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Playoff Storylines, Coaching and GM News, and the Bengals: Good Morning Football Selects · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Scheger is a production of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. We got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals right they were on national TV the final
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  Speaker 1: two weeks in the season.
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  Speaker 2: Day of these dramatic comeback wins, and the Bengals gave
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  Speaker 2: us fantasy football, and they gave us some really excellent fodder.
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  Speaker 2: When we heard Joe Burrow be mentioned as the MVP
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: from Troy Aikman, that was about two segments of content
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  Speaker 2: for us last week, so I'm happy with that. I
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  Speaker 2: would also note that the Bengals lost Week one to
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  Speaker 2: the Gerardmeo Jacoby Burssett Patriots at home, and the first
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  Speaker 2: month of the season does happen to matter in the NFL.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry to tell it. It's an eighteen week season,
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  Speaker 2: and when you start off losing the first few weeks
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  Speaker 2: every single year, year in, year out, eventually it's going
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  Speaker 2: to bite you in the butt. I would rather us
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  Speaker 2: the table and celebrate the team that did make it.
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  Speaker 2: You see the season that bow Nicks just put together
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  Speaker 2: in his first year. You could talk about Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 2: and cry alligator tears about not seeing him. Bow Knicks
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  Speaker 2: just had one of the greatest seasons in Broncos history
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  Speaker 2: in a franchise that includes John Elway and Peyton Manning.
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  Speaker 2: Bow Knicks put up the fourth best single season touchdown
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  Speaker 2: record in the franchise's history. And gosh, let's enjoy this
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  Speaker 2: for that fan base that hasn't been to the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: since Peyton Manning was a quarterback and actually earned it
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  Speaker 2: by winning enough games and getting the tiebreakers needed. Bengals fans,
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  Speaker 2: I hear you. We got our Bengals moments. They happened
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: in late December and early January. They were able to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate money. Go not give up five hundred yards of
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  Speaker 2: offense to the Russell Wilson led Steelers. That's my thought.
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  Speaker 2: Go beat a team of significance in September. I have
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  Speaker 2: no problem with the Bengals messing the playoffs. You gotta
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  Speaker 2: play defense. Also, they didn't do that all season. Can
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  Speaker 2: I give my game ball to a player who has
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  Speaker 2: had maybe the biggest roller coaster season? I can imagine
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  Speaker 2: an NFL history It ends up on top in the
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  Speaker 2: best place possible. About Bryce Young getting my game ball
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  Speaker 2: for Week eighteen. Bryce Young completes twenty five passes for
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty one yards and three touchdowns as
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers, who quote unquote had nothing to play for,
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  Speaker 2: shock the Falcons who had everything to play for and
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  Speaker 2: did so in Atlanta. That's the highlight of the game.
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  Speaker 2: We know that Bryce also added five rushes for twenty
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  Speaker 2: four yards and two touchdowns there. He's had at least
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  Speaker 2: two touchdown passes in three straight games and a passing
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  Speaker 2: touchdown each of his last ten games. Those are obviously
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  Speaker 2: the longest streaks of his two year career. Bryce Young
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  Speaker 2: went from being benched for what looked like could be
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  Speaker 2: eternity based on how he looked in the early season
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  Speaker 2: to having one of the greatest November December January turnarounds
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  Speaker 2: you can imagine for a second year player. The Panthers
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  Speaker 2: have their quarterback, they have their coach, they have their
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  Speaker 2: front office, and for the first time in years, they
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  Speaker 2: have hope and optimism going into next season. And shut
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  Speaker 2: out to my guy Coker, the rookie got a Holy
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  Speaker 2: Cross who was freaking awesome in this game. Cocher was
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  Speaker 2: the guy who Bryce Young was looking for. Including this
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  Speaker 2: cool play here, Cocher almost got in great finish to
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers season, Jalen Coker Jalen cocher at a holy
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  Speaker 2: Cross Mat League undrafted player, and Bryce Young, the first
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  Speaker 2: overall pick out of Alabama on a former number one
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  Speaker 2: five star high school recruit. They both ended the season
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  Speaker 2: in the right place. I couldn't be happier for a
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  Speaker 2: player and for a franchise and for how things ended
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  Speaker 2: up for Bryce Young and the Panthers. Kudos to those
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  Speaker 2: guys down in Carolina. It was the rare decision that
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  Speaker 2: was made to get an individual something over necessary the
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  Speaker 2: team's needs, and that was universally celebrated. And that tells
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  Speaker 2: you how people feel about Mike Evans. What do I
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  Speaker 2: mean by that? If for some reason Mike Evans bubbles
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  Speaker 2: that ball and it's a pick six. The other way,
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  Speaker 2: it's arguably the worst playing NFL history and can cost
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  Speaker 2: the Buccaneers a chance to not only win the division,
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  Speaker 2: but to go on in the playoffs. Instead, they trot
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  Speaker 2: the offense back, which I mean in some ways, if
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't with this, I think you'd say it's a
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  Speaker 2: massive sportsmanship gaff. It was like he had spit the
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  Speaker 2: eight yards at one point. Yeah, But they trot Evans
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  Speaker 2: back on the field after he gets all these things,
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  Speaker 2: and they do it. There's a specific play at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the game they put Mike Evans in when
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  Speaker 2: they're already winning. Hear it, Here we go trot them
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  Speaker 2: out beautiful, they're up eight. It makes no sense. And
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  Speaker 2: this was like universally celebrated. I'll tell you what. Even
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  Speaker 2: the Saints guys were like cool with it, Like they
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  Speaker 2: weren't like outraged or anyday I don't that little push
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  Speaker 2: by five. But after the game they're game. And here's
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  Speaker 2: what you earn that you earn that you earn this celebration.
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  Speaker 2: You earn that you also earned it from around the league.
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  Speaker 2: Mike's Mike Evans is now in an eleventh year. He
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  Speaker 2: is beloved and earlier in the in the season we
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  Speaker 2: did this MVP debate was like non, sometimes where's this going?
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  Speaker 2: Where Peter, where are you going? But we do the
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  Speaker 2: MVP debate. First it was Sakwon, then it was Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 2: then it was Lamar, then is Joe Burrow. Now we're
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  Speaker 2: back to Lamar. Maybe actually Josh Allen somebody we don't
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  Speaker 2: do on the show because it's maybe a little unsem
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  Speaker 2: because they're all wonderful man. We never knew the Walter
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Man of the Year debate. Oh yeah, yeah. You
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  Speaker 2: know who's a nominee this year, Mike Mike Evans. I
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  Speaker 2: know Travis Kelsey's more famous, and I know Bobby Wagner's
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  Speaker 2: been in the league a long time. Mike Evans. If
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  Speaker 2: you saw that reaction from everybody, Mike Evans is my
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  Speaker 2: pick for Walter Payton Man of the Year. Aston to
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  Speaker 2: the community, but Mike Mike Evans Family Foundation is great.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Evans for Walter Payton Man of the Year. On
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  Speaker 2: the Walkall how about a Sunday Night Collinsworth Tarico Buccaneers
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  Speaker 2: Commander's Game. Like it was nobody's prediction before the season started.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you thought the Bucks wouldent the division. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: pick the Commanders to be a wild card, and you
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  Speaker 2: certainly didn't pick them as the sixth seed and not
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  Speaker 2: the seventh seed. Two of the most fun electric teams
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  Speaker 2: that oh, by the way, have put on great performances
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  Speaker 2: in the month of December in dramatic fashion. I love
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  Speaker 2: this two Heisman Trophy winners going at it, and I
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  Speaker 2: liked it. They got what I consider the premier treatment
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  Speaker 2: that Sunday night game with those two voices on it.
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  Speaker 2: You look at this Commander's story. What they have done
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  Speaker 2: in the final seconds of games has made them the
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  Speaker 2: cardiac kids, and they have found a way. They have
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  Speaker 2: won on a Hail Mary.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: They have won on a walk off overtime touchdown on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday Night to beat another rookie quarterback, Michael Pennix. They
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  Speaker 2: have beaten the Eagles at home, they have beaten the
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  Speaker 2: Giants at home, and then yesterday they go into their
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  Speaker 2: arch rival Dallas Cowboys building in a game that didn't
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  Speaker 2: matter for seeding, and Marcus Mariota says, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: Jaden chill over there. I'm gonna do a little something too,
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  Speaker 2: and he finds a way to have the dramatic win
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  Speaker 2: the Commander's Buccaneers game. It's not the same storied franchises
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  Speaker 2: in recent years as the Ravens and the Steelers on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday Night, or the dramatic matchup that we're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles and Packers, but you got maybe the two
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  Speaker 2: feel good stories of the entire season going at it
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  Speaker 2: in what might be the most fun wild Card matchup
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  Speaker 2: if I'm picking this one now, like you're telling me
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  Speaker 2: that Jaden Daniels is going to be playing in great
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  Speaker 2: weather on a Sunday in Tampa with all the momentum
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  Speaker 2: after having just won two key games to get in
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  Speaker 2: this thing against Atlanta. Of course, but I look at
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  Speaker 2: that Philadelphia game three weeks ago where they had to
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  Speaker 2: get that win at the end and they did. Gosh,
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  Speaker 2: the names of players that have stepped up for Washington,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be Alamid's a Chaus or zach Ertz, it's
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  Speaker 2: a really cool story. I don't know if it necessarily
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  Speaker 2: ends in the wild card round, they might be marching on.
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  Speaker 2: They could be the hottest team in football. So Washington
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  Speaker 2: that's who I'm looking at right now. And I also
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  Speaker 2: love what Tampa's got going. You know, it's interesting. I
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  Speaker 2: talked to it at the start of the show about
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: how much there's such high stakes for everyone involved in
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and Baltimore and like, what a loss mean the
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  Speaker 2: complete opposite of that? And I really mean this, and
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  Speaker 2: I think I would hear that from the fan bases
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  Speaker 2: is Buccaneers commanders like those teams are having great seasons.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if the fans expecting them to be
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  Speaker 2: here and if they lose, all right, we had a
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  Speaker 2: great season and we got young team who we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be back. Jaden Daniels has nothing to lose this week.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot wait to see Jaden Daniels on Sunday Night Football,
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  Speaker 2: Tariko and Collinsworth on the call in warm weather, where
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  Speaker 2: he can run around, he can throw the ball, and
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: if I'm taking a Jaden Daniels cue from this season,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna come down to the last second. It just will.
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  Speaker 2: The Commanders have won five different games with Jayden Daniels
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  Speaker 2: at quarterback in the final thirty seconds of regulation or overtime.
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  Speaker 2: They also won one with Marcus Mariota in the final
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  Speaker 2: thirty seconds of regulation overtime into that week eighteen. Jaden's
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  Speaker 2: been a treat to watch all season. He's your offensive
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  Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year. I think he wins it unanimously
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  Speaker 2: and I can't wait to see what he's got in
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  Speaker 2: store for the playoffs. January Football, the Commanders are there
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  Speaker 2: for the first time and it feels like forever, and
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels is their quarterback. What's up everybody? Every Monday
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  Speaker 2: I give out the Coach of the Week award. It
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  Speaker 2: could be a coordinator, It could be an assistant. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's a head coach. He just does the right thing
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  Speaker 2: and gets the job done. Today's Coach of the Week
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  Speaker 2: award for Week eighteen ghost to a guy who has
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  Speaker 2: now won yet another straight division title in the NFC South.
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  Speaker 2: Todd Bowles is our coach. Right a week Tima Bay
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  Speaker 2: Buccaneers head coach not only win the division title with
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  Speaker 2: the win over the Saints, but does the right thing
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  Speaker 2: and getting Mike Evans on the field and getting him
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  Speaker 2: a thousand yards so he could keep that awesome streak going.
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  Speaker 2: Bulls could have easily taken a knee in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of ways that was the right play to make, but
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  Speaker 2: Mike Evans is a special player and this is a
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  Speaker 2: special streak that they've got going on eleven straight years.
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  Speaker 2: He now ties Jerry Rice in the record books for
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  Speaker 2: most one thousand yard receiving seasons. The reaction from the
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  Speaker 2: team tells you everything about how the players felt. Todd
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  Speaker 2: Bowles in the locker room afterwards, was right there celebrating
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  Speaker 2: with a giant smile on his face, and we see
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  Speaker 2: his general manager Jason Light behind him. They're celebrating Mike.
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: This is the family and Mike Evans has been there
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  Speaker 2: over multiple regimes. He goes back to Lovey Smith and
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: Dirk Cutter, and he goes back to Bruce Arians, but
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  Speaker 2: they've had a lot of success under Todd Bowles. Todd
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  Speaker 2: does not get enough credit for what he's done in
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay. They have lost offensive coordinators over the year.
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Dave Kanalisa left last year. They still find a way
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  Speaker 2: to win yet another division title on Todd Bowles's resume.
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  Speaker 2: The guy who's very seldom given praise on the national media,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta do it today. He wins and he does
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  Speaker 2: it the right way. Todd Bowles is our coach of
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  Speaker 2: the week for Week eighteen. I look at philadelph and
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  Speaker 2: hear me out here. They opted not to go for
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  Speaker 2: the Saquon Barkley single season rushing record, and talking heads
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  Speaker 2: like us had a field day with it and went
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  Speaker 2: thirty ways backwards forwards. Everyone had to take Saquon Barkley
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  Speaker 2: was at his locker after the decision was made. Take
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  Speaker 2: a listen to what he had to say in Week
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  Speaker 2: eighteen before a game he ended up not even playing.
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  Speaker 3: It was somebody in your family who did take it
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  Speaker 3: the hardest my following life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he tried to act like he didn't, but he
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  Speaker 3: called me yesterday say happy New Year. Is checkable me.
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  Speaker 3: He definitely wanted me to play, you know, selfishly for him.
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  Speaker 3: You got to think about it for however long, whether
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: it would take a year if I would have broke it,
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  Speaker 3: or for someone to break it, or another forty fifty years.
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  Speaker 3: Our last name would have been attached to that. So
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  Speaker 3: I see it from that side too. But at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, the most important thing is one
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  Speaker 3: of the football games. And he's the one that raised me
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  Speaker 3: to kind of be all about the team too, So
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: he could have his little selfis moment, but he'll get over.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fun moment. It's a great SoundBite, and Saquon
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  Speaker 2: seems to be taking it in stride. But you get
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  Speaker 2: the feeling that Sakon probably wanted to get that record
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't bang it his head. He didn't bang
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  Speaker 2: as he understands. But I think Saquon would have liked
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  Speaker 2: to have been the single season rushing record holder for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of time, Like I think that would have
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  Speaker 2: been nice. And he won't get another shot. He won't
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  Speaker 2: get another shot. It's very unlikely you get that other shot.
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  Speaker 2: They opted not to and when you ought not to
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  Speaker 2: do that in Week eighteen, because you think about the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: you better succeed in the playoffs. Take a look at
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  Speaker 2: the reaction when another team that had already clinched a
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  Speaker 2: playoff spot and had nothing else to play for except
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  Speaker 2: that individual's accolades got that individual the accolades a thousand
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  Speaker 2: yards for the eleventh straight year. And look at the
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  Speaker 2: way this team reacted and look at how excited they were.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think this is a good moment for the
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  Speaker 2: Ten Bay Buccaneers heading into the playoffs? Do you think
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  Speaker 2: they were happy? Do you think that they were galvanized?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that maybe, just maybe Saquon getting that
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  Speaker 2: record could have been a positive thing heading into January
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: instead of going into this postseason like, well that was
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  Speaker 2: the regular season. It's an individual effort and we're hurting
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  Speaker 2: the page. It's not that significant. These things matter, and
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  Speaker 2: it's good that's her team. And in the locker room
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  Speaker 2: after the game, Todd Bowles had a smile as wide
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  Speaker 2: as you've ever seen Todd Bowles have. Now, I say
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  Speaker 2: all that to lead to Nick Sirianni because he's the
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  Speaker 2: man in charge, and he's the one with a decision
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  Speaker 2: if the Packers come in and beat the Eagles on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: that decision Week eighteen to not let Saquon get that
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  Speaker 2: record and to hold Saquon back and to take the conservative,
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  Speaker 2: long term approach about we're going for it all. It'll
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: be analyzed for the rest of time. It'll be a
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  Speaker 2: historical decision to not let Saquon get their guys. Derrick
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  Speaker 2: Henry was on the field in a thirty five to
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  Speaker 2: ten win over Cleveland where it was all done also,
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: but the Ravens wanted to see Derek Henry eat the
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  Speaker 2: Derrick Henry Ravens wanted to see Derek Henry get more yards.
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  Speaker 2: That game was never in question in the second half,
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  Speaker 2: but Derek Henry was still ripping off yards. We saw
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  Speaker 2: Mike Evans get his. We didn't get a chance to
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  Speaker 2: see saquons And the reason why it is a smart one.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want any injuries, and we want the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line to be fresh, and we want Saquon to be
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  Speaker 2: fresh because we're going for a bigger goal. We're going
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  Speaker 2: for a Super Bowl championship. Don't lose to the packers
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  Speaker 2: at home on Sunday, nothing short of clumsy. Why not
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  Speaker 2: do it Sunday night or do it Monday before. Antonio
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  Speaker 2: Pierce speaks in front of reporters at one pm and says,
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: I think I'm fine. Matt Eberflu suffered the same fate.
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  Speaker 2: He lost that game on Thanksgiving Friday morning. After Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 2: they made him go speak in front of the media.
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  Speaker 2: Then an hour later they told him he was fired.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: It looks clumsy, it looks like the timeline's off. But
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  Speaker 2: I would say with the Las Vegas Raiders, there are
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: thirty one teams the NFL, and then there's the Raiders.
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  Speaker 2: They operate on their own rules and they do it
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  Speaker 2: by their own set of standards and their own procedures,
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  Speaker 2: and that's maybe one of the reasons why they've had
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  Speaker 2: so many down years in the last two decades. Mark Davis,
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: I think his heart is in the right place. He's
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: got good intentions, and I think this new ownership group,
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: which includes Tom Brady and Richard Seymour and some other voices,
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  Speaker 2: are going to do the best job they can to
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  Speaker 2: help advise and get the right thing right. But at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, they don't have a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: They just fired another offensive coordinator. You know, they had
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  Speaker 2: Luke Getzi for eleven weeks. They fired him, and then
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  Speaker 2: they had Scott Turner and North Turner and the booth
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  Speaker 2: they're out. There's a great amount of instability in this job.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who would find this attractive if you're
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: looking at it objectively, compared to say Bears or a
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Patriots or a Jets or a Saints. The Raiders' job,
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  Speaker 2: it's more like, I guess I want to work with Brady,
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  Speaker 2: but Brady's not there every day, and he hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: there every day, so I hate to be so down.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a quarterback, I don't know what the
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: salary cat situation is, and I don't necessarily know how
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  Speaker 2: much I'm gonna be able to spend on a coaching
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  Speaker 2: staff going into this. So everyone's saying l Vrabel Vrabel
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  Speaker 2: because he used to play with Brady. Rabel might have
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  Speaker 2: more attractive options than going to this Vegas situation, which
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: doesn't look ideal for me as I'm just looking at
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  Speaker 2: the other landscape. The Brady situation is fascinating Jamie because
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: he's the number one broadcaster for Fox and the most
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: important games of his broadcast career are about to kick off.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna be thirty million people watching Packers Eagles on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday on Fox, and then the following week he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a Divisional round game. There he's gonna have the
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  Speaker 2: NFC Championship, and then O, yeah, he does a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl that takes you through February fourteenth or so, that
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  Speaker 2: takes you through Valentine's Day. The Raiders hope to have
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  Speaker 2: a coach by then. We'd think the Raiders would have
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: a coach in next few weeks. So is Brady juggling
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  Speaker 2: both because all these reports and he included that he's
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: going to play a role, well how big of a role,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: because he's also got a very important job at Fox.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm actually interested in the Brady mechanics of it,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm sure he can multitask and I'm sure he
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: can weigh in. Is he going to be sitting in
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  Speaker 2: on zoom meetings with eleven different coordinators around the league
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  Speaker 2: and asking them questions about and doing the work. I
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: don't know. So this whole feeling of just put it
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: in Brady's hands, It'll all work out. Brady's got a
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  Speaker 2: full time job that I think is pretty serious, and
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: he's been pretty dedicated to this year. I don't think
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: he wants to finish that job half whatever in it
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: because he's now interviewing Liam Cohen from the Buccaneers to
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: see what his thoughts are on quarterback play around the league.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I think it's interesting that Trent balk keeps his job
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: and Doug Peterson loses. I don't know if the job's
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: as attractive when you have an incumbent GM that you're inheriting.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: If you're one of these big names, I honestly think
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: if you can both the coach and the GM in Jacksonville,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: you can lure a Mike Rabol if that's your number
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  Speaker 2: one target, or a Ben Johnson and say, and you'll
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: have input on the GM, so you could come in
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: and bring your guy and we could build this thing together.
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  Speaker 2: You're inheriting Trent Balke as a GM who you probably
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: have no relationship with. Does that become a less attractive job.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I think it does. As opposed to a clean slate,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: which will be the case in New York or somewhere else,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: and maybe even in New England. We believe Elliot Wolf
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: is keeping his job, but at least there will be
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: an open conversation. What Tom Pellisera said is interesting. Whereas
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Peterson reported to Balkey, like Balkey reports to the owner,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: and then the coach will reports the owner. I say
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: all this because I think Ben Johnson is a really
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: attractive coach right now is the offensive coordinator, and I
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: think he's going to have his pick of the litter.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at all of the different jobs available,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: and I think, to a man, most coaches want to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: go where there isn't a GM already hired, so that
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: you can at least have input from the gut go.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: And that's usually how this works, whether or not you've
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: got an arranged marriage with the person or even know them.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: We're coming in together. We're on the same page. Balky
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: knows how that building works. Balky knows all the politics
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: of that building. Balcy knows everything to do with how
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: the cons like to operate. So as a coach, you're
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: going in and you're like, all right, I have to
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: meet this new owner and the owner's son, and I
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: also need to get to know this GM and how
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: he works. A clean slate often is the way to
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: go if you're going to do this thing from the start.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: So I never call for anyone's job. I just look
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: at office politics and structures and the Jets having a
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: clean slate right now and saying, all right, we don't
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: know who we're hiring first, and we're going to figure
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: it out. Might be a better opportunity for a hot
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: young coach than oh, but I'm inheriting that to me.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I look at this, and I look at the entire slate,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and you're talking about the AFC specifically. I look at
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I think it's a very loaded
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: topic when you talk about Mike Tomlin and what he's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: walking into right now. Mike Tomlin and the Steelers have
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: made the playoffs. Again. If you talk to a Jets fan,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: if you talk to a Browns fan, if you talk
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: to a Jaguars or Titans fan, they will tell you
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: you are spoiled, you made the playoffs, You're in January.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: What are you crying about? But if you talk to
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: a Steelers fan, they are very triggered by this also,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: and they say, the national media kisses this guy's heinie
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: like no end, and he gives a great sound bite
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: and it's wonderful. But the last time they won a
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: playoff game was before Patrick Mahomes was in the NFL.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: They play in several of them. The last time the
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers won a playoff game was against the Kansas
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: City Chiefs, and it was in the divisional round, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: it was on a Sunday after it was actually post
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: bone due to weather, and they played on a Sunday.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Says after Aaron Rodgers went to Jared Cook and killed
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys in Dallas. This is the game that followed.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: I was at this game. This was twenty sixteen. This
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: is the last time the Mike Tomlin Steelers have won
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: a playoff game. It was with Alex Smith and Eric
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Fisher was running as an eligible at the offensive line position.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, look at the board here, look at we're
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: talking about last year. They lost wildcard round Kansas City.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: They lost at home to Baker Mayfield. They lost forty
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: eight to thirty seven when they were big favorites. Some
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: blowouts in there. How about the Jacksonville Divisional round when
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: they had it all going on and they lost forty
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: five to forty two to Cecil Shorts. The third and
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Blake Bortles, and you talk about it from that Jaguars team,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Alan Robinson and whoever else. Then they lost a conference
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: championship and the last time they won was that divisional
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: round in twenty sixteen. Good Morning Football's first season as
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: a show eight years ago. Nate Burleson in a pink
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: suit on the show, like, that's what we're talking about.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: So does he have a lot to get yet because
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: they're not favored this time? How about they going there
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: and they actually win one of these and they win
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: one that they're not expected to it and they do
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: so against the Ravens team that they have had dominance
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: over the last five six years. Harboughs record is not
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: much better in the playoffs in these first round games.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Since they won a super Bowl, He's won two games,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Harbos Tomlin's won this many. I feel like Mike Tomlin,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: to silence a lot of the doubters in his own market,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: that fan base would go a long way to upset
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: the Ravens on Saturday night on Amazon. Is he his
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: job in Jeopardy? No, that's not how the Steelers do
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: their business, But for the narrative locally, it would go
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a long way to win a Wildcard round game against
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: the hated Ravens in their building.
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