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  Speaker 1: Well, the Pirate Ship not exactly sailing smoothly for a
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  Speaker 1: I are buying show b so lead this out. To
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  Speaker 1: begin the week, we start with the Sunday Night NFL
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  Speaker 1: game at so Far in the Hood in Inglewood and
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  Speaker 1: up to No Good. Yeah, there a final game of
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday portion. There's only one lonely Monday night game left,
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  Speaker 1: but the last game on Sunday. There as Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 1: in Theory leading the Tampa Bay Football team the Pirate
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  Speaker 1: Ship into the harbors in Soco. There a four round
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  Speaker 1: heavyweight matchup against Matthew Stafford and the La ri I Ams.
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  Speaker 1: You can ram it all day, you can ram it
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  Speaker 1: all night. An Island game on in b SE Island
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  Speaker 1: game they had Mike Tariko and Chris Coylesworth calling the game.
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  Speaker 1: More on that in a minute. But I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you watched it or not, if you were checking
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  Speaker 1: this thing out, not much of a game. Game was
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  Speaker 1: o v we are at halftime. We watched so you
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  Speaker 1: would not have to. And what did we see. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we saw Devonte Adams catch not one, but two of
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's not one, not two, three touchdown passes for
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and the La Rams jump out early and
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  Speaker 1: never look back. That's called a boat race, kids. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: one point first half and for Tampa was turned.
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  Speaker 3: Out the last.
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  Speaker 1: The parties over as the Rams move into the Presidential Suite.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much to the Dallas Cowboys for helping
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  Speaker 1: out beating up the pathetically overrated Philadelphia Eagles thirty four
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  Speaker 1: to seven the final. As the Rams get to win,
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  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers go down extended garbage time. Game was over
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  Speaker 1: at halftime. There and the better story in the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room of consternation on the Tampa Bay side of
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  Speaker 1: things in this one, rubbing salt into the wound on
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  Speaker 1: the final play of the first half, Tampa getting their
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  Speaker 1: bell wrong, Baker Mayfield trying to make something happen, and
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  Speaker 1: he got dinged up right before halftime there, as the
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  Speaker 1: second half coming to an end, Baker Mayfield decided to
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  Speaker 1: launch the Hail Mary and it did not did not work.
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  Speaker 1: It did not have enough velocity to get it done. However,
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  Speaker 1: what he did have was a shoulder that started barking
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  Speaker 1: earth just like there was barking sound of it actually
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  Speaker 1: barking there. And so Mayfield launching the hail Mary. His
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  Speaker 1: shoulder did not appreciate the Hail Mary there, and Baker
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  Speaker 1: Mayfield kneeling in agony, the agony of defeat as he
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  Speaker 1: was holding his left shoulder. And then at halftime the
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers the game was over anyway, and they shut her down.
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  Speaker 1: They shut her down now, and was freaking out, Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, I can't believe that. Now we don't know
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  Speaker 1: all that much about how bad it is. It might
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  Speaker 1: be fine. There's a chance it's perfectly fine. There's also
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  Speaker 1: a dimension in the multiverse where it's a season ending
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  Speaker 1: injury for Baker Mayfield. Todd Bowles did not seem too
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  Speaker 1: concerned postgame, Todd Bowles telling the media that as of
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's just a shoulder sprain for Baker Mayfield,
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  Speaker 1: who at one point was the darling in the MVP
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  Speaker 1: race in the NFC. Todd Bowles says they having MRII
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  Speaker 1: MRI that'll be coming up later on on Monday. The
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers making their way back to Florida, a long journey.
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  Speaker 1: They're not traveling though, by prop plane. They're actually going
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  Speaker 1: to take a big jumpbo jet to get back to Florida.
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  Speaker 1: So there is that now, Todd Bowles being bashed the
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneer coach as why would you even bother? Why would
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  Speaker 1: you put Baker Mayfield that situation? Oh my god, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's coaching incompetence by Todd Bowles. Blaming Todd Bowles, what's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you? And all that? All right, so let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question on this one, right, Does Todd
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  Speaker 1: Bowles deserve to be ripped? Does he deserve to be ripped?
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  Speaker 1: A part here for Baker Mayfield, the Hail Mary at
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  Speaker 1: halftime which led to some kind of shoulder injury. How
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  Speaker 1: bad it is, we don't know yet. So on this one,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Knickerbocker's brand ambassador and Jane Austen and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to make many brisket sliders, which they may or
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  Speaker 1: may not have had at Sofi Stadium those many brisket sliders.
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  Speaker 1: So a to answer the question, does Todd Bowles deserve
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  Speaker 1: to be ripped? This whole train of thought is weak
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  Speaker 1: with a capitol W. That's not w E E k
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  Speaker 1: w e A k week is what it is here.
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  Speaker 1: It's cheap heat is what it is, Todd Bowles. There's
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  Speaker 1: things you can rip Todd Bowles about this particular play.
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  Speaker 1: I would not put that high up there. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: coach scared, cannot do it, cannot do it, can't play scared,
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  Speaker 1: can't play scared. And that's that's football. We're not doing
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  Speaker 1: some kind of dance class or something along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: So like when I see oh my god, gam no,
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  Speaker 1: not listen. Baker plays one way. It's the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfee. He plays one way. He's like Rambo out
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  Speaker 1: there playing quarterback for the Buccaneers. Good, bad, or indifferent.
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  Speaker 1: That's how he plays, full tilt. That's it. And so
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  Speaker 1: the idea is, no, no, we're just gonna take a
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  Speaker 1: knee and go on at halftime. That's not That's not
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  Speaker 1: who the Buccaneers are with Baker Mayfield. They shouldn't play
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  Speaker 1: that way with US's just call it off, Nana. I
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  Speaker 1: disagree with that mindset here and the reason Tampa's got
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  Speaker 1: a pulse and they don't have much of one at
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  Speaker 1: the point. They've hit the schneide as we like to say,
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  Speaker 1: but you look at it, Tampa Bay. The reason that
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  Speaker 1: they were thought of the way they were early in
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  Speaker 1: the season was because they scratching claw. That's how they play.
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  Speaker 1: And the bigger issue is at this moment they appear
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  Speaker 1: to be circling the drain, they being the Buccaneers. At
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  Speaker 1: this moment, they've lost four of their last five. Tampa
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play in the NFL. I don't think that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And getting currently in a position where if Carolina is
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  Speaker 1: able to pull an upset on the Monday night game
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  Speaker 1: and the Niners are certainly beatable. They have a no
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  Speaker 1: name defense. It's not the invincible forty nine ers of
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  Speaker 1: years ago. So it's not out of the realm of
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  Speaker 1: possibility that Carolina wins that game. And if that happens,
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  Speaker 1: then Carolina plays leap frog and the Buccaneers go free falling,
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  Speaker 1: free falling. So there you go. Of all teams, Carolina
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  Speaker 1: belught now bad at the Bucks. They're allowing Carolina to
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  Speaker 1: climb up there, and Tampa might be left holding the
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  Speaker 1: bag at this particular point wild And so the thing
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  Speaker 1: about that the indictment is not because of the Hail Mary. Though.
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  Speaker 1: It's not because of the Hail Mary. It's the trajectory
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  Speaker 1: of the Bucks season right now got off to a
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  Speaker 1: good start. And as the iconic the late great New
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  Speaker 1: York Knickerbocker legend Michael Ray Richardson once said, the ship
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  Speaker 1: be sinking, and for Tampa Bay, the ship be sinking
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  Speaker 1: at this particular point. And Todd Bowles is the captain
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  Speaker 1: of the SS Buccaneer, and the SS Buccaneer is going
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  Speaker 1: down to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It's a
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  Speaker 1: shipwreck site at this particular point, and there's water pouring
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  Speaker 1: through every porthole. For the Buccaneers here, the offense has
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  Speaker 1: been sporadic. The defense appears to be worn down and
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  Speaker 1: don't have enough depth, so they're tired the urgency. While
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  Speaker 1: there is still some urgency there, overall things are flatlining
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  Speaker 1: for the Buccaneers. And the hell Mary issue that gets
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  Speaker 1: brought up there, it's just the direction of things that's
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  Speaker 1: the issue there. For the Buccaneers Tampa based problem is
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  Speaker 1: not the risk or they won the Super Bowl. No
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  Speaker 1: risk at no biscuit for the Tom Brady at that
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  Speaker 1: particular point, and a different coaching staff for different head
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  Speaker 1: coach in Bruce arians here. But the regression that's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles better plug the holes fast because the ship,
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  Speaker 1: as we said, be sinking in Tampa. And that's a team.
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  Speaker 1: There's only one team that's going to get into the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs you would think out of that division. So if
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  Speaker 1: Tampa continues to lose, Carolina's got a shot to get
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  Speaker 1: in there. Now, turning the page on the Rams side,
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  Speaker 1: we'd like to circle back. Now, let's circle back to
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  Speaker 1: a conversation we've had in previous episodes of the show.
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  Speaker 1: As the Rams blow the doors off the Buccaneers in
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday night game, came over at halftime, and the
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  Speaker 1: question must be asked, what do your eyes tell you
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  Speaker 1: about the Matthew Stafford ENVP campaign for the Rams after
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  Speaker 1: this latest masterpiece by Matthew Stafford. So, Stafford, I've pointed
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  Speaker 1: this out in previous editions of the show that I
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  Speaker 1: was not completely on the Matthew Stafford MVP campaign that
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  Speaker 1: was critical. I didn't want to be a prisoner of
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  Speaker 1: the moment and all that stuff. But Stafford just walked
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  Speaker 1: into the MVP arcade and he's got full control of
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  Speaker 1: the joystick at this particular point. Matthew Stafford and that
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night beat down of Tampa Bay that was an
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  Speaker 1: info mercial, is what that was. For the Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: marching and Child of Society for the Most Valuable Player award.
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  Speaker 1: That was it. It was an island game. You're playing
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  Speaker 1: Tampa at the time you played him. They're a playoff
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  Speaker 1: team themselves. You're at home, and what did you do? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you went out there and slice them up, is what
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  Speaker 1: you did. Here is a Sean McVeigh celebrating slap slater
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  Speaker 1: slaughter all over his quarterback take.
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  Speaker 4: As I think it feels like the game's slowing down.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like he's in total command. I think he's
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  Speaker 4: got a lot of trust in the teammates that he's
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  Speaker 4: playing with, and you know, there's a true ownership and
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  Speaker 4: it's I think he's just totally and completely present and
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  Speaker 4: he's really just enjoying the opportunity to compete week in
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  Speaker 4: and week out. You know, even just when he does
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  Speaker 4: the breakdown with the team. He loves being a part
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  Speaker 4: of this team. You can feel that he instills a
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  Speaker 4: belief every time that we go out on the field.
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  Speaker 4: We feel like good things are going to happen because
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  Speaker 4: he's leading the way, and so I think he's getting
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  Speaker 4: more and more comfortable with just the skilled players. You
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  Speaker 4: could really see. I thought that was on display tonight.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm really happy for him. Is a cool stat
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  Speaker 4: that artist gaming, you know, twenty seven touchdowns in a
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  Speaker 4: row without an interception, tying Tom. But he's playing great
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  Speaker 4: and we'll just continue to stay in the moment. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm loving every second of this.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that was a lot of fluff, is what
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  Speaker 1: that was by Sean McVay. How long was that? That
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  Speaker 1: was pretty long? Forty three second? Forty three seconds? My god,
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  Speaker 1: did he mention Stafford's name? I don't think he mentioned
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  Speaker 1: his name at all. I think he just he's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of ramble. He could have been talking about me.
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  Speaker 1: I could have bet Ben Maler the Matthews Stafford. Forget
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  Speaker 1: about him, let's go to Sean mean. But here's McVeigh
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  Speaker 1: on quarterback Ben Maller. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: I think it feels like the game's slowing down. I
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  Speaker 4: feel like he's in total command. I think he's got
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  Speaker 4: a lot of trust in the teammates that he's playing with,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, there's a true ownership and it's I
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  Speaker 4: think he's just totally and completely present, and he's really
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  Speaker 4: just enjoying.
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  Speaker 1: The opportunity to compete week in and week out.
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  Speaker 4: You know, even just when he does the breakdown with
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  Speaker 4: the team, he loves being a part of this team.
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  Speaker 1: You can feel that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he instills a belief every time that we go
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  Speaker 4: out on the field. We feel like good things are
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  Speaker 4: gonna happened because he's leading the way. And so I
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  Speaker 4: think he's getting more and more comfortable with just the
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  Speaker 4: skilled players. You could really see. I thought that was
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  Speaker 4: on display tonight. But I'm really happy for him. As
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  Speaker 4: a cool stat that artist gave me, you know, twenty
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  Speaker 4: seven touchdowns in a row without an interception, tyme, Tom.
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  Speaker 4: But he's playing great, and we'll just continue to stay
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  Speaker 4: in the moment. But I'm loving every second of this.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go? All right, My god, that
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  Speaker 1: was that was a lot. There's a lot of fluff there,
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  Speaker 1: a lot a lot of fluff. From Sean McVay. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, and here is Stafford who's was asked about
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  Speaker 1: the way he's playing right now. Let's I'm sure he
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  Speaker 1: said he sucks. Yes, No, I'm not trying to label it.
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  Speaker 1: I just know him having fun.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, you know, my body feels pretty good, great at
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  Speaker 5: the moment. Like I said earlier, the guys up front
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  Speaker 5: are doing a hell of a job with keeping me clean.
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  Speaker 5: Shawn's got great game plans weekend and week out for
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  Speaker 5: us to you know, do what we need to do
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  Speaker 5: to be successful on our side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's been a lot of fun. Okay, congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: You see brevity. He used brevity unlike Sean McVay. So
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  Speaker 1: back to the point. So this was an infomercial for
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  Speaker 1: the MVP campaign of Matthew Stafford. It just just was
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  Speaker 1: the national spotlight, everyone watching and all that. So I
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  Speaker 1: am now ready to go down to the train station
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  Speaker 1: and I'd like to buy a ticket and I want
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  Speaker 1: to be on the hype train because I'm there now
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  Speaker 1: at that game. Now he's in the lead, he's in
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  Speaker 1: the pole position. And Stafford, who used to throw interceptions
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  Speaker 1: like he was a brand ambassador for turnovers r US
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  Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, that's a spinoff of
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  Speaker 1: poison us. It was called turnovers r US. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: really do that well, I don't know why. And now
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  Speaker 1: he is a smooth operator, all of a sudden, in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty seven consecutive touchdowns without an interception, three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eight straight passes for Stafford without an interception, just
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  Speaker 1: the eighth time that has happened in this century that
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback has done what Stafford is now done for
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  Speaker 1: the Rams and Aaron Rodgers that's like Rogers back in
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay back in the day, or as McVeigh mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady level discipline for Matthew Stafford, a guy that
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  Speaker 1: we thought would be hurt by week five. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: even practice and play in the exhibition, in the preseason games,
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  Speaker 1: he was dinged up and all that. And here we
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  Speaker 1: are Stafford looking relatively spry, moving around as well as
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  Speaker 1: you can expect someone with his age and his back
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, seeing the field. And Devonte Adams,
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  Speaker 1: who looked like he was done skis with the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: and the Jets last year, all of a sudden, now
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  Speaker 1: lighting it up on a weekly basis for the La
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  Speaker 1: Rams and we'll see you with the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: season provides for the Rams. At this point, we do
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  Speaker 1: the show today. We have to worry about the show
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  Speaker 1: right now. So at this point, everyone else stumbling. I
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  Speaker 1: think there's no one. Who else? Who is number two?
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  Speaker 1: Drake May? I forget about that Colts lost to Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: They blew a game. They had eleven point lead in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, So that's that's no good. Who else
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  Speaker 1: is there? I don't know. There's no one else at
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  Speaker 1: this point, there's no one. It's Matthew Stafford. If he
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  Speaker 1: plays a couple more games like this in a row.
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  Speaker 1: We are talking about a Secretariat type breakaway in the
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  Speaker 1: MVP race as we are coming up to Thanksgiving, and
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  Speaker 1: he certainly it's not over yet, but he's in the
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  Speaker 1: pole position at this moment. Here another month or more.
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  Speaker 1: This was the Eureka game for Matthew Stafford, the moment
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  Speaker 1: where everything firmly clicked in for everyone to see as
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  Speaker 1: Stafford has mastered what McVeigh wants him to master. Considering
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  Speaker 1: that this was not a guarantee, Stafford went out and
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  Speaker 1: was whined and dined by Tom Brady they went to Montana.
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  Speaker 1: Brady begged them, he said, please come save the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: and Stafford said, ah, I'm good. And then the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: Steevels wanted Matthew Stafford and he chatted with him and
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  Speaker 1: we want you to come to pittsbaham good, and he
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  Speaker 1: goes back to LA And now I'll look at this
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  Speaker 1: all right now, the last word to the press box
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  Speaker 1: we go. If you're watching the Sunday Night game, you
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  Speaker 1: noticed that NBC's Chris Collinsworth was feature there. He called
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  Speaker 1: this five hundredth NFL game. Hey, we five hundred NFL games.
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  Speaker 1: As the Rams took down the Buccaneers in the Sunday
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  Speaker 1: Night Game, and Collinsworth brought back the iconic classic collins
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  Speaker 1: Worst slide. He brought it back, the slide returned. Used
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  Speaker 1: to do that with Al Michaels back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: The slide was back. So the question here is the
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  Speaker 1: five hundred We love round numbers. Nobody cares about four
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, nobody cares about five oh one, but five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, we got all horny for five hundred. So
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  Speaker 1: the question, what does the five hundredth NFL TV broadcast
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  Speaker 1: for Chris Collinsworth. What's that say about Collinsworth? So on
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  Speaker 1: this one, it is a It is a reminder that
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Collinsworth knows exactly how this game works. I'm not talking
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: about the game of football. I'm talking about the game
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: of television. Politics in television, and it's every media business
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: very political, but TV in particular. And nobody kisses tushy
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: quite like Chris collins Worth. Let's get it. Bravo to
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the as kissing ability of Chris collins Worth. I'm jealous.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: And he's not just calling football games. He's working. It's
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: like he's working at the cracker barrel and he's buttering biscuits.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Is what he's doing down at the cracker barrel, because
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: that's why he's he's what he does is as good
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: as anyone else in terms of the as kissing. Nobody
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: is able to get to that level that Collinsworth is
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: able to get to. He's built a career as a
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: paul politician in many ways in the broadcast booth. You
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: look at it, you take a couple steps back. Collinsworth
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: played one hundred and seven games for the Cincinnati Bungals,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: one hundred and seven games. He's now suited up and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: been the lead commentator on five hundred NFL broadcast. Not
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: to mention the time that when I met Collinsworth years ago,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: he was doing the studio show with Bradshaw, Howie Long
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and James Brown and those guys that they were doing
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the studio show on Fox. Collinsworth was the last person
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: in there. And then he went back to calling games
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: on television. But when Collinsworth is out calling a game,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: it's it's like he's watching. When you have him in
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the booth, it's like he's watching. It's like he's watching
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Michael Angelo paint Assistine Chapel while he's calling a game.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: He doesn't break down the game per se. Collinsworth has
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: this ability. He's like he's like Jane Austen in the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: fact that he romanticizes it. Right. It's persuasion, is what
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: it is. It's all The NFL clearly loves it, or
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Collinsworth would have been long gone. The slide move that
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: slide on in that is a signal to the NFL say, hey,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: fellas up, I'm still the good soldier. I know how
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: to play nice slapper slapper slabber. Yes, jeez. The NFL
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: protects the NFL protects the guys who protect the shield. Now,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: there was a point there was a broadcaster long ago.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: You don't know who this is, but there was a
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: guy named Howard coast Sell, real arrogant, sob Howard coat Sell,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and he didn't play nice. He would take shots at
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the NFL and he would be very critical, hold them accountable.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And that's a different generation. That's when people expected the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: media to attack. Now the fanboys want the media to
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: wear their knee pads, is what they want. And Collinsworth
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: is really good at that, right, So he's not someone
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: who's gonna challenge the coaches and the player and be
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: overly critical there. It's almost like he's hosting a nice
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: dinner party when he's doing the games. And so there
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you go, Sunday and night. He'll be doing that till
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: he's what eighty five ninety years old, Just same old
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: rhetoric and all that he's in mans like he's the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Captain America of butt kissing. That's what he is. And
• 22:20
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• 22:34
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• 22:37
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• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Or wherever you get your podcasts. So I lead this
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: hour big NFL matchup early on Sunday. We'll start in
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the City of Fountains, Cansa City, the iconic Arrowhead Stadium,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: not far from the landing in Liberty, Missouri, where a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: little over a year ago the iconic Malard Meet and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: greet took place the majestic home of the Ben Malar
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Chicken figures. There in Cansa City, so is Daniel Jones
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: leading a caravan of colts, the traveling party making their
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: way there for a matchup in the home of Mahomes
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes chiefs there at Arrowhead Stadium. So that was
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the game out. If you saw it or not, maybe
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you missed it. You were out. I don't know what
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you're doing. What were you doing? Who knows? Anyway. Patrick
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Mahomes threw for a season high three hundred and fifty
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: two yards, and I'm told that is good rallying the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Chiefs from an eleven point deficit in the fourth quarter.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: As the defense making some plays, they're forcing Indianapolis to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: go three and out on their final four possessions, final
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: four possessions, three and out. That's not good. Harrison Bucker
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the game winning field goal as time ran out, twenty
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: seven yards to give Kansas City to win. Of course,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: time running out because of the way the games are
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: decided here in the overtime, but Kansas City wins twenty
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: three to twenty in a game that could have done
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of damage to the Chiefs had they not
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: won it. But they come back and they win the game.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: They're late. The better story, though, is in the losing
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: locker room, as quarterback Daniel Jones was zonked zongked late
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: in this game for Indianapolis the fourth quarter and overtime,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and that is a good jumping off point. So let
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: us discuss a question, how is that Daniel Jones reputation rehab,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the Daniel Jones reputation rehab tour going for the Colts.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: That's the question, all right. So on this one, I've
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: got Feline, Delaware River and Geiger Counter and we will
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to make some nice body spray is what we're gonna make,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: all right. So the first thought I have, number one,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Number one is that was a belly whopper of a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: performance for Daniel Jones late in this game. You have
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to finish the game. You finished the game, and he
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: did a face plan, a biblical face plant in this
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: game late in it for Danny Dimes. Here is Daniel
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Jones made the hour pointing out then much going on
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: there late in the game. Didn't execute in some key situations.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, got to do a better job I
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: think overall and our execution.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: And certainly are their job and handling all that stuff.
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: So tough, yeah, tough to have a stretch like that
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: towards the end of the game.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Are are mirror mirror on the wall? Who's the first
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: of them?
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Are are?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Are?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: All?
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Right? Here is Shane Steichen, the head coach of the Colts.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: The Colts as mentioned the final four, the final four possession,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: three and out, three and out, three and out, three
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: and out. How'd that go? Yeah?
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: I mean I thought the defense did a great job
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: getting the takeaways. You know, we get a backed up situation.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: We got to get ourselves out of that situation. That's
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: a three and out there, and then we had another
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: three and out and then we had another three and out.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: So anytime you have three and out so you're not
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: moving them efficiently, it's going to be hard for any
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: one to win football games.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: And we got to be better. I gotta be better. Okay,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: went in doubt. I got to better. We got to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: be better. Just throw that out at the end. There
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: you go. You're good. So back to the point at hand.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: The question on the table for the esteem panel here,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: how is the Daniel Jones reputation rehab toward going for
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the Colts. Well, we mentioned this was a major setback here.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: The Colts go reverse Uno card and Jones turns back
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the clock and it's like he's back playing in Jersey
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: for the gi Hey and Ts suck, Suck, Suck. The
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Giants three completions in crunch time three. Now Daniel Jones
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: based on malarmath. He closed the game out in the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter and overtime, completing thirty three point three percent
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: of his passes. That's half the sign of the devil
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and overtime there for Daniel Jones.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: And he's the guy. Remember, he's the guy looking for
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the big payday. The Colts have decided that they're going
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: for it. They traded some scratcher tickets away to the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Jets to get their hands on sauce Gardener, and by
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: doing that, they have committed themselves to Daniel Jones. They've said, hey,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: we want you, We're gonna sign you to a contract,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: We're going to keep you. And Jones is looking for
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a massive payday. So he's got a lot of leverage
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you would assume going into this. However, in these high
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: leverage moments for the Colts quarterback in this game, he
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: looked like a feline. Now what kind of feline did
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: he look like? Did he look like a rag doll?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: No?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Did he look like a Persian No, he did not
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: look like a Persian cat. Did he look like a sphinx? No?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: He played like a scaredy cat. He played like a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: scaredy cat at the end of this game. Scaredy cat,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: scaredy cat, DNA, That's what it was, all right. Behind
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: throwing behind receivers, generally they don't catch the passes when
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you throw behind him. You're being so critical. Why would
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you be so critical? That's just my experience. I know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I'm a shock jock. Usually if you'll behind receivers, they
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: don't catch the passes. Why would you say that? Okay? Anyway,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: late on throws also problematic. Oh why are you being
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: so mean? Yeah, nearly picked off multiple times in the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter and overtime. Check that box. And as we mentioned,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the four straight three and outs to close the game.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: That gets your that gets your resume updated. You might
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: want to go to one of the websites there and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: see if you can find some work. My god, it
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: was not good, not good at all. So on the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Malard scale of panic, the top twol for determining how
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: bad a situation is the Malar scale of panic one
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to ten, with ten being oh my god, oh my god.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: This is an eight point oh eight point zero. On
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the Daniel Jones Mallard scale of panic, for Indianapolis. And
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: here's why this is electric chair adjacent is what it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: electric chair adjacent. And so when you look at it,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, this is his reputation, rehab tour and all that.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: And it's off the road. Now, it's not fully in
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the ditch, but it's halfway in the ditch, and you're
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: out of gas and you've got a lot of problems.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And so the Colts fans were hoping they'd get another
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: edition of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they just got the Temple of Doom part is what.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: They got a lot of doom there and also Danny
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Dimes returning the return of Danny Dimes in this game.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: The whole idea this season is to see if you
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: can commit long term. Are you just going to sign
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: this guy to a two year contract again him a
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: four year contract? What's it going to be? And this
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: was at best, if you're positive, this was just a setback,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a small setback, that's it. At worst, something much worse
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: than just a small setback for Daniel Jones. Here, if
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: you're a so called franchise guy, shrinks up in every
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: pressure situation, right, No bueno? That is a noe bueno situation.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was hesitant and at the end of the game,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and also it just seemed like he was rattled by
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs defense, shrinking under pressure, which is generally what
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: you're not looking for here. That was Giants era Daniel Jones,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: although to be fair, there were very many games where
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: he didn't even play well enough to get to pressure
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: situations where the games were over by the time you
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: would get to a fourth quarter where the game is
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: close situation. And so the Giants they got rid of
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. The Colts picked him up now after he
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: stopped in Minnesota, and at this moment, the Colts say,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: is the a team more of a contender or a pretender? Well,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the way they finished the game, you'd have to put
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: them in the pretender category. It's the only fair thing
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to do. If you disappear in crunch time and I've
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: got news you're not the guy. You can't beat the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: guy if you're gonna play like that at the end
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: of the game. And that's exactly what happened on this day.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: And so the Colts they're gonna have some decisions. There's
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: still obviously a couple of games to go here, a
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: few games left in the regular season. But that was
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: not not a great afternoon. And so reputation rehab, reputation relapse.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: It's a spinoff show, Reputation Relapse. You can go with
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: that if you would like. All right now, page two
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: on the cansa City side of things. And it was
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: not a smooth game for the Chiefs, a game that
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: had a lot on the line for Kansas City considering
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: that they've dug themselves a massive hole. Head coach Andy
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Reid and his team able to come back. Andy Reid
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: singing the p of his team postgame, he said, that's
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the part quote I appreciate as a coach the most
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: is the attitude. Andy Reid said, Well, he put down
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: his cheeseburger to talk to the media. He said, it's
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: a compliment to the players, coaches, and the supporting people
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: from the building. No one has been hanging their head
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: and oh no, and blah blah blah blah blah. All right,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: So the question, all right, Andy Reid celebrating the ability
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: of his Chiefs team not to give up. So should
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid's Chiefs be celebrated for resiliency or ripped for
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: being in the hole. All right, Now, you celebrate the
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: fact that they've come back and won a few of
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: these games, or do you goof on them because of
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the situation they find themselves in. So I would say,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: let's not crown anyone. If you want to crown him,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: crown his ass. But I'm not going to crown anyone.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs weren't down to eleven at Arrowhead to day
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones in the fourth quarter, down by eleven to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, Hello, if you need to rally to save
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: your tukas, is that great? I don't know about that.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: It's certainly storm clouds. It's certainly storm clouds. And the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: first three quarters of this particular game, if you break
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: it down, the first three quarters, the Chiefs looked like
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: they were running uphill, but they were not just running uphill.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: They were running on a bank of mud, a mud
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: bank right on the Delaware River for some reason, and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: that is where they rub the baseballs. The mud they
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: rub on the baseballs comes from the mud banks of
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: the Delaware River. But that's essentially what they were doing
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: in this particular game. A lot of penalties, sloppy football execution,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: was bad. All that stuff, no rhyme, no reason, none
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: of that stuff. And it's the same problem that has
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: been bird dogging the Chiefs all a season long. We've
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: seen it all year. It has not been a silky
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: road for Kansas City. Instead, it has been a sandpaper
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: road at this particular point. A lot of finger biting,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: hair pulling, the sweaty palms, all of those things. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: they have become the cardiac kids. They've become the cardiac
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: kids here and not in the fun way, not in
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the fun way. No. And then you add Chris Jones.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. You add Chris Jones, the man
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: that quit against Jacksonville, allowing the Jaguars to score the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: game winning touchdown, a game that will likely hurt the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Chiefs down The line is Jacksonville won in Arizona, so
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars have a record that will put them in
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: playoff contention in Kansas City is also trying to get
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: one of those spots. So it's a mess in that regard. Anyway.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: The point is Chris Jones postgame said, quote, I've got
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: to show up the rest of these games. You know
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: what that is? That is a dead give it dead
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: give it. He's admitting Chris Jones, defensive star of Kansas City,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: that he was lolligagging. He's a lolligagger, that's what he is. Lolligagger. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Yeah.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: So it's say I've been on cruise control. When you say, hey,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I've got to show up the rest of the games,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: that would mean you haven't shown up in a few
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: of the games. Therefore you have to show up in
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the rest of the games because you haven't shown up.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: You see the point. So he's been cruising along, cruising
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: for a bruising there. Here's the problem though. Now here's
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: the problem the Chiefs. They generally haven't started playing this
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: season until someone slaps them around a little bit and
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: then they wake up. Is that really resiliency or a
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: lack of urgency at the beginning of these games? And
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Mahomes he rescued him a bit here he's he's still
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: not where he had been. Mahomes, and it's like a
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: weekly rescue plan. Who you gonna call Mahomes, that's what
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you're gonna call. And you talk about living on borrowed time.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: And Kansas City there you escaped an escape room. Good
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: luck on that. As we move forward, now turning the page,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: we go to Green Bay, Lommafield, the Frozen Tundra as
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota football team. They showed up kind of. They
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: got their bell rung by the team from Wisconsin. So
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Minnesota has now lost not one, not two, not three,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: not four, not five, not six? How about seven? Seven
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: games lost this season? Does that sound like a lot. Well,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: that's more than twice as many, more than twice as
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: many as the Minnesota Vikings suffered last year. And on
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday Sunday against the Green Bay Packers, the Vikings
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: ended up getting mollywopped by a team that had their
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: own issues. The Green Bay Packers had some issues, they're
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: underwhelming all season with Jordan Love and JJ McCarthy, though,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: said hey, you might be underwhelming, but you've got nothing
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: on me, nothing at all on me. McCarthy attempted nineteen passes,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: twelve of them were completed, for eighty seven yards. A
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: professional quarterback that sat out a season, JJ McCarthy had
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: eighty seven yards passing two interceptions. He got sacked not once,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: not twice, not three times, not four times, how about
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: five times? Five sacks for jj McCarthy. Remember, sacks are
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: mostly a quarterback stat, mostly a quarterback stat that tells me,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what you're doing now. As such, get
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  Speaker 1: to the point please. So you had the Vikings unable
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  Speaker 1: to move the ball consistently as you might imagine, get
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  Speaker 1: the ball to their playmakers, because if you can't complete
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  Speaker 1: passes for more than eighty seven yards, chances are none
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  Speaker 1: of your receivers are going for one hundred yards because
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have more than any seven Ye had any
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  Speaker 1: seven yards passing Jajon McCarthy, So that includes the playmakers.
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  Speaker 1: One of the all time greats of this generation, Justin
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson of the Minnesota football team, who acknowledged postgame he
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  Speaker 1: acknowledged the frustrations of the losing ways of the Minnesota Vikings.
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  Speaker 3: Tale is it's frustrating. It's frustrating to lose, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's frustrating to you know, to be up here and
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  Speaker 3: say the same things every single weekend expecting for something
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  Speaker 3: to change the following the weekend. You know, we're still
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  Speaker 3: in the same spot.
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  Speaker 1: So we just got.
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  Speaker 3: To figure it out and see the things that we
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  Speaker 3: need to change and get better.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Jefferson had four catches for forty eight yards. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So the question here Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson just heard
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  Speaker 1: the SoundBite there saying he's frustrated they lose the same
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  Speaker 1: things they say every single week and they keep losing
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  Speaker 1: expecting things to change. How do you interpret the meaning
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  Speaker 1: of this? So this isn't just venting, this venting, this
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  Speaker 1: is not just venting here, this is going to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: And it's code read. It sounded if you listen close
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  Speaker 1: to like McCarthy is causing Justin Jefferson to think that
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  Speaker 1: the Viking franchise is insane, because isn't that insanity the
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  Speaker 1: textbook Einstein insanity. The line is that, well, you do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the Minnesota Vikings with JJ McCarthy. They
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  Speaker 1: keep sending him out there. It's like Justin Jefferson's like,
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  Speaker 1: this is he's implying it's insane. What's going on here
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  Speaker 1: that the guy's not getting any better? So how do
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  Speaker 1: you interpret the meaning of what Justin Jefferson had to say? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty clear, as we said, it's code read. It's like, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 1: this is insane. We're doing the same thing every game
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  Speaker 1: and nothing's changing here. And Jefferson is telegraphing the frustration
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  Speaker 1: because it's rinse and repeat every week, rinse and repeat,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how it goes. It's NFL cycle of failure,
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  Speaker 1: the cycle of failure. And he said in himself, this
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  Speaker 1: is every single week, every single expecting things to change.
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  Speaker 1: And that tells you everything. It's not the effort for
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. It's not the play calling. It's the quarterback, dummy,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: it's the quarterback. McCarthy doesn't have to worry about being
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  Speaker 1: the goat. He's the worn. Now what is the worn?
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean? Wr And that is the worst
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  Speaker 1: of right now? Worn, that's a spin off not to go,
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  Speaker 1: not to go the worn, the worst of right now.
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy has been about his intimidating as a wet sponge
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  Speaker 1: when he's been playing quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. He
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  Speaker 1: averaged four point six yards per pass attempt in this
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  Speaker 1: particular game against the Packers. That is check down, Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: That's checkdown purgatory, is what that is for the Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Vikings in this particular game. And wait, there's more. Had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of picks for those are at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game. For the Vikings, one fumble, although it
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: was recovered. Remember of fumbles a fifty to fifty raffle ball.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you fumble, both teams have a fifty to
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  Speaker 1: fifty chance of recovering said fumble. Very little pulse for
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the Vikings offense, they're the offense was essentially in a
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  Speaker 1: body bag. Body bag. Body bag is what they were
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  Speaker 1: in in this game. And this is the worst case
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  Speaker 1: scenario for the Purple People leaders. The red shirt a
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  Speaker 1: player and that's what this was. He was hurt, but
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: he got all the mental reps. JJ McCarthy and all
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: you geniuses. Every NFL draft we have the same conversation,
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  Speaker 1: do you play the do you not play the guy?
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  Speaker 1: And everyone's oh, you got to rest the player, You
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  Speaker 1: got to leave him on the sidelines, let him learn
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  Speaker 1: by osmosis. Okay, well Macarthy did that. He didn't play.
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  Speaker 1: He was hurt. He went through training camp and then
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: the rest of the year he just kind of soaked
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  Speaker 1: everything in and how's that working out? How is that
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  Speaker 1: working out? Red shirt rookie season? So he a red
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: shirt rookie, second year player, and he's not growing. It
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: is getting pretty bad, pretty bad. You drafted a guy
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  Speaker 1: you thought he played a lot at Michigan, although he
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: didn't have that many reps throwing the football, But you
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: look at him, it's like you drafted him, you developed him.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: He developed a player. He's got the you get the
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  Speaker 1: Geiger counter out. The radiation is off the boards here.
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  Speaker 1: He can't even get close to JJ McCarthy's been so bad,
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  Speaker 1: and you're wasting a prime year of Justin Jefferson's career.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Congratulations on that. Jefferson got the bag. What's in the bag.
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  Speaker 1: You got a lot of money, money, money, mighty good frames,
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  Speaker 1: good player, and normally it doesn't matter who the quarterback is.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: If you have a good playmaker, you're going to get stats. Somehow,
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  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy is so bad. How bad is he? He's
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: so bad that Jefferson's not even getting the stats. He
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  Speaker 1: usually gets two touchdowns all year, if my math is correct,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: for Justin Jefferson two and so you can lead the
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  Speaker 1: league in some categories, but the touchdowns are just not there.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a guy that has led the NFL
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  Speaker 1: in so many categories as a receiver, and this year
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: it's just something side to us. I wonder what that
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: could be. I wonder what that could be. So it's
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: a quagmire, is what it is. The Vikings offense is
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: playing in quicksand at this particular point. And every week,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: as Justin Jefferson pointed out, every week they promise change,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: although they don't change the quarterback. They keep saying with
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: the quarterback out there. And so it's kind of like
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: the coaching staff is painting the windows while the burning
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: building is burn, burn, burn, burn burn. The building they're
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: painting is on fire. That's what's going on. Their losses
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: are piling up, and they're poisoning the locker room with
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: one incomplete JJ McCarthy pass at a time.
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  Speaker 9: So the New England Patriots have played one more game
• 45:39
  Speaker 9: than the Denver Broncos, and therefore they have one more wins.
• 45:42
  Speaker 9: So right now they have the number one seed in
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: the AFC. Looking ahead at the schedule game, who do
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: you like for that number one seed in first round, by.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Well, it should be the Patriots based on the fact
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: that they're playing nothing but Tomato Cans. Although the Broncos
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: are playing Tomato cans mostly other than the divisional games
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: they still have to play, so you look at the division.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: The Bills aren't that great this year. If you look
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: at the rest of the schedule for the New England Patriots,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: and there are some injuries. Now they lost a couple
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: offensive linemens, so that is a factor, but that's part
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: of football and all that. I I don't see more
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  Speaker 1: than maybe one more loss for the for the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the year in the regular season next.
• 46:22
  Speaker 9: So, Chris Paul announced that this will be his final season.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: In the NBA. Oh, I'm so sad. Yes, he's sure
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 9: A first ballot Hall of Famer, but Ben, where do
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  Speaker 9: you have him on Ben's big board of all time
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  Speaker 9: point guards?
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  Speaker 1: He was a wonderful regular season player who often disappeared
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: in big moments and big big spots. And so they
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  Speaker 1: are lob City Clippers. He did. He did have the
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: weight of having Doc Rivers as as coach, but he's
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: not the great like John Stockton's the greatest. Like I
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: watched Stockton Alove was amazing. So there it is malardly
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  Speaker 1: third degree? How did we do coop to pass? That
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  Speaker 1: is they win but one the game. I'm belave it
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  Speaker 1: Guy making thirty seven and a half million dollars a
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  Speaker 1: year and he sucks at his job and he's now
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  Speaker 1: giving the bird to fans that are criticizing him, even
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  Speaker 1: though his coach doesn't have the balls to criticize him.
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  Speaker 1: That would be Pete Carroll. We're talking about Geno Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Any advice to Gino's Smith. If you're live on the
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  Speaker 1: His name sound like a sandwich, that is true? Or pizza.
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  Speaker 1: Possibly there's a pizza place. Hello, You're next advice to
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  Speaker 1: Though he didn't call anymore, hopefully he's still around. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Her turn that buzz off with your blood.
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  Speaker 1: On it, Ben, I'll pay. Yes, I was making some
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  Speaker 7: Hello, yeah, man, this problem can only be alleviated by
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  Speaker 7: soaking up prebees and going to the Rams game and
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  Speaker 7: then blathering about it for an hour instead of talking
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  Speaker 1: All right, calm down, please, It was much more important
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