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Hour 1 – Christmas Ball · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: Oh what is going on? Welcome in here.
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  Speaker 4: Merry Christmas to everybody still on the West coast. Right
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  Speaker 4: Christmas not over yet, but you know everybody else, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're into what Thursday morning, Friday morning, Friday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness, My days of the week are all screwed up here.
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  Speaker 4: You know what's funny is we got a lot to
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  Speaker 4: talk about tonight, mostly football related, some basketball related.
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  Speaker 2: But it's funny.
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  Speaker 4: They put together a cut sheet at Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 4: The editors do a great job. They edit a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of audio throughout the day. They put a cut sheet
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  Speaker 4: together and at the very top of the cut sheet
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  Speaker 4: it's Charles Barkley and the cut is entitled NFL Got Greedy?
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  Speaker 4: Christmas is an NBA day. No, it is not sorry
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  Speaker 4: like it is not anymore when you have a NFL
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  Speaker 4: triple header. We could do a little tail of the
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  Speaker 4: tape if you want to do it. Ratings wise, NBA
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  Speaker 4: doesn't want to play that game. And I love the NBA,
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  Speaker 4: trust me, this is not like anti NBA stuff. I
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  Speaker 4: watched the NBA all the time. I used to watch
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  Speaker 4: it every single day. I would still watch it every
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  Speaker 4: single day. The problem is I can't figure out how
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  Speaker 4: to find some of the games I'm getting. I'm getting
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  Speaker 4: readjusted to the new TV package right here. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: I typically watch the NBA every day. So this is
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  Speaker 4: not me like typical anti NBA stuff. But bro, if
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  Speaker 4: you want to get into a tail of the tape
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  Speaker 4: ratings wise, the Nightcap was a pretty bad game.
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  Speaker 2: Very vanilla, very boring game. It was on Prime Video.
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee it dusted anything that was on ESPN. And
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  Speaker 4: the Nightcap in the NBA was tremendous. That Timberwolves Nuggets
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  Speaker 4: game was crazy, Like the the t Wolves made this
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  Speaker 4: dramatic comeback at the end of regulation. Ant hits a
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  Speaker 4: corner three to force overtime. There's a tremendous comeback. Didn't
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  Speaker 4: we get to overtime? In Minnesota's up by like nine points.
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  Speaker 4: They're killing Nver, and you're like, all right, this looks
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  Speaker 4: like it's a wrap. Denver's like, no, not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 4: They make this dramatic comeback in overtime and ended up
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  Speaker 4: winning the game. The Kola Jokic goes nuts a fifty
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  Speaker 4: six point triple double. So I'm not anti NBA, But
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  Speaker 4: for anyone who's like, oh, no, Christmas is still the
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  Speaker 4: NBA's day, No it is not. The ratings would suggest otherwise.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know what else you're going by. Were
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  Speaker 4: you just like because it used to be the NBA's day,
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  Speaker 4: it still is, like what do you have to be up?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have ratings to back that up? No, you don't.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL does.
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  Speaker 4: The NFL can point and be like interesting, So it
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  Speaker 4: looks like millions and millions and millions of people watched
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  Speaker 4: our product while little little millions watched your product, NBA.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it looks like to us. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you want to, you know, you can't bring something
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  Speaker 4: else to this little debate over I don't know. The
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  Speaker 4: tail of the tape is the ratings. If you want
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  Speaker 4: to say it's still this league's day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think you gotta back it up with ratings and
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  Speaker 4: say the people are watching our product more than that product. Now,
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  Speaker 4: both of these first two games in the NFL were
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  Speaker 4: on Netflix. That's a little bit of a different deal
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  Speaker 4: in terms of gauging ratings. I don't even know how
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  Speaker 4: they go about doing that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure there's a way they can gauge it. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know how much it differs from any of like
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  Speaker 4: the linear TV, if a game is just on Fox
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  Speaker 4: or CBS or what have you. I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: much different it is with nets. I'm sure there's a
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  Speaker 4: way they can ballpark it. But I guarantee you, even
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  Speaker 4: though we watched some bad football on Christmas Day, mostly
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure it blew the NBA's ratings out of the water.
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  Speaker 4: And you can give me the best NBA matchup possible.
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  Speaker 4: You can give me Lebron and the Lakers against Kadie
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  Speaker 4: and the Rockets. And even though that was not a
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  Speaker 4: good game, man, it's still a close first half. You
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  Speaker 4: still got the Juggernauts going toe to toe. It's it
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  Speaker 4: just doesn't hold a candle to the NFL sorry, like
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  Speaker 4: the NFL is king. We don't say that because you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just something that's like a niche thing to say.
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  Speaker 4: We say because it's the truth. The NFL is king
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  Speaker 4: by far. And even though Christmas Day was the NBA's
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  Speaker 4: day when there wasn't competition, when it was just NBA games,
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  Speaker 4: now that the NFL is like, you know what, screw
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  Speaker 4: the NBA. Let's let's make it our day too. It's
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  Speaker 4: the NFL's day. Make no mistake about it. It's completely
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  Speaker 4: the NFL's now. One of the games on Christmas Day
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  Speaker 4: was the Vikings beating the Lions. The Lions season is
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  Speaker 4: officially dead. It's a little bit like squid Game. You
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  Speaker 4: know how they do this on Squid Game where someone
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  Speaker 4: gets knocked out and they have the little voice that's
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  Speaker 4: right eliminated.
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  Speaker 2: That would be the Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 4: They are dead dead, as Robert de Niro said in
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  Speaker 4: I think it was Good Fellows, right dead dead. I
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  Speaker 4: know know, I was casino, Sorry getting my movie references
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  Speaker 4: mixed up.
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  Speaker 2: But no more Lions.
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  Speaker 4: They are audio s muchachos. And this is the crazy thing.
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  Speaker 4: If you look at the Vikings, not exactly gaudy passing numbers.
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  Speaker 4: So Max Brosmer he got the start for the Vikings.
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  Speaker 4: He was nine for sixteen for fifty one yards. Now
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  Speaker 4: you might think, man, fifty one yards, that's pretty low total.
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  Speaker 4: It actually gets lower than that. That's what he passed.
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  Speaker 4: Now when you factor in the sack yardage that was lost, right,
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  Speaker 4: you lose yardage with these sacks that mount up. So
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  Speaker 4: when you factor that in, the Vikings passed for a
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  Speaker 4: grand total of get this, three yards. That's the Vikings
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  Speaker 4: passing attack against the Lions on Christmas Day. Three passing yards. Somehow,
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  Speaker 4: some way, the Vikings passed for three yards and one
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  Speaker 4: by thirteen points. That's how badly the Lions season ended
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  Speaker 4: up here. It's just completely falling off the tracks. They
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  Speaker 4: were eight and five, had a legitimate shot to make
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, and they've lost their last three games and
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  Speaker 4: they're officially eliminated. They're done, Audios, and I get it.
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  Speaker 4: They lost to the Rams. No crime in losing to
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  Speaker 4: the Rams. The Rams are arguably the best team in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL this season, even though they're third in their division,
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  Speaker 4: which is just insanity. But a lot of people like
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  Speaker 4: the Rams with good reason. Very very good team. Matthew
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  Speaker 4: Stafford has been fantastic this season. So a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago the Lions they lost to the Rams on
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  Speaker 4: the road, no crime in that, right, Rams are nasty.
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  Speaker 4: But since then they lost to the Steelers at home,
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  Speaker 4: and then they lose to the Max Brosmer Vikings. When
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  Speaker 4: the Vikings passing attack put together a brilliant aerial display
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  Speaker 4: to the tune of three yards, and they still lost
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  Speaker 4: to the Vikings. So it's over with. It's amazing too,
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  Speaker 4: because now the Vikings and the Lions have the exact
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  Speaker 4: same record. They are both eight and eight. How about that.
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  Speaker 4: I said this the other night when I filled in
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  Speaker 4: for Big Ben. If you look at how disastrous this
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  Speaker 4: Viking season has been, think about it. You've had JJ
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  Speaker 4: McCarthy start nine games, and a lot of that was bad.
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  Speaker 4: You know, first year starter, ugly play, inaccurate passes, injured,
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  Speaker 4: out of the lineup, then back in the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it looks bad. He looks like a first year starter.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of it was ugly, and so they have
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  Speaker 4: JJ McCarthy in there. Then they have Carson Wentz in
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  Speaker 4: there for five games, and you get a little dose
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  Speaker 4: of Max Brosmer and oh, my lords, he threw for
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  Speaker 4: fifty one yards against the Lions. That was like a
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  Speaker 4: breakout performance for Max Brosmer. You see him against the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: My lord, they had four interceptions. He had the one
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  Speaker 4: single worst interception of the entire season. It was like
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  Speaker 4: the no look trying to get rid of it and
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  Speaker 4: just went right to a Seattle linebacker for a pick six. Right.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a horrible season for the Vikings, and yet
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  Speaker 4: they have the exact same record as the Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 4: Crazy how that has worked out. One other thing to
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  Speaker 4: mention that it's getting a lot of attention here and.
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  Speaker 2: I totally disagree with it.
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  Speaker 4: There is a lot of talk, particularly on x I
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  Speaker 4: see a lot of tweets about this where it's like, wow,
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  Speaker 4: I mean the Lions they sure do miss Ben Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: I see that a lot a lot of comments about man,
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  Speaker 4: they missed the former offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, who's now
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  Speaker 4: the head coach of the Bears. I mean, look at
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  Speaker 4: the Lions right now, and look at the Bears right now. Look, man,
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  Speaker 4: offense is not the issue with the Detroit Lions now
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  Speaker 4: on Christmas Day, Yeah, you could point to the offense
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  Speaker 4: and say, whoa, if you had more offense, you would
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  Speaker 4: have beaten the Minnesota Vikings. That's fair, But to put
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  Speaker 4: that on the entire season, that's not the reason why
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  Speaker 4: the Lions are eight and eight and find themselves where
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  Speaker 4: they are. You know as well as I do. When
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  Speaker 4: you look at what the Lions collectively have done. Offensively,
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  Speaker 4: their numbers are fine. They're among the league leaders in
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  Speaker 4: many different categories offensively. The problem is defensively, you had
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of injuries. The defense isn't as good as
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  Speaker 4: the offense is not the problem with the Lions. They're
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  Speaker 4: number three in passing offense, their twelfth in rushing offense.
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  Speaker 4: They score the second most points in the league this season.
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  Speaker 4: They averaged just over thirty points per game. It's not
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  Speaker 4: the offense that is killing the Lions here. That's not
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  Speaker 4: the case. They've had a lot of injuries. Defensively, their
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  Speaker 4: secondary is mangled, the offensive line a little bit banged up.
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  Speaker 4: They can't run the ball like they usually can. That's
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  Speaker 4: not a Ben Johnson thing. That's just a you know, listen,
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  Speaker 4: if you have an identity and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 4: you can't do quite as effectively what your identity is
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  Speaker 4: what you are at your core. Then like Ben Johnson's
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  Speaker 4: not changing that, he's not fixing that. Donaldly is the
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  Speaker 4: Ben Johnson problem. I just think listen and there are
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  Speaker 4: seasons like this in the NFL where there's a talented team,
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  Speaker 4: high expectations. Maybe they drop a game here or there,
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  Speaker 4: and then they start pressing. It starts to snowball, and
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  Speaker 4: then they find themselves on the outside of the playoffs
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  Speaker 4: looking in. I don't think that you can look at
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  Speaker 4: Dan Campbell and his play calling and be like, whoa
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  Speaker 4: grease fire?
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  Speaker 2: What is he thinking?
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  Speaker 4: Right? I just don't see it that way. I just
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  Speaker 4: don't see Ben Johnson walking in there and all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden it's just, you know, it's an aerial display.
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  Speaker 4: And the other thing here is it's not a Ben
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  Speaker 4: Johnson thing at all. That Jared Goff sucks in one
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  Speaker 4: area when he is facing a pass rush of any sort. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what it is. If you look at
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  Speaker 4: Jared Goff, he's an enigma. You know they had the
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  Speaker 4: Enigma documentary with Aaron Rodgers. You need Enigma starring Jared Goff.
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  Speaker 4: From this perspective, it's not you know, I get it
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  Speaker 4: with Rogers. He's a little eclectic, a little out there,
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  Speaker 4: a little different, right, That's what it means as far
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  Speaker 4: as that goes. I'm not saying that with Jared Goff,
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  Speaker 4: but just his game. His game on the field is
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  Speaker 4: an enigma. If you look at Jared Goff's numbers, his
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  Speaker 4: numbers are sick, Like going into Week seventeen, going into
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  Speaker 4: the Christmas Day game against the Vikings, thirty two touchdown passes,
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  Speaker 4: five interceptions, Like, that's fantastic. He's third in passing yards
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  Speaker 4: per game, He's second in passer rating.
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  Speaker 2: His numbers are nasty. His numbers are like off the charts.
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  Speaker 4: And yet when you watch Jared Goff, you're like, ugh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure I'm not the only one who you just
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  Speaker 4: watch me, You're like, oh my gosh, Like that was
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  Speaker 4: a rough one right there. I don't know about that performance,
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  Speaker 4: right like, And when he faces a pass rush is
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  Speaker 4: just brutal to watch. Is rough, ugly, like ugly ugly stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So there you go, there's Jared Goff. We'll get to
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  Speaker 4: more stuff here. I think I got to reset stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't know, you know, my connection might
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  Speaker 4: not be connected very well, So I need to shut
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  Speaker 4: up here momentarily. But we've got a lot of football
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  Speaker 4: to get to, a little bit of basketball. I've got
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  Speaker 4: basketball headlines for you. I'm not scared to talk Coops,
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  Speaker 4: but lots of football here. Very excited to talk about
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  Speaker 4: the playoff picture. I want to do that next, and
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  Speaker 4: I'll get to these fugazy Broncos in a second. It's
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  Speaker 4: probably a good thing that Coop isn't here. Like the
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  Speaker 4: performance from the Broncos on Christmas Day, it might have
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  Speaker 4: broken the friendship between myself and Justin Cooper apart. It
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  Speaker 4: might have ripped it apart at the seams, like this
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  Speaker 4: team just sleep walking through games and playing down to
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  Speaker 4: the level of their competition. I just I'm not a
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  Speaker 4: big Broncos fan. I'm not a big Broncos believer. But
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  Speaker 4: here's the thing that is what I want to get
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  Speaker 4: to next. The theme of the the NFL playoffs as
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  Speaker 4: it stands right now, right we're nearing, we're approaching ever
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  Speaker 4: so closely, the NFL playoffs. I think the theme of
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  Speaker 4: the NFL playoffs actually is a lyric in a heavy
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  Speaker 4: metal song. I think that this this lyric from the
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  Speaker 4: heavy metal song makes the most sense in terms of
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  Speaker 4: your approach as a fan, maybe even a sports better
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to the upcoming NFL playoffs, I'll share
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  Speaker 4: that with you right around the corner. I'm Brian in
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  Speaker 4: for Big Ben Mallard. Keep it locked right here on
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  Speaker 2: Pally Foods Go here with Tony Foods Go Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Quick, knowledgeable and funny opinion.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing interrupting our promo? Yeah, it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: talking about you. You took those clubs totally out of context.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well, after this promo, I'm gonna take you
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  Speaker 5: out and beat you.
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  Speaker 3: Let me put this into context. Shut up.
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  Speaker 4: Yea, it is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian no In
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  Speaker 4: for Big Ben Meller. I hope you had a fantastic
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  Speaker 4: Christmas celebration or you know, Christmas Day for those that
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  Speaker 4: aren't celebrating. You know, not.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody does celebrate.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully, hopefully your Christmas, your Thursday was outstanding, your top shelf.
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  Speaker 2: It was good for me. It's good.
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  Speaker 4: Watch them ball of course meeting football, right, ball means football.
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  Speaker 4: Any rational thinking human being feels that way. I believe
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  Speaker 4: I'm worried about this connection. You know, hopefully it sounds
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  Speaker 4: you know, top shelf, double thumbs up, you know, whenever
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  Speaker 4: they're like, I don't know, man, you sound like I
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  Speaker 4: just it's the worst. I can't even tell you, man,
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  Speaker 4: it's the worst. If somebody came up and said you're
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  Speaker 4: a disgusting human being and I hate you, that would
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  Speaker 4: be way less horrible than someone on Fox Sports Radio
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  Speaker 4: staff saying, yeah, man, your connection sounds bad right now.
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  Speaker 2: Like the latter is way worse. I don't know how to.
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  Speaker 4: Explain it to you, man, Like for any host, it
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  Speaker 4: just throws you off. You have no idea. As soon
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  Speaker 4: as you have it in your head, like it sounds bad,
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  Speaker 4: you're like, well, shoot, I mean you're trying to put
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  Speaker 4: a thought together and it's a disaster. So that's what
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  Speaker 4: we're dealing with. But hopefully we got it ironed out.
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  Speaker 2: Hey.
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  Speaker 4: with you guys. Now I did mention this. I think
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  Speaker 4: that the theme of the NFL Playoffs as it stands
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  Speaker 4: right now, we're getting closer and closer to playoff time.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna change, but as of right now, I think
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  Speaker 4: the official theme is a lyric from a heavy metal song. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: now this is from Gojira. You might not be familiar.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay, you don't need to be.
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  Speaker 2: By the way.
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  Speaker 4: This band, I think they're from France. I think they're
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  Speaker 4: French over here go Jira. Believe that's true. And fun
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  Speaker 4: fact from them, they actually played a bit during the Olympics,
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  Speaker 4: like the opening ceremonies, so because it was in France
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  Speaker 4: and I'm ninety nine percent sure they're French. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 4: rocking out during the opening ceremonies. I couldn't believe it.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: They were playing heavy stuff. I'm like, this is the Olympics,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: this is the opening ceremonies. This is as mainstream as
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: it gets. And they're like, yeah, let's get go Jura,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: and you know, let's get some metal. We need a
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: little more metal in our Olympic diet over here. But
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: they have this song called Stranded, and there's a portion
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: of the song where I think you'd be able to
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: tell what they say. If you don't, I'll tell you
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: what they say in a second listen to this lyric.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: I think it's the official theme of the NFL playoffs
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: as it stands right now. Here you go, there you go.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Don't lock the door on me, That's what he says.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I think that's where we're at in the NFL playoffs
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: right now. If you think about this, normally, in an
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: NFL season, I would start locking the door on numerous teams.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Right If we had Mahomes and the Chiefs and they've
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: been to the super Bowl five straight years and this
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: is a normal season, I could just start eliminating.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Teams right away.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: I could be like, yeah, Texan's better luck next year.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Chargers no good season, but not quite. Steelers, Yeah, right,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: get out of here. They were they gonna have a
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: deep playoff run. They never have a deep playoff run.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: It's been a decade since they've won a playoff game.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: What are they gonna do in a play right? I
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: just start locking the door on all these teams are
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: a lot of them, but as it stands right now,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: without a clear cut favorite, I hate to say it,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: but I think the best approach is to not lock
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: the door on hardly any of these teams. If you
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: start playing the game of It's like, what did Russell
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Westbrook say this one time?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Like why not?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Me?
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Like? Why not?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: If you look at team by team in the playoff
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: picture in the NFL, it's like, why not the Broncos?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Why not the Patriots getting to the super Bowl? Why
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: not Jacksonville? Right Like some people will laugh at me
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: saying why not Jacksonville? Think about this. If you look
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: at Jacksonville right now, they're a three seed. We'll see
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: how everything shakes out as we wind down here with
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: the Broncos winning on Christmas Day, that they don't have
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: any shot to catch the Broncos for the one seed.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: So they did before you know, Week seventeen got started.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: They still had a shot, like an outside shot at
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: the one seed, and so they're gonna end up as
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: a two or three right around there. You're telling me
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: that no chance to know how Jacksonville emerges from the
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: af SE.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I'm not telling you.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I'm running to the betting window to put everything I
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: own on Jacksonville getting to the super Bowl. But I'm
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: here to tell you we can't just eliminate them as
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: if they have no shot, that's still not with the
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: lack of teams around them, I mean, you look at
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: these teams. They have strengths and they have capabilities of
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: deep playoff runs, and then they have warts, they have shortcomings,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: They have things that could come back and bought them
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: come playoff time, and there they fizzle out relatively quickly.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: But if you just look at the AFC playoff picture,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: it's like you're telling me no way for the Jags. Like,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: think about this, if Jacksonville ends up facing Denver, Like
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Denver is the one seed right now, they've got a
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: good shot to be the one seed in the AFC.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: What if the Jags end up in Denver again, you're
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: telling me they can't beat them again. They crushed Denver
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: last week, just a couple of days ago, right, kill
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: them in Denver. They're not capable of going back there
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: and beating them again. Like, you start playing this game
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: with teams, who's the no chance know how team?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: There might be a couple.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Maybe you say the Steelers are that team no chance
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: know how.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: They at least get to the Super Bowl. Let's put
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: it that way.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Right, If you handicapped the AFC, and then you also
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: turn around and handicap the NFC, who are the teams
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: that you would say no chance. Know how they get
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: to the super Bowl. Maybe the Steelers are on your list.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: I think for a lot of people, whoever wins the
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: NFC South would be on their list. You don't see
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: the Carolina Panthers or Tampa Bay having this deep playoff run.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's crazy at all. I would agree
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: with that. I wouldn't go as far as to say
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: no chance. But in the NFC, I think there are
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: some some tougher, tougher upper echelon teams to get through.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Like for a team like Carolina, just think about their path.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Their path would be something like, as it stands right now,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Niners in the first round, yeh right, Like, okay, you
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: survive that, Maybe Seahawks on the road, second round, yeesh right,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: and then whoever's left, maybe Philly. That would be your
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: potential path throughout the playoffs. That is a tough path
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: for a team like Carolina. So I wouldn't have them
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: in the mix. I would say, yeah, no, better luck
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: next time. Not gonna happen. But you understand the point
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: when you start looking at okay, could Seattle Yeah, could
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: they get to the super Bowl?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: I don't love them as a team, but they have
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: home field throughout the NFL playoffs. Yeah, they got a
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: legit shot to make it to the playoffs to the
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: super Bowl. They don't run the ball very well. Sam
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Darnold is shaky at best, especially in big games.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Holds onto the ball way too long, take sacks, you know.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Doesn't get rid of it, turns the ball over. I
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: just I don't love Seattle, but too playoff wins. If
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: they're the one seed to get to the super Bowl,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: it's doable.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Bears.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I don't like the Bears either. Like the Bears defense
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: not very good. They live, they survive on takeaways. They
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: create a bunch of turnovers. That's how they survive. That's
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: how they like keep their head above water. Basically, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: see a team like the Bears with a pretty weak
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: defense that is getting by by forcing a ton of turnovers.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: What if that happen?
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: What if that stops in the playoffs, or if they're
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: just not forcing takeaways, what if they somehow lose the
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: turnover battle in a game. That's how they've been winning
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: these games. It's like crazy off the wall, fluky stuff
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: at times. I'm not trying to say that's all their
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: season has been. But when you have like a point
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: five chance to beat the Packers before you recover an
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: on sidekick, when no one recovers on sidekicks, that's a
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: fluky win.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I just don't buy them.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: But with the lack of juggernauts around them, I mean,
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I can't just start writing them off. So I think
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: that's where it goes back to the song Don't lock
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: the Door on Me Gojira said it best, and I
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: think that that's the tough part here, is because if
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: you're trying to guess who's gonna emerge and get to
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: the super Bowl, and if you're betting on those things,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: well you got to hit your wagon to someone, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: you got to start eliminating these teams and betting against
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: certain teams. And so it's like the question is who
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: are you betting against? Who are these teams that you're
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: just like, yeah, I think the four Seeds are both
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: kind of weak.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I think they're both weak.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: The Steelers and right now the Panthers, those are weak teams,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: so I don't see them making deep playoff runs. But
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: when you look outside of that, I just don't buy
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: the arguments of you know, no way Broncos.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Why not? Why not?
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: No way?
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Like no chance, that doesn't make sense, No way, Bears.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: I don't like either team. I don't like the Broncos
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: or the Bears. I don't like the Bears defense at all.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I look at the Broncos and a little bit like
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: you saw on Christmas Day, like, the Broncos are a
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: team where their formula for success is this. They typically
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: play really good defense, they have a great offensive line,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: and what they're able to do they able to put
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: heat on your quarterback. They have the most sacks in
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: the NFL this season, by par and they allow the
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: fewest sacks, so they get to your quarterback and they
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: don't allow you to get to their quarterback that often.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: And bow Nicks does a good job of getting outside
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: the pocket buying some time. They just don't get up
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: many sacks. And they protect the football too. So with
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: that formula, you're gonna wut a lot of games. But
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: what's weird about the Broncos is you also see how
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: low their ceiling is on Christmas Day. That was I
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: was just like yo throughout the entire game. If I
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: was watching the Broncos performance specifically, I'm just.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Like, oh, man like I just ate a.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Whole turkey, you know what I mean, Like the trip
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: the fan is kicking kicking in I'm just like, oh,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: just that's the way the Broncos played.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: It's this like the stats.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Are insane, like one of these things Bo Nicks he averaged.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Let me get it for you, so I'm not misquoting
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: this here. This blew my mind. He averaged less than
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: three air yards per completion, Like it's dink and dunk
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: defined not pushing the ball downfield. Now, some of it
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: you could say, that's part of what Spags did. You know, right,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: the Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnolo keep everything in front
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: of us. The Chiefs, what they tried to do was
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: shrink the game. It was a smart game plan for
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: the Chiefs.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: They ran the.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Ball quite a bit, tried to keep the clock moving.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Let's shrink the game. It's not a big plays. So
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: part of that did make sense from the Broncos approach.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: But that's what I mean. The Broncos allow certain defenses
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: to dictate terms to them, like they don't dictate the
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: terms offensively.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: A team like the Chiefs, who.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Has struggled all season, who does not have a pass rush.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Was dictating terms like bo Nicks averaged less than three
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: air yards per completion. That's like screen screen ooh, radical
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: five yard out? Like whoa really pushing the ball downfield?
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: It's like what are we doing right here? So you
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: don't have a consistent running game, you have like backup
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: running backs, and bo Nicks is limited. Man, I'm not
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: saying bo Nick sucks, but he's a limited quarterback.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: I don't want to make it only what he does wrong.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: He is too inconsistent for my taste. But he has
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: been clutch many times this season. He's been really good
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter. He can move the very mobile guy,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: can create with his legs, extend plays, throw on the run.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: He can do some good things, but just too inconsistent
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: for my liking. I just need more consistency from whoever's
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: playing quarterback, and bow Knicks just doesn't provide that. So,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: if you're asking me, does a team that has a
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: lackluster running game who might really need bo Knicks to
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: step up and have big performances to move on in
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, Do I expect that team to make a
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: deep push?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: No?
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Bo Knicks is twenty third in passer rating this season,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: his passer rating is eighty nine. Bryce Young has a
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: higher passer rating. Jackson Dart, a rookie quarterback, has a
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: higher passer rating than bow Knicks bo Nicks unless you
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: think two a tongue of I loo is crushing it
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: this year.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: He just got benched.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Right, Tua is zero point five below bo Nicks, like
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: bow Nicks is barely above Tua tunka I looa in
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: passer rating, and you might wonder, like what is passer ratings?
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: That it takes four different categories and smushes them together,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: and all four of these categories matter. Right, We're talking
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: about completion percentage, touchdowns, and interceptions and yards per attempt.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: So that's what really hits bo Nicks. It's the lack
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: of yards per attempt because it's a dink and dunk
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: offense mostly Like he pushes the ball downfield at times,
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: but he certainly didn't do it on Christmas Day, like
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: at all. I think he had one pass beyond ten
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: yards one the whole game. It's just dank dunk, dink,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: dunkdink dunk. It's too much of that, man, So I
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: know I don't like the Broncos. But again getting back
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: to what I think is the theme of the upcoming playoffs,
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: don't lock the door on me. I can't lock the
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: door on the Broncos and say no chance know how
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: they get to the Super Bowl. As much as I
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: hate to admit it, they've got a shot. Like I don't,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: I just don't. I don't think highly of their team.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: I don't think their formula for success is likely to
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: produce great playoff results this season. I just I don't
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: see that. But can I tell you they have no
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: shot at home against the Patriots if that's the playoff matchup?
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Somehow someway, of course they've got a shot. One other
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: thing is I think we just act like the Broncos
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: defense is really good and we just stop that conversation
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: right there. It's like, man, they've been leaky lately. If
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: you look at the Broncos critically, which I can do.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: If you don't, I can do it for you. You know,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I can look at them critically.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: So the last couple of games, right they're giving up
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: twenty six points to the Washington Commanders. Are they crushing it?
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: By the way that offense is killing it? That was
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Mariota starting that game. By the way, the Commanders score
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: twenty six points. There's an overtime game, but they moved
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: it on the Broncos consistently. So you give up twenty
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: six there, you give up twenty six points to the Packers,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: You give up thirty four points to the Jags.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: The Jacks smacked them around.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know if that was Parker Washington or Jesus
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Christ out there, Like Parker Washington had an all time
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: game against the Broncos, so that defense a little leaky,
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: little leaky.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I expect them to be good come playoff time, but
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: I think we just we act like it's a given
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: they're gonna be all world, and they certainly haven't been lately.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: They have not, so keep that in mind. But I
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: can't wait for the playoffs.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I think some wild things are capable of happening, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: some stuff that you didn't foresee happening might happen, And
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I just think it's tailor made for you know, you
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: have like the cold.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Tweets exposed or whatever.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: There's gonna be some cold tweets exposed from like, oh,
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: this team sucked and they're gonna end up in the
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: super Bowl. This team, if such a Fugaysey fools Gold team,
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: that team ends up in the Super Bowl, right like,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: it can absolutely happen. So as much as I dislike
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: some of these teams, I can't tell you they have
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: no chance. That would just be incorrect. Like the Broncos
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: and the Bears. I don't like either of those teams.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: That could possibly be your super Bowl matchup. I doubt it,
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: but it's possible. I'm at least not shutting the door
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: on that possibility. I just think that if you get
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: anything from this, I think this is the year to
• 33:46
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• 33:49
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• 33:52
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• 36:17
  Speaker 4: but I'm sure there's there are a lot of sports
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  Speaker 4: betters out there that are like, Okay, Christmas Day, Okay
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  Speaker 4: see at home?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Wait, the Spurs got him a couple of times. Oh
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: this is where okay See responds. This is really punched back, baby,
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: and nope again, smacked again, one seventeen to one oh two.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Crazy.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll get to other NBA headlines next hour. Got
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: to give the association a little bit of love. But
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: I mentioned the who are we?
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Game?
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Right? I thought it was gonna be the who am I?
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Game?
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: But it kind of morphed into the who are we game? Right?
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: So it's a really interesting fact that our guy Drew
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Brees shared on the telecast on the game with the
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Vikings and Lions that was on Netflix, and he said
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: that Harrison Smith, the Viking safety, he's closing in on
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: the forty twenty club. And I'm like, the forty twenty club.
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  Speaker 4: What the what is that? I know that existed? The
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: forty twenty club?
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  Speaker 3: What?
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: And he said, that's forty interceptions and twenty sacks in
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: your NFL career, And so Harrison Smith, he's very close.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Drew Brees is right, So I believe Harrison Smith's sad
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  Speaker 4: thirty nine career interceptions, twenty one and a half sacks.
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  Speaker 2: In his career.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: So Harrison Smith had both an interception and a sack
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  Speaker 4: against the Lions on Christmas Day, so he is one
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  Speaker 4: interception away from this forty twenty club. Didn't know that
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  Speaker 4: was even a thing, but I learned that it was
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: today and I'm very happy about that. So we got
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: some guesses over here. Let's see if anybody's got this.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Let's say, who am I Mallard prop He went with
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Lorena Navidad. Okay, so he's got Lorena in this mix.
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  Speaker 4: There are two other players in NFL history that are
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: in the forty twenty club forty interceptions twenty sacks in
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: their NFL careers. Okay, so we're looking for these two
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: other mystery NFL players. See if anybody's got this. So
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Lorena Navidad is the first guest here. Not a Burner
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  Speaker 4: went with Earl Thomas. Okay, went with Earl. Not a
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: bad guess. Donkey went with Burton Ernie. Who am I
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: very nice, very nicely done, Gunner. Shout out, Gunner. The
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: answers are Barney the purple dinosaur in Big Bird. By
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: the way, quick story sidebar makes me think of my nephews.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: So my nephew.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: I've talked about my nephews for years here on Fox
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio. They're grown now, Like they're not super old,
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: they're just you know, like twenty one and nineteen I
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: think are their official ages. But they're both married, like
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: they're both may they're twenty two and twenty. I can't
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: do the math in my head that fast, but they're
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: both married, these little guys. But anyway, Gunner's answer there,
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: The answers are Barney the purple dinosaur in Big Bird.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: I said, a flashback. I was driving around, like my
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: sister was driving the van that they had, and my
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: nephews are still younger at the time, they're watching Barney.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: I said of them.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, heyes, big Barney fans. And my younger
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: nephew tie. He looked at me, he goes, no, huge
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Barney fans. Okay, all right, that's subtled, got it, huge
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Barney fans. My bad didn't know. So there you go.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: Got a bunch of guests this year. Let me see thumbing, thumbing, thumbing.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, we'll get some milkman. Mike in
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: a second, getting the the references here movie references. That's
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: a whole other subject right there. So the answer right here.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: The two other players in NFL history that are in
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: the forty twenty club forty interceptions twenty sacks, that would
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: be Ronde Barber and Charles Woodson. How about that. Yeah,
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: it's correct, And if you look at these guys in
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: their numbers, it's ridiculous. Charles Woodson had sixty five interceptions
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: and twenty sacks, and then Ronde Barber forty seven interceptions
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: and twenty eight sacks in his career. The only two
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: players in NFL history that are in this club forty interceptions,
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: twenty sacks, Harrison Smith one interception away from joining both
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: Ronde Barber and Charles Woodson. That that was the funnest
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: of the fun facts all day, shout out Drew Brees,
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: relaying that information very good stuff, all right.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Plenty to get to.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: I want to get to the five biggest surprises this season.