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Hour 3 – Surprises of The Season Rankings · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 4: Oh, what's going on? Welcome in Hope. You're after Christmas Day?
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  Speaker 4: Friday morning. I'll tell you what Malard Militia I came
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  Speaker 4: bearing gifts tonight. Not only did I bring you bad audio,
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  Speaker 4: you know, not hopefully not from what I was saying.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you could argue that was bad audio itself,
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  Speaker 4: but like the technical aspect of it, right, Like technically
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  Speaker 4: bad audio, right. And not only do I bring you
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  Speaker 4: that for the first two hours, I haven't even more
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  Speaker 4: special treat for you.
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  Speaker 2: I have a list. Huh how about that?
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  Speaker 4: I know, Ben he get does the Heisman pose to
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  Speaker 4: any lists. He rages against lists, you know, rage against
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  Speaker 4: the machine. Big Ben's band is rage against the list.
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  Speaker 4: That's what he gets down with. I don't rage against lists.
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  Speaker 4: I embrace lists, not all lists, but certain lists I'm
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  Speaker 4: open minded for and I am I am receptive to
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  Speaker 4: these certain lists. I've got a list I think makes
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  Speaker 4: a lot of sense. I think it's entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's good.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Malard Militia, I get it. You used to Big
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  Speaker 4: Ben whenever a fill in hosts, whenever a fill in
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  Speaker 4: hosts like you know, checks in or whatever it's I
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  Speaker 4: compare it to like eating apricot jam.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a peanut butter and jelly connoisseer like me,
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  Speaker 4: love me at peb and ja, you know, and I
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  Speaker 4: go to, you know, grape or strawberry. That's what I
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  Speaker 4: go with. Grape jam, strawberry jam. It's only like grape, grape, grape, grape, grape.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll do a strawberry grape, grape, grape, grape, grape. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: now I'll mess around with strawberry. I and fill in
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  Speaker 4: hosts are like apricot jam. So if you're used to
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  Speaker 4: your grape, your strawberry or your Big Ben like Big
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  Speaker 4: Ben would be grape like or whatever. You're most used to,
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  Speaker 4: and now here I come and you're like, ooh ah, man,
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  Speaker 4: we're out of everything, but Apricot jam oof, gosh.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give it a shot. All right. It's different, it's
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  Speaker 2: it tastes different than grape.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, man, you know, I get it like
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  Speaker 4: I'm filling in for big Ben.
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  Speaker 2: You're used to big Ben. Big Ben doesn't do lists.
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  Speaker 4: I've got a list, So I understand how you'd be like, oh, gosh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and me now.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas was good and me now I can go. It's fine,
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  Speaker 2: I can go.
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  Speaker 4: But no, I'm watching these games, and I'm watching the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm watching how much they've struggled, just the season
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  Speaker 4: that has been for them. Mahomes is watching the game
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  Speaker 4: from the box, you know, he's up in the luxury
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  Speaker 4: box watching the Chiefs. Fresh off of ACL and LCL surgery.
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  Speaker 4: Gardner Minshew is up there as well. He just had
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  Speaker 4: a knee injury. Luckily it wasn't an ACL injury, but
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  Speaker 4: he's got a knee injury.
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  Speaker 2: He can't go.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got the backup, backup quarterback in there, Chris
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  Speaker 4: Ola Ducin. I don't know if it's Ducan or dukuon.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what the hell it is, right, but
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  Speaker 4: he's the backup that was his first NFL start. You know,
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  Speaker 4: if he plays well, then we'll get his name.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: If he plays like this, you know, he just got
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  Speaker 2: to be in the ballpark.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's Ola dukuon Ola sorry, Ola doe kun
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  Speaker 4: or it's Ola dough Cun. I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what it is. Con you go cun Huh. That's
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  Speaker 4: how you do it.
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  Speaker 2: Breathe, That's how I do it.
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  Speaker 4: Ola Doecun. I heard Travis Kelcey in his postgame press conference.
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  Speaker 4: He went, Oli doe Kin is what he said. So
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  Speaker 4: we got Kin, we got Coun, we got Coun. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what it is, Oli Doe Kuhn.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not sure what it is.
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  Speaker 4: But the backup, backup quarterback who wears number nineteen, we'll
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  Speaker 4: call him Ola Doe Kuhn. Right, not the greatest, not
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  Speaker 4: the greatest performance. Let me give you his numbers here
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  Speaker 4: real fast. This is what uh? This is where a
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  Speaker 4: guy Chris Ola. We'll go with that. Sixty six yards passing,
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  Speaker 4: that's I know. It's the Denver defense. That is a
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  Speaker 4: tough ask for your first NFL start. But uh so
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching the chief season that has been. That's the point.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Mahomes is in the luxury box. Minshew is
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  Speaker 4: in the luxury box. We're watching Ola dot Gun or
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  Speaker 4: however you say his name, you know, do what he
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  Speaker 4: can do sixty six yards passing, And I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 4: what a surprise season the Chiefs have had. You know,
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  Speaker 4: if you told me before the season, oh, yeah, they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be like six and ten with the game to go,
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  Speaker 4: I'd be like, what.
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  Speaker 2: Do that mean?
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  Speaker 4: Like Mahomes got hurt the first play in Week one
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  Speaker 4: and you're like, no, he started fourteen games.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be like what, Like, what what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: So I was thinking about them, and also the Lions
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  Speaker 4: on Christmas Day, big surprise. They had a surprisingly bad season,
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  Speaker 4: and so I'm thinking good and bad. If you ranked
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  Speaker 4: your teams, you did the top five power rankings. Biggest
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  Speaker 4: surprises of this NFL season team wise, not talking individual players,
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  Speaker 4: just team wise. Good results, bad results, and you mix
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  Speaker 4: them together. Hodge Podge City, Right, we're not doing two
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  Speaker 4: separate lists. We're combining the good and the bat and
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  Speaker 4: maybe even the ugly as well.
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  Speaker 2: What does your list look like?
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  Speaker 4: Are the good surprise bears a bigger surprise than the
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  Speaker 4: bad surprise?
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  Speaker 2: Lion?
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  Speaker 4: So here's what I came up with my top five
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  Speaker 4: biggest surprises, good or bad in the NFL this season,
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  Speaker 4: team wise, number five a good surprise Jacksonville. Give me
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  Speaker 4: the Jacksonville Jaguars checking checking in at number five.
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  Speaker 2: This team was four and three.
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  Speaker 4: No one was like, hey man, I think they're about
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  Speaker 4: to go on a winning streak right here. They they
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  Speaker 4: got crushed right before their bye week by the Rams.
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  Speaker 4: The Rams beat them thirty five to seven in London,
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  Speaker 4: crushed them badly. And that one touchdown was a Travis
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  Speaker 4: Hunter touchdown. You might remember the plays like a little
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  Speaker 4: post corner and Lawrence threw a dime and you know,
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  Speaker 4: Travis Hunter got in the end zone. That was a
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  Speaker 4: big deal at the time. If I told you at
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  Speaker 4: that time when Jacksonville got blown out thirty five to seven,
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  Speaker 4: they were four and three and they were just about
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  Speaker 4: to lose Travis Hunter for the rest of the season,
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  Speaker 4: if I told you then like, oh, don't worry. They're
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  Speaker 4: about to win seven of their next eight. They're going
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  Speaker 4: to be leading their division. They're going to be in
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  Speaker 4: the mix to move up to maybe the two seed,
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  Speaker 4: maybe even have an outside chance at the one seed.
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  Speaker 4: If I told you that when they got smacked by
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  Speaker 4: the Rams to fall to four and three, you would
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  Speaker 4: have laughed at me.
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  Speaker 2: You would have.
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  Speaker 4: Laughed in my face. So I got the Jacks checking
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  Speaker 4: in at number five. They've won seven of eight. They
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  Speaker 4: just smacked the Broncos around last week. They smacked the
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  Speaker 4: Chargers around.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that game.
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  Speaker 4: There's a few weeks ago. They were at home. That's
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  Speaker 4: what started the winning streak. They killed the Chargers. They
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  Speaker 4: beat them thirty five to six like that. That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I've got Jacksonville at number five. The fifth
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  Speaker 4: biggest surprise of the NFL season.
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  Speaker 2: Number four. It's a bad surprise. I've got the Lions there.
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  Speaker 4: So now a lot of people this was a popular
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  Speaker 4: talking point before the season. Some people saw the Lions
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  Speaker 4: taking a big step back, maybe a couple of steps back.
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  Speaker 4: This was a team that was the one seed last year. Right,
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  Speaker 4: They had a great regular season, rattled off what fifteen wins?
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  Speaker 4: Fifteen to two, that's crazy, and Jared Goff again facing
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  Speaker 4: a pass rush like fish out of water against the
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  Speaker 4: Washington Commanders, he fizzled, had a horrible playoff game, they
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  Speaker 4: lose at home. They're won and done right, but still
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  Speaker 4: a great, great regular season. They had a ridiculously hard schedule,
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  Speaker 4: especially on the road this season, and before the season began,
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  Speaker 4: there was a lot of talk from the betting community
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  Speaker 4: of hey, maybe you bet the Lion to not make
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs. And so this isn't going to be stunning
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  Speaker 4: to some people out there, but I would argue this,
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  Speaker 4: the Lions were eight and five just a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago. They're eight and five. They've got a good
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  Speaker 4: chance to make it to the playoffs. They're in pretty
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  Speaker 4: good standing at that point. Then they lost a game
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  Speaker 4: to the Rams, no crime in that. They fall to
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  Speaker 4: eight and six. But then they lose at home to
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers. They lose on the road to the Max
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  Speaker 4: Brozmer Vikings on Christmas Day, so they've.
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  Speaker 2: Lost three in a row.
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  Speaker 4: They were eight and five, looked like, hey, they might
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  Speaker 4: win the division. They're still, you know, right in the
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  Speaker 4: thick of the thing of things for a wild card
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  Speaker 4: berth at least. And then the wheels fell off the tracks.
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  Speaker 4: And since then they've lost three straight. They're eight and eight,
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  Speaker 4: and their season is done. They've been eliminated already. So
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  Speaker 4: where the Lions were, Where the Lions are. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: a big surprise to me. Some might argue with that,
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  Speaker 4: but hey, that's why lists are so good. We can
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  Speaker 4: disagree and state why and maybe make a better argument.
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  Speaker 4: So the red carpet has always rolled out for you, militia.
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  Speaker 4: I know how you guys are. Number three. Biggest surprise
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  Speaker 4: of the NFL season, good or bad, it's a good surprise.
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  Speaker 4: The Seattle Seahawks. Now, if you look at the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 4: they are the one seed right now in the NFC,
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  Speaker 4: They control their path to the one seed in the
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  Speaker 4: NFC playoffs. Right, that's pretty good. And then look at
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  Speaker 4: their formula. They're not running the ball well this season.
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  Speaker 4: They're tied for twentieth in rushing yards per game, so
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  Speaker 4: they're not running it well. And they've got Darnold and
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  Speaker 4: I want to make Donald sound like a broken down,
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  Speaker 4: you know, beater of a car or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: But he's like, he's kind of like a broken down, uh,
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  Speaker 4: non beater of a car, Like you got a Nissan
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  Speaker 4: Ultima and uh you know it's it's kind of in
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  Speaker 4: bad shape. You know, it needs some upkeeping. Like that's
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  Speaker 4: that's Sam Donald, right. Sam Donald threw four interceptions against
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  Speaker 4: the Rams and they still almost won that game. Like,
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  Speaker 4: just the way it's played out for the Seahawks has
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  Speaker 4: been crazy. Like they they beat the Rams at home
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  Speaker 4: and one of the most ludicrous games I've ever seen
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  Speaker 4: in my life. They're down by sixteen points. Sam Donald
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  Speaker 4: has thrown two hideous interceptions and you're like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 4: see where this is going. Next thing, you know, punt
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  Speaker 4: return for a touchdown and they get to two points.
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  Speaker 4: Then they score another touchdown. Actually, a beautiful pass by
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  Speaker 4: Sam Donald finds his tight end Aj Barner in the
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  Speaker 4: back of the end zone. Hey, let's go for two
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  Speaker 4: and tie this thing up. Too bad, it hits Rams
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  Speaker 4: player's helmet incomplete pass. But wait, it's a backwards pass
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  Speaker 4: and somehow the ball trickles into the end zone. Zach
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  Speaker 4: Sharbonay just picks it up. For the goof and turns
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  Speaker 4: out he's in the end zone. It's a successful two
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  Speaker 4: point conversion. Insanity. And they go on and win the
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  Speaker 4: game in overtime after giving up a touchdown in overtime,
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  Speaker 4: they score a touchdown of their own, they get the
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  Speaker 4: two point conversion. It was one of the most outrageous
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  Speaker 4: wins ever. That's not overstating anything. For them to get
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  Speaker 4: the second two point conversion the way they got it,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think you're gonna see a more insane two
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  Speaker 4: point conversion ever, I really don't. I think we've reached
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  Speaker 4: the mountain top. So the way it's played out for Seattle,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just Darnold as the quarterback of that team
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  Speaker 4: with a lackluster running game. They do have a good defense,
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  Speaker 4: There's no doubt about that. I just I can't believe
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  Speaker 4: that formula has resulted in right now the one seed
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  Speaker 4: in the NFC.
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  Speaker 2: That is stunning to me. So I put that number three,
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  Speaker 2: number two.
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  Speaker 4: Give me the Bears, daw Bears, I got number two
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  Speaker 4: on my biggest surprise list.
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  Speaker 2: Is a good surprise.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously they've had a great season, but it's the way, again,
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  Speaker 4: similar to the Seahawks, it's the way they've gotten there.
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  Speaker 4: It's not just that they're eleven and four and have
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  Speaker 4: made huge improvements year over year record wise, it's how
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  Speaker 4: they've gotten there, you know. Like look at the latest
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  Speaker 4: win against the Packers, a game they had no business winning,
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  Speaker 4: no business even thinking about winning. They're down by ten points.
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  Speaker 4: Somehow Someway facing Malik Willis the backup quarterback for most
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  Speaker 4: of the second most of the game, like the entire
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  Speaker 4: second half. Yeah, Jordan Love concussion situation going on, at
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  Speaker 4: least symptoms and he exits the game, So get Malik
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  Speaker 4: Willis in there. Melik played pretty well. Packers have a
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  Speaker 4: ten point lead. Somehow the Bears they score some points.
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  Speaker 4: They got to get the on side kick right and
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  Speaker 4: no one recovers on sidekicks. They have a point five
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  Speaker 4: percent chance to win this game, like just a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more than two minutes left in the game. Somehow,
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  Speaker 4: some way, they get the on sidekick. Somehow, they score
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  Speaker 4: a touchdown on fourth and goal with Caleb Williams drifting
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  Speaker 4: back pass rush in his face and all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden someone's wide open.
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  Speaker 2: Then then they luck out.
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  Speaker 4: Packers are driving and then fourth and one Packers just
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  Speaker 4: drop the ball, just drop the snap man. So the
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  Speaker 4: Bears get it and they beautiful pass Caleb Williams the
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  Speaker 4: DJ Moore.
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  Speaker 2: They win the game. That was a miracle of a
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  Speaker 2: win by the Bears.
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  Speaker 4: They've had six comeback wins in the final two minutes
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  Speaker 4: this season. Let me repeat that. Okay, they've had six
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  Speaker 4: comeback wins. They've been losing in the final two minutes
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  Speaker 4: of these six games and they've won them all. That's
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  Speaker 4: freaking insane. That should not be happening. And yet here
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  Speaker 4: they are with this lackluster defense. They're just forcing takeaways,
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  Speaker 4: forcing turnovers left and right, leading the NFL, doing a
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  Speaker 4: great job in that department. But what happens if all
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, they just don't force any turnovers in
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  Speaker 4: a certain game. What if take it to the extreme,
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  Speaker 4: they lose the turnover battle in a certain game, Well
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  Speaker 4: guess what they are going to crash and freaking burn
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  Speaker 4: is what's gonna happen. But to this point, even after
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  Speaker 4: starting off oh to two, if I told you at
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  Speaker 4: oh and two, oh, the Bears are gonna be eleven
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  Speaker 4: and four, They're gonna have six come from behind wins
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  Speaker 4: in the final two minutes. You would have been like,
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  Speaker 4: you're dumb. I don't think you even watch football, but
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  Speaker 4: that here we are. That's exactly what's happened. So I
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  Speaker 4: put them number two in the list. Now that's pretty
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  Speaker 4: tough to top. But my number one team in terms
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  Speaker 4: of NFL surprises this season, good or bad, give me
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  Speaker 4: the Kansas City Chiefs. And I know I can feel
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  Speaker 4: immediate pushback on this where it's like, really, Brian, what
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  Speaker 4: you just said about the Bears. The Chiefs have been
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  Speaker 4: a bigger surprise. Yes, the Chiefs have been a bigger surprise.
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  Speaker 4: The Chiefs have made it to the past five Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowls and they're a non playoff team. When Mahome starts
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  Speaker 4: fourteen games, that's insanity right there. And on top of that,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just that they're losing games, it's how the
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  Speaker 4: Chiefs are losing games. The way the Chiefs have lost
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  Speaker 4: the games steadily this season is by killing themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They never ever ever used to do that.
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  Speaker 4: They always, you know, they always avoided shooting themselves in
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  Speaker 4: the foot, like like like really shooting themselves in of course,
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna make mistakes here and there, but they would
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  Speaker 4: never like get in their own way and kill themselves,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like beat themselves. They just didn't do that.
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  Speaker 4: That was their calling card. They took advantage of you
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  Speaker 4: beating yourself. They didn't beat themselves. But this year they've
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  Speaker 4: done it time and time and time again. You go
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  Speaker 4: back to the very beginning against the Eagles week two,
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  Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey's got a pass catchable ball. He bobbles it,
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  Speaker 4: interception leads to a three point loss at home. Right
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  Speaker 4: Jacksonville week five.
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  Speaker 2: They have the right they had a.
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  Speaker 4: Ridiculous pick six in that game. Uh, they've got a lead,
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  Speaker 4: We've got to lead finally in the game. And then
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  Speaker 4: Butker just kicks the ball at a bounce. It's like here,
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  Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence take the ball at the forty, you know,
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  Speaker 4: be our guest. Then Chris Jones thinks that the play
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  Speaker 4: is over. Trevor Lawrence fell down. No, Trevor Lawrence is live.
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  Speaker 4: He runs into the end zone winning touchdown. Like that
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  Speaker 4: game was ridiculous. The Chiefs last season don't even think
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  Speaker 4: about losing that game on the road against Jacksonville. And
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  Speaker 4: then some of the drops man like Rashie Rice. Now
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: he's on ir his season is over. But before he
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: got hurt. Been a couple of drops against the the
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Cowboys on Thanksgiving. You know, you got to have this drive.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: You're down by seven, but we're driving. Let's to put
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: points on the board. Who knows third down? Here you go,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Rushie Rice, right over the middle, easy catch, drop, all right, okay.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: A couple of weeks later at home against the Chargers,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: wide open, over the middle. We got to have this.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: We need points on this drive. Drop, okay, all right.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: That's pretty much the season right there in Mahomes he
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: did the surrender Cobra on the field, remember that. Through
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: a ball right to Rashie Rice, right in the middle
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: of the four on his chest. He dropped it and
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Mahomes went surrender Cobra on the field like his head
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: hit the ground. He's going to surrender Cobra. At the
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: same time, it's been that type of season. It's not
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: just that they've lost, it's how they've lost. They've lost
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: doing things they've never done in the past. Not with
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Mahomes and not with this winning streak and five straight
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Super Bowls, nine straight Division crowns, all these AFC title
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: game appearances.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: They just don't kill themselves, and they've done it. Repeatedly
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: this season.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: There is no way that anybody would have believed if
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I told them before the season, Hey, Mahomes is going
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: to start fourteen games, but before he gets hurt for
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: the rest of the season he has a knee injury,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: They're gonna have a losing record, and then I had
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: to make the playoffs. Even if he does finish the
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: season like not gonna happen. No one would have believed that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: So to me, that is the biggest surprise of the
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: entire NFL season. I go, Chiefs number one.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: There you go. That wasn't that bad, was it? Melard Militia.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I think it's an entertaining idea right there, good and bad?
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: How do you make your list? Out right there? That's
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: my list.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: But been a lot of surprises this year, both in
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: positive and negative ways. Some teams we thought were gonna
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: be good, freaking terrible Bengals, Ravens, Chiefs, you know, handful
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: of teams in there, Commanders, I think you can explain
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: some of the woes of those teams. Burrow Is hurt
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: most of the year, Jayden Daniels hurt most of the year.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Mahomes upright for fourteen starts, stunning, stunning that they had
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: a losing record in that span. That is just wild
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: to me. So I put that as the number one
• 20:51
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• 21:34
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  Speaker 3: Mary Mack.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: She uses her.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Listening years when it comes to music especially. And I
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: did mention Gojira earlier in the show. I did mention
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: the song stranded. I made it an NFL playoff picture
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: thing Like a lyric in the song is don't lock
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: the door on Me, And I think with the NFL
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: playoffs around the corner, it is wide open, man. I
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: think if you start locking the door on certain teams,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: those certain teams might come back to bite you. It
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: might make you look foolish if you're like, oh, yeah,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: no way, Niners, get out of here. I don't like
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: the Niners team either. They don't have a pass rush
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: at all. I don't trust their offense, lackluster running game.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I don't like the Niners.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: But they're capable. They're capable of being the one seed.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: And if they're the one seed, they got a shot.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: So I wouldn't lock the door on many teams in
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: the NFL playoffs. But props to Mary. You do awesome job,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Mary listening and that's cool. I appreciate that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: And do you have any love for Gojira?
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Is that on the on the on the playlist you have,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: like a metal playlist some of the metal songs that
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I've put you on.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Is that on the list there, Mary, I'm pretty sure
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: it is. I think it is. It might be I
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: have it like only got it real quick. Yeah, you
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: might be in there, might be all right. I got
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: a lot to do.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I got a movie thing going on, I got a
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: commercial thing going on. We've got a retirement thing most
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: likely going on. But we got the militia. That's what's
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: really going on. If the militia wants to check in,
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: we roll out the red carpet. The audio is a
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: crystal clear now, so let's get out to the phones.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: We've got hollerin James in Minnesota like the Vikings, fresh
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: off a big win. I don't know if he's passed out.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: He's kilmatost or. He's ready to party here. Hollerin James,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: what's going on, buddy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's passed out.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: He's passed out.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: He's probably you know when Max Brosmer in the passing
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: game went for three yards against the Lions, I mean,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he hit it hard right after that, right,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: you know, he had to celebrate and he just hit
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: a wall. I think Holler and James hit a wall.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: And it's understandable, absolutely understandab. We could check back in
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: with Holler and James. You know, let's get back out
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: to Oh my girl, Andrea is out there in Berkeley.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I'm curious what she has on her mind on a
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Friday morning. What's going on, Andrea?
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Hi, Brian, enjoying your show. And when I heard
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: about Patrick Mahomes Cello Virgo, I just had a call in.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: He's actually fellow September seventeenth, virgo, but different year, nineteen
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: ninety five.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: So that's you. That's you September seventeenth. Yes, oh wow,
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: same birthday as Mahomes. That's crazy, very good.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Different year, but yeah, birthday, and the thing is we're
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: having the same exact Saturn transit oppose our son in Virgo.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: Saturn in Pisces twenty four degrees opposing our son in
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: Virgo at twenty four degrees. I'm having a ton of
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: dental issues and like, what what have we.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Got going on? What's going on with the dental on
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the dental front there?
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well Saturn transit saturros of bones, knees, teeth and joints,
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: so dental stuff, root canals, I just did it go
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: fundme page. Oh wow, yeah, just root canals, crowns, implants, extractions,
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: you name it. I've had it. So it's just been
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: you know, Saturn transits lasts well over a year. So
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: the fact that Mahomes has this happen and again bones, knee's, teeth,
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: joins back, he has an aco injury and they don't
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: even know when he'll be able to come back next sea.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: So I was really sorry to see that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: He's I think he'll be there for week one. By
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the way, Andrea, I think he'll be on the field
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: for week one.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that's s Virgo work ethic. I think
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: you're right. I think he would like to be there
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: for week one. And I just googled him to double
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: check the birthday, and it turns out his wife, Britney,
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: is born August thirty first, nineteen ninety five. They're actually
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: two weeks apart.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: You know what, I'm googling something as well here Andrea. Yeah,
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: got me thinking, like I'm born, I was born on
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: November fourth, So wholl yeah? Who else was born November fourth?
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I do know off the top of my head. Former
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant. I don't know I
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: remember that, but over the years, I know he's on
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: November fourth. But how about this? I just googled something here. Yeah,
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: how about these names? Matthew McConaughey November fourth?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: Oh? I like you. He's a very charismatic actor. I's
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: got a lot of charm.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Great actor.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: And how about this, Just when we had some momentum,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: we went in a different direction.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Diddy Diddy was born on November fourth.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Hi, I got the same birthday as my guy Puff
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: over there facing charges left or head?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Not good? Not good?
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: Oh? Who was that? I didn't quite hear it.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Touff daddy Puff Daddy our guy Diddy.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: You know he's facing Yeah, some the issues over there,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: or or we have an NBA player Tyrese MAXI that
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: can me back on track.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: So you've got a couple of birthdays on November fourth.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Not bad?
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah? What did you google to see if other people
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: had similar birthdays?
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: I just googled. Let me see what I google famous
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: November fourth birthdays.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: Oh I like that, I'm gonna famous. Yeah. Now that's
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: a good way to learn because you can kind of
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: see them as like a mirror. I mean, it's a
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: different year and different birth time, but you can get
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: an idea of some of the sun shine transits they
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: might be experiencing and see how it's manifesting in their life.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: By the way, Kathy Griffin comedian, Oh the fourth Yeah,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: she had a very very small part in pulp fiction.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: You know that, Andrea, Oh, very small part yeah?
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: Oh interesting.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: When it's when Bruce Willis ran over Ving Raims, right,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: and the girl was like, if you need someone I forget.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: What she says is that she's talking to Ving Raims
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: and she's like that guy was a jerk, Like, if
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: you need someone to testify, it's Kathy Griffin. She has
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: a very small part in pulp fiction.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know that's interesting, And I just googled. I
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: was watching obviously. I'm you know, a big Steph Curry
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: fan and Warriors fan, and I watched the game today
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: and they were playing, you know, the other team. The
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: one of the players flag he is Chember twenty, two
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: thousand and six. He's nineteen years.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Ohld wow, how old do you feel now?
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Right? Like the kid? He's born in six Are you
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: kidding me?
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Wow? And an NBA millionaire. You know, good for him.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: He's a very talented player.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, I was watching the game. It's like, okay,
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: not only December twenty one, that's auspicious, it's a winter solstice.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: But he is, you know, two thousand and six. That's
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: a new one on me, that he's nineteen years old.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Crazy. Isn't that good for him? Man, he's doing fantastic already.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah. So it's always interesting when they, you know, have
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: their names and you just google them and I look
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: at their charts and it's like, wow, you know, that's
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: really young. I just he's young, and I have some
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: clothing older than he is.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh I get it. Oh, Andrew, it's good to
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: hear from you. I hope you continue having a good Friday.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, definitely still getting out my Winter Solstice newsletter.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: Better late than never. Virgo's work is never done and
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: your show is such a great accompaniment and entertainment. So thanks,
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: thank you Brian for that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Well, it's very nice of you, Andrew. I appreciate that,
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: very nice, and I'll talk to you soon. Yes, tell
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: uh So Diva was the first cat and then the
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: second one.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Is uh, I can't remember off the top of my head. Shoot,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: it's okay. I said.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: The next one should be called Dame for Damian Lillard.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: You know it's from Oakland. He's from the Bay area,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: like you know, and Andreas in that area. Ish right,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: so it should be Dame. I have to check my notes.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: I can't think of it Diva and it was some
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: variation of that. But anyway, all right, let's get back
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: big wow, I can't speak. Let's get back out to
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: the phones. Now that we have a good audio. Now
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: I can't speak. You know, the audio was bad before
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: and I could speak, but it didn't matter because the
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: audio is bad now the audio is better, better connection,
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: and I can't speak. So you know you're screwed either way.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Militia tonight as it turns. Yeah, let me get Mike.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: The Leprechaun is back with us. What's going on, Mike?
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: You're on Fox Sports Radio.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Happy day after Christmas?
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Same to you. How's everything going? Was Christmas?
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Good?
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: Oh? It was fantastic. I had I'm stopped from five
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: basketball games and three football games and all my kids
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: from out of town are gone, so thank god.
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: I can clean up a little bit.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: I'm actually good playing. So anyway, the audio wasn't bad.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: And I had here as Copio just like me and
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Marin and Coop.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Well that's good. I'm glad you thought it wasn't too bad.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: I'm glad about that. You know, a little robotic.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Here and there, but you're like, you know, it's all right,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: it's not that terrible.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: I like that in the best, in the best of times,
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: in the works at times. Today you have a real
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: colors and crew Mary Mac and Brie.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're awesome. I love Mary Mac and Brie.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: Are you actually in California or not? Are you in
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Los Angelis?
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: No, I'm in Indiana right now.
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: Oh so you're you're avoiding the atmospheric river.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm far away from that thing right now.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Foton is thirteen degrees, my Parkes, shut up.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: You know it's a it's a heat wave in Indiana
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: right now, Mike de Laprac it's like thirty five degrees
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: It's tropically that's he's thirteen degrees and it feels like two.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: All right, I have a long list. I have a
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: honey do list. Anyway, Mary Mac would you could you
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: please play a U two song? I love too?
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Okay? You two song? All right?
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: You're big Bono fan? You like Bono or the Edge more?
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: I'm well speak of the Edge anyway. Famous birthdays on
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: my birthday October thirty, Ivanka Trump, Derek Booker, John Adams,
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Diego Maradona. Edge is a wrestler from Oh yeah.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah yeah remember Edge.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: He's not the Edge, He's just Edge. Okay, Okay, what what?
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: What is?
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: Why do I Sorry? I've had a joke, but I
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: can't even read my own writing anyway. What the okay?
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Always look on the bright side of live anyway, I'm
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: back today. They call it boxing Day in the old side,
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Boxing Day the day after Christmas when they put away
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: all the presents and the decorations into the boxes didn't
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: be the old style. Anyway, I have I have got.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: By the way, Mike the Leprechaun, I'm still stuck on
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Edge the pro Wrestler was his entrance music. Are you
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I'm not huge wrestling, but I like wrestling. I don't
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: know a ton, but it was his old entrance music
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: like the you Think you Know Me?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: And then he walked. It was that edge. I thought
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: it was Christian, but no, I think it was Edge.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah. It was like the girl like you Think you
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: know Me? And then it starts, you know it kicks.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: In a hard rock Yeah, yeah, right. It was good.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Big Ben did a Best of Year and I was
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: on a couple of times. One of the things she
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: did mention was hal Cogan dying that he said when
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: he was a fat ten year old as a boy,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: ul Cogan was his hero despite all his laws. But anyway,
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: so hul Cogan and by the way, James Hollowing, James
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: is my age. He's sixty two and hopefully he gets
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: back on the saddle.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be back.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: About Bill? I heard did you hear the breaking news yesterday?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: Bill Belichick?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Know what happened.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Bill Belichick and Jordan whatever her name is Hudson, they
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: got engaged.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Oh is this true? Or are you just making stuff?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Is this actually happening? No, I did it? Did happen?
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Jordan would she did?
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Good?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: How did I not know about this? I think they
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: just put the pictures out like earlier today? Get out
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: of here? Really? Yeah?
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Any details? Where did Belichick propose that? Do we know
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  Speaker 4: any of these things?
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  Speaker 5: Well? I'm actually friends with Bill Belichick, so that's the fact. Well,
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: not friends, but I ran into him in a couple
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: of social events here in Boston.
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  Speaker 4: Did you speak to Belichick? Did he say anything to you?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he signed. Actually I have memorabilia for him, and
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: when I was to try to tell her, it was
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: no good because it was personalized to my family and
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: the same meeting, Bronk was there and he signed. He's
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: a football to me in my family.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we got to run Mike the Leprechaun and it's
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: good to catch up with you, buddy. I like that
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: at the good stuff though, man, I like at the
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: end where Mike's like, oh, I'm friends with Belichick actually,
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: like we just like walked by each other at an event.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: So maybe not quite friends, but like that that that
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: friendship regressed real fast. I had no idea about this, uh,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: this engagement.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: It's actually Karl, Anthony Townsend, Jordan Woods. Oh, Carl, So
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: it was Cat.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: It's not Belichick, it's it's not see like, what's up with.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Mike Mike Smith leading us right here.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: I don't feel bad like I would have felt bad
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: if I didn't catch the actual news. But it turns
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: out that was not real news. Was at all this
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: cat cat getting engaged. Maybe that's why he was energized.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: He had a big first half the other night.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, maybe that was it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: All right, I want to get to there's an interesting
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: commercial where an NFL player is poking fun at himself
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: and I love it. I think it's great. I'm just
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: surprised this is happening. So I'll share that with you.
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• 36:53
  Speaker 2: And now here's the tire Rack play of the day.
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  Speaker 2: One tend to go at Brunston right wing Nix down
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  Speaker 2: one on Mitchell takes a three porter Henny Perry's it.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Brunson go, I.
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  Speaker 1: Had three porter put sixty five seconds to go.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Brunton in the bench coming back from a seventeen point deficit.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: They beat the Calves and got the Christmas Day win.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: That's complements of Nick's radio network on the call. Good stuff. Yeah,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: pretty good NBA action. All right, so we got some
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: UTWO in there. Hopefully we get you think you know
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: me and the Edge like Edge. I like that Mike
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: the Leprechaun site, not the Edge, just Edge, just Edge
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: former wrestler. I mentioned him in its call. I'll mention
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: an NFL player. I like what he's doing here. So
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: it's Giants receiver Maleak Neighbors. Malik Neighbors is in a
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: new I Hop commercial for bottomless pancakes. Okay, so the
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: concept is now, I this is more like a waffle
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: House thing. There are some people if they lose their
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: fantasy football league, your dead laugh, right, you have to
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: go to waffle house for twenty four hours, can't leave,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: And so I Hop it's like taking this. I don't
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: know if that's a thing at I Hop. Maybe someone
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: somewhere has done this. But I Hop is like, hey,
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: let's take this momentum and shift it into our company here.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: So the idea is Malik Neighbors he got hurt early
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: in the season, he tore his ACL and so the
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: joke is, you know, like he's at this I Hop
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: and people are like, hey, they're cracking on him for
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: like him helping them lose their fantasy football season their league.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Right, So listen to the ad.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: I'm just surprised that there's someone like so outwardly making
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: fun of themselves.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I think it's great. But here's the ad and I'll
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: have comments afterwards.
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: Every year, thousands of fantasy football leagues make their last
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: place team spend twenty four hours out of bean pancakes
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: and ah, what's the hellp.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Just like you helped everyone's fantasy team this season.
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: Which is why I was launching Bottomless Pancakes. It's a
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: big win for last place fantasy finishers and anyone who
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: loves pancakes.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Are you League neighbors, I wish to be my first
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: pick on you.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Can we get this kid some pancakes?
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: There you go, so you just making fun of himself.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: I think it's fun at the Bottomless Pancakes start on
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: January fifth, and you get it right there, tying it
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: into losing your fantasy football league and if you have
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: to spend twenty four hours there again, I thought it
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: was waffle House, but maybe I hop to then they're
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: trying to cater to you, if you will. But my
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: thought was, I think it's a breath of fresh air
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: because there are a lot of athletes that are like,
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: what's my brand?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: What am I known for? I gotta control the narrative.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be known for getting hurt and
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: costing you your fantasy football league. Right There are a
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: lot of players that wouldn't want that. But I like
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: that Moleague Neighbors.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Is like, you know, what. It's fun. It's fine. I
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: get a couple of bucks out of it. Anyway.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I think
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: it's good, all right, coming up next. Man, it's even
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: worse than I thought.