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Patriots Unfiltered 1/8: Chargers Preview, Team News/Updates, Wild Card Weekend Picks · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Patriots Unfiltered.
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  Speaker 3: The AFC's wide open. It's a pretty even feel. There's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a loser in every one of these games,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and it's going to come down to bad
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  Speaker 3: call or turn over, jeez or whatever. I'm so proud
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  Speaker 3: of your friend.
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  Speaker 4: No one's right out of my flat working out played.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to come down.
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  Speaker 4: And Fred, you know that I spent a lot of
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  Speaker 4: my time not only rooting for the Boston teams, but
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  Speaker 4: rooting for Northeastern, which means I have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: losing and a lot of callous day after games, you know, mentality.
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  Speaker 5: I think the reason why a lot of people are
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  Speaker 5: dreading losing this game is because they've heard all year
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  Speaker 5: long that this team is fraudulent because of the schedule
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  Speaker 5: that they played.
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  Speaker 6: So what seven, I had a party and final whistle,
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  Speaker 6: I just took the balloon, I popped it and I
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  Speaker 6: went to my room. The first five minutes talking about
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  Speaker 6: it might be disappointing if the Patriots lose, and now
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  Speaker 6: we're talking about two other teams that if they.
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  Speaker 3: Lose, their coaches might get fired. Right, that's how stream
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  Speaker 3: it is.
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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome the Patriots Unfiltered.
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  Speaker 3: It is Thursday here at Gillette Stadium, and it's wild
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  Speaker 3: Card week. As you know, we're getting ready for the
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, are we ready? Is the hey in the
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  Speaker 1: barn here at Patriots Unfiltered. Feel a little surreal this week?
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  Speaker 6: I'd say it just doesn't I know, it just jump
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  Speaker 6: right into it and it feels like you're.
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  Speaker 1: Still on the treadmill, you know.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what I keep doing, what you've been doing
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  Speaker 6: the three weeks of show, the pregame, everything, And I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, it's just it feels a little surreal right now,
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  Speaker 6: and I don't think it's quite settled in.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be a giant game here on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is going to be giant. NBC bringing
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people here. Yeah, yeah, they we're told
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be bringing a very large footprint. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 3: so cool?
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  Speaker 1: You like that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm guessing he doesn't just like, just play the game.
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  Speaker 1: You get one v cameras. Yeah, like, all right, play
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 5: As long as as long as we got the eye
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  Speaker 5: in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: I really think we all have the fun. Just use
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  Speaker 1: your phone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think if if Evan could just play this
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  Speaker 3: out in like a computer, he'd rather do that.
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  Speaker 5: I'd rather just play the game and not deal with
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  Speaker 5: all the other nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's part of the fun. We're back in
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  Speaker 3: the mix even like, you're too young. You weren't here
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  Speaker 3: when we were in the middle of it. Every year,
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  Speaker 3: like you're the team, you're not that conversations every year.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone hates us because it was the Patriots. We're bat baby.
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  Speaker 5: I literally was physically in New Orleans when they won
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  Speaker 5: their first Super Bowl. But I'm too young.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about working here. You're too young. You're you're
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  Speaker 3: not a veteran here yet.
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  Speaker 5: That's true. Neither is Deuce's second playoff right, third playoff game.
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  Speaker 6: But like one playoff game, this is totally your fault.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert of p U.
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  Speaker 6: That's like, is my job on the line on Sunday?
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  Speaker 3: You're out? Could be I can't I can't get my
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  Speaker 3: team to win a playoff game.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, great regular season player, I don't want you
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  Speaker 5: anywhere near them because the rest I.
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  Speaker 3: Hope you were sick and tired of not winning a
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  Speaker 3: playoff game as you are twelve and four seasons, right,
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  Speaker 3: that's why, That's why, right?
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  Speaker 1: Right? So all right, special?
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  Speaker 3: So do we fail any different about you guys are
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  Speaker 3: than we did on Tuesday?
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  Speaker 4: You guys are making me feel better, you three and
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  Speaker 4: you know, I got sort of bashed around a little
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  Speaker 4: bit yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Like the Princess of positivity on the sports Hub wark.
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  Speaker 4: I figure if those two guys you know, can be
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  Speaker 4: like this and maybe I'm maybe I'm worrying a little
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  Speaker 4: bit too much about some of the.
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  Speaker 5: Things, but they're doing it as it work like they're the.
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  Speaker 4: Patriots, them out of it, you guys, right, making me
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  Speaker 4: feel better?
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  Speaker 3: What a failure?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I would say a little bit of injury
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  Speaker 6: news just from yesterday with the reports and Kiris Toga
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  Speaker 6: being the one who do didn't come back, so that
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  Speaker 6: is something to monitor. But Omari and Hampton did not practice. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: there were a couple other guys, but they were rest
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  Speaker 6: I know Khalil Mack was among them. Illnesses illnesses and
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  Speaker 6: the illnesses were the rest for the Patriots. But I
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  Speaker 6: think those are two significant ones just for the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: Tonga.
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  Speaker 6: I mean they're kind of related, right, It's like Tonga
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  Speaker 6: the run stopper on one side and the running back
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  Speaker 6: on the other. With Hampton, so we'll see, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: he's a he's a good player.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I kind of watch marilinear and I really thought he
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  Speaker 6: was really good. And then as I watched more and
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  Speaker 6: towards the end of the season, I'm like, he's okay.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't know how you guys felt the at them,
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  Speaker 6: but I like him.
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  Speaker 3: He's okay.
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  Speaker 4: He missed the big chunk in the middle of the season.
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  Speaker 4: That's hard for a rookie. But I came to the
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  Speaker 4: conclusion that maybe that I'm so impressed with some of
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  Speaker 4: the numbers that the Chargers defense has and I'm not
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  Speaker 4: taking consideration the amount of time the charges offense holds
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  Speaker 4: the ball. I sort of tucked myself into this during
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  Speaker 4: my hour yesterday on Sunshine dot Com. I wonder if
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  Speaker 4: maybe I'm overrating the Chargers defense a little bit because
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  Speaker 4: I think the charges were second in the league or
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  Speaker 4: some places they have first in the league.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how that.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know how that's changes time for drive.
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  Speaker 5: You and we had a very lengthy conversation about this yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: to the point where I think I'm just gonna ask,
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  Speaker 5: because there are number two in time of possession everywhere,
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  Speaker 5: and then Rabel keeps on referencing that they're number one
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  Speaker 5: in some metric. So does like Stretch have like a
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  Speaker 5: secret like time of possession metric that they use, or like,
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  Speaker 5: what's going on?
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  Speaker 6: Did time per drive maybe? Like, No, they're not number
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  Speaker 6: two in that one too. I mean, it's probably close, right, it's.
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  Speaker 5: About thirty seconds difference between them and Buffalo, and.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if that protects the defense. It makes me
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  Speaker 4: want to go back and the defense's numbers a little
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  Speaker 4: bit better than they really are.
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  Speaker 6: It makes me want to go back and look at
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  Speaker 6: games where maybe time of possession was more even or
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  Speaker 6: maybe even skew to the other team, and how did
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  Speaker 6: the defense perform.
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the underrated aspects of this game
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  Speaker 3: that the Patriots need to get right in order to
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  Speaker 3: win is communication on defense. And that's where I'm hoping
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  Speaker 3: the return of Spelane will help because the way that
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  Speaker 3: they keep the ball is you know, they it's nickel
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  Speaker 3: and Dimia down the field. You know, right, they're not
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  Speaker 3: hitting big play, they're not an explosive offense. They they're
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  Speaker 3: just very efficient and they divert their downs. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that middle of the field you need someone out
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  Speaker 3: there that's keeping everybody on the same page, because they'll
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  Speaker 3: put you in a blender.
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  Speaker 1: They'll they'll mix around.
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  Speaker 3: He'll he'll just right bit the ball to any one
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  Speaker 3: of you know, his receivers. He doesn't force it to
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  Speaker 3: any one guy. So you've got to be on your
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  Speaker 3: on your toes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I like it.
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  Speaker 6: When was the last time this defense as it will
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  Speaker 6: be constituted on Sunday night, all play together. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you've got to go back before the bye. So I
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  Speaker 6: agree with your point. And the question for me is
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  Speaker 6: does it just resume and we pick it right up
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  Speaker 6: and and everybody's on the same page and the rush
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  Speaker 6: is coordinated, and you know, Evan and I shot our
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  Speaker 6: preview and trying to challenge these backup offensive linemen for
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  Speaker 6: the Chargers. You want to you know, run stunts. But
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  Speaker 6: we've also seen times recently miscommunications, guys don't get the call,
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  Speaker 6: you blow a corner, you know, you blow the edge,
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  Speaker 6: and Josh Allen steps out and converts a big touchdown
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  Speaker 6: you know, in long yardage. So yeah, I think it's
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  Speaker 6: it's really interesting just and it goes back to the
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  Speaker 6: main point for me of just what do they look
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  Speaker 6: like these new guys coming right back in after a
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  Speaker 6: few weeks off.
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  Speaker 1: Are they rusty? Are they ready to go? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I would think, you know, with Spalline being a veteran
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  Speaker 3: and everything, I think he'll be ready. He seems you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like riding like him. He'll he'll get right back
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  Speaker 3: up on it.
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  Speaker 1: He will lead them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you will lead, You will lead. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, they they they it feels like they live in
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  Speaker 5: like third and short and third and medium.
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  Speaker 3: So I watched all of them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it feels like that's what they live in
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  Speaker 5: because like they on time, it's just they that's the
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  Speaker 5: way that they kind of drive the ball is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's first and ten becomes second and five, and second
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  Speaker 5: and five becomes third and one and third and one
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  Speaker 5: becomes a first down, and it's just over and over
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  Speaker 5: and over again. And that's sort of the cycle that
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  Speaker 5: you want to try to break. And I to me, though,
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  Speaker 5: I think it it kind of starts on with the
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  Speaker 5: Patriots offense. Like if the Patriots offense can put some
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  Speaker 5: points on the board early and get the Chargers to
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  Speaker 5: have to playoff schedule, that's when you start to you know,
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  Speaker 5: kind of expose that offensive line to drop back passing
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  Speaker 5: and the play action kind of goes away, and the
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  Speaker 5: run game kind of goes away. And now you're in
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  Speaker 5: the fourth quarter and Josh Justin Herbert's dropping back for
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  Speaker 5: the forty fifth time in the game. Like, that's that's
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  Speaker 5: where you want to get this Charger's team. You want
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  Speaker 5: to make them play from behind. You don't want to
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  Speaker 5: let them control the tempo of the game, because that's
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  Speaker 5: they want to grind you out. They want to choke
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  Speaker 5: you out and possess the ball and keep the score down.
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  Speaker 3: Do you dare them to beat you lng and just
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  Speaker 3: crash down and and and you know, cover everything short,
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  Speaker 3: be aggressive, you know, because they're going to try to
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  Speaker 3: get the ball out of Herbert's hand because they know
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  Speaker 3: that their offensive line is a little weak.
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  Speaker 6: So I like how you're thinking, men, it's definitely a
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  Speaker 6: little risky, but you know Quinton Johnson, Yeah, that's the one.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one you gotta watch out for him.
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  Speaker 4: He might not catch it because he's he's a little
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  Speaker 4: he's a little inconsistent. He's not quite a d Mitchell inconsistent.
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  Speaker 4: He's a lot better than that. But he does have
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  Speaker 4: some occasional drops. But he can get behind you. He
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  Speaker 4: can run.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Yeah, And.
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  Speaker 4: Just to Evan's point about the you know the second
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  Speaker 4: and five, third and one, the Chargers are really good
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  Speaker 4: on third down.
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  Speaker 1: They've attempted like fifty two.
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  Speaker 4: More third downs in the Patriots, so they're comfortable going
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  Speaker 4: three plays at a time to get a first down.
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  Speaker 4: The Patriots have obviously been more explosive explosive with May's
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  Speaker 4: downfield passing, they haven't needed as many.
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  Speaker 3: Third downs number four in plays per drive.
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  Speaker 1: So you're just they're holding the ball.
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  Speaker 3: They're so on my long commute, as often I do,
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  Speaker 3: I have time to muse.
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  Speaker 1: And we thank you for your service.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things I was thinking about is
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  Speaker 3: the chess game that this game will be. And you've
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  Speaker 3: got Drake May who's never been in this position before,
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  Speaker 3: never been in an NFL playoff game, and we've seen
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  Speaker 3: at times during the season where early in games he's
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  Speaker 3: maybe a little bit too much adrenaline, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, overthrowing.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm I'm the Chargers defensive coordinator and I'm thinking
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  Speaker 3: to myself, all right, how are the Patriots going to handle.
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  Speaker 1: May in this game?
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  Speaker 3: And will they say, Okay, we want to get him
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  Speaker 3: comfortable early, so we're going to set him up with
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  Speaker 3: some short passes, get some early successes.
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  Speaker 1: To kind of you know, calm him down a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if that's the case, they do what I
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  Speaker 3: think the Patriots it might do is we're gonna crash down.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna take away those short throws. We're gonna you know,
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  Speaker 3: have some incompletions early to maybe rattle his confidence. Then
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to Josh McDaniels and I'm thinking to myself, Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to set him up with early success.
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  Speaker 3: But I know that we want to do that, so
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  Speaker 3: let's take some early shots, you know, let's let you know.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 8: This is exactly how you lose football games, because like
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  Speaker 8: you can't like this is you gotta take what they
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  Speaker 8: give you right, like if you start to get into
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  Speaker 8: this pretzel of like, well, they think we're gonna do this,
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  Speaker 8: and then we think we're gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Do So how would you handle a first time quarterback
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  Speaker 3: like Drake May has never been in a playoff game.
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  Speaker 5: I get him outside the pocket, I try to move
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  Speaker 5: the pocket first couple of throws, get him out on
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  Speaker 5: the perimeter, let him use his legs a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I know that this is gonna sound weird, but like
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  Speaker 5: maybe let him get hit and like just let him.
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  Speaker 5: You got to get him in to the game, you know,
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  Speaker 5: And I think that, uh that that's what I would
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  Speaker 5: I would do is I would try to give him
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  Speaker 5: some bunnies early on. You know, can you get him
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  Speaker 5: on a boulet, get him outside the pocket, he dumps
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  Speaker 5: it to Hunter Henry and the flat for you know,
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  Speaker 5: positive yards and now you're rolling or he runs away
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  Speaker 5: first play for him, that too, that that could work too.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's there's definitely conversations about different quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 5: how they handle that. You know that that amped up
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  Speaker 5: energy early on, and a lot of them say that
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  Speaker 5: getting hit or getting you know, your legs involved and
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  Speaker 5: kind of getting moving is big, and I think that
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  Speaker 5: we talked about it on the preview, like it, avoiding
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  Speaker 5: three and out on the first drive feels like such
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  Speaker 5: a big thing for this team because you want to
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  Speaker 5: get him into a rhythm and get him calm down
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  Speaker 5: and into the game. And I think that if the
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  Speaker 5: Chargers defense, you know, they force a ton of three
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  Speaker 5: and outs, and if you kind of get into a
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  Speaker 5: game where they go three and out and the Chargers
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  Speaker 5: go on one of these ten twelve play drives and
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  Speaker 5: the whole first quarter is over and Drake Mays, you know,
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  Speaker 5: is on the sideline the entire time, I think that's
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  Speaker 5: what you really want to avoid.
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  Speaker 3: I like the point though Fred and Evan. Evan brought
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  Speaker 3: it up too.
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  Speaker 6: It's just we've seen that, we seen Mey get a
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  Speaker 6: little riled up, and as you said, first playoff game,
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  Speaker 6: what's what's it going to look like trying to take steps.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's a really good thing to keep in
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  Speaker 6: mind as you go into the game.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't mind taking a shot early though, I mean
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  Speaker 4: not necessarily saying that, don't give him a bunny to get,
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  Speaker 4: you know, on the very first player, but I mean
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  Speaker 4: somewhere early on. Have him get the ball downfield, because
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  Speaker 4: I find that he's more accurate when he does that,
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  Speaker 4: and then I sort of think that opens things up,
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  Speaker 4: you know, from there on, you know, like that thinking
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  Speaker 4: like the Buffalo game, he takes a shot downfield to
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  Speaker 4: Booty right away, you know, one of those not necessarily
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  Speaker 4: saying the first pass or the first play, but somewhere
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  Speaker 4: in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking about him, have him to air it out
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Did you guys read the thing he posted on players Tribute?
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  Speaker 3: I did? That was something Yeah, yeah, I just it.
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  Speaker 6: Was just talking about a gambling addiction really, you know,
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  Speaker 6: when he was in college, and uh, you know, credit
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  Speaker 6: to him for coming out and saying all those things.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think it's it's really a big thing.
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  Speaker 6: I read reading and I'm like, I got to talk
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  Speaker 6: to my kids about this because I think it's becoming
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  Speaker 6: a huge problem.
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  Speaker 3: He made a good point, you know, like if you
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  Speaker 3: go into these casinos, He's right, there's no windows, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they the climate is made so that you're comfortable, right.
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  Speaker 3: They don't want you to know what time it is.
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  Speaker 3: There's no clocks on the wall, and He's and they
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  Speaker 3: want you to get lost in your gambling, and he said,
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  Speaker 3: the apps are kind of the same thing. You're in
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  Speaker 3: your bed at night, lights off, the only thing on
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  Speaker 3: is you and your phone, and you're kind of lost
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  Speaker 3: in that app and that's all your when you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you have a problem, that's all you're thinking about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and he's he said, it is what it is. You know,
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: it's it's really he's not making any excuses, but it's dangerous.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: No.
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: He really appreciated the support from the organization after it
• 14:52
  Speaker 6: came out. I think it was what two years ago
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: when all the things he was doing in college. But
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: I also it changed the way I see his journey
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: a little bit. We've talked about how he's you know,
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: emerged from that guy he didn't really know where he
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: was going to be as a rookie and he didn't
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: get his feet and bounds all that stuff to the
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: emergence of what he's been this season, and this added
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: such depth to it to me of a guy who
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: not just getting his life in order on the field,
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: but off the field as well, and able to, you know,
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: kind of admit that he had a problem.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: And in that first year here, he literally walked out
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: of his offensive meeting, got in his car and said,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: I'm not playing anymore.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: I'm done.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna play football anymore. And you know, they
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: they talked him back, thank goodness. But yeah, he was
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: on the edge of you know, never even playing hard
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: to play for Bill.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: That was a part of it too.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that he did adjust to it.
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: But it sounds like he's in a pretty good place
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: right now with with how things are going.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: So yeah, but I would suggest anyone go to Players
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Tribune and look, you know, just search for Casehaan but
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Booty and and read that. It was a really interesting read.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought him talking about his early days at
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: LSU and his journey was it kind of puts into
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: perspective like why he fell to the sixth round and
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff, because he was he was
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: the next guy at LSU early on the numbers three.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Was putting up in some of those games, and.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Just the recruit you know, all of it, Like he
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: was supposed to be the next Jamar Chase justin Jefferson
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: obj like he was supposed to be the next LSU
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: wide receiver and he looked like it as a freshman
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: and then he broke his ankle and then he had
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: these you know, off the field problems, and all of
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: a sudden, he goes from everybody thought he was going
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: to be a star and be a first round pick
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: and all that to a sixth round pick, and it
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: just it kind of tells you how far his journey
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: has come in there.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: You know, he's one of the surprises this year. I
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: would say, yeah, it's interesting.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: The other point I got from that and some other
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: stuff is just I think sports scambling, the proliferation of
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: it is changing the way people watch sports and roof
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: for sports, similar to the way that fantasy football did.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: When you're kind of going away from allegiances to teams,
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: you're going towards players, and you know, now, it's it's
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: even different. You're looking at the odds, you're looking at bets,
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: you're looking at all these different like little micro data
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: points that you're rooting for now of like a guy
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: to have more than three receptions or that kind of thing.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: So it's just, uh no, it's it's tough out there.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: I'm kind of in a way, I'm glad that we
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: can't do it because I'm just not even tempted because
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: I know it would be easy just to you know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: I'm watching a random Bruins game on a Friday night
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: with nothing to do, and hey, let's put a couple
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: of butts on it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: You know, might be tapping that app. And yeah I
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: didn't work for a team.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: You do wonder like with this stuff, like with these
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: new like polymarket and stuff like those betting apps that
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: where you can bet on like normal things.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Like I was.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Thinking, like does that affect us too? Like those are
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: you know those are like bet on with the weather.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: It's really stuff like that, and.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Those things are those things are a problem. Like this
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: is a totally different conversation, but.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Take your money.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Those things need to be regulated.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Lookod for booty.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: People just need to be careful.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Play market is in those are bad news. Like if
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: you read some of the stuff about it, it's bad.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: There's just some people that are more susceptible to that
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: than others.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, it's just no question.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: But if you have a compulsive personality or whatever it is,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: we're going to fall into that track.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: And that was good.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: And I have a million friends growing up, you know,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: like I and I know it's easier now and Mike
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: is right. There's more uh more options in turns, you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: player prop bets and all that kind of stuff. But
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: I could give you at least a couple of dozen
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: kids in the eighties that had real, real serious albums.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: It's an addiction. It's just like alcoholism or you know,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: any any kind of drug abuse. It's a compulsive uh,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: you know behavior, and it's it's absolutely an addictive personality
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: trait that you know, I guess anybody could have.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Kid from bu who the book he took his car.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they took his car.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I had a kid that I played, I played baseball
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: with in high school that literally every Friday they would
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: come to his house. They would come to his work,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: get his check, go to the bank, give him twenty bucks,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: and they take the rest until he was paid up.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Wow. And that went on for a long time.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: And this is like a young adult who was living
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: off of twenty dollars a week because the bookie was
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: taking the rest.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: And what are you going to do? Go to the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: cops right right now?
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that on the Patriots. Just thought I'd bring
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: that up because I like the Patriots. Booty's name got mentioned,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: and our picks are for entertainment purposes only, right.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially on this show.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And he's an X factor in this game.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: We want to talk and get it back to football
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: and not talk about gambling.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: A d well.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: I keep thinking of you keep talking about all the
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: quarter stuff, and then the whole big buzzword quarters this
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: year was you know, you throw deep on the quarters, right.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: So yeah, and Ben Kyle Williams on the outside, I
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: think is a big part of this game. I think
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: those two guys are gonna have opportunities one on one
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: coverage down the field and you know, against Saint Juice
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: or Cam Hard or Dante Jackson, and if they can
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: win those matchups, even it doesn't have to be when
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: you're catching sixty yard bombs. You don't have to win
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: ten of them. You just have to win one or two,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: and that can really tilt the game. So I'm I'm
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: sure when Drake Maycy's quarters backside, he's throwing that thing
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: over the top. I can tell you that.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: When Big Head Andy Hart was on the show, we
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: used to talk about games declaring themselves, you know, after
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: the first quarter or whatever. But I found this year
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: with Patriots games, games haven't really been declaring themselves always
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: like there's been roller coasters and been shifts and things change.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: But do you think this game will declare itself early?
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: That's I don't want to think about that for a
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: second because I think, to Avan's point, what's in my
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: head is that this I hope it doesn't, I think
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: because I think sometimes the Patriots need a little bit
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: of a a.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Runway to get get warmed up a little bit.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: I don't know, and this is just all kind of
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: based on my foggy memories of each of these games.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: But you know, Evans thing with a team that wants
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: to possess the ball, and you know, I can handle
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: it if the Patriots defense goes three and out but
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: then they force a punt, but you know it just
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: you cannot let the game declare itself that the Chargers
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: are going to have no problem executing ten twelve play drives?
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Will Will there be a first drive touchdown by the Chargers?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: You think, No, No, I don't.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: I'm kind of with Paul, But maybe that's just because
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I don't really respect grog Rom and all that much.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: But I think that you know, it's it's one of
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: those games. You know, I've seen you know, the Chargers
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: all in play all their big games, you know, down
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: the stretch here at this point, and they they tend
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: to flip a switch at some point in the in
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: the middle of the game defensively and they start to
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: ratchet up the heat on the quarterback. And that's I think,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: what's really I'm waiting for. Like I think early on
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: they kind of do you know what Fred's talking about,
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: They kind of just let the opponent get out of
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: their script and get it out of their system. And
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: then they you know, started to start to get a
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: little bit more aggressive as the game wears on and
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: almost kind of like lull you into that where you
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: know where now all of a sudden, like oh, you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: the whole thing changed, and now they're just sending a
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: lot of pressure at the quarterback. So that that's I
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: think what you know, talking to some of the players yesterday,
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: you know, Digs and some of the receivers, you know,
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: that's what they're kind of expecting is that the Chargers
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: are going to kind of come out in this game
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: and soft zone and you know, kind of let the
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Patriots you know, get their their scripted plays out of
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: their system and then Jesse Mint's like real game plan
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: will start like somewhere around halftime, and that's when what
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: they're going to have to be really ready for.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: What's like, what do you think takes the Chargers out
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: of what they want to do? More like throwing deep
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: an effective run game? You know, how do you how
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: do you get them out of what they want to do?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I think you got to play it like I got
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: a lead.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I think getting well offensively, but defensively, you know, they
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: aren't really built. I don't think to play a ton
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: of man coverage like I don't think they have the
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: personnel to morph into like a man coverage defense. So
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: if the Patriots are scheming open receivers in their zones
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: and you know, Josh McDaniel's in his bag and he's
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: finding ways to get guys open, you know what they
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: what do they do?
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: Now?
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Historically it's pressure, Like they just start bringing pressure and
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: try to heat the quarterback up. But you know, Drake
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: May has been great against the Blitz this year and
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: the Patriots have had answers most for the most part
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: against that. So can you get them, you know, to
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: have to play a little bit more man to man
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: then maybe they want to. I don't. I don't. Again,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: I don't know if they're really built for that. You know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: they're they're more built as a zone defense.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Well on their offensive side. For the Charges, a guy
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: named Bill Belichick was on the Let's Go podcast he's
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: back on now that this season's over, and he was
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: talking about all the matchups and of this one, he
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: said that, you know, the Charges aren't built as a
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: team to come from behind like that, that they're.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Not good at that.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: So almost like someone says, yeah, so if you can,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: you know, if you get the lead on them and
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: start they become one dimensional, they're kind of cooked.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're cooked.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I was impressed with that, I really was. I was
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: impressed with that. Seven seven subs on the offensive line.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: They don't want to throw it forty five times. Well,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: that's interesting. You know, there's an embarrassment. He talked about
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: every He talked about every playoff game, talked about every
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: playoff team except for one.
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: I know.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: I was an embarrassment again that part of him. Two
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: in two full years of embarrassments. He added another one
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: to the mix, that part of it with an analysis
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: that Beth Perlo could have easily provided yes, yes.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: The tackles are out of it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: On the offensive line. You don't want to have Justin
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Herbert dropping back forty five times. They're not built for that. Thanks,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: thanks for playing. Not one mention of Drake May the
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: MVP of the league. Not one mentioned that he's stunk.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Not one mention. No, that was that was kind of weird.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I agreed that part of it was.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: I know it's weird me playing the role of wall defender,
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: but that was an embarrassment.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that rual was is he gonna get any interviews
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: this cycle? We think, I don't know.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Some smoke earlier.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: I think, like in December, we had some reports that
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: there are teams interested.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Well, now's the time when you actually see that.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Guess, I'm just confused as to like where I what
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: is the smoke? Like, he has a job. He's coaching
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: North Carolina. So unless he makes it clear that he
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: wants out of North Carolina and he wants.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Back and someone wanted him, they would contact him and
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: then he would say, well, no, I have a job,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: or oh yeah, I'm interested in talking about that. I
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: just come back to the same thing for two full
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: years anybody could have hired him, anybody that no one
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: wanted him, one team talked to him, and in the
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: two years that have transpired, there's been nothing but one
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: misstep after the next, and now everybody's gonna want him.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: I never say never, because I think some of these
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: owners in these leagues, all leagues, not just the NFL,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: make really curious decisions. Who could not across sports as
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: felgrinam As always say, but how could you ever predict
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: a guy who is a fairly accomplished NBA player like
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Trey Young wants to go to the Washington Wizards, one
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: of the worst teams in the NBA. I have no
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: accounting for these decisions that guys can make. Sometimes someone
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: might might say that Bill's the guy, but he's done
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: nothing but hurt his coaching legacy, not just off field.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about the clown show off the field.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about his coaching. No one wanted him for
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: two years and he's done nothing really to change anybody's
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: mind to make them know, jeez, I wish we had
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: done that instead of what we did.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: That's sort of my what my point was was, just
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: like what has changed about the situation that now, all
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: of a sudden, somebody is going to be super.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Since makes the heart grow fonder absence of what In
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: this case, he's not absent.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: He's in the news every other day.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: He's on the Let's Go podcasts.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Talking about you know, anybody but the MVP Hi Alex.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: He wanted to go to Washington after he found out
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: he had no other options. Okay, yeah, Trey Young was like,
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: I actually want to go to and then like nobody
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: wanted him, and so then he was like, I'll go
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: to the Wizards.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Like I thought.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: He wanted to go to Washington. That was the mark
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Stein report I saw yesterday.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: You know, we got some casual people in this market
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: with the NBA.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: I am casual, but I was reading mark Stein. I
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: thought he was an insider.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Well, since we're talking about things not patriot, we might
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: as well mention that Mike McDaniel can from the Dolans.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Eight now right, yeah, eight openings.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: That's pretty wild.
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: It is a notable one.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean do you think.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: That, like, like I know it it seems self centered,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: but do you think that the success that these first
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: time head coaches are having Liam Cohen, Ben Johnson Mike
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Vrabel are getting more teams even more impatient.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I think there's eight every year really on average, this
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: eight every year. I also don't think you last three
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: years and on the fourth year if you if you're
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: not the guy, you're gone.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: I also think in this one, like Harboss Stefanski, like McDaniel,
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: like those guys have been in their jobs for a
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: little while.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're not. They're not getting let go because Liam
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Cohen had a good first it wasn't a one and
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: done in situation.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Don't think that puts pressure on them to like, we
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: got to do something. We can't stick with this guy,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: We've got to get somebody new.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, Dabele was that with the Giants for what
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: three years? Right, Like, it's not like these guys were
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: all his fourth year.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, then they're not Like to me, that would be
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Aaron Glenn if he gets let go, well you had
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: a year, Well Liam Coman Cohen only had a year.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Why can't you do what he did? You got to
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: go right, you know. But this is like, I mean,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: forget Hardball because obviously that's an anomaly. But McDaniel, Dabele,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Stefanski all been there four four years, five you know
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Stefanski longer.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Morris got multiple years and.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: He got two years, right, so he would be closer
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: to what you were talking about.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Fred.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Maybe they're the ones that regret Belichick. Maybe they're going
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: to revisit imagine that's the only team, that's the only
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: team that talk.
• 29:16
  Speaker 12: About if they were like, you know what, just kidding.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: There's your guy.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: But see then now Belichick has all the leverage and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. Yeah, exactly, have to throw them out.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that Bridges burned a little bit.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: You think, Yeah, it's interesting though, who's going to end
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: up in Miami? And you know what that job now
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: entails when you look at what the Patriots and Bills
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: are doing, and it's.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: Always an interesting job because they do have deep pockets
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: and well quarterback.
• 29:47
  Speaker 12: What do they do about the quarterback?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Will he be their starting quarterback? I don't think so.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: He will not. I think they'll figure out the money
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: and I think they'd rather go with yours over him.
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I bet you to will land somewhere as like a
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: one B.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: The situation.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: Maybe like Daniel Jones is a free agent, right, so
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: maybe Indy resigns him and they get to and they I'm.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Not one of them done yet in Miami.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I'm pretty convinced that they just don't.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: I mean, like maybe the relationship is burned and I
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: don't know, I do, I'm not there. I don't know.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: But there's just not a lot of options. Like it's
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: not one of those years where there's like five quarterbacks
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: in the draft that you have Matt.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Jones, but I think that they've decided that he's not
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: their guy, like to your point, lost the locker room
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: and to your point, like half years, Yeah.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Which.
• 30:41
  Speaker 12: Quarterback is?
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: What is the unknown? But you know right now in
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: the draft it's Mendoza and that's it. Like everybody else
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: is kind of a project quarterback. And then you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: I guess like they could trade for Lamar, but that's
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: like a real like you know.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Work everything.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: This isn't a good quarterback class. I like Dante more
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: To and I a little bit less on ty Simpson,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: but it's not a great class. But I would just
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: look at it as I don't want to anymore if
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: I'm Miami, and I think that that's what they've decided.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: But to your point about the relationships. All the guys
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: that he had bad relationships with are now gone.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I and I don't know that the staff.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: And you know, the personnel department, so fans, but they
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: tend to swing big in Miami like they have you know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: the owners got deep pockets and it's you know, like
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson, it's an attractive place to play for a player.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: So it's they brought an Aikman as a consultant.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: One of his roles you think will be analyzing who
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: the next quarterback should be.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: Sounds like he's in on the GM interviews. I don't know,
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, like I said, it's hard,
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: it's it's not a it's not a great year to
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: need a quarterback. There isn't even really like that like
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Sam Darnold, you know, thing to like that kind of guy. Like,
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know really where you turn unless Daniel Jones.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Maybe there's a couple of options, you know, and who knows,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: like if they you know, can someone would someone take
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: a shot at Kyler Murray for a second go round?
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought of that one too.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: You know, Daniel Jones. As you mentioned, the Cousins, Mac
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: saved the season but mac Jones might be. I mean,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: he's under contract, you'd have to trade for him. But
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: he's a guy that could get a second act.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: He doesn't inspire confidence.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: But like he somehow kept at least wing to his upright,
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Like he's been productive in one game.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: I like, I like two of more than mac Jones too.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I just feel like Miami has decided done with.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: What do you guys think?
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: Will show a lot of people talking Malik Willis and
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: Willis Milke Willis is gonna going to cash in.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: That's another that's another one that could get a second act.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: I think Milik Willis will get a chance to compete,
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: to be the starter somewhere, and you're not like gunning
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: him the job without any.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Practice, nced.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: Well, the backup money has gone up a lot and.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Forty to fifty million over like the course of he.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Thinks Malik Willis is going to get forty or fifty
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: million over the course of multiple years. Yeah, I thought
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: you met like twelve years.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: No, No, Like, I think that that's actually not totally
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: out of the realm of possibility over like a two
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: or three year contract. Oh okay, that's that's kind of
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: where that fringe starter.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Later that's just like forty to fifty million. That's like
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: kind of front end starter. No, no, it's not hotween.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Poorly and then clarified on.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Claric but yeah, if you're talking to or three year deal,
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: so you know, fifteen million a year.
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: Sentence if you start X amount of games and I
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: could see that.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, A five five past five hundred is
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the hot line.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Let's get everyone involved because you know, we do have picks.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: We have a lot to do today. Anything else going
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: on today that we need to talk about from Josh
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: and defensive coaches this afternoon. We'll get our second participation
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: report today, so that'll be interesting to see if the
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: guys that are sick or back.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I thought it was encouraging yesterday. I mean,
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: my obviously Tonga being out isn't ideal, but this isn't
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: really one of the games where I would anticipate, like
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: being a big Tonga game anyways, So I was pretty uh,
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, everybody's back explained talked yesterday, said that he
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: this was the target all along, was to be back
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: for the playoffs and he feels like he's ready to go.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: And Lander is back out there. So the one interesting
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: thing I do think is, you know, what do you
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: do at left guard? And if Jared Wilson's cleared, Like,
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: do you put him back in or do you stick
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: with Ben Brown and kind of ride a hot hand
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: with Ben Brown a little bit? Who we talked to.
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll talk to yesterday that I'll probably be coming
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: up at the halftime.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: So that that is something that that's coming up.
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: Are you worried about the flu?
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: If it was like Friday, then maybe people I don't know.
• 34:50
  Speaker 12: I heard it's hitting people really hard.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Well, we don't know for a fact that they have
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: the flu. We know that you're sick.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I was in CVS yesterday and this guy in front
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: of me, he's like, well geez talking to the lady
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: and he's like.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: My wife got it and now I got it.
• 35:03
  Speaker 12: I can't even feel here up Patriot Place down where I.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Live here has a long community hours.
• 35:09
  Speaker 12: We all.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: That's right, must be nice to pop home real quick, right,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Mike goes home to go to the bath. Literally, I.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Like, uh, DJ is in Arizona? What's up? DJ DJ?
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Hey, mister DJ hey?
• 35:28
  Speaker 12: Some time they replay.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: DJ Okay, we come on you know, I know it's
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: going to be ready Eldred in North Carolina.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Hey, all right, Yeah, yeah.
• 35:50
  Speaker 13: I didn't like you keep me on hold and then
• 35:52
  Speaker 13: they let me talk yesterday and that was kind of rude, bro,
• 35:55
  Speaker 13: But you know what we're paying. I'll forgive you for
• 35:57
  Speaker 13: that one.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Could I do?
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: But we ended the show when he was on the line.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you run out of time.
• 36:06
  Speaker 13: Things didn't y'all. I'm gonna ask you all question because
• 36:09
  Speaker 13: everybody was talking the other day about if you lose,
• 36:12
  Speaker 13: how would you feel? But didn't y'all see the luting
• 36:15
  Speaker 13: them guys, Guy dig Homeward. I don't think they're gonna lose.
• 36:20
  Speaker 13: To be honest with you.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: I don't think they are either.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we agree with him or whatever.
• 36:25
  Speaker 13: Yeah, but the way they're looking in acting, you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 13: might be our year and if it does great with
• 36:32
  Speaker 13: you get Coach of the Year for Nick three years.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 36:36
  Speaker 13: But other than that, But other than that, that Cam
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: Newton thing. Did y'all see saying you shoot him down?
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: And I did?
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, John with him?
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And Cam Newton's just he's just sensationalizing things. Now.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: I can't believe he believes his own ass. Yeah, yeah enough.
• 37:00
  Speaker 13: Don't don't think it works. Me is the backfield and
• 37:06
  Speaker 13: the tide end and my boy Quentin jumps and getting
• 37:09
  Speaker 13: behind it and shots at me. Quentin jump.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: I would take I would take my chances with Quintin Johnston. Absolutely.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I think he is. He's proven enough that he is
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: kind of he is what he is. He's a big
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: play threat.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I can't.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: I don't think he'd be the centerpiece of your passing game.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: If he is, you're going to be disappointed. But I
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: think he's made enough plays the last couple of years
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: to you know, he's he can be a good part
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: of a good offense. You know how, I bet you
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: would love to have him Josh Allen to on the
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: outside like that compliment that can threaten the defense.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he's not. I don't think
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: he's been first round pick, but he's been probably not.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: He's been above the line of bust for sure.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: He's ad Mitchell.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: He's no A d Mitchell.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: He won He runs one rounte alt.
• 38:00
  Speaker 13: Do you want me to say he runs more than
• 38:03
  Speaker 13: one route?
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: But he doesn't.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: He runs.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: He runs across the field and he runs up the
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: deep crossed the one route, pony, I still.
• 38:15
  Speaker 13: Take a d Mitchell. If I was about them off season,
• 38:19
  Speaker 13: I give him a third.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Give him a third round packing the third okay, tick care,
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: I would like you loyal.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: If I were the Jets, I'd give a third for
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: someone to take.
• 38:29
  Speaker 13: A better quarterback. We got a better quarterback.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Because he can teach him how to catch.
• 38:33
  Speaker 13: Can't use this speed. And then, like I said, he
• 38:36
  Speaker 13: used guns just to make the during catches three times,
• 38:40
  Speaker 13: you know, each.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Time, so like I said, and then he dropped it.
• 38:43
  Speaker 13: Take him in a heartbeat, yeah, I say he didn't
• 38:45
  Speaker 13: catch him.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of part of the jobs.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: It's actually wide receiver, you know.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Once taught me I need my receivers to get open
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: and to receive.
• 38:56
  Speaker 13: But like I said, he just got them. You give
• 38:59
  Speaker 13: him off easily, Drake. I guarantee if you're done one
• 39:03
  Speaker 13: D three Okay.
• 39:04
  Speaker 10: Well, how to take the reservation? Yeah, get out of
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: Dugs machine, Maks Aldrid, work on those hands. How about
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: Ethan in Kentucky?
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: Hey?
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: What's up?
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Hey?
• 39:19
  Speaker 13: Hey?
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: What Ethan?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Were you named after Ethan Allen? He's from Kentucky.
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: I think no I was named after Ethan h Okay,
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: Sunday night, first trip to July.
• 39:31
  Speaker 13: Pretty excited.
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: Just wanted to say that. And secondly, I've got caller
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: on collar Drome, like, if you're gonna call with what
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: the game plan? Which nobody wants to hear anyway, and
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: it's based off throwing screens while Darwin James was camped
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: out the box and anyway, we just don't need that.
• 39:51
  Speaker 13: That's not good. What's Evan's gonna do?
• 39:52
  Speaker 14: Run out for kickoff? Hey, stop the game.
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: I've got the player fan gave us.
• 39:56
  Speaker 15: It's gonna work, Like, come on to Christian give it man, dude.
• 40:01
  Speaker 15: You know, I feel like you think you're the villain
• 40:03
  Speaker 15: because people are jealous because you have money or whatever
• 40:06
  Speaker 15: it is you do and.
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: You live in California.
• 40:08
  Speaker 9: It's just because you're annoying man.
• 40:10
  Speaker 13: So that's it.
• 40:12
  Speaker 14: I mean, all right forward to the show.
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: But every week having to listen to something like that,
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: that's it, all right, Elder, keep it up, man, We
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: love it.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Thanks. Ethan Okay in Kentucky.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Uh DJ is back in Arizona's dj J hear me
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: there we go?
• 40:29
  Speaker 13: We can right Hey everyone, I'll tell it.
• 40:33
  Speaker 16: Well.
• 40:35
  Speaker 14: Yeah, so I just I was calling in because I
• 40:38
  Speaker 14: was just listening to our show when I'm on the
• 40:40
  Speaker 14: way to work.
• 40:41
  Speaker 17: So I like listening to it and stuff.
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: But man, sometimes some callers they'll call and like, I
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: don't know if they girlfriend don't listen to them why
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: for something?
• 40:52
  Speaker 17: Oh day, like please like say what you need to
• 40:56
  Speaker 17: say and then like hang up.
• 40:58
  Speaker 16: Like I love listening to y'all talking so and like
• 41:01
  Speaker 16: I love when.
• 41:02
  Speaker 17: Customers like do like dump the grump with Paul and
• 41:05
  Speaker 17: stuff like that.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: But sometimes some people just going too long.
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: Like if you gotta say, brother, get your two cents
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: out and then call it a day.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean I got go past.
• 41:15
  Speaker 17: We're gonna win it all this year, and we just need.
• 41:18
  Speaker 13: You know the right path, and we got it.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: We got it.
• 41:21
  Speaker 11: Take care, Thanks DJ, I thank.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I can't understand where DJ is coming from.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: And like some shows, like Paul shows, you know, they
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: insist on their players, their callers to be concise because
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: they're up against breaks for thirty ten minutes. We don't
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: have to, so I let people go. It's we're not
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: in a rush, you know, but.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: You had one yesterday.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Sometimes yeah, yeah, he kept going.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: I was I had to cut him off, But I
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: get what the caller is saying, is like, you have
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: a point, make your point and hang up and listen. Agreed,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: But sometimes you know, it's good to keep on so
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: that we can retort.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like the back and forth sometimes. So I
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: like when Aldred is that.
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: Call that's like first time, long time, I'll hang up.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: That was one of the greatest calls.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I mean five seconds that was the greatest call.
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: I love when like gets pissed that guys are like, hey, guys,
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: how's it going?
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: No pleasure?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Or the phone is back and I get the phone. Friend,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: come on.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: They had somebody on yesterday. It was literally sounded like
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: he was talking into his pillow. It was like, all right,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: come on.
• 42:29
  Speaker 18: Uh.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Kendalls in North Carolina, I hate Kendall.
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: Was going on. Yeah, I want to ask if we
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: win the pall Sunday night with all take the ball, you.
• 42:39
  Speaker 17: Know, trying to get the leads.
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: You don't have.
• 42:41
  Speaker 16: Bad opening defensive bend.
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you don't have to do the charges. Uh, you
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: don't get lead, you don't have to ball.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: So if you win the toss, do you defer or
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: take the ball?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I still defer. I love to defer. I still defer
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: my big.
• 43:01
  Speaker 16: I want to ask about Leonard Taylor.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Leonard Taylor. Yeah, he's had any Taylor too.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: I mean he's made the thanks of some limited snaps
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: in there, and you know, if Tong is not going
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: to be back, then I would assume that they could
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: elevate him again from the practice squad, and that resets
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: in the playoffs, so you you go back down to zero,
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: So they're gonna have the flexibility with him in farms again.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I've been impressed by what I've seen. I mean,
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: it's not much in terms of, you know, snap count,
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: but he's made some plays. Okay, I think it was
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: a pretty high draft pick too, right, wasn't he Yeah?
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: Jets, Yeah, yeah, sounds good.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Oh geez more Drake may nicknames it's it's unbelievable, Parker
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: writes in The Patriots Being good again is hitting other
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: fan bases differently this time. For years, everyone could explain
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: away the dynasty as a fluke the greatest coach ever
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: paired with the greatest player ever. Once Brady left, the
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: story became this is what a rebuild looks like, and
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: rebuilds take forever. But New England turning it around this
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: fast breaks that illusion. It forces fans to confront something uncomfortable.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Long rebuilds aren't inevitable, and a decade of irrelevance isn't normal.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Seeing the Patriots rebound so quickly as people looking inward
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: at their organizations with.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: More scrutiny and fewer excuses.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: What once felt, what once felt explainable, no longer is.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: The Patriots are back and it's breaking fan bases across
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: the league.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I think they do Sweethearts of the league right now.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: I think it's the opposite.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: It's like this kid is throwing the ball downfield, making
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: all these plays the MVP.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Everybody loves them.
• 44:46
  Speaker 12: Now we're a really likable team four or five years.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: In a row. When you become Kansas City, where everybody
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: starts to root against you, that will happen.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Well, his point isn't that they're rooting against us, breaking
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: everyone's heart.
• 44:57
  Speaker 19: No, they're seeing how quickly we've reached. I don't think either.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: I'm with you, Alex, but his point is like it's
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: making teams look inward at their team and like we
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: should be able to do this too.
• 45:13
  Speaker 19: I think you can't shut yourself out of the trench.
• 45:15
  Speaker 19: In five to seven years. How much of it is incompetence,
• 45:21
  Speaker 19: how much of it is bad decisions and bad drafting.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: I'm with Alex.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: You know, hit on the quarter They got really lucky
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: that they were at the third pick and a three
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: quarterback draft, And if you have the third pick this year,
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: there is no Drake May sitting on the board for you,
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: and I guess that.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: But I'm talking about incompetence. I'm with Alex. Like to me,
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: is incompetence. There are a lot of teams that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: They have a.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Handful of down years and then they get okay again,
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: Like that can happen, Like, I don't think that you
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: should just when you lose a really good player or
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: if you're like at the top, like if if if
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: Mahomes we tires next year. I don't think that you
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: should be resigned for ten or twelve years of irrelevance
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: in Kansas City. You should be able to figure it
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: out in less than the Jets have done. Like the
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: Jets is uttering competence, Yeah, but there are other teams
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: that have been able to maintain a semblance of competitiveness.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: The Jets the Chiefs are one of them.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: The whole.
• 46:21
  Speaker 19: Ownership, I think well, and like just the structure of
• 46:24
  Speaker 19: the organization.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: I always said, if you have a bad owner, it's
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: really tough. But the whole way the NFL is set
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: up is for bad teams to be able to get
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: good quicker.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and again there's a difference.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: If Drake May turns out to be this every year
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: and the Patriots win, say three four titles over the
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: next eight years, Okay, that's different. That's dominance. That's that's rare.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: To be that good, have five bad years and then
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: be that good again.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: That's rare.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: But I think being consistently competitive and good is not
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: that rare in the league. To your point, Fred, it's
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: kind of designed to be like that, right. You shouldn't
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: just them out and never be good again, like the Jets. Like,
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: that's that's hard to do.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Well, I would say.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: The other thing I would say to Parker is like
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: the Commanders force other teams and fan bases to look inward.
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: Right now and now you know, and then this year
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: they take a step back. And that's to me, it's look,
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: this season has been awesome, and but it's it's going
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: to continue to get harder, and I just I'm not
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: going to live in a place where we have another
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: dynasty in our hands.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Now, like you know, point like let's be a.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: Submission as a possibility with how good Drake mays it.
• 47:31
  Speaker 6: But I'm not assuming it, you know, I'm just going
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: to say, let's finish strong this year in the playoffs,
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: and let's build next year and continue to get better
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: next year, you know, to deal with as the schedule
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: gets tougher, the.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: Other teams are now gunning for you.
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: You know, it's I mean, you're going to hire a
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: Miami coach and a big part of that interview is
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: going to be, so Josh Allen Drake May, what are
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: we going to do?
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: You know, that's got to be part of that conference.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: I want to get back to that where our team
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: is forcing other teams in our division to make bad decisions.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I want to get back to that.
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would. I'm with Deuce on this.
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: I feel like that happened.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: I do think it happened.
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: Six opponent slate. I just keep looking at that and
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: then like, like that's gonna especially the road games, is
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: gonna be trying to live in the moment, Kansas City
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: a gauntlet and not to like not live in the moment,
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: But I.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Just fred I'm gonna put They'll be fine.
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: But just to sit here and think that that now
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: they're going to just be fourteen and three every year, like.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Maybe not fourteen next year.
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: Schedule when you go to Detroit and when you go
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: to Chicago and you go to Seattle, like it's gonna
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: be a lot harder. It's gonna be a lot harder
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: next year.
• 48:42
  Speaker 12: You never know what happened. So like, look at this year.
• 48:43
  Speaker 19: We look at that that stretch of the raven Cincy
• 48:46
  Speaker 19: and it was different, much different.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: Well, I think it's gonna be harder because I think
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: like Detroit will be back, like Detroit is gonna be
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: good in the city.
• 48:53
  Speaker 12: Will at that You just never know.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: I really never know Detroit was this year.
• 48:58
  Speaker 12: You can guess.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: But I feel pretty comfortable thinking they're going to play
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: more than three teams that finish over five hundred next
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: year every year.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: My whole thing about you can't judge a schedule until
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: after the season comes true.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: You are once again Freddie Fields, Todd and Rochester.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: You've been talking about what worries fans about Sunday's game.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: For me, it would be going three and out on
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: the first series, and then the defense gives up a
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: touchdown on the charges first drive, which has been typical
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: this season when you're playing catch up ball game, and
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: as Paul suggested, at some point during one of the
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: few of these games, the rest will make some stupid
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: questionable call.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: Ron tarbor No, So I would just say, like, I
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: wouldn't want to play from behind. They haven't done that
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: a lot this year, and I wouldn't want to have
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: to play a playoff game, even at home against a
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: team that you think you should beat. I wouldn't want
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: to have to play from behind all day. No, But
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: it's so easy to start. I can live with the start.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: I don't want this start. Yeah, it's easy to see
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: that they've done that a number of times, as the
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: emailer said, but that's different. You know, like falling behind
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: seven to nothing after each team has had the ball
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: is not necessarily, you know, a huge concern. But you know,
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: going at half down seventeen to seven or something like that,
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't feel great. Not that I'm saying they couldn't
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: come back, but I wouldn't feel great about having to
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: play catch up the whole game.
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: It's kind of the defer thing too with having your
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: home crowd for a home playoff game.
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: They should be loud, like right out of the gate.
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: They're going to be looped up, hopefully, and hopefully that's
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: a challenge, you know, for Herbert and the offense to
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: not streight together a ten twelve play drive up up
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: right down the field and all right, seven nothing Drake,
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: good luck.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Andrew and north Reading.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: I was at the game on Sunday, sitting in section
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: one oh five, and right after the game, I saw
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: a woman walk out of the tunnel sporting the best
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: fit of the day, a maroon coat with a very
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: chic pair of black boots. Did a double take, and
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: it was none other than Peugh's own Alexandra Francisco.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: As soon as you heard maroon, he's talking about me.
• 51:07
  Speaker 12: I've had some great offenses that.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: I was slaying it.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: What do you want me to do?
• 51:13
  Speaker 12: I mean, was a moment.
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: Sure, we talk about the fact that you said that
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: you need to stop buying new outfits for game.
• 51:21
  Speaker 19: Data the other day because January no retail in jail.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: They have they have things where you can like rent
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: clothes they do.
• 51:31
  Speaker 19: That would be just as much of an issue for
• 51:34
  Speaker 19: me okay, because I would like the clothes and I
• 51:36
  Speaker 19: was returning this, I'm going to buy it.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, that would be me.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: By Joseph Ka claims he's the biggest Patriots fan in Hillsboro, Oregon.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, so who's going to argue with that?
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: Being from Oregon and having followed Herbert his entire college career,
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: it seems like he usually comes up short in the
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: biggest games and moments. It's not always a three pick
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: performance like it was in the playoffs from last year.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: But for whatever reason, and despite all of his talent,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: it seems like he struggles to win big games. Good
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: good punctuation. Too good for you, Joseph, Do you think
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: this is well.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: It was well punctuated.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Do you think this is more of an unlucky thing
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: or do you think Herbert lacks that killer clutch factor?
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: How do you think this plays into our game?
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: Well, the issue is is that your quarterback has the
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: same reputation.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: So something's got to give.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and to me, see, I.
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: Mean this is both these guys I feel like are
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: exercising that demon. You know, Jake May has had that
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: in his repertoire, like it really hasn't had a ton
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: of big games of like just thinking about like the
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: AC Championship game is sophomore year at North Carolina. They
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: got their doors blown off of them. So yeah, it's uh.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: Both these guys kind of have that reputation of being
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: a little bit too cool for school and not playing
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: the best in these like meaningful gus.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: I definitely feel that about Herbert, And I can't decide
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: yet whether I feel it I'm lucky.
• 53:00
  Speaker 12: Or I feel like you can't say that about tracks yet.
• 53:03
  Speaker 19: No, you can't compare the college career to what he
• 53:07
  Speaker 19: would be like in the NFL with an NFL team.
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: No, you can't. And that's definitely true. But that's we've
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: been talking about this year, about the game winning drives
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: and the fourth quarter comebacks, and until he did it
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: in Baltimore, it's all I heard about about, you know,
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: from the people on the other side of it is
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: you know, he's never come from behind, He's never won
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: in the clutch, you know, And that's exactly what they
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: say about her.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: Yea Austin and North Carolina. I was speaking with my
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: cousin who's a Carolina fan, and we were talking playoffs
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: and such, and I said of course Denver will be
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: playing at home just like every other week. He was
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: so confused and look at me like I had three
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: heads and goes. I'm pretty sure they have the same
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: number of home games that everyone else. I forget not
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: everyone is aware of the Fred Denver conspiracy. So well
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: you have to school them, have them listen to this show.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: And the more you think about it, you're like, you
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: know what.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 53:59
  Speaker 19: That's funny how the bits become like part of your
• 54:03
  Speaker 19: like those parasocial relationships you have with podcast hosts and
• 54:07
  Speaker 19: whatever it may be.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that the first time Fred did the whole
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: Denver road game bit that I bid for it.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm.
• 54:17
  Speaker 8: Talking about because.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: When they were arguing about it.
• 54:25
  Speaker 12: Some teams go to Europe.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a break. We'll be right back.
• 54:29
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  Speaker 6: to be joined by Ben Brown fresh off the practice field.
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  Speaker 6: There have been how to feel get out there first
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  Speaker 6: practice of the week for a playoff game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, felt good.
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  Speaker 11: I think there's a lot of energy in the building.
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  Speaker 11: I think everyone's excited and a little bit extra focus
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  Speaker 11: and uh, you know, I think we're excited for some
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• 56:39
  Speaker 6: I want to take you back first just to last year.
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, you came here and you started the very
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  Speaker 6: first weekend. Just what was that whirlwind like from you
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  Speaker 6: for your perspective, coming into a team for the first time,
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  Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden you find yourself starting
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  Speaker 6: right out.
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  Speaker 3: Of the gate.
• 56:52
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it was definitely chaotic, tremendous blessing though. I mean,
• 56:56
  Speaker 11: I remember I was in the Las Vegas Heat on
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  Speaker 11: a a Wednesday afternoon, I believe, got a phone call
• 57:03
  Speaker 11: from my agent that the Patriots once signed me to
• 57:05
  Speaker 11: the fifty three. Took a red eye that night, landed
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: in Boston after a five hour flight at about six
• 57:11
  Speaker 11: thirty in the morning, and got picked up and they said,
• 57:14
  Speaker 11: all right, we're gonna take you to the facility and
• 57:16
  Speaker 11: get ready for practice. I had about thirty minutes of
• 57:18
  Speaker 11: sleep on the plane, so that was fun. And then
• 57:21
  Speaker 11: got there practice Thursday, Friday, then Saturday got told I
• 57:25
  Speaker 11: was starting, and I was able to play some games
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: last year, so it was an incredible experience and so
• 57:30
  Speaker 11: blessed to be here.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Just to put a ball on it.
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: Sorry, real quick, I mean, now you sign extension this
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: year with the team. I mean, do you feel like
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: you've you found a home here?
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 57:37
  Speaker 11: I mean I love everything about this organization. You know,
• 57:40
  Speaker 11: I really feel like everyone cares about one another here.
• 57:43
  Speaker 11: I feel like everyone's very focused on the same goal here.
• 57:48
  Speaker 11: And you know, I'm fortunate to be able to be
• 57:50
  Speaker 11: coached by coach Rabel and everyone else and also have
• 57:53
  Speaker 11: tremendous teammates in the locker room as well.
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: I think one of the cool unique things about you
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: is that you got to play with Drake is rookie
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: year and kind of see this right front and center,
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: almost literally sometimes of his development. What has that been
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: like to watch him go from the guy that started
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: in Houston with you to where we are now.
• 58:12
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's been tremendous. You know, Drake's just such an
• 58:15
  Speaker 11: awesome guy. He's a great leader, phenomenal football player as well,
• 58:18
  Speaker 11: and to see his growth from last year to this
• 58:20
  Speaker 11: year is just you know, it's such a special thing
• 58:24
  Speaker 11: to be a part of to see him become the
• 58:26
  Speaker 11: player that he is and be able to lead us
• 58:29
  Speaker 11: and he'll continue to lead us. But yeah, he's a
• 58:32
  Speaker 11: great player, great friend, and yeah.
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: Memory Land let's get into the Chargers playoffs there a
• 58:39
  Speaker 5: little bit. I think one of the exciting things for
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: us watching you guys down the stretch here is the
• 58:43
  Speaker 5: run game and how you guys have been able to
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: really run the rock and late in the season January football.
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: Just how big is that for you guys going into
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: the playoffs and what's kind of click for you guys
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: in that regard?
• 58:53
  Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, I think in order to win playoff games,
• 58:56
  Speaker 11: you have to be able to run the ball pick
• 58:58
  Speaker 11: effectively and efficiently. So that's a big point of emphasis
• 59:02
  Speaker 11: for us for sure. And I think the big thing
• 59:04
  Speaker 11: for us is just everyone being on the same page,
• 59:06
  Speaker 11: having a great game plan every week. Everyone knows exactly
• 59:09
  Speaker 11: who we're going towards and uh yeah, and just the
• 59:13
  Speaker 11: guys that are out there as well. I mean, uh,
• 59:16
  Speaker 11: I love all of my own line buddies. I love
• 59:18
  Speaker 11: all the running backs, quarterback, wide receivers. You know, everyone
• 59:21
  Speaker 11: plays a part in the run game, and everyone's bought
• 59:23
  Speaker 11: into that. So that's why it works.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: Can you talk a little bit about that chemistry.
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: I mean it seems like you guys, we have Morgan
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: in here, we have Mike in here, and you guys
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: know you have your your your.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: What is it the.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: Sushi Celtics games.
• 59:37
  Speaker 6: I mean, you've been a part of a couple different
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: offensive lines. Just how did that all come together? Did
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: you feel it early on, like like this is a
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: special group?
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 59:43
  Speaker 11: I think uh. During OTAs in training camp, we started
• 59:46
  Speaker 11: to make that more of an emphasis of spending time
• 59:49
  Speaker 11: away from the facility with one another, whether that's dinners
• 59:52
  Speaker 11: or going to events or anything, and because you really
• 59:55
  Speaker 11: have to build that bond off the field, uh, to
• 59:57
  Speaker 11: have it really grow on the field, you know. So
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 11: I think that's been important to us to spend time
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 11: away from here and uh, you know, talk on a
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 11: personal level outside of just football basis twenty four to seven.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 11: So we have a great group of guys, and uh,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 11: I'm so glad I'm part of this group.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: We hear offensive line coaches sale all the time. We
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 6: want to see our guys to see it through one
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: set of eyes. Did you feel like off the field
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: that that helps with the on the field communication and
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: those things pulling it all together?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: Absolutely, I think, uh, just having everyone on the same
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 11: page and just like you said, everyone's seeing through the
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 11: same set of eyes. Uh, And everyone has a great
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 11: understanding of the game plan every every single week, you know,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 11: and we all use the same language and communicate efficiently
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 11: and effectively to one another. So I think that's been
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 11: a big part.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: What was your reaction when Will chug the beer on
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: the JumboTron and did you guys put him up to that?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: It seemed prepared, You're like ready for the beer right
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: out there.
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  Speaker 11: I mean he was ready for his dan you know, right,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 11: that's right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's his life playing next to him last week
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: a couple of times this year, but just seeing him
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: grow and him getting to play next to him every week.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean he's a special player.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 11: He actually grew up an hour away from me. He
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 11: grew up in Monroe, Louisiana. I grew up in Vicksburg.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 11: So it's kind of cool connection that we have right there.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 11: That's right, Yeah, that's right. But uh no, Will's phenomenal player.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 11: He's very mature for his age. He plays at a
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 11: very high level. He's super competitive as well, and I
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 11: think that that's what we need on this team.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 13: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So I got one more for you, Ben, Just playoff football.
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  Speaker 6: We hear all about it, the intensity, ratchet it up,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: you said it even in the building here. How do
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: you prepare for the energy, for the just the level
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: of competition that you're going to face on Sunday night
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: against those Chargers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: I think the big thing is to you know, understand
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 11: that it's going to be a great environment. It's gonna
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 11: be a lot of fun, it's gonna be excitement, everything.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 11: But you know, as coach, Brabes it said the other day.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 11: You know, we're not going to change your recipe. You know,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 11: we we understand what we need to do to accomplish
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 11: the things that we want to accomplish. So I think
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 11: just maintaining the same love consistency that we have throughout
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 11: the year. What it stands out to you about the Chargers, Yeah,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 11: I think they're really good up front. You know, they
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 11: make it difficult to run the ball. They're strong, they've
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 11: got some fast guys, and uh, they mix in a
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 11: lot of movement as well, so it'll be a challenge
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 11: for us. But we're excited.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: Awesome, Yeah, we're excited too. Thanks so much for joining us.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: And good luck Sunday, Yeah.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 11: Thank you so much.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: And now great moments in.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: History.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: We're we're chomping at the bit getting ready for the season.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Is it champing or chomping at the bit?
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: Eric, chomping?
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 6: That's a good question, Fred, I've always heard as chomping,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 6: but it's spelled champing, so I don't know.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: I really don't know which one is accurate. I think
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  Speaker 3: I did know it.
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  Speaker 4: But naked or buck naked, I've always wanted it's a
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  Speaker 4: good one.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm looking at you with a light stare
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: because that's a great one. I think it's a bottle,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: isn't it buck naked?
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: Naked? Isn't it buck?
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: So who's a buck naked?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, as in a tear is naked and you're like
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: a buck?
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  Speaker 5: But would naked make more sense?
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 13: Oh?
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 10: It was?
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  Speaker 3: This is This is the whole topic.
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  Speaker 6: I end it right now there, This is a whole
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  Speaker 6: topic on miriam Webster dot com.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 6: While both buck naked and butt naked are used to
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: describe someone who is fully nude.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: Buck naked is the older of the pair.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Fuck naked naked? But what about the champion and the chopping?
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 22: That's another great moment from all.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: Right, it's time for the Copilot Question of the Week,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 6: presented by a Microsoft copilot, where every day is game
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  Speaker 6: day and where every decision is powered by insight, innovation,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 6: and innovation. Microsoft technology helps to make decisions faster, insight sharper,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: and strategies more adaptive. So, guys, usually I'm asking you
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: the question, but today I just want to ask Microsoft
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: co pilot the question how will the Patriots and Chargers
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 6: game unfold?
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: And it's quite a detailed response.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: I'm going to I'll give you kind of the overview
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 6: of it, because but it sounds a lot like Evan.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: But I don't know how close this is going to
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: be in depth.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: Is Belichick's analysis.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Just eat the cliff I'll just give you the cliff notes.
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  Speaker 6: But really the question is is Microsoft Co Pilot a
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: ball noer?
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: So let's start with the first quarter.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: Expect New England to open deliberately and structurally whatever that means.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: Heavy twelve personnel and condensed formations force the Chargers out
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: of dime, so they play a lot of dime. I'm
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: not sure Drake May operates in a quick game, glances, flats,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 6: option routes to neutralize the pressure. The Chargers respond conservatively early,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: testing the Patriots covered structure but prioritizing ball security. This
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: is like a word salad right now. Patriots ten to
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: three after the first quarter, and then they're going to
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 6: go on.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen to ten.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 6: But in the third quarter they say momentum swings in
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: the margin narrows as expect Jim hart buz best stretch here,
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  Speaker 6: tempo packages and screens set up.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: Slow New England's pressure disguises.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: One long Chargers drive ends in points likely a field goal,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: but the Patriots are going to hang on.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: The matchups that will decide the game.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 6: According to Microsoft Copilot, are the Chargers ol against the
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 6: Patriots pressure disguise?
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough?
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: Probably right, Patriots would win that one.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: Patriots RBS and tight ends versus Chargers sub packages. I
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 6: don't know about that one. Early down success rate kind
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 6: of like that. If New England stays in second and
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 6: five are better, they control tempo and win the possession game.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: If the Chargers create early negative plays, the variant spikes
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 6: last one here explosive plays. Los Angeles likely needs two
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 6: or more chunk plays twenty plus yards to offset New
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 6: England's time in possession advantage. So final score Patriots twenty seven,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 6: Chargers twenty According to.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Alex Pilot.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: I think is very smart.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 12: I was just gonna say, what did the Maddenson have,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 12: Like are the.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 6: Commuters and they lost on the last they lost on
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: the last play.
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  Speaker 12: Not over looking for it, Paul, not to cut you off.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: No, you did not cut me off. Co Pilot looks,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: but he thinks the Patriots are going to do the
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: possessing of the ball. Yeah, that's that's what the pilot thinks. Interesting,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: here's a quick thing. It's just a couple of cent
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  Speaker 4: it's a really good in time in possession. I think
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: they're top ten.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, it just a quick overview.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: New England dictates the Temple early, absorbs the Chargers CounterPunch
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 6: after halftime, and then closes the game with a clock
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 6: training execute with clock training execution in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: So there you have the folks.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 6: Let's do it all right, Okay, Microsoft Copilot take us home,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 6: all right?
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: Just tired of me answering all the questions.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: Well, I couldn't think of a great question.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 6: Maybe you could think of a would be a great question, Paul,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 6: regarding maybe the Chargers or playoffs or Patriots. I tried
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 6: a number of different things and nothing really struck my
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 6: fancy or applied to Drew ledso frankly that that would
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 6: have been in your wheelhouse.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, they didn't play the Chargers in a playoff
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: game when Drew There No, no, those the sixty three
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 4: they played seven six or seven with Brady?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah right? And then is there another one?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, okay eight five five Pats five hundred is
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: the hotline podcast at Patriots dot com is the email address.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: I want to remind everyone to subscribe to the newsletter
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  Speaker 3: Patriots dot com slash PU newsletter.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Haven't done that in a while. I haven't promoted it
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: in a while. Yeah, that start off in New Year.
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  Speaker 6: Also, the don't forget the not a rally tomorrow.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: What is it called?
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  Speaker 4: All Access light off Kickoff Party Party Party down I
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: missed live somewhere in the middle.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, So if you're in the area tomorrow at six
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: o'clock down in the plaza here at to Let's Stadium,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: we're gonna have a live party giveaways. Jet Blue is
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: the sponsor. They're going to be giving away flights.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. I'm going to try to win. Tickets
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: to the game will be given away.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: They'll be all kinds of stuff and that leads into
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: a live all access show at seven that'll be at
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: the same stage and also up at the harp. So
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: I'm sure Steve Burton will be there and Roachi from Bez,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: Mike Griese will be there, and Paul Parillo will be Yeah,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: going in and speak with your fans.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Paul, will you people? Are you going to be.
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  Speaker 4: They tell me that I need to be.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: It'll be a cavalcade of stars.
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  Speaker 19: Also, Logan, Mankins, and Ninkel have been added to the list.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, addition, well, Vince Wolfred.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 4: I believe I will be chatting with Logan.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, he's my guy.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, you guys gonna talk a little fie
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: and uh.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: I don't know if that will can football.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: So if you're in the area, six o'clock tomorrow, all
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: are welcome. No no parking fee, no ticket to get in.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: Just come on, come on down.
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  Speaker 4: The weather looks good, looks unseasonably warm tomorrow it's like today,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: you know, up into the forties, mid forties.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I'll be there. Come find me. I'll
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 6: be wandering around with my family.
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  Speaker 1: Mike will be the one heckling Paul. I want to
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: you want to be there for that doesn't know what
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: he's talking about. I should be on all accents?
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  Speaker 3: Did I do that bad last week?
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: All right, back to the phones. Let's go to Georgia.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: Smitty?
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: What's that Smitty in Georgia? Okay?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: I think he was just there really well, too bad.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: Man, he's in New Bedford.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: Hey, bring us, Hey, what's going on?
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 17: Guys? By Devan always running away every.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 23: Time I every time I call in Evan, Evan disappeared.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 23: But so I I remember you guys talked about it
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 23: yesterday that the Chargers are really zone heavy team. And
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 23: again Drake May excellent with the zone, excellent with the blitz,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 23: excellent with the man. I'm not gonna lie I I
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 23: I don't remember what game it was, but he was
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 23: having a hard time picking up like the zone.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 17: Blitz little bit. And then my next question would be
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 17: with it again.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 23: I know, Matt Collins again really big target, so he
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 23: was excellent with zone.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 17: You know, does that have an impact on how they
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 17: game plan this? Do we see more of Austin Hooper
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 17: in the past game. I'm curious to know your thoughts
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 17: of taking off there.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: Thanks jv Okay, Thanks Manny.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I mean, it's, you know, like Smart's knowing
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: where to be. I mean, I'm not saying I think
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 6: he's wrong. I just don't know about that mc collins thing.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 6: I mean, I always just saw mac Collins as more
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 6: size and catch radius, you know, whether it was man
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 6: or zone.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 6: So I wonder about Pop Douglas though, and I honestly
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 6: wonder about Chisholm, and are they going to continue to
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 6: use him in a blocking role?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: And what's his awareness in zone?
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 6: Kind of like he hasn't played a lot this year,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: but you know, could that be you know, a guy
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: that maybe has a couple of catches because he can
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 6: find some holes.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: I liked evans suggestion that you might get a couple
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: of chances to take some deep shots and Kyle Williams
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: and Booty. Yeah, and I think if you can hit
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: one of those, like Evan was talking, I think that
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: really affects the the way Jesse Minter has to respond
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: to that.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: I think that could open up a lot of stuff.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Jacket and Abba. Knowing what you know now,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: if the twenty four draft were held today and the
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: Patriots had the number one pick, whom would you select?
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: I would select Drake May.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams is not accurate, and May is almost as
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: athletic as Williams. Jayden danielss uber athletic, but he's also
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: fragile in his playing style makes him susceptible to injury. Yeah,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: I would definitely take Drake if I knew then what
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: I know now.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: But if you knew then what you knew then, I'd
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: probably stick with May because he's our guy. But it's
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: hard not to say Caleb Williams. That would be a
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: coin flip. I think Caleb Williams is terrific.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: If the Patriots had the number one pick in twenty four,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: who do you think they.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: Would have picked?
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 4: Caleb Williams Williams?
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the Begger question if they had they
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: had lost the last game last year with what would
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 6: they have done?
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Would taken Will Campbell won overall?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: Is that that question? Because I think that's a much
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: more interesting you know, like, so they would have taken
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: Drake May. Okay, they have Drake May, so like what
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: would they have done if they got the number one
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: pick last year? Is done a number of different things,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 4: including that, which I think probably would be the answer.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: Someone would have been trading up to get cam Wood
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: and then what can you get down Campbell's stone.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: And try to get Will question for the show.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if he is being uh serious here
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: Brendan and Edmonton. Is this a must win game for
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: the Patriots? If you don't win, you go home playoffs.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: It doesn't get more must win than when you're in
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: the playoffs.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: True, Are you joking?
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: Maybe he means like overall, like for the franchise, is
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: it a must win? In that case, I would say, no, playoff.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: He's having fun and making a joke. But he might
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 4: be talking like that, right, like like you were talking yesterday,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 4: like is it a success?
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 13: Right?
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 9: You know?
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: Way do you go from here? And all that stuff?
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: Sweet kid writes him, what's up? Sweet kid?
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: D Melvin.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: If we tighten up defensively in the red zone, we
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: should win. I feel both offenses will stall in the
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: red zone, but Patriots prevail twenty seventeen. Let's score first
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: and make them chase.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 4: I think your red zone thing is that's relevant. This
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: is you know, the Patriots are struggled in the red
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: zone and the Chargers offenses struggled in the red zone.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: So who wins that matchup could be very important.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: I think the Chargers are something like forty some odd
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: percent offensively forty seven percent I think offensively in the
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: red zone. Patriots allow like sixty eight percent touchdowns. If
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: the Patriots can win that battle and make make Mike's
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: guy Dicker the kicker kickfield goals, that's huge.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: I mean that is something I think worth bringing up though,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 6: is I mean Dicker is a good kicker. I mean
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: that's if it comes down to that. I mean they
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 6: might have this light edge. Again, I don't know exactly
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 6: what his splits are if if I mean, does sound
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: like weather's really going to be a factor. It doesn't
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 6: even sound like cold is really going to be a factor.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: It seems like it's going to be pretty seasonable. But
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 6: he's a good kicker.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: Spencer writes in I went to dinner with Niners fans
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: last night, and I agree with the caller. They're heated
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: at the Patriots being good. I'd say seventy five percent
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: of fans nationally I still hate the Patriots.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying there's no one that hates the Patriots.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying I don't think this right now. They're
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 4: America sweethearts.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 4: I think people are in love with Drake.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: I think the only thing.
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  Speaker 6: Holding that back right now is the MVP debate and
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 6: that there's you know something now, there's just some camps
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 6: that people are, you know, when I respect.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: I just think choice, for example of you know, has
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 4: to revolve around us.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I just don't really see it. That
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: what it does, that's a revolverround the forty nine ers
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: in the hub of the universe. Paul, don't you know
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: we call it the hub. Don't you know the hub.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: Let's see, let's get back to the phones. Well, Todd
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: and Gardner is giving it another shot. What's up Todd?
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 18: Hey, guys, Hey, I think if we can get two
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 18: touchdowns from the combination of our outside guys Williams and
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 18: Body will win going away. Otherwise, to quote a wrestling
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 18: term from the seventies, I think Frank uses.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 7: This term too.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: It'll be a slobber knocker.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 18: And I have no idea, but we need to get
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 18: the outside guys going.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, what do you think, guy, I think, yeah, I
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: don't care who scores the touchdowns. Like if they score,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: they score touchdowns, and they get the lead, they play
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 4: from the lead.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: I think that's their formula for success. That's what they've
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: done all year.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: Like if Hunter Henry catches two touchdowns instead of Kyle
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: Williams and Booty catching, I don't do that.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, okay, but let's look at it a
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: little bit more, you know, microscopically, if the two people
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: are scoring touchdowns?
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: Are Booty and Williams? Is that opening it up for
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: other things because you're hitting it could be yeah, it
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: could be.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: What do you think is more likely the Patriots one
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: by two scores?
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Are the Chargers one by two score? Patriots?
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Well that's what do you think?
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 12: I think?
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 19: I think I would be more likely for the Chargers
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 19: to win by two collapse what.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 12: I think if we're going to lose, it would probably
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 12: be like that.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 19: I don't know, though, And this is based on no
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 19: stat This is based on no.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 12: It's just all how I feel.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I get what if the Patriots lose, you
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: think they'll probably lose going away? But I think the
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 4: way you asked it, what's more likely Patriots win by
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 4: the Charges? By to I think the Patriots by Oh no,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 4: you asked that question. Fred and I rarely are on
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 4: the same page when it's immediately hard.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 12: To imagine that. I don't know. I just see like
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 12: a shootout in a close game.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: That's that's what.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 4: You and I have the same score. I know that's yeah,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 4: we did like a half hour teasing our show. But
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: if if it were to be a fourteen point spread,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: I think chances are of the Patriots would be the
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 4: team that wins by that because they're at home. Chargers history,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 4: and you know the Felger and maz like warm weather
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 4: team coming. You know, I don't think that all those
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 4: things are going to be a huge factor. But I've
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 4: been wrong pretty much every step of the way this season.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: So if the.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 4: Chargers come here and melt, I'll have to go in
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: on Wednesday and take my medicine from those two bozos
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 4: and say, hey, you guys were right.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: This game wasn't competitive. Cody's and Fresno, what's up?
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 13: Cody thinks what's going on?
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 24: He's hugely excited for the game this weekend. I think
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 24: ultimately we're going to crest the Chargers about thirty five
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 24: and twenty one. And I know the MVP discussion has
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 24: been beaten the desk, But the one thing I haven't
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 24: heard and maybe you guys have, is the focus.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 17: Of the value financially.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: When we look at Drake May and.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 7: Stafford, the two you know contenders were split.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 11: Here's here when we're.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 24: Talking about the stats.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 17: But how can you overlook May's impact on his rookie deal.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 14: I mean, any team, any owner.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 4: Would kill to have made sure and would allow.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 17: That team so much success in the future.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 24: So I think looking at the v value, I mean,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 24: there's no discussion made of the best.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, Cody. You're in Fresno. You're in Fresno.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: How close is that to where the super Bowl.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: Is going to be in Santa Clara.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 7: Oh we're about four hours away.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 10: Okay, yea, So it's going to be crowded.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 17: I know the state is going to be huge.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: Everything's going to be buzzing over here.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 17: So I'm excited.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see you there, Cody and Fresno.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: I would just say that, like a contract doesn't have
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 4: anything to do with value, that's not.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're just talking about value.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 12: He votes aren't thinking about that?
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 4: No, no should they?
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: Smitty is back in Georgia giving in another try. What's up, Smitty, Smitty?
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 16: Hey guys, what's going on?
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 13: Hey?
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 16: Hey, I'm a long time listener, first time foller. I'm
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 16: an original season ticket holder from back in the day
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 16: when my dad and I had to buy stock in
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 16: Sullivan's family trust in order to get season tickets.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 17: I don't know if you.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: Remember all that, Yeah, trad you do. Right, sure.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 16: My My question is yesterday's report injury report, it showed
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 16: that half of the Chargers team had hamstring injuries.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: If that was the.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 16: Case, why aren't they firing their their their conditioning staff.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 16: And number two, is that something that's the legal lows
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 16: or is that this car blos you know, coming up
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 16: with some sort of conspiracy and and and trying to uh,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 16: you know, make make the Patriots that something's up. I
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 16: don't know, I don't know. I've never seen something like that.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 16: But if you look at the injury report, everyone had
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 16: hamster injury. Okay, if that allowed? Does the leak allow that?
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: Are you allowed to have a hamstring injury?
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 17: No?
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 12: He means like messing with the injury.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: Like what evidence do we have that they're messing.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: With the injury report?
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: No, I think I mean they have a large I'm
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: just going to call it up here. They had a
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 4: lot of guys on it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: eleven twelve. They had thirteen guys on the injury report.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: How many have hamster five? Five out of thirteen.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: I mean that's a lot, but it happens. I Mean
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: there's been times here in the Patriots where you get
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: a slew of a certain type of injury.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's not an uncommon injury. I mean it's
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 4: not like a running but it's not like this. You know,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 4: do you remember that the year that Teddy Bruski and
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 4: Vrabel had that wristball there's a skaphoid injury? Like I'd
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 4: never heard that phrase in my whole life, that bone
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 4: or whatever, and they both broke it in the same year.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 4: Was that a conspiracy that Belichick?
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think there's any advantage there, Smitty of.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 4: I don't think there's an advantage to having your guys
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: not being able to practice in the week that the
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: game is being played. I don't think there's an advantage
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: to that. Like ol Marion Hampton has an ankle injury.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna guess that Jim Harbaugh is not thrilled about that.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: And here's the thing. It's it's hard to screw around
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: with this these days, Smitty and anyone else, because these
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 3: practice tapes can be audited. And like if you tell
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: if you say a guy had limited participation, Lee can
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: look at your practice tape and say he was there
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: the whole time.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and three of those guys didn't practice at.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: All, right, so if they were out there, then you know,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: the Chargers could get in trouble. So the league goes
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: to some pretty pretty great lengths to make sure that
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: teams aren't screwing with that practice report.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: I just don't.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, a lot of it has to do with gambling,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 3: and I do.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 4: I don't doubt that teams try to like tinker with
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 4: the injury report here and there. I think all teams do.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 4: But I don't necessarily think it's an advantage. I don't
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 4: think they're trying to put one over on the Patriots
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: or whatever. Like Patriots don't look at a guy who
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 4: was limited in practice with the hamstring and say, well,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 4: cross him off the list. You know, maybe if a
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 4: guy is in concussion protocol and he hasn't progressed to
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 4: the first step, you might say, well, doesn't look like
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 4: he's going to play.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 12: You know, interesting to see what their injury report looks
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 12: like today.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, guys get healthy.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: You know, Dante Jackson was limited to yesterday.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's good to go, evidently according to people with
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 4: the Chargers. But Hampton is not going to be one
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: hundred percent. Yeah, like you don't have a rookie not
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 4: practice the week of the game and have him be
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent. So he's gonna he's If he's I'm
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: sure he'll play, but he's not going to be he's
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: not going to be fully ready.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: Get ready for that little Videl, that little guy.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: Who has been hurt and didn't play in the game
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 4: against the Broncos coming off of of a neck injury,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 4: and now he's going to try to play. They were
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 4: already out, the other guys out, Najee Harris, he's been
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 4: out for most of the year.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: So this is what's what I was ready for the divisional.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 6: As Evan and I were walking out during the break,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 6: he just said, you know, they they should come out
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 6: with like a run heavy, like they should test the
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 6: Patriots run defense. And and you know, Evan has been
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 6: making the point that they don't run the ball a lot.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think he said like a thirty percent
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 6: run team. But if I were the Chargers, I'd want
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 6: to test this Patriots run defense. You talk about sustaining drives,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 6: that'd be a good way to do it.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 3: Cam's in North Carolina.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: What's up?
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: Cam? You in? Cam?
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: Cam is our Cam.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 4: It's Cam Newton.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: Cam.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: A lot of people sleep at the phone here. How
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 3: about Connecticut, We'll go to sal how's the pizza?
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: What's up?
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 4: Sal?
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 3: Hey?
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 16: How did you guys?
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 7: Hey show? But one one comment and one question, Paul,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 7: you talk about the the scheduled being the you know,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 7: we only had so many opponents that were that were
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 7: under the under they were over five hundred. We've had
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 7: thirteen or so opponents. And if part of the reason
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 7: that some of these opponents and many of them are
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 7: under five hundred, is because the Pats beat them. So
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 7: I mean, I think when they when they start looking
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 7: at schedules, it's better to review where they would have
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 7: been had has not succeeded as they did against them.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 7: I think their their schedule was not strong, but I
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 7: don't think it was necessarily.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: It was the weakest since the merger in the history
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 4: of the league.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 7: I believe that, Paul. But going into the season, you look.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 4: Like, for example, that was Alex's point. You didn't think
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 4: that going into the season that some of the teams
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 4: that were terrible were going to be terrible, like Cincinnati
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 4: and Baltimore. I think Alex brought that up.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 7: Think Alex is correct. But at the same time, you
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 7: look at the you know you said under five hundred.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 7: You look at the NFC South. We swept that division
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 7: and they're all late. Three of them are.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: Nine and it's and it's the worst division in football.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, it is what it is.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: I'm oh, I can't.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 4: I just don't want oh. I don't know why Evan
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 4: is so right. I don't know why there's triggers people sound.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 3: Don't just be happy. Don't let me that you won
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: fourteen games.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: Don't let people get to you about the schedule.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 3: Don't worry about it. I keep telling everybody the same
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: thing said, we're good, We're not flukes.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 4: Like, what are you watching. You're watching a team that
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 4: is good every week. Your quarterback is the MVP. What
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 4: do you care that people are talking about the schedule.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: Don't let them get to yourself. I don't really get it.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 7: I'm with you, Fred, Well, listen, I love the haters.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 7: I guess I suppose, but one just question, I'll take
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 7: it off the air, is I would like I think
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 7: it would be optimistic for the optimal for the Paths
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 7: to have the Jaguars lose to the Bills, so they
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 7: don't have to go to Denver because that play house
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 7: of horrors for the Patriots any other combination and includes
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 7: just going to Denver. I think andrews us losing in Denver.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 13: Take care of guys.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thanks, Okay.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: I'm actually working myself into the opposite.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 12: Not afraid of Denver.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 4: I'm rooting for Denver to be Buffalo if it comes
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 4: to that in the second round.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's go to Andrew in Ottawa. Hey, Andrew,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: can you hear me?
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Hey, so, yeah, longtime fan. I'm just h one
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: is to share a quick question and then comment and
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: I'll take it off air. The comment, I guess just
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: to answer something or just to reply to Paul from earlier,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: just to be fair to the Jets, right like they
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: if imagine ratings were a little better, you know, they'd
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: probably be doing better themselves to so you know, I
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: guess we can't be too hard on them. But uh,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: as for the comment. Yeah, So I got married a
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: bit over a year ago and my wife saw how
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: much of a Pats fan I am, so she took
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: a big interest and we went through all the three
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: games to glory, uh tape there and yeah she's she's
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: a huge fan now too. The reason I'm bringing that
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: up is I just kind of uh told her, like, hey,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: my dream job after I retired get out of the
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: military here is, you know, maybe I could do something
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: that the you know, for the Patriots. And then because
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: she saw the ring ceremony and stuff and how everyone's awarded,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: so I just told her, I'm glad but we got
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: married and that that's not something I have to worry
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: about because I can't imagine a Super Bowl ring, uh,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: you know, being the first ring she got. So I
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: guess just the last quick thing is, huh, what happens
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: in this state in this situation. If it's not three
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: games to glory, it's going to be three games to
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: glory plus one for this year?
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: Well we'll figure something out. Yeah, yeah, four games? All right,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: thanks Andrew.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: Actually, what's not let's not reinvent the wheel here, right, yeah,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 4: Gandalf in the Shire rights in.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: The Chargers have lost by fourteen or more three times
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: this year. Patriots have lost by one score every time. Okay,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: it's that three times that they've lost.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 6: Interesting, I would say though, if there was an if
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 6: there was a four game to glory, that'd be pretty
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 6: jam packed with a lot of a lot of stuff.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 12: Considering all the extended directors.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: Cut a lot in there.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 12: Sure yeah, forged in Foxborough.
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  Speaker 3: Apart from poland fun fact, if the Patriots make the
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl, the only possible matchup that wouldn't be a
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl rematch would be the forty nine ers. The
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: Patriots have faced all six other teams from the NFC
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: and previous Super Bowls Bears, Ackers, Rams, Panthers, Eagles, and Seahawks.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: That's a great stat It is great.
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  Speaker 3: I love that that's what happens.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 4: Fred will get mad because you can't call it a rematch, all.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 6: Right, If only the Giants could have figured out a
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 6: way to sneak in here, he is.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: That's that's that's a good stat though.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 3: That is speaking to trivia. Tyler and Georgia has some
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: through the Patriots. Though the Patriots aren't playing Saturday the tenth,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: as that happens to be my birthday, wanted to try
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: and stump the crew with some January tenth trivia for
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 3: a chance to win a T shirt.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 4: Duce couldn't do it for me, but the listeners are
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 4: coming through.
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  Speaker 3: All right, QUI. Patriots have played on January tenth three
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: times with a two and one record. The first game
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: was the divisional round of the three season against Tennessee,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 3: with the Patriots winning seventeen fourteen. Who did they play
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: in the other two games.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Jets on January tenth.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: He says, I won't give him the years because that
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: would almost certainly give it away.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: In other words, these were very memorable games. When were
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: better or worse? It was the same opponent for both teams.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 3: Purthers noted record one of the games was a loss,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: not to Denver, No, it was both Baltimore Baltimore. I
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: was just thinking of teams they lost nine and fifteen, Okay,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: so oh nine they they it was the wild card loss.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: In fifteen it was the double pass game, right right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would actually be fourteen yeah, fourteen.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And one other question. On January tenth, nineteen eighty eight,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: the actual day I was born, the Denver Broncos defeated
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: the Houston Oilers thirty four to ten in the AFC
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 3: Divisional round. Where was this game played?
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 4: The astronome.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: Even in the late eighties, Denver always played at home,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 3: And to anyone who points out how home field is
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 3: determined in the playoffs, just go with the joke.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 4: Very well done. That's a good joke. Good Jobby Miller.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 3: One more call and then we're going to get to picks.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 3: Goose is in East Boston. What's up, Goose?
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: Talk to me? Goose, Hey, what's up? But you never
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: heard that one.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: I got a question about time of possession.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 14: I know a lot of the games the Patriots maybe
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 14: even slightly struggling, and I think of the Bills game
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 14: that comes to mind, even like the quick Trevion touchdown,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 14: It's felt like we just didn't have ball as much.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 14: And I know, yeah, the Chargers lead and time possession,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 14: and I was wondering what you guys think are the
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 14: keys to avoiding that from.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 4: Happening, the obvious stuff they're getting them off the field defense,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 4: you know, getting some pressure, you know, taking advantage of
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 4: that bad offensive line.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: For the Chargers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, little ro Harbart action the Patriots should because
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 4: illegal formation. I think you can bank on that little
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: illegal formation, little offensive tackle lined up off the line
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 4: of scrimmation. We had on a thirty one yard catch
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  Speaker 4: for Quinton Johnson legal formation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about time of possession in this game.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm worried about if they possessed the ball and
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 3: once they get close, keeping them to three red zone defense.
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  Speaker 9: See.
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  Speaker 4: I worry a little about time of possession only because
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 4: if it shortens the possessions, that keeps the score down.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: I think, I think Thetriot score, you'll see my score.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Patriots are more comfortable the higher the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 4: score gets, and I don't think the Chargers feel the
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 4: same way.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, well, thanks Goose, thanks for the call.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: It is that time of the week.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna have our season ending standing, so.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't have to rush through this. So obviously there's
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 4: a lot less games, that's.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 3: True, pick time, more time on each jam.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 4: But I will allow you to take your victory laps
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: those of you that are in line to do so.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 4: So the last week of the season, which we all
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 4: acknowledge is very difficult. Alex and Mike were nine and seven, Evan, Paul,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 4: and Fred were all a so the final overall standings
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 4: Alex by virtue of her one win advantage in week
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 4: eighteen one seventy four, ninety seven and one. Fred won
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: seventy three ninety eight and one, Paul was third, one
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: sixty seven, one oh four and one, Mike won sixty three,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 4: one oh eight and one, and Evan the ball Noer
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 4: one sixty one, one ten and one.
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  Speaker 3: Love to see it with the spread.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 4: Which is, as Fred likes to say, with the men
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 4: are separator through the boys.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: Paul eleven and five.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 3: You did it, wow.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 4: I want to come back amazing.
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  Speaker 12: Better come back Atlanta Patriots, super Bowl or Paul this year.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: I think we have to put that in co pilot
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 4: and next week and see Alex and Evan eight and eight,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 4: Mike seven and nine, and Fred six and ten. I
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 4: beat you by five games Fred in the last week,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: but it wasn't quite enough enough. Dug too deep of
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 4: a hole. Fred one forty three, one twenty five and four,
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: a very very good record with the spreads, won two
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 4: games back. Paul one one twenty seven and four, Evan
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 4: the Ball Knower one thirty five, one thirty three in four.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 4: So the three of us made.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: A little cash.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: Little Kashish and Alex one thirty two, one thirty six
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 4: and four. Nothing to be ashamed.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 19: Of right apart with the spread about.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 4: Solid solid, four games under five hundred.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 12: I'm ashamed last year we were all above five hundred. Significantly.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 4: It's my one. Okay, there's my one. I want everybody
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 4: to listen to this. Oh my god, because I think
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 4: this is extremely difficult to accomplish over the span of
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 4: eighteen weeks of football. Mike Dussaut picked every game with
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 4: the spread and finished one fourteen, one fifty four and four.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good because we repeat that for.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 4: Those of you in the back that may not not
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 4: have caught it. One fourteen, one fifty four and four.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: Stay away from.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 10: That app you watch, you watch who you heck?
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 3: Say, my friend?
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: Fair enough, fair enough?
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 3: But all right, all right, So now it's a clean slate.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: Who will emerge in the playoffs?
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, thank god, you can see I've
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 4: wiped the slate clean. Everybody's owing all for everything in
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 4: the playcat All right, So we start anew As Paul said,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 4: there's not as many games, only six, so we can
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 4: take our time with each one and give really in
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 4: depth analysis.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: I printed out some things.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 4: I'm just going to take the check route and just
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 4: say whatever. My wife would come up with.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, all right, so we start with wait a minute,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 3: how do they do this?
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 4: The Rams?
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 3: They have the film, but they have the Sunday game
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 3: first on NFL.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: What are they doing it? What are they doing? All right,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: we're gonna start with Saturday. We're not Donaurday. And that's
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: at four thirty.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 3: It's the Rams at twelve and five against the Panthers
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: eight and nine on Fox.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 4: The Rams by ten and a half.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 3: Ten and a half, Charlie, Okay, yeah, that's that as
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 3: it moved, all right.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 6: So of course the uh, the Panthers won thirty one
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 6: twenty eight earlier this season. This would be a rematch,
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 6: but the Rams have won two of the last three.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 6: I'm just gonna read off this sheet and maybe it'll
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 6: help me. Sean McVay has one hundred career wins as
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 6: as a head coach, one of three to do so
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 6: all time prior to turning forty.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: All right, enough with this, I'm gonna take. I'm gonna
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: take like the ESPN pregame show right now, I'm.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 6: Gonna take the Rams, and uh yeah, I just I
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 6: think Caroline is a nice story.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: They snuck in.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 6: They won the bad Division, But I think it's all over,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 6: and I think the Rams veteran team, they're gonna blow doors.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 6: I'll lay the ten and a half.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 19: I felt like the Rams we're going to cover all
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 19: day now. Deuce is predicting this as well, so I
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 19: have a little.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: Pause now to the opposite, you'll probably be right now
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: you're getting mocked in your head.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 19: I think what the Panthers did is very commendable and
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 19: very cute. It's that great for them to build on
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 19: in the future.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 4: Rams role Okay, okay, yeah, I will take the Rams
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 4: both ways too. I feel like they sort of manage
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 4: themselves down the stretch after that Seattle loss on that
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 4: Thursday night, kind of trying to keep themselves healthy. Maybe
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 4: DeVante Adams ready to return for this playoff game. They
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 4: do remember going to Carolina and turning the ball over
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 4: a Sluettes. I think they had four turnovers in that game.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 4: One of them was a pick six. I don't think
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 4: those things happen this time, and I think they need
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 4: to do something Fred the NFL, I don't think. I
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 4: don't think it's a good look to have the home
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 4: team being underdogs by ten and a half points in
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 4: a playoff game. If you can't finish five hundred, you
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 4: can't make the playoffs. This division nonsense needs to go.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 4: But I will take the Rams both ways.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: Did cam Ward die or something? Cam who's the quarterback? Young?
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: I get the mixed up.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 5: This is the guy who led Freddy Field.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: But like surprise in the playoffs that the spread is
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 3: this much. Panthers are no Panthers. I think they cover
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: Rams win, but I think the Panthers cover at home playoffs.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: Everybody's gonna be up for this game unless there's a
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: slew of injuries I don't know about in Carolina.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: Now, those just the regular players they have every week.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the Panthers covering here and I'll
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 3: be right. I mean, let me tell you all right,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 3: Saturday night, eight o'clock and I can't see this is
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 3: on Amazon.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: I believe it.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Amazon, this is an Amazon game. The nine to
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 3: seven and one Packers are at the eleven and six.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: Bears Green Bay by one and a half. It's a
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: big game. So my buddy Yle Brnant talking about it.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 6: He's a Bears fan and he's just was talking about
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 6: how the Packers have just crushed the Bears over the
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 6: last whatever. It's been twenty plus years and it's a
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 6: real chance for the Bears to change that narrative.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 3: And I think they do. I think they do.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 6: I've been a Packer fan in recent years, but I
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 6: just they're so inconsistent and there's something that tells me
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 6: that Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams are gonna let it rip.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 6: And you know, with no Michael Parsons there for the
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 6: for the Packers, I think that really hurts them. So
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 6: I'm going to take Chicago to win. And you say
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 6: one and a half, yea, so one and a half. Yeah,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 6: I'll rebates favorite. All right, Sorry, I'll take the point
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 6: for the point and a half of Chicago, please bear.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna take the Bears too, for a lot
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 4: of the reasons Mike said. The Packers really got hit late,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 4: you know, including Jordan.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: Love and he hasn't played.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 4: Parson's obviously a huge loss. I think the defense has
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 4: taken on Water a little bit since he went out
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 4: of the lineup. I'm a little worried about how Chicago
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 4: handles this. You know, we talked a lot about Drake
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 4: May's first playoff game. This is Caleb Williams' first playoff game.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 4: He's had a bad tendency this year of really slow
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 4: starts and building holes and having to climb out of them.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's a good formula for success in
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 4: the postseason. So I do worry about that. But I
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 4: like the Bears at home and I will take them
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 4: to win.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 3: If I was a Bears fan, i'd be up in arms.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: What I know, it's only a point and a half,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 3: but what an insult after the year they've had to
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: be dogs at home against the Packers. What an insult?
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 3: Because really it's four points? What do they know?
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: Friend usually get three?
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 12: What do they they know?
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 3: Nothing in this one. This is just bad. This is
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 3: just a money thing.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Bears, Bears win Bears. It's just what
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 3: an insult to the Bears.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, A lot of a lot of road favorites
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 4: this week in the playoffs this well, four out of
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 4: the six road So I'm with.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 3: You, Bears fans. You're gonna beat the Packers, all right.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 3: So that's the Saturday games. Now we move to Sunday
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 3: and it's one o'clock and we are watching CBS because
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 3: the Bills at twelve and five are playing the Jaguars
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 3: at thirteen and.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 4: Four, Buffalo by one and a half. That's a really
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 4: tough game for me to pick my toughest game.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I have a lot of respect for Josh Allen.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 6: I think they feel the opportunity right now to go
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 6: on a run. But I just think their path is
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 6: so difficult to I mean, they have to go to Jacksonville,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 6: to Denver, maybe to New England. You know, like it's
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 6: it's really tough. And I think Jacksonville. I think Trevor
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 6: Lawrence was one Player of the month and he deserved it.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 6: They're they're playing great.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 3: It just seems to me like, I don't know Buffalo
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 3: is gonna do it.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: I really think the spread was one and a half,
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: Buffalo by one of the half.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 6: I've been I've been kind of in my mind just
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 6: thinking Buffalo all week and now when I really look
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 6: at this game, I'm gonna take the Jaguars.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the Jaguars.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it. And is that it for McDermott
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: if the Jaguar, If Jaguars win, I think so, yeah,
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 3: another one nine nine.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 19: My heart says Jags, my head says Buffalo. So so
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 19: I'm going to go with emotion. I would love to
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 19: see the Jaguars beat the Buffalo Bills.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: You gonna go with your heart.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 3: Yet the heart, what the heart wants or whatever it wakes,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know what it wants.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 4: I just think Jacksonville is entering the playoffs in a
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 4: much better position. They're healthier. The Bills a beat the crap.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know what Josh Allen's going to look like.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 4: You'll probably benefit a little bit from not having to
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 4: play that last game with that injury, but I don't
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 4: think you just magically have one week off and you're
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 4: you're okay. He's the whole team, and I don't think
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 4: he's one hundred percent. I'll take the Jags.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 12: Interesting also on this for Jacoby.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll take I'll take the Jags. I think they
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 4: were better teams.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: Don't care about I guess not, I don't.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, I love Jacoby Myers, and I love more importantly,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 4: I love mister Myers still listening, But if the Bills
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 4: were healthy, I'd be taking the Buffalo even though Jacoby
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 4: Myers is on jackson I.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 3: I I hope you guys are right, I really do.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 3: But I'm going with the Bills here because I foresee
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 3: a Bill's Denver showdown and I've I've felt that, I've
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 3: seen it.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: I'm manifesting.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 6: It's going to manifest itself prophecy taking the Patriots out
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 6: of it.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 3: For me, I think Jacksonville might be the best team
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: in the AFC right now. Yeah, well, okay, I hope.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 3: But like I said, I hope I'm wrong. I hope
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 3: you guys are right. I'd love to, you know, have
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 3: the Bills windows slam shut like that.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gonna proba'ly gonna be some changes, all right.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 3: Now, we go to four thirty on Sunday and we're
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 3: on Fox. We've We've changed our televisions to Fox. It's
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers at twelve and five at the
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 3: Eagles defending Super Bowl champions at eleven and six.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: Philadelphia by four and a half, the first the first
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 4: home favorite.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: That is it's interesting. Yeah, how's the health on this one?
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 3: In this one for the forty nine ers?
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 4: Forty nine is a beach of crap all year. Yeah,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 4: that's why I think it's one of the best coaching jobs.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 4: Shanahan is done. But right now, keeping together tough.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 6: It's just so hard for me to get behind that
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 6: Philly offense when especially watching that Bills game where I'm like,
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 6: you guys can't move the ball in the second half.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go San Francisco with the upset on the road.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 6: Rock Purty champs are out me.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 19: Too, even though I hate how many upsets I've picked.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 19: Just like it seems like bad vibes right now.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do worry a little bit about that because
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 4: Philly just they don't seem right. I think Philly is
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 4: a vastly superior team, and I'm going to take them
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 4: to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: I will take the points. I'll take, you know, the
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: four and a half.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's a field goal game, maybe that the Niners
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 4: score late, but I think you guys are right. I
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 4: think the Niners have an opportunity to go there and win.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 4: I was I had my eyes opened by what Seattle
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 4: did to San Francisco, and I think Philly can do
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 4: the same thing. I think Philly's defense is pretty formidable,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 4: and I think that you can defend the Niners. Right now,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: Trent Williams worries me too. If he's not back, I'll
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 4: take Philly to win the game at home, but San
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 4: Francisco to cover.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 3: What do we know about Trent Williams, because that's huge.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Did you look at the injury report?
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know how like a computer, don't don't you
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 3: talk to people.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 4: I don't talk to people about the Philly San Francisco.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll get a text, but.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 4: You know, yeah, I think that. I think this has
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 4: been a really really good job done by Shannyan. Really
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 4: impressive what Shanny Han has done. Fred Warner, Nick Bosa.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 4: They lost another linebacker last week whose name is escaping me.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 4: Hufanga is something one of those guys. They've been really
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 4: decimated with injuries all year long. Trent Williams in and
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 4: out of the lineup is a huge difference for them.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: Yep, yep, I'm gonna go with Eagles ready, and I'll
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 3: head hedge my bed. I'll say the forty nine ers
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 3: cover the four and a half. But yeah, who you're
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 3: rooting for in that one?
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers all the way? I mean, I can't
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: do that.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 3: Why not because I don't like the forty nine ers?
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: What did they ever do to you when I was
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: a kid, They dominated, So I'm just like everybody. So
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: you must hate Dent Dallas. Yep.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 3: You hate the Steelers, yep, Raiders, yep, you hate the
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 3: forty nine Ers, Yep, you hate the Giants.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't really hate the Giants. They didn't dominate.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 4: They have a couple of good.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: Runs about then if you.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 4: Missed one the Dolphins, I know you hate Miami Pop yes, Redskins, Yes, okay,
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: all right, there was the teams.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: That won all the time.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 14: I didn't.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't hate them because you're probably a fan of
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: them each time they won time.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 3: That's poor. That's what I.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 4: Agree, and that's what you do.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: That's poor to me. All right, now, we're going to skip.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 3: Over Sunday at eight o'clock and we're gonna move to
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 3: Monday night, which to me is a travesty and abomination.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: It's abhorrent, uh to have a Monday night game.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 3: In the playoffs.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: I agree, I think this is stupid.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 3: But anyway, I guess the alternatives have three games on
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: Saturday and they don't want to do that.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 6: And ask you a quick question, will you be that
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 6: upset about it Monday night when you're like, I'm.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 3: Looking at it from the perspective of the teams that
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 3: have to play.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 4: Sure, you know it's altruistic because I agree of him,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 4: but I feel like, pecially if the Patriots win and
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 4: it's like fall, let's go, let's say more football.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'll.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 4: Take your word for it. I may not even watch
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 4: you play that game.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: What Chicago? Okay? Is it on a stream? My New
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: Year's resolution was.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 3: My new New Year's resolution is to make Paul a
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 3: fan of the NFL. You can't make me.
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 4: I would want to watch the Buffalo Jacksonville game. Eric
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 4: had left the building in the San Francisco phillip Philadelphia game.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately we'll be doing shows like probably won't be able
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 4: to see much of that. I don't really have the
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 4: streaming game. We all know that I'm out in the
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 4: Monday night game. You can't make me watch that Pittsburgh
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 4: team again, Like I just I hate watching them off.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 13: Now.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 4: It's not only I don't like the Steelers now. They
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 4: have probably the most unlikable player who's played in the
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 4: league in the last twenty five years is the quarterback.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 3: I can't do it. I can't you hate football, how.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 4: The communication it's win, I will watch it, just for
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 4: professional because I am a professional friend.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 12: You can hate watch Rogers.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 5: You scout.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 4: I don't really hate watch a lot, No.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 12: But it was fun must sing it is I like
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 12: to root for a.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: Team he does?
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 6: Didn't you love watching him lose his mind though? When
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 6: the como communication wasn't going and he can't get the
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 6: play and he's just so mad, Like, I just love
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 6: watching him get mad.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I was rooting for Baltimore to beat Pittsburgh,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 4: not hate watching Pittsburgh.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 12: Make me too.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 3: Watches will make Patriots fans more upset, That's what I
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 3: want to have.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 4: So okay, So, which.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 12: Can I argue with the listeners and Evan and.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 3: What can what can what?
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 10: So?
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 3: What do we pick? What do we do for this one?
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 4: Like du says that Jacksonville might be the best team
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 4: in the AFC, But yet you're you're like rooting You're
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: picking Buffalo, Like, which one are.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: You rooting for? Well, I'm rooting for Jacksonville.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 4: Oh okay, that's all right. So you're rooting for the
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 4: best team to win. If I were a Patriot fan
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 4: and I thought that Jacksonville was the best team, I'd
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 4: be rooting against them.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: I would like to.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 3: I just know.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: But Patriots fans are scared of Josh Allen.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 4: Okay, I was told Patriots fans aren't scared of me.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know who.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 4: I believe he made a declaration?
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 12: Did he did?
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: You open a show with the Patriots shouldn't be afraid
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: of anybody.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 3: They shouldn't be, but they are. And I try to
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 3: get them off the ledge. I tried to talk them
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 3: off the ledge. But they shouldn't be, but they are.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 12: See, the Patriots shouldn't be afraid of the Patriots fans.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 4: Fans fans should The Patriots aren't afraid.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 3: I mean I was.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 4: The Patriots themselves are not afraid. This is all any
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 4: of the other teams in.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 3: The league, and I hear it all the time on
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 3: your shows, every show. We don't want to have anything
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 3: to do with Josh Allen.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: Okay. Meanwhile, everyone here thinks the Jaguars are going to
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: beat Josh Allen.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 12: But I picked emotionally.
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 4: I think the Jags are going to beat the Bills.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 4: I didn't say anything about Josh well he's on the
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 4: I think the Jags have a better team than the Bills.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, and Josh Allen can't overcome it.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 4: I don't think you will, not in his physical state.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 4: You go with a broken foot.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 3: All right, Texans playing with Texans? This is eight fifteen.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 3: Did we already do the picks for this one?
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: Though?
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 3: No Startsburgh?
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 12: Sorry you talk about I was an abomination, and then it.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 4: Was an abomination that are playing on Monday night.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 3: Plus that you can't wait because I'm killing time you
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 3: can't wait to watch abomination that you can't wait to
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 3: see Houston by three?
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I wow like to buy points. I picked Jacksonville,
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 6: So I just theory to texanhll you.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 4: Think they should be favored by more than on the
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 4: road in a playoff? Yes, and something needs to be
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 4: done about the way the NFL does Playoffsky, if you
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 4: think it's an abomination that a wild card team is
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 4: going on the road to play a division winner and
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 4: they should be favored by more, maybe we should stop
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 4: having the best of four teams be automatically in the
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 4: playoffs and play at home.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 3: I think you receive the whole You just shuffle, you
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 3: receed the whole thing, like it's better of the division,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 3: the divisions.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 4: You just regard just the best of four teams and
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 4: you automatically make the playoffs, but you get a home game. Yeah,
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 4: I'm done with I.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 3: Say, get rid of the divisions.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: I'm done at the.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 4: We need to change this, you know.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 3: Get rid of the divisions, all right?
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 4: Keep going to Houston by three, dude, Houston by three.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 3: So I've got the Patriots.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 6: Uh, you know, then A're gonna have to face Jacksonville
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 6: and I will take I gotta take Houston.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: I just think they're the better team.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 6: I just I feel like Pittsburgh, though, is somehow going
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 6: to like hang in there and it's gonna be close.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 6: And even as much as you not to disparage them,
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 6: they always seem to kind of hang around.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 3: This time.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Houston.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 12: I'm gonna take Houston. I'm gonna it's.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 4: Three three three flat three flat three.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 12: Mmm, Houston, Houston.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am with the group.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 4: I like the Texans. I could see Aaron Rodgers just
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 4: throwing the ball to Kenneth Gainwell about fifteen times in
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 4: this game, and if the Texans just come up and
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 4: tackle them, they will not.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: Be able to move the ball.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm telling you right now, Texans win. Rogers doesn't
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 3: even finish the game. And it's not because the score. Wow, jeez, yeah,
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 3: he's not going to finish the game.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 4: Nobody roots for injuries like the red.
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 3: I'm not rooting for it. It's just going to happen
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 3: to be Will Anderson and then we never hear from
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 3: him again. I don't know about that. But he's not
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 3: going to finish the game. So there you go. All right,
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 3: Now we move back to Sunday at eight o'clock. This
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 3: is not envy, sure, and I'm sure the peacock in universe.
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 6: It's my favorite thing you're saying, Universo, I just it
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 6: makes my week.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 3: The Chargers are eleven and six and the Patriots, of
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 3: course are fourteen and three.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 4: Oh Patriots by three and a half. Three enough, Oh
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 4: boys stayed exactly where it was Sunday, it.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: Was right now.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 6: I'm just I'm going to take the Patriots, of course.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 6: But I I feel like this is gonna be a
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 6: roller coaster game. I was trying to think of a
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 6: like good little Fred thing of like, you know, get
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 6: your something ready to ride the roller coaster, and I
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 6: couldn't come up with it quick enough.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 4: It's amazing you couldn't get in his Usually he's got
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 4: some like, you know, little story to lead you to
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 4: be able to pick that right.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: Get in line early.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a butcher. His uh, his style. But I
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 3: got to pick the Patriots.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 4: You don't have to know.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 3: I got it. I got it, I got there. I
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 3: think there.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: You can pick whoever you think is going to emerge.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: Let me twist them. I think the Patriots are.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 6: I'm going to stick, however, with the score that I picked,
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 6: and I'm going to change a little bit so I
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 6: can pick the Patriots minus three out.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Patriots thirty four to thirty.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one of those.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 6: Like back and forth minute last you know, I'm gonna That's.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 4: How you finish forty games under five hundred, because you
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 4: want to pick the score and then you say, well,
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 4: I don't want to pick that score because that doesn't
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 4: fit the spread. So I'm just going to change the
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 4: score to the sure right.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 3: Well, my original score it was going to happen.
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: My original score was thirty three.
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 3: Fine, fine, I'll do it thirty three to thirty one.
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 3: I'll stick to what I said.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 4: I I cut you down for the Pats to cut
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, but I really do think it's already a score,
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 4: so I'm going to write a close pick in you
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 4: know it?
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 12: I forgot it? What did you have Monday?
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 4: Alex and I have the same score. It was extremely organic.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 4: Ye the show thirty one twenty seven Patriots.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 4: I feel like as time has gone on this week,
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 4: I feel like the spread might be a little bit
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 4: bigger than I'm saying, maybe more of a full touchdown.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 4: But I'll stick with my score. I like to be consistent.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 4: I think there's too much offense, too much Drake May.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 4: I think he will answer any questions about his lack
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 4: of postseason experience early on. They're going to get a lead,
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 4: play the way that they've play'd so many games this
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 4: year and make the Chargers chase. Okay, but I do
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 4: respect the Chargers. I think they're a good team, and
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 4: I don't think that they'll just come here and lay
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 4: down for them.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 3: Like Garrett Blunt said something that I thought was interesting
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 3: when he was on the show this week. He said,
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 3: you know what he tells, what he told young players
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 3: when it came to the playoffs is whatever you think
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 3: is going to happen, it's not going to happen. It's
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 3: always something different.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 12: This is the leading story.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 3: And this score came to me on Tuesday.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: It came to me. That's how. That's how.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 4: Was usually on his commute, hallucinating because he's been in
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 4: his car over.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 12: The Sagamore Bridge.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, this is this. It came to me actually during
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 3: the show. I was just thinking about it. But I've
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 3: held it until now. Patriots win. But the score is
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 3: twenty four to nineteen. Twenty four to nineteen. It's not
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 3: the game we think it's going to be. It's going
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 3: to be a tough you know, there's going to be
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 3: some punting going on field position.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's only one less touchdown that I picked.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I picked things.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: It's twenty four to nineteen.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 3: This is going to be one of those games where
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 3: both teams kind of tighten up at the ball, They
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 3: tighten up a little bit and they start playing field position.
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: So that would be unexpected. Yeah, it's right. Yeah, so
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: I think that matches your narrative.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 12: Yeah, are you guys nervous?
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: No, nervous. I'm not going to not at all.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 3: The beauty of this team is we'll beat you any
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 3: way you want, will beat you any way you want
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 3: to play I'm nervous, generally nervous.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I have butterflies and it's days before.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: Have you been with the team when we want in
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: the playoffs?
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 13: Oh?
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 4: Friend, many of you, And that's what I'm sort of covered.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want I want you people to experience you.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 19: I covered eighteen X for mass Live. So it's here.
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  Speaker 19: It's been misery. Not with you guys, but well you guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's a different misery.
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  Speaker 12: No, it's so different. That's why I feel that's why
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  Speaker 12: I'm going to cry.
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  Speaker 1: If it's so sad, I'm going to have to try
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  Speaker 1: to find Alex if we lose. Good thing. You weren't
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  Speaker 1: hearing seven? Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just.
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  Speaker 4: Excited to There was a member of.
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  Speaker 19: The a I am away message was I went in
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  Speaker 19: in O seven.
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  Speaker 12: After that game.
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  Speaker 4: There was a member of sports writing what was it eleven?
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  Speaker 4: The Super Bowl loss in Indye against the Giants, sitting
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  Speaker 4: outside on the ground outside of Lucas Oil Stadium, next
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  Speaker 4: to a trash barrel, who's just with his head down distraught.
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  Speaker 4: Who I don't somebody here. It wasn't a member of
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  Speaker 4: the show. It was used to used to produce the.
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  Speaker 3: Show because he was drunk.
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  Speaker 4: It may have been, but that's how to straw.
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  Speaker 1: He was, Wow, all right, I could get there. Well, listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a great weekend of football.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait, even though I have to fit in
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  Speaker 3: errands somewhere over the weekend on Saturday because we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be here on Sunday. But everyone enjoy, have a
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  Speaker 3: good time. We'll be back next week win or lose,
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  Speaker 3: so we will see you next Tuesday in all pregame.
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  Speaker 6: Show right, yeah, pregame show is US six six five,
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  Speaker 6: All right, see you then.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot