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Chuck & Buck 12-30 hour 1: Did the Seahawks playoff path get easier? Is Darnold an issue? It's New Year's resolution time! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Great folks.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, morning, it's some time.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning class, lazy and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, beholding six one guard from Brighton, Illanois
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  Speaker 3: and former high school basketball stand What the hell does
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  Speaker 3: that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Don't jumped any conclusions.
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  Speaker 4: Not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
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  Speaker 5: Hard to believe he could once send a fastball.
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  Speaker 6: To Pluto getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll
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  Speaker 6: just openly admit I'm.
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  Speaker 1: A fat, out of shape X athlete.
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  Speaker 4: Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
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  Speaker 5: Five seven guard and a former college water polo national champion.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of useless crap up here.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready to get Hey, good Tuesday morning till
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  Speaker 4: you welcome into the live radio program that is Chucking
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  Speaker 4: Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan is.
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  Speaker 4: Here, former Mariner Bucky Jacobson. In my name is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to take you through the next four hours
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  Speaker 4: of course, building you up till Saturday's big game, Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: taking on the forty nine Ers. So much at stake,
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  Speaker 4: and the path has changed a little bit for the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks toward the playoffs, which we'll get into here in
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  Speaker 4: a moment. We've got our normal array of outstanding Tuesday
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  Speaker 4: guests that we've used all football season long that we'll
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  Speaker 4: remind you of with what's on tap here in a
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  Speaker 4: matter of moments. But this is the final show of
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty five right here. You're experiencing it right here,
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  Speaker 4: right here, real lifetime.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, like I thought, it feels like like
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  Speaker 7: maybe Sparkly spark you know, because like when you end
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  Speaker 7: the year, you got like fireworks and things like that,
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  Speaker 7: and everyone wears glitter and it's all, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's only it's only six o two. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's way to go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there's still time. It was like I just was.
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  Speaker 1: Any surprises, but yeah, Sparkly woke up.
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  Speaker 6: I went to the bathroom and then there was fireworks
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  Speaker 6: going off. As I went outside, there was a parade
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  Speaker 6: down the road.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. One of those I rode in one
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  Speaker 1: of those duck boats.
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  Speaker 6: All the way here. I was thrown skittles out to people.
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  Speaker 6: There wasn't many people on the side, but there was
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  Speaker 6: still some.
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  Speaker 4: People skittles, don't they Yeah, Yeah, for miles around, very
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  Speaker 4: sparkly for me.
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  Speaker 6: People celebrating the last day of of our show before
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  Speaker 6: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I don't have that experience, but I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: you do.
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  Speaker 1: It is sort of strain. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe this has existed my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it.
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  Speaker 4: Does feel like the older that I get that though,
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think it's because of my age. I
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  Speaker 4: think that the world's just changing, like this time of
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  Speaker 4: the year, like nothing is happening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we have like four people in the office
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  Speaker 4: they say.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, day of the year is December fifteenth.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And it feels like to me every day it
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  Speaker 4: gets a little more exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think that's a bad thing.
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  Speaker 4: I know, you know, everybody says across the globe that
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  Speaker 4: Americans work too hard and we do too many hours
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  Speaker 4: and it's not healthy and everything else. We need a break,
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  Speaker 4: So maybe it's maybe it's I'm not criticizing it I
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  Speaker 4: think maybe it's a good thing, but it just does
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  Speaker 4: sort of feel and I know there's out there listening
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  Speaker 4: that do a lot harder jobs than what we do,
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  Speaker 4: but it feels like there's like ten of us working, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: for like the last two weeks of the year.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know, and I think that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think that.
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  Speaker 4: But it gets more celebrative this time of year every year,
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  Speaker 4: and so's there's no doubt that I've experienced that here
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  Speaker 4: driving around just actually existing here for the last couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, on a Monday night, I just went out
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  Speaker 1: for my walk.
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  Speaker 4: I went out for a walk on Monday, just around
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  Speaker 4: the neighborhood, around the town, and I'm telling you, there
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  Speaker 4: were people packed in the restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: On a Monday night.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I probably a little bit of we've been
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  Speaker 4: cooped up with our families all weekend long and I
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  Speaker 4: just want to get out and civilization. Maybe there's some
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  Speaker 4: of that, but it's it's the I don't think anybody's
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  Speaker 4: working right now, and they're just like the celebration is on.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's great, don't get me wrong, but
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  Speaker 4: it does feel like it gets ramped up a little
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  Speaker 4: more every year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean I think Monday nights it's good.
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  Speaker 6: Good to hear that the people are out and about
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  Speaker 6: and doing their thing and really getting making the most
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  Speaker 6: of the holidays because I mean, yeah, we do hear
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  Speaker 6: like in Europe for example, althoughay they do like four
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  Speaker 6: day work days, right or four day work weeks and
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  Speaker 6: us having a couple like three day ones right, bang bang, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to probably start a petition and see if
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  Speaker 6: we can make that a little bit more of a
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  Speaker 6: solid thing. I mean, I'd even be willing to go Monday,
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  Speaker 6: Wednesday and Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that is very noble.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I would prefer Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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  Speaker 6: and then just get Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday off. Would
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  Speaker 6: be the way in which I'm going to propose it.
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  Speaker 6: But it's one of those you know, you shoot for
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  Speaker 6: the moon and you land in the stars type of thing. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: because I think it just makes more sense, more rested,
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  Speaker 6: just everybody. It'll just be better for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, no, thank you, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it done.
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  Speaker 7: I was wondering too, though, if having New Year's Eve
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  Speaker 7: on a Wednesday has anything to do with like more
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  Speaker 7: people out on a Monday, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 7: Like they're already kind of in a party mood.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's both hand in hand.
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  Speaker 4: I was just talking to Bucky about this yesterday, and
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  Speaker 4: I guess things are done differently in Oregon or I'm
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  Speaker 4: misremembering the way that they were done in Illinois. But
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  Speaker 4: I remember as a kid, you rooted for Christmas to
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  Speaker 4: fall off in the middle of the week, and then
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  Speaker 4: because I met, New Year's fell in the middle of
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  Speaker 4: the week, and the reason was that you got like
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  Speaker 4: two and a half weeks off because they didn't mess
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  Speaker 4: around with we're just going to send you to school
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  Speaker 4: for a day or for two days.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we going to do that?
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  Speaker 4: So you got two and a half where if it
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  Speaker 4: fell on like a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you'd get a half day on Thursday, and then you'd
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  Speaker 4: go all the way through and then you would end
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  Speaker 4: up with only a week and.
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  Speaker 1: A half off.
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  Speaker 4: Oh doing it that way, I maybe I'm misremembering it,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm pretty sure that's the way that it was
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  Speaker 4: when I was a kid. You always rooted for the
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  Speaker 4: holidays to Christmas and New Year's to fall in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the week so that.
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  Speaker 1: You got more time off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: But maybe that's not something that they did here in
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  Speaker 4: the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 2: This was just two weeks across the board, that's.
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  Speaker 4: What That's what Bucky said, And maybe I'm not remembering
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  Speaker 4: it the right way.
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  Speaker 6: I think Illinois just is they're real more. They're a
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  Speaker 6: lot more strict on getting their education.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, yeah here sledding more important than I think.
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  Speaker 1: People from southern.
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  Speaker 6: Illinois are well known for being high heard. Yeah, thats
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  Speaker 6: what known Cornfield's and academia.
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  Speaker 1: The connection between US and Oxford.
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  Speaker 7: Oh boy, I mean you basically have just a tunnel
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  Speaker 7: that goes from Illinois all the way to Oxford.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the classmates that I have that went to
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  Speaker 4: Harvard law.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: All right, well, we're underway here on this thirtieth day
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  Speaker 4: of December twenty twenty five. It is our last show,
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  Speaker 4: and so yes, we're glad you're celebrating the holidays. I
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  Speaker 4: hope it hasn't taken away time from us. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: if you have a day away from work, you're still
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  Speaker 4: telling the wife and kids, I gotta get up at
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  Speaker 4: five point fifty eight to catch you know, Ashley Buck
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  Speaker 4: and Chuck, and so we really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's you know right here.
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  Speaker 2: That's where that gets right in the old ticker.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: And so we got a lot to break down today,
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  Speaker 4: including last night's Monday night football game, which did kind
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  Speaker 4: of alter things for the Seahawks and their path toward
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  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. The Atlanta Falcons won over the Los
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  Speaker 4: Angeles Rams last night twenty seven to twenty four. The
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  Speaker 4: Rams did battle back despite Matt Stafford having one of
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  Speaker 4: his worst games of the entire season, an MVP like season.
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  Speaker 4: He was just inaccurate at times in the game, but
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  Speaker 4: the Rams almost came back because the Atlanta Falcons don't
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  Speaker 4: know how to win. And yet the Falcons played extraordinarily
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  Speaker 4: well in the first half. They were far, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they were just flying all over the field. Bejon Robinsons
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  Speaker 4: showcase game for him. But the Falcons do win it
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  Speaker 4: final score of twenty seven to twenty four in that contest.
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  Speaker 4: And because of that win, and I think this is
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  Speaker 4: significant news, which is why I'm leading with it here
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  Speaker 4: on a Tuesday morning, our last show of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Is that this guarantees that the Seahawks are going to
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  Speaker 4: be on the one, four and five side of the
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  Speaker 4: NFC bracket. The Rams can still get the five seed,
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  Speaker 4: but there's no way now that the Seahawks can end
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  Speaker 4: up the sixth seed. There's no way that the Rams
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  Speaker 4: can catch the Seahawks because of their loss to the
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  Speaker 4: Atlanta Falcons last night. And I mean, if anybody's studying
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  Speaker 4: the bracket and anything can happen in the playoffs, obviously
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  Speaker 4: you want the one because the one gives you the
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  Speaker 4: buy and home field advantage throughout the playoffs, the only
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  Speaker 4: buye and the only team to have home field advantage
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  Speaker 4: throughout the playoffs. But if you want something else, and
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  Speaker 4: they talked about this in the broadcast last night, the
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  Speaker 4: Rams might blow their chance at the five seed and
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  Speaker 4: then you've got to go on the road to Philly, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: or you've got to go on the road to Chicago. Chicago,
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  Speaker 4: who's playing really well and you don't know what kind
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  Speaker 4: of weather you're going to get in that situation, and
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  Speaker 4: the difference between that and getting to play at Tampa
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  Speaker 4: who's lost seven of their last eight, or Carolina, who
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  Speaker 4: you just saw how kind of.
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  Speaker 1: An ep that they are.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just a completely different road to the
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  Speaker 4: super Bowl, and you want that road to be as
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  Speaker 4: easy as it can get.
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  Speaker 1: The road to the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: Got easier last night for the Seattle Seahawks because the
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  Speaker 4: Atlanta Falcons took out the Los Angeles Rams.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're obviously still wanting that number one. You want
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  Speaker 6: that buy and advance through the first round without even
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  Speaker 6: having to lace up your cleats. But if you can,
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  Speaker 6: if you don't find a way to go on the
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  Speaker 6: road and be the Niners, and yeah, you find yourself
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  Speaker 6: either going to Carolina or Tampa, like you said, definitely
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  Speaker 6: is an easier path than the Chicago Bears are Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 6: Now on any given day, I mean I think on
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  Speaker 6: any given day, anybody that gets in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Can do something.
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  Speaker 6: But I would just think the betty you know, folks
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  Speaker 6: that are betting making odds, they would just say, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you're sitting in the five spot. There's a whole heck
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  Speaker 6: of a lot better than having to travel and play
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  Speaker 6: either Philadelphi, because Philadelphia, you don't know what you're gonna get.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know for sure. If you know what
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get with the Bears.
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  Speaker 6: They're they're improved, Yeah, but I would just feel like
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  Speaker 6: the floor of both those teams is definitely above the
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  Speaker 6: floor of the Panthers and the Bucks.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 4: I think the NFC this year, and we talked about this,
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  Speaker 4: I think that was the day you weren't here. There's
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  Speaker 4: not a great team. I think that the Seahawks have
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  Speaker 4: touched greatness. I don't think they've been consistently great this year.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the forty nine ers have been consistently great.
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  Speaker 4: And now the Rams, who were the closest thing to
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  Speaker 4: being consistently great, have suddenly lost to Carolina in Atlanta
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  Speaker 4: in the last month, So they're certainly not playing their
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  Speaker 4: best football and maybe they've fallen off of there. So
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  Speaker 4: I think that it's a wild Both AFC and NFC
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  Speaker 4: could be all wild postseason this year. And of course
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  Speaker 4: there's the element of anything can happen, and any team
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  Speaker 4: is capable of winning on any given Sunday or Saturday
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  Speaker 4: as it might be in the postseason. But in terms
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  Speaker 4: of just a path there, I mean, there's no question
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  Speaker 4: that you would rather play at Tampa or at Carolina
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  Speaker 4: in Round number one than you would at Philadelphia, not
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  Speaker 4: knowing the weather, defending world champs, playing great defense, even
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  Speaker 4: though their offense seems inept right now, they're playing as
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  Speaker 4: well as the Seahawks are playing defensively in Philadelphia or
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  Speaker 4: at Chicago again weather element. They've been riding high as
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  Speaker 4: of late. So I mean, sure they could end up
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  Speaker 4: being a walkover for whoever faces them. Maybe they commit
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  Speaker 4: seven turnovers in the first playoff game and hand it
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  Speaker 4: to whoever they face. But in terms of just trying
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  Speaker 4: to calculate, Ashley, who you would rather meet, who gives
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  Speaker 4: you the best chance of winning and advancing, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I want to be on the four to five one
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  Speaker 4: side of the bracket in the NFC playoffs, and the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks locked that up last night.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely, And I think that's been the biggest issue in
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  Speaker 7: the NFC is in general, the inconsistencies with so many
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  Speaker 7: teams you don't know who you're getting. You look at
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  Speaker 7: the Eagles, though, and I do think I would liken
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  Speaker 7: it to counting out the Chiefs in the playoffs the
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  Speaker 7: last couple of years. Right, Oh, they've been down, they
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  Speaker 7: haven't had a great year. Well, come playoff time, those
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  Speaker 7: teams are primed for that right, So I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 7: to face anybody like that that has that experience that
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  Speaker 7: just won a Super Bowl, because you never know how
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  Speaker 7: they're going to step up when the postseason comes.
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  Speaker 2: So, watching the game last.
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  Speaker 7: Night and think game, I was talking to five Iron
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  Speaker 7: and I was like, does this change anything for the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 7: And neither of us knew. So the fact that we're
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  Speaker 7: finding that out, I love that that at least it
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  Speaker 7: doesn't seem that big of a deal. But I do
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  Speaker 7: think it is a much bigger deal to at least
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  Speaker 7: know you're avoiding that six seed.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I don't think you want to admit it as
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  Speaker 4: an NFL team, I don't think you ever would admit
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  Speaker 4: that you like your path, yeah, because that's bulletin board material.
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  Speaker 4: But I think there's a reason Joe and Troy were
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  Speaker 4: making such a big deal out of it last night.
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  Speaker 1: With the Rams.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna blow their chance, yeah, to be the five
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  Speaker 4: seed here. I mean, they still had a chance at
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  Speaker 4: the one seed if things crumbled the right way over
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  Speaker 4: the course of the next couple of over the course
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  Speaker 4: of the game last night and then week number eighteen,
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  Speaker 4: but they're gonna blow their chance at the five seed potentially,
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  Speaker 4: and they still have a shot at the five seed
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  Speaker 4: if they If they win and the Seahawks beat the
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  Speaker 4: forty nine ers, the Rams end up the five seed
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  Speaker 4: and they get to go to Tampa or Carolina. But
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  Speaker 4: the Seattle Seahawks can now finish no lower than the
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  Speaker 4: first big deal, and that to me, I think is
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  Speaker 4: a significant deal. So you either are going to get
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  Speaker 4: a bye and absolutely have the preferred route that everybody wants,
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  Speaker 4: or you get the second best route, which is five
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  Speaker 4: seed at Tampa at Carolina, and then you would have
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  Speaker 4: to face San Francisco again. If you don't get it,
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  Speaker 4: you'd have to face San Francisco again in the next round.
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  Speaker 4: But that's a pretty familiar opponent who's already beaten you twice.
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  Speaker 4: Under this scenario, that means they have beaten you twice already.
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  Speaker 1: And can you beat a good team three times?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, give me that road all day long over
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  Speaker 4: having to go to possibly Philadelphia, then Chicago, and then
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco, because that's what you're facing if if you
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  Speaker 4: don't end up on the four to five to one
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  Speaker 4: side of the bracket.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's I think you already touched on it.
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  Speaker 6: The idea of the teams that if you just take
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  Speaker 6: the entirety their entire work that they've had this season,
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  Speaker 6: Carolina and Tampa Bay are the teams that, not just
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  Speaker 6: because how you handled Carolina, I think you'd get a
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  Speaker 6: better version of Carolina possibly in the playoffs than what
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  Speaker 6: you saw. Not that they didn't show up or or
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  Speaker 6: have anything to play for, but you would just imagine
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  Speaker 6: that probably is about as bad as they're going to play.
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  Speaker 6: Tampa Bay just seems kind of lost. At the same time,
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  Speaker 6: that is a team that is just now kind of
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  Speaker 6: getting some of their players back, and so they're a
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  Speaker 6: little bit more dangerous, but none of them are is.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Dangerous as Philly or Chicago.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: And I think that the Tamas lost seven of eight,
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: they look atrocious.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Now maybe they can come alive.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: That's some good players. They worry me more than the
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: Carolina Panthers would. I'm just kind of putting it in
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: the order of if there's four teams you could possibly
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: play if you don't end up, if you don't end
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: up getting that number one seed, and then Chicago and Philly,
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: Philly is the scariest, and then yet Chicago but both
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: of them going on the road, playing at their place
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: with who knows what the weather could be like. That
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: is something that all of a sudden, you know, you
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: just kind of were like. It makes it feel even
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: more important that you want to get that number one seed.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: I mean, not that it wasn't already important to just
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: get a buye through the first round and get to
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: rest your players and get as healthy as possible, not
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: to mention everything through Seattle at that point in time.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: That's what everybody wants, obviously, but it does feel like
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: yesterday the Falcons.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Did you a favor.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: They did your favor at least of letting you know
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: that if you falter on Saturday against the Niners, you're
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: going to have what you would feel like is advantage
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Seattle going into your first first wild card game.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: And who they really did a favor for was Carolina
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: because now there's a scenario where Carolina, even with a
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: loss Saturday, still gets into the playoffs, still wins the division.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because of Atlanta. That's right.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Because Atlanta, if they went out and believe me, the
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: schedule makers did not weren't counting on the Falcons winning
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: last night.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they made the schedule.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Win yeah, Monday morning, yeah, probably.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Or no Sunday night, Sunday night.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: They made the schedule for week number eighteen, and so
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: there was an expectator.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: There's a reason Tampa Bay and Carolina are.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Being featured by themselves one game only, because that's supposed
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: to be the winner is in in, the loser is out.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Well that's not the case anymore.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: The Atlanta Falcons, with a win next week, end up
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: with a same record as those two, even with a
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Carolina loss on Saturday, and that would give the tiebreaker
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: to Carolina. So there's a chance that Carolina has nothing
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: at stake, but they won't know that when they play Saturday.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: You know they.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Would if they lost, then they're rooting for Atlanta on
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Sunday to beat the Saints because then they still get
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: in even with the tamp So Tampa Bay can't celebrate
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: where Carolina can celebrate on Saturday.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: That makes sense.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: So Carolina wins there in, But there is now a
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: scenario because of the Falcons win last night, where the
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Carolina Panthers could lose Saturday and still win the division.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: I'm just glad Seattle is not in that position right
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: where we hold our own destiny. We're not sitting there
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: waiting for somebody else to do something else, to find out.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: It's just in our hands.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: It's nice, all right, Let's find out what's on tap
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: for this? In our hands?
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Show what's on TEP? What's on tep? All right?
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Falcons twenty seven to twenty four of the Rams on
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Monday Night Football. The game also featured the greatest catch
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: I've ever seen in my entire life. And it was
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: a catch. I mean, I got on the playground. That's
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: a catch. He held on to the ball even after
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: he fell. He was just out of bounds. It just
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: doesn't count as a catch in an NFL game. But
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: that was the greatest catch of a football I've ever seen.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I don't care if it didn't count.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: It was incredible.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: That was unreal, and so it was pokin nakua. If
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: you didn't see it, go see it. I still don't
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: even understand the physics of how he even caught that ball.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: We're gonna ask.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Jean Stator about it and many other things from the
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Seahawks Panthers game, because we've got a list of like
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: thirty eight plays that we think the officials may or
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: MA not have blown in that game. So we're going
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: to take a gene to task today at eight o'clock.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Seattle at San Francisco Saturday at five. That's not gonna change,
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: doesn't matter what kind of NFL math that's going on
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: right now. Greg Bell will join us today to preview
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: at seven oh five.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: So one last conversation.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Of twenty twenty five with our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Chargers to rest Justin Herbert and others for week number eighteen,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: and I got a theory behind why they're doing that.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: We'll discuss that today at seven forty five. Lamar's status
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson to be determined. Something tells me he's going
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: to play, But something also tells me that maybe Ravens
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: have figured out that Derrick Henry deserves some carries. So maybe, yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I took him about seventeen and a half weeks the
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Ravens at Pittsburgh Sunday Night football, and that will be
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: for a playoff spot. The winner is in, the loser
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: is out. College football playoff resumes tomorrow at four point
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: thirty with Miami versus Ohio State, then three games on
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: New Year's Day. The Kraken will next play on New
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Year's Day at home against Nashville. Unfortunately, they won't be
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: writing a five game winning streak. They lost last night
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: and a shootout to the Canucks three to two the
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: final score. It snaps a four game winning streak for
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: the Kraken, and yet they are zero and four in
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: shootouts this year. That's something that has plagued them since
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: they were birthed.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: That shootout was ugly.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Everett will join us today at eight thirty and finally,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: a nice win for the Fighting Sprinkles ub one over
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Utah last night by a final score of seventy four
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: to sixty five, and the Husky s hoops team will
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: next play at Indiana Sunday at five o'clock. Coming up next,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: do we have a quarterback issue or just a quarterback
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: turnover issue? We'll discuss Sam Darnold here on Chuck and
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: You look really stupid.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I really feel really stupid.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Turned it into a haul and oatmeal conversation.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: It's a great that's not.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: A bad one.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Actually, you know, maybe an entire line of breakfast items
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: named after named after you know, celebrities.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: They've really been missing out.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think the Atlanta Falcons offensive line should
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: be called the Jake Matthews Band. Follow that last night
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: during the football game, Well, hasn't the entire group called
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: the Jake Matthews Band. It's Chuck Powell, Buggy jacobs In
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: and Ashley Ryan with you here on this Tuesday morning,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: our final show of twenty twenty five. And of course
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: what airtime we do have this week, which is today,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: and then we'll be back on with you on Friday
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: for a football Friday. We'll probably be spent getting you
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: ready for Seahawks forty nine ers Saturday night with the
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: number one seed and the NFC on the line, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: so all sorts of preparation. And look, I mean there
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: are a lot of teams out there. I mean I
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: heard Josh Allen criticism on.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: The way in to work today on one.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Of the shows Horse Philadelphia's offense looks completely broken. Matt
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Stafford had his worst game of the year, arguably last night,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: and it seems like he's playing his worst football, which
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: is still pretty good, but it seems like he's playing
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: his worst football at the absolute worst time. But I've
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: also seen teams turn on a dime as well from
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: their last game of the regular season and then go
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: on a playoff run. So you just never know. Plus
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: it's been a crazy kind of year. But it does
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: make you wonder, with all of this conversation about turning
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: the page, getting ready for the playoffs, get ready for
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: the biggest regular season game of the year, how good
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: is our quarterback playing right now? And leave it to
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: our own Humillon. I think that he nailed it yesterday.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: He usually is right about these things. Not always, but
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: he's usually right about these things. And he's not worried
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: about the turnovers necessarily. He's more worried about the lack
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: of the drop off in production. He's not playing as
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: well right now, there's no getting around it. In the
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: second half of the season, Sam Darnold has not been
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: as awesome as he was in the first half, but
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: he had a nice little pedestal to fall off of.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, he was playing far better than any of
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: us thought he was going to in the first half.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: In Sam, I trust and I'm good with our guy
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: at quarterback going into the playoffs.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: But Bucky, I think he was right.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I think the bigger concern is not that you're losing
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: the turnover battle potentially by a turnover per day, or
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: that his interception rate is too high. It's where's all
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: of that beefy production that we saw in the first half.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Where are those three four touchdown passes a game that
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: you were giving us. I can live with the one
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and a half turnovers per game if you give me
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: the three and a half touchdown passes per game.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's weird how it gets graded. I mean,
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: he was definitely the offense was definitely humming a little
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: bit more early. And yet there's certain times where games
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: don't necessarily I mean that Minnesota game that they win
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: twenty six zero, they probably could have won forty five
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: to zero. Like it just you all of a sudden,
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: they're kind of rolling and then you're just you're trying
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: to run the clock out. You're trying to get this
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: thing over and you know, eliminate it. You have as
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: few plays where somebody could possibly get hurt out there.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, the Indianapolis game is one that kind of
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: stuck it out a little bit. But to me, it's
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: you're going out to try to win, right, That's the
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: most important thing. And he has had a game. Obviously,
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: the game that they lost to the Rams, he threw
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: four picks.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: That was bad. Otherwise they'd be on like an eleven
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: game win streak.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: So it's kind of it's like, okay, second half of
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: the season if you want to if people want to
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: get overly critical of his his output or his you
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: can't get too critical overly critical about his outcome. I mean,
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: they've won ten out of eleven games down the stretch here,
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: so they're figuring out how to do it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, would it be to me?
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: It's almost like the learn from the Ram, Like, Man,
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to force this thing in there, because I
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: was thinking that this might be a shootout like it
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: was last week against the Rams and the thirty eight
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: to thirty seven thrilling, you know, biggest comeback in Seahawks history.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: He might have thought that's what you're gonna have to
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: do against the Rams, but the defense showed up to
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: where I was like, no, you just needed to not
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: give it, give turn the ball over and in a
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: couple of crucial spots there and you end up winning
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: that ball game. I think that maybe the second half
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: of the season they're kind of kind of forming into
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: what it. They think that it is their formula of winning. Now,
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: it's not turning the ball over, it's not fumbling, it's
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: not throwing turnover, they're throwing picks. But it is we're
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: going to just kind of control the game a little bit,
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: and we understand that our defense going to is going
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: to keep us in it. And if our defense keeps
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: us in it, more often than not, you're going to
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: find a way to win. Because that's one thing that
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: the overly critical side of Sam Darnold, it's like, do
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: you still not recognize that he goes out and gets
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: it done when it comes down to it. He always
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: goes out and gets it done, even if you don't
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: like the fact that he's he's you know, up there
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: with a bunch of turnovers and you know, at times
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: putting in a tough situation, he still is going out
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: there and finding ways to win.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Well, no doubt. But also you know, and this is
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: something that you've pointed out. During that stretch, you faced
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: a lot of backup quarterbacks and look, you won the game.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: That's your job. You go out there and win. You
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: win the game. But you're getting ready for the playoffs
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: and you're gonna be facing the best competition out there,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: and I don't think that you can just rest on
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: our defense will carry us there. I need Sam to
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: play better if we're gonna win the Super Bowl. He
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: does have to play better. I don't want anybody else
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: at quarterback.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: He's our guy. You know.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I have confidence that he will. But there's no doubt
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: there's been a drop off. And you pointed this out yesterday.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I get him a letter grade of A as a
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Seahawk quarterback for twenty twenty five, and there's no way, however,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: he plays against the San Francisco forty nine ers. I
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: think it's gonna come off of an A. That he
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: had an A for this year, and for all the
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: reasons that you pointed out. But he had twenty five
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I mean a teen touchdowns and six interceptions in the
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: first nine games of the year, and he's eight to
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: eight in the last seven. I mean, that's half the
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: production and that and it's more turnovers over the course
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: of nearly the same amount of games.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: He's just four in one of one game.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Well sure, yeah, but you know I'm putting three of
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: his touchdown passes in one game, you know, So again, yeah,
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: there are individual things that can skew the statistics. Yeah,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: but when you're talking about a lump, it's very clear
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: that he's not playing as well uh in the second
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: half of the season as he was in the first
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: half of the season. And I don't need him to
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: be spectacular every single game in the playoffs, but I
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: need him to be better than what he's been here
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: as of late if we're going to pull off the
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: very difficult task of winning the NFL Championship tournament.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think that's a fair ask, is to
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: have him improve over what we've seen lately. And it
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: has been worrisome, the turnovers and the lack of predictive productivity,
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: all of it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: But they're still finding a way to win.
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: And I wonder how much of it is just that
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: other teams had, you know, more film to watch as
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: they saw teams that were able to kind of shut
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: us down or stifle us offensively, and then they were
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: able to kind of replicate that against him and against
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: and you know, close shutting JSN down a bit more
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: and doing different things that threw him off, and we
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: would didn't respond well.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Perhaps Hey, quarterback rating, for example, I mean he has
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: had now four of his last five games where he
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: hasn't even gotten over in eighty four. I mean, he
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: had a stretch earlier this year where he had six
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: out of seven games where he was over one hundred
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: and ten one hundred and ten, you know. So it's
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: not that I think he's playing bad football or he's
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: playing poorly, But if you're going to win the Super Bowl,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: I need him to play better than what.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: He's playing right now.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: And I think that's what he was saying right now.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: I'm more that's what he was saying yesterday. I'm not
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: as concerned about the turnover rate. I'm concerned about where
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: the overall production has gone here in the last few weeks.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and that's fair.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: I mean, bottom line is we hear it all the time,
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: you're getting hot at the right time and whatnot. Well,
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: that basically means you want to finish the season strong.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: You don't want to go you limp in, right.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, imagine if they were thirteen and oh to
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: start the season and then they go lose, lose, lose, right,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: how we'd be feeling going into the final week of
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: the season, and then what the conversation would be.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Well, that's not the case.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: They're actually ten and one over the last eleven weeks,
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: and they're doing it in spite of some of his
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: less than stellar play. It's not as consistent of play.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: They're beating teams at a bigger clip, like buy more.
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: Their margin of victory is bigger than anybody else. So
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: there's times when to me it gets overstated. The objective
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: is the outcome now is it? Is it okay to
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: be critical? Yes, because, no doubt about it. Once you
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: get into the playoffs, I don't even care if you
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: wind up, you know, getting a buy and then for
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: some reason you get to play the Panthers end up
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: upsetting I don't know who the who would it be?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's the Rams.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: They end up upsetting the Rams, And all of a sudden,
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: you get to play the Panthers at home your first game,
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: and it feels like wow, this easiest path. Well, in
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: order for them to still accomplish the goal, which is
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: win all of the games in the postseason and hoist
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: the trophy at the end, he's gonna have to clean
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: some of that up.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It doesn't mean he has to be perfect.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you most certainly can't go out there and
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: be the Achilles Heel.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: And Yet the thing that I don't.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Understand when some people are just over the top about
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: Sam Darnold's garbage and whatever else, is like, are you
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: not still recognizing all the good stuff he does? It's
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: not that there isn't poor things that he does. He does,
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: he makes some mistakes, he has some bad throws. He
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: also has some bad luck, or he has a tendency
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: at times to let the ball be stripped, and it's
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: like you to get rid of it. They can't be
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: fumbling it either. And yet to me, it's like the
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: dude's going out there and balling out. I mean, he's
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: going to be a pro bowler when he served it,
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  Speaker 6: he earned it.
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  Speaker 1: When he's saying I mean, he's not Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 4: He's not going to take this team and carry him
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  Speaker 4: on their back all the way to the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: That's not the role that I think he's expected to play.
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  Speaker 4: He has a great defense, he has a great special teams,
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  Speaker 4: he has a great coaching staff. He's got a great
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: weapon in JSN. But he needs to play better. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he just needs to play better because the games are
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  Speaker 4: now more important. The competition is now consistently the best
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  Speaker 4: that you're going to face this entire year. So yeah,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: he can bail out of the playoffs and let's say
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: round two, let's give us ourselves a win and we
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: can feel good about the year we had with Sam
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Darnold and look forward to having Number fourteen back next
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: season leading us and taking that next step and maybe
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: winning it next year. But if we're going to win
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  Speaker 4: this year, he's just got to be better than what
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: he's been as of late.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think that's a fair ask or a
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: fair request to make, is that. Yeah, Just it's not
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  Speaker 7: We're not asking for him to be the superstar to
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  Speaker 7: lead us on his back.
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  Speaker 2: That's the defense is going to do that. But you
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: just can't be the liability.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, coming up next, it's here, The New
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  Speaker 4: Year's is here. I wonder what Bucky's got plan for
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty six. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 4: I I got, like, I mean, I don't normally do
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: New Year's resolutions.
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  Speaker 1: This year, I've got like four hundred.
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  Speaker 2: And six oh really, yeah, lot, and one of.
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  Speaker 4: Them is to go see more cracking games. That's good
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  Speaker 4: for this upcoming year. So that's gonna be a resolution
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  Speaker 4: of mind.
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  Speaker 1: Bucky, do you do? Do you play the New Year's
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  Speaker 1: resolution game? You got anything that you.
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  Speaker 4: Are going to be on a quest to accomplish in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty six?
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  Speaker 6: Not that I would call a new Year's resolution. Uh mean,
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  Speaker 6: I've been it's been six months that I've been kind
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: of getting back into the gym, so getting just getting
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: healthier is a thing. That's one of my four h
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  Speaker 6: six Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's something I'm not I
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  Speaker 6: didn't I'm not starting in a couple of days. I've
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: kind of already been going there. So I guess maybe
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: the new Year's resolution is kick it into gear even more,
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: continue down that path as fourteen actually yeah, kick it
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  Speaker 6: into gear yeap, and continue down the path all in one.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah good, that's yeah, you can, you can consolidate a
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  Speaker 6: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I don't really have I don't typically do them. As
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  Speaker 6: a matter of fact, I can't really remember if I
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: ever have done a New Year's resolution, like written something
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  Speaker 6: down like I'm going to start today and then start
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: something that day.
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  Speaker 4: I've had the very successful ones in my life, like
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: what and yet I haven't consistently done it, and then
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: I have had complete failures in my life. So it
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: can work. But you know, it's just it's just the mindset.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: It's just like starting a new and getting around to
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: doing something that you know makes you a better person.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: And so sometimes just kind of setting that example for yourself,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: it can work.
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  Speaker 1: Normally it doesn't. But yeah, did you ever participate, Ashley?
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  Speaker 2: I have not done it very often.
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  Speaker 7: It's kind of like when you do you need make
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: a something for Lent, right, like, I'm gonna do this,
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: which I'm not even a religious person, but my friend
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: in college wanted me to do things for Lent, and
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: I was like, I don't want to give things up. Like,
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: so we one time I gave up eating my like
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: buying French fries or eating French, eating my own French fries.
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: So she would buy French fries and I'd eat hers.
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, I'm like, what am I doing? This
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: is a waste of my time.
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  Speaker 1: At New Year's Resolution?
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  Speaker 4: Isn't At least you're not spitting in the face of
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: God when you're eating, When.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: You're getting around your French fry rules, you might as
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: well just be spitting in God.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: I might, I might as well have and I apologize
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: you should, but I do feel like years to apologize
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: to god less French fries.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: No, don't worry about eating less French fries. But yeah, okay, overdue.
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  Speaker 2: I am sorry. I do to us, No, I said,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I looked up. I do feel like you know.
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  Speaker 7: I I also I've been trying to be better, just
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: healthier in things for the last two years, year and
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: a half, and it's been a slow process. But I've
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: had like struggles with weight and things like that over
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: the years. And when I do it too faster, you
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: go to extreme. You never maintain it.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: So I've been on a slow, steady path for a
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  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm so maybe mine would be like add one
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: more day of exercise.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, like for the year, or for like per week.
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: Per week okay, yeah, well for the year. Actually, you
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: know what, I can achieve that I am going to
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: work out one more day.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, when you put together a list of
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: four hundred and six New Year's resolutions like I have
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: this year, which suggests I've got a lot to work on.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: You do.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: There are some that are lofty and then there are
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: some that are menial. Just so that I can achieve them.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Like one of them was by breakfast bars for the
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: New Year. I did that last night. We're already good.
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  Speaker 4: W off the list.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's more of an errand than a New Year's
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: resolution if you do it prior to the New year.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think there are any rules. I think there is, Yeah, actually,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: because I have them for the New year.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, you got them leading up to and on and
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: then following New Year's I'm having a breakfast bar on
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: New Year's Day because six.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Started it by checking that off your resolution list, because
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I got a strong will you do what you do
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  Speaker 1: and that's.
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: Why people fail and they don't prepare ahead of time. Yeah,
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: and you are now prepared.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: The more you make I think.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So out of four hundred and six, I might
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: accomplish like five, Well, good for you, And four of
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: them might be really easy. But if I can accomplish
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: one out of four hundred and six, that actually could
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: make me a better person.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Success.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: What's the most difficult one on your list?
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: One percent better, Chuck?
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  Speaker 6: I guess if you have four hundred, you're not quite
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: at one percent per but you're there.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: You're on one percent.
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  Speaker 1: The most difficult one on my list. I think it's
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: sad that I have to say this. End crime.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that is gonna be tough.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna crime fight, I'm gonna crime fight in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to end it all.
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  Speaker 2: I really appreciate your lofty goals.
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