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  Speaker 3: Well it was a bear down situation, and the bears
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  Speaker 3: go down, The Bears go down. Well, come in the
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  Speaker 4: You know who could have used some dude wipes? Well,
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  Speaker 4: some of those Bears players.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead from Chicago, Sweet Home, Chicago Dump Bears and
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  Speaker 1: the Rams final game of the weekend here chance to
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  Speaker 1: go to the Final four. And you had Mike too, Rico,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth, they had the call on and we see
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  Speaker 1: a blustery day on the shores of Lake Michigan. The
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  Speaker 1: Mighty Lake, Michigan temperatures in the teams, although it felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was below Now I knew that the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Marching in Chowder society was fired up for this game.
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  Speaker 1: My great friend from Radio gone By, Mike North, one
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  Speaker 1: of the all time great radio talk show hosts sports
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  Speaker 1: radio guys who did a morning show here, sent a
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  Speaker 1: message out on social media Northey with he was walking
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  Speaker 1: his dog in the suburbs of Chicago and ranting and
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  Speaker 1: raving about the weather and all that.
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  Speaker 4: So you knew I was all fired up here.
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  Speaker 1: Surely a California team, you all tell me how soft
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  Speaker 1: these California teams are, had no chance in those conditions,
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  Speaker 1: zero opportunity unless they did. Now, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you saw the game or not. Maybe we're busy. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what hell you were doing. Perhaps you weren't there.
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  Speaker 1: But the game came down to overtime when the great
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  Speaker 1: Harrison Mavis, better known as the Thicker Kicker, booted a
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  Speaker 1: forty two yard Majestic field goal in overtime and the
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  Speaker 1: Rams getnered on Cam Curl who Cam Curl had picked
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  Speaker 1: off Caleb Williams and the Bears first postseason possession, first
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  Speaker 1: overtime possession in this game, not the postseason. Obviously played
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  Speaker 1: the Packers last week, but that was it. Bears got
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  Speaker 1: the ball, Rams did not do anything with it on
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  Speaker 1: their first possession. Bears get it, go down, kick a
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  Speaker 1: field goal, win the game. Caleb Williams had other ideas.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you know what, I went to SC. I
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  Speaker 1: want to see an LA team do well because I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do well for an LA team, So I'll help
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  Speaker 1: an LA team.
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  Speaker 4: And he did.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd like to thank Caleb Williams. Yeah, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: do squad at USC in terms of helping the Trojans
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  Speaker 1: win anything, but I'm very impressive of helping the Rams win.
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  Speaker 4: So game ball goes to Caleb Williams. There.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears quarterback Matthew Stafford, who didn't have a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: but was captain clutch, completed three passes for first downs
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  Speaker 1: on that final drive, a sixteen yarder to Puka Nakula
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  Speaker 1: to set the Rams.
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  Speaker 4: Up in field goal range and give them the chance
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  Speaker 4: to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: So the Rams are off to Seattle now and they
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  Speaker 1: can send Sam Darnold in the Seahawks home that'll be
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  Speaker 1: coming up on Sunday. But the better story is in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. The better story losing the lockings
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  Speaker 1: of the Bears are back in hibernation mode. As the
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  Speaker 1: play that it was all horny about the pants down
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  Speaker 1: was Caleb Williams throwing a fourteen yard game tying chuck
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  Speaker 1: it and duck throw in the final seconds to Cole
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  Speaker 1: Clement the tight end. It traveled over fifty yards because
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  Speaker 1: he kept running backwards.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you You're going the wrong way, You're going
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  Speaker 1: the wrong way, and anyway, he.
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  Speaker 4: Just chucked it up.
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  Speaker 1: The longest completed pass by air distance in the red
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  Speaker 1: zone since they started tracking, since the Nerds took over
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  Speaker 1: football statistics, and that was back in twenty sixteen, so
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  Speaker 1: it's been a decade that had a completion PROBA variability
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  Speaker 1: the Caleb Williams game tying touchdown pass of less than
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent. That is a good jumping off point. So
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question for the esteem panel what
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  Speaker 1: happened to all of the Bear's momentum? Where did it go?
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  Speaker 1: Where did it go? After that late touchdown by Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 1: Collinsworth had his knee pats out. He was so excited
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  Speaker 1: for Caleb Williams, and Tarika sounded like he had grew
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  Speaker 1: up a Bears fan the way he was describing the
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  Speaker 1: bloody like the greatest they've never seen. So clearly, the
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  Speaker 1: Bears couldn't lose that game. It was a fade accompany.
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  Speaker 1: How did they do it? How did they not win
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  Speaker 1: that game? What happened to the momentum? So I've got fajitas,
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  Speaker 1: freestyle jazz, and spit on your hands, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: make some delicious deep dish pizza which is still outstanding,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bears could drown their sorrows in big slices
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  Speaker 1: of deep dish pizza. Absolutely, all right. So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: all right, the Bears momentum. Where the momentum is. It's
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  Speaker 1: the same place you can find Bigfoot, the Tooth Fairy,
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  Speaker 1: and the Easter Bunny.
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  Speaker 4: They all hang out together, their roommates momentum Uncle Moe,
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  Speaker 4: which I thought lives in Jersey, but Mo and the
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  Speaker 4: Tooth Fairy best friends, Bigfoot and of course better known
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  Speaker 4: as Sasquatch, and the Easter Bunny. It just never existed.
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  Speaker 4: It's like it never existed.
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  Speaker 1: Momentum is sports talk MSG is what is you sprinkling
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  Speaker 1: on anything?
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  Speaker 4: Sprinkle sprinkle, sprinkle sprinkle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and suddenly dumb people think it enhanced the flavor.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't. Oh my god. The Bears didn't lose momentum.
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  Speaker 1: They confirmed the diagnosis. Is what they did in this
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  Speaker 1: game the touchdown that was like the firework finale, that
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  Speaker 1: late touchdown by Caleb william where he just threw it
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  Speaker 1: up in the air and defining intervention took over there.
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  Speaker 1: And then the overtime happened for Chicago and the Bears
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  Speaker 1: needed some oxygen and permission to use said oxygen at
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  Speaker 1: that point.
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  Speaker 4: So the cardiac kids they were until the unfortunately the
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  Speaker 4: heart monitor flatline, and now they're just see you later,
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  Speaker 4: Bye bye, You're gone out of here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So there they were set up in overtime. Rams fetched
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  Speaker 1: around on their first possessions. So the Bears got it
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  Speaker 1: and did nothing with it other than give it back,
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  Speaker 1: other than give it back to the Rams and set
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  Speaker 1: them up there. So momentum just one of those words
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  Speaker 1: that sportscasters like to use when they just want to
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  Speaker 1: explain use it for anything. Momentum, you know, I walked
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  Speaker 1: into street. I had momentum. Yeah, I walked down to
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  Speaker 1: the toilet. I took a one. I had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of momentum and flushed the toilet a lot of mo,
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  Speaker 1: lot of mo. Absolutely, yes, clearly it's just mumbo jump.
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  Speaker 1: It's like word fahitas. You just throw out the word
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  Speaker 1: momentum and just toss it up there and put some
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  Speaker 1: onions and some bell pepper and you're good to go.
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  Speaker 1: If momentum were real, the Bears right now would be
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to head to Seattle for the NFC title game.
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  Speaker 1: Alias they're not so, Ben Johnson. It's all about the magic,
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  Speaker 1: the magical season for the Chicago Bears. So the Bears
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  Speaker 1: ought to go on Amazon Prime, Ben Johnson, and I
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  Speaker 1: think they still have some old amazing Cresken magic kits,
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  Speaker 1: and they can get one of those magic kids Amazon
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  Speaker 1: Prime have it delivered there, because they clearly need some
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  Speaker 1: more Abracadabra, hocus Pocus and presto at Hallas Hall because
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  Speaker 1: they ran out of tricks now. Secondly, as for Caleb Williams,
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  Speaker 1: the man with the nicest fingernails in the NFL, so
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  Speaker 1: the circus throw that everyone was goga for, he just
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  Speaker 1: ran back.
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  Speaker 4: Everything you're not supposed to do. Everything you're not supposed
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 1: He did, and for that particular play it worked, and
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  Speaker 1: so he runs back and they were all excited about that. However,
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  Speaker 1: Williams ended this game with three interceptions. Three interceptions in
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  Speaker 1: this game, backbreaking for the Chicago Bears opportunity to win
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  Speaker 1: this game. So the question as the Bears do inventory
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  Speaker 1: their season is now dune skis is the glass half
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  Speaker 1: full or is the glass half empty? On quarterback Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams at this particular point. So I would be I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be totally, Benny Bright said, but I'll be
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  Speaker 1: I'll be fair here. Listen, the glass for Caleb Williams
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  Speaker 1: is half full. However, it's got these little microscopic hairline cracks.
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  Speaker 1: You can't even see them to the naked eye, but
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  Speaker 1: you put them under the Mallord microscope and there's some
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  Speaker 1: hairline cracks there. And so the glass starting to sweat
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and sitting on the on the table.
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  Speaker 1: But the table is built by a guy who just
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  Speaker 1: kind of eyeballed it and then shrugged and blamed the
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  Speaker 1: floor because it's not quite stable.
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  Speaker 4: So I just eyeballed it. I didn't. Why didn't you
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  Speaker 4: follow the instruction?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't need to follow the instruction, Williams, and
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  Speaker 1: follow the instructions. There is no coach on godscreen Earth
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  Speaker 1: that tells you on a fourth down you've got to
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  Speaker 1: have it play to run as far back as you
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  Speaker 1: possibly can and then just.
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  Speaker 4: Chuck the thing up in the air.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody tells you to do that. He did it, and
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  Speaker 1: it worked that time. Caleb Williams is a fun zone
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  Speaker 1: type of quarterback. He's a one man band. He's got
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  Speaker 1: the drums to the right, he's got the guitar to
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  Speaker 1: the left. Little smoke machine got that over there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Occasionally that smoke machine sets off the fire alarm, and
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  Speaker 1: so Caleb also has it appears to be an underlying condition.
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  Speaker 1: It's the old double edged sword here for the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: He is the gunslinger quarterback. And if it was music,
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  Speaker 1: think of it.
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  Speaker 4: Like freestyle jazz.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes freestyle jazz is just a masterpiece, it's genius. And
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  Speaker 1: then there's other times it's the solo nobody wanted, nobody
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  Speaker 1: asked for.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I've got a headache, I've got a migraine headache from
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  Speaker 1: what you called freestyle jazz. It was terrible and so listen,
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  Speaker 1: big plays, big thrills, all that for Caleb Williams in
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  Speaker 1: this game and the turnovers that make your fan base
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  Speaker 1: age like dog in Dog Gears watching this happen. There
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  Speaker 1: so no ifs ands or butts about it. It was
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  Speaker 1: reckless and in this game it ended up costing the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. The Rams do not win this game without
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  Speaker 1: the assist of Caleb Wood. He does get a game
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  Speaker 1: ball from the Rams. Caleb Williams tremendous job finally helping
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  Speaker 1: an LA team win a big game. He couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: that at SC again, so good job by him and
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago If Caleb just kind of held on to
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more, look close to the best, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they're getting ready to go to the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 1: But the Holster, he couldn't holster the Cape. He had
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  Speaker 1: to use the Cape, and he used the Cape and
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  Speaker 1: all that.
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  Speaker 4: That's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: It's the old line for better or worse. You take
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  Speaker 1: the good with the bad, and that's what the Bears
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  Speaker 1: are going to have to deal with with Kyle Winnings.
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  Speaker 1: The problem with the Bears. I see is you've got
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson who does things unorthodox, and you combine that
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  Speaker 1: with Kayleb Williams. That does not seem like that's going
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  Speaker 1: to have a lot of success in the playoffs. One
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  Speaker 1: of those two guys is gonna have to change all right,
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  Speaker 1: going forward on fourth down as often as the Bears
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  Speaker 1: did and short yardage situations not being able to get
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  Speaker 1: that done. And so you buy the fireworks, and the
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  Speaker 1: Bears bought the fireworks. You're gonna you can't complain when
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  Speaker 1: things start exploding. So the Bears like the fireworks of
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson and they like keylor Wait did I get it?
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  Speaker 1: But they had a big time year by Bear standards.
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  Speaker 1: This you got to tweak some things. The thing of
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  Speaker 1: a jig needs to be moved around a little bit
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  Speaker 1: to the right in order for this to work. So
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  Speaker 1: and again the glass is half full, glasses half full.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't lean on that table because the guy
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  Speaker 1: eyeballed it and put that thing together. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that that's gonna work all right now. Final thought on
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  Speaker 1: the Rams side of things. The Rams side of things,
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  Speaker 1: So La wins a game at Soldier Field in a
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  Speaker 1: game played in ice box conditions without Matthew Stafford having
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown pass. The MVP this year did not have
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown pass against the Bears in that game. So
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  Speaker 1: the question is this, what message did the Sean McVay
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  Speaker 1: Rams send by winning at Soldier Field in Chicago. So
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  Speaker 1: it was a reminder, It was a refresher course, rather simple. Here,
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  Speaker 1: these are not your daddy's Rams. These are not your
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  Speaker 1: granddaddy's Rams. No, no, no no, this is not the old
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  Speaker 1: Ram tropes.
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  Speaker 4: Of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: That these guys they're just doing pilates on the beach
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  Speaker 1: and soy lattes and soft serve West Coast football.
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  Speaker 4: No now, now, now, now, now, that was a.
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  Speaker 1: Knuckle sandwich they gave the Chicago Bears. Here lunch pail
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  Speaker 1: spin on your hand. Kind of a win for the
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  Speaker 1: Rams in Chicago. The only road team to win.
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  Speaker 4: This weekend was the La Rams. All the other.
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  Speaker 1: Home teams were able to win their games, the Rams
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  Speaker 1: the only road team to get it done. And so
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  Speaker 1: the Rams find themselves in a situation where they are
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  Speaker 1: in position, the Rams to go back to a Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: and all that's standing in their ways the Seattle Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: who without the officials helping them. They would have swept
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  Speaker 1: the season series and this game would be in LA.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: The officials had to send pookinnakula message in that game
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle where if you remember, they just handed the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks the the two points unbelievable, still one of the
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  Speaker 1: most egregious calls in NFL history, and everyone just kind
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  Speaker 1: of forgets about that. It's like, well, we'll just give
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  Speaker 1: it to them. Well we didn't get it, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: just do it.
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  Speaker 4: We'll just well, that's fine, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, So I went back and I checked my my inboxes.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that I thought maybe I
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  Speaker 1: was having a dream. So I went back and I
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  Speaker 1: looked at my inbox and I was like, okay, so
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  Speaker 1: what were all those messages my friends in Chicago and
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  Speaker 1: the Bears fans were sending me? So sa I got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these. The rams are soft that came
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  Speaker 1: up a lot on the inbox. They play in a dome. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a faux dome. It's not a real dome.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL says. It's not a dome. There's a roof
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  Speaker 1: on it, but it's open on the ends. So like
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  Speaker 1: everything else in LA it's fake. It's a fake dome.
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  Speaker 1: They play. Also at Stafford is going to turn into
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  Speaker 1: a human popsicle. A lot of you told me that
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  Speaker 1: at Soldier Field, and the Rams can't win unless Stafford plays, well,
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  Speaker 1: well that's a lie. So who goofed? I've got to
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  Speaker 1: know who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Was this a sizzle real game for Matthew Stafford? No,
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  Speaker 1: it was not a sizzle real game. There's no pirouette
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  Speaker 1: on the catwalk. You're not going to be doing that,
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  Speaker 1: No glamour shots, no posting on social media. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that kind of a day. It was not for Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: This was the Rams defense. Even though the Bears had
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of yards, they just score bunch points like
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  Speaker 1: the Bears moved the ball between the twenties pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: The Ram defense and the running game, physicality, punching the
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  Speaker 1: time card, getting or done, clocking out with a win,
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  Speaker 1: and now again one step away from the football version
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  Speaker 1: of the Promised Land here and so as far as toughness,
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  Speaker 1: short yardage football, and there are old Chicago Bears players
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  Speaker 1: rolling over in graveyards because the Chicago Bears on short
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  Speaker 1: yardage oftentimes got pushed back by the La Rams. How
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing is that for Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears needed a crowbar and still couldn't move the
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  Speaker 1: pile most of the time on short yardage third and one, fourth,
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  Speaker 1: down and one, the Rams were able to bottle them
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  Speaker 1: up like expired hot sauce. It was machiese mo intestinal fortitude,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff making plays in key moments there. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: it takes, whatever it takes, and so the Rams win
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  Speaker 1: with grease under their fingernails. That's a grease under the
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  Speaker 1: fingernail type of win there in Chicago. Rather embarrassing. That's
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  Speaker 1: a cold weather, you're at home. You plan a West
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  Speaker 4: So I lead this out is from Foxboro.
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  Speaker 1: We go to Foxboro the divisional round early game between
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans and the Patriots, and much to the
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  Speaker 1: dismay of Mister Irrigation, the Texans rolled out c. J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud on a blustery day in the woods of the Commonwealth,
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  Speaker 1: the winner a date with the Broncos in the AFC
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  Speaker 1: title game.
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  Speaker 4: Were you watching? Of course you were. No, What else
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  Speaker 4: were you doing? I don't know? Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Drake May had not one, not two, but three touchdown passes,
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  Speaker 1: as Marcus Jones, keeping up with the Joneses, had a
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  Speaker 1: return pick six of one of C. J. Strouds not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, not three, four interceptions four If somebody tells
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  Speaker 1: you what they are.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to them. More on that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: So c J stroud four deceptions and one of them
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: pick six. The Patriots disccombaed related the Texans twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: to sixteen the final and they have advanced to the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: American Football Conference Championship game for the first time in
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: seven years. I mean, think about the seven year old
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: kids that were just a little the newborns. They don't
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: remember that. Those poor struggling children of the New England
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  Speaker 1: States that did not get to experience those six year olds,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the five year olds their entire lives, the Patriots have
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: sucked and now here they are. You're going to see
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the Patriots in a final four game. God bless those kids.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Those little suffering kids man alive. First second graders didn't
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: see the Patriots ever have any success. So anyway, the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: better story here is in the losing locker room, and
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: so that is where we were going to go. Despite
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: a absolutely horrid performance. Texas coach Demico Ryans says that
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: he never considered benching quarterback CJ.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Straud No.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I guess we didn't get that sound, but everyone else
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: has it. But he said, he said CJ is our guy,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: he said, all right, So that is a good jumping
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question what do you
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: make of Texans coach tomko Ryans saying he never considered
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: benching CJ. Stroud despite four interceptions in the first half.
• 26:19
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  Speaker 1: and three and play connect three.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: That's what we're gonna do. So number on.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Number yes, all right, So we welcome to the big Top.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Welcome to the big Top.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Step right up, funting for all ages, Theater of the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Absurd in Houston, Texas. You won't believe your eyes. And
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: if you can't see, you won't believe your ears. That
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: goes out to Stevie, Meetbols and all the blind members
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: of the mal or militia. But my guy, not for
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the squeamish or faint of heart. To meek O Ryan's
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: claim that he never thought about benching CJ. Stroud, he
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: must be lying. He has to beat lying, all right.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: If he did not consider the benching of CJ.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Stroud at halftime, then he's really bad as a coach
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: and should be fired. That's it. That's it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: That's the thought right there. If this guy, the head
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: coach of an NFL team whose quarterback had five fumbles
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: in a game a week ago and then as four
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: interception the first half, and it didn't even cross your
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: mind to bench the guy, I have.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: No skinning him.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not a Texans fan, I got I'm just watching
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: as a neutral party. You gotta be joking. That's football malpractice.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Is what it is. Read the room, Read the room.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: When you're quartererback is out there drowning, you need to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: have the hook ready to go get him out. You
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: could see it. I'm sitting on my ass watching on television.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I could see the body language. I saw the look
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: on CJ. Stroud's face. He couldn't get it out of
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: his head. He couldn't do it. And if I know that,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: how the hell does the coach of an NFL tit.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: That guy's coach didn't know it. Stroud earned the benching.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: He deserved to be benched. I don't care if it's
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a playoff game or not.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: You throw.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: You have five fumbles one game and then less than
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: a week later four interceptions. Bye bye, bye bye.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Get out of here. Ah right, the moment was just
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: too big.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Can't handle it. He's not a big game guy, CJ. Stroud,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: is not it At this point, you are what your
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: record says you are. It was a massive mountain and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: he was wearing slippers and he had his pajamas on
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and he didn't want to climb it.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: And that's it, that's all there is.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And Stroud he didn't just wilt under the pressure of
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the division round the plufs. He soiled the diaper. We
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: all saw it. It was it was what can brown do
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: for you? It's on the back of his white Texas
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: uniform and there's Demiko Ryans staying, what what is CJ.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Stroud done to deserve loyalty? That guy's been a middling
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: quarterback for multiple years now. This is not an all
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: time great c J. Stroud, And you're loyal to him.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: That's your guy, Demiko Ryan. You still watching him try
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to play quarterback In the first half c J. Stroud,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: it was like watching a baby draft learn how to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: walk on a frozen pond. Now, my theory, my theory
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: on this, using some classic psycho babble, is that Demico
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Ryans by not benching c J.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Stroud admitted that CJ. Stroud is a soft football player. Okay,
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: he's a mister softy, that's c.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: J Stroud and Dimiko made a calculator decision to not
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: bench him because it would have ruined him for the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: rest of his time with the Texas. So he sacrificed,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: if I'm right, Demiko Ryans sacrificed a chance to win
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: a playoff game.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Was a winnable game at halftime.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: He sacrificed the playoff game because of the fragile ego
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of his suck bag quarterback.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: That happened? That appen? Please, and what.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Did Cid Stroud do to reward Dimiko Ryan's vote of confidence?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: He went out in the second half and was a
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: three alarmed dumpster fire is what he was.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: He was the Duke of puke.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: In the second half there at a fifty nine point
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: two quarterback rating.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: He had die die diarrhea in the pocket.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: He did all the way to the end of the game,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: final whistle there total dud dud, Yeah, and Demiko Ryans
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: he wasted what was a generational defense on a quarterback
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: who is a total zippo.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: A squad douche from c J.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Stroud and the lights get right and he sucks his
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: thumb in the fetal position.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: My god.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: All right now, continuing the train of thought here as
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: we recap the playoff games in the NFL this weekend.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: So the question here is Texans cornerback quarterback c J.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Stroud? Is Texans quarterback c J.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Stroud and his performance just a mere hiccop or is
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: this a long term problem for the Texans. So I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: am a believer. You are what your record says you are.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: And right now CJ. Stroud is if he was a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: musical group, he'd be what he'd be, Uh, well, he'd
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: be Chubba wabba is what he would be.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Right? What great one hit wonder from back in the day.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: There one hit face plant that's it, see you later,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: repeat And a quarterback built on a highlight reel that's
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: got a lot of empty calaries, Like a lot of
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: empty calaries for him. Now remember twenty twenty three, Oh,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the new kid on the block.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: Everyone love him.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Offensive Rookie of the Year, Offensive Rookie of the Year.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Balloons in confetti, crowning the King, the new King of Houston. Oh,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: they were patting themselves in the back. They were pulling muscles.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: They being the Houston Texans organization they'd found there forever Quarterback.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: The parade was scheduled, and then they had to keep
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: playing the games and the sequel. We're still waiting for
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the sequel. We're still waiting for that sequel to happen.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: No second act, no OnCore, no reruns all right, or
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I guess just reruns here. It's the same thing every
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: year now. So since then, since that moment when CJ.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Stroud was the offensive Rookie of the Year, he has
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: been a jag, not a Jacksonville Jaguar, just a jag
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: with a designer label. Though it's a jag with a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: designer label, so he's got that going for him.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Good for CJ.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Stroud and just a guy inconsistent like a flickering porch light.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: That's what CJ. Stroud is at this point.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Spotty, like a rash that you don't want diagnosed, right,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: you don't want that diagnosed. It's a little spotty you
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it add is, uh and very unreliable.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: That's the thing about this.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Like c J.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Stroud, the inconsistencies of his performance all he's been very
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: consistent in these playoff games.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Bad but bad bad bad. Uh.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: But it's like it's like going flying around and the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: airline that has the on time departure promise, well, he
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: promised it on time department.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: And just like just like his throws, c J.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Stroud throws are often delayed because he takes too long
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: holes the ball for too long off schedule. He throws
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: it high low, you want to bounce past. That's good
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: in the NBA, not in football, behind the intended receiver.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: And so if you look at Stroud on his playoff resume,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: here you got that one Brown's beatdown that fooled a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: lot of people. They said, oh, that's it. He proved
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: he can play in the Plus he played that Cleveland Browns.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: It was that Joe Flaccaugh. I believe that was Joe
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Flacco who started that game for Cleveland. And since that mirage,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: five playoff games, three touchdowns, six interceptions, seven fumbles, a
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: passer rating of seventy in those other playoff games.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: That's not growing pains. No, no, no, that.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Is regression with a capital R, capital R regression. And
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, c J. Stroud created a new
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: item at Foster Freeze. He put the cherry on top
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: of the poopye Sunday. There he made history five plus
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: interceptions and five plus fumbles in the postseason that had
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: never happened before. In Island of One, they still talk
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: about years ago Jamis Winston the first thirty to thirty
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: guy in the NFL. Thirty interceptions and thirty touchdowns. Well,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: how about this CJ. Stroud first ever in a playoff
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: run five and five interceptions. The reason no one else
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: has been able to do it is because normally you
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: lose when you have five fumbles in the game.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: But the Steelers sucks so much. The Texans were able
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: to win that game.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: And you normally get benched if you have that kind
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: of performance before you get to those numbers, but not
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: if you have Demico Ryans as your coach and you're
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: a mister softy, then you continue to get rolled out there.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: And that's it. So this is not a hiccup. There's
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: a big issue. And that is not a guy you
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: give a big.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Massive contract to and say this is our guy forever
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: and ever and ever.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I would look to trade him. If I was the
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Houston Texans, I would say, all right, let's make a deal.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: There's teams that need quarterbacks. This guy's not the guy.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Let's get rid of him. Because the guy can't handle it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: He just can't handle them all. Some people are cut
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: out for it, he's not cut.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: Out for it. Get rid of him all right. Now.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Final point to the Patriots side of things. The Patriots
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: winning winning, and they are back in the final four.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Drake May had good stats. He did have the late touchdown.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: It's like the Hail Mary thing before after, but Drake
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: May survived. The Patriots are not one, not two, not three.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Four fumbles by tiny hands Drake May little tiny hands.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Remember before the draft, that was a big talking point
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: by the nerds. They said, well, the measurements of his hand,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have very big hands, and they said would
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: be a problem in cold weather trying.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: To grip the football. Patriots play cold weather game at
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  Speaker 4: home and he has trouble gripping the ball, holding onto
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  Speaker 4: the ball while getting a hit. And sure enough, there
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: you go.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: So now the Patriots play the Broncos in Denver, and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: that means they will be going against the New England Patriots.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: A backup quarterback in the AFC Championship game a backup quarterback.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: So the question how do you sum up the Broncos
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: quarterback Jared Stidham standing in the way of Mike Rabel
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and the Patriots reaching the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: So this is but this issue of the Patriots.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: It's been the same thing all year and they clearly
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: made some kind of faustian bargain here, the Patriots, because
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: this is parting. It's the parting of the AFC, if
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: you will, the parting of the AFC for Mike Vrabel squad.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: You look at that treasure map for the Patriots and
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: it's a right turn on Easy Street and you just
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: keep going, and if you keep going, you can make
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: a left turn and it's on Cupcake Alley. So you
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: go down Easy Street and then you turn left on
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Cupcake Alley. A generational run of softies for the New
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: England Patriots. We really have never seen anything quite as
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: easy as this has been for the Patriots, and so
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: good for them. They were horrific last season. Where's girod Mayo?
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Do we even know where Gerard Mayo is? By the way, now,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: we don't know where he is right spell waiting for
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the next check to come in from Robert So the
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: road to the super Bowl. Broadcasters love to talk about,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, the road, It's so difficult, Oh what
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: are you gonna do? The road to the super Bowl
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: has been pathetic, more pathetic, and most pathetic the opposition
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: they're going against. The Patriots have beaten soft surfer boy,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert poop his pants, C J. Stroud, and now
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: they take on Jared Stidham up next.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: It's not the heavyweight division.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: This is not the heavyweight this is the featherweight division
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: of football. For the New England Patriots. You know what
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: they're doing. They are feasting at Paris Baguette. That's what
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: they're doing here. You avoided Mahomes because he got hurt
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and the Chiefs didn't make the list. Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, the killers, the murderers, Row of AFC quarterbacks,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: the Golden Age of AFC quarterbacks. You missed all of them,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and you got handed this gift wrapped light and fluffy croissant,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: yum yum to my dumb, dumb that's what you got.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: That's what you got. So you avoided everything, and I
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: get it. Don't audit.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: The freebies You got a lot of freebies here, except
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the gift before the winds shift, and they will shift.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: The winds will shift, So accept the gift.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: And the crazy thing about it, the Patriots can be
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: in the Super Bowl and we still don't know whether
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: Drake may is a big time guy.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: We don't know that because you look at the road.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: It's easy. The Texans forfeited that. I knew the moment CJ.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Stroud played the second half. They weren't trying to win it.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: This was about the big picture. They weren't trying to
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: win it. My god, what a path you take it.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: You milk it. Don't look back. If you're the Patriots,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: It'll never be this easy again. It's never been this easy.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: It has never been this easy. Mike Rabels team has
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: got a pounce. You got to do it, Mike squad,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: you take advantage of it. This is not playing the Masters.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: This is the Windmill golf course. This is the there's
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: an arcade. There's a pitching putt. You're at the pitching putt.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: That's what you're at. One more step then you get
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: a shirt and hat.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Even this weekend is coming up. The AFC Championship Game,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: you win, they give you a hat and a shirt.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: They say, well you won the AFC, congratulations, and that's it.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: So pathetic, guest, it's pathetic. Nobody will remember though, that
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you were eating just pastries at Paris baget. They're just
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: gonna just remember. Twenty years from now, I want a
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Patriots win the Super Bowl. All that stuff gets forgotten.
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  Speaker 5: So, Ben, the Steelers are ramping up their head coaching
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  Speaker 5: search and one candidate they want to speak to is
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  Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy. Do you think this would be a great
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  Speaker 5: fit for Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the only thing that's great about it is he's
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  Speaker 4: a local guy, so you can tug at the heartstrings.
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  Speaker 4: Miche McCarthy's a Pittsburgher, so that's good. And he doesn't
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: fit what the Steelers have always been about unless they
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: go outside the box. He's coached two other NFL teams
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: as a head coach, he's older than the you know
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: then they normally go for So it doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 4: that's a great fit.
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: And they can do better next, all right, Ben, So Trinidad,
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: Shambliss and his team are suing the NC double A
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: over their decision to not give him a six year
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: of eligibility.
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: Do you think he will get this overturned?
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: No?
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Although the argument is if the NC double A eventually
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: just makes these guys employees, which is what they should be,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: then why stop it four years or five years of eligibility?
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: This guy's already played six years though, Like, come on, dude,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I would want to play for twelve years the amount
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: of money they're getting, so I don't. I think it's
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• 47:00
  Speaker 5: Next all right, Ben the Bend, Green Day will be
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• 47:07
  Speaker 5: along with past Super Bowl MVPs in attendance.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Do you care?
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: No?
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: The only thing I care about is I think this
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: was a late addition. The rumor is because they were
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  Speaker 4: getting so much bad publicity for bad Bunny hates America,
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: and so let's get Green Day. They don't hate America,
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: We'll put them in there. So that's why I did it.
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  Speaker 2: How do we know how?
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  Speaker 4: The psycho? I'm a winner,