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Hour 1 - Rams Cold-Blooded · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, It's our number one of the Ben mal Show.
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  Speaker 2: We stayed up all night on this Martin Luther King
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  Speaker 2: day to give you marginal podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It is the.
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  Speaker 2: Nineteenth day of January, on this Monday. So what happened
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  Speaker 2: to all the Bears momentum after they got a late
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  Speaker 2: touchdown in the NFC Divisional round against the Rams from
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Williams a circus throw and then end up losing
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  Speaker 2: in overtime as the Bear season ends? Is the glass
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  Speaker 2: half full or half empty for quarterback Caleb Williams? Also,
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  Speaker 2: what message did the Sean McVay Rams send by winning
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  Speaker 2: in frigid, sweet home Chicago. We'll go there as well.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to all of it right now here. It
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  Speaker 2: is our number one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was a.
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  Speaker 2: Bear down situation and the Bears go down.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears go down.
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  Speaker 2: You know who could have used some dude wipes? Well,
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  Speaker 2: some of those Bears players. Our lead from shit Cagos,
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  Speaker 2: Sweet Home Chicago dump Bears and the Rams final game
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  Speaker 2: of the weekend. Here chance to go to the Final four.
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  Speaker 2: And you had Mike too, Rico, Chris Collinsworth, they had
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  Speaker 2: the call on and me see a blustery day on
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  Speaker 2: the shores of Lake Michigan, the mighty Lake Michigan. Temperatures
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  Speaker 2: in the teams although it felt like it was below ten.
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  Speaker 2: Now I knew that the Chicago marching in chowder society
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  Speaker 2: was fired up for this game. My great friend from
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  Speaker 2: radio gone By, Mike North, one of the all time
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  Speaker 2: great radio talk show hosts sports radio guys who did
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  Speaker 2: a morning show here, sent a message out on social
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  Speaker 2: media Northey with he was walking his dog in the
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  Speaker 2: suburbs of Chicago and ranting and raving about the weather
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  Speaker 2: and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So you knew I was all fired up here.
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  Speaker 2: Surely a California team, you all tell me how soft
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  Speaker 2: these California teams are, had no chance in those conditions,
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  Speaker 2: zero opportunity unless they did. Now, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you saw the game or not. Maybe we're busy. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what hell you were doing. Perhaps you weren't there.
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  Speaker 2: But the game came down to overtime when the Great
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  Speaker 2: Harrison Mavis, better known as the Thicker Kicker, booted a
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  Speaker 2: forty two yard majestic field goal in overtime and the
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  Speaker 2: Rams getner done Cam Curl who Cam Curl had picked
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  Speaker 2: off Caleb Williams and the Bears first postseason possession, first
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  Speaker 2: overtime possession in this game, not the postseason obviously, they
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  Speaker 2: played the Packers last week, but that was it. Bears
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  Speaker 2: got the ball, Rams did not do anything with it
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  Speaker 2: on their first possession. Bears get it, go down, kick
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  Speaker 2: a field goal, win the game. Caleb Williams had other ideas.
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  Speaker 2: He said, you know what, I went to SC. I
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  Speaker 2: want to see an LA team do well because I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't do well for an LA team, So.
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  Speaker 1: I'll help an LA team. And he did. And I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to thank Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't do squad at USC in terms of
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  Speaker 2: helping the Trojans win anything, but I'm very impressive of
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  Speaker 2: helping the Rams win. So game ball go to Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 2: The Bears quarterback Matthew Stafford, who didn't have a touchdown
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  Speaker 2: but was captain Clutch, completed three passes for first downs.
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  Speaker 1: On that final drive.
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  Speaker 2: A sixteen yard of to Puka Nakula to set the
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  Speaker 2: Rams up in field goal range and give them the
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  Speaker 2: chance to win the game. So the Rams are off
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  Speaker 2: to Seattle now and they can send Sam Darnold in
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks home. That'll be coming up on Sunday. But
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  Speaker 2: the better story is in the losing locker room. The
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  Speaker 2: better story losing the lockings of the Bears are back
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  Speaker 2: in hybernation mode. As the play that it was all
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  Speaker 2: horny about the pants down was Kayleb Williams throwing a
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  Speaker 2: fourteen yard game tying chuck it and duck throw in
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  Speaker 2: the final seconds to Cole Clement the tight end. It
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  Speaker 2: traveled over fifty yards because he kept running backwards.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Why are you going?
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  Speaker 2: You're going the wrong way, You're going the wrong way, and.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, he just chucked it up.
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  Speaker 2: The longest completed pass by air distance in the red
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  Speaker 2: zone since they started tracking, since the Nerds took over
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  Speaker 2: football statistics, and that was back in twenty sixteen, so
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  Speaker 2: it's been a decade that had a completion probavariability. The
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Williams game tying touchdown pass of less than twenty percent.
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  Speaker 2: That is a good jumping off point. So let us
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  Speaker 2: discuss the question for the esteem panel. What happened to
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  Speaker 2: all of the bears momentum? Where did it go? Where
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  Speaker 2: did it go? After that late touchdown by Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Collinsworth had his knee pats out. He was so excited
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  Speaker 2: for Caleb Williams, and Tarika sounded like he had grew
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  Speaker 2: up a Bears fan the way he was describing the body,
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  Speaker 2: the greatest they've never seen. So clearly the Bears couldn't
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  Speaker 2: lose that game. It was a fade accompany. How did
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  Speaker 2: they do it? How did they not win that game?
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  Speaker 2: What happened to the momentum?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got fajitas, freestyle jazz.
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  Speaker 2: And spit on your hands, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 2: of these things together and we're gonna make some delicious
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  Speaker 2: deep dish pizza which is still outstanding, and the Bears
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  Speaker 2: can drown their sorrows in big slices of deep dish pizza.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely all right.
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  Speaker 2: So first of all, all right, the Bears momentum.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you where the momentum is.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same place you can find Bigfoot, the tooth Fairy,
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  Speaker 2: and the Easter Bunny. They all hang out together, their roommates.
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  Speaker 2: Momentum Uncle Mo, which I thought lives in Jersey. But
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  Speaker 2: Mo and the Tooth Fairy, best friends, Bigfoot and of
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  Speaker 2: course better known as Sasquatch and the Easter Money. It
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  Speaker 2: just never existed. It's like it never existed. Momentum is
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  Speaker 2: sports talk, MSG is what is you sprinkling on anything?
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  Speaker 1: Sprinkle sprinkle, sprinkle sprinkles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and suddenly dumb people think it enhanced the flavor.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't. Oh my god. The Bears didn't lose momentum.
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  Speaker 2: They confirmed the diagnosis is what they did in this game.
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  Speaker 2: The touchdown that was like the firework finale, that late
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  Speaker 2: touchdown by Caleb Williams where we just threw it up
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  Speaker 2: in the air and define intervention took over there. And
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  Speaker 2: then the overtime happened for Chicago and the Bears needed
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  Speaker 2: some oxygen and permission to use said oxygen at that point.
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  Speaker 1: So the cardiac kids they.
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  Speaker 2: Were until the unfortunately the heart monitor flat line and
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  Speaker 2: now they're.
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  Speaker 1: Just see you later, bye bye, You're gone out of here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So there they were set up in overtime rams fetched
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  Speaker 2: around on their first possession. So the Bears got it
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  Speaker 2: and did nothing with it other than give it back,
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  Speaker 2: other than give it back to the Rams and set
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  Speaker 2: them up there.
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  Speaker 1: So momentum just one of.
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  Speaker 2: Those words that sportscasters liked to use when they just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to explain use for anything.
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  Speaker 1: Momentum. And I walked into the street, I had momentum.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I walked down to the toilet, I took a
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  Speaker 2: one that I had a lot of momentum and flushed
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  Speaker 2: the toilet a lot of mo, lot of mo. Absolutely, yes, clearly,
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  Speaker 2: it's just mumbo jump. It's like word fahitas. You just
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  Speaker 2: throw out the word momentum and just toss it up
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  Speaker 2: there and put some onions and some bell pepper and
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  Speaker 2: you're good to go. If momentum were real, the Bears
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  Speaker 2: right now would be getting ready to head to Seattle
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  Speaker 2: for the NFC title Game. Alias they're not, so Ben Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about the magic, the magical season for the
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  Speaker 2: Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bears ought.
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  Speaker 2: To go on Amazon Prime, Ben Johnson, and I think
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  Speaker 2: they still have some old amazing Crescin magic kits, and
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  Speaker 2: they can get one of those magic kits. Amazon Prime
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  Speaker 2: have it delivered there because they clearly need some more abracadabra,
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  Speaker 2: hocus pocus and presto at Hallas Hall because they ran
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  Speaker 2: out of tricks.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Secondly, as for Caleb Williams, the man with the nicest
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  Speaker 2: fingernails in the NFL, So the circus throw, who oh
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  Speaker 2: that everyone was goga for, or he just ran back,
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  Speaker 2: did everything you're not supposed to do, Everything you're not
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  Speaker 2: supposed to do he did, and for that particular play
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  Speaker 2: it worked, and so he runs back and they were
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  Speaker 2: all excited about that. However, Williams ended this game with
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  Speaker 2: three interceptions. Three interceptions in this game, backbreaking for the Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Bears opportunity to win this game.
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  Speaker 2: So the question, as the Bears do inventory their season
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  Speaker 2: is now Dune skis is the glass half full or
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  Speaker 2: is the glass half empty? On quarterback Caleb Williams at
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  Speaker 2: this particular point, So I would be I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 2: be totally, Benny Bright said, but I'll be fair here. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: the glass for Caleb Williams is half full. However, it's
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  Speaker 2: got these little microscopic hairline cracks. He can't even see
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  Speaker 2: them to the naked eye, but you put them under
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  Speaker 2: the malor microscope, and there's some hairline cracks there, and
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  Speaker 2: so the glass is starting to sweat a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and sitting on the on the table. But the tables
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  Speaker 2: built by a guy who just kind of eyeballed it
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  Speaker 2: and then shrugged and blamed the floor because it's not
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  Speaker 2: quite stable.
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  Speaker 1: So I just eyeballed it. I didn't Why didn't you
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  Speaker 1: follow the instruction? Well, I didn't need to follow the instruction.
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  Speaker 2: Caleb williamsn't following the instructions. There is no coach on
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  Speaker 2: godscreen Earth that tells you on a fourth down you've
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  Speaker 2: got to have it play, to run as far back
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  Speaker 2: as you possibly can and then just chuck the thing
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  Speaker 2: up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody tells you to do that. He did it, and
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  Speaker 2: it worked that time. Caleb Williams is a fun zone
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  Speaker 2: type of quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: He's a one man band.
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  Speaker 2: He's got the drums to the right, he's got the
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  Speaker 2: guitar to the left. Little smoke machine got that over
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  Speaker 2: there as well. Occasionally that smoke machine sets off the
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  Speaker 2: fire alarm, and so Caleb also has it appears to
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  Speaker 2: be an underlying condition. It's the old double edged sword
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  Speaker 2: here for the Bears he is the unslinger quarterback. And
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  Speaker 2: if it was music, think of it like freestyle jazz.
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  Speaker 2: You know, sometimes freestyle jazz is just a masterpiece, it's genius,
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  Speaker 2: and then there's other times it's the solo nobody wanted,
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  Speaker 2: nobody asked for.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I've got a headache. I've got a migraine headache from
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  Speaker 2: what you called freestyle jazz. It was terrible, And so listen,
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  Speaker 2: big plays, big thrills, all that for Caleb Williams in
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  Speaker 2: this game, and the turnovers that make your fan base
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  Speaker 2: age like dog in Dog Gears watching this happen. There
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  Speaker 2: so no ifs ands or butts about it. It was
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  Speaker 2: reckless and in this game it ended up costing these
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  Speaker 2: Chicago Bears. The Rams do not win this game without
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  Speaker 2: the assist of Caleb will He does get a game
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  Speaker 2: bo from the Rams. Caleb Williams tremendous job finally helping
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  Speaker 2: an LA team win.
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  Speaker 1: A big game. He couldn't do that at sc again,
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  Speaker 1: so good job by him and.
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  Speaker 2: The Chicago If Caleb just kind of held on to
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  Speaker 2: it a little bit, look close to the best, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and they're getting ready to go to the Pacific Northwest
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  Speaker 2: but the holster, he couldn't holster the cape.
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  Speaker 1: He had to use the cape, and he used the
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  Speaker 1: cape and all that. That's the deal. It's the old
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  Speaker 1: line for better or worse.
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  Speaker 2: You take the good with the bad, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: the Bears are gonna have to deal with with Kayle Winnings.
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  Speaker 2: The problem with the Bears, I see is you've got
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  Speaker 2: Ben Johnson who does things unorthodox, and you combine that
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  Speaker 2: with kayleb Williams. That does not seem like that's going
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  Speaker 2: to have a lot of success in the playoffs. One
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  Speaker 2: of those two guys is gonna have to change all right,
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  Speaker 2: going forward on fourth down as often as the Bears did,
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  Speaker 2: and short yardage situations not being able to get that done.
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  Speaker 2: And so you buy the fireworks, and the Bears bought
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  Speaker 2: the fireworks. You're gonna you can't complain when things start exploding.
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  Speaker 2: So the Bears like the fireworks of Ben Johnson and
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  Speaker 2: they like Kyla win Did I get it? But they
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  Speaker 2: had a big time year by Bears standards, You get
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  Speaker 2: a week some things. The thing of a jig needs
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  Speaker 2: to be moved around a little bit to the right
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  Speaker 2: in order for this to work. So and again, the
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  Speaker 2: glass is half full, glasses half full. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: lean on that table because the guy eyeballed it and
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  Speaker 2: put that thing together.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that that's gonna work all right now.
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  Speaker 2: Final thought on the Rams side of things, the Rams
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  Speaker 2: side of things. So La wins a game at Soldier
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  Speaker 2: Field in a game played in ice box conditions without
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  Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford having a touchdown pass. The MVP this year
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  Speaker 2: did not have a touchdown pass against the Bears in
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  Speaker 2: that game. So the question is this, what message did
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  Speaker 2: the Sean McVay Rams send by winning at Soldier Field
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago. So it was a reminder, It was a
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  Speaker 2: refresher course, rather simple here. These are not your daddy's Rams.
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  Speaker 2: These are not your granddaddy's Rams. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: this is not the old Ram tropes of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: That these guys they're just doing pilates on the beach
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  Speaker 2: and soy lattes in soft serve West Coast Football.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, new, new, new new.
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  Speaker 2: That was a knuckle sandwich. They gave the Chicago Bears
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  Speaker 2: your lunch pail spin on your hand. Kind of a
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  Speaker 2: win for the Rams in Chicago and the only road
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  Speaker 2: team to win this weekend was the La Rams. All
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  Speaker 2: the other home teams were able to win their games,
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  Speaker 2: the Rams the only road team to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Rams find themselves in a situation where
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  Speaker 2: they are in position, the Rams to go back to
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  Speaker 2: a super Bowl, and all that's standing in their way
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  Speaker 2: is the Seattle Seahawks, who, without the officials helping them,
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  Speaker 2: they would have swept the season series.
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  Speaker 1: This game would be in LA, doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: The officials had to send Pookinakou a message in that
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  Speaker 2: game in Seattle, where, if you remember, they just handed
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks the.
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  Speaker 1: Two points.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable, still one of the most egregious calls in NFL history.
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  Speaker 2: It just kind of forgets about that. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll just give it to them. Well we didn't get it,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll just do We'll just well that's fine, all
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  Speaker 2: right anyway. So, uh, I went back and I checked
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  Speaker 2: my my inboxes. I wanted to make sure that I
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  Speaker 2: thought maybe I was having a dream. So I went
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  Speaker 2: back and I looked at my inbox and I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so what were all those messages my friends in Chicago
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  Speaker 2: and the Bears fans were sending me? So's uh, I saw,
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of these. The Rams are soft.
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  Speaker 2: That came up a lot on the inbox. They they
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  Speaker 2: play in a dome, Well, it's kind of a faux dome.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a real dome. The NFL says, it's not
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  Speaker 2: a dome. There's a roof on it, but it's open
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  Speaker 2: on the ends, so it's like everything else in LA,
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  Speaker 2: it's fake.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fake dome. They play.
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  Speaker 2: Also at Stafford is going to turn into a human popsicle.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of you told me that at Soldier Field,
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  Speaker 2: and the Rams can't win unless Stafford plays, well, well
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  Speaker 2: that's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So who goofed? I've got to know who goofed?
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Was this a sizzle real game for Matthew Stafford. No,
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  Speaker 2: it was not a sizzle real game. There's no pirouette
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  Speaker 2: on the catwalk. You're not going to be doing that,
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  Speaker 2: No glamour shots, no posting on social media. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: that kind of a day. It was not for Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 2: This was the Rams defense. Even though the Bears had
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of yards, they scored bunch points like the
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  Speaker 2: Bears moved the ball between the twenties pretty well, the
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  Speaker 2: Rams defense and the running game, physicality, punching the time card,
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  Speaker 2: getting her done, clocking out with a win, and now
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  Speaker 2: again one step away from the football version of the
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  Speaker 2: Promised Land here and so as far as toughness, short
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  Speaker 2: yardage football, and there are old Chicago Bears players rolling
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  Speaker 2: over in graveyards because the Chicago Bears on short yard
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  Speaker 2: which oftentimes got pushed back by the La Rams. How
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  Speaker 2: embarrassing is that for Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 2: The Bears needed a crowbar and still couldn't move the
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• 18:13
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• 18:18
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• 18:22
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  Speaker 2: and Rams so they played in the Super Bowl back
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  Speaker 2: in the day. And then also the other possibility Seattle
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  Speaker 2: and Denver. So if Seattle wins, it doesn't matter'm gonna
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: get a rematch of a previous Super Bowl. So pretty
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: good chance.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Do you think it's going to be your Rams, don't you, Ben? Well,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: they should win.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: They have the better quarterback, they have the better coach.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: There's no home field advantage in Seattle. The Seahawks are
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: highly overrated and the Rams would have swept them had
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: it not been for the officials with one of the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: worst calls ever. The NFL media is afraid to talk
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: about that because obviously they all work.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: For the NFL.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I don't I am allowed to talk about that, but
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: they you're not supposed to go there. There was just
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: gave Seattle and it was ridiculous. Anyway, we don't need
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: to readjudicate that. But we'll see what happens whether it
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: will not be that big a deal. It's not gonna
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: be like Chicago in Seattle, so we look for that
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: this weekend. Let's see here, see page down here. Fergduck says,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: congrats on your Rams remaining in the final four. Between
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: the Rams, Dodgers, and Clippers. It seems like all your
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: team's practice practically live in the final four. Yeah, there
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: has been a lot of net cutting.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Down that has taken place. Yeah.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Fat Daddy, who's an Angel fan, says, as always, Big Ben,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: the monologue is on par to the weekend great games,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: except for the forty nine er game where they got hammered.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: He's the daddy. There you go, he says. PS. I
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: wonder if Coop.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Meant I think he meant did any air high fives
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: with the missus updates? But I don't know. Coop's not here,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: so I guess did you drive back from Denver? I
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: guess they can't get flights on a Sunday.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Back the game was on Saturday, book his staff.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: The date hadn't been decided yet whether it was going
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: to be Saturday or Sunday.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: But I love your attitude about that. Ben come in
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: with good positive.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Vibes, positivity, very positivity, and I absolutely it's very important
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: to get back.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: And be part of the show. And that's why we
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: have Patrick. How about Patrick. You look at that. There's
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a guy that wants to be here, our buddy Patrick.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: All Right, Robbie, the Mariner fan writes in he says,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: after losing all of my bets and watching Josh Allen
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: lose this weekend, I contemplated quitting sports. Five minutes later,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I saw the Falcons hired Kevin Stefanski, and I ended
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: my boycott. Robbie, wouldn't Stefanski that the Falcons are embarrassed
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: by Stefanski.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: They announced it on.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Saturday during the playoffs, Like that's like, we're embarrassed we
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: hired this coach, don't.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I hope nobody hears about it. We're gonna hire Kevin Stefanski.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Well, you guys are watching the playoffs, we are hiring
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: the old Cleveland Browns coach. My god, oh wait, it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: like a Southern version of the Browns, the Atlanta Falcons
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: and Robbie you should you should consider quitning sports.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I used to have.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: My biggest fan of all was this guy named the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Jahattis John from Michigan and John he supported everything. Was
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: a big super fan of mine and just love the guy, right,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: huge fan of what I did. And then he got
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: to his late thirties and he said, if the Cubs
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: don't win, oh no, no, it wasn't the Cubs.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: He's he's a Detroit or Mission guy.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: So if the Lions don't win, he said, that's it,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I'm done with sports, and he quit. And I've never
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: heard from him since. He literally just quit.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Everything, and he's gave up on everything and moved on
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and said that's it. I'm out. See you later. Let's
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: see here.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: King Rory writes in I would like to thank you
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: and McVeigh for avenging his friend Matt Lafleur, who somehow
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: got a contract extension after the loss to the Bears. Now,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: hopefully the NFL scriptwriters or the refs don't get in
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the rams way this time, I know, right, And that's
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: the only thing I worrying was, like, listen, Donald blows.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: We all know that the guy sucks. Seattle's not as
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: good as the Rams, and the only thing they can
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: interfere is the officials. That's it. So that's what we're
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: worried about. The As long as the refs don't get
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: him away, the Rams will be in the super Bowl.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: According to King Roy, the Green Bay Gobbler says, the
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Bears get an invitation to a free pedicure. No, no,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: but I did see that Micah Parsons, Green Bay Packer
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: defensive star Micah Parsons, has said, you know what, we
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: would like to invite you where you gonna win, We're
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: going to.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Invite you to Canon.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So Michah Parsons having some fund says Kleb Williams, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: the Bears can join the Packers on a nice sunshiny
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: beach in can kuon after the playoff loss. And I
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: love the fact that there was this basketball player you've
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: never heard of named Nick van Exel.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: He looked like he was from outer space.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And Nick van Exel when the Lakers used to lose
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: to the Utah Jazz and the playoffs every year back
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: from Believe It Not Jazz had good teams with Karl
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Malone and John Stockton, and the famous line by Nick
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: van Exel when they broke the huddle at practice, can
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: koon three to two? One can't coon? And it is
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: thirty years later. These guys weren't even alive when Nick
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: van Xel did that, and still the line is cankon.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: When you lose, you go to can gooon.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Very kind.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Now, if I was Kyla Williams, I text my I
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: text Michael Parson and Micah can you fly me into cankon?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I need you to fly me in? I would like that.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: No, Stredina sounds very concerned some of his messages. He
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: are very concerned, very concerned about Yeah, he got it
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: wrong too. I think you might have to change his
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: nickname from Noster Denis to nostro wrongness. Fortunately. Super Marcus
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Steve writes in from so cash is the biggest indicator
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: that you hate yourself should be that you're using one
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: ply toilet paper, use those dude wipes, and treat yourself
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: right like the great human being you are.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: That's correct. Absolutely, Listen, I'm pretty cheap.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: But when it comes to that activity, which we all
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: have to do hopefully at least once a day, sometimes
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: more than that.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: You got to have good equipment. You got to have
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: good equipment there. You can't go with the cheap stuff.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Between that and of a day, you could have the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: cleanest for your end. Yeah, the but day is the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: way to go. That's next.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: But hey, listen, dude, wipe say a wonderful product as well.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: It's great, and that's that's the way to do it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: And I've nevernderstood these little the restaurants and the stores
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: that have the one ply toilet paper, because you just
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: end up using an entire role. Do they not realize that?
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Like it's so stupid, They're so dumb. Like I'll go
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: in there if it's one play, Okay, the whole row,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: the entire row is mine. I'm going to make it
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: for ply. I am going to make it four ply,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: you cheap bastards. That's what I'm going to do. Anyway,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: let's go to the phones. And I didn't think this
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: guy would call in. I thought we'd have no Chicago
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Bears fans. But here we go. Let's start out with
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Lucky Tony, who's up first on the Ben Malers Show.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: A proud Bears fan. Not happy right now. But hello
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Lucky Tony.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Welcome, bay Man.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: What did I say when I went to the zoo?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know what did he say?
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: Bears Ben?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: All right? You he always has me on edge. He
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: didn't curse that.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Patty's trying to talk over here, and I'm like, no, stop,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I need to listen.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Lucky Lucky Tony's lexicon includes all the words
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: you can't say on radio, all seven dirty words like
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: bonus words. Yeah, he knows bad words and other languages
• 29:52
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Keith in since s and NAD.
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  Speaker 1: Who's next?
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: Hello Keith, Welcome, Thank you Van, thanks for taking my call.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Uh. Apropos of the problems with the referee in the NFL,
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: I just want to really briefly that Buffalo game at
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: the end, in the overtime, that was just shameful what
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: the reference did on those two pass interference calls that
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: entire game. They'd been letting those guys play rough play,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: physical grab and all that stuff.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, but you're you, you you do admit that it
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: was they were penalties, right, you admit that that they did.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: But but there were there were calls at least as
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: egregious as them earlier against against Denver that they didn't make.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: But if they had, if they hadn't, if they hadn't
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: called that, though, that would have you know, either way,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: that would have been the end of them, right, if
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: they hadn't called it, it would have been like, oh
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: my god, I can't believe you didn't call that like that.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: You got to make that call. So no, And then
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: then there would be Denver fans saying, I can't. I mean,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: what are you doing. You're helping the Bills out, You're
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: helping Josh Allen out.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: But they let but they let Denver get away with
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: that a couple of times. There was one play where
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: a Buffalo receiver was going to catch a ball in
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: the end zone and on the replay they showed the
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: guy grabbing his left arm and.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: Pulling it down.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it worked. I think it worked out well. Listen,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen choked, and nobody wants to talk about that.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: They want to talk about the calls by the referee.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: And I would do.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: It's a great it's a great way to turn the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: attention away from the issue that Josh Allen is your
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: franchise quarterback.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: He's the greatest thing of all time. The guy choked.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: In a year with no great quarterbacks left in the
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: playoffs other than Matthew Stafford, Josh Allen had it. He
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: they came back to Bills in the second half, they
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: had the game, and they blew it so and he blew.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: He kept turn the ball over the thing before halftime.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I know you're not gonna like this, but it was
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: just embarrassing for Josh Allen. But anyway, yeah, I'm not
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not.
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: A Buffalo fan.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I'm a Bengal fan because because you sound you sound
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: like a Buffalo fan.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: You sound like a Buffalo fan.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: I've got no investment in Buffalo, but I'm a football fan. Yeah,
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: And I you know, the overtime of a second round
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: playoff game, you just don't make those calls.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you're allowed the hold, you're allowed to hold
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: and all that, and you don't know.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: I gotta tell you. I got to tell you. Both
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: of those calls were very borderline.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't think the second one was at all.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I guess this classic textbook pass interference, Like, that's that's
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: what pass interference is. Like you put it before the
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: ball got there. You you made contact, that's it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: I agree with you. But if that first one hadn't
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: been called, they wouldn't have been down there to throw
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: that pass.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: How much money do you lose in the game.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: Not a dime.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not a game, you're not a gamer. I can't. No.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: I just watched that game and saw it. You know,
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: they stole that from John Challenge. That was my opinion.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I think Josh Allen stole it from Josh Allen. That's
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: what happened. I mean, he just didn't make he didn't
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: get done.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: But all right, we'll let you go. But there you go.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: It's all thank I don't like the referees.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I think the referees it's inconsistent, the officiating in the NFL.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I know, I didn't have as many issues as you did, Keith.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I mean I saw the complaining from the Buffalo side
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: and all that. I was like, my god, you look
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: at that setup and the way the game ended, like
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Buffalo had plenty of opportunities to get it done and
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: did not did not get it done.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: So anyway, it is The Ben Mahlor Show.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: If you would like to be part eight seven seven
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• 33:47
  Speaker 2: going on the phones. We'll go to Paul, who's in
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: North Carolina. Hello Paul, Welcome, You're on the Ben Malor
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Show on Fox.
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: Hello Paul, Hey, good evening, Ben. Hey, listen, man, I'm
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: going to bring up a point I've literally heard nobody
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: bring up and I can't believe it, but I'm gonna
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: ask you to help them with some basic matthafter asking
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: you questions. My question is, if you've outd the Chicago
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: Bears any play or anything, any coach, how you have
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  Speaker 7: one play to decide the game after gain two yards
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  Speaker 7: and before you talk about how dominance the Rams, they
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  Speaker 7: only recorded four tackles for loss. My point is when
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  Speaker 7: they score that touchdown, go for two in the win.
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  Speaker 7: Like what they bet on was that when they went
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  Speaker 7: to overtime, they said, we have the better chance of
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  Speaker 7: making the pat and then bringing up every possible outcoming
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  Speaker 7: overtime and winning that game is better than the chances
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  Speaker 7: of us making one play from the two yard line
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  Speaker 7: the two points in the version to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't have I didn't have a problem with
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  Speaker 2: them going for the extra point.
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  Speaker 1: They were at home. Usually on the road, you go
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  Speaker 1: for the win.
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  Speaker 2: At home, you play for overtime because you have home
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  Speaker 2: field advantage and all that stuff. And they were at
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  Speaker 2: home and they had the ball, so it actually, if
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Williams is going to screw up, the Bears win
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 1: But he screwed it up. So, I mean, that was
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  Speaker 1: their shot.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously Ben Johnson didn't have confidence in Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise he would have gone.
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  Speaker 2: For it, right, I mean, you go for it if
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  Speaker 2: you think your guy's going to be able to get
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  Speaker 2: it done.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't think he would be able to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise he would have gone for it.
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  Speaker 7: But like listen, so the math is the math that
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  Speaker 7: I need help with, is they played for overtime, and
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  Speaker 7: the overtime went exactly how they wanted. The defense forced
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  Speaker 7: a three and out. Yeah, And when they got that
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  Speaker 7: three and out and they got the punt on the
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  Speaker 7: sixteen yard line, they had to go eighty four yards
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  Speaker 7: of a score or if they go for two during
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  Speaker 7: the two yard line, how would you go, Well, they.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't have to go eighty four all they had to
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  Speaker 2: do was get to like the thirty five yard line
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  Speaker 2: to kick a field goal.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have to get a touchdown to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams already had the ball.
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  Speaker 2: The Rams got the ball first, and then they ended
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  Speaker 2: up not doing anything and punted it to the Bears,
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  Speaker 2: and so the Bears got it, and then all they
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  Speaker 2: had to do was getting field goal range. Field goal
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  Speaker 2: range now in the NFL, is like the forty yard
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  Speaker 2: line the other team's forty yard line, or even field
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  Speaker 2: goal range exactly.
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  Speaker 7: Then to get in field goal range, you still to
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  Speaker 7: your point, he still had to deal with thirty forty
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  Speaker 7: yards to.
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  Speaker 1: Get to That's nothing. That's nothing for a professional football team.
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  Speaker 1: What are they? Is it not a Pop Warner team?
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  Speaker 7: Or you have one player to go two yards? Why
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  Speaker 7: would you like you can go two yards and win
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  Speaker 7: the game, or you can go forty yards.
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  Speaker 1: And hope to kick a.
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  Speaker 2: I disagree. I mean you said you thought you should
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  Speaker 2: have gone for it. I would if I was the Bears,
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  Speaker 2: I would have done what they did. But because he
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  Speaker 2: obviously Caleb didn't trust him. But thanks for I gotta
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  Speaker 2: leave it there, but thank you Paul who says bad
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