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Hour 2 - Make It Make Sense · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh what's going on? Happy Tuesday to you. Thrilled to
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  Speaker 1: be here with you, Mallard Militia. Feel free to check in.
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  Speaker 1: Love being interactive with you. But I want to, uh, listen.
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  Speaker 1: I like to point out things that I like. I
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  Speaker 1: like to point out things that are stupid from time
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  Speaker 1: to time, and this, to me is peak stupidity. It
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  Speaker 1: would be the NFL playoff format. Now here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm fully aware that sometimes when we have these these
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  Speaker 1: discussions I fully care about like, uh, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: my ideas. I care about my ideas a lot. But
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  Speaker 1: if you were to just tell me your ideas, I
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  Speaker 1: might not care about them as much.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So the point is, I'm not saying like, don't don't
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  Speaker 1: give me your ideas. I'm just saying I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: try to keep my ideas at a relative minimum, with
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  Speaker 1: the thought in mind that you just might not really
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  Speaker 1: care a whole like of a lot about it. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Like it could work out that way. But with the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams lost on Monday night, and yet they still
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  Speaker 1: have an eleven and five record, And I'm just looking
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  Speaker 1: at the playoff picture in both conferences in every year
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  Speaker 1: and this year, more than some recent years, the standings
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  Speaker 1: just look dumb. I really don't understand why I get
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  Speaker 1: as much pushback on this as I get, because this
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  Speaker 1: has driven me crazy for a number of years, and
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  Speaker 1: this year is no different. This year it's just more intense,
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  Speaker 1: if anything. But I'm looking at the records and it
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  Speaker 1: just something just stands out like a sore thumb. Remember
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  Speaker 1: the old school, Like, one of these things is not
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  Speaker 1: like the other. I don't know how the melody went,
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  Speaker 1: but it was like that. It was a sesame street thing.
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  Speaker 1: One of these things is not like the And as
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  Speaker 1: a little kid, you had to be like, oh, what
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  Speaker 1: is it? All right, that's not the same. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: guy's wearing a yellow sweater, that girl's wearing a yellow sweater,
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  Speaker 1: that kid is wearing a yellow sweater, and this other
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  Speaker 1: guy is wearing a black sweater. It's like, that's what's difference,
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  Speaker 1: the black sweater guy. Right, that's what it looks like
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  Speaker 1: in the AFC and the NFC playoff pictures if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the AFC. Okay, now, I'll just give you
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  Speaker 1: the records, so right now, in order, it is Denver
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  Speaker 1: thirteen and three, Patriots thirteen and three, Jags twelve and four,
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh nine and seven. They don't even have ten wins,
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  Speaker 1: they don't have double digit wins. Then underneath the Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: Houston eleven and five, Chargers eleven and five, Bills eleven
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  Speaker 1: and five, all these wild card teams in the AFC
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  Speaker 1: have eleven wins, and yet Pittsburgh, who right now is
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  Speaker 1: leading the AFC North, they have to beat the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: to win the division. Otherwise the Ravens will will win it.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't understand why it's structured this way. It's
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  Speaker 1: so dumb. It's so dumb. The way it is is
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  Speaker 1: the division winners, they're seeded one through four. We don't
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  Speaker 1: care about their records. If you win your division, no
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  Speaker 1: questions asked, You get a playoff berth, you get a
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  Speaker 1: home playoff game. You're seeded one through four. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the way it remains throughout the entire playoffs. It's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: it's insanity. In no world has the Steelers season been
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  Speaker 1: better or more impressive than the Texans, the Chargers, the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: All those teams have two more wins than the Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers play in a bad division like that, it's
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  Speaker 1: not an impressive season. It's not an impressive achievement that
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  Speaker 1: they've won their division. What I want to do, here's
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  Speaker 1: my idea. It's not very difficult. The four division winners,
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  Speaker 1: they get into the playoffs. Okay, you get a playoff spot.
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  Speaker 1: We might not even have that, like in the NFC
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  Speaker 1: Carolina they might if they win the NFC South, they
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  Speaker 1: might not be guaranteed a playoff spot, right like, it
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  Speaker 1: might not work that way. So at least you get
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  Speaker 1: a playoff spot. You're guaranteed you're in the playoffs. We
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  Speaker 1: don't care if you're under five hundred. That's happened. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, there have been teams that made the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: that had a sub five hundred record that would not
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  Speaker 1: have made the playoffs unless they won their division. So
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  Speaker 1: if you win your division, you're in the playoffs, no
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  Speaker 1: questions asked. That's your reward. But you don't get the
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  Speaker 1: extreme luxury of then hosting a playoff game on top
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  Speaker 1: of that. You don't get that. No, sorry, it's too much.
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  Speaker 1: So what you do. Division winners, you're in one, two, three, four,
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  Speaker 1: You guys are in the field. Then we have three
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  Speaker 1: wildcard teams one two, three. Those seven teams make it
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  Speaker 1: in each conference, and then we seed the teams based
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  Speaker 1: on record. That's what we do. We see them based
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  Speaker 1: on record. You know who figured this out in one
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  Speaker 1: year college football? College football. What they did is what
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  Speaker 1: the NFL currently does college football. Last season, they said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have the uh, the highest conference winners. If
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  Speaker 1: you win your conference, you guys are gonna be seeded
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  Speaker 1: one through four. You guys are gonna get the buye,
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  Speaker 1: which is a big deal. You get to rest, you
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  Speaker 1: don't risk injury, you don't risk losing, you don't risk anything.
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  Speaker 1: You get, you earn a bye. It's a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And then they had Arizona State and Boise State get
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  Speaker 1: buys and college football is like, this is stupid, dude,
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  Speaker 1: Like these teams are ranked low. I forget the rank.
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to look, but uh, it's like Boise State
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  Speaker 1: was I don't know, like twelfth in Arizona State was
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  Speaker 1: ranked sixteenth, And somehow these teams got buys. They're seated
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  Speaker 1: like three and four. It was insanity. And college football
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  Speaker 1: looked at that and they were like, yeah, we're changing
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  Speaker 1: that immediately. This is dumb. This is just this is dumb.
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  Speaker 1: And so they seated teams one through four based on
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  Speaker 1: record based on rankings, like the way they ranked them
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  Speaker 1: is the way they seeded them, and they're ranked primarily
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  Speaker 1: based on record. So it's not like, oh, okay, you
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  Speaker 1: won the UH, you won the Big twelve, Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: get a buye. You won the UH, you won the
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  Speaker 1: ACC Okay you get a bye. Like no, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no. You actually have to be ranked one through
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  Speaker 1: four to get one of the top four seatings and
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  Speaker 1: thus a bye. College football figured it out in one year.
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  Speaker 1: It took them one year to be like, our system
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  Speaker 1: is dumb. Visit this is freaking crazy, and the NFL
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  Speaker 1: is still beholden on their dumb system if you look
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  Speaker 1: at it, like right now, Carolina, the Carolina Panthers, who
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  Speaker 1: lead their division, which sucks. They're like Boise State. Last
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  Speaker 1: year Boise State won a sucky conference. They they were
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  Speaker 1: ranked lower and they were inappropriately handed a bye and
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  Speaker 1: college football changed it. The same thing with Arizona State.
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  Speaker 1: They were ranked too low and college football was like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, yeah, we kind of messed that up, or
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  Speaker 1: we're changing that. You know, I'm looking at the let
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  Speaker 1: me see the rankings here. The UH well, we have
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  Speaker 1: the final rankings. Sorry, let me try to get this
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  Speaker 1: week sixty. Okay, So going in here we go. Arizona
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  Speaker 1: State was ranked twelve and they were seeded number four
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  Speaker 1: just because they won the Big Twelve. They're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you won your conference, so you get a bye. I
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  Speaker 1: guess the twelfth ranked team gets the number four seed.
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  Speaker 1: That makes a ton of sense. Boise State was ranked
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  Speaker 1: ninth and they got the number three seed. Again, makes
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  Speaker 1: zero sense whatsoever. One year and college football was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that's kind of change. That's dumb. We're dumb.
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  Speaker 1: We admit that we're dumb, and we're changing this immediately.
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  Speaker 1: So if you look at what happened in college football now,
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  Speaker 1: look at this lines up a little bit more logically.
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  Speaker 1: So Indiana ranked number one, seeded number one, Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: ranked number two, seeded number two, Georgia three and three,
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech ranked four, seeded number four. Wow, it's amazing
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  Speaker 1: how that works out. It almost like makes sense, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why the NFL doesn't do that. It
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  Speaker 1: really is ridiculous. Ask yourself this. If we were ranking
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  Speaker 1: these teams in the AFC and we're looking at their records,
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  Speaker 1: and we're factoring in some other things like what's your
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  Speaker 1: strength of schedule, the things we do in college football,
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  Speaker 1: what's your strength of record, like who did you play,
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  Speaker 1: who did you beat? Who are your quality losses? All
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff we do in college football. If we
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  Speaker 1: were to do that in the NFL, where do you
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  Speaker 1: think the Steelers would be? Do you think they would
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  Speaker 1: be fourth out of these seven teams that make it
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  Speaker 1: into the playoffs? No chance, they would be dead last
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  Speaker 1: out of those seven. So why are they seated number four?
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  Speaker 1: It's dumb, It makes no sense. So you win your division,
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  Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs. The three other wild card teams
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  Speaker 1: based on record, you're in the playoffs as well, And
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  Speaker 1: then you see those teams based on record. There's no
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  Speaker 1: world where if you look at the NFC playoff picture,
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  Speaker 1: Carolina is number four right now because they lead their division,
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  Speaker 1: and below them you've got San Francisco twelve and four.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's eight and eight. So right now, an eight and
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  Speaker 1: eight football team would host a twelve and four football team.
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  Speaker 1: In no world does that make sense. It makes absolutely
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  Speaker 1: zero sense. And for anyone who says, well, I just
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  Speaker 1: think you should get more for winning your division. Why
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  Speaker 1: why do you get more for winning the NFC South,
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  Speaker 1: which sucks this year? They might not have one team
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  Speaker 1: with a winning record if Carolina loses to Tampa, and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, I don't think they will, but if
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  Speaker 1: they do, no team will have a winning record in
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  Speaker 1: that division. Is winning that division more impressive than the
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  Speaker 1: Niners being a twelve and four football team, at worse
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  Speaker 1: a twelve and five football team. How is that more impressive?
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  Speaker 1: It isn't, so they shouldn't be rewarded as if it is.
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  Speaker 1: They should break these teams, seed these teams based on
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  Speaker 1: record all day and for anyway. I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: this too, thinking about this today, because you'll hear this
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit. It's like, okay, we just let's how
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  Speaker 1: about this. I hate this idea, but let's keep it
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  Speaker 1: the way it is, which is dumb and makes no sense,
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  Speaker 1: which I've outlined in great detail, probably more detailed than
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  Speaker 1: I initially set out thinking I would do. But you know,
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: you know me, I'm a bal junkie and I just
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  Speaker 1: get off and run, and you know, I get passionate
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  Speaker 1: about this stuff. Anyway, So a lot of people say,
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  Speaker 1: let's just keep it out. It is the four division
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  Speaker 1: winners one, two, three four Boo boo boom, boo boom.
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  Speaker 1: That might have been one too many booms. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it was four or five booms. It was
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  Speaker 1: one too many boom. I apologize, but boom boom, boom boom.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Then you get the three wild card
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  Speaker 1: teams boom boom boom, and then we keep it just
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  Speaker 1: the way it is. And then after the first round,
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  Speaker 1: let's recede. You hear that a lot. Let's reseed these
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  Speaker 1: teams based on record. And I was playing this game,
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  Speaker 1: so like, play this game out here real quick, just
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  Speaker 1: based on the playoff picture right now. Okay, so the
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  Speaker 1: playoff picture right now, what you would have is your
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  Speaker 1: two to seven matchup would be the Bears hosting the Packers. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 1: humor me on this one. Let's say the Bears win
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  Speaker 1: that game. They just beat the Packers in at Soldier
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  Speaker 1: Field a week ago. Right, Let's say they do it again.
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  Speaker 1: Packers have lost three in a row. Jordan Love has
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  Speaker 1: been banged up, like, it wouldn't be crazy if if
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  Speaker 1: the Packers went to Soldier Field and lost again. So
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  Speaker 1: let's say the Bears win that game. Then we also
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  Speaker 1: get the four to five matchup that would be right now,
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  Speaker 1: Carolina against San Francisco. Let's be radical here and say
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco wins that game on the road, okay, And
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  Speaker 1: then the last one that we would have in the
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  Speaker 1: first round, we would have the Rams at the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say the Rams win that game. Rams went into
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  Speaker 1: you know, Philly before, and if not for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of missed field goals, one was blocked at the end
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  Speaker 1: in return for a touchdown, they win that game. Like
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  Speaker 1: the Rams should have won that game. Wouldn't be crazy
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  Speaker 1: at all if they went in there and beat the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: So let's just say that's what we have, all right.
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  Speaker 1: If you were then to reseed teams based on record
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  Speaker 1: after the first round, this is what you would get
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  Speaker 1: based on what I just said. Bears beat Packers, the
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  Speaker 1: Rams beat the Eagles, and the Panthers they lose to
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  Speaker 1: the Niners. Right, so your three winners are what Bears, Rams, Niners.
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  Speaker 1: If you reseed those teams, what you would have is
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  Speaker 1: Seattle would be the one seed, San Francisco would be
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  Speaker 1: the two seed, then it would be Chicago and the
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  Speaker 1: Rams Rams would be the four seed. You know what's
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  Speaker 1: funny about this? Two would play three, right, So you
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  Speaker 1: would have a wild card team in the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers hosting a division winner in the Bears. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're okay with the idea, if you're one of these like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's receed after the first round, if you're up for that,
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  Speaker 1: then you do realize, right that a wild card team
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  Speaker 1: could very well host a division winner in the second round.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're cool with that in the second round,
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  Speaker 1: why are you not cool with that in the first round?
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  Speaker 1: That makes no sense. None, I hear that all the time. No,
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think you should get a home playoff
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  Speaker 1: game if you win your division, but they should definitely
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  Speaker 1: re se after that going forward. It's like, you do
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  Speaker 1: realize that you could have a wildcard team hosting a
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  Speaker 1: division winner in the second round, right, Like when the
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  Speaker 1: stakes are growing and it's getting more serious and we're
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  Speaker 1: inching closer to Championship Sunday and then Super Bowl Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: It just blows my vine. Man, it makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you'll have team after team after team in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL ownership. They're just they're dead set against changing
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  Speaker 1: the playoff format. They don't want to see these teams
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  Speaker 1: based on record, and they're like, hey, if you win
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  Speaker 1: your division, you should get a home game. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's like this, Really, if we cut down to it,
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  Speaker 1: more franchises benefit from the way it is right now,
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  Speaker 1: Like Carolina would benefit from the way it is right now.
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  Speaker 1: The winner of the AFC North, the Steelers or the Ravens,
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  Speaker 1: they would benefit from the way it is right now.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you might have one team or a couple
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  Speaker 1: of teams that get screwed right now. It would be
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, they're a wild card team right now.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be the Rams, they're a wild card team right now.
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  Speaker 1: All these teams in the AFC, Texans, Chargers, Bills, they
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  Speaker 1: have better records than the Steelers. I really don't know
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  Speaker 1: why they aren't thinking the way I'm thinking, Like I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know, man, Like they don't think, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: why are we on the road exactly? This socks that
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be like this. I would think there'd be more
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  Speaker 1: of a groundswell to change this format, but there just isn't.
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  Speaker 1: There isn't when they bring it up, like, hey, should
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  Speaker 1: we even vote on this? I don't even think it
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  Speaker 1: gets voted on. I don't think. I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: even gets to that stage where they're like, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was what the Lions brought it up
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  Speaker 1: last year. So the Lions, if they didn't win their
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  Speaker 1: Week eighteen game, they would have fallen from the number
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  Speaker 1: one seed to the number five seed, and they brought
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  Speaker 1: this up, like, yo, we might want to change this.
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  Speaker 1: It's a kind of dumb slash. We almost got screwed
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  Speaker 1: by this stupid setup, and it got shot down right away.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they even voted on it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it even got to that stage. So there is
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  Speaker 1: not any momentum for changing this rule, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it should be changed immediately. It makes absolutely no sense.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care that you won your sucky division. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care. You know what's funny too, they they rank
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  Speaker 1: these teams or see these teams based on record among
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  Speaker 1: the division winners and among the wild card teams. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we do that altogether? Why? Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: In what world is Carolina's season this year more impressive
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  Speaker 1: than the Niners or the Rams. It's it's not even close,
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  Speaker 1: even with the Rams losing on Monday Night to the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons not even close to more impressed. They're a five
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  Speaker 1: hundred team. They're eight and eight. It's not more impressive. Like,
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  Speaker 1: which division is more impressive? Is it the NFC South
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  Speaker 1: with no teams with a winning record they have no
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  Speaker 1: teams with the winning record right now, or the NFC West,
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  Speaker 1: where you've got three teams with at least eleven wins.
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  Speaker 1: The NFC West is light years better than the NFC South.
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  Speaker 1: So why are we acting like winning the NFC South
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  Speaker 1: is better than being a wildcard team in the NFC West.
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  Speaker 1: It's just dumb. It makes absolutely no sense. I wish
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  Speaker 1: they would change it right away, and for now you
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: have a little bit of ammo. I just figured this out,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit late to the party. But for
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  Speaker 1: anyone who's like guy, I think the division winners should
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: have home games, but I'm in favor of reseeding after
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  Speaker 1: the first round. It's like, you do realize that wildcard
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  Speaker 1: teams could then host division winners, right they could be
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  Speaker 1: hosting the game, Like the wildcard team would get the
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  Speaker 1: home game, something that for some reason you're against in
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the first round. Like that argument makes absolutely no sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's a complete contradiction for anyone who's like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that a wildcard team should host games in the
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  Speaker 1: first round, but we should recede going forward, it's a
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  Speaker 1: complete contradiction. It's like they don't even realize what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: So no, they should just base these teams. They should
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  Speaker 1: see these teams based on record, whether you win your
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  Speaker 1: division or your wild card team, all in order, based
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  Speaker 1: on record. But your comments are more than welcome. I
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: know a lot of people, for whatever reason, they rage
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: against logic. I put it this way. Sometimes people just
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: get used to stuff. Okay, there is no way if
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the setup all along is what I'm saying it should be.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: We've got our seven teams, or back in the day
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: when we had six teams from each conference make the playoffs,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: if they just seed it all these teams based on record,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: nobody would suggest changing it to the system we currently
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: have a right. We're seeding these teams one through seven
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: based on record, whether you won your division or you're
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: a wildcard team. We're basing it on record, okay, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: we'll have tie breakers if we need to, just like
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: we do as now. Right, Well, you don't change anything
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: like that. We're one through seven based on record and tiebreakers.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: No one would be like, hey, I got an idea.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: How about we do this so you get a playoff
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: berth if you win your division and you automatically get
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a home game.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I know you might be like eight to nine and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: you might host a team that's like four or five
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: wins better than you, but we think you should get
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: something more for winning your division. Right, Everybody would look
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: at that guy like he had three heads, Like who
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: invited this freaking guy to the meeting? Get the hell
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: out of here? Like that makes no sense at all.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I think we just get used to stuff, and a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: lot of people are used to this format. We're the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: top four teams, top four seeds, they win their division,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: no questions asked. That's who seeded one through four, one, two, three, four.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: They're just used to it. If you stop and think
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: about it, it makes zero sense, no sense at all.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, if they're a wildcard team, they should be
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: seated ahead of Carolina the Rams. If they're a wildcard team,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: they should be seated ahead of the Carolina Panthers all
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: day long. And yet that's just not how the NFL
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: does it. They do it just like college football. Last season,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: when Boise State ranked ninth, they're the three seed, and
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: when Arizona State ranked twelfth is the fourth seed. Makes
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: absolutely no sense. College football is like, this is dumb.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: We're changing it then, and the NFL is like, it's
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: not dumb. Our system that resembles college football to a t,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you know, the one that college football changed. No, we're
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: sticking to our guns. Ours ours makes sense, or if
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense, we're just used to it so
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: we're comfortable with it. It's terrible, man, it's it's a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: horrible format. As much as I love the NFL, that
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: format in the playoffs makes no sense. Feel free to
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: check in on this or whatever's on your mind. Eight seven,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Fox, also on x at the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: No Show is where you can find me. Ooh, I'll
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: tell you what. We got some choppy waters. You ever
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: see Wolf on Wall Street? Wolf of Wall Street, not
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Wolf on Wolf of Wall Street, right with Leo and
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: they're sailing through some bad waters. I forget the whole context.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: They have to get to a certain place because Leo
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: has to get to his money, right, his whole thing,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: and the guy sailing the boat he goes, there might
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: be some chop. There might be some chop, and Leo's like,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: that's fine, we can get right out. Let's go. We're fine,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: we can get through chop. Like there might be some
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: chop on the show tonight. Because guess what, Melard Militia,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, Ben has you programmed into thinking
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: that lists are bad. I'm here to tell you not
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: all lists are bad. I have what I think is
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a great list for you. If you look at the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: playoff quarterbacks as of right now, if you were to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: rank the top five qbs who would benefit the most
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: from winning a Super Bowl this season, what would your
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: list look like? Huh? I mean that is you can
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: have to do some mental gymnastics to come up with
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a solid list as far as that goes. I have
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a list. I'm gonna share it with you tonight. We'll
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: get to that at the top of the third hour,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: is what we're gonna do. So that's coming your way
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: in thirty five minutes from now. But right around the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: corner the heel coach of the entire NFL, and he
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: owns it, he loves it. We got the latest installment
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: of him being a heel. He's like the wrestler that
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: comes out and yells at the fans for being overweight,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and you know job listen, that's this guy. This NFL
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: coach is that WWE heel and he wears it. We'll
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: tell you about the latest installment of what he's up
• 24:09
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• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Big Ben Maller. Let's see the malicious checking in over here.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Very nice. Love to see this based on what I
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: was just saying. Let me go to the Beast of
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the East. He's in Rochester. I'm curious what he has
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: to say about receding. I'm curious about this. Just talking
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: about the the NFL's playoff format and not a fan,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: but uh, some people feel very strongly about this. They
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: want to keep it the same or I'm curious what
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: your thoughts are, Beast of the East. What's going on? Man,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Good morning to you. Welcome to Fox Sports Radio.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Very good, John Den.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: I always just the Mallards though, but nice still is.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Thank you. I just want to bring up one aspect
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: of your repat theory.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: There's a lot of things I ruined sports. I can
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: write a book.
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: On them, but this is just one aspect of it.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: And what it is is that you're forgetting one very
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: very important thing A lot of this year.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: I have no argument against it, but.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: There's been years where a division winner.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: Was eight and eight in the sixteen game, maybe even
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: seven and nine, one of them in Seattle Seahawks, and
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: they won their division seven and nine hosts of the
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: playoff game. Well, when people forget not this year Seattle
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: was in a division that beat the heck out of
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: each other, so obviously the record's going to be less.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: I don't think you penalize. I hate them to switch.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: You look in the NBA box.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Scores now it's all by record.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: I can't stand that.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I really can't.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: It takes hog.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: Negative effect on rivalries. We could talk about fantasy sports
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: where people don't even root for their teams, they root
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: for other players. But this is just one aspect of it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: I never want to see the division's gone and best record.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: I just think many times when somebody has an even
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: or a little better, I just think it's because their
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: division is so com you know, competitive.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: That's all tobably want to say.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: All right, Beast to the East. But I mean, listen,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you're entitled to your opinion, but I just don't buy
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: it at all. Like, let's look at the NFC South.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Are we saying that the Carolina Panthers are only eight
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and eight because it's such a tough division and they're
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: just beating each other up. No, they're eight and eight
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: because they're not any good. Like, here's the thing, man,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you play six games, six division games, six of your
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: seventeen games are in your division. So if your overall
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: record is eight and eight, you're not a good football team. Like,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: it's not because your division is so difficult about No,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: those are only six of your seventeen games. You got
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: eleven games outside of your division. So like, if you're
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: just hovering around five hundred or you're below five hundred,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: you're not any good. Like, I just don't buy the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: oh man, it's because you're your division is a gauntlet. Like, No,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: that's not the rule. That's more the exception than the norm.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I don't buy that at all. I'm very standoffice here tonight.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I guess I don't know normally, I'm you know, open minded,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: but you know I don't agree with everything. Is what
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, my guy, Sir scratch Off,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I just saw an a AI generated you know, kind
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: of video of Sir scratch Offs that was very entertaining.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Sir scratch Off, what's going on with you?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Fox Sports Radio, Sir scratch Off, you with us,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Buddy Man, I I don't know what's going on. Sounds
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: like he's driving or something. He's not taking a nap
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: like holler and James. It sounds like he's a he's
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: going somewhere. I don't know what's going on with Sir
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: scratch Off. He doesn't have his his listening years on
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: right there. I wish I was like, I didn't realize
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I was a big Dukes of Hazzard fan when I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: was a little kid, you know, because I just like
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the car. I didn't realize like anything beyond the car.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I had no idea. And yeah, like Sir scratch Off,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you know, driving a truck and not not hearing me
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: right now. I'm just assuming he's doing something behind the wheel.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a bad assumption. But when I
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: was a when I was a kid, I loved the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Dukes of Hazzard because the car was amazing, and they
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: would replay these episodes on CMT, like the country TV station.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why the hell would they replay these these
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: episodes on CMT. And then being older, I would watch
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: an episode and it'd be like it'd be like a
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: crazy codeer, this is lost Shepherd, you got your ears on?
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Come out, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I had
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: no I had no idea any of that was. I
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: just like the car that was it. But I uh,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just assuming that's what's going on with
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Sir scratch Off. Someone's like, what's Sir scratch Off's like
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: trucker identity, you know, like in the Dukes of Hazzard
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: we had Loss Shepherd. I can't crazy Cooter. I can't
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: remember the other ones, right, But maybe that's what Sir
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: scratch Off is. Maybe he's crazy Cooter, Crazy Cooter. He
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: got years on como, you know, I don't know. Maybe
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: that's that's what I would say to him. If I
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: was a fellow trucker, I would say that all day.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I develop an accent just to say it more cool.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: That's what I would do. All right, hollerin James is
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: with us? Let's see if he's loosen again. Back to
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: back nights. What's going on? Hollerin James. You're on FSR.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Hey, how you doing?
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: Brain?
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: No to say I still am going with my picks.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: You're still you're doubling down on Max Brosmer, is what
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: you're telling me?
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: Huh, I'm on Max Brosurn like Max Hacker from We'll
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: get to see him, all right.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: You're doubling down on Brosmer. Someone has to write. I
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: don't see anybody else doing it. Maybe this is an
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: untapped valuable mark that you've stumbled.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Up born and rage.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm worried about. I'm worried about this being
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: a Homer pick. They had three passing yards against the Lions.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: When you factor in zack yards three passing yards? What
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: is up with that? Holler in James, where's.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: The got establish or running a pack?
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: And they gotta establish a screen?
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe throwing maybe a sweet flicker was justin Jefferson throwing
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: them all?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Wow, all right, we got we got Jefferson throwing passes. Now, Okay,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I'm up for it. Let's get crazy over it's week eighteen.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: We're throwing stuff against the wall. See what sticks? I
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: like it.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Let's run some gadget.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm all for gadgets. Look at Look at Ben Johnson.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: He's the gadget guy. Gadgets work. There are there's a
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: time and place for gadgets in week eighteen? Is that time?
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Hollering James, Hey.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: You pan, I got this for you too. Let's go
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: with my picks.
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: Okay, I got the Vikings over Green Bay, yep, I
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: got Denver went in at home, okay, And I'll go
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: with Seattle eating Tampa Bay.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: And they don't play Tampa Bay though, Holler and James,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: they play somebody else.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Tampa's playing Carolina.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: I like Caroline over Tampa Bay.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I said, oh, you like Caro, Okay, you like Carolin.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. I love Carolina.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: You know why because I'm a big fan of Jake Delone.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I promised a jersey to trist Ward, who I met
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: at Sawya and Saya was for young adults and the
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Catholic religious program at Sant Loomscatholic Church. And now tell Minneapolis.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: You're the man, Holler and James.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: And I got a Carolina panther jacket from Randy Johnston
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Ship and when I saw it, I saw it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Jake Delone, hey.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Man with rage and cage and Jake the Loan. Once
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Louisiana Lafayette, they've rebranded, it's just Louisiana. I think you
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: got to keep the Lafayette right there. You know, I
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: don't like that rebranding. But the old raging Cajun Jake
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the Loam, and he played very well then the Super
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Bowl against the Patriots. Right there, I want a couple
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: of squares. I want a couple of pools on that one,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: because I just had a flashback this Probably no one cares.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I'll keep this short. You know how you fill out
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl squares where you get like the number for
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the Patriots, the number for the Panthers. Right, if the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: score matches your numbers, you get a payout. It was
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the same score for a couple of quarters, and I
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: cashed in. I think one team was on the doorstep
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: of scoring at the end of the third quarter and
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: they didn't. They got held like within the five yard line.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: And the very first play of the fourth quarter they
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: scored a touchdown. But yours truly cashed in. I doubled
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: up because the score stayed the same. Wow, he was amazing.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: It was an awesome some thing, man, I've made like
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: a couple hundred bucks something like that, maybe like three
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Doig on you.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing.
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Let me sneak in one more at least because a
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: couple of people want to check in on the format.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I'm very curious what they have to say about this.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Let me go to rich Is in Washington. He's got
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: an idea on seating. Very curious about this playoff format.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: What's going on here?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Rich?
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Hey, how you doing tonight, guys? Good topic, you know,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: thinking about this and the whole seating team. I'm totally
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: on board with you, guys. I think it's bes the
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: way it's structured and everything. But one of the things
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: I've always thought about this, you know, the National Football
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: League the NFL and it's teams. They make a significant
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: amount of money through the stadiums obviously, as you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: through everything from local revenue, tickets, concessions, parking, sponsorships. It
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: goes on and on. You know, have you ever thought
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: about you know, wildcard, no wildcard? Okay, they have these
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: teams eight and eight teams with no winning records. They
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: get into their foot inside the door on a playoff thing.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Because this is secondary only to the massive national revenue
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: from the TV deals that also follow this. And I'm
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: just wondering how much you know, I don't know what
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: the numbers would be on this. I'd have to do
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: some some checking on that, but it just seems like,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: you know, they say the teams control their local funds. Okay, well,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: how much does the league share on that? You know,
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: local or national funds. Is it all equally? Is it making?
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Generated you know, the revenue is a key differentiator. I
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: guess you could say for the team profits. You know,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: the longer they keep these teams in and the more
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: extended we can do on these brackets and stuff, that's
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: more people supporting their teams. I don't know, just something
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: that you on. You know, football is a money making industry.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: Any professional sports is, you know, but the NFL, I
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: think is at the top of the top of the
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: food chain.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, I'll tell you what, rich. I appreciate you
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: checking in. You took it in a way different direction,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you know. I just care about who's getting the home games.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know how the money gets distributed and chopped
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: up and who gets I don't know, that's a completely
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: different category. I just look, man, if you have a
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: twelve and four record and you're a wild card team,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: it's dumb that you're on the road facing an eight
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and eight division winner. That's just ridiculous. And I know
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: this is as of week eighteen. I know we have
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: a seventeen game schedule, and you know, Carolina, they might
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: be nine and eight, maybe the forty nine ers are
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: twelve and five, so it's a three win difference. It's
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: still dumb. That makes absolutely no sense. I hate the
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: playoff format. It's what college football was last season and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: that made no sense. That's what the NFL still is
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  Speaker 1: rocking out. So I just I'm not in favor of it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing coming up next, there's one
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  Speaker 1: other layer. I'll mention this very quickly, very quickly, very painlessly,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get right back to the militia because it's
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  Speaker 1: not just about the first week of the playoffs. It's
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  Speaker 1: about the entire path that you have in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That's what matters so much here. So we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: Ben Malor. Keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Malor here on
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Okay, as promised something very very painless.
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  Speaker 1: I'll make this very quick because I was talking about
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  Speaker 1: the NFL changing their playoff format I think they should
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  Speaker 1: see these teams based on record, whether you're a wildcard
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  Speaker 1: team or whether you won your division. That's just my thought.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing that matters, it's so far beyond the
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  Speaker 1: first round. It's your entire playoff path that is altered,
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  Speaker 1: that has changed, that is a affected based on the
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  Speaker 1: playoff format. So take a team like the forty nine ers. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, if they're seeded based on record
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  Speaker 1: right now, they're a two seed, Like they're a number
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  Speaker 1: two seed. And before you think, oh, that's that's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. So we have a an NFC West team
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  Speaker 1: that's number one, that would be Seattle, and we've got
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  Speaker 1: an NFC West team that's number two in San Francisco. Like,
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  Speaker 1: what's up with Why would we do this? That's what
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  Speaker 1: college football does.
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  Speaker 2: Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Look at who's the number one seed in the college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff Indiana, who's the number two seed Ohio State?
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  Speaker 1: Those are both Big ten teams. You're not bent out
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  Speaker 1: of shape, You're not like they should change this is radical. No,
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  Speaker 1: it could do this the same way in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: So if the the Niners are the two seed, now
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  Speaker 1: think of their entire playoff path. If you're the two seed,
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  Speaker 1: we're saying you keep winning, okay, so you get two
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  Speaker 1: home playoff games. The Niners win their first home playoff game,
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  Speaker 1: they get a second home playoff game guaranteed, and then
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  Speaker 1: if the one seed loses before the conference championship game,
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  Speaker 1: the Niners get a third home playoff game. They have
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  Speaker 1: two guaranteed home games and at worst one road game
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. That's as a two seed. If they're
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  Speaker 1: a five seed, which they are right now, they are
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  Speaker 1: most likely to be on the road for three straight
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  Speaker 1: playoff games. So two at home, maybe a third at
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  Speaker 1: home as a two seed, three road playoff games as
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  Speaker 1: a five seed. That's why it matters so much. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just the first round. It's not just well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco should host this game against Carolina if that's
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  Speaker 1: the four to five matchup. It's so much deeper than that.
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  Speaker 1: It's their entire path throughout the playoff. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: I hate the format so much. Man, as much as
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  Speaker 1: I love ball, as much as I love the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: their playoff structure makes absolutely no sense, makes no sense, none,
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  Speaker 1: not even a shred of sense. But they're just rocking
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  Speaker 1: it man, they're keeping it all right. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: your tweets, we'll get to the heel of the NFL
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  Speaker 1: and ooh list radio coming up this hour, looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it.