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I mean you can see right now without LeBron, Lakers are are
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struggling. Let me tell you about a team I
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hate. All right?
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I know the Dallas Cowboy pen is here, so I had to make sure he
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knew how much I hate this. I'm ready.
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I've often said that the people who run baseball, they try very
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hard to ruin it. I'm.
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Top Brooklyn I don't have a problem.
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Saying it this face Oh, from. Brooklyn, is it each?
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This is a presentation of Northeast Streaming sports.
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Good morning. You're listening to the Mac and
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Jack Sports Show on Northeast Streaming Sports.
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Good morning everyone, and welcome to any SSP in the
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morning with your host Mac and Jack As we'll be going over all
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the football information, whether it's the games that are
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won, we'll be previewing the new games.
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Any NFL news? We'll also be talking a little
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bit of boxing later on with a great boxing Hall of Famer
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himself, Jack Hirsch. And we'll also be talking a
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little bit of NBA scores and that near the end of the show.
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But of course, Jack, of course we got to start off with the the
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the NFL and and high over there to everybody on military
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broadcast radio as we'll be going where they're Live Today
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also Jack. So the flag is appropriate for
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that. So that's great Old Navy.
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So folks, again, welcome to our show and Jack, let's start off
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as, as we should. First with the Cleveland
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Houston. Let's go on chronological order
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here since we haven't covered any of the games yet.
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Houston totally dominates Cleveland.
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CJ Stroud throws for 274 yards. Singletary has 66 yards in a
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touchdown, 2 pick. Sixes the Texas have their way
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offensively and defensively. They go to Baltimore to play the
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best team in the league. Jack.
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Let's see with Lamar Jackson if he has an answer to this year's
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playoffs. Or does the rookie Rookie of the
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Year, Offensive Player of the Year, whatever you want to call
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him? Does he have his way with the
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Baltimore Ravens defense? Jack.
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Yeah, it's intriguing. If any one team is having fun
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during the playoffs, having fun, it's the Houston Texans.
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I mean, if you get the feeling if they're not going to get paid
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for this, they'll still show up and play Mac.
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It's not so much that they're playing for the stakes, it seems
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they're just playing, 'cause they love the game.
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They're where what's at stake, obviously, but they're playing
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loose. They're on the big run.
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They shredded that. How did Cleveland Brown defense
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OK, everyone's talking about what a great defense that the
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Browns had. And the Browns did have a very
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good year, you know, on that side of the ball.
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But CJ Sprouts, you know, a special play.
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It's already one of the top quarterbacks in the league
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already at this point you can make the argument and the
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Texans, as we've said before playing with house money the
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year has been a success. No matter what to anyone they're
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playing. It's going to be a bit uptight
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and you kind of wonder when the Ravens play the Texans whether
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they're going to take them a little bit for granted because
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it's the type of team they should win.
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I I know you're not supposed to take any opponent likely and
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you're never going to say you're taking a team likely you're
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going to say you're up for this game 100% because it's the
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correct thing to say. But you kind of wonder whether
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the Ravens might go in just a little bit complacent looking
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ahead to the Kansas City Buffalo winner next week, if that is
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indeed the match up who they're playing.
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I'm going under the assumption that Buffalo beats Pittsburgh.
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Otherwise things would change. Otherwise Pittsburgh could wind
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up playing Baltimore. OK, so I'm taking teams.
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Likely Matt. I'm taking the Steelers likely.
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So you see. So I'm falling into that trap in
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the way. But you wonder whether the
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Ravens are keeping a little bit ahead.
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Just one game, the ultimate game that can maybe get him to the
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Super Bowl. But the Ravens in a good spot
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home in the Super Bowl and and the Texans are certainly a
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winnable game. But the Texans seem to be a
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little on, a little bit of a magical run.
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So is it going to be destiny or you know, or the superior team?
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What's going to prevail? Listen, I think it's going to
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be, I think it's going to be a really good game.
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Can can CJ Stroud do what Brock Purdy did last year as a as a
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rookie, right. Come in and lead his team to A
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championship? It's going to be very
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interesting, Jack. I think Baltimore may have the
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better defense. They they they.
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I don't know if they have the better running game or better
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quarterback the way CJ Strauss been playing, but they have the
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most talented quarterback running and passing.
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When it comes to Lamar Jackson, they definitely have the better
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athlete at quarterback. I think.
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I haven't seen CJ Stroud run around like Jackson has yet.
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I I think Jack Stroud is unbelievably under pressure.
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He will be under pressure. He still puts the ball in the
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money. It's going to be a really good
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game. I don't think it's going to be a
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blowout like a couple of these other games where we're going to
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get to one of those blowouts, Jack Kansas City.
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You know, Miami goes up and plays in that cold weather.
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Tua has problems. The only one that had decent
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game was the former Kansas City chief himself, the Cheetah.
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You know everybody. I not everybody.
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I thought. I think quite a few people
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thought that Miami might even win this game because of the way
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Kansas City has been playing all year.
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But they listen. Kansas City been in the playoffs
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before. They didn't they.
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They weren't shooken by any kind of a play that Miami made to
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come back there for a minute. They ran the ball.
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Chekel ran really hard. Hard, you know.
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You know, Mahomes looked really determined getting into the end
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zone that one time, running a ball when he had to.
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And his new weapon, Rice. I mean, that is Cheetah.
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Cheetah #2 coming up, maybe not as good, maybe not as good as
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him, but he's got great speed. He's a little bit bigger and and
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Rice, really, really well. Jack.
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Yeah, I disregarded the weather. Shame on me, I thought.
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Miami to win a close one, like 16 to 13, a grind amount tight
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game, biggest pack with Mahomes has had trouble with his
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receivers this year. They haven't really gotten into
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a full rhythm. Kelsey seemed to be hurting a
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little bit, but Kansas City's been there before.
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And Miami, who hit a wall late in the year.
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I mean, I thought they'd get it together come playoff time.
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And what does the future hold for the Miami Dolphins now for
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next year? You can't go into next year and
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you know you're a serious Super Bowl contender based on this
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year. This year they got off the blind
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start with their receivers. They had the most potent offense
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in the league and they were like, so charismatic.
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The Dolphins, we thought they were going to make a very
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serious Super Bowl run and they just kind of faded out at the
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end of the year. Tulsa, The Tennessee Titans in a
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meaningful game late in the year.
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If they won that game, they would have been home against
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Kansas City. And then of course to lose the
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showdown game against the Buffalo Bills the way they did
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to get blown out by the Ravens the week before that.
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I don't know what the future holds for the Miami Falcons.
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It's with Max. Certain coaches are riding high.
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I like Mike McDaniels, Nick Siriani and in the matter of
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like 2-3 weeks their stock can go down substantially or a
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coaches stock could go up. This morning we're talking about
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Matt Lafleur. What a great coach he has.
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We knew he was a good coach. He would have said he was a good
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coach before yesterday, but now we're talking about Matt Lafleur
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like he's maybe in the shortlist of the best coaches in the NFL.
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Yeah, I I mean, we're going to get to that in a minute.
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You know the the the Chiefs will either play Pittsburgh at home
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if Pittsburgh wins, or they're going to Buffalo.
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No, no, no, no. Yeah, and no, No.
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Pittsburgh wins. Pittsburgh plays at Baltimore.
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That's what. Baltimore is at Pittsburgh Beat
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the. Bills Today they play at
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Baltimore. OK, upcoming weekend if Buffalo
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wins. Kansas City plays at Buffalo
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next week and Houston plays at Baltimore.
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I don't know if there will be a big difference as far as the
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temperature goes, but there might be a big difference in the
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snow. So you know if it if it snows
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here, I don't know how Kansas City will handle that.
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We already saw the way they handled the cold, and of course
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Buffalo plays in the snow and cold all the time.
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I think it'll be a good game. It'll be a good game, good match
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up, whatever happens. There, Kansas City could handle
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the cold in Buffalo. Because you'll be drunk.
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From cold to cold. So I don't think it's going to
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intimidate them you know to to any, you know to any big point
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where it's going to be any type of a difference make up.
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Quick question for you, Travis Kelsey, he's really falling off.
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You know he's getting older. He announced his engagement
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there to to what's? Yeah, they announced our
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engagement. They did announce their
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engagement. What I said is they announced
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their engagement anyway. Does Kelsey?
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Give a ring does. Kelsey.
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More importantly, does Kelsey retire after this year?
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Jack. He says no, that he's going to
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play. You know, I own Jim Jeffco,
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Byron Williams, they said at this point in the NFNFL season,
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everyone is hurting. Everyone is physically hurting.
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Kelsey's taking a pounding. He's taking a pounding.
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He's probably very physically hurting.
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Like you'd see him after the game and he'd walk out with
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Taylor Swift. First.
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Patrick Mahomes walks out with his wife, and behind them is
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Kelsey with Taylor Swift. But you notice the way Kelsey
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walks. He's kind of grudging, you know,
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walking. But there's not like a bounce to
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his step. You know, He just looks like an
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older guy the way he's walking, and that's a sign that he's
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hurting the pounding you're taking during the game, you
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know, it's very physical. But he says he's going to be
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back next year and he could still perform at a very high
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level. But it is he.
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The Travis Kelsey who's been one of the all time great tight
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ends. Is he that anymore?
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Perhaps he is, you know, healthy, gets it together.
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Let's see what he does the rest of the playoffs.
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But but he's planning on being back next year.
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That's what he says. But of course.
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It is a lot of. Time.
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A lot of people blame the distraction with him and and as
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the reason for him, his drop off and his performance, we'll see
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what happens next. Year.
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No, I don't. I don't believe that for one
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moment. What are they going to say?
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Taylor Swift's concert's honest entertaining anymore because of
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her relationship with Travis Kelsey?
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Come on. Maybe they do.
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I don't know. Green Bay, Green Bay and Dallas
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48 to 32. Probably the most deceiving
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score this year in the playoffs because Green Bay was up 41 to 7
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at one time or 41 to 6 at one time. 16 to be exact.
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Jordan Love throws for three TS. Jones runs for three touchdowns.
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You know Jordan's throwing sidearm.
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He's throwing while he's getting hit very accurately.
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While he's while he's up. I'm you know, up off the ground
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doing jump passes 40 yards down the field.
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I mean Dallas defense did not have an answer for this Green
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Bay offense at all Jack. Their defense looked terrible.
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The coaching, they weren't ready for this, for this team at all.
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The offense looked terrible. I mean they couldn't move the
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ball at all on on on Green Bay CD.
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Lamb was a non factor of the whole game.
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You know Dak Prescott was under pressure sometimes.
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Sometimes he tried to run with the ball.
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Sometimes there was nothing there as they kept switching
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coverages almost in the middle of the play, Jack.
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So the coaching staff over at Dallas, some people are saying
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they should just clean house and start all over again.
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I don't know if Jerry Jones could do that and somebody has
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to stay there, Jack, to kind of to to to keep something going.
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You know that people are talking about Bill Belichick.
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People are talking about, you know, the Tennessee coach, Frank
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Wright maybe going there. I mean, there's a lot of Mike
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Rabel going there. So there's a lot of rumors going
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around that maybe this is it for McCarthy and this is it for
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Quinn. I don't know, Jack.
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It's a big decision. I think they're going to wait
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till the end of the year before they make this decision.
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I don't think it's happening. Tomorrow.
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No, no. I mean, Jerry Jones isn't going
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to panic and make any type of decision, but I'm going to tell
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you, even though there was a great game yesterday with the
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Lions and the Rams, a great great playoff game, that's a
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playoff football. It's all about the big talk this
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morning and the thing that's going to lead in on all this.
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You know, just about every sports talk show is the cowboy
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game, the cowboy game in the Packers.
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And it's not so much of hackers being a Cinderella team winning.
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Even though people are talking about Jordan Love, the big story
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this morning is and the Cowboys going to be moving on from Mike
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McCarthy. And I'm going to tell you
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something, Mac. It's not a question of doing
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what's right and doing what's wrong in practically every
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scenario. If you've had a coach who's been
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12 and 5, three years in a row in the regular season, you don't
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let him go just because you haven't had playoff success.
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I mean, that's the logical way, the logical thing to do.
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But the Cowboy fan base is so disillusioned, so fed up with
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their lack of success, you know, not even coming close to winning
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a Super Bowl, not getting to a Super Bowl, not even getting to
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the NFC Championship games. You have to change the culture
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around the Cowboys. You'll have to give the fan base
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an infusion. At this point, you come back
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with Mike McCarthy. When's the optimism Match?
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The Cowboys could do well during the regular season next year,
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and they're not going to quite have the same hope because we've
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seen this act before. You bring in someone else like a
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Bill Belichick on my grave. You change the culture of the
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team. You give the fan base more hope.
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The fan base gets over this devastating loss a lot quicker
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If you bring in the Bill Belichick or Tell tell me this,
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Doesn't the fan base move on from this loss a lot quicker
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than if you retain Mike McCarthy?
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Does a hangover? If you retain Mike McCarthy a
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hangover? It's not a question Mack of
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doing what's right based on the past, moving forward.
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Mike McCarthy doesn't give you your best chance to win moving
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forward. Not in the playoffs.
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Well, Jack, let me let me say one thing first of all, Mike
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McCarthy did not lose the locker room, right?
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He didn't lose the locker room this year at all.
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He's the locker room. They're still taught.
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They're still together. You know, they, you know, they
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say what they got to say after a loss.
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But that team stayed together. I my prediction is they get rid
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of Quinn and maybe their offensive corner.
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I think they keep McCarthy and they get rid of two of the
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coordinators like they did with Tomlin this year.
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This is what I think is they did.
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Well, they did. And to do it again, the head
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coach is accountable. Mike McCarthy was calling the
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plays. He was in charge of the offense
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this year. The offense didn't know what
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they were doing at times on the field, they were out of their
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element. There was one play in which
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Paul, Tony Pollard and Brandon Cooks miscommunicating.
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They were both running in the same direction and they both
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looked back at Prescott. Both of them were expecting the
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ball at that moment. But do you blame but?
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Do you blame? Do you blame McCarthy?
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Do you blame McCarthy for everything?
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All the mistakes the players make?
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I mean, maybe that's, you know, Jack, I don't know.
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I think the offensive corner gets the team ready during the
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week. Whether Mike McCarthy he's not
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he's not the off he calls the plays.
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You know he's not the offensive coordinator you know that that
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the what's his name's son to Schottenheimer's son is a
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coordinator. I listen listen.
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Mike McCarthy has gone 12 and five the last three years.
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Some teams would kill for that to go 12:00 and 5:00.
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No one is killing to get Mike McCarthy.
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Can I tell you something? You're going to get a prediction
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now, Matt. I'm going to throw this back at
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you at the time, Mike McCarthy. If they move on from him, he's
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going to only land in one possible place.
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If he gets a head coaching job and that would be the Carolina
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Panthers. That would be about the only
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thing. And the reason the Carolina
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Panthers are the only team I could see him going to is
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because the owner seems to be a control freak.
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Pepper and Mike McCarthy would be subservient to the owner.
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Basically, listen, get on board and then try to do his thing, OK
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that that would be the only possible landing.
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So he is not going to be in demand.
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He's considered a so, so coach, you could point his credentials.
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He won a Super Bowl years ago, but he was had some outstanding
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Green Bay Packer teams. OK, most coaches, most coaches
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that most coaches that win the Super Bowl have some outstanding
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players. Yeah, OK, fine enough.
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Maybe that's about that he won a Super Bowl, but that doesn't You
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win one Super Bowl in your career, Mac.
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It's not a gold plot. I would add.
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Coaching the coach anywhere I. Would add that not only the
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Panthers, I think the Saints and the Falcons might take a shot
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with McCarthy. I don't.
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I don't know, Jack. I'm just saying, I I don't know
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if you blame Mike McCarthy for that loss as much as I blame
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Quinn. Maybe the offensive side.
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Yeah, you got a point. But Quinn is the.
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Cardinals are going to fire Gannon, who came from the
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Eagles, and hire Mike McCarthy. Did I?
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Say the Cardinals I. Thought you did.
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I said the Saints and maybe the Falcons might be.
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We'll see. We'll see if they McCarthy is
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available. Who knows.
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The point I'm making is I think Quinn is definitely gone.
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I think he'll be, he'll be going somewhere else and he was a head
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coaching candidate. Some some people wanted him as a
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head coach. I can virtually guarantee you
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now one team is going to. All of a sudden, fire their
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coach of Mike McCarthy's available because they feel like
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it's hiring him. Not one thing.
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Maybe you're right, Jack. You could.
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Be right, I just think. I know, I know how loyal gear.
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I know how loyal Jerry Jones is to his head coaches.
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I think he gives McCarthy another shot.
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And I think maybe, maybe. And I think, and I think they,
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Daniel Quinn will be gone, Jack, that I know.
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McCarthy has one year left on his contract.
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OK, if he didn't have the one year left, they wouldn't resign.
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His contract would be done. It's run its course, and if they
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if Jerry Jones brings him back, he's certainly not giving him an
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extension. So all we're going to hear about
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McCarthy being a lame duck, and I hate talk like that.
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Owners should virtually never give a coach an extension unless
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they're certain they want to keep him.
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If he has one year left on this deal, he plays his deal out.
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To me, he's not a lame duck. That's what this contract is
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negotiated. When this contract is gone,
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either resign him or the coach could become a free agent just
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like a player. And and if the play and if the
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Cowboys want him around they'll play really good for him next
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year if they want him to be that coach.
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Good morning Rick. I know if I said that already,
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but glad to have you on as you're always but.
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This this was a bad loss. This this loss to the Packers
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was a devastating loss because it was totally unexpected, let's
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be honest about it. It was a Gimme that they were
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going to win this game and advance to the next game.
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And if they lost, let's say in the NFC Championship game this
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manner to the 49ers, OK, they would have won a couple of
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playoff games. You could say they lost to a
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superior team. But to lose to the Green Bay
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Packers while the Cowboys are the number two seed, to lose the
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seventh seed, you know it's bad. It's really bad.
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Now, the Packers might be a team that's on the rise.
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They might be really peaking at this point.
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We've seen teams do this before. They get better suddenly at the
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end of the season and they go on a playoff run.
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We saw it with Tennessee a couple of years ago.
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You know what? Maybe it gets them to the NFC
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Championship game of beyond. Let's see what the Packers do
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with the Niners all of a sudden. That game's intriguing.
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It's no longer Gimme that the Niners are going to win this
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game. What happens if Green Bay goes
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into San Francisco and wins? Does that lessen the impact?
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A little bit of the Cowboys losing to the past?
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Just a little bit. I don't think so.
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I don't think so. You you you really don't care.
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I don't play as as a coach. I don't care what happens after
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I win or lose a game. I don't care if if you know the
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the last place team beats the 1st place team.
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I I don't care. The thing is, what you had in
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front of you, you you messed up and and.
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That's how let me throw it the other way.
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Let me throw it the other way. Packers going to San Francisco.
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Let's say that's the match up next week.
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And there's 49ers round them. They beat them 4210.
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They beat the Packers. Don't you think that's going to
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get Jerry Jones's blood boiling even more?
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In my Jack, but again I it's all about matchups and and who's hot
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and who's not. Who's injured, who's not
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injured. I mean there's a lot of
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different things as you saw weather came into play other
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other teams and other games. There's a lot of there's a lot
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of variables there. You know, listen, I don't think
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the the the San Francisco 49ers are going to take anybody for
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granted. I don't think they're going to
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take the Green Bay Packers for granted, and I think the 49ers
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are. Much.
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Are a much more physical team than Dallas is Dallas.
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Dallas is not even with the top five defense.
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They relied on speed and stuff like that.
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The 49ers are going to punch in your face, and if Green Bay can
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handle that, more power to him. I don't think they will.
23:55
If if this is the matchup that happens, I think the 49ers will
23:58
beat the back. You know what?
23:59
I'm not saying the Cowboys have no leadership amongst the place
24:03
now. Micah Parsons is a great player,
24:06
a great, great player. He's not a leader.
24:12
You know Jack Michael Michael Parsons stock kind of dropped a
24:15
little bit this year. I mean they try to compare him.
24:18
Lawrence Taylor, they say he's one of the best.
24:20
You know, the pass rushers in the league, he only had 11.5
24:23
sacks. There were a lot of people in
24:25
front of him. He's he, as you said, he's he's
24:27
more of a talker off the field and.
24:29
He's he was putting on fret. He was putting on a lot of
24:33
pressure. He.
24:35
Seems well, yeah. But you you, you seem not to
24:38
care about pressure as much as sacks when you talk most times.
24:41
But he didn't seem interested in the game, Jack.
24:43
He was kind of like he's really, you know, he didn't get anybody
24:46
fired up, didn't try to get anybody fired up.
24:48
I mean, the Cowboys were still in the game at the end.
24:51
I didn't see him over there cheering on the defense and
24:53
trying. To Cowboys in the game.
24:56
Come on. They had a push at the end.
24:59
If they could have stopped Green Bay.
25:00
I didn't see. I didn't see Parsons.
25:02
It was a little fun at the end. They they they, I won't say they
25:08
worried Green Bay at the end, but there was reason for
25:11
concern. Green Bay took out their
25:13
starters when they were up 4816 and all of a sudden their
25:17
starters are coming back in like with, you know, a little over 3
25:21
minutes left, like what's going on?
25:22
We're up 16 points now. Yeah, so they did kind of
25:26
concern the Packers at the end. Like, hey, where did this come
25:30
from? All of a sudden, if we get a few
25:33
bad bounces or a fumble or this or that, any crazy thing could
25:38
happen. The thing was, the thing was,
25:40
Jack, the defense couldn't stop Green Bay, period.
25:43
And Michael Parsons sure didn't fire them up or sure didn't make
25:46
a big play to do it. CJ, the Cowboys aren't frauds.
25:50
They're 12 and five. They were five.
25:52
Top five defense, top five offense.
25:54
They played. They played.
25:56
They had a hell of a season. McCarthy Well, we may get fired.
26:01
Quinn, I think will get fired. And you know, I'm getting tired
26:04
of this House Money stuff. Listen, you're a team.
26:07
You're in the playoffs. You don't care if you had a good
26:10
season or not, whether you should be there or not.
26:13
You're there. You're there at the time.
26:15
You're there to win. You're not there to lose and
26:17
say, hey guys, great season. NFL football player or coach or
26:22
any football player or coach says that.
26:25
They don't say that. They don't think it.
26:27
They want to go out and win the next game.
26:30
That's. I agree with C, JS comments and
26:35
I disagree with yours. What CJ meant by house money.
26:40
Yeah, everybody keeps saying no. It has to do with expectations.
26:45
Jack, you don't have to explain to me what house money means,
26:48
OK? I'm not uneducated.
26:50
I'm telling you, no NFL player or no coach thinks like that.
26:55
When they get to the playoffs, they don't think about what
26:57
happened to the rails, you know? You don't.
26:59
You don't. I think you know.
27:00
So, and I do know Jack, no player or coach thinks like
27:04
that. You didn't play.
27:05
You didn't coach who don't know is not me.
27:07
I'm telling you, when you get to a game, you do not think of the
27:11
regular season anymore. When you're in playoffs, it's 0.
27:13
But you you're miss, you're missing the point.
27:17
I'm going to ask you two questions.
27:20
You ask Cowboy fans today whether they had a good season
27:25
or not, and most of them are going to say no because they
27:29
lost in the playoffs. I know what the regular season
27:32
record is, but they're not going to be happy.
27:34
You ask them are they happy with their season?
27:36
And the answer is going to be no by most of them because of the
27:39
way it ended yesterday. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
27:42
But they had this. Had the Packers lost yesterday
27:46
and you asked the Packer fan, were you happy with this season?
27:50
The majority would have said yes, even with the loss, because
27:55
they were playing with house money.
27:57
Basically, it was a success no matter what.
28:01
Are you listening to me? Are you Are you listening to
28:03
what I'm saying? Did I mention the fans?
28:05
I didn't mention the fans. Fans are fickle.
28:07
I don't care with the. Fans.
28:08
You don't care about the fans? I said, I said the coach or the
28:13
players don't care about house money.
28:16
They're there. They're in the moment.
28:18
They want to win. Wait.
28:20
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Sean McVeigh.
28:23
Yesterday he was talking about the season with the Rams, their
28:28
head coach, and he was saying, you know, it was a really good
28:32
season. Matthew Stafford was saying it
28:34
was a really good season. We overachieved.
28:38
Things weren't expected of us. They didn't go into the game
28:41
with that attitude. They went into the game wanting
28:45
to win, expecting to win. Because they lost.
28:49
That's why they're saying that, Jack, they you.
28:51
Do you really believe, do you really believe that they feel
28:54
good that they lost that game? No one feels good when they
28:58
lose, obviously, but you take a step back and you review the
29:03
season. Was it a good season?
29:05
You especially should know that Mack from last year, you were
29:08
gloating at the end of the season.
29:10
Oh, my. Giants had a good year.
29:12
They got to the playoffs. They won a playoff game you were
29:15
beaming with. That talking about fans, Jack.
29:22
If I'm a player on the Giants team and I get my ass beat by
29:25
the Philadelphia Eagles the way I did, I am not happy at all as
29:28
a player. I'm not happy as a coach either.
29:31
So okay, So what what you're saying you're saying on the fan
29:36
side, I don't disagree what you're saying about the fans,
29:38
Jack. I'm just telling you as a
29:40
competitor, as a competitor, you know as a coach in the
29:43
basketball that you did and and any sport that you participated
29:48
in, you don't care what happens last game.
29:50
You can't. You care what happens this game.
29:52
What if you won last game and you lose this one?
29:55
You're not happy that you won the.
29:56
Last you take a step back and you look at the season.
30:00
You look at the whole season, how it played out.
30:03
Are you happy with the year, how it ended up?
30:07
If you were a Cowboy, or if you're the Cowboy front office,
30:11
you're not happy. You're saying you won 12 and
30:14
five for the third year in a row, but what are the Cowboys
30:17
talking about? They have to make impact.
30:21
When we when we interviewed, when we interviewed Mcconkey and
30:26
they won the Super Bowl and they and they and they won a lot of
30:29
games. What do you say that he thought
30:30
about most the games he lost? That's what they think about.
30:37
They don't think about, They don't think about.
30:39
He doesn't even think about the Super Bowl as much as he thinks
30:41
about losing to the Chicago Bears that one time going in the
30:45
play offs. This is how players think.
30:47
Jack, I'm a coach. I think about the things I
30:50
screwed up when I lost the games, not.
30:52
That I Let's get let's get to the point, Do you keep McCarthy
30:56
or do you move on from him? Me personally, I keep because I
31:01
don't know if there's anybody better than that.
31:02
Yeah, yeah, I I I I keep him. He knows the players.
31:06
He knows the organization. I get rid of David Quinn.
31:08
Maybe I get little. Get rid of my offense supporter.
31:11
Yeah, maybe I do that. I probably keep him.
31:14
That would be my. Opinion But why do you?
31:15
But why would you keep McCarthy? But you get rid of Quinn, who
31:20
was considered to be a really top of the line coordinator.
31:25
You move on to see. But why get rid of?
31:33
Something has to be done, Jack, that.
31:35
That's the only reason I think. Queen's, I think.
31:37
Queen's a good defensive coordinator, I think.
31:39
He prepared, I think. He prepared, I think.
31:43
I think he prepared. He would not prepared for what
31:46
happened to Green Bay. That's what I think.
31:48
I I still think he's a good defensive coordinator.
31:51
I think he'll be a good defensive coordinator.
31:53
A lot of teams. I just think that he was not
31:55
prepared for the Green Bay Packers.
31:57
They have coached him because the Green Bay Packers out
31:59
coached the the, the, the Dallas to.
32:03
Mike. McCarthy You could say that.
32:07
And we're going to, we're going to keep going around in circles
32:10
for like 20 minutes here. Listen, you asked me what I
32:12
thought. I tell you what I thought.
32:14
You think they should clear House.
32:15
I don't necessarily disagree with you.
32:17
Maybe they run it back. I don't know, Jack.
32:19
I'm not Jerry Jones. I think he'll make that decision
32:22
when the seasons over, when he has a chance to set out.
32:24
Talk to everybody. Review what it is talk to.
32:31
DAC Prescott, DAC Prescott had his best year ever under under
32:35
McCarthy. So I mean, you know, a lot of
32:38
things are going to be taken into consideration.
32:40
So let's get to the best game in the playoffs.
32:41
Jack the Rams in Detroit. It was hard for the Rams to stop
32:45
that running game of Detroit, especially in the beginning of
32:49
the game. They were really running a ball
32:50
all over them. Montgomery and the other running
32:56
back there. I had his name there.
32:58
They ran for combine combined 82 yards and two touchdown golf.
33:02
Almost perfect. Went 2022 for 27272 yards.
33:08
St. Brown the big receiver again 9
33:11
receptions for 110 yards and they sneak by the Rams.
33:15
The Rams were in that game Jack until there was a bad there was
33:19
a you you you mentioned it, the bad call.
33:21
What did they do? Did they go for it in that 4th
33:24
and what was a 14th? Did they punt the ball?
33:26
To that and close to midfield. There was a little over 4
33:31
minutes left. They only have one timeout left,
33:34
so that's not good management. Are your timeouts definitely one
33:38
timeout left with a little over 4 minutes left?
33:41
In reality you should have all three timeouts left to be able
33:47
to maybe use them, you know, within two minutes or at about
33:51
the two-minute warning and I don't want to hear well, you
33:55
want to avoid the north sides. You take a timeout, I I soon to
33:59
lose the five yards. Those timeouts are like Gold
34:01
Mac. So I'm thinking to myself, wait
34:04
a second, it's 4th and 14. You're close to midfield.
34:09
There's a little over 4 minutes left and it's very hard to make
34:14
a fourth and 14. This isn't a fourth and seven.
34:17
Let's say 4th and 14. I mean, that's a chunky yardage.
34:22
But I'm also thinking if you punt the ball, when they get one
34:27
first down, you're never getting the ball back.
34:30
So you you let it all ride on that 4th down play, OK?
34:35
A fourth and 14, you punt the ball.
34:37
And I'm not going to be a hypocrite Mack.
34:40
I would at the time, I would have punted the ball, you know,
34:44
'cause it's something about 14 yards to go.
34:47
That's kind of a little far. So they punt the ball, they
34:51
can't stop the Lions and that's it, you know, Game's over.
34:57
Matthew Stafford never has another chance.
35:00
So on reflection, I would have now gone for like, you know, do
35:05
over knowing what I know, obviously.
35:07
But you kind of wonder if they had all three timeouts.
35:10
Maybe it makes it a little different, but they only had one
35:13
timeout left and they couldn't stop the clock after, you know
35:17
the Lions executed the first down.
35:20
Yeah, and and Jack, if I was going to try for that 4th and
35:23
14, I'm going to Nuka, right? Nuka had a hell of a game
35:26
together, that rookie. A wide receiver.
35:29
What a fine in the fifth round he was.
35:31
I mean, he can. It's he's hard to break down.
35:34
He's got unbelievable hands I think.
35:36
Let let me get his stats here real quick.
35:39
Let's see. Puka Nukua. 10 receptions for
35:43
181 yards and one TD was phenomenal.
35:48
Unbelievable. Let me deal with Detroit.
35:52
I have rarely seen a home crowd as enthusiastic as the Detroit
35:59
Lion crowd was yesterday. It was a New Year's Eve
36:03
celebration. During the game it was like the
36:06
happiest of times and they won. And the thing about it is
36:11
they're going to get another home game next weekend.
36:15
They either going to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the
36:17
Philadelphia Eagles. And if they win that game and
36:21
then then if the Packers beat the Niners, they'll be at home
36:25
for third game to see whether they could go to the Super Bowl.
36:29
And Can you believe the momentum that's going to be building up
36:32
in Detroit, you know, for something like that.
36:35
And imagine the Packers beat the Niners and they're playing at
36:39
Detroit in the championship game to see who goes to the Super
36:42
Bowl. If I told you, Mac, right before
36:45
the Thanksgiving game when they played the Packers in Detroit
36:49
this year, Mac, that's going to be the NFC Championship Game.
36:52
You would have laughed. I mean, come on, get out of
36:54
here. You know, that's what you would
36:56
have said. Yeah, I would have said the same
36:57
thing. That's.
36:59
Not. Yes, yes.
37:01
So yeah, listen, listen, great game Stafford.
37:04
His, his throwing hand is cut. It's swollen.
37:07
He's still out there throwing the ball around the field, man.
37:10
He's a warrior. You know I listen, I think if
37:14
the if the Rams could have got their running game going, it
37:17
could have been a different game, Jack, because they were
37:19
throwing every down almost. I mean he he threw for, what was
37:23
it, 376 yards on the day. You know he put it up 36 times
37:30
got a couple touchdown, Kelvin Williams did get 61 yards but
37:34
you know it was Detroit. Listen Detroit played really
37:36
tough against the run. They wouldn't let let you know
37:40
the basically the Rams had to throw a replay.
37:42
So great job by the Detroit defense which doesn't get enough
37:46
credit. The running game again was was
37:48
working and golf is is a pinpoint passer so.
37:51
Goff is a very good quarterback. But let me clear something up.
37:55
All this talk of revenge game for Goff Scott may have felt he
37:59
was done wrong and even McVeigh, the Ram coach, said the
38:03
situation was handled wrong. With got got did a good job when
38:08
he was with the Rams. He took him to a Super Bowl.
38:10
But sometimes you need someone who could just take you to the
38:14
next level. You need a little bump up and
38:16
that's why they got Matthew staff and they won the Super
38:18
Bowl with staff. But I don't know whether they
38:20
would have won it with got his the quarterback at that time.
38:24
It was a good, it was a good move by the Rams to get Stafford
38:28
and move on from golf. It was.
38:31
It really was. But golf is the right guy for
38:34
the Lions now. I was just going to, I was just
38:36
going to say that would you say golf is where Stafford was maybe
38:41
a couple years ago now? I mean, has he grown that much
38:44
in those two years where he's equal to what Stafford was, what
38:47
Stafford went to the, you know, Super Bowl, Maybe so.
38:52
I think Stafford is a Hall of Fame caliber type quarterback.
38:55
I really don't think he's elite. I don't quite put Goth in that
38:59
category, but I think Goth is very capable of leading A-Team
39:04
to a Super Bowl victory, leading the Lions to something like
39:08
that. I think in Goth, the Lions have
39:12
their quarterback moving forward, OK, they the jury's not
39:16
out on golf. It's his job.
39:18
He's their franchise quarterback now.
39:21
Kudos to him. He played well yesterday and he.
39:25
I anticipate him continuing to play well.
39:27
He doesn't make a lot of mistakes, Scott.
39:30
That's one thing about him, he. He he got to hit him.
39:33
You got, you got the the Rams couldn't get to him.
39:35
You got to hit golf. He fumbles when you hit him, he
39:37
gets a little nervous. The Rams just couldn't get to
39:39
him. Really.
39:40
Last Yesterday, Jack. So.
39:42
Yeah, Cooper Cop, you know Cooper Cop.
39:45
Is he Stafford's primary receive anymore?
39:48
Stafford's coming back next year, he said with the Rams.
39:51
To any little talk about Stafford retiring to get about
39:56
yeah, but it's cool. Cooper Cup wasn't quite as
40:00
utilized as you know he's been in the past.
40:03
No, Nuka Nuka has pretty much. I think he's he's taken over as
40:06
the number one receiver next year.
40:08
But cup is still great. So the winner of the Tampa Bay
40:14
Eagle game, Lions have as you said have another home game.
40:19
I know the Eagle fans are all excited.
40:21
Dallas lost but don't get excited yet Eagle fans.
40:23
You still have a shot of maybe in Tampa Bay you're not going to
40:30
have your primary receiver who's probably the second most
40:33
important offensive player on the team as far as as far as you
40:37
know a A a player that's you know that's by himself.
40:41
We're not talking offensive line, which Eagles to me is
40:43
still one of the best in the league.
40:44
But you know you don't have A.J. Brown hurts finger doesn't hurt
40:51
or can he throw good with it? We don't know.
40:55
The defense looks awful too, as Dallas did so, and they're
40:59
tumbling, Jack, they're just, they're like a snowball.
41:02
They're just they're just going downhill and there's no nowhere
41:05
to stop except in Tampa Bay. So Ken, Tampa Bay, Jack.
41:10
Let's say Ken, will Tampa Bay beat the Philadelphia Eagles
41:14
today? I don't know, Mac, what Eagle
41:17
team is going to show up? I don't think the Philadelphia
41:19
Eagles fans give it dawn at this moment.
41:22
What happened to the Cowboys yesterday.
41:25
I think all they're thinking about is getting themselves back
41:29
together. You know, win a game, We regain
41:33
what they had early in the year because this is a team that's in
41:36
the freefall. That's all I think they're
41:39
concerned about. It was interesting as far as the
41:42
Cowboys go, what Hutchinson said, You know, for Detroit
41:46
after the game, the Lions were actually looking forward to
41:49
playing the Cowboys next weekend because they lost a close one to
41:54
him recently. And they were really looking
41:56
forward to the rematch. You know, and and and even
42:00
though it was going to be a harder test and they were going
42:02
to have to go to Dallas, they seem to be a little
42:05
disappointed. They're not going to have a
42:07
chance to get that revenge against the Cowboys.
42:09
But as far as the Eagles and Buccaneers come go tonight, I
42:13
have no idea what's going to happen.
42:15
It's all comes down to which Eagle team shows up.
42:18
If the Eagle team we know shows up, they're going to be Tampa
42:22
Bay. They're flat out better than
42:24
Tampa Bay. But this version of the the
42:27
Eagle team, if they're continuing their freefall,
42:30
they're going to lose to the Buccaneers and talk about team
42:33
playing with house money. Matt.
42:38
I wish I had a dollar. I wish I had a dollar.
42:43
Every time you said house money now, I mean you're just you're
42:46
not. You're over using that phrase,
42:47
Jack. Let's say Tampa Bay had a good
42:52
regular. See that A better regular season
42:54
than expected. I don't know.
42:56
I mean, it's not like. Yeah, but it was.
43:00
Not a lot to say about that, Jack.
43:02
I mean, who they beat The Saints and out the Saints and the
43:05
Falcons. I mean, you know, whatever.
43:07
Hey, they're there. It's the moment they have a
43:10
shot. I watched Baker Mayfield.
43:11
They seem confident. They're not talking a lot of
43:14
stuff. They're they're pretty healthy.
43:17
Who knows? I mean.
43:18
What I'm saying I don't know if it's house money tonight.
43:22
The term I use because this is a game, the Buccaneers is
43:27
thinking, wow, we have a good chance of winning this game.
43:29
The Eagles have been terrible lately.
43:32
They're hurting. A.J.
43:34
Brown is out. Hurts his fingers, you know, not
43:37
the best to shape. And the egos.
43:39
Ascension and the Eagle locker room, you know, supposedly we
43:44
can win this game. We've got it together.
43:46
We're at home. We got the crowd behind us.
43:49
So from that perspective, yeah, they there might be a lot of
43:53
disappointment with the Buccaneers if they lose tonight.
43:56
Let's say the Buccaneers win Nick going to Detroit next
43:59
weekend. Who is it who is expecting them
44:04
to actually beat Detroit and Detroit?
44:07
Come on, people. The same people that expected
44:09
the Packers to be Dallas. So those are the people.
44:12
That, yeah. Very few.
44:14
Very no. No, no.
44:16
So let's just suppose here. So the Eagles go, They play
44:24
Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay beats the Eagles.
44:27
Now we just talked about what can happen to Dallas.
44:29
What happens to that Eagle coaching staff?
44:32
I mean, the defensive coach, what's his name from from the
44:36
Patriots is not having any any fun over there with the Eagles.
44:40
The offensive coordinator is new this year.
44:42
They changed the offensive coordinators at the end of the
44:44
year. Siriani is arguing with people
44:47
and he's crying. I mean what?
44:49
What's going on over there? What what?
44:51
What happens to the Eagles, Jack, if they lose the Tampa
44:54
Bay? A lot of times, and most of the
44:57
time, I think it's the relationship the coach has with
45:02
the GM. If Nick Sirianni and the Jim
45:06
Holly Roseman have a really good relationship all along, I think
45:10
he stays unless the owner, OK, Jeff Laurie steps in because the
45:16
owner could override the GM and do whatever the owner insists on
45:20
the coaching change. It happens.
45:22
But if the owner defers to the GM, the coach's fate is in the
45:27
hands of the GM. It depends on the relationship.
45:30
I've said that with the Giants Brian Debow, he's in no danger
45:34
because he has a great relationship with his GM, Joe
45:37
Scheid, who brought him over from Buffalo.
45:40
I'm not sure of the relationship with Howie Roseman and Nick
45:44
Siriani, because if things start going downhill, Nick started
45:47
going downhill. Howie Rosenman must be thinking,
45:51
I make the right personnel moves, but it's not looking good
45:54
because of the coaching. Now you see a fracture.
45:59
The questions this Does Nick Siriani need to win this game to
46:03
save his job? As crazy as it is, he might need
46:06
to win it tonight and let's say he wins it.
46:09
Is that enough? If they go into Detroit and
46:12
lose, is that enough? Obviously, if they win the next
46:16
two games and then let's say they're in the NFC Championship
46:20
game in San Francisco, you know they lose their.
46:25
This is a crazy scenario and Pax would love this picture, this
46:30
happening, Matt. OK And Pax would love this if he
46:33
wanted to show the Eagles win tonight, then they go to Detroit
46:37
and they win bad, you know, next weekend and the Packers beat the
46:42
Niners. The Eagles would be hosting the
46:45
NFC Championship game against the Packers and all of a sudden
46:49
the Eagles would be favorites. And I'll tell you this, but the
46:53
Eagles that became one game away from the Super Bowl.
46:56
All the dissension is out the window and everyone starts
46:59
pulling together where all of a sudden one game from the Super
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Bowl. I mean, crazy things happen in
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this. League.
47:06
But if the Eagles get by Tampa Bay, there are no way they're
47:09
beating the Detroit Lions. That's not happening yet.
47:12
I can almost say that 100% they're not beating Detroit.
47:15
So let's let's get to let's get to Pittsburgh and and Buffalo.
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We'll finally get. The.
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Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
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You know he may be crying after today.
47:26
Who? Who knows?
47:27
The Steelers. The Steelers in the Bills are
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finally playing. The governor says we're we are
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not. We are not again extending this
47:34
and and playing another game. The weather will still be a
47:37
factor. You've got the very physical
47:40
Pittsburgh Steeler offense going to run the ball straight ahead
47:45
at the Buffalo Bill defense. Can Buffalo Bill stop that, that
47:49
strong running game? You're going to have Buffalo
47:51
with that quick James Cook can that?
47:54
You know, can that running work and he jump around and make cuts
47:58
and slash. That'll be a big question.
48:00
The bigger question to me, Jack, is between the two quarterbacks,
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Will Josh Allen go back to checking it down, being patient
48:09
and not throwing the ball crazy? And can Mason Rudolph hit those
48:13
two big plays down the field off play action that might win the
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game? That's the question I have.
48:20
Well, I don't know what the footings going to be.
48:22
You know, we know what the weather is in Buffalo and the
48:26
conditions really aren't going to be good.
48:29
They're going to, you know, very cold.
48:30
And Mason Rudolph's job is basically just manage the game.
48:36
Pittsburgh's going to have to run the ball with Naji Harris.
48:40
They're going to have to run the ball successfully.
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Because if they don't, it the only path to winning this game
48:46
is to come up with a tremendous defensive effort.
48:50
And it's hard for me to envision them keeping, yeah, keeping Josh
48:55
Allen completely in check. I mean, it's just hard to
48:58
envision. I mean, I I look for Buffalo to
49:01
win this game decisively today. I mean on a little bit of a run,
49:06
but nothing should surprise us in these playoffs.
49:08
Look what happened with the packets, you know, in Dallas,
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you know what's the element to it?
49:13
Buffalo does win this game. They would be playing Kansas
49:17
City on Sunday, but Buffalo would have two days less rest in
49:24
Kansas City. KS City play Saturday night.
49:27
And even though this Buffalo GO game is late afternoon, you know
49:31
it ends early evening. So essentially Kansas City is
49:35
going to have two extra days rest because the game got moved
49:39
over day. The NFL can't move this open
49:42
additional day to Tuesday. I mean, the playoffs are this
49:46
weekend coming up. Are you going to have and one of
49:50
the teams play a really real, real short rest?
49:53
Not just a little short rest, but from a Tuesday game to a
49:58
Sunday game. And could you imagine the Bills
50:01
playing on the Tuesday and then having to play on Sunday and the
50:05
Chiefs have three additional days rest?
50:07
As it is, they would have two additional days rest.
50:11
Yeah, yeah, luckily I, you know, what are you going to do?
50:13
You can't stay, you can't control weather.
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So I mean it is what it is. I imagine.
50:18
I imagine the Bills will be ready to play and two days rest
50:21
they're going to have to they're going to have to suck it up.
50:23
That may make them tired in the beginning Jack.
50:25
But once that once those juices flow you know towards the end of
50:28
the game they'll be they'll be OK.
50:30
So you know I it is unfair, but there's nothing that anybody
50:33
could do about it except if they want to cancel the game and
50:36
extend the game now to you know the Kansas City Buffalo game out
50:39
a couple days to make it more even.
50:41
I don't know. I don't know what they'll do.
50:43
So let's you know folks we we do have a where we pick against the
50:48
spreads in the playoffs. We did it all year.
50:49
Jack won the yearly one for those two and in the first time
50:53
he when the regular season pick against the spreads.
50:55
Right now we're doing the same thing in the playoffs right now.
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Let's see if I give you the the things here.
51:03
Jim and Keith Angle, Jim Jeffcoat, Keith Angle are at
51:06
three in one right now. There's a lot of people at two
51:09
and two. Sonia, Linda, me, Jack and the
51:12
Philly Sports guy are all at 2:00 and 2:00.
51:15
And the only one with not one win yet is Byron Williams, the
51:18
one that's supposed to be helping Jim Jeffcoat.
51:21
And I guess that Jim's going to have to start helping Byron now.
51:25
So we'll switch roles there. Cowboy game, right?
51:30
From what I understand, he said. The Cowboys are going to win,
51:33
but the Packers will cover the point.
51:35
Yeah, yeah, you. Know Guy technically got it
51:38
right. Yeah, so big boxing news, Jack.
51:43
Better beef Beats. Is it Williams?
51:46
I'm trying to remember the. Guy Callum.
51:48
Callum Smith Smith Light heavyweight contender?
51:52
Yeah, Better Beef is a beast. An absolute beast that he's in
51:57
his late 30s now. Yeah, around 39 and he stopped
52:01
Callum Smith in seven rounds. Frankel turns and myself saw
52:06
this result coming. Some people are giving Callum
52:08
Smith a real shot at beating Better Beat.
52:11
They pointed to his age and you know, after the fight, Tony
52:16
Bellow, former champion who's a commentator for match room
52:20
boxing and better beep isn't a fighter for match from boxing,
52:23
hinted well fighters don't get better at that age.
52:26
Maybe they should check, check it like in baseball.
52:29
What happened? A finding came back that one of
52:33
better beeps levels were raised. But it wasn't illegal.
52:38
It wasn't illegal. It was considered a normal thing
52:42
in the body. That happens had no laws were
52:45
broken so tone. So it's kind of like guilt by
52:49
association like if an athlete turns in top performances in
52:54
their you know in an advanced age where automatically
52:58
suspicious. What are we supposed to be
53:01
suspicious because Tom Brady performed well in his 40s.
53:04
Come on no one was suspicious that Agne shouldn't have been
53:08
and Tony Bellow. It's interesting when another
53:12
match room fighter you know tested positive for something.
53:17
Tony fellow really didn't make a fuss about it but he's bringing
53:22
up better be than this you know and he's what could what could I
53:26
tell you about a great performance by Better Be.
53:29
You know he he really kept the pressure on.
53:31
I think he beats the meek Reaper ball.
53:33
He stops him. A lot of people might pick the
53:36
rock, the ball because his boxing.
53:39
I think he just puts the pressure on pitfall and
53:43
eventually breaks them. Yeah, yeah.
53:45
Listen, I've watched, I've watched better beads workout and
53:49
I've watched his fights and his workout is is second to none.
53:53
I don't know how he does what he does at his age.
53:56
As you said, he's a beast. He's a monster.
53:58
He's a he's a machine. The guy is something else.
54:00
I I think, I think he would be the ball too.
54:03
NBA yesterday that he beat up on the Hornets.
54:05
Everybody beats up on the Hornets.
54:06
One O 4 to 87 the Nuggets beat. The Pacers of the Indiana has
54:11
been hot lately 117 to 109. The Kings edge the Bucks 143 to
54:16
142. The Timberwolves outlast the
54:18
Clippers 1:09 and 1:05 and Phoenix has their way with with
54:23
Portland 127 to 116. Draymond Green.
54:28
It will be back today on the court.
54:32
We'll see if he can control himself or not.
54:34
I imagine for a couple games he'll be OK, you know.
54:36
What? I mean, I know I don't want to
54:37
put Raymond down because he might be a very good person.
54:40
OK, he doesn't. He doesn't strike me as a bad
54:43
person. It's impulse control.
54:46
Raymond Green is liable to do something on the split second on
54:51
an impulse. It doesn't make him a bad
54:54
person. But how do you control that?
54:57
I'm not sure. But you have to be able to
54:59
control it. You just have to.
55:01
We'll see because it hurts. It hurts the team when he's not
55:04
there. Can only put up with so much I.
55:11
Definitely agree with that. Dwyane Wade will have a statue
55:15
outside Miami Stadium. There you go.
55:18
I'm just going to say that, Jack, Today's games, the Knicks
55:23
six or six or 701 since they've gotten Anubo playing, the Magic
55:28
should be able to with them. I think they're favored by 7
55:30
points. Great trade.
55:32
I mean a big trade that I that I didn't see coming and really
55:36
they got some chemistry on the Knicks right now.
55:38
I don't know. I know it's early.
55:40
I'm not too excited, but I do like what I see right now.
55:44
The team, they are playing well together.
55:46
I don't think it's getting a star or they just build their
55:49
bench up. Jack, I'm not sure where they're
55:51
going to go here, but the center has been playing lights out, the
55:56
big boy inside. I mean, they just look good out
55:58
there right now. Yeah, yeah, They're not beating
56:02
the strongest teams, but the chemistry is.
56:04
But that's the most important thing.
56:07
The chemistry has been good with, you know, on a on a no
56:10
beat deal so far and he's Tom Thibodeau's type of player.
56:15
You know, you want the players to blend into the system that
56:19
the coach is setting and they they were only going to go so
56:21
far with RJ Barrett and Emmanuel quickly get two nice pieces.
56:27
But you know let's see what happens this season because
56:31
there's such parody in the NBA. It it's crazy.
56:34
Like one year ago, man, I picked the Minnesota Timberwolves to
56:38
win the NBA title and they fell flat.
56:41
And you guys could have laughed at me about it last year, how
56:45
Jax picked the Timberwolves to win the NBA title if I did it
56:49
this year, which I didn't, OK, I wouldn't be looking bad this
56:54
year. Wow.
56:55
You know Edward call Anthony Towns Rudy Gobert.
57:00
These guys, you know, really impactful.
57:03
Even though Lando Magic are playing well, the weak teams
57:07
like the Houston rackets are competitive.
57:09
OK, see Sacramento showing another flash in the pan.
57:14
I mean, there's such great parity in the NBA.
57:17
The NBA greatest boss competitiveness goes.
57:21
We got we got the Spurs at Atlanta.
57:23
Boston will visit Toronto, the Heat go to Brooklyn.
57:28
The Thunder visit the drowning Lakers.
57:30
I don't know if they're going to send them a life preserver or
57:32
not. That I don't think the coach is
57:34
long for the season, Jack. I think.
57:36
I think he'll be gone after when?
57:38
He won the in season tournament match so.
57:41
That's your cover hanging. A ban on LA.
57:45
And. That's your cover if the in
57:48
season tournament catches on. Can you imagine years from now
57:52
we look at players legacies, How many in season tournament they
57:57
want to franchise? Of course we have.
58:05
Coming up right when the NFL gets over.
58:08
We got that new league coming up to combine, USFL, XFL.
58:12
I don't know if we'll cover it or not, Jack.
58:14
We might because, you know, maybe, maybe there'll be some
58:16
good football. If they can get close to the way
58:19
the USFL was when Jim Kelly was there, Steve Young was there.
58:24
Players like that. They can get close to that.
58:26
I'd watch it. I don't think they will love.
58:28
They've got to have a good dynamic passing game.
58:32
Handoffs and a bunch of short passes are going to be boring.
58:37
They've got to have some big game players, you know, guys
58:42
highlight real players. And it's got to.
58:45
Be entertaining the game and they need.
58:48
They need like they had back then owners with money.
58:50
I don't know if they have that because they had, they were
58:52
signing players for more than the NFL was offering them and
58:55
that's what made the USFL very competitive at the time.
58:59
So I don't know, Jack. I don't know.
59:05
The Rock, you know, in charge of that league came on and he said
59:09
this league is for the player who's the last cut of an NFL
59:14
team. It gives him a chance to play in
59:17
a path back to the NFL. I don't like that.
59:19
I want. I want the number one draft
59:21
tourist going to this new league.
59:22
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