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Reflecting On The Last Week + Open Coaching Jobs (with Kyle Brandt)!! · NFL Podcast Network Selects

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Speaker 1: And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
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Speaker 1: pretty dangerousness tonight. They are what we thought they were
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Speaker 1: wet about. Hello, you plenty to win the gate. They
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Speaker 1: want you to cook the dinner. At least they ought
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Speaker 1: to let your shop for some of the grocers. And
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Speaker 1: on the way up, we're gonna buy a kneecap off playoffs.
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Speaker 1: You're kidding me. I'm just here so I won't get fine.
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Speaker 1: How could he not be romantic about football? Oh? I
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Speaker 1: feel like I was playing that in my head last night?
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Speaker 1: How could you footballman? When Aaron Rodgers was seemingly walking
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Speaker 1: out of lambo for the last time. Welcome to bench
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Speaker 1: with Banetta, baby, guys, what a freaking week. Um. We
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Speaker 1: canceled our podcast last Thursday out of respect for Tomorrow
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Speaker 1: Hamlin and his recovery. We have got some. We've had
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Speaker 1: good news all week, all weekend, from Friday to now. Um,
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow is discharged from the hospital. We find out as
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Speaker 1: we are recording this podcast. I get to tell Kyle
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Speaker 1: Brandt to his face. We celebrate. UM. So let's get
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Speaker 1: to the interview A. S. A. P. We recap the
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Speaker 1: week that has been crazy in the NFL and talk
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Speaker 1: about black Monday. So with that further Ado, KB, what up? Okay,
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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Another beautiful Monday Tuesday, wherever and
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Speaker 1: whenever you're listening to this show. Kbe Wolf is all
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Speaker 1: I have to say. What a week that we've all
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Speaker 1: just experienced in the football community. UM, I was watching
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Speaker 1: you guys all last week. You did a phenomenal, phenomenal
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Speaker 1: job this entire network did. To be honest, I was
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Speaker 1: like sitting there on my couch. I'm never a part
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Speaker 1: of like newsy things. You know. I bring the laughs,
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Speaker 1: I bring the gags and the giggles. UM, I was
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Speaker 1: so impressed with our network. We are giving NFL network
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Speaker 1: their flowers to We're giving you your flowers and g MFB.
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Speaker 1: You guys did a great job covering the Bills into
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Speaker 1: Marrow Hammon last week. I just wanted to ask you,
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Speaker 1: you know, take us through the process of dealing with this.
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Speaker 1: You are so close to the Bills community. You called
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Speaker 1: out their draft pick this year. You go up there
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Speaker 1: plenty of times. I saw you wearing the Bills gear
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Speaker 1: all last week Monday to Friday or Tuesday to Friday. Rather,
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Speaker 1: so just walk me through you know what were the emotions.
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Speaker 1: How what was your experience? Like, WHOA, we're recording this
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Speaker 1: Rachel on Monday, so it's really the one week anniversary
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Speaker 1: of that terrible night in Cincinnati, and listen, I went
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Speaker 1: through what everybody went through in some sense that I remember. Um,
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Speaker 1: I went to bed on about midnight on Monday night
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Speaker 1: and it was like in the middle of the Vent
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Speaker 1: Peltz Show, and people rememberance as one of these infamous
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Speaker 1: nights and sports and I went a bit at midnight
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Speaker 1: and I have to wake up at five, but like
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Speaker 1: every forty five minutes, I woke up and I would
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Speaker 1: check my phone because I was you know, how many
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Speaker 1: times can you say this as a sports fan, like
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Speaker 1: I was scared. I wasn't nervous. I was legitimately scared
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Speaker 1: that I was gonna look at my phone and there's
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Speaker 1: gonna be some tweet from some NFL insider that says
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Speaker 1: terrible news. Unfortunately, Dadada has passed has passed away that
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Speaker 1: I can just say, we thought that we were gonna
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Speaker 1: lose them. And then I wake up in the morning
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, I'm scared. I walk into the Good Morning
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Speaker 1: Football set and our plan is just like it was
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Speaker 1: the strangest showever we've done shows or something. There's never
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Speaker 1: been a weirder one than that, because there really was
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Speaker 1: no plan. It was just sit down and be prepared
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Speaker 1: to talk about anything and hope for the best, but
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Speaker 1: genuinely be prepared for the worst because we could be
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Speaker 1: in the eight D segments and we get news that
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Speaker 1: we there's been a terrible piece of news from Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: and you guys just react to it on live TV.
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Speaker 1: So holy crap. First of all, thank god it did
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Speaker 1: not come, and it hasn't come, and from the sounds
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Speaker 1: of it, it it never will come. But you just sit
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Speaker 1: around and talk, and you talk through it pitt in
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Speaker 1: your stomach, and you try to make it fresh and
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Speaker 1: try to make it relatable because you have your own
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Speaker 1: job to do. But at the same time, I was
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Speaker 1: just so scared the whole time, and I had to
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Speaker 1: to your point. You know, I know a lot of
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Speaker 1: well not only who live in Buffalo, but her with
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Speaker 1: the bills, And you know, I'm not texting them being
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Speaker 1: like give me the inside scoop at all. They're just
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Speaker 1: texting me because they see me on TV and they're like,
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Speaker 1: we're really nervous and we're really scared. Um. It was
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Speaker 1: a tough time. But I'll end my answer with really
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Speaker 1: the end of this phase of the story. I got
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Speaker 1: texts and tweets from people after Nihim Hines returned the
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Speaker 1: opening kick, and They're like, I've been coming to games
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Speaker 1: in this stadium for thirty seven years. It's the loudest
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Speaker 1: I've ever heard it. And he hadn't even crossed the
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Speaker 1: twenty yard line yet going in, and people are like
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Speaker 1: crying and hugging and jumping up and down, and it
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Speaker 1: was the most joyous moment because, you know, Josh said
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Speaker 1: it after the game, depending on how you feel philosophically,
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Speaker 1: like some people thought that was like a divine intervention
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Speaker 1: and that that was like God's plan and that type
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Speaker 1: of beautiful thing. And so people were really emotional about it,
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Speaker 1: and I have say, it's even a week later, I
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Speaker 1: am too, It's so crazy. I mean, the first time
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Speaker 1: that I was on TV last week, I mean a
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Speaker 1: bunch of things got canceled during the week out of
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Speaker 1: respect or Damar's recovery. This podcast got canceled on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: None of us were able to really, I wasn't in
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Speaker 1: this building until the following Friday, and still a few
5:08
Speaker 1: days removed, this building was still pretty quiet, even though
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Speaker 1: by then by Friday we had gotten the news that
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Speaker 1: he was awake. Um, maybe there was. I think at
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Speaker 1: that point he had faced timed into his uh into
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Speaker 1: the locker room, said love you boys, and all of
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Speaker 1: these incredible things have come out. I think everyone was
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Speaker 1: just so shook up the entire week that it was
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Speaker 1: like that almost happened. That was absolutely terrifying. I mean,
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Speaker 1: do you remember, I mean we've both been covering sports
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Speaker 1: for a really long time. Do you remember a point
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Speaker 1: in your career that anything besides like Kobe passing, that
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Speaker 1: there was a week like this that people came together
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Speaker 1: in the way that they did. I think it was
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Speaker 1: I think it was Damar actually that tweeted out sometime
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Speaker 1: this week. And then it doesn't matter your religion, doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter where you are from. This is like it brought
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Speaker 1: people together all across the board. Do you remember anything
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Speaker 1: like this? Kobe is a good one because I remember
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Speaker 1: it happened on a Sunday in the Pro Bowls for
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. It was crazy. Yeah, and um, Joe
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Speaker 1: Testa tour was on the call of the Pro Bowl
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Speaker 1: and there was this account that people went, they went
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Speaker 1: into the locker rooms where all these NFL stars were
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Speaker 1: and told them that like Kobe Bryant had died, and
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Speaker 1: then they went and played the game, which is such
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Speaker 1: a bizarre game anyway, And then watching the broadcast, he
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Speaker 1: announces it really really strange, you know, And and even
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Speaker 1: Kobe such a different conversation than the Damar Hamlin conversation,
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Speaker 1: which is this young kid whose whole life and career
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Speaker 1: in front of him and we're just getting to know him.
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Speaker 1: So I can't think of something like this in sports.
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Speaker 1: There's been other things like this where everybody where it's
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Speaker 1: candle light vigil esque and you're hoping for something, but
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Speaker 1: this was truly unique. And the fact that happened on
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Speaker 1: Monday night football. And listen for me. When you see
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Speaker 1: a player down, he say outcrap of players injured and hopefully,
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Speaker 1: you know, he hope for the best, and he gives
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Speaker 1: us the thumbs up, and I guess he's done for
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Speaker 1: the night. You know, that's too bad. How's this gonna
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Speaker 1: affect the bill? Second Arry? And then I will never
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Speaker 1: forget the rest of my life. When Joe Buck said
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Speaker 1: they're administering CPR and then for all of us, that's
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Speaker 1: when I started to get really scared. And then, um,
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Speaker 1: that feeling did not subside for like three days when
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Speaker 1: they said, you know, he's opening his eyes and communicating.
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Speaker 1: So it turns out to be this beautiful story. But man,
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Speaker 1: for a few days there was ter It was digs
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Speaker 1: for me. Digs just like you just see, like the
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Speaker 1: t his face was just like wet from crying. And
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Speaker 1: then the moment that Burrow went over and hugged Josh,
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Speaker 1: I was like, you know, the whole I was with
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Speaker 1: a few people. Everyone was just like, oh no, this
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Speaker 1: is it's not good. Have you had the chance to talk.
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Speaker 1: I know you and Josh are tight. He comes on
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Speaker 1: Kyle Brand's basement once a week. Have you been able
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Speaker 1: to reach him or talk to him at all? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: We we We texted a few times. And um, all
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Speaker 1: I can say is that Josh Allen is is the
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Speaker 1: let me how do I put this? He just he
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Speaker 1: is more so than all of his peers. He loves
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Speaker 1: football and loves the brotherhood and loves the teammates like
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Speaker 1: that is what he was put on this planet for.
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Speaker 1: He is the son of a farmer from Fireball California,
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Speaker 1: who's known since he was a little kid that he
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Speaker 1: wanted to play pro football And this is so real
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Speaker 1: to him and it is so special, and he is
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Speaker 1: he just wants to be with his teammates all the time.
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Speaker 1: It's what he is into. He likes movies, and he
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Speaker 1: likes his girlfriend, and he is into bleep in football seven.
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Speaker 1: So for this, it just cut him so deep. And
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Speaker 1: even texting with him, like kind of was just phrasing
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Speaker 1: his words a little differently, and like you could just
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Speaker 1: tell he was just shook. And you know, then he
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Speaker 1: goes out Rachel and he and corks three touchdown passes
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Speaker 1: against the Patriots and it's like, oh yeah, that's stressed down,
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Speaker 1: Like he still has like that ability. And it's it's
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Speaker 1: been a crazy week with him too. And I'll talk
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Speaker 1: to him tomorrow for an extended time on camera. Been
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Speaker 1: in the last week or so, we've just texted. Well,
8:53
Speaker 1: everyone should definitely be tuning into that. I will be
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Speaker 1: watching that absolutely Kyle Brand's basement. Um, I I have
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Speaker 1: to ask you, speaking of bleeping, you tweeted something. Now
9:04
Speaker 1: the only thing left to do is win the whole
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Speaker 1: bleeping thing. Listen, we talk about miracles, we talk about
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Speaker 1: religion and believing in a higher path. There's been a
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Speaker 1: lot of that this week, but Gosh, I am behind
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Speaker 1: you on that, like they gotta go do it now, right,
9:20
Speaker 1: there's nothing I can't imagine another ending to this story. Right. Well,
9:26
Speaker 1: one of the things that Josh has said is that
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Speaker 1: he knows, and this is before tomorrow Hamlin's incident, he
9:33
Speaker 1: already knows what his speech is going to be if
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Speaker 1: they win the super Bowl, that he's had it planned
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Speaker 1: for years. He knows what he's gonna say. He has
9:41
Speaker 1: a special bottle of whiskey in his bar that he's
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Speaker 1: saving from the super Bowl. He's got the speech, he's
9:46
Speaker 1: got the drink, he's got it all. And so you know,
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Speaker 1: one of the questions I'll ask him tomorrow is is
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Speaker 1: that speech gonna be a little different now because of
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Speaker 1: what you guys have been through? And I'm expecting his
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Speaker 1: answer to be yes. So, Um, they're really really tight,
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Speaker 1: and it's you start to if you believe in the destiny,
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Speaker 1: believe in the higher calling. Of course, now listen, let's
10:05
Speaker 1: let's put the cards on the table. There is no
10:07
Speaker 1: motivational thing that is going to guard Kelsey in the
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Speaker 1: title game if they have to play him. Kelsey is
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Speaker 1: a is a mother, and there's gonna be a gauntlet
10:15
Speaker 1: in these an f C playoffs, So I know they
10:18
Speaker 1: have everything going for him, but man, they're gonna need
10:20
Speaker 1: all of it. I am just so pumped up for
10:24
Speaker 1: playoffs and the super Bowl and it's getting real. Rihanna's
10:29
Speaker 1: tweeting about it. Well, let's go, baby, Okay, not to
10:32
Speaker 1: take a left turn again. Everyone wants to interview with
10:34
Speaker 1: Josh Allen coming up. I'm so excited about it. Aaron Rodgers, Okay,
10:40
Speaker 1: got beat by the Lions last night. There was this
10:42
Speaker 1: whole kind of Jamal Williams asked for his jersey, he said,
10:46
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna keep this one. He had to
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Speaker 1: walk out in the tunnel with Cob. He seemed very
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Speaker 1: reflective his postgame interview. I'm sure you guys have all
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Speaker 1: heard the sound by now. He's not making any decisions,
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Speaker 1: but he could definitely leave. What are your thoughts on
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Speaker 1: all this, KBE. I feel like for the past few
11:02
Speaker 1: years he's been winning m v p s and we're
11:05
Speaker 1: all like, yeah, this has been probably the last that
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Speaker 1: you're going to see. If Aaron Rodgers, but this one,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. It kind of feels a little bit
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Speaker 1: different or am I wrong? Are you saying the same same?
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Speaker 1: No Isaac on this, I actually I think he's gonna
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Speaker 1: come back. I do, um and I just I haven't
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Speaker 1: heard anything compelling that tells me he's going to leave,
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Speaker 1: other than just we're just kind of watching and there's
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Speaker 1: this feeling of I think it's over, but that's nothing.
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Speaker 1: I Listen. I think the walk off with Cobb was
11:32
Speaker 1: very deliberate, pushing the camera out of the way. Let me.
11:37
Speaker 1: I think that was about Cobb because that's like his
11:39
Speaker 1: best friend. It's been his friend for years, and I
11:41
Speaker 1: think he knows that Randall Cobb will not be back.
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Speaker 1: So I think that was the saying goodbye to his friend.
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Speaker 1: Who does Rogers come back with the Packers or does
11:49
Speaker 1: he go elsewhere and kind of do something like like
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady ask, No, I think it comes back to
11:55
Speaker 1: the Packers. Listen. I hate to put it like this,
11:57
Speaker 1: but let's just call it what it is out there.
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Speaker 1: He like he's gonna make fifty million bucks if he
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Speaker 1: comes back next year, Like even if he hated the
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Speaker 1: football and was done with it like that is even
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Speaker 1: for him is a massively significant figure to come back
12:11
Speaker 1: one more time and chuck that old piskin at Christen
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Speaker 1: Watson a few times, let's see what happens. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna He did make some comment about
12:18
Speaker 1: like main generational wealth, and I'm so thankful hopefully I've
12:21
Speaker 1: earned a little bit of that. But like, yeah, money's money, baby,
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Speaker 1: show me that Monday. If you were two time MVP
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Speaker 1: and you were Aaron Rodgers, how would you retire? Like
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Speaker 1: would you do the big bend thing of like circling
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Speaker 1: the stadium and waving at everyone? Would you have a
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Speaker 1: spicy offseason? Will he? Won't he? Would you have a
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Speaker 1: decision lebron Eske situation, how would you do it? KB? No,
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Speaker 1: I can't do that. Listen. Rogers will go and find
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Speaker 1: some rainforest, there's some geyser or some glacier, and he'll
12:53
Speaker 1: be there on an alpaca or whatever the hell he is,
12:57
Speaker 1: and it will be in the gonna see a meteor, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it'll be. It'll be rioting in full then ninja monk
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Speaker 1: ob one canobid and he'll say farewell, and he'll have
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Speaker 1: this message or this quote and it will be beautiful,
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Speaker 1: but I think it will be probably Okay, all right,
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Speaker 1: fair enough, okay, before you let we let you go.
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Speaker 1: There are a few We're recording this on Black Monday,
13:21
Speaker 1: the day after the regular season, where all of these
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Speaker 1: coaches get let go. Tom pallisera tweeted this out earlier today,
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Speaker 1: and by the time you're listening to this on Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, there might be more. There are now
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Speaker 1: five NFL head coaching vacancies, the Panthers, the Colts, the Broncos,
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Speaker 1: the Texans and the Cardinals KB since the Colds hired
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Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday this year, anything's possible, Okay, anybody could fill
13:45
Speaker 1: these coaching vacancies. So I went through those five teams
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Speaker 1: and I picked the people across a variety of different occupations.
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Speaker 1: X players, maybe some slebs, maybe some asters. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: pitch you on them. If you've got some ideas, would
13:58
Speaker 1: love to hear them. But I want to hear of
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Speaker 1: your thoughts on maybe some potential fill ins for these
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Speaker 1: coaching vacancies. We're gonna start with the Texans. I think
14:06
Speaker 1: that this is easy. J. J. Watt, freshly retired. He's
14:10
Speaker 1: gonna take the offseason gonna be like, listen, I missed
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Speaker 1: that football field. He had nine seasons with the Texans.
14:17
Speaker 1: Maybe his body doesn't want to play football anymore. But
14:19
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy clearly had a hard time retiring.
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Speaker 1: He was emotional. The brothers came out and celebrated him yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Um J J. Watt tell me, do you hate this? No,
14:32
Speaker 1: he said, he's always going to be a Texan's and listen,
14:38
Speaker 1: he never got to play with his brothers. So I
14:41
Speaker 1: think in a little bit down the line, then you
14:43
Speaker 1: have Derek Watt come and be the offensive coordinator and t. J.
14:46
Speaker 1: Watt the defensive coordinator, and you team him up like
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Speaker 1: that beautiful. That defense is unstoppable. Then Okay, Panthers, I'm zigging.
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Speaker 1: I'm zigging. I'm zagging. Will Smith, huge Panthers fan. Apparently
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Speaker 1: he's maybe are we going to see him acting again?
15:03
Speaker 1: I don't know post slap. Okay, we covered it on
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Speaker 1: g MFB as soon as it happened. That was one
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Speaker 1: of the greater TV experiences that I've had. Good at
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Speaker 1: motivational speaking. Okay, you know he's going to lift those
15:13
Speaker 1: guys up. What say you, Will Smith? You lost me
15:17
Speaker 1: at this Why Why is Will Smith, who's from Philadelphia?
15:21
Speaker 1: Why is he a Panthers fan? Is an Eagle googled
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Speaker 1: slab football fans and Will Smith had a Panther's jersey
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Speaker 1: on it. Okay, so don't fact check me on this,
15:30
Speaker 1: just roll with it. It's called nerdy retort that I had.
15:34
Speaker 1: But I will still disagree. If there's gonna be any
15:37
Speaker 1: any Panthers, especially one who will will not afraid to
15:41
Speaker 1: show emotion, I will stay wrong Smith, but I would
15:43
Speaker 1: go Steve Smith Senior. We're going to do the Jeff
15:47
Speaker 1: Saturday about Steve smiththing you the greatest Panther of all times.
15:50
Speaker 1: I actually really love that in this weird little website
15:53
Speaker 1: that I found, which is clearly not accurate. According to
15:56
Speaker 1: Kryle Brant, uh Diddy is a huge Panthers and so
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Speaker 1: maybe I don't think anyone I would actually want to
16:02
Speaker 1: see that we get into that, we don't have to
16:05
Speaker 1: get into the situation. We don't have to get into
16:08
Speaker 1: a huge l a rams fan Beneff like, what what
16:13
Speaker 1: maybe if you maybe the malware that you've been picking
16:16
Speaker 1: up from going to Wicked. This podcast isn't for facts, Okay,
16:21
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be the one for fun all right?
16:24
Speaker 1: Next up Colts? I mean, come on, I think it's
16:26
Speaker 1: pretty easy. Peyton Manning, who's saying no to that? Four
16:30
Speaker 1: teen seasons with the Colts. Everyone would buy into this KB.
16:35
Speaker 1: There would be nobody. I mean, listen, we love him
16:37
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football with Eli. We love all of
16:40
Speaker 1: the We love that he started the production company, that
16:43
Speaker 1: you your your podcast belongs to Okay, you can, you
16:45
Speaker 1: can do that stuff. On the side, he could still
16:48
Speaker 1: do dabble in the off season, that the players would
16:52
Speaker 1: respect him, the fans would be pumped up to have
16:54
Speaker 1: him back. Who's saying no, He already has a statue.
16:58
Speaker 1: I thought maybe we would go with like acid Indianapolis
17:01
Speaker 1: Colts fan Jennifer Lopez. Maybe maybe I don't know. Let
17:04
Speaker 1: me check this website. Oh, it turns out Jay Loo
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Speaker 1: is not a fan of the Colts. What know? For Colts?
17:11
Speaker 1: I would say, um, you know who actually is a
17:13
Speaker 1: Colts fan? Who? I think it'd be a great coach
17:14
Speaker 1: And David Letterman. I'll go with with David Letterman. My
17:19
Speaker 1: great perspective. He's funny. None of the kids know who
17:21
Speaker 1: he is, so they won't think he's a commedian, it
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be weird. Huh. I actually love that, But I
17:26
Speaker 1: do like his name show on Netflix. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to get beat. Okay, Broncos, you're gonna hate this. I
17:32
Speaker 1: went on the same website d I saw Tiger Woods
17:36
Speaker 1: there with his ex girlfriend Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey Vonn is
17:40
Speaker 1: actually the Broncos fan, but Tiger Woods was at a
17:42
Speaker 1: game once. And then the more that I thought about it,
17:46
Speaker 1: how cool would that be? Tiger Woods incredible athlete, incredible dedication.
17:51
Speaker 1: I don't even know if he is a big NFL fan.
17:53
Speaker 1: I saw him with a Stanford sweater on. We know
17:56
Speaker 1: he likes college ball. Um, I think he could dedicate
17:59
Speaker 1: enough time pick it up and uh, that would be incredible. Um.
18:03
Speaker 1: Any time that I've talked to an athlete or seen
18:06
Speaker 1: someone else talk to him and the question comes up
18:08
Speaker 1: about you know what other athletes out there do you
18:11
Speaker 1: really respect? Who do you admire? I'm telling you nine
18:14
Speaker 1: out of ten times they say Tiger Woods, it could
18:16
Speaker 1: be a football player, basketball player, baseball player, NASCAR driver.
18:19
Speaker 1: These guys love Tiger for his domination, for how much
18:23
Speaker 1: money he makes, and just because he's an icon. So
18:26
Speaker 1: I think that would immediately work for something that athletes
18:28
Speaker 1: are obsessed with Tiger and they would he would have
18:30
Speaker 1: their bronco's country. Let's ride okay, and then finally the
18:34
Speaker 1: Cardinal's position. Cliff was let go Kyler. Kyler should be
18:38
Speaker 1: forced to do both. He did it in the preseason.
18:40
Speaker 1: He made some calls, he called some plays. Uh, he
18:43
Speaker 1: did a pretty decent job there. He is right there
18:45
Speaker 1: calling some plays. Cliff I think did this as like punishment,
18:48
Speaker 1: but then he was actually like somewhat teasing at it.
18:51
Speaker 1: Kyler should do this. He he needs to. I know
18:53
Speaker 1: he's injured, He's gonna hopefully be better and ready to
18:56
Speaker 1: go next season. Um. I think he could learn a lot.
18:59
Speaker 1: I can grow up a lot if he was trying
19:01
Speaker 1: to to to double dip here, what do you think now?
19:05
Speaker 1: Do you mean like he would be? He's doing both? Baby,
19:10
Speaker 1: This is never seen before. This is a fake world
19:13
Speaker 1: we're living in where Will Smith is a Panthers fan.
19:15
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray can coach the Cardinals as well as play quarterback.
19:19
Speaker 1: There's the thing that used to do, like back in
19:21
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties, where there was the player coach, where
19:24
Speaker 1: the where the players were actually one of the coaches
19:26
Speaker 1: and it's totally archaic, but it's a beautiful thing. And
19:29
Speaker 1: like the coach would check himself into the game and
19:31
Speaker 1: then call the plays and stuff like that. I don't
19:33
Speaker 1: know if if I look at Kyler Murray is the
19:35
Speaker 1: one to bring that back. It's weird of the punishment.
19:38
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, that the coaching game is hard. It's
19:42
Speaker 1: like one of the worst quality of life professions on
19:44
Speaker 1: the planet. So um, yeah, somebody has to coach the Cardinals.
19:48
Speaker 1: And if if none of the coach doesn't get along
19:50
Speaker 1: with Kyler, maybe has to do it himself. Okay, Kbe,
19:53
Speaker 1: We're going to send you off with the best news ever.
19:57
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? I don't even think people
19:59
Speaker 1: have seen this. I I'm going to tell you this live.
20:01
Speaker 1: Tomar Hamlin has been discharged from the hospital is returning
20:07
Speaker 1: home to Buffalo. Per the physicians at the University of
20:11
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Health. Baby, he is doing well and this is
20:16
Speaker 1: the next stage of his recovery. Yeah, it's incredible. I mean,
20:21
Speaker 1: this is a week is he gonna start against the
20:23
Speaker 1: Dolphins this weekend? Is amazing. Back, Oh my god, what
20:28
Speaker 1: great news, Kabe. We love you. Thanks for spending time
20:31
Speaker 1: with us. And you know what DeMar Hamlin said this week,
20:34
Speaker 1: go out and tell people that you love them. Kyle Brandt,
20:36
Speaker 1: we love you on this show. Thank you for showing up.
20:40
Speaker 1: WHOA see you next week. And I love you guys
20:43
Speaker 1: as well. Thank you for listening. Thanks to Kabe, Thanks
20:46
Speaker 1: to our crew for putting these shows together every single week.
20:49
Speaker 1: Love love, love all right, coming up after the break,
20:52
Speaker 1: we talk a lot about miracles this week because we
20:55
Speaker 1: saw a few of them. And I opened my d
20:58
Speaker 1: m s and ask you guys, what miracles that you've seen.
21:00
Speaker 1: This is gonna be cheesy. Is gonna be cheesy, a
21:02
Speaker 1: little zey, but it's very cute. So stick around full
21:20
Speaker 1: January Sunday and week eighteen, as New England and Buffalo
21:25
Speaker 1: are about to meet. And here's hands on the run
21:27
Speaker 1: back breaking a tackle and taken it past midfield and
21:31
Speaker 1: time to say that, he goes this is a a story book.
21:35
Speaker 1: They don't kick off return for tomorrow, Hamlet, and this
21:39
Speaker 1: place is absolutely going wild. You just said this is
21:43
Speaker 1: a story book. This is almost bag. I just can't
21:46
Speaker 1: believe it just happened to Dound the same thing. After all,
21:50
Speaker 1: that's happened in these last six days. I don't believe
21:53
Speaker 1: what we just saw here. It's so in of all
22:00
Speaker 1: I almays forgot we were doing a podcast, like I
22:01
Speaker 1: just got caught up in watching that again because it
22:04
Speaker 1: was it was so amazing. So just to get a
22:07
Speaker 1: sense of like how my Sunday works, I get off
22:10
Speaker 1: the morning show literally at ten am. So by the
22:13
Speaker 1: time I get home, it's like ten thirty. I'm like
22:15
Speaker 1: missing the front half of the game. This happened obviously immediately.
22:19
Speaker 1: And I was walking down the hallway and I walked
22:22
Speaker 1: by the Red Zone studios, which you never hear. You
22:25
Speaker 1: never hear loud things coming out of there, um and
22:29
Speaker 1: all I air was yelling, and I was like, Scott
22:31
Speaker 1: Anson has lost his mind today? What is going on?
22:34
Speaker 1: And then by the time I get back into the
22:36
Speaker 1: locker room to get changed, get ready to go home,
22:39
Speaker 1: my phone had blown up and I saw what had happened,
22:42
Speaker 1: and Cynthia Freedom and I just sat there and rewatched
22:45
Speaker 1: it and rewatched it, and we were like, oh my god,
22:49
Speaker 1: it is I mean, I think I speak for all
22:52
Speaker 1: of this is one of the most incredible things I
22:54
Speaker 1: think I've seen in sports, just it's you know. Josh
22:57
Speaker 1: Allen went on to say, like it's you know, hard
23:00
Speaker 1: to not believe in in something going on. I don't
23:03
Speaker 1: want to get into all of that. I'm not religious,
23:06
Speaker 1: you know. Um, whatever you believe in is whatever you
23:09
Speaker 1: believe in. But sometimes when things like this happen, you
23:11
Speaker 1: gotta believe is something's going on, Song's going on, people
23:14
Speaker 1: are looking out, something funky's happening. That was incredible. That
23:18
Speaker 1: was the greatest thing that I have seen in sports.
23:19
Speaker 1: So it made me want to open up my d
23:21
Speaker 1: m s and ask you, guys, I don't know, just
23:23
Speaker 1: in this mood, I'm just in this emotional mood right now.
23:26
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you if there was like a
23:27
Speaker 1: miracle that you had witnessed in or out of sports,
23:30
Speaker 1: it didn't matter, you know. Did you see somebody get
23:32
Speaker 1: out of their wheelchair and go, hallelluyah can walk again?
23:36
Speaker 1: I would love to see that. That sounds magical. Um.
23:39
Speaker 1: And I got a lot of d m s. And
23:40
Speaker 1: to be honest, if you want a little like Pep
23:42
Speaker 1: in your step today, go and just read this thread.
23:45
Speaker 1: I got d m s and then I got just
23:46
Speaker 1: people commenting on my Twitter and there's a lot of
23:49
Speaker 1: really incredible stories, So I'm gonna read a couple of
23:52
Speaker 1: them to you guys right now. Obviously, one that came
23:55
Speaker 1: to mind immediately was um D Gordon hitting a home
23:59
Speaker 1: run after Jose Fernandez died in a boating accident. So
24:04
Speaker 1: let me just read this to you. I just like
24:06
Speaker 1: ripped it off of Wikipedia. A left handed hitter, Dee Gordon.
24:10
Speaker 1: He took the first pitch of his at bat as
24:12
Speaker 1: a right handed batter, imitating Fernandez's batting stance with Fernande's
24:17
Speaker 1: batting helmet in honor of his late friend. Uh the
24:20
Speaker 1: picture out of respect. Through the ball, he just like,
24:23
Speaker 1: you know, here you go. Uh. Then Gordon switched to
24:26
Speaker 1: the other side and he got his right stands out.
24:29
Speaker 1: He some nashed it. He said after the game that
24:33
Speaker 1: he had never hit a ball that far, even in
24:37
Speaker 1: batting practice. Okay, this is a guy that hit I
24:40
Speaker 1: think eighteen home runs in his entire career. I think
24:42
Speaker 1: he's a blink. Eighteen home runs and he hit one
24:46
Speaker 1: on that day. This is not a guy. This is
24:48
Speaker 1: not like fourth on the batting order. He's not He's
24:50
Speaker 1: not playing clean up. He hit an incredible home run.
24:54
Speaker 1: That's magic. You can't ignore that. That is magic. Um,
24:57
Speaker 1: I love this. This brought me into tears this morning. Uh.
25:01
Speaker 1: The year my dad passed away was the first season
25:04
Speaker 1: I watched football in my entire life without him. We
25:07
Speaker 1: are diehard Dolphins fans and notoriously hated the Patriots slash
25:12
Speaker 1: Don Brady. Watching that Dolphins Pat's game that year, before
25:17
Speaker 1: the final play, I said, Dad, if you're watching this
25:20
Speaker 1: right now, please give me a sign. Then the Miami
25:24
Speaker 1: miracle happened, the crazy lateral situation. I literally fell to
25:29
Speaker 1: the ground crying and it's still shakes me up. Literally
25:33
Speaker 1: after that kickoff, was like, if you're not watching sports,
25:35
Speaker 1: what are you doing with your life? Because there there's
25:37
Speaker 1: things that happened. There are these connections and these and
25:40
Speaker 1: these beautiful, beautiful moments, um, and I'd like to share
25:44
Speaker 1: a moment of my own. My dad passed away when
25:48
Speaker 1: I was seventeen. I talked about it a lot, if
25:51
Speaker 1: you haven't heard me talk about it, talk a lot
25:53
Speaker 1: about mental health and and grieving and and all of those,
25:57
Speaker 1: you know, uncomfortable things. But my dad was for eight years,
26:01
Speaker 1: and Um, basically there was a point when we got
26:05
Speaker 1: to the end of it that he was. We were like, okay,
26:07
Speaker 1: this is it. He stopped eating and we all I
26:09
Speaker 1: got pulled out up high school and um, it was
26:13
Speaker 1: taken a little while for him to pass and we
26:16
Speaker 1: make jokes about it. We were like, come on, was
26:18
Speaker 1: going on? I gotta get I gotta go to prom. Okay, Um,
26:22
Speaker 1: I can be darking about it because my experience. Um,
26:24
Speaker 1: but he was taking a little while and it was
26:27
Speaker 1: like five days down the road after we were told like,
26:29
Speaker 1: this is it. And so I invited my friend over
26:32
Speaker 1: for a sleepover, which sounds psychotic now that I think
26:35
Speaker 1: about it as an adult. My father is about to
26:38
Speaker 1: pass away in the next room, and I'm like, Whitney,
26:40
Speaker 1: you want to come over and watch the o C.
26:42
Speaker 1: She was like cashure. So we're up having like a
26:45
Speaker 1: little slumber party and she falls asleep and I fall asleep.
26:49
Speaker 1: And then at like two I think it was like
26:51
Speaker 1: two fift am, Um, a picture frame comes flying off
26:56
Speaker 1: of my wall. I swear this happened. Picture flame comes
27:00
Speaker 1: flying off of my wall and smashes and it was
27:02
Speaker 1: like a whatever picture. It was like me and a friend.
27:04
Speaker 1: It wasn't anything significant, but it fell off right beside
27:08
Speaker 1: my bedroom door. And then I woke up and I
27:11
Speaker 1: was like, what the hell? And I noticed that there
27:13
Speaker 1: was a small little sliver of light underneath my bedroom door,
27:16
Speaker 1: which told me that my parents bedroom light was still on.
27:20
Speaker 1: And you know, my dad was pulled out of the
27:22
Speaker 1: hospital and brought home so that he could pass away
27:24
Speaker 1: with with all of our families, so he was at
27:25
Speaker 1: home with us, and uh, the bedroom light was on
27:28
Speaker 1: and I was just like, whoa, why are they still awake?
27:30
Speaker 1: And I go into my parents room and my brother
27:34
Speaker 1: Jonas is standing over my dad and he was crying
27:37
Speaker 1: and he looked at me and he said, he literally
27:39
Speaker 1: just took his last breath a second before you got
27:41
Speaker 1: in here. And I was able to have this final
27:45
Speaker 1: moment with my dad instead of you know, waking up.
27:49
Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody would have woken me up, but I
27:51
Speaker 1: was able to have this final moment with him. And
27:53
Speaker 1: I crawled into bed with him like a weirdo. That
27:56
Speaker 1: seems No, it wasn't weird. It was beautiful and I
27:59
Speaker 1: got to, you know, just hold onto him one last time,
28:03
Speaker 1: and it's like you can't. You know, whatever you believe
28:05
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter. Um things, things happen. And that's
28:09
Speaker 1: what happened with this game and Damar Hamlin's recovery and
28:13
Speaker 1: the fact that he is a weeek. Literally today we
28:15
Speaker 1: record this on Monday. He is out of the hospital
28:19
Speaker 1: and on his way home, and man, I think all
28:22
Speaker 1: of us are hoping that he can play football again.
28:24
Speaker 1: We hope we see him next season, We hope. But
28:26
Speaker 1: nothing but health for him above all else, football aside.
28:29
Speaker 1: Who cares, um, But if you're going through stuff at
28:33
Speaker 1: home and just you know, miracles happen every day and
28:36
Speaker 1: beautiful things happen, and um, we're with the Buffalo community
28:40
Speaker 1: and we're with Damar and U. Sports are a beautiful thing, baby,
28:44
Speaker 1: Sports are a beautiful, beautiful thing. Okay, coming up after
28:48
Speaker 1: the break, best and worst thing that I saw, I'm
28:50
Speaker 1: gonna go crack. He's okay, the best and the worst
29:05
Speaker 1: thing that I saw all week? What what a doozy,
29:08
Speaker 1: What a doozy man that overtime game with Seattle Rams.
29:12
Speaker 1: I wanted the Rams to win so bad. I have
29:15
Speaker 1: loved cheering for the Seahawks this season and Gino and
29:19
Speaker 1: that magic that's been incredible. They're in the playoffs and
29:22
Speaker 1: coratulation Seattle. But we were this close to having the
29:25
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions in the playoffs. Oh, that would have just
29:29
Speaker 1: been beautiful. That would have been beautiful. Um. But instead
29:34
Speaker 1: we don't happen to Troy Lions in the playoffs. But
29:36
Speaker 1: we got one last parting SoundBite from my favorite player
29:40
Speaker 1: this season, without question, Jamal Williams of the Detroit Lions.
29:45
Speaker 1: Take it away a stout playing us. Man, we made.
29:49
Speaker 1: We did a Detroit Lions. We did Detroit Lions. Stop
29:52
Speaker 1: playing with us. I don't even watch TV, but I
29:54
Speaker 1: heard everybody already pick their pick the Packers over us.
29:57
Speaker 1: Stop playing with us. That's all I gotta say. Man,
29:59
Speaker 1: don't let these tears for you. It's all dog around
30:01
Speaker 1: his moat. Oh god, he is just so incredible and
30:08
Speaker 1: at what a moment he came from the Packers. Now
30:10
Speaker 1: he's on the Detroit Lions. You heard him. If you
30:13
Speaker 1: said that like a year ago, we would have been like,
30:16
Speaker 1: you know, I'm so, what what of it? You're on
30:18
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. But now we're on the Detroit Lions.
30:21
Speaker 1: You know, we would say it a little bit differently.
30:24
Speaker 1: Jared got the top ten quarterback Watch where in Detroit,
30:30
Speaker 1: Baby That's where I can't wait to see what the
30:33
Speaker 1: Lions look like next season. Cannot wait. Oh, they are
30:37
Speaker 1: going to be a contender hard Hard Knocks round two.
30:41
Speaker 1: I'll just say, right now, get him back into the
30:42
Speaker 1: groove because something worked. Um. Now, one of the worst
30:46
Speaker 1: thing that I saw. People have some thoughts on Aaron Rodgers.
30:51
Speaker 1: I'll just say that people have some thoughts on Aaron Rodgers. Um.
30:56
Speaker 1: Post game, you know, Jamal was just like, hey, can
30:57
Speaker 1: I have that jersey and goes anything, I'm gonna keep
30:59
Speaker 1: this one, and then all of us we all started
31:00
Speaker 1: paying attention. We all started paying very close attention to
31:04
Speaker 1: what he did. And the next thirty to sixty to
31:08
Speaker 1: two minutes, you know, um, he walked down the tunnel
31:13
Speaker 1: out of Lambeau. He took his moments and looking around
31:16
Speaker 1: O game, walks down the tunnel with Randall Cobb, and
31:19
Speaker 1: he has this little run in with a camera guy.
31:21
Speaker 1: Take a look. I mean, I kind of get it.
31:37
Speaker 1: It feels like paparazzi esque. You know, he's having this
31:39
Speaker 1: beautiful moment with Randall Cobb. Who Kyle. You know, We're
31:43
Speaker 1: all like, oh, this is gonna be it for Aaron Rodgers.
31:45
Speaker 1: But He's like, what's it for Randall Cobb. He's saying
31:47
Speaker 1: about to his friend spicy okay, um, but I will
31:52
Speaker 1: give Aaron Rodgers, you know, I'll give him some props.
31:56
Speaker 1: He did have a beautiful moment, uh in the postgame
31:59
Speaker 1: press conference where he kind of like gave his love
32:02
Speaker 1: to everybody. It's pretty beautiful to look at this. I'm
32:05
Speaker 1: gonna miss your questions TOI and Mike Clements taking ten
32:10
Speaker 1: seconds to do it lead up and Pete angling for something,
32:17
Speaker 1: and Bob writing stories about my personal life. You've been
32:23
Speaker 1: good lately though, and Jason bringing it back home with
32:27
Speaker 1: something that it's kind of heavy hitting. Stephanie Sutton coming
32:32
Speaker 1: out of left field the good question, I missed the guys,
32:38
Speaker 1: I missed the fans. Yeah, thank you. I don't know what.
32:43
Speaker 1: I'm just emotional today, but everything's made me crying. So
32:49
Speaker 1: he was asked like, you know, if this is it,
32:50
Speaker 1: what are you gonna miss? And that's what he went
32:52
Speaker 1: and said. He called out all the journalists and the
32:53
Speaker 1: reporters that have been with him through a lot. You know,
32:56
Speaker 1: he's not necessarily made their lives easy. You know. They
33:00
Speaker 1: reported on everything from football to Ayahuasca in the last
33:04
Speaker 1: twelve months, absolutely wild COVID everything. So I thought that
33:09
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool that he took the time to
33:10
Speaker 1: not only call them out by their first name, but
33:13
Speaker 1: sometimes their last name, which is pretty amazing. You spent
33:15
Speaker 1: a lot of time with those people, but a lot
33:16
Speaker 1: of football players wouldn't take that time to get to
33:18
Speaker 1: know them. Um, guys, that is our show, nothing but
33:21
Speaker 1: love today. I'm just like feeling all the fields. Okay,
33:24
Speaker 1: so I'm sending a hug to you good news about Tamar.
33:27
Speaker 1: We are going to be back on Thursday, uh, sorry,
33:30
Speaker 1: Friday or shows coming on Friday. How have I been
33:32
Speaker 1: doing this for a year and I still don't know
33:33
Speaker 1: when shows come out. Colleen Walver is gonna be joining
33:35
Speaker 1: us and I'm very very excited to chat with her.
33:38
Speaker 1: We're gonna be previewing uh Super wild Card weekend. We're
33:41
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33:44
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33:46
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34:23
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34:26
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