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Chuck & Buck 12-26 Hour 1: Here come the Panthers, there goes Wittingham, plus our no cliche keys to victory! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 3: Hey, good morning and Merry Christmas. Welcome into the radio show.
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Speaker 2: My name is Chuck pow Ashley Ryan is here.
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Speaker 3: We hope you had a great holiday as we get
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Speaker 3: together on this Friday. As a matter of fact, I'll
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Speaker 3: be honest, right off the bat felt so much like
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Speaker 3: a Monday that I didn't even realize it was ball
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Speaker 3: Friday until I heard that sounder.
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Speaker 4: Okay, now look at you.
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Speaker 3: Actually I did know because I tweeted you yesterday the
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Speaker 3: plan for today. But as I'm sitting here preparing for
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Speaker 3: the show, it felt so much like a Monday, I
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Speaker 3: forgot that it was football.
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Speaker 4: Friday, but also like the best gift you've ever been given,
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Speaker 4: because it's a Monday that's a Friday. Yeah, a Friday
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Speaker 4: that feels like a Monday, but it's still a Friday,
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Speaker 4: so tomorrow will still be Saturday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, and then I don't know what Monday is
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Speaker 3: going to feel like, probably Tuesday evening zen Zerday.
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Speaker 2: But nonetheless, good to have you with us.
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Speaker 3: Welcome into this live radio program here at Sports Radio
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Speaker 3: ninety three point three KJRFM. No Bucky Jacobson here today,
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Speaker 3: it's Ashley and I taking you all the way till
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Speaker 3: ten o'clock this morning on a football Friday.
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Speaker 2: How was your holiday?
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Speaker 4: That was good? Yeah, it's weird. It did. It felt
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Speaker 4: like Christmas, but it didn't feel like Christmas. Does that
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Speaker 4: make sense?
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Speaker 2: No, you'll have to explain that. I think.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if I can. It was very weird,
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Speaker 4: Like the whole well we last week. I kept thinking, Oh,
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Speaker 4: it's so strange that it's Christmas on Thursday. Oh and
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Speaker 4: then you know, we had Wednesday and Thursday off, and
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Speaker 4: on Wednesday I was like, oh, it's Christmas Eve. That's weird.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't feel like it's Christmas Eve. And then I
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Speaker 4: think because this year we did some things different than
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Speaker 4: we've done in the past, and so maybe it just
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Speaker 4: didn't feel the same. Okay, And you know, whenever something
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Speaker 4: is new, you just it takes a little while to
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Speaker 4: get used, okay, okay, And but we just did a
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Speaker 4: quiet Christmas Eve dinner with five Iron, Palmer the Great,
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Speaker 4: my mom and I. Yeah, and then we went to
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Speaker 4: my mom's yesterday and hung out all day and had
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Speaker 4: lots of snacks and good food and some drinks and
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Speaker 4: open presents and watched football. It was great. Okay, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: It was pretty good.
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I don't know if it's your traditional Christmas.
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Speaker 3: I didn't do any traveling to be with family and.
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Speaker 2: And so, and then even like the.
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Speaker 3: It was strange because I felt like there was this
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Speaker 3: complete commitment to eating and drinking in short spurts, and
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Speaker 3: then like for the rest of the day didn't feel
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Speaker 3: like eating another thing. Right, We just dedicated ourselves to snacks.
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Speaker 3: And then we did Martiniz on Christmas Eve, and that
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Speaker 3: actually felt more like Christmas or Christmas Eve that we
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Speaker 3: did together, but went so far in on that that
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Speaker 3: I'm like, did I even eat dinner, which looking back
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Speaker 3: on it, I didn't.
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Speaker 2: And then the next day she made.
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Speaker 3: Her world famous lasagna, and so we did that and
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Speaker 3: I ate so much of it in one setting, and
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Speaker 3: I didn't feel like.
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Speaker 2: Eating again the rest of the day. So yeah, we
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Speaker 2: just it was just kind.
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Speaker 3: Of like all in in short spurts, and then the
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Speaker 3: rest of the time. I'm like, man, when you don't
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Speaker 3: have to work, these days really are longer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, like what should I do with my time?
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Speaker 3: I've already Yeah, when you actually get to sleep and stuff, man,
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Speaker 3: these days seem longer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But no, it was good. It was good, and you
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Speaker 3: know you can't help. But whatever you're doing in the moment,
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Speaker 3: you miss those you're not doing it with, so you
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Speaker 3: can't help that, and so you make your phone calls
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Speaker 3: and it's not the same and you almost feel like
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Speaker 3: you're apologizing for not being there. So maybe I just
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Speaker 3: carry that, I don't know, the guilt of a child
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Speaker 3: that moved away from home at eighteen and lived on
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Speaker 3: the other coast. You know, maybe I carry that, and
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Speaker 3: maybe a lot of people can relate to that. But
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Speaker 3: it was good, and yet you still feel like, man,
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Speaker 3: we could.
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Speaker 2: Have done more.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we should have gone, maybe we should have
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Speaker 3: done our widby trip for the Christmas, or maybe we
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Speaker 3: should have got completely out of town.
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Speaker 2: But I didn't want to travel during the holidays.
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Speaker 3: So good, but you can't help, but you know, second
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Speaker 3: guess whether you should have done something different.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I understand that, And I think that's a
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Speaker 4: normal adult thing. And by that I mean guilt, Like
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Speaker 4: we find ways to just make ourselves feel guilty of
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Speaker 4: all sorts of things that somebody else isn't ever thinking like, well,
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Speaker 4: that jerk, you should have been here. Yeah, but you're like, oh,
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Speaker 4: I'm such a jerk. I should have been there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And then but then I start thinking about, like, man,
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Speaker 3: the last time the whole family.
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Speaker 2: Got together, it was a disaster.
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Speaker 4: So maybe so maybe I dodged something.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe exactly. But anyway, I hope everybody out there
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Speaker 2: at a great holiday.
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Speaker 3: And of course we got New Year's right around the
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Speaker 3: corner as well, so next week will be a little
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Speaker 3: goofy around.
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Speaker 2: Here as well.
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Speaker 3: But we've gathered for this football Friday because certainly we
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Speaker 3: got some big things going on in the National Football League.
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Speaker 3: Also some college football news this morning that I woke
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Speaker 3: up to we'll share with.
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Speaker 2: You here in a little bit. But you know, when
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Speaker 2: you got a division championship on the line over the.
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Speaker 3: Next two weeks, certainly you know you gather on a
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Speaker 3: Friday on a football Friday to discuss things with your experts.
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Speaker 3: So we'll map out the show for you coming up
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Speaker 3: here in a moment with what's on tap. But of course,
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Speaker 3: Seahawks taking on the Carolina Panthers. And this seems very
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Speaker 3: strange as the Seahawks vibe for the best record in
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Speaker 3: the National Football League here over the next couple of weeks,
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Speaker 3: that it's the Carolina Panthers who have a shot at
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Speaker 3: winning the divisional title this week and not the Seahawks. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: Seahawks can win and still have work to do afterwards.
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Speaker 3: Where Carolina wins and they have won their division against
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Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and so there will be a
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Speaker 3: playoff atmosphere, certainly in Charlotte on Sunday, and the Seahawks
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Speaker 3: aren't gonna need to match that intensity because they've got
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Speaker 3: a lot at stake here over the next couple of weeks.
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Speaker 3: And despite their impressive audit record at this stage, it's
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Speaker 3: Carolina that can cement something where the Seahawks can't. And
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Speaker 3: that seems weird, But them's the rules.
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Speaker 4: That's the right, that's the right, And it's been.
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Speaker 3: A strange year for Carolina, let's face it. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I don't even know. As I sit here on this
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Speaker 3: Friday morning, getting ready to face them in this huge
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Speaker 3: game on Sunday, I can't even tell you if they're
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Speaker 3: any good. I'm not sure that they really are. They're
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Speaker 3: certainly better than what they've been here in the last
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Speaker 3: couple of years. They're certainly capable of defeating the Seahawks
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Speaker 3: despite being a seven point underdog at home for a
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Speaker 3: game where they can clinch their division this week.
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Speaker 2: But to me.
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Speaker 3: That they still are this just ghastly unknown. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they started the season at one and three on the year.
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Speaker 3: They did have a three game winning streak in October,
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Speaker 3: but they defeated Miami, Dallas and the Jets. I mean,
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Speaker 3: not exactly the who's who of the best teams in
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Speaker 3: the National.
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Speaker 2: Football League this year and then since that time.
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Speaker 3: Since October nineteenth, the Carolina Panthers have not won or
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Speaker 3: lost back to back games. They have alternated wins since
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Speaker 3: October nineteenth, believe it or not, wins and losses. So
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Speaker 3: four and three since Week seven have not won back
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Speaker 3: to back games, have not lost back to back games.
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Speaker 3: How do you figure a team like that out? Can't
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Speaker 3: They've got impressive wins this year. They're just not beaten
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Speaker 3: up on the dregs. They've defeated the Rams this year,
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Speaker 3: They've defeated the Buccaneers this year. They've defeated the Packers
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Speaker 3: this year. They defeated the Atlanta Falcons back when we
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Speaker 3: thought the Falcons were good, and they beat them thirty
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Speaker 3: to nine.
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Speaker 4: The demolished them.
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Speaker 3: But all four of those wins, impressive wins on their resume,
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Speaker 3: all came out home, which obviously gets our attention because
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Speaker 3: the Seahawks will be playing Carolina at Carolina. But on
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Speaker 3: the flip side, they've also lost two games to New
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Speaker 3: Orleans this year. They lost, They've given the Arizona Cardinals
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Speaker 3: one of their three wins so far this season, and
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Speaker 3: then they've lost, like to Buffalo by thirty one, to
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Speaker 3: New England by twenty nine, to San Francisco by twenty one,
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Speaker 3: and it wasn't even that close.
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Speaker 2: So they're a bit of a mystery.
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Speaker 3: And certainly they've gotten better under Dave Canalis since he
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Speaker 3: took over as head coach, and Bryce Young seems to
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Speaker 3: have settled into at least confident that I am a
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Speaker 3: worthy NFL starting quarterback. I don't think it good we're
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Speaker 3: close to calling him a star. He's certainly not a superstar.
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Speaker 3: He certainly hasn't lived up to the number one overall
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Speaker 3: selection in the National Football League status that he came
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Speaker 3: into the league with. He certainly hasn't played to justify
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Speaker 3: everything Carolina did in order to get him with that
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Speaker 3: number one overall selection. But that benching that took place
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Speaker 3: a year ago, that was certainly controversial. And remember it
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Speaker 3: was a year ago. People were asking, is Bryce you'ng
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Speaker 3: going to get traded at the trading deadline? You know,
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Speaker 3: just a year and a half into his NFL career.
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Speaker 3: That's how disappointing he had been. Then he got the
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Speaker 3: starting job back, played better at the close of last season,
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Speaker 3: and then this year he certainly locked in the starting
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Speaker 3: position at Carolina. There's been no question all season long
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Speaker 3: whether or not he should be the Panthers as starting quarterback.
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Speaker 3: Still not playing at a star or superstar level, but
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Speaker 3: at least he's justifying the number one selection or showing
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Speaker 3: signs of that. But it's just they're a mysterious team
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Speaker 3: and have to be taken seriously. And the good news
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Speaker 3: is that the Seahawks have so much at stake over
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Speaker 3: the next cup of days. There's no way to take
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Speaker 3: them lightly and there's no way not to be ready
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Speaker 3: for the atmosphere that you're walking into on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I do feel confident with the Seahawks going
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Speaker 4: on the road because we have done well on the road.
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Speaker 4: But they're definitely a force to be reckoned with. It's
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Speaker 4: just funny. We had Mike kayon from the Charlotte Observer
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Speaker 4: on Tuesday and ask I asked him about the inconsistency
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Speaker 4: of the Panthers, and even he couldn't figure it out
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Speaker 4: and he covers them every single day. He's like, I
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Speaker 4: have no idea who this team is because they have
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Speaker 4: not shown us the same thing one week to the next.
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Speaker 3: And but I do believe that is a sign of progress.
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Speaker 3: It's a sign of this. I mean, they're not going
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Speaker 3: to win the super Bowl. Yeah, it's just not going
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Speaker 3: to happen. You know, they're not there yet, right So
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Speaker 3: for them to just achieve a divisional title.
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Speaker 4: It's a pretty big deal.
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Speaker 2: That's a really big deal for the organization. It does
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Speaker 2: show growth.
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Speaker 3: Even if you are inconsistent, maybe that's the last.
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Speaker 2: Thing that comes.
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Speaker 3: At least you've shown the ability to beat some good
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Speaker 3: teams this year, at least you're you know, you're not
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Speaker 3: a doormat like you've been here in the last couple
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Speaker 3: of seasons. That's clear you you kind of graduated from
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Speaker 3: that at the end of last season, and then this
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Speaker 3: year you're picking up some signature wins along the way,
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Speaker 3: and so it certainly does speak to progress. But they
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Speaker 3: their goals aren't the same as what the Seahawks are
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Speaker 3: right now. I mean, if the Seahawks win the division
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Speaker 3: title this year, even though we're facing two teams that
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Speaker 3: are eleven and four, and Carolina is trying to hold
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Speaker 3: off a team that can't figure out if it's good
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Speaker 3: or not either in Tampa Bay, there's no Ah Man,
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Speaker 3: nice job, Fellas, what a great year.
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Speaker 2: No, there's where there's trying.
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Speaker 4: To figure out to be done.
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Speaker 2: How do we win the tournament?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: How do we win?
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Speaker 3: Even if we get to buy three consecutive games against
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Speaker 3: the best teams that the NFL has to offer, with
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Speaker 3: absolutely no wiggle room for error there, Carolina, they pull
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Speaker 3: off a win this Sunday and Tampa Bay loses and
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Speaker 3: they take the division on Sunday, they're putting their feet
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Speaker 3: up on a desk smoking a cigar, you know, poorn champagne.
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Speaker 2: Over their heads.
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Speaker 3: They've accomplished something this year that nobody thought that they
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Speaker 3: were going to accomplish, and then they're just going to
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Speaker 3: get trucked in the NFL playoffs. Now they might win
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Speaker 3: a game, but there's no way they're winning four games
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Speaker 3: in a row.
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Speaker 2: Not this team.
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Speaker 3: And so you know, from that standpoint, that's also sort
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Speaker 3: of a difficult thing to go up against.
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Speaker 2: I mean, in.
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Speaker 3: Essence, we're facing the Carolina Panthers with their super Bowl
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Speaker 3: on the line the next couple of weeks. This is
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Speaker 3: their super Bowl. The Seahawks Super Bowl is the super Bowl,
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Speaker 3: the Carolina Panthers super Bowl. I mean, yeah, they're going
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Speaker 3: to tell you we got more work to do. They're
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Speaker 3: going to say that, But truthfully, the fan base, coaching staff,
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Speaker 3: even the players, and a truth sera are gone to
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Speaker 3: view it as man, we win a championship or a
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Speaker 3: division championship, we make the playoffs, considering where we were
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Speaker 3: a year and a half ago, that's a hell of
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Speaker 3: an accomplishment. Can't wait for next season where our goals
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Speaker 3: are even bigger than a division title.
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Speaker 4: And that's how they should be, because that is a
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Speaker 4: big accomplishment coming from where they were a year and
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Speaker 4: a half ago. So, I mean, I think the interesting
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Speaker 4: thing is that the one similarity between these two teams
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Speaker 4: pre season is that no one picked the Seahawks to
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Speaker 4: win the division either. It was the Rams and the
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Speaker 4: forty nine ers with maybe the Cardinals as a thought,
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Speaker 4: and the Seahawks were not even a thought.
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Speaker 3: I think there were at least some people locally, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I don't even think Carolina's local people. We're picking point
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Speaker 3: and so I think it will be viewed by their media,
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Speaker 3: by their fan base, by the organization as the success.
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Speaker 3: They beat the Seahawks on Sunday, I mean, like I said,
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Speaker 3: we're kind of facing them in their super Bowl. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean, they get to play the game at home. Now,
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Speaker 3: I mean they there's a chance they have to play
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Speaker 3: at Tampa the following week with the division on the line.
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Speaker 3: So that's an even bigger game next week. But they
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Speaker 3: have a chance at home to beat the team currently
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Speaker 3: with the number one seed and puts them in a
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Speaker 3: position that if Tampa were to fall this week in
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Speaker 3: they could win the division title this weekend. They could
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Speaker 3: eliminate all of the drama. So they've got a lot.
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Speaker 3: They got a lot on the line. Good news for
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Speaker 3: us up here in the Pacific Northwest. Our team has
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Speaker 3: a lot on the line as well. So it should
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Speaker 3: be fun, should be very interesting. And I'm not sure
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Speaker 3: at the beginning of the year if we circled this
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Speaker 3: game as being as interesting as it's turned out to be.
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Speaker 4: No, not at all. We were like, oh, well, I
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Speaker 4: don't like that they're playing on the road then this season,
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Speaker 4: but at least it's Carolina. Then they have to finish
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Speaker 4: the San Francisco.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the only thing that cross your mind, like, it's
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Speaker 3: not hurricane season, is it when we go there?
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Speaker 2: No, we don't have to worry about that, do we.
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Speaker 3: All Right, let's find out what's on tap for the
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Speaker 3: rest of the show today.
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Speaker 4: What's on tech?
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Speaker 2: What's on tech?
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Speaker 3: All right, Seahawks at Carolina. It'll be Sunday at ten o'clock.
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Speaker 3: That's the kickoff. They've already had some games played this
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Speaker 3: week on Christmas Day, not exactly, three gyms, not exactly.
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Speaker 3: You know what Roger Goodell had in mind when he
16:17
Speaker 3: decided that the NBA gets too much attention on Christmas,
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Speaker 3: and in perfect Christmas spirit, decided to take all of
16:24
Speaker 3: their attention away. I don't think it was very successful.
16:27
Speaker 3: You had two games on Netflix and one on Prime Video.
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Speaker 3: I didn't watch any of them. I just drew a
16:32
Speaker 3: line in the sand. I'm not gonna watch any of them.
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Speaker 3: I don't like the way that they are acting as
16:37
Speaker 3: a league when it comes to a Christmas Day. And
16:40
Speaker 3: then you also want to try to force people after
16:43
Speaker 3: they just bought Christmas presents for all their kids. Now
16:47
Speaker 3: you've got to buy two streaming services in order to
16:49
Speaker 3: watch our product over this weekend. Potentially, I don't like it,
16:52
Speaker 3: so I protested against it.
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Speaker 2: I'm in Fantasy Football Championship mode, though, so I had
16:58
Speaker 2: to pay attention to it somewhat.
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Speaker 4: Oh, how did it go for you?
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Speaker 2: Okay? Okay, I mean not good. But it did.
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Speaker 4: But it could be worse.
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Speaker 2: It could have been. It could have been a lot worse.
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Speaker 3: Jacory Krossky Merrit Jackson Feltz starts Jacory Crossy.
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Speaker 2: It picks him up off the.
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Speaker 4: Waivers because I almost picked him up last week.
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Speaker 2: And he scores two touchdowns.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he only had two productive carries the entire game,
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Speaker 3: and one was for a seventy two yard touchdown and
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Speaker 3: the other one was their ten yard touchdown killing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah that's a kicking.
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Speaker 5: Then, yeah, you know in the nuts in I was
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Speaker 5: gonna say, Jimmy, but yes, straight straight straight to the
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Speaker 5: old chestnuts.
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Speaker 3: So the results from yesterday, Broncos win twenty to thirteen
17:45
Speaker 3: over the Kansas City Chiefs. So the Denver Broncos right
17:48
Speaker 3: now carried the best record in the National Football League,
17:51
Speaker 3: but they still haven't wrapped up their division. The Dallas
17:54
Speaker 3: Cowboys in mostly meaningless game one thirty to twenty three
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Speaker 3: over the Commanders yesterday, and the Minnesota Vikings finished the
18:02
Speaker 3: Detroit Lions disappointing season. The Vikings won twenty three to ten.
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Speaker 3: Detroit committed six turnovers. Six turnovers. How often you see
18:11
Speaker 3: a team in the NFL lose the turnover battle sixth
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Speaker 3: to nothing.
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Speaker 4: Ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: That's what happened yesterday. The Lions officially eliminated from the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: Can't be described as anything but crushing disappointment, Masses. I
18:26
Speaker 3: really thought the Detroit Lions weren't going to skip a
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Speaker 3: beat without their coordinators that they lost in the offseason,
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Speaker 3: and instead they don't even make it to Week eighteen
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Speaker 3: alive in the playoffs, So they're five hundred football team
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Speaker 3: right now.
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Speaker 2: Did not see that coming.
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Speaker 4: It is disappointing because I think we all agree that
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Speaker 4: we want to see them do well because they're a
18:44
Speaker 4: fun team to watch.
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Speaker 3: Usually they're very likable. Yeah, yeah, they're fun to watch.
18:50
Speaker 3: I don't know if you cannot like Dan Campbell, but
18:54
Speaker 3: certainly something was missing this year and they could not
18:57
Speaker 3: get it together in time. Week number seventeen continues on Sunday.
19:03
Speaker 3: There as there are playoff implications everywhere.
19:06
Speaker 2: Uh, and there's.
19:07
Speaker 3: Also a scenario where there could be pretty much no
19:10
Speaker 3: playoff implications the final week. Oh I mean not no,
19:15
Speaker 3: I mean obviously the Seahawks would have something at stake
19:18
Speaker 3: in that final week, but their CBS Sports wrote an
19:22
Speaker 3: article about how this thing could pan out where the
19:25
Speaker 3: NFL isn't going to have any drama, or what drama
19:29
Speaker 3: they have in the last week will be so insignificant
19:33
Speaker 3: as opposed to a driving force, like I cannot miss
19:36
Speaker 3: this Sunday of action, but that that would have.
19:40
Speaker 2: To mean that all the chips fell a certain way.
19:43
Speaker 4: Yeah this weekend, you know that.
19:46
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they'llg it if they have to.
19:49
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, Jacksonville at Indianapolis, Philadelphia at Buffalo, Chicago at
19:53
Speaker 3: San Francisco, just some of the games on Sunday.
19:57
Speaker 4: Uh.
19:57
Speaker 3: The NBA did have five games, and it was let's
20:00
Speaker 3: a better experience, a better product than what the NFL
20:03
Speaker 3: put out.
20:04
Speaker 2: Some good games there. The best one was at night.
20:06
Speaker 3: Where nikolet Jokic had one of the great statistical games
20:10
Speaker 3: in the history of the league. If you haven't seen
20:12
Speaker 3: the stat line. In a one forty two, one thirty
20:15
Speaker 3: eight overtime win over Minnesota, Joker had fifty six points,
20:20
Speaker 3: sixteen rebounds, and fifteen assists.
20:23
Speaker 2: Just absurd.
20:24
Speaker 3: College football, the Michigan job is still not settled. Here
20:28
Speaker 3: we sit, we've had two days off from the show,
20:30
Speaker 3: and we don't have a job announcement, but we do
20:35
Speaker 3: have a new front runner as of this morning. Looks
20:39
Speaker 3: like the Michigan job is enticing enough that Kyle Whittingham
20:43
Speaker 3: did not stay retired for long. Sounds like he is
20:47
Speaker 3: the front runner, and it sounds like there's some momentum
20:50
Speaker 3: for that getting done today. So Kyle Whittingham, former very
20:54
Speaker 3: good coach head coach at Utah could be the next
20:57
Speaker 3: Michigan Wolverines head coach, which of course, will make Jed
21:02
Speaker 3: Fish's life a little easier. I suppose, maybe not better,
21:06
Speaker 3: but easier. Denzel Boston, since we last spoke, he is
21:10
Speaker 3: entering the NFL Draft. There's no surprise there. The college
21:13
Speaker 3: football Playoff resumes on New Year's Eve. The Kraken have
21:16
Speaker 3: suddenly decided to play good hockey. They've won three straight
21:19
Speaker 3: games after losing ten out of eleven, and they're doing
21:23
Speaker 3: it while being riddled with injuries. Yep, who can figure
21:26
Speaker 3: it out. They won't play again until Sunday against the
21:29
Speaker 3: Philadelphia Flyers. I have not spoken to you since Rob
21:32
Speaker 3: Refsneiders signed a contract with the Mariners.
21:35
Speaker 2: We'll spend a little time on that today, and good
21:38
Speaker 2: for the Major League Baseball. They add some.
21:40
Speaker 3: Activity every single day during the holidays, including Tyler Soderstrom
21:45
Speaker 3: signing an extension with the Athletics on Christmas Day.
21:48
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you give yourself.
21:50
Speaker 3: The present of an eighty six million dollar contract on
21:53
Speaker 3: Christmas Day?
21:53
Speaker 4: I tried to give myself that present on Christmas Day,
21:55
Speaker 4: but it didn't work out.
21:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, somebody really said, hey, it's Christmas, leave
21:59
Speaker 3: me a yeah.
22:00
Speaker 4: No, oh oh, you want to pay me eight All right,
22:05
Speaker 4: I'll take a Christmas break.
22:06
Speaker 3: I mean, do you guys? Is nothing sacred? Take your
22:10
Speaker 3: eighty six million dollars and shove it. I'll talk to
22:12
Speaker 3: you tomorrow. So yeah, he signed yesterday.
22:16
Speaker 4: Carntle Christmas for eighty six million.
22:18
Speaker 3: We got Greg Bell coming up today. We got Hugh
22:20
Speaker 3: Millon coming up today. We got Mike Sando coming up.
22:23
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22:36
Speaker 2: We'll talk some college football next.
22:38
Speaker 3: It's Chuck and Ashley with you Sports Radio ninety three
22:40
Speaker 3: point three KJRFM.
22:59
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning.
23:00
Speaker 3: It is Chuck Powell and Ashley Ryan with you know,
23:02
Speaker 3: Bucky Jacobson today as we're going live this morning here
23:05
Speaker 3: on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three
23:08
Speaker 3: k JR FM. On this Friday. Yeah, you come back
23:11
Speaker 3: to work on a Friday, boy, you can really work
23:13
Speaker 3: the system sometimes and then get a couple more days off.
23:17
Speaker 2: How many days do we get off next week?
23:19
Speaker 4: By the way, two Okay, yeah, New Year's even New
23:23
Speaker 4: Year's Day. I'm taking the Friday off.
23:25
Speaker 2: And you're taking the Friday off? Are you sure? Because
23:28
Speaker 2: I can really, I can really sell this process here.
23:32
Speaker 4: No, I mean I think I would like us to
23:35
Speaker 4: get more.
23:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, what I'm saying, I can really you know, I'm.
23:39
Speaker 4: Experience you really like it. Yeah, but you got the
23:42
Speaker 4: Monday and the Tuesday off and I did not, So
23:45
Speaker 4: it doesn't feel like a Monday to me. Okay, it
23:48
Speaker 4: feels like just a day of weirdness.
23:50
Speaker 2: Yeah. Just just I'm telling you, like, you can probably
23:53
Speaker 2: package this thing and sell it.
23:55
Speaker 4: I like your plan. I would do Monday, Tuesday and
23:58
Speaker 4: then just come to work Friday.
24:00
Speaker 2: What you know, five days off work a day and
24:02
Speaker 2: then get two days off.
24:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's a rough life.
24:05
Speaker 2: There's probably something to it.
24:06
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of somethings to it.
24:09
Speaker 3: Yeah. So anyway, I'll do my best to get through today.
24:15
Speaker 4: Segment at a time, check and get.
24:17
Speaker 3: Those two hard earned days off tomorrow and then and
24:22
Speaker 3: then contemplate whether I'll be back on Monday.
24:26
Speaker 2: All right, So no cliche.
24:27
Speaker 3: Keys to victory coming up at six forty five again
24:30
Speaker 3: have to remind myself that it is a Friday, and
24:33
Speaker 3: it is a football Friday, so we'll be doing that
24:35
Speaker 3: at six forty five. I didn't mention this, but we
24:38
Speaker 3: should probably spend a little bit more time on it.
24:41
Speaker 2: Woke up this morning to more than a rumor.
24:44
Speaker 3: When Adam Schefter reports on stuff that comes out of Michigan,
24:48
Speaker 3: where he went to school, usually you can bank on
24:51
Speaker 3: it being some pretty concrete information. So lo and behold
24:54
Speaker 3: of all the people to have emerged as the candidate.
24:58
Speaker 3: Kyle Whittingham out of you, who just retired from football coaching, right, Yeah, Well,
25:03
Speaker 3: apparently he was just retiring from coaching at Utah because
25:07
Speaker 3: with the opportunity to be head coach at the at Michigan,
25:12
Speaker 3: which is a step up. I mean, Utah's a fine program,
25:15
Speaker 3: but obviously that's a step up. That was enticing enough
25:18
Speaker 3: for Kyle Whittingham to say, I'm going to come out
25:21
Speaker 3: of years of retirement or days of retirement.
25:24
Speaker 2: Or hours of retirement kind of like my he's kind
25:27
Speaker 2: of doing what I'm doing yesday.
25:29
Speaker 3: He's coming back to work at Michigan on a Friday
25:32
Speaker 3: and then taking two more days off. Sounds like it,
25:34
Speaker 3: but Kyle Whittingham looks like he just wanted a better
25:38
Speaker 3: job out of this process, and he looks like he's
25:42
Speaker 3: emerging as the top candidate. And as a matter of fact,
25:46
Speaker 3: there was even a suggestion this morning that it is
25:48
Speaker 3: just a matter of figuring out a contract. So he's
25:51
Speaker 3: the guy that they've zoned in on. I don't know
25:54
Speaker 3: how many times they've swung and missed, or who they
25:57
Speaker 3: might have been waiting for, or maybe we're getting a
26:01
Speaker 3: soft no from the Kaelin de Bores of the world,
26:04
Speaker 3: and then once he advanced in the playoffs, maybe it turned.
26:08
Speaker 2: Into a hard no.
26:10
Speaker 3: I mean hard to hard to hard to know Jedfish,
26:14
Speaker 3: I don't know how much of a candidate that he
26:16
Speaker 3: was for this job, but his name certainly stayed in
26:20
Speaker 3: in it all the way through this morning, potentially, And
26:25
Speaker 3: so look, I mean, maybe Jedfish really dreamt of being
26:29
Speaker 3: the Michigan head coach and he would have taken it
26:32
Speaker 3: had he been given an offer. I will never know,
26:36
Speaker 3: or well probably will never know, but there's got to
26:39
Speaker 3: be something to Even if he's disappointed that Michigan didn't
26:42
Speaker 3: fall all over itself to hire him, there's got to
26:46
Speaker 3: be something to well, at least this is over. At
26:49
Speaker 3: least at least we can I can stop being mentioned
26:52
Speaker 3: in rumors because it probably is not helping me as
26:56
Speaker 3: Washington's head coach.
26:57
Speaker 2: So maybe there's bitter disappointment.
27:00
Speaker 3: Maybe there was more smoke than what we even realized
27:03
Speaker 3: with Jed Fish, but it sounds like he's not going
27:06
Speaker 3: to be the Michigan head coach. There are even some
27:10
Speaker 3: people that are reported he really never was that strong
27:12
Speaker 3: of a candidate, where Kyle Whittingham now seems like it's
27:16
Speaker 3: going to be his job.
27:17
Speaker 1: Well.
27:17
Speaker 4: And the thing that I think is so interesting is
27:20
Speaker 4: all of these I mean, you take Dillingham, Fish and Deboor,
27:24
Speaker 4: all three who were the original strong candidates right, and
27:27
Speaker 4: it from what I can gather, none of them ever
27:30
Speaker 4: actually communicated with Michigan about the job or were offered
27:35
Speaker 4: anything about the job, which I think is I mean,
27:37
Speaker 4: I guess in this day and age, you can easily
27:39
Speaker 4: say that because it's all done through representation. So just
27:42
Speaker 4: because you didn't talk to them doesn't mean your people
27:44
Speaker 4: didn't talk to them. But yeah, it does seem that
27:47
Speaker 4: now all of a sudden, very quickly, Kyle Whittingham, who
27:50
Speaker 4: I mean, I would at least want to be retired
27:52
Speaker 4: for a couple weeks.
27:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean again, who really knows what happened. It
27:59
Speaker 3: kind of feels to me like debor might have been
28:03
Speaker 3: the choice. Yeah, and then he makes the playoffs and
28:07
Speaker 3: they seem perfectly willing to wait a little while longer.
28:11
Speaker 3: This isn't lsu. We have to have an answer now, Kiffin,
28:15
Speaker 3: or we're moving on. It didn't feel like it was
28:18
Speaker 3: that scenario. But then all of a sudden, he wins,
28:21
Speaker 3: and now you're not gonna play again for another ten days.
28:24
Speaker 3: And if he wins again, you know he's if he
28:27
Speaker 3: hasn't left by now, he's not gonna He's not gonna
28:30
Speaker 3: leave if he's.
28:31
Speaker 2: In the final four, for goodness sake.
28:34
Speaker 3: So it kind of feels like that, And until they
28:37
Speaker 3: got an absolute concrete answer from him, or if he
28:42
Speaker 3: advanced far enough in the playoffs, then they weren't gonna
28:45
Speaker 3: move on. Jedfish kind of felt like somebody that he's
28:49
Speaker 3: there if we need him. That's kind of how it
28:51
Speaker 3: felt to me. And then maybe there was this knowledge
28:56
Speaker 3: that the Michigan Wolverines had that Kyle Whittingham is our guy.
29:02
Speaker 2: We'd love to have him.
29:04
Speaker 3: But we have to conduct this thing quietly otherwise we're
29:09
Speaker 3: gonna chase him off. Yeah, because he is officially he
29:13
Speaker 3: is retired. And so maybe there was just this we're
29:18
Speaker 3: being patient with our guy, the guy that we want,
29:21
Speaker 3: and if there's going to come a time where we
29:25
Speaker 3: can't be patient anymore. So maybe they were being patient
29:28
Speaker 3: with the boar. Maybe they were being patient with Kyle
29:30
Speaker 3: Whittingham to work through whether or not because not only
29:33
Speaker 3: are you not only are you staying in coaching, you
29:36
Speaker 3: got you're starting something new. He's sixty six years old
29:41
Speaker 3: and he looks fantastic and he's still doing a great
29:43
Speaker 3: job as a football coach. But you're starting a new
29:48
Speaker 3: project that is bigger than the one that you were
29:51
Speaker 3: walking away from because you were tired, right, I mean,
29:55
Speaker 3: so you gotta talk to the family, have an honest
29:59
Speaker 3: moment yourself as to whether or not you have the
30:03
Speaker 3: strength and the energy to bite off this big of
30:07
Speaker 3: a wad.
30:08
Speaker 2: And that's that's what he's doing. So maybe it is.
30:11
Speaker 3: Just as simple as Michigan knew all along. They're pecking order,
30:14
Speaker 3: and they were willing to be patient, unlike most of
30:17
Speaker 3: these programs who still who in silly fashion, you know,
30:22
Speaker 3: just hurry, hurry.
30:23
Speaker 2: Hurry, hurry. Just a wait, wait, wait, wait wait. Maybe
30:27
Speaker 2: Michigan knew all along. I don't know.
30:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's possible that it's interesting because obviously, again
30:34
Speaker 4: we don't know this the intricacies of the way that
30:36
Speaker 4: this works. But with Dillingham, he got his you know,
30:41
Speaker 4: he ended up getting a great offer from ASU.
30:43
Speaker 3: And maybe he was there too, Yeah, and maybe they
30:45
Speaker 3: were patiently waiting for him.
30:47
Speaker 4: Maybe, But I just think it's interesting. I wonder how
30:49
Speaker 4: much of it is actually Michigan who has been going
30:51
Speaker 4: after all these people, or as you say, maybe it
30:53
Speaker 4: has been deborn. They've been patiently waiting and then like
30:56
Speaker 4: agents have been using this as okay, well, it looks
30:59
Speaker 4: like Michigan's really interesting than Dillingham. Yes, you are you
31:01
Speaker 4: going to step up and give him a you know?
31:03
Speaker 4: And so at least with witting him, they don't have that.
31:05
Speaker 4: They don't have to worry about offering him something and
31:07
Speaker 4: then have Michigan or having Utah come back and match it,
31:10
Speaker 4: and then there's another candidate that's not a possibility for
31:12
Speaker 4: them anymore.
31:13
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think witting Aam's grandkids can match this.
31:15
Speaker 4: Offer, No, probably not, although Grandpa.
31:21
Speaker 3: We'll give you five years forty million dollars to turn
31:25
Speaker 3: him down.
31:26
Speaker 4: He's like, that's already my own money.
31:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
31:31
Speaker 3: Or maybe they've just got a poem planned where Dillingham
31:34
Speaker 3: and Whittingham both fit the iambic pentamina, and so they
31:39
Speaker 3: just like, we've got a we need a Ham. I'm
31:42
Speaker 3: not we need it. I'm not throwing this poem away
31:45
Speaker 3: just because we can't find a four syllable coach.
31:47
Speaker 4: I can't wait to find out if he's witting him.
31:50
Speaker 4: Isn't the guy what Ham comes next?
31:54
Speaker 2: Bellingham? There's a guy named Bellingham out there.
31:57
Speaker 3: Excellently all right, No cliche, Key's to victory next. Sports
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Speaker 3: Radio ninety three point three KJRF.
32:04
Speaker 4: Will happen?
32:05
Speaker 3: Turns out that throwing your hands up in the air
32:07
Speaker 3: just isn't like riding a bike.
32:08
Speaker 4: No, you can't just throw up and assume they're gonna
32:10
Speaker 4: wave themselves like they don't care exactly.
32:12
Speaker 2: There's gotta be a lot of thought, energy effort put
32:15
Speaker 2: into it.
32:15
Speaker 3: Anyway, I got caught off, got caught a little flat
32:18
Speaker 3: footed there, Sorry about it, but it's not going to
32:21
Speaker 3: disrupt anything with our segment here every Friday. No cliche
32:25
Speaker 3: keys to victory before every Seahawks game, and it's gonna
32:29
Speaker 3: be hard for me not to use a cliche honestly
32:32
Speaker 3: against this weird ass Carolina team that we're facing on Sunday.
32:36
Speaker 3: But what does it boil down to for you, Ashley, I'm.
32:39
Speaker 4: Gonna say the key to this game is gonna be
32:41
Speaker 4: Rashid Shaheed because we have been getting him more involved
32:45
Speaker 4: in the offense. And obviously he's had some huge special
32:48
Speaker 4: teams moments, but I think the more that he has
32:51
Speaker 4: been involved in each game, the better we have been doing.
32:55
Speaker 4: I think he has been he's finally figured out like
32:58
Speaker 4: his place on this team. And so if we can
33:00
Speaker 4: get I mean, I don't want to be greedy, but
33:03
Speaker 4: if we could get another punt return or kickoff return,
33:07
Speaker 4: you know, I think we're in a good spot.
33:08
Speaker 3: You get a kick return and something unexpected like that
33:13
Speaker 3: or a defensive touchdown, yeah, then Carolina can't overcome that.
33:16
Speaker 4: No, I don't think what you're saying. Yeah, I don't
33:18
Speaker 4: think they can. But I also just think in terms
33:20
Speaker 4: of just how just getting him involved in the offense
33:23
Speaker 4: in general, because he has he's had some interesting runs
33:29
Speaker 4: after the catch, and he is so versatile and so quick,
33:33
Speaker 4: and I think if you could be able to use him,
33:35
Speaker 4: then you're gonna that's gonna be good for Jackson Smith
33:38
Speaker 4: and Jigba. It's boosting Sam Darnold's confidence. I think, Rashid Shaheed,
33:41
Speaker 4: there you go.
33:42
Speaker 3: All right, Rashid Shaheed is Ashley's no cliche keet to victory.
33:46
Speaker 2: They're so weird.
33:48
Speaker 3: I mean, there's just there's no pattern to their success
33:52
Speaker 3: or to their failure. I mean, they just beat Tampa
33:54
Speaker 3: Bay and they held Baker Mayfield under one hundred and
33:56
Speaker 3: fifty passing yards.
33:57
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, you.
33:58
Speaker 3: Old Baker Mayfield probably gonna beat the Buccaneers, and yet
34:02
Speaker 3: Tyler Schuck lights them up for.
34:04
Speaker 2: Like two eighty the previous week, no sense.
34:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you beat you lost in New Orleans
34:10
Speaker 3: twice this year, and you held the passing by then
34:12
Speaker 3: Alvin Kamara had one of his best games against the
34:16
Speaker 3: Los Angeles Ramsy didn't really stop them, but you did
34:20
Speaker 3: contain them. And then you got to pick six and
34:22
Speaker 3: that ended up being the difference against the Green Bay Packers.
34:26
Speaker 3: You somehow won that game by three points even though
34:29
Speaker 3: you had one hundred passing yards. I mean, what NFL
34:33
Speaker 3: team has just one hundred passing yards and probably fewer
34:37
Speaker 3: than that. I didn't even count up the sack totals,
34:40
Speaker 3: so it's probably fewer than one hundred passing yards. You
34:43
Speaker 3: get blown out by the Buffalo Bills because you give
34:46
Speaker 3: up two hundred rushing yards to James Cook, and yet
34:49
Speaker 3: you defeat the New England Patriots and they're leading rusher
34:53
Speaker 3: in that game at thirty eight?
34:55
Speaker 4: What the f or the Carolina Panthers to pull from
34:59
Speaker 4: to east?
35:00
Speaker 2: So when you face a.
35:01
Speaker 3: Team like this, I mean, what they tend to be
35:04
Speaker 3: good at is winning close games. They figure out a
35:07
Speaker 3: way they get a play, especially at home. So you know,
35:13
Speaker 3: I mean blow them out. I mean is that the key?
35:17
Speaker 4: I would hope.
35:17
Speaker 3: So, So I think this is again sounding very cliche,
35:21
Speaker 3: and it's that are my rules, and I shouldn't do this,
35:24
Speaker 3: But I mean, if you having a balanced attack and
35:26
Speaker 3: you don't turn the ball over, I just don't think
35:29
Speaker 3: the Carolina Panthers are going to be able to beat you.
35:32
Speaker 4: So and don't panic, because that's what it seemed like
35:35
Speaker 4: the Buccaneers were doing last week.
35:37
Speaker 3: I mean, Jekyl and Hyde and there's like two other personalities,
35:40
Speaker 3: and it is like Sybil, you might they might be
35:43
Speaker 3: able to shut down your run, so and maybe you
35:47
Speaker 3: can still pass your way to victory. There's really nothing
35:50
Speaker 3: consistent about how the Carolina Panthers win games other than
35:54
Speaker 3: they usually win close games at home.
35:56
Speaker 4: Yep.
35:56
Speaker 3: That's that's about the only consistent trait that they possess
35:59
Speaker 3: as a team.
36:00
Speaker 4: So don't give them that opportunity.
36:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you go in there and you
36:05
Speaker 3: fail at one of the functions of football, if you
36:09
Speaker 3: fail at special teams, or you fail at running the football,
36:12
Speaker 3: or you fail at throwing the football or stopping the
36:14
Speaker 3: run or stopping the pass, if you because Brice Young
36:17
Speaker 3: had four and forty eight passing.
36:19
Speaker 2: Yards in a game, it's won a game that way.
36:21
Speaker 3: Even though he had one hundred and beat Green Bay. Like,
36:24
Speaker 3: there's just they're just a strange team. So I'm going
36:27
Speaker 3: to say, as long as you're balanced and you're not
36:30
Speaker 3: terrible at any one thing.
36:32
Speaker 2: You should win this game against the Carolina Panthers.
36:35
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I will say you will
36:36
Speaker 3: win this game, yes, the Carolina.
36:38
Speaker 4: And I think the cliches are allowed in certain times
36:40
Speaker 4: when literally, the cliches are the keys.
36:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's true. You just have to explain it
36:47
Speaker 3: all right. Headlines Next, Greg Bell will try to solve
36:50
Speaker 3: the riddle that is Carolina.
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