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10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: NFL teams are in the paddock! · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: the tongue, and it's very simple. It's exactly what I
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  Speaker 1: tell you will deliver, and it's exactly what we will deliver.
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  Speaker 1: We have ten minutes. It's on the clock. If I
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  Speaker 1: don't finish, the bomb goes off. My face gets melted off,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm embarrassed because I don't finish all ten of
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  Speaker 1: the takes. I'm gonna try to do it again today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling saucy. I had a long weekend. I am vibed.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed myself. I watched a lot of football. So
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  Speaker 1: why don't we just start the clock now? Take number one.
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  Speaker 1: This Cowboys team is no different than any other Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: team for my adult life. Here's the thing. You can
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  Speaker 1: lose by twenty one points. That's okay, it happens. The
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  Speaker 1: other teams are very good. You didn't have the greatest week,
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  Speaker 1: you had an off day. It's fine. You can lose
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  Speaker 1: by twenty one points. Lose in December, that's all right,
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  Speaker 1: there's still time. The playoffs aren't here. You can lose
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  Speaker 1: in December. You can't lose by twenty one in December.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the way it works. You can't do it,
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  Speaker 1: especially when we're been told that this team is different,
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  Speaker 1: this is not your standard issue widget Cowboys team, that
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  Speaker 1: they're special, they're different. The last ten teams to win
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl ten in a row have not lost
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  Speaker 1: by double digits in December. They figure their bleep out
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  Speaker 1: when it's go time, when it's adult time, when it's
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  Speaker 1: contender time. You can lose by twenty one. You can
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  Speaker 1: lose in December. You can't expect us to take you
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  Speaker 1: seriously if you lose by twenty one in December. Take
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  Speaker 1: number two. The Cowboys are fast food. I finally realized it.
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  Speaker 1: Think about a fast food chain, Think about one that
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  Speaker 1: might specialize in some version of Mexican food. For years,
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  Speaker 1: they've been using the same four ingredients, swapping them around,
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  Speaker 1: doing a little sleight of hand, repackaging them, rebranding them,
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  Speaker 1: and saying, look, we got a brand new thing, but
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  Speaker 1: the ingredients are the same, the taste is the same.
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  Speaker 1: The delivery means this changed. The name has changed. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: one or two little tweaks about the ingredients have changed,
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  Speaker 1: but really not even it's the same four things. You
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  Speaker 1: know it, I know it. That's the Cowboys. It's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. It's the same ingredients. You still got Dak there,
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  Speaker 1: you still got a coach there. It was pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: but like maybe not the greatest, maybe in a little
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  Speaker 1: over his head. And they're just saying it's a new thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not. It's a little different. A couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago is, well, this version can't manage the clock.
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  Speaker 1: And then maybe a year ago is this version can't finish.
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  Speaker 1: This version of the Cowboys Mexican fast food is we
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  Speaker 1: can't win on the road, And next year's will be different,
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  Speaker 1: and next years will be after that, but it's always
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  Speaker 1: the same ingredients. Guys can't win on the road is
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  Speaker 1: not we might have some problems with our kickoff coverage unit,
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  Speaker 1: or we've been bit by the injury bug a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It's a major problem. Half the games are on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and for the Cowboys, your playoff game is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: on the road singular, So you gotta stop telling me
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  Speaker 1: this is a new Cowboys thing. It's like the same
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  Speaker 1: way that the fast food players comes out and says,
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  Speaker 1: we got a new thing, and it's in a bowl now,
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  Speaker 1: or it's a rap or it's a crunchy one. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: it tastes great, it's salty, it's hot. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell me it's really good. I'll believe you. You
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  Speaker 1: just can't tell me that it's different because it's not.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys. For the love of God, live Moss take
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  Speaker 1: number three. The Bills are going to the playoffs. The
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills are going to the playoffs. The same team
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  Speaker 1: that lost to the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football
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  Speaker 1: for having twelve men on the field and seem to
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  Speaker 1: be circling the drain. Same team that then lost to
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles when they missed on a pass from Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen to Gabe Davis. The same team that had a
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  Speaker 1: really embarrassing off the field week with their head coach
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  Speaker 1: and a few other things that are just nasty. That's
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  Speaker 1: the team that just destroyed Dallas from start to finish
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  Speaker 1: and their quarterback completed seven passes. That team's getting in.
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  Speaker 1: I warn people this time of year it's folly to
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  Speaker 1: look at schedules and just assume wins. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing it with Buffalo. They have the Chargers next,
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  Speaker 1: who I granted, are a little bit scary because they
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  Speaker 1: fired their coach, and teams that fire their coach get
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  Speaker 1: the bump. Then they have the Patriots who beat the
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  Speaker 1: Bills earlier. I don't care. They'll figure it out, and
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  Speaker 1: then they have what might be the game of the millennium,
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  Speaker 1: which is Bills at Dolphins Week eighteen. Could be for
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  Speaker 1: all the marbles. The Bills are getting in one way
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  Speaker 1: or another. They're getting in and they're not your standard issue,
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  Speaker 1: garden variety come running team that has a scrappy little
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  Speaker 1: rookie quarterback or a new head coach, and they've really
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  Speaker 1: figured it out. They have a dober minute quarterback, they've
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  Speaker 1: been to the title game before, they've won playoff games
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  Speaker 1: for They're not supposed to be the cume running team.
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  Speaker 1: They're in a higher weight class than the come running team.
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  Speaker 1: But they're running guys, and they're getting into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Take number four. The MVP is brock Perty's to lose
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  Speaker 1: in one of our more interesting MVP races. Here's my update.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what the odds say, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what anybody says. Here's what I say. Dak Prescott is
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  Speaker 1: not going to win the MVP. He better Dan Well
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  Speaker 1: not you can't lose by twenty one points on the
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  Speaker 1: road and also not be able to win on the
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  Speaker 1: road and be rewarded the MVP. I think he's out.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is out for some of the same reasons.
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  Speaker 1: Losing primetime games, losing to Dallas, losing to San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, You're not winning it. Sadly, Tyreek Hill is
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  Speaker 1: out because he didn't play a game, and we all
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  Speaker 1: knew Tyreek is gonna have to run a perfect race
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  Speaker 1: to win the MVP. As a wide receiver, He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to get two thousand yards, break Cavin Johnson's record,
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  Speaker 1: and play every game. None of that stuff is gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: He's out. I think it's brock Perty. I think the
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  Speaker 1: McCaffrey thing is looming, and can we have co MVPs
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  Speaker 1: between brock Perty and McCaffrey. Imagine that on the same team.
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  Speaker 1: Lamar is there. Lamar's gonna have to have a real
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  Speaker 1: flourish of the next three weeks because Lamar has already
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  Speaker 1: won the MVP and the story isn't as good. And
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  Speaker 1: then the Josh Allen thing if the Bills do get
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  Speaker 1: to the playoffs, which I believe they will, and he's
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  Speaker 1: incredible over the last three games, which statistically he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: against Dallas because he didn't have to be Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: could win it. But I think if brock perty merely
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  Speaker 1: holds Serve they finished fourteen and three, he keeps doing
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  Speaker 1: the stuff he's doing. Brock Purty in his second year
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  Speaker 1: is gonna win MVP. It's insane. Take number five. I'm
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  Speaker 1: way behind schedule. The Ravens look awesome. They're ready to run.
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  Speaker 1: I was worried that so much of the Ravens conversation
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  Speaker 1: of the month of December is gonna be how much
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  Speaker 1: they miss Mark Andrews. They don't. He's the second best
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  Speaker 1: player in their offense. They do not miss him. Lamar
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  Speaker 1: looks great. He looks calm, he looks confident. He's poised.
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  Speaker 1: The Ravens have this recipe like, we play really good
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  Speaker 1: defense and Lamar's magic. Try to beat us. It's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be easy. The Ravens look great. Take number six.
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield won't go away, and I hope he never does.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people expect him to a certain part
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  Speaker 1: of the population wants him to, and he just won't.
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  Speaker 1: The Netflix Baker Mayfield movie is going to be awesome,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a long time away. I think about a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, certainly two years ago, when he was washing
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  Speaker 1: out of Cleveland. There were some I remember listening to
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  Speaker 1: them saying, yeah, you know, Baker would be great in
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  Speaker 1: a college football booth as a broadcaster. How about that
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  Speaker 1: He just went into lambeau Field and had this second
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  Speaker 1: perfect game in Lambeofield history, one fifty eight point three
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  Speaker 1: passer rating. The only two people I have ever done in
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  Speaker 1: that field are Aaron Rodgers and Baker Mayfield, which means
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  Speaker 1: Farv never did it, which means dozens and dozens of
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  Speaker 1: other quarterbacks, including innumerable Hall of famers who played the Lambo,
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  Speaker 1: never had as clean and as a productive a game
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  Speaker 1: as Baker Mayfield did. He's not going away. I just
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  Speaker 1: can't quit Baker, and I love him. The Bucks are
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  Speaker 1: in first place. I think they're gonna be hosting a
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  Speaker 1: playoff game. Take number seven. I can't believe what I
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  Speaker 1: saw at the end of the Bear's Cleveland game. Cleveland's
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  Speaker 1: the doll of the AFC North Right now, I'm Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: is too in Baltimore. I'm just saying they're the coolest
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  Speaker 1: story because they have Flacco. Flacco was great in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. In joke, who greats Stefanski great? How the
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  Speaker 1: bleep did the Bears not catch that hail mary? That
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  Speaker 1: unsuccessful hail mary was more exciting than a successful hail mary,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably the most exciting play in the sport.
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  Speaker 1: Fields throws a perfect one. It gets deflected perfectly into
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  Speaker 1: the gut of Darnal Mooney and somehow he didn't pull in,
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  Speaker 1: and then it gets intercepted. On top of that, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you something that was not just visually appealing
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  Speaker 1: and intoxicating. There's ripple effects to that drop. If Darnald
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  Speaker 1: Mooney pulls that in the Bears win, the Bears are alive,
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  Speaker 1: They get the goodwill win of the month, they get
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  Speaker 1: the exciting play of the year. Maybe the coaching staff stays,
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  Speaker 1: Maybe justin Field stays. Maybe it affects the draft in
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  Speaker 1: a positive way for Chicago. The fact that he drops it,
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  Speaker 1: that could be the undoing of Justin Fields. Battle lines
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  Speaker 1: are being drawn right now. Should Fields be the future?
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  Speaker 1: Should they hold on to him? He did not play
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  Speaker 1: well in the game. His stats weren't good, as performance
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  Speaker 1: wasn't good. But if you throw a hell Mary at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game and you when everybody kind
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  Speaker 1: of forgets all that he didn't tough tough day, I
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  Speaker 1: can't I still can't believe they dropped that take number eight.
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  Speaker 1: I like teams right now that are ready to race.
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  Speaker 1: When I used to work for Jim Rome, Jim Roman
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  Speaker 1: is a horse racing enthusiast, and he used to take
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  Speaker 1: me to the track. We would go and we'd hang
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  Speaker 1: out and have drinks and dinner. Sometimes the wives would come,
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  Speaker 1: and he would walk me through someplace called the paddock.
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  Speaker 1: The paddock at a fancy racetrack like del Mar or
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  Speaker 1: Arlen sand or whatever it may be in Chicago is
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  Speaker 1: the last place the horses walk before they go out
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  Speaker 1: on the track, and they're with the jockeys and they
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  Speaker 1: walk around and they they basically just at being literal
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  Speaker 1: show ponies to show off how good they look and
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  Speaker 1: how beautiful and how strong, and they kind of maybe
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  Speaker 1: tell you who you want to bet on. I want
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  Speaker 1: teams right now that are walking through the paddock with
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  Speaker 1: arrogance and confidence. Who are it's December, guys, It's Christmas
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  Speaker 1: next week, a week from today. If you're not ready now,
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  Speaker 1: you're never gonna be. Baltimore, Miami, San Francisco and Detroit
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  Speaker 1: look good in the paddock. Dallas does not, Jacksonville looks terrible,
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  Speaker 1: and Denver so disappointing. You gotta be ready to race
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  Speaker 1: right now. This is not September October. It's race time.
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  Speaker 1: Take number nine. The Lions look ready to race. I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe how badly they beat the hell out of
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos. This was supposed to be this great master
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  Speaker 1: Padawan Peyton Campbell thing. Detroit, who had been shaky as hell,
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  Speaker 1: really shaky, especially golf golf, comes out with a five
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  Speaker 1: ozho five touchdowns, no interceptions. They look good, They look ready.
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  Speaker 1: That game for Detroit on Saturday night was what their
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving game was supposed to be a national holiday for
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  Speaker 1: the Lions. They finally got it. They played right. Take
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  Speaker 1: number ten. You want a movie that's good for kids
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  Speaker 1: around the holidays, Klaus Klaus. It's the origin story of
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  Speaker 1: Santa Claus. My kids love it. That's it. Ten minutes.
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  Speaker 1: How about it? I like that one. I shorted My
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  Speaker 1: analysis on the Klaus movie could have gone longer. There
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  Speaker 1: could have gone longer on the paddock. Analogy could have
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  Speaker 1: gone longer on the Lions. Guys, I don't have a choice.
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  Speaker 1: It's not ten takes in eleven minutes. It's ten takes
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes. It's not eleven takes, it's ten and ten.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I wish I could go overtime like the Titans
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  Speaker 1: and Texans did yesterday. I can't. I'm beholden to the
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes. I try to make it as intelligible as
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