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Hour 2 - Collapse in Tampa · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh, what is going on? Welcome in happy Monday morning
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, our early morning is alive and kicking over here
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  Speaker 2: as we dive headfirst into the Week seventeen NFL waters.
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  Speaker 2: I guess Kawhi Leonard did score fifty five points for
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  Speaker 2: the Clippers. You know, Big Ben would love to mention
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  Speaker 2: that I'm imagining if he were on the airwaves today,
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  Speaker 2: but he is not, So I'll tip my cap to
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  Speaker 2: him and say, Kawhi shout out fifty five points. The
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  Speaker 2: Clippers trying to climb back to five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Give them a month or two, maybe they'll see five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: But We're all about the ball over here, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna get to the militia. The militias, Hey man, The
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  Speaker 2: militias lined up, and so we were going to power
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  Speaker 2: through some entertaining callers here momentarily. But let me start
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  Speaker 2: it off by just saying a couple of things. I
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  Speaker 2: want to pay this off where there is a team
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  Speaker 2: that I am happy, happy to bet against in Week eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: and that would be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now here's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. They are facing the Carolina Panthers with the
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  Speaker 2: division on the line. Right winner is in as bad
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  Speaker 2: as Tampa has been. They've lost seven of the last
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  Speaker 2: eight games. As bad as they've been, if they win
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  Speaker 2: one game against Carolina, they are in. Tampa Bay is
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  Speaker 2: hosting this game against Carolina. If Tampa wins, they win
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  Speaker 2: the NFC South, they win their horrible division, they get
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  Speaker 2: into the playoffs. They host a playoff game, which I
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  Speaker 2: will rant about later on today, but keep it as simple.
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  Speaker 2: As bad as Tampa has been, they still have a shot.
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  Speaker 2: They control their playoff path. Have to win one home
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  Speaker 2: game against Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: They're in.
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  Speaker 2: Now Here's why I am so happy to bet against them.
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  Speaker 2: I've already bet Carolina plus three. I've bet Carolina money line.
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  Speaker 2: And the reasons are this, Tampa Bay. They are a
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  Speaker 2: team that is just dead inside. Might go a little
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  Speaker 2: bit too far. You know what the Tampa Bay really is.
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay is a team with the weight of the
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  Speaker 2: world on its shoulders. That's what's happening with Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: You could see it with Baker Mayfield on Sunday against
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  Speaker 2: the Dolphins. They lost to the Dolphins. I love my Dolphins.
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  Speaker 2: My Dolphins are a wreck this season. Okay, I said
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  Speaker 2: this the other night. As bad as the Dolphins have
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  Speaker 2: been think about their season. Right, They get off to
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  Speaker 2: a hideous start. They were what one in Let me
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  Speaker 2: get the record for you real fast. You'll only take
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  Speaker 2: a second. They were one and six. The Dolphins were
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  Speaker 2: one and six to start the season. Awful stinkage. Defined.
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  Speaker 2: They go on, they beat a couple of bad teams.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they beat the the Commanders, they beat the Saints,
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  Speaker 2: they beat the Jets. You know, they won a couple
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  Speaker 2: of games and their records a little bit more respectable.
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  Speaker 1: Then they bench Tua, right, Tua's yeh as this guy.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't give us the best chance to win. That's
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  Speaker 2: what Mike McDaniel said. They go with the rookie Quinn Yewers.
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  Speaker 2: They get rolled up on by the Bengals by twenty
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  Speaker 2: four points last week. Just a disastrous season. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: Dolphins have the same record as Tampa Bay after Week seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: after Sunday, after the Dolphins beat Tampa Bay, same record.
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  Speaker 2: As much of a greasefire of a season. The Dolphins
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  Speaker 2: have had Benching their starting quarterback, same record as Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just watching Tampa Bay and their season just
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  Speaker 2: absolutely crater. And I'm watching Baker Mayfield and listen, it's
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  Speaker 2: not just the physical toll. He took a couple of
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  Speaker 2: big hits toward the end of that game on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: the loss to the Dolphins, but he's on the sideline
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  Speaker 2: and you can just you can feel it's not just
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  Speaker 2: the physical pain of getting knocked around. It's the emotional
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  Speaker 2: pain of losing and losing and losing. There's a great
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  Speaker 2: clip of Kevin Garnett when he was still playing in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA. I love kg intensity to find love the guy.
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  Speaker 2: But he was doing this interview and he's almost in
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  Speaker 2: tears and he's like, I'm losing. I'm losing.
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  Speaker 1: Like you can just feel how this is tearing him up.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at these NFL games, think about a
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  Speaker 2: team like Tampa. So they've been banged up quite a bit,
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  Speaker 2: suffered a lot of injuries. They started off great. They
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  Speaker 2: had a great start to the season. At the best stage.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, they were five and one. They started off
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  Speaker 2: They're like the anti Dolphins. Dolphins started off one and six.
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  Speaker 2: Tampa started off five and one, and then the season
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  Speaker 2: took a turn man after the bye week. Week ten,
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  Speaker 2: they lose at home to the Patriots. They lose on
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  Speaker 2: the road to the Bills. They get smacked around by
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  Speaker 2: the Rams. That was ugly, and then it was just losing, losing, losing, losing.
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  Speaker 2: They've lost seven of eight. And here's the deal. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: you put so much into trying to win a game.
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  Speaker 2: You prepare all week, you get your body right, you
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  Speaker 2: get mind right, it's all right, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get on the winning track. Loss.
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  Speaker 2: Do the same thing the next week. Loss, the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: the next week.
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  Speaker 1: Loss.
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  Speaker 2: It's just mounting and that emotional stress, that weight is
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  Speaker 2: just weighing on them. You can feel it, right. It'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, you know how you hit like the squat rack.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a big squat rack guy, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: you know what it feels like. You put the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the bar behind you, you put the weights on the side,
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  Speaker 2: you go down, you do your squats right. It's as
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  Speaker 2: if Tampa Bay is walking around with the squat bar
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  Speaker 2: like the back of their shoulders, back of their neck,
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  Speaker 2: and it's never leaving every step they take. They're just
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  Speaker 2: walking with the squat bar behind. They're walking with all
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  Speaker 2: the squat weight on the squat bar. Right. That's how
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  Speaker 2: they feel it's like their legs are buckling. They can't
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  Speaker 2: take this physical emotional burden of losing and losing and losing.
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  Speaker 2: And you know who hasn't had that? Carolina? Carolina has
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  Speaker 2: not had that. Carolina is a weird team. They're psychotic,
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  Speaker 2: but they're like win loss. So that's what they've done.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see since Week seven, this is their schedule win loss,
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  Speaker 2: win loss, win loss win by loss. They had a
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  Speaker 2: bye week in between win loss. Looks like they're scheduled
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  Speaker 2: for a win. If this is like, if this arithmetic
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  Speaker 2: plays itself out, they're due for a win. But they
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  Speaker 2: have not had this seven out of eight losing streak.
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  Speaker 2: This stress that is just collecting and oh man, I
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  Speaker 2: just I am happy to fade Tampa Bay. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of these deals where you can get you can
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  Speaker 2: get football deep, and you could be like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like Tampa Bay has this matchup, and well, these receivers
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  Speaker 2: against these Carolina quarterbacks and all this stuff, all this
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  Speaker 2: I love football. You can break it down football wise.
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  Speaker 2: I would not break it down football wise. This to
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  Speaker 2: me is Tampa Bay has just reached a breaking point
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  Speaker 2: and they have been weighed down for so long by
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  Speaker 2: so much losing. I don't think they can get out
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  Speaker 2: from under it, even though they're at home, even though
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  Speaker 2: they're facing Carolina, who's far from a juggernaut. Even though
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  Speaker 2: Carolina be like, yeah, we're sucky Carolina today, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's either good Carolina, Great Carolina, or SUCKI Carolina. We
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  Speaker 2: don't know which team's gonna show up. You could lay,
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  Speaker 2: wait what if SUCKI Carolina shows up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I think Tampa's gonna suck worse. That's what I think.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy to fade Tampa I already have. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: if that's the winning side. But Coop, I might put
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  Speaker 2: sixteen fan confidence points on Carolina this week, just as
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  Speaker 2: a straight Tampa fade man. They are a broken, cratering
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  Speaker 2: team that I'll tell you. I'll get a little personal
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  Speaker 2: for a second. Okay, we'll get to the calls. When
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  Speaker 2: I was married, it was it was very stressful, like
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  Speaker 2: we got divorced for a reason, and like, listen, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not putting all this on my ex. I certainly had
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  Speaker 2: fall I made a ton of mistakes myself. But when
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  Speaker 2: we split up and we went our separate ways, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't realize like I felt this like rests all throughout
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  Speaker 2: my body. I felt this stress in my chest, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And then we went our separate ways. And it's slowly
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  Speaker 2: like a couple of days ago, by a couple more days,
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  Speaker 2: a couple more days, a couple of weeks, and it's
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  Speaker 2: like it felt like someone that was standing on me
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  Speaker 2: was no longer standing on me, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It was just kind of like, oh my gosh, there
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  Speaker 2: was it was like the Gregorian chant or the Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: It was that Oh it was beauty. It's like, oh wow,
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  Speaker 2: I can breathe. It's like Tampa feels how I felt before.
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  Speaker 1: The split, right Like they feel more like the emotional
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  Speaker 1: toll of the caging. I'm losing. It's killing them.
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  Speaker 2: They are near their their sports deathbed. They're near their
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five NFL season deathbed, and it's not gonna
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  Speaker 2: take much to just kick them off the edge. I
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  Speaker 2: think Carolina is going to do it, man, I do.
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  Speaker 2: I think Carolina is going to win the division. I
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  Speaker 2: just think Tampa they're just a dead team walking now.
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  Speaker 2: Watch them win by seventeen or didn't put everything together
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  Speaker 2: and go ballistic. But I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm betting against them, firmly betting against them. All right,
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  Speaker 2: eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox is your number.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get out to the militia here. First up,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking bills. Let me go to Paul. Paul's
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  Speaker 2: in North Carolina. I believe Paul. You're on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Brian, good evening man. Hey listen, I'm gonna poke. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm in North Carolina about him. Be born and
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  Speaker 3: raised in Buffalo. I've been diehard Bill Sans since day one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm forty five years old. I'm going to poke anybody
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  Speaker 3: in the eye that suggests that going for two today
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  Speaker 3: was the wrong call. And let me let me just
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  Speaker 3: let me explain why pol was on there. Buffo was
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  Speaker 3: on their third string kicker. We signed this guy last week.
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  Speaker 3: If you're a kicker available in week sixteen, there's a
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  Speaker 3: reason he already missed two pats in two weeks. And
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  Speaker 3: here's the thing that Pat extends the game in overtime.
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  Speaker 3: And if you extend the game into overtime, what would
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  Speaker 3: you have to have Josh Allen to make a play.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like let's just scrap all the bs. We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna make Josh Allen on the two yard line one
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  Speaker 3: player to win the game. And it was a wide
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  Speaker 3: open receiver and he messed up. That doesn't make it
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  Speaker 3: the wrong call. That's the poor execution and you and
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  Speaker 3: you put it in out there. The lack of clutch
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  Speaker 3: gene is a beautiful synopsis of this franchise entire history.
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  Speaker 3: But that was the right call and he should do
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  Speaker 3: it ninety nine times out of ninety nine, like that's
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  Speaker 3: what should have happened. So it's just Josh Allen made
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  Speaker 3: a terrible play.
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  Speaker 1: That's really what it is. Man, No, I respect it, Paul.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you can see it and just cut to
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  Speaker 2: the chase and say it because that's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Good call, man. Good to catch
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  Speaker 1: up with you there he is, Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And man, it hurts to say that, right, Like, listen,
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings they lacked the clutch gene if you just
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  Speaker 2: look at their franchise history. Good lord man, it's I
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  Speaker 2: don't any Vikings fans mad or put him in a
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  Speaker 2: bad mood. But it's just one thing after another. It's
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  Speaker 2: you know, Gary Anderson misses a kick. How does he
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  Speaker 2: miss a kick? He hasn't missed a kick all year.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna miss a kick? Really against the Falcons. We
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  Speaker 2: got a trip to the super Bowl on the line.
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  Speaker 2: It's Farve's he's thrown. Why do you even pottender a
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  Speaker 2: pass right and throws laid across the middle. They had
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  Speaker 2: the Saints, they're going to the super Bowl again until
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  Speaker 2: they didn't have the clutch. Gen, I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: it is. It's weird time and time again. Bill's the
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  Speaker 2: same thing, dude. You could go on and it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's Scott Norwood missing the Super Bowl twenty five kick.
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  Speaker 2: It's thirteen seconds, got the lead against the Chiefs. It's
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  Speaker 2: what you saw on Sunday. Josh Allen has a wide
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  Speaker 2: open receiver. The pass isn't even close, not even close.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's just wild man. But time and time again,
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  Speaker 2: the lack of the clutch. Jen, it's it's a real thing.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Let's fit in one more here real fast,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll get to the others on the other side.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go to I'm curious about this. I five Brian,
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  Speaker 2: he's in Oregon. Let's talk some Seahawks. Shall we what's
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  Speaker 2: going on, Brian? You're on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, thanks for taking my call. What's up, Brian?
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  Speaker 4: I do call in. I'm good Man. I used to
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  Speaker 4: call in back in the day and we used to
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  Speaker 4: talk Blazers. I used to call him with takes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if if you remember me. I know
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  Speaker 4: you got a lot of people calling in. But so
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  Speaker 4: I would be Rember.
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  Speaker 2: What would I say? Would I make fun of? Who
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  Speaker 2: did I always make fun of?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Gosh, what was it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Derek Jones Junior. All he does is dunk. It's all.
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  Speaker 2: I called him, Derek Dunks Junior. But I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if we talked about him or someone else.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 4: Probably h Yeah, Derek Dunks. Yeah, I remember that. But
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, I would be remiss if I didn't just
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  Speaker 4: point out the obvious. Who does have the clutch team
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  Speaker 4: mister Slam and Sammy d aka Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh man?
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  Speaker 4: All right? So what what he needs to do? Uh
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  Speaker 4: him being Josh Allen is give him a call because
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  Speaker 4: he just showed us. You know, I'm Diehards Hawks fan,
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  Speaker 4: I've been fan forever, and what he did the other night, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: there was some fluky things going on. I'll admit that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't think I've ever seen that type
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  Speaker 4: of two point conversion, but you know, hey, it happened.
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  Speaker 4: And but it's when it came down to it, we
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  Speaker 4: went for two, just like mcdermick did. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: we had our our guy say, you know what I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna put. I'm gonna put this into the ball into
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  Speaker 4: his hands. Yeah, he throws some ugly pick, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but you live with the pick, you do, because I
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  Speaker 4: got a stat for people out there, and Rams fans
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  Speaker 4: aren't gonna like this. This is just the facts in
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  Speaker 4: his last thirty nine starts with four teams. Mister Sam
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  Speaker 4: Darnold is thirty and nine and anybody wants to fact
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  Speaker 4: check me on that can do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 4: That's just he's he knows how to win, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I know you didn't see that at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the year last year with the vikings. I know That's
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  Speaker 4: why I gave people pause to include, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: our new our coach a couple of years now that
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  Speaker 4: we had coming in, you know, with Mike McDonald. But
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  Speaker 4: he saw that he had the ability to win. And
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  Speaker 4: now you're seeing it come to fruition, man, I mean
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  Speaker 4: there was like everybody knew that he was going to
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  Speaker 4: go for two and he hit the wide open guy
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  Speaker 4: right right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And Josh Allen's great, man. I'm not trying to say
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  Speaker 4: that Jock Donald's not great. But if you want to
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  Speaker 4: just have it come down see the who has the
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  Speaker 4: clutch gene? I mean that that's clutch. Is what Sam
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  Speaker 4: Darl did and then of course gets in and you
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  Speaker 4: know what everybody else did supporting cast for the Hawks.
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  Speaker 4: But one other thing, if you allow me to say it, man,
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  Speaker 4: is if you don't believe in momentum, just don't watch him. MLB.
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  Speaker 4: The people or the teams that get hot are the
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  Speaker 4: ones that usually get to the World Series. And I
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  Speaker 4: don't remember the year. I'm a huge Mariners stan h.
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  Speaker 4: Last year was a ton of momentum, right, and we
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  Speaker 4: played well and it's unfortunate what happened that we couldn't
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  Speaker 4: get past, you know, there at the end to get
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  Speaker 4: you know, to get to the World Chairs. But we
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  Speaker 4: got close, and I think we'll be back. But the
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  Speaker 4: Rockies and I don't remember how many years ago that was.
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  Speaker 4: I want to say it was Clint Hurtle was their coach,
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  Speaker 4: their skipper at the time. They got hot and like
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  Speaker 4: win like I don't even know, they won like almost
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  Speaker 4: twenty games in a row something like that. They made
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  Speaker 4: it to a little serious. So I mean, hey, mister
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  Speaker 4: big mahler ill, I'm all about your takes and stuff
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  Speaker 4: and how on at the moon man, but that is
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  Speaker 4: that's just a bad take.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I big.
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  Speaker 4: Your comments off the air man, but yeah, I get you.
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  Speaker 4: Catch it up and just take them.
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  Speaker 1: A call to night, all right, man, Yeah, good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: There is I five Brian, Okay, a couple of things. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if we're talking baseball, I'll give you one example. It's
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad he went down this road with momentum. My Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: Now I get the years mixed up. It was either
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  Speaker 2: six or twenty eleven. I'm not sure. Like it's sorry,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, they sucked. Like the Cardinals were an average
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  Speaker 2: baseball team. They're right around five hundred. Somehow they got
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  Speaker 2: into the playoffs and like there was a squirrel that
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  Speaker 2: ran by home plate while the game's going on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and it just it turned into like this good luck
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  Speaker 2: charm and they they rattled off all these wins. They
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  Speaker 2: got red hot in the playoffs. They ended up winning
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  Speaker 2: the World Series. This team that's barely above five hundred,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: and they called it the rally squirrel. They had this
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: freaking squirrel like on their championship rings, you know, like
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: they just got yeah, they got hot, and it was
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: this whole thing. But yeah, it can happen, like momentum
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: is a real thing. It's not just made up. And
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: like Looney always calls it fairy dust, it's not a
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: fake things. It's real. It can happen, like you can
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: have it and then you lose it, just like a lead,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: just like a run. Right, just because you lost the
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: lead doesn't mean you never had the lead.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: The same thing with momentum. But the thing with Darnold
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: lists here's the thing. I'm not convinced.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, like what he did against the Rams, I give
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: him props the second time. The first time, he threw
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: four interceptions all right on the road, and they still
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: had a chance to win the game. They had a
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: chance to kick a long field goal, didn't work out.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: They lost by two points.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: He threw four picks, all right.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: So I don't want to I don't want to make
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: it sound like, hey, Donald, you know at home against
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: the Rams, he played great down the stretch. He had
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: the clutch touchdown pass, the AJ barner, he had the
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: clutch two point conversion to win the game right in overtime.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: So he's here, He's arrived, mister icewater in his vain,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, I'm not convinced where they are yet, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I still think back to last year. I still think
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: back to this season. As I mentioned on the road
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: against the Rams, four interceptions. He was bad, he was bad,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and they still had a chance to win the game.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I just look, man, last season. It put such a
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: stain on a brilliant season. You could play this game
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: last year with the.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Vikings, they won fourteen games.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Thirteen or fourteen, I'm not you know, but they won.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I can't do the math at the top of my head.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Thirteen. It had to be fourteen, right.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Because it came down to the week eighteen winner take all.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: So they had to have the same record as the Lions.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: So like fourteen and three.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: That's insane. What a record you think He had some
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: clutch moments with the Vikings.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: He did.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: He had some great performances until the end of the season,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: until it mattered the most and in Week eighteen against
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: the Lions, he was freaking terrible. I'll never forget wide
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: open receivers in the back of the end zone that
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: can't hit them. Next week against the Rams in the
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: playoff game, terrible, awful, holding onto the ball way too long,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: taking sack after sack after sack. He was bad, bad,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: And so listen, I can't wait for next week because
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I think Sam Donald has a great, great chance to
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: head into Levi Stadium face a Niners team with a
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: non existent pass rush, a team that just got carved
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: up by Caleb Williams and the Bears. They gave up
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: thirty eight points, They had no resistance all night long.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: It is a great opportunity for Sam Darnald. So I
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: think he's got a fighting chance to get the one seed,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: go into it an opposing stadium, play much better, and
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be people that are like, oh, hey, Sam Donald, right, well,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: he just he beat a team with no pass rush,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: is what happened, right, But I just I don't buy that,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: facing like real pass rushes, facing some real defenses, that
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: he's the guy that you can count on. And look,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: their running game is fantastic on Sunday against Carolina, Zach
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Charbonnay did his thing. That running game has not been
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: very good throughout the season. So you're telling me, come
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: playoff time, there's a team that just shuts down the
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: run and it's all on Donald to generate points and
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: you trust him all throughout the playoffs.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I do not do.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I'll put it this way. This is the fairest way
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I can say it. When you get a reputation, you
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: have to go above and beyond for people to change
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: their view of you. Okay, that's just the way it is.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: If you have a reputation for being cheap, you're gonna
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: have to pick up the check time and time and time.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: You gonna have to pick up a big check. And
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: then people might be like, what's got into Brian Man,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: what's right?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: They still haven't bought in. They're still beholden to what
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: they know most. And that's the way it works in sports.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: And so for Sam Darnald to fizzle the way that
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: he did in Week eighteen last season and in the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: wild card round against the Rams, he hasn't been able
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: to do anything since then. The stakes haven't been high
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: enough for him to do something to change that perception
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: and to change his reputation. So it's gonna take next week,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Week eighteen, on the road against San Francisco. Great performance
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: by him, gets it done, slays the dragon, exercises the deem,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: all that stuff, and then playoff time, he's got to
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: do it, and he's got to do it again, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: he's got.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: To do it again, and then maybe people might be like,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you know what this is, Sam darnold guy? You know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's got the goods. It's gonna take that, but
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: he hasn't gotten there yet. And until he does, I
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: can't buy it. I can't buy it. But he's got
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: a real shot next week that Niners pass Rushes. It's
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: just nowhere to be found, nowhere to be fine. All right,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna stop jibber jabberin. Let me get to the
• 22:50
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• 22:53
  Speaker 2: quick take. Unbelievable. These two teams put on an epic performance,
• 23:00
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• 23:06
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  Speaker 1: Play of the day.
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  Speaker 8: The bills will either fail on a two point conversion
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: of the Eagles will win thirteen to twelve, or the
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: Bills will convert to two points and the Bills will
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: win fourteen to thirteen.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Allen puts a man in motion. Allen looks, he's back,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: he's firing, and it's incomplete thing.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Egleses Thegleo's win.
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: Now there's five stuconds on the clock, but the Eagles
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: are gonna win.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: He threw a pass for Shakir and it wasn't even close.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, compliments of Eagles Radio Network, Meryl Reese doing this thing.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny, Coop. I had a flashback to
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you believe it or not hearing that clip. You know
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: how you recreated the Great Wall of DC doing your
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: John Wall shout out right there.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Your play by play chops were really good.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I wanted to be like the make believe color commentator
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: after Meryl Reese explained that, and it's my turn to
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: kind of like paint the picture.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Of what just happened.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: And Meryl Reese is like, I wasn't even close that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: It's like my turn, you know what I mean. It's like,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, what a pathetic throat. What the hell
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: this is the Ragning MVP.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: The guy was wide over.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: What what was that? That was hideous? We'll take it. Hey,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: we'll take e A G L E S Eagles. Let's go, baby.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: But I wish we had the call from the from
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: the bill side. That would have been interesting to hear.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Oh man, we don't have that.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: No, Oh, that's a missed opportunity, right, we got to
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: find that.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: That's I love. I love the dual calls, you know,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: because what do you say, say you're the hometown call.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to you know, you get the pom poms
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: out and the whole thing, right, that's how you're supposed
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: to sound.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: But you gotta be honest at the same time, you know, like.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: How do you be positive and honest when Josh Allen
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: misses a throw that badly?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: How do you even ponder passing? I know, how do
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: you even ponder a pass that bad?
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: That's what was happening right there with Josh Allen. My goodness,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: that was a rough one man, rough rough rough. All right,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: let's get out to the phone. Let me do this.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It'll only take mm. I was gonna say it's only
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: gonna take thirty seconds. But this is me. We're talking
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: about I think I can. I can get it done
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: in one minute flat, one minute flat tops. Okay, So
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: the Sunday night game was an instant classic. Bears Niners.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Niners beat them forty two to thirty eight, got a
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: last second stop at the end of the game, and
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: they want it. Watching that game and I'm like, holy cow,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: you know, it's crazy about the Bears and the Niners.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Do you realize this both teams in that game they
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: were eleven and four, and the Niners they've got to show.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: They're hosting the Seahawks to win the NFC West and
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: to be the number one seed in the NFC playoffs.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Do you realize that's right? You realize that both the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Bears and the forty nine Ers were last place teams
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: just last season.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Last season, both.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Were in the cellar of their respective divisions, and now
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: look at them. Bears already clinched the NFC North. The
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Niners have a chance to clinch the NFC West and
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: be the one seed. They were dead last in that
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: same division just one season ago. The Bears, They've been
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: dead last in the NFC North each of the last
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: three years, and here they are. They're atop the division.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: That's what's so beautiful about the NFL. Like you'll hear,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I like baseball. I've fallen out of love with baseball,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: if I'm being honest with you. But I have a
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: strong liking for bit. It's like I give it the
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: old you know, like you do the old college try.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: You kind of do your arm like one of those.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I like baseball, you know, I love the playoffs. You
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: what what I gave up on baseball?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: You gave up. You're dating other people now. I like baseball.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: They have hot dogs.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: See like we're all on the same page. We like baseball,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: you know, but love is a different thing.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, I don't even know where I was going
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: with that. Playoffs. Playoffs, Oh yeah, yeah, thank you, Coop.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: The baseball fans like my guy Rob Parker will be like,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: there's parody and I can't do my Rob. There's I
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: can't do a Rob. But it'd be like, there's parody
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: in baseball, and it's like, oh yeah, really, show tell
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: me the Bears and the forty nine ers of baseball.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Who are these last place teams that are all of
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: a sudden duking it out for like the one seed
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: who are they Where are they? When does that happen? Exactly?
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Maybe you can point to a team or two, But bro,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: look at the standings. I could pull up the standings
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: right now and we could play a little game of
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: how good are the chances of this team rebounding from
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: dead last to first place in baseball? And I'm not
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I don't mean to crack on baseball, but it's not
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: even close. Like the parody in the NFL is a
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: real thing. The parody in baseball isn't even freaking.
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: Close, like the like the Angels being.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: That's right or worse or worse? Dude, look at the Bears.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Let me get the record out what the Bears works.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be wrong on them.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: We'll see this is this is.
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: I like that you're mentioning these two teams because the Bears,
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: I mean, you can almost just automatically point to Ben Johnson,
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: right right? Uh the forty nine ers, though maybe you
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: say that just last year was a weird down year,
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: you know.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Right right, yeah right, they were down they had I
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: could get it here too, it'd only take a second.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: We got all kinds of facts on the fly. Here
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: here you go. Here are the Niners the the two
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: seasons prior.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Oh shoot, it's the wrong chart right here you go,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: bear with me, bear with me, live on the flight.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: They were first place in the previous two seasons, right,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: so last year they were in last place. The previous
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: two seasons they won their division. So you're right, Coop,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: it was just this odd, weird, you know, injury ravaged
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: team and they bottomed out and they were in last place.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: But if what's interesting is if you look at the
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: records here, okay, if you look at the standings I'm
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: looking for a okay, here we go. Let's go back
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: to last year. On it is taking way more than
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: a minute, I apologize, But if you go back to
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: last year, the Niners their winning percentage was three point
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: fifty three, right, so they won about thirty five percent
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: of their games. The Bears were their winning percentage was
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: two ninety four. They didn't even win thirty percent of
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: their games at five and twelve. All right, let's play
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: a little game of MLB. Let's see who had a
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: winning percentage under thirty. Well, that would be the Colorado Rockies. Huh,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: what do you think the chances are that the Rockies
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: they rebound from last place and they take down the
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: NL West.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: They leap frog not only the d Backs, not only
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: the Giants, but also the Padres and the Dodgers. They
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: go from worse to first. Yeah, I'm banking on that happening.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Get out of here, Like, dude, Coop, your Angels listen.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: They were eighteen games under five hunt. Their winning percentage
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: was four forty four. They won over forty four percent
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: of their games. The Bears didn't even win thirty percent
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: of their games last season. The Angels have no chance
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: to win the AL.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: West next season. That's not gonna happen, man. But that
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: happens in the NFL.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: It happens in the NFL, does not happen in baseball.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: So it's funny how we look at parody and you
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: could be like, hey, we haven't had a repeat champ
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: until the Dodgers just did it. We didn't have one
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: for a long time. We've had one in the NFL.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: That's what Baseball guy likes to point to. It's like, Bro,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: that's not where parody begins and ends. Who's your Bears,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: who's your Niners?
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: They're winning like.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Thirty five percent, thirty percent of their games one season
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: and their division winners the next. That doesn't happen in baseball.
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: So you know this is this is coming from from
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: AI and assist from AI. So you know we have
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: to fact check it just to be sure. But you know,
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: I'm pretty confident this is correct.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: The last team to go from worst to first in
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: Major League Baseball was the twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: Boston Red Sox Wow, who finished last in the Al
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: East in twenty fifteen, then won the division the next
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: year in twenty sixteen. I want to see, you know what,
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: Let's go to twenty fifteen real quick, because I want
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: to see their record in their winning percentage.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, their last place in twenty fifteen. Get this, coop.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: They're six games under five hundred. They went seventy eight
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: and eighty four. Their winning percentage was four eighty one.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: They won just over forty eight percent, almost half of
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: their games. Right, you're not even close to winning half
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: of your games. The Bears were five and twelve. They're
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: not close to five hundred like the Red Sox were
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: hovering around five hundred, and then they cranked it up
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: And that's the last time. That's unbelievab. That was ten
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: years ago.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, spare me on parody. Baseball guy. It's
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: not the same thing as it is in the NFL,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: not even close. So I'm glad we dispelled that myth. Right,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: we knocked that one right off the list. Yeah, that's uh.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I love baseball guy. Oh, there's parity in baseball. No, no,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: not like the NFL, man, not like the NFL. It's
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: a completely different deal. There's a hard salary cap. Think
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: about that. There's no salary cap in baseball. Like, that's insanity,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: just that alone, having a salary cap in football. All
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, Okay, you pay your quarterback huge money.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: He was just off his rookie deal. Now we're paying
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: him huge money. And guess what, we got to cut
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: a bunch of corners. We gotta cut this guy, and
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: cut that guy and restructure this guy. We gotta get
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: rid of that guy. All of a sudden, your roster
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: isn't nearly as talented as it once was. That doesn't
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: happen in baseball. These teams like the Dodgers, are they
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: cutting guys they're looking to add. They're just adding guys,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: they're like, we'll pay you in twenty forty five.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: It's fine.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: They're just adding and adding and they're not subtracting. You
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: have to subtract. In the NFL, there is a hard
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: salary cap. There is no salary cap in baseball. You
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: want to sit here and pretend that parody is even
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: like similar or the same.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: That is a sports take crime right there.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: To even suggest that parody in baseball is anything close
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: to parody in the NFL. It's not even remotely close, man,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: not even close. All right, sorry, I killed the segment.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: We'll get to the militia coming up. I probly I'm
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: not gonna tease anything. We're going straight to the calls.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: My guy Poppy. You realize this guy Poppy, he like
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: a thief.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: In the night.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: He stole three hundred American dollars from me, That is right.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: I was so overconfident in the Chiefs, who didn't even
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: smell a divisional crown. I know it looks like the
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: dumbest bed ever. I mean, they had won it nine
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: straight years. Call me crazy. I thought it was going
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: to be ten. Didn't work out, and I.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Gave Poppy looking back, horrible odds.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: But he's on hold. I want to hear what he
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: has to say. He's gonna do a victory lap. We'll
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: get to Poppy and the other members of the militia
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: right around the corner. No teases, no sports takes, no opinions,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: just the militia that's.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: On the way.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Malor. Keep it
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
• 36:37
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• 36:43
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• 36:47
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• 36:48
  Speaker 2: It is Fox Sports Radios. It's not countdown to kickoff. Man,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I almost had a flap. Sorry, Brian no In for
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Big Ben Malor live here on Fox Sports Radio. Oh gosh,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I did count down to kickoff Sunday morning. I thought
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: it was count down to kickoff for a second. Sorry
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: my bad. I'm just programmed. I'm just a you know,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I'm a robot doing.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: This stuff over. Sorry, Sorry, different shift fill in all right.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: Hey.
• 37:11
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• 37:26
  Speaker 1: The crown is yours. I'll tell you what the crown.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Is Poppies as well, because Poppy he took three hundred
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: American dollars off me. You believe that, by the way,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: real fast, before Poppy comes on and does his victory lap.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I gave Poppy horrible odds. Looking back, I don't know
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: what I was thinking. I was so overconfident. I'm like,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: all right, here's the deal, Poppy. If the Chiefs win
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: the division, you owe me one hundred dollars. If anybody
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: else wins the division, you get three hundred dollars.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: That's a terrible suggestion me.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I should have because the Broncos were a little better
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: than three to one and the Chargers were a little
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: better than three to one to win the division. The
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Raiders were like eleven to one or something crazy. I
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: gave him all three teams at three to one. That's
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: a terrible job by me. Bad job by me. He
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: probably would have taken the Chargers and he would have
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: been wrong and the bet would have been wiped out.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: But me, being the overconfident gas bag, that I am.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I'll give you the other three for plus three hundred. Poppy,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: that's a terrible job by me. The chances are you
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: might have picked the wrong AFC West team and I
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: would have gotten out. It would have been a wash,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: nobody would have won anything. But in any event, Poppy
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: is with us. What's going on, Poppy? You're on Fox
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio?
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: Hi, Brian Offers. I want to say Mary Christmas and
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: happy do you to you and and everyone here in
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: the Mountain Militia and everyone to listening. And I want
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: to say a great show on the Sunday kickoff, Brian, Oh,
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: you know, a great show on maybe after you know
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: with the predictions that I'm ready to next season for
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: you to have me part of your squad and gave
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: me sports betting picked because I'm onto something. Uh you know,
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: I know what I'm saying. I have a momentum and
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: and the momentum is coming my way. And read you
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: let me know and I'll be there Sunday morning. Because
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: people people love hearing Poppy's picks. People love it right
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: here in the Mala Militia in the picks, and I
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: just wanted to say I did say the Broncos. Even
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: Coop was here. I said that I liked the Broncos
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: when you okay, so you.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Might have gotten it right, Okay, take it back? Sure?
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: And if you guys don't haven't heard of you, listen
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: back on the podcast when Briano was on there. Just
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: you won't say, hey, I'm live. But I wanted to
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: talk real quick about Briano about you were talking about
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: the Patriots, Yeah, and you know how you like them
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: and stuff like that. And I got one thing to
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: say for you. Momentum does exist. Remember when the week fifteen,
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: the Buffalo Bills were I believe twenty four to seven
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: of my memory.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're right, yeah, you're right, yeah on that one.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: And I just want to say, look, the Bill did
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: lose today. It's okay, but please guys, please put some
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: respect on Josh Allen, the MVP. Look when I got
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: a quick.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Story, real quick, hold on Poppy.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: We're up against it, man, like we got we got
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: ten seconds, like you know, we got ten American seconds.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: So I'm sorry about that. But you know what, that's
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a good segue.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: It's a very misleading stat that is denying props for
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: one team.