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NFL Week 15 recap with Craig and Cam · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craigway alongside the producer Cameron Parker, and so we're happy
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us here for one more hour
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  Speaker 1: of the program, and we'll hear more from longrn's head
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  Speaker 1: coach Steve Sarkesian coming up in a few minutes. But
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the NFL, the National Football League. The
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  Speaker 1: two games tonight Bears at Vikings. That one is the
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  Speaker 1: ABC telecast and then you have the Falcons Raiders, which
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  Speaker 1: starts thirty minutes afterwards. So at six o'clock or seven
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  Speaker 1: o'clock tonight for Bears Vikings, seven thirty four Falcons.
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  Speaker 2: And Raiders on that.
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  Speaker 1: The results of the weekend go all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to Thursday with the Rams beat the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 1: twelve or six Chiefs over the Browns. Yesterday twenty one
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  Speaker 1: seven got the Sea Xavior worthy again take off and
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  Speaker 1: in on what was technically a touchdown run for him.
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty impressive, But I have to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I think more impressive was Tovandre Sweat running.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, with that ball were ages and the stiff
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  Speaker 2: army gates the ball and get out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Flattened a couple of Tennessee Titans running.
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  Speaker 2: It made me.
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  Speaker 1: Think about t Sweat in the Big twelve championship game
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  Speaker 1: catching the pass from Quinn Eewers to be in the
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  Speaker 1: blowout whenever Oklahoma State there in Arlington.
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  Speaker 2: That was a lot of fun. How about Washington and
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you didn't hear what happened, the Commanders held
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  Speaker 1: a rather commanding lead.
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  Speaker 2: I think it might have been certainly was twenty to six.
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  Speaker 1: It might have been twenty to three at one point,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they started to fight back,
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  Speaker 1: and they did fight back.
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  Speaker 2: It was cut to twenty to thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: And then Washington missed about a fifty some odd yard
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  Speaker 1: field goal with a minute and change left, and so
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  Speaker 1: it gave New Orleans and Spencer Rattler the.
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  Speaker 2: Ball and good field position.
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  Speaker 1: They drove it down, They had a pass near the
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  Speaker 1: goal line at the end, and they were out of timeouts.
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  Speaker 1: Now they ended up scoring on what proved to be
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  Speaker 1: the last play of the game, and at that point
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  Speaker 1: the Saints figured, what the heck, you know, our season's
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  Speaker 1: going nowhere, Let's go for two and try to win it.
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  Speaker 1: So they went for two and they didn't get it,
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  Speaker 1: so they lose twenty to nineteen. But lost in all
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  Speaker 1: of that right near the end was this weird deal
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  Speaker 1: with the clock stopping, and they had a pool reporter
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  Speaker 1: visit with Sean Hockylely, the referee, and this is how
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  Speaker 1: the conversation went. The question from the Johnson at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game. It was the third to last play.
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  Speaker 1: The Saints completed a pass short of the goal line
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  Speaker 1: and the clock kept running, and it appeared the clock
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  Speaker 1: stopped at nine seconds. I was wondering if you had
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  Speaker 1: an explanation for the stoppage. Sean Hoculey's response was to say, quote,
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  Speaker 1: the covering official mistakenly stopped the clock.
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  Speaker 2: In that situation, the clock should not have stopped. Hocyly.
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  Speaker 1: Was there any consideration of reviewing the stoppage? Was there
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  Speaker 1: anything you could have done after the fact? Hocyly, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a situation that is reviewable. Question when were
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  Speaker 1: you all aware of the mistake, Hockyly. That's all I
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  Speaker 1: have for you, Luke, the covering official mistakenly stopped the
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  Speaker 1: clock in nine seconds and.
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  Speaker 2: Is not reviewal. That's how it ended.
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  Speaker 1: There's lots of conspiracy theorists that we're talking about, and
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  Speaker 1: they were looking at the what you call a significant
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  Speaker 1: play to some in terms of the wagering line and
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  Speaker 1: now it all went and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: But Washington ended up winning the game.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about the Cowboys winning over
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  Speaker 1: the Panthers in Charlotte thirty to fourteen.
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  Speaker 3: They just seem to do better on the road camp
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  Speaker 3: and they do a home I don't have much for
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  Speaker 3: you there, Craig with you. I mean, they'd beat a
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  Speaker 3: Panthers team that has what three wins?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Baltimore over New York. I gotta buy
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  Speaker 1: in the first round of fantasy, so wouldn't it, you know?
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  Speaker 1: But if I needed to play, I was in good
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  Speaker 1: shape because Lamar Jackson threw five touchdown pass.
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  Speaker 2: I met twenty one for twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: Just another super efficient game from Lamar Jackson that won't
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  Speaker 3: get looked at a lot more, for one, because they
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  Speaker 3: played the Giants and because Josh Allen had another MVP
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  Speaker 3: type performance. But the Ravens aren't settling for field goals
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  Speaker 3: or missfield goals attempts. They are a fantastic offense. Giants
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  Speaker 3: have lost nine in a row. I can't believe. Brian
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  Speaker 3: Davile is not on the coaching hot seat, looks like
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  Speaker 3: he's going to come back for the year. And about that,
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  Speaker 3: if you're an Eagles or Commanders or Cowboys fan, you're saying, okay,
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  Speaker 3: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: If your Eagles and Commanders are Giants, fanners saying if
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  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy gun's back, okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Jets beat the Jags thirty two twenty five on that
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  Speaker 1: not too much to have.
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  Speaker 2: That was a fun game for three win teams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know if you're an anti Aaron Rodgers guy,
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  Speaker 3: and then you probably enjoyed the shots of him on
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  Speaker 3: the bench by him something. Let me answer this something,
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  Speaker 3: correg Yeah, does he have friends? Do you think Aaron
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  Speaker 3: Rodgers has friends outside of football outside of Pat mcavee,
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  Speaker 3: And I don't. He's not even his friend because he's
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  Speaker 3: getting paid a million dollars to go on that show.
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  Speaker 3: That there was a point made. I forget who made
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  Speaker 3: the point, and I'm sorry I can't remember who it was.
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  Speaker 3: But that all Aaron Rodgers is known for it is football.
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  Speaker 3: And once once football ends for Aaron Rodgers, then he
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  Speaker 3: loses his identity.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, remember he hosted some episodes of Jeopardy. He did yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he did, right after Alex Trebek retarded he did. He
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  Speaker 1: actually did pretty good too, but he wasn't gonna make it.
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  Speaker 3: He seems like a guy that has has a spotlight
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  Speaker 3: on him. He needs some media attention. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what they're gonna do. I I can't foresee him coming
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  Speaker 3: back next season in the New York Jet uniform. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what NFL team would drawn Adam, considering
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  Speaker 3: all the turmoil he brings to your locker room and organization.
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  Speaker 3: But but then, I mean a battle of what a
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  Speaker 3: coach that should be fired versus the intraim head coach
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  Speaker 3: Albret Albright whatever, who will be gone at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the year. Just a real gloomy game for two
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  Speaker 3: gloomy fan bases yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: You know who Aaron Rodgers gets next, don't you? Who's that?
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  Speaker 2: Had to be? The Rams?
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  Speaker 1: Okay in the metal land congratulations, Yeah, it's gonna be cold.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams have found a way to beat good teams
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  Speaker 1: like Buffalo and the Vikings this year while losing the
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  Speaker 1: teams like the Bears and the Dolphins this year.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm looking at the standings right now, Craig, and
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  Speaker 3: I see the LA Rams the top the NFC West,
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  Speaker 3: even though they have a negative point differential.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: They're still playing the price for getting blown out by
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals like forty one early in the season. They'll
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  Speaker 1: get another shot at Arizona week after next.
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  Speaker 3: They have a worse point differential than the five, four
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  Speaker 3: and nine, the four and nine Chicago Bears, who have
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  Speaker 3: lost seven in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Bears just find magical ways to lose, and
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  Speaker 1: they'll find another magical way to lose tonight in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Texans kind of just grinded one out against the
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  Speaker 1: Dolphins yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: That was clinched the division.
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  Speaker 3: Brutal tu of performance, three interceptions, he almost got his
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  Speaker 3: teammate killed yesterday. Yeah, we hope that the Boys is okay.
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  Speaker 3: I think we heard that he had feelings in his extremities,
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  Speaker 3: which is a good sign. But just one of those
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  Speaker 3: to games where you're just like, this is this is
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  Speaker 3: the future, this is this is Tua. Do you really
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  Speaker 3: trust him that much? I mean, you forget tyreek kills.
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  Speaker 3: Even on the field, he was going in this season
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  Speaker 3: as what possible an MVP favorite to win it. The
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  Speaker 3: number one receiver in the league. It does not feel
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  Speaker 3: like it that way at all. And the Dolphins team that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're still alive in the playoffs, but needed
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  Speaker 3: that win yesterday. And the Texans, congrats to that organization.
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  Speaker 3: Although I mean the offense still is kind of just grinding.
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  Speaker 3: You said grind, it's a good word.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like they're just grinding too hard to win
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  Speaker 3: some of these games they should win by more points.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how about the bizarre game in Denver. The Colts
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  Speaker 1: were leading and they were doing really well, and then
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor dropped the ball before he crossed the goal
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  Speaker 1: line on what would have been a forty one yard touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: and then the Broncos came back, and then they bounced back.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Colts have it again, and they tried a
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  Speaker 1: little razzle dazzle and Anthony Richardson threw the ball to
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  Speaker 1: ad Mitchell, and Adani Mitchell took it seemed like thirteen
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  Speaker 1: seconds to get the ball stand still and then throw
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  Speaker 1: back across the hill. That was probably the easiest interception
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  Speaker 1: Nick Benito has ever had. I mean, you saw ad
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  Speaker 1: get the ball and he's trying to get his hands
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  Speaker 1: around it to throw and then he sets up and
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  Speaker 1: just throws a floater and there's Benito who just timed
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  Speaker 1: it perfectly, intercepted. It was supposed to be a throwback
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  Speaker 1: pass to the quarterback, and Benito picks it off and
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  Speaker 1: takes it in for the touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Denver is nine and five.
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  Speaker 3: And in some key ex Longhorns playing very well for them,
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Jones the secondary, PJ. Locke who forced a fumble
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  Speaker 3: in that game, Malcolm Roach defensive lineman cool the Sea,
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  Speaker 3: and then LJ.
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  Speaker 2: Humphrey.
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  Speaker 3: He had a tackle of one of those bow knicks
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  Speaker 3: is one of his three interceptions. Hey, if bow Knicks
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  Speaker 3: can throw three picks and you're able to win a
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  Speaker 3: football game, that tells you that, hey, you got a
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  Speaker 3: good defense, and also the team you're playing absolutely the stinks.
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  Speaker 2: That was the Indianapolis culture.
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  Speaker 1: That was his worst game in several weeks, because he's
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  Speaker 1: actually played well in decent uh so, but he didn't
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  Speaker 1: play well in that one.
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  Speaker 2: They still won.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles beat the Steelers, and they always beat the Steelers.
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  Speaker 3: I think now, Craig, I mean, you look at the
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  Speaker 3: Lions injuries and we'll get to the game in the second.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Eagles now are your favorite to win
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  Speaker 3: the NFC.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Lions still hold the tie break better conference record,
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  Speaker 1: but they fell into a tie for best record by
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  Speaker 1: losing that crazy game to Buffalo forty two. And everybody's
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  Speaker 1: pointing to Dan Campbell, So what are you doing with
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  Speaker 1: the on side kick there like early fourth quarter when
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  Speaker 1: you're right in the game and it was easily recovered
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  Speaker 1: and the Buffalo ends up getting a touchdown out of it,
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  Speaker 1: and then the Lions came charging back and they got
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  Speaker 1: a touch on it, and they almost recovered another on
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  Speaker 1: side kick there in the waiting seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Your defense give but forty eight points. You're not getting
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  Speaker 2: to stop.
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  Speaker 3: So I understand why people are on Campbell for that
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  Speaker 3: in exgressive nature, but you're defense could not get a stop.
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  Speaker 3: Buffalo averaged eight and a half yards per play. Craig,
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  Speaker 3: of course he's going to go for the on side kick.
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  Speaker 3: And now with the Lions defensively, all these injuries, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: looking at it right now, their injuries could field a
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  Speaker 3: top ten NFL defense on the defensive line. Aiden Hutchinson,
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  Speaker 3: who is looking at an All Pro season, he's done
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  Speaker 3: for the year, maybe could come back in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows.
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  Speaker 3: Alee McNeil, starting defensive tackle, out for the year, Marcus
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  Speaker 3: Davenport defensive lineman, starter, he's been out. John Kaminski backup,
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  Speaker 3: he's been out. So three of their four starters is out.
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  Speaker 3: Linebacking corps Alex and Seloni starter, he's been out. Malcolm Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 3: former Oklahoma State product, he's been out. Played a big
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  Speaker 3: part of their defense. Derek Barnes backup linebacker, he's been out.
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  Speaker 3: Jillen Reeves Mabon he's been out. And then the secondary,
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  Speaker 3: Carlton Davis, the starter has been out, and as Ray
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  Speaker 3: Shaw junior starter has been out.
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  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Moseley's been out.
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  Speaker 3: And then their safety Vettu Malifanoah whatever you say his
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  Speaker 3: last name, he's been out their defense.
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  Speaker 2: I mean tho.
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  Speaker 3: Those are all stars, all starters or second string players
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  Speaker 3: who are now out for a Lions team at a
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  Speaker 3: certain point, Craig, no matter how well coached or talented
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  Speaker 3: you are on offense, when you suffer those injuries, that's
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  Speaker 3: what eleven players I just named. It's hard to come
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  Speaker 3: back from that, and I'm worried how the Lions are
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  Speaker 3: just not gonna have enough debt or great coaching to
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  Speaker 3: be able to survive those injuries on defense.
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  Speaker 1: The Bills, by the way, became the first team to
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  Speaker 1: score over forty and surrender over forty points in back
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  Speaker 1: to back games since the nineteen sixty six New York Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Now only because they, you know, weird about studying history
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL. I knew what one of those games
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  Speaker 1: had to be for the Giants, and sure enough I
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  Speaker 1: looked it up.
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  Speaker 2: They went one, twelve and one that year. They were
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  Speaker 2: horrible the Giants. One of the.
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  Speaker 1: Games was they lost a game at Washington seventy two
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  Speaker 1: to forty one. It's the largest scoring, the highest scoring
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  Speaker 1: game for a team in the regular season in NFL history.
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  Speaker 1: The Redskins lost to the Bears in the nineteen forty
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  Speaker 1: NFL Championship Game seventy three to nothing, but they beat
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  Speaker 1: the Giants seventy two to.
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  Speaker 2: Forty one in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: The next week, the Giants lost at Cleveland forty nine
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  Speaker 1: to forty and the week after that they lost it
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  Speaker 1: home to the Steelers forty seven to twenty eight. They
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  Speaker 1: had three consecutive games giving up over forty but in
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  Speaker 1: two of them they scored over forty. They lost both
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  Speaker 1: now the Bills on have lost one that was to
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  Speaker 1: the Rams last week, the forty four to forty two game,
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  Speaker 1: and also this one because it was the crazy game
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  Speaker 1: that it was forty eight to forty two then became
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  Speaker 1: the highest scoring game of the season forty eight forty
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  Speaker 1: two Buffalo with the win on that one.
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  Speaker 3: The crazy thing about that, Craig is, you know you
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  Speaker 3: could have like it's all Josh Allen, him carrying the offense, no,
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  Speaker 3: the rushing attack. Yesterday just dashed Detroit. James Cook was phenomenal,
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  Speaker 3: the resho over two hundred yards. Allen is having a
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  Speaker 3: fantastic year right now. He's your Sunday Ticket MVP, Red
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  Speaker 3: Zone MVP. I mean, every time he has the ball
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  Speaker 3: and it helps, he's on my fantasy team. But when
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  Speaker 3: he has it, you know, he's like what Mahomes was
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  Speaker 3: two years ago, except you know, they're not scoring five
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  Speaker 3: points a game and somehow still winning.
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  Speaker 2: He has been tremendous. He would be my vote for
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  Speaker 2: the MVP.
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  Speaker 3: And I think right now you're gonna get a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people who are gonna predict and pick the Bills
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  Speaker 3: to win the AFC, and I hope we get another
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  Speaker 3: Bills Chiefs matchup in the AFC Championship game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's kind of quietly doing some good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they won forty to seventeen over the Chargers and
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  Speaker 1: they're still rolling along and nine to five in the
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  Speaker 1: division and then Green Bay winning last night. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about beating Seattle thirty to thirteen, creating that two way
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  Speaker 1: tie for first in the NFC West.
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  Speaker 3: And Tampa Bay closes with the Cowboys, that's a win, Panthers,
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  Speaker 3: that's the win. In the Saints, that's the win. So
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  Speaker 3: even though they lost those two games to Atlanta and
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  Speaker 3: we lose the tie break, I don't know of Atlanta
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  Speaker 3: can catch up to them because now the Lan's with
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  Speaker 3: a game and a half behind them. If they win
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  Speaker 3: the night, they're only game back. But they lose tonight
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  Speaker 3: and they're two games back with three left. I don't
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  Speaker 3: see Tampa Bay losing. The Bucks somehow can win this
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  Speaker 3: division even though they lost two games to the Falcons. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: which means he NFC West champion is probably gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be the four seed the way it stands. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna hear more from Longbarn's head coach Steve starts
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  Speaker 1: Keshan when we continue on Sports RADIOA and thirteen under
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