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EP 42: NFL 'Twas The Night Before Christmas, Why Do NFL Fans Boo Their Team? & Week 17 Fantasy Football Naughty & Nice Lists · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks.
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Welcome to three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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Welcome to episode 42 of three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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I'm your host Joel. I'm here with my Co host Will
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today. Avery is not with us once again.
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He will also not be with us next week, but next week we will be
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having a guest on our show. We'll have Brennan from Cheese
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Heads and the Bear podcast on and possibly his Co host as
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well. I'm not sure yet, but we'll at
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least have Brennan on here with us.
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How you doing today Will? I am doing well.
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We are recording on December 23rd and Merry Christmas
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everybody as as a show note, you already know this.
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I also may not be here next week depends on travels, but yeah,
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I'm I'm doing very well. It's this is the best time of
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the year for so many reasons. Just so many sports a lot of
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them but but a lot of others too, I'm sure.
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How are you, Joe? Yeah, I'm doing great.
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I'm doing great. My kids are happy, my kids are
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excited. It's almost Christmas that makes
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me excited. So, and you can see we've got
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for those of you who are watching the episode, we have
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this great Christmas card right here that makes me excited.
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I don't know about you, Will. And Will has this great
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Christmas sweater showing this man's lovely nipples.
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The it's Santa Claus on route right now, Rudolph.
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And listen, the the balance I think is what it is.
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The white balance is off. He is wearing a silver candy
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cane chain. I'm going to pull the camera
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back up to my face here in a second.
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But the longer you stare at this, let me tell you, I'm going
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to wear this to work tomorrow. The longer you stare at it, just
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the worse you get. It gets so bad.
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It's terrible, and I should definitely not be wearing it to
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work, but here we go. Well.
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I just realized. Like 9 years in a row.
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I just realized I'm off to a rough start here.
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I didn't even have my microphone in front of me until you were
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just talking just then, so I don't know if that had anything
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to to do with me being delayed on your side will but it it
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wasn't there until just now so there's.
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That all good. All right, well, to get things
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going here, I've got my Christmas question for you.
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So today's Christmas question is who is your favorite Christmas
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character? It could be an animated
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character. It could be a character from a
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live action movie, but just who is your favorite Christmas
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character? I I feel like the obvious answer
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should be Jesus Christ, right? Like sweet little baby Jesus.
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OK, OK. That that's fair.
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Is that not that's not what you meant, I feel.
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I feel that that's not what you meant.
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Got it. OK.
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It's got to be if we're talking, if we're talking media only, not
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talking biblical. Man, I don't know, Favorite
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Christmas character? Do you need me to go first?
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I think I do, yeah. OK, my favorite Christmas
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character is from the Santa Claus movies.
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It's Scott Calvin. Oh, yeah, I just.
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I grew up watching. Yeah.
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I grew up watching those movies. I just think he's such a great
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character. This is a bit of a deep cut and
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maybe maybe people don't know this as much, but the 1964
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version of the Grinch, I think it's 60 four 1960s version of
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the Grinch that Burr lives. Shoot, I'm going to get all
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these names right. Oh, excuse me, The 1966 version
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of the Grinch narrated by, I do believe Boris Karloff.
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Excuse me, Burr lives. That is not the right guy.
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Narrated by the 1966 version of The Grinch.
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Narrated by Boris Karloff. The dog Max.
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The dog Max in that movie. It's 30 minutes long.
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We watch it every Christmas Eve. The dog Max in that movie has so
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much character and so much sass. 0 speaking lines.
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But he does this in the wave thing.
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I have seen it every year for like 30 years now.
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It makes me laugh every year and just that the the SAS that this
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dog has for a movie that came out in the 60s.
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It's not fair that he has so much character.
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I I just an animal, but I do believe that that that Max is is
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my favorite. I don't know if I've even
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actually seen that one. You should you.
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You should. Yep, I don't even know where
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else it. Is besides you should.
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You said it's 30 minutes long. I don't even think it's 30
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minutes long. If you have Peacock, then it
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it's that's where it's at. And I can tell you in just a
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second how long it is. It's 25 minutes long.
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Excuse me? OK.
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I'll check it out. So at our house, that's like the
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last thing we do right before bed.
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Yeah, it's cool. We're getting the kids ready.
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We're in our Christmas pajamas. We watch this movie and then we
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go to sleep. Like, that's that's what we do.
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He gets us ready for for Santa Claus to show up.
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All right, so this week we are not going to do Will's weekly
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recap because I have a NFL version of Twas the Night Before
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Christmas that I am excited to share with you guys.
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Now, it does have somewhat of a recap in there.
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It does have some things from last week of the NFL, but
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basically what I tried to do is I tried to get some sort of
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reference to every single NFL team in this story.
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So I don't directly say every single name of the teams, but
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there is some sort of reference to every single NFL team in this
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NFL version of Twas The Night Before Christmas.
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So I'm going going to share my screen with you guys.
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I actually have a slideshow that goes along with the story.
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So if you guys are listening, if you want to go watch it on
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YouTube, I will also try to post this on social media for you
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guys as well. So let me just get my screen up
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here real quick. All right, Will, can you see
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this? I can see it now.
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OK, perfect. Here we go.
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You ready for this? I'm excited.
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Yes, I am. I'm excited.
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Here we go. Twas the night before Christmas
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and all through the league, ten NFL teams have their playoff
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spots guaranteed. There's still four playoff spots
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left to take, but the Bucks offensive play calling is so bad
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that not even Baker can bake. The Chicago Bears clinched a
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playoff spot this past Sunday, leaving their NFC North rival
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saying words they shouldn't say. The Cowboys playoffs hopes were
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already near, but an Eagles Week 16 win had Dallas fans once
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again saying there's always next year.
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The Eagles still think they're winning the Super Bowl, but this
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year they're just getting a lump of coal.
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The Seahawks now control the NFC one seed after a 2 point
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conversion. Rams fans just could not believe
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Liam Cohen has the Jags offense flowing while Trevor Lawrence's
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hair just keeps on glowing. And Speaking of hair, Mark Davis
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has the worst. And maybe that's the reason the
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Raiders are cursed. Aaron Rodgers is old, He's just
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doing this for fun, but he's playing well enough that the
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Ravens are done. The haters will say Shooter
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Sanders sucks, but Kevin Stefanski needs to be on the
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next bus. The Jets have now missed the
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playoffs for the 15th straight year, but they've got the Colts
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next two first round picks, so cheers.
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Josh Allen is in the playoffs again this year and this time
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he'll say thank goodness Mahomes isn't here for the NFL teams
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that missed the playoffs this year.
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This year was a whiff, and maybe they'll take again next year for
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Jeremiah Smith, now McCaffrey, now Gibbs, now HN, now Robinson.
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They're the best running backs in the league, there's just no
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stopping them. We hope you win your fantasy
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championships, but hey, if you don't, at least you avoided the
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last place punishments. There's only two more weeks left
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in the regular season and NFL fans just keep on believing
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Justin Herbert, CJ Stroud and Bo Knicks.
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They're all hoping they can win their first championship, but
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Drake May has the Patriots future looking bright.
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Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
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Very nice. That was good.
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That is good. Well, that's our weekly recap, I
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guess you could say. So let's get into the topics for
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today. Will I have a question for you
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to start off here? OK.
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So the Rams play the Falcons on Monday Night Football this week.
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My question for you is which team wants to win more, the Rams
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or the Falcons? And the reason I ask that is
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because the Rams hold the Falcons first round pick and so
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do the Falcons want to win more so that the Rams have a worse
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pick or do the Rams want to win more so that they have a better
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pick? Well, the answer is the Rams,
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right? Because they still, even though
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it's slim, they still have a shot to win the number one seat.
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So. So they are still actually
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playing for something. Let's just put the rankings and
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the seeds and and all that aside, just strictly based off
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of just strictly based off of draft position.
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Which team wants to win more, the Rams or the Falcons?
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Well, the Rams for sure, because if we beat these guys and we
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need a better pick, right? I don't think the Falcons are
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thinking about where they have our pick and let's get them a
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worse pick because at this point, that pick is so far out
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of their mind because the Rams are like, hey, you know what?
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We have their pick. Like be sure to beat them as
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worse, as bad as we can and hopefully maybe knock them down
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into the lower spot. I don't know what their current
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draft position is, 10-9, something like that.
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I want to say a. Lot of excuse me, it's it's
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eleven. Yeah, that can obviously change.
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The Saints are getting hot right now.
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Good for them. I guess it's got to be the Rams.
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They want to they want to get that a hopefully a deep playoff
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run for the Rams and then also a top ten pick.
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That's that's just not fair. Yeah, I'll just say that the
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that was just such a stupid trade by the Falcons to do that.
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I don't even remember who they picked, but it doesn't even
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matter. It was such a dumb trade.
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I don't understand why they traded a first round pick.
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I I don't understand what the Falcons are doing there, but
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they did it so good for the ramps.
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OK, hold on. I have a question.
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I have a question for you. This is a bit of a leading
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question. I need you to answer it not in a
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specific way, but I think you were the guy that answered this
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question because they got brought up a bit in your in your
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recap. What does it mean to be in a
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contract year? What does that mean?
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Like we describe, oh, XX player is in a contract year.
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What does that usually mean for the player themselves?
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Let me let me put it that way. Let's just take a random player.
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This is not the case. But let's say, OK, this is the
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case, next year Devonte Adams is going to be in a contract year.
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What does that mean for Devonte Adams next year?
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That means he's going to ball out and then get paid a lot of
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money and then the next year suck after that.
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I mean, that's, that's fine, right?
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So but, but usually when you're in a contract year, it means
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that you should be doing everything you can to establish
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why you should get your next contract correct.
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Right. OK, now that we've established
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that you brought it up in your recap, the Rams 2 point
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conversion and that was just on Thursday night.
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There were so many throughout the weekend where I don't, I'm
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big. I'm huge on not complaining
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about officiating. I'm huge on you know what?
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They're humans. They're this, they're that
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whatever the referee contracts for all of them, the CBA, their
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bargaining agreement is up at the end of this season.
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They have to renegotiate with the NFL.
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And so right now the referees are in a contract here.
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And if anybody remembers way back when, I want to say 2009, I
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think is when we had the replacement reps.
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And if replacement reps makes everybody cringe, that that's
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where we had to fail. Mary Packers, Seahawks, that
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whole thing, that is what we're staring at right now.
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These referees are in their contract year.
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We are staring down the barrel of them having to renegotiate
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their whole deal where they pretty much get all the power.
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I mean, they, they get whatever they want basically because what
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are you going to do, go back to those guys?
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Again, You've seen this before. So what, what do you think?
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What, what do you think is the real cause of now that we are
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seemingly getting worse towards the end of the season?
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I know this isn't a topic we had to talk about, but but with all
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the recent real recent bad calls, I mean good, bad or
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different. The imbalance of penalty calls
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in the Falcons Buccaneers game this weekend, the Falcons had 19
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throne penalties. The Buccaneers had four.
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Now, right, wrong or indifferent, that is something
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to look at like, wow, that's a huge imbalance.
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What what are we doing here? Why is this?
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Because it's it's not like either team was actually too
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many more penalties in the other.
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They commit equally high penalties and and that's going
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to offend a lot of people. Every team has a penalty on
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every play. That's just the way it is.
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It just depends on what they call.
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What do you think is is a cause here or what do you think the
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NFL should do or what? What do you think?
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I want your take on the refereeing and officiating this
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year, the referees. Have been awful this year, like
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and to me it seems like they've been worse than they have been
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in the past. And I know there's been bad
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calls in the past, but this year just maybe I'm looking for it
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more, but they just seem like they've been a lot worse this
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year than they have been. One thing I've never understood
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is like, I understand that you don't want to slow down the game
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and you don't want to have to, you know, review every single
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play and review this and review that.
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But what I don't understand is why can't the NFL just have
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somebody or multiple people that can get together and call into
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the refs when they get the call wrong?
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Like, I know they do that on some plays.
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I I know, but they only do it sometimes.
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That's the problem. They only do it sometimes.
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There are only certain times when they are allowed to do
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that. There are still calls that they
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get wrong where I'm like, NFL, step in here, step in.
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What are you doing? Don't let them just get this
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call wrong. Step in.
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But they only do it sometimes and I don't understand why they
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only do it sometimes and not other times.
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If you want to get the games right, if you want to have the
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correct calls in every game, just step in when you need to.
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Every single time. Don't just wait for some random
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moment in the game where you feel like you need to step in.
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You should step in every single time that the call is wrong.
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Every single time. Don't wait for some random time
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in the game every single time the call is wrong.
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You need to step in and tell the referees you got the call wrong.
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Here's the actual correct call, Yeah.
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It, it just, it feels bad as a fan, from a fan's perspective of
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like at the end of that Lion's Steelers game, they talked about
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that for like 3 minutes. We just sat there and waited as
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as the game is over for three minutes.
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And it's, and it's wildly inconsistent because earlier in
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the season, Jalen Hurts got the ball stripped from his hands on
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a touch push. But they said, oh, actually
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forward progress, we're not doing that.
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And then Sunday night, I think it was Saint Brown.
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I don't actually know which receiver was.
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I think it was Saint Brown. Yeah, it was Saint Brown.
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Yeah. Got driven backwards 3 yards
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before he, whether you want to call it a fumble or you want to
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call it a pitch, whatever you want to call it, he was, he was
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driven back 3 yards. Full forward progress, stop.
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Never once was the Indian zone and you threw it back to Jared
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Goff after everyone had stopped playing and then ran it and
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Jared Goff ran into the end zone and the referees talked like 3
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minutes and everyone's like what are we doing here?
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What is going on? Like just just make a
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distinction and move on it. There's no reason for this to
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have been a touchdown, especially because there were
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two flags in the field already. They called you off into past
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interference. And then the other thing is that
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these some of these referees and and it dates all the way back.
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I don't know if you remember this tool, but Jean Sterator
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Sunday Night Football, Dallas Cowboys Jean Sterator got a note
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card out to to to confirm a measurement on the where they
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used to bring the sticks out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That's that's a classic 1. James.
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James Sterator wasn't showing. It makes no, it makes perfect
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sense to me. Excuse me.
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It makes perfect sense as to why he got into this NFL rules
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analyst thing. Jean Sterator had a note card
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out. Put it on there.
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Put it on the line that you'll Yep, that's the first down.
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We'll move them. Did the whole thing, the
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referees and the overtime of the Rams game just over exaggerating
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their calls as if everyone's there to see the referees and
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then again in that back to that Lion Steelers game after the
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deliberation for three minutes. Did you get on the mic?
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It is a touchdown however. Not too fast however.
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And then the whole crowd just erupts like, what do you like?
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Why would you do that? Yeah, I just.
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Why would you do that? Just just just roll the whole
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thing out. Just just say it.
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Result of the play. The result of the play was a
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touchdown on the play, offensive best, and they do that.
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They do that 100,000 times during the season.
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Results of the play. Was this during the play this
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happened. We're moving it back first down
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or where or or replay the down redo this because there's no
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offense ability. This is the end of the game.
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It's not that hard to do and when you're going to make a show
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out of it And two things come to mind.
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One, I'm starting to buy into this whole maybe it is rate
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right. Maybe it is because the only
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reason these reps are getting the air time that they think
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they want is because they're the ones who are throwing the
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penalty flags at Oh, we can't, we can't let the overhead here.
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We can't let we can't let this guy score.
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We've got this prop, but we've got that thing.
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And, and this is pretty tinfoil hat theory stuff, But, but it's
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becoming more and more prevalent when these referees seemingly
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are like rooting for certain teams and like 19 penalties
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against the Falcons, it almost seems as if they tried to do
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everything they could, Hey, wait.
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Oh, Nope, you're another flag here, another flight here.
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Everything they could to, to help the bucks out because who
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knows why now penalties are situation to rise.
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Like, like the penalties that hit the bucks hurt more in the
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situation versus and whatever. But I, I don't know, I just, I
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just feels like especially as we get to the end of the year here
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where everything is on such a fine line of light, like who's
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in the playoffs, who's out what seed, what does what that it
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just seems to get worse. And I don't think it's going to
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get better. I think we're going to be
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talking about this through the entire playoffs When, when in
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round one, there's six games to watch.
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There's only six games. So your best six crews are are
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going to be out there. And and then we're like, OK,
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well, we get to watch every single game this from here on
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out, starting round in the playoffs.
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It's just going to be, it's just going to be more obvious and
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more in our face. Yeah.
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I agree and I'll just give one more example from the Rams and
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Seahawks game on that two point conversion where it was a
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backwards pass, the whistle did blow before the whistle was
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100%. The whistle 100% blew before he
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picked up the ball 100%. So just I just don't understand
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like why couldn't the NFL look at that replay and say the
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whistle blew before he picked it up?
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It's not a successful 2 point conversion.
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The whistle blew before. I don't understand why they
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can't do that. It doesn't make any sense to me.
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Worst. Case scenario, Worst case
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scenario. Replay the down.
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Hey, the whistle blew while the ball was loose on a on a loose
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ball play. It was a backwards pass.
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The ball was loose, the whistle blew, no one had possession.
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Ball was given back to the last team that had possession.
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Replay the down guy. Do it again.
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Just just try again. Man, when it comes to Battle
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Fish shading, I will never forget the Rams and Saints.
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I think it was NFC Championship Game.
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NFC Championship Game. That was that was bad.
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That was the worst missed call I've ever seen.
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That was bad. I mean, that was so clear and
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obvious. Yeah, it did.
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That missed. Call right there is what got us
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the passenger fear to replay that only lasted one year
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because the system what they had was terrible because they never
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overturned their own calls that's the problem is that the
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referee was getting by their call and they've never well I
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made the call and we're not going to overturn it so I'm
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right that was right the whole time another.
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Example of why the NFL needs to step in?
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Well, I I. Think, I think because of that,
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because this whole I think it was like 5% of per of challenge
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past appearance calls got overturned and 5% maybe too high
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because of that. I think that's when we got to
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replay assistance and we got this whole expedited thing and
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we have more eyes on these games.
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And, and they're trying not to overstep it and let the game
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happen because of every single play.
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They're like, well, you didn't throw a flag on this and we have
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a holding penalty or you didn't throw a flag on this and we've
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got ref in the passer or, or whatever it is.
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We're just going to get the game going to slow down and they're
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going to lose fans. They're going to lose
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continuity. The game just lose its step.
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But but they're half the middle ground.
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And I think they're trying to find it.
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I, I truly think they're trying to find it.
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It just needs to hurry up. Yeah, and and when I say like
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the NFL needs to step in on a bad like missed call, I'm not
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talking about like defensive holding or offensive holding,
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whatever, whatever, like calls like that, like regular
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penalties. I'm talking about like obvious
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calls, like obvious calls that get missed.
20:46
Like the when the whistle blew on the two point conversion,
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that's an obvious the whistle blew.
20:51
If you watch that video, it's obvious the again, the Rams and
20:54
Saints, no call on the past interference, obvious.
20:58
Just on the obvious calls, just step in.
21:00
Like you don't need to do it on every single play.
21:02
I understand there's going to be things that you miss like
21:05
holding or whatever, but on an obvious pass interference call,
21:08
step in. On an obvious call that the
21:11
referees got wrong, step in. You don't have to do it every
21:14
single time, just when it really matters, like on an obvious call
21:18
that would change the game, just step in.
21:21
Just step in, right? Sorry to derail the whole
21:24
conversation with referee Talk, but I it it's becoming more and
21:27
more obvious and more and more prevalent in our face right now,
21:30
and I just felt like it was something to talk about,
21:32
something important to talk about as we move in here.
21:35
Yeah, I agree. No, no problem at all.
21:37
All right, so the next thing we're going to talk about here
21:40
is something that a question that I've wondered for a long
21:43
time actually. And the question is, why do NFL
21:46
fans Boo their own team? It doesn't make any sense to me.
21:49
I just, I just think booing your own team is so stupid.
21:51
I think it's so stupid. But what do you think will Why
21:53
do NFL fans Boo their own team? I I can agree with, with what
21:58
you said to start with there. I think booing your own team is
22:01
incredibly stupid. And I, I think, I think the most
22:05
obvious one, well, I, I don't know what the most obvious one
22:08
is right now. Is anybody playing the Texans?
22:10
They're going to get booed at home because the Texans shuts
22:12
down offenses. And it's, it's a way for yeah,
22:15
it's just what's happening. That's why, that's why you're
22:17
going to see Texans on on national television right now
22:20
because there's a shutdown offenses and then they can't
22:22
play offense. And it's like, well, this is
22:24
just the most boring game ever. Yeah, another 30, 10 to 10 game
22:27
great. They won again.
22:28
Cool, but it's it's so stupid to call yourself a fan of this team
22:33
and it's just sit there and Boo. Are you are you trying to say
22:36
that you can do a better job that you can coach about?
22:38
I can make better play calls. Is that what you're trying to
22:40
say? You're you're booing the
22:42
decisions being made. Nobody comes to your job and
22:45
sits there and when you misspelled the word the OR you
22:50
or you type butts with two T's instead of 1 T on accidents or
22:55
you send an e-mail out wrong or you make the wrong order.
22:59
Nobody sits there and goes, you know, fire him.
23:04
Nobody does that to you. Not that it's the same.
23:07
No, it is actually the same thing.
23:09
It is quite the same thing. The difference may just be
23:11
dollars, right? Think about like a lawyer
23:14
though. You you lose your case and your
23:16
client just sits there and booze you in the courtroom.
23:18
Could you imagine? McDonald's messes up your order
23:22
and you just sit there to drive through and you just Boo them
23:24
until they get it right. I guess that that only that that
23:29
behavior is only allowed than the sports would.
23:32
You're not booing any other professional ever.
23:34
And I just think I just think it's so childish and so stupid.
23:38
It's just such a stupid thing. You paid money to be there.
23:42
Quit booing. I I think, oh, it was Thursday
23:45
night, Seahawks, Rams early in that game, the Rams were out and
23:49
they are booing the Seahawks. The Bluebirds are out loud in
23:53
Seattle. And then little by little, chunk
23:56
by chunk, guess who ended up winning that game?
23:58
The Seahawks. And all those people who booed
24:01
were cheering loud at the end of that game.
24:03
Like you guys are such fake fans.
24:06
Such fake garbage. Yeah, that's actually a perfect
24:10
example. I was actually going to bring
24:11
that up. That's a perfect example of why
24:13
I think booing is stupid, because sometimes when you play
24:16
an NFL game, you just don't play well for the first half, or you
24:20
don't play well for the 1st 3/4, or you don't play well until 5
24:23
minutes left in the fourth quarter.
24:24
Sometimes that's just what happens in an NFL game.
24:28
What is? Yeah, exactly?
24:30
Yeah. What is booing going to do?
24:31
Is booing going to what? Is booing going to make the team
24:35
play better? No, it's not going to make them
24:38
play better. Booing is.
24:39
Not going to get it's not going to coach fired it.
24:43
It does nothing. Doesn't even make you feel
24:45
better, like you're not even doing it to feel better.
24:48
Exactly. If you're anything like me, like
24:50
if you have a similar personality to me, if you Boo
24:52
me, if I'm not doing well, I'm going to do worse.
24:56
Like as a fan, as a fan, you have a responsibility to that
24:59
team that you say you're a fan of to do everything in your
25:03
power to help that team win. Booing does not do that.
25:06
And the reason why I hate booing is one of the many reasons why I
25:11
dislike Philadelphia Eagles fans, because I have never heard
25:14
fans Boo their team as much as Philadelphia Eagles fans Boo the
25:18
Eagles. And I don't even understand why
25:20
they Boo. What do they have to Boo about?
25:23
They just won the Super Bowl last year.
25:25
They've been leading the division all season long.
25:27
They're in the playoffs, They've won double digit games.
25:30
What do you have to Boo about? I understand your offense hasn't
25:33
been great. I understand that you say you're
25:36
a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles.
25:38
But every single time I watch the Eagles play when they're at
25:41
home, they get booed. Every.
25:43
Almost every single time, yeah. Winning or losing, you're
25:47
absolutely right. They'll be up by 10 and they
25:50
won't go for it on 1/4 and five and all of a sudden Nick Sirion
25:54
is the worst. He didn't go for it on 1/4 down.
25:56
Boo this guy. It's so.
25:58
Dumb. It's so stupid.
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Booing is so stupid. I understand it.
26:02
Like I get it. It needs to go both ways.
26:05
Like as a fan, you have a responsibility to help your team
26:09
win and do everything in your power to create an environment
26:13
that helps your team win. But the team has a
26:15
responsibility to you as a fan to put a winning team on the
26:19
field. I get that.
26:21
I understand that. So like it, part of me
26:24
understands if your team has been terrible like The Jets,
26:26
like they haven't made the playoffs in 15 years, part of me
26:29
gets it. If if that's the situation, part
26:32
of me gets it. But at the same time, it's still
26:34
dumb. It's still stupid.
26:36
If you don't want to be a Jets fan, don't be a Jets fan.
26:40
Or. If you want to be a Jets fan but
26:43
don't support what they're doing, quit supporting them
26:45
financially by going to the games.
26:48
Exactly giving. Them your money.
26:50
I caught a lot with like and this happened a lot.
26:54
I mean, not to get political here, so sorry advance, but this
26:58
whole this whole Bud Light thing with Dylan Mulvaney, people
27:02
didn't like it. And so guess what?
27:04
They quit buying Bud Light and get what a Bud Light do.
27:07
They switched smokes people. Now they've got Shane Gillis.
27:10
It's just a thing. If you don't like it, if you
27:12
don't like what your organization is doing, quit
27:15
going, quit buying their stuff. Quit doing their things.
27:19
You, you, the financial burden that these people are going to
27:23
take by the bad coach or the bad, whatever that you think
27:26
they have, it's going to hurt more than the city in that
27:29
stadium. And booing, because guess what?
27:31
They've already got your money. You're already wearing the Aaron
27:34
Rodgers Jets jersey. Oh, wait, that doesn't work out
27:37
either. It's just this whole thing,
27:39
right? They've already got your money.
27:41
You're just wasting your own energy at that point.
27:43
If you don't want to support the team, quit supporting the team.
27:46
Booing does nothing. Yeah, I just.
27:49
I just think that just booing is just the dumbest thing that you
27:52
can do as an NFL fan. And if you do it, I don't think
27:55
you're really a true fan of that team.
27:58
I don't because if you were really a true fan, if you're
28:02
really a true fan, you would not Boo your own team.
28:05
You would help them in any way that you can as a fan to win
28:08
that game and to get back in the game when they're not playing
28:11
well. You would not Boo them.
28:12
If you Boo, you are not a true fan.
28:15
I'll just leave it at that. Do you have anything else to add
28:17
Will? I don't think I do.
28:20
OK, all right, let me hit you back with a question about being
28:23
a fan here. Oh, no, we're not moving on yet.
28:26
Oh no, we're we're dragging our feet on this one.
28:29
Let me hit you back with this with this, with this thing here.
28:31
Let me let me pull the text up because I want to read it
28:33
verbatim. OK, so so let's back up.
28:35
I have this is a a multi parter here.
28:38
I am an incredibly superstitious fan.
28:41
I try to do the same thing every game day that we win.
28:46
And I do mean we, I'm, I'm part of it.
28:48
Just like we talked about booing.
28:50
I'm part of it now. You sent me a test.
28:53
So on on Thursday, biggest game of the season so far for the
28:56
Rams. I'm doing everything I can.
28:58
I have my Rams cup that I've I've used on the show.
29:02
I only drink liquid out of that Rams cup on game day and and I
29:07
wear my I'm not wondering right now, but on game days I wear my
29:09
Ram's hat and I only drink liquid out of my Ram's cup.
29:11
I have like 9 different liquids in that Dang cup on on Thursday.
29:15
I think I overdid it. That's why they lost.
29:17
I'm a scare look back trying to try to find a sweet spot they
29:21
lost. I need I need a friend to rehone
29:23
in my my my superstition. But you texted me on Sunday and
29:30
said find it now. Oh.
29:33
I know exactly. I can tell you exactly what I
29:34
said. There it is.
29:35
I truly believe I am a cursed sports fan, or I truly I am
29:40
cursed as a sports fan. What makes you say that?
29:44
Let's start there. Let's just start with what makes
29:46
you say that, OK? So I'll go back to when I was a
29:49
Cowboys fan, and I know that the Cowboys not making the NFC
29:52
Championship Game started before I was actually a fan.
29:56
However, I have been begging Jerry Jones to get a dominant
30:01
interior player for years, and two weeks after I stopped being
30:07
a Cowboys fan is the only time Jerry Jones decided to get a
30:12
dominant interior defensive player.
30:14
Two weeks after I decided to be a Bucs fan.
30:18
And their record when I became a Bucs fan had nothing to do with
30:22
becoming a Bucs fan. But they were six and two at one
30:24
point, and ever since I became a Bucs fan, their season has gone
30:28
down the tank. OK, now there's more to this.
30:33
My secondary team, because of my wife, is the Pittsburgh
30:36
Steelers. We started dating in 2017, so
30:42
that's when they became my secondary team.
30:45
Guess when the last time the Steelers won a playoff game was
30:49
that very season. Oh, all right, all right.
30:56
That was the. Last time they won a playoff
30:57
game. Any sports team that is
31:00
associated with me at all will never win anything.
31:04
The Oregon Ducks and will. I got to apologize to you
31:06
because you're a Ducks fan and Avery because he's a Ducks fan.
31:09
They've been to the championship game twice since since I've been
31:13
a fan, lost both of them and they haven't come close to going
31:17
back to it since. Like.
31:19
Last year in the College Football Playoff, got absolutely
31:23
wrecked by Ohio State in that game because, and here here's
31:29
another thing too, not only am I cursed as a sports fan, but if I
31:33
watch the game, the cursing goes up to the next level.
31:39
I watch that game terrible. No, I'm not kidding.
31:43
The Bucks game, I was at church for the first part of that.
31:46
For the first hour of that Bucks game on Sunday, as soon as I, I
31:49
look at the score like I didn't look at the score one time when
31:52
I was at church for that hour, soon as I look at the score,
31:55
it's 2:50. So Bucks are winning as soon as
31:58
I turn it on, like as soon as I leave church, it's on my phone
32:01
while I'm driving home. As soon as I turn it on, the
32:03
Buccaneers start sucking the entire rest of the game that I'm
32:07
watching. They sucked and they were
32:09
winning before that. I'm not kidding you.
32:11
Like when I say I truly believe I am cursed as a sports fan.
32:14
I truly, truly believe that I am cursed as a sports fan.
32:18
No team that I've ever been a fan of has won a championship,
32:21
and no team that I'm ever going to be a fan of will ever win a
32:25
championship. That's just how it is.
32:27
So the Cowboys are free now. Like, I wasn't sure honestly if
32:31
it was me or you will. But now I know that it's me
32:34
because the Bucks, the Bucks are just the Bucks are just tanking
32:38
and the Rams are probably going to win the Super Bowl.
32:40
So it just confirmed. That it was me.
32:43
OK, all right, I loud and clear. Understood.
32:49
So let me pose this question to the seven people on the Internet
32:52
that are actually going to see this Joe and I very different
32:56
kind of and I was very much called what Joe just said.
32:59
Everything you said is a sports fan superstition, right like
33:04
that. I I have a a ritual every game
33:07
day. This is what I do.
33:09
Joe has a a firm superstitious belief, whether it's true or not
33:15
about his fandom with with sports teams.
33:18
I want to hear from the people on the Internet.
33:20
What are some of your the superstitions, your game day
33:24
rituals? I want to hear from people.
33:26
I want to see what kind of cooked beliefs we have out there
33:30
by I believe and I have to figure out how to fix this now.
33:34
I believe that if I don't drink every liquid on game day out of
33:37
my Rams cup, they will lose because the one day the one game
33:41
since getting it the one game I didn't do it was Panthers game
33:44
and guess what? They've lost the Panthers every
33:47
other game like Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
33:49
And then just figuring it out, I it's got to be something with my
33:53
hat. It's got to be it.
33:55
But yeah, I want to hear, I want to hear the people from the
33:59
people. What kind of fan superstitions
34:02
and fan game day rituals do we have that that we don't do?
34:05
Our team's going to lose. I like that.
34:09
That's a good question. All right, let's move on to our
34:13
last segment of the show here. And this is a Christmas related
34:17
segment. So it's a fantasy combination of
34:20
fantasy football and Christmas. So what we're doing is we're
34:23
going to give you guys our Week 17 starts and sits, but we're
34:27
calling it our fantasy football naughty and nice list.
34:31
So obviously on your nice list it's your starts and on your
34:35
naughty list it's your sits. So will you can go first.
34:38
Give us your fantasy football Week 17 naughty and nice list so
34:42
week. 17 on the nice list for starts.
34:44
This one's incredibly obvious. Well, we're going to start with
34:47
Devon Atrien. He is, and again, it's way too
34:50
obvious. If you have them, you're
34:51
starting. Of course you are.
34:52
But he is a Dolphins player and so there is just absolute
34:55
hesitation because we've got Quinn Ewers back there now, but
35:00
Devon Etrien has been an absolute tear.
35:02
He's 3rd and overall fantasy points.
35:04
The last two weeks he's put up at 18.7 and 18 points and you
35:09
can go back to their bye week. His lowest point total overall
35:13
since week 13 has been 17 1/2 points.
35:16
He's active in the passing game. He's active in the run game.
35:19
He is the Dolphins CNC. You've got CMC in in on the West
35:24
Coast, You've got the VON agent on the East Coast.
35:26
That Dolphins team, they're in Tampa Bay this week or excuse
35:29
me, their home for Tampa Bay this weekend.
35:32
Sorry to say this out loud, but Tampa Bay's defense has been
35:34
suspect recently. I suspected VON agent to blow up
35:39
this weekend even more so he's going to win people fantasy
35:42
championships this weekend. I just hope you're not going up
35:44
against him. My second guy, you want me to
35:47
keep going or you want to switch off here?
35:49
We can. Switch.
35:49
We can switch, give me an opportunity to save some guys if
35:54
just in case you have the same guy.
35:56
So, yeah, yeah, for sure. All right, so my first.
35:58
Guy is Patriots running back room Andre Stevenson.
36:02
Oh yeah. He's going.
36:03
Up against The Jets this week and The Jets are 28th in rushing
36:06
yards allowed. They allow an average of 133.7
36:10
rushing yards per game. And Trayvon Henderson went down
36:13
with a head injury last game and after he went out with that
36:16
injury, they just relied on Stevenson to finish that game
36:19
for them. So I don't know if Henderson's
36:21
going to play, but even if he does, I think Stevenson will
36:25
still get a lot of carries and a lot of usage in this game
36:28
because The Jets are just so bad against the run that I, I think
36:32
that they're just, that's going to be their game plan.
36:34
They're going to just run the ball and that's how they're
36:36
going to win. They probably don't even have to
36:38
throw 1 pass. Honestly, that's how bad The
36:39
Jets are against the run like that.
36:42
They could probably just just run the entire game and they
36:45
would win that game. So reminder, Stevenson is
36:50
absolutely on my week 17 nice list for fantasy football
36:54
because Henderson may not be playing and The Jets are just
36:58
really bad against the run they're trying.
37:00
To get two time Pro Bowler Drake made MVP.
37:03
They're going to throw the ball. OK, fine, but I'm just saying
37:07
they don't have to. If they don't want to, they
37:09
don't. Have to they don't have to,
37:12
right? My second person on my my nice
37:15
list over here. And this is going to be this is
37:17
going to be a bit out there. I don't think it's going to be
37:19
well received, but I'm dealing with Ted McMillan.
37:23
They're playing the Seahawks this week and that's going to
37:25
that's a rough draw. That is a rough draw.
37:28
But they're at home playing the Seahawks.
37:30
And if you think about the teams the Panthers are beat, they're
37:33
beating teams that they should not be beating.
37:34
They beat the Rams. They beat Packers.
37:37
They pull this up. They beat the Packers.
37:39
That was the other one. Thank you.
37:40
They beat teams that they should not be beating.
37:43
And Bryce Young has finished the season way better than he has
37:47
started the season. Ted McMillan and Bryce Young
37:49
together have have put together quite, quite the experience
37:55
toward the end of the season. We've had two games since
37:57
they're by against New Orleans, and because everybody was in
38:00
Week 14, he didn't do great against New Orleans.
38:03
The Saints beat. The Saints have just been an
38:05
absolute terror the last three weeks.
38:08
They've decided. Tyler Shark decided, hey, I'm
38:10
going to win Rookie of the Year. I'm just going to do it.
38:12
So buckle up. I'm just going to win it in
38:15
three weeks. Two weeks ago against New
38:17
Orleans, he only got 4 targets, but that's they were down or
38:20
they weren't down, they were down but they just weren't able
38:23
to turn the ball well. But last week against Tampa Bay,
38:25
he got 10 targets, 6 receptions, 73 yards and a touchdown.
38:30
I expect this game against Seattle to be a tough one.
38:33
They're going to have to throw the ball.
38:34
They're they're at home, which is a huge help.
38:37
Defence does travel, which I'm going to end up saying again
38:40
later, but I think that's the the overall advantage for height
38:45
and skill. I, I don't want to call a skill
38:47
event. I don't think Ted Midland is
38:48
better than than the Seattle defense.
38:51
But for a for a rookie, he's playing out of his out of his
38:54
mind the end of the season. He is on my start list, which
38:58
again, I think is not going to be high, well received because
39:01
I'm going to be the Seahawk, the bad overall, bad match up.
39:05
There's a lot of people, a lot of height on that, on that
39:08
Seahawks team, and he's just a piece of it.
39:10
Excuse me, I want to hide in the Panthers team.
39:12
Yeah, I want to hide in the Panthers team.
39:13
I heard it after I said it. All right, my next guy, Browns
39:20
tight end Harold Fannon junior, is on my Week 17 fantasy
39:24
football nice list because he's going up against the Pittsburgh
39:27
Steelers. And the Steelers are one of two
39:30
teams this season that have allowed over 1000 yards and 10
39:34
receiving touchdowns to tight ends this year, one of two teams
39:38
in three of his last four games. Harold Fannon Junior has scored
39:41
a touchdown and in two of his last three games he's had double
39:45
digit targets. So I think the connection
39:47
between shooter Sanders and Harold Fannon Junior is really
39:51
good and it's only getting better.
39:53
And the Steelers are just not good against tight ends.
39:57
And so that's why I have Harold Fannon Junior on my nice list in
40:00
week 17 it and he's probably a guy that you picked up on
40:05
waivers if you have them on your team.
40:06
You probably didn't draft him. You probably picked him up on
40:09
waivers. And so there's a possibility
40:11
that you have another tight end who is also a really solid
40:14
option. So if you can find a way to
40:17
start both of those tight ends, start both of them, start one at
40:20
tight end and start one in flex. You have to start Harold Fanning
40:24
Junior against the Steelers because they're just really bad
40:27
against tight ends this year. Well, give us your #3.
40:30
My #3 same game actually, but I'm opposite side here.
40:34
I've got Steelers running back Kenneth Gangwell.
40:37
He's balling right now. He is absolutely balling right
40:40
now. He's getting about 50% of the
40:41
snapshare. So between him and Jalen Warren,
40:43
he's getting about 50%. Warren's getting about 50%.
40:46
Warren's big breakout was two. I think it was two different 45
40:50
yard touchdown runs. I don't think you can expect
40:53
that against his Browns defense. I think Aaron Rodgers going to
40:56
be needing extra help, extra throw support and that's where
41:01
Kenneth Gangwell comes in. Gangwell is their receiving
41:03
target if you're in a full point PPR league or even a half point
41:07
PPR league if you are if you is a 0.
41:09
If it is a non PPR league, I would not recommend starting
41:13
Gangwell. I wouldn't do it if you are in a
41:16
a full point or half point PPR league.
41:18
Over the last three games he's had six receptions. 6 receptions
41:22
on 7 targets against Baltimore, 7 for seven against Miami and
41:27
then last week, first Detroit, he had five receptions for seven
41:30
on 7 targets, one of them being that awesome touchdown.
41:33
I mean, I like. In, that's arguably.
41:35
Play of the year like like that was huge.
41:38
That was crazy yeah. And so he's he's getting the
41:41
targets, he's getting the snapshare.
41:43
He doesn't get as many rushes 9 attempts, but but even in even
41:48
in his rushing attempts, he's still making the most of them 9
41:51
attempts. He got 50 yards out of it last
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week and it's Detroit, it's Miami.
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He had 13 rushing attempts, got 80 yards.
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He's just not in he's just not in their their package at go on
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end zone. So he doesn't need a lot of
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rushing touchdowns. But if you have a if you're in a
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full point PPR lead, we would have point PPR lead.
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His value in the in the receiving game is is too high
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not to play, especially it's his Browns team.
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Miles Garrett is looking to break the sack record this week
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against Aaron Rodgers and so him Aaron was going to have to hit
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the bottom of his hand quick and especially because DK Metcalf
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just got suspended for two games.
42:25
No DK. Metcalf DK is.
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Out and so they're they're going to need someone and Yingwell
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looks like a receiver. He's just too short.
42:35
All right, cool. So, well, since you only have
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two guys on your naughty list, I'm going to give my last guy on
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my nice list and then I'll just go straight into my first
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naughty list guy that way. I'll I go, you go, I go, you
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guys go. So, OK, so my last guy on my
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nice list is Jags quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
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He's on the nice list for fantasy football this week.
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That guy is balling right now. I said that I don't believe in
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the Jags last week and they shut me up real quick.
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They did. Trevor Lawrence hasn't thrown an
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interception in the last four weeks.
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The Jags offense put up 34 points on the Broncos defense,
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which you can make an argument is the best defense in the NFL.
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That's an easy argument to make. The Colts, who he's going
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against, just allowed Brock Purdy to throw for 295 yards and
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five touchdown passes. So Trevor Lawrence is going up
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against the Colts. And the Jags just made the
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playoffs last week. But the Jags are still playing
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for something here. Even though they've already made
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the playoffs, they're still playing for something because
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they still have a shot to get the one seed in the AFC.
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They there's a lot of things that need to happen still, but
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they still have a shot at it. And so until they don't have a
43:47
shot anymore, the Jags are going to be giving it their best shot.
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And we're seeing the best version of the Jacksonville
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Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence right now.
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OK, so from the first guy on my fantasy football naughty list
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for Week 17, I have Panthers running back Rico Dowdle.
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And the reason for that is because they're playing the
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Seahawks. So it's kind of like the
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opposite of what Will's doing here, but they're playing the
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Seahawks, who are the third best rush defense in the NFL.
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They only allow 94.1 rushing yards per game.
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And Dowdell has had a total of 42 fantasy points over the last
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four games, which is an average of 10.5.
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So it's already not great and now he's going up against the
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third best running defense in the NFLI.
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Don't really see a way for Rico Dowdell to get a lot of fantasy
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points in this game, especially because he does split time with
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Hubbard. And so, you know, maybe one game
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he gets 18 carries, the next game he gets 8 carries.
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There's just not really consistency there.
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They kind of just ride whoever has the hot hand.
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And maybe it is Dottle, but I don't think really in this game
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that either one of these guys are really going to have a huge
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game because that Seattle defense is very tough to go
44:58
against. All right, Who's your first guy
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on your naughty list, Will? This is a guy we we talked
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about, I mean, you talked about kind of briefly, I'm going to go
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with 49ers quarterback Brock party.
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He is on my knowledge list. I I think people are going to
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buy in too much to the but he just did so good against
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Indianapolis. Yep, he did.
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He sure did. The last two weeks he would have
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been Tennessee in Indianapolis. He's played pretty soft defenses
45:27
the last couple weeks. Indianapolis has a bunch of
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people out. Tennessee sucks.
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Nothing else to say about them. He's been hurt a lot of the
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season. But this week they go up against
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the Bears and they're they're home.
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They're home against the Bears yes, but I it is a completely
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different team. This bears team have to prove
45:45
something, maybe to me specifically, but to a lot of
45:48
people. I I cannot stand this bears
45:51
team. But but they're they're good
45:53
right. There's nothing else to say
45:55
about this defense. Brock pretty don't get sucked
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into it based on his last two weeks performance.
45:59
Be there to see. They had him sitting last week,
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I'm sure and then they're going to Oh, I got a plan this week.
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I I think he's he's in to be humbled a bit.
46:07
This team is nuts. I I don't think they're going to
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be ready for for this bears team the way they should be,
46:13
especially because both teams still both bears and Niners have
46:18
something to play for. They both can get to 1 seed.
46:20
They both can get a first round, buy home field, avenge to the
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playoffs. I think the bears going to come
46:25
out and smash them in the mouth. Unfortunately, although kind of
46:28
fortunately I I'm really torn on this one.
46:31
I hate the bears, but I need the Niners to lose.
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So I I don't know what how to feel about this game.
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Well, Bears fans, if you're listening, soak that in because
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that's probably the nicest will will ever be to the Bears right
46:43
there. So soak that.
46:45
Soak that in while you can't. Absolutely.
46:48
Bear didn't lie. That's the best.
46:50
You're in it for me. All right, so my second guy on
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my naughty list is Eagles wide receiver Devante Smith.
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He is 100% on the naughty list for week 17 fantasy football.
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Because they're going up up against the Bills and the Bills
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are the second best team against the past this season.
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They allow just 167.1 passing yards per game.
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What they lack in the ability to defend the run, they make up for
47:17
and the ability to defend the pass.
47:19
And so this is the perfect game for what the Eagles want to do.
47:22
The Eagles want to run the ball right.
47:24
That's what they want to do. That's their identity.
47:26
They want to run the ball. The Bills are really bad at
47:30
defending the run, but they're really good at defending the
47:33
pass. And we've seen throughout this
47:35
season that Jalen Hurts hasn't been very good lately at
47:39
throwing the ball. He just hasn't been very good.
47:41
And so this is the perfect game for the Eagles to execute the
47:45
game plan that they want to execute going up against this
47:49
defense. And I don't think that that
47:51
involves Devante Smith very much in this game because they know
47:55
that the Bills have a bad run defense.
47:57
And so they're just going to run the ball as much as possible.
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Yeah. For my last Naughty List entity
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here, I've got the entire roster of the Kansas City Chiefs and
48:09
Joe, you called it pre show the literal entire roster start to
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face star with Chris Oklahoma Dokan on the dokan.
48:18
I think I don't know. Just say, just say the third
48:21
string quarterback just. Yeah, well, he's there.
48:23
Just keep it out. So that so that guy, right.
48:24
You had two guys tear the ratios in back-to-back weeks and then
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they they lost horribly to the Titans.
48:32
Just abysmal loss. And then you say, yeah, but
48:36
Mahomes is out and their back was out.
48:38
Listen, defence, how many defensive starters they have
48:41
out? I don't think it was that many,
48:43
if any. I'm sure somebody's I'm sure I'm
48:45
going to get roasted for that. But let me tell you, not that
48:48
many. Not enough to lose 30 something
48:50
to to 9. And so if if they're going,
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they're at home versus Denver this week.
48:57
If you have anybody in the Kansas City Chiefs, I would not
48:59
play them. Denver just got bodied by the
49:02
Jackson, the Jaguars at home. The one thing they want to do
49:05
right now is is secure the AFC West.
49:08
They don't have it locked up yet because the the Chargers keep
49:10
winning. They need another in conference,
49:13
in division win against the Chiefs.
49:16
They're looking to put the Chiefs in the dirt all their way
49:20
through the dirt. So if you have anybody in the
49:22
Chiefs roster, I would just go ahead and sit them this week.
49:26
I agree. I have Travis Kelsey as my last
49:29
guy on my sit list, on my naughty list because of that.
49:33
Like they've got their third string quarterback in.
49:35
They were terrible against the Titans, and now they're going
49:38
against the Broncos defense, which is arguably the best
49:41
defense in the NFL, who just had a really bad game against the
49:45
Jaguars. So not only are the Broncos
49:47
going to be pissed off, but they're going against a third
49:50
string quarterback. They're going to absolutely
49:53
wreck the Chiefs offense and you cannot start Travis Kelsey
49:56
against the Broncos this week because of that.
49:59
It's also the night game on Christmas.
50:03
Like this Denver team is going. They just got destroyed by the
50:06
Jaguars. They're going to show up so big.
50:11
It's Christmas. We want to be home with our
50:13
families. We have to be out here in the
50:15
middle of Kansas City, MO. For now, it's just I, I, I fear
50:22
for the Chiefs this week, this week, Christmas night.
50:24
If you're a Chiefs fan on Christmas night, go ahead and
50:27
spend time doing something else. This is a game you don't have to
50:30
watch. Although the Broncos are really
50:34
good at finding a way to keep it A1 score game when they win.
50:36
Yeah, you're right. They're really.
50:37
Good. It's going to be, it's going to
50:38
be a Fuel game and it's going to be, it'll be, it'll be 3 to 2
50:44
sign of score, no team. Wants to win.
50:48
That would be awesome. That would be so awesome,
50:50
wouldn't you? Wouldn't that be awesome?
50:52
Yes, I think it would be actually even.
50:55
Better, let's just get a two to two tie a.
50:57
Two to two tie it. Yeah, that's the so that starts
51:01
at 8:15. Their time, A2 to two time means
51:05
we're playing 70 minutes of ready around football. 60
51:08
regulation, 10 overtime. That wouldn't get over until the
51:11
26th over there. Like that's going until till
51:14
Friday. That would be miserable for
51:17
those fans. 100%, All right. Well, will do you have anything
51:23
to add before we wrap it up here?
51:24
Hey. Merry Christmas, everyone, happy
51:26
Hanukkah that just ended. I don't know what day this
51:28
episode's going to come out. It's just two of us, so I don't
51:30
know when you're going to get recorded, but if it's pre
51:33
Christmas, Merry Christmas. If it's after Christmas, just
51:35
remember that we did just have Christmas, right?
51:38
Maybe just be a little bit nice, all right?
51:40
Just just be a little bit nice. That's all I have Eagles fans.
51:44
Also, if you're in a parking lot, learn how to drive.
51:47
Everybody is just waiting for you to move your ass.
51:50
Get out of the way. Sorry Dwayne, I I just pretty
51:54
passionate about this one. Anyway, Merry Christmas
51:57
everybody. A Merry Christmas everyone, and
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as always guys, don't forget to keep your Jingle balls played
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with. We'll see you next time.
52:05
Bye there y'all. Also, Mark Davis's haircut still
52:10
sucks.