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The Season with Peter Schrager: Chris "Mad Dog" Russo and Peter's official Super Bowl XLVIII prediction · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Scheger is a production of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, Everybody, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the Season with Peter Schreger. If you're listening, you might
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  Speaker 1: see in your feed that we have another podcast for
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. It's with Dan Soder, who's a die
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  Speaker 1: hard forty nine Ers fan. He's a stand up comedian.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the most successful stand up comedians in
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  Speaker 1: the game right now. We had an amazing hour long
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  Speaker 1: talk heading into the Super Bowl and his experience being
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  Speaker 1: in Niners fan going into it. But I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: give a bonus odd for those who might be traveling
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night, might be traveling on Saturday, might be
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  Speaker 1: at the gym getting ready for the Super Bowl. This
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  Speaker 1: is a two part of here. The first part is
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  Speaker 1: going to be an interview with a hero of mine
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  Speaker 1: and a guy that I think is quite arguably the
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  Speaker 1: most influential person for me doing what I do every
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  Speaker 1: day on a microphone, and that's Chris mad Dog Russo.
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  Speaker 1: If you want the backstory, long before he was on
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  Speaker 1: ESPN tearning it up on first take, Chris mad Dog
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  Speaker 1: Russo was the voice of my childhood on sports. He
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  Speaker 1: and Mike Francessa had the Mic and the Mad Dog
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  Speaker 1: Show on WFAN, and they didn't just hit local sports,
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  Speaker 1: they would hit everything. They would hit you know, Sopranos episodes,
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  Speaker 1: they would hit what's going on in politics, they would
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  Speaker 1: talk about movies, they would talk about everything. And it
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  Speaker 1: was two guys who weren't necessarily best friends, but they
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  Speaker 1: came from different paths and they made great, great art together.
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  Speaker 1: I've always wanted to interview mad Dog. Now I've been
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  Speaker 1: on Francissa's show a bunch, I've been on frances'spot, I
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  Speaker 1: never had a chance to really, you know, meet mad Dog.
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  Speaker 1: And with Super Bowl being in Las Vegas and knowing
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  Speaker 1: what a hit he's been with some of his takes
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  Speaker 1: over the last few months, I really went out there
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  Speaker 1: and I tried to be aggressive in landing mad Dog
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  Speaker 1: for our super Bowl episode. Well, he agreed to do
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, and we're going to do is. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to toss to the interview, which I think is great,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna give you my official super Bowl prediction,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're gonna call it a day and call
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  Speaker 1: it a weekend, and we're gonna go enjoy some wings
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  Speaker 1: and some chips and go watch some football. So no
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  Speaker 1: further ado, Christopher mad Dog Russo, with no further ado.
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  Speaker 1: I've said it time and time again. He's my favorite
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  Speaker 1: person in sports media. I grew up watching Mick and
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  Speaker 1: the Mad Dog, and I have just sow in awe
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  Speaker 1: of what he's done since then. I love the second chapter,
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  Speaker 1: third chapter, and now we're in this chapter where a
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  Speaker 1: whole new audience is learning about him from first take,
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  Speaker 1: and he's incredible and his Wednesday ran say some of
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  Speaker 1: the best things on television or radio right now, No
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  Speaker 1: further ado, Christopher mad Dog Russo. Welcome, Peter.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to have you with us.
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  Speaker 3: I was not realize you were such a huge fan,
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  Speaker 3: so right out of the gate, I get a nice
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  Speaker 3: little bonus on a Thursday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, dude, I remember you sending Mark Melus's to
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  Speaker 1: a bar in Jersey while he was.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, do you remember that. Oh you are
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  Speaker 3: a big crick You do understand.
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  Speaker 1: This is my entire childhood. From one o'clock to six o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: I would listen to you guys religiously. I've been on friends.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you were wrapped up and talk Iron Eagle as
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  Speaker 1: your producer. I remember listening then, I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is how far I go back with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: So so you're talking ninety the ninety four stretches like
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  Speaker 1: you know this legendary you guys going back from Vancouver
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  Speaker 1: to Houston, sitting in the airport and the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, you are. Jeez, you're a groupeable.
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny. You referenced in your recent rant about.
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  Speaker 2: I got mad.
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  Speaker 3: I got mad at Mike and that chippy because you
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't go to Vancouver, so the station made him go
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  Speaker 3: out there for Game six when the Rangers had a
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  Speaker 3: chance to win the cup. Mike wouldn't want to go.
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  Speaker 3: It was a Saturday night, but they made him go.
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  Speaker 2: That was funny. So what was it?
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  Speaker 1: Game six was in at the shootout game and there
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  Speaker 1: was a Game six.
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  Speaker 2: They got killed. They lost three or four nothing, okay, because.
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  Speaker 1: They lost Game one at home yesterday day in overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Hits the goal and then a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Then then they went three row and then we come.
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  Speaker 1: Back to game seven, and of course you guys were
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  Speaker 1: in the saddle, but I don't remember Game six.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Game six was a Saturday night. I'm gonna I
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  Speaker 3: think the score was three nothing. Remember they had a
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  Speaker 3: k They were three to one, and they lost Game
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  Speaker 3: five at the Garden eight to five or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody thought they were going to win the game and
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  Speaker 3: celebrate their cup. How to go back to Vancouver. That's
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  Speaker 3: the one that Mike didn't want to go to. This
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  Speaker 3: is a Saturday night show. But we flew to Vancouver.
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  Speaker 3: Did this show flew back to New York? I remember
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  Speaker 3: Game seven was two days later. They had the extra
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  Speaker 3: day for Game seven. That was a Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 2: Game six was.
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  Speaker 1: In Vancouver on a Saturday night, and Game seven of
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  Speaker 1: Knicks Rockets. I want to say it was on a weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I remember watching John Starks on a.
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  Speaker 3: Weekend game snow Game seven, Game six, Yeah it was
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  Speaker 3: on a Sunday, Yes, right, yes it was on a Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: No, dude, And then check that game.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see the Knicks went back to Houston up three
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  Speaker 2: to two.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they lost two games.
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  Speaker 2: Game seven.
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  Speaker 3: Game six was a Sunday night after the US Open golf,
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  Speaker 3: and Game seven was on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Got it in Houston?
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  Speaker 2: Good job, Well you're sharp.
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  Speaker 1: These These were the years and then obviously during the
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants runs and you know, coming up short
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  Speaker 1: and Barry Bond's killing you and swing the bat, Barry.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm telling you, your stuff is legendary, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: We got my whole crew, we all worship you, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just so cool to have you here to start it.
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  Speaker 1: During the Dan Campbell rint you had which went viral
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  Speaker 1: and was amazing, you referenced the the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: sports geeks whatever, they wouldn't know Lombardi from Paul Brown.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I take away from this because I
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  Speaker 1: do the Good Morning Football Today, I did a six
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  Speaker 1: minute segment on Derek Thomas and how number fifty eight
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  Speaker 1: super Bow fifty eight. He died twenty four years ago today,
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  Speaker 1: Oh didn't how It's yeah, it's crazy that Derek Thomas
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  Speaker 1: isn't alive to see this, because when I think about
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  Speaker 1: the chiefs of that era, there was Marty Schottenheimer and
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  Speaker 1: Derek Thomas and Neil Smith and Deron Cherry and Albert Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: and they would come up short. And I go to
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  Speaker 1: this because is there a place for the sports historian
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  Speaker 1: and the guys like you and me who like you
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  Speaker 1: referenced reference to Otto Graham a couple months ago, and
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  Speaker 1: people like made fun of you online. I'm like, are
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  Speaker 1: you serious? Like, of course, outo Graham, that's it. But
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  Speaker 1: I find myself speaking into a wind tunnel sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: I'm referencing Sonny Jurgensen.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent, right, Peter. I think that's been a
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  Speaker 2: lost start.
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  Speaker 3: I think it'll remember it's also thirty forty years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Whether they were talking, you know, nineteen seventy sports talk
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  Speaker 3: where they're talking about Garrick and DiMaggio, who knows, But
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  Speaker 3: it is a low start. The historical knowledge of the
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  Speaker 3: young podcaster, sports talk show host media personality is a disaster.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how you're going to solve that.
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  Speaker 3: You know when and I love Olasky, but Dan o'loski,
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  Speaker 3: who I love, good guy despite me. I comment this
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  Speaker 3: week when he didn't put Joe Montana his top five
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  Speaker 3: of all time quarterbacks, I mean, come on, I mean
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  Speaker 3: he's five and four and owen super Bowls, three MVPs,
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  Speaker 3: eleven touchdowns and no interceptions. And even that's not that
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  Speaker 3: long ago. It's in the early eighties. So if you
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  Speaker 3: if that is too long for the young guys, and
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  Speaker 3: how the hell is I know Graham going to be
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  Speaker 3: in there, who was in ten straight championship games between
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  Speaker 3: nineteen forty five and nineteen fifty five, So it's a
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  Speaker 3: lost start. I don't care if they, I don't care
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  Speaker 3: what the young fan thinks. I'm going to bring that
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  Speaker 3: up constantly. When somebody dies. They always call me that
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  Speaker 3: I do great with dead guys, with old guys who
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  Speaker 3: dropped dead, because I always put Ernie your corsion or
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  Speaker 3: somebody like that.
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  Speaker 2: I always do that. I do it for all the sports.
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  Speaker 3: I specifically do it for football with Ernie, but I
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  Speaker 3: do with baseball too, and I you know, it's my childhood.
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  Speaker 3: And since my childhood in sports is significant, you know
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  Speaker 3: when I was eleven your age, when you were listening
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  Speaker 3: to Mike and myself. If it means something to me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do it. And that's why there is
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  Speaker 3: to it. And since I'm sixty three going on sixty
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  Speaker 3: four years of age, you know, and still doing this.
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  Speaker 3: If somebody died who I fifty years ago loved and
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  Speaker 3: now he's dead, I'm going to talk about it. And
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  Speaker 3: if you don't like it, all right, I'll live with it.
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  Speaker 3: But the key to it is, if you're a talk
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  Speaker 3: show host, sell it. If it means something to you
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  Speaker 3: as a fan and you're emotional about it and I'm
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  Speaker 3: passionate about it, you can convince the audience that it
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  Speaker 3: means something to them.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's my approach.
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  Speaker 3: So if it means something that Christopher Russo when you
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  Speaker 3: know Jim Brown dies, well then you know, God done it.
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  Speaker 3: If it means something to me, I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 3: you about it, and my enthusiasm will hopefully convince you
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  Speaker 3: that should be mentioned and it will mean something to you.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first. That's great. There's a great author, Michael McCambridge,
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  Speaker 1: who I'm sure you love him. He's incredible out of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis. He just wrote a book called The Big
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  Speaker 1: Time and it's all about seventies sports and it goes
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  Speaker 1: through free agency in the NFL, and it goes through
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  Speaker 1: you know, everything from doctor j having to have to
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  Speaker 1: be sold off, from the from the New York Nets
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  Speaker 1: when they become the New Jersey, all this stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: it's so interesting and I want to share it with people,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, I don't know if there's an audience
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  Speaker 1: anymore if anyone gives it about what the world tennis
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  Speaker 1: ascaw good point.
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  Speaker 3: I did McCambridge twice in the last six months. I
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  Speaker 3: did not read the original book that he did, The League,
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  Speaker 3: which came out and oh two, which is like a
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  Speaker 3: tremendous book, and I got a hold of that and
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  Speaker 3: for some reason I didn't read it at the time.
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  Speaker 2: So I put him on last summer for an hour.
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  Speaker 3: And then this book came out in October, the seventies book,
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  Speaker 3: and I put him on again for an hour. So
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  Speaker 3: in the last six months I've had him on for
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  Speaker 3: an hour apiece. That's another thing, Peter that people find
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  Speaker 3: with me. I will always do book authors, and when
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  Speaker 3: I put a book, I'll put.
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  Speaker 2: Him on for sixty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I think you had said this anachro biographer early this
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  Speaker 1: early this week, which I love. We're in Vegas. I
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  Speaker 1: would love to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did thirty minutes on that. Now.
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  Speaker 3: That one was a little shorter because I'm at Vegas,
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  Speaker 3: I was Super Bowl. I only did that one for
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  Speaker 3: thirty minutes. But most authors of books, I will do
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  Speaker 3: an hour. Because the guy sold this book, he wrote
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  Speaker 3: a book I enjoyed it, and I want to make
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  Speaker 3: sure he sells as many copies as he possibly can.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you one.
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  Speaker 3: A few years ago, I ran into a Shid Luckman
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  Speaker 3: book on the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: Would love to read that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where I found it. I got it,
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  Speaker 3: and somebody I found it read it. I loved the book.
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  Speaker 3: I put The Guy on the Air. Book came out
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  Speaker 3: about ten years ago. I put The Guy on the
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  Speaker 3: air on a Friday for an hour. He the you
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  Speaker 3: do on Amazon that hour, the book like jumped three
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  Speaker 3: thousand spots, and he emailed Eddie Erkson, our producer, to say,
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  Speaker 3: Holy thank he Chris, thank you for all many books
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  Speaker 3: I've sold in the last hour. I don't care. My
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  Speaker 3: job is to sell the guy Is book. If I
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: like the book. If I like the book, you should
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  Speaker 3: like the book too. And so I like to give
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  Speaker 3: the author an hour. If it's a book I enjoy, I.
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  Speaker 1: Take pride in it. I've got enough clout on our
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  Speaker 1: morning show Going Morning Football where I can say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I want to do a segment on this, and they'll
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  Speaker 1: just be like, all right, the Guy of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Now what I have which is incredible and it's underutilized
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  Speaker 1: at the NFL Network and NFL Media, I have access
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  Speaker 1: to the entire NFL Film's vault, so I could call
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  Speaker 1: for I want to see an air Coriel piece that
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sable did in seventy six, can we find some thing?
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  Speaker 1: Or I want to do a piece, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: everyone knows who Bert Bell was, like, can we find that?
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  Speaker 1: And it's again, there's a niche audience that loves it
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  Speaker 1: and appreciates it. I feel like you and I are
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  Speaker 1: kindred spirits. And then I don't know if you have this.
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  Speaker 1: I have the photographic memory where if you mentioned a
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  Speaker 1: Kent Graham Giants game from ninety eight, I could tell
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  Speaker 1: you exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely and good one.
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  Speaker 1: And it's special to me to do that. And then
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  Speaker 1: this week, going through all these Niners Super Bowls, I
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  Speaker 1: could talk about all these Niners teams because I grew
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  Speaker 1: up with it. And you notice that it might not
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  Speaker 1: be the vocal majority online, but the real fans absolutely
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  Speaker 1: love it and appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: I did the same thing in the last three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: I watched the two championship games on the NFL Films,
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  Speaker 3: the seventy nine Er Dallas game seventeen ten Keys are
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  Speaker 3: last last game.
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  Speaker 1: Ever played nineteen fifty seven, right.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's seventy okay, so that was the Niner game. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I watched the fifty seven game too, and then I
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  Speaker 3: watched the seventy one Niner Dallas championship game in Dallas
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  Speaker 3: when Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Beat him fourteen to three.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you were talking Lions Lions nine ers
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven because I went back and I watched that
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  Speaker 1: one from fifty seven, and then seventy one I watched
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  Speaker 1: because it was the last time Baltimore hosted an AFC
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  Speaker 1: championship game. I was Oakland, Baltimore, Oakland, which there's like
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  Speaker 1: twenty ho I put twenty put in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I put on two weeks going
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  Speaker 3: to bottomore Oakland game Norman Budash.
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  Speaker 2: Five o'clock for a half hour a lot.
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  Speaker 3: So I will do that as it was the last
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  Speaker 3: AFL championship game. As you said before the game here
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  Speaker 3: against Kansas City for the Ravens, I did the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: So you and I are kindred spirits as far as
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  Speaker 2: the history is concerned.
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  Speaker 1: You also mentioned on a an either podcast or someone
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to an interview. Maybe it was with
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Clark, who I like and I think he's really
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  Speaker 1: good at what he does. He were saying, you don't
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  Speaker 1: do the whole watch the pregame shows. Well, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the Fox pregame show where we did eleven straight hours. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the NFL network one this year, which are
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  Speaker 1: doing ten straight hours. You don't watch those? What is
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  Speaker 1: your up? Your thought is just I do this for
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  Speaker 1: a living. I'm good. Let's just get to kick off.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first off, I've also been here for a week,
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  Speaker 3: so I mean I might watch the Sunday game with
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  Speaker 3: the CBS.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to do a history of the citok I watched.
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  Speaker 3: That was about one o'clock. I got.
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  Speaker 2: Mcmanuson today. I'll get some details on that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't watch the pregame at all. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to go to any party. My kid called me today
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  Speaker 3: from Wisconsin and he said that podcast got some juice
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  Speaker 3: with me, saying, I want to watch the game by
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  Speaker 3: myself with no interruption. I want to sit in my
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  Speaker 3: freaking little room with the door shut, with the game
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  Speaker 3: on around six o'clock and it's the last football game
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  Speaker 3: you're going to watch until September and it's the last time.
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  Speaker 2: You really a guy like me, you have to do
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  Speaker 2: it more than I would. With the draft.
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  Speaker 3: And the free agency in the schedule, I don't do
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  Speaker 3: as much of it as you would do. But once
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  Speaker 3: that game is over on Friday Sunday night, you don't
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  Speaker 3: got a lot to work with with the NFL and
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  Speaker 3: we need so I'll be quiet. As far as the
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  Speaker 3: sports talk is concerned. It gets to be a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a low. But I will watch the games
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  Speaker 3: by myself, watch the game by myself, nothing fancy, and
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  Speaker 3: I won't sit there and watch three hours of the pregame.
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  Speaker 3: I'll probably put it on around five five point fifteen
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  Speaker 3: and have it on, not watch it, but have it
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  Speaker 3: on at least.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny because I sat down with Mahomes for the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Network one. It's a big that's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you get it's great. I've known him since
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  Speaker 1: he was in college Kingsbury.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great job on your part. Thank good job,
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  Speaker 2: and he's.
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  Speaker 1: Great in it. But to tell you know, twelve hours
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  Speaker 1: of pregame, yeah, I want to. I want that to
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  Speaker 1: be here, to that to be seen. But like how
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  Speaker 1: many times can we talk about the X factor in
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: One hundred percent?
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: But having mahomes that's a great that's a great coup
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: for you.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean I listen. I think getting to Sunday.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: At six thirty is very difficult because you know, there's
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: not a lot on early in the day. There'll be
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: some NBA or college basketball, but getting this Sunday at
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: six thirty is a very difficult proper position. It's a
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: long day in the East before you get to the game,
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: so that's a problem. You gotta kill the day per se.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: But I know on Monday will be easy, Tuesday will
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: be easy, and then it will be a little slow.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: From a sports talk standpoint.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: You have to live with it.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: We'll do it.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: We want that I do.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: And we do a little parade talk Wednesday. Who's gonna
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: be funny on the parade? And we do a little
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: and it's like, let's get to the end of the week.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: For me. You know, I'm on these studio shows. What's
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: your studio show? Like if you were building it?
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I do with this.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: I do Bill Simmons' podcast every Friday, and his thing
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: is there's just too many, like we don't need there's
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: six guys on there, so give me your dream, make
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: your dream studio.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Have to people who the people and two people.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: You don't need six seven guys, I mean, my god,
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: is so much. I mean, look at CBS. They got SIMS,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: and I have Burlson, and I have James Brown, they
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: have Coward they're gonna put obviously.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: JJ Watt Boomer.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: I mean he got six guys. Oh my god, I
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: don't need six guys talk to me about this game.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Couple of guys enough, Oh Drives, You're crazy. And that's
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: one of the reasons why I tune out. I can't
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: deal with six guys talking about the same game for
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: four and a half five hours.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: It's way, way, way too much.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: And I'd say it pet peeve of mine and I
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: do it all the time with the postgame, and it's
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: the network NFI network, and it's also ESPN, and ESPN
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: did this after the Lions game. They went to Campbell
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: and they cut out before Campbell talked about the missfield.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Why do you go for the field goals?
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, hold on, that's what America wants
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: to know right now. Why did he opt not to
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: kick two field goals in the second half on fourth down,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: and they did not go to the SoundBite of him
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: answering that question and when they losing coach, especially when
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: he gets to that microphone after the game Sunday.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: I want to hear the press conference. Okay, I don't.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Need to see Steve Young or anybody else babbling about it.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Booger. I love the guys.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I want to see the freaking press conference that goes
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: for you too. About network, I get it, Show me
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: the people on the press conference, the losing coach.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I want to hear the questions.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: I want to hear ten straight minutes of it, and
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: they refuse to give it to you, and it drives
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: me absolutely. That's not having a feel of the American
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: football fan in that scenario. Losing coach off every big
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: event as a fan is essential, and too many producers
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: don't understand that, and they cut out of it before
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: you get.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: The gist of what the losing coach has to say.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I think one of the coolest things of the NFC
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: AFC Championship games and the Super Bowl is that a
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: lot of times on camera and sometimes I remember it
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: was Aaron Andrews A couple times and it was Chris
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Meyers one time that I gotta think Wolfson does the winner,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and then Evan Washburn I guess on Steia. I like
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: when they interview the losing coach in the locker room
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: right after the game, and you've got the that's a good,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: that's good, but again not as promoted as often as Hey,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: after this, we're gonna get back to the guys in
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the studio. They're gonna break down the game.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: And there's too many examples where the questions in that
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: spot they're generic.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: If somebody blows the game, I got to hear it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Get specific.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: They're afraid of getting them aggravated and everything else. Get specific.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: And I know it's a difficult job. You got somebody
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: in your headset job and you're crazy, but you know,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: for instance, when Mahomes beat the Bills, yep okay had
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: him on the field.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: The first thing they asked, well, how about Baltimore? Even
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: the second game.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I don't want to hear about the ravens now I know, Sibby,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I'm not interested talk about the first pass in the
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: third quarter when Scottling made a big catch on the
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: right sideline.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: First time in the season. He had two catches for
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: more than thirty yards and heldus Scanley, who mahomes his
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: public supported throughout Like that's a cool story.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: It's a good one, you know, talk about the idea
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: you want a road game in Buffalo, the fact that
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: you heard that you couldn't win, and there's not enough
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: of that going on, and it drives me absolutely crazy.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: And boy, what a bet I had.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I had scolding on the over of sixteen and a
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: half yards against the Ravens.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Last played a game again.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Till the game that's a great one. Uh, you know
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: it's the sideliner for all that stuff? Is it the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: game of itself? Now? I love Monday mornings during the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: football season because I know that at seven am Eastern
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: there there might not be the same amount people watching
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: want to give content what I have to say, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: people want to hear what I when you when you
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: have to write that monologue Monday after Super Bowl, super
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday or not right, but do that at one
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: o'clock or whenever the radio show starts. And I go
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: back to when you guys used to recap sopranos back
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: at Mike and the Mad Dog. Is that your favorite
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: moment that you when you first given the.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Monologue after a big game. There's nothing better. Now listen, A.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Mannequin could have done it. But Campbell is a perfect example.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: They played the game Sunday night. It's it's over ten thirty,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and I'm on the next day at three. I don't
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: listen to any other shows. I want to make sure
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I'm not swayed, so when I go in here, you'll
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: block it all out. I don't follow. I mean, I
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: watched the postgame the night before, but the morning off,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I don't watch much. But one Sunday at three Monday
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: at three o'clock rolls around days a perfect example. I'm
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: gonna go twenty minutes and I'm going to kill in
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: this case Campbell, which is to me an absolute lamp.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: And I don't rehearse it. I have it in my
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: head what I'm gonna say, but I don't rehearse it.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I just let it flow. And that is the perfect
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: storm of a big game, controversy, terrible loss, and a
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: night game the night before.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: You're on.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Now, if that game Saturday, you can't do as much
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: on it because you've got a day in between.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: So you need this Sunday.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: But That is an absolute perfect storm for a talk
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: show host like me. It's simple, and I'm good at
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: the rants. I can talk forever. I don't have to
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: rely on a lot of calls early now. For instance,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: on Monday, if I have a Shanahan screw up, or
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: if I have a terrible conclusion of the game, that's
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: an easy layup to.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Get to the show.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I'll do it at three, I'll do it again at five.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I'd probably have something to work with on Tuesday. So
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I'll have this game. If it's got a good conclusion
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: with some drama, it will get two or three days
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: out of it. And that's what I need for next week.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: On the show.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: We'll wrap with this. You and I might be the
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: biggest tennis fans in mainstream media as far as just
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: openly say how much we love the racket sports. I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: don't do pick a ball. I don't know if you do.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: But I've recently becovered I've discovered adell. Have you heard
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: of now? It's unbelievable.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Where I live, where I play my tennis in Fairfield County, Connecticut,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: we just put a padel court in.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: There's only two in Connecticut.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: There's one in Norwalk and one in New Canaan, and
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: we put a padel court in. Now I don't play it,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: but all my buddies this last pass to the summer
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: loved it and played it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I tried it. I still love the tennis more.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: But all my buddies in September did not want to
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: play tennis doubles. They wanted to play padel So I'm
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: very familiar with it, much more than picketball they wanted
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: to play.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: They play the paddle. They play a lot of that
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: in the winter, but they love the padell.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: We only have the one court and getting a court
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: reserving it was very difficult.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Did I ever convince you to come out with me
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: and my buddies here I'm in Brooklyn, New York.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, to play tennis in the city, absolutely absolutely.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I have not played a lot in the winter yet.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I play a lot. Once April comes, I'll play four
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: tames a week.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I'll play a lot of tennis. Uh, yes, absolutely, I
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: can definitely do that. I'll come down and you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: maybe on a first take day come over.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: And yeah, great, I'm not gonna waste any more of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: your time. I could literally do this for three hours
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and uh if then when you want to give me
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: a show on.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: You you got him a great job. You do a
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: wonderful job.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I go to Connecticut Muffin and U Canaan every day
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: and they have the NFL network on there every day,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: and I'm in there at about six seven o'clock.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I watch you all the time.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Love this. I so appreciate you. Thanks for all you doing.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Don't let jj Redick was a freaking They're gonna make Medeck.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I think they make Weddeck the replacing doc. Look for that.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I think he's good on the games. He's very good
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: on the games, very serious in the studio, and you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and him are a good counterbalance to each other.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: We have fun with them. We have fun. Good job, Pete,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: you got the man.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Chris, You're the best.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Mad Dog Russo Aaron wan Kaufman my producer here on here.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: You could tell I was fanboying man out. I think
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I pitched myself for a show on his network six
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: different times.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I've ever heard you say kindred spirits,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: and I don't think i've ever heard you say it
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: three times four times? You but you you like clearly
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, I have always known that you love the
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: history of the game, and you have this recollection of
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: stats and previous games, and that was like watching.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I mean that, I mean, I don't know.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: That was like some young quarterback getting to work out
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: with my homes and being like, wait, yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Dude, he's referencing y He's referencing Keysar Stadium, and I'm
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: trying to one up him. But I'm like, he's like,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I's talk about fifty seven fifty seven keys Our stadium.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: That's That's what I'm talking about.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: He's great, and I love how he just he's got
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: he's got. He's got that. I don't give a leap
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: where he's like the CBS pregame show, you know, it
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: doesn't do it for me, and he just like goes
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: off and You're like, I would never do that because
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: those are like, you know, who knows I might be
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: working with those guys, right. He doesn't care. He's like,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I'm mad dog, I'm in my sixties. I'm gonna say
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: what I say. Uh gosh. She was great and I
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: so appreciate his place in the sports media landscape. That said,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it is time to unveil my official Super Bowl prediction.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: If you listen to this podcast or you watch me
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: on TV, you know I've had a bit of good
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: fortune with these picks over the years. We went back
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: in the tapes, it's not five years straight that that
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: was a that was an outright mistake. Truth is, I've
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: either picked the right Super Bowl matchup or the winner
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: in the last four Super Bowls. And in this years instance,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I actually before the season picked the Chiefs and the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: forty nine Ers to square off. And I'll tell you
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I had the Rams winning the Super Bowl. I had
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the Rams being the Chiefs. The Rams actually beat the Bengals.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I had the Chiefs winning last year, and I said
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: very specifically that Nick Bolton was going to have the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: game winning touchdown or the game winning play, which he did,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: and I said they were going to beat the Packers.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Packers didn't even make the playoffs last year. They actually
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: ended up beating the Eagles, so I didn't even have
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: going to the tournament before the season started. But this
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: year I've been spot on, and this year I have
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: a flawless record with every single playoff game except one.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I had the Cowboys beating the Packers in the wild
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: or in the Divisional round. That is the only was
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that Wildcar round or division that was the Wildcar round? Right?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: It was Wildcar Round. That's the only game I've gotten wrong,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I think as far as the playoffs, and no, I
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: might have had another one. Oh I had the Browns.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I had the Browns beating the Texans them. So I'm
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: sitting pretty I wawless divisional round picks, wawless Championship round picks.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And before the season. Let's go to what we did
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: on the podcast. Let me toss to the clip. Here's
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: what we said on September seventh, before kickoff on how
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I thought this season Super Bowl matchup would go. My
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: winners from the NFC, the San Francisco forty nine ers.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I think they play a punishing brand of football that
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: is with Nick Bosa or without. I think their defense
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: always sets the standard. And as much as I love
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Demko Ryans, I don't think they missed that much of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a beat without him. They keep ongoing. They've got young
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: talent at every position there and then on offense, Kyle
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Shanahan is a mad genius. I think he finally has
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: a quarterback that can operate his offense that he believes
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: he could put in trust and really get them over
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the hump. He's a former mister Irrelevant and that is okay.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I've got McCaffrey as my MVP. I think Deebo has
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: a big year. I think Ayuk is a big year.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I think Trent Williams might going out on a swan
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: song here in his last couple of seasons, but I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: think he's still the best tackle in the league. I'm
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: going with the San Francisco forty nine ers as my
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: team out of the NFC. As for the AFC, really
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: really struggled with this. Yeah, I can't pick against the Chiefs.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I don't care if Chris Jones is there. I don't
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: care if Tyreek Hill's not there. I don't care if
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: any of those guys aren't there. I can't pick against
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs. The Chiefs have been the standard and last
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: year was a great lesson. I stuck with them. I
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: picked them the wins Super Bowl despite losing Tyreek Hill.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I think I might have been in an island on that,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and that sounds wild considering how much success they have.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I will not pick against Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: until I am forced to and I am not forced
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to pick against them. They are still at the peak
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of their game. I had a chance to spend time
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: with them this offseason at that big Slick Charity Classic,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and I was hanging with them, and I swear to god,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I left that thing being like, those guys are great.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: And then I talked to us some people around the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: league and I'm like, I don't know. They seem like
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: we haveing a little towo good of a time this
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: offseason with the golf and this, and there are concerts
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and it's like Mahomes and Kelsey are everywhere in the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: podcast and start turning away and then you're like, holy crap,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: they're just so good. I am going with the Chiefs.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know how they get there. I don't know
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: if it's through a one seed and they host all
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: these games at Arrowhead. I don't know if they've got
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: to go on the road. But like I said, it's
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: one of those deals, my eyes will not deceive me.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And if there's a fourth quarter and Patrick Mahomes needs
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: to get it done in a big spot, he has
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: gotten it done every single time. I'm going with Kansas City. Now,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: this was a super Bowl, A few years back in Miami.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: We go from one party city to the next. We
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: go to Vegas. Forty nine Ers versus Chiefs, the Super
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Bowl Champions for the Super Bowl in Las Vegas on CBS.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Drum roll please, Aaron. The Kansas City Chiefs will be
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: your first back to back Super Bowl champion winners since
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots did it in two thousand and
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: three and two thousand and four. I am going with
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I love what they are all about. I
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: love that people are doubting them, and I love the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: fact that Mahomes and Kelsey are ready to go. Back
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: on September seventh, here we are as we head towards
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, less than forty eight hours away, and
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: here's how I see it going down. I do still
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: think it's going to be a shootout. I know that
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: sounds crazy. Spags's defense has been so dialed in, but
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: you give Kyle Shanahan two weeks to prepare, you better
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: believe you're getting the best at Christian McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: George Kittle, Kyle Yuschek, and then the sunsung hero of
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  Speaker 1: this team, Brandon Ayuk, who has become an incredible wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: I think you will see a couple plays to a
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  Speaker 1: guy they called third and Juwan. That's Juwan Johnson. I
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  Speaker 1: think he make a couple of big plays. I also
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  Speaker 1: think that offensive line is healthy. I think Trent Williams
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  Speaker 1: has been outstanding these playoffs. This team is going to
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  Speaker 1: move the ball on spags and that's something that the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens could not do. It is something that the
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  Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins absolutely could not do. But I have full
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  Speaker 1: confidence that Kyle Shanahan will dial it up in a
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  Speaker 1: million ways, and between he and Clint Kubiak and Brian
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  Speaker 1: Greci and the rest of those offensive coaches, they will
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  Speaker 1: put up points. I don't know if we see Cadarius Tony.
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  Speaker 1: I think he had one of the greatest out of
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  Speaker 1: nowhere performances in the Super Bowl last year with the
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  Speaker 1: big punt return and the touchdown. But I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he plays in this one, as he has been
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  Speaker 1: not on the field throughout the playoffs. But if he's
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  Speaker 1: out there, I'd watch for him to have a couple
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  Speaker 1: of cool gadget plays. Truth of the matter is, Chaeco
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  Speaker 1: has been as good a running back in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: as anyone not named mccaff free in the last sex
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  Speaker 1: six weeks of the season. He is reliable. He killed
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens and he killed the Dolphins a couple weeks earlier.
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  Speaker 1: I think Pachaco eats. I think this game goes back
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  Speaker 1: and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: tragedy of it all is that you know who I'm picking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm picking the Kansas City Chiefs. The tragedy is this
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  Speaker 1: let to be one of the great great Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: I really do think so shootout the whole deal. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be like twenty one to twenty one
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  Speaker 1: or twenty four to twenty one heading into the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that the Niners are going to have
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  Speaker 1: a lead. The Niners are going to have a lead
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  Speaker 1: at say twenty eight to twenty seven, and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be one of these deals where they're up, they're
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  Speaker 1: holding on. And I do think that it is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a Trent McDuffie, he's six in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter at will ins the game of the Kansas City Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: and I do think that the Kansa City Chiefs defense
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  Speaker 1: slams the door one more time so I've got to
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  Speaker 1: go in this way, thirty four to twenty eight. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: four to twenty eight. Now, I got that figure out
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  Speaker 1: how how that scoring works, because if they're down a point,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't kick an extra point, they would go for two.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, I'm going with thirty four to twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: and I cannot say it enough. Trent McDuffie. Trent McDuffie,
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  Speaker 1: Trent McDuffie. Now, Aaron, here's the issue. Trent McDuffie has
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  Speaker 1: never had an interception in the NFL, never, and yet
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  Speaker 1: I think in the Super Bowl he saves the best
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  Speaker 1: for the last. He's one of the most physical corners
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  Speaker 1: in the league. He and Steed have been great all season.
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  Speaker 1: I see an interception, Bang, bang, Niner Gang. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: The Niners have done this season. I picked them to
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  Speaker 1: win the NFC. They have done that. It's an amazing story.
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  Speaker 1: And yet at the end of the day, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's Kelsey, I think it's Mahomes, I think it's Reed,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Spagnolo, I think it's stone cold Chris Jones.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's those guys winning another Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: the first back to back Super Bowl winners since two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and four, when the Patriots won back to back
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowls, beating the Carolina Panthers and the Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 1: in consecutive years. Mahomes majestic again. He will be your MVP,
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  Speaker 1: but Trent McDuffie will make the play. On that note,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I signed off. I will see you guys next week.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Will recap the Super Bowl. This is Peter Schreger. This
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: is the Season with Peter Schreger. This is the Trent
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  Speaker 1: McDuffie pick six that we will be talking about for
• 33:52
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