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  Speaker 1: So I lead This hour from Seattle started the NFC
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  Speaker 1: Championship game, the second of the two games, as the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots won the earlier game in a real snooze fest
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  Speaker 1: in a snow globe game in the second half of
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  Speaker 1: the weather one bad in the first half. Patriots just sucked,
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  Speaker 1: but they won and they're in the super Bowl. More
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  Speaker 1: on that later, But the NFC Championship. Matthew Stafford looking
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  Speaker 1: to lead the Rams to the Super Bowl. Save the
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  Speaker 1: American people. If I may watch Sam Darnold and the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and so those teams who split the regular season matchups,
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  Speaker 1: we know the lead into this the final grudge match,
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  Speaker 1: and this would decide at all. Were you watching, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure the ratings were amazing. Blizzard, they're all horny. There're
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  Speaker 1: the ratings because of the blizzard. Oh, nothing else to do?
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  Speaker 1: Watch the game. That's it. So you were not watching,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you missed it. Sam Darnall played okay, I had
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  Speaker 1: three touchdowns, although one of them shouldn't count because it
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  Speaker 1: was just a gift by the Rams. But the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: surviving a very shaky defense, not a championship level defense
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  Speaker 1: by Seattle, and somehow they able to get by the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: whose special team's blunders cost them a trip to the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Thirty one twenty seven, the final NFC Championship
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  Speaker 1: game here. So the Seahawks reached the Super Bowl for
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  Speaker 1: the fourth time. I'm in franchise history in the first
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  Speaker 1: time in eleven years. I was barely alive the last
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  Speaker 1: time the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl. Here, I
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  Speaker 1: am fully grown up Seattle. They lost their most recent
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  Speaker 1: matchup to the Patriots. You might remember the end of
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  Speaker 1: that game. Do you run or do you pass? Or yeah? Okay, Well, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: two weeks between the championship Sunday and then the big
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  Speaker 1: game in Santa Clair, they're at a stadium named after
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  Speaker 1: Denham Jeans in northern California for the championship. That is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at what just happens NFC Championship game, Seattle gets
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  Speaker 1: by LA. Were you impressed with Mike McDaniel's Seahawks or
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's Were you impressed with his coaching there? Mister McDonald?
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  Speaker 1: So my first thought looking at what transpired in the
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  Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. Were we impressed with the Seahawks? Not really,
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  Speaker 1: I was not in pres I give that side eye
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  Speaker 1: is what I give that here. All week I had
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  Speaker 1: heard in the lead up to the NFC Championship game
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  Speaker 1: that Seattle's defense was unstoppable. This is a great defense.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the pedigree, the heartbeat, the backbone. Scaryat scaryat
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense. What I saw was the Rams put
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  Speaker 1: up four hundred and seventy nine yards of offense in
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven points. That's what I saw.
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  Speaker 4: Me.
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  Speaker 1: God, they suck. They're not that good, the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: That is not dominance. That's getting worked over in your
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  Speaker 1: own stone. What happened to the twelfth man? Man? Come on, dude,
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  Speaker 1: you had the fan, the home field advantage, all that
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  Speaker 1: didn't matter. Rams sliced up the Seahawks defense up and
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  Speaker 1: down the field. If you're being totally honest, when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the NFC Championship game, Seattle didn't win the game.
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  Speaker 1: They were given the game by the Rams. Every man,
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  Speaker 1: woman and child saw. There's no ifs, hands or butts
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  Speaker 1: about it. The way the game played out, The Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: defense did not just get pushed around. No, it was rearranged.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like you get a new app. You go
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  Speaker 1: to the app store and you'll download a new app,
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  Speaker 1: and then on your iPhone screen, you'll have to move
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  Speaker 1: some things around you make room for it, so you swipe,
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  Speaker 1: you drag all that stuff, and you move the app around.
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  Speaker 1: That's essentially what the Rams did to the Seattle defense
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  Speaker 1: in this game. And they were even fighting with each
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  Speaker 1: other on the sidelines. Great defense for the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: They were at loggerheads on the sidelines. And the tipping
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  Speaker 1: point though, was in the third quarter. Was a seventeen
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  Speaker 1: to thirteen game and absolutely brilliant defensive stop by the
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  Speaker 1: La Rams against the overrated Sam Darnold there in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter, and so Seattle giving up. They punted the
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  Speaker 1: ball the Rams and the Rams an, yeah, they couldn't field,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't catch a punt the Rams. That's it. Xavier Smith
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  Speaker 1: X marks the spot. That's the guy you release. That's
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  Speaker 1: the guy right there. If you want to who to fire,
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  Speaker 1: that's the guy Xavier Smith who stumbled and muffed it.
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  Speaker 1: The idiot kicker turner muffed it. Turnover puke in my
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  Speaker 1: mouth bad right there. And that was the gift. And
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  Speaker 1: so listen, I hope Mike McDonald, the Seahawks coach there,
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  Speaker 1: gave him a game ball and he is eligible for
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  Speaker 1: a playoff share super Bowl Playoffs share for Seattle because
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  Speaker 1: that is the game changing player of the day. It
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  Speaker 1: was not a Seattle Seahawk player that made a great
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  Speaker 1: play at all. It was just an incompetent play by
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  Speaker 1: someone that shouldn't be in the NFL. Xavier Smith, as
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  Speaker 1: Torts taught us years ago, the hockey coach, he sucked
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  Speaker 1: at a time you cannot suck. Wasn't because the fans.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't because he just watched it. Dude, you're a
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  Speaker 1: professional football player. You know you clearly are lacking. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you get a job at Arby's. They got the
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  Speaker 1: meats because you're lacking some So go get a job
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  Speaker 1: over at Arby's. My god, again, most games, yet again,
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  Speaker 1: most games are lost, not one. Both championship games AFC
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  Speaker 1: and NFC we're talking about the NFC right now were lost,
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily run one both of them, and the Rams
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  Speaker 1: lose this one righting the short bus. The Special Teams
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  Speaker 1: edition of the short bus. Now. Meanwhile, as for the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks and their quarterback play coming into this matchup,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of buzz about Sam Donald, you certainly
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  Speaker 1: don't trust them. Why would you trust Sam Donald? Well,
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  Speaker 1: this led to some interesting commentary by Mike McDonald, the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks coach there, who said, I guess our editors took
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  Speaker 1: the day off on Sunday, but McDonald said, he said
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  Speaker 1: that the quarterback, Sam Donald, shut a lot of people up. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: apparently we do have it all right. Well here, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the audio tape.
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  Speaker 5: Can't talk about the game without talking about our quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he just shut a lot of people up tonight.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm really happy for him. Three hundred and something yards,
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  Speaker 5: free touchdowns, no picks, big every time they went and
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  Speaker 5: scored again, he came back, made some big time throws
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  Speaker 5: on third down, two minute drive, four minute drive.
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  Speaker 1: The guy barely practiced all week.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Just really happy for him.
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  Speaker 5: He deserves it. Just just been been a.
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  Speaker 1: Rock for us the whole year.
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  Speaker 5: So just really happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: Give him a purple heart right now, he gets a
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  Speaker 1: purple heart. I mean, heroic, a war hero, Sam Donald.
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  Speaker 1: My god, where's the statue. Is there a statue? Do
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  Speaker 1: we have a statue? Is there no statues? JJ and
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  Speaker 1: Ritten going to build the statue?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 1: My god? All right, so anyway, Mike McDonald, there, McDaniel McDonald, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: They're all the same. You don't know who these guys are, right,
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  Speaker 1: He's not a star coach anyway, Mike McDonald, the coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Seattle Sex as you heard said, Sam Donald
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  Speaker 1: shut a lot of people up in the NFC title game.
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  Speaker 1: Are we buying that? Is anyone buying that? I know
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  Speaker 1: there's some fanboys in Seattle and there there's Seahawks merch
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  Speaker 1: on and they're all excited. Right, Oh, this is so well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he shut everyone up. Unfortunately, that's not how this works.
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  Speaker 1: That's not how any of this works. No chance. Not
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  Speaker 1: overly impressed by anything Sam Donald did in that game.
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  Speaker 1: Now I understand low information fans. The dumb fan is
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  Speaker 1: all horned up and fired up because Sam Donald. Oh
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  Speaker 1: look at that, he shut everyone. Not really, not really,
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  Speaker 1: This is what I filed into pure coach speak. With
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  Speaker 1: a matching set of knee pads. He had the Sam
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  Speaker 1: Donald's face on both knee pads. The coach of the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: There slobber chops baby. Now, it is one game. Last
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  Speaker 1: I checked, it is only one game that does not
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  Speaker 1: One game does not bleach away an entire body of work,
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  Speaker 1: a whole resume. It does not have it. Donald earned
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  Speaker 1: every ounce, every ounce of criticism, and he continues to
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  Speaker 1: get criticized because he's not that good. He's not. And
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  Speaker 1: we've seen plenty of mediocre quarterbacks get to the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Foles comes to mind, Joe Flacco, Guys that aren't
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  Speaker 1: all that good, but they happen to be in the
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  Speaker 1: right place at the right time. And now Sam Donald's
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  Speaker 1: turn to be in the super Bowl. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's a good player. He's not.
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  Speaker 1: So let's stop that, right Donald. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: this unless we have amnijhaw, is it Amnijower? Let me
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  Speaker 1: check that. No, it's not Amni Shower, So that's not it.
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  Speaker 1: His body of work, Sam Donald, his professional career has
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  Speaker 1: been toxic. Toxic. Okay, now everything's forgiven. No, that's not
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  Speaker 1: how this works. Elite talent coming out of USC and
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  Speaker 1: seeing ghosts with the Jets blaming everyone else. This is
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  Speaker 1: what the quarterback apologists do. They blame everyone except the player.
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  Speaker 1: It's always someone else's fault. It's never the player's fault.
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  Speaker 1: Zero accountability, zero accountability. And he Darnald kept getting shoved
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  Speaker 1: around to team, the team, the team because he sucks.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happens when you're not living up to it,
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  Speaker 1: you move around. And so let's not forget. And you
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  Speaker 1: look at the Seattle Seahawks here, and the reason that
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  Speaker 1: they had that game at home was because they needed
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  Speaker 1: some help. They had a guardian angel from the league office,
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  Speaker 1: Pooka the Coud, did a podcast and rip the officials,
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the NFL officials decided to
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  Speaker 1: give the Seahawks a phantom two point conversion, which they
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  Speaker 1: did not convert. Everyone stopped because the play was over,
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  Speaker 1: and they just said we'll give Seattle those two points.
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  Speaker 1: That was back in weeks sixteen. All right, So this
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  Speaker 1: is not some kind of destiny or it's a clerical error,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. It's a clerical error here. And spoiler alert, spoiler.
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  Speaker 1: So Sam Donald is not out of the jungle at
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  Speaker 1: this point. There's a lot of creatures and critters out
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  Speaker 1: there in the jungle. The biggest pedestal of them all
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  Speaker 1: is the super Bowl stage. That's where reputations either get
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  Speaker 1: bronze plated or shoved onto the vomit comet, and that
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  Speaker 1: is where we will find out. But if he rides
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  Speaker 1: that comet again, and there's a pretty good chance that
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  Speaker 1: happens based on his body of work, the dog pile
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  Speaker 1: starts immediately, dog pile, right, just go for it? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. Out one good performance and again it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't great. He didn't do anything in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald. It doesn't erase years of underachieving, and Sam
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  Speaker 1: Donald is an underachiever and that's what he is. And
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  Speaker 1: the jury's still out on this redemption tour and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at it right now, I'm not impressed. Now. Last
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  Speaker 1: word here on the RAM side of things, the big
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  Speaker 1: talking point has been postgame, what's going to happen to
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. There was a story prior to the game,
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  Speaker 1: is that Stafford's definitely going to come back? He kind
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  Speaker 1: of blew off the answer. He was kind of nonchalant postgame. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh was asked me, we have we have dueling
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  Speaker 1: pianos on this. Here is what Sean McVay. He was
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  Speaker 1: asked whether or not Stafford's going to be back, and
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  Speaker 1: McVeigh seemed to not enjoy the question. Sean, do you
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  Speaker 1: expect Matthew Stafford to be back next season?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I mean that's I mean, if he if he still
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  Speaker 7: wants to play? The hell kind of question?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the answer?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you have to ask him. We've been totally presents.
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  Speaker 7: I know that if he wants to, he's still playing
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  Speaker 7: at a pretty damn good clip. I mean, he's the
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  Speaker 7: MVP of the league. And if he's not, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I got respect for everybody else, but this
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  Speaker 7: guy played at a level that's just different.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So there's a Sean McVay, he's a what
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  Speaker 1: the hell kind of question is that? And you've got
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  Speaker 1: to answer ask it and all that stuff. So how
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  Speaker 1: concerned here's the question, How concerned are you that Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford will step away? That's it. That was his last game,
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  Speaker 1: NFC Championship game where he sliced up that overrated Seahawks defense.
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  Speaker 1: Is that his last mall made with the Rams. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not losing a wink asleep. Of course, I'm up
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  Speaker 1: all night anyway, So I don't lose sleep on this
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and not one eyelash will be lost
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  Speaker 1: whether Darnold plays or doesn't play. He had a storybook season,
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  Speaker 1: considering that it appeared he wasn't going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to play at all this year. Remember before the season,
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  Speaker 1: in the summertime, it was like, oh, Stafford's back's all
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  Speaker 1: messed up, and I'm not sure whether he can't even
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  Speaker 1: practice and whether he's gonna be able to play and
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  Speaker 1: all that. Well, here we are made it all the
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  Speaker 1: way through the season, and the offense worked much better
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  Speaker 1: than just about every other team depending on what stat
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  Speaker 1: you look at in the NFL. This year, the Rams
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  Speaker 1: offense with Matthew Stafford, the ball move, the points came
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  Speaker 1: in bunches. Of course, it helps to have bazookas on
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  Speaker 1: one side and torpedoes on the other, and the Rams
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  Speaker 1: have that. And he looked didn't look like a guy
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  Speaker 1: that's running on fumes, and Matthew Stafford did not. And
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  Speaker 1: he was cooking. He was cooking with a blackstone griddle,
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  Speaker 1: and he had the gas hooked up to it and
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  Speaker 1: was cooking with gas. He was, and he'd be a fool,
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  Speaker 1: he'd walk away. The money's one thing he's already made
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  Speaker 1: a ton of money. He's filthy rich. Matthew Stafford from
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  Speaker 1: mostly from his days with the Lions. But you walk away,
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  Speaker 1: you got Pooka Nakua in the prime of his career.
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  Speaker 1: DeVante Adam's still a red zone touchdown merchant for the
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  Speaker 1: Rams and figure he'll be back next year. But either way,
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  Speaker 1: as long as Sean McVay is around and not doing
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  Speaker 1: television at Amazon, then that's it. The Rams are never
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  Speaker 1: going to be lost. They've got one of the top
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  Speaker 1: two or three coaches in the entire NFL right here.
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  Speaker 1: And so McVeigh the brain trust, the mad scientist. That's
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  Speaker 1: the secret sauce. That's it. That's the secret sauce for
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. And so he'll go back into the sorcerer's
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  Speaker 1: workshop and brew something competitive up here, whether it Stafford
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  Speaker 1: or some other Jabroni that comes in. So there's no
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  Speaker 1: real concern on that. I've got many other things to
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  Speaker 1: concern myself, many other things. So we'll see how that goes.
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  Speaker 1: And McVay, as long as he's there and the Rams
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  Speaker 1: are always in the super Bowl conversation with Sean McVay
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from Denver. The AFC side
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  Speaker 1: early game talked earlier about the Seahawks and the Rams
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  Speaker 1: as Seattle that gets a gift, the muffed punt by
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: the Rams sending Seattle to the Super Bowl. You're welcome.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: You're welcome now in Denver, Drake May and the Patriots
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: entered as the biggest road favorite in the history of
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Championship Sunday in the NFL, as the Broncos were going
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: with their backup quarterback Jared Stidham, so has never seen
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: a team favored by more on the road than the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: New England Patriots. The game played in the first half
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: in good conditions, and then by late third quarter it
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: was a snow globe game in the third late part
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: of the third quarter and the fourth quarter. So I
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this or not. It made
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: for compelling television late in the game. It was not
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the most aesthetically pleasing matchup in the world. Maybe not though,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: but in the frigid, snow swirling AFC Championship game there
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: at Mile High, Mike Vrabel coach the Patriots to survive
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and advance as they get it done with their defense.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: They win a slugfest over the Broncos, where nobody played
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: well at the quarterback position, although you wouldn't know that
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: from the media giving tongue bash to Drake May ten
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to seven the final ten to seven the final, as
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the Patriots win and advance with the snow building up
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: as the game progressed in the second half. Their New
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: England getting it done with their defense in this particular game.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: So they're on to Super Bowl sixty where they will
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: take the Seattle Seahawks on that'll be coming up a
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: week from this Sunday, so almost two full weeks to
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: go here. As this is early on a Monday. Drake
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: May did score the Patriots only touchdown, a six yard scamper.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I like the word scamper. You don't use the word
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: scamper much other than football scamper. Scampered.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Hi.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Anyway, late second quarter there for the Patriots. So that
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: was the only score of the game in terms of
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the touchdown. Story is in the losing locker room. A
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: lot of people up in arms in the post mortem
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: at Broncos coach Sean Payton, who's getting cooked for his
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: decision to go for it rather than kick it. And
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: if you didn't see it, let me set the game up.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: So the Broncos got an early touchdown. Lightning struck early,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: so the Broncos had a seven nothing lead all the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: way into the second quarter. Was seven nothing Broncos. Early
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: in the second quarter, Jared Stidham and the Broncos offense
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: was they were right there, set up deep in Patriot
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: territory for a chip shot field goal. It was fourth
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: down and Sean Payton said, no, no, no, I'm gonna go
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: for it. I we should go for it rather than
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: kick a field goal goal. Up by two scores, he
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: said no, So Peyton deciding to not send out the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: field goal unit and send the offense back out. Fourth
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: down and one and from the fourteen yard line. How
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: did that turn out?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: The Broncos rolled out here at Stidham on a pass
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: play and he was pressured and it fell harmlessly incomplete.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. See you later. Denver did not
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: score again. That was it. He did not score the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: rest of the game. Now, when asked why he didn't
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: just take the points right, just take the points, go
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: up by two scores. You've got your backup quarterback who
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: sucks in the game, Peyton, Well, he got defensive is
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: what he got. Do we have the audio? Here's a
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton tike A Lis.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Just felt like, man, we had momentum, momentum, momentum. You
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: get up fourteen and felt like we had a good call.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Where were we at yard line wise? There? Yeah? I
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: think I think the feeling was, man, let's let's be
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: aggressive to get up fourteen. I was just watching the
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: way our defense was playing.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so let us discuss that's a good
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. The question, what is your read on
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: what you just heard Sean Payton saying the Broncos had momentum, momentum,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: The Broncos had momentum to justify his decision to pass
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: up a chip shot field goal and go up by
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a touchdown and a field goal. So my observations, I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: have cross examination, Paris and police, and we will combine
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: all of these things together. One, two, and three. We're
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: gonna play connect three. We're gonna pay connect three. So
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: number wa number. So when I heard Sean Payton's response,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I knew one word applies here. Buffoonery. Buffoonery. Sean Payton
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: knows he made the wrong decision. How do I know that?
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: He said momentum. He said momentum. He doesn't believe that
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: he knows. That's just get out at Joe free card
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: because stupid people love momentum. Dumb people love momentum. They
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: can't get enough. They want it. Oh, I need my momentum.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Sean Payton screwed up. He did the thing
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: you can't do at the time you can't do it,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and then he uses the momentum card from the bottom
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: of the deck. Momentum is the adult version of a boogeyman.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: You know your kid, I can't have the Boogeyman's under
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: my bed. The Boogeyman's in my closet. If you're an
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: NFL coach, the boogeyman momentum, Oh, it's momentum. Come on.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: It only exists, of course, to help you, help you
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: explain why you made a dumb decision. In this case,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton leaned in to momentum on cross examination. On
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: cross examination, momentum has the structural integrity of a wet
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: cardboard box, is what it's got. Okay, playing a backup
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: quarterback who has proven he's no good and you got
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: points right there. You already got that fluke early touchdown,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: so you got to touchdown in your back pocket the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: field goal Drake May. I don't even notice. He was
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: pooping his pants in that game for the Patriots, So
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the Broncos defense was man handling Drake. May. You go
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: up by two scores and you increase the degree of
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: difficulty for the Patriots offense in that case, and so
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: chip shot field goal, take the points, and no, I'm
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: not gonna take the points. Why would I do that?
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: No? No?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Why would I squeeze the air a little more air
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: out of the Patriots' sideline and give Drake may a
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: tighter spinter? If I'm Sean Payton, why would I do that?
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: No?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Instead, Sean Payton trusted his backup suck back quarterback in
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Jared Stidham like he was prime Drew Brees. Does Sean
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Payton know that that was not prime Drew Brees? Why
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: he does now? And shocker of shocker, Jared Stidham did
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: what Jared Sidam supposed to do. He did a face
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: plant right there. The moment was too big. And you
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: toss in the fact that they knew the forecast now
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: you didn't changed we did Benny versus the Penny in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the middle of the week, the forecast was much different,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and so we did not know at the time we
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: did that that there would be blizzard like conditions in Denver.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: We knew there was a big storm coming across the country,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: but not necessarily for the Bronco game. That changed. The
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: weather pattern changed, So you know that going in and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: what this means Sean Payton guilty of coaching malpractice in
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: this game for the Broncos fourth down failure. You had
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the clown car fumble. That's a whole different can of worms.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: The fumble by Stiadam. Was it a forward pass? Was
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: it not a forward pass? That was the twelve yard line,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: which gift wrapped things for the Patriots in that case. Now,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: most games are lost, not one. That's always the way
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it is. It is always the way it will be
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: as long as human beings are involved. Most games are lost,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: they're not won. So there is that in this case, though,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it was the pure hubris of Sean Payton. I don't
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the circus of the officiating is one thing. Did anyone
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: think that Jene Sterotur did a good job on that?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: By the way, did anyone notice this was like comedy gold.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: They should do a bit about this. I don't. I
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: don't watch Saturday Night Live anymore. I hadn't been funny
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: in years. But they used to do shows like that
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and be a great comedy bit. Because the rules analyst
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Jeane Sterotor, if you were paying attention, so Jeane's Sterotor
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: comes on there, and he changed his mind faster than
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a politician in an election year. He was like a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: member of Congress trying to get reelection Jean Sterotor. So
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: initially the call was forward pass on the field, right,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: So Jean's territor said, well, that was the right call,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: forward passed on the field. They got it right. No,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: wait no, no, wait a minute, it was it was backwards. Yeah,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Jean's Sterotor flip flopped. He did the old flip flop
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: right there. Amazing flexibility by the rules analysts there, Gene Sterotor.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: And if you haven't learned by now having watched these
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: rules analysts there, they hate calling out their buddies. Whatever
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the call is. They agree with the officials. They do
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: not want to go against the officials. It's part of
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the orthodoxy of the Zebra culture. And so, just for
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the record, by the way, Sean Payton, momentum did not
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: infect the Broncos in this game. That's not They didn't
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: lose the game because they lost momentum. They lost the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: game because you didn't kick the field goal. Oh my god,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the arrogance, the arrogance of Sean Payton. Now, meanwhile, turning
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the page to the Patriots side of things, a lot
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: of glowing words being said about Drake May and the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Patriots as they are in the Super Bowl to take
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: on the Seahawks Super Bowl sixty from Northern California. So
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the question is, how did you grade Drake May's play
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: as the Patriots have now gone on a Super Bowl run.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: They've gone on the Super Bowl run. The Patriots are
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: there one win away from getting another Lombardi Trophy, So
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: how did you grade Drake May in this postseason run
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: up until this point for the new and the Patriots.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: So May has been He's not been the pace card,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Like there's this idea he's the quarterback, so he's the engine.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: He's really not. He's really not the engine for the Patriots.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Despite the Patriots' success. If you look at the Malo scorecard,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: you've got not an a, not a be. I wouldn't
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: even give Drake May a CEE. I wrote down on
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: my scorecard for Drake May and this playoff run for
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the Patriots, I wrote down A you for unremarkable, capital
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you unremarkable for Drake May. It's working, which is great.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Although they got to get more out of this guy.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: They got to get more out of this guy now.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Seatles defense fortunately is overrated as we saw the Rams
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: lit him up. And so Drake May will be there,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: will be opportunities, assuming he doesn't suffered from tit tuki
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: syndrome in the Super Bowl, to make some plays there.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: He has not been the man to lead the way
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: for the New Inland Patriots, despite what you might have
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: heard or read online, it is not the case. So
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I wrote again, unremarkable as the grade for Drake May.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: The Patriots offense stuck in wet cement and just kind
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: of stuck there against Denver for much of the day.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: He said, well, the blizzard conditions, That's why it's the weather.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Blame it on the weather, and the snow excuse is
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: a popular excuse. There's one problem with the snow excuse
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: is that the weather was fine in the first half
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: of the game and Drake May was not fine. In
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the first half, May had a passer rating below sixty
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and the Patriots offense only had four first downs in
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the first half. That was a complete lockdown by the
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos defensively in the first half of that game.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Patriots had seventy two yards of offense in the first
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes of that game with Drake May. Now May's
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: sign you play was the quarterback keeper. I would argue
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the twenty eight yard scamper, another way to say the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: word scramble scamper. But that turn that turned out to
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: be the winning field goal. That's set up what was
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the winning field goal on that However, you are judged
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: by your full body of work here, and if you
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: look at the overall picture in the playoffs, this continues
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: to trend. Drake May has been a stumblebum for the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Patriots and it hasn't mattered. It has not mattered here
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: those negative plays, which are normally the telltale sign for quarterbacks.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: You combine interceptions incompletions, sacks and fumbles, those are bad plays.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Drake May is averaging nineteen bad plays per game in
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: this playoff run for the Patriots. Nineteen negative plays per
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: game for Drake May, and they are one win away
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: from winning the Super Bowl thanks to playing what we
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: call the Paris Baguette schedule. A lot of croissants, a
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: lot of croissants. And while Drake May does not go
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: against the opposition quarterback, it does help when the opposing
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: quarterback is Justin Herbert or C. J. Stroud or Jared Stidham,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and they stink right. The Drake May Patriots have scored
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: only fifty four points in this playoff run. That doesn't
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: sound like a lot, right, that doesn't sound like that much. Well,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: didn't you know? Fun fact here? How bad is that?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: How bad is that for the Patriots? Maler fun fact?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: We are told that is the fewest points a team
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: has scored playing three postseason games to make the Super
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Bowl since Jimmy Carter was the president back in the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. The La Rams made it in I think
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: it was nineteen seventy nine, and that's it, so my god.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: It does help also that the opposing quarterbacks are averaging
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: twenty over twenty two negative plays, so they've been even
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: worse than Drake May. The collective of CJ. Stroud who
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: had thirty negative plays in that game for the Texan
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: thirty thirty negative players, Jared Stidham, and of course Herbert.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: So that's where we are right now.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Final point to the postgame commentary from Patriots defensive tacker
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: tackle Milton Williams. Good old uncle Milt, Milton Williams who
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: said the thing that we knew was going to be
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: said postgame. Milton Williams, defensive tackle for the New Woman
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Patriots postgame team has wanted advance to the Super Bowl.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: He said, everybody doubted us. That's what he said. Everybody
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: doubted us. Does that work for you? Does that work
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: for you? So it is predictable and silly. At the
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: same time, the Patriots did not overcome the odds. In fact,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: they failed to live up to the standard of the odds.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: They were given, the new elland Patriots a police escort
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to the promised land of Super Bowl sixty. And there's
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: no debate over that. This is a generational mister Softy
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: run for the New England Patriots. Congratulations, I'm jealous. I
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: am absolutely jealous. It's like it's not really a postseason run.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: It's like a massage at the Foxborough day Spa. The
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: manny and the petty, the bubble bath. Now, what is
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: my evidence? If you look at the receipts and look
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: at the receipts, the easiest schedule in the league this
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: year and the easiest schedule in the generation, plus strength
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: of schedule of the opponent that was during the regular season.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: This was not a football obstacle. Course, this was a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: study diet of creampuffs and doughnuts and then threw some
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: mcclair's in there the whole thing. You played a Charger
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: team held together by duck tape and a prayer and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Justin Turbert, Justin Herbert there who went out there and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the moment was too big. He's a coward. He played
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: cowardly football for the Chargers.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: C J.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Stroud hanging out, handing out interception. You get an interception,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: you get an interception like that famous TV thing back
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: in the day with Oprah. And then the AFC Championship
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: game where Sean Payton decides that his quarterback is good
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: rather than kick a field goal and go up by
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: two scores. And then in the second half the blizzard
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: kicked in. So that's a couple of gifts from the
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: heavens for the Patriots that went their way. New England
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: is averaging eighteen points per game. The last time a
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: team was this bad was the Rams nineteen seventy nine.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: La Rams. It's almost fifty years ago. Almost fifty years ago,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: So enjoy the flight out to the Bay area. There,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to hear about the doubters. Though
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: you were the biggest favorite, you didn't cover the spread
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: against the backup quarterback in a blizzard and you couldn't
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: cover the spread there, so no style points for the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Patriots at all.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I was already working here. How about he took a
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: third degree?
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets great.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: I been I know earlier in the show you said
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: you weren't impressed with Sam Darnold and then he hasn't.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: And I'm not biased at all.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: No, not at all, but let me ask you, this
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: is Sam Darnald already the best NFL quarterback out of USC.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Oh Man, No, I'm not gonna go there. Although there's
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: not much se quarterbacks, it's not a high bar. It's
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: not a high it is not a high bar. Right,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Carson Palmer, Matt Lioner, you go down the list. I mean,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: there's been a handful of play in the NFL. I'm
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: still gonna go no, just because they haven't one until
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: then they win the Super Bowl. We can revisit this,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: but just making it, I'm gonna go no. Next.
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: All right, So we talked last week about how Brian
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Dayball is a favorite for the Buffalo Bill's a job
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: It was reported over the weekend that Philip Rivers is
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: interviewing for the head coaching job, Ben, Do you think
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: that's actually something that they would you?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I would love it. Last time we saw a high
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: school coach it was Jim Mersay. He's dead now in Indianapolis,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: but I would love to see an owner be willing
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: to do that. I think it's so hilarious that it's
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: not gonna happen, but I think great. Apparently he's buddies
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: with with Josh Allen. That's why you got Philip Rivers
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: got the interview. It's got to be Brian Dave all
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: though doesn't What are they waiting for? Why have they
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: not named him the coach next?
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: So, the Cowboys blocked the Eagles request to interview offensive
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: coordinator Clayton Adams because apparently they're allowed to.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Do this if it's going to be a lateral move, but.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: Clayton Adams would be calling the plays over there, which
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: he's not doing.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Do you think that should they should change that rule
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  Speaker 6: or do you like them being able to block that?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: I like that the teams are petty that they block coach.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't think Cowboys hire their defensive coordinator. Yes, classic
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  Speaker 1: Here some interesting advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid
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  Speaker 1: him Xavier Smith. You have no idea who that is,
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  Speaker 1: but he gave Seattle a trip to the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome, Seattle. So advice to Rams punt returner Xavier Smith,
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  Speaker 1: who muffed a kick giving the ball to Seattle. Deepen
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  Speaker 1: Rams territory setting up? Or what turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: the difference in the game again. Advice to Xavier Smith
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  Speaker 1: eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Line one. You're on the air. Hello, Line one, I.
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  Speaker 1: Ben All right, that's right, dudewipes, I think. Hello, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're on caller to your advice to Xavier Smith. Caller too. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: caller three, you're on the air. Hello, Flucky, Bucky Bucky?
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  Speaker 1: the Matlin Militia for Xavier Smith, the Ram kick returner
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  Speaker 1: who muffed the kick in the NFC Championship game, costing
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  Speaker 1: the Rams a chance to win it. Hello, you're on
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  Speaker 1: the air. Caller you're line four.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, the fix was in the Ram got hoes?
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  Speaker 1: the air. We're giving advice to Xavier Smith, the Ram
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  Speaker 1: kick returner who muffed a punt that would have the
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  Speaker 1: Rams if this whole lot of one they were down
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  Speaker 1: by four, had the ball offense was cooking. Advice to
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  Speaker 1: Davier Smith of the Rams. You're on the air. Hello, caller,
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  Speaker 1: he needs to go to the Bucky. Okay, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for that, sir. That was I didn't even
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  Speaker 1: was on the air. Caller four, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Line four. Hello, we're giving advice to Xavier Smith at
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  Speaker 1: the ramkick returner, punt returner who muffed the kick. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Well, well you're Steele. You just hired Mike McCarthy. You
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  Speaker 1: Line one, you're on the airline one?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, go to go to lovely California for this?
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  Speaker 1: you're done stuttering. Line two, you're on the air Hello.
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  Speaker 8: Blame it on the interpreter.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yes, thank you for that. It's unscreened phone calls.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to are live in depth team coverage as we
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  Speaker 1: give advice to a guy named Xavier Smith. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know who that is, and you won't hear his name
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  Speaker 1: again because he won't be in the NFL next year,
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  Speaker 1: but he muffed a punt and that was a backbreaking
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  Speaker 1: play that handed Seattle the NFC Championship game. Total malfeasance
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  Speaker 1: by Xavier Smith. What is your advice? We recommended earlier
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks and Patriots both entered the season sixty to
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  Speaker 1: All right? That sounded like our friend from Colorado. Line three,
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  Speaker 1: advice line. We're giving advice to Xavier Smith on what
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  Speaker 1: he can do after costing the Rams a legit chance
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  Speaker 1: to win the NFC Championship game. Hello, line four, you're
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  Speaker 2: Old Smith, it needed to get some lobster claws so
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  Speaker 2: that they can actually hold a football.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, then I think I know who that was,
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