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Speaker 2: Let's go, guys.

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Speaker 3: It is Monday, Jerry, you're twenty and twenty twenty five.

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Happy Martin Luther King Day, and uh, happy day to

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us being here on the edge of potentially the snow

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event of a lifetime. Guys, I seem to be the

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only one of the ouphantch creulatory excited about this and

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cannot wait.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to all of it and more.

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Speaker 3: We got NFL playoffs to get to that too, say

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other show, we got a ton to get to this Monday.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a very fun time.

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Speaker 3: We'll check in with Jake later live from the National Championship.

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We'll talk Naddy, we'll talk everything this morning. I hope

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everybody had a wonderful weekend. Alondra, what's up? Grudges me

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Elandre and Taylor in studio today. A bit of a

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quiet building, as you know, I know a lot of

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people off today's If you are off, enjoyed the time

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with the family, and chances are you're gonna be off

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to where your kids.

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Speaker 2: Are probably gonna be off tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: So enjoy fighting the crowds today to get all of

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Speaker 2: What's up, guys? How are we doing a lodger? What's up?

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Speaker 4: I'm doing well. So I took an idea from you

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this weekend and I started rewatching Twin Peaks. Yeah, it's

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probably one of your better ideas. So I rewatched Twin well,

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not all of it obviously, but I started rewatching Twin

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Peaks and it holds up.

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Speaker 2: It's so good, star holds up really well. I'm gonna

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do it eventually.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure when I want to commit to it

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old school TV, and it's even not as long as

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other old school TVs. It was on like a super

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long running show, but you know you have there's some

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some filler episodes, but all the quirkiness of David Lynch

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Speaker 2: As ever. Yeah, it makes uh, Tate, what about you?

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Speaker 5: So my family, you know, we always used to do

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all doing soup night Sunday night. I had to make

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cheeses to go along with it. I have to so, uh,

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too cold outside.

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Speaker 2: But other than that, pretty good weekend.

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Speaker 3: Is my natural temptation to make of Taylor for wanting

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to victory lap Grilled cheeses. Yes, but we do know

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that grilled cheese, like anything that is great, is something

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simple yet has a lot of room to make it great.

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Speaker 2: So how do you do your grilled cheese?

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the bread. Okay, butter the outside of the bread. Cook

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so that the cheese melts, but the bread doesn't crisp

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a ton. And then I usually do two different counts

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Speaker 3: Okay, not bad tete dual fats. Absolutely love it.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully at some point you moved itto the middle to

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crisp up that bread. I would imagine, right, get a

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Speaker 2: I cook it for a while, okay in the edge.

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Speaker 3: I mean that works with everything from eggs to grilled

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Speaker 2: Anything and everything. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Ye oh wait, five people?

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old school little camper, and I am blown away by

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how far our V tech has come in the ensuing

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two decades since I've engaged in such activities. Like we

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went some friends and it was their child's birthday, so

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Speaker 3: Was pretty freaking chill, like full living room basically like

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for the Saturday playoff game. At one point we did

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go inside. We basically watched all of Commander's Commander's lines

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the RV next to us, You know, they kids see

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everybodys playing we're hanging out, get to know him, and

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teacher at Saint Timothy's on the North Shore that I

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barely remember. Actually don't really remember going to just know

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that I did. But yes, the random person at the

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RV park that I've never been to before that was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, her mother was my pre school teacher.

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Speaker 4: What a small world.

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Speaker 2: Very world works in mysterious ways. I know, it's wonderful.

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Speaker 3: It's a really good weekend, really good weekend. Nice park

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up there, Like I said, like you said, just fun. Anyway,

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let's go ahead, because we've got so much sports talk about,

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let's go ahead and get this thing started.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get to work. Courtesy of Tiger Labor

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and Staffing, where they can help take care of screening, training,

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payroll and more. Now for starters.

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Speaker 3: Also, I do want to talk about seven in season one,

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but you'll probably say that for the last hour.

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Speaker 4: No spoilers of.

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Speaker 3: The show, of course, not or saving season two. I

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guess just starting. No, Look, I feel like I'm pretty

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good about spoilers here. You know, I will not engage

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in any Remember, Tiger labors happen has the shortest waiting

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period in the industry. They're also the local guys of

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this means makes it top makes it very easy to

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change your top talent on your payroll quickly as we

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Speaker 2: Short or long term. And we're not just fording.

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Speaker 3: Resumes, but we are up five am every morning interviewing

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and dispatching in person Tiger labor and staffing. All right,

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So NFL Playoffs Divisional round took place this weekend and

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there were, well, imagine this, some common themes that emerged.

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bunch in which the main difference in the game was turnovers,

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and that starts. Actually, let me check, I actually didn't

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even write down the Chiefs Texans turnovers because that's an

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odd game. The Chiefs win twenty three to fourteen. You're like, oh,

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of course, the Chiefs win twenty three to fourteen. Where

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you may not realize is that the Texans kind of

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dominated the game. I mean you hold, so the Chiefs

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win by nine, and yet they only had two hundred

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and twelve total yards, They only ran fifty plays of

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the Texans sixty five. They only had twenty two carries

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for fifty yards compared to twenty nine for one forty nine,

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and yet the Chiefs still won this game. In fact,

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the only thing in the box score that the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: What do you think turnovers in time of possession.

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friends the referees, but I mean look four for twenty

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nine for the Chiefs, eight for eighty two for the Texans.

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Speaker 2: Yes, no turnovers in this game, that makes sense.

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continue to be inevitable, Travis Kelsey showing up for the

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playoffs him And how about Caitlyn Clark hanging out with

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Taylor Swift in the suite? Dude, what a call to

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Speaker 5: Sometimes I call Victoria in the room to watch big plays, okay,

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and she's gotten used to it now and she's in

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our bedroom and I'm like, going, quite quick, quick, come here,

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come right in a flat flicker, and she goes, what

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Speaker 2: She's like, you called me in here for this and

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walked out. You knew the media was.

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Speaker 5: Gonna be like, guys, guys, get them, get him on

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just based off of her songwriting and things like, of

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Speaker 2: I like thinking about it.

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Speaker 3: Simply from the perspective of what does it feel like

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Speaker 4: A thing she does, the Hearthands Swift something about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: The thing about now back to the game though, this

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how this man who won multiple Super Bowls in New

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York has now won multiple Super Bowls in Kansas City.

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game they're not even playing right, so functionally, one loss

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in seventeen games on the year, most of it because

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of the defense. And yet when he was in New

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Chris Jones firmly ahead of Travis Kelsey in my book,

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in terms of how they've been able to stay so

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good for so long. As he was once again a

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terror on Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 5: Well, if you watch, quarterbacks can't step up in the

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pocket too, because he has everything blocked and then they

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have great edge rushers.

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Speaker 2: The quarterback has nowhere to go.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because Chris Jones is taking on double teams every

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play and it doesn't matter. We saw it from Aaron

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Donald years ago when everybody's like, you can double team him.

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He's so big and strong, it doesn't matter. Chris Jones

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the exact same.

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Speaker 3: So the Chiefs doing Chiefs things. They move on for

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the AFC Championship. Our first NFC matchup Saturday night featured

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many of y'all's favorite quarterback right now, and that.

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Speaker 2: Is Jaden Daniels.

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Speaker 3: And make no mistake, Daniels goes into the Lion din

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and emerges like it was nothing, emerges like he was

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walking straight out of the pages of the good Book, unbothered, unruffled,

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smooth as hell. And really, that's the thing that continues

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to stick with me is the moment just never looks

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too big for Jade and Daniels. I've never seen someone

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on such massive fourth downs execute so automatically and with

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such an unhassled air. I mean never, you know, not

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not overcompensated, ill, jittery, non shake you just just calmly

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assessing the defense.

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Speaker 2: Here's my pre snap reading.

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Speaker 3: Then I'm gonna execute all my read once the ball

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of steps and we're gonna get it.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna win the game.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little upset he didn't get the three hundred

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yard playoff game to his name. He finishes twenty two

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to thirty one for two ninety nine, two touchdowns, no pick,

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sixteen carries for fifty one yards, and he's caused the

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entire country to fall head over heels in love with him.

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He now has an NFL rookie record, or he tied,

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excuse me, the NFL rookie record for wins in a season.

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Speaker 2: He has fourteen.

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Speaker 3: It's only matched by Ben Roethlisberger back in two thousand

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and four. And remember this is a Washington Commanders team

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that was four and thirteen last year. And then I

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have fourteen wins of the season. After giving the Commanders

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their first postseason win in twenty years, he now was

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back to back road wins, joining Joe Flacco and Mark

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Sanchez as the only rookie quarterbacks to ever win two

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road games. Unlike Mark Sanchez, however, and really Joe Flacco

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as well, he's the one doing it through two playoff games,

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completing seventy percent of his passes over five hundred fifty yards.

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Here are four touchdowns, no picks, and on the other

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side of the equation. Unfortunately, Jared Goff picked a bad

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day to have a bad day because as we said,

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the turnovers, that's the key here, Like if you actually

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just look at the Lions offensive output, five hundred and

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twenty one total yards, twenty three carries for two to

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oh one nearly.

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Speaker 2: Nine yards to carry out, you lose.

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Speaker 3: Five turnovers to zero five nearly a half dozen, four

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picks in a fumble. And for golf, it's not entirely

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uh So here here's what you're I'm not saying he's

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Sam Darnold because he's not. He's got way better career

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achieved and his highs are much higher than that we

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have seen from Sam Darnold. Like Jared Goff is a legitimate,

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easy top ten quarterback, probably border top five, but they're

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always is the question kind of surrounding him.

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Speaker 2: But is he truly Tier one?

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Speaker 3: Remember when he was kind of forced out of Los Angeles,

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McVeigh basically said pretty explicitly, he's not good enough to

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get me the championship. That's why he went and chased

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Matt Stafford down in the manner in which he did.

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And although golf has been great and the people will

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still support him, it is this type of performance that

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causes a seed in one of those insidious creeping doubt

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seeds to be planted in the back of people's minds

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as to whether you're capable of capturing the ultimate prize.

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Maybe that's fair, maybe it's not, but it is how

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people are feeling today as Detroit, this faded season, everything

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even better from last year. He finishes the one seed

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and it all comes crashing down as you give up

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thirty eight points to the defense forty five overall with

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the pick six and absolutely insane second quarter. Most points

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ever scored was that quarter to forty two. Very fun

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affair to watch, But in the end, Jade and Daniels

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and the Commanders get the win. And the thing is,

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I'll say this, it felt like, and this is such

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a credit to the zone that Kingsbury and Daniels appear

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to be in right now, it just felt like everything

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was very on schedule and very easy for the commanders.

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And while I know the lines put up really good

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volume numbers, it did feel like they were kind of

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always pushing a little more fighting, like a little bit

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more relying on the explosive plays, whereas the commanders just smooth,

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consistent and unstoppable. And they've now gone on the road

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twice in a row and jayde Din's He's victorious, dude, unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: Basically won both of these games the exact same way,

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because we talked about it with Tampa Bay. In that game,

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I mean, he hit Terry McLaurin down the sidelines for

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like a thirty yard game. Every other play in that

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game was six yards here, eight yards here, just like

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it was in this And I'm gonna keep beating this

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drum until Jaden proves us wrong. Otherwise, his best attribute

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is his is his composure. It's not his passing, it's

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not his running. I mean, who looked like the veteran

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quarterback in that game. It looked like Jadon Daniels didn't

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look like Jared Goff. Goff was the one that made

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the mistakes. He's the one that not all the turnover Yeh,

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Jayden was smooth. He was composed. Moments never too big

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for him. I mean, it's it's incredible the way he

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could just be so level.

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Speaker 2: Headed in any given moment.

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Speaker 5: And you were talking about like the yards that the

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Lions gained every game this weekend, the team the game

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the most yards actually lost.

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Speaker 2: They were owing photo that.

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Speaker 5: Game because the Rams on that final drive past the Eagles.

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So look, it's it's this weekend as a whole came

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down to who was able to hold on to the football,

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and Jayden did an excelle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to be fair, this was forty one for the

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Comedies five twenty one for the Lion. So but I mean,

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five turnovers, dude.

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Speaker 3: You can't have it, and it sucks because it comes

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at a moment, It comes to the biggest moment when

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everything comes down to this. Also, now, this does create

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an interesting conversation around Aaron Glenn and that defense, but

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I want to put more of that in the Saints

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coaching search segment that we'll.

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Speaker 2: Get to in a little bit. So if you're like,

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why is any talking about Aaron Glenn, you just.

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Speaker 3: We'll put a pin in it and we will revisit

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it in a bit. Right now, let's go ahead and

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go to break, and then when we get back, we

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will dive into the other two games and talk about

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maybe the the conference championships coming up, and then we'll

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get to our Saints coaching search update.

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Speaker 2: As a lot happened over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: If you want to hang out with us YouTube dot com,

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Speaker 6: Off the bench, Off the bench, snow, snows, snow, Welcome

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back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.

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Speaker 2: Off the bench for We'll all be there with snow, snow, snow.

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Speaker 6: I want to wash my hands, my face and hair

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with snow. Snow along to clear a path, and mister

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spade of snow snow.

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Speaker 2: To see a great big man entirely me a snow

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snow where it's snowing all weather through.

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Speaker 1: That's swell.

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Speaker 6: I want to be.

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Speaker 3: Ob Guys, are we getting excited? The models are increasing

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four and eight inches?

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Speaker 5: Okay, so do hurts you it's going to snow. Let's

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temporary expectations on the amount a little bit. Okay, I'm

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not temper des well again, I told a lauder, I

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don't have a meteorology background like some of these people,

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but I got a pH d in common sense, and

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I've lived here my whole life. It's never been more

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than an inch. Not to say that it won't be

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more than that. We ain't getting eight inches of snow.

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That ain't happening.

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Speaker 2: I get three very comfortable with that first, and it's what, uh,

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why why? Why? What's wrong with you?

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Speaker 5: I am just one person that's like, Hey, I'm just

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gonna go.

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Speaker 2: With what's always been. We talk about it this week.

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Speaker 5: That's why I picked the bills over the ravens Lamar

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do it same thing.

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Speaker 4: That I'm not going to put that on Lamar.

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Speaker 2: Last night Lamar had to well, I'm gonna say it's both.

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Speaker 3: Is it it's he's the reason for the initial hole,

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but he's also the reason for the comeback snow, and

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so it is. It's it's it's more context than Taylor

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is giving a credit for. Uh, it's somewhere in the

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middle of you two. If you two are the spectrum,

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I agree with you. It is somewhere in the middle.

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I think the Lamar take is. But who hurts y'all

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when it came to this snow stuff.

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Speaker 7: I just probably pain in the butt for us, Probably

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the fact that I've grown up and lived in the

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South my entire life, and I never went to the

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North until I was like twenty years old.

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Speaker 3: So yes, do you remember how exciting was the first

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time you would have ever seen snow?

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Speaker 4: No, I don't think I've ever really seen actual snow.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, hell yeah, let's freaking go then, dude, to

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real snow.

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Speaker 4: Was that horrible freeze in Texas where we had no power?

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That's what hurt me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean well that was actually you know that

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that ended up becoming a bit of big power disaster.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, get anywhere because all the roads were closed.

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Speaker 2: D n F n R s.

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Speaker 3: There's only two Bobby said about lost power and broken pipes.

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He's thinking like a child, not like adult.

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Speaker 2: Lol. Hey wrap your pipe, nerd, Yeah, wrap your pipes.

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Speaker 3: Run your water, right like, dude, do the things that

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they they they tell you to do. I think you crazy, dude.

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My kids have been begging me. You know what, what

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does snow feel like?

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 3: What it's like seeing the ocean for the first time

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or something. Snow's only nice for the first three minutes,

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and his slush and he gets everywhere. Not if it

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snows like it's look like it's going to snow. If

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that does happen, if you can, if you can manage

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to extricate yourself from the crushing weight of Tailor's cynicism,

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and we do get a nice snowfall. It'll be nice

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for a little bit little actually end up getting maybe.

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Speaker 4: A little Actually, don't care if anybody thinks that's a

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bad taker or not. Snow is just not just not fun.

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Like my bone's hurt right now. I don't know what

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you want from me, Like I need the heater on.

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It's not fun. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, if we best case scenario, Okay, best case scenario,

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we don't come to work tomorrow. I'm just really cold

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around the house and everything's closed. Worst case scenario, we

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do come up here. I gotta drive up here on

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the roads from Walker all the way up here, and

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when I get here, the power will be out, so

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I have to reset everything in the morning. It's just

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kind of it's just really not there's really not very

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many positives.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm done. I'm I'm I'm done talking

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about snow with y'all. Y'all are y'all are like the

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SNL Debbie Downer Skit just morphed into two people don't

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care exactly today great weather. I'm not gonna complain at

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all about today.

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Speaker 2: Disgusting.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's get into let's get into the uh,

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the the other two playoff games Rams Eagles, Yes Afternoon,

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and Saquon and this Eagles team continue to win by

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going off meta, a team leading the charge when it

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comes to running the ball right. We've talked about in

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this past in a day and age in which everybody

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goes past past pass. This year we've finally seen kind

473
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of the NFL meta and college for that matter, in

474
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a lot of ways overall shift right. What's the theme

475
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,119
of the Codswell players. We've been talking about defensive running

476
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,000
the ball. After years of offensive domination, well in the NFL,

477
00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:32,359
this year defense had a big year and the teams

478
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,200
who got these running backs be it like a Derrick

479
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,400
Henry obviously Saquon leading the way. They had great success

480
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,240
and it just gets funnier and funnier for the New

481
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:46,039
York Giants as Sekwuon Barkley goes for twenty six carries,

482
00:24:46,279 --> 00:24:50,119
two hundred and five yards two touchdowns after seeing how

483
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,240
fresh those legs looked, Tate, are you willing to rescind

484
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,000
your criticism of Barkley sitting the final game?

485
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,559
Speaker 2: Yeah? If they go on to win the Super Bowl

486
00:24:58,599 --> 00:25:00,119
left Alcally, Oh, so that's the all.

487
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 3: It's like, Ryan Day that's the only way that they

488
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,240
get their get out of jail free card. Yep, not

489
00:25:04,319 --> 00:25:06,119
not even just not even making it to the conference

490
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:07,640
championship and looking as good as they did.

491
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,079
Speaker 5: Uh no, you're not old, miss. You don't get rings

492
00:25:10,079 --> 00:25:12,200
for like tie in or get almost getting there.

493
00:25:12,319 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 2: Yeah.

494
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I think Kellenmore is doing it really and

495
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,119
we'll talk about him in a little bit, but I

496
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,559
think he's doing a really good job of playing the

497
00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:20,480
Eagles strength, right. They don't have to dominate to the

498
00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:25,079
air overall. With Jayden Daniels seven carries for seventy yards

499
00:25:25,079 --> 00:25:27,160
in a touchdown, you end up with thirty four carries

500
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,960
two hundred and eighty five yards around eight point four

501
00:25:30,559 --> 00:25:33,920
yards per carry. Guys, that is going to be winning

502
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,880
football in the playoffs. Now, the Eagles could get into

503
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,720
trouble if they have to play from behind. In fact,

504
00:25:40,839 --> 00:25:43,000
I think that's something we'll talk about with Bill's Ravens.

505
00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 6: Right.

506
00:25:43,279 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 2: You, Derrick Henry on a day in which he really.

507
00:25:45,319 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 3: Could have kicked ass and was kicking ass, ended up

508
00:25:48,279 --> 00:25:49,960
getting It's almost like when a player gets in a

509
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,759
foul trouble, he just can't go to him as much

510
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,400
because you were having to come back.

511
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Speaker 2: Right, So if you get a big lead on the Eagles,

512
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maybe they struggle to come back.

513
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 3: But if you're gonna be right there with them the

514
00:25:58,559 --> 00:26:00,200
entire game, or give them a lead, they can and

515
00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:03,279
choke you and pummel you to death.

516
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 2: And well it's kind of what they did here.

517
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,799
Speaker 3: Ten less plays, yet they win time of possession and

518
00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:12,160
then once again turnovers to to zero. Right, another common

519
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:18,160
theme from from these from from these playoffs, it's I

520
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,440
mean all playoffs, really, it's it's gotta be disappointing too

521
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,000
for the Rams, because I think this Rams team was

522
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,440
actually super Bowl caliber good. And who knows how much

523
00:26:30,519 --> 00:26:34,599
longer Matt Stafford has these sort of seasons in him.

524
00:26:34,599 --> 00:26:37,359
I mean, you're gonna ride him to the very end.

525
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,079
But you had, you know, you had all your weapons available.

526
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,839
Stafford locked in playing great the defense this year, and

527
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,160
that young defensive line, I mean they're so confident, brash,

528
00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:52,519
talking trash before the game, going over actually to the

529
00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:55,200
Eagle sideline and like talking about give me that seventy

530
00:26:55,279 --> 00:26:56,920
K to Jalen Carter and whatnot.

531
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 2: And well, you maybe should have poked the bear in

532
00:26:59,200 --> 00:26:59,759
that regard.

533
00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:06,559
Speaker 3: But Nick Sirianni the least respected great coach in the NFL.

534
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,319
Speaker 2: Moving on to another NFC championship.

535
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 5: The last drive of that game for the Rams, like

536
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,200
you mentioned, Stafford was locked in. They were doing these

537
00:27:16,279 --> 00:27:18,440
quick hitters when they needed to, when they needed to

538
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,359
move the ball down the field through the air, they

539
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,519
did it. I look, Sean McVay is a great play caller.

540
00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:25,240
He knows a lot more about football than I ever

541
00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:28,400
will I hated calling that pass play on third and

542
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,119
two because I get it. There's a minute fourteen seconds left.

543
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,480
You're at the thirteen yard line and you have a

544
00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:35,759
time out left. You have all the time in the world,

545
00:27:35,839 --> 00:27:38,160
a minute fourteen with one time out inside the twenty,

546
00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:41,400
your entire playbooks open. It's third and two, and you

547
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,000
struggled in the first half against that Eagles pass rush.

548
00:27:44,279 --> 00:27:46,559
Speaker 2: He calls a long five step dropback.

549
00:27:47,079 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 5: Then it's fourth and eleven at that point, because Stafford

550
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:51,920
got sacked, then you had to throw the ball and

551
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,559
that was the end of the game. You run it

552
00:27:53,559 --> 00:27:55,400
on third down there and if you don't get it,

553
00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:58,039
you run it again on fourth down. Because Kyron Williams

554
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,599
was excellent in that game, I hated that play called

555
00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:02,000
the Rams had he shot to win that game.

556
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's it's tough, right, It's I

557
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,240
understand highlighting a single play call, certainly, and I mean

558
00:28:09,279 --> 00:28:11,640
I think all the elements you laid out are true,

559
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,880
But like, doesn't it feel a bit odd critiquing Sean

560
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,559
mcvay's play college Do you know it's it's it's tough

561
00:28:19,599 --> 00:28:21,440
to do, but but I mean, I do you are right?

562
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,839
Four down, territory, two yards, plenty of time. These elements

563
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:29,440
are all absolutely factual, and I'm I'm you know, I'm

564
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,240
sure if you've got McVeigh one on one that he

565
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,240
might be willing to concede as well, that if he

566
00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:38,079
could have that back, he might want that one back.

567
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,279
Speaker 2: It is if you think about.

568
00:28:40,079 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 3: The Eagles, though, it is actually insane what happened to

569
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,839
the Eagles at the end of last season. I mean,

570
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,480
they've been incredible, not good, not great, They've been great.

571
00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:54,319
They've been top of the NFC good for two point

572
00:28:54,319 --> 00:28:58,319
seventy five out of the last three seasons. Right Like,

573
00:28:59,079 --> 00:29:00,920
they started lasting with like and one to two and

574
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,480
then they had that utter collapse. But outside of that

575
00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:08,960
weird two month collapse, Super Bowl and three fourths the

576
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,759
season incredible, you know, like one seed good, then just

577
00:29:12,839 --> 00:29:15,319
got awful, to the point where they're talking about that

578
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,440
they fire the coordinators, talking about fired Seriote and now

579
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:23,039
they're at the NFC Championship again not a year later. Uh,

580
00:29:23,359 --> 00:29:27,599
just really wild stuff for Philadelphia Eagles and the rubber

581
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,680
banding of their fans. Who I mean they continue. I

582
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,000
mean it's crazy that they were just booing them like

583
00:29:34,039 --> 00:29:37,920
a like a week or two ago. But Jalen Hurts

584
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,599
and the Eagles right back where they were a couple

585
00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:44,279
of years ago in the NFC Championship.

586
00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 5: Shout out to Jalen Hurts too. Like he was hurting

587
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,880
that game. He had the big brace on his left leg.

588
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,039
He couldn't run. I mean, that's that's why the Rams

589
00:29:51,079 --> 00:29:52,559
were able to make that comeback in the second half.

590
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,400
Hurts couldn't do anything. I mean all that running, virtually

591
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,200
all of it. Yeah, he was in the first half,

592
00:29:57,279 --> 00:29:59,359
and look, I get it, it was a snow game, but

593
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,000
he looked he when he needed to a lot like Stafford,

594
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:02,599
and he was.

595
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: He was big in that game. Did you see his

596
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,720
postgame interview? I did not.

597
00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 3: I think I think whatever they gave Jalen a tough throat.

598
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,640
It had him feeling pretty good. I've never seen jail,

599
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,400
you know. Jalen hurts normally, very taciturnal, some laconic and

600
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,920
just like manly right, just few words. He was kind

601
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,960
of cutting up in the postgame interview a little bit. Well,

602
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,680
I'll find the clip and see if I could play it.

603
00:30:28,759 --> 00:30:31,559
So shout out to the Eagles. They knock out the Rams,

604
00:30:31,599 --> 00:30:34,039
my former team. You know it sucks to you know

605
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,680
what you'll do. But also with the nol no call,

606
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,599
You're never gonna be too upset with the Rams not

607
00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:43,759
not making it to the NFC Championship anyway. All right, Sorry,

608
00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:45,480
we end up going long there because I had to

609
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:51,240
get on these young scrooges for their hate of the

610
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snowstorm coming in. So we got one more playoff game

611
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and welcome back to the best morning sports show

634
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635
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t Bob.

636
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to O giv All right, let's see if

637
00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:26,759
a Laundra and Taylor can manage to shake free of

638
00:32:26,799 --> 00:32:29,640
their torpitude and whether or not this video will work?

639
00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:33,119
Speaker 2: Is that a word? I don't know this week, but

640
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,640
Raisley the snow. He was trying to go, We'll be

641
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:36,079
ready to go.

642
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 3: You love playing in the snow.

643
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 2: I love playing football. How about that look I used

644
00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:42,359
to put I used to put that. I used to

645
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,279
put it on when we played a video game as

646
00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:46,160
a kid. I put the snow on one hundred and

647
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,759
all that. But I was as a kid.

648
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,319
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I know this sounds crazy, but that

649
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,519
is that is like the most open and happy I

650
00:32:53,519 --> 00:32:54,319
have ever seen.

651
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:55,079
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts.

652
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jalen Hurts normally gives off that uh eight ish

653
00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:02,319
funny energy, right like, why are you smiling? Because ain't

654
00:33:02,319 --> 00:33:05,759
nothing funny? Not in that case. Look, I get he's

655
00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:09,039
very happy. Winners in the snow, going to uh going

656
00:33:09,079 --> 00:33:12,720
to the NFC Championship. Good formed, good form, dude. I've

657
00:33:12,759 --> 00:33:16,319
always been again, I know him to Alabama and I

658
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,359
hated him at the time because of it, but I'll

659
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:24,759
always appreciate how he handled being replaced by Tua and

660
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:26,920
he used that stepback to go have that he's in

661
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,319
Oklahoma and then still had doubts and now he's been

662
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,559
great in the NFL. So you know, you can appreciate

663
00:33:32,599 --> 00:33:35,400
that outside looking at h and I use torportude way wrong.

664
00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:38,400
This torpet is a formal noun that means morally wrong

665
00:33:38,559 --> 00:33:43,039
or evil. I refer to a person's character that is vile, shameful,

666
00:33:43,119 --> 00:33:47,079
or base. So well, I may personally feel that about

667
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,599
you two. When it got his snow, I said, maybe

668
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,319
they can shake free of their I think like cynical

669
00:33:52,319 --> 00:33:54,119
torpitude or something.

670
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 2: I mean a kind word. I might feel that way.

671
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 3: I might feel that y'all are depraved to abhorrent, a

672
00:33:59,279 --> 00:34:03,240
moral and common and ethical, wicked, evil, corrupt criminal. I

673
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,759
don't think I'm probably most would not agree in this

674
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,159
case anyway.

675
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 2: A little bit last last game here is.

676
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:17,119
Speaker 3: If it's it's slander. If I'm saying it right, libel

677
00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:21,559
would be in print slandering Ravens Bills the big one.

678
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,320
And it did not disappoint at least out of the end.

679
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:30,760
A very exciting finish here. Unfortunately, many people will remember

680
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,719
this as the Mark Andrews game, and it goes to

681
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,639
some of the themes we've played with recently. Right, you

682
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:40,159
can spend an entire lifetime building bridges and no one

683
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:42,800
will call you a built bridge builder. Here's a guy

684
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,800
seven years in the NFL, has been a first team

685
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:49,000
All Pro, three time Pro bowler, captain of the team,

686
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,599
and yet all that work overshadowed by a single disastrous game.

687
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,679
As Andrews has a big fourth quarter fumble, he has

688
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,880
two big drops in, including a two point conversion right

689
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:03,599
in his belly.

690
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,079
Speaker 2: Maybe a bit of a.

691
00:35:05,039 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 3: Tougher catch than people want to give it credit for,

692
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,920
but one that has to be made. Funnily enough, the

693
00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:16,639
exact catch that Mason Taylor made to beat Alabama a

694
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:19,639
couple of years ago on a two point conversion, falling,

695
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,519
twisting into the end zone. You gotta fall backwards into it.

696
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,239
But Andrews, I mean, and you can tell how hard

697
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,639
that ball looked to catch and carry yesterday. I mean,

698
00:35:27,679 --> 00:35:30,159
it must have just like catching a rock. And that's

699
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,920
kind of how it bounced off of his belly. As

700
00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:37,239
after an incredible touchdown to seemingly tie to give the

701
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:42,119
Ravens a chance, Andrews ends up dropping the ball that

702
00:35:42,159 --> 00:35:44,719
fumble the fourth quarter as well, guys, only so he

703
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,920
hadn't dropped a pass since Week six. One thing note,

704
00:35:48,039 --> 00:35:52,199
and that fumble only the second of his seven year career,

705
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,480
so absolutely brutal. Now, I want to get some quotes

706
00:35:56,559 --> 00:35:58,480
that the team had bar Mark Andrews, because I think

707
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it's why the Ravens culture is so good. But we'll

708
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get back to it in a little bit. What do y'all

709
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make of Josh Allen in this game? Nothing spectacular through

710
00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:09,679
the air, obviously, does find the endzone a couple of

711
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,159
times on the ground. A very similar game to Jalen

712
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:17,639
Hurts statistically. I wonder if the narratives will be the

713
00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:21,280
same today. But but what do you think about Allen's play?

714
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 4: Well, earlier when we were talking about like playoff Lamar

715
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or whatever, and I was like, well, I'm not gonna

716
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,599
fully put this on Lamar. You can't let Josh Allen

717
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,440
score two touchdowns like rush for two touchdowns like that.

718
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But I think he did. He did well.

719
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he did.

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Speaker 3: Look, I think the main thing is, again, if the

721
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,960
theme of this weekend was turnovers, he played mistake free.

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00:36:41,119 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: He was.

723
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Speaker 5: He did exactly what he needed to do in this game.

724
00:36:43,519 --> 00:36:45,840
People are gonna look at the passing yards. You got

725
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,920
to understand, sure Lamar had almost one hundred more passing

726
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,320
yards in him. Lamar was in a negative game script

727
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,360
because of those two early turnovers. Yeah, like we were

728
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,440
talking there, we were talking during break. It never felt

729
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,400
like the Ravens were threatening the Bills, at least for

730
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,440
me watching this game.

731
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Speaker 2: Because even score wise they weren't well.

732
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Speaker 5: Even when they cut it from it was twenty one

733
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,119
to ten, they cut it all the way like twenty

734
00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:10,320
three to nineteen. Like, I never felt like the Ravens

735
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,440
were threatened in this game. Josh Allen was careful with

736
00:37:12,519 --> 00:37:15,000
the ball. He had the two rushing touchdowns and no turnovers.

737
00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:16,159
I thought he was great.

738
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,119
Speaker 3: So yeah, unfortunately for the Ravens. And this is why

739
00:37:20,159 --> 00:37:24,599
I say that if Taylor thinks this was playoff Lamar,

740
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and if Alander thinks not on Lamar at all, in

741
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the spectrum, I'm probably closer towards a Landra because of

742
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,360
the plays they made it the end, but it can't be.

743
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,360
I mean, but Lamar was mad at himself after the game,

744
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,199
and rightfully so. Right the early pick, the early fumble,

745
00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:41,880
and that's why you go in with your largest halftime

746
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,679
deficit of the entire year, down twenty one to ten.

747
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And probably the biggest knock on effect of again is

748
00:37:48,519 --> 00:37:50,360
having to get away from Dereck Henry at that point.

749
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Speaker 4: I think it's a little bit of both, but like,

750
00:37:52,639 --> 00:37:54,320
it's not playoff Lamar.

751
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,119
Speaker 3: No, I agree, But then if you want to pick

752
00:37:57,159 --> 00:37:58,800
and choose, you can be like, oh, well, this is

753
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,039
Lamar's fourth preseason or excuse me. So this was his

754
00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:05,599
first multi turnover game of the entire year, and it's

755
00:38:05,599 --> 00:38:08,960
his fourth postseason game in his career now in which

756
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,599
he's had both a pick and a fumble. And so

757
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,039
I agree, this was still a much better game to

758
00:38:15,159 --> 00:38:17,880
stare down twenty one to ten at half in that environment,

759
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,840
to come back to come up with the touchdoun of

760
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,719
the end. He was doing the things necessary to erase

761
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,480
the sins of the first half, but it was just

762
00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:28,239
a big hill to climb, and the margin of error

763
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,559
is so small when you're in that moment. Again, I

764
00:38:30,599 --> 00:38:33,079
just can't get over the fact that Henry ends with

765
00:38:33,119 --> 00:38:35,519
sixteen for eighty four in a touchdown only sixteen.

766
00:38:36,119 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 2: This is a three carry Derrick Henry game. Yes, and

767
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:39,519
you would have won.

768
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 5: The negative game script did not allow that. You had

769
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,320
to get back in the game. And look, I'm not

770
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,119
putting this game entirely on Lamar. He was just one

771
00:38:48,119 --> 00:38:49,760
of the reasons that they lost he was not the

772
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,239
sole reason they lost it is, but look three and

773
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,480
six in the playoffs and you just mentioned it, no

774
00:38:54,639 --> 00:38:57,199
multi turnover games all this year, biggest game of the year.

775
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,280
He did it once again like he had a great

776
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,360
game in the second half. But we can't just throw

777
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:02,440
away all the negative as well.

778
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 3: He is still getting better though, if you look at

779
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,480
his career, as he used to be awful all and

780
00:39:07,519 --> 00:39:09,679
now he's won a playoff game two years in a row.

781
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,559
He remains the only multi time MVP without a Super Bowl,

782
00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:14,280
but he's in the right direction.

783
00:39:14,599 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 2: The Ravens out.

784
00:39:15,599 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 3: Gain him four sixteen to two, seventy seven point three

785
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,679
yards per play to four point six, so mistakes the

786
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,440
name of the game for the Ravens. Here's what John

787
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,320
Harbaugh though, had to say about Mark Andrews as the

788
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,400
game quote. There's nobody that has more heart and cares

789
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,000
more and fights more than Mark. We want to be

790
00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:37,960
here without Mark Andrews. Destiny is a decision that you

791
00:39:38,119 --> 00:39:41,679
make and how you handle what comes in your life right,

792
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,079
taking back control from fate if you will, Mark will.

793
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:46,679
Speaker 2: Handle it fantastically.

794
00:39:47,599 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 3: Kyle Hamilton will go on to have Mark Andrews back

795
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,880
Lamar Jackson would go on to have Mark Andrews back.

796
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,280
So I do think the Ravens culture shining here. But

797
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,880
the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen back in the ANFC

798
00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:03,840
Championship against Mahomes and the Cheap a classic matchup we've

799
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:08,639
seen multiple times through the years. Can Alan finally break through?

800
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,400
He's gonna have to go into air ahead and try

801
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,280
to do it all right when we get back. So

802
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,719
I did not expect the playoff combo to go on

803
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,159
so long. We've still got a ton to get to.

804
00:40:17,199 --> 00:40:18,920
We got a Calls Football Natty, we got our Hunt

805
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,800
Pomber player portal profile, we got sas Coaching Church, Keep

806
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locked on Off to Otob, Off.

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Speaker 1: The Bench, Welcome in to the best morning sports. This

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show rounds Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to OTB Since the end of the hour,

810
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let's go ahead and dive.

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Speaker 2: Into our Hunt Palmer portal player profile.

812
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,519
Speaker 3: So this is a series at Louisiana Sports dot Net, which, guys,

813
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is a great resource that we are building here in

814
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house at Guarantee you got a really good team if

815
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you just want to keep up with all your favorite

816
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Louisiana teams in like one easy website to go to.

817
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Louisiana Sports on Net is a great one and Hunt's

818
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,079
been doing I mean this years where he breaks down

819
00:41:01,159 --> 00:41:03,320
every player one by one that elsie game in the transport.

820
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:08,679
And today we have another offensive lineman in Northwestern's Josh Thompson.

821
00:41:09,199 --> 00:41:12,480
And this guy is about as perfect of an addition

822
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,679
for your needs as you will find. He's sixty four,

823
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,000
three hundred pounds. He was a number three ranked in

824
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,159
tier offensive lineman in the Transfer portal.

825
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three. Is in the Big ten.

826
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,679
Speaker 3: He had eleven starts at right tackle for a Northwestern

827
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,760
team that in twenty three overachieved, but still eleven starts

828
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,320
at right tackle, only gave up three sacks in the year,

829
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,719
and two of them came against.

830
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,320
Speaker 2: Penn State, very good defense. Understandable.

831
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 3: He had twelve starts and twenty three eleven twelve starts

832
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,960
in right guard in twenty twenty four. And listen to

833
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:49,880
these PFF grades. Eighty point seven pass protection grade, seventy

834
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,760
three point four run grade. Again, that would have been

835
00:41:54,679 --> 00:41:57,159
made him one of the highest graded players on this

836
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,360
LSU football team last season. Now, how does he fit

837
00:42:01,599 --> 00:42:05,039
within this LSU roster right now, with the addition of

838
00:42:05,079 --> 00:42:07,719
Brayla Moore maybe taking over that center job and allowing

839
00:42:08,119 --> 00:42:11,400
DJ Chester to potentially move to guard, and the experience

840
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,360
at Mabinga and Cohen Ecles got last year in Borderlan,

841
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,719
there does appear to be more going on at guard

842
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,039
for LSU right now, whereas at tackle it's kind of

843
00:42:21,119 --> 00:42:24,800
like Weston Davis, Tyree Adams, I'm missing a name. I

844
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,280
know I'm missing a name, but those are going to

845
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,960
kind of be your front runners there. Well, you're bringing

846
00:42:30,039 --> 00:42:33,039
Josh Thompson. He started an entire year I did very

847
00:42:33,039 --> 00:42:35,679
well as a tackle in the Big Ten. So how

848
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:40,119
he fits with LSU. I believe it's probably at that

849
00:42:40,199 --> 00:42:43,079
right tackle position, and then you have Weston Davis and

850
00:42:43,119 --> 00:42:45,960
Tyree Adams fighting out for the left tackle. But what

851
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,400
I love about Thompson and why this works, no matter

852
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:52,960
how things shake out, it is the versatility. Like when

853
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:54,800
Brad Davis gets a hold of this group during the

854
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,320
spring and you have everybody there and you're starting to parse, Okay,

855
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,880
who's going to merge at what position? No matter how

856
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,079
it shakes out, I do believe Thompson ends up as

857
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:06,679
one of your best five and is in that mix,

858
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,519
and I would feel very confident with him either at

859
00:43:09,559 --> 00:43:14,039
guard or at tackle. Will it be as good as

860
00:43:14,039 --> 00:43:16,280
what you saw out of Embry Jones Will Campbell last year,

861
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,920
especially in the past game, you could argue run game

862
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,400
could be better potentially. Will he be as good as

863
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,639
path plugging? Probably not. But when I look at this

864
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,880
LSU roster right now, whatever step back in pass retection

865
00:43:29,039 --> 00:43:32,599
is taken by this line, I think will be mitigated

866
00:43:32,599 --> 00:43:36,679
potentially with the rise of the second year of starting,

867
00:43:37,159 --> 00:43:39,679
the emergence of the weapons that we're talking about, and

868
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,559
the more complete running back group. Now we'll kind of

869
00:43:42,559 --> 00:43:45,639
get into LSU's hopes for a whole more next season.

870
00:43:45,639 --> 00:43:51,320
But Josh Thompson another shrewd effective transfer portal pickup for

871
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,880
this LSU Tiger football team. Hour two of Off the

872
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,559
Bench coming up next, Off the Bench