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Rams hold off Vikings, refs miss crucial call on game-sealing safety · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: think I was going to go all of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the whole show without mentioning that Thursday night, the NFL
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  Speaker 1: game last night. I think it just goes to show,
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  Speaker 1: certainly how effective offensively the Rams can be when they
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  Speaker 1: do have two of their biggest weapons back, Hooper Cup
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  Speaker 1: and Puka da Koua. They've both been out several weeks.
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  Speaker 1: They both returned and they were both big factors in
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  Speaker 1: the game. Nakua caught several passes and then of course
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  Speaker 1: so did Cup on that first drive, and Cooper Cup
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  Speaker 1: also wound up getting a touchdown in there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Nikup had nine targets, Cup had eight, and then oh
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Kyra and Williams had seven, and he
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  Speaker 1: ran the ball well and the Rams beat the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: thirty to twenty. Now I also know what one other
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  Speaker 1: much discussed piece of this game is and can't ignore it.
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  Speaker 1: They're up twenty eight to twenty with under two minutes
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  Speaker 1: to go. The Vikings have no timeouts left and they're
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  Speaker 1: backed up inside their own ten yard line, so the
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  Speaker 1: odds were going to be greatly against them being able
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  Speaker 1: to drive all the way downfield get a touchdown and
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  Speaker 1: a two point conversion to tie the score. The Vikings
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  Speaker 1: did not score a touchdown in the second half, but
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold was sacked at the end zone for a safety.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, the officials missed what should have been a
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  Speaker 1: face pass call, but they missed it. They didn't see it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't review that. You can't challenge two points on
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  Speaker 1: the board. I was curious to see how the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: were going to do an on side free kick, because
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  Speaker 1: you have to free kick after a safety, and I
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  Speaker 1: was interested to see how they were gonna do the
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  Speaker 1: on side kick, and I thought I was pretty impressed
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  Speaker 1: by the Rams got right under it, but it was
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  Speaker 1: like a little pop fly straight up, like you were
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  Speaker 1: hitting fungos straight up, and it came down and Kyrin
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  Speaker 1: Williams snagged it to make the catch and that sealed
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  Speaker 1: the deal. I completely agree with those who say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the officials missed a call, and I'm a RAMS fan,
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  Speaker 1: they did miss the call. They should not have called.
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  Speaker 1: They should have called a face mask. It would have
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  Speaker 1: taken it out to the twenty yard line. It would
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  Speaker 1: have been first down with about I think it was
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  Speaker 1: a minute twenty left, a minute twenty five left, and
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  Speaker 1: they still would have had to go eighty yards in
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  Speaker 1: that time with no timeouts to get a touchdown a
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  Speaker 1: two point conversion. But it definitely took all the guestwork
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  Speaker 1: out of it. With the safety. Now I am not
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in agreement with the people who make references
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  Speaker 1: to the numbers that were being established in the desert
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  Speaker 1: with that deal. The mainly the over I think it
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  Speaker 1: was the over under, wasn't it. It was at forty
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  Speaker 1: eight and a half, and at the time it was
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  Speaker 1: under because it was twenty eight twenty. So if the game,
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  Speaker 1: let's just say they threw the flag and the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: got a first time but they ended up not scoring,
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  Speaker 1: the game would have ended with the under instead of
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  Speaker 1: fifty points as the over. So Cam I think it's
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  Speaker 1: bad beats involved. There is basically what that.
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  Speaker 2: Was for sure, And back to the face mass penlinity,
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  Speaker 2: Why do we as a sports society all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden when things like this happened, And then the first
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  Speaker 2: time where there's a big play where there's a miss
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  Speaker 2: call or something, isn't you know, reviewed right, and it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that cost him the game? When it takes away from
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  Speaker 2: the fact that at Minnesota struggled, struggled on offense after
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  Speaker 2: their first two drives. I mean they ended the first
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  Speaker 2: half with two punts Craig and in the second half,
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  Speaker 2: after Stafford's interception, they got down in the five yard line,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't punch it in fuel gold, then another field goal
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  Speaker 2: and then the other putt and then just to say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: they called the face mass you mentioned it, eighty yards,
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  Speaker 2: no timeouts and ninety seconds. Are we sure they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: score touchdown and get the two point conversion? And then
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  Speaker 2: ultimately what when in overtime? I don't understand why so
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  Speaker 2: many people, just Aszume like I saw the athletic just
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  Speaker 2: kind of like like, oh, we're gonna talk about a miscalling.
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  Speaker 2: What a huge miscall. No, the Rams were the better
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  Speaker 2: team in that game in the second half, I mean
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  Speaker 2: huge credit to what Jeohn mcfay and Stafford and the
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  Speaker 2: and the offense did. Those two touchdown drives were huge.
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  Speaker 2: They went seventy yards on both those drives. Craig eighteen
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  Speaker 2: plays total, took off almost seven minutes on their last
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  Speaker 2: scoring drive. So understand why we always do this with
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  Speaker 2: miss calls as if okay, yeah, it's going to go
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  Speaker 2: from the twenty yard line to the one yard line
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  Speaker 2: the very next play. Now, the Rams still were the
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  Speaker 2: better team in that game. And it's crazy what happens
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  Speaker 2: when Matthew Stafford isn't throwing the uber drivers, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when he gets Cooper Cup and Pooking Akoula back all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, it's like, hey, look out. And to
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  Speaker 2: your point, Craig talked about it yesterday, look out because
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  Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Rams, now just like that, are three
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  Speaker 2: and four and looking at the NFC West standings, hey,
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  Speaker 2: they could be a half a game back if Seattle
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  Speaker 2: does lose this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: How ugly is the NFC West Right now? The Rams,
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, and the Cardinals are all three
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  Speaker 1: and four, and they're only one game out of first
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  Speaker 1: because the Seahawks are four and three. Oh by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams play in Seattle next week. And remember last
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  Speaker 1: year the Rams were three and six coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the by and they won seven of their last eight
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  Speaker 1: games to get into the playoffs. They were one in
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  Speaker 1: four out of the Buy, and now they went back
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  Speaker 1: to back games. When lind and I were in Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles last week to see Joni Mitchell dilly Wood Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: we were driving around LA while the Rams were playing
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders and JB. Long. They're played by play voice
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  Speaker 1: with DeMarco Farr and Maurice Jones Dry. They were talking
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  Speaker 1: about the comparisons between last year's team that was three
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  Speaker 1: and six coming out of the Buy and this one
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  Speaker 1: one in four and can they get on a roll?
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  Speaker 1: Can they get on the roll. The biggest difference this
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  Speaker 1: year is they've got guys back healthy, and that makes
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  Speaker 1: the difference, and it makes Matthew Stafford a better quarterback
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  Speaker 1: for sure. I don't know if they got enough to
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  Speaker 1: overhaul all the other ones. They have a head to head,
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  Speaker 1: went over the forty nine ers, and they start to
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  Speaker 1: play them one more time. They have they had to
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  Speaker 1: head loss to the Cardinals, but they start to play
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  Speaker 1: them one more time, so we'll see, and then they've
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  Speaker 1: got two games against Seattle, so we'll see how that
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  Speaker 1: ultimately goes. I'm not saying that division is gonna wind up.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the year that it was seven and nine, yes Seattle, right, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: seven and.
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  Speaker 2: Nine, those of Marshawn Lynch here when he ran over
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  Speaker 2: the same defense, right right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm not saying it's going to be that bad.
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  Speaker 1: But it could be nine and eight. It certainly could.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly could be nine and eight wins. That division
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  Speaker 1: first one to nine wins may wind up winning that thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. All Right, we'll be back to wrap
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