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  Speaker 1: It's it's usually Sunday nights, like the most important game,
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  Speaker 1: not this game.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't wasn't that big a game.
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  Speaker 1: So we can go somewhere else and we're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour to begin the week. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to start in the Queen City, the Hornets Nest, the
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  Speaker 1: banking capital of the South. We head to Charlotte, where
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford was leading the l R i Am into
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  Speaker 1: a show up and win game.
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  Speaker 4: At least that was a theory going in. You show
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  Speaker 4: up and you win.
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  Speaker 1: The Ram Bandwagon stopping in North Carolina, to play the
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  Speaker 1: lowly Panthers and the inconsistent, often terrible Bryce Young at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: There that was the match. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: watch this game or not. It was regional coverage. Most
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  Speaker 1: people these days have access to different ways to watch games.
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  Speaker 4: Some of them legal, some of them not so much.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so you didn't see this, perhaps not As
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  Speaker 1: you missed this game, someone named Chris Jackson.
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  Speaker 4: That's kind of a generic name.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Jackson returned in interception forty eight yards. He plays
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  Speaker 1: for the team from North Carolina for a touchdown, and
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  Speaker 1: the Panthers ended up forcing not one, not two, but
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  Speaker 1: three Matthew Stafford turnovers and they get.
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  Speaker 4: One at the end.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, oh my god, the Rams were in
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  Speaker 1: field goal range to tie the game late in the
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  Speaker 1: game and numbnots Stafford fumbles the ball away thirty one
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  Speaker 1: to twenty eight the final as the Panthers are and
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  Speaker 1: get the upset when that is their Super Bowl congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Greatest moment in Carolina Panther history, that pathetic sad sack
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  Speaker 1: franchise beating the Rams a regular season win the biggest
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  Speaker 1: moment I'm convinced, based on a quick look at my
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  Speaker 1: email in the history of that pathetic franchise.
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  Speaker 4: I'm honored.
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  Speaker 1: I'm honored that beating the Rams in a regular season
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  Speaker 1: game is the greatest accomplishment the team's ever had. Somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: Jake de Lolmes at a horse track.
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  Speaker 4: Said, what about me?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on, we were in the Super Bowl, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but a better story is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, who entered the game with a league high
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  Speaker 1: thirty touchdown passes, including eighteen in the past five games,
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  Speaker 1: and he was facing a Carolina defense that did not
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  Speaker 1: have their starting cornerback jac Horne. He was out with
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  Speaker 1: the injury. The starting safety got suspended for a little
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  Speaker 1: shot to the nuts of a forty nine er player,
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  Speaker 1: and you had.
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  Speaker 4: A short week.
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  Speaker 1: The Panthers got their ass kicked playing the Niners on
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  Speaker 1: Monday night on the West Coast.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why they play the games.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a good jumping off point, so let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question who gets the blame? Who gets the
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  Speaker 1: blame for Sean mcvay's Rams losing to Carolina in a
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  Speaker 1: game where they gave that game. Carolina win the game
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  Speaker 1: and the game was gifted by the Rams so I've
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  Speaker 1: got financial advice, hot air balloon, and toys r us
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to create some marginal overnight talk radios.
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  Speaker 1: What we're gonna do together, That's what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll also make some brisket on the side. We'll
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  Speaker 1: cook some brisket in the smoker. We'll put it in
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  Speaker 1: a smoker. We'll cook it for like two days. That'll
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  Speaker 1: be the way we do it, all right, So a
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  Speaker 1: any way you slice it, literally, any way you slice it.
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  Speaker 1: This was a clunker from the Rams. It was not
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  Speaker 1: some kind of masterpiece by Carolina. We'll call it for
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  Speaker 1: the Rams on the road. It was the Carolina clunker.
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  Speaker 1: A game with so many unforced errors it should have
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  Speaker 1: had some kind of parental advisory on it. He's self
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  Speaker 1: inflicted ruins. Sean Bavay's Rams were being celebrated all week
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  Speaker 1: to toast of the NFL. The Rams a team to beat.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, SLAA, Yes it was. Everyone went to
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  Speaker 1: seven to eleven, ordered a Ram slurpye. They were slipping
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  Speaker 1: all over the Rams. How great the Rams were. And
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  Speaker 1: then they had to go out and play game and
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  Speaker 1: they did not did not rise to the occasion at
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  Speaker 1: all in this game, as the Rams responded by playing
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  Speaker 1: like a bunch of stumblebums in shoulder pads in this
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  Speaker 1: particular matchup here now right in front of the line,
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  Speaker 1: play the blame game right in front. Obviously, Matthew Stafford,
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  Speaker 1: he sucked at a time you cannot suck. Here he
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  Speaker 1: played a game of whack a mole with the football,
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  Speaker 1: which generally speaking not.
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  Speaker 4: A great idea. But what do you know, You're just
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  Speaker 4: do the overnut show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm just saying three turnovers. There were misthrows,
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  Speaker 1: the body language of a man who realized that his
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  Speaker 1: GPS was broken and he was stuck on a dark
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  Speaker 1: highway out in the country somewhere, and he's like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing here, Stafford. This was a
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  Speaker 1: roller coaster performance by Stafford. It did have a few
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  Speaker 1: nice scenic views there where he found Devonte Adams for
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns and then boom goes the dynamite for Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: upside down.
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  Speaker 4: Losing your lunch.
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  Speaker 1: All of that, however, now the Simpleton way is just
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  Speaker 1: to merely blame Matthew Stafford, and while he certainly gets
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  Speaker 1: the in this case, Lions sharees Lion's share of the blame. However,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Shula, who was also getting hyped up as a
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  Speaker 1: future NFL head coach and likely will be a future
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  Speaker 1: head coach because of nepotism. So Chris Sula's group the
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  Speaker 1: He's the defensive coordinator for the Rams. They lacked a
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  Speaker 1: sense of urgency, like they looked like they were running
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  Speaker 1: for stretchers in that game, like they were running an oatmeal,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't know that you want to run through oatmeal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't recommend it, and just heavy footed on defense
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  Speaker 1: and messing up. I'm blundering and bumbling and all those things.
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  Speaker 1: A sloppy tackling. And though the weather wasn't perfect, well,
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  Speaker 1: the weather's not always.
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  Speaker 4: Going to be perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And down the line right now the Chicago Bears, because
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  Speaker 1: the Rams lost, the Bears of the number one seed
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC, which I would think Soldier Field. I
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  Speaker 1: know as a kid, I'm old, and so I did
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  Speaker 1: see the Bears play home games in Soldier Field and
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  Speaker 1: the weather sucked and that was part of the deal.
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  Speaker 4: So you're gonna if.
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  Speaker 1: You have to go there, or go to Philadelphia on
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  Speaker 1: the road. You're gonna be playing in bad weather and
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  Speaker 1: just sloppy. Tackling was damp and rainy and cold and
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte and it's like they had covered their hands and
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  Speaker 1: Carolina barbecue saw us and slipping through tackles and whatnot
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  Speaker 1: there and not one forced turn up. You're playing one
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  Speaker 1: of the great stiffs of all time. Bryce youngk we
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  Speaker 1: all agree, everyone agrees, everyone this guy sucks. And you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't turn the ball over one time from Carolina, not
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  Speaker 1: one forced fumble, not one interception playing Bryce Young. Bryce Young,
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  Speaker 1: who if you look at the says, oh yeah, some
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  Speaker 1: good stats in the game.
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  Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: But if you watch the game, it's Bryce Young's not
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  Speaker 1: the guy to beat the Rams.
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  Speaker 4: He's not.
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  Speaker 1: He checked them into a nice hotel, went to a
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  Speaker 1: nice hotel there, thanked them at checkout, got a nice
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  Speaker 1: gift basket from the Rams of the Carolina team, got
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  Speaker 1: turnovers and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: To me, though you.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned the defense being bad, Stafford was terrible. That fumble
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  Speaker 1: game would have gone to overtime, would have kicked a
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  Speaker 1: field goal there. Who knows what happens. Most likely after
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  Speaker 1: that However, ifs and butts were candy nuts. The biggest
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  Speaker 1: issue here, and this is something that you look, Stafford's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not worried about Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: However, I am concerned about a Cinderella story. On defense,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams picked up a player named Emmanuel Forbes Washington,
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  Speaker 1: who was a first round pick who got released because
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  Speaker 1: of incompetence with the team formerly known as the Redskins.
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  Speaker 1: And they're using that financial advice from Emmanuel Forbes. And
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  Speaker 1: he had been fine. I wouldn't say great, he'd been
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  Speaker 1: fine or good or whatever. But now this guy turned
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  Speaker 1: into a human ATM machine. Guys were getting cash right
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  Speaker 1: and left for Carolina in this game and burned for
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  Speaker 1: a thirty three yard touchdown, roasted again for a forty
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  Speaker 1: three yard touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: It's to Emmanuel Forbes, who goofed.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know and the Panthers you'll be a
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  Speaker 1: running back combination Chuba Hubbard and Rico Dowdell. They were
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  Speaker 1: not explosive in this game, but it was death by
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  Speaker 1: a thousand paper cuts for Carolina. Mcveay's magic did not work. Clearly,
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  Speaker 1: only works when the weather's okay, not in the rain
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  Speaker 1: didn't really work there. So the Rams they gave that
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  Speaker 1: game away. You are crowing the crowd their ass, but
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  Speaker 1: they gave that game away, is what they did now
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  Speaker 1: turning the page, but not very far so the envy
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  Speaker 1: The question on this one, does this stinker of a
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  Speaker 1: performance by Matthew Stafford, the lack of performance in Carolina?
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  Speaker 1: Does this now put the kibosh on the Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: MVP campaign?
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  Speaker 4: Is that it now the the MVP race.
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  Speaker 1: I went up to a I went onto a plane
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  Speaker 1: and I went like thirty thousand feet up. I looked down,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm looking down from thirty thousand feet the MVP
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  Speaker 1: race went from Stafford in the pole position to the
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  Speaker 1: pothole position based on that performance there for Stafford. Here
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  Speaker 1: the Rams who entered Carolina, as we said, think it
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  Speaker 1: was a toast of the NFL when you was slurping
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  Speaker 1: all over them and Stafford was in the lead MVP
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  Speaker 1: highlights all over the place, and suddenly he's in the
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  Speaker 1: car there. The backup camera now turned on there and
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  Speaker 1: the bandwagon is now reversing. So they're now going backwards
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  Speaker 1: on the Stafford MVP bandwagon and they're going down a
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  Speaker 1: one way street backwards. It's not recommended there, so it's
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  Speaker 1: not listen, it's not a kill shot. It's certainly not
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  Speaker 1: a kill shot. If you think that you're just a
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  Speaker 1: troll and a loser and a punk and a scumbag,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a kill shot. However, think of it like
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  Speaker 1: a hot air balloon, and the balloon's start and go
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit. You might want to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get that fire cranked up because it's not going very well.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at Stafford, let's hit before I get
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  Speaker 1: into more, let's hear from Matthew staff Here's Matthew Stafford,
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  Speaker 1: who sucked at a time you cannot suck for the
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  Speaker 1: Rams here and all those mistakes.
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  Speaker 4: What do you gotta say for yourself, Stafford?
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  Speaker 5: I mean the first one, I'm playing that play the
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  Speaker 5: exact same they did, and I shall get their hands
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  Speaker 5: up tipball. I mean, that's you know, it's the name
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  Speaker 5: of the game. It's you gotta you know, play aggressive.
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  Speaker 5: And that's fine. Second one, obviously, I can't leave that
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  Speaker 5: ball inside. Got in a nice plays, made a bunch
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  Speaker 5: of good plays this year, but can't leave that one
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  Speaker 5: inside and give them seven on that one, so that's tough,
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  Speaker 5: and then find a way to hold onto that last
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  Speaker 5: one because we're in.
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  Speaker 4: Field goal range.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'll give us a chance to tie that
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  Speaker 5: thing up and play defense. So obviously we're not gonna
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  Speaker 5: win a whole lot of games. I turned it over
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  Speaker 5: three times and hasn't been an issue, and don't expect
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  Speaker 5: it to be moving forward. Just continue to trust my fundamentals,
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  Speaker 5: go out there and play, and you know know that
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing all the stuff I can to make sure
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  Speaker 5: that I played a high level and just didn't happen
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  Speaker 5: for me today.
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  Speaker 4: So that was a bunch of nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the This is a throwback and a reminder
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  Speaker 1: that that's still somewhere in there. There's still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff. It's a throwback edition of Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: Like someone dug up the old Lions NFL Films sizzle
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  Speaker 1: reel from like twenty thirteen or something like that and
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  Speaker 1: just pressed play and there you Go's that's Stafford, the
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  Speaker 1: pristine record, Gonzo. He did set the record, though, Stafford
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  Speaker 1: before he started turning the ball over. He set the
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  Speaker 1: NFL record twenty eight consecutive touchdown passes without an interception.
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  Speaker 1: Bye bye, Tom Brady. Three hundred and seventeen throws, three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen throws over ten weeks without an interception,
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  Speaker 1: and you can put that right in the shredder. The
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  Speaker 1: first one was to Nick Scott, who I believe played
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  Speaker 1: for the Rams in the past. So that was a
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  Speaker 1: special FedEx delivery right there. Congratulations on that. Stafford signed
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  Speaker 1: for it. Interception, Boom, there you go. And so again
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  Speaker 1: the campaign bus here, the campaign bus just blew a tire.
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  Speaker 1: The Matthew Stafford MVP campaign bus blew a tire. It's
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the interstate right now. But Stafford survives.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason he's still very much alive for the
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  Speaker 1: MVP is because there's nobody else, literally, I mean, who
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  Speaker 1: else is there. There's no Mahomes meteor shower of touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs just lost to a Cowboys pathetic. There's no Lamar
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  Speaker 1: laser show, Lamar not really getting or done. The Ravens
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  Speaker 1: also took it on the chin to the Cincinnati ben Gals,
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  Speaker 1: and all that talk about Aaron Rodgers revival tour, well
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  Speaker 1: that's not happening. So Josh Allen Bill's won. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: play very well, so what do you got by the
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  Speaker 1: process of elimination? Stafford is still very much in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of this. And you know, you got to take
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  Speaker 1: this game as an outlier. Nowf he starts throwing the interceptions
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  Speaker 1: right and left, the Rams play another divisional game next
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  Speaker 1: week on the road, then we'll see is the opening
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  Speaker 1: credits of a decline documentary? And if not, if not,
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  Speaker 1: if this is just a one off, then you're fine.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina is a middle of the pack team and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: They're not a heavyweight. And you know that the way
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  Speaker 1: they celebrated beating the Rams on the great wins in
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  Speaker 1: franchise history, pathetic franchise, that is. Meanwhile, in Foxborough, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about the MVP race. You look tonight Patriots quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Drake May He has a pedestal for himself there as
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  Speaker 1: the Patsy's play Monday Night Island game, last game.
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  Speaker 4: Of the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants and the patron Now, Jacks are not a
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  Speaker 1: good team. The Jets are not a good team.
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  Speaker 4: We all know that.
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  Speaker 1: However, everyone will be watching. There's nothing else you can't watch.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA's unwatchable, there's nothing else to watch. We'll all
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  Speaker 1: be watching we like sports, We're gonna be watching that game.
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  Speaker 1: So Drake May's got a shot to jump up a
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  Speaker 1: couple of rungs in the MVP race.
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  Speaker 4: Here climb the ladder as.
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  Speaker 1: Stafford stalls and kind of goes back down. There's a
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  Speaker 1: flat tire there for Stafford. Now the MVP pole position
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  Speaker 1: I believe still open. I was skeptical of Stafford, then
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  Speaker 1: I came, I came around to him, and now I'm
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  Speaker 1: skeptical again.
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  Speaker 4: But there's traffic ahead.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of traffic ahead, and there's the home stretch
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL season where this MVP will be won.
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  Speaker 1: It's competitive, which is a nice way of saying there's
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  Speaker 1: nobody really that great.
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  Speaker 4: That's the way we can say it now.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Sunday Night Football, normally we get super sexy matchups,
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  Speaker 1: really hot matchups, real real, just tremendous game, primetime, most
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  Speaker 1: important game of the weekend Sunday night. Not this weekend
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  Speaker 1: Sunday Night football. You had a mismatch the Broncos, a
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  Speaker 1: big road favorite, six point road favorites against the low
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders and a bunch of backups playing. This game
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  Speaker 1: actually went the overtime, though, how embarrassing for the Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: They had to go overtime against the Washington Commanders for
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  Speaker 1: God's sakes, and Denver was The game came down to
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  Speaker 1: a two point conversion in overtime with just little time
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  Speaker 1: left on the clock. The Washington Commanders matriculated the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Denver scored first, they scored a touchdown, and then Commanders
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  Speaker 1: came back, drove the ball down the field. They thought
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  Speaker 1: they had scored a touchdown, there was a penalty. Then
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  Speaker 1: they did score a touchdown, and then you make the call.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn's like, hey, we suck. Let's go for two.
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  Speaker 1: That's what bad teams do. Go for two.
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  Speaker 4: Why not, don't play for the tie? Go for two?
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  Speaker 4: I liked it. Why not? It's fun in the game
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: right there, it's overtime. What do you got to lose?
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: And the Broncos the play of the day the linebacker
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Nick Benito El Micho as he came in there, batted
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: down a Marcus Mariota pass on the receiver the running
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: back at the back.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Wide open for the Commanders. If the pass, if.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: You throw it high like one of those those silly
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: shadow throws, like when I used to play basketball back
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: in the day, you try to put the arc way
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: up in there, and if Mariota had been able to
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: do that, the Commanders win the game by a point
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: because they went for two instead. Now the Broncos have
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: won nine straight as Benito, with the Nito play of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the day, blocked the pass.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: By Mariota into the ground. That was it game over.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: So question should Sean Payton's Broncos be feeling good with
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the overtime victory or be concerned that they struggled to
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: beat a pathetic, ridiculously bad Washington team. So after a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: minute long Mallard deliberation, we have determined that we don't
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: want to confuse a pulse with a powerhouse. This Bronco
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: team has a record that would indicate they're a powerhouse.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: They just don't pass the powerhouse test.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: They don't. And that wasn't any kind of a statement game.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: You were favored on the road.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: If you had stopped the Commanders, you would have actually
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: covered the spread in overtime.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I had Washington.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: If you watched Benny versus the Penny this weekend on YouTube,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you know I took Watchum they're happy about that that
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the game did come down to a two point conversion
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: at the end. But nonetheless, listen, this was an ant
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: acid alert for the Broncos.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Here.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: The Broncos have zero fear factor and that might not
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: matter in the end and all that stuff, but I'm
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: just telling you where they are right now. There's no
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: fear factor playing the Denver Broncos. Washington coming in this
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: game was three and eight. Three and eight playing a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: backup in Marcus Mariota, who was last good when he
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: played in Eugene, Oregon. Okay, the guy sucks, coming off
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: six straight losses and they still went nose to nose
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: with the Broncos. Embarrassing, embarrassing and why is that two words?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Bo knicks bow knicks. He continues to be a.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Toys r Us quarterback.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: He's a Yo yo, he's up and down right one
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: quarter he looks like Joe Montana and then he's Joe
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Schmoe for the Broncos. There there's no consistency. I'll give
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you a in the second half of this game, now
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: forget over him. Just a third and fourth quarter. He
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: was ten of seventeen for one hundred and four yards.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: That's not good. Had a passer rating of fifty two
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: point one. Bow knicks in the third and fourth quarter,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and the reason that Washington was able to get back
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Denver's last four drives of the second half they resulted
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: in the first one was an interception.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: The following three.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Punt punt punt, and that allowed Washington to work their
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: way back into the game. And that's not winning. That's
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: not winning footballs obviously is not winning football. It's a
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: holiday trip in congratulations. You're on a nice holiday trip
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: on the vomit comet. They're on the vomit comet. The
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Commanders had more yards than Denver, they had more first downs.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: The Broncos defense, which is they have good players that
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: look good to me, but yet they allowed Washington to
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: get more yards.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: There was a in I think it was in overtime,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: might have been regulation.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I didn't write down whether it was regulation or not,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: but it was like a third and twenty five for
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: the Commanders with their backup quarterback, and they converted it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: They ended up converting it and kept the game going there. So,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: you know, you allowed the Commanders to get sixty scores
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: in the red zone, thirty first downs, they had more
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: first downs, more yards, all that stuff. And so when
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the bow show. Then it reappeared he I mentioned Joe Montana,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Joe Shmoo.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: He was Joe schmo in. The second name was Joe Montana.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: In overtime, four or four seventy one yards of the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: seventy six on that drive, Marco's capped it off with
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a touchdown and there you go.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: So it's like it's kind of like bo Bownix is
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: like finding a five dollar bill in a jacket that
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: you're planning on donating. Like it's great.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: It's like, it doesn't really, it doesn't really change things
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: too much beause you play well in overtime.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: But I don't know.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: So the nine game winning streak is there more more
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: fools goal than a nine game winning streak. The Broncos
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: have played this season the Giants, Jets, Raiders, and Commanders,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: four of the worst teams in pro football. They have
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: won those games, all of them by a combined seven points.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Four of the worst teams you can possibly find in
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the NFL. They've won by seven total points, not seven
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: points per game. Seven total points against the Commanders, Raiders, Jets,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and Giants.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: That's not that's not dominance. That's faked till you make
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: it now. There is a counter argument that you do
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: this and then eventually you start to believe you're actually
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: good and it can work out for you, but it
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: doesn't normally go that way.
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• 23:45
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• 23:45
  Speaker 1: This hour from Indy, we start there big AFC South matchup,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and well, we had a bunch of NFL games on Sunday.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: There were only a few of them that really rose
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: to the level of interesting. There were some epic mismatches,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: games that just had no juice, like Atlanta and the Jets.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Who the hell cares just nothing there mismatches like Jacksonville
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and Tennessee and whatnot.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: So we're going to focus in on a game that
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: was decent. Yead.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: The Texans defense was now top three in the NFL
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: just about every category. Taking on Daniel Jones and the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. I don't if you saw this or not,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: maybe not. I had this game circle and if you
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: watched Benny versus the Penny over the weekend, you know
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: we told you about the Texans. We liked the Texas
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: in this game, and it turned out to be the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: right side. Nico Collins ran seven yards for the tie
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: breaking score that was early in the fourth quarter, and
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Nick Chubble loublub added another touchdown run. Houston's defense making
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: some plays there late in the game to wrap it up,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and the Texans preserve a twenty to sixteen victory over
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: these in the Annapolis Colts. The better story is in
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. As the Colts go down, they
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: drop their second straight game. That does not sound good.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: And for the first time this season, they have lost
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: three of four and they have fallen into a tie.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: They have fallen into a tie with Jacksonville in the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: AFC South and they play the Jaguars this coming Sunday.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: So that seems like kind of a big deal. It
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: seems like, hey, what's going on a lot of close games,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of non performing late by the Indianapolis Colts.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: It seems to be a theme here that they're in
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the games and then they don't make plays late.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Shane Steichen, that's the head coach of the Indianapolis football team,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: commenting on how the Colts keep screwing up these games.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: You lose these tight games. Sometimes you win the tight games,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: but when you lose tight games, it's frustrating because you're like, shoot,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: we can have that, we could add this, can add that.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: You look back, it's three or four plays when you
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: lose tight ones, and so we got to find a
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: way to get those three or four plays when it
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: is a tight game like that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: So Daniel Jones again he didn't want to say this,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: because you can't rip your quarterback.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: We loses our team, We wines our team. Not so much.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: So Daniel Jones failed to deliver yet again. If you're
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a New York Giants fan, you're saying, you're nodding your head, Yes,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I know that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: You don't need to remind me. Yeah, so let us discuss.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: That's a good jumping off point.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: So the question what do you make of quarterback Daniel Jones.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: And his performance here for the Colts soul.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I've got e rhythmics, airport parking garage, and foggy bathroom mirror,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: we're going to put the biscuit in the basket, is
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: what we're going to do.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: So number.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: All right, enough, all right, So listen Daniel Jones, who
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks there was being hyped as
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Indiana Jones, the iconic Indiana Jones we've seen as the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: season has gone on. Here, Daniel Jones, he's Indiana Jones,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't have the whip late in the game,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the right hat, doesn't have the right wardrobe,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: and certainly without the heroics that case.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: And you want to know the truth, the word here,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: the word is underwhelming with a capitol you. That's my
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: word for Daniel Jones. Here.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Both the box score and the eyeball test tell the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: same story. Here Jones fourteen of twenty seven, so a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: little over fifty percent of his passes just over two
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: hundred yards passing, did have a couple of touchdowns. It
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: sounds all right, it sounds okay, it sounds okay. He
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: actually watched the game though, You're like, okay, so he
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: does okay early on in the first half, and then
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: as the game progresses on, it gets harder and harder
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: and harder. With this game was a litmus test. Can
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: we all agree on that?
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Everyone agrees? So it was a litmus test for the
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Indianapolis Colts.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: You're playing a top defensive team, you're at home, your
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: favor to win the game, all right, So that's all
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: important stuff. So this was a test and against the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Texans defense. And how did Daniel Jones do? He failed
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the lab exam? He failed the lab exam unfortunately. And
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the quarterback apologists, which drive me bonkers.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: You know who they are, the fat boys in the media.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Oh it's never. The players followed, never, even though they
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: were the ones that actually play the game.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: So the quarterback apologists, the softies, the mister softies out there,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: they're already rolling out the excuses, the red carpet of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: excuses here. You know, he had that de fibular injury
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: he's not one hundred percent. Come on, give him a break,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: give me back. No, he was medically cleared, Daniel Jones
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to play in the game. And if you're medically cleared
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to play, you're allowed to play. Not gonna let him
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: go out there and play if he's going to injure
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: himself more, because that's a lie. And the NFL's been
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: sued up the wazoo in the last twenty years by
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: doing stuff like that. So Danie Jones was medically clear
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to play. He's on the field. You are accountable for
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: your own actions.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Period. End of story.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Now, as for the Colts, the soundtrack for the Colts here,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: it's starting to change as the season has gone on.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: We've determined it, say you rhythmics classic. Here comes that
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: sink and feeling for Indianapolis. That sink and feeling. Bring
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: in some Annie Lennox here and get her singing there.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: You could have called this one from the booth, all right,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: how you could have called it from your sofa. You
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: could have called this one. Let's go to the fourth quarter.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: That's winning time in the fourth.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Quarter there, and I got that sink and feeling.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got that sink and feeling here a big
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: money quarterback. That's where you're earn your money, right, make
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: place down the stretch. Down the stretch we come. So
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, Daniel Jones had a passer rating
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: of forty nine point three, which I don't think is good.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: You're being too mean, all right?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: How about this last week in Kansas City, last game
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Colts play Kansas City.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: There he was even worse.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Three of nine that's in overtime and regulation, three of
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: nine seventeen yards last week, late game situations. So this
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: is not some kind of one off. In fact, if
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: you look at it, there's patternicity. There's a trend with
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. And when the moment gets big, big big, big, big, big,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: big big, this guy has a tendency to shrink. It's
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: just the way it is. So he's in the Indiana
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: joneson for answers right now. The pattern is developing. Whether
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you want to admit it or not, the pattern is there,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and it's not pretty. And the Colts have put themselves
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: into a corner. Now Sauce Gardner was hurting this game.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be out. Looks like for a couple of weeks.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: It's not a season aiding injury. The guy that Colts
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: traded for. And I guess some people said a soldier.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: You know, I love the I told you a guy.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the I
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: told you guy, I told you. Guy emailed me and say, well.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: I told you. They shouldn't have done that. Another sauce
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: card resort. Did the Colts gave up all these draft picks?
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't care. I would have done it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I liked the fact that Colts went for it. I
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: like that. That's good. I'm not gonna rip it for that.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Has it worked out yet? I don't have a problem
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: with that thought that this is our opportunity and they're
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: still in first place, although they're tied now with Jacksonville
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: on the other side.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: We now go to the winning locker room question. The
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: quarterback returned, So the question is how did Texans quarterback
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: cee J. Stroud look in his first game in almost
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a month? His first game in almost a month, so
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: how did he look?
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Here?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: So watching this while flipping around other games, Stroud stepped
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: back onto the grid iron. He looked like a guy
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that was walking out of a four week nap. That
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: he he had literally been napping for four weeks, which
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think is good. And he was trying to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: find his car at the airport parking garage and he
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: didn't remember where he parked, and he was taking the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: shuttle from garage to garage to garage to garage. He's like, hey, dude,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: where's my car. That was an old movie, Dude, where's
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: my car? First quarter? That was not a lot of
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: polish in the first quarter.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: There that was oxidation, oxidation, no touchdowns, just hiccups and homework.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: That you didn't do, homework that you didn't do, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: then you're like, Okay, what's going on here? And didn't
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: look all that great. There's some mental mistakes. For example,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: he threw the football beyond the line of scrimmage. That's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a no no. There was an overthrow if he saw
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the game, got gift wrap for the Colts defense from CJ.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Stroud.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Two turnovers on downs by the Texans offense. And so
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: it's like leaving the restaurant without paying the bill, dining
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in ditch.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: That's what that had. That's what that was. So a
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: couple of those here is Demico Ryans, the head coach
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: of the Houston Texans here and his comment on his car.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he's gonna rip CJ. Strod right say it
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: was terrible. Let's see Le's find out.
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: And I thought CJ did a really nice job coming back,
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: really missing a lot of time. I know some throws
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: he would like to have back, but overall thought he
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: managed the drives really well.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: We drove down.
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: Of course we want to score on some of those.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: We get down, had to kick field goals. But overall,
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: for him coming back not having played in a few
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: weeks here, I thought he did a really nice job.
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: If this is where he's started.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: It's only up for him.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: So I'm excited to see how he continues to progress.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: You want to bet it's not only up for him,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: because I'll bet I'll take that bet right now. You
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: want to bet he keeps getting better, I'll bet he
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: doesn't keep getting better.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: I'll take the other side on that. Now.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: The one thing I will concede, I'm not a total schmuck.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I will concede that TJ. Strodd did a very good
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: job the Texans offense. On third down, he was pretty good.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: He was pretty good on third down. On third down,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: he was Johnny Paycheck six of seven seventy nine yards
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: passing a one hundred and thirteen point seven passer rating,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: which is pretty.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Good, which is pretty good.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: And when the house lights were dimmed, Dim dim dim
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: dim dim Stroud, it was like piano man. He was
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: third downs engineering some things for.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Houston in the second half on that touchdown they got,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: so it's kind of like they tilted the pinball machine
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: a little bit as the game went on for him
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: on those third down plays.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: He was not great overall. You have to judge him
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: on the full body of work. He was not great.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: So there was they won the game, and he did
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: get sacked a couple times, but it wasn't as bad
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: as it has been when CJ. Stroud was in there
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: before and Davis Mills took over, and just all he
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: did was get rid of the ball quickly and that
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  Speaker 1: was enough. Because of the defense is so good in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: they were able to win those games all right. Now,
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  Speaker 1: final point, we go to Cleveland, Ohio in the forty
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  Speaker 1: Niners road show in northern Ohio, and you talk about
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  Speaker 1: getting it done on third down. The Niners converted sixty
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  Speaker 1: five percent of their third downs I'm told that's good.
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  Speaker 1: They get a twenty six to eight win without any
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  Speaker 1: real gaudy offense from anybody. Brock Perdy, Christian McCaffrey, none
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  Speaker 1: of those guys had big days against the Brownies defense
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  Speaker 1: on a very chilly Cleveland.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of a day. But don't bury the lead, my man.
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  Speaker 4: We're not gonna bear lead.
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  Speaker 1: So this was all about the spawn of Dion, the
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  Speaker 1: spawn of Dion. So question, give me a single word,
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  Speaker 1: Give me a single word that describes Shader Sanders first
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  Speaker 1: home start for the Browns.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So my word is dip. That's my word.
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  Speaker 1: Dip, dip as in declining impact performance dip. That's all
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  Speaker 1: I say. And it's exactly what Shadur Sanders delivered in
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  Speaker 1: his first home start wearing those ugly Brown's uniforms. That
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  Speaker 1: this was a chamber of commerce kind of a day
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  Speaker 1: in northern high You don't need to talk to strip
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  Speaker 1: Club John or Ohioal or any other legends in the
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  Speaker 1: greater Cleveland area. This was absolutely a chamber of commerce
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  Speaker 1: kind of day. Right on the shores of Lake Erie.
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  Speaker 1: They're thirty five degrees, damp and breezy, the type of
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  Speaker 1: weather that historically West Coast teams go into Cleveland and
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  Speaker 1: they start hibernating because of the weather, and so the
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  Speaker 1: forty nine ers they showed up and they didn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have Again, we say this all the time
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  Speaker 1: without their two headliners on devas, Nick Bosa and Fred
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  Speaker 1: Warner not participating this season.
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  Speaker 4: They're out with injuries. And Shadur Sanders.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Still look like he was reading the playbook through a
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  Speaker 1: foggy bathroom mirror, looking through the the foggy bathroom mirror,
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  Speaker 1: trying to make out what was going on there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland had nine offensive possessions.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: They only had nine in the game. They had four punts,
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  Speaker 1: three turnovers on downs, one fumble, and one interception and
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  Speaker 1: a partridge in a pear tree. That's what they had there.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a stat line, by the way, that is
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  Speaker 1: a confession. Okay, outside of a single broken play miscoveraged
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  Speaker 1: by the forty nine ers for thirty four yards. On
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the other twenty four pass attempts by Shreder Sanders, he
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  Speaker 1: averaged less than five yards per pass attempt and as
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  Speaker 1: the game went on he fainted away there. So not
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  Speaker 1: exactly the Mike Leech air raid offense from back in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the day. That's more like an air leak, is what
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: that was. Flatulence. The Browns were three of eleven on
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  Speaker 1: third down, which I'm told is not good, zero for
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: four on fourth down, which I know is not good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to be told it's not good. And
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: that is not a conversion rate. That is a clearance sale,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and it is cyber. So please buy our takes. They're
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: on salf and yet he'll start again. The Browns already said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna start against Tennessee because Cleveland has decided, well,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: they suck. They're treating the regular season like it's a
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  Speaker 1: pilot episode. They're just doing some testing, little beta testing here,
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  Speaker 1: seeing what they got. And meanwhile, Deonz media buddies, we
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: know who they are. They're the ones licking the toes
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: of Shuder Sanders. They'll keep talking about Schaudur Canton Ohio,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: that Hall of Fame performance, all that stuff. We're two
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: weeks in as a starter, two weeks in and we
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: have an early verdict for Shudur Sanders. He doesn't just
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't look like the guy. Don't look like the guy
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: two weeks into this year, So again, do the dip
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: declining impact performance for Schudur Sanders and these two starts
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: he's made for the Browns, they're one in one overall.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Of course, the win has an asterisk. It was against
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the Raiders, the Old Raiders.
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  Speaker 4: It's Mallard, Texans Coach to the third degree. Ryan, This
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  Speaker 4: is one Yeah, I sure, Cooper Loop go ahead there? Cool? Please?
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  Speaker 8: Well, Ben, you just talked to Tree in Chicago about
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: his Chicago Bears. Yes, how much credit does Ben Johnson
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: deserve for their success?
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: A sizable amount of credit, Coop. The Bears have been
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: chronic underachievers for years. He's apparently simplified things here and
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: the Bears have surpassed where they normally have been.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: And he's the difference is the coach.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: So you guys say that this is actually helping out
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: And it's not like Cabb Williams is playing great, because
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: he's not. He's not playing all that well and the
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Bears are still winning these games, So good job by him.
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: Next, so the Chiefs are a five hundred team and
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: they might miss the playoffs playoffs. Over the weekend, Patrick
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: Mahomes said, our ceiling is playing in the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 8: We can beat anybody, but we've shown that we can
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  Speaker 8: lose to anybody.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Ben you agree with all that.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: It sounds good, but you got to look at what
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: you are this year and what you are this year.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: There's been a constant monsoon that has taken over the
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. I kept saying, well, this is gonna
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: be the week they turn things around, This is gonna
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: be the week.
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  Speaker 4: And no, they're just this is who they are. They're
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: not that good.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: They're just not I don't see I don't see them
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: turning these around next.
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: There was a report over the weekend that three teams
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: are being linked to a trade for LaMelo Ball.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Do you think he's somebody that you want to go for?
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: Heils your team around.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's a good player. You don't know if guys
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: like that because he's on a crappy team. And it's
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: easy to put stats on a crappy team. It's it's
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: hard when you're winning. They put up says, I'm skeptical.
• 40:37
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• 40:42
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• 41:07
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• 41:15
  Speaker 1: our advice?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Who else but the Raiders. They have been eliminated from
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: playoff contention. The Raiders playoff win drout will continue. They
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: have not won a postseason game since three. Tom Brady
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  Speaker 1: has made this thing even worse than it has been.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: He's a terrible executive slash owner and so any advice
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  Speaker 4: Hello, the Raiders were eliminated and they named Gino Smith
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: their starting quarterback. That's right. They traded for him and
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: then paid him. What a bunch of dumb dumbs. Oh
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  Speaker 4: my god, this.
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  Speaker 1: Is one of the cases the fans no more than
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  Speaker 1: the idiots running the teams are yea. Line four, you're
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  Speaker 4: That's right, e Dog.
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  Speaker 1: We should have Ferg Dog versus E Dog in the octagon.
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  Speaker 1: Would be a big event on the show. Boy, that
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Yeah, morning time.
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  Speaker 2: So it is true you can have your head above
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• 42:38
  Speaker 1: giving advice. So the Raiders they have not won a
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: posts in game since out three. They have now been
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: eliminated from the playoffs this year and no playoffs for them.
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  Speaker 2: God Blet's of Fremno State School nursing.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, there's our buddy in Missouri. It was at in
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  Speaker 2: Hello, I want some Raymond noodle?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Raymond, Yeah, Raymond new that's uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's from that old CBS show Everyone Loves Raymond.
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  Speaker 4: That Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Line number three, you're on
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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, champions in March.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, well they do win the they win the offseason,
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  Speaker 4: they do. Yeah. Line four, you're on the airline Force
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  Speaker 1: Line four, Oh there he goes, all right, I hurry up.
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  Speaker 4: One last call. Who's it gonna be?
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  Speaker 1: Cool?
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  Speaker 4: Bury up? Line five? Line five you're on the go
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  Speaker 4: ahead line. Fuck, go go.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Oh man, we can take Panthers.
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: What about you? You didn't call up after the Chiefs game.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: You didn't call you fraud, You didn't call up after
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs game.
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  Speaker 4: Fraud.