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Mike McCarthy's Future, Tom Brady and the Buccaneers, & Giants - Eagles Preview · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: to all out, Sam Hubbard scooped it up and Ramball
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Speaker 1: the knocks as hot as the fire cracker. Touch down
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Speaker 1: Huts twenty three yard gets the latch by house brock
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Speaker 1: The forty nine is winning sake one Bartley on twenty
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Speaker 1: eight guards Burke touchdown, Jiants showing of the first down
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Speaker 1: as Hockinson Giants and parents. Patterson's picking up the field
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Speaker 1: goal is good good, but ten wards up wanted. They
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Speaker 1: have come back from twenty seven nothing to win the
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Speaker 1: game and move on. How good is that? How good
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Speaker 1: is that? How good is this going to be? Tonight?
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys the Bucketeers Monday Night Football to wrap up
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Speaker 1: a super wild card weekend. Is it Tom Brady's final game?
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Speaker 1: I don't just me and as a Bucketeer Steve Whitch,
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Speaker 1: I mean is it his final game? We won't know,
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Speaker 1: I mean all indication or he can still play at
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Speaker 1: a high level. But is it the final game? Overall
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Speaker 1: for the Buccaneers. We'll see I mean the good witch
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Speaker 1: and questions being asked during this game tonight about Brady,
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Speaker 1: about Mike McCarthy's future, about the will get to that
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Speaker 1: come up from the second. By the way, Welcome to
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Speaker 1: NFL Now a Monday edition. After a pretty super wild
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Speaker 1: card weekend, that is Steve Whitch. My name is andrews
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Speaker 1: Cecilian to hope you had a super duper weekend as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: super duper, super duper, uper duper. If you say that.
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Speaker 1: If you say that again, I'm calling you on it.
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Speaker 1: Please do I won't. I promise. Let's get to the highlights.
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Speaker 1: Can we do that? And we opened it up with
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Speaker 1: the game last night that ended the super duper weekend.
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Speaker 1: It was Row and the Bengals who came into the
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Speaker 1: game right to get eight game regular season winning streak.
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Speaker 1: They had beaten the Bengals week eight teen that they
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Speaker 1: had the early nine to nothing lead here on the
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Speaker 1: Jamaar Chase touchdown, Evan McPherson missed the extra points. Fantastic
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Speaker 1: drive finish up with number one, and a fantastic finish
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Speaker 1: to this game as well. Let's go to the fourth
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Speaker 1: quarter this is Tyler Huntley, who played well. I know
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Speaker 1: he had picked the first quarter, but Steve, for the
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Speaker 1: most part, he played well, thirty five yards down inside
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Speaker 1: the five. At this point you think they're going with you.
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Speaker 1: At this point you're like, okay, now we've really got
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Speaker 1: a game. The Ravens, we didn't think had a chance
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Speaker 1: to win it, have a chance to win it. And
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Speaker 1: then the phone on third down. Instead of going low,
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Speaker 1: he went high. The ball got knocked out by Logan
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Speaker 1: Wilson and picked up by Sam Hubbard, and Mark Andrews
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Speaker 1: is trying. That's the fastest Mark Andrews before getting blocked
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Speaker 1: in the back can ever run his career, according to
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Speaker 1: the Next Gen. But Sam Hubbard goes nine yards and
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Speaker 1: the spin look at you see right there, very short
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Speaker 1: to Kenby Mutambo. Knock out there and there's Harvard write
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Speaker 1: his hands. I mean that just fell perfectly for the
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Speaker 1: bank and there was no waving of the finger like Mutambo.
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Speaker 1: It's the longest bumble return for a touchdown in postseason history.
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Speaker 1: But the Ravens got the ball back. They forced the punt.
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Speaker 1: They converted here on fourth down on the keeper right
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Speaker 1: at the two minute warning. But then the clock pick
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Speaker 1: heptick ticking, Nick. I don't have a problem necessarily at
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Speaker 1: the clock management. It still would have been fourth in
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Speaker 1: twenty and they still almost got filmost got it. I
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Speaker 1: mean it is this close from this game going to
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Speaker 1: overtime or seeing those John Harbaugh him going for two.
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Speaker 1: Look at this right here on the hail Mary Oh,
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Speaker 1: right off the fingertips. James Brochet cannot get it and
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Speaker 1: John Harba sees it as over Joe Burrow the Bengals
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Speaker 1: big side relief. They are going to Buffalo because Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen and the Bills survived yesterday. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: the best way to say it. They were out to
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Speaker 1: the big seventeen nothing lead early and then the Dolphins
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Speaker 1: were bringing the pressure and this time it worked early
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Speaker 1: a third quarter Zack Seeler falls on the touch. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: big time play. Allen did Nazie the pressure, Common popped
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Speaker 1: it out. Got several focals against the Dolphins this year.
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Speaker 1: Three turnovers in this game for Josh Allen and the Bills. However,
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Speaker 1: they retake the lead when Cold Beasley gets in the
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Speaker 1: end zone on the six yard score. It's twenty seven
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Speaker 1: to twenty four. Then looking sister thing of beauty with
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Speaker 1: the reach, the toe tap, big Blood Gabe Davis. All
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Speaker 1: he does in the postseason is score touchdown. Skyler Thompson
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Speaker 1: made plays the two forty seventh pick in the draft,
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Speaker 1: was let down by his receivers all day. But Jeff
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Speaker 1: Wilson scores here and we have a three point game.
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Speaker 1: Look at the clock, about five to go, falls knocked out.
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Speaker 1: They almost turned it over a fourth time. Bradley Chuff
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Speaker 1: got to it, but Spencer Brown fell onto the bills
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Speaker 1: of actually have to punt now, Mike McDaniel, you have
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Speaker 1: a shot here near midfield on a fourth and one,
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Speaker 1: but he evidently didn't know his fourth down. He thought
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Speaker 1: they had gotten the first and then they take a
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Speaker 1: delay on fourth and just a brutal penalty to call again,
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Speaker 1: him saying, we thought we had the first down. You know,
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Speaker 1: you just you gotta you gotta have one ready to
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Speaker 1: go just in case. Says he was told from up
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Speaker 1: top that they had a first They eventually taken to late,
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Speaker 1: despite the fact he reset the play flock. And then
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Speaker 1: on fourth and sixth, Thompson can't hit Mike ka sick
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Speaker 1: you at a touchdown earlier that balls knocked away and
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Speaker 1: the Bills survived, Yes they did. They hang on in
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Speaker 1: with it and the people are happy thirty four to
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Speaker 1: thirty one. They are happy in New York today because
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Speaker 1: Brian Davils mentioned earlier, took a team that didn't do
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Speaker 1: anything last year and went on the road and did
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Speaker 1: what they could not do. A few weeks ago, they
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Speaker 1: beat the Vikings in Minnesota. Kirk Cousins Vota irv Smith
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Speaker 1: Fear gave the Vikings delete it to twenty four. This
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Speaker 1: is Sa Kwan, who had over a hundred yards huge day.
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Speaker 1: Sa Kwan gives the Giants the lead one to twenty four,
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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna be talking about this all off season.
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Speaker 1: You know you hate to see this. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: need you need eight yards when you check down to four.
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Speaker 1: You gotta give your planemakers a chance to get it.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's worth downs. They've got to get the
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Speaker 1: first time. I hope alive. Kirk Cousins hits t J.
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Speaker 1: Hopkinson well short of the marker, and the Giants and
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Speaker 1: Brian Dave all are smoking cigars. Afterwards. They go into
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Speaker 1: Minnesota and this time they win, which sets up Divisional
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Speaker 1: Weekend with the A f C with the early two
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Speaker 1: games and the NFC with the late. The Giants go
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Speaker 1: to Philadelphia for their third meeting this year with the
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Speaker 1: NFC East friend Eagles, and tonight it's either the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: or the Bucketeers were a right to go to San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: Let's get our insiders in here, Ian and Toma, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about that game, guys, Tom, we have heard plenty
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Speaker 1: about Mike McCarthy and his future. Jerry Jones didn't want
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Speaker 1: to go there last week. Other than saying nothing tonight
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Speaker 1: will change his view on Mike McCarthy, Well, Andrew. If
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Speaker 1: any owner in the NFL speaks his mind on a
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Speaker 1: practically daily basis, it is Jerry Jones. So at this
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Speaker 1: point head into this game, not a lot of reason
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Speaker 1: not to take Jerry at his word. Listen, Mike McCarthy
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Speaker 1: has won twelve twelve games each of the past two seasons,
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Speaker 1: first time the Cowboys have done that. Since they have
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Speaker 1: established a culture there. They are a team that, quite frankly,
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Speaker 1: is equipped to make a Super Bowl run if Dak
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Speaker 1: Prescott could turn the ball over a little less here
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Speaker 1: as we head into the postseason. Obviously, they've got a
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator on their staff, Dan Quinn, who they think
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Speaker 1: a lot of. If they ever did make a change,
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Speaker 1: Quinn would be a logical person to turn to. But
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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy has done a lot. As Jerry Jones said,
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Speaker 1: he would evaluate McCarthy off of way more than one game,
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Speaker 1: and to this point, it's hard to argue with the
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Speaker 1: results so far in Dallas exactly. They're here and they
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Speaker 1: are on the road because the Eagles form the division
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Speaker 1: of the Bucks, even with a losing record, won the
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Speaker 1: NFC South. All right, So there's the Cowboys side of it.
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Speaker 1: Ian undoubtably Joe and Troit. Tonight we will be talking
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Speaker 1: about Tom Brady as well. Is this his last game?
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Speaker 1: Is it his last game with the Buccaneers? What can
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Speaker 1: you add? Yeah? I would think they might mention at
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Speaker 1: a time or two, and we've all been mentioning it
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Speaker 1: really over the course of the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: And we don't know for sure whether or not Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady is returning for a three season. It feels like
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Speaker 1: that's the way it's leaning, and certainly feels like another
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Speaker 1: season will make a lot of sense for Brady, especially
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Speaker 1: considering he's played pretty good, especially in crunch time over
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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. So where is he gonna go? Well,
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Speaker 1: he is a free agent, and I know that Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers would like to have him back. He's got
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Speaker 1: a lot of affection for the owners, the Glazer family,
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Speaker 1: so that would certainly make some sense. But if he
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Speaker 1: goes out, then maybe spreads his wings a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a couple of teams to watch. You know, I
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Speaker 1: would have thought the forty Niners before brock Prity kind
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Speaker 1: of stuck his stay his claim, did that starting job.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. That's not sure that one is available still.
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans would make sense, But the one a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are talking about is the Las Vegas Raiders,
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Speaker 1: and that makes a lot of sense. You got Josh
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Speaker 1: McDaniels there, you got plenty of New England influence. They
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Speaker 1: still could draft one, so they could bring Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: in right this thing, get everyone playing well, help a
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Speaker 1: rookie learning system, and just move on from there. That
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Speaker 1: would make some sense. We'll see if Brady wants to
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Speaker 1: be all across the country away from his family too.
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Speaker 1: That's also something else to consider, and we'll see if
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Speaker 1: we have to start addressing those questions as early as
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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, the morning after. I for the Cincinnati Bengals
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Speaker 1: not too kind on the injury front. They've already lost
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Speaker 1: Leo Collins. How bad is that Jonah Williams injury? My
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Speaker 1: understanding is Joanah Williams suffered a dislocated kneecap, which kind
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Speaker 1: of sounds familiar because he did the exact same thing
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Speaker 1: in Week five, I believe against the Baltimore raven So
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Speaker 1: I think they also played last night if memory serves,
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Speaker 1: it has been a long time ago, but Jonah Williams
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Speaker 1: as of now, is not been ruled out going forward.
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Speaker 1: It seems far fetched though that he who played this week,
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Speaker 1: But sometimes when you just located kneecap, especially a reoccurrence,
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Speaker 1: you can rehab a little and get back in a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Obviously, we don't know if the Bangos
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Speaker 1: are gonna be playing in a couple of weeks, but
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Speaker 1: if they continue to advance, at least there is a
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Speaker 1: chance that jon and Williams will advance with them. Okay,
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Speaker 1: but they advanced out of Buffalo without their starting left tackle,
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Speaker 1: and they're starting right tackle and right card for that matter.
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Speaker 1: Alex Cappa, Thank you Ian, Thank you Tomy. Banged up
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Speaker 1: offensive line. Banked up offensive lines really the story for
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Speaker 1: both of these teams for a lot of the year.
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Speaker 1: As we look at Raymond James and we get ready
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Speaker 1: for Monday Night Football, the Cowboys and the Bucketeers, a
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Speaker 1: rematch from Week one. We spoke before about the Bucks
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Speaker 1: getting Ryan Jensen back. Let's start our coverage this time
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Speaker 1: with Sarah Walsh and Jane Slater. Jane with the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: also some positive injury news. Yeah, we talked in the
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Speaker 1: last hour. The big thing for the offensive line was
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Speaker 1: obviously getting Tyler Beyondest, but we haven't focused enough on
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Speaker 1: defensively some of the pieces that they're getting back. One
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Speaker 1: of the key there is Jonathan Hankins, their defensive tackle.
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Speaker 1: He was a bit of a run stopper for them,
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Speaker 1: and when you look at what Leonard Fournette was able
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Speaker 1: to do against the run d in Week one, he's
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Speaker 1: good to have back as well as Late and vander
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Speaker 1: ash who wears the green dot for this team, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of people say what's huge about him is
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Speaker 1: he's a veteran guy that can diagnose plays but also
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Speaker 1: get a lot of the plays out to the other
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Speaker 1: players quick so they're getting him back. And then, as
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Speaker 1: expected we talked about this all week, Cowboys went out
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Speaker 1: and acquired a corner to play opposite Trayvon Diggs. Losing
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Speaker 1: Anthony Brown Jordan Lewis has hurt them as of late,
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Speaker 1: looks like Xavier Rhodes is coming up from the practice
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Speaker 1: squad and as expected, he is expected to get quite
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Speaker 1: a bit of playing time. He was asked this week
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Speaker 1: if he's ready to play after just such a short
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Speaker 1: time in Dallas. He said if he wasn't, he wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be here. Okay, Savir Rhodes who just came over last
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Speaker 1: week and now being thrown onto the field potentially tonight
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Speaker 1: here for the Cowboys. Sarah, you're there all the time
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Speaker 1: with the Bucketeers way in here. What's your two cents
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Speaker 1: on the whole Brady last game thing. Well, I want
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Speaker 1: to sort of pickyback on some of the things that
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Speaker 1: I just heard you and Ian talk about, and like,
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Speaker 1: let's just say that the Bucks don't win this game tonight,
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Speaker 1: and that would be something that would be addressed tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: And the reality is is it wouldn't be addressed tomorrow
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Speaker 1: because I think tom is going to let this thing
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Speaker 1: play out. We know from mostly comments that he said
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Speaker 1: on his own podcast that when he if and when
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Speaker 1: he decides to retire, he would be really sure about it,
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Speaker 1: which means I think he's going to take his time.
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Speaker 1: But I can tell you when he talks on a
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Speaker 1: weekly basis here in Tampa and it's every Thursday, you
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Speaker 1: don't get the sense this year he is not being
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Speaker 1: peppered with questions about is this the end? He is
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Speaker 1: so solely focused on extending this season that there's just
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Speaker 1: not a lot of insight where I feel like last
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Speaker 1: year there were more of these reflective questions looking back
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Speaker 1: at his career, and yet he's a year older and
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Speaker 1: he's not really getting those. What we do know statistically
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Speaker 1: at this Buccaneers offense has not been as dominant, has
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Speaker 1: not been as dynamic as it was certainly last year
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Speaker 1: or the season before that. But then you look at
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Speaker 1: what this team did just two weeks ago, and once
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Speaker 1: again it was sort of a blast from the past.
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Speaker 1: It was Tom Brady and Mike Evans thrown at deep.
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Speaker 1: They both look like they were twenty five years old,
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Speaker 1: and I think Bucks fancy that and go, yeah, let's
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Speaker 1: keep going. The Glazer family obviously would do everything in
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Speaker 1: their power to keep Tom here. They would surround him
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Speaker 1: with whoever he needs to keep the Tom Brady party
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Speaker 1: rolling in Tampa. But the truth of the matter is
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Speaker 1: is nobody really knows, and I'm not sure if Tom
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Speaker 1: really knows right now. And the interesting thing is two
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Speaker 1: weeks ago and they played the Panthers, the Panthers had
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Speaker 1: a chance to sort of take over this division. We
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Speaker 1: all came here and you watch him walk off the
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Speaker 1: field and think, maybe could this have been it? And
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Speaker 1: I think they'll be a little bit of that same
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Speaker 1: feeling tonight, but again it could continue. So it's really
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Speaker 1: been this wait and see scenario throughout the back half
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Speaker 1: of the season, and for the first time tonight a
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Speaker 1: home underdog in the postseason Sarah Walsh Jane Slater, is
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Speaker 1: that Tom Brady's final game that the Cowboys ruined the party?
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Speaker 1: M speaking of the Cowboys and the n f C
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Speaker 1: is coming up next? Can the Giants now ruined the
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Speaker 1: Eagles party? Third time? Charm? Maybe straight ahead on NFL
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Speaker 1: now the dark Ball and wick up my home and
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Speaker 1: on board. I don't believe it, Ran, You're cruning in.
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Speaker 1: That is a big shining not my parer water, not
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Speaker 1: road by Taylor. I passed to the shop boy in
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Speaker 1: Lon's gonna stay shot Anni back, touch down, Flexico first,
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Speaker 1: the kickers away. He's got a cab. I think running
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Speaker 1: our luck down, Kevin Boss and that should wrap it up.
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Speaker 1: Pluck down. Oh my god, this thing goes on alive.
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Speaker 1: Jackson rumbles and the deal O lordy, oh god, this
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Speaker 1: is mel the medal rest no bird too, the most
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Speaker 1: promparkable whin I have ever seen, ping off your seek
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Speaker 1: plays the gentlemen. This is the type of game where
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Speaker 1: the legends are made. And now we get round three,
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Speaker 1: the Giants and the Eagles, the the NFL's glamour Division,
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Speaker 1: NFL now on NFL Networks, Steve Why, andrews Ceciliano, and
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Speaker 1: I'm told that Mark Ross, Philly guy, you were smiling
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Speaker 1: during that whole seventy five second music video. Smiling on
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Speaker 1: the outside, crying on the inside is some of those highlights.
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Speaker 1: Because I worked for both of those teams and was
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Speaker 1: lived the good, the bad, and ugly on both sides
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Speaker 1: of it. So a lot of motion there. Grew up
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Speaker 1: in Philly, nothing more than Philly, hayting A, the NFC East,
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Speaker 1: particularly the Giants Cowboys. So just gonna be a lot
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Speaker 1: going on with this game. I know guys are getting
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Speaker 1: turned up in Philly already for this one, but look,
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Speaker 1: this game is gonna come down to this. The You
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Speaker 1: can't really judge the first two games. The first game
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Speaker 1: Philly blew the Giants out. The second game the Giants
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Speaker 1: are wresting their starters. You can't get much from that.
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Speaker 1: And then always a question, well can you beat a
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Speaker 1: team three times? Yes, you can beat a team three times,
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Speaker 1: but you can also upset a team and come through.
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Speaker 1: I was with the Giants into the US and seven.
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Speaker 1: We lost to the Cowboys twice during the regular season
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Speaker 1: and then played them in the playoffs when they were
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Speaker 1: thirteen and three. Jerry Jones already buying tickets to the
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Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. We went in there and beat them.
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Speaker 1: So yes, for the Giants, completely different Giants team, playing
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Speaker 1: with a ton enough confidence. Daniel Jones has taken the leap,
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Speaker 1: so this is a completely different matchup than what will
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Speaker 1: we have seen these the other two games. And then
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Speaker 1: the Jalen Hurts factor. You know how healthy is Jalen Hurts.
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Speaker 1: You're thinking after the week off that will be healthy,
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Speaker 1: but you won't know that until you get into the game.
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Speaker 1: But this is gonna be a fistfight. Here is Steve
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Speaker 1: and a lot of fun. Yeah, this is where you
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Speaker 1: can talk about Jalen Hurts. You ever, when he came
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Speaker 1: back in a week eight teen, he was a little rusty, right,
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Speaker 1: and then they have to buy again. So this is
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Speaker 1: an opportune when the Giants have to get out to
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Speaker 1: a lead quick. Right. Maybe Jalen Hurts isn't on point
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Speaker 1: like he wants him. He'll eventually get there, but Giants
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Speaker 1: need to get a lead quick, and then they need
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Speaker 1: to run the football because the one thing we have
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Speaker 1: seen from Philadelphia in this in this very good defense,
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Speaker 1: is they have shown that there are times they can
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Speaker 1: get run on. And again against the Vikings, the Giants
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Speaker 1: of Sa Kwan and Daniel Jones ran the ball effectively,
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Speaker 1: so they need to give the Eagles a taste of
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Speaker 1: their own medicine. But Daniel Jones running the ball an
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Speaker 1: equal amount and Sa Kwan Barkley kind of mixing things
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Speaker 1: up a little bit. I think that way they can
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Speaker 1: keep this defense off balance and they have a chance,
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Speaker 1: because if it gets a situation where Daniel Jones has
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Speaker 1: to throw the ball thirty five plus times, that's a
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Speaker 1: bad That's just a bad formula. It's not what the
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Speaker 1: Giants do. And that allows guys like Hassan Reddick, Javon Hargrave,
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Speaker 1: those real intense pass rushers that they have up front,
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Speaker 1: for the Eagles to get after Daniel Jones. Again, that
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Speaker 1: is not a good formula for the makeup of these
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Speaker 1: two teams. Look, the big question is what can we
17:41
Speaker 1: take from Week eighteen. I think we could take a
17:43
Speaker 1: little bit. I think obviously, without Daniel Jones and without
17:46
Speaker 1: say Kon Barkley, that team fought, fought hard. Yet I
17:49
Speaker 1: think Wake Martindale's defense gets a lot of credit for
17:51
Speaker 1: limiting the Eagles to field goals in the red zone,
17:55
Speaker 1: not touchdowns in the red zone, but so much of
17:58
Speaker 1: that I think, And Steve, you and I were talking
18:01
Speaker 1: about this in the Duce room this morning. Was marked
18:03
Speaker 1: from the Eagles refusal to let Jalen Hurts run the
18:08
Speaker 1: football in Week eighteen. They had to protect his shoulder.
18:13
Speaker 1: Do they have to protect his shoulder this week? That
18:16
Speaker 1: to me is the question. Yeah, no question because you're
18:19
Speaker 1: you're unlocked. You just don't want Jalen Hurts to just
18:21
Speaker 1: sit in the pocket and throwing. His specialness is in
18:24
Speaker 1: his ability to run run people over those short yarded
18:27
Speaker 1: situations as well. You know the bulldozing style that the
18:30
Speaker 1: Philly has on those shortyarded situations. So that is the
18:34
Speaker 1: big key is how healthy is Jalen Hurts. You'll know
18:38
Speaker 1: right away. I'm sure when you see whatever the play
18:40
Speaker 1: calls are, the design runs of how much they mix
18:43
Speaker 1: him in early, if he is fully healthy, but yes,
18:46
Speaker 1: if he's rusty, if how well he's looking at practice
18:49
Speaker 1: this week, all of that has to be factored in
18:51
Speaker 1: into this game. So a lot of intrigue there with
18:54
Speaker 1: his injury. But also, hey, the moral victors, no, no
18:58
Speaker 1: moral victories, but the Giants really have to be looking
19:00
Speaker 1: at that last game where we played all our backups
19:02
Speaker 1: and still almost had these guys that might give them
19:05
Speaker 1: even more confidence going into this game. We got Kenny
19:08
Speaker 1: Golladay in the end zone Week eight team, which led
19:12
Speaker 1: to his pancake block yesterday. I mean, come on, confidence
19:16
Speaker 1: matters a little bit in this one. Absolutely, Giants are
19:20
Speaker 1: confident they can finally beat him. Thank you Mark Ross,
19:22
Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve. Watch Giants and Eagles, the Glamorate division
19:25
Speaker 1: head to head coming up in the divisional round. So
19:40
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl is kind of different in three imagine,
19:42
Speaker 1: but it is still in Vegas. The Manning brothers are
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20:14
Speaker 1: watch the highlight from yesterday Josh Allen of the Buffalo
20:17
Speaker 1: Bills and the Miami Dolphins at a seventeen nothing will
20:20
Speaker 1: lead the quickly evaporated, and that the Dolphins took the
20:23
Speaker 1: lead when Eric Row took it away from Josh Allen. Yes,
20:25
Speaker 1: he fumbled again and Zach Seeler fell on it, and
20:28
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are up to twenty. Bills are up by
20:31
Speaker 1: three late third quarter when Gabe Davis gets the feet
20:34
Speaker 1: down guys a playoff touchdown machine, Bills lead. It came
20:41
Speaker 1: down to this for the Dolphins. It's a fourth and
20:43
Speaker 1: six after they botched the clock and took the delay,
20:49
Speaker 1: and it should have been it should have been fourth
20:50
Speaker 1: and one. Bills wint thirty one, and they just mismanaged
20:55
Speaker 1: the clock. It was communicated to me through the um upstairs,
21:00
Speaker 1: you know, from from the headset. I think, Um, I
21:04
Speaker 1: was standing by an official. Uh. I had just had
21:08
Speaker 1: gotten convicted information that it was a first down. UM.
21:13
Speaker 1: So I don't really know exactly who it was from.
21:17
Speaker 1: It was probably the first time all year that that
21:19
Speaker 1: had happened. So, um, you know, you try to do
21:25
Speaker 1: your best. As it was, I thought we had a
21:28
Speaker 1: fourth and sixth opportunity that were unable to come up
21:31
Speaker 1: with as well. So, um, fourth and one most of
21:35
Speaker 1: the time is easier than fourth and six. But at
21:37
Speaker 1: the same time, UH, you know, you just have to
21:41
Speaker 1: adjust to whatever variables put out there. I saw that
21:45
Speaker 1: transcribed Mike jority Mark Ross, and I thought it was
21:48
Speaker 1: a typo. I thought he said conflicted or conflicting he
21:52
Speaker 1: actually did say convicted. Regardless, Mark Ross fourth and one,
21:56
Speaker 1: they reset the play clock at one point. You cannot
21:59
Speaker 1: take a delay with the game on the light. I
22:02
Speaker 1: mean they could have would have showed it. They are
22:04
Speaker 1: too complete and away from Jason Sanders potentially tie that game. Yes,
22:09
Speaker 1: it's very very inexcusable for that to happen at that
22:11
Speaker 1: point in the game. And the coach said that the
22:13
Speaker 1: first time it happened all year, But it happened over
22:15
Speaker 1: and over in the game. Four delayed game penalties there
22:18
Speaker 1: in the game, and numerous other times where they barely
22:21
Speaker 1: got to snap off. So something was obviously wrong in
22:24
Speaker 1: the communication with all parties. Yes, once or twice, you're figuring,
22:27
Speaker 1: all right, let's figure this out. But when it happened
22:30
Speaker 1: all entire game and the biggest play of your season
22:32
Speaker 1: it happens again, that is just inexcusable. Playoff football against
22:37
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, after almost gifting you the game to
22:40
Speaker 1: Josh Josh Allen interceptions and that fumble for touchdown there,
22:44
Speaker 1: you have to take advantage of those things. But when
22:47
Speaker 1: you beat yourselves and you're not talented like the Bills overcoming,
22:50
Speaker 1: that's what happens. At the end of the loss, they're Mike, Yeah,
22:52
Speaker 1: I mean they had it. They had it near midfield,
22:54
Speaker 1: and you think if you just rushed to the line
22:56
Speaker 1: on fourth and one, they thought they had a first
22:59
Speaker 1: looked to everyone on TV that they didn't have the first.
23:02
Speaker 1: You rush to the line, you take the quarterback sneak
23:04
Speaker 1: and and you're moving on um And they might have
23:07
Speaker 1: been moving on if you actually caught some passes here.
23:10
Speaker 1: The Buffalo defense, Mike Giardi, could have given up far
23:14
Speaker 1: worse numbers than they actually did give up. You realized
23:19
Speaker 1: Andrew yesterday, they allowed one scoring drive of longer than
23:23
Speaker 1: forty yards and that came in the fourth quarter when
23:24
Speaker 1: they're up ten four. Miami nearly took seven minutes off
23:28
Speaker 1: the clock to get that done. And I know they
23:30
Speaker 1: were playing a third string quarterback out of the seventh round.
23:33
Speaker 1: But I will say this for Skylette Thompson, tough kids,
23:36
Speaker 1: stayed in there, made some throws when he had to,
23:38
Speaker 1: had the two interceptions, but I thought he did a
23:40
Speaker 1: pretty good job for them overall. But I think you
23:42
Speaker 1: look at the Bills team and they say we get
23:44
Speaker 1: eighteen points off of the offensive turnovers on short fields
23:48
Speaker 1: and to your point could have been worse there. I
23:50
Speaker 1: also think something stood out to me about Buffalo, and
23:53
Speaker 1: that was the player of their corners. Again, you're playing
23:55
Speaker 1: Skylie Thompsons, You're gonna throw that at me. But I
23:57
Speaker 1: thought Trude Avious White looked more like Trude Avious White
24:00
Speaker 1: than he has at any points. It's coming back from
24:02
Speaker 1: the A c L. He talked about it. He knows
24:04
Speaker 1: it's a two year recovery period, but he's pushing the
24:06
Speaker 1: pedalt the metal, thanking the training staff for getting him right.
24:09
Speaker 1: And then on the other side, Kier first round pick.
24:12
Speaker 1: He's been a healthy scratch oft times this year, but
24:15
Speaker 1: as Sean McDermott said, instead of ducking his chin into
24:17
Speaker 1: his chest and sulking when he wasn't playing, he just
24:20
Speaker 1: kept working and kept working, and now all of a
24:22
Speaker 1: sudden you're seeing why they draft him in the first round.
24:25
Speaker 1: Played that interception beautifully. He covered two tough play to
24:28
Speaker 1: make from the throw from Thompson, but used his length
24:31
Speaker 1: and played it perfectly. And then the breakup on the
24:34
Speaker 1: fourth down play at the end, Tyreek Hill seven catches
24:37
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards. I'd say the Bills would sign up
24:39
Speaker 1: for that every day. Absolutely, Ky ariel And made a
24:42
Speaker 1: huge play there, and Skyler Thompson could have had more place.
24:45
Speaker 1: Credit to the Bill secondary because some of those quote
24:48
Speaker 1: unquote drops, especially some of the balls to Jalen Waddle
24:50
Speaker 1: were actually very good defensive place. But I said during
24:54
Speaker 1: the game, if Skyler Thompson had the crew the brock
24:56
Speaker 1: Purdy had, they might have won that game. But they didn't,
25:00
Speaker 1: and now brock Purdy awaits the winner tonight in Tampa.
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