I love McVeagh has done this year with this Rams

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Speaker 5: him and Kyle Shanahan, their coaching tree covers like almost

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Speaker 5: half the teams in the league at this point. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: in the on the offensive side of the ball, and

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Speaker 5: they continue to evolve it and this year the tight

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Speaker 5: that's a sadly what you know, that's what tastemakers do.

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Speaker 5: The NFL is a cyclical league. You've got to find

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Speaker 5: ways to keep beating these defenses that are getting more

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Speaker 5: just three tight ends on the field, more than any

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Speaker 5: grouping is going to determine how well this game goes

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Speaker 5: for Carolina. I think that there's the door is open

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Speaker 5: But they do you know what the Rams are coming

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Speaker 5: they have the talent to do it, they have the

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Speaker 5: experience to do it. And can the Panthers keep up

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, this is Bryce Doone's playoff debut and

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Speaker 2: I was listening to Sarah Sarah Walsh on the pregame

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Speaker 2: the motivation, they don't need any boltim Boar material because

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Speaker 2: This is what happened the last time they played the Rams.

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Speaker 2: And I mean this is Bryce Young is having a

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Speaker 3: I just don't think.

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Speaker 4: I think the.

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Speaker 3: Experience from the Rams today it needs to. It should.

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Speaker 3: I mean again it should. They're a ten and a

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Speaker 4: Sad though, wild the Panthers already beat the Rams this year.

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Speaker 4: We have this similar spread, right, and I'm like, did

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Speaker 4: we learn nothing? I know it's the past season, but

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Speaker 4: did we learn nothing?

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Speaker 3: We learned nothing.

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Speaker 5: I also Fagas seems to know some things too, so

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Speaker 5: I can't completely count.

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Speaker 2: Out what they say, which is weird and no, so

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Speaker 2: if the Panthers pull off because also, like Bryce Young

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Speaker 2: the Panthers have to they have to pick up his

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Speaker 2: option in twenty twenty seven. So I think what happens

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Speaker 2: They they'll immediately pick it up and pay Bryce Young

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Speaker 2: if they If they win, they lose, maybe not a

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Speaker 5: They would be wise to pick up his option either way.

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Speaker 5: It's only you know, it's it's the fifth year, it's

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Speaker 5: you know, you want to have that stability, maybe give

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Speaker 5: Bryce Young a little bit more of a runway. I

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Speaker 5: know that Dave Kanalis in Carolina is a huge believer

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Speaker 5: in what Bryce Young can do and the talent level

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Speaker 5: that he has, and it's just been a matter of

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Speaker 5: there's been some injuries for the Panthers on offense. You had,

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Speaker 5: like and you had a running game that had gotten

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Speaker 5: the Chubahabber got injured and then Rico Daubell kind of

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Speaker 5: took uspot. But then like it was, it's not exactly

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Speaker 5: a complimentary run game, but you have these two backs

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Speaker 4: But I think it's.

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Speaker 5: It's a matter of just giving him a little bit

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Speaker 5: of extra time to see what you really have in now.

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Speaker 4: That he's got.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I do, he's got He's got good guys around him.

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Speaker 5: I'm on the fence, but I think it still could

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Speaker 5: be better in Carolina and if you if you add

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Speaker 4: What he's shown down the stretch of the potential of

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Speaker 4: this season. I think it's one more year, pick up

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Speaker 4: his option. That's fine.

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Speaker 4: So this is all I was gonna say.

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Speaker 5: Fernando from Miami. Yeah, first Miami in Miami.

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Speaker 2: It's just like and but like this, if Indiana can

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Speaker 2: pull it off, I mean, their heavy favorite, it would

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Speaker 2: be the first national title in school history.

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Speaker 4: Yes, this was not a football school.

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Speaker 5: Everybody that's school I grew up in outside Chicago. I

448
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Speaker 5: went to school with a ton of people that ended

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Speaker 5: up going to Indiana. Indiana was actually a school that

450
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Speaker 5: I almost went to because they have for money to

451
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Speaker 5: go there. Yeah, and they they didn't have points journalism

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Speaker 5: program that Arizona State.

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Speaker 3: It's stunning.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So but like I went, I didn't go there, honestly,

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Speaker 5: alex because they weren't a football school and I wanted

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Speaker 5: to go to a school with a big football program.

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Speaker 2: I get it, And that was like one of my

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Speaker 2: boxes I wanted to check when I went to college too.

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Speaker 4: And that wasn't Indiana back then. That's Indiana Now.

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Speaker 5: What's so funny to me is that Kurtzignati, their head coach,

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Speaker 5: has really taken it upon himself to change that narrative

463
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Speaker 5: to the point where like Indiana runs up the score,

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Speaker 5: and not necessarily because I mean, I think that's their attitude,

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Speaker 5: that's what they want to do, but also because they

466
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Speaker 5: know that they needed all the help they could get

467
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Speaker 5: as far as the rankings went, the playoff rank all

468
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Speaker 5: of that stuff that all factored in. They needed to

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Speaker 5: be not just good, they needed to be dominant because

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Speaker 5: they were working against a narrative that they weren't a

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Speaker 5: serious football program despite the fact that they've had a

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Speaker 5: ton of success and when you look at the last

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Speaker 5: few champions, the national champions I like I'm not going

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Speaker 5: to say that the Big Ten has superseded the SEC,

475
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Speaker 5: but the Big Ten is consistently producing the national title

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Speaker 5: team over the last few years, and Indiana has been

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Speaker 5: going toe to toe with all of those.

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Speaker 4: Guys since then.

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Speaker 5: So it's so cool for me because I have so

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Speaker 5: many friends that are Indiana fans. One of my best friends,

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Speaker 5: his wife went to Indiana and they drove down to

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Speaker 5: Atlanta to go to that game, and I was riding

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Speaker 5: a high for her the entire time because it was

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Speaker 5: just like, also, you know that crowd was probably ninety

485
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Speaker 5: five percent Indiana. Yeah, And I was like, yeah, because

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Speaker 5: it's driving distance. And people are like, what, that's like

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Speaker 5: an eleven hour drive. I'm like, yeah, that's driving.

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Speaker 4: Distance to people in the Midwest's that's driving distance for us.

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Speaker 5: So I can't wait to see how many people make

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Speaker 5: the drive down to Miami, because I guarantee you there

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Speaker 5: will be.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, did you see the prices on those tickets?

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Speaker 4: What are they in the door?

494
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Speaker 5: On the secondary market is like thirty six hundred dollars. No,

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Speaker 5: that was like the cheapest ticket available on stub hub

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Speaker 5: as of right now.

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Speaker 4: Now that'll fluctuate.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the other same.

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Speaker 5: I know, it's I mean they are super Bowl prices. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: they are a super Bowl ticket price.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, it's a home game. It

503
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Speaker 2: is a home game for Miami. I mean, Miami's playing

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Speaker 2: in their first national title since two thousand and one.

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Speaker 2: And we have so many connections to Miami's still obviously

506
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Speaker 2: Joe Joey Taylor, her brother Jason, her nephews on the team,

507
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Speaker 2: and then my brother in law born and raised there.

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Speaker 2: So it's like there's so many heartstrings tugs for both

509
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Speaker 2: of these teams. It is going to be insane. There's

510
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Speaker 2: so many ties to.

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Speaker 3: Miami obviously, with both of these teams.

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Speaker 2: It's just I just hope that Miami's defense has enough

513
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Speaker 2: because they had a couple key guys go down in

514
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Speaker 2: that game against All Miss, that they have enough to

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Speaker 2: slow down this just absolutely dominating Indian offense.

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Speaker 4: And that's what it's been. That is what it's been.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, Oregon ended up scoring twenty two

518
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Speaker 5: points yesterday, but it wasn't even that close, Like it

519
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Speaker 5: really really wasn't. It's it's going to be a tall task.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's a defense in Miami that has like

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Speaker 5: that old miss game. I mean the fourth quarter came down.

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Speaker 5: Yes they won it in the fourth quarter, which they

523
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Speaker 5: did what you want to do, but it was a struggle.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, up until that point.

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Speaker 2: It was Dami las second, let's play the game like

526
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Speaker 2: it was completely right, and you.

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Speaker 5: Know, Miami's defense kicked in at the end there, so

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Speaker 5: that like, you want to be able to maintain that though,

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Speaker 5: and Indiana is not going to make that easy on you,

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Speaker 5: because I think Miami's a little bit younger of a

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Speaker 5: team than Indiana.

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Speaker 4: Is.

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Speaker 5: The big thing that current Signetti has done in Indiana

534
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Speaker 5: is kind of bring in a lot of these transfers

535
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Speaker 5: that are a little bit older, a little bit more experienced.

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Speaker 5: And that showed against Oregon because Oregon is a young team,

537
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Speaker 5: a very young team, and.

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Speaker 4: You just it felt like I saw I saw a meme.

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Speaker 5: It was from Always Sunny, Yeah, and it was the

540
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Speaker 5: two guys in Oways Sonny like beating up all the kids,

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Speaker 5: and it was like Indiana versus Oregon.

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Speaker 4: Right now, it was like essentially, that's what it looks like.

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Speaker 5: That's what it was, beating on kids, brutal.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll save our picks for next week. Right now, let's.

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Speaker 3: Check in with Martin Wise as he was trending.

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Speaker 8: Is that Martin Hey Wildcare weekend kicking off any minute now.

547
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Speaker 8: Rookie tight end Terrence Ferguson will be inactive for the

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Speaker 8: game for the Rams. Josh Wallace, cornerback, also inactive for

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Speaker 8: the Rams. Kevin Dotson the right guard, and wide receiver

550
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Speaker 8: Jordan and Whittington were previously ruled out as right now,

551
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Speaker 8: achieve Bryce Young warming up. It looks like the Panthers

552
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Speaker 8: are receiving the opening kickoffs, and justin Molle mccam newton,

553
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Speaker 8: they've got everybody out here for this Panthers Garan saw

554
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Speaker 8: Steve Smith there earlier today. Panthers hosting the Rams first

555
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Speaker 8: of the wild card weekend games starting any minute now,

556
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Speaker 8: and the Bills for Sunday will not have our receiver

557
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Speaker 8: Josh Palmer for the game against the Jaguars. Matt Ryan, quarterback,

558
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Speaker 8: former quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, has been named the

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Speaker 8: Falcons President of football. The head coaching gym will report

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Speaker 8: to him. The Washington Commanders have named David Blow their

561
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Speaker 8: new offensive coordinator. Chargers rook running back Omar and Hampton

562
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Speaker 8: expect to play against the Patriots and the Dolphins. Interviewed

563
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Speaker 8: Seahawks offensive coordinator Clint Kubiak today for its vacant head

564
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Speaker 8: coaching position and men's college basketball. Two games in.

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Speaker 4: The top twenty five active.

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Speaker 8: Right now, with twelve minutes left in the first half,

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Speaker 8: Arizona has a nineteen to nine lead over TCU and

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Speaker 8: with twelve seconds left, I'm twelve minutes left in the

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Speaker 8: first half. Oklahoma State leads number three Iowa State undefeated.

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Speaker 8: They are I was staged just fifteen and oh two

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Speaker 8: and o on the conference play, seventeen to thirteen the score.

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Speaker 8: Early earlier today, we saw an undefeated team fall in

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Speaker 8: college basketball as Michigan, the number two ranked team in

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Speaker 8: the nation, lost for the first time to Wisconsin ninety

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Speaker 8: one to eighty eight.

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Speaker 4: Tough day, Sorry Martin, Sorry Martin.

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Speaker 8: It's all good. You know what if we go if

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Speaker 8: you keep at this ratio, h fourteen wins to every loss.

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Speaker 9: All right, all right, all right.

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Speaker 8: Rams kicking off to the Panthers right now, and I'll

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Speaker 8: kick it.

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Speaker 4: Back to you.

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Speaker 2: Ah, thank you, Martin. Here listening to Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 2: I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitally. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: spending your Saturday afternoon with Carmee and me. It is

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Speaker 2: time for our first guest, Bill's team reporter Maddy Gloud,

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Speaker 2: thank you for joining the show.

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Speaker 10: Hey ladies, happy to be on.

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Speaker 2: Ooh Matt, I am excited for this one. Tomorrow, Bills

590
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Speaker 2: will be on the road in Jacksonville. I feel like

591
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Speaker 2: all a lot of the pressure is on Josh Allen.

592
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Speaker 2: All the pressure might be on Josh Allen tomorrow, who's

593
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Speaker 2: never won a road playoff game in his career. What

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Speaker 2: is the vibe, the feeling, the talk going into this

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Speaker 2: game tomorrow.

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Speaker 10: You guys talk about the pressure and I'm feeling that

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Speaker 10: pressure too. I mean, it's time to win a road

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Speaker 10: playoff game. You've been in the NFL long enough. This

599
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Speaker 10: is your shot. There is no Patrick Mahomes, there is

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Speaker 10: no Joe Burrow, there is no Lamar Jackson has ever

601
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Speaker 10: been easier. There are very good teams in the playoffs

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Speaker 10: in the AFC, so I don't want to say the

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Speaker 10: path is going to be easy at all, but he

604
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Speaker 10: has not been Patrick Holmes on the road. Patrick Mahomes

605
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Speaker 10: is not a part of the dance this year. So

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Speaker 10: this is your time to do it. Although that pressure

607
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Speaker 10: is there on the outside, this team, this feels like

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Speaker 10: there is a great vibe right now live in it.

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Speaker 10: Just speaking to guys this week, it seems like it's

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Speaker 10: a normal week as usual. Yes we're in the playoffs.

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Speaker 10: Yes we're really excited to be there, but we're staying

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Speaker 10: in our process. We're not going to make it more

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Speaker 10: than it is. There's a bunch of veterans in this

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Speaker 10: locker room, and I think they've really talked to some

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Speaker 10: of these rookies and some of these players who are

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Speaker 10: playing in a postseason game for the first time to

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Speaker 10: know what to expect. But I do feel really good

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Speaker 10: about where their heads are at right now. So I

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Speaker 10: wasn't feeling the pressure pressure as much as I thought

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Speaker 10: I would in locker room this week.

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Speaker 5: It's funny because I think the Bills probably have the

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Speaker 5: most postseason experience, despite the fact that they haven't won

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Speaker 5: on the road in the postseason, and so there is

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Speaker 5: this kind of air of like, well, you should know

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Speaker 5: what to expect. The Jags don't have as much recent experience,

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Speaker 5: at least in the playoffs, but I'm very curious to

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Speaker 5: see just I don't think the chatter is necessarily fair

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Speaker 5: about Josh Allen not having to go through Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 5: or Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow every postseason is hard.

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Speaker 5: So how fair is it that we're essentially putting all

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Speaker 5: this pressure on Josh Allen and Josh Allen alone, by

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Speaker 5: the way, to win this game and to reach the

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Speaker 5: Super Bowl and to reach that mountaintop that the Bills

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Speaker 5: so far haven't been able to.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, it's crazy to talk about all that

636
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Speaker 10: and talk about those big figures that aren't a part

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Speaker 10: of the dance this year. But the Jaguars have done

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Speaker 10: a fantastic job in the last eight games of the season.

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Speaker 10: There are some really good teams they're going to have

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Speaker 10: to get to the super Bowl. So while you may

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Speaker 10: not have those big names, you still have these really

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Speaker 10: good teams who have earned their way and earned a

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Speaker 10: right to be there. I mean, Jacksonville's on an eight

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Speaker 10: game win streak. They're averaging thirty three points per game

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Speaker 10: over that span, and they're beating teams by an average

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Speaker 10: of like nineteen points per game. This is a very

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Speaker 10: good team with a quarterback who's playing very confident. Their

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Speaker 10: defense takes the football away at a very high rate.

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Speaker 10: This is not going to be an easy game for

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Speaker 10: the Bills. Josh Allen isn't going to just walton to

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Speaker 10: Jacksonville and wave his wand and get out of there

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Speaker 10: with a win. They're going to have to play really

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Speaker 10: good against the Jacksonville Jaguars to get to take care

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Speaker 10: of business and to move on.

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Speaker 2: So, speaking of that, Jags a game winning streak which

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Speaker 2: included a signature win over the AFC one seed Broncos.

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Speaker 2: What is going to be that key factor for Buffalo

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Speaker 2: to have an edge in this game.

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Speaker 10: I think it starts with I think it starts with

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Speaker 10: Josh Allen. I mean, playing and simple. I think it

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Speaker 10: starts with the quarterback and a balanced attack on offense.

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Speaker 10: I don't think you can beat the Jacks just doing

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Speaker 10: one thing. I do think Buffalo has to run the

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Speaker 10: football in this game. I know the Jacksonville Jaguars are

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Speaker 10: the best run defense in the league along just eighty

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Speaker 10: six rushing yards per game, But I think Buffalo's rushing

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Speaker 10: offense is good enough to have some sort of impact

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Speaker 10: in this game. I know they have some really big

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Speaker 10: and long defensive ends. It's going to be hard to

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Speaker 10: bounce runs on the outside, so they might have to

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Speaker 10: find some things up the middle, but I think it

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Speaker 10: starts with Allen stringing together some plays to start this

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Speaker 10: game and to get on the scoreboard early. I think

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Speaker 10: scoring first in this game is going to be really important.

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Speaker 10: That gives the team a lot of momentum. I also

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Speaker 10: think tight end Don't Kincaid is going to be really

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Speaker 10: important in this matchup. When you look at the Jags defense,

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Speaker 10: they have been susceptible to tight ends, allowing the sixth

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Speaker 10: most tight end yards in the league. They've also allowed

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Speaker 10: eight passing touchdowns, which is top ten to tight end.

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Speaker 10: So I think the middle of the field is going

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Speaker 10: to be important in this matchup. And having Don't Ginkaid

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Speaker 10: active and healthy, I think it's going to be huge

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Speaker 10: for Buffalo's offense. So I think it's about really having

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Speaker 10: a balanced attack. That's going to be your way to

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Speaker 10: beat the Jaguars. And I think taking care of the

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Speaker 10: football and forcing takeaways is going to be huge as well.

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Speaker 10: I think the playoffs really come down to who values

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Speaker 10: the football most, and the Jags have been really good

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Speaker 10: at taking the football away. I think you have to

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Speaker 10: do better than them in this matchup.

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Speaker 5: To talk a little bit too about the other side

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Speaker 5: of the ball for Buffalo, because it's kind of been

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Speaker 5: the achilles heel this year has been their run defense

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Speaker 5: and something that the Jaguars have been doing pretty well

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Speaker 5: as far as how they've been running, as like what

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Speaker 5: their run game has been enduring this eight game win streak,

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Speaker 5: especially thirty three point seven percent success rate on runs.

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Speaker 5: I believed in that span and the Bills, you know,

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Speaker 5: that's been an area that even Sean McDermott has said, Hey,

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Speaker 5: it needs to get better. How have they been preparing

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Speaker 5: then for this game? How confident are you that they

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Speaker 5: can show a little bit more than what we've seen

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Speaker 5: over the regular season now in the postseason, I.

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Speaker 10: Am pretty confident that the run defense will do enough

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Speaker 10: to help out the defense as a whole. And the

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Speaker 10: reason why I feel that way is since Week twelve,

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Speaker 10: the second half of the season, the defense has really

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Speaker 10: found a way to kind of put it together. Their

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Speaker 10: second in the NFL allowing just two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 10: yards per game since Week twelve, and their top ten

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Speaker 10: against the run allowing one hundred and twelve rushing yards

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Speaker 10: per game. Now, if you peel back all the layers

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Speaker 10: and look at the teams and look at the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 10: It may not have been the biggest matchups, but I

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Speaker 10: still think it says something that they've been able to

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Speaker 10: do a better job than the first half of the season.

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Speaker 10: They've also been using a three three five look quite

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Speaker 10: often and having those three linebackers on the field, specifically

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Speaker 10: Shaq Thompson, who will step in for an injured Durell

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Speaker 10: Bernard or Mike Linebacker. I think he's been fantastic at

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Speaker 10: stopping the run, and when they've had that look, they've

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Speaker 10: been a lot better at being able to limit big

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Speaker 10: run plays. So I think that's kind of what is

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Speaker 10: going to help them in this matchup, is just staying

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Speaker 10: with that look that they've done a better job in

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Speaker 10: of limiting explosive runs. But you know Travis etn he

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Speaker 10: can pose as a wide receiver too. He leads the

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Speaker 10: team with six receiving touchdowns. So it's going to be

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Speaker 10: a multifaceted approach as to how you limit the rushing

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Speaker 10: attack and how you also limit the passing attack with

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Speaker 10: what Laurent has been to do.

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Speaker 2: All right, Maddy, before we let you go real quick,

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Speaker 2: yes or no answer? Do you think Sean mcderry is

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Speaker 2: coaching for his job.

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Speaker 3: This weekend tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: I don't, okay, Okay, I was like, I need someone

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Speaker 2: on the inside, like, what's the what's the temperature?

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Speaker 3: Okay, on the.

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Speaker 10: Outside people may feel the hot seed, I'm not feeling

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Speaker 10: it at all. Inside.

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Speaker 3: Love that, all right, I love that, all right, that's

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Speaker 3: love inside.

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Speaker 7: Mad.

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Speaker 2: I know, Maddy, have so much fun at the game tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Good luck. Thank you so much for joining.

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Speaker 10: Us, Thank you enjoying us late today.

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Speaker 4: Oh we will.

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Speaker 2: We just had our first touchdown. Pooka scored the first

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Speaker 2: touchdown of the playoffs. Rams are up seven nothing. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna take a quick break here. When we come back.

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Speaker 2: The dudes and the don'ts and sports. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday. I'm

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Speaker 2: Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitali. We are broadcasting live

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Speaker 2: from Los Angeles. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon

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Speaker 2: with Carmi and me. It is a good wild card

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Speaker 2: weekend Saturday. Rams are on top. Karmie's going to be

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Speaker 2: heading to the Packers at Bears game right after the show.

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Speaker 3: So excited for this.

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Speaker 4: I know, I'm excited too.

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Speaker 5: You don't often get to see Bears Packers, no, three

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Speaker 5: times in a season, almost never, and.

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Speaker 2: It's been what like three times in like a little

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Speaker 2: over a month.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because they played each other. It was like

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Speaker 4: the thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Days, Yeah, the seventh and twentieth and yeah, it was the.

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Speaker 5: Fourteen week, fourteen week, sixteen and now the first round.

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Speaker 3: It's so fresh, it's so fresh, it's so frush. Thanks,

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Speaker 3: so fresh.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the dudes and the don'ts

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Speaker 2: in sports.

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Speaker 1: Highlighting the dudes. I love that putting a spotlight on

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Speaker 1: the don't.

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Speaker 3: The subject brings me no joy.

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Speaker 4: That's insane.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the dues and the dose in sports.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna start with the dude. Do keep being you.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Indiana for having the happiest quarterback in

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Speaker 2: the game and the most serious head coach.

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Speaker 4: In the game.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw the splits that they

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Speaker 2: put on TV yesterday, but Kurt their head coach, like,

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Speaker 2: I don't think I saw him smile a single time

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Speaker 2: after a touchdown last night. Then they would pan to

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Speaker 2: Fernanda Mendoza and he was just like beaming. He's got

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Speaker 2: one of the best smiles in the game. We talked

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Speaker 2: about his postgame interviews. They are just like so positive

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Speaker 2: and he is just so grateful to be doing what

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Speaker 2: he's doing. He better have like a smile or teeth endorsement,

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Speaker 2: like if he does it now, like as soon as

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Speaker 2: he gets the NFL.

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Speaker 3: I mean that he.

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Speaker 4: Does have great teeth, had a great smile.

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: That's a that is a sellable smile, and right out all, that's.

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Speaker 4: A good way to say.

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Speaker 5: I also have a do or don't that has to

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Speaker 5: do with Indiana Let's go, and it's actually don't.

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Speaker 4: Well, first of.

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Speaker 5: All, I want to preface this by saying it's funny

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Speaker 5: because so I know Indiana's GM. His name is Matt Wilson.

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Speaker 5: I have known him since we were in college together,

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Speaker 5: and he he I was texting him actually, as this

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Speaker 5: game was out of hand. He was on the sideline

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Speaker 5: and I was texting him because I was like, Matt,

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Speaker 5: it caught the caught Matt and he wasn't smiling either,

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Speaker 5: and I was like, dude, this dude's going to the

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Speaker 5: natty and he can't even crack a smile, and he

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Speaker 5: was like, no, that's literally something that we're not allowed

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Speaker 5: to do.

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Speaker 4: So that is that is actually however, so good.

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Speaker 5: Don't be too stuck in your ways, because if you

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Speaker 5: saw Hurt Signetti's post.

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Speaker 3: Game interviews, so good.

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Speaker 5: They asked him about the next game, alographs asked him

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Speaker 5: about the next game. He said, I'm really not thinking

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Speaker 5: about the next game. I'm just thinking about cracking open

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Speaker 5: a beer, and then he cracked a smile. So I

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Speaker 5: think during the game you're not allowed to.

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Speaker 4: Smile if you're on the staff.

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Speaker 3: Wild, but then right afterwards that's wild.

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Speaker 4: Crack and open a.

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Speaker 2: Beers are fun. But I guess it's working. Whatever works,

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Speaker 2: it's working.

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Speaker 4: It's working, all right.

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Speaker 5: But he I mean, he said that he'll give his

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Speaker 5: players the next couple of days off and then they'll

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Speaker 5: get to work because I mean, the National Championship isn't

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Speaker 5: for nine days. Yeah, yeah, so late now with the

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Speaker 5: expanded playoff format January.

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Speaker 2: Nineteenth, wild, all right, I gotta do do have Snoop

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Speaker 2: Dogg on your broadcast?

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Speaker 5: Oh, he was, that's that's an evergreen statement no matter

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Speaker 5: what sports.

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Speaker 2: We're calling the Warriors at Clippers game this week and

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Speaker 2: he was all of us when he was calling Steve

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Speaker 2: Kerr for getting like don't get kicked out of the game.

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Speaker 2: He is just like, it is just it is beautiful

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Speaker 2: entertainment for sports. He's like, don't do a Steve, don't

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Speaker 2: do He's an anglewood.

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Speaker 3: He's getting that anglewood.

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Speaker 2: He's got that air zon a wild can that just

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Speaker 2: came out of him.

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Speaker 3: Like just like, as it's going.

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Speaker 2: Down, he's saying exactly what you would be saying at

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Speaker 2: home watching it, but in the most snoop dogg awesome

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Speaker 2: way possible.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean there's a reason that he did the He

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Speaker 5: did the halftime show at Christmas on Netflix. He brought

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Speaker 5: out any people. He's yeah, he's on the Olympics. I

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Speaker 5: think he's probably.

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Speaker 3: Gonna be a He is the face of the Olympics

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Speaker 3: in LA.

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Speaker 5: It's incredible and his and then even on my cooking

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Speaker 5: shows because he's best friends with Martha Stewart.

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Speaker 3: Now it is like my favorite friendships.

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Speaker 4: It's phenomenal. I like, I just I love it so much.

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Speaker 5: All right, I have another don't but it's don't let

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Speaker 5: anything keep you from watching your team. Bill Murray noted

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Speaker 5: Bears fan. He is playing a concert tonight in Chicago

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Speaker 5: with h He's been touring with a band, and it's

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Speaker 5: a really cool kind of multimedia experience or like a

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Speaker 5: variety show kind of experience. He's playing at Talia Hall

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Speaker 5: here in Chicago. It's a smaller venue, it's really intimate.

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Speaker 4: Whatever.

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Speaker 5: He will be broadcasting the Bears Packers game on a

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Speaker 5: screen behind him on stage while he is performing, because

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Speaker 5: he will not miss this game. Come Heller high Water

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Speaker 5: And I think that's great. And then, you know, so

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Speaker 5: for everybody that you know, if you're looking for a

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Speaker 5: place to watch the game and you want just all

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Speaker 5: of the stimulation, go see Bill Murray tonight at Talia

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Speaker 5: Hall and you'll also have the game on in the background.

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Speaker 5: So I can't imagine all of the moments that that's

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Speaker 5: going to make for where like, you know, something cool

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Speaker 5: happens in the Bears game and they're like in the

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Speaker 5: middle of a song.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so good. Okay, real quick, do share your

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Speaker 2: off season activities. Kirk Cousin is the most normal athlete

882
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Speaker 2: in the game. He posted a photo at Bingo night saying,

883
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Speaker 2: if you're making the playoffs, you spend Thursday night watching

884
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Speaker 2: the red zone tape. If you don't, you go to

885
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Speaker 2: your neighborhood bingo.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I sure did that. He's just a Midwest dap.

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Speaker 2: It's just a mid West I laughed out loud so hard.

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Speaker 2: We're going to take a break here when we come back.

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Speaker 2: Who is playing for their jobs tomorrow? Don't go anywhere?

890
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Speaker 2: Hour too on Fox Sports Radio coming up next.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday, Hour two. I'm Alex

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Speaker 2: Curry here with Carmen Vitale. Thank you for spending your

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Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon with Carme and me. I'm coming to you

895
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Speaker 2: live from the Fox Sports Radio studios in La Carmi

896
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Speaker 2: is home in Chicago and heading out to that Packers

897
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Speaker 2: a Bears game that's coming up in a couple.

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Speaker 3: Hours of here. Still sunny, Are we getting snow?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm I mean now it's getting dark, so I

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Speaker 5: don't think we're getting any more precipitation. According to the forecast,

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Speaker 5: we'll see. Yeah, it should be pretty good, honestly, especially

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Speaker 5: for for January, and Chicago isn't supposed to look like this.

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Speaker 3: No, this is, but it's lucky we're getting.

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Speaker 5: We're getting real dark though, so I mean, it's true,

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Speaker 5: it'll be it'll be dark here in a half.

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Speaker 3: Hour, that's true.

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Speaker 2: Now, last hour we dove into the NFC Wildcard games.

908
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Speaker 2: Rams at Panthers. Rams are the ten and a half

909
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Speaker 2: point bay. They are up seven already, Stafford said, Martin said,

910
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Speaker 2: four for four. Poka's already got a bunch of yards.

911
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 2: He had the first touchdown of the playoffs. So that's great.

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Speaker 2: Packers at Bears one of the best oldest rivalries in

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Speaker 2: the NFL. If you missed any of that, you can

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Speaker 2: listen to that in the Fox Sports Saturday podcast. Anywhere

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Speaker 2: that you uh listen to your podcast, just search Fox

916
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio. But let's get to the AFC Wildcard games here.

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Speaker 3: Cool.

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Speaker 2: We talked to Maddy glab last hour. Bills Jags this.

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Speaker 3: One I.

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Speaker 2: They kick off the Sunday slate of games in Jacksonville,

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Speaker 2: Bills on the road against a very hot Jags team.

922
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Speaker 3: They're on an eight game winning streak, eight games.

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Speaker 2: It's a good quarterback matchup with you know, some playoff experience.

924
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Speaker 2: Think we talked about this with Josh Allen, and the

925
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Speaker 2: Bills have some of the most playoff experience.

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Speaker 3: But he's zero to four on the road.

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Speaker 2: So I think all the pressure is going to be

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Speaker 2: on Josh Allen and the Bills. He is an MVP,

929
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Speaker 2: but can he win win when he needs to? I mean,

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Speaker 2: his biggest hurdles have been the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes, Burrow,

931
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Speaker 2: and Lamar Jackson. They're not here. The Chiefs have knocked

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Speaker 2: them out of the postseason four of the last five seasons.

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Speaker 3: So you think this would.

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Speaker 2: Be an easier path for them to get to the

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Speaker 2: super Bowl because they're not having to go through Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: But it's a dangerous team right now when you're facing

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Speaker 2: a hot team and a quarterback like Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 3: I mean, what would a loss mean for Josh Allen

939
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Speaker 3: and the Bills? Are we even going there?

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Speaker 5: I it's you know, the only reason that I feel

941
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Speaker 5: urgency for Josh Allen is and for the Buffalo Bills

942
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 5: just in general. It's not even so much that there's

943
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Speaker 5: no Patrick Mahomes, the's no Lamar Jackson. I mean that

944
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Speaker 5: that plays into it. No Joe Burrow, all of that.

945
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Speaker 5: But the Patriots are common they are I don't I

946
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Speaker 5: don't think that they're necessarily ready to take the reins

947
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Speaker 5: getting in their.

948
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Speaker 4: But they're about to be back back.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they they went through a whole I feel

950
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 5: so bad for Patriots fans, you know, a whole three

951
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 5: years of irrelevance and heartache, and now you're back, baby,

952
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 5: with an MVP candidate at the helm. And I have

953
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Speaker 5: to think that, you know, just the year two under

954
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Speaker 5: Mike Vrabel is going to yield some incredible results next season.

955
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 5: So the Bills, I mean, they didn't win their they

956
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 5: still didn't.

957
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Speaker 4: Win their division this year. It was the Patriots yet again.

958
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Speaker 5: So I do think that there's some urgent on behalf

959
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Speaker 5: of the fact that they're they're going to have to

960
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Speaker 5: face a really good Patriots team pretty much from here on.

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Speaker 4: Out, is what it's looking like.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you have to think that the Lamar

963
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Speaker 5: and the Ravens will be back, Joe Burrow and.

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Speaker 4: The Bengals could be back.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how long this rebuild is going to

967
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Speaker 5: take in Kansas City, but Patrick Mahomes is still Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: So I do think it's Wendy Reid.

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Speaker 5: I think the door is still open there, and the

970
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Speaker 5: door is like it's the widest open perhaps. I mean,

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Speaker 5: that's all I'll put it. It's the widest open it's

972
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Speaker 5: been for the Bills to kind of walk through.

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Speaker 7: That.

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Speaker 5: Being said, though, this matchup with the Jaguars, I mean,

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Speaker 5: the Jags have.

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Speaker 4: Really good defense.

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Speaker 5: Mattie have talked about how they can take the ball away,

978
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Speaker 5: but also they've been pressuring quarterbacks left and right, and

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Speaker 5: this season was a complete departure from how Josh Allen

980
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Speaker 5: was pressured in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty four

981
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Speaker 5: he had his career low mark of eight point two percent.

982
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Speaker 5: Pressure rate this year is nearly triple that. He's been

983
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Speaker 5: pressured on twenty nine point six percent of his drop

984
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Speaker 5: backs this season and he was He's been sacked on

985
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Speaker 5: twenty four point five percent of his pressure dropbacks too.

986
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Speaker 5: So that's the fifth highest rate in the NFL right now.

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Speaker 5: And guess what, it's something that the Jags do extremely well.

988
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Speaker 5: At this point, josh Heinz Allen pressure wise, has the

989
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Speaker 5: fourth most pressures.

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Speaker 4: In the league.

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Speaker 5: And then it's just it's one of those things where

992
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Speaker 5: what the Jaguars do well, the Bills don't.

993
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's one of those.

994
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Speaker 5: I really do think that it's going to come down

995
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Speaker 5: to how effective Josh Allen can be, how effective this

996
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 5: Bill's run game can be also with James Cook, and

997
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 5: how productive this offense in general can be for Buffalo

998
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 5: because this JAG's defense is going to limit points. They're

999
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 5: going to try to get takeaways. If you can take

1000
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 5: care of the football, like Maddie was talking about, yeah,

1001
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 5: and put up points, you're going to force Trevor Lawrence

1002
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Speaker 5: and the Jaguars offense into a situation where they have

1003
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 5: to pass and they have to be productive and they

1004
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 5: have to put points on the board, which is not

1005
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 5: something they have as much experience with, especially in the

1006
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Speaker 5: postseason like the Bills do.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, that makes me nervous speaking of shouting it's going.

1008
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 3: To be a great game, Yeah, it is.

1009
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,479
Speaker 2: We're watching the Rams and Panthers right now and Bryce

1010
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:10,439
Speaker 2: Young just threw an interception, so it's uh, yeah, right.

1011
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 3: Who can't you.

1012
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 4: Give your opponent?

1013
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 5: No, you can't give your opponent extra opportunities in the

1014
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 5: post That's why people say defense wins championships because the

1015
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 5: margin for er gets that much smaller in the postseason.

1016
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 5: I keep saying that all the time, but it's true.

1017
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 5: It's a completely different way of playing football in the postseason.

1018
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 5: As far as these teams are concerned. And that's why

1019
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 5: defense is so incredibly important, because you can't count on

1020
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 5: scoring thirty five points a game in the postseason.

1021
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 4: You just can't.

1022
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 2: Offense sales tickets. Defense wins games. It's this one, yeah,

1023
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 2: this one, I I was on the edge. But let's

1024
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 2: get to the next game. Chargers at Patriots, another great

1025
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 2: quarterback and a coaching matchup here. Patriots are favored at

1026
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 2: home three and a half point favorites. I mean, justin

1027
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 2: Herbert coming off that injury he got to rest it

1028
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 2: last week.

1029
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 3: He is zero and too in the playoffs, desperately needs

1030
00:46:59,520 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 3: a playoff win.

1031
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 2: And then you have Drake May coming off an MVP

1032
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 2: season in his first playoff appearance in his sophomore season.

1033
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 2: And both coaches were hired to change the culture and

1034
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 2: they both all did it immediately. And there was a

1035
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,320
Speaker 2: really funny story, fun story that Mike Rabel told on

1036
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 2: a podcast. He was actually the runner up behind Harbaugh

1037
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 2: for that Charger's coaching job, and he said ownership called

1038
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 2: him personally to tell him, but because Harbab was leaving

1039
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 2: college to come to the NFL, they called him to

1040
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 2: be like, this is an opportunity we can't pass up.

1041
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 2: We wanted to let you know how great you were

1042
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 2: and that you were the second finisher, which doesn't usually

1043
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,720
Speaker 2: happen in interview situations like that. And now they're playing

1044
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 2: each other in the first round of the playoffs in

1045
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 2: their new homes. Like Mike Rabel, as you just mentioned

1046
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 2: a second ago, like completely brought this Patriots franchise back

1047
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 2: on top first time they've won the division since Tom

1048
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 2: Brady left. Harbaugh has gotten the Chargers to the playoffs

1049
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 2: in both seasons, but they lost in the wald card

1050
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 2: round last year to the Texans. I this is a

1051
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 2: tough one. This is a tough one because again there's

1052
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 2: two very good quarterback coaching situations here, the.

1053
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 5: Quarterback coaching situations and then in the Chargers case. I mean,

1054
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 5: I think that what Jesse Mentor has done with that

1055
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 5: defense is great, and this is going to be a

1056
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 5: really tough I think the biggest knock on Drake May's

1057
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 5: MVP candidacy is that they just didn't have the strength

1058
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 5: of schedule that other teams did and he'd got to

1059
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 5: play worse teams and this that the other.

1060
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 4: But Drake May is.

1061
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 5: Currently leading the league in his downfield passing rate. But

1062
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 5: this is something again when you talk about matchups. The

1063
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 5: Chargers allow just a forty percent completion rate on downfield passes,

1064
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 5: which is ten or more are yards. That's the third

1065
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 5: lowest rate in the NFL. So you talk about taking

1066
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 5: care of the football but wanting to be productive. Drake

1067
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 5: May pushes the ball down the field. He's one of

1068
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 5: the best at it, but the Chargers are also one

1069
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 5: of the best defenses at defending that and Magnet taking

1070
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 5: the ball away in those situations. Fourteen interceptions on downfield targets,

1071
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 5: which is the second most by any defense this year.

1072
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Speaker 5: So these are like I always look when I'm looking

1073
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 5: at these games. I always look for like key matchups

1074
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 5: and whether that's a phase of the ball or whether

1075
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 5: that's something that you know the defense does really well

1076
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 5: that the opposing offense does well too. It's like who

1077
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 5: wins out in those situations because who wins out probably

1078
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 5: means who's going to win the game. And you have

1079
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Speaker 5: two very veteran, experienced coaches at the helm. I can't

1080
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 5: wait to see this. I mean, Rabes was just born

1081
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 5: to be the.

1082
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Speaker 4: Patriots head coach. He just was.

1083
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 5: He played for them as a linebacker and ever just

1084
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 5: his am.

1085
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 3: He is like the Patriots culture.

1086
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 5: It just matches up so well with Boston and New

1087
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 5: England and just like the whole attitude and everything like that.

1088
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 5: And Jim Harbaugh has unlocked something in Justin Herbert where

1089
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 5: we're seeing Justin Herbert play his best ball. He's surrounded

1090
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 5: by the best offense that he's had. Yeah, and I

1091
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,399
Speaker 5: really think that this is this is his time.

1092
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 2: It's a perfect fit for both quarterba, both teams, and

1093
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 2: both coaches. And who do you think has more to

1094
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 2: lose here? Though, I'm saying Justin Herbert and the Chargers. Yeah,

1095
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Speaker 2: because it's only gret my second season. I don't think,

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Speaker 2: you know, anyone.

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Speaker 3: Expected them to be this great.

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00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 2: This quickly under ray Bold a great surprise, similar to

1099
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:21,760
Speaker 2: the Bears under you know, Ben Johnson. But meanwhile, Herbert

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Speaker 2: hasn't lived up to expectations.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 5: The crazy part is like his stats and everything have

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00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 5: absolutely Like you look at the numbers, you look at

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00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 5: what he's done over the last few seasons, and it

1105
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,720
Speaker 5: just feels like it's been wasted because in big moments,

1106
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 5: and there just hasn't been the postseason opportunities either because

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00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 5: of the team around him.

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Speaker 4: And that's why I said, that's why I wanted to

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00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:43,399
Speaker 4: bring up.

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Speaker 5: Jesse Minter's defense because I'm like, this is this is

1111
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,879
Speaker 5: the best chance that the Chargers have to help Justin

1112
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 5: Herbert live up to what we wanted out of him.

1113
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 4: And I think he's up to the task. He's had.

1114
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 5: Again, he's playing the best football of his career right now,

1115
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 5: and I just I he's running into, you know, a

1116
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 5: Patriots defense that's still developing to I mean, frames is

1117
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 5: a defensive guy. He's gotten this defense, you know, to

1118
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 5: outperform expectations for sure, but this is something that the

1119
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 5: Chargers can absolutely handle. So I'm really I'm really looking

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Speaker 5: forward to this one too. I think I think all

1121
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 5: of these playoffs manses just are great.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: So let's get to the next one. The Texans at Steelers.

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Speaker 2: These are two strong defensive teams. Texans have the best

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00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 2: defense in the league, the Steelers having TJ. Watt back,

1126
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 2: the Steelers also getting DK back. It was very obvious

1127
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 2: he was not there the last two games. They need

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Speaker 2: him to show up. But this is the moment and

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Speaker 2: the reason that they brought a veteran like Aaron Rodgers

1130
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 2: to this team. His experience in these big games and

1131
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 2: these big moments. Now he's been like middle of the

1132
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 2: back this season. But it worked like that's all they needed.

1133
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 2: They won the division. He's been a great leader in

1134
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 2: the locker room. But I think the nonsense attitude of

1135
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin and it's actually working with the Aaron Rodgers vibe.

1136
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 2: It seems like he was focusing on football and not

1137
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 2: the headlines. We didn't see him on TV every week.

1138
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna say the biggest X factor in this

1139
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 2: game Mike Tomlin. On Monday Nights, Under Mike Tomlin, the

1140
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 2: Steelers are twenty two to three on Monday Night Football

1141
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 2: eleven and oh in those games that were played in Pittsburgh.

1142
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, well, if you've ever seen the way

1143
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh fans show up to home games especially and how

1144
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 5: they make road games even home games, because they are

1145
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 5: just they're most I'll never forget every time the Steelers

1146
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 5: came to play in Tampa when I was with the Buccaneers,

1147
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 5: and it was just they took over the entire stadium,

1148
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 5: they took over the entire city. This is a team

1149
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 5: that travels extremely well. They've got a very very loyal

1150
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 5: fan base, but I mean, this is the postseason, so

1151
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 5: I like, as as successful as they've been on Monday Night,

1152
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't know, because, to borrow a phrase

1153
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 5: from my fiance's podcast, The Football Show, the Houston Texans

1154
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 5: have a defense full of goblins, and that it couldn't

1155
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 5: be a better, more descriptive word for who these guys are.

1156
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 5: And it's the thing about the Texans defense, too, is

1157
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 5: it's not just that it's not just Will Anderson and

1158
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 5: Denil Hunter, although they are the best pass rushing tandem

1159
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 5: in the league. It's guys like Kamari Lassiter, their cornerback,

1160
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 5: who has stuffed eleven rushers for loss or no gain

1161
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 5: this season as a defensive back, which is the second

1162
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 5: most by a defensive back and tied for the most

1163
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,760
Speaker 5: by any outside cornerback this season since t twenty sixteen.

1164
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 4: Actually is the stat that I'm running fromn NGS.

1165
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 5: But it's one of those things where there are layers

1166
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 5: to the goblin hood of this of this Houston Texans defense.

1167
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 5: And I mean, I like, got Derek Singletary back there

1168
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 5: in the secondary, and you have just a in Jalen Peatrie,

1169
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 5: who I didn't even talk about who's has just come

1170
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 5: alive in Houston. But so you have this very complete

1171
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 5: defensive effort, the suffocating defensive effort, and when we're talking

1172
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 5: about defense mattering the most in the postseason. I mean,

1173
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,360
Speaker 5: I think that this year hasn't been the year that

1174
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:15,399
Speaker 5: maybe c J. Stroud would have liked, but he has

1175
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 5: done well enough paired with the defense that he has.

1176
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 5: And I also think that a lot of it had

1177
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 5: to do with the fact that the Texans didn't know

1178
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 5: who was starting for them on the offensive line came

1179
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 5: come Week one. I mean, it was just they had

1180
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 5: no plan for that, which I was kind of like

1181
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 5: screaming into the void about during the during preseason, during

1182
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 5: training camp, where.

1183
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 4: I was like, who's starting in front of c J. Stroud,

1184
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 4: Who's protecting him?

1185
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 5: And sure enough, that's led to kind of an up

1186
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 5: and down season for him, but it's been the reason

1187
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 5: the Texans are still in the playoffs is.

1188
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 4: Because of this defense.

1189
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm just listen, if you get pressure on

1190
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers, he's not one to really fight through that

1191
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 5: because he's forty one years old. I'm not going to

1192
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 5: try to fight through that either. He's not as mobile

1193
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 5: as he once was, although he's surprised us in a

1194
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 5: couple of these games, especially that game against the Ravens

1195
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 5: where it was like, you know, that was a playoff

1196
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 5: game in and.

1197
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:13,280
Speaker 3: Of itself, because when when you're in lose going.

1198
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, lose, you're going home. So you know, Aaron

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Speaker 5: Rodgers still has some gas left in the tank. And

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Speaker 5: I agree with you. I know you had Brooke Pryor

1201
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 5: on the show last week, and I've talked to her

1202
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 5: about like, you know, when I covered Aaron Rodgers when

1203
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 5: he was still part of the Green Bay Packers, it

1204
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 5: was like I had to, you know, make sure I

1205
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 5: had my time allotted on Tuesdays.

1206
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 4: To watch him on the McAfee show.

1207
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 5: And I have alerts on his Twitter and see what

1208
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 5: he was like retweeting, and I'm like, oh.

1209
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 4: It was exhausting. Off the field stuff that hasn't really

1210
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 4: been the case.

1211
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 5: And I doesn't think that Mike Tumlin has a lot

1212
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 5: to do with that. So if the Steelers can play

1213
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 5: buttoned up football, that'll be one thing. But I still

1214
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 5: think that the Texans that defense is just too much.

1215
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 2: I mean, and Brooke mentioned when we talked to her

1216
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 2: last week. He really has brought this locker room together

1217
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 2: and he has been that leader.

1218
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 5: He bought us off the lineman like the roll cage,

1219
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 5: Like I don't even know what they're called, Like they're

1220
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 5: not gators, but they're like the are the four wheelers,

1221
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 5: but they have like the role game m like man

1222
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 5: and who is this y?

1223
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 4: Who is this guy? Get it?

1224
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 3: I love it so much.

1225
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna switch back over to the NFC because

1226
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,280
Speaker 2: we didn't get to one game. Speaking of the NFC,

1227
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 2: Pukinakua just plowed himself for another touchdown. So Rams are

1228
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 2: up fourteen nothing right now with twelve sixteen left in

1229
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 2: the second. But the final NFC Waldcard game that we

1230
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,240
Speaker 2: didn't get to last hour is forty nine Ers at Eagles.

1231
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,439
Speaker 2: Eagles are five and a half point favorites. They will

1232
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 2: be the Afternoon Delight game tomorrow and Eagles are five

1233
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 2: and zero at home, you guys, in the playoffs, and

1234
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 2: this is a stadium where home field advantage matters. That

1235
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 2: is a gnarly brutal fan base. Tivy going in and

1236
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,399
Speaker 2: playing again. So the last two the last time these

1237
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 2: two teams faced in the playoffs was a twenty twenty

1238
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 2: two NFC Championship Game, where brought per tour his UCL

1239
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 2: egos went on lost in the Super Bowl to the Chiefs.

1240
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 2: But forty nine Ers, I mean, they've had an interesting season.

1241
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 2: They're coming off a bad loss to the Seahawks, didn't

1242
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 2: even score a touchdown, but then Perty had the best

1243
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 2: game of his career the game before that. So forty

1244
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 2: nine Ers have a beat up defense right now. They

1245
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 2: don't have Nick Bosa, they don't have Fred Warner. Obviously,

1246
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 2: their top alignment Williams is still questionable.

1247
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 3: Do they have enough?

1248
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 2: Do the forty nine Ers have enough to stop an

1249
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 2: Eagles team that still has all of their stars and

1250
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 2: are healthy.

1251
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, I keep I kept thinking towards the especially towards

1252
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 5: the back quarter of the season. Yeah, injuries are going

1253
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 5: to catch up with the nine Ers. Yeah, it's got

1254
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 5: to catch up to them at some point. Like Kyle

1255
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 5: Shanahan deserves all of the chatter for Coach of the

1256
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 5: Year for what he was able to do with what

1257
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 5: he had available. Between all of the injuries that the

1258
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 5: forty nine Ers sustained to marquee players and it I

1259
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 5: just kept thinking, like it has to catch up with

1260
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 5: them at some point, and it really hasn't.

1261
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 3: No, I know, so now I'm thinking.

1262
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 5: You have to make the cross country trip to Philly.

1263
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 5: You have Philly that has I mean, to be fair,

1264
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 5: the Niners have recent you know, postseason experience too, although

1265
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 5: they finished last Night Division last year.

1266
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 4: I mean that's.

1267
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 5: Right seasons before that, Like, I mean, it was just

1268
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 5: it was they have enough experience.

1269
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 4: They have the coach, the potential coach of the.

1270
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 5: Year in Kyle Shanahan leading them, But how much of

1271
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 5: that can compensate when you just don't have the bodies available?

1272
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 5: And that's what's That's what I think going into Philly.

1273
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 5: I was in Philly actually this week for some family stuff.

1274
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 5: I grew up with all Eagles fans. My dad is

1275
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 5: from there, and so it was just we actually had

1276
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 5: to fly into Newark because of the prices into Philly.

1277
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 4: And I was like, because it's the damn Birds. It's

1278
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 4: because the damn Birds playoff game. It's why it was

1279
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 4: twelve hundred dollars to go from Chicago to Philly. That's

1280
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 4: I mean. The city takes its so incredibly seriously.

1281
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 5: And I keep saying too for as rabid and insane

1282
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 5: as Eagles fans are and are known to be yea hey,

1283
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 5: they know ball man.

1284
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 4: It's a city full of ball knowers.

1285
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 5: It is, and they ask good questions when they call

1286
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 5: into radio station. They hold people accountable for everything, and

1287
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 5: that permeates, I think with the team itself, and the

1288
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 5: vibes have been kind of up and down this season

1289
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 5: for the Philadelphia Eagles. See the Positivity Rabbit for a

1290
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 5: proof of that. But they're not going to be an

1291
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 5: easy out and I think they are going to turn

1292
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 5: it back on in the postseason in the way that

1293
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 5: they've been able to over.

1294
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 4: The last year. So interesting.

1295
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 2: We're going to save our picks for the end of

1296
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 2: the show. We're gonna take quick break here, but when

1297
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 2: we come back. Eight new jobs are open in the NFL.

1298
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 2: But is anyone coaching for their job?

1299
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,280
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Speaker 5: get your podcast, and you'll find today's full show posted

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Speaker 5: right after we get.

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Speaker 4: Off the air.

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Speaker 2: Right if forget off the air, Karmi is racing over

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Speaker 2: to the stadium.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I'm like, I'm doing a bunch

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Speaker 5: of different things. Yas we're doing the show, I'm multitasking,

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Speaker 5: like like.

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Speaker 3: You don't even know all day, right, You're doing like

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Speaker 3: a full double day.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I really am, I really am. And I also

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01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 5: like I have the Rams game on, you know, behind me.

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Speaker 5: I'm doing the show.

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Speaker 2: We're just scored, so Rams up fourteen to seven right now. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, so much going on.

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Speaker 3: It's so exciting. But we've had a lot of action

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Speaker 3: this week.

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Speaker 4: Monday.

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Speaker 2: Monday, the week after the regular season, is when a

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Speaker 2: lot of head coaches move on lose their jobs.

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Speaker 3: So far, we have eight openings.

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Speaker 2: I think the two I guess the two big ones

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Speaker 2: this week John Harbaugh and the Ravens and Kevin Stefanski

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Speaker 2: and the Browns. I wasn't surprised with either. If you

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Speaker 2: were listening to the show last week. I said that

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Speaker 2: if the Ravens lost that I thought Harbaugh and ownership

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01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 2: of the Ravens would have to question if this was

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01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 2: the right fit. And they did, and you kind of

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01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 2: have to celebrate the eighteen great seasons that he had

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Speaker 2: with the Ravens. But it was also really telling that

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Speaker 2: after he got let go, Lamar did say anything about it.

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01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:02,959
Speaker 2: He just kind of posted, what was it, like a

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01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,919
Speaker 2: prayer's hand and like a heart and like talking about

1346
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 2: next season like that right there is well And not.

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Speaker 5: To mention, the Ravens fired Harbor over the phone, like

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Speaker 5: their owner called their owner called John Harbaugh asked. He

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Speaker 5: was like, as he was in the car going home

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Speaker 5: from the facility, and you're just like, man for your

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01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 5: coach of eighteen years.

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Speaker 2: Hers take him out, like take him in the office

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Speaker 2: something something, you know why it happened that way?

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Speaker 5: No, there wasn't anything. All the stuff that I read,

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Speaker 5: like the reports about that that I read. I mean,

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Speaker 5: there wasn't any real like insight as to why it

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01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,120
Speaker 5: wasn't Don in person or whatever, But it just seems that,

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Speaker 5: you know, this happens. I feel like in teams. I mean,

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01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 5: it happened to Andy Reid and Philly, it happened. It

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Speaker 5: happened to Dub Peterson in Philly for that matter, right

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Speaker 5: after he had won a couple of seasons, after he'd

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Speaker 5: won them a super Bowl. It's just sometimes you just

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Speaker 5: need a fresh start. And obviously John Harbaugh is now

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Speaker 5: the most eligible bachelor when it comes.

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Speaker 2: To his pick of where he wants to go, I

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Speaker 2: mean Miami, I think yeah, because.

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Speaker 3: Of right being there.

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Speaker 5: The timing on Mike McDaniel's firing was not a coincidence.

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Speaker 5: I think it was, hey, oh.

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Speaker 2: That's like and I think John said he was like,

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Speaker 2: he's going to be very selective. He's gonna wait till

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Speaker 2: after this weekend. I think also because I see if

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Speaker 2: there's going to be other job opportunities that open up.

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Speaker 2: I know Maddi Glabb said she didn't think that mc

1375
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 2: dermott was kind of on the hot seat, but there

1376
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:35,640
Speaker 2: has been some conversation and I don't know why but

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Speaker 2: Nick Sirianni's always kind of on the hot seat because

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Speaker 2: it's Philly. If anything happens there, like you just never know,

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Speaker 2: you never know. But he's going to have his like

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Speaker 2: personal pick. I also think like the only person like

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Speaker 2: that should be excited that they got let go was

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Speaker 2: Kevin Sefanski. That was a horrible situation and he did

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Speaker 2: he did the best job that he.

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Speaker 5: Could and he was the most like I don't even

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Speaker 5: know what the word is for it, like handcuffed, yeah,

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Speaker 5: head coach. I think just with with the way that

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Speaker 5: that the front office operates, and just like I mean,

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01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 5: at one point they had six quarterbacks on that roster.

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Speaker 4: What are you supposed to do with that?

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Speaker 5: And and and the mismanagement of you know, just the

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Speaker 5: contracts and the money and not having enough money then

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01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 5: left over for the rest of your team and also

1393
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 5: having a.

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Speaker 4: Pay Miles Garrett and it was like, I agree with you.

1395
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Speaker 4: I think that's Kevin Stfansky is going to.

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01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 5: Be on to better even if it is like if

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Speaker 5: he spends a year as an offensive coordinator somewhere, that's

1398
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 5: still a better situation.

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Speaker 2: I think he'll be like the second most eligible bachelor

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Speaker 2: behind Harbaugh, depending on what happens this.

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01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 5: Week, what we haven't talked about, and and something that

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01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 5: I do a Packers podcast every week.

1403
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 3: Too, Shout Out Pack a Day the floor.

1404
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 5: There has been a growing conversation as to has if

1405
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 5: Matt laflor has worn out of welcoming Green Bay because.

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01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 4: He has not.

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Speaker 5: He has not gotten them to a Super Bowl yet,

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01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 5: and that's something that you know, they made it to

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01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 5: the NFC champ Ship Game under him, and if you

1410
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 5: if you're expected to continue to improve and do better,

1411
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 5: the only way to improve for the Green Bay Packers

1412
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 5: is make a Super Bowl. And you know, granted Michah

1413
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 5: Parsons got injured towards ACL, but but the Packers very

1414
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 5: clearly signaled their intentions for this year when they made

1415
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 5: that trade for Michael Parsons, saying we expect to contend

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Speaker 5: for a Super.

1417
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 4: Bowl, yeah, this year. And if the Packers.

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Speaker 5: Get bounced in the first round, which is they had

1419
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 5: a first round exit last year too, and you have

1420
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Speaker 5: a sixty million dollars quarterback in Jordan Love rounding up that,

1421
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 5: that's that's not really acceptable in today's NFL.

1422
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 4: Do I think that Matt Lafleur is a great coach.

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Speaker 4: Do I think he should be on the hot seat? No?

1424
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 5: But do I think the reality of the NFL is

1425
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 5: kind of going to force those conversations to happen?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I do.

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01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 2: So There's that there's three like really big name teams

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01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 2: that like, we're not saying a thing, we don't have

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01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 2: any inside information.

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01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:58,840
Speaker 3: But Bill's Eagles, Packer Packers.

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01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 2: If they all get knocked out this verse, I mean,

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01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 2: Hardball's just sitting back, wait and see what happens.

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01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, be interesting.

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01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 5: It is going to be interesting. One thing I need

1435
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 5: to one little housekeeping note here. With the iHeartRadio app,

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01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,880
Speaker 5: you can also stream us in these conversations wherever you

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01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 5: happen to be. So catch us and all of the

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01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:19,080
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty four seven in the

1439
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 5: new and improved iHeartRadio app just starts Fox Sports Radio

1440
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 5: and the app to stream us live all day every day.

1441
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 5: To be sure to select Fox Sports Radio is one

1442
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 5: of your presets. Give the iHeart apps so it will

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01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 5: always pop up at the top of your screen.

1444
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 3: Let's go now, let's check with Martin Weiss, see what's trending.

1445
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 8: Harrison Miv has just kicked a four to six yard

1446
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 8: field goal to extend the Rams lead is now seventeen

1447
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 8: to seven in the first game of the wild Card Playoffs,

1448
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:46,560
Speaker 8: the Rams leading the Carolina Panthers with just under six

1449
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 8: minutes left in the first half. It's been really dominated

1450
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 8: by the Rams Matthew staff and only one incomplete pass

1451
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 8: as far as He's eight for nine one hundred and

1452
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 8: fourteen yards with a touchdown pass. Who can Nakua caught

1453
01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 8: that touchdown pass. He also has a five yard touchdown

1454
01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 8: run which was one of those kind of funny pop

1455
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 8: pass things. But he's got six catches sixty three yards

1456
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 8: and a touchdown as well. On the receiving side of things.

1457
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 8: He's been doing all the heavy lifting thus far. Carolina side,

1458
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 8: Bryce Younks ten for sixteen with an interception that bounced

1459
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 8: off the two guys hands.

1460
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 4: Shuba Hubbard with the.

1461
01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 8: Rushing touchdown for Carolina for carries seventeen yards again about

1462
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 8: five thirty left in the first half. There waiting for

1463
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 8: Carolina to receive the kickoff from the Rams.

1464
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 4: After that, Mevus field goal.

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01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 8: Tannas guard ikey Akanago, who carted off in the first

1466
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 8: quarter of this game. The Bills for their matchup against

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01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 8: the Jaguars. They ruled out Josh Palmer. Matt Ryan has

1468
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 8: been naming the Falcons president of football. Former quarterback for

1469
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:48,480
Speaker 8: the franchise, Washington Commander's named David Blou their new offensive coordinator.

1470
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:51,320
Speaker 8: Chargers expect Omario and Hampton, the rookie running back to

1471
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 8: play against the Patriots. And we had a few upsets

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Speaker 8: in the top twenty five and men's college basketball, Wisconsin

1473
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 8: beat second rate Michigan ninety one to eighty eight, Michigan's

1474
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 8: first lost of the year. Florida beat twenty first ranked

1475
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 8: Tennessee ninety one to sixty seven. West Virginia over twenty

1476
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 8: second rank Kansas eighty six to seventy five. Right now,

1477
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 8: number one, we're Harry his zone A fifteen to millero

1478
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 8: in the year, has a fifty three to thirty one

1479
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 8: lead over TCU with about fifteen min it's left in

1480
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 8: the game.

1481
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:17,680
Speaker 4: Back to you.

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Speaker 2: Guys, Thank you Martin. You're listening to Fox Football Saturday.

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01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 2: I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitally. It is time

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01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 2: for our next guest, NBC Sports Philly reporter Ashlan Sullivan.

1485
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining the show.

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01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:30,519
Speaker 6: Thank you for having me We're looking forward to a

1487
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 6: great football weekend.

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01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 2: The last time these two teams face off in the playoffs,

1489
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 2: Philly beat the forty nine Ers in the NFC Championship game, So.

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Speaker 3: There's some good history here.

1491
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,679
Speaker 2: What are you expecting from this Eagles team tomorrow?

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01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 6: Truth, I'm expecting it to look pretty much the same

1493
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:49,759
Speaker 6: all season long. It's funny here in Philadelphia there's fans

1494
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:51,880
Speaker 6: that are expecting this offense all of a sudden to

1495
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 6: be clicking and explosive and look a lot better than

1496
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 6: has this need. And I don't expect that at all.

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01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:00,559
Speaker 6: I expect the Eagles to win, but I think it's

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01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 6: going to be an ugly, boring game defensive really yeah,

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Speaker 6: And I see the Eagles win in a really close game,

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Speaker 6: which they have done basically all the regular seasons.

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Speaker 5: Listen, Ash that I'm with you, because the strength of

1502
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 5: this Eagles team, and the only real consistency on this

1503
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,639
Speaker 5: Eagles team has been the defense. And I really I'm

1504
01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:22,600
Speaker 5: interested to see how they kind of contend though with

1505
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 5: this forty nine Ers offense. With as beat up as

1506
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 5: the forty nine Ers are, they still are expected to

1507
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:29,959
Speaker 5: have their major offensive weapons given you know, Christian McCaffrey, George.

1508
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:31,599
Speaker 4: Kittle Brock Party.

1509
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:35,440
Speaker 5: So I want to know from this from a defensive perspective,

1510
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 5: how much you expect them to not really deviate, because

1511
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 5: I don't think they have to, but how they're going

1512
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:46,720
Speaker 5: to contain that offense from really scoring any points that

1513
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 5: the that Jalen Hurts can't keep up with.

1514
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,360
Speaker 6: Right, I think it all starts with Zach Bond. We

1515
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 6: know that matchup with Christian McCaffrey. Nakobe Dean gets back

1516
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:57,719
Speaker 6: here for a linebacker. So it's great that the Eagles

1517
01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:01,639
Speaker 6: defense is healthy. It's interesting everyone. A couple of weeks ago,

1518
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:04,639
Speaker 6: when we were talking about this possible matchup. You're looking

1519
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,720
Speaker 6: at Trent Williams questionable for this game, but going up

1520
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 6: against rookie Jaylyx Hunts, and at that point that looks

1521
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 6: like a real weakness. But now Jlyx Hunt, all of

1522
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:16,439
Speaker 6: a sudden, thirteen quarterback pressures in the past three weeks,

1523
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 6: he is clicking. He has found his game, and now

1524
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, you feel a lot better about

1525
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 6: the Eagles defensive line having to get past the Niners

1526
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 6: offensive line. Really, I don't worry about the Eagles secondary.

1527
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 6: They've been so consistent all year. The run defense. There's

1528
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 6: weeks where it looks dominant and there's weeks when it

1529
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 6: looks leaky. I mean, I go back to the game

1530
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 6: against the Bears, Carmen, you know so well, the Bears

1531
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 6: ran all over the Eagles, and I was like, what

1532
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 6: happened to this run defense? So I think it all

1533
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 6: boils down to what Eagles run defense shows up tomorrow.

1534
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 2: It's also kind of felt like a weird vibe around

1535
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:53,880
Speaker 2: Philly just from the outside looking in, like you had

1536
01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 2: that weird that's right positivity Rabbit.

1537
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 6: You have a J.

1538
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,759
Speaker 2: Brown being very vocal about not being happy with the offense.

1539
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:02,520
Speaker 2: Has there been any changes heading into the playoffs.

1540
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 6: I will say it is been a very fun week.

1541
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:08,759
Speaker 6: You would think normally, I feel like when the playoffs start,

1542
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:13,479
Speaker 6: you hear the narrative, it's lockdown, it's focused only football.

1543
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:16,120
Speaker 6: It's been anything but that in Philadelphia this week. And

1544
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:20,240
Speaker 6: Nick Sirianni has really talked a lot about enjoying and

1545
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 6: not taking for granted getting back to the playoffs, because

1546
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 6: it has in recent years just become consistent where you

1547
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:28,640
Speaker 6: just know you're going to make the playoffs. It's not

1548
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 6: a big of a deal. Sirianni doesn't want to look

1549
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 6: at it that way. This team just won the super

1550
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 6: Bowl to get back to the playoffs. He wants to

1551
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:37,800
Speaker 6: look at that as an accomplishment. I mean, I would

1552
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 6: go back Wednesday's locker room I thought was the most

1553
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 6: fun locker room I've been a part of all season.

1554
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:45,599
Speaker 6: No one's going home, no one's rushing out of there.

1555
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:50,240
Speaker 6: AJ Brown that the jukebox going. There's a really fun

1556
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 6: vibe at the Novacare Complex this week. And I think

1557
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:55,880
Speaker 6: it's just the message from Sirianni. Don't take this for granted,

1558
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:57,760
Speaker 6: because there are a lot of teams that want to

1559
01:11:57,800 --> 01:11:58,840
Speaker 6: be where you are right now.

1560
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:01,479
Speaker 5: Well, and it's sophomore or you know, at least a

1561
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 5: season after winning the Super Bowl is always a tricky

1562
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:06,519
Speaker 5: one for any team. It's hard to reload and to

1563
01:12:06,560 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 5: get back there, to even get back.

1564
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 4: To the postseason period.

1565
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:11,639
Speaker 5: But first of all, I gotta know what was AJ

1566
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:12,320
Speaker 5: Brown playing?

1567
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 7: Like?

1568
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 4: What's on A J. Brown's playlist?

1569
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 6: It's always always old school, always like funky, old school vibes.

1570
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:21,479
Speaker 6: And it seems like no matter what player has the

1571
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:23,639
Speaker 6: ox cord, it's the same music and everyone it's funny.

1572
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 6: Everyone always assumes that it's Jalen Hurts his playlists. But

1573
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 6: I've been asking questions and I feel like everyone has

1574
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 6: just kind of the same vibe. For example, you're not

1575
01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 6: hearing any Tim McGraw, no country, no pop like we're

1576
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:36,000
Speaker 6: consistent in the Eagles locker room.

1577
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:37,840
Speaker 4: Okay, I love that.

1578
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:38,280
Speaker 6: I love that.

1579
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 5: All right, Well, I mean, so the Eagles rested Jalen

1580
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 5: Hurts and they rested most of their starters. Then in

1581
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 5: that Week eighteen game, is there any concern about I mean,

1582
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:49,559
Speaker 5: this is I don't even I think it's just it's

1583
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:53,040
Speaker 5: coach specific. Do you are you concerned about rust or

1584
01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 5: was this just a matter of all right, we're gonna

1585
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 5: get guys as healthy as possible because we know how

1586
01:12:57,040 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 5: long the postseason can be.

1587
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 6: I mean it's sad to say, man, they were rusty

1588
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 6: before and now now to.

1589
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 5: Come and even healthier.

1590
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 6: The one question mark is Lane Johnson. I'm really curious

1591
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:13,679
Speaker 6: about that he practiced all week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, we're

1592
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 6: hearing the game time decision. Questionable practicing on Friday.

1593
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 5: Really, I think that's questionable when it comes to Lane Johnson, though,

1594
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,799
Speaker 5: I feel like he's going to be out there regardless

1595
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 5: attractively hemorrhaging.

1596
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 6: You might as well, Like I get, we have to

1597
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 6: give a designation, but this is the playoffs and it's

1598
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 6: winners go home. So that's the only question mark with

1599
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 6: this offense as a whole. My hope is, and this

1600
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 6: is the one thing that I could see flip. You

1601
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,599
Speaker 6: are forced because it's the playoffs. You're forced because it's

1602
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 6: winner and go home, forced to be more aggressive in

1603
01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:50,320
Speaker 6: your play calling and forced to make more plays on offense.

1604
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:53,559
Speaker 6: We see Jalen Hurts check down a lot, go out

1605
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:56,439
Speaker 6: of bounds a lot. My hope in Philadelphia's hope is

1606
01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 6: because your back's against the wall, maybe that forces ever

1607
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:01,160
Speaker 6: want to dial it up an onunch.

1608
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 3: Now, Philly is known.

1609
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:05,559
Speaker 2: It's one of the few places where like home field

1610
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:10,759
Speaker 2: advantage like really matters, and I personally love the Phillies

1611
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:14,120
Speaker 2: fan base. They are just aggressively passionate. It is one

1612
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 2: of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Paint the

1613
01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 2: picture for us. What is it like around town right now?

1614
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 6: I would say cautiously optimistic. And it's funny because the

1615
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,680
Speaker 6: narrative I think outside of Philadelphia is you just won

1616
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 6: the Super Bowl. You made it back to the playoffs.

1617
01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 6: What an accomplishment. Even if you lose, it's okay. It

1618
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:38,760
Speaker 6: is not okay here, and it's not okay because you

1619
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 6: return ten of eleven starters on offense. This team very

1620
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 6: much looks a lot like the Super Bowl team of

1621
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 6: last year. So one guy that's different, offensive play caller

1622
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:52,160
Speaker 6: Kevin Batulo. That's who everyone has decided it's his fault

1623
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 6: pick on him, which I don't think is necessarily fair.

1624
01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:57,759
Speaker 6: Do I think play calling could be more aggressive at times? Yes,

1625
01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:01,400
Speaker 6: but this city is not going to be okay. But

1626
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:04,680
Speaker 6: they lost to the Niners tomorrow, and I think that's

1627
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 6: just a very unique situation after you just won a

1628
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 6: Super Bowl.

1629
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:09,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. Ashland. Thank you so much for

1630
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 3: joining us. Have so much fun tomorrow, good luck.

1631
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 6: Thank you, Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

1632
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 4: Thanks Alan.

1633
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna take one more break here when

1634
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 2: we come back, we're making our wild Card weekend.

1635
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:19,880
Speaker 4: Pigs.

1636
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back to Fox

1637
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 2: Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitally. It

1638
01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:30,160
Speaker 2: is a wild Card weekend and it is time for

1639
01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:34,560
Speaker 2: our wild Card picks two games today. Obviously, Rams Panthers

1640
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 2: already going on. Rams are still up. I think the

1641
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 2: last time I looked picking this game with this no no, no, no, no, no,

1642
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:44,600
Speaker 2: we're not We're not we Uh, We're gonna start with

1643
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:45,880
Speaker 2: the afternoon game.

1644
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 3: But producer Bree lead us through here.

1645
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 11: Alrighty guys, we'll start off in Chicago, where Carmen is

1646
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 11: headed very soon listen, minutes, very very soon. The Packers

1647
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:59,679
Speaker 11: are a point and a half favorite, so we'll go Alex.

1648
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, it's been.

1649
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 2: Fifteen years, you guys since the Bears have won a

1650
01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 2: playoff game, Carmie, it feels like their time, and with

1651
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:12,400
Speaker 2: the Packers being favored as a lower seed and on

1652
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 2: the road, I feel like it's just going to add

1653
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 2: fuel to that Bears fire. We talked about if they

1654
01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:20,400
Speaker 2: split the regular season matchup one to one, both in December,

1655
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:22,320
Speaker 2: so they are freshly familiar with each other.

1656
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 3: But I'm going to take the Bears.

1657
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 4: Wow, Bears.

1658
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 5: This line has moved so many so much over the

1659
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:30,160
Speaker 5: course of this week.

1660
01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 3: Right, Oh, it's like it did again.

1661
01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 5: No, but no, it's been moving, so it's really anyone's game, right, Yeah,

1662
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 5: But I think what gets lost in and I was

1663
01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:40,840
Speaker 5: at the I was at that Week sixteen game. The

1664
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:44,639
Speaker 5: Bears needed a once in a lifetime series of events

1665
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 5: to happen to pull that game out. And while the

1666
01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:50,479
Speaker 5: Bears are much improved over the beginning of this season,

1667
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:52,680
Speaker 5: and I think they have a bright future ahead of them,

1668
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:53,840
Speaker 5: I don't think they're there.

1669
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:55,920
Speaker 4: I don't think they're there.

1670
01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 5: Packers are coming in with a healthy Jordan Love, with

1671
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:03,520
Speaker 5: a healthy Josh Jacob, with the experience of the postseason

1672
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 5: behind them, and a good coach and Matt Lafleur.

1673
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 4: I'm taking the Packers. Sorry, fair say right, we'll see.

1674
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 5: I'm not saying it's gonna be close, like if the

1675
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 5: Packers win, it's gonna be by the skin of their teeth.

1676
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:19,400
Speaker 3: But yeah, you made your call.

1677
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:20,479
Speaker 4: I made my call.

1678
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 5: I've been saying it all week. I said it on

1679
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 5: Chicago Radio two. I'm not backing down from it.

1680
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 9: Wow, alrighty, next game. I didn't see that coming.

1681
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 11: Okay, the Bills are favored by a point and a half.

1682
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 9: Let's go.

1683
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:35,599
Speaker 4: All right, let's I'll start on this one.

1684
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Bills. I think there's

1685
01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 5: been enough chatter and they have enough experience. I think

1686
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:43,040
Speaker 5: that Liam Cohen has done the phenomenal job in Jacksonville

1687
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 5: in his first year. He's unlock Trevor Lawrence. He's playing

1688
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence, playing the best ball of his career. But

1689
01:17:48,479 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 5: I still think that Josh Allen is still Josh Allen

1690
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 5: until uh and especially for what we heard from Maddie

1691
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:56,639
Speaker 5: and about their kind of fixes for the run defense there,

1692
01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 5: which is a good call out by her that three

1693
01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:01,080
Speaker 5: three five kind of scheme that they've switched into and

1694
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 5: take the Bills.

1695
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the pressure is on Josh Allen and the Bills.

1696
01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 2: And as a reminder, Josh Allen is zero to four

1697
01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:10,559
Speaker 2: on the road in playoff games. He has to win

1698
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:13,640
Speaker 2: this game like he has to win this game, I

1699
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 2: think for a lot.

1700
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:18,679
Speaker 3: Of reasons for legacy his coach.

1701
01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 2: I mean, they're facing a very hot Jags team that

1702
01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:24,600
Speaker 2: are on eight game win streak. But again, this is

1703
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:27,320
Speaker 2: another like one and a half point favorite, but it's

1704
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 2: going to be a point flip.

1705
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:31,080
Speaker 11: I'm going to take the Bills Alrighty. Back to the NFC,

1706
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 11: the forty nine Ers at Eagles. Eagles are favored by

1707
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:36,719
Speaker 11: five and a half points it moved to six.

1708
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 9: So I'll go with what Alex had.

1709
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:45,480
Speaker 2: Fine, that's playing at home in Philly is a huge advantage.

1710
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 2: They're healthy, even though you're just talking to Ashlin and

1711
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 2: their offense has been chaotic and she's expecting more of

1712
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,000
Speaker 2: that tomorrow.

1713
01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 3: But the forty nine Ers defense is beat up.

1714
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 2: And you also mentioned this car though, like I, somehow

1715
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 2: they're pulling it off, and they continue to pull it

1716
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 2: off this year. But I think the Eagles have the

1717
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:08,920
Speaker 2: edge and take this one.

1718
01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:09,920
Speaker 4: I do too.

1719
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 5: I really think that if being at the Link, which

1720
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 5: is a rowdy, rowdy place, I also think just because

1721
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:20,719
Speaker 5: the Eagles defense again is the identity of the team.

1722
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:23,160
Speaker 5: It's been the picture of consistency this season. It's been

1723
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:26,120
Speaker 5: the reason that they are kind of pulling it together

1724
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:28,400
Speaker 5: even though the offense has been so chaotic. And so

1725
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:31,679
Speaker 5: if you can limit Christian McCaffrey, you can limit George Kittle,

1726
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 5: if you can limit you can get to brock party.

1727
01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:37,120
Speaker 5: That's gonna prevent them Niners from being able from going

1728
01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:39,160
Speaker 5: into a shootout that maybe you won't be able to win.

1729
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:41,040
Speaker 5: I think the only way that the Niners win this

1730
01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:43,760
Speaker 5: is if they force a shootout with the Eagles, and

1731
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:45,719
Speaker 5: I don't really see that happening with that Eagles defense.

1732
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:46,760
Speaker 4: I'm going to Eagles too, a right.

1733
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 11: The Sunday night game, Chargers at Patriots, New England's favored

1734
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 11: by three and a half points.

1735
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 5: Harmony, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go real quick on this.

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01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I think I'm gonna say Chargers. I really don't.

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01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 5: I listen. I think Drake May is the MVP. The

1738
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 5: Patriots are coming. I don't think they're there yet. And

1739
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 5: I think that Jim Harbough hasn't locked enough out of

1740
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 5: Justin Herbert for him for him to lead them to

1741
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:11,719
Speaker 5: a playoff victory in New England.

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01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 3: I'm with you. I'm taking Chargers get the upset on

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01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 3: the road. Okay.

1744
01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 9: Last game, last game, Texans at Steelers. Texans are three

1745
01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 9: point favorites out.

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01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:18,599
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1747
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 2: Under Mike Tomlins, Steelers, like I said, leven to zero

1748
01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 2: in Monday night games played at home in Pittsburgh. They

1749
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 2: got the veteranship.

1750
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:29,599
Speaker 3: Of Aaron Rodgers. I think the Steelers pull the upset.

1751
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:32,639
Speaker 4: Like I said, defense full of the gun blends.

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01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:34,560
Speaker 2: I'm going to Texans all right, Karen, I have so

1753
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 2: much fun at the game tonight. Thank you for spending

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01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:39,680
Speaker 2: your Saturday afternoon with us. We'll see you next week,

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01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:40,679
Speaker 2: same time, same place,