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  Speaker 1: Well a preview of the AFC Championship Game unless it's
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour start with not the Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night game that was a bit of a dud, no contests,
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  Speaker 1: so instead we'll talk about the game. We're gonna start anyway,
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  Speaker 1: with the game of the day in the NFL in
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  Speaker 1: New York. There's only one team that plays in New York.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the Jets, it's not the Giants. That would
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  Speaker 1: be the team in Buffalo, Sleepy Orchard Park, New York,
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  Speaker 1: to be exact, and that was the venue for the
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  Speaker 1: latest matchup in the quarterback rivalry of rivalries Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: and the Bills versus Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, and
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  Speaker 1: then trying to recreate the Tom Brady versus Peyton Manning
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  Speaker 1: rivalry of years gone by and trying to sell that,
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  Speaker 1: and they're selling it that this is the same in
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes wins in the playoffs like Brady. But then you
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  Speaker 1: look at Manning and that's Josh Allen and Manning a
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  Speaker 1: terrible big game quarterback. Every man, woman and child knows that.
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  Speaker 1: And Josh Allen his number is not bad in big games,
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  Speaker 1: but he always finds away his team to f it up.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the setup. Yet, Jim Nance and Tony Romo,
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  Speaker 1: they were there and you know, doing their thing and
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  Speaker 1: all that. Right, that's right, jam Hello friends, Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: if you were wat you know what happened. But possibly
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  Speaker 1: not possibly not the raining MVP Josh Allen throwing a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown pass and ran for not one, but two scores,
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  Speaker 1: and he actually outplayed Patrick Mahomes, out played in there,
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  Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills get to win. Chiefs had the
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  Speaker 1: ball trund for that hill Mary throw of eight there.
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  Speaker 1: They get to win though. Twenty eight twenty one, Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: over Kansas City in a rematch of big playoff games,
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  Speaker 1: including the AFC Championship game a year ago. James Cook
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  Speaker 1: adding one hundred and fourteen yards rushing. The Buffalo defense
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  Speaker 1: was all over Patrick Mahomes in this game. Sacked him
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  Speaker 1: three times. They hit him fifteen more times as Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: had trouble getting rid of the football. Bad job by him.
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  Speaker 1: Got to make adjustments if your offensive lines dinged up.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes did not make those adjustments, and so, for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in his NFL career, Patrick Mahomes completed less
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  Speaker 1: than half of his passes. It never happened, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: but it did now. And so he completed less than
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  Speaker 1: half his passes. He went fifteen of thirty four passing,
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes less than fifty percent throwing the ball. The argument, well,
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  Speaker 1: some of those were late in the game, the desperation
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  Speaker 1: trying to come back there, the hail Mary which didn't
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  Speaker 1: even get to the end zone, and all that. So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna break this down now. The better story is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. So here is the one
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  Speaker 1: and only Patrick Mahomes pointing out that apparently the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: they've not done well in close games.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start with that.
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  Speaker 1: So here's Mahomes on the fact that Chiefs are winless
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  Speaker 1: this year in close games.
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  Speaker 3: What's that about?
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  Speaker 4: Kind of been in all these tight, close games and
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  Speaker 4: our history, but they're not going our way now, So
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  Speaker 4: how can we deal with that adversity? How can we
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  Speaker 4: be better and learn from it? I mean, you only
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  Speaker 4: learn for so many losses. I mean you gotta learn
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  Speaker 4: from it fast. And sm and uphill battle when we
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  Speaker 4: get back. But I think our guys are.
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  Speaker 1: Up cut out early what's going on in the editing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand what goes on back there. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: it's just in that very end of it. But anyway, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: here's more. Here is Patrick Mahomes. Let's see how the
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  Speaker 1: editors f this up. Here's Mahomes on the urgency and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that apparently there's no cupcakes on the schedule.
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  Speaker 3: According to Mahomes, takeles.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, we got to learn from it, but
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of like you got to do it now,
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  Speaker 4: like there's there's no there's no easy game coming up,
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  Speaker 4: and there's no more chances that we can really take losses.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, you got to learn from it fast,
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  Speaker 4: and we've got to be better as a team.
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  Speaker 2: Offensive.
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  Speaker 4: We gotta be better, especially on some of those big
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  Speaker 4: drives we had in the second half. And I think
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  Speaker 4: we'll just continue to to to push away and learn
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  Speaker 4: on this by week and then come back and be
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  Speaker 4: ready to play our best football coming off of it.
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  Speaker 1: Still gonna be learning while they're in can Kun, They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be learning how to put suntan lotion on and
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  Speaker 1: drink the.
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  Speaker 3: Proper my tie.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So let us discuss the question where does
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  Speaker 1: this loss to the Bills leave Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: He was pretty much by the book with those answers
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  Speaker 1: as well. You know, we got to learn, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what they always say, we win or lose, you have
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  Speaker 1: to learn from everything. Everything is a teachable moment, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got brain Freeze, Legend
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  Speaker 1: of Zelda, and foam Finger, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together, and we're gonna make the Gobba goool.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna make the gobbagool.
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  Speaker 1: So a, this was a game for the Chiefs with
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes here and friends, to show that they were fully backed.
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  Speaker 1: The Chiefs were playing well. They had won a few
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  Speaker 1: games in a row, and so it's like they got
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  Speaker 1: their mojo backed. They're sitting sitting there thinking, Okay, well
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  Speaker 1: here we go. We're gonna show everyone going to Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: and win that game. And that didn't happen. Obviously, that
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  Speaker 1: did not happen, and Kansas City rolled backwards. That was
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  Speaker 1: a misstep by the Chiefs in this game, and they
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  Speaker 1: reverted into some bad habits. They did you can't hide
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  Speaker 1: behind turn it on when it counts. Well, they'll just
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  Speaker 1: turn it on when it counts. That doesn't generally work here.
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  Speaker 1: And Buffalo's defense, who has not exactly been world beaters.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you've been watching the NFL this year,
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  Speaker 1: you know the Bills defense has been shaky. They've been
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  Speaker 1: on the ropes at times. But Mahomes could not hit
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  Speaker 1: water for a lot of this game. And he fell
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  Speaker 1: out of a boat the way that he was playing here,
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  Speaker 1: And don't give me the well he doesn't have weapons.
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  Speaker 1: His guys are back. They were back, they played, they
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  Speaker 1: had all the big weapons. Rashie Rice, the speed racer,
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  Speaker 1: he was out there, Xavier Worthy, Hollywood Browns. I guess
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  Speaker 1: current Hollywood when they're not making good movies, not old
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood when they.
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  Speaker 3: Made good movies.
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  Speaker 1: He's poor Hollywood brown But anyway, those guys were out there.
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  Speaker 1: They just didn't make enough plays in this game. Travis
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  Speaker 1: Kelce continues to look like he's a podcaster pretending to
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  Speaker 1: play football.
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  Speaker 3: It's not very good.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like a fair tour sponsored by the AARP,
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  Speaker 1: watching out there and play. And this was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a measuring stick game. It was a measuring stick
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  Speaker 1: game for the Chiefs, and at this point they didn't say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're still the Kings of the NFL, even though they
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  Speaker 1: lost to Philadelphia in the Super Bowl where the Kings
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  Speaker 1: of the AFC. They didn't do that. It was Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, Buffalo. It was Buffalo that did the
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  Speaker 1: old pirouett. They did the dance. They shook their tush
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  Speaker 1: right there on the dance floor. They were getting done.
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  Speaker 1: The Chiefs had a brief lead in the second quarter
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  Speaker 1: and then crumbled from that point forward. It was a
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  Speaker 1: domination situation. They played like there was a pop quiz.
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  Speaker 1: There was a pop quiz, and they didn't study for
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  Speaker 1: the pop quiz. Bad job by them. They got brain freeze.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Mike, I got brain friese. Now, bigger headache. That
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  Speaker 1: Chief's defense, to me, that's the sort they was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes and Momes didn't play great in this game. Yet
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  Speaker 1: I look at that defense in Kansas City and what
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  Speaker 1: was that. At least I didn't see any plays where
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  Speaker 1: they literally gave up like they did against Jacksonville. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: they just allowed the Jacks to score that touchdown. One
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  Speaker 1: of the most gutless moments in NFL history by a
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  Speaker 1: good team. I didn't see that, but this wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: masculating performance for Kansas City. Josh Allen carved them up
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  Speaker 1: like you're gonna carve your turkey up later this month.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely carved them up.
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  Speaker 1: Averaged ten and a half yards per throw, all right,
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  Speaker 1: ten and a half yards per attempt for Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: which is ridonculous. James Cook was running through mostly arm
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  Speaker 1: tackles in this game, and how good was he? Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: as a team had ninety nine more yards of offense
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine. They stopped at the ninety nine seven more
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  Speaker 1: first downs in this game and converted at an almost
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  Speaker 1: sixty percent clip on third down. I'm told that's all
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  Speaker 1: good stuff. I'm told that's all good stuff. That was
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  Speaker 1: a domination situation. Everyone knows, so you don't normal You
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  Speaker 1: don't normally see the Chiefs getting shoved around like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's not typical of how that team has played over
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. But they did look soft
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  Speaker 1: at times by the Bill. Give the Bills credit, But
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  Speaker 1: my god, Kansas City, what are you doing. It's a
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  Speaker 1: bad job by you, and so to me, that's the headline,
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  Speaker 1: I just played a soft brand of football in this game,
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  Speaker 1: and at five and four, Mahomes mentioned there's not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of wiggle room here. The Chiefs need to get
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  Speaker 1: at least six more wins. They got eight games to go,
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  Speaker 1: they got to come up with six wins, so they
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  Speaker 1: got a couple more losses to play with, but they
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  Speaker 1: got to get six more wins.
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  Speaker 3: That'll get them to eleven wins.
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  Speaker 1: Very rarely do you get to eleven wins and not
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  Speaker 1: make the plays So if you can get to eleven wins,
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  Speaker 1: you'll make the playoffs. Whether that's the division or whether
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  Speaker 1: that's just being a wild card, you'll.
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  Speaker 3: Get in the pluff.
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  Speaker 1: Now, on the Bill's side of things, as we continue
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  Speaker 1: our in depth team coverage here starting the week off
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  Speaker 1: on The Ben Mather Show, the question for the Bills
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  Speaker 1: does this count as a signature win for Josh Allen's
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills beating Kansas City here in Week nine of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL season, So we mentioned a big measuring stick
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  Speaker 1: game for Kansas City, well also for Buffalo. However, however,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say no in terms of the big picture.
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  Speaker 1: For the moment, Yeah, the Bills feel pretty good right,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Mafia is all fired off. They're excited. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: They want congratulations. However, Buffalo, what do we know. They
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  Speaker 1: always beat Kansas City in the regular season. They always do.
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  Speaker 1: This is old news. This is old news, is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. We've seen this act before. Think of this
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  Speaker 1: like the Legend of Zelda, the Hero of Time. The
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  Speaker 1: hero of Time known as Link in the Legend of
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  Speaker 1: Zelda used to play that years ago, and this was
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  Speaker 1: like clockwork for the Bills. Legend of Zelda the Hero
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  Speaker 1: of Time, it was clockwork. This is what they do.
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  Speaker 1: In November they beat Kansas City. That's what the Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Bills do. And then in January the Chiefs gut the
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  Speaker 1: Bills like the aliens gutting a cow.
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  Speaker 3: When they united.
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  Speaker 1: You find those aliens that come down there allegedly I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure it's something else and just tear up the cow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's like that. But it's a Buffalo and it's the
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  Speaker 1: same every year, same movie every year. This year be different.
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo was a slight favorite. They were at home in
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  Speaker 1: this game and they won. So you get a nice
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  Speaker 1: little dopamine hit, right, little dopamine hit the year not bad.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy the dopamine. Way to go, and the Bills mafia
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  Speaker 1: will throw themselves on some tables that are lit on
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  Speaker 1: fire and that'll be how that goes.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations on that. However, you're not celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: Because we know there's a lot of games to go,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of games to go, and until Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: finally gets the monkey off his back, he and his
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  Speaker 1: co workers there beat Mahomes when it matters in the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: when it counts in the big playlayoff game down the line.
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  Speaker 1: This is just background noise. It's just elevator noise, that's
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  Speaker 1: all it is. And they're the kings of the regular
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  Speaker 1: season matchups. You get a nice little puffy sticker. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: on that. Way to go and five straight now for
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  Speaker 1: the Bills, five straight over Kansas City when the weather's
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  Speaker 1: still relatively good. When the weather's not good, they've played
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  Speaker 1: four times and zero for four, including that ridiculous game
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  Speaker 1: at Arrowhead Stadium a couple years back. But there you go.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bills in the regular season against the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: the Bills are like a tesla. They're smooth, they don't
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  Speaker 1: no gas, need it, right, they get plenty of gas,
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  Speaker 1: play energy, right, and all that stuff. They're fast playoffs, playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills off in resort, not a tesla. They're
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  Speaker 1: more like a rental Kia with lots of dents and
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  Speaker 1: lots of miles on it. And that's how that goes,
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  Speaker 1: gonna collapse later. So itays a deja vu, deja vu situation.
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  Speaker 3: Is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And just I've a show to do every day, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: so we worry about what we worry about that particular day.
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  Speaker 1: But let me know, send me a text or something.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know when the Bills win a game like
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  Speaker 1: this against Kansas City in January, and when the pressure
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  Speaker 1: cookers cranked up to ten, we can revisit this.
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  Speaker 3: Now, last word, is it true?
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  Speaker 1: A quarterback called out the fans, called out the fens.
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  Speaker 1: We go to Jersey where the forty nine ers, with
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey accounting for over one hundred and seventy all
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  Speaker 1: purpose yards and a pair of touchdowns, the Niners beat
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  Speaker 1: up the Giants, a domination situation, which led to some
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  Speaker 1: interesting commentary from Jackson Dart. Now Jackson Dart a one
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  Speaker 1: man band for the Giants. Is he had a good
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  Speaker 1: stat sheet game and all that stuff. With the Giants
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  Speaker 1: lose and Dart had a couple of touchdown passes and
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown run. So that's a good you. I had
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  Speaker 1: him on your fantasy football team and all that.
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  Speaker 3: Fine.
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  Speaker 1: He was blown away though, post game by the amount
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  Speaker 1: of fans wearing red. A lot of forty nine er
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  Speaker 1: fans there. I know our guy or Nesto, he's a
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  Speaker 1: big part of that. The forty nine er fan base.
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  Speaker 1: They travel, They travel very well. The Niners, they're living
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  Speaker 1: off what they were forty years ago when they had
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  Speaker 1: a dynasty in the nineteen eighties. But anyway, the stadium
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  Speaker 1: was packed with forty nine er colors, much like when
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  Speaker 1: the Niners played the Rams. Anyway, here is Jackson Dart
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  Speaker 1: on what it was like in that environment in Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Tegolz, that was interesting.
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  Speaker 5: I've never played out a home game where I felt
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  Speaker 5: like it was kind of lopsided in that department.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, they have a good fan base and
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  Speaker 3: the travel.
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  Speaker 1: Blow Okay, So Jackson Dart, I have never played a
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  Speaker 1: home game essentially with so many visiting fans, is what
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  Speaker 1: he was saying there. So question does that count. Did
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart take a subtle shit at the Giant fans.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go one hundred percent. That is a
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  Speaker 1: subtle shot because if you do the math on this,
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  Speaker 1: I know this is there'd be no arithmetic on this.
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  Speaker 1: There's really no if sands or a bunch of beout it.
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  Speaker 1: So how did the forty nine er fan procure the
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  Speaker 1: ticket to the game at the stadium there in the
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  Speaker 1: swamp lands of Jersey because all those tickets sold, Right,
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  Speaker 1: there's only one logical path on how that large volume
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  Speaker 1: of forty nine.
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  Speaker 3: Er fans got in there.
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  Speaker 1: Those tickets do not end up in the devices of
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine or fan base by accident. They don't, right,
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  Speaker 1: Giant season ticket holders sold them. They sold them for profit.
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  Speaker 1: That's on the fans, and Jackson Dart by pointing that out,
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  Speaker 1: is indirectly pointing out that the fans cashed in and
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  Speaker 1: sold the.
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  Speaker 3: Tickets, and can you blame them?
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  Speaker 1: That's the other part is can you really blame it
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  Speaker 1: if you're dumb enough to buy Giant season tickets?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: The team's been a punchline for a decade now. They've
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  Speaker 1: been garbaged that the Giants used to be good when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid. They suck and you're sitting there,
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  Speaker 1: you're paying premium PSL and all.
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  Speaker 3: The other crap you got to pay.
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  Speaker 1: To have tickets, and you go out there and watch
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  Speaker 1: them pretty much on a weekly basis.
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  Speaker 3: Drop a deuce right at the midfield logo.
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  Speaker 1: You might as well make a couple of bucks back
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  Speaker 1: if somebody's dumb enough to pay you big money and travel,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's from northern California and it's Niner fans everywhere
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  Speaker 1: again because of Montana back in the eighties', just like
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  Speaker 1: second generation forty nine or third generation forty nine er
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  Speaker 1: fans now, so you can't point the foam finger. You
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: can't point the foam finger at the fans when the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: team's bad. And they're bad, and that loss wasn't about
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: crowd noise the Giants they were terrible, and it wasn't
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: even about the forty nine ers being being supported by
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: their fans or anything. It was just the Niners played
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: a dominant game. The Giants went through the motions and
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: all that. Even back up mac Jones. Mac Jones, who
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: was starting to fall off the leg, she came back
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: there and he was okay. And by the way, if
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the Giants want to get Jackson Dart. I assume they
• 18:06
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• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and maybe start putting a more competitive product on the
• 18:11
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• 18:16
  Speaker 1: The Giants played terribly last week and now a no
• 18:19
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• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Do not blame the resale market here. The fans did
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: not miss tackles. I'm pretty sure that they did not
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: blow coverages in the secondary there. So to put a
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: ball on this, Jackson Dart again his comments, while they
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: seemed rather but nine you have to go down the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: rabbit hole and then you see, well, they're not so innocent.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: They're not so innocent. He said, Hey, the fans. What
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he's saying is I didn't like the environment. He indicated
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: that I've never done this before. It didn't seem to
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: enjoy it. And that was possible because the fans sold
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the tickets. They sold out the tickets and another embarrassing
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: home loss. And so you look ahead and the Giant
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: fans will do the same thing. It's hard to argue.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: It's hard to argue the fans doing that.
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• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you know that normally on Sunday Night we focus in
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: on the island life, the island game, the Sunday Night game.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: That's the most important game on the weekend.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: NBC's got the biggest game every weekend Sunday Night by
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: itself Primetime. However, we did not begin we did not
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: begin this show with that game. It was such a
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: horrific mismatch we decided to move it to the second
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: hour of the show, and so Sunday Night Football you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: had Collinsworth and Tariko there, the Seahawks traveling Armada making
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: its way to the Greater Washington, DC area, landover Maryland
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: where Rick and Maryland says morning time right there. So
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it or not. Maybe
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you didn't watch it. I'm telling you you didn't miss
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: anything we watched, so you would not have to. It
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was a dead of a game, but not a dot
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of a game for Sam Darnold, who completed the first
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: seventeen passes he attempted. I'm told that's good. Had not one,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: not two, not three, but four touchdown passes. All of
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that in the first half. Seattle vaporized Washington thirty eight
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to fourteen the final in a game that was not
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: even that close. The game was over at halftime. They
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: were doing a bunch of filler stuff in the second half.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: But the better story is on the losing side. There'
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: been a lot of losing there, a lot of losing
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: for the Washington Commanders this year. It was an absenteeism
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: performance by the team that represents Washington DC. You know
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: what they acted like. They acted like politicians is what
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: they acted like. You know how politicians take a bunch
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of time off. That's the Commanders. They took a bunch
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of time off. My god, and now, the game itself
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: was upstaged by an injury, and we'll address that right now.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: This is the snuffleufigus in the room, the injury, and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: so Washington lost quarterback Jaden Daniels to snap crackle pop
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: as he was injured. Daniels the commander's phenom. You all
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: told me how great this guy is. He was in
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the final four last year with Washington, Jaden Daniels, second
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: year quarterback. There he left midway through the fourth quarter.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: His non throwing arm bent back like it was at
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a Halloween horror house, a house of horrors, hunted house there.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is disgusting. And there's I'm looking
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: a photo right here.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Not good.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: So Jaden Daniels is arm twisted back. I was tackled
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: near the Seattle goal line. And that is a good
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: jumping off point because this is the story and it's
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: going to be the hot debate topic in sports media today,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels being injured. He suffered what we're being told
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: is a dislocated elbow. He is scheduled to have an
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: MRI later to day and that will confirm the injury
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and determine how long he is going to be out
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: of action. The good news is it's not his throwing arm.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: The bad news is it is one of his arms.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Generally speaking, you need to have both. You need to
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: take the snap and when you're going back you gotta
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you have your off arm to kind of push away
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: defenders and all that stuff.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: So it's a bit of a problem.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn is getting absolutely just cooked for having his
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: player in the game in garbage time there late. Here
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: is dan Quinn, the head coach, probably not for long
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the way this season's going there in Washington, but here's.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Dan Quinn commenting on why he was in there.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: He was you know who made that decision. Let's find
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: out here we go, here's the coach.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not of his face.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: I mean obviously like the hindsight, you don't want to
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: think that way where you know an injury could take place,
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: you know, as you were more conservative that spot to
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: you know, run and hand off and not have reachs
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: to go. But just the end result mccaut's I'm bump.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: All right, So let us discuss the question. You heard
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: dan Quinn, coach of Washington. He's getting charbroiled like a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Western bacon cheeseberg. He's get absolutely scharbroiled for the Jaden
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Daniels injury in garbage time? Is this criticism warranted? Is
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the criticism Warrington? So on this one, I've got popsicle sticks,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: roller coaster, and finger foods, and we will combine all
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: of these things.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Together and we are going to make a.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Delicious Detroit style pizza which you can make at home. Yeah,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Detroit Detroit stear not bad. I didn't even know that
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: there was until like five years ago. I didn't even
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: know what Detroit style pizza was. I know Chicago style,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: but Detroit style's kind of a rip off of Chicago Sty's.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: It's not quite as thick and.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: All right, So number on people are losing their minds,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: losing their mind. Why was he still in the game,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Jada and Daniels, Why risk it you? Of course, the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: argument is, no risk it, no biscuit. So let me
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: hit the pause button. Hit the pause button on the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: remote control here. Now I'm gonna say it. I'm gonna
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: say the quiet part out loud. I don't think this
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: is the worst coaching decision of all time.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I doubt. Oh my god, you're just trying to get attention.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: That's why you're on.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Overnights that just don't even post it, no response. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: understand all the arguments against it. Let me make mallards
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: elevator pitch in support of why dan Quinn had Jade
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and Daniels in the game late. It was mid fourth
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: quarter when the injury happened. Right, you cannot coach scared
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: number one, Right, you cannot coach scared all right. The
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: guy is trying to get a young quarterback some positive reps.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: He if you were not watching the game here, if
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: you're actually honest, Jaden Daniels was not exactly lighting the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: world on fire against the Seattle Seahawks. And oh, by
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the way, this season when he has played, has not
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: looked anything like the guy last year for the Washington Commanders. Right,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: so he needed the work. Oh my god, you shouldn't
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: say that he needed the work. I said that he
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: needed the work, right, And so dan Quinn was he
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: chasing points at that at that moment of the game.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: He was trying to get some kind of confidence going
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: for the Commanders, right something, And for Jayden Daniels has.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Been the word for him, My word is nah.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: He's been a meh quarterback this year for Washington and
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: most of the season, and you want to see how
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: he's going to do and get some kind of positive
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: juice going for the Commanders, and you don't pull him
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: because it's a it's a blowout, you know, and you
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: need a little bit of scar tissue in the NFL,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you need that. Unfortunately, the irony is, of course, it
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: looks like he's going to get actual literal scar tissue
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: from some kind of medical procedure his shoulder messed up there.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: The other issue is that Jaden Daniels, and this was
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the argument against him coming out of LSU, is that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: he is not designed for professional football, meaning he's built
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: like a flagpole.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: He just is.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: He's a stick he's stick like. He's like a stick figure,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: skin and bones. And the for him as well, he'll
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: fill out his body and he'll get stronger as he
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: gets older and maybe he'll be stronger, maybe it'll be fatter.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Everyone gets bigger as they get older, right, whether you
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: get fat or whatever. And so so you go through
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: it and the big question is not so much the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: dan Quinn decision. Again to me, it's the can Jaden
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Daniels last in the NFL? Is he built for fling
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: like a summer flame and not the long term relationship type.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, like more for fun, not
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: the long term. That's the question question.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: And you look at the guy and he's just built
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: like a couple of popsicle sticks put together there and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: optimism and that's not going to last. It's just not
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: so Again those in the back of the room, if
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you're not paying attention because you're doing something there at
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the factory or whatever you're doing driving your truck. That's
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the argument is this goes with the job. You have
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to make these decisions as a coach. And you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: somebody's like dan Quinn, I don't think it was a
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: reckless call, right, And it sounds listening between the words
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: that Jayden Daniels went off the game plan and put
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: himself in harm's way there.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: But dan Quinn made a football call, is what he did.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: And he got absolutely burned, as it turns out, because
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the guy got hurt. And so the magic carpet ride
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: for the Washington Commanders last year has turned into a
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: kamikaze mission this year for the Commanders, as they are
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: just terrible and like one of the great Fluke runs,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: what they did last year getting to the final four
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: of the NFL, the NFC Championship game in Philly, And
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: now you look at him now and they're closer to
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: getting a top ten pick in the draft the way
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: they've played this year than they are returning to the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: playoffs at this point now, Page two.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: So on the other side.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: As we break down the Sunday Night game, a lot
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of chatter about Sam Donald, who sliced up the Commander's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: secondary on Sunday Night Football a domination situation. The game
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: was over at halftime. They were actually singing turnout the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: last the parties over literally at halftime, thirty one to seven.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: What's the score at halftime? Donald had all four of
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: his touchdown passes in the first.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Half of the game. Who was sixteen for sixteen.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And then got another completion to start the second half.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Seattle improved to six and two. Now, Chris Collinsworth, he
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: had the Seattle Seahawks onesie on on the broadcast. There
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: went in down, slobberd chops all over the quarterback. So
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Collinsworth mentioned Sam Darnald and saying that Donald should be
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: in the ENVP conversation, that Sam Donald should be an MVP,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Holy fire him an Ed and all you Jets fans?
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? All right?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So the question is it time for us to reevaluate
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: our long standing position on Sam Donald? Should we reevaluate
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the Seattle quarterback Sam Donald and his status as a
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Most Valuable Player candidate in the NFL? So on this one,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I'm giving it not side eye. I'm giving it stink eye.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: There's a difference. I'm giving it stink guy here. So
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that's all together. Now, pump the brakes now, let's pump
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the brakes on that, shall we I'm not there.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: I'm not there. I'm not there. I'm not there. I'm
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: not there.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth, I'm convinced that he's already built a statue, a.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Shrine to Sam Darnald. Nobody ballwashes quarterbacks better than Chris Collinsworth.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Can we all agree on that? For a guy that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: didn't play quarterback, he was a wide receiver? My god,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: maybe we all have someone love us as much as
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald loves every quarterback and he doesn't know what
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: He can't criticize anyone. It's wild.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: So I'm sure there's a statue somewhere in the greater
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati area where Collsworth lives. Of him one of the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: great ballwashers of our time when it comes to quarterbacks.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: And so Collsworth was practically feigning himself in the booth
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: while talking about Sam Donald, and I would say, I'd
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: like to quote Aaron Rodgers from years ago.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Relax r E la X Relax.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Yes Donald, listen, he was out there like he was
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: at Lowry's Steakhouse, carving some prime rib in this game,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: no question about it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: He carved up the Washington.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Defense and it looked like the Commander's defense had done
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: their pregame prep, their warm up at Buffalo Wild Wings.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: They had some beer and wings and went.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Out, let's play some football boys. We'll get some beer,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: we'll get some wings. It was thirty one seven again
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: at halftime. My god, the game was over right before
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Carrie Underwood finished singing. The game had already ended, but
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: for some reason they kept putting it on television. Listen,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Donald did play like a man possessed in this game.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: He did. Congratulations.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: However, I have a body of work to base my
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: opinion on. All Right, We've seen this before, Sam Donald.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: He did this with the Vikings last year. How my
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: friends in Minnesota, the nice Minnesota, nice people, they can
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: tell you all about Sam Donna. Right, Sam Don goes
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: out there and he was absolutely slicing everybody up last year,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: like Patrick Mahomes during the regular season and then in
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the late spot regular season last week against the Lions
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: and then the playoff game against the Rams in Arizona
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: neutral site because the fires in La.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Well, he went out there and played like.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Josh Rosen taking classes at a school in Pennsylvania business class.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: It is the Sam Donald roller coaster experience. Sam Donald
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: is a roller coaster quarterback. It's all gas. There's a
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: few loop dy loops, round and round and round and round,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: loopy loops and then face plant, face plant. That's the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald roller coaster. The seat belts come on hinge
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: and you go flying off the roller coaster. Well, that's
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: a bummer. That is an absolute bummer. Cannot depend on them,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: cannot do it, cannot depend on them.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Donald is not and.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Will never be in the bubble of trust. Will not
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: be in the bubble of trust. And this is what
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: he does. He fools you, Sam Donald fools you. He
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: does He plays a demonic level of football in a
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: game like this, threads the needle look like he was
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: playing against air, just dominating with Jackson Smith and Jigba,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and then the trap door opens up. The trap door
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: opens up, and then it's falling into Dante's inferno and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Picks seeing ghosts tossing checkdowns on third and fifteen where
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you complete the pass for eight yards but you're still
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: seven yards short of the line to gain, and the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: stat sheets shiny and the low information fan gets all horny.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Oh this is great.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: So as far as the MVP on my scorecard, which
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: is the only scorecard that matters because it's the Ben
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Malor Show, Sam Donald isn't even honorable mention, is not
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: even honorable mention in the MVP race.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: That is a trip to fantasy Land, is what that is.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Call me when he does it against a big time
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: opponent late in the season of the playoffs, and then
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: we can revisit this until that happens. That is my position. Now,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: final point, high drama in Sin sen Nady. That's where
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: we go.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Now we're running back.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Chase Bran ripped the Bengals defense. He said, what the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: f Now we're not allow to say what he actually
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: said because I'll get in trouble. Mark says he'll punch
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  Speaker 1: me if I say that. He said, what the f
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  Speaker 1: finish the effing game. That's the running back Chase Brown.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Now Jamar Chase, Chase and Chase all he needs Chase Bank.
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  Speaker 1: So Jamar Chase was heard as he was walking off
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  Speaker 1: the field in the bowels of the stadium. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of thick bowels there in Cincinnati. So Jamar
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  Speaker 1: Chase was heard yelling one effing stop again. We can't
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  Speaker 1: say the actual word. We're not allowed to say the
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  Speaker 1: actual word. So both those guys, Chase and Chase ripping him. Now,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Jamar Chase was pissed off heading the locker room. The
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  Speaker 1: game goes to Chicago forty seven two. It was the
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  Speaker 1: play of the day. We played it last hour, dramatic elite,
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  Speaker 1: a few seconds to go on the clock. Caleb Williams
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  Speaker 1: touchdown passed to win the game. So the question, Jamar
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  Speaker 1: Chase and his partner in crime, running back Chase Brown,
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  Speaker 1: both taking shots at the Cincinnati defense.
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  Speaker 3: How does that strike you? All right?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: So I'll go first. You can chime in if you want.
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  Speaker 1: This was obviously that big fail.
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  Speaker 3: It was an.
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  Speaker 1: Epic fail by the Cincinnati defense. Now, typically, having done
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  Speaker 1: this job and sitting I get to come in here
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  Speaker 1: and sit in the cap bird seat overnight quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Typically this stuff is not for public consumption. This is
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  Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that gets whispered behind closed doors
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, don't put my name on it, but
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  Speaker 1: here's my opinion. So you genuinely don't get this in
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  Speaker 1: the public theater. The Bengals defense was so bad.
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  Speaker 3: How bad are they?
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: They were so bad they should be brought up on
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  Speaker 1: grand larceny charges. Okay for that. They were total frauds,
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  Speaker 1: total frauds, and they got paid for that performance. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know that the Chicago Bears offense, I think most
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  Speaker 1: even the Bears fans, it's a middling offense. There's talent there,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a middling The Cincinnati Bengals defense gave off
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  Speaker 1: five hundred and seventy six yards to the Bears. The
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  Speaker 1: Bears almost put up six hundred yards of offense on
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  Speaker 1: the road.
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  Speaker 3: On the road, mind you, Now you know what that's like.
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  Speaker 1: When you see that kind of offics, you think you
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  Speaker 1: think Kurt Warner greatest show on turf Back in the
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  Speaker 1: dayf you all don't remember the Rams, the Saint Louis
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  Speaker 1: Rams with Tory Holt and all those Marshall Falk and
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  Speaker 1: all those games. Those are the teams that would put
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  Speaker 1: up that kind of yards. The Bears, what are we doing?
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Camb Williams looked like Josh Allen in a skills competition
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  Speaker 1: for much of that game. There was no resistance by Cincinnati.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: There was no pushback, nothing. Now, if you watched Benny
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  Speaker 1: versus the Penning on YouTube last week, we did take
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears that we got that right. So whatever,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think it was going to be anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: I did not imagine that this game would be as
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  Speaker 1: high scoring and that it would be.
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  Speaker 3: It was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety something points, just just absolute ridict in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is not some isolated thing. Though that's
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the other issue. This is not some isolated thing. This
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  Speaker 1: defense has been the worst in the NFL this season.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals were number thirty two, they would be thirty third,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: but there's only thirty two teams, so the thirty second
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  Speaker 1: team worst defense in the NFL, and so they were
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  Speaker 1: bad coming into this game, and somehow they found a
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  Speaker 1: lower level like we suck, How can we suck more? Okay,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: let's give up five hundred and seventy six yards and
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: then will be a super sonic suck. And there they were,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: and Zach Taylor has no answers the coach, and he's
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: not in danger of being fired because that would mean
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals would have to pay him to not coach,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: and that's a tight wad franchise. So I'd be shocked
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  Speaker 1: if they fired Zach Taylor. If you look at Zach Taylor,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: he's got no answers. No, it's finger food, is what
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  Speaker 1: it is in Cincinnati, and he's the buffet. Everyone's pointing
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  Speaker 1: the finger at pointing the finger here there tackling t
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  Speaker 1: variable right, soft serve, soft serve defense guys were bouncing
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  Speaker 1: off the Bears players like they were playing bumper cars.
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  Speaker 3: It was embarrassing. And you could have put a velvet
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  Speaker 3: rope and.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of scarecrows out there and gotten the same
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  Speaker 1: result if you're the Cincinnati Bengals on defense. There, Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams carved them up, and Joe Flacco carved up the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: He had old man Flacco Elite Joe Flacco jump ball
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  Speaker 1: Joe had his first four hundred and seventy plus yard
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  Speaker 1: passing game, as he put four hundred and seventy yards
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  Speaker 1: passing him. Never did that with the Ravens or all
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: the other teams. He's played for four touchdowns and it
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: still wasn't enough. And to me, that's the story here.
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  Speaker 1: You waste that kind of offensive output where Tie Higgins
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: gout in the end zone. I believe a couple of
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  Speaker 1: times at both he and Jamar Chase went over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards and your defense you waste that because your
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: defense has the backbone of a beach towel. Okay, Zach
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Taylor's Bengals are stuck in the mud. They are stuck
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  Speaker 1: in the mud, and the frustration is boiling over right.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: The chases are chasing accountability. The problem is nobody on defense,
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  Speaker 1: nobody on defense is catching that bug of accountability. There
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  Speaker 1: is no accountability. And they are doing a lot of
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: good finger pointing, which is good for talk radio. So
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that story. We're gonna circle that one and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna highlight it. And I have a feeling as
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: we go through the week, there'll be the follow up
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: to the follow up. There could be an apology by
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: one of the Bengal players who called out the defense.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: They'll say it's a heat of the moment. Someone lower
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: level could lose their job, the whole thing.
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• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Here we go, how about that? The third degree? This
• 41:52
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  Speaker 7: Then, after the Blue Jays World Series loss, Max Scherzer
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: said he is not going to retire. He can't imagine
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: that being his last pitch he's ever thrown. Yeah, he
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: didn't have a good regular season. Do you think there's
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  Speaker 7: gonna be a lot of desire from Excherz?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll sign with somebody like who thinks they can
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: squeeze out half a season. He'll take half the year
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  Speaker 1: off like he did this year in Toronto and suck
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: and then somebody said, well he's got that playoff pedigree.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: How'd that work out? In Game seven next.
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: Cooper Flagg addressed his tough start in this league. He
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: said it's a tough league, and he said he doesn't
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: think it's anything.
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  Speaker 3: That anybody should be worried about.
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: Ben, Do you think they should be worried about it
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: or is this more of like a bad situation type of.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Well, when you're the number one pick in the draft,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to come out guns of blazing. He has
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: not come out guns of blazing here. So it's too
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: soon to completely say this guy is falling for Cooper
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Flagg obviously him. He's only played a few games in
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: the NBA the season. No one's really paying attention to
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the NBA that much, but the numbers are not good
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: and he just doesn't look like he's got a higher level,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: which is problematic. I have not seen it, so I
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: haven't watched too many Maverick games. When I have, I've
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: not been over the impressed.
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: Next Texas Longhorns have won four games in a row.
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: Archie Manning had his breakout game this past weekend. One
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: ESPN analyst even said he's played his way back into
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: the Heisman conversation.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna ask if you think that's true, but uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think I know the answer.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, there's a lot of people that want it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to die on that Manning's a Heisman
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  Speaker 3: The World Series. We need to help out. You know,
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• 44:12
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• 44:16
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