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Bears Over Beers: Can Chicago Keep It Rolling vs. Rams? · 2nd City Gridiron

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[SPEAKER_02]: What's up everybody coming off a big time play off victory over the Green Bay Packers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's bears over beers presented by second city grid.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I ride a drasty Brian orange luck Brian.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What a sweet weekend my friend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How you doing?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing fantastic bro.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I guess any better than what we've experienced at least.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Gosh, not in the last.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 20 years maybe on that was fantastic on so many levels.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, um, hey, Tremaine Edmund said it in the mic up video.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just released today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Team a destiny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we might get to that in this show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure, but, um, you know, the crazy thing, man, and I thought I might, I might say this later, but here it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're still not playing our best ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know it, I know it, that's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, if we keep winning, that's all that matters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if we can play complete football, all four quarters, you know, it's really going to be tough to beat us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm excited as you can tell how about you, man, how are you doing?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've been riding high all week long.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is been incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What a, you know, what a change in the motions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think, you know, we might It texted about this right after the game, but it's, you know, you watch that game on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you're thinking, I want to do the show right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We don't wait till Wednesday to talk about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, at this point, It's been four days.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll also touch on a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then obviously we're looking forward here to the Los Angeles Rams and the
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, how can you not feel great?
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[SPEAKER_02]: We talked about on the show last week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was just like it felt like this was a real chance to get that old Packers monkey off our back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, finally, changed the narrative.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we've split with them the last two years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But to send them home in the playoffs, Brian.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: For the first time since 1941.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, how can you not be feeling great?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, me too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we were tempted to go on on the air on Sunday because it was a Saturday game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And a last we've simmered down some since then.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But we're excited to hang out with you all and crack one open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let us know if you're drinking, by the way, in the chat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We got Carl checking in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He says, It's time to remind Stafford what a January game in the NFC North feels like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Another friend in the chat agreeing with him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Brian, what do you got on tap time?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What are you drinking?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited about this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Go to my new bear fridge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Get out this bad boy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a barrel aged.
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[SPEAKER_01]: imperial stout called a narwhal, maybe even a derivative or cousin akin to a ram, but the more lethal and bear-like version.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now check this out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: deep in our barrel room it says.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Out of light's reach, our legendary narwhal imperial stout rest in bourbon barrels for nearly a year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After aging and emerges a new rich with notes of oak, vanilla, and coconut layered onto the stout's malt flavors of dark chocolate and espresso.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Enjoy this beast of a beer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 11.9% right here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This bad boy is what we do man, winter, ale at its finest with a little bite and we got to bring out the heavy stuff, which is why you might see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you've seen the numbers on this jersey.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm donning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But boy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need some monsters back, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need some monsters back on defense, make some plays.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a minute since we've had some game changing turnovers, I feel like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we need some nastiness.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need some game changing turnovers this week and to be a beast of a team like this beer right here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what about you, man?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love it, almost a 12% beer for Brian tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to feel real good by the end of the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We get Carl in the chat drinking a revolution brewing anti-hero solid solid beer into that brewery a couple times, good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've got another friend in the chat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing, no one ever is the screen names.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's got some catch-held anchor barrel age imperial style from half-acre.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, yeah, half-acre, another great sound brewery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sound similar to this one right here, nothing, no one ever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: been at that brewery as well, solid solid place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Brian, I actually got two beers in here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess I guess I've got real crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I could dip into both of them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Probably not because they're both kind of
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[SPEAKER_02]: thicker beers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, last week, I drank the King Sue from Topling, Goliath, and that turned into a victory.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was thinking about drinking it again, just out of tradition.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I thought, do I need to take a shot of something good because we want to play off-gaming?
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[SPEAKER_02]: When I brought in the ego, I was thinking about that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I realized we did that show on New Year's Eve,
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I got the peanut butter cut porter from confidence brewing, which I'll show off you're in the camera.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Great can't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I said that night, I was going to have one and I never did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have still yet no.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I never went with this since I haven't tried it yet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So also Brian, it's a, you know, a thicker darker beer just like you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We need that D line to play nice and thick this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, shout out for sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, nice and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Portly old men.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Portly old men like the porter here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, that that's what I have.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm looking forward to trying this because I haven't had a good peanut butter porter in a very, very long time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm pouring it out right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: can smell the peanut butter cups right away.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got actually, hey, our friend here Carl in the chat dude, I got a revolution brewing glass tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I failed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't get my bears over beers last month's revolution.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So cheers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Cheers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Cheers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I will say victory beer tastes so good, funny story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, gosh, after the Steelers' game it was, I had to step in for Jacob and Fonte for the post game show, I did a fun show after a sweet win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was before we really started.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had really beaten many of the good teams and we kind of handed them a solid loss.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I did this show whatever forgot about it a couple weeks ago my daughter and my daughters and nephew burst into the the room I was in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they were like, oh, victory beer tastes so good, huh, dad?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, can you girls talking about it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they googled or something, me and found that show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, you can't be watching that, because that was, I was really excited in that one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And there might have been some, some curses dropped to that day, but, but point being, victory beer
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just it just brings out the notes of flavor in the victory after a victory after a w.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love that's hilarious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a watch in the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I once had my oldest daughter in the office when I was doing a episode of top prognation, and it wasn't me, but it was a co-host.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I let her listen kind of live with one of my headphones, and she was counting how many times one of my co-hosts was swearing at the on the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what a joke ever since.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like my camera is lagging.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is it lagging for you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's lagging
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[SPEAKER_02]: I may rejoin the stream here Brian if you can talk a little bears for a second because I want to cut some shorts on this show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know for a two page and that is not going to work my camera is lagging so I will be right back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's on Brian for solo for 60 seconds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you ready?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Here you go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I am leaving right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See you soon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, guys, it's now time for me to tell you all my deepest arc of secrets about Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just kidding.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've got a couple barrel-aged stouts in there out there, drinking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I saw today on an ad that popped up is a non-alcoholic bourbon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It did peak my interest, because especially with my age and these late night games,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I dip into some bourbon every now and then when I'm watching the games and then obviously I have a beer or so, and you know you feel a little bit more the next day, so has anybody tried any non alcoholic bourbons before?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd be curious to hear what you thought about that, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, appreciate you guys joining us excited to get into this week's game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what a lot of people have Have been talking a lot about the the rams and their their potent offense, but I actually think we match up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well against their offense We'll kind of get into that it looks like I'm lagging now, maybe
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on with this streamer?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mine?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Check.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And mine just started lagging, too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It looks good when I got on the stream.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And now I'm definitely lagging.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're lagging as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think yours looks fine to me, actually.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go in the chat with going on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is great live podcasting right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We figure out the tech problems.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's this webcam software.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm running and I feel like my stream is like flashing too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What is it going on here?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to try one more thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I will be right back there with us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll take it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Our technology is not used to being in active or active in motion in use this time of year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not it's retired it's hibernating this time of year and it's getting some extra work.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We did not put some extra work in during training camp with with these these tools we have like the bears did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that might be the thing, but if you're experiencing any technical issues or if you can tell that we are, let us know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yes, we'll start with the green big game as we always do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We kind of pivot from one week to the next.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we start with with that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if anyone here has watched or read rather my game after my day after notes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I put those up on Wendy City Griniron, the day after every game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and I actually liked the way we started this one against the Packers from an offensive standpoint.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought Caleb was dialed in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought he was accurate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I liked the play calls.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We marched down the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we took off like eight minutes off the clock that opening drive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I obviously wish we would have ended in a touchdown, but getting points on the board opening drive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was late in egg and continued to lay eggs and then the offense kind of matched with it and I know Ben said he thought Caleb played a great game throughout.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And for the most part, I would agree, but, you know, those turnovers really hurt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know that at least one of them was looked like a miscommunication between he and burden.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, I can't say that, you know, he had the strongest game all 60 minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, what I was saying right before he joined us again, I really liked the way we started on offense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was encouraging takeaway because we have not been starting fast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and we we we seemed on point Caleb was accurate early, which my notes my day after notes have been indicating He's not been and he he was and so I like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I Like the way that used Luther early on He kind of showed up right away obviously love on how to huge game
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[SPEAKER_01]: But one of my big takeaways from that game that I hope we correct this week is it just seemed like the Packers had more intensity and urgency and we're playing with more fire.
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[SPEAKER_01]: especially the the the packers defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the offense was running up and down the field on us, so it didn't quite matter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it didn't seem like we had matched there in Tennessee, especially after that first drive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Adrian Cooper, the nice young linebacker, believe he's from Texas A&M,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've highlighted him this year on one of my other articles, I think a couple times, but he was just a monster and past coverage and it just didn't seem like we were matching their intensity and playoff game at least that whole first half.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, we came back in second half, but you know, like we said, man, we've still not played a full game and you wonder if that's going to come back and bite us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but I would love to see it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would just, I would love to see that intensity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, obviously, we flip a switch in a second half, especially the end of the game, fourth quarter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But you got to wonder, why can't we do that to start?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, it's been a culmination, this whole season has been just building off of one another.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I hope we take some of these lessons, play off lessons, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you heard Montez Sweets say today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's having the most fun, he's had his whole career, right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Playing play off football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and Kevin Bire, you know, same thing and everybody's talking about how, yeah, this this time of year in the playoffs, every team you're playing is great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got an MVP caliber quarterback in Matt Stafford, an MVP caliber receiver in Pukinakua.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're going to be, gosh, one hell of a challenge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I dare say, our toughest challenge all year, but I do think we match up well against them and we'll get to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what were some of your takeaways, Ryan, that you're, look like you're back with us from that pack.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm here, but it's so lag.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was fine while you were talking.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was kind of like moving around testing the lag.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I can tell my video.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's thrown me off because when I look at the video, it's a second or two
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[SPEAKER_01]: So look at I don't know if my video only just look at me and the camera because we can hear you loud and clear So yeah, we want to hear your thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So so talk to us about this Packers game and yeah third rendition of it What what you thought the game overall rivalry anything
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was really surprised to that, you know, the we didn't come out hot because I figured the way that that Detroit game went, the bears would come out angry and you know, ready to show that they could play a full game and get back on, you know, get back on the horse, so to speak, and they did not, they came out like, like you, I thought Caleb looked pretty good early, but, you know, obviously the defense wasn't holding it down well enough.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, there was there's some miss apps like the route with Luther that could have possibly been a touchdown that wasn't attached down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, yeah, Caleb turns up all over two times, but they were basically like punts, so they didn't really hurt him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, I think that first one was the costliest because he looked at the replay and you're like, man, if Luther comes towards the center of the field, that's probably a touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I was certainly disappointed, you know, as that first half played out, I wanted to see a lot more from the D-line.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They came to play in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was getting real down on Dennis Allen, because I felt like, you know, he continued to do things that were not working whatsoever, but you got to give him credit because he made those adjustments.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He sent more pressure in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It actually worked Kyler Gordon, getting minutes, Tyreek Stevenson, getting minutes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That definitely changed the trajectory of the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if Kyler was on a snap count.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't heard anything about that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It didn't make much sense to me that he wasn't playing in the first half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because once he went in, the game just totally started to change.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Tyreek had a really good, I saw he had a really high coverage grade from PFF.
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[SPEAKER_02]: for his defensive coverage and, you know, he definitely helped as well, you know, and so the fact that we're getting CJ back this week too, it looks like full participant for the walk through today at least.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel way more competent in the secondary.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If Tyreaks gonna get some minutes of Kyler, you know, it's just one game better after coming back from the injury and if you can work in CJ too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, I mean, there's no way to skirt around it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That first half was incredibly disappointing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't even like, is weird emotions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't even feeling like I was angry.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like watching it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Usually when the bears were losing the packers, I'm mad.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was not even mad.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was just like, well, they're getting their butts kicked and they deserve to get their butts kicked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what to say.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I was watching with my dad and I was like, we're just kind of watching it in silence.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was sinking in the back of my mind.
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[SPEAKER_02]: that we could potentially make it come back like it wasn't totally out of the question being down by 18.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They weren't looking like they could do it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was in the back of my mind like maybe, but more so I was thinking, God, I hope they at least make this score respectable because I was worried they were going to lose with 30 points.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But man, that defense was so critical to what happened in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know,
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[SPEAKER_02]: but them, I mean, he was all over the place in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of it didn't show up on the stat sheet, but he was getting in the back field.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was hitting the quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was affecting the trajectory of the passes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And obviously Caleb was great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, Colston was great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The run game wasn't as good as I expected, especially given what the Ravens did to the packers a couple of weeks ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was expecting a huge game on the ground.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But in the end, I mean, the pass in game,
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[SPEAKER_02]: did what it needed to do, Caleb spread the ball around, but lovelin was the go-to guy again, and then Caleb dropped times all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So for you know, what you were talking about, the bear's not playing a complete game this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What is the game where they've been closest to playing a complete game?
19:18
[SPEAKER_02]: Was it the Cowboys game?
19:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Seems like we can troll that one, start to finish.
19:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't think so, because we had a number of big plays.
19:32
[SPEAKER_01]: which kind of negate a score of just a thriving offense when you're just getting big chunks.
19:41
[SPEAKER_01]: You can hate me on that if you want, but I just like a methodical well executed drive, more than I like a flee flicker.
19:50
[SPEAKER_01]: And for a touchdown, 70 yards.
19:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Plus, they lost CD lamb that day.
19:56
[SPEAKER_01]: And without CD, the cowboys are different.
19:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I think our most complete game, right?
20:02
[SPEAKER_01]: was that Philadelphia?
20:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, yeah, that's fair.
20:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that game, on offense, we ran the hell out of the ball against a stout defensive line.
20:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Caleb did what he had to do.
20:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Beautiful, touched down in the wind to win the game, to co-comment with decent coverage and our defense just dominated.
20:26
[SPEAKER_01]: And here's the interesting thing, fellas and ladies,
20:33
[SPEAKER_01]: You talk about Kyler Gordon getting more snacks.
20:36
[SPEAKER_01]: And it seemed like he was on a snap count in the first half.
20:39
[SPEAKER_01]: And he played the whole second half if I'm not mistaken, which we talked about leading up to this.
20:47
[SPEAKER_01]: We are three and oh, when he plays, when he games, he's played and finished.
20:52
[SPEAKER_01]: We've won all three now, four.
20:55
[SPEAKER_01]: But one of those games, my boy.
20:59
[SPEAKER_01]: was against the Eagles, which was the only time this season.
21:04
[SPEAKER_01]: He has played with CJ Gardner Johnson.
21:09
[SPEAKER_01]: That Eagles game is the only game that they have both been on the field with our secondary.
21:13
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's important because we don't get as much pressure up front, so our runby kind of suffers.
21:19
[SPEAKER_01]: But both of those guys are stout from the slot in the run and in a short passing game.
21:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Then are kind of X factors.
21:30
[SPEAKER_01]: They're both kind of like, you know, jacks where they're wild cards.
21:35
[SPEAKER_01]: And I really like what they can bring to our defenses.
21:39
[SPEAKER_01]: We can just going to be fascinating to me, y'all, to see how the chess match of McVey and Dennis Allen and Ben Johnson.
21:50
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the Rams like to run a lot of 13 personnel.
22:00
[SPEAKER_01]: and pound the ball, blood, they're one of the best running teams in the league.
22:05
[SPEAKER_01]: How are we going to, how are we going to adapt to that?
22:09
[SPEAKER_01]: And because he likes to then put Pook and Akua and Devante Adams in different places, he likes moving, and Akua all up, line them up all over the field.
22:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that we, because we've got these X factors that are stout against the run in
22:30
[SPEAKER_01]: a lot this week.
22:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I think they want one of those guys on Puka when he's kind of going going wild in the back field or or jet sweeping or something like that.
22:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Plus we're down TJ Edward.
22:44
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out.
22:48
[SPEAKER_01]: But we do need to have some pressure on Stafford when we don't when he's one of those guys, you know, get pressure on him, he will pick you apart.
22:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So
22:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope you can force some turnovers again, soldier field, having it in our home field.
23:06
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about that, the weather, it's going to be one of the maybe top 10 coldest games.
23:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you see that?
23:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you see the tweet this week, and I would totally give this person credit, but it's been floating around now.
23:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
23:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's half of my head, but
23:25
[SPEAKER_01]: The Rams have not played a game, anything colder than 45 degrees all season.
23:30
[SPEAKER_01]: It was against the Panthers.
23:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm in Western North Carolina.
23:34
[SPEAKER_01]: It's about 20 degrees colder here than it is in Charlotte.
23:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Just kind of, you know, a central Eastern North Carolina.
23:43
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where the Carolina Panthers play.
23:45
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a coldest game the Rams have played, 45 degrees.
23:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Anybody listening to this that's from Illinois or Midwest, 45 degrees is short and short sleeves, weather.
23:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no kidding.
23:58
[SPEAKER_01]: That's okay, great.
24:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Our kids can finally go outside and play weather.
24:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
24:03
[SPEAKER_01]: And meanwhile, if it's gonna be 10 degrees, feels like negative, whatever, no, baby girl, you're staying inside.
24:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go color.
24:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go play with some play dough.
24:19
[SPEAKER_01]: So huge difference there.
24:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Shout out to all the parents, listen to us on this Wednesday night, it's fine Wednesday evening.
24:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, original round of the playoffs.
24:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Can we just cheers to that real quick guys.
24:31
[SPEAKER_01]: We just kind of skipped over that wild card victory.
24:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Cheers to the divisional round.
24:36
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm still screwing with my web quit webcam.
24:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I got a different one on this is my computer camera It doesn't look as good, but I know I know you're chasing me and you do look look what look what's happening here If I go to my actual web cam, I'm working in way derail.
24:49
[SPEAKER_02]: I apologize people.
24:50
[SPEAKER_02]: This is about string.
24:51
[SPEAKER_02]: It must be problem sometimes.
24:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, look at this.
24:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Looking good.
24:56
[SPEAKER_02]: As soon as I'm on my mouth, I don't know what's going on here you guys.
24:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I know if you're looking at a podcast for you, like what the hell is this guy talking about?
25:03
[SPEAKER_02]: You're having all kinds of tech problems tonight.
25:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what is happening, and I'm a huge techie, so this kind of thing is going to bother me, and it's making it hard for me to think, but I'm doing my best.
25:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I lead to highlighting your beautiful blossoming beard that's coming in right now.
25:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I did trim it the other day, Brian.
25:22
[SPEAKER_02]: It's, you know, and it is what it is.
25:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they like it.
25:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Jostie, keep it going.
25:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of students, I got some Packers fans in my class and Brian, they were given it to me after we lost that first game to Green Bay.
25:40
[SPEAKER_02]: So you know, I had to pay it back a little bit.
25:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
25:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course.
25:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you need to make them cry.
25:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Send them home.
25:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I had the cheese grater shirt on.
25:50
[SPEAKER_02]: I did.
25:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I had a background on my projector of Caleb shredding cheese.
25:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw that one.
25:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
25:58
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
25:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I played Bear Down Chicago Bears when they left class that day.
26:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there's a couple of kids in there.
26:02
[SPEAKER_02]: There's Bear Span's too, but, um, you know, you got a, and then I, I told him, hey, man, it's not the personal.
26:08
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just part of sports.
26:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
26:10
[SPEAKER_02]: But, uh, I said, I didn't get to celebrate when we beat you guys over Christmas break, man.
26:14
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I had, uh, I had a, I delayed it in a little bit, but, um,
26:19
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I was going to say with the TJ Edwards injury, obviously it sucks.
26:23
[SPEAKER_02]: We're high on TJ, but kind of like don't feel bad about the Marco getting in there a little more.
26:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to be honest with you.
26:32
[SPEAKER_02]: That dude has made the most of his minutes and he's looked like he's when he's been in there.
26:37
[SPEAKER_02]: He's looked like our best lineback of the honest with you.
26:41
[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, it's the left tackle position is one of the most concerned about.
26:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not as concerned about the linebacking core at all because the market was so good when he was playing when T.J. was out.
26:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.
26:55
[SPEAKER_01]: On defense, I'm concerned about the health of our corners.
27:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I think the cool thing about this is, you know, Devante Adams, he started off with the Packers.
27:07
[SPEAKER_01]: So when Jalen Johnson was a rookie, he went up against Devante early and he learned a little bit
27:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he's mastered his craft at this point.
27:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Neither one of them, Devante, because he's older, jailing, because he's still come back from injury.
27:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Neither one of them are as explosive and athletically prime as they have once been.
27:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Both of them are bigger for corner and receiver, stronger, and very heavy players.
27:41
[SPEAKER_01]: And I believe Devont Adams led the league this year in receiving touchdowns.
27:46
[SPEAKER_01]: So he is going to be tested in the end zone.
27:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really fascinated to see that match up this week.
27:53
[SPEAKER_01]: And then on the other side, I expect I would love for Kyler to shadow Puka, but he's not 100%.
28:02
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think Stevenson matches up a little bit better.
28:07
[SPEAKER_01]: uh, on him then nationwide right.
28:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
28:10
[SPEAKER_01]: But, but how those guys that they like I was saying that the DBs, the corners, their health is more of a concern to me than our linebackers.
28:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I would agree with that left tackle.
28:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Who do you think's going to start?
28:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Who do you want to start at left tackle?
28:27
[SPEAKER_02]: I did see you to, was it in the comments on Wendy City?
28:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw you talking about
28:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's going to be Theo, but you know, it seemed like Ben was kind of KG when he was talking about it and that first press conference this week because I asked him about the injury and
28:49
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't, I'm trying to remember the way he were to that, but he said it in like a cagey way where you could take it that, you know, I don't really know who's gonna play.
28:57
[SPEAKER_02]: We got a couple of guys back there who could play.
28:59
[SPEAKER_02]: So he didn't really sell that it was for sure gonna be Theo.
29:02
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just the fact that he's played more recently makes me think it's gonna be him.
29:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you still feeling Braxton or have you shifted on that?
29:08
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that was more for conversation starter on Wendy's city.
29:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
29:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's gonna be Theo.
29:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Braxton is gonna be activated though.
29:19
[SPEAKER_01]: And I do think he gets in the rotation, but I don't think Theo's going to play 100% of the snaps.
29:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd be surprised.
29:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they want to get Braxton back because WinHealthy, Braxton is arguably our best-left tackle on the team this season.
29:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so even though he's got his shortcomings, but I think early this season wasn't healthy.
29:44
[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen him play a lot better over the years.
29:48
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I think they're going to get him some game action, but I think Theo starts.
29:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I think part of that is because we want to, we, we need to establish the run this week.
29:57
[SPEAKER_01]: And Theo is one hell of a, of a run blocker.
30:00
[SPEAKER_01]: He's also a little bit better against bull rushes, although his past block grades have been very poor.
30:08
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's typically been with a lot of help, whether it be scheme or personnel, you know, chips and whatnot assists.
30:19
[SPEAKER_01]: So that is a concern, you know, and that brings up a good point.
30:30
[SPEAKER_01]: As he might not play next season all together, let alone until, you know, at the earliest, second, third quarter of the season, you know, it's a brutal injury for a big guy and to happen in a wild card game after a strong rookie season, I just feel terrible for him and, and honestly, that really throws a wrench into our plans this offseason because we don't have a
30:57
[SPEAKER_01]: young ascending starter at left tackle right now.
30:59
[SPEAKER_01]: We might not have him at all in next season.
31:01
[SPEAKER_01]: So now we have to plan accordingly.
31:03
[SPEAKER_01]: And he was playing so well, we almost thought we could just kind of at least I thought that we could just stick to the defensive line this off season.
31:14
[SPEAKER_01]: But now we got to focus on the unleft tackle.
31:15
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's going to be interesting.
31:17
[SPEAKER_02]: yeah man i mean he had he had been a real find in all the all the concern we had about him moving to the left side and then you know how well he did as far as like moving moving to the left side playing well seemingly solidifying that spot moving forward and it wasn't it was like the third to last play or something i mean it was right at the end
31:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Super depressing, horrible injury, luckily he has, you know, his age on his side, but that injury isn't like a 50% 50% success rate coming back from it.
31:49
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's not great.
31:51
[SPEAKER_02]: huge bummer.
31:53
[SPEAKER_02]: We were both really high on him and to happen right at the end of the game like that, it's horrible.
31:57
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I mean, they're going to have to have some contingency plans.
32:00
[SPEAKER_02]: They have to look in the draft.
32:01
[SPEAKER_02]: You're not to possibly look, you know, reagency, I don't know if they doubt they would trade, but who knows?
32:08
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll have to see, but yeah, I wasn't thinking about really any moves on the offensive side in the off season other than maybe some deaf pieces, you know, late in the late in the draft.
32:19
[SPEAKER_02]: So now that's definitely going to
32:23
[SPEAKER_02]: So, we'll see.
32:28
[SPEAKER_01]: How you doing over there, man?
32:29
[SPEAKER_02]: How's your uh...
32:32
[SPEAKER_02]: I still don't know why my camera is going to this default zoom in.
32:35
[SPEAKER_02]: So this this is going to work for now.
32:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I'll have to have some like you need to take another drink and you take another drink.
32:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Cheers.
32:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Cheers.
32:43
[SPEAKER_02]: This beer is really good.
32:44
[SPEAKER_02]: I am digging it.
32:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me just show this again one more time here.
32:47
[SPEAKER_02]: It is peanut butter cup porter solid solid.
32:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, mine is mine is very solid too.
32:54
[SPEAKER_01]: 12% I think I'm already feeling it y'all.
32:57
[SPEAKER_01]: So forgive me in advance.
33:00
[SPEAKER_01]: I've had that one Brian years ago That you're drinking.
33:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
33:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a great beer.
33:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I forgot to mention it's Sierra Nevada Which I've highlighted a number of times this season This is a seasonal drink.
33:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously it's super potent if you go to the brewery you get it in a in a small boy And this comes in a nice 16 ounce pineapple
33:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I think we're both agreeing in this game.
33:25
[SPEAKER_02]: If we get down early, it's not going to be like Green Bay.
33:28
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to be in deep trouble, man.
33:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't see a comeback happening against the Rams.
33:32
[SPEAKER_02]: We have both thought the Rams kind of all year, the class of the NFC, although, you know, the last, the last several weeks.
33:43
[SPEAKER_02]: They haven't been what they were.
33:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm thinking maybe they peeked a little early.
33:47
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see what happens.
33:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's what it looks like.
33:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
33:51
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the Panthers beat them once, not that long ago, and took them to the wire this past weekend.
34:00
[SPEAKER_01]: What did the Panthers do?
34:01
[SPEAKER_01]: They run the ball.
34:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they run the ball.
34:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I would argue to say our DR defense is better than theirs, the Panthers, but we don't have Derek Brown and he's a freaking monster.
34:16
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a narwhal himself and he dominated that game, but we need to run the ball.
34:23
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I think Theo starts, I would like to see his established run.
34:27
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the one thing I was really discouraging last week.
34:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Packers are not a great team on, you know, when it comes to run defense and they held their own.
34:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
34:36
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we, we broke for a couple big runs in the second half.
34:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And we looked like we were close to breaking in the first half, but by and large, they held up against us and that was discouraging because the Rams have a better line.
34:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I say probably equal linebackers, maybe not quite as good linebackers, but better secondary in L.A.
35:08
[SPEAKER_01]: So it'll be interesting.
35:10
[SPEAKER_01]: And dude, I'm going to point right now, like my mind agrees with you.
35:15
[SPEAKER_01]: But my mind also disagrees with you because here's the 12% talking, because when it comes to not be able to come back, not be able to come back if we put ourselves in a hole, like in Caleb by trust, bro, in Ben, I trust, in that offense, I trust, like I feel like, and that's the thing, we still have weapons all over the field.
35:42
[SPEAKER_01]: They're all going to be back
35:44
[SPEAKER_01]: DJ Rome, who just came back last week, wasn't quite, you know, hopefully we'll be back up to gamespeel a little bit more, but love and and commit, and by the way, just go back to that game a little bit, go into the intensity thing, both commit and love when I believe.
36:00
[SPEAKER_01]: I think even more had dropped passes after they got decked when they caught it.
36:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we can't have that, we got to play our football, hold on the effing football in the play.
36:15
[SPEAKER_01]: And one of my think could have been a fumble, but remember those, I think both of them were reviewed.
36:22
[SPEAKER_01]: We just can't have that.
36:23
[SPEAKER_01]: We have to match the intensity with attention.
36:27
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's gonna be a good game, but I don't, I don't,
36:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't fear us being down, but I think it's got to be within 10, you know, 14 in that final quarter.
36:42
[SPEAKER_01]: If we're within that much, we're good, but yes, if we can play up to up to par, up to our abilities, then we should be winning at least, right, you know, right, even with them.
36:55
[SPEAKER_01]: So it'll be interesting to see, but I do think
37:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Under appreciated aspect of our of our game was our special teams.
37:06
[SPEAKER_01]: How often we talk about special teams on this show.
37:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for sure.
37:12
[SPEAKER_01]: But not often getting Jalen Reeves Maven, you know, back.
37:27
[SPEAKER_01]: when you get an injury and you got guys that are having to play, you know, two ways, and that's, you kind of want to avoid that, especially when you got depth issues.
37:37
[SPEAKER_01]: But,
37:38
[SPEAKER_01]: But special teams could be big now.
37:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously Packers don't have a great special teams unit.
37:44
[SPEAKER_01]: But it'll be big this week.
37:45
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, I'm interested.
37:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm fascinated, man.
37:48
[SPEAKER_01]: They got two great running backs over there.
37:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Guys, I'm really high on three tight ends.
37:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Higby just came back.
37:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Stafford is a, it's really cool because Caleb idolizes Stafford.
37:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's talked about how, yeah, he's just studies him.
38:03
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been super complimentary and his press, well, press conference today.
38:07
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, for me, the point I was making about the comebacks is that I'm just not as confident or are sorry, our defense can get the stops if we get down by multiple scores.
38:20
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, with Green Bay, sure Jordan love as a solid quarterback,
38:25
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not Matthew Stafford, who's an MVP, and, you know, and despite some of the weapons that Green Bay may have, they don't have Devante Adams and Pook and Kua.
38:35
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they got one really good running back.
38:38
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't got like the two that they have and Williams and Korum, the Titans, you mentioned.
38:44
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just a little bit more worried that are
38:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Understaff defense could could get the stops necessary to make the comeback, you know, like I think, yeah, and McVay who's just, you know, brilliant play call it greater than the floor.
38:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
38:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there's a whole other add dimension before having worked for him.
39:03
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and, you know, all this talk this week about how disrespectful Ben Johnson was to Matt LaFlor, give me a freaking break.
39:10
[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, I do kind of wonder a little bit, you know, with McVay having that relationship with LaFlor.
39:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe he wants to get a, you know, a little justice for his friend, who knows?
39:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Who knows?
39:19
[SPEAKER_02]: That is a dimension to the drama here.
39:21
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I like pro wrestling.
39:23
[SPEAKER_02]: There's your storyline.
39:24
[SPEAKER_02]: There's your drama, you know?
39:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, did you, did you see that AI?
39:27
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39:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's just a weird thing where like I've seen bears, content creators and some of our staff members, you know, making comments like, oh, the ramps there's ramps Twitter ramps Twitter exists because people feel like they don't just have like the die hard fan base like Green Bay and some of the other teams and because of that.
40:14
[SPEAKER_02]: you don't have like the bad blood right you know and so it's just kind of a weird game in that regard I feel like to me the drama isn't with the fan base it's more with like how McVey feels about the the floor stuff and them having that relationship and that that's kind of in the background a little bit you know I mean yeah no I don't
40:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
40:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's any drama there.
40:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I think McVay and he talked about this week respects even studies, Ben and has over the years.
40:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I see a lot of Ben in McVay in Ben.
40:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, honestly.
40:48
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, both former players that were hired young, really intense, great leaders of men, offensive brilliant masterminds, and a lot of success early.
41:05
[SPEAKER_01]: And gosh, man, like we both predicted this exact record, but we neither of us predicted a deep playoff run.
41:16
[SPEAKER_01]: That said, the Rams are beatable, and the drama for me comes down to, it's the divisional game I sold your field with a two seed, with a home team in this plough game, and we're the
41:46
[SPEAKER_01]: It's number one offense in the league.
41:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Hall of Famer, Matthew Stafford.
41:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Hall of Famer, Puka Nakua, Hall of Famer, Devont Adams, Sean McVey, the, the, the, he is the blueprint of, of all the, the coaches that have been hired after him, teams have won to go after offensive mastermind.
42:10
[SPEAKER_01]: He is the blueprint.
42:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
42:15
[SPEAKER_01]: can we step up?
42:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Can we continue our season?
42:19
[SPEAKER_01]: We just let up was a 38 points to Green Bay.
42:25
[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's reasonable to expect like Alex Smith said I wouldn't say 50 like he said this week reasonable to expect that we will let that much have not more to a better offense.
42:37
[SPEAKER_01]: So the drama is, is the X's and O's this week, man.
42:42
[SPEAKER_01]: This is playoff football.
42:44
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care about how many fans somebody has on Twitter.
42:47
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me just be the first to admit, like I'm not all about that Twitter beef.
42:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that.
42:53
[SPEAKER_01]: To me, that's just, like it's funny, you know, like it, even you got somebody because they said something stupid and then you come back and like, oh, how about like, I get it, it doesn't matter to me.
43:08
[SPEAKER_01]: How does your team do and both these teams are good and know they don't have great fans, but they got a great team.
43:15
[SPEAKER_01]: And the packers got great fans, but what I heard from last weekend was there's all bears fans anyway, as it should be in a playoff home game.
43:25
[SPEAKER_01]: So it doesn't matter.
43:26
[SPEAKER_01]: And one thing about the ramps because they don't have as many, you know, die hearts, they moved around a bunch and this and that.
43:36
[SPEAKER_01]: and you always have the visitors that travel really well to their stadium because of the nice plate who everyone wants to go to California.
43:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice and warm, brand new stadium.
43:45
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not used to having crazy home field of vantage anyway.
43:49
[SPEAKER_01]: They're always used to to, you know, this sort of thing.
43:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the weather will play a more of a factor.
43:57
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, they're, honestly, like, especially their defense is not built for speed.
44:04
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not built for warm weather.
44:06
[SPEAKER_01]: It's built for cold weather.
44:09
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Jared verse, Byron Young, you know, the branded Fisk.
44:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I think his Nathan Landman, whatever his name is, Cornell Lake, which is he resembled the former Pittsburgh Stealer corner back.
44:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure.
44:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like it.
44:29
[SPEAKER_01]: But they've got some ball players.
44:30
[SPEAKER_01]: They're tough, hard-nosed players on that defense and on offense.
44:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you seen Pooka play?
44:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Pooka could start at running back for some teams.
44:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
44:39
[SPEAKER_01]: No doubt.
44:40
[SPEAKER_01]: He kind of reminds
44:48
[SPEAKER_01]: You got Devante, who, I mean, we've seen Devante burn us here, he knows he's not afraid of the cold.
44:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
44:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, there's drama all over the place.
44:58
[SPEAKER_01]: If you care about the actual game, which I know you do, I'm not saying you don't, or anyone else has listened to this doesn't, but I'll say, I'm glad there's not like, Twitter beef and stuff like that going on.
45:14
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Bolton board material and all that, because, to me, that doesn't matter.
45:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, like, what I mean with that is they just don't have the, I'm not saying they don't have a fan base.
45:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't come after me, Ram's Twitter, but the, the fan base is not like some of the other teams.
45:34
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not known for being like this.
45:37
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, dying with the team fan base, like the Packers and the Bears and the Eagles and you know, some of these fan bases.
45:43
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the Rams left at a lay for what?
45:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't 20 yearsish and, you know, they were gone and then they came back and so like that plays and you know, some of their fans probably got another team during that time period.
45:56
[SPEAKER_02]: L.A. to me is always been more of a basketball city than a football city.
46:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and that plays into it too.
46:04
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a different vibe without some of these, some of these other teams.
46:08
[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, you talk about the weather, you're talking 45 degrees or cold this game.
46:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's going to feel like negative.
46:14
[SPEAKER_02]: It's this is like a 50 degree swing for them.
46:17
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, the mad scientist Ben Johnson is we heard today.
46:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
46:21
[SPEAKER_02]: He's no heaters and practice ever this season.
46:25
[SPEAKER_02]: She won't just to get them ready to play in the cold.
46:27
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he's going to be extremely, extremely cold.
46:32
[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, it's the point we are making earlier about if the Rams peaked too early.
46:38
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, maybe just looking for some nuggets of why the Bears could have a chance to win this game, which I do think they have a chance to win this game.
46:46
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not favored for a reason.
46:48
[SPEAKER_02]: But I would not be shocked if the Bears won this game.
46:51
[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, you look at what has happened the last seven weeks or so of the regular season.
47:02
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they it went down to the wire with a Carolina chance to win that game.
47:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Basically, if you go back to when they lost a Carolina in November 30, a 31 to 28, I mean, that was when the ram season started to rail a little bit before that they're beaten, you know, they beat San Francisco, they beat Seattle, you know, they they had a little bit of a run there, but then, you know, down the stretch after they lost a Carolina, they went three and three.
47:31
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they lost a Carolina.
47:33
[SPEAKER_02]: They lost a Seattle.
47:34
[SPEAKER_02]: They lost to Atlanta, not a great team.
47:37
[SPEAKER_02]: They beat Arizona twice, a very bad team.
47:40
[SPEAKER_02]: And they beat Detroit, who basically a 500 team.
47:44
[SPEAKER_02]: So the last seven weeks, their wins were against Carolina, Arizona twice, and Detroit.
47:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Not exactly a murderers row of a schedule there.
47:55
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I don't know what Ram's team we're gonna get, are we gonna get the team that was running people off the field earlier in the year?
48:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Or are we gonna get the team that battled Carolina twice, you know, down the stretch?
48:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
48:11
[SPEAKER_02]: If that's the team we get, the Bears absolutely have a chance.
48:16
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you get the Bears in the NFC title game, potentially, again, San Francisco and Chicago, a beat up San Francisco team.
48:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Or you have to go out there to Seattle and you got Sam Darnold who's played well, but I mean, Sam Darnold isn't a future Hall of Famer like Matt Stafford.
48:33
[SPEAKER_02]: One game, this team gives us Super Bowl man.
48:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
48:38
[SPEAKER_02]: So to me, if they can get past the Rams.
48:44
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I want to use a word confident, but like man, they go in that FC title game, especially if you get San Francisco coming to town in a rematch without George Kiddell.
48:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I'll feel fairly strong about their chances in that NFC title game, so that a lot is going to ride on this game, you know, I mean, this is going to be really interesting.
49:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I fully agree.
49:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Two things to point out about the Niners though.
49:09
[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't have kiddo when we play them either.
49:11
[SPEAKER_01]: And frickin' Jake Tongs, Tongus, who was a former practice qual player of ours.
49:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
49:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Dominated us was at one point, the number one wave of wire picked up in all fantasy football because of his gaming methods.
49:25
[SPEAKER_01]: So it doesn't matter, cause Brock Perti does what he wants it, did what he wants to do against us.
49:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
49:31
[SPEAKER_01]: And...
49:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, by the way, their best defensive player.
49:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I said that not meaning Nick Bosa.
49:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Fred Warner is going to be back.
49:41
[SPEAKER_01]: He will be back by that game.
49:43
[SPEAKER_01]: He might be back by this week.
49:46
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's that's future thinking The stuff was rust.
49:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I mean, the team is still beat up.
49:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, bring bring them to Chicago.
49:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you in that thinking.
49:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying
49:57
[SPEAKER_01]: It's still going to be an extremely tough game.
49:59
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the one I would want.
50:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd prefer that.
50:01
[SPEAKER_02]: That was my next question.
50:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Because we're going to know who it is by the time this ram spares game played.
50:05
[SPEAKER_02]: The last game of the weekend.
50:06
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to know if we win, if we're going to see at all, or yes, you're right.
50:10
[SPEAKER_02]: This was coming Chicago.
50:11
[SPEAKER_01]: So that that will have been decided.
50:13
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be fun.
50:14
[SPEAKER_01]: And even even just pontificating on which AFC team we might play at that point, because it'll be only down to two remaining at that point.
50:23
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be fun for me.
50:26
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'll say this.
50:28
[SPEAKER_01]: The Panthers are, they're not a bad team.
50:32
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
50:32
[SPEAKER_01]: And what they do well, and both those games mind you were in Carolina, road games.
50:40
[SPEAKER_01]: What they do well is they run the freaking football.
50:44
[SPEAKER_01]: They bully you up front and they, as, as their motto is, they keep pounding.
50:51
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is
50:54
[SPEAKER_01]: because you have to imagine that Caleb can make more plays than Bryce Young.
51:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're not gonna insult Panthers fans that might be listening and revisit that trade that happened.
51:07
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not gonna do it.
51:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Most lobstide trade and if a history, we're not gonna do it.
51:13
[SPEAKER_01]: But I also think our defense, especially in the playoffs, especially getting healthy again with our defensive backs.
51:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're better than the Panthers.
51:24
[SPEAKER_01]: So in the lines, they lines whooped us in a game that thought we wanted to win and they beat them.
51:30
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're right there.
51:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying three and a half point.
51:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's even.
51:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the line lost, I looked was three and a half points to the Rams, but it's right there somewhere.
51:44
[SPEAKER_01]: It's an even game, it should be win-able game.
51:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope, here's a question for you.
51:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you my thoughts after you answer yours.
51:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you prefer we start an offense or defense?
51:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh.
51:58
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I felt like in the wild card round, we should start an offense.
52:04
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I would start an offense.
52:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
52:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think the offense needs to prove that they can come out hot and score right away at home, much like I felt like last week.
52:14
[SPEAKER_02]: I, you know, I wasn't encouraged by what I saw in the second half from our defense this past week, but I still have some real questions or I just slot this offense at all.
52:25
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I want to put points on the board.
52:27
[SPEAKER_02]: So I feel better about the trajectory of the game just right away, right?
52:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Because, you know, yeah, I mean, I just, I feel like
52:34
[SPEAKER_02]: And this doesn't mean that we couldn't lose to see other San Francisco if we're lucky enough to advance, not luck's not the right word, but you know, if we happen to advance, I think this is the toughest game left on the NFC side right here.
52:46
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just would like to have the confidence right from the start.
52:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, look, we scored right on him right away.
52:51
[SPEAKER_02]: The crowd's going nuts.
52:53
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, people said it like loudest they've heard soldier field ever after that come back was complete last week.
52:59
[SPEAKER_02]: You saw the videos Adam Jones water bottle shaking on his desk up in the press box man.
53:05
[SPEAKER_02]: That was crazy.
53:06
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think you want to sustain that momentum.
53:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Crowds going to be super hot.
53:10
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to I want to see soldier field rock and from start to finish.
53:14
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the way you do that is you take the ball and you score right away.
53:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
53:19
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm gosh, I love that argument.
53:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't I can't argue with it much.
53:25
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm going to, I'm going to go defense, give me defense.
53:28
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we have, think about that game that first packer's game in Chicago.
53:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember that game?
53:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you remember that game, excuse me.
53:37
[SPEAKER_01]: That game, that kickoff, that opening kickoff, you could tell right then and there, that we brought the intensity.
53:47
[SPEAKER_01]: and that defensive effort at that right then, because the crowd was in it, you know, give us a stop because think about it.
53:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Against a strong offensive team, what do we need?
54:00
[SPEAKER_01]: We need more possessions in a second half.
54:02
[SPEAKER_01]: So give Caleb the ball back to start the second half.
54:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get a big stop at the beginning of the first half.
54:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Get that ball back.
54:11
[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of what I want.
54:13
[SPEAKER_01]: We saw what happened against the packers.
54:15
[SPEAKER_01]: We drove down.
54:17
[SPEAKER_01]: We looked great.
54:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Only got three points.
54:19
[SPEAKER_01]: And that would happen.
54:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, everybody's kind of settled in.
54:22
[SPEAKER_01]: They're often strove down the field.
54:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Got seven.
54:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Got seven again.
54:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Got seven again.
54:27
[SPEAKER_01]: So give me a defense.
54:33
[SPEAKER_01]: with that moment, with that crowd energy.
54:35
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I would say.
54:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I could either way, I'm excited.
54:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I think special teams though needs to show up from the opening kickoff.
54:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me a big return for a big hitman, get that crowd going to start that game off.
54:52
[SPEAKER_01]: And let them know they're in Chicago, yeah.
54:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and no penalties on these kickoffs.
55:01
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, nope.
55:02
[SPEAKER_02]: No spotting them at the 40 yard line with this offense.
55:04
[SPEAKER_02]: We just can't have that.
55:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Kyro's been great.
55:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Kicking field goals.
55:09
[SPEAKER_02]: That's still been an issue though.
55:10
[SPEAKER_02]: We cannot let them start from the 40 yard line.
55:13
[SPEAKER_02]: We can't miss the landing zone.
55:14
[SPEAKER_02]: That just cannot happen in this game.
55:17
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I mean, every play is gonna matter.
55:20
[SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna be a hell of a game.
55:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you said, we were very optimistic coming into this season, Brian.
55:25
[SPEAKER_02]: We predicted them ago, you know, 11 and 6 like they did, but we thought that was going to be like the 6 or 7 wild card at 11 and 6.
55:33
[SPEAKER_02]: We did not expect we've had this far.
55:36
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been so fun and God damn it, my just whole mindset about this team and how I feel where we're going over the next several years, I could not be higher, you know,
55:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Whenever this run ends, I'm still gonna feel super positive because look at where this team has gone in one year and think about what that says about what's to come.
56:01
[SPEAKER_02]: So exciting, finally, so exciting to be a bears fan, man.
56:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
56:05
[SPEAKER_01]: If I had any more of my narwhal, I would choose you on that.
56:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I still got some of mine.
56:10
[SPEAKER_02]: I did get my camera fix if you noticed.
56:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it looks good.
56:13
[SPEAKER_02]: I literally downloaded some different software and it fixed my problem.
56:16
[SPEAKER_02]: So, sorry about that.
56:18
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody for the tech glitches, but we got to know nobody cares, Ryan.
56:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody can.
56:26
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to keep the show rolling as long as the bear's keeper rolling.
56:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, won't for sure be back next week and hopefully the week after that and the week after that and the week after that, Brian.
56:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we can do it.
56:38
[SPEAKER_02]: We can do it.
56:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Why not us.
56:39
[SPEAKER_02]: This this thing is wide open man on both sides.
56:43
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this is one of the most wide open playoffs in how long.
56:49
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you don't have Patrick my homes, you know, you know, I don't remember.
56:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
56:53
[SPEAKER_01]: He and here's the thing too, man.
56:55
[SPEAKER_01]: And we've we've talked about this on past episodes.
56:58
[SPEAKER_01]: This off season is going to bring some changes.
57:01
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we're kind of up against the cap rate.
57:03
[SPEAKER_01]: And we got to make some moves.
57:05
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a realistic possibility that next season's team will be without D.J.
57:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Moore, DeAndre Swift, Tremaine Edmonds, to name a few.
57:17
[SPEAKER_01]: These guys are all key players on our team this year.
57:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Jucquam Brisker, Kevin Byer, they could maybe not be back.
57:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
57:28
[SPEAKER_02]: That defense is going to look way different next year.
57:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Way, way different.
57:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
57:34
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you look at it with with Super Bowl teams, when you're losing teams, you know, the following year, there's so much turnover completely new roster.
57:42
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be us.
57:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
57:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Regardless of if we make the Super Bowl.
57:48
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is our final
57:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Final count down like this is it right here.
57:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we've got we've got DJ Moore and DeAndre Swift on the roster right now.
58:00
[SPEAKER_01]: There's some explosive mother efforts.
58:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, make a best off.
58:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you exactly this make the most of this make the most of jacquam brisker who might be the most hyped defender on our team.
58:14
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he loves Chicago.
58:16
[SPEAKER_01]: He loves to play for the bears and
58:20
[SPEAKER_01]: like this could this could be it.
58:24
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's kind of what that that's another reason why I want to you know I got the buck history.
58:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Another reason I want to see I want to see defense first.
58:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to get right to the point because it's going to come down to our defense first their offense period.
58:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
58:38
[SPEAKER_01]: That soldier feel period.
58:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe in ice man.
58:41
[SPEAKER_01]: He's good.
58:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Men's good.
58:45
[SPEAKER_01]: But can we stop them?
58:47
[SPEAKER_01]: If we play the way we did in the second half last week, the answer is yes.
58:53
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people are forgetting, we actually did play them last year.
58:57
[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't have Devante Adams, it didn't have Puk and Akua last year and we played he was injured, but we beat them.
59:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Who looked really good that game?
59:06
[SPEAKER_01]: The Andre Swift.
59:09
[SPEAKER_01]: With a very, very similar defense.
59:14
[SPEAKER_01]: So, anyway, that I'm kind of switching things up on you, right?
59:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll switch for five point eight yards of carry and that game last year, I just looked it up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he looked great, I remember that.
59:24
[SPEAKER_01]: You because I live in Western North Carolina, you know when that happened, Hurricane Haleen.
59:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's when that game happened.
59:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to watch it for my phone in a parking lot at the gym because I couldn't be at home, I had no power.
59:39
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the Ram's game last season.
59:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll never forget that game.
59:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Briscar picked off Stafford in that game.
59:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, I did not remember that.
59:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Stafford didn't have any touchdown passes.
59:49
[SPEAKER_02]: One interception, pass rating of 77, 2029 for 224 yards.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kion Williams had a 4.9 yards per carry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, hey, but that was like September.
1:00:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was like the only 65 degrees.
1:00:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
1:00:05
[SPEAKER_02]: September 29th.
1:00:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
1:00:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
1:00:10
[SPEAKER_02]: I have generally felt, you know, especially with all the stadium talk going on and, you know, building the dome.
1:00:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I've generally felt this whole like bare weather idea is mostly overrated.
1:00:21
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think there's some games where it can have an impact.
1:00:25
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that this head coach has done what he needs to do to take advantage of it with the no-heaters at practice.
1:00:32
[SPEAKER_02]: And, um,
1:00:32
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's no way it's not going to affect the ramps.
1:00:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, they have so much talent that it might not affect them enough to matter, it'll affect them, though.
1:00:40
[SPEAKER_02]: They haven't played in anything close to this, whether you're talking about a 50-degree swing right from their coldest game.
1:00:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're not used to this, man.
1:00:49
[SPEAKER_02]: It's, yeah, staff are played in the NFC North for a long time, but still, you know, this is a different ball game for a lot of these guys.
1:00:55
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been in the elements.
1:00:56
[SPEAKER_02]: We've played in some real cold games this year.
1:01:01
[SPEAKER_02]: and let's make our predictions Brian.
1:01:05
[SPEAKER_02]: How you see this one going?
1:01:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, real quick, just before I even spit out a number.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If the weather assists in any way to win, how can you not have the game
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[SPEAKER_01]: with at least a retractable dough.
1:01:28
[SPEAKER_01]: How can you not?
1:01:29
[SPEAKER_02]: That's interesting, isn't it?
1:01:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Because that's kind of come around now again with how this has happened this year.
1:01:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I give me a retractable roof.
1:01:36
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I've said from the beginning.
1:01:38
[SPEAKER_01]: If you want your cake and eat it too, retractable roof, like spend the money.
1:01:42
[SPEAKER_01]: come on, your billionaires, millionaires, whatever, make it happen, retractable roof is like, that's the way to go.
1:01:50
[SPEAKER_01]: But if we're talking, like, we're talking right now seriously about how this might be an advantage in the playoffs to get to the Super Bowl, if that's actually a thing, so that's a whole another element of this game.
1:02:04
[SPEAKER_01]: If we actually win and it looks like we physically
1:02:13
[SPEAKER_01]: all the sudden, you know, and there's no, there's no coincidence that the mayor this week said, Oh, yeah, we'll help you with the infrastructure, just not to stay in yourself.
1:02:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
1:02:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, the nations.
1:02:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man, um, twenty, twenty three, twenty one bears.
1:02:38
[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty close to, I think last week I said 24, 21, pretty close, um, Cairo coming in clutch.
1:02:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it feels like Cairo will hit at least one in this game and that it could make the difference.
1:02:51
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I like that kind of close spread like that.
1:02:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I'm going to say,
1:03:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna go Bears 27-24.
1:03:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll give Cairo two field goals in this game and I'll say the Rams hit one.
1:03:11
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say 27-24 Bears.
1:03:14
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no way in hell picking against the Bears.
1:03:17
[SPEAKER_02]: During this playoff run, so yeah.
1:03:19
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say 27-24.
1:03:23
[SPEAKER_02]: See what happens.
1:03:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, wait.
1:03:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Should we promise anything on the show next week if the Bears pull out the win?
1:03:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have people a reason to tune in?
1:03:32
[SPEAKER_02]: What should we do?
1:03:36
[SPEAKER_01]: It's funny.
1:03:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I got, I only have two more stickers remaining.
1:03:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
1:03:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I've, I've given some away, dropped them at my favorite place to get beer on the, it's in there.
1:03:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
1:03:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I've, I've had my daughter still won.
1:03:52
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like when you guys are famous, they're gonna know that you're my dad.
1:03:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're not gonna be famous But okay, thank you your sweet.
1:04:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't all man.
1:04:02
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some national sports media guys So I think we do a better job than Brian.
1:04:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I might be honest, but I mean that might be true, but but you know What will leave that we don't care about the numbers we have fun drinking beer and hanging out.
1:04:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll tell you guys
1:04:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I think we should give something away.
1:04:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, gosh, man, if, when we win, yes, I think it should be, I'm thinking like maybe a, a beanie.
1:04:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay, kind of they go along with the cold weather.
1:04:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I like it.
1:04:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
1:04:40
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
1:04:41
[SPEAKER_02]: If if when the bear's win against the ramps, you tune in live to the YouTube stream.
1:04:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Next Wednesday night and we'll give away a beanie to somebody in the live chat.
1:04:52
[SPEAKER_02]: if we have a victory Wednesday.
1:04:53
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to comment.
1:04:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell us what you drink it.
1:04:55
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be not a call.
1:04:56
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be water.
1:04:57
[SPEAKER_01]: You just got to comment.
1:04:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
1:04:59
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'll do a live drawing on the show.
1:05:01
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll do that.
1:05:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of stickers, I still have a ton of on my order.
1:05:04
[SPEAKER_02]: A huge order.
1:05:05
[SPEAKER_02]: So Brian, I can send you some more.
1:05:07
[SPEAKER_02]: But, um...
1:05:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I, you know, I have at least one or two of people who tweeted me the picture of them listening to the show that I still need to send out because I was hoping to not make multiple trips.
1:05:19
[SPEAKER_02]: So I still got someone wait.
1:05:21
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you did that, it is on the way.
1:05:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I promise soon.
1:05:25
[SPEAKER_02]: But hey, you know, I'll probably mail them this weekend early next week.
1:05:29
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you want to free bears over beer sticker, that's all you got to do tweet us at bears over beers with you know a picture of you listening to the show or just a picture of like your screen and your car listening to show whatever just so we can retweet it and I'll get your address and we'll send you a free sticker.
1:05:46
[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty easy.
1:05:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to send more than the couple I have to send.
1:05:50
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like centen of them or more.
1:05:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Make me write, give me writer's grant.
1:05:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, what were the names of our people tonight?
1:05:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Just telling the posts there, you know, they're obviously listening.
1:06:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Carlos in the chat here.
1:06:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Ryan, tell the people, show the people.
1:06:06
[SPEAKER_01]: They can pick what color be any they want.
1:06:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let me pull up our store.
1:06:11
[SPEAKER_01]: You can get an A.B.
1:06:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Blue, which is awesome.
1:06:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Black, white looks good.
1:06:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I thought, believe I thought that gray actually look the best with our logo on it.
1:06:23
[SPEAKER_02]: to stay nice and to see this crispy weather here is the bears overbears beanie so they can see there is the the black and then we've also got on here we've got navy that's a clean look got gray brine was talking about
1:06:46
[SPEAKER_02]: And we've got a like a beige color, I like that one too.
1:06:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Classic winter color there and then there's like even a light blue and yet that logo is stitched on there.
1:06:58
[SPEAKER_02]: So look, it's $27.00 beanie with custom stitching, send it somebody free when the bear is when and you tune in live.
1:07:07
[SPEAKER_02]: next Wednesday and I guess do it.
1:07:10
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1:08:17
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, Brian, that's about all I got to say this week.
1:08:19
[SPEAKER_02]: The other
1:08:21
[SPEAKER_02]: for now.
1:08:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Bear down, speed away, let's have a good weekend everybody.
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