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NFL 2025 | Week 17 "Tent Talk" | Updates, News & Injuries | Banter with the Boys - Gridiron Updates · Banter with the Boys

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  Get laced up! Let's go! It's time for Bizarre
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  with the Boys! Yo, yo, welcome back to Banter
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  with the Boys. What are we doing? Gridiron updates.
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  This is our tent doc episode. That was pretty
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  good. We got it on that one. Everybody that's
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  new here is like, what the hell just happened?
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  That's all right. I'm your host, Smeltsy, for
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  now. Right next to me, Roberto is here again.
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  Thank you. And then our other co -host. Oh, you
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  took your glasses off. Jake's here. We're done
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  with the somber stuff. That's right. That's fair.
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  Yeah. Still can see the swollen eyes. Well, Lamar
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  Jackson does come up in the tent talk episode.
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  Aw. More tears. Yeah, yeah. Coming up. Get ready.
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  And then Kev, as always, behind the scenes to
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  get everything done for us. Let's start out with
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  our injuries. Oh, that hurts. Yeah. Or a lot.
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  That threw me off. All right. Quinn Sean Judkins
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  running back for Cleveland. Fractured fibula
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  and dislocated ankle. That doesn't hurt the Browns'
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  opportunity to beat the Steelers. Yeah, it will.
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  Come on, Miles Garrett. Sorry, I had to get that
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  quick jab in. Come on, Miles Garrett. Let's see.
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  I did not see the video of that, but I bet if
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  there is one, it probably sucks with a fractured
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  fibula and dislocated ankle. That's probably
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  a gruesome one. No, that's not. All right. Lamar
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  Jackson. I just put down back. That's what he
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  left with. Took a knee to the back. Back to the
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  IR. No. We're not the only purple team with a
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  quarterback back on the IR. Hey, he's just missing
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  this game. Just a little hairline fracture. But
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  he can't play. He needs like five seasons. And
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  if he plays like two of them, then we know we
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  got our guy. So Jordan Love, he'll need to clear
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  concussion protocol before he's able to play
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  this week. So probably Malik Willis. Getting
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  after it again. Ooh, that reminds me. I probably
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  have some of his rookie cards. I should move
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  those now. He's playing again. Make money. Hit
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  up Coach. Yeah, hit up Smelty. You know what
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  I mean? Oh, why not? J .J. McCarthy. Hairline
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  fracture in his hand. We already mentioned that.
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  Nine. Nine, sorry. Nine. Hairline fracture in
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  his hand. You don't know who nine is. Careful
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  how you type that into YouTube, actually. If
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  you just type nine. Other things might come up.
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  Let's see. Travion Henderson. Kayshaun. Now I
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  have to do it. Is it boot? Bout? Jared Wilson.
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  Is it Boutte? Boutte. Oh, you're right. It is.
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  That's right. I remember looking up how to say
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  his name last season, actually. They're all on.
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  And Jared Wilson. Sorry, they're O -linemen.
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  All on concussion protocol for New England. So
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  that kind of blows as you're trying to make a
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  push for the number one seed right now. Travion
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  Henderson, specifically. He did fall and hit
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  the back of his head pretty good and left the
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  game and did not return after that. He's had
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  a nice year. Not looking good. Yeah. Got to get
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  more touches and can't do that if you're concussed,
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  my friend. Is he rookie of the year in the AFC?
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  In the AFC? Who are we missing? Well, if you're
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  going to do AFC. Let's do it. Let's do it. If
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  we're going to do conferences, you probably make
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  a case for it. Because in the NFC, you've got
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  McMillan and Mbuka. Probably is your. Yeah, but
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  he's really fallen off. He has, which is why
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  McMillan, I think, is creeping back up again.
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  On an arguably worse team, obviously. Tyler Warren.
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  No. After Daniel Jones went down, it was different.
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  Well, true, but I think any tight end would say
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  that after their starting quarterback goes down.
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  Yeah, but if you're looking at the whole season.
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  A tight end is usually a backup quarterback's
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  best friend. I mean, behind a strong running
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  game. Well, I guess Uncle Uncle can get in the
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  ball. Come on, Rivers. Come on, Rivers. Hey,
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  you might be right. Maybe Henderson is. AFC Offensive
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  Rookie of the Year. Interesting thought. Interesting
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  thought. Let's see. Gardner Minshew, I believe.
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  I forgot to confirm this. I believe he avoids
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  ACL. Yeah, it's not a torn ACL. So good for him.
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  He's still going to keep him out. He's going
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  to play? Oh, he'll rub some dirt on it. He's
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  that type of guy. Rub some dirt on the ligament
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  injury. Yeah. Uncle Rico. All right. Yeah, that'll
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  do it. It's like the magic mud or something.
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  You just put some mud on it, and it just pays.
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  It's good. Or maybe some hemp lotion. You know,
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  that'll probably work. That's a whole different
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  rabbit hole I haven't gotten down before. All
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  right. Fair enough. All right. George Kittle
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  left the game for his ankle. He seemed fairly
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  upset about it. I don't know if it was a sprain
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  or what. But I remember him rubbing it pretty
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  hard. It didn't come out right. He was looking
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  at it on the side part of the game last night.
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  Just look at it. And he didn't come back in.
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  So something to keep an eye on. You think so?
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  Just tape it up. Yeah. Just kind of like keep
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  them out because the game got away from the cold.
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  So why risk further injury at that point? Fair
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  enough. So you don't think it's anything too
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  serious? No. You heard it here first, 49ers fans.
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  He's pretty hardcore, too. I mean, he does, like,
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  professional wrestling on the side, too. Yeah,
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  he is pretty hardcore. He's an intense fellow.
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  Yeah. I like him. He's got a lot of energy. You
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  guys got any more injuries here? Just other than
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  the Ravens fans. Yeah. Yeah, the Ravens fans'
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  playoffs hopes. And Colts. Imagine if we had
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  Colts fans. Seven and one, sir, in the year.
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  You start seeing the memes about... Did I send
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  that meme today? Yeah, I did. I think you did,
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  yeah. The joke. Guy woke up from a coma. It was
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  like, how have the Colts been after they started
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  7 -1? Yeah, it's been, yeah. Ouch. That's all
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  I got. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. All right,
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  news. Just a couple things. Jaguars, Chargers,
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  Bills, Broncos, Patriots all clinched postseason
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  spots. With the Colts' loss. Yep, there's that.
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  That was a big slide. DK Metcalf is suspended
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  for two games for altercation with the fan, which
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  is allegedly the same fan he's had issues with
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  before. That fan. You think that's true? If that's
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  true and he's had the same issues with the fan
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  before, I think he should appeal the suspension.
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  personally yeah and the fans should not be allowed
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  back i agree with that but also if dk knew it
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  was the same guy why do you go back maybe you
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  want the smoke i don't i don't know because i'm
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  pretty sure he might lose i didn't go too far
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  into this either but i thought i saw somewhere
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  he might lose like 40 million guaranteed money
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  because He's facing a suspension. So there's
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  the stipulation where he loses guaranteed money
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  or something if he gets suspended or something
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  like that. So why would you even risk that? So
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  anyway, I think he should appeal it anyway and
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  at least get only one game maybe. He probably
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  still shouldn't hit a fan. If he even hit him,
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  he kind of like threw him. It's a whole thing.
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  There's footage where that fan is like walking
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  back and he's like, that's what, like talking
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  about or saying that's what he was intending
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  on doing. Oh, yeah, yeah. He was totally what?
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  Yeah. Yeah, he was instigating that 100%. For
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  sure he was. Because he wasn't calling him his
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  first name. And you could see. Oh, yeah, yeah,
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  yeah. His legal name. His legal name. Yeah. And
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  according to DK, some other derogatory things
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  about his mother and him. Which is what he said
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  last time was things about his mom and whatnot.
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  Don't need to be at a football game doing that.
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  You're going to get two crowds here. You're going
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  to get the crowd that's like, oh, well, have
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  a thicker skin. You're a professional athlete.
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  Sure, slightly. But also, if the dude's doing
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  the same thing again, when does the NFL step
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  in? You know what I mean? That's crap, man. At
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  some point, yes, everybody's like, well, DK should
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  be an adult and hold himself better. Okay, well,
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  the fan should be an adult and hold himself.
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  All can be true. So it's a whole thing. The Chiefs
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  allegedly may leave Arrowhead starting in the
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  2031 season. I thought it was a done deal. I
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  don't know. I think it might be. I think they're
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  going to the state of Kansas. They're moving.
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  Cross state lines. They're moving across the
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  border. And building a stadium that looks like,
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  you know, if you listen to the last episode,
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  I went on a quick 30 -second tangent of stadiums.
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  Well, the new renderings of the Chiefs' new stadium
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  look like half the other new stadium. Yeah, and
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  it's over there by their MLS stadium, and there's
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  obviously a big shopping retail complex already
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  built over there. What city is it going to be
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  in? I don't know. Some suburb. Some burb. Doesn't
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  matter. Some burb. Burb. Okay. Them and the Bears.
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  There's that. You saw the Bears talking about
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  moving to Indiana. Was that true? Yeah. Gary,
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  Indiana? Or was the Gary, Indiana part memes?
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  I don't know. I don't think the Gary, Indiana
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  part is memes because Gary, Indiana is not that
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  far away from Chicago. I mean, it's just like
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  San Francisco 49ers. Interesting. They don't
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  play in San Francisco. They play in Santa Clarita
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  or whatever. No. I do not think Gary and Ann
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  is going to happen for a new stadium. Washington
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  commanders are like that. They play on the middle.
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  They do have the room for it. There is that.
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  And then for a while, they were thinking about
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  a suburb outside Chicago, too. Which would have
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  made more sense. And what happened to that? I
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  can't remember what fell through there. The city
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  just doesn't want to pay for it. And then you
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  get into that, which you're a professional. NFL
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  team, you should probably pay for your own stadium.
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  Yeah, I would agree. Leverage, baby. There it
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  is. Well, that's all the news I have. You guys
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  got any news? Pro Bowl teams were announced.
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  Oh, Pro Bowl. No Vikings. Maybe that's why it
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  wasn't news to me. Really? No Vikings players
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  on the Pro Bowl. Is that even possible? Isn't
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  it mandatory to get one? After having seven last
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  year? No, none. That's mandatory fun. I'm pretty
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  sure. Really? But now the Pro Bowl is kind of
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  turning into the bowl games of the college world,
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  and players are like, eh. Well, they don't do
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  the tradition. Remember they went to like eight
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  quarterbacks last year in the AFC, didn't they?
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  Yeah. Finally, there was enough that we're going
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  to play. Which is why you have Pro Bowl quarterback
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  Tyler Huntley. Listen. He should be a Pro Bowl
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  backup anyway. He's just an honorable coach's
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  pick. Him and Jameis. Yeah. There's a tank bowl
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  alert going on. Giants versus the Raiders. Week
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  17 for that one pick. But again, who's exciting
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  enough? Who's exciting enough? There's that de
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  -tackle at Ohio State. Number one overall? Yeah.
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  Probably consensus, and then it depends who needs
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  a quarterback. Or some quarterback -needy team
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  is going to... The Raiders, if the Raiders get
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  one, they're going to take the Indiana guy. You
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  think so? For sure. You think Tom Brady's going
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  to be like, yeah, that's the guy? For sure. You're
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  convinced? Mendoza, huh? Yeah, that's where the
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  cookie crumbles sometimes, you know? Best available
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  player. Raiders need a quarterback, so... It's
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  that or more out of Oregon. It doesn't matter
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  who your quarterback is if your offensive line
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  can't keep him upright. Hey, well. Sounds like
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  a Ravens fan talking. Yeah, well. He should know.
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  He knows. Back on the IR. Yeah, there it is.
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  Got him. Boom. Well, that'll do it for our tent
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  talk episode. Oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah. Thanks
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  for being here, Jake. Thanks for having me. Of
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  course. Roberto. Welcome. It's fun. Smeltzy. Yep.
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  You're welcome. Sounds good. Kev. Kev. Oh, he
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  flicked me off again. Damn it. Yeah. All right.
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  And from Banter with the Boys, of course, have
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  a very Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. And
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  we'll see you next week for the next rendition
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  of Old Tent Talk. You're slow. I know. I know.
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  That's why I didn't comment on it, because I
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  was the slow one that time. All right. Anyway.
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