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Hour 2 - Epic Streak · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh, what is going on?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in happy early Wednesday morning. We are all on
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  Speaker 2: the same page now that the West coast has caught
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  Speaker 2: up Wednesday morning. Here we go home day. Hope your
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  Speaker 2: Christmas shopping is complete. You're ready for the holidays, right
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate, unwined, have a good time, maybe friends and
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  Speaker 2: family involved, all that good stuff. Wish you a happy
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  Speaker 2: holiday season for sure. All right, So I'll get back
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  Speaker 2: to DK Metcalf. But more than DK going on in
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  Speaker 2: the sports world. If you've got thoughts, feel free. Eight
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  Speaker 2: seven seven ninety nine on Fox is your number. If
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  Speaker 2: you've got DK Metcalf thoughts. This two game suspension was upheld,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, some people have thoughts on the whole
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  Speaker 2: situation right there, as do I. But I've got more
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  Speaker 2: thoughts than just that. And we'll stick with the the
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  Speaker 2: NFL vibe and coincidentally the Steelers vibe here, because I
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  Speaker 2: think there's an accomplishment that is insane and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of us just glossing over it. So the Steelers, by
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  Speaker 2: beating the Lions this last Sunday, they've clinched another winning
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  Speaker 2: season in a row, another one. That's twenty two straight
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  Speaker 2: winning seasons and Mike Tomlin has been the head coach
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  Speaker 2: for nineteen of those twenty two seasons. So for Mike
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  Speaker 2: Tomlin to have nineteen straight winning seasons, that is an
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  Speaker 2: outrageously great accomplishment. Like, not one losing season, not one
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  Speaker 2: year where you lost a bunch of close games.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the Chiefs. Look at the Chiefs from.
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  Speaker 2: Last year to this year. They won all those one
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  Speaker 2: possession games last year all of them, and then this
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  Speaker 2: year hardly any of them. And that's with Mahomes healthy
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  Speaker 2: throughout most of the season. He got banged up last
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  Speaker 2: week and now he's out for the season. They already
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  Speaker 2: had a losing record anyway. With Mahomes, he was upright
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  Speaker 2: for what fourteen fifteen games something like that, almost the
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  Speaker 2: whole season. Still losing season. That's you know, getting to
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  Speaker 2: the super Bowl for three straight seasons, winning two of them,
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  Speaker 2: and they were gonna have a losing record with Mahomes.
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  Speaker 2: That's insane. So for the Steelers and Mike Tomlin, nineteen
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  Speaker 2: straight seasons, not one year where he had a brutal schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the Lions Gauntlet this season. Their road schedule
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  Speaker 2: is just hideous. Have you if I just rattle off
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  Speaker 2: what they had to face on the road this season.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get it for you real quick. There's not one
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  Speaker 2: year where the Steelers faced this ridiculous paths. Here's what
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  Speaker 2: the Lions had on the road at the Packers, at
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens, at the Bengals, at the Chiefs, at the Commanders,
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  Speaker 2: at the Eagles, at the Rams, at the Vikings, at
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  Speaker 2: the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: That's freaking brutal, man.
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  Speaker 2: And based on how things kind of ebbed and flowed, like,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, on the road at Minnesota, it's not as
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  Speaker 2: nasty as it once looked. Right, there's not even JJ McCarthy.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Max Brosmer Show. We'll get more into that.
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  Speaker 2: But still a ridiculous road schedule for the Lions, or
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  Speaker 2: even more so with the Steelers nineteen straight from Mike Tomlin.
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  Speaker 1: A year where you just had a ton of injuries.
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  Speaker 2: The injury bug just hit you hard. Lions last year,
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  Speaker 2: injuries all over the place, right, So they haven't had
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  Speaker 2: one year where they lost a bunch of close games.
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  Speaker 2: They either had a brutal schedule, they had a ton
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  Speaker 2: of injuries. You know, they had some bad lugs and
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  Speaker 2: crazy bounces. Look at the quarterbacks that they've had throughout
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  Speaker 2: this winning streak. You go back, it's been there for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. With Mike Tomley, he took over an nine.
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  Speaker 2: Actually sorry, he took over an seven for Bill Cower.
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  Speaker 2: Look at some of these quarterbacks. So he had Big
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  Speaker 2: Ben all the way up until twenty eighteen. Then it's
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  Speaker 2: well a little bit longer than that twenty one you
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  Speaker 2: had Mason Rudolph. These are your leading passers, Mason Rudolph,
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  Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett for two years, Russell Wilson. Know he's got
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  Speaker 2: Duck Hodges in there for a little bit. Look look
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  Speaker 2: at these quarterbacks that he's done it with not one
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  Speaker 2: losing season. And look, I'm not telling you that this
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  Speaker 2: is like on par with winning a super Bowl. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the accomplishment that you're gonna get more props for and
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  Speaker 2: more roses for, You're gonna get more bouquets for winning
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  Speaker 2: a super Bowl. We all know that that's the way
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  Speaker 2: it goes. And when you have all of this success,
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  Speaker 2: you're kind of like the nineties Atlanta Braves, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you win all these division championships and.
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  Speaker 1: We're like, well, where are the World Series rings? You
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  Speaker 1: got one?
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  Speaker 2: That's it's where's all the success world series wise? If
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  Speaker 2: you're winning the division, that's great, but you got to
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  Speaker 2: win it all at some point.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way it goes. I guess at that.
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  Speaker 2: But I think this, and this might be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit radical, but you gotta let it digest, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta let it swirl.
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  Speaker 1: Around your brain a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that winning having a winning record nineteen
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  Speaker 2: straight seasons, I think that it's actually harder to do
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  Speaker 2: than win a Super Bowl. I honestly believe that. Look,
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  Speaker 2: you can have one year where things are just going
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  Speaker 2: your way.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this season. Look at the Bears.
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  Speaker 2: The Bears have had and I don't expect them to
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  Speaker 2: win a super Bowl, but they're in position. They're in
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  Speaker 2: position seating wise, where you win a couple of games
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  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, man, you're in the NFC
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  Speaker 2: Championship game. You got a chance to make some real noise.
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  Speaker 2: Look at all the breaks that they've gotten this season.
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  Speaker 2: They had what a point five percent chance to beat
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  Speaker 2: the Packers this past Sunday point five before they got
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  Speaker 2: the onside kick. Unbelievable that they got that win somehow,
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  Speaker 2: some way, And maybe I'm getting my dates mixed up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that was Saturday. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was Saturday. It was late Saturday night. Technically it was
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night. A point five percent chance. They have had
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  Speaker 2: six wins this season where they trailed in the final
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  Speaker 2: two minutes. That's ridiculous. They've gotten all these wins, all
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  Speaker 2: these breaks. Last year, the Washington Commanders got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of breaks, one being against the Bears. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: had the hail Mary against the Bears. He had a
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  Speaker 2: Bears player talking smack to the fans while the hail
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  Speaker 2: Mary is going on, and Washington caught it. And look, man,
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  Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels was sensational last season. I'm not saying it's
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  Speaker 2: all luck, but they had a lot of lucky breaks.
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  Speaker 2: The Bears have the golden horseshoe this season. They're eleven
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  Speaker 2: and four. They have six wins where they rallied in
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  Speaker 2: the final two minutes. That is unsustainable to t and
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  Speaker 2: yet here they are. So the point is, you can
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  Speaker 2: have a season where you're good and then man, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that goes your way. There are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things that a bounce here, abounce there. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: the Packers recover the on side kick well, guess what,
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  Speaker 2: you lose that game, you know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's stuff like that, and you can believe that you
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  Speaker 2: create your own luck, and there's some truth to that,
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  Speaker 2: but there are a lot of lucky breaks that just
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  Speaker 2: coincidentally happen for teams randomly from season to season, and
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  Speaker 2: one year it's your season, the other year it is not. Like,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, the Lions, this season is not their year
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  Speaker 2: for luck.
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  Speaker 1: It just is not.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the game against the Steelers on Sunday, right
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  Speaker 2: before halftime, Kenneth Gainwell is getting hit by a linebacker
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  Speaker 2: Alex Azeloni. It's gonna be a pass interference penalty. There's
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  Speaker 2: only two seconds left in the in the half. You
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  Speaker 2: know the Steelers gonna kick a field goal, but instead,
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  Speaker 2: while getting tackled to the ground, Kenneth Gainwell sticks his
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  Speaker 2: arm out, the ball hits his forearm, he just catches it,
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  Speaker 2: runs into the end zone for a touchdown with two
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  Speaker 2: seconds left in the half. You're telling me that's not
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  Speaker 2: an unfortunate break for the Lions. Of course it is.
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  Speaker 2: And stuff like that where those things have happened more
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  Speaker 2: often this season than not for the Lions, and it
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  Speaker 2: is just not their year man one thing after another,
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  Speaker 2: just things are going wrong, snowballing the whole thing. So
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  Speaker 2: you can get lucky one year on top of being good,
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  Speaker 2: and you get in a rhythm, you start stacking wins,
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  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you're knocking on the door
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  Speaker 2: to win a Super Bowl. I don't want to make
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  Speaker 2: it sound like it's easy, but I do think it's
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  Speaker 2: easier than nineteen straight seasons of winning. That's what Mike
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  Speaker 2: Tomlin has done. I don't think we can gloss over that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I think is happening. Honestly, I think
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  Speaker 2: this is the worst franchise to have a winning streak
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  Speaker 2: like this. Four to the Pittsburgh's. They've won six Super Bowls,
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  Speaker 2: they have a rich tradition. Yes, they were horrible, yes,
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  Speaker 2: in the thirties, forties, fifties. Yet we get to the seventies,
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  Speaker 2: they're printing Super Bowls. They're winning four out of six seasons.
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  Speaker 2: They've stacked two more on top of that, since they're
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  Speaker 2: one of the proudest franchise and most respected franchises in
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  Speaker 2: all of sports, not just the NFL. So to win
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  Speaker 2: nineteen straight, have nineteen straight winning seasons and one Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Most people are gonna be like, here we go again
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  Speaker 2: with Tomlin and the lack of playoff success, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what he's more so known for, and I hate that.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if Mike Tomlin.
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  Speaker 2: Was the Jacksonville Jaguars head coach, Let's just say Lem
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  Speaker 2: Cohen is doing a fantastic job. But let's just say
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  Speaker 2: Leam Cohen is out of that job two years from now. Right,
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  Speaker 2: things are going great right now, expectations rays and then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the wheels just fall off the
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  Speaker 2: tracks and we're talking disastrous seasons, losing seasons. He's out
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  Speaker 2: of a job. Okay, just follow me on this. Imagine
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin taking over for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He not
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  Speaker 2: only wins a Super Bowl, he has nineteen straight winning seasons.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think we'd be saying about that guy?
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  Speaker 2: Then we'd be like, this guy's amazing. He walks on
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  Speaker 2: water as a coach. But he's doing it with the Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: So we're just like, yawn, not impressed. Where's the playoff success, Mike?
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  Speaker 2: Where are the Super Bowls? And I'm not saying that's
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  Speaker 2: wrong because he does need that, he does need more
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  Speaker 2: playoff success. He does need another super Bowl, but both
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  Speaker 2: things can be true, like he needs more playoff success.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, nineteen straight winning seasons is
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  Speaker 2: an outstanding accomplishment and I don't think we should just
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  Speaker 2: gloss over it. If you look at some of the
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  Speaker 2: best runs in NFL history, there are multiple times where
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  Speaker 2: teams won multiple championships and didn't come close to nineteen
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  Speaker 2: straight winning seasons. If you look at the Steelers, let's
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  Speaker 2: use that same franchise. If you go back to the seventies,
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  Speaker 2: they won four super Bowls in six years.
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  Speaker 1: Along that span, they only had nine.
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  Speaker 2: Straight winning seasons nine not even half of what Tomlin
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  Speaker 2: has done. Right from nineteen seventy two to nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 2: that was it eighty one, they were five hundred as
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  Speaker 2: not a winning season. They only had nine straight winning seasons.
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  Speaker 2: And this is not an either or discussion. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you will take what's behind door one, which is four
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  Speaker 2: super Bowls in that span, over what's behind door two,
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  Speaker 2: which would be Mike Tomlin having nineteen straight winning seasons.
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  Speaker 2: This is not which is better, which is more impressed?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, for super Bowls, that's what you're in the
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  Speaker 2: business for. That's what Mike Tomlin would take immediately. That's
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  Speaker 2: not what the discussion is. The discussion is, let's not
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  Speaker 2: gloss over nineteen straight winning seasons as if it's nothing,
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  Speaker 2: as if it doesn't even matter. Look at the teams
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  Speaker 2: with losing records this season. If I told you before
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  Speaker 2: the season, the Chiefs are gonna have a losing record,
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals are gonna have a losing record, possibly the
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  Speaker 2: Ravens are gonna have a losing record, you'd be like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: all right, did all those quarterbacks get hurt in Week one?
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  Speaker 2: It'd be like, well, Burrow kind of did almost week one,
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  Speaker 2: but Lamar he missed a couple of games.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to Lamar in a second.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, back contusion not out there, unreal. But
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  Speaker 2: Mahomes was healthy throughout most of the year. And they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a losing record. It's not easy to have
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  Speaker 2: winning records for that long. If you look at the Patriots,
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots won nineteen straight. They had nineteen straight winning
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  Speaker 2: seasons from one to twenty nineteen, and in that span
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  Speaker 2: they won all those Super Bowls, six of them. Right,
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  Speaker 2: What a what a run by the Patriots. But think
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  Speaker 2: about that not in either or. Of course, you'd rather
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  Speaker 2: have the six Super Bowls than the nineteenth straight winning seasons.
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  Speaker 2: But they had Tom Brady throughout that whole run. Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin had Old Big Ben throughout a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these winning seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett.
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  Speaker 2: You see Kenny Pickett with the Raiders, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. You see that against the Eagles,
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  Speaker 2: seventy five total yards, not like the first drive, not
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  Speaker 2: the first half, seventy five total yards in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett the Raiders quarterback a little over a week ago,
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  Speaker 2: he got blown out thirty one to nothing. He's had
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  Speaker 2: winning seasons with Kenny Pickett as the leading passer for
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  Speaker 2: two years. Like it's amazing what Mike Tomlin has done,
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  Speaker 2: and it's weird. I can feel like a collective eye
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  Speaker 2: roll from a lot of the listeners right now, like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, what is this guy doing, like waxing Poe.
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  Speaker 2: I think about nineteen straight winning seasons, where's the playoff success?
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  Speaker 2: Where are the rings Sky talking about? I can feel
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  Speaker 2: that and it's unbelievable to me, Like you had the Niners.
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  Speaker 2: Think about the Niners in the eighties and nineties, sixteen
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  Speaker 2: straight winning seasons from eighty three to ninety eight, and
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  Speaker 2: think about the quarterbacks that they had during that time.
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  Speaker 2: Think about the era as well. This is not hard
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  Speaker 2: salary cap, this is not free agency. I mean there
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  Speaker 2: was a bit of the winning stream. Free agency came
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  Speaker 2: around like ninety four, right around there, so it did
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  Speaker 2: dip in to that era a bit, but it's just.
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  Speaker 1: A portion of it, right.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the leading passers Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, year
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  Speaker 2: after year, young young, Young, young young y. Shockingly, the
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  Speaker 2: losing streak ended with Jeff Garcia the leading passer in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine. You know, you went from young to
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  Speaker 2: Garcia and you went from twelve and four to four
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  Speaker 2: and twelve. Shocking how that works. You know, Mike Tomlin's
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  Speaker 2: done it with Duck Hodges. My gosh, that means something.
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  Speaker 2: And you gotta go back a little while to find
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tomlins's last playoff win. It's been too long. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not here to tell you that it hasn't been too long.
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  Speaker 2: It has been the last time they won a playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta go back to the twenty sixteen season. Can
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  Speaker 2: you believe it's been that long. That's amazing. That goes back.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking almost a decade since they've won a playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll never forget that game. They beat the Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: eighteen to sixteen. And this is great hot tub time
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  Speaker 2: machine stuff, especially if you're an NFL geek like me.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So, that game, the Chiefs went for two and
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  Speaker 2: I believe they originally got it, but there was a
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  Speaker 2: holding penalty on Get this, Eric Fisher, he was holding
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  Speaker 2: James Harrison. That's how long ago it's been since the
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  Speaker 2: Steeler have won a playoff game. Remember after that playoff game,
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room, Antonio Brown got in trouble because
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  Speaker 2: he went on Facebook Live and he's recording Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 2: and he called the Patriots a holes and it turned
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  Speaker 2: into this whole thing. That's how long it's been since
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  Speaker 2: they've won a playoff game. It was the twenty sixteen season.
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  Speaker 2: We're in twenty twenty five. It's been almost a decade.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not sitting here telling you that Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 2: doesn't need to win playoff games, he doesn't need to
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  Speaker 2: win another Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: He does.
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  Speaker 2: But what I am telling you is the guy's a
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  Speaker 2: brilliant head coach and you give him a legitimate quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I fully believe that he could have big success, big
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  Speaker 2: playoff success, big Super Bowl success. The problem isn't that
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin is a limited head coach. The problem is
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  Speaker 2: that the Steelers have had limited quarterbacks for the last decade.
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  Speaker 2: They've had that, and yet they still are cranking out
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  Speaker 2: winning seasons that at least means something. And it turns
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  Speaker 2: into this like overly complicated conversation where I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: that it's okay to fizzle out in the playoffs year
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  Speaker 2: after you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where it becomes unnecessarily complicated. Right if you
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  Speaker 2: just keep it simple and say he hasn't had one
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  Speaker 2: year they lost a bunch of close games, not one
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  Speaker 2: year where the schedule was just brutal and got the
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  Speaker 2: best of them. Not one year where they just had
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  Speaker 2: injuries go.
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  Speaker 1: Lo or ravaged by injuries. TJ.
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  Speaker 2: Watt has missed the last couple of games that right
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  Speaker 2: there alone could have burned them. But what have they
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  Speaker 2: done the last two weeks? They're like, we're shutting down
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  Speaker 2: the rush Lions. You can't run the ball at all.
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  Speaker 2: Against US. I think they had what twelve rushes for
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  Speaker 2: fifteen yards. The Lions averaged one point one yards per
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  Speaker 2: rush this past weekend. One point one the Lions. They
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  Speaker 2: can run it on anybody, not the Steelers. All of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, the run defense is woken up.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. That's without TJ.
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  Speaker 2: White, by the way, and they shut down the Dolphins
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  Speaker 2: very good running attack, shut him down.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: And so that that just means something. That's all I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying is nineteen straight winning seasons should not be glossed
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  Speaker 2: over as if it's like, yawn, what else is on
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  Speaker 2: the resume? Show me the playoff wins. I get it,
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  Speaker 2: he needs more playoff success, but not to the point
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  Speaker 2: where you just just yawn at nineteen straight winning seasons.
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  Speaker 1: I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't describe how hard it is to do that,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: To have a run that long, it's insanely difficult. And again,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I think it's more difficult than winning a super Bowl.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And believe me, I'm not telling you that's easy. It's
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: very very difficult to win one super Bowl, so difficult
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to do. I don't want to make it sound like, yeah,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: you just get kind of lucky. You get a couple
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: of breaks and yeah, presto, you win a super Bowl. No,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: it's not like it's insanely difficult. Even with how insanely
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: difficult it is to win a ring, I think it's
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: more difficult to win nineteen straight, nineteen straight winning seasons outstanding,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: and I just don't think that could be glossed over.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I think it's unfortunate that it happens.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Like that often. All Right, eight seven to seven ninety
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: nine on Fox is your number.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: You have thoughts on DK, anybody who's left wants to
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: do that, we can do that right around the corner.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Appreciate your patience, you know, I get passionate about some stuff.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Nineteen straight winning seasons matters. I'm standing on the table.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not only pounding the table, I'm kicking the table
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: as well. This matters, is what I'm saying to you.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Coming up.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get to a head coach that says
• 19:46
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• 19:50
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• 19:52
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  Speaker 2: I was jibber jabbering for a while a little bit ago.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: So let's get out to the militia here. Militia wants
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: to check in, and I appreciate that. I always love
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: hearing from militia. We'll get to the college football coach
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: saying something in favor of college football as a whole
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: here momentarily, but first to militia. My guy Cardiac Stanley,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: So he was with us last hour at the very end,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: and we had the ACDC guessing game, which cut into
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: the call just a little bit, but he had a
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Steeler's thoughts at the end of that thing, so east
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: here I invited him to finish his thoughts.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: So Stanley, you take it away, buddy. You're on Fox
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio. What's going on?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Hey?
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Thanks Brian? Hot talk you well, hot talk you long
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: time ago. Brian. Oh yeah, yeah, And I told you
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: that he's coming a long way with your your presentation
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: on how you cod up the radio show. You you
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: do a really nice job and one of the good ol'
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Brian will feeling anyway, Well, thank you, man.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that Stanley, I was I was a I
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: was a hack basically is what you're saying at the beginning,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and now like slightly respectable. Hey man, it's improvement. I'll
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: take that, Stanley. I appreciate it. Thank you for the
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: kind words. That's nice of you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Well, why I told you you were like a whiner.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I was whining too much at the beginning, Stanley.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like, just like Jonahs Knock, what a whiner?
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Can you?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Stanley? Can you remember some of the things? What was like?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: What were the things I was whining about in your opinion?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Any situations? Okay? Why does Sterrry Jones app to inner feel?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Why to me? Let's move on? Okay, the fucking get
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: back to the Steelers. First of all, before I let
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: you go, the Steelers have nineteen winning but not winning seasons.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Can you figure that out? Yeah?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I mean I think you're saying they've they've got nineteen
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: winning regular seasons and they haven't done it in the postseason.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: They have one Super Bowl ring. But I think you're
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: saying what really matters is winning at all.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Nineteen winning seasons but no winning anyways, net Calf in
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: this but that right hand of that stupid dude in
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: the blue hair, right whip. He whipped on that. Nonetheless,
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: he can now join Le'Veon Bell Antonio Brown being mere
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: steamers who were really good players, who ruined the whole
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: thing by their attitude. So he's in that club, don't you.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Think, Well, interesting, Stanley, listen, man, I appreciate you checking in.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: It was good to hear from you again.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: And I like that you don't think I'm as big
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: of a whiner as I once was, you know, at
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: least in.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: I love that he stops to think for like five
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: to seven sites, you know what.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I kind of like because we're so fast and we're like,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: you know, you know, you know, Stanley just takes a breath,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: collects his thoughts.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: I prefer that.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of soothing in a way.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I've this is a therapeutic. I have no problem with that.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: But listen, there's something to what Stanley is saying where
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: if you look at some guys that had a ton
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: of talent, were incredibly productive, but.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: They are getting in their own way, right.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Le'Veon Bell got in his own way, George Pickens got
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: in his own way as a steeler. Antonio Brown certainly
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: got in his own way, and now, unfortunately DK has
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: done that. I wonder what, ask yourself this, what if
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: that punch landed? What kind of suspension are we looking
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: at for DK? You know, it's much more than two games.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Did you watch all the different angles of the video too, Brian, because.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: No, I've only seen this straightforward.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Okay, I'm gonna send you the side shot of it
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: on Instagram right now, because I was really confused off
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: of that because he said he just grabbed his hair,
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: but in the side video you can see he blatantly
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: grabbed his shirt and you it looks like he made
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: contact with his face. But the guy who got hit
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: his initial statement said I did that wasn't what happened, right,
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: He said, I did not get hit where he said
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: he barely got grazed. And so I'm curious how he's
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: gonna change it now.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was weird.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: It's funny you said that because I read something about
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: DK ripping this guy's shirt, and I'm like, I didn't
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: even realize he was holding the shirt, you know, or
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: grabbing the shirt.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, that's crazy on Instagram.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny. I don't have Instagram. Let me
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: break it down so you'll love this story. I was
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: walking into Sofi Stadium for a Rams playoff game with
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: our guy Lee, Robert delap It was me and Lee
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: me Yeah, we were going to see the Rams take
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: on the Arizona Cardinals. And I'm walking into the stadium
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: and I get a text from my guy Duke. This
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: guy Duke in Albany, New York. Shout out to him.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: He owns Duke's Barbershop. If you're in upstate New York,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: go check it out.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Great.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I love the Wi Fi password. He's a Yankees fan.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what's the password, Duke. He's like, it's the
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: number one twenty seven times for their twenty seven championships.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Great password all time. But I thought Duke was texting
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: me and it was like, hey, man, can you can
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: you copy this link and send it to me. It's
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: for this haircut thing. And I'm trying to be number
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I'm like yeah great. I'm walking into the stadium. I'm
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: like yeah, sure, great. Next thing, I know, I'm getting
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: blown up by all of my friends. Dude, I think
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: you just got hacked on igh.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Because you got.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I never had I got I got hacked and
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I never opened a new one, you know, I was
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: trying to recover the old one and I just never
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: opened a new one. So anytime anyone sends me an
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: ig video, I'm like, I can't watch it.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: I don't even think you can watch what I just
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: sent you.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got nothing. Yeah it on YouTube. Okay, there
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: you go. I can watch that.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I haven't been hacked for my YouTube account, thank goodness yet.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Uh let me get to Eric is in Iowa. He's
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: got a thought on DK, lots of thoughts on DK tonight.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Eric, you're on Fox
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio.
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: Hey, good morning thought. I'm chying in on with DK.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: With all the crap that's still going on with it,
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: I can't believe that they actually decided and shared it
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: out there that Almos should have been pushed the next
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: year and done that way.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: So what are you saying, Eric, You think you should
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: have been suspended next year and they like, do their
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: due diligence find out exactly what happened.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Well, that would be dispensable thing in my opinion, right,
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: even though I'm not even though I'm not a DJ
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: metcalf fan or a Steelers fan, but hey, you know,
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: there just seems to be too much going on with it,
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: and just like you said, the angles of all the
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: shots of it, it just doesn't make a whole lot
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: of sense. So that would be my suggestion.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I you know what, I hear you, Eric. I appreciate
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: you checking in man. I'm going to disagree with you, though.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: The reasons I would disagree are are this a couple
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: of reasons. One unfortunately, and I hate that this is
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the reality. But there's nothing that could be said that
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: would justify DK doing what he did. Unfortunately, that's just
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: the way it works. The NFL can't have any of
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: its players throwing punches at fans, like, regardless of what's happened,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: there's nothing that will come out where it's like, I
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: don't know, there's there's a micro there's microphone audio of
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: the fans saying some crazy, crazy stuff, and the NFL
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: is just like you know, in light of this, no
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: suspension for DK. There's nothing that could exist. Nothing, So
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: he's gonna get suspended. Like I said before, the NFL
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: can't have any of its players go into the stands
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: throw punches at fans. They can't have that because if
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: you allow that to happen. That's basically that turns into
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: your sales pitch. What kind of sales pitch is that?
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: The NFL is like, Yeah, come on out, see our game,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: see NFL action. It's great, but act appropriately or you're
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: gonna get decked. You're gonna get punched in the nose
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: if you don't act right. That's not a sales pitch, Matt.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: You can't have that as a league. You're trying to
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: make money. This is a business, this is an operation.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: You can't have your players be violent in any capacity
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: with fans, regardless of what said.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I hate that, that's the reality.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I think some idiotic fans should be dealt with physically.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: But that's not the reality.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: That's not the world we live in, and that's not
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: the way any functioning business would ever operate. So I
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: think you've got to suspend DK right away. And I
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: get it that maybe you do your due diligence and
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: you interview this person, and you interview the lady that
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: was sitting next to the Yahoo fan, Maybe you uncover
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: some more information, but it's not gonna change anything to
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the degree of well, in light of this, we're not
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: suspending DK for one game. There's nothing that exists, and
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: so I think it's better for the league to deal
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: with it immediately. And unfortunately for DK walking over there
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: throwing the punch, he's he's gonna get. He's gonna get
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: the short end of the stick on that one. And
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I hate that, especially if what he alleges was said
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: was actually said. That that's brutal. And I don't know
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: how the fan, if he came close or actually said
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: those things, how he's allowed to sit there the rest
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: of the game. That blows my mind. But I'll tell
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: you this. The bottom line is we go back to
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: the central truth. Can't DK can't do what he did.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Nothing that we say will change or distort that he
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: can't do what he did. And the NFL has to
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: do a better job of policing this type of stuff
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: where the players don't feel like they have to police
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: it themselves. NFL's got to step it up. We've got
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Andrea in Berkeley. My girl is with us here today.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Andrea? You're on Fox?
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: How you doing good?
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Good? How are things good?
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: I want to which were blessed winner Solstice? And oh
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: did you get your newsletter?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Yes? I did receive that. Thank you for sending it
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: my way.
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: Yes, you're welcome. I know you always I can know
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: the dates how at the full moon and mercury retrograde
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: and so on. So it's really good to have that information.
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: And as a fellow black cat owner and lover, I
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: really wanted to call and talk about Oreo.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And oh cool. Yeah I didn't know you owned a
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: black cat. That's great.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, this is my second black cat.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: That's very fitting for you.
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: Andrea.
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: Oh what was that?
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: That's very fitting for you?
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: Yes, thank you astrology And.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: You got your little black cat right like.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: A little magical being.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Two of them. So what are the names of these cats?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Andrea throughout to you.
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know I had a very special black cat.
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: I got it Animal Rescue Foundation. It was Tony Learus's RF.
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: It said people saving animals, Animals saving people. When you
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: walked in the building was very special. It's it's different.
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: I think it's called joybound now. So the black cat
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: was called Diva d easy A. The first one okay.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: The second one is called Dove d O v Okay,
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: both black cats. I like the Oreo because it makes
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: me think of like Oreo cookies, dark on the outside. Yeah, no,
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: sweet on the inside. And then I was thinking, it's like, oh,
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: we haven't Scorpio trifector tonight got you Lorena and Coop?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: That's right? How cool is that gangang? That's right? The
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: gang is back together.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: I thought that was kind of a unique, uh trifecta.
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: And yeah, no, black cats are magical beings. Where did
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: you happen to get yours?
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Well? I never owned Oreo.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: So the story with Oreo is Oreo has a home
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: and we're just staying in an apartment complex.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Right. It was me and my now ex girlfriend.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: We were living there for the last year in Vegas, right,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: And so Oreo would just slowly we would see him
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: outside and then he just came by and just like
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: walked in and was checking out the place. And then
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: he would hang out. Then we would feed him. Then
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: he's hanging out every day. He would come over every day. Yeah,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: but he was never our cat. He was just a
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: neighborhood cat who has a home, but he's sort of
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: outside ish as well, and he would just roam the
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: neighborhood and visit random people.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: And he would visit us every day, and we love him.
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: It's almost like a special gift. When the cat us,
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: she would say, thank you, thank you, you're hearing you
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: honored me with your presence.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, no.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I was always so excited, Like Oreo would kind of
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: claw there's like this sort of like metal screen door
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: or he would me out at the door and I
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: would hear it immediately, like the TV could be on
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: full volume, and somehow I would feel like Oreo's there.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I'm like Oreos here, I get all. He's the best.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I love Oreo to death. He's awesome.
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I know the very magical beings black cats.
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: And there was National black Cat Day just a couple
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: of weeks ago on Facebook. Brian, I just happened to
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: notice that. It was like, oh wow, it's always like
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: black Cat Day here, but it was apparently a National
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: black Cat as well.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Very nice. Well, I like the I like Diva, Dove.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I think the next one is Dave, right, Like you
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: got to keep the central theme going here.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: There's something along those.
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: Lines with uh the letters D and like Diva is
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: like a magical being, like the a Diva kind of thing,
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: and Dove I always think of like double peace, and
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: I don't know, I think it's special once you go
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: to a shelter and you adopted cat and I kind
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: of leave them with their names.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I got one for you here, Andrea. How about Dame.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: That'd be a great with Damian Lillard, right, Bay Area native.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: The next black cat is Dame.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you're onto something there, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what it's got to be.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely does Okay, Well, Hey, happy holidays, Andrea. I always
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  Speaker 2: appreciate hearing from you. I hope everything's going well for you.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I hope you have a great early morning here.
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  Speaker 1: On the.
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  Speaker 8: Again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be in I think the next couple of
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  Speaker 2: nights for Big Ben and I think one more next week.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, around the holiday season, you know how it goes.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, No, always enjoy the no show. So happy and
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  Speaker 8: healthy holidays to you and yours.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, same to you, Andrea. Absolutely absolutely very good. There
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  Speaker 2: she is Andrea in Berkeley. Always good to hear from her.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice, very positive diva and dove. Next cat's got
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  Speaker 2: to be Dame, right, gotta be Dame.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, you like that.
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  Speaker 6: I thought at first you were like Dame, like a lady,
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  Speaker 6: like a dame. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's true. If it's a boy cat, it's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna work. The same one about dime dime would be
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  Speaker 2: fine back Darryl, right yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Dime peace dime, never mind.
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  Speaker 1: Nicely done. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Dime or Dame would work very well, I think for
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  Speaker 2: a black cat or an animal in general. Right there,
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll get to the coach who has got
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  Speaker 2: Ducks head football coach Dan Lanning, he had some interesting
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  Speaker 2: for the Ducks. They're taking on Texas Tech and that
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: game will be the Orange Bowl. And this is what
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Dan Lanning had to say. He said, the way we
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: do playoffs in college football is messed up. In my opinion,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: this game should be played at Tech. There should be
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: a home field advantage for them. I totally agree.
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  Speaker 1: I think that.
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  Speaker 2: College football should do it exactly like the NFL. The
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  Speaker 2: college Football Playoff every game should be a home game
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  Speaker 2: except the championship. The championship, I believe, should be at
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  Speaker 2: a neutral site, just like the Super Bowl. Right the NFL,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: every game in the playoffs is a home game except
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  Speaker 2: for the Super Bowl, which is at a neutral site.
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  Speaker 1: That's what college football should do.
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  Speaker 2: Every game should be a home game except their championship,
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  Speaker 2: which should be at the Rose Bowl every year. It's
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  Speaker 2: granddaddy of them all. Short of that, I say, screw
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  Speaker 2: the bulls, like it's not better for college football. Like, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: which is better for college football? Not Oregon, not Texas
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  Speaker 2: Tech college football as a whole. Is it better to
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  Speaker 2: have Oregon versus Texas Tech in Florida at the Orange
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  Speaker 2: Bowl or is it better to have it at Texas Tech. Guy,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: it's another way to make the regular season matter more.
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  Speaker 2: If you have a great record, you have a high seed,
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  Speaker 2: guess what, you get a home game, and you're the
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  Speaker 2: higher seed. The next round, you get another home game.
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  Speaker 2: It's great incentive to have a strong regular season.
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  Speaker 7: No more.
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  Speaker 2: Mulligan's right, Like if you're like, ah, we lost one,
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  Speaker 2: how we lost two, We're still in the playoff.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be mostly neutral site games. Anyway. What does
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  Speaker 1: it matter?
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  Speaker 2: It matters a lot if all of a sudden these
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  Speaker 2: are all home games. Tell me which is better Miss
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: versus Georgia at the Sugar Bowl. Is it better between
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  Speaker 2: the hedges at Georgia or at a neutral site in
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans? It's at Georgia is way better for college football.
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  Speaker 2: They should absolutely play these games at home stadiums, except
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  Speaker 2: for the championship coming up next. I hate to be
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  Speaker 2: the bad guy, but I will be when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to this player.
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