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Chiefs/49ers, Lions/Vikings headline busy NFL Sunday · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: I want to go over some NFL matchups, and I'll
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  get to that in a moment. But there was something else
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  I wanted to get to. We were talking about Troy
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  Aikman being able to working as an analyst for ESPN
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  feel free to lower the moom and criticize any team,
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  including his former team, the Dallas Cowboys. There was an
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  interesting story today on The Athletic from Richard Ditch, who
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  writes a lot of TV column stuff, and the headline is,
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  and it'll put an impression in your mind, the headline
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  is Tom Brady's juggling act as Raiders owner and TV
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  analyst feels unsustainable for Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: He starts off by talking about Troy Aikman. Of all
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  he said, or Aikman said, I don't like to call
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  at all. Was a Monday Night game with the Bills
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  Jets of roughing the passer, call that sort of thing,
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  and after an on field explanation of the call, Russell Yurik,
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  a former NFL Vice President of Instant Replay and Administration,
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  now the rules analysts from Monday Night Football said Troy,
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  the reason why they called it in this situation is
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  because he does land with most or all of his
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  body weight. It looks like he does try to get
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  one hand of the side, but obviously the referee felt
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  that he didn't make enough of an attempt to brace it,
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  said Aikman, even more exasperated.
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  Speaker 2: I got it. I don't like it.
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  Speaker 1: So there were lots of flags. Aigman said it felt
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  like a preseason game, and he said watching Akeman on Monday,
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  he and play by play announcer Joe Buck have been
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  sensational this season. He didn't sugarcoat talking about the officials.
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  Aikman praised lead official Adrian Hill's crew when they correctly
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  identified penalties. He provided criticism when he thought they missed something.
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  He was unfiltered. He pulled no punches, and he kept
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  the implicit agreement a sports television analyst is supposed to
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  have with the audience, be faithful to what you see,
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  which brings us to Tom Brady. On Tuesday of this week,
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  NFL team owners voted unanimously to grant Brady part ownership
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  of the Las Vegas Raiders. Brady and Tom Wagner, the
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  co founder of Knighthead Capital Management, are believed to have
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  purchased approximately ten percent of the Raiders. If Brady was
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  merely a Hall of Famer to be extending his connection
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  with the NFL through ownership, it would be a story,
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  but not one with implications for those watching the product. Brady,
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  as the sports world knows, debuted in Septembers, Fox's number
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  one NFL analyst this season, alongside play by playvoice Kevin Burkhardt.
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  Fox has the broadcast rights to the Super Bowl this year,
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  which means Brady will call the league's most important game.
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  He has six games into a ten year, three one
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  hundred seventy five million dollars deal with Fox Corporation. How
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  can someone broadcast games while having a significant ownership stake
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  in a franchise. Well, the NFL places restrictions on Brady
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  before the season, including that he's not allowed access to
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  other teams facilities and practices, and cannot attend broadcast production meetings.
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  But here's the big one for this column's purposes. As
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  an owner, Brady is also not allowed to publicly criticize
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  officials or other teams, and could be fined or suspended
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  if the league feels he breaks that policy. Roger Goodell
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  was quoted as saying, quote, Tom's been abiding by the
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  issues that we've raised in the committee voluntarily since he
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  began broadcasting. So that's all been resolved. It's been followed
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  very clearly, and everyone seems to be satisfied with that.
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  The NFL confirmed the same Wednesday this week. There have
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  been no issues and Tom has been a wonderful edition
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  at NFL broadcasts at a league spokes person. So that's
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  the league perspective, says Richard Deatch, But what about viewers.
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  There's an implicit agreement between those who broadcast games and
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  the audience. We work for you, the viewer. Now, we
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  also live.
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  Speaker 2: In the real world.
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  Speaker 1: And there have long been conflicts of interest in sports
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  media jobs, no further than professional tennis, where coaches also
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  serve as on air analysts, but pre determined restrictions on
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  what you can say leave no work around. The league
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  has told a number one NFL analyst there is a
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  limit to what he can say as part of the
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  NFL's constitution and bylaws. Think about what would happen if
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  there's a blown call that costs someone the Super Bowl.
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  Maybe Brady would ignore the restrictions and just.
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  Speaker 2: Go off on the officials. Maybe you pull some punches.
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  Speaker 1: The point is the restriction changes everything asked how Fox
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  Sports viewed the broadcasting restraints for Brady and how they
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  viewed Brady potentially being assigned Las Vegas games. Fox Sports
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  declined comment because it's important to note Brady getting approved
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  Tuesday does not change anything for Fox Sports. They've been
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  working under these guidelines since the start of the season,
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  and Fox Sports is pleased with Radies development works.
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  Speaker 2: Next.
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  Speaker 1: Assimon is Che's forty nine Ers this Sunday. So anyway,
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  it goes on and on about this kind of stuff,
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  let me just say this. I think there's the potential
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  maybe for something like that happening simply because he's the
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  number one analyst on the team working with Burkhart, and
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  he'll get to call Super Bowl, and he'll call playoff games,
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  He'll call.
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  Speaker 2: All the games.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be on a Raiders
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  game this year that, first of all, the Raiders aren't
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  good enough to draw the lead game. I don't think.
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  Put it this way, he's not on the Raiders Rams
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  game this Sunday in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: He's I don't think he'll be on that.
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  Speaker 1: But does it present the possibility of a compromising situation
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  or impropriety?
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  Speaker 2: Eh?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, I think that's kind of a deep dive, which
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  Richard each does. He does a good job in his column.
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  I'm certainly not criticizing in the column. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of have to go a.
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  Speaker 1: Ways to get to perhaps get to that point to
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  see that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, when the Raiders hire Belichick next season.
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  Speaker 1: That I've read that the other day, could we be
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  living in a world where Tom Brady hires Bill Belichick?
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  Speaker 2: And again, that's another thing.
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  Speaker 1: He owns ten percent, you know, Mark Davis is still
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  he's still the one majority.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Ten percent stake. What might affect his judgment on something? Eh,
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  maybe I doubt it, But again I think it's kind
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  of a mood point because the Raiders are not good.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's going to affect his judgment. Craig Boat,
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  What it does worry means that as an analyst and
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  as a broadcaster, we both know that a lot of
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  the prep work goes into watching film, talking with coaches
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  with players, understand ending what they're trying to do on
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  the field and in the game, and he has such
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  limited access now because of his stake in the team,
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  that I feel like it's gonna make him a worse
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  broadcaster and he you know, I don't He's been okay
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  this year.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people have not liked him.
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  Speaker 4: But if you were ranking the analyst right now, he's
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  probably close to the bond than he is the top.
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  And I think for him to be able to grow,
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  not having this access is only going to hurt him.
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  And I'm really curious how long he'll stay as a broadcaster,
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  as a as a color analyst, right I would not
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  be surprised Craig in the future he ends up moving
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  out of the booth and ends up working on a
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  pregame show or kind of just does what Belichick's been
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  doing instead of being the color analyst on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll see, kind of hard to walk away from
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  thirty seven and a half million bucks a year. Yeah,
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  ten year deal at three hundred and seventy five million dollars.
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  But to your point, it's gonna be the NFL is
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  going to watch it closely. I think I think that's
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  for sure. They're gonna watch it very very closely. On this,
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  I think he's done okay, doesn't seem comfortable. I think
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  he's still trying to get there. And some analysts it
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  takes a little time. I don't think Troy Aikman was
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  great when he started. I think he was a little
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  stilted when he started, but he got better. Tony Romo,
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  in many folks Esmay's just the opposite started great now.
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  Speaker 3: I think Romo's in.
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  Speaker 4: Better this year. I think Brady coming in kind of.
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  I think he coasted in years two and three because
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  of how good he was in year one. And I
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  think Aikman's gotten so much better because of Romo coming
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  in and lighting it up.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's made all these broadcasters better.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so we'll take a look at some NFL.
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  In fact, let's do.
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  Speaker 2: That right now. We'll bring the coach sark audio in it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, since so much since we mentioned that, I'm
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  just gonna start throwing games at you like I do
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  every week and get your thoughts on it. Let's start
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  with Tom Brady's Vegas Raiders. They play the Rams. The
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  Raiders are two and four. The Rams are one and
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  four as they play, and the Rams are a seven
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  point favorite, aren't they really?
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  Speaker 2: That's bright happen? How did that happen? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, is Cooper Cup gonna be back for this game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think, so okay, and you know, uh, that's
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  that's the game, the possibility of I'm not I'm not hoping.
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  I'm not wishing for Joni Mitchell's concert to get canceled
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  at the Hollywood Bowl Sunday night when Linda and I
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  have tickets. That's right in La Sunday night. But if
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  it does this Sunday, yeah, yeah, So we got the
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  game Saturday and Sunday morning, we're falling out to LA.
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  When you come back red eye Oh wow, land at
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  eight o'clock Monday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be difficult here.
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  Speaker 3: If you've got to come the Starks press conference on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's why I'm taking the Red Eye. I
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  can be there in time for the presser. So yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But if for whatever reason, the concertgate because she's had
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  to cancel some shows due to health concern she's not canceled.
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  Speaker 2: So we're still playing on the show.
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  Speaker 1: And I told Linda, you know, so this should dedicate
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  show you my dedication to us in our marriage. If
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  the Dodgers have a game six, really hoping the Dodgers
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  wrap this thing up today, so.
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  Speaker 2: That's not even an issue.
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  Speaker 1: Short and Rams are playing a home game, but we
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  have tickets for the concert. Joni Mitchell was an iconic legend.
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  I want to see her as well, So that's the
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  plan on anyway. Okay, Patriots Jaguars, well, first of all, Rams, Raiders.
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  Speaker 3: Snoozer? Okay, am I packing this game? I think Rams? Okay,
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  just because of the weapons.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. It's a snoozer. Yeah, okay, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Uh Patriots and Jaguars. Speaking of snoozers, a pair of
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  one in.
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  Speaker 3: Fives London game, Yeah in the morning. This was one
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  that you maybe just want to sleep through.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe don't even wake up for this team.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly will fun to see what Drake may looks like.
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  If the Jaguars lose this game to the one in
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  five New England Patriots, Doug Peterson will not be the
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  head coach in the week eight.
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  Speaker 1: That's the predicul most okay, here's one that intrigues me.
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  Seahawks at three and three at the Falcons.
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  Speaker 3: This should be fun.
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  Speaker 4: Seattle still has been banged up injury wise, you know,
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  Byron Murphy. He's been out the last couple of weeks.
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  You know, struggled against San Francisco, struggled. I think they
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  lost the Giants right somehow in Atlanta seems to be
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  uh kind of finding themselves offensively. Bijon had had a
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  great game last week against Carolina. Give me Atlanta, Okay,
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  we'll skip Titans at Bills, Yeah, thank you, thank you.
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  First game for Marik Cooper.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bengals at Browns.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of Marik Cooper, another one that.
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  Speaker 4: You know how and all these commercials now radio TV,
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  we're kind of we're getting Snoop Dog shoved down. I
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  like Snoop, you know, maybe it's a little bit too much.
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  Kind of the same thing with the Kelsey brothers. Why
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  are we still getting the Shawn Watson shoved down our throats?
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  Jimmy has them? What are we doing here? We gotta
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  stop this. Must win for Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, here's one of really like Texans at Packers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this would be a lot of fun. Two teams
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  with two explosive offenses. Still no Nico Collins for Houston.
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  But this is probably I think right there with Detroit
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  in Minnesota for well, actually, sorry, there's Kansas City. Man,
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  what a Sunday actually thinking about? This is one that
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  won't get as much recognition as Detroit, Minnesota in Kansas
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  City and San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: This may be the game of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Dolphins Colts. Dolphin's Tyler Huntley's third start of the year,
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  and the Colts got Anthony richardson back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah gonna, I'm gonna skip through this one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well we'll move forward to that Lions
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  at Vikings four and one, Lions five and the Vikings
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  early window noon game.
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  Speaker 4: No Aiden Hutchinson of course for Detroit, So how does
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  their defense look without him?
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  Speaker 3: His his passing?
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  Speaker 4: What is it like rushing the passer rate on the
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  term I just butched it. But the twenty four percent
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  the highest mark for defensive ends since Michael Parsons of
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  last year in terms of putting pressure on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big loss for Detroit.
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  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Minnesota has one of the best defenses in the league.
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  Speaker 3: This will be fun.
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  Speaker 4: Line is my Minnesota minus one and a half? I
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  don't know which way they go with this one.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Eagles are three and two, Giants are.
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  Speaker 3: Two in helping helping Giants win that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Panthers are one and five. Commanders are four and two.
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  Speaker 2: They lost last week. Could we see the Commanders be
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  five and two.
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  Speaker 4: Could I mean, there's a good chance, you know, Carolina,
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  but they do get Jonathan Brooks back.
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  Speaker 3: So do have a rooting interest in this one?
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  Speaker 4: Are more of a watching interest to see how does
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  Jonathan Brooks look in his first game back since of
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  course the ACL injury last year?
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  Speaker 1: All right, how about the headliner in the late window
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  five and oh Chiefs three and three, forty nine Ers
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  in Santa.
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  Speaker 4: Clara rematch of last year a super Bowl. But San
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  Francisco has been you know, beaten up with the Debelle
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  Samuel is questionable this week. Jordan Mason is questionable. Got
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  a feeling Kansas City improves a six to zero after
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  this week despite all the injuries that they seem to
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  be just rolling right now.
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night game if you care. Jets Steelers Russell Wilson.
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  Speaker 4: It looks like it's going to be his first start
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  in the Pittsburgh Steeler uniform, Defonte Adams first game in
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  the Jets uniforms. So at least we have the Rogers
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  Defonte Adams connection to see how that looks like.
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  Speaker 3: Go the Jets here.
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  Speaker 1: Then you've got Ravens Bucks, Chargers, Cardinals in the Monday
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  Night double.
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  Speaker 4: Hitter Baltimore, who I think is the best team in
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  the league right now against the Buccaneers team that is
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  foreign two.
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  Speaker 3: I think the record.
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  Speaker 4: Suggest they're a little bit better than they really are.
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  Like Baltimore and then Chargers Cardinals mean coach Harbaugh who
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  left the game because of a fib yeah, comes back,
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  Jesse Mintter we took over as acting head coach. Rogers
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  have one of the best defenses in the league, gotta
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  fill They gonna find a way to shut down Kaala
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  Murray and the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll hear from Logorn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian
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