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  Speaker 1: Well, it's playoff time, so it's time for the Herbert Hiccough.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're on, the Herbert Hiccough. Every post is welcome.
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  Speaker 1: our lead story this hour from Foxborough. The Last Game
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  Speaker 1: play the final game on a wild Card Sundays. One
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  Speaker 1: game left in the playoffs, but we'll begin with the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers visiting the Commonwealth, a playdate with the Patriots, and
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  Speaker 1: a trip to the divisional round on the line up
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  Speaker 1: Mike Turrico and Chris Collinsworth. Was a tough night for
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  Speaker 1: Collinsworth man, he loves him some. Justin Herbert, that is
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  Speaker 1: a hard one. That is a tough night for Collinsworth
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  Speaker 1: to have to watch Justin Herbert go out there and
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  Speaker 1: play in a playoff game. Anyway, that was the game
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  Speaker 1: as an island game. Of course, all these playoff games
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  Speaker 1: are Island games now and so I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you saw it or not. Maybe you're not watching. We
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  Speaker 1: watched you not After the story of this game, the
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  Speaker 1: new England defense absolutely manhandling the outclassed, pathetic, futile Charger offense,
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  Speaker 1: and Drake May getting a lot of love. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little confused by that. We'll get to that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: He did throw a late touchdown pass, although it didn't
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  Speaker 1: really matter the outcome of the game. He threw the
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  Speaker 1: pass to former Charger Hunter Henry, who the Patriots signed
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  Speaker 1: a couple years ago. And this has kind of been
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  Speaker 1: hanging out there. That was in the fourth quarter. Patriots
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  Speaker 1: get the sixteen to three win in a weekend of thrilling, riveting,
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  Speaker 1: mind blowing games. This was not that. This was not
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  Speaker 1: that on wild card weekend. So Andy Boord Gallas is
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  Speaker 1: always great when you're kicker. Andy Boord Gallas is in
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  Speaker 1: the lead. He hit not one, not two, but three
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  Speaker 1: field goals. So the Patriots get another win. They had
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  Speaker 1: not won a postseason game since they won the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl back in twenty eighteen. The end of the twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighteen season, so they have now gotten back into the
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  Speaker 1: win come first time since Tom Brady and Bill Belichick
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  Speaker 1: where there. They'll host the winner of the Monday night
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  Speaker 1: game between the petspurg Steelers and the Houston Texans and
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  Speaker 1: the division round. Will that be a rematch? The Steelers
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  Speaker 1: went to Foxboro in the regular season? Will that be
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  Speaker 1: a rematch? Well, the better story, we'll get to that
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff in a minute. The better story is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. And what a gag by
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  Speaker 1: the Bolts. What an absolute gag, just not competitive. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you even bother going to the game. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to perform like that? Pathetic and they deserve to get
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  Speaker 1: completely roasted. But in particular the Golden Boy, Oh what
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  Speaker 1: a fraud this guy is? Huh. So that's a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question is there
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  Speaker 1: a word? Is there a love words? Is there a
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  Speaker 1: word for Justin Herbert's playoff performance for the Chargers in
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday night game in New England. So I've got
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts on this. I've got Shawshank Redemption, Oregon Trail,
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  Speaker 1: and Yoga stretch, and we'll put them all together. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make spaghetti and meatballs, is what we're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: some delicious spaghetti and meat pulls. So a the word
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  Speaker 1: I have to answer the question, is there a word
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  Speaker 1: for Justin Herbert's playoff performance with the Chargers, not of
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  Speaker 1: this year, but all his entire career. The word is
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  Speaker 1: be draggled. That is my word. I'm going to the
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  Speaker 1: word bedraggled there as in soaked, shaken and dragging himself
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  Speaker 1: off the field. A loser with a capital L yet again,
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  Speaker 1: And what an absolute. I can't curse. I'm not allowed
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  Speaker 1: to curse. But my god, although Sir scratch Off can curse,
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  Speaker 1: he can call up and curse because he's got a
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  Speaker 1: potty mouth. That truck driver, Sir scratch Ow, that guy's
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  Speaker 1: got a dirty mouth. But anyway, Justin Herbert, my god,
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  Speaker 1: like a dog that lost a fight with a lawn sprinkler,
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  Speaker 1: totally bedraggled in this game. And now we did check.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the American Kennel Club website, and it
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  Speaker 1: turns out that Justin Herbert is not a He's not
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  Speaker 1: a Golden retriever. He's not that he is not a poodle,
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  Speaker 1: according to I looked it up here. So he's not
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  Speaker 1: a poodle or a bulldog. Justin Herbert. According to my research,
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  Speaker 1: it might be wrong. The American Kennel Club. Justin Herbert,
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  Speaker 1: the type of dog he is is a choking dog,
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  Speaker 1: That's what he is. All bark in September, no bite
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  Speaker 1: in January. What a fraud. What an absolute for the
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  Speaker 1: amount of ass kissing that he's gotten from football commentary. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, Oh man, he's the bee's knees and all that.
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  Speaker 1: My god, my god. And so you look at it
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  Speaker 1: and like, what an absolute mess. The Chargers a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, they blamed Brandon Staley. They said, Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Staley is not a good head coach. Justin Herbert needs
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  Speaker 1: a good head coach. That's what he needs. That's the
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  Speaker 1: problem they need. They got to bring in the new head.
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  Speaker 1: So the guy rid of Staley, the yoga guy, they
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  Speaker 1: fired his ass. He was gone. Then they hired Jim Harbaugh.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harball. They brought him in like he was doctor
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  Speaker 1: Phil for quarterbacks there and gonna unlock a higher platform
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  Speaker 1: plateau in the career of Justin Herbert. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: everyone said, We like, Jim Harball, gonna unlock some special
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  Speaker 1: stuff here for Justin Herbert. And instead Herbert brought the
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  Speaker 1: same pre existing condition with him, and it's SF stage fright,
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  Speaker 1: stage fright. It is wild. He is the closest comp
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  Speaker 1: we have to a football version of Clayton Kershaw. It's
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  Speaker 1: just perfect. It's the perfect comp Does anyone disagree with that? Now?
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  Speaker 1: I actually got into a heated argument with a charger
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  Speaker 1: suck up that I know, a longtime charger lapdog who
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  Speaker 1: was making every excuse in the book. It's not Herbert fall,
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  Speaker 1: it's not blame this guy, blame that, Blame the offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: blame it. Oh, it tries me insane. I'm just not
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  Speaker 1: cut that way. It tries me bonkers. And just like Kershaw's, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not his fault, it's this guy's fault. Attack. And
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  Speaker 1: then one guy made a play here, they would have
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  Speaker 1: won that game, or they blamed the manager for bringing
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  Speaker 1: him out in a game, and never his fault, never
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  Speaker 1: for the jock sniffers, the brown nosers, and justin Herbert's
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  Speaker 1: got the same thing going. Even you think there's really
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  Speaker 1: nothing salvageable about that performance. The guy was just in
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  Speaker 1: over his head, deer in the headlights, the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: hair brain quarterback play. And yet there are people, Oh no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not his fault.
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  Speaker 3: No no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: No no no no no no no no, no no no.
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  Speaker 1: I want to slap these people my god like and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the QB a positive. I but blame
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line. I just wish you how to go
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  Speaker 1: to offensive line. I tried to explain to people that
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know, at some point football will be
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  Speaker 1: flag football and no one will ever get hurt and
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  Speaker 1: he'll be great. But until then, it's the war of attrition,
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  Speaker 1: like you're supposed to win with what you have. And
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  Speaker 1: part of the reason you pay a quarterback I don't
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong on this two hundred and sixty million
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  Speaker 1: dollars is to uplift the players on the team. Like
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  Speaker 1: to uplift the player and yeah, you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be one hundred. Joe Burrow made the Super Bowl with
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals, had a terrible offensive line. Aaron Rodgers with
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  Speaker 1: the Packers the year that they the last time the
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  Speaker 1: Packers won, they had the most players on injured reserve.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in the NFL that year, remember talking about
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  Speaker 1: it right here, and they won. Have I have I
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  Speaker 1: ever seen I don't think I have Justin Herbert in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, uplift players, make them play better, enhance the roster, No,
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  Speaker 1: and often he brings the roster down. He's it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like on a boat when you've got you're out
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  Speaker 1: in the ocean there and you drop anchor. That's Justin Herbert, right.
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  Speaker 1: So for those of you who say, well, it's the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line's fault, okay, tell me you didn't watch the
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  Speaker 1: game without telling me you didn't pay attention to the
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  Speaker 1: game and watch the game and all that stuff. Herbert
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  Speaker 1: was rattled. He ran into multiple sacks. It wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, faile. He ran into them dazed and confused.
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  Speaker 1: That's on him. And it is still ultimately an execute
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  Speaker 1: or evaporate league in the playoffs. And for Justin Herbert,
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  Speaker 1: I'm apparently a big fan of Shawshank redemption. And he
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  Speaker 1: vanishes like a fart in the wind when we get
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  Speaker 1: to the playoffs. That's Justin Herbert, just a big fart,
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  Speaker 1: big wet fart in the wind, just vanishing air. And
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs two touchdowns, four interceptions, passer rating below sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: Kershaw esque Clayton Kershaw ESQ. I guess you don't get
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  Speaker 1: a lot for two hundred and sixty two million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of funny money flying out from the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not so funny right now, is it? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. No, And there he was riding the vomit
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  Speaker 1: comet at warp speed Justin Herbert another playoff game and
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  Speaker 1: covered in maggots in just terrible. But he's got that
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  Speaker 1: nice flowing here. It's got that flowing here. In the
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  Speaker 1: last ten quarters, the last ten quarters of postseason play,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert has completed barely fifty percent of his passes
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  Speaker 1: for one touchdown and four interceptions. He also guided the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers during a historic choke job in Jacksonville in that
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  Speaker 1: playoff game. Also been sacked twelve times the last ten quarters.
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  Speaker 1: And that's three different teams, that's two different coaches lost
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  Speaker 1: in the plus yeah, you said, I give him a
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  Speaker 1: break because he's lost them A Homes and Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: and these great quarterbacks in the place. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's lost to Trevor Lawrence, C. J. Stroud and Drake.
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  Speaker 1: May not exactly a murderer's role of franchise quarterbacks there
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  Speaker 1: at all, and man, but at least he's well groomed.
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  Speaker 1: He's well groomed, so you've got that going on. My goodness,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. All right, I want to hear from Herbert's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a dope. Let's hear what he has to say.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Justin Herbert, mister Holly would all right for Holly?
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  Speaker 1: You think that little actress lady he's Dating's gonna dump
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  Speaker 1: his ass now the way he played all right. Here
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  Speaker 1: is Justin Herbert on the fact that the defense, it's
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  Speaker 1: all about the defense, and they did their job.
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  Speaker 3: It's really tough to lose.
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  Speaker 4: You know. We give everything we.
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  Speaker 1: Had and he did. It's good. That's all you have.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, gave us every shot that we needed
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  Speaker 4: to and it's not enough.
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  Speaker 1: That's all you have. You gave everything you have. Really, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're worse than I thought. You suck, dude. Here's more.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Justin Bert the media right away. He's got to
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  Speaker 1: be heard. He's got to be heart God, every time
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  Speaker 1: he plays that, it's got to be an injury. Are
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  Speaker 1: you hurt, Justin Herbrie, are you hurt?
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  Speaker 4: You know, the training staff did a great job of
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  Speaker 4: getting ready to go and okay, you know, as long
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  Speaker 4: as they felt safe and comfortable, and I did as well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there was there was no issues.
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  Speaker 1: I just have to do a better job holding under
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  Speaker 1: the ball. You think, maybe how about you don't run
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  Speaker 1: into sacks? How about? Is that too much to ask?
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  Speaker 1: Too much to ask? How dare you? Mallord? You're such
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  Speaker 1: a hater? What's wrong with you? All right? Here's more,
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  Speaker 1: here's justin Herbert and the question being asked. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: this will be asked underhanded, soft line of question, but
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  Speaker 1: it's Herbert's just a terrible playoff quarterback. There's no other
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  Speaker 1: way to say it. And he was asked about that.
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  Speaker 4: Was your confidence in yourself that you will be able
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  Speaker 4: to get over to some potentially get a playoff plum.
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  Speaker 5: And make a playoff run.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know wed and hasn't happened, So we'll
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  Speaker 4: have to re evaluate and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. I like that answer because he's
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  Speaker 1: admitting he has no answer, he has no clue, He's clueless.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Now, continuing the train of thoughts, So Jim
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh the only Harbaugh currently employed by an NFL team.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh hinted postgame about firing Greg Roman the offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator at the time for the Chargers. Chargers scoring just
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  Speaker 1: three points and embarrassing the franchise yet again. In the
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  Speaker 1: wild card game against the Patriots, he was asked about
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  Speaker 1: the future of Greg Roman. Jim Harbaugh said, quote, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have the answer to that right now. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: look at that and everything close. Quote okay, question where
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  Speaker 1: are you at on Jim Harbaugh and that vague answer
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  Speaker 1: on the future of the Chargers offensive coordinator Greg Roman.
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  Speaker 1: So it came across to some as vague. It came
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  Speaker 1: across as like Jim Harbaugh doing the shrug emoji on
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  Speaker 1: Greg Roman. However, having heard this stuff over the years,
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  Speaker 1: that is Jim Harbaugh going into garage and sharpening his
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  Speaker 1: machete is what that is. Someone has to be sacrificed,
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  Speaker 1: someone has to go. You must sacrifice someone to the
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  Speaker 1: football gods. That's the way this works. And so you
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  Speaker 1: score three points in a playoff game. The Chargers offense
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  Speaker 1: played like they were on the Oregon Trail justin Herbert's
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  Speaker 1: an Oregon guy that played on the Oregon Trail and
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  Speaker 1: they died of dysentery is what happened there. They the
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  Speaker 1: wagon broke down and they just they got dysenteries. Unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: But Greg Roman, he can go somewhere else. It's again,
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  Speaker 1: they just shuffle these guys from team to team and
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  Speaker 1: they'll get a job somewhere else. There's eight jobs open
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  Speaker 1: head coaching jobs in the NFL, so he'll get one
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  Speaker 1: of those. And firing Greg Roman just it just looks
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  Speaker 1: like and feels like window dressing, like justin Herbert. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going anywhere. They made that mistake. They paid a
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  Speaker 1: guy that doesn't have it. He doesn't have the it factor.
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  Speaker 1: They paid him a lot of money, so he's stuck.
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  Speaker 1: They're stuck with that dead weight. He's not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got Jim Harball. He doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: he wants to go anywhere. And what happened to Harball
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  Speaker 1: being the quick fixed guy that was always the book
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  Speaker 1: on Harball. You bring Jim Harborough in right away, you
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  Speaker 1: win with Jim Harbaugh, and then he wears out his welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Well not anymore. They got to bring in an exorcist
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  Speaker 1: is what they got to do here. My god, holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: And you look at the charge. You guy obviously have
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  Speaker 1: a fall. Guy. Greg Roman sounds like He's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the fall guy. That's the easy move to make.
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  Speaker 1: The names have changed, though, since Justin Herbert got to
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers, the names have changed. Shane Steichen was there
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  Speaker 1: his rookie years, Offensive Corn, Mike Lombardi, Kellen Moore. Now
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  Speaker 1: they've had Greg Rome. In the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: The one common denominator has been Justin Herbert, the Duke
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  Speaker 1: of Puke. When it matters, he's the Duke of Puke.
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  Speaker 1: And if Justin Herbert were an appetizer, he would be
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  Speaker 1: the art of choke because he's mastered the art of
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  Speaker 1: the choke. That's what he does, and so looks great
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  Speaker 1: in the regular season, much like Clayton Kershaw looks great
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  Speaker 1: in the regular season and then in the playoff, well,
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  Speaker 1: we know how, we know how that goes. Not good?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Now, last word to the New England side.
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  Speaker 1: The better stories in the losing locker room. But we
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  Speaker 1: will go to the winning locker room, the New England
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  Speaker 1: side of things.
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  Speaker 6: Here.
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  Speaker 1: The headline all over the place. Headline reads that Drake
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  Speaker 1: May carries Patriots the wild card win over the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: Big bold headline all over the interweb. So the question
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  Speaker 1: with the headline reading Drake May carries Patriots to wildcard
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  Speaker 1: win of the Chargers. Is that how this went down?
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  Speaker 1: Is that how this game went down? And so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who wrote the headline. I'm not sure who
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  Speaker 1: did that, But whoever wrote the headline there already polishing
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  Speaker 1: the Drake May statue carries the Patriots police with the
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  Speaker 1: capitol p. Come on, this is classic media myth making,
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  Speaker 1: is what This one is the kind of a fairy
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  Speaker 1: tale that you write after a downward dog yoga pos.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing that yoga stretch, you know, you do the
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  Speaker 1: downward dog and you gotta get a little limber. The
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  Speaker 1: reason you get limber is because you have to get
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  Speaker 1: limber to bend the truth is what you have to do.
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  Speaker 1: You have to bend the truth. And this was not
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  Speaker 1: exactly scaling Mount Everest for Drake May. This was the
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  Speaker 1: bunny the bunny hill on the ski slope is what
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  Speaker 1: this was here. It's not black diamond two black diamonds. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was wide. It was very gentle. This This game
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  Speaker 1: good soft launch for Drake May. As a playoff quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: there groomed and ready to go. After three quarters, the
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  Speaker 1: game was a riveting ninety three through seventy five percent
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of the game was nine to three. The Patriots won
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: this game because of the defense playing whack a mole
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: with the Chargers. And also that's we just talked about it,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the quarterback, Justin Herbert being completely in over his head
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: head in a playoff game and the charger showed up.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Justin Herberts, Oh, we left everything out there essentially what
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: he said. The charger showed up. It's like they had
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: one percent on their battery, no charger, and they took
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: a nap. It was easy street for the Patriots, the
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: paved road, no potholes, and there you go. And may
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: he just he didn't. All he did was not set
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the kitchen on fire. Do you really need the headline
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: carries the Patriots when the quarterback just didn't set the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: kitchen on fire, like seriously, whooped? Damn? Do I cue
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the bronze statue and all that stuff. It's not the
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: hero ball. It was definitely not hero ball. It was
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: just don't burn the house down. He didn't burn the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: house down. Okay, he didn't burn the house down. Let's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: give him a statue. Okay, fine, we'll do that. We'll
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I'll have all the fanboys call up and lick the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: toes of Justin Herbert or Drake May in this case,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: not just those guys are also calling up to rip
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: or praise rather Justin Justin Herbert, both quarterbacks. But in
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: terms of Drake May, Drake he had through three quarters
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: right the seventy five percent of the game. Drake May
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: had no touchdowns, one interception, couldn't have a touchdown. Nobody
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: scored a touchdown for the Patriots or the Chargers. Fumbling around.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: It was like he had greased his hands with butter
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and he was out there fumbling around and all that stuff.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And so it was survive, advance and all that. And
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the defense did the cooking. The defense did the cooking
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and all that. And now they play the they being
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the Patriots, play the Steelers or the Texans, and that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: should be difficult. Although I'm not overly impressed with the
• 20:36
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• 20:41
  Speaker 1: not very impressed at all with that setup.
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• 21:24
  Speaker 1: This hour, we moved to the NFC side of the
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: bracket in our lead this hour from the Delaware Valley
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: where the fry guy is Fried Daddy, He's he's shaking
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: his head and no and Jonathan and Delaware is licking
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: his wounds in fats and Philadelphia's passed out in a
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: gutter somewhere. So the showcase game in the NFC, the game,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the game, you had Kyle Shanahan, the head coach, guiding
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers sinking ship into Philadelphia, into Philadelphia. There,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni's eagle, what the matter, that's the matchup.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: That was it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: You had the reigning champions of the NFL. Kevin Burkhardt
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and Tom Brady had the call on Fox. I don't
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: know if you saw this game or not.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Maybe not.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: We watched it so you would not have to. And
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: brock Purty, who did not play all that well, did
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: not play all that well. I'm sure all here that
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: he played great from Terry and England and all the
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: other forty an anapologists. But brock perty did throw the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: go ahead six yard touchdown pass to Christian McCaffrey late
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. San Francisco was able to get
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the stop on defense and they win the game. They
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: also used a trick play touchdown, a trick play touchdown
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: wide receiver Juwan Jennings touchdown for the forty nine ers
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and eliminating the Philadelphia They're going There will not be
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a back to back champion in the NFL this year.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: There's not been an NFC team to go back to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: back since the early nineties. Is nineteen the Cowboys in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the early night, so it's been it's been a minute
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: twenty three to nineteen. The final as the team from
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Northern California knocks out the team from Pennsylvania, The forty
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: nine Ers, now head to take on the much maligned
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold and the Seahawks, another matchup these teams played
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the last time. Very rarely, as this happened. You play
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a game, and then you the regular season ends, and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: then you have the bye week, and then you come
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: back and play another game against the team you just
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: played before the bye week. But that's the situation. Seattle's
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: in divisional round of the playoffs. Now, the better story
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. A lot of noise,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: A lot of noise regarding the future of Nick Sirianni.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: He provides a lot of content in these parts on
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: sports talk Radio. Nick Sirianni gives us some good stuff.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Here's the back of my why don't we go to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the cut two on Sirianni. The Eagles lose to the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. Here Sirianni explaining exactly what happened.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I felt like that was kind of our our story
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: as the year.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: As the year progressed and could like I said, like
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: you said, good first half, didn't do a good enough
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: job coaching, didn't do good enough job executing in the
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: second half. In that third quarter, particularly, you know, some
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: penalties got us behind the sticks and we had a
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: hard time overcoming him.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: And that starts with me, starts with you.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Of course, I'm sure you're going to turn your resignation
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and say that's it. All right, So let's let's get
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: into that's good jumping off point. So the question, how's
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni's job status in Philadelphia right now? How are
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: things looking his employment status in Philadelphia? So my observations,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I got I got Springer, mad scientist, and Larry the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: cable guy, that's an old comedian. We'll combine all of
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: these things together and we're going to play Connect three,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Connect three, all right, So number one number I said, number.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: One, number one.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: It is a tangled web of chaos around Nick Sirianni.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: At this point, Sirianni is clearly in the danger zone.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: He is in the danger zone, Nick Sirianni. And the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: smoke is starting to billow up out of the Eagles
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: facility like a burnt cheese steak. And you can see
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the smoke. It's thick, it's disgusting. Uh, you just left
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: that on the grill too long, and now the cheese
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: steak's burning up. Shame on you. But Sirianni, even if
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: he keeps the job, it's not a guarantee he's got
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: something explining to do. Now. I've fired Nick Siriotti multiple times,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and I think there's a pretty good chance that he
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: does not coach another game for the Philadelphia Eagles, depending
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: on what kind of bull crap excuse he can come
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: up with here all season, if you're the own that
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: may make my elevator pitch, why Nick Sirianni deserves to go,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make my elevator pick. So all season, Nick
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Sirianni played mister tough guy, right, mister tough guy. There
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: are people critical of Eagles offense, critical of the coaching
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: of Nick Sirianni, decisions that he made during the season,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and through it all, mister tough guy. Nick Sirianni told
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the critics to pound sand Go pound sand Just a
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: bunch of outside noise, not in the house, outside the house.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: We only worry about what's inside the house. Okay, Fine,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: This extreme hubris from Nick Sirianni. He had all the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: answers and he wasn't gonna listen to anyone, anyone at all,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: had all the answers. Now you look at Nick Sirianni,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: He's got a mouthful of sand. He was pounding sand.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Now his mouth is filled with sand. There's even some
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: shells in there from the ocean. There's some shells in there.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: So that's where we are with Sirianni. You look at this,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I mean here he was in the AJ Brown own situation.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: They got into a ruckus, a verbal ruckus on the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: sidelines during the game, in the first half of the game.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Now the spin is spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: It's next level spin. Here's Nick Sirianni asked about a
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: confrontation with wide receiver A. J. Brown takes.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I was trying to get him off
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: the field, you know, because we were about to punt
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: when that was really that was really it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: So I love AJ.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I think he knows how I feel about him, have
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: a special relationship with him. We've we've probably went through
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: every emotion you can possibly have together. We've laughed together,
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: we've cried together, we've yelled at each other. You know,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: we're both emotional. I was trying to get him off
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: the field, and you know he never want you know,
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: that happens in this game. That happens in this game.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: And but I love him. Yeah, you love him, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you're gonna really love him when he's wearing a Chargers
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: uniform next year're gonna get many. I really love him.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I'll send him a note. It'd be great. We'll get
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: him a uber to the airport. Will be great. So
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: here's my take on the AJ Brown Nick Sirianni hullabaloo
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: that took place here. So this is not a misunderstanding.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: What I saw was a continuation of a pattern. It's patternicity.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Jerry Springer like chair throwing festival is what I saw.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: That's what I say. You keep the stars. This is
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: another thing. We told you how pig headed Nick Sirianni is,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and it was pretty open from AJ Brown. He was
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: not happy. He did not like playing with the coach,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: he did not like playing with Jalen Hurts, the quarterback.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And so at the trade deadline this was going on
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: and you had this unhappy player didn't want to be there,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and so do you keep him or do you trade him? Well,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the Eagles are like, oh no, we have all the answers.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Oh he'll be fine, he'll be all right, all right,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: So there you go. You kept him. He went out there,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: gave you three catches for twenty five yards. You could
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: have gotten a guy from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers that
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: would have done the same thing. He also dropped a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: key pass late in the game, although the Eagles did
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: gain a first down on the next play, but it
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: was an obvious drop and he was barking. Rp bark bark.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Bart was Sirianni, and Sirianni was barking at him. They
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: went back and for like two dogs fighting over a
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: pork chop. The head coach and the wide receiver jury
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: of the game. So not exactly on the same page,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: more like a grease fire in Philadelphia. And don't forget
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: while we're on top of the Eagles situation again, Nick
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: sirian had all the answers to everything here. The offensive
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: cooridinator Kevin Petullo, the OC in Philadelphia, Well, how did
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: that go? The Eagles offense a punching bag all season
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: long Philadelphia in this game against a rag tag forty
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: nine Ers defense, was five of sixteen, just thirty one
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: percent on third down. That's not good. I'm told that's
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: not good. Same old suck bag offense for the Eagles
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: about the same not good, not good, but about the same. Man,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: let's go around twenty points, and they missed a lot
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: of opportunities. The Eagles led the entire NFL. I watched
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny. We talked about this. They led
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the NFL and incompetence three and out then more three
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and out drives than any other team in the NFL.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: So a lot of charity, a lot of charity from
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the Birds, top Birds, and Nick Siriani again not just him,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: but he's the guy that we're talking about. So these
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: guys decided they knew they had deadwood. They're like, we're
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: not gonna cut the deadwood out, We're just gonna leave
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the deadwood there. And then they end up sinking and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: one and done. That's it, one and done after resting
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: their guys to be fully ready for the NFL playoffs,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And how did that go? Who goofed? I've got to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: know bunch of people. However, the head coach always is
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the one that gets the bill. The bill comes the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: head coach, the head coach gets the bill. Now, meanwhile, Philadelphia,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the coaching is one problem. They also have an issue
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: at quarterback. There are calls now for the Eagles to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: unload Jalen Hurts because that always happens when you lose
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: a playoff game, and Jalen Hurts did not play well
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: at all, despite being a raginning Super Bowl champion and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: all that. Here is the man of the art. Here's
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts commenting on what's going on.
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: It's always hard to duplicate, you know. It's everything was
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: there in front of us, and so just got to really,
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: really really improve from it. You know, obviously we all
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: could have executed better, but it takes everyone being honest
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: with themselves on that and challenging themselves to grow from it.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: All right, So that's all rubbish. What happened? The question
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: is what happened to Jalen Hurts performance for the Eagles
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: in this game. He said, well, he's gonna have against
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: an elite defense. This was not an elite defense. This
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: was not an elite defense. Good looking uniforms, not an
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: elite defense, not elite at all. So to answer the question,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, he didn't just miss throws. We were watching
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: this game. He missed the whole runway on certain throws
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: during the course of this game. The Eagles offense was
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: flying like an easy jet flight with the wings duct
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: taped together and there's some some glue out and on
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the wing there and that's the other flying. Well, they
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: shouldn't fly like that. Jalen Hurts against his top three receivers,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: aj Brown, Devonte Smith and Dallas Goddard, who did a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: commercial last year on Fox Sports Radio. He voiced a
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: commercial Dallas Goddard. Yeah, so they only caught sixty percent
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: of passes. He was fifteen of twenty five. Jalen Hurts
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: throwing to those guys. Those are his top three guys
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and he had ten incompletions in that stretch here. The
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Eagles offense, it was not a work in progre It
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: was a futile effort from beginning to end, with very
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: few exceptions, very few exceptions. And so you look at
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the Eagles and you take a couple of steps back,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and you look at this team this year, and they
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: tried to change some things on the fly, but it
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: didn't seem like they were really trying to change all
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: that much. And it's like a mad scientist from that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: old movie The Fly and the Beaker explodes in the lab.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: And you're like, well, I'm a scientists, and the beaker
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: thing explode there, and the experiment went horribly wrong this year,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: after going great when they won the championship, transforming Jalen
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Hurts from the Super Bowl hero to a grotesque creature.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: In this playoff game, and he, Jalen Hurts had the ball.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: If you're supposedly the man, you've got the ball. And
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: as you want your quarterback, you have a great quarterback,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: You want your quarterback to have the ball, knowing what
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: you need to do to convert at the end of
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the game to win the game and bring a home
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: home another round of the playoffs. And so you look
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: at this. I remember the beaker exploded here. So Jalen
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Hurts was given the ball, and he was given the opportunity,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: down four points with under three minutes to go in
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the game, matriculate the ball down the field, score a touchdown,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and the Eagles are going to win the game against
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: a short handed rag tag forty nine er defense missing
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Fred Warner and Joey Bosa or Nick Bosa rather it's
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: been out all year, both those guys, and still they
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: ended up face planting like a drunk guy. Futxing around
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: on the people move at the airport, and Jalen Hurst's
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: last two passes of the season with the season on
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the line, were deflected and incomplete, deflected and incomplete. And
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: so even Jalen Hurst the cheat code, the one thing
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: that he did better than everyone else in the NFL,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the tushy pushy from Jalen Hurts, it has been mostly
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: an afterthought late in the year. The Eagles did run it,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I believe, a couple of times in this game, but
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: there were other opportunities they had to run the touch
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: push and they chose not to do it. And so
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: what are you doing, Like, seriously, you're choosing to you
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: hit that delete all button instead of the save on purpose, Like, well,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: you're trying to send some kind of message. My theory
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: is they're trying to send a message because the NFL
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: is going to revisit getting rid of the touch push
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and banning it. They were only a couple of votes
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: away from banning it this past year. So the Eagles,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the theory is, well, we don't run it that much,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: there will not be this ground swell of support, this
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: movement to get rid of the touch push. So we're
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: just gonna cut back on running it. Okay, fine, well,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts isn't really all that good at anything else,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: So what are you gonna do? What are you going
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to do? And then brock perty tried to give the
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Eagles the game with a pair of interceptions and Jalen
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Hurts is like, I don't need it, I don't want it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: He averaged less than five yards per throw. That's a
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion quarter back, Jalen Hurts against that Niners defense.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: That is going to the porta Potti for the chili
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: cook off. Nobody wins, everyone's getting sick, everyone's getting a
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: championship pedigree. My fat ass uh man. That was a
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: cream pie right to the schnaz, right to the schnaz
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: right there. The Eagles followed a flight plan which was
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the wrong flight plan, clearly the wrong flight plan in
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: this game. And so there you go. Hit a little turbulence.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: They never recovered, didn't do much anything in the second
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: half of that game. And Hurts didn't just underperform Jalen
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Hurts in this game. He hit the he hit the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: bump in the road and that was it. That was
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: all right, now, final point to the winners locker room,
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  Speaker 1: the Niners and many people asking the same question. And
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  Speaker 1: so we will ask the question and attempt to answer,
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  Speaker 1: how do you explain the undermanned forty nine ers of
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, so shorthanded on defense And they go out
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  Speaker 1: and pull up set City in Philadelphia on a windy,
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  Speaker 1: cold evening in the Delaware Valley. So this was at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. It was the little engine that could. I
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  Speaker 1: think I can, I think I can, I think I
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  Speaker 1: can true true, Yeah, that whole thing up the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: three wheels missing from the chru Choo train and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and the Chattanooga Chu chru made it up the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: And so no George Kittle, he got knocked out during
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  Speaker 1: the game, mentioned Nick Bosa, Fred Warner out all year,
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  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy coughing up the football a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: like a cat with a hair ball, and somehow someway
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  Speaker 1: they kept chug a lugging along and they got the win.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was the old comedian Larry the cable guy,
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  Speaker 1: you just gotta get her done. They got her done.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: They got her done with some help. Remember, most games
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  Speaker 1: are lost, not one with some help by the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers. Not a lot of style points for the
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  Speaker 1: Niners in this game. You're not going to go post
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  Speaker 1: about that on Instagram and get a bunch of likes
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. You're not doing that. And they
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  Speaker 1: just went out there and they got a little dirty
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and they gang tackle and it worked
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  Speaker 1: in trick ration with the receiver throwing the touchdown pass,
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  Speaker 1: and despite brock Purty giving the football away and showing
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: he's not a top level quarterback, the Niners won anyway.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: They won anyway under Man. The defense was able to swarm.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: They didn't swarm much on the running game, but the
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  Speaker 1: passing game they did very well here. And the Eagles
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: obviously helped with internal issues in Philadelphia. And so it worked.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: And now the reward for the forty nine ers is
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: they get to play Sam Donald the stumblebum. Stumblebum. Sam's
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: seeing ghosts right now, and so can you hang around
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: enough to let Sam Donald give you the game?
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: That's the question in the divisional round. Be sure to
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  Speaker 1: Here we Go, Here we Go, Here we go Here
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  Speaker 1: Malor how about that.
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  Speaker 3: Here we degree got this. Give a grill, Ben.
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  Speaker 6: There were a lot of analysts over the weekend that
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: thought that Bryce Young's performance should give the Panthers optimism
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: despite the playoff loss.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Do you agree with that? No, I didn't think he
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: was all that good. This is more about the Rams
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  Speaker 1: screwing things up. Uh. People are trying to latch on
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: all these young corps. Oh this God, this is the future.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: This guy's gonna be great. At no point did I
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: think that Bryce Young was going to beat the Rams
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  Speaker 1: in that game. I did not, And it was more
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: about the Rams offensive futility and all that He played average.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: There were some stretches, he made some throws, but I'm
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: not convinced.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: Next, speaking of playoff losses, Jordan Love had to come
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: to the defense of Matt Lafleur, saying, I definitely think
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: Matt should be the head coach.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a lot of love for Matt and I
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: think he does a good job. And that's it. Ben.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Do you think Matt Laflour is gonna stick around? So
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: you look at the Packers here, and there's some connections
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: to Harbaugh, to John Harball. That would be the only
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: way they get rid of Matt Laflor. I would say
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  Speaker 1: Laflour because of the way the packers do business, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand stockholders. I say there's about a forty chance
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  Speaker 1: that he's gone, sixty percent chance that he stays. Next.
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  Speaker 6: It was reported over the weekend that the Memphis Grizzlies
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: are going to shop John Morant.
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  Speaker 1: Any predictions on where he'll end up, Yes, let me guess.
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  Speaker 1: Coop La, Miami, New York, or Chicago. That's it. That's
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  Speaker 1: the list. Coop nowhere else. Those are the only cities.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna go anywhere other than those cities. There.
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  Speaker 1: pass the editions? They went butter on the barn, put
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  Speaker 1: it on the barn. I won the game.
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  Speaker 1: our advice? Well. Of all the games in the NFL
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: playoffs so far, one stands head and shoulders above every
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: other game. The Green Bay Packers plowing an eighteen point
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: lead to the Chicago Bears on Saturday Night. So any
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: advice to the cheesehead fans on how to deal with
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  Speaker 1: blowing an eighteen point leading the playoffs to a bitter
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  Speaker 1: rifle the Chicago Bears?
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  Speaker 1: number two advice the cheese heads on how to deal
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  Speaker 1: with blowing an eighteen point lead in an epic choke
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  Speaker 1: and join the cow club. Okay, well that's tremendous advice.
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