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Hour 3 - Deceiving · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh, what is going on? How you doing, Matler, Militia.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: I hope your Monday morning is off to a fantastic start.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: You know what, I can already see that this segment
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: is probably going to result in verbal fisticuffs. I can see.
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  Speaker 1: I can see it clear as day. It's just right
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  Speaker 1: over the right over the horizon, right there, right over
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  Speaker 1: you know, like you gotta you know, right around right
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  Speaker 1: around the tree, in between the shrubs. Verbal fisticuffs right
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: around the corner here between myself and Loraina the tech Queen. No,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding, me and Justin Cooper. That's right, we can
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: we can shadow box. I don't care. I'm not scared.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: What do you got. No, I'm just kidding. It's gonna
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: be me and Coop here, because Coop he is gonna
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: come after the New England Patriots. And I just want
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: to tell you, I want to warn you, Militia. It's
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: gonna be a bad take. It's gonna be a bad take,
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna pull some sports radio jiu jitsu.
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  Speaker 2: Don't really a take. It's a fact.
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  Speaker 1: It is a fact. But you know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is a completely and utterly misleading fact. You're right Coop,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. It is a fact. I saw this tweet
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: one of my buddies sent it to me, and it's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what Coop is talking about. So as of today,
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  Speaker 1: after Week seventeen, the Patriots have one win against the
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  Speaker 1: team with the winning record. The New York Giants have
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  Speaker 1: two wins against teams with winning records. So it's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh wow, look at the Patriots. They're just beaten up
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  Speaker 1: on the sad pathetic it is. It's one of the
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  Speaker 1: it's like the easiest schedule in the last twenty five years.
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  Speaker 1: They've beaten up on a bunch of bad teams. But
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  Speaker 1: but but that doesn't mean they're incapable of doing anything.
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  Speaker 1: Like listen, there are so many things to look at here.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Don't just look at man, they've only beaten one team
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  Speaker 1: with the winning record while they're fools gold. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a bad take because look at what they have.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a pretty good defense, they've got a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good head coach and Mike Rable. They've got a really
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  Speaker 1: good quarterback in Drake May. And this is where that
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  Speaker 1: stat is totally misleading. If you look at what last
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  Speaker 1: week at the Ravens, they're losing by eleven points in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. If they lose this game, the division
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  Speaker 1: is is up for grabs. The division is in peril
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  Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills right on their heels and they
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  Speaker 1: on the road at Baltimore in prime time. Have the
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  Speaker 1: Giants played primetime games this season like they I think
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: they played the Chiefs earlier in the They're not playing
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  Speaker 1: primetime games. They're like a one pm you know, dree,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing at one day. They broke out and played
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  Speaker 1: at four to twenty five Eastern time this past Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa man, that was about as prime time as it gets.
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  Speaker 1: For the Giants going to Baltimore in prime time eleven
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  Speaker 1: point deficit have to execute with great precision, and they did.
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  Speaker 1: And now that's just chalked up to well, Baltimore doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a winning record right now, that doesn't even really count.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't count. Are you kidding me? That's ridiculous. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you gotta read between the lines sometimes dig deeper
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  Speaker 1: than just the quote unquote facts, like that's a fact
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  Speaker 1: for you. They beat a Ravens team in primetime on
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  Speaker 1: the road when dude, that crowd is into it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the momentum is clearly on Baltimore's side, and guess what
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  Speaker 1: they did. They seized it right back and they took
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  Speaker 1: that game that matters. They beat the Bills on the road,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. That's not a good win earlier on,
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  Speaker 1: that's their there's their one win. That's just crazy to me.
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  Speaker 1: So to just overlook the strengths that they have. They've
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  Speaker 1: got a legitimate MVP at quarterback, good head, coach, good defense,
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  Speaker 1: they got a lot to work with. I like the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of value as far as
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  Speaker 1: betting on the Patriots come playoff time, because there are
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  Speaker 1: some people that will just see a tweet and be like,
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  Speaker 1: got one team, We got one win against the one
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  Speaker 1: team with a winning record. I mean, I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to fade this team. Yeah, go ahead, knock yourself out.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're live. I think they're absolutely live in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. I would be surprised if they're in the
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl. I said it, look at the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the AFC. Who do you love? Who do you love
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  Speaker 1: in the AFC? I don't love anybody sort of like
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  Speaker 1: act like the Patriots have what no shot to do anything?
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy odds are they're not going to make the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I know that, But to talk about them
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  Speaker 1: as if they have no chance just because they've had
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  Speaker 1: an incredibly favorable schedule, that's crazy talk. That's insanity right there.
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  Speaker 1: So no, I don't buy any of that stuff. They
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  Speaker 1: beat a couple of teams that are five hundred, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's not beating up on all. These teams are just
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  Speaker 1: you know, picking in the top five, top ten of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL draft, and that's it. That's not it. Like
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens are a five hundred team. The Panthers are
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  Speaker 1: a five hundred team. Look at the Panthers. The Panthers
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  Speaker 1: are psychotic, by the way. The Panthers beat the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: The Panthers beat the Packers like those are they beat.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams were at the time the consensus best team
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. And the Rams went into Carolina and lost,
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  Speaker 1: and then Carolina got swept by the Saints, they got
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  Speaker 1: crushed by the Bills, they got crushed by the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: The Patriots beat them forty two to thirteen. And we're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna act like it doesn't matter because they're not
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  Speaker 1: they don't have a winning record, Like that's a manufactured.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh oh, this is gonna get some clicks type stat.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is. There's way more to that stat
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  Speaker 1: than meets the eye.
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  Speaker 2: But would you be surprised if any one of the
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  Speaker 2: playoff teams, potential AFC playoff teams beat them in the
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  Speaker 2: first round?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no, the Texans have a real defense. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like the Texans offensive line. But if that's the matchup,
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  Speaker 1: if that's let's say it's the two to seven matchup,
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  Speaker 1: and Houston goes into fox Borough and wins, I would
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  Speaker 1: be surprised at all, not at all. They've got a
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  Speaker 1: nasty defense, and I don't love the Patriots tackles. Listen,
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: styles make fights, and look, they don't have the same
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  Speaker 1: playoff experience, even the Texans. They were in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: last season, right, they beat the Chargers, They picked off
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: Herbert four times, they went into arrow ahead, they played
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  Speaker 1: a close game against the Chiefs. Like that's real playoff
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  Speaker 1: experience that matters. I would be surprised at all if
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  Speaker 1: the Texans went in there and beat them and the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots are one and done.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're probably looking at Chargers Patriots, right, if
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  Speaker 2: I mean assuming the right, right, the Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: It could be could be I mean, listen, it could
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  Speaker 1: be Bills Patriots. That's what it is right now, right speak,
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  Speaker 1: that's I mean. Can you see the Bills going in
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  Speaker 1: there again and you know, taking down the Patriots? Of course,
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: of course you could see that happening. Could I see
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: the opposite happening? Yeah? I could see that too. The
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: Patriots got a little uh, you know, less aggressive. They
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  Speaker 1: got up twenty one to nothing. They were still up.
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  Speaker 1: I was at twenty four to seven I think at halftime,
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  Speaker 1: and man, the Bills came out and they smacked them around.
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  Speaker 1: The Patriots just didn't have that same edge in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, and they're trying to run out the clock
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  Speaker 1: instead is like playing the game. So hey, maybe they
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: learned some lessons from that loss, but neither would surprise me, Coop.
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  Speaker 1: If that's the matchup Patriots Bills, the Patriots are hosting
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  Speaker 1: in Foxborough, I oughtn't be surprised if be their team won.
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  Speaker 1: I really wouldn't you.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean definitely not. I I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: I was betting that game. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: if I take probably take the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. The Bills would be a slight favorite.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think the Bills would have enough so
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  Speaker 1: I do. I think the Bills would have enough backing
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  Speaker 1: from the betting community where yeah, I think they would
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  Speaker 1: be small favorites. I think it'd be close to a
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  Speaker 1: pick them. But I bet the Bills would probably be
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  Speaker 1: like a one point favorite on the road something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think they would.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I you might be right. I just it's
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  Speaker 2: it's wild to me because you you got to imagine that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Drake May is probably winning MVP.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, I think it's Stafford. I think Stafford
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  Speaker 1: gets it this season.
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  Speaker 2: Even after that loss.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. But hey, listen, Drake May's live. They're
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  Speaker 1: pretty close, so it's yeah, it could be a good
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  Speaker 1: little battle who gets it. I like Drake May a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Drake May's got the goods. He's a very good quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: So like, look, man, I wouldn't just look at the
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  Speaker 1: schedule and that's like, I don't want to change the
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  Speaker 1: subject completely, but I'm hearing a lot of that. With
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  Speaker 1: college football. We've got the College Football Playoff right around
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  Speaker 1: the corner. The best matchup of the quarterfinals. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's the shortest point spread. It's Oregon against Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 1: And there are a lot of people that are like
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  Speaker 1: Oregon played a much tougher schedule, Like Oregon's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the best team that Texas Tech faces easily. And it's like, look,
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  Speaker 1: that's true, but that doesn't mean Texas Tech can't win
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  Speaker 1: that game. You know, Like they got a really good
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  Speaker 1: defensive line, really good front seven. Like their offense when
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  Speaker 1: firing in all cylinders is nasty, they're a wagon. Texas
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  Speaker 1: Tech is tough. So I think we're doing that with
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots, like, oh man, look at their easy schedule.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay, all right, So they're incapable. They're in They
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  Speaker 1: can't beat the Bills at home, they can't beat the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: Just can't. Can't do it. Come on like that. It
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  Speaker 1: goes beyond the schedule, man, it just does. You can't
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  Speaker 1: have an MVP caliber quarterback, a good head coach, a
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  Speaker 1: good defense and just be incapable of doing anything come
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  Speaker 1: playoff time because they've had a cake schedule. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a bad logic. It's a bad take. So I like
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots, man, I think that a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are selling the Patriots short is what I think. And
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: with that we should get to the militia. Huh, how
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  Speaker 1: about that? What the what about that? For a segment?
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  Speaker 1: Let me go to Andre he's in Massachusetts. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to drey Trey. What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: We're talking Patriots and whatever's on your mind? What do
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  Speaker 1: you have for us, buddy?
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  Speaker 4: How you doing? Thanks for taking a call listen. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: hundred percent right that the Patriots mean business based on
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  Speaker 4: how to beat the brakes off of the Jets, and
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  Speaker 4: then they have the Dolphins to finish their schedule, so
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  Speaker 4: they're taking no prisoners, have the right attitude and perspective.
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  Speaker 4: But just made another good point that you know the
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  Speaker 4: a f C, you know, in terms of these teams
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  Speaker 4: that are in contention, doesn't look like they're going to
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  Speaker 4: get the number one steed. But you know the Jaguars dangerous,
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  Speaker 4: Houston dangerous with them as well. And then the a
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  Speaker 4: f C West wasn't what we thought it would be, uh,
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  Speaker 4: based on the decline there. I state disintegration of the
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  Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs. But the Broncos most certainly and the
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  Speaker 4: Chargers are going are going to be tough out. So
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a huge step for the Patriots getting
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: the first well, hold on, hold on, hold on. Only
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: the number one seed gets the first round by so
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  Speaker 4: you know, but they'll have the home field advantage. But uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I can't I can't crown them just yet
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  Speaker 4: based on how it's been an absolute soap opera, uh
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  Speaker 4: the last four years post Brady and then the one
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  Speaker 4: year with Gerard Mayo when they won the last game
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  Speaker 4: and gave away the number one pick. So we're new,
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  Speaker 4: we're new work to this winning and expectations thing with
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  Speaker 4: the Patriots, right, I think, frankly, a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: were just happy that, you know, they're not under five hundred,
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  Speaker 4: never mind kind of a team that's in the conversation
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  Speaker 4: to possibly take the AFC. But in no way, shape
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  Speaker 4: or form do I feel we're favorites now. Earlier in
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  Speaker 4: the show, you know, you really got real and alluded
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  Speaker 4: to you know, you got personal, but you alluded to,
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: you know, some real life things when you feel like
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: you have that weight on your chest. Yeah, you know,
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: and you know, as life goes on, you know, we
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: we have situations and we do our best and we
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: give ourselves and others the benefit of the doubt. But
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  Speaker 4: You're able to get that weight lifted off your chest,
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  Speaker 4: which is one hundred percent important and necessary, and then
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  Speaker 4: you kind of move forward in good stead, you know,
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  Speaker 4: while still keeping those relationships, you know, intact, but in
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: a better capacity. So that was really helpful, insightful, and
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  Speaker 4: then relevant because we're talking about the bills here. You
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  Speaker 4: need been talking about the bills, you know, come on out?
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  Speaker 4: What what what? What are we doing? Is this weight?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? And it almost feels like
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  Speaker 4: we do have to go back to the early nineties
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  Speaker 4: and the four Falls of Buffalo, you know, and really
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: the first one you mentioned, mister Scott Norwood. I'm from
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  Speaker 4: the great state of New Jersey, but I grew up
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: in Rockland County, New York. So I remember like it
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  Speaker 4: was yesterday that first Super Bowl when they were they
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  Speaker 4: had it right there, and then the Giants were dead
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  Speaker 4: to rights, but he could he couldn't connect on that
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: field goal, and then you know, NFL stands for not
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: for long baby, all right, Dan Marino gets to that
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl. Second year, he never goes back. Bill's never
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: got that close again. Next year they get blown out
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  Speaker 4: by the Redskins, and then they have to go to
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: face the Cowboys twice and it just wasn't it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: to be so relative to today and and the debacle. Josh Allen,
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: former MVP, you can't make a basic throw, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to to to seal the deal and look all story
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  Speaker 4: out So long windows for all of these contending teams
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  Speaker 4: I feel are closing. Ravens dumpster firing, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: this is supposed to be their year. It's on the
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  Speaker 4: absolute other direction. Now there's infighting, talking about Lamar wanting out.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I just unless they catch lightly in a
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  Speaker 4: bottle break through and make you know, I just think
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  Speaker 4: their window is frankly closed. And I think the Bills
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  Speaker 4: are right there with them. All right, enough fun games
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  Speaker 4: and I you know, talk about mcdermot's a good coach,
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  Speaker 4: Josh Allen's a good quarterback. But for some reason, they're
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  Speaker 4: just not It's just not connecting when it has to connect.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't I don't. I'm not a fan of
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  Speaker 4: blowing these teams up, but you might just have to
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  Speaker 4: just be a good you know, they're building a new
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: stadium in Buffalo, right They're gonna they're gonna be jumping
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  Speaker 4: off of the top rope and and and and destroying
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  Speaker 4: those tables, those those innocent takes. They do anything to do,
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  Speaker 4: but they're gonna They're gonna do it anyway. But that
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  Speaker 4: But that's fine. All I'm saying is, you know, did
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  Speaker 4: the weight on the bills chest? You know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if it's if it's gonna be lifted with winning
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  Speaker 4: and them actually getting back in the super Bowl conversation.
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  Speaker 4: If they don't believe it in themselves, maybe they go
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: see doctor Melcie. I don't know. If you're still in
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  Speaker 4: business in New Jersey, maybe they.
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  Speaker 1: Do know you gotta do something. Andre all right, man,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: you got it. We got it, buddy, We got it.
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  Speaker 1: Like you're just going and going and going and going.
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  Speaker 1: He's the energizer bunny tonight man like you.
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  Speaker 5: He was on one China put some punctuation in there.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I couldn't. We got, We got a lot of commas.
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  Speaker 6: We got.
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  Speaker 2: There was a Sopranos reference there in the end. Though
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate It's.
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  Speaker 1: Good Listen, Maddie. It was a good call. Like he
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: hit numerous subjects, he hit a lot of stuff. He's
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: got thoughts, he's got stuff going on in his head right,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: and he wanted the militia to know about it. It's fine,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that, but uh look, man, he hit
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  Speaker 1: on something that's kind of interesting. And I'll hear this
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  Speaker 1: from time to time about windows closed using that's a
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  Speaker 1: very you know, common thing to think about. Maybe say,
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  Speaker 1: I just think that if you look at the playoff
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  Speaker 1: you know picture right now, it's tailor made for like
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  Speaker 1: a quote unquote window that is closed to be reopened
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  Speaker 1: real fast. And that team that you thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the window was closed all of a sudden wins a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, And uh, look, I can't sit here and
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  Speaker 1: tell you at all that the Bills window has closed.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't think they have the clutch gene at all.
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  Speaker 1: I would not back them to win a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean they don't have a chance. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean the window is closed. They still have Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen as their quarterback. Josh Allen could do some insane
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  Speaker 1: things now. He missed a layup against the Eagles. What
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  Speaker 1: other quarterbacks haven't screwed up before? That means he could.
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  Speaker 1: He never can come through. He's come through many times
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. He's come through in big moments right,
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  Speaker 1: So that wasn't Josh Allen on d defense against the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs when they had to lead with thirteen seconds left.
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  Speaker 1: So I just think we gotta be careful about these
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  Speaker 1: windows are closed. Like I'll hear this with the Lions.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the windows closed. It's like, is it no chance?
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Know how they can't regroup, they can't retool. I know
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  Speaker 1: they have a bunch of dudes to pay and they
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  Speaker 1: got to make the contracts work. They might have to
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  Speaker 1: make some tough decisions. But just no chance. The window
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  Speaker 1: is closed like this, They've they've topped out, no chance
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: going forward. Why would you buy that? I don't buy that. Yeah,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Like you look at some of these teams that you know,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of turnover from one year to the next.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of new playoff teams. The Niners
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: good example. The Niners would have been a perfect example
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: of a team where people could have looked at last
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: season after they got ravaged by injuries. They're a last
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: place team and you could have been the windows closed.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Look at them now, the windows closed, like they got
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: a chance to be the one seed. You can make
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: dramatic turnarounds in the NFL. I don't know why we would.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know, take a team that's just they're just
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: trying to start to get right, you know what I mean. Like,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: let me take a okay, the Giants right like, they're
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: three and thirteen, They've had a ton of injuries. They're
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: just trying to build, trying to get respectable, trying to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: take the next step. Right, So we'll look at a
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: team like that and just be like, yeah, no, give
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it a little bit of time. But we'll look at
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a team like I don't know, say the Chargers and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Herbert hasn't had postseason success, but they're a much better
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: team right now and will be much harder greaters when
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: it comes to those teams in the playoffs in the mix,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, their window is closed. Look man,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I you can say what you want, you can think
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: how you want to think. I would just say this,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: if you look at the playoffs right now, it is
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: wide open, wide open. So it's like, I don't know
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: why you just start marking teams off in pen as
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: if what next season can't be similar to this season?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Like the Lions window is closed, the Bills window is closed.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I just don't buy that. I don't buy that. I
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: just don't think the time is right for for you
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: to say that or to think it. But again, you
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: can think and say whatever you want. I just don't.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't subscribe to that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I think there are teams like, look, the Bears were
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a grease fire. They're five and twelve last season. Look
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: at them now, dramatic turnaround. The Niners dead last last season,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: they're twelve and four. Like, look at the Chiefs. The
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Chiefs won their division nine straight years and they've been
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl five straight years. They're a six
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and ten football team right now, and Mahomes started fourteen games. Like,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the NFL is crazy, all right there. It's a parody
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: driven league. And so like these teams that have a
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: lot working for them, even teams that just barely missed
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: out on the playoffs. You know, like I'd be careful,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: That's all I would say, is I'd be careful about
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: just straight up eliminating teams like.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Lions could finish last in their division. That's crazy, it is.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: But it happened to the Niners last year, and look
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: at them now, you know, like the Lions had a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: murderers row schedule. Their road schedule was insane. Right, they
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: played a first place schedule. What worked against them this year,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Playing a first place schedule works for them. Next year,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: they're gonna play a last place schedule. It's gonna be
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Cupcake City for three games. That could be the difference
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: between making the playoffs and not. That could be the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: difference between a higher seed in the playoffs and not.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So playing a last play schedule is a great thing
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: for Detroit going forward, you know. So, Yeah, I think
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: we're saying the same thing, Coop, Like, I don't think
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: we're disagreeing on that, but it is. It's crazy that
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: they bottomed out and they finished last, but that's gonna
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: help them next season. They play three last place teams.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Those are their three games, right, That's what a last
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: play schedule is. It essentially, it directly impacts three games
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: in particular. Like I'll get you. I do this every
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: single year. I get their three games. So the Lions
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: first play schedule this season, Just so we're on the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: same page.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: They were.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not as tough as you would think, but
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: still tough at the Chiefs. That was a Sunday night
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: game in Week six. They lost that game thirty to seventeen.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: They hosted Tampa Bay on a Monday night. They beat them,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: smack them around. And the other game was at the Rams.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: They lost that game recently forty one to thirty four.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Those are three first place games. How would you like
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to play at the Chiefs, host Tampa and then play
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: at the Rams? Or would you rather be the Bears?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Here was the Bears last play schedule. Now it helped
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: them in two games, not so much the third. So
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the Bears last play schedule this season at the Raiders
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: pretty favorable. They barely won that game. Luckily Daniel Carlson
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: missed the kick at the end right they would have
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: lost that game to the Raiders. These Bears then they
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: played the Saints. They hosted, so they're at the Raiders,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: hosted the Saints, and then it was the game on
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Sunday Night. It was at San Francisco. That was the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: other last place team that they faced. Now, listen, you
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: can have a team that makes a dramatic turnaround and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: what looks like a cupcake game is anything. But that's
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: what Sunday night was. But which would you rather have?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: The Bears last place at the Raiders hosting the Saints
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and then at the forty nine ers. That's a tough one.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Or the Lions first place schedule at the Chiefs hosting
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Tampa before they bought them. Now that's Week seven when
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Tampa was still good, and then at the Rams. Good lord, dude.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: A last play schedule is a real thing. That makes
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: a world of difference right there. Here's the Saints. This
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: is a good one. Saints last play schedule. They finished
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: last a season ago, so they're playing a last play
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: schedule this season. Here's what they faced. They hosted the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Giants at the Bears, well turned around, and then at
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the Titans. You got the Giants and the Titans like that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: That's a huge difference right there. Meanwhile, Tampa, who finished
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: in first place, they're playing a first place schedule this season.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: They're three games at the Texans on a Monday night,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: hosting the Eagles at the Lions on a Monday night.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: That's world's tougher than a last place schedule as the Saint,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: So it makes a big difference. So it's crazy the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Lion's bottomed out in their last this season. That's gonna
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: help them next season. And so like the Oh their
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: window was closed. Dude, way premature. I hate Jared Goff
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: when he's facing a pass rush. I don't love that
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: they have to pay a bunch of dudes. It's a
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: good problem to have, but it still is a problem
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: because there's only so much money to go around. With
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a hard salary cap, gonna have to let a couple
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of players go. But this idea that their window is
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: closed and just no chance, know how, stop it. Blessed
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: with better health, their old line is banged up, their
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: secondary is ravaged, blessed with better health, blessed with a
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: last play schedule. Their window is not closed. Stop it?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: But people think that way. All right? Eight seven, seven
• 24:56
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• 25:00
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• 25:09
  Speaker 1: It came through in flying colors. It is one thing
• 25:12
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  Speaker 1: this song. I'll bore you for like twenty seconds, but
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: it was when I was introduced to the game Guitar Hero, right,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, I love that game, a great,
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  Speaker 1: great game. But I had just played it for the
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  Speaker 1: first time and maybe the only time. It was fun.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm like, all right, the blue the all right? Cool?
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  Speaker 1: And we just played this Queen song on a freaking
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  Speaker 5: And so I will I will you say on the
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  Speaker 5: same song until you perfect yeah song.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, And so I just it's in my
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  Speaker 1: head it's Freddie Mercury and Queen.
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  Speaker 5: And that was all easy, wasn't it. You didn't even
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• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I was just trying to get the general hangings. Yeah,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: it was not working out very well. All right, let
• 27:22
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• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to feel welcome, so you guys have the floor. Let
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: me go to Dre in Central Cali. I want to
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: hear what he has to say about these Niners hunt
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Niners big win against the Bears on Sunday night. What's
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: going on, Dre? You're on Fox Sports Radio.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: I've just been hanging and banging here at the gym
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: for last hour listening to you, nice man.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: What are you working on? What are you doing? Like
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: back in tries? What is it these early morning hours.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: I was turning my shoulders in the boulders and making
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: these traps, traps huge af.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Well, that's good man. You're wasting your time if you're
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: not doing exactly that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Well, you know the other day it was with the kids.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: Well it was quite a while ago, but we're champing
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: and we're going the lake and ranger gave me a ticket.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: I said, I ain't hunting. He said, well, of them
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: big ass traps you got on your shoulders right there.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: I could Lord, Yeah, yeah, anyway, I gotta agree with
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: you guys. Niners had the easiest schedule they could probably have,
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: except they did have to play Seattle. Tie well, they
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: play Seattle twice this coming week, had to play the
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Rams twice, beat them, they ran over to once. Schedule
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: was a little harder than I thought. But listen, guys, honestly,
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: you lose Bosa, you lose your first round draft choice.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: On the other side, Michael Williams.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I think his name was, Yeah, no doubt, no.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: Doubt, your all told linebacker goes out Fred water yep
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: aiming to be back by the NFC Championship Game. If
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: the Niners are lucky enough to be there. You know,
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: if the Niners make it to the NFC Championship game,
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: all I ask is if you win, win the Super Bowl.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Because I'm an old man. I was a senior in
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: high school in eighty one, so I seen my team
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: win all five. Then I've seen hardball and not give
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: the ball to Frank Gore once against the Ravens. I've
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: seen Shanahan forget how to coach twice against KC. Yeah,
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: those were darn good Niner teams. This team right here
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: would be more of a Cinderella story than the eighty
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: one team. And I'll tell you what everybody deserves. Looks,
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: any team that's ever won the Super Bowl, they've got
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: luck because they had help on their side. This team,
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: they'll be lucky. They can stay as healthy as they
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: are right now. And I've heard you talk about perty
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: before and not two good things. You know what. I
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: think he is starting to prove you wrong. You might
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: be coming over a little bit, you know, getting out
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: of the dark side, proving a lot of stuff to
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: a lot of in the NFL called NFL experts and
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: pungents me. I'm a homer, so I always thought he
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: was good, always thought he was great. But greater things
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: are going to come, so honest assessment. Like you said,
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: and like everybody said, there's no great team in the
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: NFL this year, right, why brother, Yeah.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Hey man, hey Dre. Listen. I appreciate the call, buddy,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and good luck with the rest of the workout. Very nice.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you're you're hanging with us. That's very cool.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And look, man, this is look. I think this is
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the year. This is the official year too. I would
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: love to have these bang the table takes like fade
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: this team, no way, this team. But it's just wide open.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: It is. It's wide open. And you're right. As far
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: as the Niners, they're to be commended for what they've
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: done in the regular season. Now the postseason is a
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: completely separate season. But what the Niners have done to
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: put themselves in a position they need to win one
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: more home game and they're the one seed in the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: NFC playoffs. With all the injuries, the key injuries, Like listen,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I might have ten injured guys. Your team might have
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: ten injured guys. It doesn't mean it equals out. It
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's the exact same. When we're talking Nick Bosa,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Fred Warner, we're talking about like the engine and the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: transmission of your vehicle on defense, and that is out
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and somehow the car has kept running, it has been
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: functioning at a high level. When they've lost that, that
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: is astounding. So hats off to them. Now. Could change
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: come postseason time, right when you have lost that talent
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you've got no pass rush
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and you're trying to just match points with tah It
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: could be tough, could be really really tough. And I
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: think that we're looking at the one seed even if
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they get the one seed. And yes, it is true,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you gotta win two home games and you're in the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: super Bowl. But I don't think we can undersell even
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: how hard that is to do. I think there's a
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: tendency where it's just a shoulder shrug, like, oh, dude,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: you just gotta win two home games. You're there. It's
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: just a walk in the park. It's like, oh, yeah,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you just drive to the local gas station.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: You might it might be like a little bit windy,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: but not too bet. You shouldn't have any problem, you
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: should be God, just go right there. It's right down
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the street. That's all good. Like, that's not what it
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: is man winning two home playoff games, especially this season.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Like if it's Broncos Niners, I don't know that we're
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: gonna have a one seed in the super Bowl. I
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: would bet against both one seeds get there. Honestly, it
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's gonna shake out that way, but when
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: it's as wide open as it is, I would fade
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the Niners in their lack of a pass rush. I
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: would fade the Broncos in their limited offense. I would
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's gonna work out that way, but if
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: there's ever a year for neither one seed to make it,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: it's this season. It's just wide open like that. And
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: as far as Perty goes, Yes, Strey has a good memory.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I have said some unsavory things. I've just been I
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: think i've been I think I've been fair. I haven't
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: dogged the guy. I'm not he can't play, he sucks,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: he's a hack. I ha said anything like that. I'm
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: just like, he's good. He's not great. He's good. He's
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: a good player. He's capable of making plays. He can
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: throw the ball accurately, on time, with anticipation. He does
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of things well. He's a decent athlete. He
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: can move around by time, pick up some yards with
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: his legs. He can do a lot of things really well.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: He can. But to pay him huge money and to
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: have to skimp at many other positions on the field
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: on the roster and have him like, all right, brock,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: you're that guy. Just take us to the promised Land.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: It's gonna take a lot more than beating up on
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: a suckie Bears defense and a sucky Colts defense to
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: convince me like, yeah, this guy is the real deal. Man,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I had it wrong again. I don't think he sucks
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and he's good. I think he's a good quarterback. I
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: don't think he's great. I don't think he is an
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: elite difference maker. I don't and maybe we'll get answers
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: come playoff time. But he's to be commended. I'm not
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: trying to rain on the parade, especially after he had
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: another five touchdown performance. He's had five touchdown performances in
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: each of the last two weeks. The play he made
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: buying time and hitting us check in the side of
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the end zone. That was an amazing play, whether he's
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: facing the Bears defense or not. Like those are NFL guys,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: they're getting paid out there, like that was an insane play.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: So yeah, like maybe the truth is somewhere in the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: middle where I'm like, he's good not great, Like then
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: he makes those plays and it might be a couple
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: of notches better than I make him out to be.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe I think time will tell on that, but I
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: think party with with a a lesser roster will put
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: it that way. So when you when you devote that
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: much money to a guy and have to skimp elsewhere, man,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: sometimes the warks show up really fast. Purdy is better
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: than my guy Tua, obviously, but look at Tua. It
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: wasn't that long ago. Tua's leading the league in passing yardage.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: To wall put up some numbers and then it's like,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: all right, we got to skimp here, we got we
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: got a key injury to Tyreek Hill there, like, okay,
• 35:58
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• 36:02
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• 36:04
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• 36:08
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• 36:20
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• 36:26
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• 36:29
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  Speaker 2: All right, So the core flavor of cheese, it's you've
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: got original white cheddar cheddar jack. Then you've got buffalo
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: wing pepper jack, Wow, hot and spicy. Yeah, Hidden Valley Ranch.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Why why why would you even do that?
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  Speaker 2: Wendy's Baconator Are you serious?
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: They made the Baconator flavor for cheese.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Its, yes, okay, uh, extra crunchy bowld cheddar, and then
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: apparently there's a new crunchline flavors like kick and nacho
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: cheese and zesti jalapeno cheddar.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: By the way, let me derail this for just a second.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: We were having an in depth cheese it conversation, but sidebar,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: okay for a second, we'll get back to the flavors.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: But I was watching it had it was the cheese
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: It Bowl like a few years ago, and I'll never forget.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Dan Orlovsky was on the call, and because I'm a
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: big fan of cheese its, and he's like, you know
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: what the company he told me that the proper way
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  Speaker 1: to say it is cheese it. Like it's not with
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: an S at the end. It is cheese it. That's
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: what it is, singular cheese.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: It just sounds wrong that, you know, like I'm eating
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: cheese it right now. That just sounds stupid. I'm eating
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: some cheese it's right now. Am I wrong? I like
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the S? Am I wrong for adding the S?
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know, No, I mean you're eating multiple cheese
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: it right.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Technically it's singular, like it's just okay, whatever, man, you.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: Wouldn't say, passed me the cheese it, Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Passed me the cheese it. Someone would send you to
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: past you one thing he is like, no, dude, the box.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: You'd be like, well, say, cheese it's.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: There, right. If the brand was just Dorito, right, you
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: would still say, hey, let me have some of those Doritos.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, yeah. So uh we found out that
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Coop is shaming me. I just had original cheese its,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: that's it. And I'm probably missing out on some delicious flavors.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: But we've made many comparisons, and we're on two different
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: pages here with the twenty one different flavors of cheeses.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Is what we have.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: They're almost like Baskin Robins are so close.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: They are close. They got the bacon eater. How about that?
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: The ranch sounds interesting? I wanna try the ranch.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, ranch is disgusting.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: I don't want anything you don't like ranch in regular
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: life either, not even Oh.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: God, love me a good buttermilk cranch.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: Oh the homemade ones too, oh so good. Hidden Valley
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: can be thrown away. I don't want that anywhere near.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: That's Trashugh.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I love when they're like, what are the choices. Is
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: it ranch or blue cheese. I'm like, yeah, neither, neither one.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Don't want either.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Good cheeses. Blue cheese is disgusting, but ranches.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Ranches.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Dip your pizza in there.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: You need it for everything. French fries, oh, dipped in ranch.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: Stop it.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Guys are psychos. What's wrong with you?
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Guys? Little crispy chicken wrap with some ramps.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Oh yes, drizzle it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: My gosh, that sounds terrible. Good segue, bad logic, and
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: a bad format. Right around the corner on FSR