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12-24-25 Hour 1 - Avs Grind out the Mammoth/Broncos Getting Prepared for Christmas/More Nuggets Injuries · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardi and Caine on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: every weekday morning from seven to ten on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's that time of year. It's like the two
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  Speaker 2: days where that's really acceptable for me. Welcome to it.
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  Speaker 2: It's Moser, Lombardi and Kine with Matt Smith. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much for being here on a very merry Christmas Eve,
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  Speaker 2: and happy holidays to you and yours. Whatever it is
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  Speaker 2: you're doing making your way to the airport this morning,
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  Speaker 2: going to see some family. Just got to Colorado, just
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  Speaker 2: got back home visiting family. We're glad you're here rocking
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  Speaker 2: with us on a very merry Christmas Eve. Good morning
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  Speaker 2: to the Grinch himself, Mark Mosher, Hey, are you grinchy today?
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  Speaker 3: I'm I feel like I am, but I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to be okay for some reason. Didn't sleep a lot
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  Speaker 3: last night, just like up and down all night. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what it was. Maybe it was uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a tight one nothing win that kind of thing. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what it was. But here I am on
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  Speaker 3: Christmas Eve, happy to be here with you.
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  Speaker 2: And you dragged yourself in just to hang out with
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  Speaker 2: me on Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: That's really nice of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's my job. I can look at that drag myself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's your job now, it's apparently your job.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there ain't no patting on the back here today.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, Mariah carried that song. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: she's a wonderful talent. Don't get me wrong. Too many
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  Speaker 3: runs though in her voice. She does a lot of runs,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And and she can't because
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  Speaker 3: she's a once in a lifetime talent. Just a little
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  Speaker 3: too many runs, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: But if you were Mariah and you could hit those,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't you just be freestat just you know, just riffing it.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's like Steph Curry. If I can hit
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  Speaker 3: three quarter court shots, you know, just.
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  Speaker 4: Do it right, Yeah, rightly.
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  Speaker 2: If I can throw the ball in from beyond the
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  Speaker 2: length of full court during a warm up, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it and and put on a show for
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  Speaker 2: the fans, exactly right. Yeah, let me hit this high
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  Speaker 2: note for you. Let me bring it down here, let
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  Speaker 2: me bring it back up. She is, uh, she's best. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let me ask you top three vocalists of like the
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  Speaker 2: last thirty forty years.
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  Speaker 3: Whitney Houston for sure, Mariah Carey is awesome. I hate Madonna,
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  Speaker 3: she ain't. I wouldn't put Madonna there, No, not a chance.
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  Speaker 3: And then probably the one with the Titanic. Oh share, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: no no.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's probably although both good options, both good options.
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  Speaker 3: Although sure sure could she could really built it out.
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  Speaker 3: But probably Yeah, it's probably Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and
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  Speaker 3: uh Celine Dia. Those three are probably the best of all.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 4: Did we mention cher.
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  Speaker 3: Big Knife?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, I honorable mention. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: throw Christina Aguilera and.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly Clark supertown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tons to get to on a Christmas Eve as
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  Speaker 2: we can. By the way, that's more of your my
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  Speaker 2: generation exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Well not even that it's older than you, like you'rely Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but when they were popular, you were still a little guy.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 4: I was a pupp Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's all good, it's all good.
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  Speaker 2: But I can listen to Dean Martin same as I can.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm a chameleon. I'm a musical cameleon.
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  Speaker 3: Cruise around. There's there's a show on my satellite called
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  Speaker 3: seriously Sinatra. Oh that's a great station, and I listened
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  Speaker 3: to that a lot too, So Frank's you know, Frank,
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  Speaker 3: just be at it.
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  Speaker 4: What's your go to Frank?
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  Speaker 3: Oh God, I got the greatest hits? I don't you know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, because I think they're all pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: That's an excellent question. Let me let me stew on
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  Speaker 3: that for a while and then I'll get like, when
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  Speaker 3: it comes on, I'm like, that's my Frank song. I'll
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  Speaker 3: stew all that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm jotting it down because I'm curious. I am. Again.
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  Speaker 2: We've got tons to get to. Let's start with last
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  Speaker 2: night in the game that you called one nothing, Avs
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  Speaker 2: over the Mammoth, rolling off a big win against Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: on the road, five to one on Sunday, they made
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  Speaker 2: a statement, whether or not it was truly their intention.
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  Speaker 2: They approached it like a playoff game, which was their intention,
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  Speaker 2: and they did. They made a statement to Minnesota. Nice
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  Speaker 2: edition of Quinn Hughes. You know, keep trying. You know
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  Speaker 2: you're not here yet, you know you got a ways
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  Speaker 2: to go. And then yesterday you're coming back, last game
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  Speaker 2: before the holiday break, you're playing a Utah team that
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  Speaker 2: again the Artists formerly known as the Arizona Coyotes. That's
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  Speaker 2: a scrappy group. That's a good way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: It's scrappy. And they always play the Avs tough. I
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  Speaker 2: mean they really do. Avs won two to one.
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  Speaker 3: To open up the season here at home. They lost
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  Speaker 3: in overtime in Utah a couple of weeks later, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then this is the third time they've seen them,
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  Speaker 3: and you get the word before the game that Corova Milka,
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  Speaker 3: their goaltender, is not going to plays out with an
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  Speaker 3: upper body, so v Tech Vanichik steps in and those
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  Speaker 3: even without Logan Cooley, who's a big part of their lineup,
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  Speaker 3: those guys played hard man and that's what they do.
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  Speaker 3: They talent, they play hard, Dared Bennar said in the
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  Speaker 3: post game last night, and it was a you know,
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  Speaker 3: because people probably don't really look at the underlying analytics.
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  Speaker 3: I know you love those numbers. If you could dive in,
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  Speaker 3: if you could dive into analytics, yeah, smother your whole ye,
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  Speaker 3: smother your whole body and analytics and just swim in
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  Speaker 3: that crap exactly like lotion.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you would.
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  Speaker 3: But their last ten games even though they were five
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  Speaker 3: and five, the numbers say on both sides of the
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  Speaker 3: puck that they've been a top ten team. And they're
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  Speaker 3: right there. I mean, they're they're trying to make the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: They're they're right on the cusp, and they play hard
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  Speaker 3: and they give you, you know, they give you problems.
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  Speaker 3: And also at the same time, the Avs did not
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  Speaker 3: have their best stuff. All the intentions are there, your
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  Speaker 3: legs are moving, the will is there. It's just you're
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  Speaker 3: just not It's and you need Skoy Wedge would to
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  Speaker 3: play a game like that, and he didn't. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what makes a great hockey club because even the best
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  Speaker 3: teams in the league are going to have off nights.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty two for thirty two saves. Last night, Weggie with
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  Speaker 2: the first start of the game, second shutout of the season,
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  Speaker 2: tenth of his career. He was the best player on
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  Speaker 2: the ice last night, and the coach felt the exact
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  Speaker 2: same way.
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  Speaker 5: He was the best player on the ice for either team.
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  Speaker 5: There's no question, like the second period when I say
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  Speaker 5: we got away, we created some of our own issues.
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  Speaker 5: Like you got to give him credit. They played hard,
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  Speaker 5: they played with really good speed. I mean if you
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  Speaker 5: give them an opening, they're going to create a chance
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  Speaker 5: out of it. But you know, like, for example, we
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  Speaker 5: get off on like two rushes on the penalty kill.
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  Speaker 5: I felt like when we were organizing in our structure
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  Speaker 5: on the penalty kill, we were shutting them down at
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  Speaker 5: the line, sending it the length of the ice over
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  Speaker 5: and over. We weren't giving up anything dangerousin z own.
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  Speaker 5: We take off a couple times. We mismanaged to pock
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  Speaker 5: on both of those rushes, and then they get a
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  Speaker 5: you know, powerplay opportunity, and then a second one and
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  Speaker 5: then a third one, all while we're trying to get organized.
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  Speaker 5: And it was a little bit the same way five
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  Speaker 5: on five, right, So like just calming things down and
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  Speaker 5: being a little bit more predictable to ourselves if we're
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  Speaker 5: not going to score a lot tonight, and being able
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  Speaker 5: to sort of lock it down and be a little
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  Speaker 5: bit more patient. I think it's important, and it's hard
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  Speaker 5: to do that in stride, but I thought the guys
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  Speaker 5: did a nice job of it. Again in the third period.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly the way it went. You could tell as
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  Speaker 3: the game went on they weren't gonna put up five,
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  Speaker 3: so especially once you got to like the eight minute
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  Speaker 3: mark of the third period, eight minutes in twelve to go,
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  Speaker 3: you could tell they were just managing the game. Manage, manage, manage,
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  Speaker 3: get to the red line, dump it in chain, get
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  Speaker 3: to the red light, dump it in change. Don't let guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, swirl around your zone. You know, get the puck,
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  Speaker 3: get it out. Change. I mean, they were just managing
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  Speaker 3: things as to not allow you taught to be dangerous
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  Speaker 3: at all late in that contest, had a couple of
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  Speaker 3: good looks late with the goalie pulled. But that's just
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  Speaker 3: the way it went. And you're gonna have those games
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  Speaker 3: the course of the season where I said a lesson
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  Speaker 3: in the post game, I said, look, there's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: nights when the Avs throw up four or five six
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  Speaker 3: a night and their goalies have to make, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some saves and they can give up a couple three
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  Speaker 3: and it's no big deal. Blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: And then there are gonna be nights where, man, you
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  Speaker 3: got to lock it down homes. Otherwise we're dead. We're not,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're not. We're not going to win this game.
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  Speaker 3: So you find different ways to win and they did
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  Speaker 3: last night.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of points you bring up there that I
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  Speaker 2: really like as well as a coach. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: Wedgwood first of all, outstanding and again thinking back to
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  Speaker 2: where this team was even twelve months ago. In that regard,
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  Speaker 2: it's ridiculous the fact that both these guys should be
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  Speaker 2: going to Milan if that's where they're gonna play for
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  Speaker 2: Team Canada.
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  Speaker 4: If you ask me, those are the two i'd pick.
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  Speaker 4: I mean two of the three at least.
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  Speaker 3: Hey listen, Jordan Bennington, whom we were oh our favor,
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  Speaker 3: perhaps not fond of here in Denver, but nonetheless he
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  Speaker 3: won you. I mean, he was great in that Four
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  Speaker 3: Nations tournament, and that's torrific. He was great. But if
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  Speaker 3: you're being realistic, like who's playing the best right now, well,
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  Speaker 3: you've got one guy who's sixteen one and four in
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  Speaker 3: Scott Wedgwood tied for the league leading wins. Then along
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  Speaker 3: comes Mackenzie Blackwood back from injury, and he's ten to
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  Speaker 3: one and one right, and you're like he's on any
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  Speaker 3: given night, they're both doing what Wedgwood did last night,
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, well, damn, I mean, that's pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're both they're both playing that kind of
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  Speaker 3: hockey right now, and it's awesome to see. It's awesome
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  Speaker 3: to have. I mean, it's part of the reason why
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  Speaker 3: you know you are where you are as a group
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  Speaker 3: and on any given night, boom. I mean, listen, they
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  Speaker 3: both have the exact same safe percentage at nine twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: Their goals against are virtually identical. They're they're pushing each
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  Speaker 3: other in the blue paint. It's awesome to see. If
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  Speaker 3: I'm Team Canada, I don't know how you don't think
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  Speaker 3: both those guys I didn't see everybody else get bent.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these guys are great, and lately Binner hasn't
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  Speaker 2: played well either. His goals against over his last like
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  Speaker 2: ten starts is not great.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a bit of a gee or you have
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  Speaker 3: situation going on where the first shot he sees is
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  Speaker 3: going inoo. It's not a fun place to be.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well again, I'll play the world's tiniest violin for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, ain't nobody crying for him? Yeah, I'm not so.
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  Speaker 2: As far as like all of the Denver sports villains,
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  Speaker 2: he's right up there on my list, right up there
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  Speaker 2: on the list on my naughty list. Santa's going to
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  Speaker 2: be bringing him some call quite frankly, okay, just telling you.
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  Speaker 3: Or something else. Yeah, well he's your imagination.
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  Speaker 4: By the way.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the best penalty kill in the league right
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  Speaker 2: by the numbers or are they too.
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  Speaker 3: No, they're number one.
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  Speaker 4: They're number one.
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  Speaker 3: They've hovered around Matt between like eighty five and eighty
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  Speaker 3: six point two percent all year long. Now again, some
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  Speaker 3: other teams are porpoising. They're going from one to five
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  Speaker 3: back to one because they have four in a row
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  Speaker 3: where they've but the abs you've just maintained right there.
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  Speaker 3: And so last night they win this number one even
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  Speaker 3: though their numbers didn't change. Somebody else got crappier. But
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  Speaker 3: they've been they've been the top three all year long
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  Speaker 3: in Utah.
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  Speaker 4: Last night, oh for three on a power play.
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  Speaker 2: But when you've got goaltending like that, they're typically your
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  Speaker 2: best penalty killers if you're doing it the right way
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  Speaker 2: and it and it looks like that right now. I
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  Speaker 2: thought they they looked very good special teams wise, second
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  Speaker 2: power play left a lot to be desired. First one
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  Speaker 2: was good, though, three shots in the first minute of
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  Speaker 2: that first power play we talked about it yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Activity pucks on net.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe generates just a little bit more traffic in front
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  Speaker 2: of the net, but outside of that, I like that
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  Speaker 2: first power.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. And it's funny because you
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  Speaker 3: and I can sit here and talk all morning about
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  Speaker 3: volume shots. Oh yeah, volume volume, volume vome and those
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  Speaker 3: guys can talk in the pregame or talk in the
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  Speaker 3: morning skate, Hey, volume shots, let's get some let's get
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  Speaker 3: some volume.
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  Speaker 4: Gone right.
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  Speaker 3: And then you get out there and you're doing it.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, all right, you take it. Okay, I'm giving
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  Speaker 3: it to you.
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  Speaker 4: You know you wait, I don't have the real you
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  Speaker 4: take it back? Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, man, I just throw it on net, baby,
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  Speaker 3: throw it on net, because you got ninety two down.
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  Speaker 3: They're ready to just to get ugly in Atlantis. God,
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  Speaker 3: have you seen his body. He's throwing his body around.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he'll be damned about knees or anything else.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the captain is in to Win's. It's cool
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  Speaker 3: to see.
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  Speaker 4: This was Rachel.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me some of my stupid voice this week.
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  Speaker 4: You'll get there. You'll get there.
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  Speaker 2: We'll warm it up, we'll prime the engine. Rachel toss
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  Speaker 2: last night in the post game, talking to the captain
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen straight wins on home ice, first team in the
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  Speaker 1: National Hockey League to reach sixty points. What does that
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  Speaker 1: mean to you?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it means that we've had a good just
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  Speaker 7: about half here, first half.
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  Speaker 4: So we're not going to blow it out of proportion.
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  Speaker 7: Having said that, we are going to take what we're
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  Speaker 7: doing good and we're going to continue doing it right
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  Speaker 7: and improve on the things that we're not necessarily doing
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  Speaker 7: that well.
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  Speaker 3: And I think some.
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  Speaker 7: Of the real big positives are you know, we've talked
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  Speaker 7: about him before, but finding ways to win hockey games,
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  Speaker 7: and tonight was just another example of that. It's not pretty,
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  Speaker 7: it's not perfect. It's second pier is pretty ugly, if
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  Speaker 7: I'm being completely honest, But we're we find ways, obviously
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  Speaker 7: with fantastic goaltending. I think the third period we got
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  Speaker 7: better and I started pushing back a little bit. Yeah, overall,
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  Speaker 7: it's been a fun first few months this season.
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  Speaker 3: If the second period was a face, it'd be Mitchell's beard.
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  Speaker 3: No offense. I mean, but you like right here, Chris,
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  Speaker 3: right here, on both sides. I mean, I get the
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  Speaker 3: same way, a little little scraggly, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: That was the second period last night for the Avs.
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  Speaker 3: And I love the way you put it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not maybe not pretty. We just go find a
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  Speaker 3: way to win. And I'll say this before we get
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  Speaker 3: to our first break of the day. Happy Christmas Eve, everybody,
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  Speaker 3: Merry Christmas Eve. The league hasn't played on Christmas since
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy two. Oh, I like where you're going as
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  Speaker 3: we it here right now. At sixty one points, the
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  Speaker 3: Colorado Avalanche have the most points at the holiday break
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  Speaker 3: in the history of the league. The Anaheim Ducks when
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  Speaker 3: they won the Cup and six oh seven they had
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  Speaker 3: sixty points at the holiday break. Awesome start. Nobody in
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  Speaker 3: the history of the league, no team has been at
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  Speaker 3: sixty one points before the holiday break. And yet here
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  Speaker 3: we sit, mat I'm looking at your go to, which
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  Speaker 3: is actually really thick and good Mitchell clip. You should
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  Speaker 3: have you should have aspired like this.
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  Speaker 4: So two notes here for you.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, you talked about they managed the game last night,
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  Speaker 2: and so did game. He talked about finding finding different
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  Speaker 2: ways to win a hockey game. You gotta be able
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  Speaker 2: to win a one nothing hockey game. Same as you
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  Speaker 2: win a four, five to four hockey game, you get
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  Speaker 2: whatever in the playoffs, same as you win a seven
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  Speaker 2: to six overtime game in the Western Conference Finals against Edmondson.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the sign of a champion who can who
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  Speaker 2: can fin different ways and get it done, rely on
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  Speaker 2: different strengths, no question and you. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: that was the first compliment you give in my facial
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  Speaker 2: hair in over a month. Which that's how you know
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  Speaker 2: Mosh is really out of it this morning, and not
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  Speaker 2: feel not down?
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: I must be. I must be, Yeah, I must be
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: a little. Let me finish my coffee. It's the Christmas spirit. Yeah,
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: the Grinch's heart threw three sizes that day, script me.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Can I tell you though, because you've been giving me
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: a hard time for it. I walked into a store yesterday,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah it was yesterday and saw the worst goatee I've
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: ever seen and pulled one of these, you know, the
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: phone over the shoulder, just so I can show you.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: I'll show you. During the break perfect with Wisp.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: City, I was like, oh, Whisp City, I've got.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: A little look what's coming in here? My soul patches
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: coming back? What's coming back well twenty twenty six. It
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: takes a little while for it to get there because
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: I'm like Mitchell, I can't I can't really get it going.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: You know, it's like a dolphin. But I I know
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: bad face when I see it, and I got it,
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: and so Mitchell, well, I'm right there with you, buddy.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: We've got tons more to get into coming up in
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: a little bit. The Nuggets. What a heartbreaker and a
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: huge question mark moving forward, as well as gear up
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: for Broncos and Chiefs. I mean, it may not be
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: like the Clash of the Titans, but it's as important
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: a game as the Broncos have had this year. Truthfully,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: if you want to win the wins, want to win
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: the one seed, it matters just the same as the
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: rest of them want to know this week that's the goal.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: We'll dive into it all coming up. Mosia Lombardian King
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: with Matt Smith no Vic today, the King of Chicken
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: taking Christmas Eve off and he deserves it. Lazzy just
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: sitting on his eggs, just sitting on his se That's
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: it man. Yeah out two Sports Radio nine two to five.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas Eve. Mosha Lombardi in kame with Matt Smith.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: No Lombardi today, No Cane today as well. Lombardi, the
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: King of Chicken is uh, he's he's nesting today.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to be in the Christmas spirit here with
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: these tunes. I'm the kind of guy who makes up
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: his own lyrics. Like last Christmas year from George Michael, right.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, bring it back up a little bit here, Mitchell.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Now is this George Michael was just wham? I think
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: it's just George on himself, right by himself.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Who is it, Mitchell? I think this was when he
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: was still wayam.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, you know last Christmas, your mom came to town.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: You know, I just I make up I'm making I'm
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: making my own lyrics.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I don't know.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I guess I'm weird. Hey, Mitchell, I'll tell you what
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: these are. Kind of these are kind of more contemporary.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I'll flow you some old school Christmas tunes. Man, that's gonna.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Knock yourself a little tune. Sleep, It's gonna.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: It's gonna make you. It's gonna make you, uh, make
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: you feel like an old guy.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Broncos and Chiefs tomorrow. I feel like we just watched
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: them play the Jacks. It's probably because we did. But
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: we're gonna start this week on a Monday with the
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: reaction Monday, and then we're gonna end this week with
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the reaction Friday. It's a it's a quick turnaround here.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: And Bo Nicks talked about it yesterday down at Broncos.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: Thank goodness. It's a team that I've played already in
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: the year, so it feels like an extension of the
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: first game. So it's sort of strange. But all the retention,
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: all the plays and all the looks that you could
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: get with those plays, and I know it hasn't been
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: the season that they wanted, but they're still the Chiefs.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: And you know what, mose I brought this up in
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the Appetizer Hour, you started at seven am Monday telling us,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: you know, okay, hey, nothing changes. As Vic told us,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: nothing changes. You lose your margin for error, but you're
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: still the one seed me in the entire thing quite frankly.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: But but as Bo points.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Out, they're still the Chiefs.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: So don't you.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Take a little pleasure in the fact that Denver rolls
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: into Casey tomorrow night and on paper, I mean, look,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I just saw the latest points for thirteen and a half.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gone up. You know what opened at five
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: and a half? There's there's supposed to lay beat. Did
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: it open five and a half? That's what That's what
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: espns and then went all the way to twelve and
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: a half. Now thirteen and a half. Geez, I suppose
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: for me And this is me being Christmas petty, this
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: is grinch Moses. Okay, if you go, if you went
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: to Kansas City tomorrow night and they had something to
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: play for and you crush their hopes and dreams, that
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: would feel more satisfying than going to play the B squad.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: When the Chiefs fans have already come to grips with
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: the fact that they ain't going anywhere. You know, they
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: had an awesome run and they'll probably be back as
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: long as you have Mahomes, you're going to be back
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: at some point doing something right. But they've already come
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: to grips with the fact that they're not doing crap
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: this year, that they're out of the postseason, that they've
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: had to deal with these injuries and so on and
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: so forth. So they're not Chiefs fans aren't expecting Jack tomorrow.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: They in fact, I bet they probably expect to get drilled.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Not quite as fun as if you went in there
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: and did the drilling when they needed something to happen
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: for them, they needed a win or whatever the case,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: or you wanted to knock them off their perch. So
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: it's a little bit different. But I have absolutely zero,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: and I mean zero fear of this game. Zero.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not afraid of it at all. But I do,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I mean nothing. I do revel in the fact that
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: they should, on paper go in there and lay the
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: wood to them. I mean, it has been a while
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: since that team has dominated not only this division but
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: clearly the league, and so I guess I just I'm
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: not gonna take it for granted that they should go
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: in there and beat them down handily.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Listen, I've got respect for Kansas City and Andy
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Reid and Mahomes has grown. I've grown weary of Mahomes
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: over the years, just because of you know, his act
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: and that sort of thing. But for a team like
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: that to play so much important football and go deep,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: deep into the playoffs every single year, it's pretty impressive
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: to self motivate yar after year after year, because once
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: you get deep into the postseason. I mean, everybody's body hurts.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: You know, all guys are nursing something and some guys
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: are playing with injury and so on. So you've got
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: to have respect for what they've been able to achieve
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: since year one of Patrick Mahomes as the starter. But
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: it's gonna feel good to knock them off again, It
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: really will.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: But you're right.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I'm gonna savor it and it'll be good.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: But as as Michael points out here on the shop
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Masa tech line, which by the way, chime in throughout
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: the course of the morning, one price, one person, one hour,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: three zero three five O four nine two five tickets
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: are as cheap as thirty five bucks to get in
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: this game at area?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: How about that case.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Decides, you know what, you're gonna take our football team
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: out of Missouri?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: We got we got, we got better things to do
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: it devil. I know that area pretty good. Somebody said
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: it's a forty five minute drive, moj I don't know
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: where they want to put the new stadium, but Kansas City,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Kansas and of City, Missouri are virtually the same thing.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Are we going to get another? Geography lessons?
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I mean they're separated there. You don't even know that
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: you cross the border, you know, don't You don't, You
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: have no idea. It's like all Kansas City resides in
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: two states. So if you're going from you know, it's
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: like I said, if you took mile high. Let's say
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I twenty five was a state divider, okay, and it's
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: on the west side of I twenty five. Right now,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Let's say he moved into the east side of twenty
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: five and you're in a different state. Yeah, that's kind
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: of what they're going to do here. So it's not
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: that big a deal.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: John Payton talking about the quick turnaround the Broncos face.
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: I think the most important thing that we've learned is
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: the recovery. How we approach this week compared to what
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: we used to do, not knowing any better, different than
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: Sunday games, Sunday night games, Monday night games, Thursday night
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: halftime lead eighty two percent winner. So starting fast is
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: important on Thursday nine.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Do you hear that little gem he dropped on us?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: It sounds like you you know what this is why
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: you like him so much? Uh. The coefficient of the
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: recovery is two point three percent.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Hey, but that's a good one though.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Eighty two percent of the time you got a lead
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: on Thursday night football, you win that football game.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: That's pretty That is pretty cool stat that's a good number.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: That is, it's kind of it's also seems like a
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: high number. Really. That seems a little elevated to me.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Where do you get his stats?
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's a good question.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Or what are you feeding him on the side or something?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Should we question Sean's numbers?
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Game?
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Hey, Peyton, show me your work.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: I imagine it's got to be the pr guys. Or
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: maybe not.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just you know, one of his other nerds
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: that he's got locked in the basement.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: When you were a kid, did you have to show
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: your work?
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Of course? Okay, long division all that.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look at look you look at Mitchell. Now, Mitchell's
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: so young, Chris, how old are you? Twenty seven? Louise.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: He might have had to show his work like a
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: little like a little infant back there, look at it.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: He might have had to show his work.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but put in the things you know, you got
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: a I mean today's kids with the AI.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Oh no, the chat with the chat gptol.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: BT's and the Grokys and the Grookies and the blah
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: blah weh.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I go to college.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: If that's how you're gonna do it, I don't get
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: that exactly.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: It's kids got it so easy.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Back in my day we went off to war at
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: sixteen exactly.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well even back in the day. Yeah, but uh no,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: But but you know, you got to show your work.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: So Sean, show your work where that number comes from.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: But listen, get a lead, start off. Good. Look, that's
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: a great point from Sean Payton. Do this. I don't
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: know that Chris alamost Naki is going to do crap
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: offensively for you.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Ola Dokin, Ola Dokan.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Who are we talking to?
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: By the way, today, Dana and Hughes coming up at
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: nine am the Kansaity Chiefs color commentator on their broadcast.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Can't wait to talk to him, former chief, former brewer,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: former two sport athlete. Actually, so I like that it'd
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: be great to catch up with Dana.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: So we'll talk to Dan and Hughes today on the
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: program about the Chiefs, and I'm I'll show my al
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: due respect to Kansas City. Don't worry.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't need to.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: But uh, you know, look, you give me a little
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: disrespectful on this Christmas Eve.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I feel like I don't know that Chris Olodokin Olodocin
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: is gonna do anything offensively. And if Kansas City, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I'll say this to Chris to Dand's face, if they
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: get to double digit points, I'm gonna be shocked. They
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: didn't against Tennessee. Okay, you're talking about the dog butt Titans,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: who played maybe one of their best games, but they
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: didn't even get the double digit points against those guys.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: If they against this defense, and I don't care how
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: the defense has been since the bye week, if they
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: get the double digit points against the Broncos, I'm gonna
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: be blown away.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: On the text line, I love you, Moser. First thing
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I hear and I turn on the radio, is you
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: talking about how the Chiefs are done? I love it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: What a great gift for the season. Merry Christmas from Mike.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you, Mike. Happy holidays. But that's kind
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: of what I was trying to say at the beginning
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: of this segment, like, let's are are we pass the
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: point now where we're not going to appreciate a winning
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Kansas City.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: No, I'm still going to revel in it. I'm still
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: going to enjoy just a little rebel again. It's not
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: gonna it's not going to have the same same impact,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: the same punch as if you knock them off a perch,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: or you denied them something they wanted. They've already gone
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: to the light. It's like making them way at the
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: pearly gates. You know, a couple extra days.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: You remember what Sean Payton had to say on his
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: zoom presser when he was asked if the defense was slipping, right, I.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Don't buy it.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: I mean, you can listen, our defense played pretty well
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: last week, so you know, you look for those trends,
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: and I think our defense has been outstanding this year.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: They played a good offense yesterday. Look they struggled. We
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: didn't play well yesterday defensively, but certainly the week before
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: against the good offense, we played well, had a big win.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: So I don't see it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, before the bye week you were holding opponents
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: under nineteen points per game, and after the bye week
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: you're allowing just under twenty six points per game.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: So I don't know.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Four games is that big enough sample size to say
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: there's a trend development.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: He's got a point in that it doesn't look that different.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: It's just that opponents are capitalizing a little bit more
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: than they did before. Now I don't know that that's Hey,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: this league has figured that defense out. Hey, hey man.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: And by the way, I will say this though, uh,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: you know, we were talking about the Jaguars and the
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: zone they play. It's pretty damn effective for the most part.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Last Sunday, you know, seven sets of eyes staring at Bonix.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean he's still threw for over three
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: hundred yards.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: And but but that's a lot of fools gold to
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: that's a lot of you know, garbage, And sure you
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: know that's that's a lot of free time picking up.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: This is Trevor Simeon, God rest his soul.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: I was gonna Saystmas past.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, people say, well t rev just threw for two
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: hundred and seventy nine yards. I'm like, well, yeah, they
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: were down by twenty one and we're gonna win the
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: damn game. And the defense let him have all this stuff.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: You know, Sure that's for sure, Sure, sure, sure, but
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: the Broncos defense has not yet been figured out by opponents.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Every defense is gonna give up some stuff. It's just
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: they're just other teams are just capitalizing a little bit
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: more than they did before. A little bit. That's it.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: So Sean spoke yesterday because clearly they're doing everything in
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: a truncated version this week. It's an abridged version of
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: a game week preparation with the quick turnaround going to
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Kansas City. So Sean, naturally, the narrative is out there now,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: even though he kind of pupooed it. I mean it
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: is out there now that they've slipped a little bit,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: and anybody with eyeballs who watched this team can tell you.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I'll just ask you, real quick, real simple question. Is
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: this defense still a Super Bowl winning defense? What you've
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: seen out of them the last four weeks?
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: You're asking me? Yeah, okay, yeah, Hey, Do.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: You say that as confidently as you would have eight
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: weeks ago.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: No?
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I don't. That's all masking.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: No I don't, because you know what you You sent
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: the numbers yesterday. Where what did the Jags pick on
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Riley Moss? Boy? Did they go after his bacon hard?
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: He gave up one hundred and fifty five yards.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And so you're gonna have to run safety is
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: probably a little bit more. The rest of the way.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: I've got a really bad analogy. It's not a Christmas analogy.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: If you'd like to hear.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: It, please lay it on me.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Scat cat Okay. The Kansas City Chiefs offense this week
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: is gonna be like, it's gonna be a target rich
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: environment for the Broncos defense. It's like, I love that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: It's like this, Mitchell, do you have a girlfriend? Keep talking?
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yes, that's clearly a yes. Okay, So like he's
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: got a rotation.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Let me let me use you Smith, be like this.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: You're at the bar with your boys, keep getting shot down,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: shut down, shut there.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Give me a little bar music, Mitchell, you got you
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: got some bar music you can give me just to
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: paint the picture, just just just a little. But what's
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: a little bar music? A little grunge rock something like that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, maybe back in your.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Day, Chris whatever, you come up with this. Yeah, but
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: you're you're, you're, you're you're out there with your boys
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: having a couple of coldies, right, all right? Cool? That
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: sounds good? And then and then like shot down, shot
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: down in flames, shot down in flame, and then I says, uh,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: it says, hey, Matt, he I need you to deliver
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: this pizza to the women's prison.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: We're at the bar.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, this is the next day, the
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: next day, and we're working at the pizza. I don't
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: know you're you're delivering pizzas. So here you go. Yeah,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: it might be a little bit, it might be a
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: little bit easier in that rate. That's that's all right.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: So the bottom line I'm saying, we're at the bar
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: simultaneously delivery broadcast defense against the Casey offense tomorrow night
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: is like you go into a women's prison. I'll tell
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: you there.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: You don't know.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: That's not very Christmasy of me. I I don't know
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: how that. But delivering pizza, well, whatever, whatever you're doing,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know that delivering uniforms to the guards of
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: the whatever.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: I don't have to check the box.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: They're gonna they're gonna see what's you know.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I did not get you. I did
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: not get much sleep last night.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Well, but at the same time, you know, it was
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake who's saying about delivering that
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: present on Christmas as well. I'm just saying, I mean
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: you brought it up. Somebody on the text line. We
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: were talking about the best vocalist, top songbirds of our generation,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: and you said Celene Dion Whitney.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: And because I mean, Whitney just had the pure yeah,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: awesome Mariah, her unbelievable runs and the ability to hit
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: that high note. I think it's a high F.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a high F is right, it's in.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: It's insane.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: And Selene just just especially with her little tiny accent,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: the power and the power of sleep.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah that it's just so recognizable and blam just to
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: dash the French is what you're saying, wee wei Yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: But we also honorable mentioned Christina Aguilera's great. We honorable
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: mentioned Kelly Clarkson also amazing, She's great. Somebody else says,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: how are you not having a Dell on that list?
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Adele's got to be on. As far as power ballads go,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: is Moser drunk? Somebody said, I don't know, but I
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: don't know. Have youd is that eggnog in your mind?
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: I wish no, I'm not, but we'll see what happens.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: We got a couple more hours to go. Yeah, we
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: got a couple more hours to go. On the other side,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: it was it was a tough one last night in
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Dallas for the Nuggets one thirty one, one thirty. They lose,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: but did they lose more? And could it be an
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: even bigger problem. We'll share the latest details next. Merry
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Christmas EVE to you and yours Mosia Lombardi and came
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: with Matt Smith.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Wonderful Christmas.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: You a McCartney guy.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's like a go to, but yeah,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna say no to McCartney.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Like I told you, I'm a musical alien.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: In fact, I looked at my Spotify rap this year,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: which I don't know if you know what that is,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: but it's something that you know.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. We have people who listen all
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: these things, do the raps, right, like this is how
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: much you listen to? We have some people who are
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: on our podcast, you know, we post it. I guess
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: it's on Spotify, right.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: M Yeah, it's wherever you can get podcasts.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Really awesome listeners, man, like Marie on the Twitch feed.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: She's awesome. She kicks butt. I mean, she's there all
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: the time. We got some great people, even who hate
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: my guts, who are here every day. I appreciate those people.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: From Merry Christmas to all of you.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: The point is is I think I had like sixty
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: different genres of music listen to this year.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: I'm not like you.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: It's like you listen to more rock and roll than
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: anybody ever has in any year ever, which I imagine,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: which is your Spotify rapped for this year? It's just
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: like more eighties rock that you're in the top point.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Oh maybe hold on a sec. You know what, I'll
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: tell you what you get, you get. This is, by
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: the way, today's kind of it's Christmas Eve. How was
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: your driving? Was your drive smooth?
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Easy, breezy?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Dude? Again, it was like the Indy five hundred. I
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: did not get pasted. Yesterday I mentioned I'm driving down
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: four to seventy and I'm doing eighty and I think
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: I'm cruising and a garbage truck passes me, and I'm like,
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I don't even know that the garbage truck could get
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: to eighty plus, but it did. Right today, it was
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: just like I got passed by. I mean, I was
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: doing like eighty two in this Honda I'm like, you
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: got a V twelve in there. I mean, Jesus, good God.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: The anyway, I don't even know how many people are
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: are listening today. I hope a lot. But but the
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: fact is is that thank you for all being here.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: It's kind of a loosey goosey show today because we
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: got football tomorrow night. There's a lot going on. It's
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: kind of a fun time to talk about things, even
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: if the Nuggets weren't fun last night.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: And you bring that up, and it's important you do,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: because they lost on the second night of a back
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: to back, which you know, okay, you got eighty two
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: of these things. You're not gonna get it all perfect.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: But the fashion in which they lost was brutal. Coming
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: off the Jazz game where you led thirty three to
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: five at one point in the first quarter, it was
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: a total role reversal. In the first quarter last night
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: in Dallas, the MAVs jumped out to.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: A big lead. They did.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: They jumped out to a twenty two to six lead,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: started ten of thirteen shooting from the field, and look
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the Nuggets rallied. It was a hell of a battle.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter, Cam Johnson got hurt with over
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: nine minutes to play in the fourth quarter and then
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: hobbled to the locker room. So now that's three starters.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: You're down. At least you got Peyton Watson back.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: But that is a tough scene and I'm very concerned,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: as is David Adelman, and today we all await the
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: results from the MRI.
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: It's concerning. I haven't heard yet. He was sitting his locker.
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: We'll find out. Obviously Imagen has to hap him before
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: anything else. But it was not a fun sight to see,
• 35:56
  Speaker 10: especially a guy that's playing so well of the way
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: last month and has really found his way with our
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: group and his rhythm of how he's going to play
• 36:05
  Speaker 10: with us, you know. So it's, uh, We've had a
• 36:07
  Speaker 10: lot of these moments this year. It's deflating. But hopefully
• 36:10
  Speaker 10: the news is better, you know than it looked, because
• 36:13
  Speaker 10: we know what Cam means to our team.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Played his best basketball of the year. You know, I
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: saw the injury. You've been around long enough, so when
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: you see guy's body language, you know, typically you know
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: if it's serious, maybe not as serious, but painful that
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: kind of thing. To me, it didn't did not look
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: like a blown knee at all. When he's on the
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: floor and he gets up and you need to see
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: his face. It's maybe you know, yeah, but he but
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: something tweaked, you know, and you're hoping that it's not
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: something serious. It was scary he's holding that knee. But
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: then they all rush out to him and he, you know,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: he rolls over and he sits up, and I'm like, okay, okay,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: you know, and if he's sitting at his locker after
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: the game, like the coach just intimated, that is a
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: very good sign. Very good. But man, he's playing his
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: best basketball of the year. Spray knees are nothing to
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: sniff at. But if you need to shut him down
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: for a little bit like you have been and just
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: try to get by, okay, you need all hands on
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: deck come April.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: You're certainly not playing him tomorrow, right.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: No, Well, I don't know, you know, maybe maybe it
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: was more like a sharp pain, but there's no structural,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: know anything, And he feels okay. I mean, he's a
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: young guy. He's not you know, he's not like Donnas
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Haslam or something like that.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: You're not talking at forty oh, do you expect him
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: to play them?
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: Now?
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I do not. I would I would be surprised if
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: he did, wouldn't you be? Oh?
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, So that would mean you're down three starters
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: for a marquee matchup against your rival in Minnesota. You know,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: it's that's the that's the bugaboo for the Nuggets, right,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: it's the Tea.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Wolves, right.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just their faces. Yeah, there's stupid face faces.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: I agree with you.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Hey, Merry Christmas, your stupid face Christmas.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: You know it's healthy animal, It's uh.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: It's yeah. They're a pretty darn big rival. And that
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: was disappointing last night because the Nuggets had a chance
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: to win that game. It gets back to I'm sure
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: that coach Adelman would don't I didn't hear his postgame comments,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: But defending is a situation for the Nuggets. Defending is
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: a problem. I looked at that first quarter and I'm
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: in and out of my own game at the same time,
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: and the MAVs were seventy two percent from the floor,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: and I'm thinking to myself, Okay, you know, maybe some
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: of those are lucky. Not lucky. I mean, maybe you
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: guys are just feeling it's going in. But some of
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: that has to be poor defending it has to be
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Teams just don't shoot seventy two percent from the floor.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: They don't.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Well, you rallied back.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: It was twenty two to six at one point in
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: the first quarter, Dallas took that lead. Then you look
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: up at thirty three to twenty seven. You cut it
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: down to five. Joki chit's a couple of threes. But
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: before you say, Bob's your uncle. At the end of
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the first quarter, you're down fourteen again after you just
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: cut it to six, and you maybe would have gotten
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: away with it, like.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: The work we never see doing work now, Cooper Flag.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Again, Hey moj moj, you maybe would have gotten away
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: with it if it weren't for that guy, Okay, Hooper Flag,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I mean this teenager, oh, thirty three points, nine rebounds,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: nine assists in forty minutes on fourteen of twenty one
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: from the floor.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Are you kidding?
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: Yes, might have gotten away with a toe it wasn't
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: for these blash kid cats.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: And the dog. Yeah, pretty much, man, Scooby Doo like
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Scoob kids. Eighteen year bro Hey, hey the kid's eighteen broe.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, just turned nineteen? What two days ago?
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Two days ago?
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Two or three days ago. That's right, just turned nineteen.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: He's a nineteen year old kid going fourteen of twenty
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: one in forty minutes of play.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: He's a phenom. He's ridiculus.
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: He got off to a slow start this year, but
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: he is. He's going to be really really. I wish
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: I hadn't asked vict that question yesterday. Hey, man, are
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: you curious to see Cooper Flag here in December as
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: opposed to October and see what he looks like? Yeah?
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: I think I am. Well, crap. The kid had a
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: great game. Ad had a great game. As much as
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: I really don't like Anthony Davis, not a big fan
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: of the human mop, he played well.
• 40:20
  Speaker 10: Man.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: He really did not have a double double, but from
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: the floor he was incredibly efficient and finished with thirty one.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: That's impressive.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Earlier today, in the appetizer hour, I asked the text
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: line if Cooper Flag is the best pro athlete named
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Cooper ever because I just couldn't think of other ones,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: and somebody that I miss said Cooper Cup.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Of course, not Cooper.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Hey, listen, Cooper Cup was awesome with Stafford, right, and
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: they won a super Bowl together. Maybe they're still best friends.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Even though Cup is gone, Cooper Cup
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: is not nearly as good a pass catcher as this
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: kid's going to be a basketball player. Not a chance.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: And heck, no way.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking watching this game. I'm like,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: he's nineteen, what's he gonna look like when he's twenty
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: five in six years?
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: What other Coopers are there?
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know what are the other mean? Are there
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: any other memorable ones? None that stick out to me.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: By the way, here's David Adaman on that final play,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: because as you mentioned, the Nuggets, they went back and forth.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: They did have a good chance to win, right They're
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: down ten at half. They scored forty seven points the
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Nuggets did in the third quarter to rally back, and
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: they still lost by one. And this was David Adelman
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: because on that final play, Jokich and Murray two man game,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: you get Jokic free throw line extended. He turns around
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, there's your floater, Nicola, bread and butter,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: just go up with the right hand, even though the
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: defense collapsed. I just I'm not a huge fan of
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: deferring in that moment. Even though you had Watson and
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Hardaway in the corners, but David Adalman defended his guy.
• 41:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I thought there was four people contesting in a
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: really tough shot. Our best two players made the right play.
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: The first one was jamal to Nicola and the next
• 41:59
  Speaker 10: one was Nicola was inmates. I felt like five guys
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: garden too. So you could presuppose you want to what
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: corner with Tim and because Tim's got to gone. He
• 42:07
  Speaker 10: made seven threes, but you don't know if theyre can
• 42:09
  Speaker 10: set him left or right in the coverage and Peyton
• 42:12
  Speaker 10: shooting fifty plus from the corners this season, It's not
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: like Peyton's just said a non threat. So I feel
• 42:17
  Speaker 10: for him. I really thought that ball was going in
• 42:18
  Speaker 10: would have left his hand.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Peyton Watson has the second highest three point percentage from
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: the corners this year in the NBA.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: How about that? Isn't that crazy?
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Corner threes are weird? You know, I like to go
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: shoot hoops early in the morning sometimes, right.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: Uh huh?
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Do you?
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that, now I do.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: It's something about a corner three. It's the easiest three
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: because it's the closest three. Well, there's something about a
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: corner three where my eyeballs just can't.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: That's different.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: I need some backboard.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: It's different to help me.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: So any guy that can just rain those corner threes,
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: they got my undying admiration.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tough one was in and out for the Nuggets,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: but couldn't get it done last night. They do welcome
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Minnesota into town tomorrow night in a game I can't
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: wait for all?
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Right, Alice Cooper mm hmm, super famous rock star, legendary
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: rock star. Sure is he going to be better at
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: rock than Cooper Flag is at hoops?
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, if Cooper Flag's as good as Alice Cooper,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: then I think that's uh.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: But he's not a pro athlete? Is it because of Cooper?
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Like best cooperst Cooper Bradley Cooper Fly Cooper.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:24
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